| accessibility | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: availability, availableness, handiness |
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| (noun) the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with | Synonyms: approachability |
| accessible | (adjective) capable of being reached | - |
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| (adjective) easy to get along with or talk to; friendly | - |
| (adjective) easily obtained | - |
| (adjective) capable of being read with comprehension | Synonyms: approachable |
| addible | (adjective) capable of being added or added to | Synonyms: addable |
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| admissibility | (noun) acceptability by virtue of being admissible | - |
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| admissible | (adjective) deserving to be admitted | - |
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| admittible | (adjective) deserving to be allowed to enter | Synonyms: admittable |
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| afibrinogenemia | (noun) the absence of fibrinogen in the plasma leading to prolonged bleeding | - |
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| agribusiness | (noun) a large-scale farming enterprise | Synonyms: agriculture, factory farm |
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| alibi | (noun) (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question | - |
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| (noun) a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Synonyms: exculpation, excuse, self-justification |
| (verb) exonerate by means of an alibi | - |
| alloantibody | (noun) an antibody that occurs naturally against foreign tissues from a person of the same species | Synonyms: isoantibody |
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| amphibia | (noun) the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water, frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, caecilians | Synonyms: class Amphibia |
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| amphibian | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia | Synonyms: amphibious |
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| (noun) cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form | - |
| (noun) an airplane designed to take off and land on water | Synonyms: amphibious aircraft |
| (noun) a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water | Synonyms: amphibious vehicle |
| amphibiotic | (adjective) having an aquatic early or larval form and a terrestrial adult form | Synonyms: semiaquatic |
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| amphibious | (adjective) operating or living on land and in water | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia | Synonyms: amphibian |
| amphibole | (noun) a mineral or mineral variety belonging to the amphibole group | - |
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| amphibolite | (noun) a metamorphic rock composed chiefly of amphibole and plagioclase | - |
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| amphibology | (noun) an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes | Synonyms: amphiboly |
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| amphiboly | (noun) an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes | Synonyms: amphibology |
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| amphibrach | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember') | - |
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| angwantibo | (noun) a kind of yellow or golden lemur (Arctocebus calabarensis) | Synonyms: Arctocebus calabarensis, golden potto |
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| antibacterial | (adjective) destroying bacteria or inhibiting their growth | - |
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| (noun) any drug that destroys bacteria or inhibits their growth | Synonyms: antibacterial drug, bactericide |
| antibaryon | (noun) the antiparticle of a baryon; a hadron with a baryon number of -1 | - |
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| antibiosis | (noun) an association between organisms that is harmful to one of them or between organisms and a metabolic product of another | - |
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| antibiotic | (adjective) of or relating to antibiotic drugs | - |
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| (noun) a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections | Synonyms: antibiotic drug |
| antiblack | (adjective) discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion | Synonyms: anti-Semite, racist |
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| antibody | (noun) any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to an antigen which it neutralizes, thus producing an immune response | - |
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| apprehensible | (adjective) capable of being apprehended or understood | Synonyms: graspable, intelligible, perceivable, understandable |
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| arariba | (noun) Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood | Synonyms: Centrolobium robustum |
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| ascendible | (adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendable, climbable |
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| ascribable | (adjective) capable of being assigned or credited to | Synonyms: due, imputable, referable |
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| ascribe | (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: assign, attribute, impute |
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| assibilate | (verb) change into a sibilant | - |
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| (verb) insert a sibilant sound before or after (another sound) | - |
| assibilation | (noun) pronunciation with a sibilant (hissing or whistling) sound | Synonyms: sibilation |
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| (noun) the development of a consonant phoneme into a sibilant | - |
| attributable | (adjective) capable of being attributed | - |
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| attribute | (noun) an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity | - |
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| (noun) a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished | Synonyms: dimension, property |
| (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: ascribe, assign, impute |
| (verb) decide as to where something belongs in a scheme | Synonyms: assign |
| attribution | (noun) assigning to a cause or source | Synonyms: ascription |
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| (noun) assigning some quality or character to a person or thing | Synonyms: ascription |
| attributive | (adjective) of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify | Synonyms: prenominal |
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| attributively | (adverb) in an attributive manner | - |
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| audibility | (noun) quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: audibleness |
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| audible | (adjective) heard or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: hearable |
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| (noun) a football play is changed orally after both teams have assumed their positions at the line of scrimmage | - |
| audibleness | (noun) quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: audibility |
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| audibly | (adverb) in an audible manner | - |
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| autoantibody | (noun) an antibody acting against tissues of the organism that produces it | - |
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| avertible | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avoidable, evitable |
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| balibago | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, majagua, purau |
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| beriberi | (noun) avitaminosis caused by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1) | - |
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| bib | (noun) a napkin tied under the chin of a child while eating | - |
