| agent | (noun) the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: agentive role |
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| (noun) an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect | - |
| (noun) a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission | Synonyms: broker, factor |
| (noun) a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations | - |
| (noun) any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau | Synonyms: federal agent |
| (noun) a substance that exerts some force or effect | - |
| agential | (adjective) of or relating to an agent or agency | - |
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| arccotangent | (noun) the inverse function of the cotangent; the angle that has a cotangent equal to a given number | Synonyms: arc cotangent, inverse cotangent |
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| arctangent | (noun) the inverse function of the tangent; the angle that has a tangent equal to a given number | Synonyms: arc tangent, arctan, inverse tangent |
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| argent | (adjective) of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver | Synonyms: silver, silverish, silvery |
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| (noun) a metal tincture used in heraldry to give a silvery appearance | - |
| 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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| argentous | (adjective) relating to compounds in which silver is univalent | - |
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| assurgent | (adjective) growing or extending upward | - |
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| (adjective) rising from the sea | - |
| astringent | (adjective) tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue | - |
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| (adjective) sour or bitter in taste | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic |
| (noun) a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals | Synonyms: astringent drug, styptic |
| birefringent | (adjective) relating to or characterized by double refraction | - |
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| cogent | (adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: telling, weighty |
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| contingent | (adjective) being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow | Synonyms: contingent on, contingent upon, dependant on, dependant upon, dependent on, dependent upon, depending on |
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| (adjective) possible but not certain to occur | - |
| (adjective) uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances | - |
| (noun) a temporary military unit | Synonyms: detail |
| (noun) a gathering of persons representative of some larger group | - |
| convergent | (adjective) tending to come together from different directions | - |
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| cotangent | (noun) ratio of the adjacent to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: cotan |
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| counterinsurgent | (adjective) of or relating or characteristic of actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | - |
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| detergent | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detersive |
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| (noun) a cleansing agent that differs from soap but can also emulsify oils and hold dirt in suspension | - |
| (noun) a surface-active chemical widely used in industry and laundering | - |
| diligent | (adjective) characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks | - |
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| (adjective) quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness | Synonyms: persevering |
| diligently | (adverb) with diligence; in a diligent manner | - |
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| divergent | (adjective) tending to move apart in different directions | Synonyms: diverging |
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| (adjective) diverging from another or from a standard | - |
| effulgent | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beaming, beamy, radiant, refulgent |
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| emergent | (adjective) coming into existence | Synonyms: emerging |
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| (adjective) occurring unexpectedly and requiring urgent action | - |
| exigent | (adjective) requiring precise accuracy | Synonyms: exacting |
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| (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, crying, insistent, instant |
| fulgent | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, dazzling, glaring, glary |
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| gent | (noun) informal abbreviation of `gentleman' | - |
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| (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, lad |
| gentamicin | (noun) an antibiotic (trade name Garamycin) that is derived from an actinomycete; used in treating infections of the urinary tract | Synonyms: Garamycin |
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| genteel | (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultivated, cultured, polite |
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| genteelly | (adverb) in a genteel manner | - |
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| genteelness | (noun) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression | Synonyms: breeding, gentility |
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| gentian | (noun) any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis | - |
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| gentianella | (noun) low-growing alpine plant cultivated for its dark glossy green leaves in basal rosettes and showy solitary bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: Gentiana acaulis |
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| gentile | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of non-Jewish peoples | - |
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| (noun) a Christian as contrasted with a Jew | Synonyms: goy, non-Jew |
| (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: heathen, infidel, pagan |
| (noun) a person who is not a member of one's own religion; used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus | - |
| (noun) a Christian | - |
| gentility | (noun) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression | Synonyms: breeding, genteelness |
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| gentle | (adjective) marked by moderate steepness | Synonyms: easy |
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| (adjective) having little impact | Synonyms: easy, soft |
| (adjective) soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe | Synonyms: soft |
| (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, patrician |
| (adjective) quiet and soothing | - |
| (adjective) easily handled or managed | Synonyms: docile |
