| antisatellite | (adjective) of or relating to a system to destroy satellites in orbit | Synonyms: ASAT |
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| bdellium | (noun) aromatic gum resin; similar to myrrh | - |
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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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| camellia | (noun) any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers | Synonyms: camelia |
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| cellist | (noun) someone who plays a violoncello | Synonyms: violoncellist |
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| compelling | (adjective) tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument | - |
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| (adjective) driving or forcing | - |
| counselling | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, direction, guidance |
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| counterintelligence | (noun) intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism | - |
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| duellist | (noun) a person who fights duels | Synonyms: dueler, duelist, dueller |
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| dwelling | (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling house, habitation, home |
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| eellike | (adjective) resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous | - |
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| ellipse | (noun) a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it | Synonyms: oval |
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| ellipsis | (noun) omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences | Synonyms: eclipsis |
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| ellipsoid | (adjective) having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid | Synonyms: ellipsoidal, spheroidal |
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| (noun) a surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles | - |
| ellipsoidal | (adjective) having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid | Synonyms: ellipsoid, spheroidal |
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| elliptic | (adjective) characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements | Synonyms: elliptical |
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| (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse | - |
| elliptical | (adjective) characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements | Synonyms: elliptic |
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| (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
| ellipticity | (noun) the property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles | Synonyms: oblateness |
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| embellish | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embroider, lard, pad |
| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, grace |
| embellishment | (noun) the act of adding extraneous decorations to something | Synonyms: ornamentation |
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| (noun) a superfluous ornament | - |
| (noun) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail | Synonyms: embroidery |
| expelling | (noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: discharge, emission |
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| fedelline | (noun) extremely fine pasta thinner than vermicelli | - |
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| fingerspelling | (noun) an alphabet of manual signs | Synonyms: finger spelling |
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| foretelling | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: divination, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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| (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, prediction, prognostication |
| fortunetelling | (noun) the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment) | - |
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| fuelling | (noun) the activity of supplying or taking on fuel | Synonyms: fueling, refueling |
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| gibberellin | (noun) a plant hormone isolated from a fungus; used in promoting plant growth | - |
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| grovelling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, groveling, wormlike, wormy |
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| gruelling | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| hellion | (noun) a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man) | Synonyms: devil, heller |
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| hellish | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) (informal) very unpleasant | Synonyms: beastly, god-awful |
| hellishly | (adverb) diabolically | Synonyms: infernally |
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| hellishness | (noun) The property of being extremely bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying; resembling a nightmare. | Synonyms: nightmarishness |
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| hyperintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: superintelligence |
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| impelling | (adjective) markedly effective as if by emotional pressure | - |
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| indwelling | (adjective) existing or residing as an inner activating spirit or force or principle | - |
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| intelligence | (noun) the operation of gathering information about an enemy | Synonyms: intelligence activity, intelligence operation |
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| (noun) the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience | - |
| (noun) information about recent and important events | Synonyms: news, tidings, word |
| (noun) secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy) | Synonyms: intelligence information |
| (noun) a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy | Synonyms: intelligence agency, intelligence service |
| intelligent | (adjective) having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree | - |
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| (adjective) endowed with the capacity to reason | Synonyms: reasoning, thinking |
| (adjective) exercising or showing good judgment | Synonyms: healthy, level-headed, levelheaded, sound |
| (adjective) possessing sound knowledge | Synonyms: well-informed |
| intelligently | (adverb) in an intelligent manner | - |
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| intelligentsia | (noun) an educated and intellectual elite | Synonyms: clerisy |
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| intelligibility | (noun) the quality of language that is comprehensible | - |
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| intelligible | (adjective) well articulated or enunciated, and loud enough to be heard distinctly | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being apprehended or understood | Synonyms: apprehensible, graspable, perceivable, understandable |
| intelligibly | (adverb) in an intelligible manner | Synonyms: clearly, understandably |
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| jellied | (adjective) congealed into jelly; solidified by cooling | Synonyms: congealed, jelled |
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| jellify | (verb) become jelly | - |
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| (verb) make into jelly | Synonyms: jelly |
| lamellibranch | (adjective) bivalve | Synonyms: pelecypod, pelecypodous |
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| (noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: bivalve, pelecypod |
