| abnormalcy | (noun) an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies | Synonyms: abnormality |
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| alcahest | (noun) hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists | Synonyms: alkahest, universal solvent |
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| alcalde | (noun) a mayor or chief magistrate of a Spanish town | - |
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| alcalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alkalescent |
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| alcapton | (noun) an acid formed as an intermediate product of the metabolism of tyrosine and phenylalanine | Synonyms: alkapton, homogentisic acid |
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| alcaptonuria | (noun) a rare recessive metabolic anomaly marked by ochronosis and the presence of alkapton in the urine | Synonyms: alkaptonuria |
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| alcazar | (noun) any of various Spanish fortresses or palaces built by the Moors | - |
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| alchemic | (adjective) related to or concerned with alchemy | Synonyms: alchemical |
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| alchemical | (adjective) related to or concerned with alchemy | Synonyms: alchemic |
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| alchemise | (verb) alter (elements) by alchemy | Synonyms: alchemize |
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| alchemist | (noun) one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone | - |
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| alchemistic | (adjective) of or relating to alchemists | Synonyms: alchemistical |
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| alchemistical | (adjective) of or relating to alchemists | Synonyms: alchemistic |
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| alchemize | (verb) alter (elements) by alchemy | Synonyms: alchemise |
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| alchemy | (noun) a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times | - |
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| (noun) the way two individuals relate to each other | Synonyms: chemistry, interpersonal chemistry |
| alcohol | (noun) a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent | Synonyms: alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant, intoxicant |
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| (noun) any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation | - |
| alcoholic | (adjective) characteristic of or containing alcohol | - |
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| (adjective) addicted to alcohol | Synonyms: alcohol-dependent |
| (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, souse |
| alcoholise | (verb) make alcoholic, as by fermenting | Synonyms: alcoholize |
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| (verb) treat or infuse with alcohol | Synonyms: alcoholize |
| alcoholism | (noun) an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: dipsomania, potomania |
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| (noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, drunkenness, inebriation |
| alcoholize | (verb) make alcoholic, as by fermenting | Synonyms: alcoholise |
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| (verb) treat or infuse with alcohol | Synonyms: alcoholise |
| (verb) subject to the influence of alcohol | - |
| alcove | (noun) a small recess opening off a larger room | Synonyms: bay |
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| animalcule | (noun) microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium | Synonyms: animalculum |
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| animalculum | (noun) microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium | Synonyms: animalcule |
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| balconied | (adjective) having balconies or a balcony | - |
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| balcony | (noun) a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet | - |
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| (noun) an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium | - |
| calcaneal | (adjective) relating to the heel bone or heel | - |
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| calcaneus | (noun) the largest tarsal bone; forms the human heel | Synonyms: heelbone, os tarsi fibulare |
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| calcareous | (adjective) composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk | Synonyms: chalky |
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| calced | (adjective) used of certain religious orders who wear shoes | Synonyms: shod |
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| calcedony | (noun) a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz | Synonyms: chalcedony |
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| calceiform | (adjective) of slipper-shaped blossoms | Synonyms: calceolate |
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| calceolaria | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip | Synonyms: slipperwort |
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| calceolate | (adjective) of slipper-shaped blossoms | Synonyms: calceiform |
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| calceus | (noun) a shoe covering the ankle; worn by ancient Romans | - |
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| calcic | (adjective) derived from or containing calcium or lime | - |
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| calcicolous | (adjective) growing or living in soil rich in lime | - |
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| calciferol | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets | Synonyms: cholecalciferol, D, ergocalciferol, viosterol, vitamin D |
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| calciferous | (adjective) bearing or producing or containing calcium or calcium carbonate or calcite | - |
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| calcific | (adjective) involving or resulting from calcification | - |
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| calcification | (noun) a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts) | - |
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| (noun) tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts | - |
| (noun) an inflexible and unchanging state | - |
| calcifugous | (adjective) growing or living in acid soil | - |
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| calcify | (verb) turn into lime; become calcified | - |
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| (verb) convert into lime | - |
| (verb) become impregnated with calcium salts | - |
| (verb) become inflexible and unchanging | - |
| calcimine | (noun) a water-base paint containing zinc oxide and glue and coloring; used as a wash for walls and ceilings | - |
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| (verb) cover with calcimine | - |
| calcination | (noun) the conversion of metals into their oxides as a result of heating to a high temperature | - |
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| calcine | (verb) heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces | - |
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| calcite | (noun) a common mineral consisting of crystallized calcium carbonate; a major constituent of limestone | - |
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| calcitic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing calcite | - |
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| calcitonin | (noun) thyroid hormone that tends to lower the level of calcium in the blood plasma and inhibit resorption of bone | Synonyms: thyrocalcitonin |
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| calcium | (noun) a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals | Synonyms: atomic number 20, Ca |
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| calculability | (noun) The quality of being subject to or ascertainable by calculation. | - |
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| calculable | (adjective) able to be calculated or estimated | - |
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| calculate | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, direct |
| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: count on, estimate, figure, forecast, reckon |
| (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, count, depend, look, reckon, rely, swear |
| (verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: forecast |
| (verb) keep an account of | Synonyms: account |
