| aba | (noun) a fabric woven from goat hair and camel hair | - |
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| (noun) a loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth; worn by Arabs | - |
| abaca | (noun) Philippine banana tree having leafstalks that yield Manila hemp used for rope and paper etc | Synonyms: Manila hemp, Musa textilis |
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| (noun) a kind of hemp obtained from the abaca plant in the Philippines | Synonyms: Manila hemp, Manilla hemp |
| abacinate | (verb) blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes | - |
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| aback | (adverb) by surprise | - |
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| (adverb) having the wind against the forward side of the sails | - |
| abactinal | (adjective) (of radiate animals) located on the surface or end opposite to that on which the mouth is situated | - |
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| abacus | (noun) a calculator that performs arithmetic functions by manually sliding counters on rods or in grooves | - |
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| (noun) a tablet placed horizontally on top of the capital of a column as an aid in supporting the architrave | - |
| abaft | (adverb) at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane | Synonyms: aft, astern |
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| abalone | (noun) any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior | Synonyms: ear-shell |
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| abamp | (noun) a unit of current equal to 10 amperes | Synonyms: abampere |
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| abampere | (noun) a unit of current equal to 10 amperes | Synonyms: abamp |
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| abandon | (noun) the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry | Synonyms: unconstraint, wantonness |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme emotional intensity | Synonyms: wildness |
| (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: desert, desolate, forsake |
| (verb) stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: empty, vacate |
| (verb) forsake, leave behind | - |
| (verb) give up with the intent of never claiming again | Synonyms: give up |
| abandoned | (adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants | Synonyms: derelict, deserted |
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| (adjective) unrestrained and uninhibited | - |
| abandonment | (noun) withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility | Synonyms: defection, desertion |
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| (noun) the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away | - |
| (noun) the act of giving something up | Synonyms: desertion, forsaking |
| abarticulation | (noun) dislocation of a joint | - |
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| abase | (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: chagrin, humble, humiliate, mortify |
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| abasement | (noun) depriving one of self-esteem | Synonyms: humiliation |
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| (noun) a low or downcast state | Synonyms: abjection, degradation |
| abash | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | Synonyms: embarrass |
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| abashed | (adjective) feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed | Synonyms: chagrined, embarrassed |
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| abashment | (noun) feeling embarrassed due to modesty | Synonyms: bashfulness |
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| abasia | (noun) inability to walk | - |
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| abasic | (adjective) of or relating to abasia (inability to walk) | Synonyms: abatic |
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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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| abaxial | (adjective) facing away from the axis of an organ or organism | Synonyms: dorsal |
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| abaxially | (adverb) in an abaxial manner | - |
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| abaya | (noun) (Arabic) a loose black robe from head to toe; traditionally worn by Muslim women | - |
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| abbacy | (noun) the jurisdiction or office of an abbot | - |
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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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| absorbable | (adjective) capable of being absorbed or taken in through the pores of a surface | - |
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| absorbance | (noun) (physics) a measure of the extent to which a substance transmits light or other electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: optical density, photographic density, transmission density |
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| absorbate | (noun) a material that has been or is capable of being absorbed | - |
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| acerbate | (verb) make sour or bitter | - |
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| (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: embitter, envenom |
| acrobat | (noun) an athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination | - |
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| acrobatic | (adjective) vigorously active | Synonyms: athletic, gymnastic |
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| acrobatics | (noun) the gymnastic moves of an acrobat | Synonyms: tumbling |
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| (noun) the performance of stunts while in flight in an aircraft | Synonyms: aerobatics, stunt flying, stunting |
| adiabatic | (adjective) occurring without loss or gain of heat | - |
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| adiabaticity | (noun) The condition of occurring without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation). | - |
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| adsorbable | (adjective) capable of being adsorbed or accumulated on a surface of a solid | Synonyms: adsorbate |
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| adsorbate | (adjective) capable of being adsorbed or accumulated on a surface of a solid | Synonyms: adsorbable |
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| (noun) a material that has been or is capable of being adsorbed | - |
| aerobatics | (noun) the performance of stunts while in flight in an aircraft | Synonyms: acrobatics, stunt flying, stunting |
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| ahorseback | (adjective) traveling on horseback | Synonyms: ahorse |
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| (adverb) on the back of a horse | Synonyms: ahorse, horseback |
| alabaster | (adjective) of or resembling alabaster | Synonyms: alabastrine |
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| (noun) a very light white | - |
| (noun) a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving | - |
| (noun) a hard compact kind of calcite | Synonyms: Mexican onyx, onyx marble, oriental alabaster |
| alabastrine | (adjective) of or resembling alabaster | Synonyms: alabaster |
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| albacore | (noun) large pelagic tuna the source of most canned tuna; reaches 93 pounds and has long pectoral fins; found worldwide in tropical and temperate waters | Synonyms: long-fin tunny, Thunnus alalunga |
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| (noun) relatively small tuna with choice white flesh; major source of canned tuna | - |
| albatross | (noun) large web-footed birds of the Southern Hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight | Synonyms: mollymawk |
