| achondroplastic | (adjective) of or relating to achondroplasia | - |
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| amastia | (noun) absence of the mammary glands (either through surgery or developmental defect) | - |
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| anaplastic | (adjective) of or relating to anaplasia | - |
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| anastigmat | (noun) compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images | - |
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| anastigmatic | (adjective) not astigmatic | Synonyms: stigmatic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) | Synonyms: stigmatic |
| antineoplastic | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antitumor, antitumour |
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| (noun) any of several drugs that control or kill neoplastic cells; used in chemotherapy to kill cancer cells; all have unpleasant side effects that may include nausea and vomiting and hair loss and suppression of bone marrow function | Synonyms: antineoplastic drug, cancer drug |
| astigmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a defect in the eye or in a lens caused by a deviation from spherical curvature which prevents light rays from meeting at a common focus and so results in distorted images | - |
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| astigmatism | (noun) (optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point | Synonyms: astigmia |
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| (noun) (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people | Synonyms: astigmia |
| astigmia | (noun) (optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point | Synonyms: astigmatism |
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| (noun) (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people | Synonyms: astigmatism |
| astilbe | (noun) any plant of the genus Astilbe having compound leaves and showy panicles of tiny colorful flowers | - |
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| astir | (adjective) on the move | Synonyms: about |
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| (adjective) out of bed | Synonyms: up |
| autoplastic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in autoplasty | - |
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| bastille | (noun) a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner) | - |
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| bastinado | (noun) a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels | Synonyms: falanga |
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| (noun) a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet | - |
| (verb) beat somebody on the soles of the feet | - |
| basting | (noun) moistening a roast as it is cooking | - |
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| (noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: baste, basting stitch, tacking |
| bastion | (noun) projecting part of a rampart or other fortification | - |
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| (noun) a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle | Synonyms: citadel |
| (noun) a group that defends a principle | - |
| bastioned | (adjective) secured with bastions or fortifications | Synonyms: fortified |
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| bitumastic | (noun) a protective coating of asphalt and filter used on structural metals that are exposed to weathering | - |
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| blasting | (adjective) causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin | Synonyms: ruinous |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly loud and penetrating | Synonyms: blaring |
| boasting | (noun) speaking of yourself in superlatives | Synonyms: boast, jactitation, self-praise |
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| bombastic | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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| bombastically | (adverb) in a grandiose manner | Synonyms: grandiosely |
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| (adverb) in a turgid manner | Synonyms: turgidly |
| broadcasting | (noun) taking part in a radio or tv program | - |
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| (noun) a medium that disseminates via telecommunications | Synonyms: broadcast medium |
| castigate | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: chasten, chastise, correct, objurgate |
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| (verb) inflict severe punishment on | - |
| castigation | (noun) verbal punishment | Synonyms: chastisement |
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| (noun) a severe scolding | Synonyms: bawling out, chewing out, dressing down, earful, going-over, upbraiding |
| casting | (noun) the act of creating something by casting it in a mold | Synonyms: molding |
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| (noun) the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel | Synonyms: cast |
| (noun) the choice of actors to play particular roles in a play or movie | - |
| (noun) object formed by a mold | Synonyms: cast |
| cataplastic | (adjective) of or relating to cataplasia | - |
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| ceroplastics | (noun) the art of modeling in wax. | - |
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| chastise | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, correct, objurgate |
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| chastisement | (noun) verbal punishment | Synonyms: castigation |
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| (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastening, correction |
| chastity | (noun) abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) | Synonyms: celibacy, sexual abstention |
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| (noun) morality with respect to sexual relations | Synonyms: sexual morality, virtue |
| chiliastic | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: millenarian |
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| clastic | (adjective) capable of being taken apart | - |
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| (adjective) of or belonging to or being a rock composed of fragments of older rocks (e.g., conglomerates or sandstone) | - |
| contrasting | (adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrastive |
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| contrastingly | (adverb) in a contrasting manner | - |
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| contrastive | (adjective) of words so related that one contrasts with the other | Synonyms: incompatible |
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| (adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrasting |
| (adjective) syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence | - |
| cothromboplastin | (noun) a coagulation factor formed in the kidney under the influence of vitamin K | Synonyms: factor VII, proconvertin, stable factor |
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| cytoplastic | (adjective) of or relating to a cytoplast | - |
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| drastic | (adjective) forceful and extreme and rigorous | - |
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| drastically | (adverb) in a drastic manner | - |
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| dynastic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a dynasty | - |
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| dysplastic | (adjective) relating to or evidencing dysplasia | - |
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| ecclesiastic | (adjective) of or associated with a church (especially a Christian Church) | Synonyms: ecclesiastical |
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| (noun) a clergyman or other person in religious orders | Synonyms: churchman, cleric, divine |
| ecclesiastical | (adjective) of or associated with a church (especially a Christian Church) | Synonyms: ecclesiastic |
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| ecclesiastically | (adverb) in an ecclesiastic manner | - |
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| ecclesiasticism | (noun) excessive adherence to ecclesiastical forms and activities | - |
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| (noun) religion appropriate to a church and to ecclesiastical principles and practices | - |
| elastic | (adjective) capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy | - |
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| (adjective) able to adjust readily to different conditions | Synonyms: flexible, pliable, pliant |
| (noun) a fabric made of yarns containing an elastic material | - |
| (noun) a narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together | Synonyms: elastic band, rubber band |
| elasticised | (adjective) made with strands or inserts of elastic | Synonyms: elasticized |
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| elasticity | (noun) the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed | Synonyms: snap |