| calculated | (adjective) carefully thought out in advance | Synonyms: deliberate, measured |
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| calculating | (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd |
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| calculatingly | (adverb) in a calculating manner | - |
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| calculation | (noun) the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods | Synonyms: computation, computing |
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| (noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: computation, figuring, reckoning |
| (noun) planning something carefully and intentionally | Synonyms: deliberation |
| calculative | (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, conniving, scheming, shrewd |
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| calculator | (noun) a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations; can be mechanical or electronic | Synonyms: calculating machine |
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| (noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: computer, estimator, figurer, reckoner |
| calculous | (adjective) relating to or caused by or having a calculus or calculi | - |
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| calculus | (noun) the branch of mathematics that is concerned with limits and with the differentiation and integration of functions | Synonyms: infinitesimal calculus |
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| (noun) a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body | Synonyms: concretion |
| (noun) an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums | Synonyms: tartar, tophus |
| cavalcade | (noun) a procession of people traveling on horseback | - |
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| chalcanthite | (noun) hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulfate | Synonyms: blue copperas, blue stone, blue vitriol |
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| chalcedony | (noun) a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz | Synonyms: calcedony |
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| chalcid | (noun) any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injurious insects | Synonyms: chalcid fly, chalcid wasp, chalcidfly |
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| chalcidfly | (noun) any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injurious insects | Synonyms: chalcid, chalcid fly, chalcid wasp |
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| chalcocite | (noun) a heavy grey mineral that is an ore of copper | Synonyms: copper glance |
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| chalcopyrite | (noun) a yellow copper ore (CuFeS2) made up of copper and iron sulfide | Synonyms: copper pyrites |
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| cholecalciferol | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets | Synonyms: calciferol, D, ergocalciferol, viosterol, vitamin D |
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| decalcification | (noun) loss of calcium from bones or teeth | - |
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| decalcify | (verb) remove calcium or lime from | - |
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| (verb) lose calcium or calcium compounds | - |
| decalcomania | (noun) the art of transferring designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface | - |
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| (noun) either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface | Synonyms: decal |
| defalcate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: embezzle, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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| defalcation | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation |
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| (noun) the sum of money that is misappropriated | - |
| defalcator | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: embezzler, peculator |
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| discalceate | (adjective) (used of certain religious orders) barefoot or wearing only sandals | Synonyms: discalced, unshod |
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| discalced | (adjective) (used of certain religious orders) barefoot or wearing only sandals | Synonyms: discalceate, unshod |
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| dyscalculia | (noun) impaired ability to learn grade-appropriate mathematics | - |
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| ergocalciferol | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets | Synonyms: calciferol, cholecalciferol, D, viosterol, vitamin D |
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| falcate | (adjective) curved like a sickle | Synonyms: falciform, sickle-shaped |
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| falchion | (noun) a short broad slightly convex medieval sword with a sharp point | - |
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| falciform | (adjective) curved like a sickle | Synonyms: falcate, sickle-shaped |
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| falcon | (noun) diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight | - |
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| (verb) hunt with falcons | - |
| falconer | (noun) a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry | Synonyms: hawker |
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| falconine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a falcon | - |
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| falconry | (noun) the art of training falcons to hunt and return | - |
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| fibrocalcific | (adjective) involving or resulting from calcification of fibrous tissue | - |
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| generalcy | (noun) the office and authority of a general | Synonyms: generalship |
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| gerfalcon | (noun) large and rare Arctic falcon having white and dark color phases | Synonyms: Falco rusticolus, gyrfalcon |
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| gyrfalcon | (noun) large and rare Arctic falcon having white and dark color phases | Synonyms: Falco rusticolus, gerfalcon |
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| halcyon | (adjective) marked by peace and prosperity | Synonyms: golden, prosperous |
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| (adjective) idyllically calm and peaceful; suggesting happy tranquillity | - |
| (noun) a mythical bird said to breed at the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea and to have the power of calming the winds and waves | - |
| hypercalcaemia | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or Paget's disease | Synonyms: hypercalcemia |
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| hypercalcemia | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or Paget's disease | Synonyms: hypercalcaemia |
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| hypercalcinuria | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the urine; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or osteoporosis | Synonyms: hypercalciuria |
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| hypercalciuria | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the urine; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or osteoporosis | Synonyms: hypercalcinuria |
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| hypocalcaemia | (noun) abnormally low level of calcium in the blood; associated with hypoparathyroidism or kidney malfunction or vitamin D deficiency | Synonyms: hypocalcemia |
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| hypocalcemia | (noun) abnormally low level of calcium in the blood; associated with hypoparathyroidism or kidney malfunction or vitamin D deficiency | Synonyms: hypocalcaemia |
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| incalculable | (adjective) not able to be computed or enumerated | - |
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| (adjective) too much to be measured | Synonyms: untold |
| malcontent | (adjective) discontented as toward authority | Synonyms: disaffected, ill-affected, rebellious |
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| (noun) a person who is discontented or disgusted | - |
| minicalculator | (noun) (old-fashioned) a very small handheld calculator. | - |
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| miscalculate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: misestimate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: misestimate |