| 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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| acatalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
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| (noun) (prosody) a line of verse that has the full number of syllables | - |
| adenoidectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the adenoids; commonly performed along with tonsillectomy | - |
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| adjectival | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adjective | Synonyms: adjective |
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| adjectivally | (adverb) as an adjective; in an adjectival manner | - |
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| adjective | (adjective) relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law | Synonyms: procedural |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adjective | Synonyms: adjectival |
| (noun) a word that expresses an attribute of something | - |
| (noun) the word class that qualifies nouns | - |
| adjectively | (adverb) as an adjective | - |
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| adrenalectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands | Synonyms: suprarenalectomy |
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| advect | (verb) convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid | - |
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| advection | (noun) (meteorology) the horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties | - |
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| advective | (adjective) of or relating to advection | - |
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| affect | (noun) the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion | - |
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| (verb) act physically on; have an effect upon | - |
| (verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on |
| (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: dissemble, feign, pretend, sham |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: impress, move, strike |
| (verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly | Synonyms: involve, regard |
| affectation | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectedness, mannerism, pose |
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| affected | (adjective) acted upon; influenced | - |
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| (adjective) speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression | Synonyms: unnatural |
| (adjective) being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion | Synonyms: moved, stirred, touched |
| affectedly | (adverb) in an affected manner | - |
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| affectedness | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectation, mannerism, pose |
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| (noun) the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) | - |
| affecting | (adjective) arousing affect | Synonyms: poignant, touching |
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| affectingly | (adverb) in a poignant or touching manner | Synonyms: poignantly, touchingly |
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| affection | (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
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| affectional | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affective, emotive |
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| affectionate | (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: fond, lovesome, tender |
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| affectionately | (adverb) with affection | Synonyms: dear, dearly |
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| affectionateness | (noun) a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | Synonyms: fondness, lovingness, warmth |
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| (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
| affective | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affectional, emotive |
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| aftereffect | (noun) any result that follows its cause after an interval | - |
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| (noun) a delayed effect of a drug or therapy | - |
| analecta | (noun) a collection of excerpts from a literary work | Synonyms: analects |
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| analects | (noun) a collection of excerpts from a literary work | Synonyms: analecta |
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| angiotelectasia | (noun) dilation and enlargement of arterioles | - |
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| anorectal | (adjective) pertaining to the anus and rectum considered together | - |
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| anorectic | (adjective) causing loss of appetite | Synonyms: anorexigenic |
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| (adjective) suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin | Synonyms: anorexic |
| (noun) a person suffering from anorexia nervosa | Synonyms: anorexic |
| antielectron | (noun) an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation | Synonyms: positron |
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| apoplectic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy | - |
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| apoplectiform | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectoid |
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| apoplectoid | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectiform |
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| appendectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the vermiform appendix | Synonyms: appendicectomy |
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| appendicectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the vermiform appendix | Synonyms: appendectomy |
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| architect | (noun) someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings) | Synonyms: designer |
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| architectonic | (adjective) of or pertaining to construction or architecture | Synonyms: tectonic |
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| architectonics | (noun) the science of architecture | Synonyms: tectonics |
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| architectural | (adjective) of or pertaining to the art and science of architecture | - |
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| architecturally | (adverb) with regard to architecture | - |
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| architecture | (noun) the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect | - |
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| (noun) an architectural product or work | - |
| (noun) (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software | Synonyms: computer architecture |
| (noun) the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings | - |
| arteriectasia | (noun) an abnormal distension of an artery | Synonyms: arteriectasis |
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| arteriectasis | (noun) an abnormal distension of an artery | Synonyms: arteriectasia |
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| aspect | (noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face | Synonyms: expression, face, facial expression, look |
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| (noun) a characteristic to be considered | - |
| (noun) a distinct feature or element in a problem | Synonyms: facet |
| (noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: panorama, prospect, scene, view, vista |
| (noun) the beginning or duration or completion or repetition of the action of a verb | - |
| aspectual | (adjective) of or belonging to an aspect (as an aspect of the verb) | - |
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| atelectasis | (noun) collapse of an expanded lung (especially in infants); also failure of pulmonary alveoli to expand at birth | - |
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| autocorrect | (noun) a system for automatically correcting text | - |
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| autoinjector | (noun) a hypodermic syringe to use in injecting yourself with a liquid | - |
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| bespectacled | (adjective) wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass | Synonyms: monocled, spectacled |
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| bidirectional | (adjective) reactive or functioning or allowing movement in two usually opposite directions | - |
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| bioelectricity | (noun) electric phenomena in animals or plants | - |
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| bisect | (verb) cut in half or cut in two | - |
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| bisection | (noun) dividing into two equal parts | - |
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| bisectional | (adjective) of or relating to bisection | - |
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| cachectic | (adjective) relating to or having the symptoms of cachexia | - |
