| abandon | (noun) the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry | Synonyms: unconstraint, wantonness |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme emotional intensity | Synonyms: wildness |
| (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: desert, desolate, forsake |
| (verb) stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: empty, vacate |
| (verb) forsake, leave behind | - |
| (verb) give up with the intent of never claiming again | Synonyms: give up |
| abandoned | (adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants | Synonyms: derelict, deserted |
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| (adjective) unrestrained and uninhibited | - |
| abandonment | (noun) withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility | Synonyms: defection, desertion |
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| (noun) the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away | - |
| (noun) the act of giving something up | Synonyms: desertion, forsaking |
| accelerando | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in tempo | - |
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| (noun) a gradually increasing tempo of music | - |
| (adverb) with increasing speed | - |
| aggrandise | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| aggrandisement | (noun) the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something | Synonyms: aggrandizement, elevation |
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| aggrandize | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| aggrandizement | (noun) the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something | Synonyms: aggrandisement, elevation |
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| alexandrite | (noun) a green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone | - |
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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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| allargando | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo and broadening in manner | - |
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| allemande | (noun) egg-thickened veloute | Synonyms: allemande sauce |
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| almandine | (noun) a purple variety of the ruby spinel | - |
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| (noun) a deep red garnet consisting of iron aluminum silicate | Synonyms: almandite |
| almandite | (noun) a deep red garnet consisting of iron aluminum silicate | Synonyms: almandine |
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| ampersand | (noun) a punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and) | - |
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| analysand | (noun) a person undergoing psychoanalysis | - |
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| andante | (adjective) (of tempo) moderately slow | - |
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| (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed moderately slow | - |
| (noun) a moderately slow tempo (a walking pace) | - |
| (adverb) at a moderately slow tempo | - |
| andantino | (adjective) (of tempo) moderately fast | - |
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| andelmin | (noun) any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira | Synonyms: angelim |
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| andesite | (noun) a dark grey volcanic rock | - |
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| andiron | (noun) metal supports for logs in a fireplace | Synonyms: dog-iron, dog, firedog |
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| andradite | (noun) a garnet consisting of calcium iron silicate and having any color ranging from yellow and green to brown and black; used as gemstone | - |
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| andrena | (noun) a bee that is a member of the genus Andrena | Synonyms: andrenid, mining bee |
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| andrenid | (noun) a bee that is a member of the genus Andrena | Synonyms: andrena, mining bee |
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| androecium | (noun) a male gametoecium | - |
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| androgen | (noun) male sex hormone that is produced in the testes and responsible for typical male sexual characteristics | Synonyms: androgenic hormone |
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| androgenesis | (noun) male parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only paternal chromosomes due to the failure of the egg nucleus to participate in fertilization | Synonyms: androgeny |
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| androgenetic | (adjective) of or related to androgenesis | Synonyms: androgenous |
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| androgenic | (adjective) of or related to the male hormone androgen | - |
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| androgenous | (adjective) of or related to androgenesis | Synonyms: androgenetic |
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| androgeny | (noun) male parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only paternal chromosomes due to the failure of the egg nucleus to participate in fertilization | Synonyms: androgenesis |
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| androglossia | (noun) a woman's voice with male qualities | - |
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| androgyne | (noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made | Synonyms: epicene, epicene person, gynandromorph, hermaphrodite, intersex |
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| androgynous | (adjective) having both male and female characteristics | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or exhibiting both female and male sex organs but with a predominantly female appearance | - |
| androgyny | (noun) showing characteristics of both sexes | Synonyms: bisexuality, hermaphroditism |
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| android | (noun) an automaton that resembles a human being | Synonyms: humanoid, mechanical man |
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| (noun) An operating system from Google for mobile devices | - |
| andromeda | (noun) any of several shrubs of the genus Andromeda having leathery leaves and clusters of small flowers | - |
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| (noun) broad-leaved evergreen Asiatic shrub with glossy leaves and drooping clusters of white flowers | Synonyms: Japanese andromeda, lily-of-the-valley tree, Pieris japonica |
| androphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of men | - |
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| androsterone | (noun) an androgenic hormone that is less active than testosterone | - |
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| andryala | (noun) any plant of the genus Andryala having milky sap and heads of bright yellow flowers | - |
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| archimandrite | (noun) the superior of an abbey of monks | Synonyms: abbot |
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| armband | (noun) a band worn around the upper arm | - |
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| (noun) worn around arm as identification or to indicate mourning | - |
| backband | (noun) a broad band that passes over the back of a horse and supports the shafts of a vehicle | - |
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| backhand | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: backhanded |
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| (adjective) (of handwriting) having the letters slanting backward | Synonyms: left-slanting |
| (noun) a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke | Synonyms: backhand shot, backhand stroke |
| (verb) hit a tennis ball backhand | - |
| backhanded | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: backhand |
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| (adjective) roundabout or ambiguous | - |
| backhander | (noun) a backhanded blow | - |
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| badlands | (noun) deeply eroded barren land | - |
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| band | (noun) a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body) | - |
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| (noun) an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material | Synonyms: banding, stripe |
| (noun) a restraint put around something to hold it together | - |
| (noun) jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger | Synonyms: ring |
| (noun) a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration) | Synonyms: ring |
| (noun) a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration | - |
| (noun) a driving belt in machinery | - |
| (noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | Synonyms: banding, stria, striation |
| (noun) a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure | Synonyms: isthmus |
| (noun) a range of frequencies between two limits | - |
| (noun) instrumentalists not including string players | - |
| (noun) an unofficial association of people or groups | Synonyms: circle, lot, set |
| (noun) a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing | Synonyms: dance band, dance orchestra |
| (verb) bind or tie together, as with a band | - |
| (verb) attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify | Synonyms: ring |
