| abacinate | (verb) blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes | - |
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| abarticulation | (noun) dislocation of a joint | - |
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| abatable | (adjective) capable of being abated | - |
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| abate | (verb) become less in amount or intensity | Synonyms: die away, let up, slack, slack off |
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| (verb) make less active or intense | Synonyms: slack, slake |
| abatement | (noun) the act of abating | - |
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| (noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: hiatus, reprieve, respite, suspension |
| abatic | (adjective) of or relating to abasia (inability to walk) | Synonyms: abasic |
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| abatis | (noun) a line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) pointed toward the enemy | Synonyms: abattis |
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| abator | (noun) a person who abates a nuisance | - |
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| abattis | (noun) a line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) pointed toward the enemy | Synonyms: abatis |
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| abattoir | (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse |
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| abbatial | (adjective) of or having to do with or belonging to an abbey or abbot, or abbess | - |
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| abbreviate | (verb) shorten | - |
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| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| abbreviated | (adjective) (of clothing) very short | Synonyms: brief |
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| (adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: shortened, truncated |
| abbreviation | (noun) shortening something by omitting parts of it | - |
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| (noun) a shortened form of a word or phrase | - |
| abbreviator | (noun) one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work | Synonyms: abridger |
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| abdicate | (verb) give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations | Synonyms: renounce |
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| abdication | (noun) a formal resignation and renunciation of powers | Synonyms: stepping down |
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| (noun) the act of abdicating | Synonyms: stepping down |
| abdicator | (noun) one who formally relinquishes an office or responsibility | - |
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| aberrate | (verb) diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration | - |
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| (verb) diverge from the expected | - |
| aberration | (noun) an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image | Synonyms: distortion, optical aberration |
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| (noun) a disorder in one's mental state | - |
| (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberrancy, deviance |
| abjuration | (noun) a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion | Synonyms: recantation, retraction |
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| ablactate | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: wean |
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| ablactation | (noun) the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal | Synonyms: weaning |
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| (noun) the cessation of lactation | - |
| ablate | (verb) wear away through erosion or vaporization | - |
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| (verb) remove an organ or bodily structure | - |
| ablated | (adjective) made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization | - |
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| ablation | (noun) surgical removal of a body part or tissue | Synonyms: cutting out, excision, extirpation |
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| (noun) the erosive process that reduces the size of glaciers | - |
| ablative | (adjective) relating to the ablative case | - |
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| (adjective) tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature | - |
| (noun) the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb | Synonyms: ablative case |
| abnegate | (verb) deny or renounce | - |
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| (verb) surrender (power or a position) | - |
| (verb) deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure | Synonyms: deny |
| abnegation | (noun) renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others | Synonyms: denial, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation |
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| (noun) the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief | - |
| abnegator | (noun) one who gives up or relinquishes or renounces something | - |
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| abominate | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, execrate, loathe |
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| abomination | (noun) an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence | - |
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| (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abhorrence, detestation, execration, loathing, odium |
| (noun) a person who is loathsome or disgusting | - |
| abominator | (noun) one who hates or loathes | Synonyms: loather |
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| abranchiate | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchious, gill-less |
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| abrogate | (verb) revoke formally | - |
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| abrogation | (noun) the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation | Synonyms: annulment, repeal |
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| abrogator | (noun) an authority or official empowered to abolish or annul or repeal | - |
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| absolutisation | (noun) the process of rendering something absolute or converting it into an absolute. | Synonyms: absolutization |
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| absolutization | (noun) the process of rendering something absolute or converting it into an absolute. | Synonyms: absolutisation |
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| absorbate | (noun) a material that has been or is capable of being absorbed | - |
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| absquatulate | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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| abwatt | (noun) a power unit equal to the power dissipated when 1 abampere flows across a potential difference of 1 abvolt (one ten-thousandth of a milliwatt) | - |
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| acatalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
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| (noun) (prosody) a line of verse that has the full number of syllables | - |
| acataphasia | (noun) a disorder in which a lesion to the central nervous system leaves you unable to formulate a statement or to express yourself in an organized manner | - |
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| acathexia | (noun) an inability to retain bodily secretions | - |
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| acathexis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual | - |
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| acaudate | (adjective) lacking a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: acaudal |
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| accelerate | (verb) move faster | Synonyms: quicken, speed, speed up |
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| (verb) cause to move faster | Synonyms: speed, speed up |
| accelerated | (adjective) speeded up, as of an academic course | - |
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| acceleration | (noun) the act of accelerating; increasing the speed | Synonyms: quickening, speedup |
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| (noun) an increase in rate of change | - |
| (noun) (physics) a rate of increase of velocity | - |
| accelerative | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: acceleratory |
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| accelerator | (noun) a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine | Synonyms: throttle, throttle valve |
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| (noun) a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles | Synonyms: atom smasher, particle accelerator |
| (noun) a pedal that controls the throttle valve | Synonyms: accelerator pedal, gas, gas pedal, gun, throttle |
| (noun) (chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected | Synonyms: catalyst |
| acceleratory | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: accelerative |
