| 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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| ableism | (noun) discrimination in favor of the able-bodied | Synonyms: able-bodiedism, able-bodism, ablism |
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| abseil | (noun) (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body | Synonyms: rappel |
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| (verb) descend by means of a rappel | Synonyms: rappel, rope down |
| abseiler | (noun) a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point | Synonyms: rappeller |
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| absenteeism | (noun) habitual absence from work | - |
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| acmeism | (noun) An early 20th-century Russian school of poetry that rejected the vagueness and emotionality of Symbolism in favor of Imagist clarity and texture. | - |
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| acneiform | (adjective) resembling acne | - |
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| acrolein | (noun) a pungent colorless unsaturated liquid aldehyde made from propene | Synonyms: propenal |
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| ageing | (adjective) growing old | Synonyms: aging, senescent |
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| (noun) the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age | Synonyms: aging, senescence |
| (noun) acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time | Synonyms: aging, ripening |
| ageism | (noun) discrimination on the basis of a person's age | Synonyms: agism |
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| airfreight | (verb) transport (cargo) by air | Synonyms: air-freight, air-ship |
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| allogeneic | (adjective) denoting or relating to cells or tissues from individuals belonging to the same species but genetically dissimilar (and hence immunologically incompatible) | - |
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| amenorrheic | (adjective) related to the suppression of normal menstrual flow for any reason other than pregnancy | Synonyms: amenorrheal, amenorrhoeal, amenorrhoeic |
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| amenorrhoeic | (adjective) related to the suppression of normal menstrual flow for any reason other than pregnancy | Synonyms: amenorrheal, amenorrheic, amenorrhoeal |
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| aniseikonia | (noun) visual defect in which the shape and size of an ocular image differ in the two eyes | - |
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| aniseikonic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the visual defect aniseikonia | - |
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| antiapartheid | (adjective) opposing the policy of apartheid in South Africa | - |
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| apartheid | (noun) a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa | - |
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| apneic | (adjective) of or relating to apnea | Synonyms: apnoeic |
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| apnoeic | (adjective) of or relating to apnea | Synonyms: apneic |
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| apodeictic | (adjective) of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | Synonyms: apodictic |
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| apperceive | (verb) perceive in terms of a past experience | - |
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| araneidal | (adjective) relating to or resembling a spider | Synonyms: araneidan |
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| araneidan | (adjective) relating to or resembling a spider | Synonyms: araneidal |
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| ateleiosis | (noun) a form of infantilism characterized by physical underdevelopment but normal intelligence | Synonyms: ateliosis |
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| ateleiotic | (adjective) of or relating to ateleiosis | - |
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| atheism | (noun) a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods | - |
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| atheist | (adjective) related to or characterized by or given to atheism | Synonyms: atheistic, atheistical |
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| (noun) someone who does not believe in the existence of a god | - |
| atheistic | (adjective) related to or characterized by or given to atheism | Synonyms: atheist, atheistical |
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| (adjective) rejecting any belief in gods | Synonyms: atheistical, unbelieving |
| atheistical | (adjective) related to or characterized by or given to atheism | Synonyms: atheist, atheistic |
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| (adjective) rejecting any belief in gods | Synonyms: atheistic, unbelieving |
| aweigh | (adjective) (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom | Synonyms: atrip |
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| (adjective) (used of an anchor) hanging clear of the bottom | - |
| bantamweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the flyweight division and lighter than those in the featherweight division. | - |
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| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs 115-126 pounds | - |
| beige | (adjective) of a light greyish-brown color | - |
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| (noun) a very light brown | Synonyms: ecru |
| beigel | (noun) (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust | Synonyms: bagel |
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| beignet | (noun) a deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar | Synonyms: French fritter |
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| being | (noun) a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently | Synonyms: organism |
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| (noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: beingness, existence, face of the earth |
| beingness | (noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, existence, face of the earth |
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| blueing | (noun) a process that makes something blue (or bluish) | Synonyms: bluing |
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| (noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | Synonyms: blue, bluing |
| blueish | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | Synonyms: blue, bluish |
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| bobsleigh | (noun) a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism | Synonyms: bob, bobsled |
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| (noun) formerly two short sleds coupled together | Synonyms: bobsled |
| buddleia | (noun) tropical shrub having clusters of white or violet or yellow flowers | Synonyms: butterfly bush |
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| caffein | (noun) a bitter alkaloid found in coffee and tea that is responsible for their stimulating effects | Synonyms: caffeine |
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| caffeine | (noun) a bitter alkaloid found in coffee and tea that is responsible for their stimulating effects | Synonyms: caffein |
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| caffeinic | (adjective) of or containing caffein | - |
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| caffeinism | (noun) poisoning resulting from excessive intake of caffeine containing products | Synonyms: caffeine intoxication |
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| calceiform | (adjective) of slipper-shaped blossoms | Synonyms: calceolate |
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| canoeist | (noun) someone paddling a canoe | Synonyms: paddler |
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| casein | (noun) a water-base paint made with a protein precipitated from milk | Synonyms: casein paint |
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| (noun) a milk protein used in making e.g. plastics and adhesives | - |
| ceibo | (noun) small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered | Synonyms: common coral tree, cry-baby tree, crybaby tree, Erythrina crista-galli |
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| ceilidh | (noun) an informal social gathering at which there is Scottish or Irish folk music and singing and folk dancing and story telling | - |
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| ceiling | (noun) the overhead upper surface of a covered space | - |
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| (noun) (meteorology) altitude of the lowest layer of clouds | - |
| (noun) maximum altitude at which a plane can fly (under specified conditions) | - |
