| attendant | (adjective) being present (at a meeting or event, etc.) | - |
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| (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
| (noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: accompaniment, co-occurrence, concomitant |
| (noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | Synonyms: attender, tender |
| (noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting | Synonyms: attendee, attender, meeter |
| audacious | (adjective) disposed to venture or take risks | Synonyms: daring, venturesome, venturous |
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| (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
| audaciously | (adverb) in an audacious manner | - |
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| audaciousness | (noun) fearless daring | Synonyms: audacity, temerity |
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| (noun) aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery | Synonyms: audacity |
| audacity | (noun) fearless daring | Synonyms: audaciousness, temerity |
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| (noun) aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery | Synonyms: audaciousness |
| audad | (noun) wild sheep of northern Africa | Synonyms: Ammotragus lervia, aoudad, arui, Barbary sheep, maned sheep |
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| autacoidal | (adjective) of or relating to an autacoid | - |
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| autodidact | (noun) a person who has taught himself | - |
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| autodidactic | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of an autodidact | - |
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| autostrada | (noun) an expressway in an Italian-speaking country | - |
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| avadavat | (noun) red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds | Synonyms: amadavat |
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| avoidable | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avertible, evitable |
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| avoidance | (noun) deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Synonyms: dodging, shunning, turning away |
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| azedarach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azederach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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| backdate | (verb) make effective from an earlier date | - |
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| backpedal | (verb) modify one's opinion, make it less strong | - |
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| (verb) pedal backwards on a bicycle | - |
| (verb) step backwards, in boxing | - |
| backwardation | (noun) the market condition wherein the price of a forward or futures contract is trading below the expected spot price at contract maturity. | - |
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| bactericidal | (adjective) preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms | Synonyms: disinfectant, germicidal |
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| bacterioidal | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioid, bacteroid, bacteroidal |
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| bacteroidal | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioid, bacterioidal, bacteroid |
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| badass | (adjective) being impressive due to extreme attitude or style | - |
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| (noun) A mean or belligerent person | - |
| (noun) A person considered impressive due to extreme attitudes, behavior or appearance | - |
| baldachin | (noun) ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar) | - |
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| balderdash | (noun) trivial nonsense | Synonyms: fiddle-faddle, piffle |
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| bandage | (noun) a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body | Synonyms: patch |
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| (verb) dress by covering or binding | - |
| (verb) wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose | Synonyms: bind |
| bandaged | (adjective) covered or wrapped with a bandage | Synonyms: bound |
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| bandaging | (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: binding, dressing |
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| bandana | (noun) large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief | Synonyms: bandanna |
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| bandanna | (noun) large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief | Synonyms: bandana |
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| barracuda | (noun) any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth | - |
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| bedamn | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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| bedaub | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: besmear |
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| bedaubed | (adjective) ornamented in a vulgar or showy fashion | - |
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| bedaze | (verb) overcome as with astonishment or disbelief | Synonyms: daze, stun |
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| bedazzle | (verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: daze, dazzle |
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| beldam | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldame |
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| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldame, crone, hag, witch |
| beldame | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldam |
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| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, crone, hag, witch |
| bendability | (noun) the property of being easily bent without breaking | Synonyms: pliability |
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| bendable | (adjective) capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking | Synonyms: pliable, pliant, waxy |
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| benday | (verb) reproduce by the Benday process | - |
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| bicuspidate | (adjective) having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth) | Synonyms: bicuspid |
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| biddable | (adjective) willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest | Synonyms: acquiescent |
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| bimodal | (adjective) of a distribution; having or occurring with two modes | - |
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| bindable | (adjective) capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond | Synonyms: bondable |
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| biodegradable | (adjective) capable of being decomposed by e.g. bacteria | - |
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| bipedal | (adjective) having two feet | Synonyms: biped, two-footed |
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| bipedalism | (noun) the bodily attribute of being bipedal; having two feet | - |
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| birthday | (noun) an anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it) | - |
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| (noun) the date on which a person was born | Synonyms: natal day |
| blackdamp | (noun) the atmosphere in a mine following an explosion; high in carbon dioxide and incapable of supporting life | Synonyms: chokedamp |
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| bodacious | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
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| (adjective) incorrigible | - |
| bondable | (adjective) capable of holding together or cohering; as particles in a mass | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond | Synonyms: bindable |
| bondage | (noun) sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners | - |
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| (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: slavery, thraldom, thrall, thralldom |
| (noun) the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power | - |
| botryoidal | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoid, boytrose |
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| boundary | (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: bound, limit |
