| assegai | (noun) the slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa | Synonyms: assagai |
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| assemblage | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assembly, gathering |
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| (noun) a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose | Synonyms: hookup |
| (noun) a group of persons together in one place | Synonyms: gathering |
| (noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, aggregation, collection |
| assemble | (verb) create by putting components or members together | Synonyms: piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together |
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| (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: foregather, forgather, gather, meet |
| (verb) get people together | Synonyms: gather, get together |
| assembler | (noun) a program to convert assembly language into machine language | Synonyms: assembly program |
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| assembling | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, collecting, collection |
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| assembly | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assemblage, gathering |
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| (noun) the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: fabrication |
| (noun) a group of machine parts that fit together to form a self-contained unit | - |
| (noun) a public facility to meet for open discussion | Synonyms: forum, meeting place |
| (noun) a unit consisting of components that have been fitted together | - |
| (noun) a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose | - |
| assemblyman | (noun) someone who is a member of a legislative assembly | - |
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| assemblywoman | (noun) a woman assemblyman | - |
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| assent | (noun) agreement with a statement or proposal to do something | Synonyms: acquiescence |
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| (verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: accede, acquiesce |
| assenter | (noun) a person who assents | - |
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| assentient | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assenting |
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| assenting | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assentient |
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| (noun) agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly) | Synonyms: accession |
| assert | (verb) postulate positively and assertively | Synonyms: insist |
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| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, aver, avow, swan, swear, verify |
| (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: asseverate, maintain |
| (verb) insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized | Synonyms: put forward |
| assertable | (adjective) capable of being affirmed or asserted | Synonyms: affirmable |
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| asserted | (adjective) confidently declared to be so | - |
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| asserter | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asseverator, avower, declarer |
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| asserting | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: declarative, declaratory |
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| assertion | (noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | Synonyms: asseveration, averment |
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| (noun) the act of affirming or asserting or stating something | Synonyms: affirmation, statement |
| assertive | (adjective) aggressively self-assured | Synonyms: self-asserting, self-assertive |
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| assertively | (adverb) in an assertive manner | - |
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| assertiveness | (noun) aggressive self-assurance; given to making bold assertions | Synonyms: self-assertiveness |
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| assess | (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, evaluate, measure, valuate, value |
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| (verb) estimate the value of (property) for taxation | - |
| (verb) set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine) | Synonyms: tax |
| (verb) charge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine | - |
| assessable | (adjective) capable of being considered carefully | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being assessed especially for the purpose of taxation | - |
| assessee | (noun) a person (or property) that is assessed | - |
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| assessment | (noun) the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | Synonyms: judgement, judgment |
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| (noun) the market value set on assets | - |
| (noun) the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth | Synonyms: appraisal |
| (noun) an amount determined as payable | - |
| assessor | (noun) an official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it | Synonyms: tax assessor |
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| asset | (noun) a useful or valuable quality | Synonyms: plus |
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| assets | (noun) anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company | - |
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| asseverate | (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: assert, maintain |
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| asseveration | (noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | Synonyms: assertion, averment |
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| asseverator | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, avower, declarer |
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| audiocassette | (noun) a cassette for audiotape | - |
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| bagasse | (noun) the dry dusty pulp that remains after juice is extracted from sugar cane or similar plants | - |
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| basset | (noun) smooth-haired breed of hound with short legs and long ears | Synonyms: basset hound |
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| (verb) appear at the surface | Synonyms: crop out |
| brasserie | (noun) a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap | - |
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| cabasset | (noun) a metal helmet worn by common soldiers in the 16th century | Synonyms: morion |
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| canvasser | (noun) someone who conducts surveys of public opinion | Synonyms: headcounter, poll taker, pollster |
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| (noun) someone who examines votes at an election | Synonyms: scrutineer |
| (noun) a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes | Synonyms: solicitor |
| (noun) a person who takes or counts votes | - |
| casserole | (noun) large deep dish in which food can be cooked and served | - |
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| (noun) food cooked and served in a casserole | - |
| cassette | (noun) a container that holds a magnetic tape used for recording or playing sound or video | - |
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| chasse | (noun) (ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading | Synonyms: sashay |
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| (verb) perform a chasse step, in ballet | Synonyms: sashay |
| crevasse | (noun) a deep fissure | - |
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| demitasse | (noun) small coffee cup; for serving black coffee | - |
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| (noun) small cup of strong black coffee without milk or cream | Synonyms: cafe noir |