| (adjective) having or showing a kindly or tender nature | - |
| (verb) stroke soothingly | - |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| (verb) give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility | Synonyms: ennoble, entitle |
| gentlefolk | (noun) people of good family and breeding and high social status | - |
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| gentleman | (noun) a man of refinement | - |
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| (noun) a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer | Synonyms: gentleman's gentleman, man, valet, valet de chambre |
| gentlemanlike | (adjective) befitting a man of good breeding | Synonyms: gentlemanly |
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| gentlemanliness | (noun) Gentlemanly behaviour, characteristics of or pertaining to being a gentleman. | - |
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| gentlemanly | (adjective) befitting a man of good breeding | Synonyms: gentlemanlike |
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| gentleness | (noun) acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered | Synonyms: mildness, softness |
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| (noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very gradual | Synonyms: gradualness |
| gentlewoman | (noun) a woman of refinement | Synonyms: dame, lady, ma'am, madam |
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| gently | (adverb) gradually | - |
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| (adverb) in a gentle manner | Synonyms: mildly |
| (adverb) with little weight or force | Synonyms: lightly, softly |
| gentrification | (noun) the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of low-income residents) | - |
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| gentrify | (verb) renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations | - |
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| gentry | (noun) the most powerful members of a society | Synonyms: aristocracy |
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| indigent | (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, impoverished, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
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| indulgent | (adjective) characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone | - |
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| (adjective) being favorably inclined | - |
| (adjective) tolerant or lenient | Synonyms: lenient, soft |
| indulgently | (adverb) in an indulgent manner | - |
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| insurgent | (adjective) in opposition to a civil authority or government | Synonyms: seditious, subversive |
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| (noun) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) | Synonyms: freedom fighter, insurrectionist, rebel |
| (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerilla, guerrilla, irregular |
| 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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| intransigent | (adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamant, adamantine, inexorable |
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| magenta | (adjective) of deep purplish red | - |
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| (noun) a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta | - |
| negligent | (adjective) characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern | - |
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| negligently | (adverb) in a negligent manner | - |
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| newsagent | (noun) someone who sells newspapers | Synonyms: newsdealer, newsstand operator, newsvendor |
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| nonastringent | (adjective) not astringent | - |
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| nonconvergent | (adjective) (of lines, planes, or surfaces) never meeting or crossing | Synonyms: nonintersecting |
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| nonindulgent | (adjective) characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint | Synonyms: strict |
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| overindulgent | (adjective) excessively indulgent | - |
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| plangent | (adjective) loud and resounding | - |
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| pungent | (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, biting, mordacious, nipping |
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| (adjective) strong and sharp | Synonyms: acrid |
| pungently | (adverb) with a pungent taste or smell | - |
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| (adverb) with pungency; in a pungent manner | - |
| reagent | (noun) a chemical agent for use in chemical reactions | - |
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| refulgent | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beaming, beamy, effulgent, radiant |
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| regent | (adjective) acting or functioning as a regent or ruler | - |
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| (noun) someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch | - |
| (noun) members of a governing board | Synonyms: trustee |
| resurgent | (adjective) rising again as to new life and vigor | Synonyms: renascent |
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| stringent | (adjective) demanding strict attention to rules and procedures | Synonyms: rigorous, tight |
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| stringently | (adverb) in a stringent manner | Synonyms: strictly |
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| tangent | (noun) ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: tan |
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| (noun) a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point | - |
| tangential | (adjective) of or relating to or acting along or in the direction of a tangent | - |
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| (adjective) of superficial relevance if any | Synonyms: digressive |
| tangentially | (adverb) peripherally | - |
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| ungentle | (adjective) not of the nobility | Synonyms: ignoble, untitled |
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| ungentlemanlike | (adjective) not befitting a gentleman | Synonyms: ungentlemanly |
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| ungentlemanly | (adjective) not befitting a gentleman | Synonyms: ungentlemanlike |
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| unintelligent | (adjective) lacking intelligence | Synonyms: stupid |
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| unintelligently | (adverb) in an unintelligent manner | - |
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| urgent | (adjective) compelling immediate action | Synonyms: pressing |
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| urgently | (adverb) with great urgency | Synonyms: desperately |
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