| 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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| 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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| 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 | - |
| condescension | (noun) the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior | Synonyms: disdainfulness, superciliousness |
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| (noun) affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank | Synonyms: condescendingness |
| (noun) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient | Synonyms: disdain, patronage |
| descensus | (noun) the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus) | Synonyms: prolapse, prolapsus |
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| frankincense | (noun) an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation | Synonyms: gum olibanum, olibanum, thus |
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| incense | (noun) the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned | - |
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| (noun) a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned | - |
| (verb) make furious | Synonyms: exasperate, infuriate |
| (verb) perfume especially with a censer | Synonyms: cense, thurify |
| incensed | (adjective) angered at something unjust or wrong | Synonyms: indignant, outraged, umbrageous |
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| innocense | (noun) white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda; California | Synonyms: Collinsia bicolor, Collinsia heterophylla, purple chinese houses |
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| license | (noun) the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Synonyms: permission, permit |
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| (noun) a legal document giving official permission to do something | Synonyms: licence, permit |
| (noun) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) | Synonyms: licence |
| (noun) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint | Synonyms: licence |
| (verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: certify, licence |
| licensed | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: accredited, commissioned, licenced |
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| licensee | (noun) someone to whom a license is granted | - |
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| licenser | (noun) an official who can issue a license or give authoritative permission (especially one who licenses publications) | - |
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| uncensored | (adjective) not subject to censorship | - |
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| unlicensed | (adjective) lacking official approval | Synonyms: unaccredited, unlicenced |
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