| acarpellous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpelous |
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| acellular | (adjective) not made up of or divided into cells | Synonyms: noncellular |
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| amarelle | (noun) pale red sour cherry with colorless or nearly colorless juice | - |
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| (noun) any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice | Synonyms: Prunus cerasus caproniana |
| amberbell | (noun) eastern North American dogtooth having solitary yellow flowers marked with brown or purple and spotted interiors | Synonyms: Erythronium americanum, trout lily, yellow adder's tongue |
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| antebellum | (adjective) belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War | - |
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| antisatellite | (adjective) of or relating to a system to destroy satellites in orbit | Synonyms: ASAT |
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| appellant | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellate |
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| (noun) the party who appeals a decision of a lower court | Synonyms: plaintiff in error |
| appellate | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellant |
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| appellation | (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellative, denomination, designation |
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| (noun) a geographical indication used to identify where the grapes for a wine are grown | - |
| appellative | (adjective) pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun | - |
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| (adjective) inclined to or serving for the giving of names | Synonyms: naming |
| (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, denomination, designation |
| arcella | (noun) an amoeba-like protozoan with a chitinous shell resembling an umbrella | - |
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| avellan | (adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts | Synonyms: avellane |
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| avellane | (adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts | Synonyms: avellan |
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| bagatelle | (noun) a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over | Synonyms: bar billiards |
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| (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: fluff, frippery, frivolity |
| (noun) a light piece of music for piano | - |
| barbell | (noun) a bar to which heavy discs are attached at each end; used in weightlifting | - |
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| barbellate | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| bargello | (noun) needlepoint embroidery stitch that produces zigzag lines | Synonyms: flame stitch |
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| barrelled | (adjective) put in or stored in a barrel | Synonyms: barreled |
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| (adjective) (of an arrow) tapered toward both ends | Synonyms: barreled |
| bdellium | (noun) aromatic gum resin; similar to myrrh | - |
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| bedfellow | (noun) a person with whom you share a bed | Synonyms: bedmate |
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| (noun) a temporary associate | - |
| bell | (noun) a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck | - |
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| (noun) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed | Synonyms: buzzer, doorbell |
| (noun) the flared opening of a tubular device | - |
| (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument | Synonyms: chime, gong |
| (noun) the sound of a bell being struck | Synonyms: toll |
| (noun) the shape of a bell | Synonyms: bell shape, campana |
| (noun) (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. | Synonyms: ship's bell |
| (verb) attach a bell to | - |
| belladonna | (noun) an alkaloidal extract or tincture of the poisonous belladonna plant that is used medicinally | - |
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| (noun) perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine | Synonyms: Atropa belladonna, belladonna plant, deadly nightshade |
| bellarmine | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: greybeard, long-beard, longbeard |
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| bellbird | (noun) any of several tropical American birds of the genus Procnias having a bell-like call | - |
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| bellbottom | (adjective) (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom | Synonyms: bell-bottom, bell-bottomed |
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| bellboy | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellhop, bellman |
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| belle | (noun) a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals | - |
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| belletristic | (adjective) written and regarded for aesthetic value rather than content | - |
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| bellflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: campanula |
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| bellhop | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellboy, bellman |
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| bellicose | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, combative |
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| bellicoseness | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicosity |
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| bellicosity | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicoseness |
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| bellied | (adjective) having a belly | - |
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| (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellying, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
| belligerence | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, pugnacity |
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| (noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerency |
| belligerency | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: hostilities |
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| (noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerence |
| belligerent | (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: aggressive |
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| (adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: militant, war-ridden, warring |
| (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
| belligerently | (adverb) with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner | Synonyms: hostilely |
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| belling | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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| bellman | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellboy, bellhop |
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| bellow | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| (verb) shout loudly and without restraint | Synonyms: bawl |
| (verb) make a loud noise, as of animal | Synonyms: roar |
| bellower | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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| bellowing | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| bellows | (noun) (used in the plural) a mechanical device that blows a strong current of air; used to make a fire burn more fiercely or to sound a musical instrument | - |
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| bellpull | (noun) a handle or cord that is pulled to ring a doorbell or a servant's bell etc. | - |
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| bellwether | (noun) sheep that leads the herd often wearing a bell | - |
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| (noun) someone who assumes leadership of a movement or activity | - |
| bellwort | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: merry bells, wild oats |
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| belly | (noun) the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish | - |
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| (noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: abdomen, stomach, venter |
| (noun) a protruding abdomen | Synonyms: paunch |
| (noun) the hollow inside of something | - |
| (noun) a part that bulges deeply | - |
| (verb) swell out or bulge out | Synonyms: belly out |
| bellyache | (noun) an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region | Synonyms: gastralgia, stomach ache, stomachache |
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| (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
