| add | (verb) make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of | - |
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| (verb) make an addition by combining numbers | Synonyms: add together |
| (verb) determine the sum of | Synonyms: add together, add up, sum, sum up, summate, tally, tot, tot up, total, tote up |
| (verb) state or say further | Synonyms: append, supply |
| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: bestow, bring, contribute, impart, lend |
| (verb) constitute an addition | - |
| addable | (adjective) capable of being added or added to | Synonyms: addible |
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| addax | (noun) large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of northern Africa | Synonyms: Addax nasomaculatus |
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| addend | (noun) a number that is added to another number (the augend) | - |
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| addendum | (noun) textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end | Synonyms: postscript, supplement |
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| adder | (noun) small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia | Synonyms: common viper, Vipera berus |
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| (noun) a machine that adds numbers | - |
| (noun) a person who adds numbers | - |
| addible | (adjective) capable of being added or added to | Synonyms: addable |
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| addict | (noun) someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance or activity | - |
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| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: freak, junkie, junky, nut |
| (verb) to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) | Synonyms: hook |
| addicted | (adjective) compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming | - |
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| addiction | (noun) (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master | - |
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| (noun) an abnormally strong craving | - |
| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: dependance, dependence, dependency, habituation |
| addictive | (adjective) causing or characterized by addiction | Synonyms: habit-forming |
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| addition | (noun) the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers | Synonyms: plus, summation |
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| (noun) the act of adding one thing to another | - |
| (noun) a component that is added to something to improve it | Synonyms: add-on, improver |
| (noun) a suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area | - |
| (noun) something added to what you already have | Synonyms: accession |
| (noun) a quantity that is added | Synonyms: gain, increase |
| additional | (adjective) further or added | Synonyms: extra |
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| additionally | (adverb) in addition, by way of addition; furthermore | Synonyms: to boot |
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| additive | (adjective) characterized or produced by addition | - |
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| (adjective) designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree | Synonyms: linear |
| (noun) something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine | - |
| addle | (verb) become rotten | - |
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| (verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: muddle, puddle |
| addlebrained | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlepated, muddleheaded, puddingheaded |
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| addled | (adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking | Synonyms: befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly-headed, woolly, wooly-minded, wooly |
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| (adjective) (of eggs) no longer edible | - |
| addlehead | (noun) a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought | Synonyms: addle-head, birdbrain, loon |
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| addlepated | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, muddleheaded, puddingheaded |
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| address | (noun) the ability to do or say what is appropriate for the occasion | Synonyms: savoir-faire |
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| (noun) the stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball | - |
| (noun) the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience | Synonyms: speech |
| (noun) a sign in front of a house or business carrying the conventional form by which its location is described | - |
| (noun) written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location | Synonyms: destination, name and address |
| (noun) the manner of speaking to another individual | - |
| (noun) (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored | Synonyms: computer address, reference |
| (noun) the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with | - |
| (verb) adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting | - |
| (verb) speak to | Synonyms: turn to |
| (verb) speak to someone | Synonyms: accost, come up to |
| (verb) give a speech to | Synonyms: speak |
| (verb) put an address on (an envelope) | Synonyms: direct |
| (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: cover, deal, handle, plow, treat |
| (verb) direct a question at someone | - |
| (verb) address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question | - |
| (verb) access or locate by address | - |
| (verb) greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name | Synonyms: call |
| addressable | (adjective) capable of being addressed | - |
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| addressed | (adjective) (of mail) marked with a destination | - |
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| addressee | (noun) one to whom something is addressed | - |
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| adduce | (verb) advance evidence for | Synonyms: abduce, cite |
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| adducent | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducting, adductive |
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| adducer | (noun) a discussant who offers an example or a reason or a proof | - |
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| adducing | (noun) citing as evidence or proof | - |
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| adduct | (noun) a compound formed by an addition reaction | - |