| mellifluous | (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: dulcet, honeyed, mellisonant, sweet |
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| mellisonant | (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, sweet |
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| mellitate | (noun) a salt of mellitic acid. | - |
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| misspelling | (noun) a spelling that is incorrect | - |
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| modelling | (noun) the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: model, modeling |
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| (noun) a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied | Synonyms: modeling, molding, moulding |
| (noun) sculpture produced by molding | Synonyms: clay sculpture, modeling, mold, molding, mould, moulding |
| nonbelligerent | (adjective) not directly at war | - |
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| panelling | (noun) a panel or section of panels in a wall or door | Synonyms: pane, paneling |
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| panellist | (noun) a member of a panel | Synonyms: panelist |
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| parcelling | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling |
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| patelliform | (adjective) shaped like a dish or pan | Synonyms: dish-shaped, dished |
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| pellicle | (noun) thin protective membrane in some protozoa | - |
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| pellitory | (noun) a small Mediterranean plant containing a volatile oil once used to relieve toothache | Synonyms: Anacyclus pyrethrum, pellitory-of-Spain |
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| (noun) herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers | Synonyms: Parietaria difusa, pellitory-of-the-wall, wall pellitory |
| potbellied | (adjective) having a large belly | Synonyms: abdominous, paunchy |
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| propelling | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propellent, propulsive |
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| quelling | (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: crushing, stifling, suppression |
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| ravelling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: raveling |
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| rebellion | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising |
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| (noun) refusal to accept some authority or code or convention | - |
| rebellious | (adjective) discontented as toward authority | Synonyms: disaffected, ill-affected, malcontent |
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| (adjective) participating in organized resistance to a constituted government | - |
| (adjective) resisting control or authority | - |
| rebelliously | (adverb) in a rebellious manner | Synonyms: contumaciously, defiantly |
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| rebelliousness | (noun) an insubordinate act | Synonyms: insubordination |
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| (noun) intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude | Synonyms: defiance |
| regnellidium | (noun) small latex-containing aquatic fern of southern Brazil | Synonyms: Regnellidium diphyllum |
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| repelling | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| repellingly | (adverb) in a repellent manner | Synonyms: repellently |
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| satellite | (adjective) surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power | - |
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| (noun) man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon | Synonyms: artificial satellite, orbiter |
| (noun) any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star | - |
| (noun) a person who follows or serves another | Synonyms: planet |
| (verb) broadcast or disseminate via satellite | - |
| selling | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: marketing, merchandising |
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| shelling | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment |
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| smelling | (adjective) (used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous | Synonyms: redolent |
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| (noun) the act of perceiving the odor of something | Synonyms: smell |
| spelling | (noun) forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage | - |
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| superintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: hyperintelligence |
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| swelling | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescence, intumescency |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance |
| (noun) an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement | Synonyms: lump, puffiness |
| teleselling | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telecommerce, telemarketing |
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| telling | (adjective) producing a strong effect | Synonyms: impressive |
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| (adjective) disclosing unintentionally something concealed | Synonyms: revealing, telltale |
| (adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: cogent, weighty |
| (noun) informing by words | Synonyms: apprisal, notification |
| (noun) an act of narration | Synonyms: recounting, relation |
| (noun) disclosing information or giving evidence about another | Synonyms: singing, tattle |
| tellingly | (adverb) in a telling manner | - |
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| tortellini | (noun) small ring-shaped stuffed pasta | - |
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| towelling | (noun) any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels | Synonyms: toweling |
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| travelling | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: travel, traveling |
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| trellis | (noun) latticework used to support climbing plants | Synonyms: treillage |
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| (verb) train on a trellis, as of a vine | - |
| umbellifer | (noun) any of numerous aromatic herbs of the family Umbelliferae | Synonyms: umbelliferous plant |
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| umbelliferous | (adjective) relating to or belonging to plants of the family Umbelliferae | - |
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| umbelliform | (adjective) resembling or in the form of an umbel | - |
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| unembellished | (adjective) lacking embellishment or ornamentation | Synonyms: bare, plain, spare, unornamented |
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| unintelligent | (adjective) lacking intelligence | Synonyms: stupid |
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| unintelligently | (adverb) in an unintelligent manner | - |
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| unintelligibility | (noun) incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible | - |
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| (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherence, incoherency |
| unintelligible | (adjective) poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise | - |
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| (adjective) hard or impossible to understand | Synonyms: opaque |
| unintelligibly | (adverb) in an unintelligible manner | Synonyms: ununderstandably |
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