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| elasticized | (adjective) made with strands or inserts of elastic | Synonyms: elasticised |
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| elastin | (noun) a fibrous scleroprotein found in elastic tissues such as the walls of arteries | - |
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| encomiastic | (adjective) formally expressing praise | Synonyms: eulogistic, panegyric, panegyrical |
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| enthusiastic | (adjective) having or showing great excitement and interest | - |
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| enthusiastically | (adverb) with enthusiasm; in an enthusiastic manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a lavish or enthusiastic manner | Synonyms: sky-high |
| everlasting | (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, eternal, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
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| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| (noun) any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color | Synonyms: everlasting flower |
| everlastingly | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: eternally, evermore, forever |
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| everlastingness | (noun) the property of lasting forever | - |
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| fantastic | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
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| (adjective) extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance | - |
| (adjective) ludicrously odd | Synonyms: antic, fantastical, grotesque |
| (adjective) existing in fancy only | Synonyms: fantastical |
| (adjective) fanciful and unrealistic; foolish | Synonyms: wild |
| fantastical | (adjective) ludicrously odd | Synonyms: antic, fantastic, grotesque |
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| (adjective) existing in fancy only | Synonyms: fantastic |
| fantastically | (adverb) exceedingly; extremely | Synonyms: fabulously, incredibly |
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| fantasticalness | (noun) The state or condition of pertaining to fantasy; of being fanciful or whimsical. | - |
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| fastidious | (adjective) giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness | - |
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| (adjective) having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures | Synonyms: exacting |
| fastidiously | (adverb) in a fastidious manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a fastidious and painstaking manner | Synonyms: painstakingly |
| fastidiousness | (noun) the trait of being meticulous about matters of taste or style | - |
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| fastigiate | (adjective) having clusters of erect branches (often appearing to form a single column) | - |
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| fasting | (noun) abstaining from food | Synonyms: fast |
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| feasting | (noun) eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) | Synonyms: banqueting |
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| forecasting | (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: foretelling, prediction, prognostication |
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| gymnastic | (adjective) of or relating to or used in exercises intended to develop strength and agility | - |
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| (adjective) vigorously active | Synonyms: acrobatic, athletic |
| gymnastics | (noun) a sport that involves exercises intended to display strength and balance and agility | Synonyms: gymnastic exercise |
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| gynecomastia | (noun) excessive development of the breasts in males; usually the result of hormonal imbalance or treatment with certain drugs (including some antihypertensives) | - |
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| hastily | (adverb) in a hurried or hasty manner | Synonyms: hurriedly, in haste |
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| hastiness | (noun) hasty impulsiveness | - |
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| (noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: haste, hurriedness, hurry, precipitation |
| hypermastigote | (noun) flagellate symbiotic in the intestines of e.g. termites | - |
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| iconoclastic | (adjective) destructive of images used in religious worship; said of religions, such as Islam, in which the representation of living things is prohibited | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions | - |
| inelastic | (adjective) not elastic | - |
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| inelasticity | (noun) the lack of elasticity | - |
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| interscholastic | (adjective) used of competition or cooperation between secondary schools | Synonyms: interschool |
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| lasting | (adjective) continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place | Synonyms: permanent |
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| (adjective) retained; not shed | Synonyms: persistent |
| (adjective) existing for a long time | Synonyms: durable, long-lasting, long-lived |
| (adjective) lasting a long time without change | - |
| lastingly | (adverb) in an enduring or permanent manner | - |
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| lastingness | (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: durability, enduringness, strength |
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| mastic | (noun) an evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin | Synonyms: lentisk, mastic tree, Pistacia lentiscus |
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| (noun) an aromatic exudate from the mastic tree; used chiefly in varnishes | - |
| (noun) a pasty cement used as an adhesive or filler | - |
| masticate | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, jaw, manducate |
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| (verb) grind and knead | - |
| mastication | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chew, chewing, manduction |
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| mastiff | (noun) an old breed of powerful deep-chested smooth-coated dog used chiefly as a watchdog and guard dog | - |
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| mastigophoran | (noun) a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals | Synonyms: flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophore |
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| mastigophore | (noun) a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals | Synonyms: flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran |
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| mastitis | (noun) inflammation of a breast (or udder) | - |
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| mediastinum | (noun) the part of the thoracic cavity between the lungs that contains the heart and aorta and esophagus and trachea and thymus | - |
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| megaloblastic | (adjective) of or relating to megaloblasts | - |
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| mesoblastic | (adjective) relating to or derived from the mesoderm | Synonyms: mesodermal |
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| monastic | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastical |
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| (noun) a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work | Synonyms: monk |
| monastical | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic |
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| monasticism | (noun) asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience | - |
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| nastika | (noun) Technical term in Hinduism used to classify philosophical schools and persons that do not accept the authority of the Vedas as supreme revealed scriptures. | - |
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| nastily | (adverb) in a nasty ill-tempered manner | Synonyms: meanly |
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| nastiness | (noun) the quality of being highly unpleasant | - |
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| (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: bitchiness, cattiness, spite, spitefulness |
| (noun) a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse | Synonyms: filth, filthiness, foulness |
| neoplastic | (adjective) of or related to or having the properties of a neoplasm | - |
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| onomastic | (adjective) of or related to onomastics | - |
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| onomasticon | (noun) a list of proper nouns naming persons or places | - |
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