| angiohemophilia | (noun) a form of hemophilia discovered by Erik von Willebrand; a genetic disorder that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait; characterized by a deficiency of the coagulation factor and by mucosal bleeding | Synonyms: vascular hemophilia, von Willebrand's disease |
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| angiopathy | (noun) any disease of the blood vessels or lymph ducts | - |
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| anglerfish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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| anglophil | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophile |
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| anglophile | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophil |
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| anglophobe | (noun) a person who hates England and everything English | - |
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| anguish | (noun) extreme mental distress | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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| (noun) extreme distress of body or mind | - |
| (verb) cause emotional anguish or make miserable | Synonyms: hurt, pain |
| (verb) suffer great pains or distress | - |
| anguished | (adjective) experiencing intense pain especially mental pain | Synonyms: tormented, tortured |
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| anhedonia | (noun) an inability to experience pleasure | - |
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| anhidrosis | (noun) failure of the sweat glands | Synonyms: anhydrosis |
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| anhinga | (noun) fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill | Synonyms: darter, snakebird |
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| anhydride | (noun) a compound formed from one or more other compounds in a reaction resulting in removal of water | - |
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| anhydrosis | (noun) failure of the sweat glands | Synonyms: anhidrosis |
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| anhydrous | (adjective) without water; especially without water of crystallization | - |
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| annihilate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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| annihilated | (adjective) destroyed completely | Synonyms: exterminated, wiped out |
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| annihilating | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilative, devastating, withering |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: devastating, withering |
| annihilation | (noun) destruction by annihilating something | Synonyms: obliteration |
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| (noun) total destruction | Synonyms: disintegration |
| annihilative | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, devastating, withering |
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| annihilator | (noun) a total destroyer | - |
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| anopheline | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of malaria mosquitoes | - |
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| (noun) any mosquito of the genus Anopheles | - |
| anorchia | (noun) absence of one of both testes | Synonyms: anorchidism, anorchism |
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| anorchidism | (noun) absence of one of both testes | Synonyms: anorchia, anorchism |
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| anorchism | (noun) absence of one of both testes | Synonyms: anorchia, anorchidism |
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| anorthic | (adjective) having three unequal crystal axes intersecting at oblique angles | Synonyms: triclinic |
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| anorthite | (noun) rare plagioclastic feldspar occurring in many igneous rocks | - |
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| anorthitic | (adjective) characteristic of anorthite | - |
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| anorthography | (noun) a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion | Synonyms: agraphia, logagraphia |
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| anorthopia | (noun) distorted vision in which straight lines appear curved | - |
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| another | (adjective) any of various alternatives; some other; entity, singular, other pronoun; quantifier, singular, another | Synonyms: some other |
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| antechamber | (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, hall, lobby, vestibule |
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| anthelminthic | (adjective) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms | Synonyms: anthelmintic, helminthic, parasiticidal |
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| (noun) a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms | Synonyms: anthelmintic, helminthic, vermifuge |
| anthelmintic | (adjective) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, helminthic, parasiticidal |
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| (noun) a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, helminthic, vermifuge |
| anthem | (noun) a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation) | Synonyms: hymn |
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| (noun) a song of devotion or loyalty (as to a nation or school) | - |
| anther | (noun) the part of the stamen that contains pollen; usually borne on a stalk | - |
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| antheral | (adjective) capable of fertilizing female organs | Synonyms: staminate |
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| antheridial | (adjective) relating to or characterized by an antheridium | - |
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| antheridiophore | (noun) gametophore bearing antheridia as in certain mosses and liverworts | - |
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| antheridium | (noun) the male sex organ of spore-producing plants; produces antherozoids; equivalent to the anther in flowers | - |
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| antherozoid | (noun) a motile male gamete of a plant such as an alga or fern or gymnosperm | Synonyms: spermatozoid |
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| anthesis | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
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| anthill | (noun) a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest | Synonyms: formicary |
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| anthologise | (verb) compile an anthology | Synonyms: anthologize |
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| anthologist | (noun) an editor who makes selections for an anthology | - |
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| anthologize | (verb) compile an anthology | Synonyms: anthologise |
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| anthology | (noun) a collection of selected literary passages | - |
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| anthophagous | (adjective) feeding on flowers | Synonyms: anthophilous |
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| anthophilous | (adjective) feeding on flowers | Synonyms: anthophagous |
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| anthophyllite | (noun) a dark brown mineral of the amphibole group; magnesium iron silicate | - |
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| anthozoan | (noun) sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed | Synonyms: actinozoan |
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| anthracite | (noun) a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat | Synonyms: anthracite coal, hard coal |
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| anthracitic | (adjective) relating to or resembling anthracite coal | - |
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| anthracosis | (noun) lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust | Synonyms: black lung, black lung disease, coal miner's lung |
