| antenuptial | (adjective) relating to events before a marriage | Synonyms: premarital, prenuptial |
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| antepenult | (noun) the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end | Synonyms: antepenultima, antepenultimate |
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| antepenultima | (noun) the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end | Synonyms: antepenult, antepenultimate |
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| antepenultimate | (adjective) third from last | - |
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| (noun) the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end | Synonyms: antepenult, antepenultima |
| attenuate | (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuated, faded, weakened |
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| (verb) become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude | - |
| (verb) weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) | Synonyms: rarefy |
| attenuated | (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuate, faded, weakened |
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| (adjective) of an electrical signal; reduced in amplitude with little or no distortion | - |
| attenuation | (noun) the property of something that has been weakened or reduced in thickness or density | - |
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| (noun) weakening in force or intensity | Synonyms: fading |
| attenuator | (noun) an electrical device for attenuating the strength of an electrical signal | - |
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| avenue | (noun) a line of approach | - |
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| (noun) a wide street or thoroughfare | Synonyms: boulevard |
| benumb | (verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: blunt, dull, numb |
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| benumbed | (adjective) lacking sensation | Synonyms: asleep, numb |
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| (adjective) having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure | Synonyms: dulled |
| candlenut | (noun) large tree native to southeastern Asia; the nuts yield oil used in varnishes; nut kernels strung together are used locally as candles | Synonyms: Aleurites moluccana, varnish tree |
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| (noun) seed of candlenut tree; source of oil used in varnishes | - |
| catenulate | (adjective) having a chainlike form | Synonyms: chainlike |
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| (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenate |
| crenulate | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulated |
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| crenulated | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulate |
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| denudate | (adjective) without the natural or usual covering | Synonyms: bald, denuded |
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| (verb) lay bare | Synonyms: bare, denude, strip |
| denudation | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, husking, stripping, uncovering |
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| denude | (verb) lay bare | Synonyms: bare, denudate, strip |
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| denuded | (adjective) without the natural or usual covering | Synonyms: bald, denudate |
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| denumerable | (adjective) that can be counted | Synonyms: countable, enumerable, numerable |
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| denunciation | (noun) a public act of denouncing | Synonyms: denouncement |
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| denunciative | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciatory |
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| denunciatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciative |
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| disingenuous | (adjective) not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness | Synonyms: artful |
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| disingenuously | (adverb) in a disingenuous manner | Synonyms: artfully |
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| disingenuousness | (noun) the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor | - |
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| duodenum | (noun) the part of the small intestine between the stomach and the jejunum | - |
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| enucleate | (verb) remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover | - |
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| (verb) remove the nucleus from (a cell) | - |
| enucleation | (noun) surgical removal of something without cutting into it | - |
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| enumerable | (adjective) that can be counted | Synonyms: countable, denumerable, numerable |
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| enumerate | (verb) specify individually | Synonyms: itemise, itemize, recite |
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| (verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: count, number, numerate |
| enumeration | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, counting, numeration, reckoning, tally |
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| (noun) a numbered list | Synonyms: numbering |
| enumerator | (noun) someone who collects census data by visiting individual homes | Synonyms: census taker |
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| enunciate | (verb) express or state clearly | Synonyms: articulate, vocalise, vocalize |
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| (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, pronounce, say, sound out |
| enunciation | (noun) the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience | Synonyms: diction |
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| enured | (adjective) made tough by habitual exposure | Synonyms: hardened, inured |
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| enuresis | (noun) inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination | Synonyms: urinary incontinence |
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| extenuate | (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: mitigate, palliate |
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| extenuating | (adjective) partially excusing or justifying | - |
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| extenuation | (noun) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious | Synonyms: mitigation, palliation |
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| (noun) a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances | Synonyms: mitigation |
| fenugreek | (noun) aromatic seeds used as seasoning especially in curry | Synonyms: fenugreek seed |
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| (noun) annual herb or southern Europe and eastern Asia having off-white flowers and aromatic seeds used medicinally and in curry | Synonyms: Greek clover, Trigonella foenumgraecum |
| genu | (noun) hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella | Synonyms: articulatio genus, human knee, knee, knee joint |
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| genuflect | (verb) bend the knees and bow in church or before a religious superior or image | - |
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| (verb) bend the knees and bow in a servile manner | Synonyms: kowtow, scrape |
| genuflection | (noun) the act of bending the knees in worship or reverence | Synonyms: genuflexion |
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| genuflexion | (noun) the act of bending the knees in worship or reverence | Synonyms: genuflection |
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| genuine | (adjective) not fake or counterfeit | Synonyms: echt |
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| (adjective) not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed | Synonyms: true, unfeigned |
| (adjective) being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something | Synonyms: actual, literal, real |
| genuinely | (adverb) in accordance with truth or fact or reality | Synonyms: really, truly |
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| (adverb) genuinely; with authority | Synonyms: authentically |
| genuineness | (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: authenticity, legitimacy |
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| (noun) the state of being genuine | - |
| genus | (noun) a general kind of something | - |
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| (noun) (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species | - |
| gerenuk | (noun) slender East African antelope with slim neck and backward-curving horns | Synonyms: Litocranius walleri |