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| accentuate | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accent, stress |
| accentuation | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accenting, emphasizing |
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| (noun) the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance | - |
| acceptation | (noun) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | Synonyms: acceptance, adoption, espousal |
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| (noun) the accepted meaning of a word | Synonyms: word meaning, word sense |
| (noun) acceptance as true or valid | - |
| acciaccatura | (noun) an embellishing note usually written in smaller size | Synonyms: appoggiatura, grace note |
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| acclamation | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclaim, eclat, plaudit, plaudits |
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| acclimate | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimatise, acclimatize |
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| acclimation | (noun) adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment) | Synonyms: acclimatisation, acclimatization |
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| acclimatisation | (noun) adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment) | Synonyms: acclimation, acclimatization |
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| acclimatise | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimate, acclimatize |
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| acclimatization | (noun) adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment) | Synonyms: acclimation, acclimatisation |
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| acclimatize | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimate, acclimatise |
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| accommodate | (verb) make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose | Synonyms: adapt |
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| (verb) make (one thing) compatible with (another) | Synonyms: conciliate, reconcile |
| (verb) provide a service or favor for someone | Synonyms: oblige |
| (verb) provide with something desired or needed | - |
| (verb) be agreeable or acceptable to | Synonyms: fit, suit |
| (verb) provide housing for | Synonyms: lodge |
| (verb) have room for; hold without crowding | Synonyms: admit, hold |
| accommodating | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodative |
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| (adjective) obliging; willing to do favors | - |
| accommodatingly | (adverb) in accommodation | Synonyms: obligingly |
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| accommodation | (noun) the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need | - |
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| (noun) (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye | - |
| (noun) living quarters provided for public convenience | - |
| (noun) in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality | - |
| (noun) a settlement of differences | - |
| (noun) making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances | Synonyms: adjustment, fitting |
| accommodational | (adjective) of or relating to the accommodation of the lens of the eye | - |
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| accommodative | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodating |
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| (adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony | Synonyms: reconciling |
| (adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: cooperative |
| accommodator | (noun) someone who performs a service or does a favor | Synonyms: obliger |
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| accreditation | (noun) the act of granting credit or recognition (especially with respect to an educational institution that maintains suitable standards) | - |
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| acculturate | (verb) assimilate culturally | - |
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| acculturation | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: enculturation, socialisation, socialization |
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| (noun) all the knowledge and values shared by a society | Synonyms: culture |
| (noun) the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure | Synonyms: assimilation |
| acculturational | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturative |
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| acculturative | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturational |
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| accumulate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: amass, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| accumulated | (adjective) periodically accumulated over time | Synonyms: accrued |
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| accumulation | (noun) the act of accumulating | Synonyms: accrual, accruement |
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| (noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: aggregation, assemblage, collection |
| (noun) (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation | - |
| (noun) an increase by natural growth or addition | Synonyms: accretion |
| accumulative | (adjective) marked by acquiring or amassing | - |
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| (adjective) increasing by successive addition | Synonyms: cumulative |
| accumulator | (noun) a voltaic battery that stores electric charge | Synonyms: storage battery |
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| (noun) (computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register | Synonyms: accumulator register |
| (noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | Synonyms: collector, gatherer |
| accurate | (adjective) conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy | - |
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| (adjective) (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct | Synonyms: exact, precise |
| accurately | (adverb) with few mistakes | - |
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| (adverb) strictly correctly | - |
| accusation | (noun) a formal charge of wrongdoing brought against a person; the act of imputing blame or guilt | Synonyms: accusal |
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| (noun) an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence | Synonyms: charge |
| accusative | (adjective) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes | Synonyms: objective |
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| (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusatory, accusing, accusive |
| (noun) the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb | Synonyms: accusative case, objective case |
| accusatorial | (adjective) specifically indicating a form of prosecution in which one is publicly accused of and tried for a crime and in which the judge is not also the prosecutor | - |
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| accusatory | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusing, accusive |
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| acerate | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerose, acicular, needle-shaped |
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| acerbate | (verb) make sour or bitter | - |
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| (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: embitter, envenom |
| acervate | (adjective) pertaining to a growth of fungi that forms a heaped-up mass | - |
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| acetate | (noun) a fabric made from fibers of cellulose acetate | Synonyms: acetate rayon |
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| (noun) a salt or ester of acetic acid | Synonyms: ethanoate |
| acetylate | (verb) receive substitution of an acetyl group | Synonyms: acetylise, acetylize |
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| (verb) introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound) | Synonyms: acetylise, acetylize |
| acetylation | (noun) the process of introducing an acetyl group into a compound | - |
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| achromatic | (adjective) having no hue | Synonyms: neutral |
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| achromaticity | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromatism, colorlessness, colourlessness |
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| achromatin | (noun) the part of a cell nucleus that is relatively uncolored by stains or dyes | - |
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| achromatinic | (adjective) (of substance of a cell nucleus) not readily colored by stains | - |
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| achromatise | (verb) remove color from | Synonyms: achromatize |
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| achromatism | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromaticity, colorlessness, colourlessness |
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| achromatize | (verb) remove color from | Synonyms: achromatise |
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