| achromaticity | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromatism, colorlessness, colourlessness |
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| adiabaticity | (noun) The condition of occurring without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation). | - |
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| adscititious | (adjective) added or derived from something outside; not inherent | - |
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| (adjective) supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a thing | - |
| analyticity | (noun) the property of being analytic | - |
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| anthracite | (noun) a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat | Synonyms: anthracite coal, hard coal |
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| anthracitic | (adjective) relating to or resembling anthracite coal | - |
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| anthropocentricity | (noun) an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values | Synonyms: anthropocentrism |
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| appendicitis | (noun) inflammation of the vermiform appendix | - |
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| aromaticity | (noun) The property of having an aroma. | - |
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| ascites | (noun) accumulation of serous fluid in peritoneal cavity | - |
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| ascitic | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting from an abnormal accumulation of protein and electrolyte rich fluid in the peritoneal cavity | - |
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| atonicity | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonia, atony |
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| atrocity | (noun) an act of atrocious cruelty | Synonyms: inhumanity |
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| (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness |
| audacity | (noun) fearless daring | Synonyms: audaciousness, temerity |
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| (noun) aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery | Synonyms: audaciousness |
| authenticity | (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: genuineness, legitimacy |
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| bacitracin | (noun) a polypeptide antibiotic of known chemical structure effective against several types of Gram-positive organisms; usually applied locally | - |
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| bioelectricity | (noun) electric phenomena in animals or plants | - |
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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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| capacitance | (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitor, condenser, electrical condenser |
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| (noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored | Synonyms: capacity, electrical capacity |
| capacitate | (verb) make capable | - |
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| (verb) cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg | - |
| (verb) make legally capable or qualify in law | - |
| capacitive | (adjective) of or relating to capacitance | - |
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| capacitor | (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitance, condenser, electrical condenser |
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| capacity | (noun) the maximum production possible | - |
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| (noun) a specified function | - |
| (noun) capability to perform or produce | - |
| (noun) tolerance for alcohol | - |
| (noun) the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior | Synonyms: mental ability |
| (noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored | Synonyms: capacitance, electrical capacity |
| (noun) the amount that can be contained | Synonyms: content |
| (noun) (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive | - |
| (noun) the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment | Synonyms: capability |
| catholicity | (noun) the quality of being universal; existing everywhere | Synonyms: universality |
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| cecity | (noun) the state of being blind or lacking sight | Synonyms: blindness, sightlessness |
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| cervicitis | (noun) inflammation of the uterine cervix | - |
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| chalcocite | (noun) a heavy grey mineral that is an ore of copper | Synonyms: copper glance |
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| chromaticity | (noun) the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength | Synonyms: hue |
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| citadel | (noun) a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle | Synonyms: bastion |
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| citation | (noun) an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | Synonyms: commendation |
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| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
| (noun) a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding | - |
| (noun) a passage or expression that is quoted or cited | Synonyms: quotation, quote |
| (noun) (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.) | - |
| cite | (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
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| (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: advert, bring up, mention, name, refer |
| (verb) commend | Synonyms: mention |
| (verb) repeat a passage from | Synonyms: quote |
| (verb) refer to for illustration or proof | Synonyms: quote |
| (verb) advance evidence for | Synonyms: abduce, adduce |
| (verb) call in an official matter, such as to attend court | Synonyms: summon, summons |
| (verb) refer to | Synonyms: reference |
| cither | (noun) a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers | Synonyms: zither, zithern |
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| (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cithern, citole, cittern, gittern |
| cithern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, citole, cittern, gittern |
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| citified | (adjective) being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person | Synonyms: city-born, city-bred, cityfied |
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| citify | (verb) accustom to urban ways | - |
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| citizen | (noun) a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community | - |
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| citizenry | (noun) the body of citizens of a state or country | Synonyms: people |
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| citizenship | (noun) conduct as a citizen | - |
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| (noun) the status of a citizen with rights and duties | - |
| citole | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, cittern, gittern |
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| citrange | (noun) more aromatic and acid tasting than oranges; used in beverages and marmalade | - |
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| (noun) more aromatic and acidic than oranges | Synonyms: citrange tree, Citroncirus webberi |
| citrate | (noun) a salt or ester of citric acid | - |
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| (verb) cause to form a salt or ester of citric acid | - |
| citric | (adjective) of or related to citric acid | - |
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| citrin | (noun) a vitamin that maintains the resistance of cell and capillary walls to permeation | Synonyms: bioflavinoid, vitamin P |
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| citrine | (noun) semiprecious yellow quartz resembling topaz | - |
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| citron | (noun) large lemonlike fruit with thick aromatic rind; usually preserved | - |
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| (noun) thorny evergreen small tree or shrub of India widely cultivated for its large lemonlike fruits that have thick warty rind | Synonyms: citron tree, Citrus medica |
| citronwood | (noun) wood of a citron tree | - |
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| (noun) durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain) | Synonyms: sandarac |
| citrous | (adjective) of or relating to or producing fruit of the plants of the genus Citrus | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to plants of the genus Citrus | - |
| citrulline | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is an intermediate in the conversion of ornithine to arginine | - |
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| citrus | (noun) any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions | Synonyms: citrous fruit, citrus fruit |
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| (noun) any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds | Synonyms: citrus tree |
| cittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, gittern |
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| city | (noun) people living in a large densely populated municipality | Synonyms: metropolis |
