| abscissa | (noun) the value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis | - |
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| abscission | (noun) the act of cutting something off | Synonyms: cutting off |
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| (noun) shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant | - |
| admissibility | (noun) acceptability by virtue of being admissible | - |
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| admissible | (adjective) deserving to be admitted | - |
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| admission | (noun) the act of admitting someone to enter | Synonyms: admittance |
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| (noun) the right to enter | Synonyms: access, accession, admittance, entree |
| (noun) an acknowledgment of the truth of something | - |
| (noun) the fee charged for admission | Synonyms: admission charge, admission fee, admission price, entrance fee, entrance money, price of admission |
| admissive | (adjective) characterized by or allowing admission | - |
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| altissimo | (adjective) very high | - |
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| amiss | (adjective) not functioning properly | Synonyms: awry, haywire, wrong |
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| (adverb) away from the correct or expected course | Synonyms: awry |
| (adverb) in an improper or mistaken or unfortunate manner | - |
| (adverb) in an imperfect or faulty way | Synonyms: imperfectly |
| bliss | (noun) a state of extreme happiness | Synonyms: blissfulness, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air |
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| blissful | (adjective) completely happy and contented | - |
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| blissfully | (adverb) in a blissful manner | - |
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| blissfulness | (noun) a state of extreme happiness | Synonyms: bliss, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air |
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| bouillabaisse | (noun) highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs | - |
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| caisson | (noun) large watertight chamber used for construction under water | Synonyms: cofferdam, pneumatic caisson |
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| (noun) an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome | Synonyms: coffer, lacunar |
| (noun) a chest to hold ammunition | Synonyms: ammunition chest |
| (noun) a two-wheeled military vehicle carrying artillery ammunition | - |
| carissa | (noun) a shrub of the genus Carissa having fragrant white flowers and plumlike red to purple-black fruits | - |
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| cissy | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: effeminate, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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| commissar | (noun) an official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach party principles to a military unit | Synonyms: political commissar |
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| commissariat | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: provender, provisions, viands, victuals |
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| commissary | (noun) a retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel) | - |
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| (noun) a snack bar in a film studio | - |
| commission | (noun) a special assignment that is given to a person or group | Synonyms: charge, mission |
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| (noun) the act of committing a crime | Synonyms: committal, perpetration |
| (noun) the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions | Synonyms: commissioning |
| (noun) an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces | Synonyms: military commission |
| (noun) a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something | Synonyms: charge, direction |
| (noun) a special group delegated to consider some matter | Synonyms: committee |
| (noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: delegacy, delegation, deputation, mission |
| (noun) a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary) | - |
| (noun) the state of being in good working order and ready for operation | - |
| (verb) charge with a task | - |
| (verb) put into commission; equip for service; of ships | - |
| (verb) place an order for | - |
| commissionaire | (noun) a uniformed doorman | - |
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| commissioned | (adjective) (of military officers) holding by virtue of a commission a rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above | - |
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| (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: accredited, licenced, licensed |
| commissioner | (noun) a government administrator | - |
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| (noun) a member of a commission | - |
| commissioning | (noun) the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions | Synonyms: commission |
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| commissure | (noun) a bundle of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the brain or spinal cord | - |
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| connoisseur | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: cognoscente |
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| connoisseurship | (noun) love of or taste for fine objects of art | Synonyms: vertu, virtu |
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| coulisse | (noun) a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel | - |
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| (noun) a flat situated in the wings | Synonyms: wing flat |
| crisscross | (adjective) marked with crossing lines | Synonyms: crisscrossed |
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| (noun) a marking that consists of lines that cross each other | Synonyms: cross, mark |
| (adverb) crossing one another in opposite directions | - |
| (verb) mark with a pattern of crossing lines | - |
| (verb) mark with or consist of a pattern of crossed lines | - |
| (verb) cross in a pattern, often random | - |
| crisscrossed | (adjective) marked with crossing lines | Synonyms: crisscross |
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| croissant | (noun) very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll | Synonyms: crescent roll |
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| cuisse | (noun) armor plate that protects the thigh | - |
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| decommission | (verb) withdraw from active service | - |
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| dismiss | (verb) declare void | Synonyms: dissolve |
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| (verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, discount, disregard, ignore, push aside |
| (verb) end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave | Synonyms: usher out |
| (verb) cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration | Synonyms: throw out |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| (verb) stop associating with | Synonyms: drop, send away, send packing |
| dismissal | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
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| (noun) a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial | Synonyms: judgement of dismissal, judgment of dismissal |
| (noun) official notice that you have been fired from your job | Synonyms: dismission, pink slip |
| (noun) permission to go; the sending away of someone | - |
| dismissed | (adjective) having lost your job | Synonyms: discharged, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped |
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| dismissible | (adjective) subject to dismissal | - |
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| dismission | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
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| (noun) official notice that you have been fired from your job | Synonyms: dismissal, pink slip |
| dismissive | (adjective) stopping to associate with | - |
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| (adjective) showing indifference or disregard | - |
| diss | (verb) treat, mention, or speak to rudely | Synonyms: affront, insult |
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| dissatisfaction | (noun) the feeling of being displeased and discontent | - |
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| dissatisfactory | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: disappointing, unsatisfying |
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| dissatisfied | (adjective) in a state of sulky dissatisfaction | Synonyms: disgruntled |
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| dissatisfy | (verb) fail to satisfy | - |
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| dissect | (verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, break down, take apart |
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| (verb) cut open or cut apart | - |
| dissected | (adjective) having one or more indentations reaching nearly to the midrib | Synonyms: cleft |
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| dissection | (noun) cutting so as to separate into pieces | - |
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| (noun) detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work) | - |
| (noun) a minute and critical analysis | - |
| dissemble | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, feign, pretend, sham |
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| (verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: act, pretend |
| (verb) hide under a false appearance | Synonyms: cloak, mask |
| dissembler | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender |
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| dissembling | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation |
