| abamp | (noun) a unit of current equal to 10 amperes | Synonyms: abampere |
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| abampere | (noun) a unit of current equal to 10 amperes | Synonyms: abamp |
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| abeam | (adverb) at right angles to the length of a ship or airplane | - |
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| acclamation | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclaim, eclat, plaudit, plaudits |
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| acetamide | (noun) a colorless solid amide of acetic acid used as a solvent and in the synthesis of organic compounds | Synonyms: ethanamide |
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| acetaminophen | (noun) an analgesic for mild pain but not for inflammation; also used as an antipyretic; (Datril, Tylenol, Panadol, Phenaphen, Tempra, and Anacin III are trademarks of brands of acetaminophen tablets) | Synonyms: Anacin III, Datril, Panadol, Phenaphen, Tempra, Tylenol |
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| achlamydeous | (adjective) not having a floral envelope or perianth | - |
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| acrylamide | (noun) a white crystalline amide of propenoic acid can damage the nervous system and is carcinogenic in laboratory animals | - |
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| 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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| adynamia | (noun) lack of strength or vigor (especially from illness) | - |
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| adynamic | (adjective) characterized by an absence of force or forcefulness | Synonyms: undynamic |
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| (adjective) lacking energy or vitality | Synonyms: asthenic, debilitated, enervated |
| aerodynamic | (adjective) of or relating to aerodynamics | - |
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| (adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow | Synonyms: flowing, sleek, streamlined |
| aerodynamics | (noun) the branch of mechanics that deals with the motion of gases (especially air) and their effects on bodies in the flow | Synonyms: aeromechanics |
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| aerogram | (noun) a letter sent by air mail | Synonyms: aerogramme, air letter, airmail letter |
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| aerogramme | (noun) a letter sent by air mail | Synonyms: aerogram, air letter, airmail letter |
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| aflame | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, afire, aflare, alight, on fire |
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| (adjective) keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement | Synonyms: ablaze, aroused |
| afterdamp | (noun) a toxic mixture of gases (including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and nitrogen) after an explosion of firedamp in a mine | - |
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| agama | (noun) small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World | - |
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| agamete | (noun) an asexual reproductive cell | - |
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| agamic | (adjective) (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | Synonyms: agamogenetic, agamous, apomictic, parthenogenetic |
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| agamid | (noun) a lizard of the family Agamidae | Synonyms: agamid lizard |
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| agammaglobulinemia | (noun) a rare immunological disorder characterized by the virtual absence of gamma globulin in the blood and consequent susceptibility to infection | - |
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| agamogenesis | (noun) reproduction without the fusion of gametes | Synonyms: asexual reproduction |
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| agamogenetic | (adjective) (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | Synonyms: agamic, agamous, apomictic, parthenogenetic |
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| agamous | (adjective) (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | Synonyms: agamic, agamogenetic, apomictic, parthenogenetic |
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| agleam | (adjective) bright with a steady but subdued shining | Synonyms: gleaming, nitid |
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| airframe | (noun) the framework and covering of an airplane or rocket (excluding the engines) | - |
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| airstream | (noun) a relatively well-defined prevailing wind | - |
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| (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: backwash, race, slipstream, wash |
| alhamdulilah | (noun) An expression meaning 'praise God' in Arabic | - |
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| allamanda | (noun) a plant of the genus Allamanda having large showy funnel-shaped flowers in terminal cymes | - |
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| allogamous | (adjective) relating to cross-fertilization in plants | - |
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| allogamy | (noun) cross-fertilization in plants | - |
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| alphameric | (adjective) of or pertaining to alphanumeric characters | Synonyms: alphamerical, alphanumeric, alphanumerical |
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| alphamerical | (adjective) of or pertaining to alphanumeric characters | Synonyms: alphameric, alphanumeric, alphanumerical |
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| alprazolam | (noun) an antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class | Synonyms: Xanax |
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| amadavat | (noun) red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds | Synonyms: avadavat |
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| amah | (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: housemaid, maid, maidservant |
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| (noun) a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else | Synonyms: wet-nurse, wet nurse, wetnurse |
| amain | (adverb) with all your strength | - |
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| (adverb) at full speed; with great haste | - |
| amalgam | (noun) a combination or blend of diverse things | - |
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| (noun) an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams | Synonyms: dental amalgam |
| amalgamate | (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamated, coalesced, consolidated, fused |
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| (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: commix, mingle, mix, unify |
| amalgamated | (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamate, coalesced, consolidated, fused |
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| amalgamation | (noun) the combination of two or more commercial companies | Synonyms: merger, uniting |
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| amalgamative | (adjective) characterized by or tending toward amalgamation | - |
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| amalgamator | (noun) a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies | - |
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| amanuensis | (noun) someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation) | Synonyms: shorthand typist, stenographer |
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| amaranth | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food | - |
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| (noun) seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America | - |
| amaranthine | (adjective) of or related to the amaranth plant | - |
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| (adjective) of an imaginary flower that never fades | Synonyms: unfading |
| amarelle | (noun) pale red sour cherry with colorless or nearly colorless juice | - |
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| (noun) any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice | Synonyms: Prunus cerasus caproniana |
