| abstention | (noun) the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) | Synonyms: abstinence |
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| abstentious | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstinent |
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| accenting | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accentuation, emphasizing |
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| adventitia | (noun) an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue | Synonyms: tunic, tunica |
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| adventitial | (adjective) of or pertaining to the adventitia | - |
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| adventitious | (adjective) associated by chance and not an integral part | - |
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| adventive | (adjective) not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized | - |
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| aforementioned | (adjective) being the one previously mentioned or spoken of | Synonyms: aforesaid, said |
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| agential | (adjective) of or relating to an agent or agency | - |
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| amentia | (noun) extreme mental retardation | Synonyms: idiocy |
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| amentiferous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentaceous |
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| antiestablishmentism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentarianism |
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| apprentice | (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: learner, prentice |
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| (verb) be or work as an apprentice | - |
| apprenticed | (adjective) bound by contract | Synonyms: articled, bound, indentured |
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| apprenticeship | (noun) the position of apprentice | - |
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| argentic | (adjective) relating to compounds in which silver is bivalent | - |
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| argentiferous | (adjective) containing or yielding silver | - |
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| argentine | (noun) any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes | - |
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| argentinosaur | (noun) huge herbivorous dinosaur of Cretaceous found in Argentina | - |
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| argentite | (noun) a valuable silver ore consisting of silver sulfide (Ag2S) | - |
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| assentient | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assenting |
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| assenting | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assentient |
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| (noun) agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly) | Synonyms: accession |
| attention | (noun) the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something | Synonyms: aid, care, tending |
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| (noun) a courteous act indicating affection | - |
| (noun) a motionless erect stance with arms at the sides and feet together; assumed by military personnel during drill or review | - |
| (noun) the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others | Synonyms: attending |
| (noun) the faculty or power of mental concentration | - |
| (noun) a general interest that leads people to want to know more | - |
| attentional | (adjective) of or relating to attention | - |
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| attentive | (adjective) (often followed by `to') giving care or attention | - |
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| (adjective) taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention | Synonyms: heedful, paying attention, thoughtful |
| attentively | (adverb) with attention; in an attentive manner | - |
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| attentiveness | (noun) the trait of being considerate and thoughtful of others | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being observant and paying attention | - |
| (noun) paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: heed, paying attention, regard |
| authentic | (adjective) not counterfeit or copied | Synonyms: bona fide, unquestionable, veritable |
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| (adjective) conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief | Synonyms: reliable |
| authentically | (adverb) genuinely; with authority | Synonyms: genuinely |
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| authenticate | (verb) establish the authenticity of something | - |
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| authenticated | (adjective) established as genuine | Synonyms: attested, documented |
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| authentication | (noun) validating the authenticity of something or someone | Synonyms: certification |
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| (noun) a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity | Synonyms: assay-mark, hallmark |
| authenticator | (noun) one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity | Synonyms: appraiser |
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| authenticity | (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: genuineness, legitimacy |
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| cementite | (noun) a chemical compound that is a constituent of steel and cast iron; very hard and brittle | Synonyms: iron carbide |
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| cementitious | (adjective) like or relevant to or having the properties of cement | - |
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| centigrade | (adjective) of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees | - |
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| centile | (noun) (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total | Synonyms: percentile |
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| centiliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter | Synonyms: centilitre, cl |
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| centilitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter | Synonyms: centiliter, cl |
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| centime | (noun) a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit | Synonyms: cent, penny |
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| (noun) a fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg and Mali and Morocco and Niger and Rwanda and Senegal and Switzerland and Togo | - |
| centimeter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter | Synonyms: centimetre, cm |
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| centimetre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter | Synonyms: centimeter, cm |
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| centimo | (noun) a fractional monetary unit of Venezuela and Costa Rica and Equatorial Guinea and Paraguay and Spain | - |
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| centipede | (noun) chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors | - |
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| circumferential | (adjective) lying around or just outside the edges or outskirts | - |
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| circumvention | (noun) the act of evading by going around | - |
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| clementine | (noun) a mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds | - |
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| (noun) a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa | Synonyms: clementine tree |
| confidential | (adjective) the level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret; available only to persons authorized to see documents so classified | - |
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| (adjective) denoting confidence or intimacy | - |
| (adjective) entrusted with private information and the confidence of another | - |
| (adjective) (of information) given in confidence or in secret | Synonyms: secret |
| confidentiality | (noun) discretion in keeping secret information | - |
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| (noun) the state of being secret | - |
| confidentially | (adverb) in a confidential manner | - |
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| conscientious | (adjective) guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: painstaking, scrupulous |
| conscientiously | (adverb) with extreme conscientiousness | Synonyms: religiously, scrupulously |
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| conscientiousness | (noun) the quality of being in accord with the dictates of conscience | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being painstaking and careful | Synonyms: painstakingness |
