| 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 |
| abdicable | (adjective) capable of being discarded or renounced or relinquished | - |
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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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| abdominovesical | (adjective) of or relating to the abdomen and the urinary bladder | - |
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| abracadabra | (noun) gibberish and nonsense | - |
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| acacia | (noun) any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia | - |
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| academe | (noun) the academic world | Synonyms: academia |
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| academia | (noun) the academic world | Synonyms: academe |
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| academic | (adjective) associated with academia or an academy | - |
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| (adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: donnish, pedantic |
| (adjective) hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result | - |
| (noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academician, faculty member |
| academically | (adverb) in regard to academic matters | - |
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| academician | (noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academic, faculty member |
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| (noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: schoolman |
| (noun) someone elected to honorary membership in an academy | - |
| academicianship | (noun) the position of member of an honorary academy | - |
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| academicism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academism, scholasticism |
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| (noun) Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes. | - |
| (noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. | Synonyms: academic art, academism |
| academism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academicism, scholasticism |
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| (noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. | Synonyms: academic art, academicism |
| academy | (noun) a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge | - |
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| (noun) a secondary school (usually private) | - |
| (noun) a school for special training | - |
| (noun) an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature | Synonyms: honorary society |
| acantha | (noun) any sharply pointed projection | Synonyms: spine, spur |
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| acanthion | (noun) the craniometric point at the anterior extremity of the intermaxillary suture | - |
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| acanthocephalan | (noun) any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines | Synonyms: spiny-headed worm |
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| acanthocyte | (noun) an abnormal red blood cell that has thorny projections of protoplasm | - |
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| acanthocytosis | (noun) the presence of acanthocytes in the blood stream (as in abetalipoproteinemia) | - |
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| acanthoid | (adjective) shaped like a spine or thorn | Synonyms: acanthous, spinous |
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| acantholysis | (noun) a breakdown of a cell layer in the epidermis (as in pemphigus) | - |
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| acanthoma | (noun) a neoplasm originating in the epidermis | Synonyms: skin tumor |
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| acanthopterygian | (noun) a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays | Synonyms: spiny-finned fish |
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| acanthosis | (noun) an abnormal but benign thickening of the prickle-cell layer of the skin (as in psoriasis) | - |
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| acanthotic | (adjective) of or relating to or having acanthosis | - |
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| acanthous | (adjective) shaped like a spine or thorn | Synonyms: acanthoid, spinous |
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| acanthus | (noun) any plant of the genus Acanthus having large spiny leaves and spikes or white or purplish flowers; native to Mediterranean region but widely cultivated | - |
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| acapnia | (noun) a state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower than normal; can result from deep or rapid breathing | Synonyms: hypocapnia |
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| acapnial | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating acapnia | Synonyms: acapnic, acapnotic |
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| acapnic | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating acapnia | Synonyms: acapnial, acapnotic |
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| acapnotic | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating acapnia | Synonyms: acapnial, acapnic |
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| acaracide | (noun) a chemical agent used to kill mites | Synonyms: acaricide |
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| acardia | (noun) congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters) | - |
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| acariasis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acaridiasis, acariosis |
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| acaricide | (noun) a chemical agent used to kill mites | Synonyms: acaracide |
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| acarid | (noun) very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants; related to ticks | - |
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| acaridiasis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acariasis, acariosis |
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| acarine | (noun) mite or tick | - |
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| acariosis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acariasis, acaridiasis |
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| acarophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of small insects and mites and worms | - |
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| acarpellous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpelous |
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| acarpelous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpellous |
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| acarpous | (adjective) producing no fruit | - |
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| acarus | (noun) any of several mites of the order Acarina | Synonyms: genus Acarus |
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| acaryote | (noun) a cell without a nucleus (as an erythrocyte) | Synonyms: akaryocyte, akaryote |
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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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| acaudal | (adjective) lacking a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: acaudate |
