| autobiographer | (noun) someone who writes their own biography | - |
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| autobiographic | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographical |
| autobiographical | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographic |
| autobiography | (noun) a biography of yourself | - |
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| autograft | (noun) tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person | Synonyms: autoplasty |
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| autograph | (noun) something written by one's own hand | - |
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| (noun) a person's own signature | Synonyms: John Hancock |
| (verb) mark with one's signature | Synonyms: inscribe |
| autographed | (adjective) bearing an autograph | - |
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| autographic | (adjective) written in the author's own handwriting | - |
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| autoradiograph | (noun) a radiogram produced by radiation emitted by the specimen being photographed | - |
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| autoradiographic | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by autoradiography | - |
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| autoradiography | (noun) producing a radiograph by means of the radiation emitted from the specimen being photographed | - |
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| babygram | (noun) an X-ray of the entire body of an infant. | - |
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| background | (noun) scenery hung at back of stage | Synonyms: backcloth, backdrop |
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| (noun) (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear | Synonyms: desktop, screen background |
| (noun) a person's social heritage: previous experience or training | - |
| (noun) the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground | Synonyms: ground |
| (noun) information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem | Synonyms: background knowledge |
| (noun) extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured | Synonyms: background signal |
| (noun) relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation | - |
| (noun) the state of the environment in which a situation exists | Synonyms: scope, setting |
| (verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: downplay, play down |
| backgrounder | (noun) a press conference or interview in which a government official explains to reporters the background of an action or policy | - |
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| backgrounding | (noun) the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system | Synonyms: background processing |
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| ballistocardiogram | (noun) a graphical recording made by a ballistocardiograph | - |
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| ballistocardiograph | (noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: cardiograph |
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| barograph | (noun) a recording barometer; automatically records on paper the variations in atmospheric pressure | - |
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| barographic | (adjective) relating to or registered by a barograph | - |
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| battleground | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battlefield, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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| beaugregory | (noun) a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies | Synonyms: Pomacentrus leucostictus |
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| bedground | (noun) an area on which a drove of cattle or sheep can sleep for a night | Synonyms: bed-ground, bed ground |
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| begrime | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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| begrimed | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy |
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| begrudge | (verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: resent |
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| (verb) be envious of; set one's heart on | Synonyms: envy |
| belowground | (adjective) underneath the ground | - |
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| (adjective) under the level of the ground | Synonyms: underground |
| bibliographer | (noun) someone trained in compiling bibliographies | - |
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| bibliographic | (adjective) relating to or dealing with bibliography | Synonyms: bibliographical |
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| bibliographical | (adjective) relating to or dealing with bibliography | Synonyms: bibliographic |
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| bibliography | (noun) a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.) | - |
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| bigram | (noun) a word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system | - |
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| biodegradable | (adjective) capable of being decomposed by e.g. bacteria | - |
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| biodegrade | (verb) break down naturally through the action of biological agents | - |
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| biogeographic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved with biogeography | Synonyms: biogeographical |
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| biogeographical | (adjective) of or relating to or involved with biogeography | Synonyms: biogeographic |
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| biogeography | (noun) dealing with the geographical distribution of animals and plants | - |
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| biographer | (noun) someone who writes an account of a person's life | - |
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| biographic | (adjective) of or relating to or being biography | Synonyms: biographical |
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| biographical | (adjective) of or relating to or being biography | Synonyms: biographic |
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| biographism | (noun) reduction of textual meaning to authorial biography. | - |
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| biography | (noun) an account of the series of events making up a person's life | Synonyms: life, life history, life story |
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| bluegrass | (noun) a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars | - |
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| (noun) any of various grasses of the genus Poa | Synonyms: blue grass |
| bologram | (noun) record or recording made by a bolometer | Synonyms: bolograph |
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| bolograph | (noun) record or recording made by a bolometer | Synonyms: bologram |
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| bolographic | (adjective) of or relating to a bolograph | - |
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| bridegroom | (noun) a man who has recently been married | Synonyms: groom |
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| (noun) a man participant in his own marriage ceremony | Synonyms: groom |
| bristlegrass | (noun) grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet | Synonyms: bristle grass |
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| bromegrass | (noun) any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions | Synonyms: brome |
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| bunchgrass | (noun) any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of western United States | Synonyms: bunch grass |
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| burgrass | (noun) a grass of the genus Cenchrus | Synonyms: bur grass |
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| burgrave | (noun) the military governor of a German town in the 12th and 13th centuries | - |