| (noun) an upper limit on what is allowed | Synonyms: cap, roof |
| ceilinged | (adjective) provided with a ceiling especially the overhead interior surface | - |
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| checkrein | (noun) a rein designed to keep the horse's head in the desired position | Synonyms: bearing rein |
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| cheilitis | (noun) inflammation and cracking of the skin of the lips | - |
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| cheiloschisis | (noun) a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip | Synonyms: cleft lip, harelip |
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| cheiloscopy | (noun) a forensic investigation technique that deals with identification of humans based on lip traces. | - |
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| cheilosis | (noun) a disorder of the lips marked by scaling and fissures at the corners of the mouth; caused by a deficiency of riboflavin | Synonyms: perleche |
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| cleistocarp | (noun) closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Erysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration | Synonyms: cleistothecium |
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| cleistogamic | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy | Synonyms: cleistogamous |
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| cleistogamous | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy | Synonyms: cleistogamic |
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| cleistogamy | (noun) the production of small nonopening self-pollinating flowers | - |
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| cleistothecium | (noun) closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Erysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration | Synonyms: cleistocarp |
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| clupeid | (noun) any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas | Synonyms: clupeid fish |
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| codeine | (noun) derivative of opium; used as an antitussive (to relieve coughing) and an analgesic (to relieve pain) | - |
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| conceit | (noun) the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride | Synonyms: conceitedness, vanity |
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| (noun) a witty or ingenious turn of phrase | - |
| (noun) an artistic device or effect | - |
| (noun) an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things | - |
| (noun) feelings of excessive pride | Synonyms: amour propre, self-love, vanity |
| conceited | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, swollen, vain |
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| conceitedly | (adverb) with conceit; in a conceited manner | Synonyms: self-conceitedly |
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| conceitedness | (noun) the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride | Synonyms: conceit, vanity |
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| conceivability | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivableness |
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| conceivable | (adjective) capable of being imagined | Synonyms: imaginable |
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| conceivableness | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivability |
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| conceivably | (adverb) within the realm of possibility | - |
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| conceive | (verb) become pregnant; undergo conception | - |
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| (verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: believe, consider, think |
| (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceptualise, conceptualize, gestate |
| conceiver | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: mastermind, originator |
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| contemporaneity | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneousness, modernism, modernity, modernness |
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| (noun) the quality of belonging to the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneousness |
| coreid | (noun) a true bug | Synonyms: coreid bug |
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| coseismal | (adjective) being where earthquake waves arrive simultaneously | Synonyms: coseismic |
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| coseismic | (adjective) being where earthquake waves arrive simultaneously | Synonyms: coseismal |
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| counterfeit | (adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: imitative |
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| (noun) a copy that is represented as the original | Synonyms: forgery |
| (verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: fake, forge |
| counterfeiter | (noun) someone who makes copies illegally | Synonyms: forger |
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| counterweight | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, equaliser, equalizer |
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| (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterpose |
| cruiserweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the middleweight division and lighter than those in the super heavyweight division. | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
| cuneiform | (adjective) of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones) | - |
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| (adjective) shaped like a wedge | Synonyms: cuneal, wedge-shaped |
| (noun) an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | - |
| cysteine | (noun) an amino acid containing sulfur that is found in most proteins; oxidizes on exposure to air to form cystine | - |
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| decaffeinate | (verb) remove caffeine from (coffee) | - |
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| deceit | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deception, dissembling, dissimulation |
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| (noun) the quality of being fraudulent | Synonyms: fraudulence |
| (noun) a misleading falsehood | Synonyms: deception, misrepresentation |
| deceitful | (adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: ambidextrous, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced |
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| (adjective) involving deception | Synonyms: fallacious, fraudulent |
| deceitfully | (adverb) in a corrupt and deceitful manner | Synonyms: dishonestly, venally |
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| deceitfulness | (noun) the quality of being deceitful | - |
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| deceive | (verb) cause someone to believe an untruth | Synonyms: betray, lead astray |
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| (verb) be false to; be dishonest with | Synonyms: cozen, delude, lead on |
| deceiver | (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, slicker, trickster |
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| deceivingly | (adverb) in a misleading way | Synonyms: deceptively, misleadingly |
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| deice | (verb) make or become free of frost or ice | Synonyms: de-ice, defrost |
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| deicer | (noun) heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane) | Synonyms: defroster |
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| deictic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a word whose reference depends on the circumstances of its use | - |
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| (noun) a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs | Synonyms: deictic word |
| deific | (adjective) characterized by divine or godlike nature | - |
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| deification | (noun) the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) | Synonyms: apotheosis, exaltation |
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| (noun) an embodiment of the qualities of a god | - |
| (noun) the condition of being treated like a god | - |
| deify | (verb) exalt to the position of a God | - |
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| (verb) consider as a god or godlike | - |
| deign | (verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: condescend, descend |
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| deinocheirus | (noun) lightly built medium-sized theropod with long limbs and neck | - |
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