| abhenry | (noun) a unit of inductance equal to one billionth of a henry | - |
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| acetaminophen | (noun) an analgesic for mild pain but not for inflammation; also used as an antipyretic; (Datril, Tylenol, Panadol, Phenaphen, Tempra, and Anacin III are trademarks of brands of acetaminophen tablets) | Synonyms: Anacin III, Datril, Panadol, Phenaphen, Tempra, Tylenol |
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| acetophenetidin | (noun) a white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic | Synonyms: acetphenetidin, phenacetin |
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| acetphenetidin | (noun) a white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic | Synonyms: acetophenetidin, phenacetin |
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| achene | (noun) small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall | - |
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| achenial | (adjective) pertaining to dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit | - |
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| apprehend | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
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| (verb) take into custody | Synonyms: arrest, collar, cop, nab, nail, pick up |
| (verb) anticipate with dread or anxiety | Synonyms: quail at |
| apprehended | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: appreciated, comprehended |
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| apprehender | (noun) a person who seizes or arrests (especially a person who seizes or arrests in the name of justice) | - |
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| (noun) a person who knows or apprehends | Synonyms: knower |
| apprehensible | (adjective) capable of being apprehended or understood | Synonyms: graspable, intelligible, perceivable, understandable |
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| apprehension | (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody |
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| (noun) the cognitive condition of someone who understands | Synonyms: discernment, savvy, understanding |
| (noun) painful expectation | Synonyms: misgiving |
| (noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehensiveness, dread |
| apprehensive | (adjective) in fear or dread of possible evil or harm | - |
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| (adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: discerning |
| (adjective) mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc | Synonyms: worried |
| apprehensively | (adverb) with anxiety or apprehension | Synonyms: anxiously, uneasily |
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| apprehensiveness | (noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehension, dread |
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| archenteron | (noun) central cavity of the gastrula; becomes the intestinal or digestive cavity | - |
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| ascolichen | (noun) a lichen in which the fungus component is an ascomycete | - |
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| ashen | (adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: blanched, bloodless, livid, white |
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| (adjective) made of wood of the ash tree | - |
| asthenia | (noun) an abnormal loss of strength | Synonyms: astheny |
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| asthenic | (adjective) having a slender physique | - |
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| (adjective) lacking energy or vitality | Synonyms: adynamic, debilitated, enervated |
| asthenopia | (noun) a tiredness of the eyes caused by prolonged close work by a person with an uncorrected vision problem | Synonyms: eyestrain |
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| asthenosphere | (noun) the lower layer of the crust | - |
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| astheny | (noun) an abnormal loss of strength | Synonyms: asthenia |
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| athenaeum | (noun) a place where reading materials are available | Synonyms: atheneum |
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| (noun) a literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning | Synonyms: atheneum |
| atheneum | (noun) a place where reading materials are available | Synonyms: athenaeum |
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| (noun) a literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning | Synonyms: athenaeum |
| authentic | (adjective) not counterfeit or copied | Synonyms: bona fide, unquestionable, veritable |
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| (adjective) conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief | Synonyms: reliable |
| authentically | (adverb) genuinely; with authority | Synonyms: genuinely |
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| authenticate | (verb) establish the authenticity of something | - |
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| authenticated | (adjective) established as genuine | Synonyms: attested, documented |
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| authentication | (noun) validating the authenticity of something or someone | Synonyms: certification |
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| (noun) a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity | Synonyms: assay-mark, hallmark |
| authenticator | (noun) one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity | Synonyms: appraiser |
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| authenticity | (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: genuineness, legitimacy |
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| basidiolichen | (noun) a lichen in which the fungus component is a basidiomycete | - |
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| beechen | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the beech tree | - |
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| birchen | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree | Synonyms: birch, birken |
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| blitheness | (noun) a feeling of spontaneous good spirits | Synonyms: cheerfulness |
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| burthen | (noun) a variant of `burden' | - |
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| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burden, weight, weight down |
| calisthenic | (adjective) of or relating to calisthenics | - |
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| calisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: callisthenics |
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| (noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: callisthenics |
| callisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: calisthenics |
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| (noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: calisthenics |
| chenfish | (noun) small silvery marine food fish found off California | Synonyms: Genyonemus lineatus, kingfish, white croaker |
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| chenille | (noun) a heavy fabric woven with chenille cord; used in rugs and bedspreads | - |
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| (noun) a soft tufted cord used in embroidery | Synonyms: chenille cord |
| chloramphenicol | (noun) an oral antibiotic (trade name Chloromycetin) used to treat serious infections (especially typhoid fever) | Synonyms: Chloromycetin |
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| chloroacetophenone | (noun) a tear gas that is weaker than CS gas but lasts longer | Synonyms: CN gas |
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| clomiphene | (noun) a fertility drug (trade name Clomid) that is used to stimulate ovulation and that has been associated with multiple births | Synonyms: Clomid, clomiphene citrate |
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| comprehend | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
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| (verb) to become aware of through the senses | Synonyms: perceive |
| (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: cover, embrace, encompass |
| comprehended | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: appreciated, apprehended |
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| comprehendible | (adjective) capable of being comprehended or understood | Synonyms: comprehensible |
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| comprehensibility | (noun) the quality of comprehensible language or thought | Synonyms: understandability |
