| 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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| accelerando | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in tempo | - |
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| (noun) a gradually increasing tempo of music | - |
| (adverb) with increasing speed | - |
| accelerate | (verb) move faster | Synonyms: quicken, speed, speed up |
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| (verb) cause to move faster | Synonyms: speed, speed up |
| accelerated | (adjective) speeded up, as of an academic course | - |
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| acceleration | (noun) the act of accelerating; increasing the speed | Synonyms: quickening, speedup |
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| (noun) an increase in rate of change | - |
| (noun) (physics) a rate of increase of velocity | - |
| accelerative | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: acceleratory |
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| accelerator | (noun) a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine | Synonyms: throttle, throttle valve |
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| (noun) a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles | Synonyms: atom smasher, particle accelerator |
| (noun) a pedal that controls the throttle valve | Synonyms: accelerator pedal, gas, gas pedal, gun, throttle |
| (noun) (chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected | Synonyms: catalyst |
| acceleratory | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: accelerative |
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| accelerometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring the acceleration of aircraft or rockets | - |
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| ageless | (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
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| agelessness | (noun) the quality of being timeless and eternal | - |
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| allele | (noun) (genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and that control the same character | Synonyms: allelomorph |
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| anele | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anoint, embrocate, inunct, oil |
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| angiotelectasia | (noun) dilation and enlargement of arterioles | - |
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| antielectron | (noun) an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation | Synonyms: positron |
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| aposelene | (noun) apoapsis in orbit around the moon | Synonyms: apolune |
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| appareled | (adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | Synonyms: attired, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed |
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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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| 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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| aweless | (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: awless, disrespectful |
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| (adjective) devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence | Synonyms: awless |
| baddeleyite | (noun) a mineral consisting of zirconium oxide | - |
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| bandelet | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelette, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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| bandelette | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelet, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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| barelegged | (adjective) having the legs uncovered by clothing | - |
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| barreled | (adjective) put in or stored in a barrel | Synonyms: barrelled |
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| (adjective) (of an arrow) tapered toward both ends | Synonyms: barrelled |
| baseless | (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild |
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| beleaguer | (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: besiege, circumvent, hem in, surround |
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| (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, bug, pester, tease |
| beleaguering | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: besieging, military blockade, siege |
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| belemnite | (noun) a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae | - |
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| belemnitic | (adjective) of or relating to belemnites | - |
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| bioelectricity | (noun) electric phenomena in animals or plants | - |
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| blameless | (adjective) free of guilt; not subject to blame | Synonyms: inculpable, irreproachable, unimpeachable |
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| blamelessly | (adverb) in an irreproachable and blameless manner | Synonyms: irreproachably |
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| blamelessness | (noun) a state of innocence | Synonyms: guiltlessness, inculpability, inculpableness |
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| blastocele | (noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula | Synonyms: blastocoel, blastocoele, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity |
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| blastocoele | (noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula | Synonyms: blastocele, blastocoel, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity |
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| boneless | (adjective) being without a bone or bones | - |
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| bonelet | (noun) a small bone; especially one in the middle ear | Synonyms: ossicle, ossiculum |
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| bracelet | (noun) jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration | Synonyms: bangle |
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| (noun) a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist | Synonyms: watch bracelet, watchband, watchstrap, wristband |
| capelet | (noun) a small cape that covers the shoulders and is worn predominantly by women. | - |
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| careless | (adjective) marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful | - |
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| (adjective) effortless and unstudied | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration | Synonyms: regardless |
| carelessly | (adverb) without caution or prudence | Synonyms: incautiously |
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| (adverb) in a rakish manner | Synonyms: raffishly, rakishly |
| (adverb) without care or concern | Synonyms: heedlessly |
| carelessness | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: neglect, negligence, nonperformance |
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| (noun) the quality of not being careful or taking pains | Synonyms: sloppiness |
| casteless | (adjective) not belonging to or having been expelled from a caste and thus having no place or status in society | Synonyms: outcaste |
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| causeless | (adjective) having no cause or apparent cause | Synonyms: fortuitous, uncaused |
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| (adjective) having no justifying cause or reason | Synonyms: reasonless |
| ceaseless | (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting |
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| ceaselessly | (adverb) with unflagging resolve | Synonyms: continuously, endlessly, incessantly, unceasingly, unendingly |
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| ceaselessness | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: continuousness, incessancy, incessantness |
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| celebrant | (noun) an officiating priest celebrating the Eucharist | - |
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| (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrater, celebrator |
| celebrate | (verb) have a celebration | Synonyms: fete |
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| (verb) behave as expected during of holidays or rites | Synonyms: keep, observe |
| (verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: lionise, lionize |
| celebrated | (adjective) having an illustrious past | Synonyms: historied, storied |
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| (adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: famed, famous, far-famed, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned |
| celebrater | (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrant, celebrator |
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| celebration | (noun) any joyous diversion | Synonyms: festivity |
