| atheistical | (adjective) related to or characterized by or given to atheism | Synonyms: atheist, atheistic |
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| (adjective) rejecting any belief in gods | Synonyms: atheistic, unbelieving |
| atmospherical | (adjective) relating to or located in the atmosphere | Synonyms: atmospheric |
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| atomistical | (adjective) divided into separate and often disparate elements | Synonyms: atomistic |
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| atypical | (adjective) not representative of a group, class, or type | Synonyms: atypic, untypical |
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| (adjective) deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal | Synonyms: irregular |
| atypicality | (noun) any state that is not typical | Synonyms: untypicality |
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| atypically | (adverb) in a manner that is not typical | Synonyms: untypically |
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| autarchical | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by autarchy | Synonyms: autarchic, autarkical |
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| autarkical | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by autarchy | Synonyms: autarchic, autarchical |
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| (adjective) of countries; not relying on imports | Synonyms: autarkic |
| authentically | (adverb) genuinely; with authority | Synonyms: genuinely |
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| autobiographical | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographic |
| autocratically | (adverb) in an autocratic manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator | Synonyms: dictatorially, magisterially |
| automatically | (adverb) in a reflex manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a mechanical manner; by a mechanism | Synonyms: mechanically |
| axiological | (adjective) of or relating to the study of values | - |
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| axiomatical | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from axioms | Synonyms: axiomatic, postulational |
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| axiomatically | (adverb) on the basis of axioms | - |
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| baccalaureate | (noun) an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies | Synonyms: bachelor's degree |
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| (noun) a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies | - |
| bacteriological | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriology | Synonyms: bacteriologic |
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| barometrical | (adjective) relating to atmospheric pressure or indicated by a barometer | Synonyms: barometric |
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| basically | (adverb) in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature | Synonyms: essentially, fundamentally |
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| bathymetrical | (adjective) of or relating to measurements of the depths of oceans or lakes | Synonyms: bathymetric |
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| becalm | (verb) make steady | Synonyms: calm, steady |
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| becalmed | (adjective) rendered motionless for lack of wind | - |
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| biblical | (adjective) of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible | Synonyms: scriptural |
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| (adjective) in keeping with the nature of the Bible or its times or people | - |
| bibliographical | (adjective) relating to or dealing with bibliography | Synonyms: bibliographic |
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| bibliomaniacal | (adjective) characteristic of or characterized by or noted for bibliomania | - |
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| bibliothecal | (adjective) of or relating to a library or bibliotheca or a librarian | Synonyms: bibliothecarial |
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| bicylindrical | (adjective) having two cylindrical surfaces usually with parallel axes | - |
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| bifocal | (adjective) having two foci | - |
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| bifocals | (noun) (plural) eyeglasses having two focal lengths, one for near vision and the other for far vision | - |
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| biochemical | (adjective) of or relating to biochemistry; involving chemical processes in living organisms | - |
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| biochemically | (adverb) with respect to biochemistry | - |
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| biogeographical | (adjective) of or relating to or involved with biogeography | Synonyms: biogeographic |
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| biographical | (adjective) of or relating to or being biography | Synonyms: biographic |
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| biological | (adjective) (of a parent or child) related by blood; genetically related | Synonyms: natural |
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| (adjective) pertaining to biology or to life and living things | Synonyms: biologic |
| biologically | (adverb) with respect to biology | - |
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| biomedical | (adjective) relating to the activities and applications of science to clinical medicine | - |
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| bionomical | (adjective) of or relating to the science of ecology | Synonyms: bionomic, ecologic, ecological |
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| birdcall | (noun) a device for imitating a birdcall | - |
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| (noun) the characteristic sound produced by a bird | Synonyms: birdsong, call, song |
| bombastically | (adverb) in a grandiose manner | Synonyms: grandiosely |
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| (adverb) in a turgid manner | Synonyms: turgidly |
| botanical | (adjective) of or relating to plants or botany | Synonyms: botanic |
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| (noun) a drug made from part of a plant (as the bark or root or leaves) | - |
| brahminical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a brahmin | Synonyms: brahminic |
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| buccal | (adjective) of or involving the mouth or mouth region or the surface on which the mouth is located | Synonyms: oral |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or toward the cheek | - |
| bureaucratically | (adverb) with respect to bureaucracy | - |
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| (adverb) in a bureaucratic manner | - |
| caecal | (adjective) of or like a cecum | Synonyms: cecal |
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| calaba | (noun) West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice | Synonyms: Calophyllum calaba, Santa Maria tree |
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| calabash | (noun) bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd | Synonyms: gourd |
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| (noun) a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd | Synonyms: calabash pipe |
| (noun) tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds | Synonyms: calabash tree, Crescentia cujete |
| (noun) round gourd of the calabash tree | - |
| (noun) Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits | Synonyms: bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria |
| calabazilla | (noun) perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit | Synonyms: buffalo gourd, Cucurbita foetidissima, Missouri gourd, prairie gourd, prairie gourd vine, wild pumpkin |
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| calabura | (noun) a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and fleshy edible fruit; a bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves | Synonyms: calabur tree, Jamaican cherry, Muntingia calabura, silk wood, silkwood |
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| caladenia | (noun) any of various orchids of the genus Caladenia | - |
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| caladium | (noun) any plant of the genus Caladium cultivated for their ornamental foliage variously patterned in white or pink or red | - |
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| calamari | (noun) (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food | Synonyms: calamary, squid |
