| acarophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of small insects and mites and worms | - |
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| algarobilla | (noun) mesquite pod used in tanning and dyeing | Synonyms: algarroba, algarrobilla |
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| amiodarone | (noun) an antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Cordarone) that has potentially fatal side effects and is used to control serious heart rhythm problems only when safer agents have been ineffective | Synonyms: Cordarone |
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| araroba | (noun) a bitter yellow powder used to treat skin diseases | Synonyms: chrysarobin, Goa powder |
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| aroid | (adjective) relating to a plant of the family Araceae | Synonyms: araceous |
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| (noun) any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe | Synonyms: arum |
| aroma | (noun) any property detected by the olfactory system | Synonyms: odor, odour, olfactory property, scent, smell |
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| (noun) a distinctive odor that is pleasant | Synonyms: fragrance, perfume, scent |
| aromatherapy | (noun) the therapeutic use of aromatic plant extracts and essential oils in baths or massage | - |
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| aromatic | (adjective) (chemistry) of or relating to or containing one or more benzene rings | - |
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| (adjective) having a strong pleasant odor | Synonyms: redolent |
| aromaticity | (noun) The property of having an aroma. | - |
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| aromatise | (verb) fill or impregnate with an odor | Synonyms: aromatize, perfume |
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| aromatize | (verb) fill or impregnate with an odor | Synonyms: aromatise, perfume |
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| around | (adverb) in circumference | - |
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| (adverb) in the area or vicinity | Synonyms: about |
| (adverb) from beginning to end; throughout | Synonyms: round |
| (adverb) (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct | Synonyms: about, approximately, close to, just about, more or less, or so, roughly, some |
| (adverb) used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction | Synonyms: about |
| (adverb) by a circular or circuitous route | - |
| (adverb) in a circle or circular motion | - |
| (adverb) all around or on all sides | Synonyms: about |
| (adverb) to a particular destination either specified or understood | - |
| (adverb) in or to a reversed position or direction | Synonyms: about |
| arousal | (noun) the act of arousing | Synonyms: rousing |
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| (noun) mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse | Synonyms: foreplay, stimulation |
| (noun) awakening from sleep | - |
| (noun) a state of heightened physiological activity | - |
| arouse | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate |
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| (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: awaken, rouse, wake, wake up, waken |
| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
| (verb) to evoke sexual feelings | Synonyms: excite, sex, turn on, wind up |
| (verb) to begin moving | Synonyms: stir |
| aroused | (adjective) (of persons) excessively affected by emotion | Synonyms: emotional, excited, worked up |
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| (adjective) aroused to action | - |
| (adjective) emotionally aroused | Synonyms: stimulated, stirred, stirred up |
| (adjective) keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement | Synonyms: ablaze, aflame |
| (adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: horny, randy, ruttish, steamy, turned on |
| (adjective) brought to a state of great tension | Synonyms: wound up |
| arouser | (noun) someone who rouses others from sleep | Synonyms: rouser, waker |
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| barbarous | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
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| (adjective) primitive in customs and culture | - |
| barbarously | (adverb) in a barbarous manner | - |
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| barbarousness | (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, heinousness |
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| barcarole | (noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers | Synonyms: barcarolle |
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| barcarolle | (noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers | Synonyms: barcarole |
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| barograph | (noun) a recording barometer; automatically records on paper the variations in atmospheric pressure | - |
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| barographic | (adjective) relating to or registered by a barograph | - |
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| barometer | (noun) an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure | - |
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| barometric | (adjective) relating to atmospheric pressure or indicated by a barometer | Synonyms: barometrical |
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| barometrical | (adjective) relating to atmospheric pressure or indicated by a barometer | Synonyms: barometric |
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| baron | (noun) a British peer of the lowest rank | - |
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| (noun) a very wealthy or powerful businessman | Synonyms: big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon |
| (noun) a nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank | - |
| baronage | (noun) the peers of a kingdom considered as a group | Synonyms: peerage |
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| baronduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, barunduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| baroness | (noun) a noblewoman who holds the rank of baron or who is the wife or widow of a baron | - |
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| baronet | (noun) a member of the British order of honor; ranks below a baron but above a knight | Synonyms: Bart |
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| baronetage | (noun) the state of a baronet | - |
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| (noun) the collective body of baronets | - |
| baronetcy | (noun) the title of a baron | - |
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| (noun) the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness | Synonyms: barony |
| baronetise | (verb) confer baronetcy upon | Synonyms: baronetize |
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| baronetize | (verb) confer baronetcy upon | Synonyms: baronetise |
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| barong | (noun) a knife resembling a cleaver; used in the Philippines | - |
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| baronial | (adjective) impressive in size, manner, or appearance | Synonyms: imposing, noble, stately |
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| barony | (noun) the domain of a baron | - |
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| (noun) the estate of a baron | - |
| (noun) the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness | Synonyms: baronetcy |
| baroque | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750 | Synonyms: Baroque |
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| (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: churrigueresco, churrigueresque |
| (noun) elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century | Synonyms: baroqueness |
| baroqueness | (noun) elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century | Synonyms: baroque |
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| baroreceptor | (noun) a sensory receptor that responds to pressure | - |
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| barosaur | (noun) a dinosaur that could grow to be as tall as a building five stories tall | Synonyms: barosaurus |
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| barosaurus | (noun) a dinosaur that could grow to be as tall as a building five stories tall | Synonyms: barosaur |
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| barouche | (noun) a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding top | - |
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| biparous | (adjective) producing two offspring at a time | Synonyms: twinning |
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| blepharospasm | (noun) spasm of the eyelid muscle resulting in closure of the eye | - |
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| buckaroo | (noun) local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) | Synonyms: buckeroo, vaquero |
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| carob | (noun) powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute | Synonyms: carob powder, Saint-John's-bread |
