| abracadabra | (noun) gibberish and nonsense | - |
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| abradant | (noun) a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing | Synonyms: abrader |
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| (noun) a substance that abrades or wears down | Synonyms: abrasive, abrasive material |
| adactylia | (noun) congenital absence of fingers and/or toes | Synonyms: adactylism, adactyly |
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| adactylism | (noun) congenital absence of fingers and/or toes | Synonyms: adactylia, adactyly |
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| adactylous | (adjective) without fingers and/or toes | - |
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| adactyly | (noun) congenital absence of fingers and/or toes | Synonyms: adactylia, adactylism |
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| adage | (noun) a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people | Synonyms: byword, proverb, saw |
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| adagio | (adjective) (of tempo) leisurely | - |
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| (noun) a slow section of a pas de deux requiring great skill and strength by the dancers | - |
| (noun) (music) a composition played in adagio tempo (slowly and gracefully) | - |
| (adverb) slowly | - |
| adamance | (noun) resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible | Synonyms: obduracy, unyieldingness |
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| adamant | (adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamantine, inexorable, intransigent |
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| (noun) very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem | Synonyms: diamond |
| adamantine | (adjective) consisting of or having the hardness of adamant | - |
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| (adjective) having the hardness of a diamond | - |
| (adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamant, inexorable, intransigent |
| adamantly | (adverb) inflexibly; unshakably | - |
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| adapt | (verb) make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose | Synonyms: accommodate |
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| (verb) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions | Synonyms: adjust, conform |
| adaptability | (noun) the ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances | - |
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| adaptable | (adjective) capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use | - |
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| adaptation | (noun) (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light) | - |
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| (noun) a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form | Synonyms: version |
| (noun) the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions) | Synonyms: adaption, adjustment |
| adaptational | (adjective) of or relating to adaptation | - |
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| adaptative | (adjective) having a capacity for adaptation | Synonyms: adaptive |
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| adapted | (adjective) changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose | Synonyms: altered |
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| adapter | (noun) device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible | Synonyms: adaptor |
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| (noun) a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance | Synonyms: arranger, transcriber |
| adaption | (noun) the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions) | Synonyms: adaptation, adjustment |
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| adaptive | (adjective) having a capacity for adaptation | Synonyms: adaptative |
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| adaptor | (noun) device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible | Synonyms: adapter |
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| adaxial | (adjective) nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism | Synonyms: ventral |
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| adaxially | (adverb) in an adaxial manner | - |
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| agonadal | (adjective) lacking gonads | - |
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| amadavat | (noun) red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds | Synonyms: avadavat |
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| apadana | (noun) the great hall in ancient Persian palaces | - |
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| armada | (noun) a large fleet | - |
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| asclepiadaceous | (adjective) of or relating to plants of the milkweed family | - |
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| autostrada | (noun) an expressway in an Italian-speaking country | - |
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| avadavat | (noun) red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds | Synonyms: amadavat |
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| badass | (adjective) being impressive due to extreme attitude or style | - |
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| (noun) A mean or belligerent person | - |
| (noun) A person considered impressive due to extreme attitudes, behavior or appearance | - |
| biodegradable | (adjective) capable of being decomposed by e.g. bacteria | - |
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| bradawl | (noun) an awl for making small holes for brads or small screws | Synonyms: pricker |
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| broadax | (noun) a large ax with a broad cutting blade | Synonyms: broadaxe |
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| broadaxe | (noun) a large ax with a broad cutting blade | Synonyms: broadax |
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| cadaster | (noun) a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation | Synonyms: cadastre |
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| cadastral | (adjective) of or relating to the records of a cadastre | - |
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| cadastre | (noun) a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation | Synonyms: cadaster |
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| cadaver | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: clay, corpse, remains, stiff |
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| cadaveric | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaverous |
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| cadaverine | (noun) a colorless toxic ptomaine with an unpleasant odor formed during the putrefaction of animal tissue | - |
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| cadaverous | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaveric |
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| (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
| chadar | (noun) a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women | Synonyms: chaddar, chador, chuddar |
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| cicada | (noun) stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone | Synonyms: cicala |
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| contradance | (noun) a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance, country dancing |
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| (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance |
| dada | (noun) a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty | Synonyms: dadaism |
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| (noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | Synonyms: dad, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop |
| dadaism | (noun) a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty | Synonyms: dada |
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| degradation | (noun) changing to a lower state (a less respected state) | Synonyms: debasement |