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| anthrax | (noun) a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people | Synonyms: splenic fever |
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| (noun) a disease of humans that is not communicable; caused by infection with Bacillus anthracis followed by septicemia | - |
| anthropic | (adjective) relating to mankind or the period of mankind's existence | Synonyms: anthropical |
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| anthropical | (adjective) relating to mankind or the period of mankind's existence | Synonyms: anthropic |
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| anthropocentric | (adjective) human-centered | - |
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| anthropocentricity | (noun) an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values | Synonyms: anthropocentrism |
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| anthropocentrism | (noun) an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values | Synonyms: anthropocentricity |
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| anthropogenesis | (noun) the evolution or genesis of the human race | Synonyms: anthropogeny |
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| anthropogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to the study of the origins and development of human beings | Synonyms: anthropogenic |
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| anthropogenic | (adjective) of or relating to the study of the origins and development of human beings | Synonyms: anthropogenetic |
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| anthropogeny | (noun) the evolution or genesis of the human race | Synonyms: anthropogenesis |
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| anthropoid | (adjective) resembling human beings | Synonyms: manlike |
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| (adjective) resembling apes | Synonyms: anthropoidal, apelike |
| (noun) any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids | - |
| (noun) person who resembles a nonhuman primate | Synonyms: ape |
| anthropoidal | (adjective) resembling apes | Synonyms: anthropoid, apelike |
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| anthropolatry | (noun) the worship of human beings | Synonyms: worship of man |
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| anthropological | (adjective) of or concerned with the science of anthropology | - |
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| anthropologism | (noun) a point of view in which human nature is exhaustively determined by the culture in which a person lives, leaving no room for human agency. | - |
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| anthropologist | (noun) a social scientist who specializes in anthropology | - |
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| anthropology | (noun) the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings | - |
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| anthropometric | (adjective) of or relating to anthropometry | Synonyms: anthropometrical |
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| anthropometrical | (adjective) of or relating to anthropometry | Synonyms: anthropometric |
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| anthropometry | (noun) measurement and study of the human body and its parts and capacities | - |
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| anthropomorphic | (adjective) suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things | Synonyms: anthropomorphous, humanlike |
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| anthropomorphise | (verb) ascribe human features to something | Synonyms: anthropomorphize |
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| anthropomorphism | (noun) the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits | Synonyms: theanthropism |
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| anthropomorphize | (verb) ascribe human features to something | Synonyms: anthropomorphise |
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| anthropomorphous | (adjective) suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things | Synonyms: anthropomorphic, humanlike |
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| anthropopathism | (noun) Attribution of human feelings to things not human, such as inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena. | - |
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| anthropophagite | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagus, cannibal, man-eater |
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| anthropophagous | (adjective) of or relating to eaters of human flesh | - |
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| anthropophagus | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagite, cannibal, man-eater |
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| anthropophagy | (noun) human cannibalism; the eating of human flesh | - |
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| anthroposophy | (noun) a system of beliefs and practices based on the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner; it claims to integrate the practical and psychological in child-centered education | - |
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| anthurium | (noun) any of various tropical American plants cultivated for their showy foliage and flowers | Synonyms: tail-flower, tailflower |
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| antiapartheid | (adjective) opposing the policy of apartheid in South Africa | - |
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| antiarrhythmic | (noun) a drug used to treat an abnormal heart rhythm | Synonyms: antiarrhythmic drug, antiarrhythmic medication |
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| antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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| anticholinergic | (adjective) inhibiting or blocking the action of acetylcholine at a receptor site | - |
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| (noun) a substance that opposes or blocks the action of acetylcholine | Synonyms: anticholinergic drug |
| anticholinesterase | (noun) a medicine that inhibits cholinesterase by combining with it and so has a cholinergic effect | - |
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| antidiarrheal | (noun) a drug used to control or stop diarrhea | Synonyms: antidiarrheal drug |
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| antiestablishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentism |
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| antiestablishmentism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentarianism |
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| antiheretical | (adjective) opposed to heresy | - |
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| antihero | (noun) a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine) | - |
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| antihistamine | (noun) a medicine used to treat allergies and hypersensitive reactions and colds; works by counteracting the effects of histamine on a receptor site | - |
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| antihypertensive | (noun) a drug that reduces high blood pressure | Synonyms: antihypertensive drug |
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| antilogarithm | (noun) the number of which a given number is the logarithm | Synonyms: antilog |
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| antimetathesis | (noun) A rhetorical figure resulting from a reverted arrangement in the last clause of a sentence of the two principal words of the clause preceding; inversion of the members of an antithesis: as, "A poem is a speaking picture; a picture a mute poem". | - |
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| antipathetic | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetical, averse, indisposed, loath, loth |
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| (adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antagonistic, antipathetical |