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| (noun) evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob | Synonyms: algarroba, carob bean tree, carob tree, Ceratonia siliqua |
| (noun) long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute | Synonyms: algarroba, algarroba bean, carob bean, locust bean, locust pod |
| caroche | (noun) a luxurious carriage suitable for nobility in the 16th and 17th century | - |
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| carol | (noun) a joyful song (usually celebrating the birth of Christ) | - |
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| (noun) joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ | Synonyms: Christmas carol |
| (verb) sing carols | - |
| caroler | (noun) a singer of carols | Synonyms: caroller |
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| caroling | (noun) singing joyful religious songs (especially at Christmas) | - |
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| caroller | (noun) a singer of carols | Synonyms: caroler |
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| carom | (noun) a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other | Synonyms: cannon |
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| (noun) a glancing rebound | Synonyms: ricochet |
| (verb) make a carom | - |
| (verb) rebound after hitting | - |
| carotene | (noun) an orange isomer of an unsaturated hydrocarbon found in many plants; is converted into vitamin A in the liver | Synonyms: carotin, provitamin A |
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| (noun) yellow or orange-red fat-soluble pigments in plants | - |
| carotenemia | (noun) excess carotene in the blood stream; can cause the skin to turn a pale yellow or red color | Synonyms: xanthemia |
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| carotenoid | (noun) any of a class of highly unsaturated yellow to red pigments occurring in plants and animals | - |
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| carotid | (adjective) of or relating to either of the two major arteries supplying blood to the head and neck | - |
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| carotin | (noun) an orange isomer of an unsaturated hydrocarbon found in many plants; is converted into vitamin A in the liver | Synonyms: carotene, provitamin A |
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| carousal | (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party | Synonyms: bender, booze-up, carouse, toot |
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| carouse | (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party | Synonyms: bender, booze-up, carousal, toot |
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| (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: riot, roister |
| carousel | (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carrousel, merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig |
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| (noun) a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers | Synonyms: carrousel, luggage carousel, luggage carrousel |
| carouser | (noun) someone who enjoys riotous drinking | Synonyms: wassailer |
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| carousing | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, orgiastic |
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| chiaroscuro | (noun) a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color | - |
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| chrysarobin | (noun) a bitter yellow powder used to treat skin diseases | Synonyms: araroba, Goa powder |
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| claro | (noun) a cigar made with light-colored tobacco | - |
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| coumarone | (noun) a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins | Synonyms: benzofuran, cumarone |
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| cumarone | (noun) a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins | Synonyms: benzofuran, coumarone |
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| dicoumarol | (noun) an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin | Synonyms: dicumarol |
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| dicumarol | (noun) an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin | Synonyms: dicoumarol |
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| escarole | (noun) variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges | Synonyms: chicory escarole, endive |
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| faro | (noun) a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box | - |
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| fissiparous | (adjective) reproducing by fission | - |
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| (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: breakaway, separatist |
| garotte | (noun) an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation | Synonyms: garrote, garrotte, iron collar |
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| (verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garrote, garrotte, scrag |
| guacharo | (noun) nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter | Synonyms: oilbird, Steatornis caripensis |
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| jaguarondi | (noun) long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat | Synonyms: eyra, Felis yagouaroundi, jaguarundi, jaguarundi cat |
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| kangaroo | (noun) any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail | - |
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| katharobe | (noun) an organism that lives in an oxygenated medium lacking organic matter | - |
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| katharobic | (adjective) of living being in an oxygenated environment lacking organic matter | - |
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| katharometer | (noun) measures thermal conductivity | - |
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| laparocele | (noun) hernia through the abdomen | - |
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| laparoscope | (noun) a slender endoscope inserted through an incision in the abdominal wall in order to examine the abdominal organs or to perform minor surgery | - |
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| laparoscopy | (noun) laparotomy performed with a laparoscope that makes a small incision to examine the abdominal cavity (especially the ovaries and Fallopian tubes) | - |
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| laparotomy | (noun) surgical incision into the abdominal wall; often done to examine abdominal organs | - |
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| macaron | (noun) a sweet meringue-based confection made with egg white, icing sugar, granulated sugar, almond powder or ground almond, and food colouring. | - |
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| macaroni | (noun) pasta in the form of slender tubes | - |
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| (noun) a British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms | - |
| macaronic | (adjective) of or containing a mixture of Latin words and vernacular words jumbled together | - |
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| macaroon | (noun) chewy cookie usually containing almond paste | - |
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| marocain | (noun) a dress crepe; similar to Canton crepe | Synonyms: crepe marocain |
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| maroon | (adjective) of dark brownish to purplish red | Synonyms: brownish-red |
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| (noun) an exploding firework used as a warning signal | - |
| (noun) a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color | - |
| (noun) a person who is stranded (as on an island) | - |
| (verb) leave stranded on a desert island without resources | - |
| (verb) leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue | Synonyms: strand |
| marooned | (adjective) cut off or left behind | Synonyms: isolated, stranded |
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| monosaccharose | (noun) a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates | Synonyms: monosaccharide, simple sugar |
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| multiparous | (adjective) producing more than one offspring at a time | - |
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| nectarous | (adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosial, ambrosian |
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| neobaroque | (noun) art or architecture based on study of 17th century baroque. | Synonyms: neo-baroque |
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| oviparous | (adjective) egg-laying | - |
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| ovoviviparous | (adjective) producing living young from eggs that hatch within the body | - |
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| parochial | (adjective) relating to or supported by or located in a parish | - |
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| (adjective) narrowly restricted in outlook or scope | Synonyms: insular |
| parochialism | (noun) a limitation of views or interests like that defined by a local parish | - |
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