| acromphalus | (noun) abnormal protrusion of the navel; sometimes the start of umbilical hernia | - |
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| alkaluria | (noun) a condition in which the urine (which is normally slightly acidic) is alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinuria |
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| alula | (noun) tuft of small stiff feathers on the first digit of a bird's wing | Synonyms: bastard wing, spurious wing |
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| (noun) scalelike structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly | Synonyms: calypter |
| alular | (adjective) pertaining to alulae | - |
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| alum | (noun) a double sulphate of aluminum and potassium that is used as an astringent (among other things) | - |
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| (noun) a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum | Synonyms: potash alum, potassium alum |
| (noun) a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum | Synonyms: ammonia alum, ammonium alum |
| (noun) a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | Synonyms: grad, graduate |
| alumbloom | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Heuchera | Synonyms: alumroot |
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| alumina | (noun) any of various forms of aluminum oxide occurring naturally as corundum | Synonyms: aluminium oxide, aluminum oxide |
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| aluminate | (noun) a compound of alumina and a metallic oxide | - |
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| aluminiferous | (adjective) containing alum or aluminum | - |
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| aluminise | (verb) cover with aluminum | Synonyms: aluminize |
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| aluminium | (noun) a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite | Synonyms: Al, aluminum, atomic number 13 |
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| aluminize | (verb) cover with aluminum | Synonyms: aluminise |
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| aluminous | (adjective) pertaining to or containing aluminum or alum | - |
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| aluminum | (noun) a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite | Synonyms: Al, aluminium, atomic number 13 |
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| alumna | (noun) a female person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | - |
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| alumnus | (noun) a male person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | - |
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| alumroot | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Heuchera | Synonyms: alumbloom |
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| alundum | (noun) a substance made of fused alumina | - |
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| aqualung | (noun) a device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water; scuba is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus | Synonyms: Aqua-Lung, scuba |
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| astragalus | (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: anklebone, astragal, talus |
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| baluster | (noun) one of a number of closely spaced supports for a railing | - |
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| balusters | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balustrade, banister, bannister, handrail |
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| balustrade | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, banister, bannister, handrail |
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| calumet | (noun) a highly decorated ceremonial pipe of Amerindians; smoked on ceremonial occasions (especially as a token of peace) | Synonyms: peace pipe, pipe of peace |
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| calumniate | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| calumniation | (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumny, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement |
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| calumniatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| calumnious | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| calumniously | (adverb) in a false and slanderous and defamatory manner; with slander or calumny | Synonyms: slanderously |
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| calumny | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, defamation, denigration, slander |
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| (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumniation, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement |
| catalufa | (noun) brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters | Synonyms: Priacanthus arenatus |
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| devaluate | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devalue, undervalue |
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| (verb) remove the value from; deprive of its value | Synonyms: devalue |
| devaluation | (noun) the reduction of something's value or worth | - |
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| (noun) an official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries | - |
| devalue | (verb) lower the value or quality of | - |
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| (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devaluate, undervalue |
| (verb) remove the value from; deprive of its value | Synonyms: devaluate |
| devalued | (adjective) lowered in value | Synonyms: debased, degraded |
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| eigenvalue | (noun) (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant | Synonyms: characteristic root of a square matrix, eigenvalue of a matrix, eigenvalue of a square matrix |
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| evaluate | (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, measure, valuate, value |
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| (verb) form a critical opinion of | Synonyms: judge, pass judgment |
| evaluation | (noun) act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of | Synonyms: rating |
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| (noun) an appraisal of the value of something | Synonyms: rating, valuation |
| evaluative | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: appraising |
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| evaluator | (noun) an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality | Synonyms: judge |
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| galumph | (verb) move around heavily and clumsily | - |
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| hifalutin | (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: grandiose, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
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| highfalutin | (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: grandiose, hifalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
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| highfaluting | (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
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| hyaluronidase | (noun) an enzyme (trade name Hyazyme) that splits hyaluronic acid and so lowers its viscosity and increases the permeability of connective tissue and the absorption of fluids | Synonyms: Hyazyme, spreading factor |
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| hydrocephalus | (noun) an abnormal condition in which cerebrospinal fluid collects in the ventricles of the brain; in infants it can cause abnormally rapid growth of the head and bulging fontanelles and a small face; in adults the symptoms are primarily neurological | Synonyms: hydrocephaly |
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| insalubrious | (adjective) detrimental to health | Synonyms: unhealthful, unhealthy |