| disassemble | (verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, dismantle, take apart |
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| disassembly | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: dismantlement, dismantling |
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| embarrassed | (adjective) made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride | Synonyms: humiliated, mortified |
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| (adjective) feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed | Synonyms: abashed, chagrined |
| eyeglasses | (noun) (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision | Synonyms: glasses, specs, spectacles |
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| fricassee | (noun) pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings | - |
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| (verb) make a fricassee of by cooking | - |
| glassed | (adjective) fitted or covered with glass | Synonyms: glazed |
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| glasses | (noun) (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision | Synonyms: eyeglasses, specs, spectacles |
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| harassed | (adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances | Synonyms: annoyed, harried, pestered, vexed |
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| harasser | (noun) a persistent attacker | Synonyms: harrier |
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| (noun) a persistent tormentor | - |
| impasse | (noun) a street with only one way in or out | Synonyms: blind alley, cul de sac, dead-end street |
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| (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, deadlock, stalemate, standstill |
| masse | (noun) a shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball | Synonyms: masse shot |
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| masses | (noun) the common people generally | Synonyms: hoi polloi, mass, multitude, people, the great unwashed |
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| masseter | (noun) a large muscle that raises the lower jaw and is used in chewing | - |
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| masseur | (noun) a male massager | - |
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| masseuse | (noun) a female massager | - |
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| molasses | (noun) thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining | - |
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| nonassertive | (adjective) not aggressively self-assured, though not necessarily lacking in confidence | - |
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| nonpasserine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of birds that are not perching birds | - |
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| outclassed | (adjective) decisively surpassed by something else so as to appear to be of a lower class | - |
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| paillasse | (noun) mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust | Synonyms: palliasse |
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| palliasse | (noun) mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust | Synonyms: paillasse |
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| passe | (adjective) out of fashion | Synonyms: antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passee |
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| passee | (adjective) out of fashion | Synonyms: antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passe |
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| passel | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
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| passementerie | (noun) a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment | Synonyms: trim, trimming |
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| passenger | (noun) a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it | Synonyms: rider |
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| passer | (noun) (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass | Synonyms: forward passer |
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| (noun) a person who passes by casually or by chance | Synonyms: passer-by, passerby |
| (noun) a student who passes an examination | - |
| (noun) a person who passes as a member of a different ethnic or racial group | - |
| passerby | (noun) a person who passes by casually or by chance | Synonyms: passer-by, passer |
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| passerine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds | - |
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| (noun) perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless | Synonyms: passeriform bird |
| preassemble | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: prefabricate |
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| reassemble | (verb) assemble once again, after taking something apart | - |
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| reassembly | (noun) assembling again | Synonyms: refabrication |
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| reassert | (verb) strengthen or make more firm | Synonyms: confirm |
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| reassertion | (noun) renewed affirmation | Synonyms: reaffirmation |
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| reassess | (verb) revise or renew one's assessment | Synonyms: reevaluate |
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| reassessment | (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reappraisal, revaluation, review |
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| sunglasses | (noun) (plural) spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun | Synonyms: dark glasses, shades |
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| tasse | (noun) one of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs | Synonyms: tasset |
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| tassel | (noun) adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end | - |
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| tasseled | (adjective) fringed or adorned with tassels | Synonyms: tasselled |
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| tasselled | (adjective) fringed or adorned with tassels | Synonyms: tasseled |
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| tasset | (noun) one of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs | Synonyms: tasse |
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| terrasse | (verb) provide (a house) with a terrace | Synonyms: terrace |
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| thalassemia | (noun) an inherited form of anemia caused by faulty synthesis of hemoglobin | Synonyms: Mediterranean anaemia, Mediterranean anemia, thalassaemia |
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| trespasser | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: interloper, intruder |
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| unassertive | (adjective) inclined to timidity or lack of self-confidence | - |
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| unassertively | (adverb) in an unassertive manner | - |
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| unassertiveness | (noun) diffidence about self promotion | - |
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| unbiassed | (adjective) characterized by a lack of partiality | Synonyms: indifferent, unbiased |
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| (adjective) without bias | Synonyms: unbiased |
| unembarrassed | (adjective) not embarrassed | Synonyms: unabashed |
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| unsurpassed | (adjective) not capable of being improved on | Synonyms: unexceeded, unexcelled |
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| videocassette | (noun) a cassette for videotape | - |
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| wrasse | (noun) chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored | - |
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