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| (noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: solemnisation, solemnization |
| (noun) a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event | Synonyms: jubilation |
| celebrator | (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrant, celebrater |
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| celebratory | (adjective) used for celebrating | - |
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| celebrity | (noun) a widely known person | Synonyms: famous person |
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| (noun) the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed | Synonyms: fame, renown |
| celecoxib | (noun) a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Celebrex) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract | Synonyms: Celebrex |
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| celeriac | (noun) thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant | Synonyms: celery root |
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| (noun) grown for its thickened edible aromatic root | Synonyms: Apium graveolens rapaceum, celery root, knob celery, root celery, turnip-rooted celery |
| celerity | (noun) a rate that is rapid | Synonyms: quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness |
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| celery | (noun) stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning | - |
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| (noun) widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked | Synonyms: Apium graveolens dulce, cultivated celery |
| celesta | (noun) a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard | - |
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| celestial | (adjective) relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven | Synonyms: heavenly |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the sky | Synonyms: heavenly |
| (adjective) of heaven or the spirit | Synonyms: ethereal, supernal |
| celestite | (noun) a mineral consisting of strontium sulphate | - |
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| chamaeleon | (noun) lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue | Synonyms: chameleon |
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| chameleon | (noun) lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue | Synonyms: chamaeleon |
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| (noun) a changeable or inconstant person | - |
| changeless | (adjective) not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature | Synonyms: immutable |
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| (adjective) unvarying in nature | Synonyms: constant, invariant, unvarying |
| (adjective) remaining the same for indefinitely long times | Synonyms: unalterable |
| changelessness | (noun) the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged | Synonyms: unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness |
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| (noun) the property of remaining unchanged | - |
| chiseled | (adjective) having a clean and distinct outline as if precisely cut along the edges | Synonyms: well-defined |
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| chiseler | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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| clientele | (noun) customers collectively | Synonyms: business, patronage |
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| clueless | (adjective) totally uninformed about what is going on; not having even a clue from which to infer what is occurring | - |
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| coelenterate | (noun) radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms | Synonyms: cnidarian |
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| coelenteron | (noun) the saclike body cavity of a coelenterate | - |
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| colpocele | (noun) hernia projecting into the vagina | Synonyms: vaginocele |
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| colpocystocele | (noun) hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes through the wall of the vagina; sometimes occurs after childbirth | Synonyms: cystocele |
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| conscienceless | (adjective) lacking a conscience | Synonyms: unconscionable |
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| corselet | (noun) a piece of body armor for the trunk; usually consists of a breastplate and back piece | Synonyms: corslet |
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| creaseless | (adjective) used especially of fabrics | Synonyms: uncreased |
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| cystocele | (noun) hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes through the wall of the vagina; sometimes occurs after childbirth | Synonyms: colpocystocele |
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| cytoskeleton | (noun) a microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence | - |
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| dateless | (adjective) having no known beginning and presumably no end | Synonyms: endless, sempiternal |
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| (adjective) unaffected by time | Synonyms: timeless |
| (adjective) not bearing a date | Synonyms: undated |
| (adjective) of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date | - |
| decelerate | (verb) lose velocity; move more slowly | Synonyms: retard, slow, slow down, slow up |
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| (verb) reduce the speed of | Synonyms: slow down |
| deceleration | (noun) the act of decelerating; decreasing the speed | - |
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| (noun) a decrease in rate of change | Synonyms: retardation, slowing |
| (noun) (physics) a rate of decrease in velocity | - |
| defenceless | (adjective) lacking weapons for self-defense | Synonyms: defenseless |
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| (adjective) lacking protection or support | Synonyms: defenseless |
| (adverb) without defense | Synonyms: defencelessly, defenseless, defenselessly |
| defencelessly | (adverb) without defense | Synonyms: defenceless, defenseless, defenselessly |
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| defencelessness | (noun) the property of being helpless in the face of attack | Synonyms: defenselessness, unprotectedness |
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| defenseless | (adjective) lacking weapons for self-defense | Synonyms: defenceless |
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| (adjective) having no protecting or concealing cover | Synonyms: naked |
| (adjective) lacking protection or support | Synonyms: defenceless |
| (adverb) without defense | Synonyms: defenceless, defencelessly, defenselessly |
| defenselessly | (adverb) without defense | Synonyms: defenceless, defencelessly, defenseless |
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| defenselessness | (noun) the property of being helpless in the face of attack | Synonyms: defencelessness, unprotectedness |
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| delectability | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: deliciousness, lusciousness, toothsomeness |
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| delectable | (adjective) capable of arousing sexual desire | Synonyms: sexually attractive |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy |
| delectation | (noun) act of receiving pleasure from something | Synonyms: enjoyment |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction | Synonyms: delight |
| delegacy | (noun) the appointment of a delegate | - |
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| (noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegation, deputation, mission |
| (noun) the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent | Synonyms: agency, representation |
| delegate | (noun) a person appointed or elected to represent others | - |
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| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, depute, designate |
| (verb) transfer power to someone | Synonyms: depute |
| delegating | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegation, deputation, relegating, relegation |
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| delegation | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegating, deputation, relegating, relegation |
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| (noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegacy, deputation, mission |
| delete | (verb) cut or eliminate | Synonyms: blue-pencil, edit |
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| (verb) wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information | Synonyms: erase |
| (verb) remove or make invisible | Synonyms: cancel |
| deleterious | (adjective) harmful to living things | Synonyms: hurtful, injurious |
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| deletion | (noun) the act of deleting something written or printed | - |
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| (noun) the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage | Synonyms: cut, excision |
| (noun) (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome | - |
| (noun) any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases | Synonyms: omission |