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| insalubriousness | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubrity |
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| insalubrity | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubriousness |
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| invaluable | (adjective) having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth | Synonyms: priceless |
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| invaluableness | (noun) the positive quality of being precious and beyond value | Synonyms: preciousness, pricelessness, valuableness |
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| kalumpang | (noun) large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food | Synonyms: Java olives, Sterculia foetida |
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| kaluresis | (noun) the presence of excess potassium in the urine | Synonyms: kaliuresis |
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| leptocephalus | (noun) slender transparent larva of eels and certain fishes | - |
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| microcephalus | (noun) an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain | Synonyms: microcephaly, nanocephaly |
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| omphalus | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, bellybutton, navel, omphalos, umbilicus |
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| overvaluation | (noun) too high a value or price assigned to something | - |
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| (noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overappraisal, overestimate, overestimation |
| overvalue | (verb) assign too high a value to | Synonyms: overestimate |
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| paspalum | (noun) tall tufted perennial tropical American grass naturalized as pasture and forage grass in southern United States | Synonyms: dallis grass, dallisgrass, Paspalum dilatatum |
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| reevaluate | (verb) revise or renew one's assessment | Synonyms: reassess |
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| reevaluation | (noun) the evaluation of something a second time (or more) | - |
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| revaluation | (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reappraisal, reassessment, review |
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| revalue | (verb) gain in value | Synonyms: appreciate, apprise, apprize |
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| (verb) value anew | - |
| salubrious | (adjective) promoting health; healthful | Synonyms: good for you, healthy |
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| (adjective) favorable to health of mind or body | - |
| salubriousness | (noun) the quality of being salubrious and invigorating | Synonyms: salubrity |
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| salubrity | (noun) the quality of being salubrious and invigorating | Synonyms: salubriousness |
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| salutary | (adjective) tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health | Synonyms: good |
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| salutation | (noun) (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting) | Synonyms: greeting |
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| (noun) an act of honor or courteous recognition | Synonyms: salute |
| (noun) word of greeting used to begin a letter | - |
| salutatorian | (noun) a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises | Synonyms: salutatory speaker |
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| salutatory | (noun) an opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises) | Synonyms: salutatory address, salutatory oration |
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| salute | (noun) an act of honor or courteous recognition | Synonyms: salutation |
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| (noun) a formal military gesture of respect | Synonyms: military greeting |
| (noun) an act of greeting with friendly words and gestures like bowing or lifting the hat | - |
| (verb) greet in a friendly way | - |
| (verb) recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers | - |
| (verb) express commendation of | - |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, toast, wassail |
| (verb) become noticeable | - |
| saluter | (noun) a person who greets | Synonyms: greeter, welcomer |
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| talus | (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: anklebone, astragal, astragalus |
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| (noun) a sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff | Synonyms: scree |
| tantalum | (noun) a hard grey lustrous metallic element that is highly resistant to corrosion; occurs in niobite and fergusonite and tantalite | Synonyms: atomic number 73, Ta |
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| underevaluation | (noun) an appraisal that underestimates the value of something | - |
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| undervaluation | (noun) too low a value or price assigned to something | - |
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| undervalue | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devaluate, devalue |
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| (verb) assign too low a value to | Synonyms: underestimate |
| (verb) esteem lightly | - |
| unvalued | (adjective) having value that is not acknowledged | Synonyms: unappreciated, unsung |
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| valuable | (adjective) having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange | - |
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| (adjective) having worth or merit or value | Synonyms: worthful |
| (noun) something of value | - |
| valuableness | (noun) the positive quality of being precious and beyond value | Synonyms: invaluableness, preciousness, pricelessness |
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| valuate | (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, evaluate, measure, value |
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| valuation | (noun) an appraisal of the value of something | Synonyms: evaluation, rating |
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| (noun) assessed price | - |
| valuator | (noun) one who estimates officially the worth or value or quality of things | Synonyms: appraiser |
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| value | (noun) the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable | - |
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| (noun) relative darkness or lightness of a color | - |
| (noun) a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed | - |
| (noun) an ideal accepted by some individual or group | - |
| (noun) the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else | Synonyms: economic value |
| (noun) (music) the relative duration of a musical note | Synonyms: note value, time value |
| (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, evaluate, measure, valuate |
| (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: esteem, prise, prize, respect |
| (verb) estimate the value of | Synonyms: rate |
| (verb) fix or determine the value of; assign a value to | - |
| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: appreciate, prize, treasure |
| valued | (adjective) (usually used in combination) having value of a specified kind | - |
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| (adjective) held in great esteem for admirable qualities especially of an intrinsic nature | Synonyms: precious |
| valueless | (adjective) of no value | - |
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| valuelessness | (noun) having none of the properties that endow something with value | - |
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| valuer | (noun) someone who assesses the monetary worth of possessions | - |
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| values | (noun) beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something) | - |
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