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| callosectomy | (noun) severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy) | Synonyms: callosotomy |
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| catalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
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| (noun) (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot | - |
| cathect | (verb) inject with libidinal energy | - |
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| cathectic | (adjective) of or relating to cathexis | - |
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| cholecystectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the gall bladder (usually for relief of gallstone pain) | - |
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| circumspect | (adjective) heedful of potential consequences | Synonyms: discreet |
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| circumspection | (noun) the trait of being circumspect and prudent | Synonyms: caution |
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| (noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: discreetness, discretion, prudence |
| circumspectly | (adverb) in a cagey manner | Synonyms: cagily |
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| clitoridectomy | (noun) excision of the clitoris | Synonyms: female circumcision |
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| collect | (adjective) payable by the recipient on delivery | Synonyms: cod |
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| (noun) a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England | - |
| (adverb) make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays | - |
| (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: garner, gather, pull together |
| (verb) get or bring together | Synonyms: pull in |
| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| (verb) call for and obtain payment of | Synonyms: take in |
| (verb) gather or collect | Synonyms: call for, gather up, pick up |
| collectable | (adjective) subject to or requiring payment especially as specified | Synonyms: collectible, payable |
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| (noun) things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique) | Synonyms: collectible |
| collected | (adjective) brought together in one place | Synonyms: gathered |
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| (adjective) in full control of your faculties | Synonyms: equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed |
| collectedly | (adverb) in a self-collected or self-possessed manner | Synonyms: composedly |
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| collectibility | (noun) The quality of being subject to payment or likely to be paid. | - |
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| collectible | (adjective) subject to or requiring payment especially as specified | Synonyms: collectable, payable |
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| (noun) things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique) | Synonyms: collectable |
| collecting | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, assembling, collection |
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| collection | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, assembling, collecting |
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| (noun) a publication containing a variety of works | Synonyms: compendium |
| (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, ingathering, solicitation |
| (noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage |
| collective | (adjective) forming a whole or aggregate | - |
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| (adjective) done by or characteristic of individuals acting together | Synonyms: corporate |
| (adjective) set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government | - |
| (noun) members of a cooperative enterprise | - |
| collectively | (adverb) in conjunction with; combined | Synonyms: conjointly, jointly, together with |
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| collectivisation | (noun) the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | Synonyms: collectivization |
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| collectivise | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivize |
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| collectivised | (adjective) characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production | Synonyms: collectivized |
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| (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivist, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
| collectivism | (noun) a political theory that the people should own the means of production | - |
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| (noun) Soviet communism | Synonyms: Bolshevism, sovietism |
| collectivist | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| (noun) a person who belongs to the political left | Synonyms: left-winger, leftist |
| collectivistic | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| collectivization | (noun) the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | Synonyms: collectivisation |
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| collectivize | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivise |
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| collectivized | (adjective) characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production | Synonyms: collectivised |
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| (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivistic, state-controlled |
| collector | (noun) the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes | - |
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| (noun) a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth | - |
| (noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | Synonyms: accumulator, gatherer |
| (noun) a person who collects things | Synonyms: aggregator |
| colorectal | (adjective) relating to or affecting the colon and the rectum | - |
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| complect | (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: interconnect, interlink |
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| confect | (noun) a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts | Synonyms: candy |
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| (verb) make into a confection | Synonyms: comfit, confection |
| (verb) make or construct | - |
| confection | (noun) the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components | Synonyms: concoction |
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| (noun) a food rich in sugar | Synonyms: sweet |
| (verb) make into a confection | Synonyms: comfit, confect |
| confectionary | (noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionery |
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| confectioner | (noun) someone who makes candies and other sweets | Synonyms: candymaker |
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| confectionery | (noun) the occupation and skills of a confectioner | - |
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| (noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionary |
| (noun) candy and other sweets considered collectively | - |
| conjectural | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
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| conjecturally | (adverb) in a manner involving or inclined to conjecture and supposition | - |
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| conjecture | (noun) a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence) | Synonyms: speculation |
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| (noun) reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence | - |
| (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal, surmise |
| (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize |
| connect | (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, link, link up, relate, tie in |
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| (verb) join for the purpose of communication | - |
| (verb) join by means of communication equipment | - |
| (verb) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces | Synonyms: link, link up, tie |
| (verb) land on or hit solidly | - |
| (verb) plug into an outlet | Synonyms: plug in, plug into |
| (verb) hit or play a ball successfully | - |
| (verb) establish communication with someone | Synonyms: get in touch, touch base |
| (verb) establish a rapport or relationship | - |
| (verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: join, link, link up, unite |
| (verb) be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation | - |
| connected | (adjective) joined or linked together | - |
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| (adjective) plugged in | - |
| (adjective) being joined in close association | Synonyms: affiliated, attached |
| (adjective) wired together to an alarm system | - |
| (adjective) stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer | Synonyms: machine-accessible |
| connectedness | (noun) a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it) | Synonyms: connection, connexion |
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| (noun) the state of being connected | Synonyms: connection, link |