| adumbrate | (verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of | Synonyms: outline, sketch |
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| (verb) give to understand | Synonyms: insinuate, intimate |
| adumbration | (noun) a sketchy or imperfect or faint representation | - |
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| (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefiguration |
| adumbrative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefigurative |
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| brat | (noun) a very troublesome child | Synonyms: holy terror, little terror, terror |
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| (noun) a small pork sausage | Synonyms: bratwurst |
| brattice | (noun) a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine | - |
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| (verb) supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines | - |
| brattiness | (noun) The state or condition of acting like a brat, being unruly and impolite. | - |
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| brattish | (adjective) (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | Synonyms: bratty |
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| brattle | (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: clack, clatter |
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| bratty | (adjective) (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | Synonyms: brattish |
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| bratwurst | (noun) a small pork sausage | Synonyms: brat |
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| calibrate | (verb) make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring | Synonyms: fine-tune, graduate |
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| (verb) measure the caliber of | - |
| (verb) mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units | - |
| calibrated | (adjective) marked with or divided into degrees | Synonyms: graduated |
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| calibration | (noun) the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument | Synonyms: standardisation, standardization |
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| celebrate | (verb) have a celebration | Synonyms: fete |
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| (verb) behave as expected during of holidays or rites | Synonyms: keep, observe |
| (verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: lionise, lionize |
| celebrated | (adjective) having an illustrious past | Synonyms: historied, storied |
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| (adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: famed, famous, far-famed, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned |
| celebrater | (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrant, celebrator |
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| celebration | (noun) any joyous diversion | Synonyms: festivity |
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| (noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: solemnisation, solemnization |
| (noun) a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event | Synonyms: jubilation |
| celebrator | (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrant, celebrater |
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| celebratory | (adjective) used for celebrating | - |
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| cerebrate | (verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cogitate, think |
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| cerebration | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: intellection, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process |
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| clofibrate | (noun) a drug (trade name Atromid-S) that reduces lipids in the blood serum; used to treat some cardiovascular diseases | Synonyms: Atromid-S |
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| decerebrate | (verb) remove the cerebrum from (a human body) | - |
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| dolabrate | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabriform |
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| elucubration | (noun) a written work produced by elucubrating. | - |
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| equilibrate | (verb) bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium | - |
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| (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrise, equilibrize |
| equilibration | (noun) stabilization by bringing into equilibrium | - |
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| firebrat | (noun) lives in warm moist areas e.g. around furnaces | Synonyms: Thermobia domestica |
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| invertebrate | (adjective) lacking a backbone or spinal column | Synonyms: spineless |
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| (noun) any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification | - |
| librate | (verb) vibrate before coming to a total rest | - |
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| (verb) determine the weight of | Synonyms: weigh |
| libration | (noun) (astronomy) a real or apparent slow oscillation of a moon or satellite | - |
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| lucubrate | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out |
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| lucubration | (noun) laborious cogitation | - |
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| (noun) a solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitation | - |
| palpebrate | (adjective) having eyelids | - |
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| (verb) wink or blink, especially repeatedly | - |
| palpebration | (noun) repeated blinking or winking (especially if uncontrolled and persistent) | - |
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| sauerbraten | (noun) pot roast marinated several days in seasoned vinegar before cooking; usually served with potato dumplings | - |
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| vertebrate | (adjective) having a backbone or spinal column | - |
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| (noun) animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium | Synonyms: craniate |
| vibrate | (verb) feel sudden intense sensation or emotion | Synonyms: thrill, tickle |
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| (verb) shake, quiver, or throb; move back and forth rapidly, usually in an uncontrolled manner | - |
| (verb) move or swing from side to side regularly | Synonyms: oscillate |
| (verb) sound with resonance | Synonyms: resonate |
| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: hover, oscillate, vacillate |
| vibration | (noun) the act of vibrating | Synonyms: quiver, quivering |
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| (noun) a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively | Synonyms: vibe |
| (noun) (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean | Synonyms: oscillation |
| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, shaking, trembling |
| vibrational | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by vibration | - |
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| vibrato | (noun) (music) a pulsating effect in an instrumental or vocal tone produced by slight and rapid variations in pitch | - |
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| vibrator | (noun) mechanical device that produces vibratory motion; used for massage | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device that vibrates | - |
| vibratory | (adjective) moving very rapidly to and fro or up and down | - |
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