| adience | (noun) (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object | - |
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| adient | (adjective) characterized by acceptance or approach | - |
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| adieu | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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| audience | (noun) a conference (usually with someone important) | Synonyms: consultation, interview |
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| (noun) a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance | - |
| (noun) the part of the general public interested in a source of information, entertainment, or a product/service | - |
| (noun) an opportunity to state your case and be heard | Synonyms: hearing |
| baddie | (noun) the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction | Synonyms: villain |
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| birdie | (noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: bird, shuttle, shuttlecock |
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| (noun) (golf) a score of one stroke under par on a hole | - |
| (verb) shoot in one stroke under par | - |
| bodied | (adjective) having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate |
| bombardier | (noun) the member of a bomber crew responsible for using the bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target | - |
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| (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery | - |
| boulevardier | (noun) a visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris) | - |
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| brigadier | (noun) a general officer ranking below a major general | Synonyms: brigadier general |
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| busybodied | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
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| butadiene | (noun) a gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; used in making synthetic rubbers | - |
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| caddie | (noun) an attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player | Synonyms: golf caddie |
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| (verb) act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player | Synonyms: caddy |
| candied | (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: crystalised, crystalized, glace |
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| (adjective) encrusted with sugar or syrup | Synonyms: sugar-coated |
| comedienne | (noun) a female comedian | - |
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| (noun) a female actor in a comedy | - |
| cordierite | (noun) a blue mineral of magnesium and iron and aluminum and silicon and oxygen; often used as a gemstone | - |
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| die | (noun) a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers | Synonyms: dice |
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| (noun) a device used for shaping metal | - |
| (noun) a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods | - |
| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) disappear or come to an end | - |
| (verb) suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense) | - |
| (verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad |
| (verb) lose sparkle or bouquet | Synonyms: become flat, pall |
| (verb) to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player | - |
| (verb) cut or shape with a die | Synonyms: die out |
| (verb) be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame | - |
| (verb) languish as with love or desire | - |
| (verb) feel indifferent towards | - |
| (verb) suffer or face the pain of death | - |
| dieback | (noun) a disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches | - |
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| diehard | (noun) one who adheres to traditional views | Synonyms: traditionalist |
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| dielectric | (noun) a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity | Synonyms: insulator, nonconductor |
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| dielectrolysis | (noun) the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode | Synonyms: cataphoresis, electrophoresis, ionophoresis |
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| diemaker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diesinker |
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| diencephalon | (noun) the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon | Synonyms: betweenbrain, interbrain, thalmencephalon |
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| dieresis | (noun) a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate that it does not form a diphthong with an adjacent vowel | Synonyms: diaeresis |
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| diesel | (noun) an internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil | Synonyms: diesel engine, diesel motor |
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| diesinker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diemaker |
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| diesis | (noun) a character used in printing to indicate a third cross reference or footnote after the asterisk and the dagger have been used | Synonyms: double dagger, double obelisk |
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| diestock | (noun) a device that holds the dies that cut external threads on metal cylinders | - |
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| diestrous | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrual, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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| diestrual | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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| diestrum | (noun) (of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season) a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity | Synonyms: diestrus |
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| diestrus | (noun) (of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season) a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity | Synonyms: diestrum |
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| diet | (noun) the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods) | Synonyms: dieting |
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| (noun) a prescribed selection of foods | - |
| (noun) the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal) | - |
| (noun) a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan) | - |
| (verb) eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight | - |
| (verb) follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons | - |
| dietary | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietetic, dietetical |
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| (noun) a regulated daily food allowance | - |
| dieter | (noun) a person who diets | - |
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| dietetic | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietary, dietetical |
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| dietetical | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietary, dietetic |
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| dietetics | (noun) the scientific study of food preparation and intake | - |
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| diethylmalonylurea | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, veronal |
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| diethylstilbesterol | (noun) synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy | Synonyms: DES, stilbesterol |
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| diethylstilbestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilboestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol |
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| diethylstilboestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilbestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol |
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| dietician | (noun) a specialist in the study of diet and nutrition | Synonyms: dietitian |
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| dieting | (noun) the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods) | Synonyms: diet |
