| abacinate | (verb) blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes | - |
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| abalone | (noun) any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior | Synonyms: ear-shell |
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| abampere | (noun) a unit of current equal to 10 amperes | Synonyms: abamp |
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| abandoned | (adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants | Synonyms: derelict, deserted |
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| (adjective) unrestrained and uninhibited | - |
| abandonment | (noun) withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility | Synonyms: defection, desertion |
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| (noun) the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away | - |
| (noun) the act of giving something up | Synonyms: desertion, forsaking |
| abase | (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: chagrin, humble, humiliate, mortify |
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| abasement | (noun) depriving one of self-esteem | Synonyms: humiliation |
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| (noun) a low or downcast state | Synonyms: abjection, degradation |
| abashed | (adjective) feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed | Synonyms: chagrined, embarrassed |
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| abashment | (noun) feeling embarrassed due to modesty | Synonyms: bashfulness |
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| abatable | (adjective) capable of being abated | - |
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| abate | (verb) become less in amount or intensity | Synonyms: die away, let up, slack, slack off |
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| (verb) make less active or intense | Synonyms: slack, slake |
| abatement | (noun) the act of abating | - |
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| (noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: hiatus, reprieve, respite, suspension |
| abbe | (noun) a French abbot | - |
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| abbess | (noun) the superior of a group of nuns | Synonyms: mother superior, prioress |
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| abbey | (noun) a monastery ruled by an abbot | - |
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| (noun) a convent ruled by an abbess | - |
| (noun) a church associated with a monastery or convent | - |
| abbreviate | (verb) shorten | - |
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| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| abbreviated | (adjective) (of clothing) very short | Synonyms: brief |
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| (adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: shortened, truncated |
| abbreviation | (noun) shortening something by omitting parts of it | - |
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| (noun) a shortened form of a word or phrase | - |
| abbreviator | (noun) one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work | Synonyms: abridger |
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| abdicable | (adjective) capable of being discarded or renounced or relinquished | - |
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| abdicate | (verb) give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations | Synonyms: renounce |
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| abdomen | (noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: belly, stomach, venter |
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| (noun) the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm | Synonyms: abdominal cavity |
| abdominocentesis | (noun) centesis of the belly to remove fluid for diagnosis | Synonyms: paracentesis |
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| abdominousness | (noun) the bodily property of a protruding belly | Synonyms: paunchiness |
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| abdominovesical | (adjective) of or relating to the abdomen and the urinary bladder | - |
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| abduce | (verb) advance evidence for | Synonyms: adduce, cite |
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| abducens | (noun) a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye | Synonyms: abducens nerve, abducent, abducent nerve, nervus abducens, sixth cranial nerve |
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| abducent | (adjective) especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part | Synonyms: abducting |
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| (noun) a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye | Synonyms: abducens, abducens nerve, abducent nerve, nervus abducens, sixth cranial nerve |
| abeam | (adverb) at right angles to the length of a ship or airplane | - |
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| abecedarian | (adjective) alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers) | - |
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| (noun) a novice learning the rudiments of some subject | - |
| abecedarius | (noun) a poem having lines beginning with letters of the alphabet in regular order | - |
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| abed | (adverb) in bed | - |
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| abele | (noun) a poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States; has white bark and leaves with whitish undersurfaces | Synonyms: aspen poplar, Populus alba, silver-leaved poplar, white aspen, white poplar |
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| abelia | (noun) any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers; Asia and Mexico | - |
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| abelmosk | (noun) bushy herb of tropical Asia grown for its yellow or pink to scarlet blooms that resemble the hibiscus | Synonyms: Abelmoschus moschatus, Hibiscus moschatus, musk mallow |
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| aberrance | (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrancy, aberration, deviance |
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| aberrancy | (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberration, deviance |
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| aberrant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: deviant, deviate |
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| (noun) one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group | - |
| aberrate | (verb) diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration | - |
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| (verb) diverge from the expected | - |
| aberration | (noun) an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image | Synonyms: distortion, optical aberration |
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| (noun) a disorder in one's mental state | - |
| (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberrancy, deviance |
| abet | (verb) assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing | - |
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| abetalipoproteinemia | (noun) a rare inherited disorder of fat metabolism; characterized by severe deficiency of beta-lipoproteins and abnormal red blood cells (acanthocytes) and abnormally low cholesterol levels | - |
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| abetment | (noun) the verbal act of urging on | Synonyms: abettal, instigation |
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| abettal | (noun) the verbal act of urging on | Synonyms: abetment, instigation |
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| abetter | (noun) one who helps or encourages or incites another | Synonyms: abettor |
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| abettor | (noun) one who helps or encourages or incites another | Synonyms: abetter |
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| abeyance | (noun) temporary cessation or suspension | Synonyms: suspension |
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| abeyant | (adjective) inactive but capable of becoming active | Synonyms: dormant |
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| abhenry | (noun) a unit of inductance equal to one billionth of a henry | - |
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| abhorrence | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abomination, detestation, execration, loathing, odium |
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| abhorrent | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
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| abhorrer | (noun) a signer of a 1679 address to Charles II in which those who petitioned for the reconvening of parliament were condemned and abhorred | - |
