| appeal | (noun) (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial | - |
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| (noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | Synonyms: appealingness, charm |
| (noun) earnest or urgent request | Synonyms: entreaty, prayer |
| (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: collection, ingathering, solicitation |
| (verb) request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection | Synonyms: invoke |
| (verb) cite as an authority; resort to | Synonyms: invoke |
| (verb) be attractive to | Synonyms: attract |
| (verb) take a court case to a higher court for review | - |
| (verb) challenge (a decision) | - |
| appealable | (adjective) capable of being appealed especially to a higher tribunal | - |
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| appealing | (adjective) able to attract interest or draw favorable attention | - |
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| (adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings | Synonyms: likable, likeable, sympathetic |
| appealingly | (adverb) in an appealing manner | - |
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| appealingness | (noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | Synonyms: appeal, charm |
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| appear | (verb) come into sight or view | - |
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| (verb) be issued or published | Synonyms: come out |
| (verb) come into being or existence, or appear on the scene | Synonyms: come along |
| (verb) appear as a character on stage or appear in a play, etc. | - |
| (verb) give a certain impression of being something or having a certain aspect | Synonyms: look, seem |
| (verb) (of a proposition) seem to be true, probable, or apparent | Synonyms: seem |
| (verb) present oneself formally, as before a (judicial) authority | - |
| appearance | (noun) the act of appearing in public view | - |
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| (noun) formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action | Synonyms: appearing, coming into court |
| (noun) pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression | Synonyms: show |
| (noun) outward or visible aspect of a person or thing | Synonyms: visual aspect |
| (noun) a mental representation | - |
| (noun) the event of coming into sight | - |
| appearing | (noun) formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action | Synonyms: appearance, coming into court |
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| appeasable | (adjective) capable of being pacified | Synonyms: conciliable |
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| appease | (verb) make peace with | Synonyms: propitiate |
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| (verb) overcome or allay | Synonyms: quell, stay |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| appeasement | (noun) the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of) | Synonyms: calming |
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| appeaser | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace by acceding to demands | - |
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| appeasing | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: placating, placative, placatory |
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| appellant | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellate |
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| (noun) the party who appeals a decision of a lower court | Synonyms: plaintiff in error |
| appellate | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellant |
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| appellation | (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellative, denomination, designation |
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| (noun) a geographical indication used to identify where the grapes for a wine are grown | - |
| appellative | (adjective) pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun | - |
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| (adjective) inclined to or serving for the giving of names | Synonyms: naming |
| (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, denomination, designation |
| append | (verb) state or say further | Synonyms: add, supply |
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| (verb) fix to; attach | Synonyms: hang on, tack, tack on, tag on |
| (verb) add to the very end | Synonyms: add on, affix, supplement |
| appendage | (noun) a part that is joined to something larger | - |
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| (noun) an external body part that projects from the body | Synonyms: extremity, member |
| (noun) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant | Synonyms: outgrowth, process |
| appendaged | (adjective) having an appendage | - |
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| appendant | (adjective) affixed as an appendage | - |
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| appendectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the vermiform appendix | Synonyms: appendicectomy |
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| appendicectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the vermiform appendix | Synonyms: appendectomy |
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| appendicitis | (noun) inflammation of the vermiform appendix | - |
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| appendicle | (noun) a small appendage | - |
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| appendicular | (adjective) relating to or consisting of an appendage or appendages; especially the limbs | - |
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| appendicularia | (noun) free-swimming tadpole-shaped pelagic tunicate resembling larvae of other tunicates | - |
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| appendix | (noun) a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch | Synonyms: cecal appendage, vermiform appendix, vermiform process |
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| (noun) supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book | - |
| apperceive | (verb) perceive in terms of a past experience | - |
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| apperception | (noun) the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience | - |
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| apperceptive | (adjective) able to relate new percepts to past experience | - |
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| appertain | (verb) be a part or attribute of | Synonyms: pertain |
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| appetence | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetency, appetite |
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| appetency | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetence, appetite |
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| appetent | (adjective) marked by eager desire | - |
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| appetiser | (noun) food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) | Synonyms: appetizer, starter |
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| appetising | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetizing |
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| appetisingness | (noun) the property of stimulating the appetite | Synonyms: appetizingness |
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| appetite | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetence, appetency |
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| appetitive | (adjective) of or relating to appetite | - |
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| appetizer | (noun) food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) | Synonyms: appetiser, starter |
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| appetizing | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetising |
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| appetizingness | (noun) the property of stimulating the appetite | Synonyms: appetisingness |
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| backslapper | (noun) someone who demonstrates enthusiastic or excessive cordiality | - |
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| capped | (adjective) covered as if with a cap or crown especially of a specified kind | - |
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| (adjective) used especially of front teeth having (artificial) crowns | - |
| cappelletti | (noun) small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings | Synonyms: ravioli |
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| chapped | (adjective) used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure | Synonyms: cracked, roughened |
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| clapper | (noun) metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side | Synonyms: tongue |
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| (noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: glossa, lingua, tongue |
| (noun) someone who applauds | Synonyms: applauder |
| clapperboard | (noun) photographic equipment used to synchronize sound and motion picture; boards held in front of a movie camera are banged together | - |
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| clapperclaw | (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, shout |