| consentient | (adjective) in complete agreement | Synonyms: consentaneous, unanimous |
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| consenting | (adjective) having given consent | - |
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| consequential | (adjective) having important issues or results | Synonyms: eventful |
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| consequentially | (adverb) having the result that | - |
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| contention | (noun) the act of competing as for profit or a prize | Synonyms: competition, rivalry |
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| (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
| (noun) a point asserted as part of an argument | - |
| contentious | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, disputatious, disputative, litigious |
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| (adjective) involving or likely to cause controversy | - |
| contentiousness | (noun) an inclination to be quarrelsome and contentious | Synonyms: quarrelsomeness |
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| contravention | (noun) coming into conflict with | Synonyms: dispute |
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| conventicle | (noun) a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers) | Synonyms: meetinghouse |
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| (noun) a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship | - |
| convention | (noun) the act of convening | Synonyms: convening |
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| (noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: conventionalism, conventionality |
| (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: formula, normal, pattern, rule |
| (noun) (diplomacy) an international agreement | - |
| (noun) a large formal assembly | - |
| conventional | (adjective) following accepted customs and proprieties | - |
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| (adjective) unimaginative and conformist | - |
| (adjective) (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy | - |
| (adjective) rigidly formal or bound by convention | Synonyms: ceremonious |
| (adjective) represented in simplified or symbolic form | Synonyms: formal, schematic |
| (adjective) conforming with accepted standards | Synonyms: established |
| (adjective) in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past | - |
| conventionalisation | (noun) the act of conventionalizing; conforming to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalization |
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| conventionalise | (verb) make conventional or adapt to conventions | Synonyms: conventionalize |
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| conventionalised | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalized, stylised, stylized |
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| conventionalism | (noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: convention, conventionality |
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| conventionality | (noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: convention, conventionalism |
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| (noun) unoriginality as a result of being too conventional | - |
| (noun) conformity with conventional thought and behavior | - |
| conventionalization | (noun) the act of conventionalizing; conforming to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalisation |
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| conventionalize | (verb) make conventional or adapt to conventions | Synonyms: conventionalise |
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| (verb) represent according to a conventional style | Synonyms: stylise, stylize |
| conventionalized | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalised, stylised, stylized |
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| conventionally | (adverb) in a conventional manner | - |
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| conventioneer | (noun) someone who attends a convention | - |
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| coreferential | (adjective) relating to coreference | Synonyms: co-referent |
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| credential | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credentials |
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| credentialled | (adjective) certified as professional by evidence or testimonials | - |
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| credentials | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credential |
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| dedifferentiate | (verb) lose specialization in form or function | - |
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| dedifferentiated | (adjective) having experienced or undergone dedifferentiation or the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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| dedifferentiation | (noun) the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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| deferential | (adjective) showing deference | Synonyms: deferent, regardful |
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| deferentially | (adverb) in a respectfully deferential manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a servile manner | Synonyms: submissively |
| dementia | (noun) mental deterioration of organic or functional origin | Synonyms: dementedness |
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| denticle | (noun) small pointed ridge on the exoskeleton of an arthropod | - |
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| denticulate | (adjective) having a very finely toothed margin | - |
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| dentifrice | (noun) a substance for cleaning the teeth; applied with a toothbrush | - |
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| dentin | (noun) bone (calcified tissue) surrounding the pulp cavity of a tooth | Synonyms: dentine |
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| (noun) a calcareous material harder and denser than bone that comprises the bulk of a tooth | Synonyms: dentine |
| dentine | (noun) bone (calcified tissue) surrounding the pulp cavity of a tooth | Synonyms: dentin |
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| (noun) a calcareous material harder and denser than bone that comprises the bulk of a tooth | Synonyms: dentin |
| dentist | (noun) a person qualified to practice dentistry | Synonyms: dental practitioner, tooth doctor |
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| dentistry | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the anatomy and development and diseases of the teeth | Synonyms: dental medicine, odontology |
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| dentition | (noun) the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal | Synonyms: teeth |
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| (noun) the eruption through the gums of baby teeth | Synonyms: odontiasis, teething |
| detention | (noun) a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home | - |
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| (noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: custody, detainment, hold |
| differentia | (noun) distinguishing characteristics (especially in different species of a genus) | - |
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| differentiable | (adjective) possessing a differential coefficient or derivative | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being perceived as different | - |
| differential | (adjective) relating to or showing a difference | - |
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| (adjective) involving or containing one or more derivatives | - |
| (noun) a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds; used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves | Synonyms: differential gear |
| (noun) a quality that differentiates between similar things | - |
| (noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derivative, derived function, differential coefficient, first derivative |
| differentially | (adverb) in a differential manner | - |
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| differentiate | (verb) become distinct and acquire a different character | - |
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| (verb) become different during development | - |
| (verb) evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | Synonyms: specialise, specialize, speciate |
| (verb) calculate a derivative; take the derivative | - |
| (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: distinguish, mark |
| differentiated | (adjective) made different (especially in the course of development) or shown to be different | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting biological specialization; adapted during development to a specific function or environment | - |