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| 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 |
| abide | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
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| (verb) dwell | Synonyms: bide, stay |
| abience | (noun) (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object | - |
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| abient | (adjective) characterized by avoidance or withdrawal | - |
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| abiogenesis | (noun) a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter | Synonyms: autogenesis, autogeny, spontaneous generation |
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| abiogenetic | (adjective) originating by abiogenesis | - |
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| abiogenist | (noun) a believer in abiogenesis | - |
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| abject | (adjective) of the most contemptible kind | Synonyms: low-down, low, miserable, scummy, scurvy |
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| (adjective) showing utter resignation or hopelessness | Synonyms: unhopeful |
| (adjective) showing humiliation or submissiveness | - |
| (adjective) most unfortunate or miserable | - |
| abjection | (noun) a low or downcast state | Synonyms: abasement, degradation |
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| abjectly | (adverb) in a hopeless resigned manner | Synonyms: resignedly |
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| abjure | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: forswear, recant, resile, retract |
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| abjurer | (noun) a person who abjures | - |
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| ablactate | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: wean |
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| ablate | (verb) wear away through erosion or vaporization | - |
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| (verb) remove an organ or bodily structure | - |
| ablated | (adjective) made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization | - |
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| ablative | (adjective) relating to the ablative case | - |
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| (adjective) tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature | - |
| (noun) the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb | Synonyms: ablative case |
| ablaze | (adjective) resembling flame in brilliance or color | - |
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| (adjective) lighted with red light as if with flames | Synonyms: inflamed, reddened |
| (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: afire, aflame, aflare, alight, on fire |
| (adjective) keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement | Synonyms: aflame, aroused |
| able | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something | - |
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| (adjective) having inherent physical or mental ability or capacity | - |
| (adjective) have the skills and qualifications to do things well | Synonyms: capable |
| (adjective) having a strong healthy body | Synonyms: able-bodied |
| ableism | (noun) discrimination in favor of the able-bodied | Synonyms: able-bodiedism, able-bodism, ablism |
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| ablepharia | (noun) a congenital absence of eyelids (partial or complete) | - |
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| abnegate | (verb) deny or renounce | - |
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| (verb) surrender (power or a position) | - |
| (verb) deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure | Synonyms: deny |
| abnegation | (noun) renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others | Synonyms: denial, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation |
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| (noun) the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief | - |
| abnegator | (noun) one who gives up or relinquishes or renounces something | - |
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| abode | (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home |
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| (noun) any address at which you dwell more than temporarily | Synonyms: residence |
| abolishable | (adjective) capable of being abolished | - |
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| abolishment | (noun) the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery) | Synonyms: abolition |
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| abominable | (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: atrocious, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
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| (adjective) unequivocally detestable | Synonyms: detestable, execrable, odious |
| abominate | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, execrate, loathe |
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| aborigine | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, indigen, indigene, native |
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| aborticide | (noun) the act of destroying a fetus | Synonyms: feticide |
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| (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: abortifacient, abortion-inducing drug |
| abortifacient | (adjective) causing abortion | - |
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| (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: aborticide, abortion-inducing drug |
| abortive | (adjective) failing to accomplish an intended result | Synonyms: stillborn, unsuccessful |
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| abortively | (adverb) in an unfruitful manner | - |
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| above | (adjective) appearing earlier in the same text | - |
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| (noun) an earlier section of a written text | - |
| (adverb) (in writing) at an earlier place | Synonyms: supra |
| (adverb) in or to a place that is higher | Synonyms: higher up, in a higher place, to a higher place |
| aboveboard | (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: straightforward |
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| (adverb) in an honest manner | Synonyms: honestly |
| aboveground | (adjective) on or above the surface of the ground | - |
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| abrade | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrase, corrade, rub down, rub off |
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| (verb) rub hard or scrub | Synonyms: scour |
| abrader | (noun) a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing | Synonyms: abradant |
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| abranchiate | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchious, gill-less |
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| abrase | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrade, corrade, rub down, rub off |
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| abrasive | (adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous | Synonyms: harsh |
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| (adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: scratchy |
| (noun) a substance that abrades or wears down | Synonyms: abradant, abrasive material |
| abrasiveness | (noun) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions | Synonyms: harshness, scratchiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being sharply disagreeable | - |
| abreact | (verb) discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization | - |
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| abreaction | (noun) (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions | Synonyms: catharsis, katharsis |
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| abreast | (adjective) being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge | Synonyms: au courant, au fait, up on |
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| (adverb) alongside each other, facing in the same direction | - |
| abridge | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
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| (verb) lessen, diminish, or curtail | - |
| abridged | (adjective) (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting | - |
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| abridgement | (noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgment, capsule, condensation |
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