| accredit | (verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: credit |
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| (verb) grant credentials to | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) provide or send (envoys or ambassadors) with official credentials | - |
| accreditation | (noun) the act of granting credit or recognition (especially with respect to an educational institution that maintains suitable standards) | - |
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| accredited | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: commissioned, licenced, licensed |
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| acedia | (noun) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: laziness, sloth |
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| aeromedical | (adjective) of or relating to aviation medicine | - |
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| aeromedicine | (noun) the study and treatment of disorders associated with flight (especially with space flight) | Synonyms: aerospace medicine, aviation medicine |
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| antediluvial | (adjective) of or relating to the period before the biblical flood | Synonyms: antediluvian |
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| antediluvian | (adjective) of or relating to the period before the biblical flood | Synonyms: antediluvial |
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| (adjective) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | Synonyms: antiquated, archaic |
| (noun) a very old person | Synonyms: ancient |
| (noun) any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge | Synonyms: antediluvian patriarch |
| bedight | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedeck, deck |
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| bedim | (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | Synonyms: benight |
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| (verb) make unintelligible or unclear | Synonyms: obscure, overcloud |
| bedimmed | (adjective) made dim or indistinct | - |
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| bedizen | (verb) dress up garishly and tastelessly | Synonyms: dizen |
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| (verb) decorate tastelessly | - |
| benedick | (noun) a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor) | Synonyms: benedict |
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| benedict | (noun) a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor) | Synonyms: benedick |
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| benedictine | (noun) a French liqueur originally made by Benedictine monks | - |
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| benediction | (noun) the act of praying for divine protection | Synonyms: blessing |
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| (noun) a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection | Synonyms: blessing |
| benedictive | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictory |
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| benedictory | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictive |
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| biomedical | (adjective) relating to the activities and applications of science to clinical medicine | - |
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| biomedicine | (noun) the branch of medical science that studies the ability of organisms to withstand environmental stress (as in space travel) | - |
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| (noun) the branch of medical science that applies biological and physiological principles to clinical practice | - |
| bioremediation | (noun) the act of treating waste or pollutants by the use of microorganisms (as bacteria) that can break down the undesirable substances | - |
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| (noun) the branch of biotechnology that uses biological process to overcome environmental problems | - |
| bleeding | (noun) the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel | Synonyms: haemorrhage, hemorrhage |
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| breeding | (adjective) producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring | - |
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| (noun) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring | Synonyms: facts of life, procreation, reproduction |
| (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
| (noun) the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization | - |
| (noun) the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) | Synonyms: education, training |
| (noun) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression | Synonyms: genteelness, gentility |
| carvedilol | (noun) beta blocker that can reduce the progression of heart failure in individuals whose disease is not advanced | - |
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| cedi | (noun) the basic unit of money in Ghana | - |
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| cedilla | (noun) a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an s | - |
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| ceding | (noun) the act of ceding | Synonyms: cession |
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| comedian | (noun) a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts | Synonyms: comic |
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| (noun) an actor in a comedy | - |
| comedienne | (noun) a female comedian | - |
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| (noun) a female actor in a comedy | - |
| conceding | (noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: concession, yielding |
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| copyedit | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyread, subedit |
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| credibility | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibleness |
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| credible | (adjective) capable of being believed | Synonyms: believable |
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| (adjective) appearing to merit belief or acceptance | - |
| (adjective) (a common but incorrect usage where `credulous' would be appropriate) credulous | - |
| credibleness | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibility |
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| credibly | (adverb) easy to believe on the basis of available evidence | Synonyms: believably, plausibly, probably |
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| credit | (noun) recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours | Synonyms: course credit |
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| (noun) used in the phrase `to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise | - |
| (noun) an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments | Synonyms: credit rating |
| (noun) approval | Synonyms: recognition |
| (noun) an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work | - |
| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, mention, quotation, reference |
| (noun) arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services | Synonyms: deferred payment |
| (noun) an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items | Synonyms: credit entry |
| (noun) money available for a client to borrow | - |
| (verb) have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of | - |
| (verb) give someone credit for something | - |
| (verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: accredit |
| (verb) enter as credit | - |
| creditable | (adjective) worthy of often limited commendation | - |
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| creditably | (adverb) to a tolerably worthy extent | Synonyms: respectably |
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| credited | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') given credit for | - |
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| creditor | (noun) a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists | - |
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| credits | (noun) a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film) | - |
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| creditworthiness | (noun) trustworthiness with money as based on a person's credit history; a general qualification for borrowing | - |
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| creditworthy | (adjective) having an acceptable credit rating | Synonyms: responsible |
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| crossbreeding | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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| (noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: interbreeding, miscegenation |
| cyclopaedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia |