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| (noun) top part of an apron; covering the chest | - |
| (verb) drink moderately but regularly | Synonyms: tipple |
| bibbed | (adjective) having a bib | - |
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| bible | (noun) a book regarded as authoritative in its field | - |
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| bibless | (adjective) lacking a bib | - |
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| biblical | (adjective) of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible | Synonyms: scriptural |
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| (adjective) in keeping with the nature of the Bible or its times or people | - |
| 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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| bibliolatrous | (adjective) given to Bible-worship | - |
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| bibliolatry | (noun) the worship of the Bible | Synonyms: Bible-worship |
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| bibliomania | (noun) preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books | - |
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| bibliomaniacal | (adjective) characteristic of or characterized by or noted for bibliomania | - |
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| bibliophile | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: book lover, booklover |
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| bibliophilic | (adjective) of or relating to bibliophiles | - |
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| bibliopole | (noun) a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books) | Synonyms: bibliopolist |
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| bibliopolic | (adjective) of or relating to bibliopoles | - |
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| bibliopolist | (noun) a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books) | Synonyms: bibliopole |
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| bibliothec | (noun) a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services | Synonyms: librarian |
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| bibliotheca | (noun) a collection of books | - |
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| bibliothecal | (adjective) of or relating to a library or bibliotheca or a librarian | Synonyms: bibliothecarial |
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| bibliothecarial | (adjective) of or relating to a library or bibliotheca or a librarian | Synonyms: bibliothecal |
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| bibliotic | (adjective) of or relating to bibliotics | - |
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| bibliotics | (noun) the scientific study of documents and handwriting etc. especially to determine authorship or authenticity | - |
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| bibliotist | (noun) someone who engages in bibliotics | - |
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| bibulous | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: boozy, drunken, sottish |
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| bribable | (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: corruptible, dishonest, purchasable, venal |
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| bribe | (noun) payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment | Synonyms: payoff |
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| (verb) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence | Synonyms: buy, corrupt, grease one's palms |
| briber | (noun) someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act | Synonyms: suborner |
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| bribery | (noun) the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage | Synonyms: graft |
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| caipiblack | (noun) a variation of the Caipirinha made with black vodka instead of cachaça. | - |
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| caliber | (noun) a degree or grade of excellence or worth | Synonyms: calibre, quality |
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| (noun) diameter of a tube or gun barrel | Synonyms: bore, calibre, gauge |
| calibrate | (verb) make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring | Synonyms: fine-tune, graduate |
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| (verb) measure the caliber of | - |
| (verb) mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units | - |
| calibrated | (adjective) marked with or divided into degrees | Synonyms: graduated |
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| calibration | (noun) the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument | Synonyms: standardisation, standardization |
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| calibre | (noun) a degree or grade of excellence or worth | Synonyms: caliber, quality |
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| (noun) diameter of a tube or gun barrel | Synonyms: bore, caliber, gauge |
| cannibal | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagite, anthropophagus, man-eater |
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| cannibalic | (adjective) marked by barbarity suggestive of a cannibal; rapaciously savage | - |
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| cannibalise | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalize |
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| (verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalize |
| cannibalism | (noun) the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind | - |
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| cannibalistic | (adjective) characteristic of cannibals or exhibiting cannibalism | - |
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| cannibalize | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalise |
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| (verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalise |
| capibara | (noun) pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent | Synonyms: capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris |
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| caribe | (noun) small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals | Synonyms: pirana, piranha |
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| caribou | (noun) Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America | Synonyms: Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus, reindeer |
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| ceibo | (noun) small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered | Synonyms: common coral tree, cry-baby tree, crybaby tree, Erythrina crista-galli |
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| celecoxib | (noun) a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Celebrex) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract | Synonyms: Celebrex |
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| celibacy | (noun) abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) | Synonyms: chastity, sexual abstention |
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| (noun) an unmarried status | - |
| celibate | (adjective) abstaining from sexual intercourse | Synonyms: continent |
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| (noun) an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity | - |
| circumscribe | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: confine to, limit |
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| (verb) draw a line around | - |
| (verb) to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect | - |
| circumscribed | (adjective) subject to limits or subjected to limits | Synonyms: limited |
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| clofibrate | (noun) a drug (trade name Atromid-S) that reduces lipids in the blood serum; used to treat some cardiovascular diseases | Synonyms: Atromid-S |
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| cognoscible | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognisable, cognizable, knowable |
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| collapsible | (adjective) capable of collapsing or being collapsed | Synonyms: collapsable |
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