| aesculapian | (adjective) of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art | Synonyms: medical |
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| apian | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of bees | - |
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| apiarian | (adjective) relating to bees or beekeeping | - |
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| apiarist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiculturist, beekeeper |
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| apiary | (noun) a shed containing a number of beehives | Synonyms: bee house |
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| apical | (adjective) situated at an apex | - |
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| apicalization | (noun) (phonetics) An articulatory feature of phones, usually consonants, produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue. | - |
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| apiculate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a short sharply pointed tip | - |
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| apicultural | (adjective) relating to the care and breeding of bees | - |
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| apiculture | (noun) the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey | Synonyms: beekeeping |
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| apiculturist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, beekeeper |
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| apiece | (adverb) to or from every one of two or more (considered individually) | Synonyms: each, for each one, from each one, to each one |
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| apish | (adjective) being or given to servile imitation | Synonyms: apelike |
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| apishamore | (noun) a saddle blanket made of buffalo hide | - |
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| apivorous | (adjective) feeding on bees | - |
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| capibara | (noun) pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent | Synonyms: capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris |
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| capillarity | (noun) a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries | Synonyms: capillary action |
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| capillary | (adjective) of or relating to hair | - |
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| (adjective) long and slender with a very small internal diameter | Synonyms: hairlike |
| (noun) a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action | Synonyms: capillary tube, capillary tubing |
| (noun) any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules | Synonyms: capillary vessel |
| capital | (adjective) of principal importance | - |
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| (adjective) first-rate | - |
| (adjective) uppercase | Synonyms: great, majuscule |
| (noun) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature | Synonyms: cap, chapiter |
| (noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis | Synonyms: capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase |
| (noun) a seat of government | - |
| (noun) a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product | - |
| (noun) wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value | - |
| (noun) assets available for use in the production of further assets | Synonyms: working capital |
| capitalisation | (noun) the act of capitalizing on an opportunity | Synonyms: capitalization |
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| (noun) the sale of capital stock | Synonyms: capitalization |
| (noun) an estimation of the value of a business | Synonyms: capitalization |
| (noun) writing in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalization |
| capitalise | (verb) convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital | Synonyms: capitalize |
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| (verb) consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses | Synonyms: capitalize |
| (verb) compute the present value of a business or an income | Synonyms: capitalize |
| (verb) write in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalize |
| (verb) draw advantages from | Synonyms: capitalize, take advantage |
| (verb) supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders | Synonyms: capitalize |
| capitalism | (noun) an economic system based on private ownership of capital | Synonyms: capitalist economy |
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| capitalist | (adjective) favoring or practicing capitalism | Synonyms: capitalistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to capitalism or capitalists | Synonyms: capitalistic |
| (noun) a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) | - |
| (noun) a conservative advocate of capitalism | - |
| capitalistic | (adjective) favoring or practicing capitalism | Synonyms: capitalist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to capitalism or capitalists | Synonyms: capitalist |
| capitalization | (noun) the act of capitalizing on an opportunity | Synonyms: capitalisation |
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| (noun) the sale of capital stock | Synonyms: capitalisation |
| (noun) an estimation of the value of a business | Synonyms: capitalisation |
| (noun) writing in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalisation |
| capitalize | (verb) convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital | Synonyms: capitalise |
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| (verb) consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses | Synonyms: capitalise |
| (verb) compute the present value of a business or an income | Synonyms: capitalise |
| (verb) write in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalise |
| (verb) draw advantages from | Synonyms: capitalise, take advantage |
| (verb) supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders | Synonyms: capitalise |
| capitate | (adjective) being abruptly enlarged and globose at the tip | - |
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| (noun) the wrist bone with a rounded head shape that articulates with the 3rd metacarpus | Synonyms: capitate bone, os capitatum |
| capitation | (noun) a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per person | - |
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| capitol | (noun) a building occupied by a state legislature | - |
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| capitula | (noun) a short scripture reading; done after a psalmody. | - |
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| capitular | (adjective) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter | Synonyms: capitulary |
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| capitulary | (adjective) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter | Synonyms: capitular |
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| capitulate | (verb) surrender under agreed conditions | - |
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| capitulation | (noun) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | Synonyms: fall, surrender |
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| (noun) a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic | - |
| (noun) a document containing the terms of surrender | - |
| capitulum | (noun) a dense cluster of flowers or foliage | Synonyms: head |
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| (noun) fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn | Synonyms: ear, spike |
| (noun) an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree | - |
| capiz | (noun) marine bivalve common in Philippine coastal waters characterized by a large thin flat translucent shell | Synonyms: Placuna placenta, window oyster, windowpane oyster |
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| chapiter | (noun) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature | Synonyms: cap, capital |
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| chincapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chinkapin, chinquapin |
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| chinkapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chincapin, chinquapin |
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| chinquapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chincapin, chinkapin |
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| (noun) shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts | Synonyms: Allegheny chinkapin, Castanea pumila, dwarf chestnut, eastern chinquapin |
| (noun) shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States | Synonyms: Castanea ozarkensis, Ozark chinkapin, Ozark chinquapin |
| clozapine | (noun) an antipsychotic drug (trade name Clozaril) used as a sedative and for treatment-resistant schizophrenia; known to have few side effects | Synonyms: Clozaril |
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| decapitate | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: behead, decollate |
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| decapitated | (adjective) having had the head cut off | Synonyms: beheaded |
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| decapitation | (noun) killing by cutting off the head | Synonyms: beheading |
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| (noun) execution by cutting off the victim's head | Synonyms: beheading |
| diapir | (noun) a domed rock formation where a core of rock has moved upward and pierced through the more brittle overlying strata | - |
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| dilapidate | (verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: crumble, decay |
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| (verb) bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse | - |
| dilapidated | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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| dilapidation | (noun) the process of becoming dilapidated | Synonyms: ruin |
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| (noun) a state of deterioration due to old age or long use | Synonyms: decrepitude |
| elapid | (noun) any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres | Synonyms: elapid snake |
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| electrotherapist | (noun) someone who specializes in the treatment of disease by electricity | - |
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| escapism | (noun) an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy | Synonyms: escape |
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| escapist | (noun) a person who escapes into a world of fantasy | Synonyms: dreamer, wishful thinker |
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| fleapit | (noun) an old shabby movie theater | - |
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| gaping | (adjective) with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe | Synonyms: agape |
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| landscaping | (noun) working as a landscape gardener | Synonyms: landscape gardening |
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| (noun) a garden laid out for esthetic effect | - |
| landscapist | (noun) someone who paints landscapes | - |
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| (noun) someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively | Synonyms: landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscaper |
| lapidarian | (adjective) inscribed on stone | - |
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| lapidarist | (noun) an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them | Synonyms: lapidary |
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| lapidary | (adjective) of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them | - |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones | Synonyms: lapidist |
| (noun) an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them | Synonyms: lapidarist |
| lapidate | (verb) kill by throwing stones at | Synonyms: stone |
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| (verb) throw stones at | - |
| lapidation | (noun) the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death) | Synonyms: stoning |
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| lapidator | (noun) an attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill) | Synonyms: stoner |
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| lapidify | (verb) change into stone | Synonyms: petrify |
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| lapidist | (noun) a skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones | Synonyms: lapidary |
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| lapin | (noun) castrated male rabbit | - |
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| (noun) the fur of a rabbit | Synonyms: rabbit |
| leaping | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, bound, leap, saltation, spring |
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| loxapine | (noun) a tranquilizer (trade name Loxitane) used to treat schizophrenia | Synonyms: Loxitane |
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| mapinguari | (noun) supposed human-sized sloth-like creature reportedly sighted by Indians in the Amazon rain forest | - |
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| nevirapine | (noun) a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (trade name Viramune) used to treat AIDS and HIV | Synonyms: Viramune |
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| okapi | (noun) similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs | Synonyms: Okapia johnstoni |
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| overcapitalisation | (noun) (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants) | Synonyms: overcapitalization |
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| overcapitalise | (verb) capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
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| (verb) overestimate the market value of | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
| (verb) estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
| overcapitalization | (noun) (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants) | Synonyms: overcapitalisation |
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| overcapitalize | (verb) capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
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| (verb) overestimate the market value of | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
| (verb) estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
| papilla | (noun) a small projection of tissue at the base of a hair or tooth or feather | - |
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| (noun) a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell | - |
| (noun) (botany) a tiny outgrowth on the surface of a petal or leaf | - |
| papillary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling papilla | Synonyms: papillose |
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| papillate | (adjective) resembling or covered with papillae | - |
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| papilledema | (noun) swelling of the optic disc (where the optic nerve enters the eyeball); usually associated with an increase in intraocular pressure | - |
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| papilliform | (adjective) shaped like a papilla | - |
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| papilloma | (noun) a benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass | Synonyms: papillary tumor, papillary tumour, villoma |
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| papillon | (noun) small slender toy spaniel with erect ears and a black-spotted brown to white coat | - |
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| papillose | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling papilla | Synonyms: papillary |
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| papism | (noun) offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: popery |
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| (noun) the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome | Synonyms: Roman Catholicism, Romanism |
| papist | (adjective) of or relating to or supporting Romanism | Synonyms: papistic, papistical, popish, R.C., Roman, Roman Catholic, Romanist, romish |
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| (noun) an offensive term for Roman Catholics; originally, a Roman Catholic who was a strong advocate of the papacy | - |
| papistic | (adjective) of or relating to or supporting Romanism | Synonyms: papist, papistical, popish, R.C., Roman, Roman Catholic, Romanist, romish |
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| papistical | (adjective) of or relating to or supporting Romanism | Synonyms: papist, papistic, popish, R.C., Roman, Roman Catholic, Romanist, romish |
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| physiotherapist | (noun) therapist who treats injury or dysfunction with exercises and other physical treatments of the disorder | Synonyms: physical therapist |
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| priapic | (adjective) resembling or being a phallus | Synonyms: phallic |
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| (adjective) overly concerned with masculinity and male sexuality | - |
| priapism | (noun) condition in which the penis is continually erect; usually painful and seldom with sexual arousal | - |
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| psychotherapist | (noun) a therapist who deals with mental and emotional disorders | Synonyms: clinical psychologist |
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| radiotherapist | (noun) a medical specialist who uses radioactive substances and X-rays in the treatment of disease | Synonyms: radiologist |
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| rapid | (adjective) done or occurring in a brief period of time | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed | Synonyms: speedy |
| (noun) a part of a river where the current is very fast | - |
| rapidity | (noun) a rate that is rapid | Synonyms: celerity, quickness, rapidness, speediness |
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| rapidly | (adverb) with speed | Synonyms: apace, chop-chop, in short order, quickly, speedily |
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| rapidness | (noun) a rate that is rapid | Synonyms: celerity, quickness, rapidity, speediness |
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| rapier | (noun) a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges | Synonyms: tuck |
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| rapine | (noun) the act of despoiling a country in warfare | Synonyms: rape |
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| rapist | (noun) someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse | Synonyms: raper |
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| recapitulate | (verb) summarize briefly | Synonyms: recap |
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| (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: repeat, reprise, reprize |
| (verb) repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life | - |
| recapitulation | (noun) (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement) | - |
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| (noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recap, review |
| (noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated | - |
| (noun) emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species | Synonyms: palingenesis |