| abidance | (noun) the act of abiding (enduring without yielding) | - |
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| (noun) the act of dwelling in a place | Synonyms: residence, residency |
| (noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: compliance, conformation, conformity |
| abradant | (noun) a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing | Synonyms: abrader |
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| (noun) a substance that abrades or wears down | Synonyms: abrasive, abrasive material |
| abundance | (noun) the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply | Synonyms: copiousness, teemingness |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the ratio of the total mass of an element in the earth's crust to the total mass of the earth's crust; expressed as a percentage or in parts per million | - |
| (noun) (physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present | - |
| abundant | (adjective) present in great quantity | - |
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| abundantly | (adverb) in an abundant manner | Synonyms: copiously, extravagantly, profusely |
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| 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 |
| andante | (adjective) (of tempo) moderately slow | - |
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| (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed moderately slow | - |
| (noun) a moderately slow tempo (a walking pace) | - |
| (adverb) at a moderately slow tempo | - |
| andantino | (adjective) (of tempo) moderately fast | - |
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| annelidan | (adjective) relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida | Synonyms: annelid |
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| antioxidant | (noun) substance that inhibits oxidation or inhibits reactions promoted by oxygen or peroxides | - |
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| apadana | (noun) the great hall in ancient Persian palaces | - |
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| appendant | (adjective) affixed as an appendage | - |
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| araneidan | (adjective) relating to or resembling a spider | Synonyms: araneidal |
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| arthropodan | (adjective) of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda | Synonyms: arthropodal, arthropodous |
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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 |
| attendance | (noun) the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.) | Synonyms: attending |
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| (noun) the number of people that are present | - |
| (noun) the frequency with which a person is present | - |
| 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 |
| avoidance | (noun) deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Synonyms: dodging, shunning, turning away |
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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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| 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 |
| cephalopodan | (adjective) relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda | Synonyms: cephalopod |
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| codefendant | (noun) a defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action | Synonyms: co-defendant |
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| commandant | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commander, commanding officer |
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| concordance | (noun) an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts | - |
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| (noun) agreement of opinions | Synonyms: concord, harmony |
| (noun) a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole | Synonyms: concord, harmony |
| concordant | (adjective) being of the same opinion | Synonyms: concurring |
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| (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: accordant, agreeable, conformable, consonant |
| confidant | (noun) someone to whom private matters are confided | Synonyms: intimate |
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| confidante | (noun) a female confidant | - |
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| contradance | (noun) a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance, country dancing |
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| (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance |
| contredanse | (noun) a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line | Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, country-dance, country dancing |
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| (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, country-dance |
| danaid | (noun) large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste | Synonyms: danaid butterfly |
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| dance | (noun) taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | Synonyms: dancing, saltation, terpsichore |
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| (noun) an artistic form of nonverbal communication | - |
| (noun) a party for social dancing | - |
| (noun) a party of people assembled for dancing | - |
| (verb) move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance | Synonyms: trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe |
| (verb) move in a graceful and rhythmical way | - |
| (verb) skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways | - |
| danceable | (adjective) suitable for dancing | - |
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| dancer | (noun) a performer who dances professionally | Synonyms: professional dancer, terpsichorean |
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| (noun) a person who participates in a social gathering arranged for dancing (as a ball) | Synonyms: social dancer |
| dancing | (noun) taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | Synonyms: dance, saltation, terpsichore |
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| dandelion | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Taraxacum having long tap roots and deeply notched leaves and bright yellow flowers followed by fluffy seed balls | Synonyms: blowball |
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| dander | (noun) a feeling of anger and animosity | Synonyms: hackles |
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| (noun) small scales from animal skins or hair or bird feathers that can cause allergic reactions in some people | - |
| dandified | (adjective) affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner | Synonyms: dandyish, foppish |
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| dandify | (verb) dress like a dandy | - |
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| dandily | (adverb) in a dandy manner | - |
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| dandle | (verb) pet | - |
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| (verb) move (a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knees | - |
| dandruff | (noun) loose scales shed from the scalp | - |
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| (noun) a condition in which white scales of dead skin are shed by the scalp | - |
| dandy | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| (noun) a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost | Synonyms: yawl |
| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |
| dandyish | (adjective) affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner | Synonyms: dandified, foppish |
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| dandyism | (noun) the manner and dress of a fop or dandy | Synonyms: foppishness |
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| danewort | (noun) dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor | Synonyms: dwarf elder, Sambucus ebulus |
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| danger | (noun) a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury | Synonyms: peril, risk |
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| (noun) a dangerous place | - |
| (noun) the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury | - |
| (noun) a cause of pain or injury or loss | - |
| dangerous | (adjective) involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm | Synonyms: unsafe |
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| (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: grave, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe |
| dangerously | (adverb) in a dangerous manner | Synonyms: hazardously, perilously |
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| dangerousness | (noun) the quality of not being safe | - |
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| dangle | (verb) cause to dangle or hang freely | - |
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| (verb) hang loosely | Synonyms: drop, swing |
| dangleberry | (noun) huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit | Synonyms: dangle-berry, Gaylussacia frondosa |
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| dangling | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: hanging, suspension |
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| danish | (noun) light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese | Synonyms: danish pastry |
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| dank | (adjective) of high quality especially of marijuana | - |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly cool and humid | Synonyms: clammy |
| dankness | (noun) unpleasant wetness | Synonyms: clamminess |
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| danseur | (noun) a male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina | Synonyms: danseur noble |
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| danseuse | (noun) a female ballet dancer | Synonyms: ballerina |
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| defendant | (noun) a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused | Synonyms: suspect |
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| dependance | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependence, dependency |
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| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependence, dependency, habituation |
| dependant | (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
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| (adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependent, qualified |
| (noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependent |
| descendant | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendent |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
| (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
| descendants | (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: posterity |
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| didanosine | (noun) an antiviral drug used to combat HIV infection, a reverse transcriptase inhibitor | Synonyms: ddI, DDI, dideoxyinosine |
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| diphenylhydantoin | (noun) an anticonvulsant drug (trade name Dilantin) used to treat epilepsy and that is not a sedative | Synonyms: Dilantin, phenytoin |
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| discordance | (noun) strife resulting from a lack of agreement | Synonyms: discord |
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| (noun) a harsh mixture of sounds | Synonyms: discord |
| discordant | (adjective) not in agreement or harmony | - |
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| (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: disharmonious, dissonant, inharmonic |
| discordantly | (adverb) in a discordant manner | Synonyms: unharmoniously |
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| endanger | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: expose, peril, queer, scupper |
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| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
| endangered | (adjective) (of flora or fauna) in imminent danger of extinction | - |
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| endangerment | (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk |
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| exceedance | (noun) (geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure time | - |
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| fandango | (noun) a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets | - |
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| fondant | (noun) candy made of a thick creamy sugar paste | - |
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| forbiddance | (noun) the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: inhibition, prohibition |
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| (noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, banning, forbidding |
| gardant | (adjective) looking forward | Synonyms: full-face, guardant |
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| guardant | (adjective) looking forward | Synonyms: full-face, gardant |
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| guidance | (noun) the act of setting and holding a course | Synonyms: direction, steering |
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| (noun) the act of guiding or showing the way | Synonyms: steering |
| (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, counselling, direction |
| harridan | (noun) a scolding (even vicious) old woman | - |
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| hydantoin | (noun) any of a group of anticonvulsant drugs used in treating epilepsy | - |
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| impedance | (noun) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms | Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, ohmic resistance, resistance, resistivity |
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| jimdandy | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimhickey |
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| (noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimhickey |
| labdanum | (noun) a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative | Synonyms: ladanum |
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| (noun) a dark brown to greenish oleoresin that has a fragrant odor and is used as a fixative in perfumes; obtained as a juice from certain rockroses | Synonyms: gum labdanum |
| ladanum | (noun) a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative | Synonyms: labdanum |
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| laudanum | (noun) narcotic consisting of an alcohol solution of opium or any preparation in which opium is the main ingredient | Synonyms: tincture of opium |
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| lindane | (noun) a white crystalline powder used as an agricultural insecticide | - |
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| mordant | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, erosive, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) harshly ironic or sinister | Synonyms: black, grim |
| (noun) a substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing; aids in dyeing process | - |
| mundane | (adjective) belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly | Synonyms: terrene |
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| (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: everyday, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday |
| (adjective) concerned with the world or worldly matters | Synonyms: terrestrial |
| mundanely | (adverb) in a mundane manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a worldly manner | Synonyms: terrestrially |
| mundaneness | (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundanity, sophistication, worldliness |
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| (noun) the quality of being commonplace and ordinary | Synonyms: mundanity, ordinariness |
| mundanity | (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundaneness, sophistication, worldliness |
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| (noun) the quality of being commonplace and ordinary | Synonyms: mundaneness, ordinariness |
| nonattendance | (noun) the failure to attend | - |
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| overabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance |
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| (noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: excess, surfeit |
| overabundant | (adjective) excessively abundant | Synonyms: plethoric, rife |
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| oxidant | (noun) a substance that oxidizes another substance | Synonyms: oxidiser, oxidizer, oxidizing agent |
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| pandanus | (noun) any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves | Synonyms: screw pine |
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| (noun) fiber from leaves of the pandanus tree; used for woven articles (such as mats) | - |
| pedant | (noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | Synonyms: bookworm, scholastic |
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