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| acaudate | (adjective) lacking a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: acaudal |
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| acaulescent | (adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: stemless |
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| acciaccatura | (noun) an embellishing note usually written in smaller size | Synonyms: appoggiatura, grace note |
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| acidification | (noun) the process of becoming acid or being converted into an acid | - |
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| acoustical | (adjective) of or relating to the science of acoustics | Synonyms: acoustic |
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| acoustically | (adverb) with respect to acoustics | - |
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| acritical | (adjective) without a crisis (as of some diseases) | - |
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| acrocarp | (noun) a moss in which the main axis is terminated by the archegonium (and hence the capsule) | Synonyms: acrocarpous moss |
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| acrocarpous | (adjective) (of mosses) having the archegonia at the top of the stem | - |
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| actinometrical | (adjective) of or related to actinometry | Synonyms: actinometric |
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| adenocarcinoma | (noun) malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium | Synonyms: glandular cancer, glandular carcinoma |
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| adenocarcinomatous | (adjective) of or pertaining to adenocarcinoma | - |
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| adjudicate | (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: decide, resolve, settle |
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| (verb) put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of | Synonyms: judge, try |
| adjudication | (noun) the final judgment in a legal proceeding; the act of pronouncing judgment based on the evidence presented | - |
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| adjudicative | (adjective) concerned with adjudicating | Synonyms: adjudicatory |
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| adjudicator | (noun) a person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes | - |
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| adjudicatory | (adjective) concerned with adjudicating | Synonyms: adjudicative |
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| adrenocortical | (adjective) of or derived from the cortex of the adrenal glands | - |
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| advocacy | (noun) active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something | Synonyms: protagonism |
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| advocate | (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocator, exponent, proponent |
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| (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
| (verb) push for something | Synonyms: recommend, urge |
| (verb) speak, plead, or argue in favor of | Synonyms: preach |
| advocator | (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocate, exponent, proponent |
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| aerological | (adjective) of or pertaining to aerology | - |
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| aeromedical | (adjective) of or relating to aviation medicine | - |
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| aeronautical | (adjective) of or pertaining to aeronautics | Synonyms: aeronautic |
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| aesthetical | (adjective) concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste | Synonyms: aesthetic, esthetic, esthetical |
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| aesthetically | (adverb) in a tasteful way | Synonyms: esthetically |
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| aetiological | (adjective) relating to the etiology of a disease | Synonyms: aetiologic, etiologic, etiological |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical study of causation | Synonyms: aetiologic, etiologic, etiological |
| affricate | (noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') | Synonyms: affricate consonant, affricative |
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| affrication | (noun) the conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate | - |
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| affricative | (noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') | Synonyms: affricate, affricate consonant |
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| aftercare | (noun) care and treatment of a convalescent patient | - |
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| agnostical | (adjective) uncertain of all claims to knowledge | Synonyms: agnostic |
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| agonistical | (adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistic, combative |
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| agrobiological | (adjective) of or pertaining to agrobiology | Synonyms: agrobiologic |
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| agrological | (adjective) of or related to agrology | Synonyms: agrologic |
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| agronomical | (adjective) of or relating to or promoting agronomy | Synonyms: agronomic |
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| aguacate | (noun) a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed | Synonyms: alligator pear, avocado, avocado pear |
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| ahistorical | (adjective) unconcerned with or unrelated to history or to historical development or to tradition | - |
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| albuca | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Albuca having large clusters of pale yellow flowers; South Africa | - |
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| alcahest | (noun) hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists | Synonyms: alkahest, universal solvent |
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| alcalde | (noun) a mayor or chief magistrate of a Spanish town | - |
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| alcalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alkalescent |
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| alcapton | (noun) an acid formed as an intermediate product of the metabolism of tyrosine and phenylalanine | Synonyms: alkapton, homogentisic acid |
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| alcaptonuria | (noun) a rare recessive metabolic anomaly marked by ochronosis and the presence of alkapton in the urine | Synonyms: alkaptonuria |
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| alcazar | (noun) any of various Spanish fortresses or palaces built by the Moors | - |
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| alchemical | (adjective) related to or concerned with alchemy | Synonyms: alchemic |
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| alchemistical | (adjective) of or relating to alchemists | Synonyms: alchemistic |
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