| agglomerate | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerated, agglomerative, clustered |
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| (noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound, pile |
| (noun) volcanic rock consisting of large fragments fused together | - |
| (verb) form into one cluster | - |
| agglomerated | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerative, clustered |
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| agglomeration | (noun) the act of collecting in a mass; the act of agglomerating | - |
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| (noun) a jumbled collection or mass | - |
| agglomerative | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerated, clustered |
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| agglomerator | (noun) a device that causes material to gather into rounded balls | - |
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| agglutinate | (adjective) united as if by glue | Synonyms: agglutinative |
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| (verb) clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc. | - |
| (verb) string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language) | - |
| agglutination | (noun) the building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining | - |
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| (noun) a clumping of bacteria or red cells when held together by antibodies (agglutinins) | - |
| (noun) the coalescing of small particles that are suspended in solution; these larger masses are then (usually) precipitated | Synonyms: agglutinating activity |
| agglutinative | (adjective) united as if by glue | Synonyms: agglutinate |
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| (adjective) forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning | Synonyms: polysynthetic |
| agglutinin | (noun) an antibody that causes agglutination of a specific antigen | - |
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| agglutinogen | (noun) any substance that acts as an antigen to cause agglutinin production | - |
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| aggrade | (verb) build up to a level by depositing sediment | - |
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| aggrandise | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| aggrandisement | (noun) the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something | Synonyms: aggrandizement, elevation |
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| aggrandize | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| aggrandizement | (noun) the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something | Synonyms: aggrandisement, elevation |
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| aggravate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate |
| aggravated | (adjective) incited, especially deliberately, to anger | Synonyms: provoked |
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| (adjective) made more severe or intense especially in law | - |
| aggravating | (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: exacerbating, exasperating |
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| aggravatingly | (adverb) in an aggravating fashion | - |
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| aggravation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: irritation, provocation |
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| (noun) action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse | Synonyms: exacerbation |
| (noun) an exasperated feeling of annoyance | Synonyms: exasperation |
| aggravator | (noun) an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating | Synonyms: annoyance |
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| aggregate | (adjective) composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets | - |
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| (adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregated, aggregative, mass |
| (noun) the whole amount | Synonyms: sum, total, totality |
| (noun) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together | Synonyms: congeries, conglomeration |
| (noun) material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster | - |
| (verb) gather in a mass, sum, or whole | Synonyms: combine |
| (verb) amount in the aggregate to | - |
| aggregated | (adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregate, aggregative, mass |
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| aggregation | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: assembling, collecting, collection |
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| (noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, assemblage, collection |
| aggregative | (adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregate, aggregated, mass |
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| aggregator | (noun) a person who collects things | Synonyms: collector |
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| aggress | (verb) take the initiative and go on the offensive | Synonyms: attack |
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| aggression | (noun) violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked | Synonyms: hostility |
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| (noun) deliberately unfriendly behavior | - |
| (noun) the act of initiating hostilities | - |
| (noun) a disposition to behave aggressively | - |
| (noun) a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack | Synonyms: aggressiveness |
| aggressive | (adjective) having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: belligerent |
| (adjective) tending to spread quickly | Synonyms: fast-growing, strong-growing |
| aggressively | (adverb) in an aggressive manner | Synonyms: sharply |
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| aggressiveness | (noun) the quality of being bold and enterprising | - |
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| (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: belligerence, pugnacity |
| (noun) a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack | Synonyms: aggression |
| aggressor | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: assailant, assaulter, attacker |
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| (noun) a confident assertive person who acts as instigator | - |
| aggrieve | (verb) cause to feel sorrow | Synonyms: grieve |
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| (verb) infringe on the rights of | - |
| aggro | (noun) (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression | - |
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| aggroup | (verb) form a group or group together | Synonyms: group |
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| appoggiatura | (noun) an embellishing note usually written in smaller size | Synonyms: acciaccatura, grace note |
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| arpeggio | (noun) a chord whose notes are played in rapid succession rather than simultaneously | - |
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| autosuggestion | (noun) a system for self-improvement developed by Emile Coue which was popular in the 1920s and 1930s | Synonyms: auto-suggestion, self-suggestion |
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| baggage | (noun) cases used to carry belongings when traveling | Synonyms: luggage |
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| (noun) the portable equipment and supplies of an army | - |
| (noun) a worthless or immoral woman | - |
| baggageman | (noun) an attendant who takes care of baggage | - |
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| bagger | (noun) a machine for putting objects or substances into bags | - |
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| (noun) a workman employed to pack things into containers | Synonyms: boxer, packer |
| bagging | (noun) coarse fabric used for bags or sacks | Synonyms: sacking |
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| baggy | (adjective) not fitting closely; hanging loosely | Synonyms: loose-fitting, sloppy |
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| balbriggan | (noun) a cotton knit fabric used for underwear | - |
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| barelegged | (adjective) having the legs uncovered by clothing | - |
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| bedraggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: draggle |
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| bedraggled | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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| (adjective) limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud | Synonyms: draggled |