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| (noun) a low or downcast state | Synonyms: abasement, abjection |
| enchilada | (noun) tortilla with meat filling baked in tomato sauce seasoned with chili | - |
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| gadabout | (noun) a restless seeker after amusement or social companionship | - |
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| gonadal | (adjective) of or relating to the gonads | - |
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| gradable | (adjective) capable of being graded (for quality or rank or size etc.) | - |
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| gradate | (verb) pass imperceptibly from one degree, shade, or tone into another | - |
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| (verb) arrange according to grades | - |
| gradation | (noun) the act of arranging in grades | Synonyms: graduation |
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| (noun) a degree of ablaut | Synonyms: grade |
| (noun) relative position in a graded series | Synonyms: step |
| gradational | (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradatory, graduated |
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| gradatory | (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradational, graduated |
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| hadal | (adjective) relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters) | - |
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| headache | (noun) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: concern, vexation, worry |
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| (noun) pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs | Synonyms: cephalalgia, head ache |
| hebdomadal | (adjective) of or occurring every seven days | Synonyms: hebdomadary, weekly |
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| hebdomadally | (adverb) without missing a week | Synonyms: each week, every week, weekly |
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| hebdomadary | (adjective) of or occurring every seven days | Synonyms: hebdomadal, weekly |
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| intifada | (noun) an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000 | Synonyms: intifadah |
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| intifadah | (noun) an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000 | Synonyms: intifada |
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| lackadaisical | (adjective) idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way | - |
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| (adjective) lacking spirit or liveliness | Synonyms: dreamy, languid, languorous |
| lackadaisically | (adverb) in an idle and lackadaisical manner | - |
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| ladanum | (noun) a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative | Synonyms: labdanum |
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| macadam | (noun) a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar | Synonyms: tarmac, tarmacadam |
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| (noun) broken stone used in macadamized roadways | - |
| (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadamise, macadamize, tarmac |
| macadamia | (noun) any tree of the genus Macadamia | Synonyms: macadamia tree |
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| macadamise | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamize, tarmac |
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| macadamize | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamise, tarmac |
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| madake | (noun) large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely grown elsewhere | Synonyms: giant timber bamboo, ku-chiku, Phyllostachys bambusoides |
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| madam | (noun) a woman of refinement | Synonyms: dame, gentlewoman, lady, ma'am |
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| (noun) a woman who runs a house of prostitution | Synonyms: brothel keeper |
| madame | (noun) title used for a married Frenchwoman | - |
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| maladaptive | (adjective) showing faulty adaptation | - |
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| metadata | (noun) data about data | - |
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| nada | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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| nonadaptive | (adjective) (of a trait or condition) failing to serve an adjustive purpose | Synonyms: dysfunctional |
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| novillada | (noun) a bullfight in which the bulls are less than four years old | - |
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| nowadays | (noun) the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech | Synonyms: present |
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| (adverb) in these times | Synonyms: now, today |
| padauk | (noun) tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain | Synonyms: amboyna, padouk, Pterocarpus indicus |
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| (noun) the wood of any of the padauk trees, used in decorative cabinetwork. | - |
| persuadable | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: convincible, persuasible, suasible |
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| radar | (noun) measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects | Synonyms: microwave radar, radio detection and ranging, radiolocation |
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| readability | (noun) the quality of written language that makes it easy to read and understand | - |
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| (noun) a quality of writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read | Synonyms: legibility |
| readable | (adjective) easily deciphered | Synonyms: clear, decipherable |
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| readably | (adverb) in a legible manner | Synonyms: decipherably, legibly |
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| readapt | (verb) adapt anew | - |
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| (verb) adjust anew | Synonyms: readjust |
| shahadah | (noun) the first pillar of Islam is an affirmation of faith | - |
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| tadalafil | (noun) virility drug (trade name Cialis) used to treat erectile dysfunction in men | Synonyms: Cialis |
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| tarmacadam | (noun) a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar | Synonyms: macadam, tarmac |
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| (noun) a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and shaped during paving | Synonyms: tarmac |
| tostada | (noun) a flat tortilla with various fillings piled on it | - |
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| (noun) a crisp flat tortilla | - |
| unadaptability | (noun) the inability to change or be changed to fit changed circumstances | - |
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| unadaptable | (adjective) not adaptable | - |
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| unadapted | (adjective) not having adapted to new conditions | Synonyms: unadjusted |
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| (adjective) not changed in form or character for a purpose | - |
| unpersuadable | (adjective) not susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: unsuasible |
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| unreadable | (adjective) not easily deciphered | Synonyms: indecipherable, unclear, undecipherable |
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| unreadably | (adverb) in an illegible manner | Synonyms: illegibly, undecipherably |
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| vanadate | (noun) a salt or ester of vanadic acid; an anion containing pentavalent vanadium | - |
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| workaday | (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable |
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