| 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 | - |
| aerophagia | (noun) swallowing air (usually followed by belching and discomfort and flatulence) | - |
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| agile | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: nimble, quick, spry |
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| (adjective) mentally quick | Synonyms: nimble |
| agilely | (adverb) in a nimble or agile manner; with quickness and lightness and ease | Synonyms: nimbly |
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| agility | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: legerity, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness |
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| aging | (adjective) growing old | Synonyms: ageing, senescent |
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| (noun) the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age | Synonyms: ageing, senescence |
| (noun) acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time | Synonyms: ageing, ripening |
| agio | (noun) a fee charged for exchanging currencies | Synonyms: agiotage, exchange premium, premium |
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| agiotage | (noun) a fee charged for exchanging currencies | Synonyms: agio, exchange premium, premium |
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| (noun) speculative dealing in stock exchange securities or foreign exchange. | - |
| agism | (noun) discrimination on the basis of a person's age | Synonyms: ageism |
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| agitate | (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: commove, disturb, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
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| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: budge, shift, stir |
| (verb) move or cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: shake |
| (verb) try to stir up public opinion | Synonyms: foment, stir up |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: campaign, crusade, fight, press, push |
| agitated | (adjective) troubled emotionally and usually deeply | - |
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| (adjective) physically disturbed or set in motion | - |
| agitating | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitative, provoking |
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| agitation | (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: excitement, hullabaloo, turmoil, upheaval |
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| (noun) the act of agitating something; causing it to move around (usually vigorously) | - |
| (noun) the feeling of being agitated; not calm | - |
| (noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | Synonyms: ferment, fermentation, tempestuousness, unrest |
| (noun) a mental state of extreme emotional disturbance | - |
| agitative | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitating, provoking |
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| agitator | (noun) one who agitates; a political troublemaker | Synonyms: fomenter |
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| agitprop | (noun) political propaganda (especially communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema | - |
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| ambagious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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| anthropophagite | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagus, cannibal, man-eater |
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| aphagia | (noun) loss of the ability to swallow | - |
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| archipelagic | (adjective) relating to or part of an archipelago | - |
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| asparaginase | (noun) antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia | Synonyms: Elspar |
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| asparagine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid found in proteins and in many plants (e.g., asparagus) | - |
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| bacteriophagic | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagous |
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| bandaging | (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: binding, dressing |
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| cagily | (adverb) in a cagey manner | Synonyms: circumspectly |
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| cartilaginification | (noun) abnormal formation of cartilage from other tissues; observed in some Asians | - |
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| cartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to cartilage | - |
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| (adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: gristly, rubbery |
| choragic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of a choragus | - |
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| contagion | (noun) the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people | Synonyms: infection |
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| (noun) an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted | Synonyms: infection, transmission |
| (noun) any disease easily transmitted by contact | Synonyms: contagious disease |
| contagious | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, communicable, contractable, transmissible, transmittable |
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| (adjective) easily diffused or spread as from one person to another | - |
| contagiously | (adverb) in a contagious manner | Synonyms: infectiously |
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| contagiousness | (noun) The state or condition of being contagious, easily transmitted to others. | - |
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| coprophagia | (noun) eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity | Synonyms: coprophagy |
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| damaging | (adjective) designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | Synonyms: negative |
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| (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious |
| discouraging | (adjective) depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action | - |
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| (adjective) expressing disapproval in order to dissuade | - |
| discouragingly | (adverb) in a discouraging manner | - |
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| disparaging | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, derogatory |
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| disparagingly | (adverb) in a disparaging manner | Synonyms: slightingly |
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| dysphagia | (noun) condition in which swallowing is difficult or painful | - |
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| encouraging | (adjective) giving courage or confidence or hope | - |
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| (adjective) furnishing support and encouragement | Synonyms: supporting |
| encouragingly | (adverb) in an encouraging manner | - |
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| engaging | (adjective) attracting or delighting | Synonyms: piquant |
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| engagingly | (adverb) in an engaging manner | Synonyms: winsomely |
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| esophagitis | (noun) inflammation of the esophagus; often caused by gastroesophageal reflux | Synonyms: oesophagitis |
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| fibrocartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to fibrocartilage | - |
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| flagitious | (adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: atrocious, grievous, monstrous |
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| (adjective) extremely wicked, deeply criminal | Synonyms: heinous |
| foraging | (noun) the act of searching for food and provisions | Synonyms: forage |
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| fragile | (adjective) easily broken or damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: delicate, frail |
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| (adjective) vulnerably delicate | - |
| (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, slight, tenuous, thin |
| fragility | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: breakability, frangibility, frangibleness |
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| (noun) lack of physical strength | Synonyms: delicacy |
| geophagia | (noun) eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior | Synonyms: geophagy |
