| algarroba | (noun) evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob | Synonyms: carob, carob bean tree, carob tree, Ceratonia siliqua |
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| (noun) mesquite of Gulf Coast and Caribbean Islands from Mexico to Venezuela | Synonyms: Prosopis juliflora, Prosopis juliiflora |
| (noun) long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute | Synonyms: algarroba bean, carob, carob bean, locust bean, locust pod |
| (noun) mesquite pod used in tanning and dyeing | Synonyms: algarobilla, algarrobilla |
| algarrobilla | (noun) mesquite pod used in tanning and dyeing | Synonyms: algarobilla, algarroba |
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| antiarrhythmic | (noun) a drug used to treat an abnormal heart rhythm | Synonyms: antiarrhythmic drug, antiarrhythmic medication |
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| antidiarrheal | (noun) a drug used to control or stop diarrhea | Synonyms: antidiarrheal drug |
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| arrack | (noun) any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses | Synonyms: arak |
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| arraign | (verb) accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy | - |
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| (verb) call before a court to answer an indictment | - |
| arraignment | (noun) a legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment | - |
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| arrange | (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, dress, set |
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| (verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events | Synonyms: order, put, set up |
| (verb) make arrangements for | Synonyms: fix up |
| (verb) put into a proper or systematic order | Synonyms: set up |
| (verb) adapt for performance in a different way | Synonyms: set |
| (verb) set (printed matter) into a specific format | Synonyms: format |
| (verb) plan, organize, and carry out (an event) | Synonyms: stage |
| arranged | (adjective) disposed or placed in a particular kind of order | Synonyms: ordered |
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| (adjective) deliberately arranged for effect | Synonyms: staged |
| (adjective) organized or planned for | - |
| arrangement | (noun) the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music | Synonyms: arranging, transcription |
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| (noun) the spatial property of the way in which something is placed | Synonyms: placement |
| (noun) an organized structure for arranging or classifying | Synonyms: organisation, organization, system |
| (noun) the thing arranged or agreed to | Synonyms: agreement |
| (noun) a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments | Synonyms: musical arrangement |
| (noun) an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging | - |
| arranger | (noun) a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise | Synonyms: organiser, organizer |
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| (noun) a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance | Synonyms: adapter, transcriber |
| arranging | (noun) the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music | Synonyms: arrangement, transcription |
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| arrant | (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
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| arras | (noun) a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric often with pictorial designs | Synonyms: tapestry |
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| array | (noun) an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics | - |
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| (noun) especially fine or decorative clothing | Synonyms: raiment, regalia |
| (noun) an impressive display | - |
| (noun) an orderly arrangement | - |
| (verb) align oneself with a group or a way of thinking | Synonyms: align |
| (verb) lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line | Synonyms: lay out, range, set out |
| arrayed | (adjective) in ceremonial attire and paraphernalia | Synonyms: panoplied |
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| arrears | (noun) an unpaid overdue debt | - |
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| (noun) the state of being behind in payments | - |
| arrest | (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody |
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| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage |
| (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: check, contain, hold back, stop, turn back |
| (verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, collar, cop, nab, nail, pick up |
| (verb) attract and fix | Synonyms: catch, get |
| (verb) cause to come to an abrupt stop | Synonyms: halt, hold |
| arrester | (noun) a restraint that slows airplanes as they land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier | Synonyms: arrester hook |
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| arresting | (adjective) commanding attention | Synonyms: sensational, stunning |
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| arrhythmia | (noun) an abnormal rate of muscle contractions in the heart | Synonyms: cardiac arrhythmia |
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| arrhythmic | (adjective) without regard for rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmical |
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| (adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: jerking, jerky |
| arrhythmical | (adjective) without regard for rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic |
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| arrival | (noun) accomplishment of an objective | Synonyms: reaching |
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| (noun) the act of arriving at a certain place | - |
| (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arriver, comer |
| arrive | (verb) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress | Synonyms: come, get |
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| (verb) succeed in a big way; get to the top | Synonyms: get in, go far, make it |
| arrivederci | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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| arriver | (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arrival, comer |
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| arriviste | (noun) a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart |
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| arroba | (noun) a unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries | - |
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| (noun) a liquid measure (with different values) used in some Spanish speaking countries | - |
| arrogance | (noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors | Synonyms: haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness, lordliness |
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| arrogant | (adjective) having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride | Synonyms: chesty, self-important |
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| arrogantly | (adverb) in an arrogant manner | - |
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| arrogate | (verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: assume, seize, take over, usurp |
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| (verb) make undue claims to having | Synonyms: assign |
| (verb) demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to | Synonyms: claim, lay claim |
| arrogation | (noun) seizure by the government | Synonyms: confiscation |
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| arrogator | (noun) a person who through conceit makes pretentious claims to rights or advantages that he or she is not entitled to or to qualities that he or she does not possess | - |
