| accolade | (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: award, honor, honour, laurels |
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| accommodate | (verb) make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose | Synonyms: adapt |
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| (verb) make (one thing) compatible with (another) | Synonyms: conciliate, reconcile |
| (verb) provide a service or favor for someone | Synonyms: oblige |
| (verb) provide with something desired or needed | - |
| (verb) be agreeable or acceptable to | Synonyms: fit, suit |
| (verb) provide housing for | Synonyms: lodge |
| (verb) have room for; hold without crowding | Synonyms: admit, hold |
| accommodating | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodative |
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| (adjective) obliging; willing to do favors | - |
| accommodatingly | (adverb) in accommodation | Synonyms: obligingly |
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| accommodation | (noun) the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need | - |
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| (noun) (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye | - |
| (noun) living quarters provided for public convenience | - |
| (noun) in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality | - |
| (noun) a settlement of differences | - |
| (noun) making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances | Synonyms: adjustment, fitting |
| accommodational | (adjective) of or relating to the accommodation of the lens of the eye | - |
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| accommodative | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodating |
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| (adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony | Synonyms: reconciling |
| (adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: cooperative |
| accommodator | (noun) someone who performs a service or does a favor | Synonyms: obliger |
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| accompanied | (adjective) having companions or an escort | - |
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| (adjective) playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment | Synonyms: attended |
| accompaniment | (noun) the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them | Synonyms: escort |
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| (noun) something added to complete or embellish or make perfect | Synonyms: complement |
| (noun) a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Synonyms: backup, musical accompaniment, support |
| (noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: attendant, co-occurrence, concomitant |
| accompanist | (noun) a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) | Synonyms: accompanyist |
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| accompany | (verb) perform an accompaniment to | Synonyms: follow, play along |
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| (verb) go or travel along with | - |
| (verb) be present or associated with an event or entity | Synonyms: attach to, come with, go with |
| (verb) be a companion to somebody | Synonyms: companion, company, keep company |
| accompanying | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| accompanyist | (noun) a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) | Synonyms: accompanist |
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| accomplice | (noun) a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) | Synonyms: confederate |
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| accomplish | (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill |
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| (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: achieve, attain, reach |
| accomplishable | (adjective) capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do | Synonyms: achievable, doable, manageable, realizable |
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| accomplished | (adjective) successfully completed or brought to an end | Synonyms: completed, realised, realized |
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| (adjective) settled securely and unconditionally | Synonyms: effected, established |
| (adjective) highly skilled | Synonyms: complete |
| accomplishment | (noun) the action of accomplishing something | Synonyms: achievement |
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| (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: acquirement, acquisition, attainment, skill |
| accord | (noun) sympathetic compatibility | - |
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| (noun) concurrence of opinion | Synonyms: accordance, conformity |
| (noun) a written agreement between two states or sovereigns | Synonyms: pact, treaty |
| (noun) harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: agreement |
| (verb) allow to have | Synonyms: allot, grant |
| (verb) go together | Synonyms: agree, concord, consort, fit in, harmonise, harmonize |
| accordance | (noun) the act of granting rights | Synonyms: accordance of rights |
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| (noun) concurrence of opinion | Synonyms: accord, conformity |
| accordant | (adjective) being in agreement or harmony; often followed by `with' | - |
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| (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: agreeable, concordant, conformable, consonant |
| according | (adjective) (followed by `to') in agreement with or accordant with | - |
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| (adjective) (followed by `to') as reported or stated by | - |
| accordingly | (adverb) (sentence connectors) because of the reason given | Synonyms: consequently |
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| (adverb) in accordance with | - |
| accordion | (noun) a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player | Synonyms: squeeze box |
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| accordionist | (noun) a musician who plays the accordion | - |
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| accost | (verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors | Synonyms: hook, solicit |
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| (verb) speak to someone | Synonyms: address, come up to |
| accouchement | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: childbearing, childbirth, vaginal birth |
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| accoucheur | (noun) a physician specializing in obstetrics | Synonyms: obstetrician |
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| accoucheuse | (noun) a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies | Synonyms: midwife |
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| account | (noun) the quality of taking advantage | - |
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| (noun) importance or value | - |
| (noun) a record or narrative description of past events | Synonyms: chronicle, history, story |
| (noun) an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered | Synonyms: bill, invoice |
| (noun) a short account of the news | Synonyms: news report, report, story, write up |
| (noun) a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc. | Synonyms: explanation |
| (noun) the act of informing by verbal report | Synonyms: report |
| (noun) grounds | Synonyms: score |
| (noun) a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance | Synonyms: account statement, accounting |
| (noun) a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services | Synonyms: business relationship |
| (verb) furnish a justifying analysis or explanation | Synonyms: answer for |
| (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: describe, report |
| (verb) keep an account of | Synonyms: calculate |
| (verb) be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something | - |
| accountability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: answerability, answerableness |
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| accountable | (adjective) liable to account for one's actions | Synonyms: answerable |