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| (noun) a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right | - |
| cablegram | (noun) a telegram sent abroad | Synonyms: cable, overseas telegram |
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| cacography | (noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: scratch, scrawl, scribble |
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| calligraph | (verb) write beautifully and ornamentally | - |
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| calligrapher | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligraphist |
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| calligraphic | (adjective) of or relating to or expressed in calligraphy | Synonyms: calligraphical |
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| calligraphical | (adjective) of or relating to or expressed in calligraphy | Synonyms: calligraphic |
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| calligraphist | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligrapher |
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| calligraphy | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: chirography, penmanship |
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| campground | (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment |
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| cardiogram | (noun) a graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph | Synonyms: ECG, EKG, electrocardiogram |
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| cardiograph | (noun) medical instrument that records electric currents associated with contractions of the heart | Synonyms: electrocardiograph |
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| (noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: ballistocardiograph |
| cardiographic | (adjective) of or relating to a cardiograph | - |
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| cardiography | (noun) diagnostic procedure consisting of recording the activity of the heart electronically with a cardiograph (and producing a cardiogram) | Synonyms: electrocardiography |
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| cartographer | (noun) a person who makes maps | Synonyms: map maker |
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| cartographic | (adjective) of or relating to the making of maps or charts | Synonyms: cartographical |
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| cartographical | (adjective) of or relating to the making of maps or charts | Synonyms: cartographic |
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| cartography | (noun) the making of maps and charts | Synonyms: mapmaking |
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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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| cerography | (noun) the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping. | - |
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| chagrin | (noun) strong feelings of embarrassment | Synonyms: humiliation, mortification |
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| (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, humble, humiliate, mortify |
| chagrined | (adjective) feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed | Synonyms: abashed, embarrassed |
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| chaulmoogra | (noun) East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy | Synonyms: chaulmoogra tree, chaulmugra, Hydnocarpus kurzii, Taraktagenos kurzii, Taraktogenos kurzii |
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| chaulmugra | (noun) East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy | Synonyms: chaulmoogra, chaulmoogra tree, Hydnocarpus kurzii, Taraktagenos kurzii, Taraktogenos kurzii |
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| cheatgrass | (noun) annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean | Synonyms: Bromus tectorum, downy brome, downy bromegrass, downy cheat, downy chess, drooping brome |
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| chirography | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: calligraphy, penmanship |
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| cholangiography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of the bile ducts after a contrast medium has been injected | - |
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| choreograph | (verb) plan and oversee the development and details of | - |
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| (verb) compose a sequence of dance steps, often to music | - |
| choreographer | (noun) someone who creates new dances | - |
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| choreographic | (adjective) of or concerned with choreography | - |
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| choreography | (noun) a show involving artistic dancing | Synonyms: stage dancing |
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| (noun) the representation of dancing by symbols as music is represented by notes | - |
| (noun) a notation used by choreographers | - |
| chromatogram | (noun) the recording (column or paper strip) on which the constituents of a mixture are adsorbed in chromatography | - |
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| chromatograph | (noun) equipment that enables a sophisticated separation, e.g. gas chromatographic or liquid chromatographic separation. | - |
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| chromatographic | (adjective) of or relating to chromatography | Synonyms: chromatographical |
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| chromatographical | (adjective) of or relating to chromatography | Synonyms: chromatographic |
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| chromatographically | (adverb) by means of a chromatographic process | - |
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| chromatography | (noun) a process used for separating mixtures by virtue of differences in absorbency | - |
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| chromolithograph | (noun) a print made by chromolithography. | - |
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| chromolithography | (noun) single- or multi-color lithography | - |
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| chronograph | (noun) an accurate timer for recording time | - |
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| cinematographer | (noun) a photographer who operates a movie camera | Synonyms: camera operator, cameraman |
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| cinematography | (noun) the act of making a film | Synonyms: filming, motion-picture photography |
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| cladogram | (noun) a tree diagram used to illustrate phylogenetic relationships | - |
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| conflagrate | (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, combust, erupt, ignite, take fire |
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| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: enkindle, inflame, kindle |
| conflagration | (noun) a very intense and uncontrolled fire | Synonyms: inferno |
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| congratulate | (verb) say something to someone that expresses praise | Synonyms: compliment |
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| (verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: felicitate |
| (verb) pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement | Synonyms: preen |
| (verb) be proud of | Synonyms: plume, pride |
| congratulation | (noun) the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration | Synonyms: felicitation |
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| (noun) (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another | Synonyms: felicitation |
| congratulations | (noun) an expression of approval and commendation | Synonyms: extolment, kudos, praise |
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| congratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: gratulatory |
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| congregant | (noun) a member of a congregation (especially that of a church or synagogue) | - |
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