| absolvitory | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: exonerative, forgiving |
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| acclivitous | (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: rising, uphill |
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| admonitory | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonishing, reproachful, reproving |
| alacritous | (adjective) quick and eager | - |
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| amitosis | (noun) the direct method of cell division characterized by simple division of the nucleus without formation of chromosomes | - |
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| amitotic | (adjective) pertaining to a simple method of cell division | - |
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| antitoxic | (adjective) counteracting a toxin or poison | - |
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| antitoxin | (noun) an antibody that can neutralize a specific toxin | - |
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| auditor | (noun) a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization | - |
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| (noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: attender, hearer, listener |
| (noun) a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit | - |
| auditorium | (noun) the area of a theater or concert hall where the audience sits | - |
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| auditory | (adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing | Synonyms: audile, auditive |
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| barbitone | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonylurea, veronal |
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| baritone | (adjective) lower in range than tenor and higher than bass | - |
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| (noun) the second lowest brass wind instrument | Synonyms: baritone horn |
| (noun) the second lowest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: baritone voice |
| (noun) a male singer | Synonyms: barytone |
| bitok | (noun) a Russian dish made with patties of ground meat (mixed with onions and bread and milk) and served with a sauce of sour cream | - |
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| bonito | (noun) any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas | - |
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| (noun) fish whose flesh is dried and flaked for Japanese cookery; may be same species as skipjack tuna | Synonyms: Katsuwonus pelamis, oceanic bonito |
| (noun) flesh of mostly Pacific food fishes of the genus Sarda of the family Scombridae; related to but smaller than tuna | - |
| burrito | (noun) a flour tortilla folded around a filling | - |
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| caespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: cespitose, tufted |
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| caimito | (noun) evergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides | Synonyms: Chrysophyllum cainito, star apple |
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| calamitous | (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, disastrous, fatal, fateful |
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| calcitonin | (noun) thyroid hormone that tends to lower the level of calcium in the blood plasma and inhibit resorption of bone | Synonyms: thyrocalcitonin |
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| capacitor | (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitance, condenser, electrical condenser |
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| capitol | (noun) a building occupied by a state legislature | - |
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| caracolito | (noun) large Costa Rican tree having light-colored wood suitable for cabinetry; similar to the African lepidobotrys in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds; often classified in other families | Synonyms: Ruptiliocarpon caracolito |
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| cespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: caespitose, tufted |
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| chiton | (noun) primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates | Synonyms: coat-of-mail shell, polyplacophore, sea cradle |
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| (noun) a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece | - |
| circuitous | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: devious, roundabout |
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| (adjective) marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct | Synonyms: roundabout |
| circuitousness | (noun) The state of being roundabout, indirect or not to the point. | - |
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| citole | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, cittern, gittern |
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| clitoral | (adjective) of or relating to the clitoris | Synonyms: clitoric |
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| clitoric | (adjective) of or relating to the clitoris | Synonyms: clitoral |
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| clitoridectomy | (noun) excision of the clitoris | Synonyms: female circumcision |
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| clitoris | (noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: button, clit |
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| competitor | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, contender, rival |
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| competitory | (adjective) involving competition or competitiveness | Synonyms: competitive |
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| compositor | (noun) one who sets written material into type | Synonyms: setter, typesetter, typographer |
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| creditor | (noun) a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists | - |
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| debitor | (noun) a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt | Synonyms: debtor |
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| declivitous | (adjective) sloping down rather steeply | Synonyms: downhill, downward-sloping |
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| definitors | (noun) council in a religious order who provide counsel and assistance to the superiors general and provincial superior of their order. | - |
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| densitometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining optical or photographic density | - |
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| (noun) a measuring instrument for determining density or specific gravity | Synonyms: densimeter |
| densitometry | (noun) measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light on it and measuring its transmission | - |
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| depositor | (noun) a person who has deposited money in a bank or similar institution | - |
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| depository | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depositary, repository |
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| digitoxin | (noun) digitalis preparation used to treat congestive heart failure or cardiac arrhythmia | - |
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| dormitory | (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dorm, hall, residence hall, student residence |
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| (noun) a large sleeping room containing several beds | Synonyms: dorm room, dormitory room |
| duplicitous | (adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, Janus-faced, two-faced |
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| editor | (noun) (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data | Synonyms: editor program |
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| (noun) a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine) | Synonyms: editor in chief |
| editorial | (adjective) of or relating to an article stating opinions or giving perspectives | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of an editor | - |