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| arrow | (noun) a projectile with a straight thin shaft and an arrowhead on one end and stabilizing vanes on the other; intended to be shot from a bow | - |
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| (noun) a mark to indicate a direction or relation | Synonyms: pointer |
| arrowhead | (noun) the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow | - |
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| arrowroot | (noun) white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch | Synonyms: American arrowroot, Maranta arundinaceae, obedience plant |
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| (noun) canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained | Synonyms: achira, Canna edulis, Canna indica, indian shot |
| (noun) a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant | - |
| arrowsmith | (noun) a maker of arrows | - |
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| arrowworm | (noun) any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth | Synonyms: chaetognath |
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| arroyo | (noun) a stream or brook | - |
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| barrack | (noun) a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel | - |
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| (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: flout, gibe, jeer, scoff |
| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: cheer, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| (verb) lodge in barracks | - |
| barracking | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: heckling |
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| barracouta | (noun) a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa | Synonyms: snoek |
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| barracuda | (noun) any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth | - |
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| barrage | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling |
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| (noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: bombardment, onslaught, outpouring |
| (verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: bombard |
| barramundi | (noun) a species of large perch noted for its sporting and eating qualities; lives in marine, estuary, and freshwater habitats | Synonyms: Asian seabass, giant perch, giant seaperch, Lates calcarifer, white seabass |
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| barrater | (noun) someone guilty of barratry | Synonyms: barrator |
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| barrator | (noun) someone guilty of barratry | Synonyms: barrater |
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| barratry | (noun) the offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels | - |
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| (noun) (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo | - |
| (noun) the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery | - |
| (noun) traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments | Synonyms: simony |
| barred | (adjective) marked with stripes or bands | - |
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| (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barricaded, blockaded |
| barrel | (noun) a cylindrical container that holds liquids | Synonyms: cask |
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| (noun) a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired | Synonyms: gun barrel |
| (noun) any of various units of capacity | Synonyms: bbl |
| (noun) the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold | Synonyms: barrelful |
| (noun) a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends | Synonyms: drum |
| (verb) put in barrels | - |
| barreled | (adjective) put in or stored in a barrel | Synonyms: barrelled |
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| (adjective) (of an arrow) tapered toward both ends | Synonyms: barrelled |
| barrelfish | (noun) blackish fish of New England waters | Synonyms: black rudderfish, Hyperglyphe perciformis |
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| barrelful | (noun) the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold | Synonyms: barrel |
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| barrelhouse | (noun) a cheap drinking and dancing establishment | Synonyms: honky-tonk |
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| barrelled | (adjective) put in or stored in a barrel | Synonyms: barreled |
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| (adjective) (of an arrow) tapered toward both ends | Synonyms: barreled |
| barrels | (noun) the amount that many barrels might hold | - |
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| barren | (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, bleak, desolate, stark |
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| (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: destitute, devoid, free, innocent |
| (adjective) not bearing offspring | - |
| (noun) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation | Synonyms: waste, wasteland |
| barrenness | (noun) the quality of yielding nothing of value | Synonyms: aridity, fruitlessness |
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| (noun) the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children | - |
| barrenwort | (noun) slow-growing creeping plant with semi-evergreen leaves on erect wiry stems; used as ground cover | Synonyms: bishop's hat, Epimedium grandiflorum |
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| barrette | (noun) a pin for holding women's hair in place | - |
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| barretter | (noun) a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations) | Synonyms: ballast, ballast resistor |
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| barricade | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: roadblock |
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| (noun) a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy | - |
| (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricado |
| (verb) prevent access to by barricading | - |
| (verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
| barricaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, blockaded |
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| barricado | (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricade |
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| barrier | (noun) a structure or object that impedes free movement | - |
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| (noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: roadblock |
| (noun) anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access | - |
| barring | (noun) the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto | Synonyms: blackball |
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| barrio | (noun) an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country | - |
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| (noun) a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States) | - |
| barrister | (noun) a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution | - |
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| barroom | (noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: bar, ginmill, saloon, taproom |
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| barrow | (noun) a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels | Synonyms: garden cart, lawn cart, wheelbarrow |
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| (noun) (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs | Synonyms: burial mound, grave mound, tumulus |
| (noun) the quantity that a barrow will hold | Synonyms: barrowful |
| barrowful | (noun) the quantity that a barrow will hold | Synonyms: barrow |
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| bizarre | (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: eccentric, flakey, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
