| aqueduct | (noun) a conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley | - |
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| coeducate | (verb) educate persons of both sexes together | Synonyms: co-educate |
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| coeducation | (noun) education of men and women in the same institutions | - |
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| coeducational | (adjective) attended by members of both sexes | Synonyms: co-ed |
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| credulity | (noun) tendency to believe readily | - |
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| credulous | (adjective) disposed to believe on little evidence | - |
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| (adjective) showing a lack of judgment or experience | - |
| credulously | (adverb) in a credulous manner | Synonyms: believingly |
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| credulousness | (noun) tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived | Synonyms: gullibility |
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| deduce | (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduct, derive, infer |
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| (verb) conclude by reasoning; in logic | Synonyms: infer |
| deducible | (adjective) capable of being deduced | - |
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| deduct | (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduce, derive, infer |
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| (verb) make a subtraction | Synonyms: subtract, take off |
| (verb) retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments | Synonyms: recoup, withhold |
| deductible | (adjective) acceptable as a deduction (especially as a tax deduction) | - |
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| (noun) a clause in an insurance policy that relieves the insurer of responsibility to pay the initial loss up to a stated amount | - |
| (noun) (taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax) | - |
| deduction | (noun) the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole) | Synonyms: subtraction |
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| (noun) the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise | Synonyms: discount, price reduction |
| (noun) reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) | Synonyms: deductive reasoning, synthesis |
| (noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: entailment, implication |
| (noun) an amount or percentage deducted | Synonyms: discount |
| (noun) a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket | Synonyms: tax deduction, tax write-off |
| deductive | (adjective) involving inferences from general principles | - |
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| (adjective) relating to logical deduction | - |
| educate | (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: develop, prepare, train |
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| (verb) give an education to | - |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, school, train |
| educated | (adjective) possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge) | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved | Synonyms: enlightened |
| educatee | (noun) a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution | Synonyms: pupil, student |
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| education | (noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy, teaching |
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| (noun) the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university) | - |
| (noun) the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) | Synonyms: breeding, training |
| (noun) knowledge acquired by learning and instruction | - |
| (noun) the gradual process of acquiring knowledge | - |
| educational | (adjective) relating to the process of education | - |
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| (adjective) providing knowledge | - |
| educationalist | (noun) a specialist in the theory of education | Synonyms: educationist |
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| educationally | (adverb) in an educational manner | - |
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| educationist | (noun) a specialist in the theory of education | Synonyms: educationalist |
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| educative | (adjective) resulting in education | - |
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| educator | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: pedagog, pedagogue |
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| educe | (verb) develop or evolve from a latent or potential state | Synonyms: derive |
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| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, elicit, evoke, extract |
| edulcorate | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, dulcorate, sweeten |
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| edutainment | (noun) entertainment that is intended to be educational | - |
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| incredulity | (noun) doubt about the truth of something | Synonyms: disbelief, mental rejection, scepticism, skepticism |
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| incredulous | (adjective) not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving | - |
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| incredulously | (adverb) in an incredulous manner | Synonyms: disbelievingly, unbelievingly |
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| irreducible | (adjective) incapable of being made smaller or simpler | - |
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| medulla | (noun) the inner part of an organ or structure in plant or animal | - |
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| (noun) lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (`bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata) | Synonyms: bulb, medulla oblongata |
| (noun) a white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers | Synonyms: myelin, myeline |
| medullary | (adjective) of or relating to the medulla of any body part | - |
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| (adjective) containing or consisting of or resembling bone marrow | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the medulla oblongata | - |
| medullated | (adjective) (of neurons) covered with a layer of myelin | Synonyms: myelinated |
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| medusa | (noun) one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles | Synonyms: medusan, medusoid |
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| medusan | (noun) one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles | Synonyms: medusa, medusoid |
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| medusoid | (adjective) relating to or resembling a medusa | - |
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| (noun) one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles | Synonyms: medusa, medusan |
| nondeductible | (adjective) not allowable as a deduction | - |
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| overcredulity | (noun) too much credulity | - |
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| overcredulous | (adjective) too credulous for your own good | - |
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| oxidoreductase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes oxidation-reduction | - |
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| oxidoreduction | (noun) a reversible chemical reaction in which one reaction is an oxidation and the reverse is a reduction | Synonyms: oxidation-reduction, redox |
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| peduncle | (noun) a bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain | Synonyms: cerebral peduncle |
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| (noun) stalk bearing an inflorescence or solitary flower | - |
| (noun) the thin process of tissue that attaches a polyp to the body | - |
| pedunculate | (adjective) having or growing on or from a peduncle or stalk | Synonyms: stalked |
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| procedural | (adjective) relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law | Synonyms: adjective |
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| (adjective) of or relating to procedure | - |
| procedure | (noun) a particular course of action intended to achieve a result | Synonyms: process |
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| (noun) a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings | - |
| (noun) a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work | Synonyms: operation |
