| abolish | (verb) do away with | Synonyms: get rid of |
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| abolishable | (adjective) capable of being abolished | - |
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| abolishment | (noun) the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery) | Synonyms: abolition |
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| accomplish | (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill |
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| (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: achieve, attain, reach |
| accomplishable | (adjective) capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do | Synonyms: achievable, doable, manageable, realizable |
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| accomplished | (adjective) successfully completed or brought to an end | Synonyms: completed, realised, realized |
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| (adjective) settled securely and unconditionally | Synonyms: effected, established |
| (adjective) highly skilled | Synonyms: complete |
| accomplishment | (noun) the action of accomplishing something | Synonyms: achievement |
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| (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: acquirement, acquisition, attainment, skill |
| admonish | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: reproof, reprove |
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| (verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: caution, monish |
| (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: discourage, monish, warn |
| admonisher | (noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | Synonyms: monitor, reminder |
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| admonishing | (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonitory, reproachful, reproving |
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| admonishment | (noun) a firm rebuke | Synonyms: admonition, monition |
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| aguish | (adjective) affected by ague | - |
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| alligatorfish | (noun) small very elongate sea poachers | Synonyms: Aspidophoroides monopterygius |
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| amateurish | (adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateur, inexpert, unskilled |
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| amateurishly | (adverb) in an amateurish manner | - |
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| amateurishness | (noun) something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency | - |
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| amberfish | (noun) any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes | Synonyms: amberjack |
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| angelfish | (noun) sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do | Synonyms: angel shark, monkfish, Squatina squatina |
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| (noun) a butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus | - |
| (noun) deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Chaetodipterus faber, spadefish |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| apish | (adjective) being or given to servile imitation | Synonyms: apelike |
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| apishamore | (noun) a saddle blanket made of buffalo hide | - |
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| archbishop | (noun) a bishop of highest rank | - |
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| archbishopric | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of an archbishop | - |
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| archerfish | (noun) any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australia | Synonyms: Toxotes jaculatrix |
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| arishth | (noun) large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia | Synonyms: Azadirachta indica, margosa, Melia Azadirachta, neem, neem tree, nim tree |
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| astonish | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: amaze, astound |
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| astonished | (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: amazed, astonied, astounded, stunned |
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| astonishing | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astounding, staggering, stupefying |
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| (adjective) surprising greatly | Synonyms: amazing |
| astonishingly | (adverb) in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise | Synonyms: amazingly, surprisingly |
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| astonishment | (noun) the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising | Synonyms: amazement |
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| baboonish | (adjective) resembling a baboon | - |
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| babyish | (adjective) characteristic of a baby | - |
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| bakshish | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshis, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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| balloonfish | (noun) similar to but smaller than porcupinefish | Synonyms: Diodon holocanthus |
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| banish | (verb) drive away | - |
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| (verb) expel, as if by official decree | Synonyms: bar, relegate |
| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun |
| (verb) ban from a place of residence, as for punishment | Synonyms: ban |
| banishment | (noun) rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone | Synonyms: proscription |
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| (noun) the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent) | Synonyms: Coventry, ostracism |
| barrelfish | (noun) blackish fish of New England waters | Synonyms: black rudderfish, Hyperglyphe perciformis |
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| batfish | (noun) bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins | - |
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| beamish | (adjective) smiling with happiness or optimism | Synonyms: smiling, twinkly |
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| bearish | (adjective) expecting prices to fall | - |
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| biggish | (adjective) somewhat large | Synonyms: largish |
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| billfish | (noun) giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw | - |
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| (noun) elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters | Synonyms: gar, needlefish |
| (noun) primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth | Synonyms: gar, garfish, garpike, Lepisosteus osseus |
| (noun) slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters | Synonyms: saury, Scomberesox saurus |
| bishop | (noun) (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color | - |
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| (noun) port wine mulled with oranges and cloves | - |
| (noun) a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ | - |
| bishopric | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop | Synonyms: diocese, episcopate |
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| bishopry | (noun) the office and dignity of a bishop | Synonyms: episcopate |
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| bitterish | (adjective) somewhat bitter | Synonyms: sharp-tasting |
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| blackfish | (noun) female salmon that has recently spawned | - |
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| (noun) small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school | Synonyms: black whale, common blackfish, Globicephala melaena, pilot whale |
| (noun) large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America | Synonyms: tautog, Tautoga onitis |
| blackish | (adjective) of something that is somewhat black | - |