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| bizarreness | (noun) strikingly out of the ordinary | Synonyms: outlandishness, weirdness |
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| briarroot | (noun) hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea | - |
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| carrack | (noun) a large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman | Synonyms: carack |
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| carrageen | (noun) dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America | Synonyms: carageen, carragheen, Chondrus crispus, Irish moss |
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| carrageenan | (noun) a colloidal extract from carrageen seaweed and other red algae | Synonyms: carrageenin |
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| carrageenin | (noun) a colloidal extract from carrageen seaweed and other red algae | Synonyms: carrageenan |
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| carragheen | (noun) dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America | Synonyms: carageen, carrageen, Chondrus crispus, Irish moss |
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| carrefour | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: crossing, crossroad, crossway, intersection |
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| carrel | (noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrell, cubicle, stall |
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| carrell | (noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrel, cubicle, stall |
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| carriage | (noun) a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses | Synonyms: equipage, rig |
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| (noun) a railcar where passengers ride | Synonyms: coach, passenger car |
| (noun) a machine part that carries something else | - |
| (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pushchair, pusher, stroller |
| (noun) characteristic way of bearing one's body | Synonyms: bearing, posture |
| carriageway | (noun) one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanes | - |
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| carrier | (noun) (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring | - |
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| (noun) a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings | Synonyms: aircraft carrier, attack aircraft carrier, flattop |
| (noun) a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like | - |
| (noun) a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something | - |
| (noun) a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages | Synonyms: common carrier |
| (noun) (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others | Synonyms: immune carrier |
| (noun) a boy who delivers newspapers | Synonyms: newsboy |
| (noun) a man who delivers the mail | Synonyms: letter carrier, mail carrier, mailman, postman |
| (noun) someone whose employment involves carrying something | Synonyms: bearer, toter |
| (noun) a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal | Synonyms: carrier wave |
| (noun) an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction | - |
| carrion | (noun) the dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food | - |
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| carrizo | (noun) tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles; widely distributed in moist areas; used for mats, screens and arrow shafts | Synonyms: common reed, ditch reed, Phragmites communis |
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| carrot | (noun) promise of reward as in "carrot and stick" | - |
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| (noun) orange root; important source of carotene | - |
| (noun) perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions | Synonyms: cultivated carrot, Daucus carota sativa |
| (noun) deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant | - |
| carrottop | (noun) someone who has red hair | Synonyms: red-header, redhead, redheader |
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| carroty | (adjective) resembling the bright orange of the root of the carrot plant | - |
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| carrousel | (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig |
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| (noun) a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers | Synonyms: carousel, luggage carousel, luggage carrousel |
| carry | (noun) the act of carrying something | - |
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| (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: bear, expect, gestate, have a bun in the oven |
| (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, comport, conduct, deport, do |
| (verb) continue or extend | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) include, as on a list | - |
| (verb) sing or play against other voices or parts | - |
| (verb) serve as a means for expressing something | Synonyms: convey, express |
| (verb) pass on a communication | - |
| (verb) win in an election | - |
| (verb) secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions) | - |
| (verb) cover a certain distance or advance beyond | - |
| (verb) have a certain range | - |
| (verb) be successful in | - |
| (verb) drink alcohol without showing ill effects | Synonyms: hold |
| (verb) be able to feed | - |
| (verb) support or hold in a certain manner | Synonyms: bear, hold |
| (verb) move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body | Synonyms: transport |
| (verb) propel | Synonyms: dribble |
| (verb) bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of | - |
| (verb) propel or give impetus to | - |
| (verb) include as the content; broadcast or publicize | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) bear (a crop) | - |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: channel, conduct, convey, impart, transmit |
| (verb) pursue a line of scent or be a bearer | - |
| (verb) transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication | - |
| (verb) have on hand | Synonyms: stock, stockpile |
| (verb) capture after a fight | - |
| (verb) have on the surface or on the skin | - |
| (verb) transfer (entries) from one account book to another | Synonyms: post |
| (verb) extend to a certain degree | - |
| (verb) win approval or support for | Synonyms: persuade, sway |
| (verb) compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance | - |
| (verb) take further or advance | - |
| (verb) have with oneself; have on one's person | Synonyms: pack, take |
| (verb) be necessarily associated with or result in or involve | - |
| (verb) contain or hold; have within | Synonyms: bear, contain, hold |
| (verb) be equipped with (a mast or sail) | - |
| (verb) have or possess something abstract | - |
| (verb) have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence | - |
| (verb) keep up with financial support | - |
| (verb) be conveyed over a certain distance | - |
| carryall | (noun) a capacious bag or basket | Synonyms: holdall, tote, tote bag |
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| carrycot | (noun) box-shaped baby bed with handles (for a baby to sleep in while being carried) | - |
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| catarrh | (noun) inflammation of the nose and throat with increased production of mucus | - |
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| catarrhal | (adjective) of or relating to a catarrh | - |
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| catarrhine | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhinian |
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| (noun) of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together | Synonyms: Old World monkey |
| catarrhinian | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhine |
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