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| (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: bound, bounds |
| (noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: bound, edge |
| brachydactylia | (noun) abnormal shortness of fingers and toes | Synonyms: brachydactyly |
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| brachydactylic | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylous |
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| brachydactylous | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylic |
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| brachydactyly | (noun) abnormal shortness of fingers and toes | Synonyms: brachydactylia |
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| bradawl | (noun) an awl for making small holes for brads or small screws | Synonyms: pricker |
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| branchiopodan | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodous |
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| (noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean |
| bridal | (adjective) of or pertaining to a bride | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a wedding | Synonyms: nuptial, spousal |
| (noun) archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast | Synonyms: espousal |
| broadax | (noun) a large ax with a broad cutting blade | Synonyms: broadaxe |
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| broadaxe | (noun) a large ax with a broad cutting blade | Synonyms: broadax |
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| cacodaemon | (noun) an evil spirit | Synonyms: cacodemon |
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| cacodaemonic | (adjective) of or relating to evil spirits | Synonyms: cacodemonic |
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| cadaster | (noun) a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation | Synonyms: cadastre |
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| cadastral | (adjective) of or relating to the records of a cadastre | - |
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| cadastre | (noun) a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation | Synonyms: cadaster |
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| cadaver | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: clay, corpse, remains, stiff |
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| cadaveric | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaverous |
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| cadaverine | (noun) a colorless toxic ptomaine with an unpleasant odor formed during the putrefaction of animal tissue | - |
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| cadaverous | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaveric |
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| (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
| calendar | (noun) a list or register of events (appointments or social events or court cases etc) | - |
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| (noun) a tabular array of the days (usually for one year) | - |
| (noun) a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year | - |
| (verb) enter into a calendar | - |
| candida | (noun) any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida | - |
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| candidacy | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: campaigning, candidature, electioneering, political campaign |
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| candidate | (noun) someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.) | Synonyms: prospect |
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| (noun) a politician who is running for public office | Synonyms: campaigner, nominee |
| candidature | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: campaigning, candidacy, electioneering, political campaign |
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| caranda | (noun) South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax | Synonyms: caranda palm, caranday, Copernicia alba, Copernicia australis, wax palm |
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| caranday | (noun) South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax | Synonyms: caranda, caranda palm, Copernicia alba, Copernicia australis, wax palm |
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| cardamom | (noun) aromatic seeds used as seasoning like cinnamon and cloves especially in pickles and barbecue sauces | Synonyms: cardamon, cardamum |
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| (noun) rhizomatous herb of India having aromatic seeds used as seasoning | Synonyms: cardamon, Elettaria cardamomum |
| cardamon | (noun) aromatic seeds used as seasoning like cinnamon and cloves especially in pickles and barbecue sauces | Synonyms: cardamom, cardamum |
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| (noun) rhizomatous herb of India having aromatic seeds used as seasoning | Synonyms: cardamom, Elettaria cardamomum |
| cardamum | (noun) aromatic seeds used as seasoning like cinnamon and cloves especially in pickles and barbecue sauces | Synonyms: cardamom, cardamon |
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| cauda | (noun) any taillike structure | - |
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| caudal | (adjective) constituting or relating to a tail | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a tail | Synonyms: taillike |
| (adjective) situated in or directed toward the part of the body from which the tail arises | - |
| (adverb) toward the posterior end of the body | Synonyms: caudally |
| caudally | (adverb) toward the posterior end of the body | Synonyms: caudal |
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| caudate | (adjective) having a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: caudated |
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| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) tapering gradually into a long taillike tip | - |
| (noun) amphibians that resemble lizards | Synonyms: urodele |
| (noun) a tail-shaped basal ganglion located in a lateral ventricle of the brain | Synonyms: caudate nucleus |
| caudated | (adjective) having a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: caudate |
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| cedar | (noun) any cedar of the genus Cedrus | Synonyms: cedar tree, true cedar |
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| (noun) any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars | Synonyms: cedar tree |
| (noun) durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests | Synonyms: cedarwood |
| cedarbird | (noun) widely distributed over temperate North America | Synonyms: Bombycilla cedrorun, cedar waxwing |
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| cedarn | (adjective) consisting of or made of cedar | - |
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| cedarwood | (noun) durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests | Synonyms: cedar |
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| centroidal | (adjective) of or relating to (especially passing through) a centroid | - |
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| cephalochordate | (noun) fish-like animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column | - |
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| cephalopodan | (adjective) relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda | Synonyms: cephalopod |
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| chadar | (noun) a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women | Synonyms: chaddar, chador, chuddar |
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| chaddar | (noun) a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women | Synonyms: chadar, chador, chuddar |
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| chancroidal | (adjective) of or relating to or having chancroids | - |
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| cheddar | (noun) hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England | Synonyms: American cheese, Armerican cheddar, cheddar cheese |
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| chokedamp | (noun) the atmosphere in a mine following an explosion; high in carbon dioxide and incapable of supporting life | Synonyms: blackdamp |
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| chordal | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or emphasizing chords | - |
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| chordamesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordomesoderm |
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