| apostasy | (noun) the act of abandoning a party for cause | Synonyms: tergiversation |
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| (noun) the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) | Synonyms: defection, renunciation |
| asylum | (noun) a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person | Synonyms: insane asylum, institution, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital |
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| (noun) a shelter from danger or hardship | Synonyms: refuge, sanctuary |
| asymmetric | (adjective) characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components | Synonyms: asymmetrical |
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| asymmetrical | (adjective) characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components | Synonyms: asymmetric |
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| (adjective) irregular in shape or outline | Synonyms: crooked |
| asymmetrically | (adverb) in an asymmetrical manner | Synonyms: unsymmetrically |
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| asymmetry | (noun) (mathematics) a lack of symmetry | - |
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| asymptomatic | (adjective) having no symptoms of illness or disease | Synonyms: symptomless |
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| asymptote | (noun) a straight line that is the limiting value of a curve; can be considered as tangent at infinity | - |
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| asymptotic | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of an asymptote | - |
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| asymptotically | (adverb) toward an asymptote | - |
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| asynchronism | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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| asynchronous | (adjective) not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase | - |
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| (adjective) (digital communication) pertaining to a transmission technique that does not require a common clock between the communicating devices; timing signals are derived from special characters in the data stream itself | - |
| asynchrony | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, desynchronisation, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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| asynclitism | (noun) the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle | Synonyms: obliquity |
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| asyndetic | (adjective) lacking conjunctions | - |
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| asyndeton | (noun) the omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used | - |
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| asynergia | (noun) absence of coordination of organs or body parts that usually work together harmoniously | Synonyms: asynergy |
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| asynergic | (adjective) of or relating to the state of asynergy; lacking synergy | - |
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| asynergy | (noun) absence of coordination of organs or body parts that usually work together harmoniously | Synonyms: asynergia |
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| asystole | (noun) absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death | Synonyms: cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary arrest |
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| dasymeter | (noun) densimeter consisting of a thin glass globe that is weighed in a gas to determine its density | - |
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| dasyure | (noun) any of several more or less arboreal marsupials somewhat resembling martens | - |
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| dasyurid | (noun) small carnivorous nocturnal marsupials of Australia and Tasmania | Synonyms: dasyurid marsupial |
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| decasyllabic | (adjective) having or characterized by or consisting of ten syllables | - |
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| decasyllable | (noun) a verse line having ten syllables | - |
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| dichromasy | (noun) a deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision) | Synonyms: dichromacy, dichromatism, dichromatopsia, dichromia |
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| easy | (adjective) posing no difficulty; requiring little effort | - |
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| (adjective) free from worry or anxiety | - |
| (adjective) obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally | - |
| (adjective) less in demand and therefore readily obtainable | - |
| (adjective) affording comfort | - |
| (adjective) marked by moderate steepness | Synonyms: gentle |
| (adjective) readily exploited or tricked | - |
| (adjective) having little impact | Synonyms: gentle, soft |
| (adjective) affording pleasure | - |
| (adjective) in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich | Synonyms: comfortable, prosperous, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-do |
| (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton |
| (adjective) not hurried or forced | Synonyms: easygoing, leisurely |
| (adjective) not strict | Synonyms: lenient |
| (adverb) in a relaxed manner; or without hardship | Synonyms: soft |
| (adverb) with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily') | Synonyms: easily |
| (adverb) without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly') | Synonyms: slow, slowly, tardily |
| easygoing | (adjective) not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship | Synonyms: cushy, soft |
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| (adjective) relaxed and informal in attitude or standards | - |
| (adjective) not hurried or forced | Synonyms: easy, leisurely |
| easygoingness | (noun) being without worry or concern | - |
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| ecstasy | (noun) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine | Synonyms: Adam, cristal, disco biscuit, go, hug drug, X, XTC |
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| (noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: exaltation, rapture, raptus, transport |
| (noun) a state of elated bliss | Synonyms: rapture |
| extrasystole | (noun) a premature systole resulting in a momentary cardiac arrhythmia | - |
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| extrasystolic | (adjective) of or relating to or happening during an extrasystole | - |
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| fantasy | (noun) imagination unrestricted by reality | Synonyms: phantasy |
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| (noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fancy, illusion, phantasy |
| (noun) fiction with a large amount of imagination in it | Synonyms: phantasy |
| (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasise, fantasize |
| greasy | (adjective) smeared or soiled with grease or oil | Synonyms: oily |
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| (adjective) containing an unusual amount of grease or oil | Synonyms: oily, oleaginous, sebaceous |
| heptasyllable | (noun) a word or line of verse of seven syllables. | - |
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| idiosyncrasy | (noun) a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual | Synonyms: foible, mannerism |
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| isostasy | (noun) (geology) a general equilibrium of the forces tending to elevate or depress the earth's crust | - |
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| monochromasy | (noun) complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness | Synonyms: monochromacy, monochromatic vision, monochromatism, monochromia |
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| parasympathetic | (adjective) of or relating to the parasympathetic nervous system | - |
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| (noun) originates in the brain stem and lower part of the spinal cord; opposes physiological effects of the sympathetic nervous system: stimulates digestive secretions; slows the heart; constricts the pupils; dilates blood vessels | Synonyms: parasympathetic nervous system |
| parasympathomimetic | (adjective) having an effect similar to that resulting from stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system | - |
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| pentasyllabic | (adjective) having or characterized by or consisting of five syllables | - |
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| phantasy | (noun) imagination unrestricted by reality | Synonyms: fantasy |
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| (noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fancy, fantasy, illusion |
| (noun) fiction with a large amount of imagination in it | Synonyms: fantasy |
| queasy | (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickish |
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| (adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: anxious, nervous, uneasy, unquiet |
| (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, sickening, vile |
| speakeasy | (noun) (during prohibition) an illegal barroom | - |
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| uneasy | (adjective) lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance | - |
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| (adjective) lacking or not affording physical or mental rest | Synonyms: restless |
| (adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: anxious, nervous, queasy, unquiet |
| (adjective) relating to bodily unease that causes discomfort | - |
| (adjective) socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner | Synonyms: awkward, ill at ease |