| anginose | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginal, anginous |
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| anginous | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginal, anginose |
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| angiocardiogram | (noun) a series of X rays representing the action of the heart and its blood vessels after the injection of a radiopaque substance | - |
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| angiocarp | (noun) tree bearing fruit enclosed in a shell or involucre or husk | - |
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| angiocarpic | (adjective) having or being fruit enclosed in a shell or husk | Synonyms: angiocarpous |
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| angiocarpous | (adjective) having or being fruit enclosed in a shell or husk | Synonyms: angiocarpic |
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| angioedema | (noun) recurrent large circumscribed areas of subcutaneous edema; onset is sudden and it disappears within 24 hours; seen mainly in young women, often as an allergic reaction to food or drugs | Synonyms: atrophedema, giant hives, periodic edema, Quincke's edema |
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| angiogenesis | (noun) the formation of new blood vessels | - |
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| angiogram | (noun) an X-ray representation of blood vessels made after the injection of a radiopaque substance | - |
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| angiography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of blood vessels after injection of a radiopaque contrast medium; produces an angiogram | - |
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| angiohemophilia | (noun) a form of hemophilia discovered by Erik von Willebrand; a genetic disorder that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait; characterized by a deficiency of the coagulation factor and by mucosal bleeding | Synonyms: vascular hemophilia, von Willebrand's disease |
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| angiologist | (noun) a physician who specializes in angiology | - |
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| angiology | (noun) the branch of medical science that studies the blood and lymph vessels and their disorders | - |
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| angioma | (noun) a tumor consisting of a mass of blood or lymphatic vessels | - |
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| angiomatous | (adjective) of or related to or having a tumor of the kind known as an angioma | - |
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| angiopathy | (noun) any disease of the blood vessels or lymph ducts | - |
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| angioplasty | (noun) an operation to repair a damaged blood vessel or unblock a coronary artery | - |
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| angiopteris | (noun) highly variable species of very large primitive ferns of the Pacific tropical areas with high rainfall | Synonyms: Angiopteris evecta, giant fern |
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| angiosarcoma | (noun) a rare malignant neoplasm arising from vascular tissue; usually occurs in the breast and skin and is believed to originate from the endothelial cells of blood vessels | - |
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| angioscope | (noun) a modified microscope used to study capillary vessels | - |
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| angiosperm | (noun) plants having seeds in a closed ovary | Synonyms: flowering plant |
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| angiospermous | (adjective) of or related to or characteristic of plants that are angiosperms | - |
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| angiotelectasia | (noun) dilation and enlargement of arterioles | - |
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| angiotensin | (noun) any of several vasoconstrictor substances (trade name Hypertensin) that cause narrowing of blood vessels | Synonyms: angiotonin, Hypertensin |
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| angiotonin | (noun) any of several vasoconstrictor substances (trade name Hypertensin) that cause narrowing of blood vessels | Synonyms: angiotensin, Hypertensin |
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| angle | (noun) a biased way of looking at or presenting something | Synonyms: slant |
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| (noun) the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians | - |
| (verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: slant, weight |
| (verb) fish with a hook | - |
| (verb) seek indirectly | Synonyms: fish |
| (verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: lean, slant, tilt, tip |
| (verb) move or proceed at an angle | - |
| angled | (adjective) forming or set at an angle | - |
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| angledozer | (noun) a bulldozer with an angled moldboard to push earth to one side | - |
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| angler | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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| (noun) a fisherman who uses a hook and line | Synonyms: troller |
| (noun) a scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage | - |
| anglerfish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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| anglewing | (noun) nymphalid butterfly having angular notches on the outer edges of the forewings | - |
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| angleworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| anglicise | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicize |
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| anglicize | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicise |
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| angling | (noun) fishing with a hook and line (and usually a pole) | - |
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| anglophil | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophile |
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| anglophile | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophil |
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| anglophobe | (noun) a person who hates England and everything English | - |
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| angostura | (noun) the bitter bark of a South American tree; used in medicines and liqueurs and bitters | Synonyms: angostura bark |
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| angrecum | (noun) any of various spectacular orchids of the genus Angraecum having dark green leathery leaves and usually nocturnally scented white or ivory flowers | - |
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| angrily | (adverb) with anger | - |
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| angriness | (noun) the state of being angry | Synonyms: anger |
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| angry | (adjective) feeling or showing anger | - |
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| (adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: furious, raging, tempestuous, wild |
| (adjective) severely inflamed and painful | - |
| angst | (noun) an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom | - |
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| angstrom | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: A, angstrom unit |
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| anguine | (adjective) of or related to or resembling a snake | - |
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| anguish | (noun) extreme mental distress | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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| (noun) extreme distress of body or mind | - |
| (verb) cause emotional anguish or make miserable | Synonyms: hurt, pain |
| (verb) suffer great pains or distress | - |
| anguished | (adjective) experiencing intense pain especially mental pain | Synonyms: tormented, tortured |
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| angular | (adjective) having angles or an angular shape | Synonyms: angulate |
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| (adjective) measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle | - |
| angularity | (noun) the property possessed by a shape that has angles | - |
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| (noun) a shape having one or more sharp angles | Synonyms: angular shape |
| angulate | (adjective) having angles or an angular shape | Synonyms: angular |
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| (verb) make or become angular | - |
| angulation | (noun) the act of making angulate (having corners) | - |