| befogged | (adjective) stupefied by alcoholic drink | Synonyms: befuddled |
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| beggar | (noun) a pauper who lives by begging | Synonyms: mendicant |
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| (verb) reduce to beggary | Synonyms: pauperise, pauperize |
| (verb) be beyond the resources of | - |
| beggarly | (adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar | Synonyms: mean |
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| (adjective) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt | Synonyms: mean |
| beggarman | (noun) a man who is a beggar | - |
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| beggarweed | (noun) West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil | Synonyms: Desmodium purpureum, Desmodium tortuosum |
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| beggarwoman | (noun) a woman who is a beggar | - |
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| beggary | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: begging, mendicancy |
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| (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: mendicancy, mendicity |
| begging | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: beggary, mendicancy |
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| bigger | (adjective) large or big relative to something else | Synonyms: larger |
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| biggin | (noun) a child's tight-fitting cap; often ties under the chin | - |
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| biggish | (adjective) somewhat large | Synonyms: largish |
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| blogger | (noun) a person who keeps and updates a blog | - |
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| bogginess | (noun) The state or quality of being too wet and muddy to be easily walked on. | - |
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| boggle | (verb) overcome with amazement | Synonyms: bowl over, flabbergast |
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| (verb) startle with amazement or fear | - |
| (verb) hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear | - |
| boggy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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| boondoggle | (noun) work of little or no value done merely to look busy | - |
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| (verb) do useless, wasteful, or trivial work | - |
| bootlegger | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: moonshiner |
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| bootlegging | (noun) the act of making or transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally | - |
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| (noun) the act of selling illegally or without permission | - |
| bowlegged | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowed, bowleg |
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| braggadocio | (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: bluster, rhodomontade, rodomontade |
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| braggart | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
| bragger | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, braggart, line-shooter, vaunter |
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| bragging | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
| braggy | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, bragging, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| bugged | (adjective) having hidden electronic eavesdropping devices | Synonyms: wired |
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| bugger | (noun) someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) | Synonyms: sod, sodomist, sodomite |
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| (verb) practice anal sex upon | Synonyms: sodomise, sodomize |
| buggery | (noun) intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman | Synonyms: anal intercourse, anal sex, sodomy |
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| bugginess | (noun) the state of having bugs | - |
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| buggy | (adjective) infested with bugs | - |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
| (noun) a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: roadster |
| carpetbagger | (noun) an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously | - |
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| carpetbagging | (adjective) presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality | Synonyms: carpetbag |
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| chigger | (noun) larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation | Synonyms: harvest mite, jigger, redbug |
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| (noun) small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans | Synonyms: chigoe, chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans |
| chiggerflower | (noun) erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers | Synonyms: Asclepias tuberosa, butterfly weed, chigger flower, Indian paintbrush, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, tuber root |
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| clegg | (noun) large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals | Synonyms: cleg, horse fly, horsefly |
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| clogged | (adjective) loaded with something that hinders motion | - |
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| (adjective) stopped up; clogged up | Synonyms: choked |
| (adjective) thickened or coalesced in soft thick lumps (such as clogs or clots) | Synonyms: clotted |
| clogging | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: hindering, impeding, obstructive |
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| cloggy | (adjective) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained | Synonyms: clayey, heavy |
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| cogged | (adjective) having cogs | - |
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| coggle | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: dodder, paddle, toddle, totter, waddle |
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| (verb) move unsteadily | Synonyms: wobble |
| cragged | (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: craggy, hilly, mountainous |
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| craggy | (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: cragged, hilly, mountainous |
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| dagga | (noun) relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco | Synonyms: Cape dagga, Leonotis leonurus, red dagga, wilde dagga |
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| dagger | (noun) a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing | Synonyms: sticker |
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| (noun) a character used in printing to indicate a second cross reference or footnote when the asterisk has already been used | Synonyms: obelisk |
| daggerboard | (noun) a removable centerboard on a small sailboat that can be lowered into the water to serve as a keel | - |
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| debugger | (noun) a program that helps in locating and correcting programming errors | - |
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| digger | (noun) a machine for excavating | Synonyms: excavator, power shovel, shovel |
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| (noun) a laborer who digs | - |
| digging | (noun) the act of digging | Synonyms: dig, excavation |
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| diggings | (noun) temporary living quarters | Synonyms: digs, domiciliation, lodgings, pad |
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| (noun) an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology | Synonyms: digs |
| dogged | (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding |
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| doggedly | (adverb) with obstinate determination | Synonyms: tenaciously |
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| doggedness | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
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| doggerel | (noun) a comic verse of irregular measure | Synonyms: doggerel verse, jingle |
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| doggie | (noun) informal terms for dogs | Synonyms: barker, bow-wow, doggy, pooch |
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