| desiccant | (noun) a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) | Synonyms: drier, drying agent, siccative |
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| discant | (noun) a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody | Synonyms: descant |
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| epicanthic | (adjective) relating to the epicanthus | - |
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| epicanthus | (noun) a vertical fold of skin over the nasal canthus; typical for many east Asian peoples; sometimes occurs in Down's syndrome | Synonyms: epicanthic fold |
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| explicandum | (noun) (logic) a statement of something (a fact or thing or expression) to be explained | Synonyms: explanandum |
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| footcandle | (noun) a unit of illuminance on a surface that is everywhere 1 foot from a point source of 1 candle | - |
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| fricandeau | (noun) larded veal braised and glazed in its own juices | - |
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| headcanon | (noun) A personal version of the fantasy world from popular media | - |
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| heterostracan | (noun) extinct jawless fish with the anterior part of the body covered with bony plates; of the Silurian and Devonian | - |
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| hurricane | (noun) a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale) | - |
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| impeccant | (adjective) free from sin | Synonyms: innocent, sinless |
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| incandesce | (verb) become incandescent or glow with heat | - |
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| (verb) cause to become incandescent or glow | - |
| incandescence | (noun) light from heat | - |
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| (noun) the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised | Synonyms: glow |
| incandescent | (adjective) characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance | - |
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| (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: candent |
| incantation | (noun) a ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect | Synonyms: conjuration |
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| indicant | (noun) a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time | Synonyms: index, index number, indicator |
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| (noun) something that serves to indicate or suggest | Synonyms: indication |
| insignificance | (noun) the quality of having little or no significance | - |
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| insignificant | (adjective) devoid of importance, meaning, or force | Synonyms: unimportant |
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| (adjective) signifying nothing | - |
| (adjective) of little importance or influence or power; of minor status | Synonyms: peanut |
| (adjective) small and unimpressive | Synonyms: dinky |
| insignificantly | (adverb) not to a significant degree or amount | - |
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| (adverb) in an insignificant manner | - |
| intoxicant | (adjective) causing intoxication | Synonyms: intoxicating |
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| (noun) a drug that can produce a state of intoxication | - |
| (noun) a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent | Synonyms: alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant |
| keratoacanthoma | (noun) skin tumor that grows rapidly (especially in older people) and resembles a carcinoma but does not spread; it usually disappears spontaneously, often leaving a scar | - |
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| lecanopteris | (noun) any of several bizarre ferns of the genus Lecanopteris having swollen hollow rhizomes that provide homes for symbiotic ants | - |
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| lecanora | (noun) any lichen of the genus Lecanora; some used in dyeing; some used for food | - |
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| lubricant | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lube, lubricating substance, lubricator |
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| lycanthrope | (noun) a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again | Synonyms: loup-garou, werewolf, wolfman |
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| lycanthropy | (noun) (folklore) the magical ability of a person to assume the characteristics of a wolf | - |
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| mendicancy | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: beggary, begging |
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| (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: beggary, mendicity |
| mendicant | (adjective) practicing beggary | - |
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| (noun) a pauper who lives by begging | Synonyms: beggar |
| (noun) a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms | Synonyms: friar |
| mercantile | (adjective) of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of trade or traders | - |
| (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercenary, moneymaking |
| mercantilism | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commerce, commercialism |
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| (noun) an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | Synonyms: mercantile system |
| multiplicand | (noun) the number that is multiplied by the multiplier | - |
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| noncandidate | (noun) someone who has announced they are not a candidate; especially a politician who has announced that he or she is not a candidate for some political office | - |
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| nonsignificant | (adjective) attributable to chance | - |
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| oilcan | (noun) a can with a long nozzle to apply oil to machinery | - |
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| osteostracan | (noun) extinct jawless fish of the Devonian with armored head | Synonyms: cephalaspid |
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| pecan | (noun) smooth brown oval nut of south central United States | - |
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| (noun) tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts | Synonyms: Carya illinoensis, Carya illinoinsis, pecan tree |
| (noun) wood of a pecan tree | - |
| peccant | (adjective) liable to sin | Synonyms: peccable |
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| pelican | (noun) large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish | - |
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| pemican | (noun) lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians | Synonyms: pemmican |
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| pemmican | (noun) lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians | Synonyms: pemican |
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| picaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: piccaninny, pickaninny |
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| piccaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: picaninny, pickaninny |
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| precancerous | (adjective) of or relating to a growth that is not malignant but is likely to become so if not treated | - |
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| publican | (noun) the keeper of a public house | Synonyms: tavern keeper |
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| pyracanth | (noun) any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries | Synonyms: fire thorn, firethorn, Pyracantha |
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| recant | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, forswear, resile, retract |
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| recantation | (noun) a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion | Synonyms: abjuration, retraction |
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| republican | (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Republican Party | - |
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| (adjective) having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government | - |
| (noun) an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy) | - |
| republicanism | (noun) the political orientation of those who hold that a republic is the best form of government | - |
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| scan | (noun) the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region | - |
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| (noun) an image produced by scanning | Synonyms: CAT scan |
| (verb) obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources | Synonyms: read |
| (verb) read metrically | - |
| (verb) make a wide, sweeping search of | - |
| (verb) move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image | - |
| (verb) examine hastily | Synonyms: glance over, rake, run down, skim |
| (verb) examine minutely or intensely | - |
| (verb) conform to a metrical pattern | - |
| scandal | (noun) disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people | Synonyms: dirt, malicious gossip |
