| administer | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: dispense |
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| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) perform (a church sacrament) ritually | - |
| (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administrate |
| (verb) direct the taking of | - |
| arriviste | (noun) a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart |
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| artiste | (noun) a public performer (a dancer or singer) | - |
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| assisted | (adjective) having help; often used as a combining form | Synonyms: aided |
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| banister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, bannister, handrail |
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| bannister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, banister, handrail |
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| baptistery | (noun) bowl for baptismal water | Synonyms: baptismal font, baptistry, font |
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| barrister | (noun) a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution | - |
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| batiste | (noun) a thin plain-weave cotton or linen fabric; used for shirts or dresses | - |
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| bister | (noun) a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot | Synonyms: bistre |
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| bistered | (adjective) colored with or as if with bister | Synonyms: bistred |
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| blister | (noun) (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid | Synonyms: bleb, bulla |
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| (noun) (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin | - |
| (noun) a flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint) | - |
| (verb) get blistered | Synonyms: vesicate |
| (verb) cause blisters to form on | - |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: scald, scorch, whip |
| blistering | (adjective) very fast; capable of quick response and great speed | Synonyms: hot, red-hot |
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| (adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters | Synonyms: blistery |
| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| (noun) the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin | Synonyms: vesication, vesiculation |
| blistery | (adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters | Synonyms: blistering |
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| (adjective) covered with small blisters | Synonyms: blebby |
| boisterous | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly |
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| (adjective) full of rough and exuberant animal spirits | Synonyms: knockabout |
| (adjective) violently agitated and turbulent | Synonyms: fierce, rough |
| boisterously | (adverb) in a carefree manner | Synonyms: rollickingly |
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| boisterousness | (noun) the property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained | - |
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| (noun) a turbulent and stormy state of the sea | - |
| canistel | (noun) ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies | Synonyms: eggfruit |
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| (noun) tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit | Synonyms: canistel tree, Pouteria campechiana nervosa |
| canister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: cannister, tin |
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| (noun) a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm | Synonyms: canister shot, case shot |
| cannister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: canister, tin |
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| chorister | (noun) a singer in a choir | - |
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| christella | (noun) any of several tropical ferns of the genus Christella having thin brittle fronds | - |
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| christen | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptise, baptize |
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| christening | (noun) giving a Christian name at baptism | - |
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| cistern | (noun) an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater | - |
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| (noun) a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet | Synonyms: water tank |
| (noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cisterna |
| cisterna | (noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cistern |
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| cloister | (noun) residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery) | Synonyms: religious residence |
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| (noun) a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions) | - |
| (verb) seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister | - |
| (verb) surround with a cloister | - |
| (verb) surround with a cloister, as of a garden | - |
| cloistered | (adjective) providing privacy or seclusion | Synonyms: reclusive, secluded, sequestered |
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| (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical |
| closefisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: hardfisted, tightfisted |
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| coexistence | (noun) existing peacefully together | - |
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| coexistent | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexisting |
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| consistence | (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistency, substance |
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| (noun) a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts | Synonyms: consistency |
| consistency | (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistence, substance |
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| (noun) (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another | - |
| (noun) a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts | Synonyms: consistence |
| (noun) logical coherence and accordance with the facts | - |
| consistent | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `with') in agreement or consistent or reliable | - |
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| (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherent, logical, ordered |
| (adjective) capable of being reproduced | Synonyms: reproducible |
| (adjective) the same throughout in structure or composition | Synonyms: uniform |
| consistently | (adverb) in a systematic or consistent manner | Synonyms: systematically |
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| demister | (noun) heater that removes mist from the windshield of a car | - |
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| distemper | (noun) a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery | - |
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| (noun) a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
| (noun) paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
| (noun) an angry and disagreeable mood | Synonyms: ill humor, ill humour |
| (noun) any of various infectious viral diseases of animals | - |
| (verb) paint with distemper | - |
| distend | (verb) become wider | Synonyms: dilate |
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| (verb) swell from or as if from internal pressure | - |
| (verb) cause to expand as if by internal pressure | - |
| distended | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, intumescent, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
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| distensible | (adjective) capable of being distended; able to stretch and expand | - |
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| distension | (noun) the act of expanding by pressure from within | Synonyms: distention |
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| (noun) the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions | Synonyms: dilatation, distention |
| distention | (noun) the act of expanding by pressure from within | Synonyms: distension |
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| (noun) the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions | Synonyms: dilatation, distension |
| eisteddfod | (noun) any of several annual Welsh festivals involving artistic competitions (especially in singing) | - |
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| enlistee | (noun) any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces) | Synonyms: recruit |
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| episteme | (noun) the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time | - |
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| epistemic | (adjective) of or relating to epistemology | Synonyms: epistemological |
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| epistemological | (adjective) of or relating to epistemology | Synonyms: epistemic |
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| epistemologist | (noun) a specialist in epistemology | - |
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| epistemology | (noun) the philosophical theory of knowledge | - |
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| existence | (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, macrocosm, universe, world |
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| (noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, beingness, face of the earth |
| existent | (adjective) having existence or being or actuality | Synonyms: existing |
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| (adjective) being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory | Synonyms: real |
| (adjective) presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible | Synonyms: actual |
| existential | (adjective) relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence) | - |
