| abecedarian | (adjective) alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers) | - |
|---|
| (noun) a novice learning the rudiments of some subject | - |
| abecedarius | (noun) a poem having lines beginning with letters of the alphabet in regular order | - |
|---|
| ablepharia | (noun) a congenital absence of eyelids (partial or complete) | - |
|---|
| acariasis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acaridiasis, acariosis |
|---|
| acaricide | (noun) a chemical agent used to kill mites | Synonyms: acaracide |
|---|
| acarid | (noun) very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants; related to ticks | - |
|---|
| acaridiasis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acariasis, acariosis |
|---|
| acarine | (noun) mite or tick | - |
|---|
| acariosis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acariasis, acaridiasis |
|---|
| actiniarian | (noun) any sea anemone or related animal | Synonyms: actinia, actinian |
|---|
| actuarial | (adjective) of or relating to the work of an actuary | - |
|---|
| agaric | (noun) a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside | - |
|---|
| (noun) fungus used in the preparation of punk for fuses | Synonyms: Fomes igniarius |
| agrarian | (adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agricultural, farming |
|---|
| alfilaria | (noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfileria, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, filaria, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
|---|
| alizarin | (noun) an orange-red crystalline compound used in making red pigments and in dyeing | Synonyms: alizarine |
|---|
| alizarine | (noun) an orange-red crystalline compound used in making red pigments and in dyeing | Synonyms: alizarin |
|---|
| angularity | (noun) the property possessed by a shape that has angles | - |
|---|
| (noun) a shape having one or more sharp angles | Synonyms: angular shape |
| antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
|---|
| antiestablishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentism |
|---|
| antilogarithm | (noun) the number of which a given number is the logarithm | Synonyms: antilog |
|---|
| antimalarial | (noun) a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria | Synonyms: antimalarial drug |
|---|
| antiquarian | (adjective) of or relating to antiques or antiquities | - |
|---|
| (adjective) of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques or antiquities | - |
| (noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquary, archaist |
| antisubmarine | (adjective) defensive against enemy submarines | - |
|---|
| apiarian | (adjective) relating to bees or beekeeping | - |
|---|
| apiarist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiculturist, beekeeper |
|---|
| apparition | (noun) an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly | - |
|---|
| (noun) something existing in perception only | Synonyms: fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow |
| (noun) the appearance of a ghostlike figure | - |
| (noun) a ghostly appearing figure | Synonyms: fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter, spectre |
| apparitional | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual |
|---|
| appearing | (noun) formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action | Synonyms: appearance, coming into court |
|---|
| appendicularia | (noun) free-swimming tadpole-shaped pelagic tunicate resembling larvae of other tunicates | - |
|---|
| aquamarine | (noun) a shade of blue tinged with green | Synonyms: aqua, cobalt blue, greenish blue, peacock blue, turquoise |
|---|
| (noun) a transparent variety of beryl that is blue green in color | - |
| aquarium | (noun) a tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals | Synonyms: fish tank, marine museum |
|---|
| arariba | (noun) Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood | Synonyms: Centrolobium robustum |
|---|
| araucaria | (noun) any of several tall South American or Australian trees with large cones and edible seeds | - |
|---|
| arbitrarily | (adverb) in a random manner | Synonyms: at random, every which way, haphazardly, indiscriminately, randomly, willy-nilly |
|---|
| arbitrariness | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy |
|---|
| aria | (noun) an elaborate song for solo voice | - |
|---|
| arianist | (noun) an adherent of Arianism (the belief that Jesus Christ was not truly God) | - |
|---|
| arid | (adjective) lacking sufficient water or rainfall | Synonyms: waterless |
|---|
| (adjective) lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless | Synonyms: desiccate, desiccated |
| aridity | (noun) the quality of yielding nothing of value | Synonyms: barrenness, fruitlessness |
|---|
| (noun) a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall) | Synonyms: aridness, thirstiness |
| aridness | (noun) a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall) | Synonyms: aridity, thirstiness |
|---|
| arietta | (noun) a short aria | Synonyms: short aria |
|---|
| aright | (adverb) in an accurate manner | Synonyms: correctly, right |
|---|
| aril | (noun) fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelops the seed | - |
|---|
| ariled | (adjective) (of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover | Synonyms: arillate |
|---|
| arillate | (adjective) (of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover | Synonyms: ariled |
|---|
| ariose | (adjective) having a melody (as distinguished from recitative) | Synonyms: songlike |
|---|
| arioso | (noun) (music) a short recitative that is melodic but is not an aria | - |
|---|
| arise | (verb) get up and out of bed | Synonyms: get up, rise, turn out, uprise |
|---|
| (verb) result or issue | Synonyms: come up |
| (verb) rise to one's feet | Synonyms: get up, rise, stand up, uprise |
| (verb) move upward | Synonyms: come up, go up, lift, move up, rise, uprise |
| (verb) take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance | Synonyms: rebel, rise, rise up |
| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: develop, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise |
| (verb) originate or come into being | Synonyms: bob up, come up |
| arishth | (noun) large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia | Synonyms: Azadirachta indica, margosa, Melia Azadirachta, neem, neem tree, nim tree |
|---|
| arista | (noun) bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies | - |
|---|
