| abdominocentesis | (noun) centesis of the belly to remove fluid for diagnosis | Synonyms: paracentesis |
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| abducens | (noun) a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye | Synonyms: abducens nerve, abducent, abducent nerve, nervus abducens, sixth cranial nerve |
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| abducent | (adjective) especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part | Synonyms: abducting |
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| (noun) a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye | Synonyms: abducens, abducens nerve, abducent nerve, nervus abducens, sixth cranial nerve |
| acaulescent | (adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: stemless |
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| accent | (noun) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | Synonyms: emphasis, stress |
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| (noun) distinctive manner of oral expression | Synonyms: speech pattern |
| (noun) a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation | Synonyms: accent mark |
| (noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | Synonyms: dialect, idiom |
| (noun) special importance or significance | Synonyms: emphasis |
| (verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accentuate, stress |
| (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
| accented | (adjective) bearing a stress or accent | Synonyms: stressed |
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| (adjective) (used of syllables) bearing the principle stress, usually accompanied by a change in pitch | Synonyms: tonic |
| accenting | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accentuation, emphasizing |
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| accentor | (noun) small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasia | - |
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| accentual | (adjective) (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to accent or stress | - |
| accentuate | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accent, stress |
| accentuation | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accenting, emphasizing |
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| (noun) the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance | - |
| acentric | (adjective) lacking a centromere | - |
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| (adjective) not centered or having no center | - |
| acquiescence | (noun) agreement with a statement or proposal to do something | Synonyms: assent |
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| (noun) acceptance without protest | - |
| acquiescent | (adjective) willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest | Synonyms: biddable |
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| acrocentric | (adjective) having a subterminal centromere | - |
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| adducent | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducting, adductive |
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| adjacency | (noun) the attribute of being so near as to be touching | Synonyms: contiguity, contiguousness |
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| adjacent | (adjective) nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space | Synonyms: next, side by side |
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| (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: conterminous, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring |
| (adjective) near or close to but not necessarily touching | - |
| adolescence | (noun) in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood | - |
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| (noun) the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood | - |
| adolescent | (adjective) relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent | - |
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| (adjective) in the state of development between puberty and maturity | - |
| (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: jejune, juvenile, puerile |
| (adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: teen, teenage, teenaged |
| (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: stripling, teen, teenager |
| albescent | (adjective) becoming or shading into white | - |
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| alcalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alkalescent |
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| alkalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alcalescent |
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| amniocentesis | (noun) (pregnancy) extraction by centesis of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman (after the 15th week of pregnancy) to aid in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities | Synonyms: amnio |
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| anthropocentric | (adjective) human-centered | - |
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| anthropocentricity | (noun) an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values | Synonyms: anthropocentrism |
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| anthropocentrism | (noun) an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values | Synonyms: anthropocentricity |
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| aplacental | (adjective) having no placenta | - |
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| arborescent | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| arthrocentesis | (noun) removal of fluid from a joint by centesis | - |
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| ascend | (verb) slope upwards | - |
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| (verb) travel up | Synonyms: go up |
| (verb) come up, of celestial bodies | Synonyms: come up, rise, uprise |
| (verb) go along towards (a river's) source | - |
| (verb) move to a better position in life or to a better job | Synonyms: move up, rise |
| (verb) appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils | Synonyms: climb up |
| (verb) become king or queen | - |
| (verb) go back in order of genealogical succession | - |
| ascendable | (adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendible, climbable |
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| ascendance | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendancy | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendant | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendent, ascensive |
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| (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendent, dominating |
| (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendent, root |
| (noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendent |
| ascendence | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendency | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, control, dominance |
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| ascendent | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascensive |
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| (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, dominating |
| (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, root |
| (noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendant |
| ascender | (noun) (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters | - |
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| (noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters | - |
| (noun) someone who ascends | - |
| ascendible | (adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendable, climbable |
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| ascending | (adjective) moving or going or growing upward | - |
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| (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rise |
| ascension | (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascending, ascent, rise |
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| (noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascent, rise, rising |
| (noun) (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon | - |
| ascensional | (adjective) tending to rise | - |
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| ascensive | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent |
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| ascent | (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascending, ascension, rise |
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| (noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascension, rise, rising |
| (noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: acclivity, climb, raise, rise, upgrade |
| autofluorescence | (noun) self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| autofluorescent | (adjective) emitting light via self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| barycenter | (noun) (astronomy) the common center of mass around which two or more bodies revolve | - |
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| beneficence | (noun) the quality of being kind or helpful or generous | - |
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| (noun) doing good; feeling beneficent | - |
| beneficent | (adjective) doing or producing good | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
| bicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentennial |
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| (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentennial |
| bicentennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentenary |
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| (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentenary |
| bicentric | (adjective) having two centers | - |
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| bioluminescence | (noun) luminescence produced by physiological processes (as in the firefly) | - |
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| bioluminescent | (adjective) (of living organisms) emitting light | - |
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| candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