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| hypotenuse | (noun) the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle | - |
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| ingenue | (noun) the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play | - |
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| (noun) an artless innocent young girl (especially as portrayed on the stage) | - |
| (noun) an actress who specializes in playing the role of an artless innocent young girl | - |
| ingenuity | (noun) the property of being ingenious | Synonyms: cleverness, ingeniousness |
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| (noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: cleverness, ingeniousness, inventiveness |
| ingenuous | (adjective) characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious | Synonyms: artless |
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| (adjective) lacking in sophistication or worldliness | Synonyms: innocent |
| ingenuously | (adverb) in an ingenuous manner | Synonyms: artlessly |
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| ingenuousness | (noun) openly straightforward or frank | - |
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| (noun) the quality of innocent naivete | Synonyms: artlessness, innocence, naturalness |
| menu | (noun) an agenda of things to do | Synonyms: fare |
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| (noun) a list of dishes available at a restaurant | Synonyms: bill of fare, card, carte, carte du jour |
| (noun) (computer science) a list of options available to a computer user | Synonyms: computer menu |
| (noun) the dishes making up a meal | - |
| molybdenum | (noun) a polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties; used to strengthen and harden steel | Synonyms: atomic number 42, Mo |
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| parvenu | (adjective) of or characteristic of a parvenu | Synonyms: parvenue |
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| (adjective) characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenue, upstart |
| (noun) a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class | Synonyms: arriviste, nouveau-riche, upstart |
| parvenue | (adjective) of or characteristic of a parvenu | Synonyms: parvenu |
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| (adjective) characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart |
| penuche | (noun) fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts | Synonyms: panocha, panoche, penoche |
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| penuchle | (noun) a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist | Synonyms: bezique, pinochle, pinocle |
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| penult | (noun) the next to last syllable in a word | Synonyms: penultima, penultimate |
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| penultima | (noun) the next to last syllable in a word | Synonyms: penult, penultimate |
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| penultimate | (adjective) second last | Synonyms: next-to-last |
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| (noun) the next to last syllable in a word | Synonyms: penult, penultima |
| penumbra | (noun) a fringe region of partial shadow around an umbra | - |
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| penumbral | (adjective) of or pertaining to the region of partial shadow around an umbra | - |
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| penurious | (adjective) not having enough money to pay for necessities | Synonyms: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched |
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| (adjective) excessively unwilling to spend | Synonyms: parsimonious |
| penuriously | (adverb) in a penurious manner | - |
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| penuriousness | (noun) a disposition to be niggardly with money | - |
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| (noun) a state of lacking money | Synonyms: impecuniousness, pennilessness |
| penury | (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization |
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| plenum | (noun) an enclosed space in which the air pressure is higher than outside | - |
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| (noun) a meeting of a legislative body at which all members are present | - |
| prenuptial | (adjective) relating to events before a marriage | Synonyms: antenuptial, premarital |
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| renunciant | (adjective) used especially of behavior | Synonyms: renunciative, self-abnegating, self-denying |
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| renunciation | (noun) the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) | Synonyms: forgoing, forswearing |
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| (noun) an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned | Synonyms: renouncement |
| (noun) rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid | Synonyms: repudiation |
| (noun) the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) | Synonyms: apostasy, defection |
| renunciative | (adjective) used especially of behavior | Synonyms: renunciant, self-abnegating, self-denying |
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| revenue | (noun) the entire amount of income before any deductions are made | Synonyms: gross, receipts |
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| (noun) government income due to taxation | Synonyms: tax income, tax revenue, taxation |
| revenuer | (noun) a government agent responsible for collecting revenue (especially one responsible for stopping bootlegging) | - |
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| ritenuto | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo | Synonyms: rallentando, rit., ritardando |
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| sangapenum | (noun) a variety of gum | Synonyms: gum sangapenum |
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| scalenus | (noun) any of four pairs of muscles extending from the cervical vertebrae to the second rib; involved in moving the neck and in breathing | Synonyms: musculus scalenus, scalene muscle |
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| silenus | (noun) any of the minor woodland deities who were companions of Dionysus (similar to the satyrs) | - |
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| strenuosity | (noun) intense energy | Synonyms: athleticism |
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| strenuous | (adjective) taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance | Synonyms: arduous, straining |
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| (adjective) characterized by or performed with much energy or force | - |
| strenuously | (adverb) in a strenuous manner; strongly or vigorously | - |
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| strenuousness | (noun) extreme effortfulness | Synonyms: arduousness |
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| subgenus | (noun) (biology) taxonomic group between a genus and a species | - |
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| submenu | (noun) a secondary menu that appears while you are holding the cursor over an item on the primary menu | Synonyms: cascading menu, hierarchical menu |
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| tenuity | (noun) a rarified quality | Synonyms: low density, rarity |
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| (noun) the quality of lacking intensity or substance | Synonyms: feebleness |
| (noun) relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | Synonyms: slenderness, thinness |
| tenuous | (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, fragile, slight, thin |
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| (adjective) very thin in gauge or diameter | - |
| (adjective) having thin consistency | - |
| tenuously | (adverb) in a tenuous manner | - |
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| tenure | (noun) the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands | Synonyms: land tenure |
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| (noun) the term during which some position is held | Synonyms: incumbency, term of office |
| (verb) give life-time employment to | - |
| tenured | (adjective) appointed for life and not subject to dismissal except for a grave crime | - |
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| venue | (noun) in law: the jurisdiction where a trial will be held | - |
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| (noun) the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting) | Synonyms: locale, locus |
| venula | (noun) a minute vein continuous with a capillary | Synonyms: capillary vein, venule |
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| venule | (noun) a minute vein continuous with a capillary | Synonyms: capillary vein, venula |
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