| accompanied | (adjective) having companions or an escort | - |
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| (adjective) playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment | Synonyms: attended |
| accompaniment | (noun) the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them | Synonyms: escort |
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| (noun) something added to complete or embellish or make perfect | Synonyms: complement |
| (noun) a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Synonyms: backup, musical accompaniment, support |
| (noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: attendant, co-occurrence, concomitant |
| accompanist | (noun) a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) | Synonyms: accompanyist |
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| acetanilid | (noun) a solid odourless chemical of leaf or flake-like appearance; used in rubber accelerator, dye, and camphor synthesis; metabolised to paracetamol (acetaminophen) | Synonyms: acetanilide, phenylacetamide |
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| acetanilide | (noun) a solid odourless chemical of leaf or flake-like appearance; used in rubber accelerator, dye, and camphor synthesis; metabolised to paracetamol (acetaminophen) | Synonyms: acetanilid, phenylacetamide |
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| aeromechanic | (adjective) of or pertaining to aerodynamics | - |
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| aeromechanics | (noun) the branch of mechanics that deals with the motion of gases (especially air) and their effects on bodies in the flow | Synonyms: aerodynamics |
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| afghani | (noun) the basic unit of money in Afghanistan | - |
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| agromania | (noun) an intense desire to be alone or out in the open | - |
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| alanine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid that occurs in many proteins | - |
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| aldermanic | (adjective) of or relating to or like an alderman | Synonyms: aldermanly |
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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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| aniseikonic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the visual defect aniseikonia | - |
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| anisette | (noun) liquorice-flavored usually colorless sweet liqueur made from aniseed | Synonyms: anisette de Bordeaux |
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| anisogamete | (noun) either of a pair of unlike gametes especially those unlike in size | - |
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| anisogametic | (adjective) relating to either of a pair of dissimilar (anisogamic) gametes combining in sexual reproduction | - |
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| anisogamic | (adjective) relating to a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar in some respect (as size or shape) | Synonyms: anisogamous |
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| anisogamous | (adjective) relating to a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar in some respect (as size or shape) | Synonyms: anisogamic |
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| anisogamy | (noun) (biology) reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size) | - |
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| anisometric | (adjective) having unsymmetrical parts or unequal dimensions or measurements | Synonyms: unsymmetrical |
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| anisometropia | (noun) difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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| anisometropic | (adjective) relating to a difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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| anisotropic | (adjective) not invariant with respect to direction | - |
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| anisotropically | (adverb) in an anisotropic manner | - |
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| anisotropy | (noun) the property of being anisotropic; having a different value when measured in different directions | - |
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| antiestablishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentism |
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| antinomianism | (noun) the theological doctrine that by faith and God's grace a Christian is freed from all laws (including the moral standards of the culture) | - |
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| aphanite | (noun) fine-grained homogeneous rock (such as basalt) containing minerals undetectable by the naked eye | - |
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| aphanitic | (adjective) of or relating to aphanite | - |
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| arianist | (noun) an adherent of Arianism (the belief that Jesus Christ was not truly God) | - |
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| authoritarianism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| avianise | (verb) to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo | Synonyms: avianize |
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| avianize | (verb) to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo | Synonyms: avianise |
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| balanitis | (noun) inflammation of the head of the penis | - |
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| balletomania | (noun) extraordinary enthusiasm for ballets | - |
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| banian | (noun) a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India | Synonyms: banyan |
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| (noun) East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks | Synonyms: banian tree, banyan, banyan tree, East Indian fig tree, Ficus bengalensis, Indian banyan |
| banish | (verb) drive away | - |
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| (verb) expel, as if by official decree | Synonyms: bar, relegate |
| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun |
| (verb) ban from a place of residence, as for punishment | Synonyms: ban |
| banishment | (noun) rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone | Synonyms: proscription |
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| (noun) the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent) | Synonyms: Coventry, ostracism |
| banister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, bannister, handrail |
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| beanie | (noun) a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen | Synonyms: beany |
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| bibliomania | (noun) preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books | - |
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| bibliomaniacal | (adjective) characteristic of or characterized by or noted for bibliomania | - |
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| biriani | (noun) an Indian dish made with highly seasoned rice and meat or fish or vegetables | Synonyms: biryani |
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| biryani | (noun) an Indian dish made with highly seasoned rice and meat or fish or vegetables | Synonyms: biriani |
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| bohemianism | (noun) conduct characteristic of a bohemian | - |
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| botanic | (adjective) of or relating to plants or botany | Synonyms: botanical |
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| botanical | (adjective) of or relating to plants or botany | Synonyms: botanic |
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| (noun) a drug made from part of a plant (as the bark or root or leaves) | - |
| botanise | (verb) collect and study plants | Synonyms: botanize |
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| botanist | (noun) a biologist specializing in the study of plants | Synonyms: phytologist, plant scientist |
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| botanize | (verb) collect and study plants | Synonyms: botanise |
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| brachycranial | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranic |
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| brachycranic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranial |
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| campanile | (noun) a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building | Synonyms: belfry |
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| canavanine | (noun) an amino acid found in the jack bean | - |
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| canicular | (adjective) relating to or especially immediately preceding or following the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star) | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the dog days of summer | - |
| canicule | (noun) the hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity | Synonyms: canicular days, dog days |
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| canid | (noun) any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles | Synonyms: canine |
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| canine | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a pointed conical tooth | Synonyms: laniary |
| (noun) any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles | Synonyms: canid |
| (noun) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | Synonyms: canine tooth, cuspid, dogtooth, eye tooth, eyetooth |
| caning | (noun) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) | Synonyms: wicker, wickerwork |
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| canistel | (noun) ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies | Synonyms: eggfruit |
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| (noun) tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit | Synonyms: canistel tree, Pouteria campechiana nervosa |