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| (noun) the precise measurement of angles | - |
| angwantibo | (noun) a kind of yellow or golden lemur (Arctocebus calabarensis) | Synonyms: Arctocebus calabarensis, golden potto |
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| anhedonia | (noun) an inability to experience pleasure | - |
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| anhidrosis | (noun) failure of the sweat glands | Synonyms: anhydrosis |
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| anhinga | (noun) fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill | Synonyms: darter, snakebird |
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| anhydride | (noun) a compound formed from one or more other compounds in a reaction resulting in removal of water | - |
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| anhydrosis | (noun) failure of the sweat glands | Synonyms: anhidrosis |
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| anhydrous | (adjective) without water; especially without water of crystallization | - |
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| ani | (noun) black tropical American cuckoo | - |
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| anicteric | (adjective) without jaundice | - |
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| (adjective) not affected by jaundice | - |
| anil | (noun) shrub of West Indies and South America that is a source of indigo dye | Synonyms: Indigofera anil, Indigofera suffruticosa |
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| (noun) a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically | Synonyms: indigo, indigotin |
| anile | (adjective) of or like a feeble old woman | - |
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| aniline | (noun) oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines | Synonyms: aminobenzine, aniline oil, phenylamine |
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| anima | (noun) (Jungian psychology) the inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious | - |
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| animadversion | (noun) harsh criticism or disapproval | Synonyms: censure |
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| animadvert | (verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: opine, sound off, speak out, speak up |
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| (verb) express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark | - |
| animal | (adjective) marked by the appetites and passions of the body | Synonyms: carnal, fleshly, sensual |
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| (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna |
| 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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| animalisation | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalization, brutalisation, brutalization |
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| animalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
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| (verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
| (verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalize |
| animalism | (noun) preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites | Synonyms: physicality |
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| (noun) the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature | - |
| animalistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to animalism | - |
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| animality | (noun) the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect | Synonyms: animal nature |
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| animalization | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, brutalisation, brutalization |
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| (noun) a depiction in the form of an animal | - |
| animalize | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, brutalise, brutalize |
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| (verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, brutalise, brutalize |
| (verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalise |
| animate | (adjective) endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings | - |
| (adjective) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness | Synonyms: sentient |
| (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
| (verb) make lively | Synonyms: enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up |
| (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animise, animize |
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate |
| animated | (adjective) having life or vigor or spirit | Synonyms: alive |
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| (adjective) made to appear to move as living creatures do | - |
| animatedly | (adverb) in an animated manner | - |
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| animateness | (noun) the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life | Synonyms: aliveness, liveness |
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| animating | (adjective) giving spirit and vivacity | Synonyms: enlivening |
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| animation | (noun) the making of animated cartoons | - |
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| (noun) general activity and motion | Synonyms: liveliness |
| (noun) the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something | Synonyms: invigoration, vivification |
| (noun) the property of being able to survive and grow | Synonyms: vitality |
| (noun) quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous | Synonyms: brio, invigoration, spiritedness, vivification |
| (noun) the condition of living or the state of being alive | Synonyms: aliveness, life, living |
| animatism | (noun) the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones | - |
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| animatistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to animatism | - |
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| animator | (noun) the technician who produces animated cartoons | - |
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| (noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: energiser, energizer, vitaliser, vitalizer |
| animatronics | (noun) the construction of robots to look like animals (developed for Disneyland) | - |
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| anime | (noun) a style of animation developed in Japan, characterized by stylized colorful art and often adult themes | - |
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| (noun) a hard copal derived from an African tree | Synonyms: Zanzibar copal |
| (noun) any of various resins or oleoresins | Synonyms: gum anime |
| animise | (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animate, animize |
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| animism | (noun) the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls | - |
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| animist | (adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism | Synonyms: animistic |
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| (noun) one who accepts the doctrine of animism | - |
| animistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism | Synonyms: animist |
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| animize | (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animate, animise |
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| animosity | (noun) a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility | Synonyms: animus, bad blood |
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| animus | (noun) a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility | Synonyms: animosity, bad blood |
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| anion | (noun) a negatively charged ion | - |
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| anionic | (adjective) of or relating to anions | - |
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| (noun) a class of synthetic detergents in which the molecules do not ionize in aqueous solutions | Synonyms: anionic detergent, non-ionic detergent |
| anise | (noun) liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors | Synonyms: anise seed, aniseed |
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| (noun) native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery | Synonyms: anise plant, Pimpinella anisum |
| aniseed | (noun) liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors | Synonyms: anise, anise seed |
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| aniseikonia | (noun) visual defect in which the shape and size of an ocular image differ in the two eyes | - |
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