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| (noun) a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts | Synonyms: metropolis, urban center |
| (noun) an incorporated administrative district established by state charter | - |
| cityfied | (adjective) being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person | Synonyms: citified, city-born, city-bred |
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| cityscape | (noun) painting depicting a city or urban area | - |
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| (noun) a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area | - |
| citywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a city | - |
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| complicit | (adjective) involved with others in an activity that is unlawful or morally wrong | - |
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| complicity | (noun) guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense | - |
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| concentricity | (noun) the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) | - |
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| cubicity | (noun) the property of resembling a cube | - |
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| cyclicity | (noun) the quality of recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: periodicity |
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| cytotoxicity | (noun) the degree to which something is toxic to living cells | - |
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| dacite | (noun) a grey volcanic rock containing plagioclase and quartz and other crystalline minerals | - |
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| dacitic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of dacite | - |
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| deficit | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: shortage, shortfall |
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| (noun) an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period) | - |
| (noun) (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing | - |
| (noun) a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning | - |
| domesticity | (noun) domestic activities or life | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being domestic or domesticated | - |
| duplicitous | (adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, Janus-faced, two-faced |
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| duplicity | (noun) acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: double-dealing |
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| (noun) a fraudulent or duplicitous representation | Synonyms: fraudulence |
| eccentricity | (noun) strange and unconventional behavior | - |
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| (noun) a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path | - |
| (noun) (geometry) a ratio describing the shape of a conic section; the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of the major axis | - |
| edacity | (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity |
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| (noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: esurience, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity |
| elasticity | (noun) the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed | Synonyms: snap |
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| electricity | (noun) keen and shared excitement | - |
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| (noun) a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons | - |
| (noun) energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor | Synonyms: electrical energy, power |
| elicit | (verb) derive by reason | - |
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| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, evoke, extract |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
| elicitation | (noun) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | Synonyms: evocation, induction |
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| elicited | (adjective) called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation | Synonyms: evoked |
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| ellipticity | (noun) the property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles | Synonyms: oblateness |
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| endocervicitis | (noun) inflammation of the mucous lining of the uterine cervix | - |
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| episodicity | (noun) The quality of being sporadic, happening infrequently and irregularly. | - |
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| ergodicity | (noun) an attribute of stochastic systems; generally, a system that tends in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions | - |
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| ethnicity | (noun) an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties | - |
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| excitability | (noun) being easily excited | Synonyms: excitableness, volatility |
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| (noun) excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part | Synonyms: irritability |
| excitable | (adjective) easily excited | - |
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| (adjective) capable of responding to stimuli | Synonyms: irritable |
| excitableness | (noun) being easily excited | Synonyms: excitability, volatility |
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| excitant | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitative, excitatory |
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| (noun) a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process | Synonyms: stimulant, stimulant drug |
| excitation | (noun) something that agitates and arouses | Synonyms: excitement |
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| (noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: innervation, irritation |
| (noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitement, fervor, fervour, inflammation |
| excitative | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitatory |
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| excitatory | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitative |
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| excite | (verb) act as a stimulant | Synonyms: stimulate |
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| (verb) produce a magnetic field in | - |
| (verb) raise to a higher energy level | Synonyms: energise, energize |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: shake, shake up, stimulate, stir |
| (verb) to evoke sexual feelings | Synonyms: arouse, sex, turn on, wind up |
| (verb) arouse or elicit a feeling | - |
| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) stir feelings in | Synonyms: stimulate, stir |
| excited | (adjective) in an aroused state | - |
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| (adjective) (of persons) excessively affected by emotion | Synonyms: aroused, emotional, worked up |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive | Synonyms: activated |
| (adjective) marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion | Synonyms: delirious, frantic, mad, unrestrained |
| excitedly | (adverb) with excitement; in an excited manner | - |
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| excitement | (noun) something that agitates and arouses | Synonyms: excitation |
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| (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, hullabaloo, turmoil, upheaval |
| (noun) the feeling of lively and cheerful joy | Synonyms: exhilaration |
| (noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, fervor, fervour, inflammation |
| exciting | (adjective) creating or arousing excitement | - |
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| (adjective) stimulating interest and discussion | - |
| excitingly | (adverb) in an exciting manner | - |
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| excitotoxin | (noun) any of a group of neurologically active compounds, such as glutamate and aspartame, that have detrimental excitatory effects on the central nervous system when taken in high concentrations. | - |
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| explicit | (adjective) precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication | Synonyms: expressed |
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| (adjective) in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term | Synonyms: denotative |
| explicitly | (adverb) in an explicit manner | - |
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| explicitness | (noun) clarity as a consequence of being explicit | - |
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| febricity | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febrility, fever, feverishness, pyrexia |
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| felicitate | (verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: congratulate |
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| felicitation | (noun) the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration | Synonyms: congratulation |
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| (noun) (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another | Synonyms: congratulation |