| (noun) a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program | Synonyms: function, routine, subprogram, subroutine |
| reduce | (verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin |
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| (verb) cut down on; make a reduction in | Synonyms: bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, trim, trim back, trim down |
| (verb) narrow or limit | Synonyms: tighten |
| (verb) cook until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, concentrate |
| (verb) to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons | Synonyms: deoxidise, deoxidize |
| (verb) make smaller | Synonyms: scale down |
| (verb) reduce in size; reduce physically | Synonyms: shrink |
| (verb) make less complex | - |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, shorten |
| (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: cut, dilute, thin, thin out |
| (verb) be cooked until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, concentrate, decoct |
| (verb) be the essential element | Synonyms: boil down, come down |
| (verb) destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it | - |
| (verb) undergo meiosis | - |
| (verb) reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site | - |
| (verb) lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation | - |
| (verb) lessen and make more modest | - |
| (verb) simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another | - |
| (verb) bring to humbler or weaker state or condition | - |
| (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, quash, repress, subdue, subjugate |
| reduced | (adjective) made less in size or amount or degree | Synonyms: decreased |
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| (adjective) well below normal (especially in price) | Synonyms: rock-bottom |
| reducer | (noun) pipefitting that joins two pipes of different diameter | - |
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| (noun) a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver | Synonyms: reducing agent, reductant |
| reducible | (adjective) capable of being reduced | - |
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| reducing | (noun) any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent | Synonyms: reduction |
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| (noun) loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer | - |
| reductant | (noun) a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver | Synonyms: reducer, reducing agent |
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| reductase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyses the biochemical reduction of some specified substance | - |
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| reductio | (noun) (reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction | Synonyms: reductio ad absurdum |
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| reduction | (noun) the act of decreasing or reducing something | Synonyms: decrease, diminution, step-down |
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| (noun) the act of reducing complexity | Synonyms: simplification |
| (noun) any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent | Synonyms: reducing |
| reductionism | (noun) a theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components | - |
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| (noun) the analysis of complex things into simpler constituents | - |
| reductionist | (adjective) of or relating to the theory of reductionism | - |
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| reductive | (adjective) characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment | - |
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| reductivism | (noun) an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color | Synonyms: minimal art, minimalism |
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| redundance | (noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundancy |
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| redundancy | (noun) repetition of an act needlessly | - |
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| (noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundance |
| (noun) (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails | - |
| (noun) repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission | - |
| redundant | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus |
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| (adjective) repetition of same and identical sense with different and non-identical words | Synonyms: pleonastic, tautologic, tautological |
| reduplicate | (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, duplicate, repeat, replicate |
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| (verb) form by reduplication | Synonyms: geminate |
| reduplication | (noun) the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: reiteration |
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| (noun) a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word) | - |
| (noun) the syllable added in a reduplicated word form | - |
| (noun) repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next | Synonyms: anadiplosis |
| reduviid | (noun) a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals | Synonyms: assassin bug |
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| redux | (adjective) brought back | - |
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| reschedule | (verb) assign a new time and place for an event | - |
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| schedule | (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to | Synonyms: agenda, docket |
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| (noun) an ordered list of times at which things are planned to occur | - |
| (verb) plan for an activity or event | - |
| (verb) make a schedule; plan the time and place for events | - |
| scheduled | (adjective) planned or scheduled for some certain time or times | - |
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| scheduler | (noun) computer hardware that arranges jobs to be done by the computer in an appropriate order | - |
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| scheduling | (noun) setting an order and time for planned events | Synonyms: programing, programming |
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| seduce | (verb) lure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct | - |
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| (verb) induce to have sex | Synonyms: make, score |
| seducer | (noun) a man who takes advantage of women | Synonyms: ladies' man, lady killer |
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| (noun) a bad person who entices others into error or wrongdoing | - |
| seduction | (noun) enticing someone astray from right behavior | - |
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| (noun) an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone | Synonyms: conquest |
| seductive | (adjective) tending to entice into a desired action or state | - |
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| seductively | (adverb) in a tempting seductive manner | Synonyms: temptingly |
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| seductress | (noun) a woman who seduces | - |
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| sedulity | (noun) the quality of being constantly diligent and attentive | Synonyms: sedulousness |
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| sedulous | (adjective) marked by care and persistent effort | Synonyms: assiduous |
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| sedulously | (adverb) in a sedulous manner | - |
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| sedulousness | (noun) the quality of being constantly diligent and attentive | Synonyms: sedulity |
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| sedum | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Sedum | - |
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| speedup | (noun) the act of accelerating; increasing the speed | Synonyms: acceleration, quickening |
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| supersedure | (noun) act of replacing one person or thing by another especially one held to be superior | Synonyms: supersession |
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| undereducated | (adjective) poorly or insufficiently educated | - |
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| uneducated | (adjective) not having a good education | - |
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| unreduced | (adjective) not altered by reduction | - |
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| unscheduled | (adjective) not scheduled or not on a regular schedule | - |
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| unseductive | (adjective) not seductive | - |
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