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| (verb) claw with the nails | - |
| clappers | (noun) (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | Synonyms: bones, castanets, finger cymbals |
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| crapper | (noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, commode, pot, potty, stool, throne, toilet |
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| dapper | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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| dapperness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: jauntiness, nattiness, rakishness |
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| disappear | (verb) get lost, as without warning or explanation | Synonyms: go away, vanish |
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| (verb) cease to exist | Synonyms: vanish |
| (verb) become less intense and fade away gradually | Synonyms: evaporate, melt |
| (verb) become invisible or unnoticeable | Synonyms: go away, vanish |
| disappearance | (noun) the act of leaving secretly or without explanation | Synonyms: disappearing |
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| (noun) gradually ceasing to be visible | Synonyms: fade |
| (noun) the event of passing out of sight | - |
| (noun) ceasing to exist | - |
| disappearing | (noun) the act of leaving secretly or without explanation | Synonyms: disappearance |
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| enwrapped | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, captive, engrossed, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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| flapper | (noun) a young woman in the 1920s who flaunted her unconventional conduct and dress | - |
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| frappe | (noun) a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk) | Synonyms: ice |
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| (noun) thick milkshake containing ice cream | - |
| (noun) liqueur poured over shaved ice | - |
| handicapped | (adjective) the total or partial absence of a person's bodily or mental functions, including the absence of a part of a person's body | Synonyms: disabled |
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| (noun) people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped | Synonyms: disabled |
| handicapper | (noun) someone who sets the betting odds based on calculations of the outcome of a contest (especially a horse race) | Synonyms: odds-maker |
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| happen | (verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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| (verb) come into being; become reality | Synonyms: materialise, materialize |
| (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: bechance, befall |
| (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, chance, encounter, find |
| (verb) chance to be or do something, without intention or causation | - |
| happening | (noun) an event that happens | Synonyms: natural event, occurrence, occurrent |
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| happenstance | (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: coincidence |
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| kidnapper | (noun) someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) | Synonyms: abductor, kidnaper, snatcher |
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| lagniappe | (noun) a small gift (especially one given by a merchant to a customer who makes a purchase) | - |
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| lappet | (noun) medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars | Synonyms: lappet moth |
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| (noun) a small lap on a garment or headdress | - |
| (noun) a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards | Synonyms: wattle |
| mapper | (noun) a clerk who marks data on a chart | Synonyms: plotter |
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| napped | (adjective) (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing | Synonyms: brushed, fleecy |
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| nonappearance | (noun) failure to appear (especially as at court) | - |
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| rappee | (noun) strong snuff made from dark coarse tobacco | - |
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| rappel | (noun) (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body | Synonyms: abseil |
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| (verb) descend by means of a rappel | Synonyms: abseil, rope down |
| rappeller | (noun) a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point | Synonyms: abseiler |
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| rapper | (noun) a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door | Synonyms: doorknocker, knocker |
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| (noun) someone who performs rap music | - |
| reappear | (verb) appear again | Synonyms: re-emerge |
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| reappearance | (noun) the act of someone appearing again | Synonyms: return |
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| (noun) the event of something appearing again | - |
| sapper | (noun) a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications) | - |
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| scrapper | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, combatant, fighter |
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| slapper | (noun) a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand | Synonyms: spanker |
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| snapper | (noun) large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite | Synonyms: Chelydra serpentina, common snapping turtle |
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| (noun) any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters | - |
| (noun) Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots | Synonyms: Chrysophrys auratus |
| (noun) a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends | Synonyms: cracker, cracker bonbon |
| (noun) flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas | - |
| (noun) (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback | Synonyms: center, centre |
| strapper | (noun) a large and strong and heavyset man | Synonyms: bruiser, bull, Samson |
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| tapped | (adjective) in a condition for letting out liquid drawn out as by piercing or drawing a plug | - |
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| tapper | (noun) someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire | Synonyms: phone tapper, wiretapper |
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| (noun) a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks | Synonyms: tapster |
| (noun) a worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads | - |
| (noun) a dancer who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes | Synonyms: tap dancer |
| (noun) a person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly | - |
| tappet | (noun) a lever that is moved in order to tap something else | - |
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| trapped | (adjective) forced to turn and face attackers | Synonyms: at bay, cornered, treed |
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| trapper | (noun) someone who sets traps for animals (usually to obtain their furs) | - |
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| unappealable | (adjective) not subject to appeal | - |
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| unappealing | (adjective) not able to attract favorable attention | - |
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| (adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings | Synonyms: unlikable, unlikeable, unsympathetic |
| unappealingly | (adverb) in an unappealing manner | - |
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| unappeasable | (adjective) not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | Synonyms: grim, inexorable, relentless, stern, unforgiving, unrelenting |
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| unappendaged | (adjective) not having an appendage | - |
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| unappetising | (adjective) not appetizing in appearance, aroma, or taste | Synonyms: unappetizing |
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| unappetisingness | (noun) the property of spoiling the appetite | Synonyms: unappetizingness |
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| unappetizing | (adjective) not appetizing in appearance, aroma, or taste | Synonyms: unappetising |
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| unappetizingness | (noun) the property of spoiling the appetite | Synonyms: unappetisingness |
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| uncapped | (adjective) used especially of front teeth | - |
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| unmapped | (adjective) (of unknown regions) not yet surveyed or investigated | Synonyms: chartless, uncharted |
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| untapped | (adjective) not subjected to tapping | - |
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| (adjective) not drawn upon or used | - |
| unwrapped | (adjective) not yet wrapped or having the wrapping removed | - |
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