| abolish | (verb) do away with | Synonyms: get rid of |
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| abolishable | (adjective) capable of being abolished | - |
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| abolishment | (noun) the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery) | Synonyms: abolition |
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| abolition | (noun) the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery) | Synonyms: abolishment |
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| abolitionary | (adjective) relating to or favoring abolition, especially abolition of slavery | - |
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| abolitionism | (noun) the doctrine that calls for the abolition of slavery | - |
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| abolitionist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: emancipationist |
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| aeroembolism | (noun) obstruction of the circulatory system caused by an air bubble as, e.g., accidentally during surgery or hypodermic injection or as a complication from scuba diving | Synonyms: air embolism, gas embolism |
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| (noun) pain resulting from rapid change in pressure | Synonyms: air embolism, bends, caisson disease, decompression sickness, gas embolism |
| ametabolic | (adjective) undergoing slight or no metamorphosis | Synonyms: ametabolous |
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| (adjective) undergoing no (or only slight) metamorphosis | - |
| amphibolite | (noun) a metamorphic rock composed chiefly of amphibole and plagioclase | - |
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| anabolic | (adjective) characterized by or promoting constructive metabolism | - |
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| (adjective) of or related to the synthetic phase of metabolism | - |
| anabolism | (noun) the synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of energy | Synonyms: constructive metabolism |
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| antimetabolite | (noun) an antineoplastic drug that inhibits the utilization of a metabolite | - |
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| bobolink | (noun) migratory American songbird | Synonyms: Dolichonyx oryzivorus, reedbird, ricebird |
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| bolide | (noun) an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) | Synonyms: fireball |
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| bolivar | (noun) the basic unit of money in Venezuela; equal to 100 centimos | - |
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| bolivia | (noun) a form of canasta in which sequences can be melded | - |
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| boliviano | (noun) the basic unit of money in Bolivia; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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| catabolic | (adjective) characterized by destructive metabolism | Synonyms: katabolic |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by catabolism | Synonyms: katabolic |
| catabolise | (verb) subject to catabolism | Synonyms: catabolize |
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| catabolism | (noun) breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy | Synonyms: destructive metabolism, dissimilation, katabolism |
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| catabolize | (verb) subject to catabolism | Synonyms: catabolise |
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| diabolic | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolical, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
| diabolical | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
| diabolically | (adverb) as a devil; in an evil manner | Synonyms: devilishly, fiendishly |
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| diabolise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, devilize, diabolize |
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| diabolism | (noun) a belief in and reverence for devils (especially Satan) | Synonyms: demonism, Satanism |
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| diabolist | (noun) an adherent of Satan or Satanism | Synonyms: Satanist |
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| diabolize | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, devilize, diabolise |
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| embolic | (adjective) of or relating to an embolism or embolus | - |
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| embolism | (noun) occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus (a loose clot or air bubble or other particle) | - |
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| (noun) an insertion into a calendar | Synonyms: intercalation |
| hemimetabolic | (adjective) (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | Synonyms: hemimetabolous, hemimetamorphic, hemimetamorphous |
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| hemimetabolism | (noun) incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: hemimetaboly, hemimetamorphosis |
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| heterometabolic | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage | Synonyms: heterometabolous |
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| heterometabolism | (noun) development of insects with incomplete metamorphosis in which no pupal stage precedes maturity | Synonyms: heterometaboly |
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| holometabolic | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: holometabolous |
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| holometabolism | (noun) complete metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: holometaboly |
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| hyperbolic | (adjective) of or relating to a hyperbola | - |
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| (adjective) enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness | Synonyms: inflated |
| hyperbolically | (adverb) in an exaggerated manner | Synonyms: exaggeratedly |
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| hyperbolise | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| hyperbolism | (noun) the use of hyperbole. | - |
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| hyperbolize | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| katabolic | (adjective) characterized by destructive metabolism | Synonyms: catabolic |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by catabolism | Synonyms: catabolic |
| katabolism | (noun) breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy | Synonyms: catabolism, destructive metabolism, dissimilation |
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| metabolic | (adjective) undergoing metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabolous |
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| (adjective) of or relating to metabolism | - |
| metabolically | (adverb) involving metabolism | - |
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| metabolise | (verb) produce by metabolism | Synonyms: metabolize |
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| metabolism | (noun) the organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life | Synonyms: metabolic process |
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| (noun) the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals | Synonyms: metamorphosis |
| metabolite | (noun) any substance involved in metabolism (either as a product of metabolism or as necessary for metabolism) | - |
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| metabolize | (verb) produce by metabolism | Synonyms: metabolise |
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| metagrabolised | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolized, metagrobolised, metagrobolized, mystified |
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| metagrabolized | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolised, metagrobolised, metagrobolized, mystified |
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| metagrobolised | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolised, metagrabolized, metagrobolized, mystified |
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| metagrobolized | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolised, metagrabolized, metagrobolised, mystified |
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| parabolic | (adjective) resembling or expressed by parables | Synonyms: parabolical |
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| (adjective) having the form of a parabola | Synonyms: parabolical |
| parabolical | (adjective) resembling or expressed by parables | Synonyms: parabolic |
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| (adjective) having the form of a parabola | Synonyms: parabolic |
| shambolic | (adjective) (British slang) disorderly or chaotic | - |
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| shambolically | (adverb) in a shambolic manner | - |
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| symbolic | (adjective) relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols | Synonyms: symbolical |
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| (adjective) using symbolism | - |
| (adjective) serving as a visible symbol for something abstract | Synonyms: emblematic, emblematical, symbolical |
| symbolical | (adjective) relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols | Synonyms: symbolic |
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| (adjective) serving as a visible symbol for something abstract | Synonyms: emblematic, emblematical, symbolic |
| symbolically | (adverb) in a symbolic manner | - |
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| (adverb) by means of symbols | - |
| symbolisation | (noun) the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning | Synonyms: symbolism, symbolization |
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| (noun) something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible | Synonyms: symbol, symbolic representation, symbolization |
| (noun) the use of symbols to convey meaning | Synonyms: symbolization |
| symbolise | (verb) express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol | Synonyms: represent, stand for, symbolize, typify |
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| (verb) represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols | Synonyms: symbolize |
| symboliser | (noun) someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | Synonyms: symbolist, symbolizer |
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| symbolising | (noun) the act of representing something with a symbol | Synonyms: symbolizing |
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| symbolism | (noun) the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning | Synonyms: symbolisation, symbolization |
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| (noun) a system of symbols and symbolic representations | - |
| (noun) an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images | - |
| symbolist | (noun) a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols | - |
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| (noun) someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | Synonyms: symboliser, symbolizer |
| symbolization | (noun) the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning | Synonyms: symbolisation, symbolism |
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| (noun) something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible | Synonyms: symbol, symbolic representation, symbolisation |
| (noun) the use of symbols to convey meaning | Synonyms: symbolisation |
| symbolize | (verb) express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol | Synonyms: represent, stand for, symbolise, typify |
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| (verb) represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols | Synonyms: symbolise |
| symbolizer | (noun) someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | Synonyms: symboliser, symbolist |
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| symbolizing | (noun) the act of representing something with a symbol | Synonyms: symbolising |
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| thromboembolism | (noun) occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus that has broken away from a thrombus | - |
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| unsymbolic | (adjective) not standing for something else | Synonyms: nonrepresentative |
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