| bandage | (noun) a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body | Synonyms: patch |
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| (verb) dress by covering or binding | - |
| (verb) wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose | Synonyms: bind |
| bandaged | (adjective) covered or wrapped with a bandage | Synonyms: bound |
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| bandaging | (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: binding, dressing |
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| bandana | (noun) large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief | Synonyms: bandanna |
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| bandanna | (noun) large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief | Synonyms: bandana |
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| bandbox | (noun) a light cylindrical box for holding light articles of attire (especially hats) | - |
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| bandeau | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bra, brassiere |
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| banded | (adjective) identified with a band especially around a leg | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by a band of especially white around the body | - |
| (adjective) marked with bands or strips of contrasting color or texture | - |
| bandelet | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelette, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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| bandelette | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelet, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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| banderilla | (noun) a decorated dart that is implanted in the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight | - |
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| banderillero | (noun) the bullfighter who implants decorated darts (banderillas) into the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight | - |
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| bandicoot | (noun) any of various agile ratlike terrestrial marsupials of Australia and adjacent islands; insectivorous and herbivorous | - |
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| banding | (noun) an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material | Synonyms: band, stripe |
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| (noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | Synonyms: band, stria, striation |
| bandit | (noun) an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band | Synonyms: brigand |
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| banditry | (noun) the practice of plundering in gangs | - |
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| bandleader | (noun) the leader of a dance band | - |
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| bandlet | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelet, bandelette, square and rabbet |
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| bandmaster | (noun) the conductor of a band | - |
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| bandoleer | (noun) a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers | Synonyms: bandolier |
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| bandolier | (noun) a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers | Synonyms: bandoleer |
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| bandoneon | (noun) a type of concertina popular in South America | - |
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| bandsaw | (noun) an endless saw consisting of a toothed metal band that is driven around two wheels | Synonyms: band saw |
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| bandsman | (noun) a player in a band (especially a military band) | - |
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| bandstand | (noun) a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air | Synonyms: outdoor stage, stand |
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| bandtail | (noun) wild pigeon of western North America; often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon | Synonyms: band-tail pigeon, band-tailed pigeon, Columba fasciata |
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| bandwagon | (noun) a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band | - |
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| (noun) a popular trend that attracts growing support | - |
| bandwidth | (noun) a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel | - |
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| bandy | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowlegged |
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| (verb) discuss lightly | Synonyms: kick around |
| (verb) exchange blows | - |
| (verb) toss or strike a ball back and forth | - |
| bandyleg | (noun) a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) | Synonyms: bandy leg, bow leg, bowleg, genu varum, tibia vara |
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| baranduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baronduki, barunduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| barehanded | (adjective) with bare hands | - |
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| beforehand | (adjective) being ahead of time or need | Synonyms: advance |
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| (adverb) ahead of time; in anticipation | Synonyms: ahead, in advance |
| behindhand | (adjective) behind schedule | - |
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| (adverb) in debt | Synonyms: behind, in arrears |
| bellyband | (noun) a strap around the belly of a draft animal holding the shafts of a wagon | - |
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| (noun) a cloth band that is worn around the waist (as on infants until the navel has healed) | - |
| bland | (adjective) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication | Synonyms: politic, smooth, suave |
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| (adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid |
| (adjective) lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting | Synonyms: flat |
| blandish | (verb) praise somewhat dishonestly | Synonyms: flatter |
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| blandishment | (noun) the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery | Synonyms: wheedling |
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| (noun) flattery intended to persuade | Synonyms: cajolery, palaver |
| blandly | (adverb) in a bland manner | - |
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| blandness | (noun) lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property | Synonyms: insipidity, insipidness |
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| (noun) the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner | Synonyms: smoothness, suaveness, suavity |
| (noun) the trait of exhibiting no personal embarrassment or concern | - |
| borderland | (noun) district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area | Synonyms: border district, march, marchland |
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| bottomland | (noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottom |
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| brand | (noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: blade, steel, sword |
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| (noun) a recognizable kind | Synonyms: make |
| (noun) a name given to a product or service | Synonyms: brand name, marque, trade name |
| (noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: mark, stain, stigma |
| (noun) identification mark on skin, made by burning | - |
| (noun) a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning | Synonyms: firebrand |
| (verb) mark or expose as infamous | Synonyms: post |
| (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brandmark, trademark |
| (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: denounce, mark, stigmatise, stigmatize |
| (verb) burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals | - |
| branded | (adjective) marked with a brand | - |
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| (adjective) (of goods and merchandise) marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights | - |
| branding | (noun) the act of stigmatizing | Synonyms: stigmatisation, stigmatization |
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| brandish | (noun) the act of waving | Synonyms: flourish |
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| (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: flourish, wave |
| (verb) exhibit aggressively | - |
| brandmark | (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, trademark |
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| brandy | (noun) distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice | - |
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| brandyball | (noun) a British candy flavored with brandy | - |
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| brandysnap | (noun) a gingersnap flavored with brandy | - |
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| brigand | (noun) an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band | Synonyms: bandit |
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| brigandine | (noun) a medieval coat of chain mail consisting of metal rings sewn onto leather or cloth | - |
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