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| haemorrhagic | (adjective) of or relating to a hemorrhage | Synonyms: hemorrhagic |
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| hagiographer | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographist, hagiologist |
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| hagiographist | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographer, hagiologist |
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| hagiography | (noun) a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint) | - |
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| hagiolatry | (noun) the worship of saints | Synonyms: hierolatry |
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| hagiologist | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographer, hagiographist |
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| hagiology | (noun) literature narrating the lives (and legends) of the saints | - |
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| hagionym | (noun) The name of a Saint taken as a proper name. | - |
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| hemorrhagic | (adjective) of or relating to a hemorrhage | Synonyms: haemorrhagic |
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| hoagie | (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
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| imaginable | (adjective) capable of being imagined | Synonyms: conceivable |
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| imaginary | (adjective) not based on fact; existing only in the imagination | Synonyms: fanciful, notional |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 | Synonyms: complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number |
| imagination | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imaginativeness, vision |
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| (noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagery, imaging, mental imagery |
| (noun) the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems | Synonyms: resource, resourcefulness |
| imaginative | (adjective) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action | Synonyms: inventive |
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| imaginatively | (adverb) with imagination | - |
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| imaginativeness | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imagination, vision |
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| imagine | (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, opine, reckon, suppose, think |
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| (verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, envisage, ideate |
| imaging | (noun) (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body | Synonyms: tomography |
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| (noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagery, imagination, mental imagery |
| imagism | (noun) a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery | - |
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| invaginate | (verb) fold inwards | Synonyms: introvert |
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| (verb) sheathe | - |
| invagination | (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, introversion, intussusception |
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| (noun) the condition of being folded inward or sheathed | Synonyms: introversion |
| leveraging | (noun) investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) | Synonyms: leverage |
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| magic | (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: charming, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizard, wizardly |
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| (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
| (noun) any art that invokes supernatural powers | Synonyms: thaumaturgy |
| magical | (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: charming, magic, sorcerous, witching, wizard, wizardly |
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| magically | (adverb) in a magical manner | Synonyms: as if by magic |
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| magician | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: necromancer, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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| (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, conjuror, illusionist, prestidigitator |
| magilp | (noun) a medium for oil-paints; linseed oil mixed with mastic varnish or turpentine | Synonyms: megilp |
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| magisterial | (adjective) of or relating to a magistrate | - |
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| (adjective) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | Synonyms: distinguished, grand, imposing |
| (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, peremptory |
| magisterially | (adverb) in an authoritative and magisterial manner | Synonyms: authoritatively |
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| (adverb) in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator | Synonyms: autocratically, dictatorially |
| magistracy | (noun) the position of magistrate | Synonyms: magistrature |
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| magistrate | (noun) a lay judge or civil authority who administers the law (especially one who conducts a court dealing with minor offenses) | - |
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| magistrature | (noun) the position of magistrate | Synonyms: magistracy |
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| makagigi | (noun) cookies made with poppy seeds and honey; traditional Polish Christmas sweet treats. | - |
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| menorrhagia | (noun) abnormally heavy or prolonged menstruation; can be a symptom of uterine tumors and can lead to anemia if prolonged | Synonyms: hypermenorrhea |
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| messaging | (noun) the sending and processing of e-mail by computer | Synonyms: electronic messaging |
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| metrorrhagia | (noun) bleeding from the uterus that is not due to menstruation; usually indicative of disease (as cervical cancer) | - |
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| mucilaginous | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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| mycophagist | (noun) a person or animal who eats fungi (especially mushrooms) | Synonyms: mycophage |
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| nagi | (noun) medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves; southern China to Taiwan and southern Japan | Synonyms: Nageia nagi |
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| necrophagia | (noun) feeding on corpses or carrion | Synonyms: necrophagy |
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| noncontagious | (adjective) (of disease) not capable of being passed on | Synonyms: noncommunicable, nontransmissible |
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| odynophagia | (noun) severe pain on swallowing due to a disorder of the esophagus | - |
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| oesophagitis | (noun) inflammation of the esophagus; often caused by gastroesophageal reflux | Synonyms: esophagitis |
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| oleaginous | (adjective) containing an unusual amount of grease or oil | Synonyms: greasy, oily, sebaceous |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: buttery, fulsome, oily, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
| oleaginousness | (noun) consisting of or covered with oil | Synonyms: greasiness, oiliness |
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| (noun) smug self-serving earnestness | Synonyms: fulsomeness, oiliness, smarminess, unction, unctuousness |
| omophagia | (noun) the eating of raw food | - |
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| packaging | (noun) the business of packing | - |
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| (noun) material used to make packages | - |
| (noun) a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution | Synonyms: promo, promotion, promotional material, publicity |
| paginate | (verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript | Synonyms: foliate, page |
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| pagination | (noun) the system of numbering pages | Synonyms: folio, page number, paging |
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| paging | (noun) calling out the name of a person (especially by a loudspeaker system) | - |
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| (noun) the system of numbering pages | Synonyms: folio, page number, pagination |