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| (noun) a disgraceful event | Synonyms: outrage |
| scandalisation | (noun) the act of scandalizing | Synonyms: outrage, scandalization |
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| (noun) the condition of being shocked (as by improper behavior) | Synonyms: scandalization |
| scandalise | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalize, shock |
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| scandalization | (noun) the act of scandalizing | Synonyms: outrage, scandalisation |
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| (noun) the condition of being shocked (as by improper behavior) | Synonyms: scandalisation |
| scandalize | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, shock |
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| scandalmonger | (noun) a person who spreads malicious gossip | - |
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| scandalmongering | (adjective) typical of tabloids | Synonyms: sensationalistic, yellow |
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| (noun) spreading malicious gossip | - |
| scandalous | (adjective) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation | Synonyms: disgraceful, shameful, shocking |
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| scandalously | (adverb) in a scandalous manner | - |
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| scandalousness | (noun) disgracefulness that offends public morality | - |
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| scandent | (adjective) used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb | - |
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| scandium | (noun) a white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveitite | Synonyms: atomic number 21, Sc |
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| scanner | (noun) a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition | Synonyms: electronic scanner |
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| (noun) a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area | - |
| (noun) an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer | Synonyms: digital scanner, image scanner |
| (noun) someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables | - |
| scanning | (noun) the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission | - |
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| (noun) the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer | - |
| scansion | (noun) analysis of verse into metrical patterns | - |
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| scant | (adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: light, short |
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| (verb) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities | Synonyms: skimp, stint |
| (verb) limit in quality or quantity | Synonyms: skimp |
| (verb) work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially | Synonyms: skimp |
| scantily | (adverb) in a skimpy manner | Synonyms: skimpily |
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| scantiness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantness |
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| (noun) Of a garment, the property of being very small, light, or revealing. | Synonyms: skimpiness |
| scantling | (noun) an upright in house framing | Synonyms: stud |
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| scantness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness |
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| scanty | (adjective) lacking in magnitude or quantity | Synonyms: bare, spare |
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| (adjective) (of clothing) revealing the body | Synonyms: skimpy |
| (noun) short underpants for women or children | Synonyms: pantie, panty, step-in |
| scintiscanner | (noun) The apparatus used to make a scintigram. | Synonyms: scintigraph |
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| secant | (noun) ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: sec |
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| (noun) a straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points | - |
| significance | (noun) the quality of being significant | - |
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| (noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: implication, import |
| (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, meaning, signification |
| significant | (adjective) important in effect or meaning | Synonyms: important |
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| (adjective) too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation | - |
| (adjective) of considerable importance, size, or worth | Synonyms: substantial |
| (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: meaning, pregnant |
| significantly | (adverb) in an important way or to an important degree | Synonyms: importantly |
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| (adverb) in a significant manner | - |
| (adverb) in a statistically significant way | - |
| sugarcane | (noun) tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar | Synonyms: Saccharum officinarum, sugar cane |
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| (noun) juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice | Synonyms: sugar cane |
| supplicant | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: suppliant, supplicatory |
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| (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: petitioner, requester, suppliant |
| (noun) someone who prays to God | Synonyms: prayer |
| tetrahydrocannabinol | (noun) psychoactive substance present in marijuana | Synonyms: THC |
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| toucan | (noun) brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak | - |
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| toucanet | (noun) small toucan | - |
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| toxicant | (adjective) having the qualities or effects of a poison | Synonyms: poisonous |
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| (noun) any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism | Synonyms: poison, poisonous substance |
| tragacanth | (noun) a gum used in pharmacy, adhesives, and textile printing | - |
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| uncannily | (adverb) in an uncanny manner | - |
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| uncanny | (adjective) surpassing the ordinary or normal | Synonyms: preternatural |
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| (adjective) suggesting the operation of supernatural influences | Synonyms: eldritch, unearthly, weird |
| unvulcanised | (adjective) (used of rubber) not subjected to the process of vulcanization | Synonyms: unvulcanized |
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| unvulcanized | (adjective) (used of rubber) not subjected to the process of vulcanization | Synonyms: unvulcanised |
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| vacancy | (noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: emptiness, vacuum, void |
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| (noun) being unoccupied | - |
| vacant | (adjective) without an occupant or incumbent | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of intelligence or thought | Synonyms: mindless, vacuous |
| vacantly | (adverb) in a vacant manner | - |
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| vesicant | (adjective) causing blisters | Synonyms: vesicatory |
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| (noun) a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas) | Synonyms: vesicatory |
| volcanic | (adjective) relating to or produced by or consisting of volcanoes | - |
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| (adjective) igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt | - |
| (adjective) explosively unstable | - |
| volcanically | (adverb) by or like volcanoes | - |
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| volcanism | (noun) the phenomena associated with volcanic activity | - |
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| volcano | (noun) a mountain formed by volcanic material | - |
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| (noun) a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt | Synonyms: vent |
| volcanology | (noun) the branch of geology that studies volcanoes | Synonyms: vulcanology |
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| vulcanisation | (noun) process of treating rubber or rubberlike materials with sulphur at great heat to improve elasticity and strength or to harden them | Synonyms: vulcanization |
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| vulcanise | (verb) undergo vulcanization | Synonyms: vulcanize |
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| (verb) subject to vulcanization | Synonyms: vulcanize |
| vulcanised | (adjective) (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity) | Synonyms: cured, vulcanized |
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| vulcaniser | (noun) a device used for the vulcanization of rubber. | Synonyms: vulcanizer |
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| (noun) someone who vulcanizes rubber to improve its strength and resiliency | Synonyms: vulcanizer |