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| blandish | (verb) praise somewhat dishonestly | Synonyms: flatter |
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| blandishment | (noun) the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery | Synonyms: wheedling |
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| (noun) flattery intended to persuade | Synonyms: cajolery, palaver |
| blemish | (noun) a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: defect, mar |
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| (verb) add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective | Synonyms: flaw |
| (verb) mar or impair with a flaw | Synonyms: spot |
| (verb) mar or spoil the appearance of | Synonyms: deface, disfigure |
| blemished | (adjective) marred by imperfections | - |
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| (adjective) having a blemish or flaw | Synonyms: flawed |
| blimpish | (adjective) pompously ultraconservative and nationalistic | - |
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| blockish | (adjective) resembling a block in shape | Synonyms: blocky |
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| blowfish | (noun) any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers | Synonyms: globefish, puffer, pufferfish |
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| (noun) delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver | Synonyms: puffer, pufferfish, sea squab |
| bluefish | (noun) bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters | Synonyms: Pomatomus saltatrix |
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| (noun) fatty bluish flesh of bluefish | - |
| blueish | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | Synonyms: blue, bluish |
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| bluish | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | Synonyms: blue, blueish |
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| bluishness | (noun) The quality of being somewhat blue or having a tinge of blue. | - |
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| boarfish | (noun) fish with a projecting snout | Synonyms: Capros aper |
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| (noun) fish with large eyes and long snouts | - |
| bonefish | (noun) slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons | Synonyms: Albula vulpes |
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| bookish | (adjective) characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading | Synonyms: studious |
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| bookishness | (noun) exaggerated studiousness | - |
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| boorish | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish, swinish |
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| boorishly | (adverb) like a boor | - |
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| boorishness | (noun) inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor | Synonyms: uncouthness |
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| (noun) the manner of a rude or insensitive person | - |
| bounderish | (adjective) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace | Synonyms: ill-bred, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish |
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| boxfish | (noun) any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates | Synonyms: trunkfish |
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| boyish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young boy | Synonyms: boylike, schoolboyish |
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| boyishly | (adverb) like a boy | Synonyms: boylike |
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| boyishness | (noun) being characteristic of a boy | - |
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| brackish | (adjective) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | Synonyms: briny |
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| (adjective) distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture | - |
| brackishness | (noun) the quality of being salty, as the saltiness of water | - |
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| brainish | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
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| brandish | (noun) the act of waving | Synonyms: flourish |
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| (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: flourish, wave |
| (verb) exhibit aggressively | - |
| brattish | (adjective) (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | Synonyms: bratty |
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| brownish | (adjective) of a color similar to that of wood or earth | Synonyms: brown, chocolate-brown, dark-brown |
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| brutish | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brutal, brute |
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| brutishly | (adverb) in the manner of a beast | Synonyms: bestially, in a beastly manner |
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| buffalofish | (noun) any of several large suckers of the Mississippi valley | Synonyms: buffalo fish |
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| (noun) large carp-like North American fish | - |
| buffoonish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: clownish, clownlike, zany |
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| bullish | (adjective) expecting a rise in prices | - |
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| burnish | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: gloss, glossiness, polish |
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| (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, furbish |
| burnished | (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, lustrous, shining, shiny |
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| burnisher | (noun) a hand tool with polished agate tips (or other gemstone) for rubbing the gold leaf in order to obtain a highly polished surface, used in gilding. | Synonyms: burnishing tool |
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| burrfish | (noun) any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines | - |
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| butterfish | (noun) small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines | Synonyms: stromateid, stromateid fish |
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| (noun) slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel |
| (noun) any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin | - |
| butterflyfish | (noun) tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins | Synonyms: flying gurnard, flying robin |
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| caddish | (adjective) offensively discourteous | Synonyms: unchivalrous, ungallant |
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| cardinalfish | (noun) small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters | - |
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| catfish | (noun) any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth | Synonyms: siluriform fish |
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| (noun) large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins | Synonyms: wolf fish, wolffish |
| (noun) flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed | Synonyms: mudcat |
| (verb) To deceive someone by professing romantic feelings but actually using a false identity | - |
| cattish | (adjective) marked by or arising from malice | Synonyms: bitchy, catty |
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| chenfish | (noun) small silvery marine food fish found off California | Synonyms: Genyonemus lineatus, kingfish, white croaker |
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| cherish | (verb) be fond of; be attached to | Synonyms: care for, hold dear, treasure |
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| cherished | (adjective) characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for | Synonyms: precious, treasured, wanted |
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| childish | (adjective) indicating a lack of maturity | Synonyms: infantile |
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