| accouterment | (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accessory, accoutrement |
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| adermin | (noun) a B vitamin that is essential for metabolism of amino acids and starch | Synonyms: pyridoxal, pyridoxamine, pyridoxine, vitamin B6 |
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| aftermath | (noun) the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual | Synonyms: consequence |
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| (noun) the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event) | Synonyms: backwash, wake |
| aftermost | (adjective) located closest to the stern or tail | - |
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| alderman | (noun) a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council) | - |
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| aldermanic | (adjective) of or relating to or like an alderman | Synonyms: aldermanly |
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| aldermanly | (adjective) of or relating to or like an alderman | Synonyms: aldermanic |
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| angiosperm | (noun) plants having seeds in a closed ovary | Synonyms: flowering plant |
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| angiospermous | (adjective) of or related to or characteristic of plants that are angiosperms | - |
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| averment | (noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | Synonyms: assertion, asseveration |
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| berm | (noun) a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road | Synonyms: shoulder |
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| (noun) a narrow ledge or shelf typically at the top or bottom of a slope | - |
| betterment | (noun) the act of relieving ills and changing for the better | Synonyms: amelioration, melioration |
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| (noun) a change for the better; progress in development | Synonyms: advance, improvement |
| (noun) an improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility | - |
| bewilderment | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| blabbermouth | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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| blabbermouthed | (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: leaky, talebearing, tattling |
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| (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: bigmouthed, blabby, talkative |
| blastoderm | (noun) a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula | Synonyms: blastodisc, germinal area, germinal disc |
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| blastodermatic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastoderm | Synonyms: blastodermic |
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| blastodermic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastoderm | Synonyms: blastodermatic |
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| buttermilk | (noun) residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture | - |
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| chambermaid | (noun) a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels) | Synonyms: fille de chambre |
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| chordamesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordomesoderm |
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| chordomesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordamesoderm |
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| chyloderma | (noun) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction | Synonyms: elephantiasis scroti |
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| conferment | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowal, bestowment, conferral |
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| conterminous | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: coextensive, coterminous |
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| (adjective) connecting without a break; within a common boundary | Synonyms: contiguous |
| (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring |
| costermonger | (noun) a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow | Synonyms: barrow-boy, barrow-man |
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| coterminous | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: coextensive, conterminous |
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| coterminously | (adverb) in a coterminous manner | - |
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| counterman | (noun) a male who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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| countermand | (noun) a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command | - |
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| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
| countermarch | (noun) (military) a march in the reverse direction or back along the same route | - |
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| (verb) change the order of soldiers during a march | - |
| (verb) march back along the same way | - |
| countermeasure | (noun) an action taken to offset another action | - |
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| countermine | (noun) (military) a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by the enemy | - |
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| (verb) destroy enemy mines with one's own mines | - |
| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, sabotage, subvert, undermine, weaken |
| countermove | (noun) an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc. | Synonyms: counterattack |
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| decipherment | (noun) the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text | Synonyms: decoding, decryption |
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| deferment | (noun) act of putting off to a future time | Synonyms: deferral, postponement |
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| derma | (noun) the deep vascular inner layer of the skin | Synonyms: corium, dermis |
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| dermabrasion | (noun) removal of scars or tattoos by anesthetizing the skin surface and then sanding or scraping off some of the outer skin layer | - |
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| dermal | (adjective) of or relating to or located in the dermis | Synonyms: dermic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: cuticular, epidermal, epidermic |
| (adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneal, cutaneous |
| dermatitis | (noun) inflammation of the skin; skin becomes itchy and may develop blisters | - |
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| dermatoglyphic | (noun) the lines that form patterns on the skin (especially on the fingertips and the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet) | - |
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| dermatoglyphics | (noun) the study of the whorls and loops and arches in the fingertips and on the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet | - |
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| dermatologic | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing dermatology | Synonyms: dermatological |
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| dermatological | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing dermatology | Synonyms: dermatologic |
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| dermatologist | (noun) a doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin | Synonyms: skin doctor |
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| dermatology | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases | - |
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| dermatome | (noun) a surgical instrument used to cut very thin slices of skin | - |
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| dermatomycosis | (noun) fungal infection of the skin (especially of moist parts covered by clothing) | Synonyms: dermatophytosis |
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| dermatomyositis | (noun) myositis characterized by weakness of limb and neck muscles and much muscle pain and swelling accompanied by skin rash affecting cheeks and eyelids and neck and chest and limbs; progression and severity vary among individuals | - |
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| dermatophytosis | (noun) fungal infection of the skin (especially of moist parts covered by clothing) | Synonyms: dermatomycosis |
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| dermatosclerosis | (noun) an autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin | Synonyms: scleroderma |
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| dermatosis | (noun) disorder involving lesions or eruptions of the skin (in which there is usually no inflammation) | - |
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| dermic | (adjective) of or relating to or located in the dermis | Synonyms: dermal |
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| dermis | (noun) the deep vascular inner layer of the skin | Synonyms: corium, derma |