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| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretense |
| disseminate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| dissemination | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersal, dispersion |
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| (noun) the property of being diffused or dispersed | Synonyms: diffusion |
| (noun) the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate | Synonyms: airing, public exposure, spreading |
| disseminative | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, dispersive |
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| disseminator | (noun) someone who spreads the news | Synonyms: propagator |
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| dissension | (noun) disagreement among those expected to cooperate | Synonyms: discord |
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| (noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: disagreement, dissonance |
| dissent | (noun) the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent | Synonyms: objection, protest |
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| (noun) (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority | - |
| (noun) a difference of opinion | - |
| (verb) withhold assent | - |
| (verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: differ, disagree, take issue |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: protest, resist |
| dissenter | (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissident, objector, protester |
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| dissentient | (adjective) disagreeing, especially with a majority | Synonyms: dissenting, dissident |
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| (adjective) (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England | Synonyms: recusant |
| dissenting | (adjective) disagreeing, especially with a majority | Synonyms: dissentient, dissident |
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| dissentious | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: divisive, factious |
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| dissertate | (verb) talk at length and formally about a topic | Synonyms: discourse, hold forth |
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| dissertation | (noun) a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree | Synonyms: thesis |
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| disservice | (noun) an act intended to help that turns out badly | Synonyms: ill service, ill turn |
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| dissever | (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, divide, separate, split, split up |
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| dissidence | (noun) disagreement; especially disagreement with the government | - |
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| dissident | (adjective) disagreeing, especially with a majority | Synonyms: dissentient, dissenting |
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| (adjective) characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards | Synonyms: heretical, heterodox |
| (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissenter, objector, protester |
| dissilience | (noun) the emergence of seeds as seed pods burst open when they are ripe | - |
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| dissilient | (adjective) bursting open with force, as do some ripe seed vessels | - |
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| dissimilar | (adjective) not similar | - |
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| (adjective) not alike or similar | Synonyms: unalike |
| dissimilarity | (noun) the quality of being dissimilar | Synonyms: unsimilarity |
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| dissimilate | (verb) become dissimilar or less similar | - |
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| (verb) make dissimilar; cause to become less similar | - |
| (verb) become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities | - |
| dissimilation | (noun) breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy | Synonyms: catabolism, destructive metabolism, katabolism |
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| (noun) a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other | - |
| dissimilitude | (noun) dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness | Synonyms: unlikeness |
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| dissimulate | (verb) hide (feelings) from other people | - |
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| dissimulation | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissembling |
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| dissimulative | (adjective) concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive | - |
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| dissimulator | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender |
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| dissipate | (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
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| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: disperse, scatter, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, scatter |
| (verb) live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption | - |
| dissipated | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: betting, card-playing, gambling, sporting |
| dissipation | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissolution, licentiousness, looseness, profligacy |
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| (noun) useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | Synonyms: waste, wastefulness |
| (noun) breaking up and scattering by dispersion | - |
| dissociable | (adjective) capable of being divided or dissociated | Synonyms: separable, severable |
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| dissociate | (verb) to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms | - |
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| (verb) regard as unconnected | Synonyms: decouple |
| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, disunite, divorce |
| dissociation | (noun) the act of removing from association | - |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the temporary or reversible process in which a molecule or ion is broken down into smaller molecules or ions | - |
| (noun) a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently | Synonyms: disassociation |
| dissociative | (adjective) tending to produce dissociation | - |
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| dissolubility | (noun) the property of being dissoluble | Synonyms: solubleness |
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| dissoluble | (adjective) capable of dissolving | Synonyms: dissolvable |
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| dissolute | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| dissolutely | (adverb) in a dissolute way | Synonyms: profligately |
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| dissoluteness | (noun) indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures | Synonyms: incontinence, self-gratification |
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| dissolution | (noun) the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations) | Synonyms: breakup |
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| (noun) the termination of a meeting | Synonyms: adjournment |
| (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, licentiousness, looseness, profligacy |
| (noun) separation into component parts | Synonyms: disintegration |
| (noun) the process of going into solution | Synonyms: dissolving |
| dissolvable | (adjective) capable of dissolving | Synonyms: dissoluble |
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| dissolve | (noun) (film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out | - |
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| (verb) pass into a solution | - |
| (verb) cause to go into a solution | Synonyms: break up, resolve |
| (verb) come to an end | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) grow less and less substantial until it disappears | Synonyms: fade away, fade out |
| (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw |
| (verb) bring the association of to an end or cause to break up | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) declare void | Synonyms: dismiss |
| (verb) cause to fade away | - |
| (verb) lose control emotionally | - |
| (verb) cause to lose control emotionally | - |
| (verb) stop functioning or cohering as a unit | Synonyms: disband |
| dissolved | (adjective) (of solid matter) reduced to a liquid form | - |
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| dissolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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| dissolver | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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| dissolving | (noun) the process of going into solution | Synonyms: dissolution |
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| dissonance | (noun) disagreeable sounds | - |
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| (noun) the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience | Synonyms: noise, racket |
| (noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: disagreement, dissension |
| dissonant | (adjective) not in accord | Synonyms: at variance, discrepant |
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| (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, disharmonious, inharmonic |
| (adjective) characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved | Synonyms: unresolved |
| dissonate | (verb) cause to sound harsh and unpleasant | Synonyms: disharmonize |
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| (verb) be dissonant or harsh | - |
| dissuade | (verb) turn away from by persuasion | Synonyms: deter |
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