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| calamary | (noun) (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food | Synonyms: calamari, squid |
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| calamine | (noun) a white mineral; a common ore of zinc | Synonyms: hemimorphite |
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| calamint | (noun) perennial aromatic herbs growing in hedgerows or scrub or open woodlands from western Europe to central Asia and in North America | - |
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| calamitous | (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, disastrous, fatal, fateful |
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| calamity | (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy |
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| calamondin | (noun) a fruit of the calamondin tree. | - |
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| calamus | (noun) the hollow spine of a feather | Synonyms: quill, shaft |
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| (noun) any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes | - |
| (noun) perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots | Synonyms: Acorus calamus, flagroot, myrtle flag, sweet calamus, sweet flag |
| (noun) the aromatic root of the sweet flag used medicinally | - |
| calando | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo and volume | - |
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| calanthe | (noun) any of various showy orchids of the genus Calanthe having white or yellow or rose-colored flowers and broad leaves folded lengthwise | - |
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| calash | (noun) the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage | Synonyms: calash top, caleche |
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| (noun) a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century | Synonyms: caleche |
| calcaneal | (adjective) relating to the heel bone or heel | - |
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| calcaneus | (noun) the largest tarsal bone; forms the human heel | Synonyms: heelbone, os tarsi fibulare |
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| calcareous | (adjective) composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk | Synonyms: chalky |
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| calced | (adjective) used of certain religious orders who wear shoes | Synonyms: shod |
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| calcedony | (noun) a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz | Synonyms: chalcedony |
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| calceiform | (adjective) of slipper-shaped blossoms | Synonyms: calceolate |
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| calceolaria | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip | Synonyms: slipperwort |
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| calceolate | (adjective) of slipper-shaped blossoms | Synonyms: calceiform |
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| calceus | (noun) a shoe covering the ankle; worn by ancient Romans | - |
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| calcic | (adjective) derived from or containing calcium or lime | - |
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| calcicolous | (adjective) growing or living in soil rich in lime | - |
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| calciferol | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets | Synonyms: cholecalciferol, D, ergocalciferol, viosterol, vitamin D |
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| calciferous | (adjective) bearing or producing or containing calcium or calcium carbonate or calcite | - |
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| calcific | (adjective) involving or resulting from calcification | - |
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| calcification | (noun) a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts) | - |
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| (noun) tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts | - |
| (noun) an inflexible and unchanging state | - |
| calcifugous | (adjective) growing or living in acid soil | - |
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| calcify | (verb) turn into lime; become calcified | - |
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| (verb) convert into lime | - |
| (verb) become impregnated with calcium salts | - |
| (verb) become inflexible and unchanging | - |
| calcimine | (noun) a water-base paint containing zinc oxide and glue and coloring; used as a wash for walls and ceilings | - |
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| (verb) cover with calcimine | - |
| calcination | (noun) the conversion of metals into their oxides as a result of heating to a high temperature | - |
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| calcine | (verb) heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces | - |
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| calcite | (noun) a common mineral consisting of crystallized calcium carbonate; a major constituent of limestone | - |
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| calcitic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing calcite | - |
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| calcitonin | (noun) thyroid hormone that tends to lower the level of calcium in the blood plasma and inhibit resorption of bone | Synonyms: thyrocalcitonin |
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| calcium | (noun) a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals | Synonyms: atomic number 20, Ca |
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| calculability | (noun) The quality of being subject to or ascertainable by calculation. | - |
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| calculable | (adjective) able to be calculated or estimated | - |
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| calculate | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, direct |
| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: count on, estimate, figure, forecast, reckon |
| (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, count, depend, look, reckon, rely, swear |
| (verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: forecast |
| (verb) keep an account of | Synonyms: account |
| calculated | (adjective) carefully thought out in advance | Synonyms: deliberate, measured |
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| calculating | (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd |
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| calculatingly | (adverb) in a calculating manner | - |
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| calculation | (noun) the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods | Synonyms: computation, computing |
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| (noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: computation, figuring, reckoning |
| (noun) planning something carefully and intentionally | Synonyms: deliberation |
| calculative | (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, conniving, scheming, shrewd |
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| calculator | (noun) a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations; can be mechanical or electronic | Synonyms: calculating machine |
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| (noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: computer, estimator, figurer, reckoner |
| calculous | (adjective) relating to or caused by or having a calculus or calculi | - |
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| calculus | (noun) the branch of mathematics that is concerned with limits and with the differentiation and integration of functions | Synonyms: infinitesimal calculus |
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| (noun) a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body | Synonyms: concretion |
| (noun) an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums | Synonyms: tartar, tophus |
| caldera | (noun) a large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression | - |
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| caldron | (noun) a very large pot that is used for boiling | Synonyms: cauldron |
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| calean | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| caleche | (noun) the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage | Synonyms: calash, calash top |
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| (noun) a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century | Synonyms: calash |