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| dietitian | (noun) a specialist in the study of diet and nutrition | Synonyms: dietician |
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| disembodied | (adjective) not having a material body | Synonyms: bodiless, discorporate, unbodied, unembodied |
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| disobedience | (noun) the failure to obey | Synonyms: noncompliance |
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| (noun) the trait of being unwilling to obey | - |
| disobedient | (adjective) not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority | - |
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| (adjective) unwilling to submit to authority | Synonyms: unruly |
| disobediently | (adverb) in a disobedient manner | - |
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| embodied | (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporal, corporate, incarnate |
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| expedience | (noun) the quality of being suited to the end in view | Synonyms: expediency |
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| (noun) taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others | Synonyms: opportunism, self-interest, self-seeking |
| expediency | (noun) the quality of being suited to the end in view | Synonyms: expedience |
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| expedient | (adjective) serving to promote your interest | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate to a purpose; practical | - |
| (noun) a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one | - |
| expediently | (adverb) in an expedient manner | Synonyms: inadvisably |
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| foodie | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, epicurean, gastronome, gourmet |
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| geordie | (noun) the nonstandard dialect of natives of Newcastle-upon-Tyne | - |
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| gradient | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal | Synonyms: slope |
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| (noun) a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension | - |
| grenadier | (noun) deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail | Synonyms: rattail, rattail fish |
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| (noun) an infantryman equipped with grenades | Synonyms: grenade thrower |
| halberdier | (noun) a guard who carries a halberd (as a symbol of his duty) | - |
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| indie | (adjective) (of pop groups) not affiliated with a major recording company | - |
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| (noun) a pop group not affiliated with a major record company | - |
| (noun) an independent film company not associated with an established studio | - |
| inexpedience | (noun) the quality of being unsuited to the end in view | Synonyms: inexpediency |
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| inexpediency | (noun) the quality of being unsuited to the end in view | Synonyms: inexpedience |
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| inexpedient | (adjective) not suitable or advisable | - |
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| (adjective) not appropriate to the purpose | Synonyms: unwise |
| inexpediently | (adverb) in an inexpedient manner | - |
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| ingredient | (noun) a component of a mixture or compound | - |
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| (noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: component, constituent, element, factor |
| (noun) food that is a component of a mixture in cooking | Synonyms: fixings |
| kiddie | (noun) informal term for a young child | Synonyms: kiddy |
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| laddie | (noun) a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) | Synonyms: cub, lad, sonny, sonny boy |
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| mediety | (noun) one of two (approximately) equal parts | Synonyms: moiety |
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| medieval | (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages | Synonyms: mediaeval |
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| (adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened | Synonyms: gothic, mediaeval |
| (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: chivalric, knightly, mediaeval |
| medievality | (noun) The quality of being of or relating to the Middle Ages, perhaps circa 500 to circa 1500 CE. | - |
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| muddied | (adjective) (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear | Synonyms: dingy, dirty, muddy |
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| obedience | (noun) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person | Synonyms: obeisance |
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| (noun) behavior intended to please your parents | Synonyms: respect |
| (noun) the trait of being willing to obey | - |
| obedient | (adjective) dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority | - |
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| obediently | (adverb) in an obedient manner | Synonyms: yieldingly |
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| oldie | (noun) a song that was formerly popular | Synonyms: golden oldie |
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| organdie | (noun) a sheer stiff muslin | Synonyms: organdy |
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| soldier | (noun) a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony | - |
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| (noun) an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army | - |
| (verb) serve as a soldier in the military | - |
| soldierfish | (noun) the larger squirrelfishes | Synonyms: soldier-fish |
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| soldiering | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, shirking, slacking |
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| (noun) skills that are required for the life of soldier | Synonyms: soldiership |
| soldierlike | (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: martial, soldierly, warriorlike |
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| soldierly | (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: martial, soldierlike, warriorlike |
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| soldiership | (noun) skills that are required for the life of soldier | Synonyms: soldiering |
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| soldiery | (noun) soldiers collectively | Synonyms: military personnel, troops |
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| steadied | (adjective) made steady or constant | - |
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| studied | (adjective) produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation | - |
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| tragedienne | (noun) an actress who specializes in tragic roles | - |
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| unbodied | (adjective) having no body | - |
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| (adjective) not having a material body | Synonyms: bodiless, discorporate, disembodied, unembodied |
| undies | (noun) women's underwear | - |
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| unembodied | (adjective) not having a material body | Synonyms: bodiless, discorporate, disembodied, unbodied |
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| unremedied | (adjective) not having been put right | - |
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| unsoldierly | (adjective) not conforming to military standards | - |
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| unstudied | (adjective) not by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu | Synonyms: uncontrived |
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| (adjective) lacking knowledge gained by study often in a particular field | - |
| weirdie | (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: creep, spook, weirdo, weirdy |
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| yardie | (noun) member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence | - |
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