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| cyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia |
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| cypripedia | (noun) a plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium | - |
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| dedicate | (verb) set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church | - |
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| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, devote, give |
| (verb) inscribe or address by way of compliment | - |
| (verb) open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building | - |
| dedicated | (adjective) devoted to a cause or ideal or purpose | - |
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| (adjective) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose | Synonyms: consecrate, consecrated |
| dedication | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: allegiance, commitment, loyalty |
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| (noun) complete and wholehearted fidelity | - |
| (noun) a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something | Synonyms: inscription |
| (noun) a message that makes a pledge | Synonyms: commitment |
| (noun) a ceremony in which something (as a building) is dedicated to some goal or purpose | - |
| dedifferentiate | (verb) lose specialization in form or function | - |
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| dedifferentiated | (adjective) having experienced or undergone dedifferentiation or the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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| dedifferentiation | (noun) the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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| discredit | (noun) the state of being held in low esteem | Synonyms: disrepute |
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| (verb) reject as false; refuse to accept | Synonyms: disbelieve |
| (verb) cause to be distrusted or disbelieved | - |
| (verb) damage the reputation of | Synonyms: disgrace |
| discreditable | (adjective) tending to bring discredit or disrepute; blameworthy | - |
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| discreditably | (adverb) in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree | Synonyms: disgracefully, dishonorably, dishonourably, ignominiously, ingloriously, shamefully |
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| discredited | (adjective) suffering shame | Synonyms: disgraced, dishonored, shamed |
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| (adjective) being unjustly brought into disrepute | Synonyms: damaged |
| 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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| edibility | (noun) the property of being fit to eat | Synonyms: edibleness |
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| edible | (adjective) suitable for use as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable |
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| (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable, pabulum, victual, victuals |
| edibleness | (noun) the property of being fit to eat | Synonyms: edibility |
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| edict | (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, fiat, order, rescript |
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| (noun) a formal or authoritative proclamation | - |
| edification | (noun) uplifting enlightenment | Synonyms: sophistication |
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| edifice | (noun) a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place | Synonyms: building |
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| edified | (adjective) instructed and encouraged in moral, intellectual, and spiritual improvement | - |
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| edify | (verb) make understand | Synonyms: enlighten |
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| edifying | (adjective) enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement | Synonyms: enlightening |
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| edit | (verb) prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting | Synonyms: redact |
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| (verb) cut and assemble the components of | Synonyms: cut, edit out |
| (verb) cut or eliminate | Synonyms: blue-pencil, delete |
| (verb) supervise the publication of | - |
| edited | (adjective) improved or corrected by critical editing | Synonyms: emended |
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| editing | (noun) putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form | Synonyms: redaction |
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| edition | (noun) something a little different from others of the same type | Synonyms: variant, variation, version |
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| (noun) an issue of a newspaper | - |
| (noun) the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published | - |
| (noun) all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time | - |
| editor | (noun) (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data | Synonyms: editor program |
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| (noun) a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine) | Synonyms: editor in chief |
| editorial | (adjective) of or relating to an article stating opinions or giving perspectives | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of an editor | - |
| (noun) an article giving opinions or perspectives | Synonyms: column, newspaper column |
| editorialise | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialize |
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| editorialist | (noun) a journalist who writes editorials | Synonyms: columnist |
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| editorialize | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialise |
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| editorially | (adverb) by means of an editorial | - |
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| editorship | (noun) the position of editor | - |
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| encyclopaedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopedia |
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| encyclopaedic | (adjective) comprehensive in scope or content (as an encyclopedia) | Synonyms: encyclopedic |
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| encyclopaedism | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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| encyclopaedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopedist |
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| encyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopaedia |
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| encyclopedic | (adjective) comprehensive in scope or content (as an encyclopedia) | Synonyms: encyclopaedic |
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| encyclopedism | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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| encyclopedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopaedist |
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| ethanediol | (noun) a sweet but poisonous syrupy liquid used as an antifreeze and solvent | Synonyms: ethylene glycol, glycol |
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| exceeding | (adjective) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | Synonyms: exceptional, olympian, prodigious, surpassing |
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| exceedingly | (adverb) to an extreme degree | Synonyms: deathly, extremely, super |
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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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| expedite | (verb) speed up the progress of; facilitate | Synonyms: hasten |
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| (verb) process fast and efficiently | - |
| expedition | (noun) a journey organized for a particular purpose | - |
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| (noun) a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country | Synonyms: hostile expedition, military expedition |
| (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
| (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch, expeditiousness |
| (noun) an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose | - |
| expeditionary | (adjective) (used of military forces) designed for military operations abroad | - |
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| expeditious | (adjective) marked by speed and efficiency | - |
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| expeditiously | (adverb) with efficiency; in an efficient manner | Synonyms: efficiently |
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