| anna | (noun) a former copper coin of Pakistan and India | - |
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| annalism | (noun) The writing of annals. | - |
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| annalist | (noun) a historian who writes annals | - |
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| annalistic | (adjective) relating to annals | - |
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| annals | (noun) a chronological account of events in successive years | Synonyms: chronological record |
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| (noun) reports of the work of a society or learned body etc | - |
| anneal | (verb) bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling | Synonyms: normalize, temper |
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| annealing | (noun) hardening something by heat treatment | Synonyms: tempering |
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| annelid | (adjective) relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida | Synonyms: annelidan |
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| (noun) worms with cylindrical bodies segmented both internally and externally | Synonyms: annelid worm, segmented worm |
| annelidan | (adjective) relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida | Synonyms: annelid |
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| annex | (noun) an addition that extends a main building | Synonyms: annexe, extension, wing |
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| (verb) add an extra part to | - |
| (verb) take (territory) as if by conquest | - |
| annexa | (noun) accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages to an organ (especially of the embryo) | Synonyms: adnexa |
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| annexal | (adjective) of or pertaining to adnexa | Synonyms: adnexal |
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| annexation | (noun) the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation | - |
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| (noun) incorporation by joining or uniting | Synonyms: appropriation |
| annexational | (adjective) relating to annexation | - |
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| annexe | (noun) an addition that extends a main building | Synonyms: annex, extension, wing |
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| annihilate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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| annihilated | (adjective) destroyed completely | Synonyms: exterminated, wiped out |
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| annihilating | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilative, devastating, withering |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: devastating, withering |
| annihilation | (noun) destruction by annihilating something | Synonyms: obliteration |
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| (noun) total destruction | Synonyms: disintegration |
| annihilative | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, devastating, withering |
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| annihilator | (noun) a total destroyer | - |
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| anniversary | (noun) the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: day of remembrance |
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| annon | (noun) sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds | Synonyms: sugar apple, sweetsop |
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| annotate | (verb) provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases | Synonyms: comment, gloss |
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| (verb) add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments | Synonyms: footnote |
| annotating | (noun) the act of adding notes | Synonyms: annotation |
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| annotation | (noun) the act of adding notes | Synonyms: annotating |
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| (noun) a comment or instruction (usually added) | Synonyms: notation, note |
| annotator | (noun) a commentator who writes notes to a text | - |
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| announce | (verb) make known; make an announcement | Synonyms: denote |
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| (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: annunciate, foretell, harbinger, herald |
| (verb) announce publicly or officially | Synonyms: declare |
| (verb) give the names of | - |
| announced | (adjective) declared publicly; made widely known | Synonyms: proclaimed |
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| announcement | (noun) a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen | Synonyms: promulgation |
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| (noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: annunciation, declaration, proclamation |
| announcer | (noun) reads news, commercials on radio or television | - |
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| (noun) someone who proclaims a message publicly | - |
| annoy | (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
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| annoyance | (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoying, irritation, vexation |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: bother, botheration, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
| (noun) anger produced by some annoying irritation | Synonyms: chafe, vexation |
| (noun) an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating | Synonyms: aggravator |
| (noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: botheration, irritation, vexation |
| annoyed | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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| (adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances | Synonyms: harassed, harried, pestered, vexed |
| annoyer | (noun) someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) | Synonyms: tease, teaser, vexer |
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| annoying | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoyance, irritation, vexation |
| annoyingly | (adverb) in an annoying manner or to an annoying degree | - |
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| annual | (adjective) completing its life cycle within a year | Synonyms: one-year |
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| (adjective) occurring or payable every year | Synonyms: yearly |
| (noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year | Synonyms: yearbook, yearly |
| (noun) (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year | - |
| annually | (adverb) without missing a year | Synonyms: each year, every year, yearly |
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| (adverb) by the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received) | Synonyms: each year, p.a., per annum, per year |
| annualry | (noun) the third finger (especially of the left hand) | Synonyms: ring finger |
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| annuitant | (noun) the recipient of an annuity | - |
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| annuity | (noun) income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments | Synonyms: rente |
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| annul | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
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| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: avoid, invalidate, nullify, quash, void |
| annular | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annulate, annulated, circinate, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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| annulate | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annular, annulated, circinate, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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| annulated | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annular, annulate, circinate, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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| annulet | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: bandelet, bandelette, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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| (noun) (heraldry) a charge in the shape of a small ring | - |
| annulment | (noun) (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc) | Synonyms: invalidation |
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| (noun) the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation | Synonyms: abrogation, repeal |
| (noun) the state of being cancelled or annulled | Synonyms: revocation |
| annulus | (noun) (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar | Synonyms: skirt |
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| (noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, doughnut, halo, ring |
| annum | (noun) (Latin) year | - |
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| annunciate | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, foretell, harbinger, herald |