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| determent | (noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: deterrence, intimidation |
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| determinable | (adjective) capable of being determined or limited or fixed | - |
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| determinant | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinative, determining |
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| (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinative, determiner, determining factor |
| (noun) a square matrix used to solve simultaneous equations | - |
| (noun) the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself | Synonyms: antigenic determinant, epitope |
| determinate | (adjective) precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause | - |
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| (adjective) not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex | - |
| (adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: definitive |
| determinateness | (noun) the quality of being predictable with great confidence | Synonyms: definiteness |
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| determination | (noun) the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation | Synonyms: finding |
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| (noun) the act of making up your mind about something | Synonyms: conclusion, decision |
| (noun) the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose | Synonyms: purpose |
| (noun) a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration | Synonyms: conclusion, decision |
| (noun) deciding or controlling something's outcome or nature | - |
| determinative | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determining |
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| (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determiner, determining factor |
| (noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determiner |
| determine | (verb) reach, make, or come to a decision about something | Synonyms: decide, make up one's mind |
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| (verb) fix conclusively or authoritatively | Synonyms: set |
| (verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: influence, mold, mould, regulate, shape |
| (verb) fix in scope; fix the boundaries of | - |
| (verb) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study | Synonyms: ascertain, find, find out |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, check, find out, learn, see, watch |
| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, fix, limit, set, specify |
| (verb) settle conclusively; come to terms | Synonyms: settle, square off, square up |
| determined | (adjective) having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation | - |
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| (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: compulsive, driven |
| (adjective) characterized by great determination | - |
| (adjective) determined or decided upon as by an authority | Synonyms: dictated, set |
| (adjective) devoting full strength and concentrated attention to | - |
| determinedly | (adverb) with determination; in a determined manner | Synonyms: unfalteringly, unshakably |
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| (adverb) with ambition; in an ambitious and energetic manner | Synonyms: ambitiously |
| determiner | (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determinative, determining factor |
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| (noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determinative |
| (noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: clincher, determining factor |
| determining | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determinative |
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| determinism | (noun) (philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will | - |
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| determinist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: fatalist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
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| deterministic | (adjective) an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes | - |
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| diathermy | (noun) a method of physical therapy that involves generating local heat in body tissues by high-frequency electromagnetic currents | - |
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| disinterment | (noun) the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried | Synonyms: digging up, exhumation |
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| dismemberment | (noun) the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces | Synonyms: taking apart |
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| echinoderm | (noun) marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies | - |
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| ectoderm | (noun) the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue | Synonyms: ectoblast, exoderm |
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| ectodermal | (adjective) of or relating to the ectoderm | Synonyms: ectodermic |
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| ectodermic | (adjective) of or relating to the ectoderm | Synonyms: ectodermal |
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| ectotherm | (noun) an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals | Synonyms: poikilotherm |
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| ectothermic | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: heterothermic, poikilothermic, poikilothermous |
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| embitterment | (noun) the state of being embittered | - |
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| empowerment | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
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| endangerment | (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk |
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| endermatic | (adjective) acting by absorption through the skin | Synonyms: endermic |
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| endermic | (adjective) acting by absorption through the skin | Synonyms: endermatic |
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| endoderm | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoblast, entoblast, entoderm, hypoblast |
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| endosperm | (noun) nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants | - |
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| endothermal | (adjective) (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with absorption of heat | Synonyms: endothermic, heat-absorbing |
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| endothermic | (adjective) (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with absorption of heat | Synonyms: endothermal, heat-absorbing |
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| entoderm | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoblast, endoderm, entoblast, hypoblast |
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| epidermal | (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: cuticular, dermal, epidermic |
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| epidermic | (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: cuticular, dermal, epidermal |
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| epidermis | (noun) the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates | Synonyms: cuticle |
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| episperm | (noun) protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants | Synonyms: seed coat, testa |
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| ermine | (noun) mustelid of Northern Hemisphere in its white winter coat | Synonyms: Mustela erminea, shorttail weasel |
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| (noun) the expensive white fur of the ermine | - |
| erythroderma | (noun) any skin disorder involving abnormal redness | - |
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| evermore | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: eternally, everlastingly, forever |
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| (adverb) at any future time; in the future | Synonyms: forevermore |
| exoderm | (noun) the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue | Synonyms: ectoblast, ectoderm |
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| exotherm | (noun) a compound that gives off heat during its formation and absorbs heat during its decomposition | - |
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| exothermal | (adjective) (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with the liberation of heat | Synonyms: exothermic, heat-releasing |
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| exothermic | (adjective) (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with the liberation of heat | Synonyms: exothermal, heat-releasing |
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| exterminable | (adjective) capable of being totally destroyed or wiped out | Synonyms: extirpable |
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