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| (noun) (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps | Synonyms: millstone |
| 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 |
| ambage | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: circumlocution, periphrasis |
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| ambages | (noun) (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action | - |
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| ambagious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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| ambassador | (noun) a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another | Synonyms: embassador |
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| (noun) an informal representative | - |
| ambassadorial | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of ambassadors | - |
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| ambassadorship | (noun) the post of ambassador | - |
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| ambassadress | (noun) a woman ambassador | - |
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| ameba | (noun) naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion | Synonyms: amoeba |
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| ameban | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: amebic, amebous, amoeban, amoebic, amoebous |
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| amobarbital | (noun) a barbiturate with sedative and hypnotic effects; used to relieve insomnia and as an anticonvulsant | - |
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| amoeba | (noun) naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion | Synonyms: ameba |
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| amoeban | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: ameban, amebic, amebous, amoebic, amoebous |
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| amphisbaena | (noun) (classical mythology) a serpent with a head at each end of its body | - |
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| anabatic | (adjective) of an air current or wind; rising especially up a slope | - |
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| antibacterial | (adjective) destroying bacteria or inhibiting their growth | - |
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| (noun) any drug that destroys bacteria or inhibits their growth | Synonyms: antibacterial drug, bactericide |
| antibaryon | (noun) the antiparticle of a baryon; a hadron with a baryon number of -1 | - |
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| approbate | (verb) accept (documents) as valid | - |
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| (verb) approve or sanction officially | - |
| approbation | (noun) official recognition or approval | - |
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| (noun) official approval | - |
| approbative | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbatory, approving, plausive |
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| approbatory | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approving, plausive |
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| arariba | (noun) Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood | Synonyms: Centrolobium robustum |
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| araroba | (noun) a bitter yellow powder used to treat skin diseases | Synonyms: chrysarobin, Goa powder |
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| arbalest | (noun) late version of the crossbow with a steel bow | Synonyms: arbalist |
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| arbalist | (noun) late version of the crossbow with a steel bow | Synonyms: arbalest |
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| (noun) archer who uses an arbalest | - |
| archaebacteria | (noun) considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae | Synonyms: archaebacterium, archaeobacteria, archeobacteria |
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| archaebacterium | (noun) considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae | Synonyms: archaebacteria, archaeobacteria, archeobacteria |
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| archaeobacteria | (noun) considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae | Synonyms: archaebacteria, archaebacterium, archeobacteria |
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| archeobacteria | (noun) considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae | Synonyms: archaebacteria, archaebacterium, archaeobacteria |
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| armband | (noun) a band worn around the upper arm | - |
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| (noun) worn around arm as identification or to indicate mourning | - |
| 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 | - |
| asarabacca | (noun) thick creeping evergreen herb of western Europe | Synonyms: Asarum europaeum |
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| ascribable | (adjective) capable of being assigned or credited to | Synonyms: due, imputable, referable |
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| autobahn | (noun) an expressway in a German-speaking country | - |
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| baa | (noun) the cry made by sheep | - |
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| (verb) cry plaintively | Synonyms: blat, blate, bleat |
| baas | (noun) South African term for `boss' | - |
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| baba | (noun) a small cake leavened with yeast | - |
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| babassu | (noun) tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory | Synonyms: babassu palm, coco de macao, Orbignya martiana, Orbignya phalerata, Orbignya spesiosa |
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| babbitt | (noun) an alloy of tin with some copper and antimony; a lining for bearings that reduces friction | Synonyms: Babbitt metal |
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| (verb) line with a Babbitt metal | - |
| babbitting | (noun) lining a surface or bearing with Babbitt metal | - |
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| babble | (noun) gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby | Synonyms: babbling, lallation |
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| (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: blather, blether, blither, smatter |
| (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
| (verb) utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way | - |
| (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple |
| babbler | (noun) any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae | Synonyms: cackler |
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| (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter |
| babbling | (noun) gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby | Synonyms: babble, lallation |
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| babe | (noun) a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk | Synonyms: baby, infant |
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| babel | (noun) a confusion of voices and other sounds | - |
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| babelike | (adjective) like a baby especially in dependence | - |
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| babiroussa | (noun) Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth | Synonyms: babirusa, babirussa, Babyrousa Babyrussa |
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| babirusa | (noun) Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth | Synonyms: babiroussa, babirussa, Babyrousa Babyrussa |
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| babirussa | (noun) Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth | Synonyms: babiroussa, babirusa, Babyrousa Babyrussa |
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