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| annunciation | (noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: announcement, declaration, proclamation |
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| annunciator | (noun) an indicator that announces which electrical circuit has been active (as on a telephone switchboard) | - |
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| annunciatory | (adjective) relating to the act of announcing or being announced | - |
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| archiannelid | (noun) small primitive marine worm lacking external segmentation and resembling polychaete larvae | - |
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| bandanna | (noun) large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief | Synonyms: bandana |
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| banned | (adjective) forbidden by law | Synonyms: prohibited |
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| banner | (adjective) unusually good; outstanding | - |
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| (noun) long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising | Synonyms: streamer |
| (noun) any distinctive flag | Synonyms: standard |
| (noun) a newspaper headline that runs across the full page | Synonyms: streamer |
| banneret | (noun) a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command | Synonyms: knight banneret, knight of the square flag |
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| bannerlike | (adverb) like a banner | - |
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| banning | (noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, forbiddance, forbidding |
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| bannister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, banister, handrail |
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| bannock | (noun) a flat bread made of oat or barley flour; common in New England and Scotland | - |
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| banns | (noun) a public announcement of a proposed marriage | - |
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| biannual | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biyearly, half-yearly, semiannual |
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| biannually | (adverb) twice a year | - |
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| canna | (noun) any plant of the genus Canna having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers | - |
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| cannabin | (noun) a resin obtained from the hemp plant; thought to be the active narcotic agent in marijuana | Synonyms: cannabis resin |
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| cannabis | (noun) the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect | Synonyms: ganja, marihuana, marijuana |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs | Synonyms: hemp |
| canned | (adjective) sealed in a can or jar | Synonyms: tinned |
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| (adjective) recorded for broadcast | Synonyms: transcribed |
| cannelloni | (noun) tubular pasta filled with meat or cheese | - |
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| cannery | (noun) a factory where food is canned | - |
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| cannibal | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagite, anthropophagus, man-eater |
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| cannibalic | (adjective) marked by barbarity suggestive of a cannibal; rapaciously savage | - |
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| cannibalise | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalize |
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| (verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalize |
| cannibalism | (noun) the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind | - |
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| cannibalistic | (adjective) characteristic of cannibals or exhibiting cannibalism | - |
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| cannibalize | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalise |
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| (verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalise |
| cannikin | (noun) a small can | - |
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| (noun) a wooden bucket | - |
| cannily | (adverb) with foresight | Synonyms: presciently |
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| cannister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: canister, tin |
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| cannon | (noun) a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other | Synonyms: carom |
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| (noun) lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals | Synonyms: shank |
| (noun) a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels | - |
| (noun) heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane | - |
| (noun) (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm | - |
| (noun) heavy gun fired from a tank | - |
| (verb) fire a cannon | - |
| (verb) make a cannon | - |
| cannonade | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: drumfire |
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| (verb) attack with cannons or artillery | - |
| cannonball | (noun) a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon | Synonyms: cannon ball, round shot |
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| cannoneer | (noun) a serviceman in the artillery | Synonyms: artilleryman, gunner, machine gunner |
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| cannula | (noun) a small flexible tube inserted into a body cavity for draining off fluid or introducing medication | - |
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| cannular | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: tube-shaped, tubelike, tubular, vasiform |
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| cannulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulise, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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| cannulation | (noun) the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ | Synonyms: cannulisation, cannulization, canulation, canulisation, canulization, intubation |
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| cannulisation | (noun) the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ | Synonyms: cannulation, cannulization, canulation, canulisation, canulization, intubation |
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| cannulise | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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| cannulization | (noun) the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ | Synonyms: cannulation, cannulisation, canulation, canulisation, canulization, intubation |
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| cannulize | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, canulate, intubate |
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| canny | (adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagey, cagy, clever |
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| caravanning | (noun) the practice of taking holidays in a caravan | - |
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| channel | (noun) a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors | Synonyms: distribution channel |
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| (noun) a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through | - |
| (noun) a television station and its programs | Synonyms: television channel, TV channel |
| (noun) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance | Synonyms: canal, duct, epithelial duct |
| (noun) a path over which electrical signals can pass | Synonyms: transmission channel |
| (noun) (often plural) a means of communication or access | Synonyms: communication channel, line |
| (noun) a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels | - |
| (noun) a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) | Synonyms: groove |
| (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
| (verb) direct the flow of | - |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, conduct, convey, impart, transmit |
| channelisation | (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalisation, canalization, channelization |
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| channelise | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
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| (verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
| (verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| channelization | (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalisation, canalization, channelisation |
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| channelize | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, transfer, transmit, transport |
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| (verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelise |
| (verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelise |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |