| acaudate | (adjective) lacking a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: acaudal |
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| accommodate | (verb) make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose | Synonyms: adapt |
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| (verb) make (one thing) compatible with (another) | Synonyms: conciliate, reconcile |
| (verb) provide a service or favor for someone | Synonyms: oblige |
| (verb) provide with something desired or needed | - |
| (verb) be agreeable or acceptable to | Synonyms: fit, suit |
| (verb) provide housing for | Synonyms: lodge |
| (verb) have room for; hold without crowding | Synonyms: admit, hold |
| accommodating | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodative |
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| (adjective) obliging; willing to do favors | - |
| accommodatingly | (adverb) in accommodation | Synonyms: obligingly |
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| accommodation | (noun) the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need | - |
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| (noun) (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye | - |
| (noun) living quarters provided for public convenience | - |
| (noun) in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality | - |
| (noun) a settlement of differences | - |
| (noun) making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances | Synonyms: adjustment, fitting |
| accommodational | (adjective) of or relating to the accommodation of the lens of the eye | - |
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| accommodative | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodating |
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| (adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony | Synonyms: reconciling |
| (adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: cooperative |
| accommodator | (noun) someone who performs a service or does a favor | Synonyms: obliger |
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| amendatory | (adjective) effecting amendment | - |
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| antedate | (verb) establish something as being earlier relative to something else | Synonyms: foredate, predate |
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| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, forego, forgo, precede, predate |
| backdate | (verb) make effective from an earlier date | - |
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| 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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| bicuspidate | (adjective) having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth) | Synonyms: bicuspid |
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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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| 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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| cephalochordate | (noun) fish-like animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column | - |
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| chordate | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the Chordata | - |
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| (noun) any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column | - |
| commendation | (noun) an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | Synonyms: citation |
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| (noun) a message expressing a favorable opinion | Synonyms: approval |
| concordat | (noun) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action | Synonyms: compact, covenant |
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| consolidate | (verb) unite into one | - |
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| (verb) bring together into a single whole or system | - |
| (verb) make firm or secure; strengthen | - |
| (verb) make or form into a solid or hardened mass | - |
| (verb) form into a solid mass or whole | - |
| consolidated | (adjective) forming a solid mass | - |
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| (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamate, amalgamated, coalesced, fused |
| consolidation | (noun) the act of combining into an integral whole | Synonyms: integration |
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| (noun) combining into a solid mass | - |
| (noun) something that has consolidated into a compact mass | - |
| consolidative | (adjective) tending to consolidate | Synonyms: integrative |
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| (adjective) combining into a single unit | Synonyms: unifying |
| cordate | (adjective) (of a leaf) shaped like a heart | Synonyms: cordiform, heart-shaped |
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| cuspidate | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidated |
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| cuspidated | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate |
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| cuspidation | (noun) a decoration using cusps | - |
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| data | (noun) a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn | Synonyms: information |
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| database | (noun) an organized body of related information | - |
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| datable | (adjective) that can be given a date | Synonyms: dateable |
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| date | (noun) sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed | - |
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| (noun) a meeting arranged in advance | Synonyms: appointment, engagement |
| (noun) a participant in a date | Synonyms: escort |
| (noun) the specified day of the month | Synonyms: day of the month |
| (noun) the present | - |
| (noun) the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred | - |
| (noun) a particular day specified as the time something happens | - |
| (verb) assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of | - |
| (verb) provide with a dateline; mark with a date | - |
| (verb) stamp with a date | Synonyms: date stamp |
| (verb) go on a date with | - |
| (verb) date regularly; have a steady relationship with | Synonyms: go out, go steady, see |
| dateable | (adjective) that can be given a date | Synonyms: datable |
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| dated | (adjective) marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past | - |
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| dateless | (adjective) having no known beginning and presumably no end | Synonyms: endless, sempiternal |
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| (adjective) unaffected by time | Synonyms: timeless |
| (adjective) not bearing a date | Synonyms: undated |
| (adjective) of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date | - |
| dateline | (noun) a line at the beginning of a news article giving the date and place of origin of the news dispatch | - |
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| (noun) an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian | Synonyms: date line, International Date Line |
| (verb) mark with a date and place | Synonyms: date-mark, datemark |
| datemark | (verb) mark with a date and place | Synonyms: date-mark, dateline |
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| dating | (noun) use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens | Synonyms: geological dating |
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| dative | (noun) the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb | Synonyms: dative case |
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| datum | (noun) an item of factual information derived from measurement or research | Synonyms: data point |
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| degradation | (noun) changing to a lower state (a less respected state) | Synonyms: debasement |
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| (noun) a low or downcast state | Synonyms: abasement, abjection |
| denudate | (adjective) without the natural or usual covering | Synonyms: bald, denuded |
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| (verb) lay bare | Synonyms: bare, denude, strip |
| denudation | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, husking, stripping, uncovering |
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| depredation | (noun) an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding | Synonyms: predation |
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| (noun) (usually plural) a destructive action | Synonyms: ravage |
| dilapidate | (verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: crumble, decay |
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| (verb) bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse | - |
| dilapidated | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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| dilapidation | (noun) the process of becoming dilapidated | Synonyms: ruin |
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| (noun) a state of deterioration due to old age or long use | Synonyms: decrepitude |
| elucidate | (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
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| (verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clarify, clear up |
| elucidation | (noun) an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding | Synonyms: clarification, illumination |
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| (noun) an act of explaining that serves to clear up and cast light on | - |
| elucidative | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: clarifying |
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| emendation | (noun) a correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing | - |
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| exudate | (noun) a substance that oozes out from plant pores | Synonyms: exudation |
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| (verb) release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities | Synonyms: exude, ooze, ooze out, transude |
| exudation | (noun) the process of exuding; the slow escape of liquids from blood vessels through pores or breaks in the cell membranes | Synonyms: transudation |
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| (noun) a substance that oozes out from plant pores | Synonyms: exudate |
| fecundate | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fertilise, fertilize, inseminate |
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| (verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fertilise, fertilize |
| fecundation | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fertilisation, fertilization, impregnation |
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| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: dressing, fertilisation, fertilization |
| feudatory | (adjective) of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord | - |
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| (adjective) owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign | - |
| (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: liege, liege subject, liegeman, vassal |
| fluoridate | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridise, fluoridize |
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| fluoridation | (noun) the addition of a fluoride to the water supply (to prevent dental decay) | Synonyms: fluoridisation, fluoridization |
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| foredate | (verb) establish something as being earlier relative to something else | Synonyms: antedate, predate |
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| foundation | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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| (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
| (noun) a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body | Synonyms: foundation garment |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, fundament, groundwork |
| (noun) education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge | Synonyms: grounding |
| (noun) an institution supported by an endowment | - |
| (noun) the basis on which something is grounded | - |
| gradate | (verb) pass imperceptibly from one degree, shade, or tone into another | - |
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| (verb) arrange according to grades | - |
| gradation | (noun) the act of arranging in grades | Synonyms: graduation |
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| (noun) a degree of ablaut | Synonyms: grade |
| (noun) relative position in a graded series | Synonyms: step |
| gradational | (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradatory, graduated |
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| gradatory | (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradational, graduated |
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| gravidation | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidity, gravidness |
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| hydathode | (noun) a pore that exudes water on the surface or margin of a leaf of higher plants | Synonyms: water pore, water stoma |
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| hydatid | (noun) cyst filled with liquid; forms as a result of infestation by tapeworm larvae (as in echinococcosis) | - |
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| hydatidosis | (noun) infestation with larval echinococci (tapeworms) | Synonyms: echinococcosis, hydatid disease |
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| infrigidation | (noun) the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes | Synonyms: refrigeration |
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| intimidate | (verb) make timid or fearful | - |
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| (verb) to compel or deter by or as if by threats | - |
| intimidated | (adjective) made timid or fearful as by threats | - |
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| intimidating | (adjective) discouraging through fear | Synonyms: daunting |
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| intimidation | (noun) the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something | Synonyms: bullying |
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| (noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: determent, deterrence |
| (noun) the feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid | - |
| (noun) the feeling of discouragement in the face of someone's superior fame or wealth or status etc. | - |
| inundate | (verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water | Synonyms: deluge, submerge |
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| (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: deluge, flood, swamp |
| inundated | (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: afloat, awash, flooded, overflowing |
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| inundation | (noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | Synonyms: alluvion, deluge, flood |
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| (noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: deluge, flood, torrent |
| invalidate | (verb) take away the legal force of or render ineffective | Synonyms: vitiate, void |
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| (verb) show to be invalid | Synonyms: nullify |
| (verb) make invalid for use | Synonyms: cancel |
| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, nullify, quash, void |
| invalidated | (adjective) deprived of legal force | Synonyms: nullified |
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| invalidating | (adjective) establishing as invalid or untrue | Synonyms: disconfirming |
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| invalidation | (noun) (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc) | Synonyms: annulment |
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| (noun) when a person's thoughts and feelings are rejected, ignored, or judged. | - |
| invalidator | (noun) an official who can invalidate or nullify | Synonyms: nullifier, voider |
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| lapidate | (verb) kill by throwing stones at | Synonyms: stone |
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| (verb) throw stones at | - |
| lapidation | (noun) the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death) | Synonyms: stoning |
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| lapidator | (noun) an attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill) | Synonyms: stoner |
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| laudator | (noun) someone who communicates high praise | Synonyms: extoller, lauder |
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| laudatory | (adjective) full of or giving praise | Synonyms: praiseful, praising |
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| liquidate | (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, neutralise, neutralize, waste |
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| (verb) eliminate by paying off (debts) | Synonyms: pay off |
| (verb) convert into cash | - |
| (verb) settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off | - |
| liquidation | (noun) termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities | Synonyms: settlement |
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| (noun) the act of exterminating | Synonyms: extermination |
| (noun) the murder of a competitor | Synonyms: elimination |
| liquidator | (noun) (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties | Synonyms: receiver |
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| (noun) a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) | Synonyms: manslayer, murderer |
| mandatary | (noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatory |
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| mandate | (noun) the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory | - |
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| (noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
| (noun) a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves | Synonyms: mandatory |
| (verb) assign authority to | - |
| (verb) make mandatory | - |
| (verb) assign under a mandate | - |
| mandator | (noun) an authority who issues a mandate | - |
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| mandatorily | (adverb) in a manner that cannot be evaded | Synonyms: compulsorily, obligatorily |
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| mandatory | (adjective) required by rule | Synonyms: compulsory, required |
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| (noun) a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves | Synonyms: mandate |
| (noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatary |
| metadata | (noun) data about data | - |
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| methylphenidate | (noun) central nervous system stimulant (trade name Ritalin) used in the treatment of narcolepsy in adults and attention deficit disorder in children | Synonyms: Ritalin |
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| misdate | (verb) assign the wrong date to | - |
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| misdating | (noun) something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | Synonyms: anachronism, mistiming |
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| nidation | (noun) (embryology) the organic process whereby a fertilized egg becomes implanted in the lining of the uterus of placental mammals | Synonyms: implantation |
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