| amaretto | (noun) an Italian almond liqueur | - |
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| amaryllis | (noun) bulbous plant having showy white to reddish flowers | - |
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| amass | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| amastia | (noun) absence of the mammary glands (either through surgery or developmental defect) | - |
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| amateur | (adjective) engaged in as a pastime | Synonyms: recreational, unpaid |
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| (adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateurish, inexpert, unskilled |
| (noun) someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime | - |
| (noun) an athlete who does not play for pay | - |
| amateurish | (adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateur, inexpert, unskilled |
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| amateurishly | (adverb) in an amateurish manner | - |
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| amateurishness | (noun) something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency | - |
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| amateurism | (noun) the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money | - |
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| amative | (adjective) inclined toward or displaying love | Synonyms: amorous |
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| amativeness | (noun) the arousal of feelings of sexual desire | Synonyms: amorousness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness |
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| amatory | (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amorous, romantic |
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| amatungulu | (noun) very large closely branched South African shrub having forked bright green spines and shiny leaves | Synonyms: Carissa grandiflora, Carissa macrocarpa, natal plum |
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| amaurosis | (noun) partial or total loss of sight without pathology of the eye; caused by disease of optic nerve or retina or brain | - |
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| amaurotic | (adjective) pertaining to blindness caused by amaurosis | - |
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| amaze | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: astonish, astound |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| amazed | (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: astonied, astonished, astounded, stunned |
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| amazement | (noun) the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising | Synonyms: astonishment |
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| amazing | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing |
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| (adjective) surprising greatly | Synonyms: astonishing |
| amazingly | (adverb) in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise | Synonyms: astonishingly, surprisingly |
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| amazon | (noun) mainly green tropical American parrots | - |
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| (noun) a large strong and aggressive woman | Synonyms: virago |
| ambage | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: circumlocution, periphrasis |
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| ambages | (noun) (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action | - |
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| ambagious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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| ambassador | (noun) a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another | Synonyms: embassador |
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| (noun) an informal representative | - |
| ambassadorial | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of ambassadors | - |
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| ambassadorship | (noun) the post of ambassador | - |
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| ambassadress | (noun) a woman ambassador | - |
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| amber | (adjective) of a medium to dark brownish yellow color | Synonyms: brownish-yellow, yellow-brown |
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| (noun) a deep yellow color | Synonyms: gold |
| (noun) a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry | - |
| amberbell | (noun) eastern North American dogtooth having solitary yellow flowers marked with brown or purple and spotted interiors | Synonyms: Erythronium americanum, trout lily, yellow adder's tongue |
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| amberfish | (noun) any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes | Synonyms: amberjack |
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| ambergris | (noun) waxy substance secreted by the sperm whale and found floating at sea or washed ashore; used in perfume | - |
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| amberjack | (noun) any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes | Synonyms: amberfish |
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| ambiance | (noun) the atmosphere of an environment | Synonyms: ambience |
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| (noun) a particular environment or surrounding influence | Synonyms: ambience, atmosphere |
| ambidexterity | (noun) the property of being equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: ambidextrousness |
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| ambidextrous | (adjective) equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: two-handed |
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| (adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced |
| ambidextrousness | (noun) the property of being equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: ambidexterity |
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| ambience | (noun) the atmosphere of an environment | Synonyms: ambiance |
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| (noun) a particular environment or surrounding influence | Synonyms: ambiance, atmosphere |
| ambient | (adjective) completely enveloping | - |
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| ambiguity | (noun) unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning | Synonyms: equivocalness |
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| (noun) an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context | - |
| ambiguous | (adjective) having more than one possible meaning | - |
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| (adjective) open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead | Synonyms: equivocal |
| (adjective) having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns | - |
| ambiguously | (adverb) in an ambiguous manner | Synonyms: equivocally |
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| ambit | (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: compass, orbit, range, reach, scope |
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| ambition | (noun) a strong drive for success | Synonyms: ambitiousness |
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| (noun) a cherished desire | Synonyms: aspiration, dream |
| (verb) have as one's ambition | - |
| ambitionless | (adjective) having little desire for success or achievement | Synonyms: unambitious |
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| ambitious | (adjective) having a strong desire for success or achievement | - |
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| (adjective) requiring full use of your abilities or resources | Synonyms: challenging |
| ambitiously | (adverb) with ambition; in an ambitious and energetic manner | Synonyms: determinedly |
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| ambitiousness | (noun) a strong drive for success | Synonyms: ambition |
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| ambivalence | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalency |
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