| aristocracy | (noun) a privileged class holding hereditary titles | Synonyms: nobility |
|---|
| (noun) the most powerful members of a society | Synonyms: gentry |
| aristocrat | (noun) a member of the aristocracy | Synonyms: blue blood, patrician |
|---|
| aristocratic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
|---|
| aristocratical | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
|---|
| aristocratically | (adverb) in an aristocratic manner | - |
|---|
| aristocratism | (noun) the principles, practices or characteristics of aristocracy. | - |
|---|
| arithmancy | (noun) divination by means of numbers | - |
|---|
| arithmetic | (adjective) relating to or involving arithmetic | Synonyms: arithmetical |
|---|
| (noun) the branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations | - |
| arithmetical | (adjective) relating to or involving arithmetic | Synonyms: arithmetic |
|---|
| arithmetically | (adverb) with respect to arithmetic | - |
|---|
| arithmetician | (noun) someone who specializes in arithmetic | - |
|---|
| arity | (noun) the number of arguments that a function can take | - |
|---|
| armamentarium | (noun) the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicine | - |
|---|
| ascariasis | (noun) infestation of the human intestine with Ascaris roundworms | - |
|---|
| authoritarian | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing |
|---|
| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| (noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: dictator |
| 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 |
|---|
| avarice | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avaritia, covetousness, greed, rapacity |
|---|
| (noun) extreme greed for material wealth | Synonyms: avariciousness, covetousness, cupidity |
| avaricious | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile |
|---|
| avariciously | (adverb) in a greedy manner | Synonyms: covetously, greedily |
|---|
| avariciousness | (noun) extreme greed for material wealth | Synonyms: avarice, covetousness, cupidity |
|---|
| avaritia | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avarice, covetousness, greed, rapacity |
|---|
| barbarian | (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild |
|---|
| (noun) a member of an uncivilized people | Synonyms: savage |
| (noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: boor, churl, Goth, peasant, tike, tyke |
| barbaric | (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbarian, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild |
|---|
| (adjective) unrestrained and crudely rich | - |
| barbarisation | (noun) an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized | Synonyms: barbarization |
|---|
| barbarise | (verb) make crude or savage in behavior or speech | Synonyms: barbarize |
|---|
| (verb) become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language | Synonyms: barbarize |
| barbarism | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarity, brutality, savagery |
|---|
| barbarity | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, brutality, savagery |
|---|
| (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarousness, heinousness |
| barbarization | (noun) an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized | Synonyms: barbarisation |
|---|
| barbarize | (verb) make crude or savage in behavior or speech | Synonyms: barbarise |
|---|
| (verb) become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language | Synonyms: barbarise |
| baric | (adjective) of or relating to or containing barium | - |
|---|
| barilla | (noun) Algerian plant formerly burned to obtain calcium carbonate | Synonyms: Halogeton souda |
|---|
| (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort |
| baring | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: denudation, husking, stripping, uncovering |
|---|
| barite | (noun) a white or colorless mineral (BaSO4); the main source of barium | Synonyms: barium sulphate, barytes, heavy spar |
|---|
| baritone | (adjective) lower in range than tenor and higher than bass | - |
|---|
| (noun) the second lowest brass wind instrument | Synonyms: baritone horn |
| (noun) the second lowest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: baritone voice |
| (noun) a male singer | Synonyms: barytone |
| barium | (noun) a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite | Synonyms: atomic number 56, Ba |
|---|
| bassarisk | (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, cacomistle, cacomixle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail |
|---|
| bearing | (adjective) (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain | - |
|---|
| (noun) a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily | - |
| (noun) heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield | Synonyms: armorial bearing, charge, heraldic bearing |
| (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: comportment, mien, presence |
| (noun) characteristic way of bearing one's body | Synonyms: carriage, posture |
| (noun) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies | Synonyms: aim, heading |
| (noun) relevant relation or interconnection | - |
| bearish | (adjective) expecting prices to fall | - |
|---|
| bibliothecarial | (adjective) of or relating to a library or bibliotheca or a librarian | Synonyms: bibliothecal |
|---|
| bivariate | (adjective) having two variables | - |
|---|
| blaring | (adjective) unpleasantly loud and penetrating | Synonyms: blasting |
|---|
| (noun) a loud harsh or strident noise | Synonyms: blare, cacophony, clamor, din |
| blepharism | (noun) condition in which a person blinks continuously | - |
|---|
| blepharitis | (noun) inflammation of the eyelids characterized by redness and swelling and dried crusts | - |
|---|
| burglarious | (adjective) involving or resembling burglary | - |
|---|
| burglarise | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarize, burgle, heist |
|---|
| burglarize | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarise, burgle, heist |
|---|
| caesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, cesarean, cesarian |
|---|
| (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
| calamari | (noun) (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food | Synonyms: calamary, squid |
|---|
| calceolaria | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip | Synonyms: slipperwort |
|---|
| calvaria | (noun) the dome of the skull | Synonyms: skullcap |
|---|