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| comprehensible | (adjective) capable of being comprehended or understood | Synonyms: comprehendible |
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| comprehension | (noun) an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result) | - |
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| (noun) the relation of comprising something | Synonyms: inclusion |
| comprehensive | (adjective) including all or everything | - |
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| (adjective) broad in scope | - |
| (noun) an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge | Synonyms: comp, comprehensive examination |
| comprehensively | (adverb) in an all-inclusive manner | - |
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| comprehensiveness | (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: breadth, largeness |
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| (noun) completeness over a broad scope | Synonyms: fullness |
| dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane | (noun) an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972 | Synonyms: DDT |
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| dihydroxyphenylalanine | (noun) amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain | Synonyms: dopa |
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| diphenhydramine | (noun) antihistamine (trade name Benadryl) used to treat allergic reactions involving the nasal passages (hay fever) and also to treat motion sickness | Synonyms: Benadryl |
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| diphenylhydantoin | (noun) an anticonvulsant drug (trade name Dilantin) used to treat epilepsy and that is not a sedative | Synonyms: Dilantin, phenytoin |
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| earthen | (adjective) made of earth (or baked clay) | - |
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| earthenware | (noun) ceramic ware made of porous clay fired at low heat | - |
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| epiphenomenon | (noun) a secondary phenomenon that is a by-product of another phenomenon | - |
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| ethene | (noun) a flammable colorless gaseous alkene; obtained from petroleum and natural gas and used in manufacturing many other chemicals; sometimes used as an anesthetic | Synonyms: ethylene |
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| euthenics | (noun) the study of methods of improving human well-being and efficient functioning by improving environmental conditions | - |
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| fluphenazine | (noun) tranquilizer used to treat psychotic disorders | - |
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| freshen | (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: refresh, refreshen |
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| (verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen up, refresh, refreshen |
| (verb) make (to feel) fresh | Synonyms: refresh |
| freshener | (noun) anything that freshens | - |
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| gaucheness | (noun) an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity |
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| grayhen | (noun) female black grouse | Synonyms: gray hen, grey hen, greyhen, heath hen |
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| greyhen | (noun) female black grouse | Synonyms: gray hen, grayhen, grey hen, heath hen |
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| groschen | (noun) 100 groschen equal 1 schilling in Austria | - |
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| harshen | (verb) make harsh or harsher | - |
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| heathen | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathenish, pagan |
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| (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: gentile, infidel, pagan |
| heathenish | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathen, pagan |
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| heathenism | (noun) any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism | Synonyms: pagan religion, paganism |
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| hen | (noun) adult female chicken | Synonyms: biddy |
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| (noun) adult female bird | - |
| (noun) female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus or lobster | - |
| (noun) flesh of an older chicken suitable for stewing | - |
| henbane | (noun) poisonous fetid Old World herb having sticky hairy leaves and yellow-brown flowers; yields hyoscyamine and scopolamine | Synonyms: black henbane, Hyoscyamus niger, stinking nightshade |
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| henbit | (noun) Eurasian plant having toothed leaves and small two-lipped white or purplish-red flowers | Synonyms: Lamium amplexicaule |
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| hence | (adverb) (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result | Synonyms: so, thence, therefore, thus |
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| (adverb) from this time | - |
| (adverb) from this place | - |
| henceforth | (adverb) from this time forth; from now on | Synonyms: henceforward |
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| henceforward | (adverb) from this time forth; from now on | Synonyms: henceforth |
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| henchman | (noun) someone who assists in a plot | Synonyms: collaborator, confederate, partner in crime |
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| hencoop | (noun) a farm building for housing poultry | Synonyms: chicken coop, coop, henhouse |
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| hendiadys | (noun) use of two conjoined nouns instead of a noun and modifier | - |
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| henhouse | (noun) a farm building for housing poultry | Synonyms: chicken coop, coop, hencoop |
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| henna | (noun) a reddish brown dye used especially on hair | - |
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| (verb) apply henna to one's hair | - |
| henpecked | (adjective) harassed by persistent nagging | Synonyms: dominated |
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| henroost | (noun) a roost for hens at night | - |
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| henry | (noun) a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second | Synonyms: H |
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| hexachlorophene | (noun) antibacterial substance that is a water-soluble powder used in antiseptic soaps and toothpaste | - |
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| hyphen | (noun) a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text | Synonyms: dash |
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| (verb) divide or connect with a hyphen | Synonyms: hyphenate |
| hyphenate | (verb) divide or connect with a hyphen | Synonyms: hyphen |
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| hyphenation | (noun) connecting syllables and words by hyphens | - |
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| (noun) division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page | Synonyms: word division |
| inauthentic | (adjective) false or fake; not what it appears to be | Synonyms: spurious, unauthentic |
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| incomprehensibility | (noun) the quality of being incomprehensible | - |
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| incomprehensible | (adjective) difficult to understand | Synonyms: uncomprehensible |
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| (adjective) incapable of being explained or accounted for | Synonyms: inexplicable |
| incomprehension | (noun) an inability to understand | - |
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| incomprehensive | (adjective) not comprehensive | Synonyms: noncomprehensive |
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| isophene | (noun) a line indicating biological events occurring with coincidence such as plants flowering. | - |
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| kitchen | (noun) a room equipped for preparing meals | - |
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| kitchenette | (noun) small kitchen | - |
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| kitchenware | (noun) hardware utensils for use in a kitchen | - |
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