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| (verb) draw a limb towards the body | - |
| adducting | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducent, adductive |
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| adduction | (noun) (physiology) moving of a body part toward the central axis of the body | - |
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| adductive | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducent, adducting |
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| adductor | (noun) a muscle that draws a body part toward the median line | Synonyms: adductor muscle |
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| astraddle | (adverb) with one leg on each side | Synonyms: astride |
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| baddeleyite | (noun) a mineral consisting of zirconium oxide | - |
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| baddie | (noun) the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction | Synonyms: villain |
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| bladder | (noun) a bag that fills with air | - |
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| (noun) a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) | Synonyms: vesica |
| bladderlike | (adjective) resembling a bladder | Synonyms: bladdery |
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| bladdernose | (noun) medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Cystophora cristata, hooded seal |
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| bladderpod | (noun) any of several hairy North American herbs having yellow racemose flowers and inflated pods | - |
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| (noun) any of several plants of the genus Physaria having racemose yellow flowers and inflated pods | - |
| (noun) annual or perennial herbs with inflated seed pods; some placed in genus Lesquerella | - |
| (noun) North American wild lobelia having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic | Synonyms: Indian tobacco, Lobelia inflata |
| bladderwort | (noun) any of numerous aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia some of whose leaves are modified as small urn-shaped bladders that trap minute aquatic animals | - |
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| bladderwrack | (noun) a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure | Synonyms: black rockweed, bladder fucus, Fucus vesiculosus, tang |
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| (noun) similar to and found with black rockweed | Synonyms: Ascophyllum nodosum |
| bladdery | (adjective) resembling a bladder | Synonyms: bladderlike |
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| caddie | (noun) an attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player | Synonyms: golf caddie |
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| (verb) act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player | Synonyms: caddy |
| caddish | (adjective) offensively discourteous | Synonyms: unchivalrous, ungallant |
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| caddisworm | (noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: strawworm |
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| caddy | (noun) a can for storing tea | Synonyms: tea caddy |
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| (verb) act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player | Synonyms: caddie |
| chaddar | (noun) a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women | Synonyms: chadar, chador, chuddar |
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| cladding | (noun) a protective covering that protects the outside of a building | Synonyms: facing |
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| crawdaddy | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
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| daddy | (noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | Synonyms: dad, dada, pa, papa, pappa, pop |
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| faddily | (adverb) in a faddish manner | Synonyms: faddishly |
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| faddish | (adjective) intensely fashionable for a short time | Synonyms: faddy |
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| faddishly | (adverb) in a faddish manner | Synonyms: faddily |
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| faddist | (noun) a person who subscribes to a variety of fads | - |
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| faddy | (adjective) intensely fashionable for a short time | Synonyms: faddish |
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| gaddi | (noun) a cushion on a throne for a prince in India | - |
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| gallbladder | (noun) a muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion | Synonyms: gall bladder |
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| gladden | (verb) become glad or happy | - |
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| (verb) make glad or happy | Synonyms: joy |
| gladdened | (adjective) made joyful | Synonyms: exhilarated |
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| gladdon | (noun) iris with purple flowers and foul-smelling leaves; southern and western Europe and North Africa | Synonyms: gladdon iris, Iris foetidissima, roast beef plant, stinking gladwyn, stinking iris |
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| granddaddy | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, grandad, granddad, grandfather, grandpa |
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| haddock | (noun) important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller | Synonyms: Melanogrammus aeglefinus |
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| (noun) lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod; usually baked or poached or as fillets sauteed or fried | - |
| headdress | (noun) clothing for the head | Synonyms: headgear |
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| khaddar | (noun) a coarse homespun cotton cloth made in India | Synonyms: khadi |
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| ladder | (noun) steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down | - |
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| (noun) a row of unravelled stitches | Synonyms: ravel, run |
| (noun) ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress | - |
| (verb) come unraveled or undone as if by snagging | Synonyms: run |
| laddie | (noun) a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) | Synonyms: cub, lad, sonny, sonny boy |
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| madden | (verb) make mad | - |