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| (adjective) of or as conceived by existentialism | - |
| (adjective) derived from experience or the experience of existence | Synonyms: experiential |
| existentialism | (noun) (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves | Synonyms: existential philosophy, existentialist philosophy |
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| existentialist | (adjective) relating to or involving existentialism | - |
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| (noun) a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable | Synonyms: existential philosopher, existentialist philosopher |
| glisten | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glister, glitter, scintillation, sparkle |
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| (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glitter, shine |
| glistening | (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining, shiny |
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| glister | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glitter, scintillation, sparkle |
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| glistering | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| hardfisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: closefisted, tightfisted |
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| hoister | (noun) an operator of a hoist | - |
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| inconsistency | (noun) the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts | - |
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| (noun) the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time | Synonyms: incompatibility, mutual exclusiveness, repugnance |
| inconsistent | (adjective) displaying a lack of consistency | - |
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| (adjective) not in agreement | Synonyms: discrepant |
| (adjective) not capable of being made consistent or harmonious | - |
| inconsistently | (adverb) without showing consistency | - |
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| insistence | (noun) the act of insisting on something | Synonyms: insistency |
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| (noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insisting |
| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistency, press, pressure |
| insistency | (noun) the act of insisting on something | Synonyms: insistence |
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| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistence, press, pressure |
| insistent | (adjective) repetitive and persistent | Synonyms: repetitive |
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| (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, crying, exigent, instant |
| insistently | (adverb) in an insistent manner | - |
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| keister | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| leister | (noun) a spear with three or more prongs; used for spearing fish (especially salmon) | - |
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| listed | (adjective) on a list | - |
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| listen | (verb) hear with intention | - |
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| (verb) listen and pay attention | Synonyms: hear, take heed |
| (verb) pay close attention to; give heed to | Synonyms: heed, mind |
| listener | (noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: attender, auditor, hearer |
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| listenership | (noun) all the listeners collectively of a particular radio programme, station, or broadcaster. | - |
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| listening | (noun) the act of hearing attentively | Synonyms: hearing |
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| lister | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister plough, lister plow, middle buster, middlebreaker |
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| (noun) assessor who makes out the tax lists | - |
| listeria | (noun) any species of the genus Listeria | - |
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| listeriosis | (noun) an infectious disease of animals and humans (especially newborn or immunosuppressed persons) caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes; in sheep and cattle the infection frequently involves the central nervous system and causes various neurological symptoms | Synonyms: listeria meningitis |
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| magisterial | (adjective) of or relating to a magistrate | - |
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| (adjective) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | Synonyms: distinguished, grand, imposing |
| (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, peremptory |
| magisterially | (adverb) in an authoritative and magisterial manner | Synonyms: authoritatively |
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| (adverb) in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator | Synonyms: autocratically, dictatorially |
| meristem | (noun) undifferentiated tissue from which new cells are formed, as at the tip of a stem or root | - |
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| minister | (noun) the job of a head of a government department | - |
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| (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: curate, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rector |
| (noun) a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador | Synonyms: diplomatic minister |
| (noun) a person appointed to a high office in the government | Synonyms: government minister |
| (verb) work as a minister | - |
| (verb) attend to the wants and needs of others | - |
| ministerial | (adjective) of or relating to a government minister or ministry | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a minister of religion or the minister's office | - |
| ministerially | (adverb) in the manner of a minister or clergyman | - |
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| modiste | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: needlewoman, seamstress, sempstress |
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| (noun) someone who makes and sells hats | Synonyms: hatmaker, hatter, milliner |
| moisten | (verb) make moist | Synonyms: dampen, wash |
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| (verb) moisten with fine drops | Synonyms: drizzle |
| moistener | (noun) a device that dampens or moistens something | Synonyms: dampener |
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| moistening | (noun) the act of making something slightly wet | Synonyms: dampening |
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| nonexistence | (noun) the state of not existing | Synonyms: nonentity |
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| nonexistent | (adjective) not having existence or being or actuality | - |
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| palmister | (noun) fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms | Synonyms: chiromancer, palmist |
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| persistence | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, perseveration |
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| (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
| (noun) the property of a continuous and connected period of time | Synonyms: continuity |
| persistency | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
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| persistent | (adjective) retained; not shed | Synonyms: lasting |
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| (adjective) never-ceasing | Synonyms: relentless, unrelenting |
| (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding |
| (adjective) continually recurring to the mind | Synonyms: haunting |
| persistently | (adverb) with persistence | - |
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| (adverb) in a persistent manner | - |
| phrontistery | (noun) an establishment for study and learning (sometimes including modern universities) | - |
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| piste | (noun) a ski run densely packed with snow | - |
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| (noun) a flat rectangular area for fencing bouts | - |
| preexistence | (noun) existing in a former state or previous to something else | - |
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| preexistent | (adjective) existing previously or before something | Synonyms: pre-existent, pre-existing, preexisting |
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| register | (noun) a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device | - |
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| (noun) an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room | - |
| (noun) a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill | Synonyms: cash register |
| (noun) (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind | - |
| (noun) (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments | - |
| (noun) an official written record of names or events or transactions | Synonyms: registry |
| (noun) a book in which names and transactions are listed | - |
| (verb) enter into someone's consciousness | - |
| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, record, show |
| (verb) record in a public office or in a court of law | Synonyms: file |
| (verb) send by registered mail | - |
| (verb) manipulate the registers of an organ | - |
| (verb) be aware of | Synonyms: record |
| (verb) show in one's face | - |
| (verb) record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions | - |
| (verb) enroll to vote | - |
| (verb) have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties | Synonyms: cross-file |
| registered | (adjective) listed or recorded officially | - |
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| (adjective) (of animals) officially recorded with or certified by a recognized breed association; especially in a stud book | - |
| (adjective) (of a boat or vessel) furnished with necessary official documents specifying ownership etc | - |