| 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 | - |
| cangue | (noun) an instrument of punishment formerly used in China for petty criminals; consists of a heavy wooden collar enclosing the neck and arms | - |
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| consanguine | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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| consanguineal | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, kin |
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| consanguineous | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, kin |
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| consanguinity | (noun) (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood | Synonyms: blood kinship, cognation |
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| equiangular | (adjective) having all angles equal | - |
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| exsanguine | (adjective) destitute of blood or apparently so | Synonyms: bloodless, exsanguinous |
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| exsanguinous | (adjective) destitute of blood or apparently so | Synonyms: bloodless, exsanguine |
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| harangue | (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: rant, ranting |
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| (verb) deliver a harangue to; address forcefully | - |
| haranguer | (noun) a public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech | - |
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| hexangular | (adjective) having six sides or divided into hexagons | Synonyms: hexagonal |
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| interlanguage | (noun) a common language used by speakers of different languages | Synonyms: koine, lingua franca |
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| language | (noun) the mental faculty or power of vocal communication | Synonyms: speech |
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| (noun) the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication | Synonyms: linguistic process |
| (noun) a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols | Synonyms: linguistic communication |
| (noun) (language) communication by word of mouth | Synonyms: oral communication, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication |
| (noun) the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number | Synonyms: lyric, words |
| (noun) a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline | Synonyms: nomenclature, terminology |
| languid | (adjective) lacking spirit or liveliness | Synonyms: dreamy, lackadaisical, languorous |
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| languidly | (adverb) in a languid and lethargic manner | - |
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| languish | (verb) become feeble | Synonyms: fade |
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| (verb) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief | Synonyms: pine away, waste |
| (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, pine, yearn, yen |
| languisher | (noun) a person who languishes | - |
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| languor | (noun) inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy | Synonyms: flatness, lethargy, phlegm, sluggishness |
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| (noun) a relaxed comfortable feeling | Synonyms: dreaminess |
| (noun) a feeling of lack of interest or energy | Synonyms: lassitude, listlessness |
| (noun) oppressively still air | - |
| languorous | (adjective) lacking spirit or liveliness | Synonyms: dreamy, lackadaisical, languid |
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| languorously | (adverb) in a languorous manner | - |
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| langur | (noun) slender long-tailed monkey of Asia | - |
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| metalanguage | (noun) a language that can be used to describe languages | - |
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| octangular | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like an octagon | Synonyms: octagonal |
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| orangutan | (noun) large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits | Synonyms: orang, orangutang, Pongo pygmaeus |
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| orangutang | (noun) large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits | Synonyms: orang, orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus |
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| paralanguage | (noun) the use of manner of speaking to communicate particular meanings | Synonyms: paralinguistic communication |
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| pentangular | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a pentagon | Synonyms: pentagonal |
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| quadrangular | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a quadrangle | - |
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| rectangular | (adjective) having four right angles | - |
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| (adjective) having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles | Synonyms: orthogonal |
| rectangularity | (noun) the property of being shaped like a rectangle | Synonyms: oblongness |
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| sanguification | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis |
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| sanguinary | (adjective) marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed | Synonyms: bloodthirsty, bloody-minded |
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| (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, gory, sanguineous, slaughterous |
| sanguine | (adjective) inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life | Synonyms: florid, rubicund, ruddy |
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| (adjective) confidently optimistic and cheerful | Synonyms: sanguineous |
| (noun) chalk of a reddish-brown colour that resembles dried blood | Synonyms: red chalk |
| (noun) a blood-red color | - |
| sanguineness | (noun) feeling sanguine; optimistically cheerful and confident | Synonyms: sanguinity |
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| sanguineous | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, gory, sanguinary, slaughterous |
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| (adjective) confidently optimistic and cheerful | Synonyms: sanguine |
| sanguinity | (noun) feeling sanguine; optimistically cheerful and confident | Synonyms: sanguineness |
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| slanguage | (noun) language characterized by excessive use of slang or cant | - |
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| strangulate | (verb) become constricted | - |
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| (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangle, throttle |
| (verb) constrict a hollow organ or vessel so as to stop the flow of blood or air | - |
| strangulation | (noun) the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe | Synonyms: choking, strangling, throttling |
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| (noun) (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid | - |
| (noun) the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage | - |
| triangular | (adjective) having three angles; forming or shaped like a triangle | - |
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| (adjective) having three sides | Synonyms: three-sided, trilateral |
| triangularity | (noun) the property of being shaped like a triangle | - |
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| triangulate | (adjective) composed of or marked with triangles | - |
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| (verb) survey by triangulation | - |
| (verb) measure by using trigonometry | - |
| (verb) divide into triangles or give a triangular form to | - |
| triangulation | (noun) a method of surveying; the area is divided into triangles and the length of one side and its angles with the other two are measured, then the lengths of the other sides can be calculated | - |
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| (noun) a trigonometric method of determining the position of a fixed point from the angles to it from two fixed points of a known distance apart; useful in navigation | - |
| vanguard | (noun) the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field | Synonyms: cutting edge, forefront |
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| (noun) the leading units moving at the head of an army | Synonyms: van |
| (noun) any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts) | Synonyms: avant-garde, new wave, van |