| bellyacher | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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| bellyband | (noun) a strap around the belly of a draft animal holding the shafts of a wagon | - |
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| (noun) a cloth band that is worn around the waist (as on infants until the navel has healed) | - |
| bellybutton | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, navel, omphalos, omphalus, umbilicus |
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| bellyful | (noun) an undesirable overabundance | - |
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| bellying | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
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| bellylaugh | (verb) laugh a deep, hearty laugh | - |
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| bellyless | (adjective) lacking a prominent belly | Synonyms: flat-bellied |
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| bestseller | (noun) a book that has had a large and rapid sale | Synonyms: best seller |
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| biflagellate | (adjective) having two flagella | - |
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| bluebell | (noun) one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas | Synonyms: Eustoma grandiflorum, prairie gentian, tulip gentian |
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| (noun) perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: Campanula rotundifolia, harebell |
| (noun) sometimes placed in genus Scilla | Synonyms: harebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
| bombshell | (noun) an explosive bomb or artillery shell | - |
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| (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: thunderbolt, thunderclap |
| (noun) an entertainer who has a sensational effect | - |
| bookseller | (noun) the proprietor of a bookstore | - |
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| bordello | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bawdyhouse, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| bowelless | (adjective) ruthless in competition | Synonyms: cutthroat, fierce |
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| brucellosis | (noun) an infectious disease of domestic animals often resulting in spontaneous abortion; transmittable to human beings | Synonyms: Bang's disease, contagious abortion |
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| (noun) infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache | Synonyms: Gibraltar fever, Malta fever, Mediterranean fever, Rock fever, undulant fever |
| camellia | (noun) any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers | Synonyms: camelia |
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| cancellate | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellated, cancellous |
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| (adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellated, clathrate |
| cancellated | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellous |
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| (adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellate, clathrate |
| cancellation | (noun) the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement | - |
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| (noun) the speech act of revoking or annulling or making void | - |
| cancelled | (adjective) (of events) no longer planned or scheduled | Synonyms: off |
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| cancellous | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellated |
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| canella | (noun) highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic | Synonyms: canella bark, white cinnamon |
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| cannelloni | (noun) tubular pasta filled with meat or cheese | - |
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| cappelletti | (noun) small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings | Synonyms: ravioli |
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| carpellary | (adjective) belonging to or forming or containing carpels | - |
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| carpellate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of carpels | Synonyms: pistillate |
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| carrell | (noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrel, cubicle, stall |
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| castellated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castled, crenelated, embattled |
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| cell | (noun) (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals | - |
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| (noun) a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction | Synonyms: electric cell |
| (noun) a room where a prisoner is kept | Synonyms: jail cell, prison cell |
| (noun) small room in which a monk or nun lives | Synonyms: cubicle |
| (noun) any small compartment | - |
| (noun) a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver | Synonyms: cellphone, cellular phone, cellular telephone, mobile phone |
| (noun) a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement | Synonyms: cadre |
| cellar | (noun) the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage | Synonyms: basement |
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| (noun) storage space where wines are stored | Synonyms: wine cellar |
| (noun) an excavation where root vegetables are stored | Synonyms: root cellar |
| cellarage | (noun) a storage area in a cellar | - |
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| (noun) a charge for storing goods in a cellar | - |
| cellaret | (noun) sideboard with compartments for holding bottles | Synonyms: minibar |
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| cellblock | (noun) a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) | Synonyms: ward |
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| cellist | (noun) someone who plays a violoncello | Synonyms: violoncellist |
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| cello | (noun) a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing | Synonyms: violoncello |
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| cellophane | (noun) a transparent paperlike product that is impervious to moisture and used to wrap candy or cigarettes etc. | - |
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| cellphone | (noun) a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver | Synonyms: cell, cellular phone, cellular telephone, mobile phone |
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| cellular | (adjective) characterized by or divided into or containing cells or compartments (the smallest organizational or structural unit of an organism or organization) | - |
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| (adjective) relating to cells | - |
| cellularity | (noun) the state of having cells | - |
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| cellulite | (noun) lumpy deposits of body fat especially on women's thighs etc. | - |
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| cellulitis | (noun) an inflammation of body tissue (especially that below the skin) characterized by fever and swelling and redness and pain | - |
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| celluloid | (adjective) artificial as if portrayed in a film | Synonyms: synthetic |
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| (noun) a medium that disseminates moving pictures | Synonyms: cinema, film |
| (noun) highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics | - |
| cellulose | (noun) a polysaccharide that is the chief constituent of all plant tissues and fibers | - |
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| cellulosic | (noun) a plastic made from cellulose (or a derivative of cellulose) | - |
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| cellulosid | (adjective) of or containing or made from cellulose | - |
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| cerebellar | (adjective) relating to or associated with the cerebellum | - |
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| cerebellum | (noun) a major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans | - |
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| chancellery | (noun) a government building housing the office of a chancellor | - |
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| chancellor | (noun) the person who is head of government (in several countries) | Synonyms: premier, prime minister |
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| (noun) the honorary or titular head of a university | - |
| chancellorship | (noun) the office of chancellor | - |
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| chandelle | (noun) a flight maneuver consisting of a steep climbing turn executed to gain altitude while changing direction | - |
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| (verb) climb suddenly and steeply | - |