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| (verb) drive up the wall; go on someone's nerves | - |
| (verb) cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind | Synonyms: craze |
| maddened | (adjective) marked by extreme anger | Synonyms: angered, enraged, furious, infuriated |
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| maddening | (adjective) extremely annoying or displeasing | Synonyms: exasperating, infuriating, vexing |
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| madder | (noun) Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin | Synonyms: Rubia tinctorum |
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| (verb) color a moderate to strong red | - |
| madderwort | (noun) any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae | Synonyms: rubiaceous plant |
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| misaddress | (verb) put a wrong address on | Synonyms: misdirect |
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| nonaddictive | (adjective) not causing or characterized by addiction | - |
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| offsaddle | (verb) remove the saddle from | Synonyms: unsaddle |
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| packsaddle | (noun) a saddle for pack animals to which loads can be attached | - |
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| padded | (adjective) softened by the addition of cushions or padding | Synonyms: cushioned, cushiony |
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| padder | (noun) a highwayman who robs on foot | Synonyms: footpad |
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| padding | (noun) artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort | Synonyms: cushioning |
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| paddle | (noun) a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat | Synonyms: boat paddle |
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| (noun) an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board | - |
| (noun) a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel | - |
| (noun) small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games | - |
| (verb) stir with a paddle | - |
| (verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: larrup, spank |
| (verb) propel with a paddle | - |
| (verb) swim like a dog in shallow water | - |
| (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, toddle, totter, waddle |
| (verb) play in or as if in water, as of small children | Synonyms: dabble, splash around |
| paddlefish | (noun) primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout | Synonyms: duckbill, Polyodon spathula |
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| paddler | (noun) someone paddling a canoe | Synonyms: canoeist |
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| paddlewheel | (noun) a large wheel fitted with paddles and driven by an engine in order to propel a boat | Synonyms: paddle wheel |
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| paddock | (noun) pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race | - |
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| paddy | (noun) rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field | - |
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| (noun) an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown | Synonyms: paddy field, rice paddy |
| paddymelon | (noun) small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea | Synonyms: pademelon |
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| raddle | (noun) a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking | Synonyms: reddle, ruddle |
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| (verb) mark or paint with raddle | - |
| (verb) twist or braid together, interlace | Synonyms: ruddle |
| raddled | (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: careworn, drawn, haggard, worn |
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| (adjective) used until no longer useful | Synonyms: worn-out |
| sadden | (verb) come to feel sad | - |
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| (verb) make unhappy | - |
| saddhu | (noun) (Hinduism) an ascetic holy man | Synonyms: sadhu |
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| saddle | (noun) posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl | - |
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| (noun) a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal | - |
| (noun) a seat for the rider of a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle seat |
| (noun) a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe | - |
| (noun) cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins | - |
| (noun) a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) | Synonyms: saddleback |
| (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: burden, charge |
| (verb) put a saddle on | - |
| (verb) load or burden; encumber | - |
| saddleback | (noun) a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end | Synonyms: gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback roof |
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| (noun) a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) | Synonyms: saddle |
| saddlebag | (noun) a large bag (or pair of bags) hung over a saddle | - |
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| saddlebill | (noun) large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle | Synonyms: Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, jabiru |
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| saddlebow | (noun) handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle | Synonyms: pommel |
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| saddlecloth | (noun) stable gear consisting of a blanket placed under the saddle | Synonyms: horse blanket, saddle blanket |
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| saddled | (adjective) having a saddle on or being mounted on a saddled animal | - |
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| (adjective) subject to an imposed burden | - |
| saddler | (noun) a maker and repairer and seller of equipment for horses | - |
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| saddlery | (noun) gear for a horse | Synonyms: stable gear, tack |
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| (noun) workshop where a saddler works | - |
| shaddock | (noun) large pear-shaped fruit similar to grapefruit but with coarse dry pulp | Synonyms: pomelo |
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| (noun) southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits | Synonyms: Citrus decumana, Citrus grandis, Citrus maxima, pomelo, pomelo tree, pummelo |