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| accountancy | (noun) the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business | Synonyms: accounting |
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| accountant | (noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: comptroller, controller |
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| accountantship | (noun) the position of accountant | - |
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| accounting | (noun) the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business | Synonyms: accountancy |
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| (noun) a system that provides quantitative information about finances | - |
| (noun) a convincing explanation that reveals basic causes | - |
| (noun) a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance | Synonyms: account, account statement |
| (noun) a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts | Synonyms: accounting system, method of accounting |
| accouter | (verb) provide with military equipment | Synonyms: accoutre |
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| accoutered | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutred |
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| accouterment | (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accessory, accoutrement |
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| accoutre | (verb) provide with military equipment | Synonyms: accouter |
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| accoutred | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutered |
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| accoutrement | (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accessory, accouterment |
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| arccos | (noun) the inverse function of the cosine; the angle that has a cosine equal to a given number | Synonyms: arc cosine, arccosine, inverse cosine |
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| arccosecant | (noun) the angle that has a cosecant equal to a given number | Synonyms: arc cosecant, inverse cosecant |
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| arccosine | (noun) the inverse function of the cosine; the angle that has a cosine equal to a given number | Synonyms: arc cosine, arccos, inverse cosine |
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| arccotangent | (noun) the inverse function of the cotangent; the angle that has a cotangent equal to a given number | Synonyms: arc cotangent, inverse cotangent |
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| bocconia | (noun) small Central American tree having loose racemes of purple-tinted green flowers | Synonyms: Bocconia frutescens, tree celandine |
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| (noun) herb of China and Japan widely cultivated for its plumelike panicles of creamy white flowers | Synonyms: Macleaya cordata, plume poppy |
| broccoli | (noun) branched green undeveloped flower heads | - |
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| (noun) plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea italica |
| coccobacillus | (noun) a bacterial cell intermediate in morphology between a coccus and a bacillus; a very short bacillus | - |
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| coccoid | (adjective) spherical; like a coccus | - |
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| cryptococcosis | (noun) a fungal infection characterized by nodular lesions--first in the lungs and spreading to the nervous system | - |
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| disaccord | (verb) be different from one another | Synonyms: disagree, discord |
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| echinococcosis | (noun) infestation with larval echinococci (tapeworms) | Synonyms: hydatid disease, hydatidosis |
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| floccose | (adjective) (of plants) having tufts of soft woolly hairs | - |
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| hiccough | (noun) (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion | Synonyms: hiccup, singultus |
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| (verb) breathe spasmodically, and make a sound | Synonyms: hiccup |
| morocco | (noun) a soft pebble-grained leather made from goatskin; used for shoes and book bindings etc. | - |
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| nonaccomplishment | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonachievement |
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| piccolo | (noun) a small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute | - |
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| puccoon | (noun) perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant | Synonyms: bloodroot, redroot, Sanguinaria canadensis, tetterwort |
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| (noun) perennial plant of eastern North America having hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment | Synonyms: Lithospermum caroliniense |
| raccoon | (noun) an omnivorous nocturnal mammal native to North America and Central America | Synonyms: racoon |
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| (noun) the fur of the North American racoon | - |
| recco | (noun) reconnaissance (by shortening) | Synonyms: recce, reccy |
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| sirocco | (noun) a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand | Synonyms: dust storm, duster, sandstorm |
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| stucco | (noun) a plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces | - |
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| (verb) coat with stucco | - |
| (verb) decorate with stucco work | - |
| succor | (noun) assistance in time of difficulty | Synonyms: ministration, relief, succour |
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| (verb) help in a difficult situation | Synonyms: succour |
| succorer | (noun) someone who gives help in times of need or distress or difficulty | Synonyms: succourer |
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| succory | (noun) perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads | Synonyms: chicory, chicory plant, Cichorium intybus |
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| succotash | (noun) fresh corn and lima beans with butter or cream | - |
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| succour | (noun) assistance in time of difficulty | Synonyms: ministration, relief, succor |
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| (verb) help in a difficult situation | Synonyms: succor |
| succourer | (noun) someone who gives help in times of need or distress or difficulty | Synonyms: succorer |
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| tobacco | (noun) leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion | Synonyms: baccy |
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| (noun) aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs | Synonyms: tobacco plant |
| tobacconist | (noun) a shop that sells pipes and pipe tobacco and cigars and cigarettes | Synonyms: tobacco shop, tobacconist shop |
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| (noun) a retail dealer in tobacco and tobacco-related articles | - |
| unaccommodating | (adjective) not accommodating | Synonyms: unobliging |
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| (adjective) offering no assistance | - |
| unaccompanied | (adjective) being without an escort | - |
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| (adjective) playing or singing without accompaniment | - |
| (adjective) (of a state or an event) taking place without something specified occurring at the same time | - |
| (adverb) without anybody else or anything else | Synonyms: alone, solo |
| unaccountable | (adjective) not to be accounted for or explained | Synonyms: unexplainable |
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| (adjective) free from control or responsibility | - |
| unaccountably | (adverb) in an unaccountable manner | - |
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