| (noun) an article giving opinions or perspectives | Synonyms: column, newspaper column |
| editorialise | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialize |
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| editorialist | (noun) a journalist who writes editorials | Synonyms: columnist |
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| editorialize | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialise |
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| editorially | (adverb) by means of an editorial | - |
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| editorship | (noun) the position of editor | - |
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| epitome | (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: image, paradigm, prototype |
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| (noun) a brief abstract (as of an article or book) | - |
| epitomise | (verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of | Synonyms: epitomize, typify |
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| epitomize | (verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of | Synonyms: epitomise, typify |
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| epitope | (noun) the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself | Synonyms: antigenic determinant, determinant |
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| escritoire | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: secretaire, secretary, writing table |
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| excitotoxin | (noun) any of a group of neurologically active compounds, such as glutamate and aspartame, that have detrimental excitatory effects on the central nervous system when taken in high concentrations. | - |
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| exhibitor | (noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see | Synonyms: exhibitioner, shower |
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| expositor | (noun) a person who explains | Synonyms: expounder |
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| expository | (adjective) serving to expound or set forth | Synonyms: expositive |
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| exterritorial | (adjective) outside territorial limits or jurisdiction | Synonyms: extraterritorial |
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| extraterritorial | (adjective) outside territorial limits or jurisdiction | Synonyms: exterritorial |
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| felicitous | (adjective) exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style | - |
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| (adjective) marked by good fortune | Synonyms: happy |
| felicitously | (adverb) in a felicitous manner | - |
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| felicitousness | (noun) pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) | Synonyms: felicity |
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| fortuitous | (adjective) occurring by happy chance | - |
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| (adjective) having no cause or apparent cause | Synonyms: causeless, uncaused |
| fortuitously | (adverb) by good fortune | Synonyms: as luck would have it, fortunately, luckily |
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| fortuitousness | (noun) the quality of happening accidentally and by lucky chance | - |
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| frijolito | (noun) shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans | Synonyms: coral bean, frijolillo, mescal bean, Sophora secundiflora |
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| fumitory | (noun) delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Fumaria officinalis, fumeroot, fumewort |
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| genitor | (noun) a natural father or mother | - |
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| genitourinary | (adjective) of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions | Synonyms: GU |
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| graffito | (noun) a rude decoration inscribed on rocks or walls | Synonyms: graffiti |
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| gratuitous | (adjective) without cause | - |
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| (adjective) unnecessary and unwarranted | Synonyms: needless, uncalled-for |
| (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: complimentary, costless, free, gratis |
| gratuitously | (adverb) in an uncalled-for manner | - |
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| graviton | (noun) a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles | - |
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| halitosis | (noun) offensive breath | - |
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| heritor | (noun) a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another | Synonyms: heir, inheritor |
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| ignitor | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, light, lighter |
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| (noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: igniter, lighter |
| incognito | (adjective) with your identity concealed | - |
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| (adverb) without revealing one's identity | - |
| infelicitous | (adjective) not appropriate in application; defective | - |
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| (adjective) marked by or producing unhappiness | Synonyms: unhappy |
| infelicitously | (adverb) in an infelicitous manner | - |
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| inheritor | (noun) a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another | Synonyms: heir, heritor |
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| inhibitor | (noun) a substance that retards or stops an activity | - |
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| inhibitory | (adjective) restrictive of action | Synonyms: repressing, repressive |
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| iniquitous | (adjective) characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin | Synonyms: sinful, ungodly |
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| iniquitously | (adverb) in an iniquitous manner | - |
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| inositol | (noun) an optically inactive alcohol that is a component of the vitamin B complex | - |
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| inquisitor | (noun) a questioner who is excessively harsh | Synonyms: interrogator |
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| inquisitorial | (adjective) especially indicating a form of prosecution in which proceedings are secret and the accused is questioned by a prosecutor who acts also as the judge | - |
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| (adjective) having the authority to conduct official investigations | - |
| (adjective) marked by inquisitive interest; especially suggestive of an ecclesiastical inquisitor | - |
| inquisitory | (adjective) diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation | Synonyms: probing, searching |
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| janitor | (noun) someone employed to clean and maintain a building | - |
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| litoral | (noun) the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean | Synonyms: littoral, littoral zone, sands |
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| litotes | (noun) understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary) | Synonyms: meiosis |
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| mannitol | (noun) a diuretic (trade name Osmitrol) used to promote the excretion of urine | Synonyms: Osmitrol |
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| meritocracy | (noun) the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth | - |
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| (noun) a form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects | - |
| meritocratic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a meritocracy | - |
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| meritorious | (adjective) deserving reward or praise | Synonyms: meritable |
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