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| canescent | (adjective) of greyish white | - |
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| (adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: hoary |
| caulescent | (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: cauline, stemmed |
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| celiocentesis | (noun) removal of fluid from the abdomen by centesis | - |
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| cenobite | (noun) a member of a religious order living in common | Synonyms: coenobite |
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| cenobitic | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitical, coenobitic, coenobitical |
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| cenobitical | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, coenobitic, coenobitical |
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| cenogenesis | (noun) introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) | Synonyms: caenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis |
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| cenogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to cenogenesis | - |
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| cenotaph | (noun) a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered | Synonyms: empty tomb |
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| cense | (verb) perfume especially with a censer | Synonyms: incense, thurify |
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| censer | (noun) a container for burning incense (especially one that is swung on a chain in a religious ritual) | Synonyms: thurible |
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| censor | (noun) a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable | - |
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| (noun) someone who censures or condemns | - |
| (verb) subject to political, religious, or moral censorship | - |
| (verb) forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper) | Synonyms: ban |
| censored | (adjective) suppressed or subject to censorship | - |
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| censorial | (adjective) belonging or relating to a censor or a censor's functions | - |
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| censoring | (noun) deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances | Synonyms: censorship |
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| (noun) counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy | Synonyms: censorship, security review |
| censorious | (adjective) harshly critical or expressing censure | - |
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| censorship | (noun) deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances | Synonyms: censoring |
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| (noun) counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy | Synonyms: censoring, security review |
| censurable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameful, blameworthy, culpable |
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| censure | (noun) harsh criticism or disapproval | Synonyms: animadversion |
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| (noun) the state of being excommunicated | Synonyms: exclusion, excommunication |
| (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: criminate, reprimand |
| census | (noun) a periodic count of the population | Synonyms: nose count, nosecount |
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| (verb) conduct a census | - |
| cent | (noun) a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit | Synonyms: centime, penny |
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| (noun) a fractional monetary unit of several countries | - |
| cental | (noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds | Synonyms: centner, cwt, hundredweight, quintal, short hundredweight |
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| centare | (noun) a unit of measurement for area, defined as the area of a square with sides of exactly 1 metre; a centiare is 1/100th of an are | Synonyms: square meter, square metre |
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| centas | (noun) 100 centas equal 1 litas in Lithuania | - |
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| centaur | (noun) (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse | - |
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| centaury | (noun) any plant of the genus Centaurea | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Centaurium | - |
| centavo | (noun) a fractional monetary unit of several countries: El Salvador and Sao Tome and Principe and Brazil and Argentina and Bolivia and Colombia and Cuba and the Dominican Republic and Ecuador and El Salvador and Guatemala and Honduras and Mexico and Nicaragua and Peru and the Philippines and Portugal | - |
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| centenarian | (adjective) being at least 100 years old | - |
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| (noun) someone who is at least 100 years old | - |
| centenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centennial |
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| (noun) the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: centennial |
| centennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centenary |
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| (noun) the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: centenary |
| centennially | (adverb) every hundred years; once in a century | - |
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| center | (adjective) of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually | Synonyms: centre |
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| (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: centre, halfway, middle, midway |
| (noun) a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game | Synonyms: centre |
| (noun) (American football) the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play | Synonyms: centre |
| (noun) the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game | Synonyms: centre |
| (noun) a building dedicated to a particular activity | Synonyms: centre |
| (noun) mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace | Synonyms: centre, mall, plaza, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall |
| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher | Synonyms: center field, centerfield, centre |
| (noun) a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process | Synonyms: centre, nerve center, nerve centre |
| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
| (noun) the object upon which interest and attention focuses | Synonyms: center of attention, centre, centre of attention |
| (noun) the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering | Synonyms: centre |
| (noun) politically moderate persons; centrists | Synonyms: centre |
| (noun) the middle of a military or naval formation | Synonyms: centre |
| (noun) a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure | Synonyms: centre, midpoint |
| (noun) an area that is approximately central within some larger region | Synonyms: centre, eye, heart, middle |
| (noun) a place where some particular activity is concentrated | Synonyms: centre |
| (noun) (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback | Synonyms: centre, snapper |
| (noun) (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team | Synonyms: centre |
| (noun) (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team | Synonyms: centre |
| (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: centre, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet |
| (verb) move into the center | Synonyms: centre |
| (verb) center upon | Synonyms: center on, centre, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around |
| centerboard | (noun) a retractable fin keel used on sailboats to prevent drifting to leeward | Synonyms: centreboard, drop keel, sliding keel |
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| centered | (adjective) being or placed in the center | Synonyms: centred |
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| centerfield | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the central third of the outfield | Synonyms: center field |
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| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher | Synonyms: center, center field, centre |
| centerfielder | (noun) the person who plays center field | Synonyms: center fielder |
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| centerfold | (noun) a magazine center spread; especially a foldout of a large photograph or map or other feature | Synonyms: centrefold |
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| centering | (noun) (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back | Synonyms: centring, snap |
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| (noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centring, direction, focal point, focus, focusing, focussing |
| centerline | (noun) a line that bisects a plane figure | Synonyms: center line |
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| centerpiece | (noun) something placed at the center of something else (as on a table) | Synonyms: centrepiece |
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| (noun) the central or most important feature | Synonyms: centrepiece |
| centesimal | (adjective) relating to or divided into hundredths | - |
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| (adjective) the ordinal number of one hundred in counting order | Synonyms: 100th, hundredth |
| centesimo | (noun) a fractional monetary unit of several countries: Panama and Italy and Uruguay and Chile | - |
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| centesis | (noun) (surgery) the act of puncturing a body cavity or organ with a hollow needle in order to draw out fluid | - |
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| centigrade | (adjective) of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees | - |
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