| activate | (verb) make active or more active | - |
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| (verb) make (substances) radioactive | - |
| (verb) aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter | Synonyms: aerate |
| (verb) make more adsorptive | - |
| (verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: actuate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip |
| activated | (adjective) rendered active; e.g. rendered radioactive or luminescent or photosensitive or conductive | - |
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| (adjective) (military) set up and placed on active assignment | - |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive | Synonyms: excited |
| (adjective) (of sewage) treated with aeration and bacteria to aid decomposition | - |
| activating | (adjective) causing motion or action or change | Synonyms: actuating |
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| (noun) the activity of causing to have energy and be active | Synonyms: activation, energizing |
| activation | (noun) the activity of causing to have energy and be active | Synonyms: activating, energizing |
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| (noun) making active and effective (as a bomb) | - |
| (noun) stimulation of activity in an organism or chemical | - |
| activator | (noun) (biology) any agency bringing about activation; a molecule that increases the activity of an enzyme or a protein that increases the production of a gene product in DNA transcription | - |
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| adjectival | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adjective | Synonyms: adjective |
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| adjectivally | (adverb) as an adjective; in an adjectival manner | - |
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| aestival | (adjective) (rare) of or occurring in summer | Synonyms: estival |
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| aestivate | (verb) sleep during summer | Synonyms: estivate |
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| aestivation | (noun) (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens | Synonyms: estivation |
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| (noun) (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period | Synonyms: estivation |
| ambivalence | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalency |
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| ambivalency | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalence |
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| ambivalent | (adjective) uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow | - |
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| archival | (adjective) of or relating to or contained in or serving as an archive | - |
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| arrival | (noun) accomplishment of an objective | Synonyms: reaching |
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| (noun) the act of arriving at a certain place | - |
| (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arriver, comer |
| bivalent | (adjective) used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis | Synonyms: double |
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| (adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: divalent |
| bivalve | (adjective) used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) | Synonyms: bivalved |
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| (noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: lamellibranch, pelecypod |
| bivalved | (adjective) used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) | Synonyms: bivalve |
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| bivariate | (adjective) having two variables | - |
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| bolivar | (noun) the basic unit of money in Venezuela; equal to 100 centimos | - |
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| captivate | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| captivated | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, charmed, delighted, enthralled, entranced |
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| (adjective) strongly attracted | Synonyms: charmed |
| captivating | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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| captivatingly | (adverb) in a bewitching manner | Synonyms: bewitchingly, enchantingly, enthrallingly |
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| captivation | (noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: enchantment, enthrallment, fascination |
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| (noun) the state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror) | Synonyms: fascination |
| carnival | (noun) a festival marked by merrymaking and processions | - |
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| (noun) a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. | Synonyms: fair, funfair |
| (noun) a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment | Synonyms: circus |
| cerivastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Baycol) to reduce blood cholesterol levels | Synonyms: Baycol |
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| charivari | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, callithump, chivaree, shivaree |
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| chivalric | (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: knightly, mediaeval, medieval |
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| chivalrous | (adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: gallant, knightly |
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| chivalrously | (adverb) in a gallant manner | Synonyms: gallantly |
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| chivalry | (noun) courtesy towards women | Synonyms: gallantry, politesse |
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| (noun) the medieval principles governing knighthood and knightly conduct | Synonyms: knightliness |
| chivaree | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, callithump, charivari, shivaree |
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| conceivability | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivableness |
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| conceivable | (adjective) capable of being imagined | Synonyms: imaginable |
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| conceivableness | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivability |
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| conceivably | (adverb) within the realm of possibility | - |
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| conjunctiva | (noun) a transparent lubricating mucous membrane that covers the eyeball and the under surface of the eyelid | - |
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| conjunctival | (adjective) of or relating to the conjunctiva | - |
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| connivance | (noun) agreement on a secret plot | Synonyms: collusion |
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| (noun) (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing | Synonyms: secret approval, tacit consent |
| contrivance | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: devisal |
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| (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
| (noun) any improvised arrangement for temporary use | Synonyms: lash-up |
| (noun) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | Synonyms: dodge, stratagem |
| (noun) the faculty of contriving; inventive skill | - |
| (noun) an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. | - |
| cultivable | (adjective) (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively | Synonyms: arable, cultivatable, tillable |
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| cultivar | (noun) a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation | - |
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| cultivatable | (adjective) (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively | Synonyms: arable, cultivable, tillable |
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| cultivate | (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
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| (verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: crop, work |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, educate, school, train |
| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: foster, further |
| cultivated | (adjective) (of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing | - |
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| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultured, genteel, polite |
| (adjective) no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use | - |
| cultivation | (noun) (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale) | - |
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| (noun) socialization through training and education to develop one's mind or manners | - |
| (noun) the act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale) | - |
| (noun) the process of fostering the growth of something | - |
| (noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: culture, finish, polish, refinement |
| cultivator | (noun) a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture) | Synonyms: tiller |
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| (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, agriculturist, grower, raiser |
| deactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: inactivate |
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| (verb) remove from active military status or reassign | - |
| deactivation | (noun) the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb) | Synonyms: defusing |
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| (noun) breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges) | Synonyms: inactivation |
| deprivation | (noun) act of depriving someone of food or money or rights | Synonyms: privation |
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| (noun) the disadvantage that results from losing something | Synonyms: loss |
| (noun) a state of extreme poverty | Synonyms: neediness, privation, want |
| derivable | (adjective) capable of being derived | - |
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| derivation | (noun) the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin | - |
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| (noun) drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation | - |
| (noun) drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body | - |
| (noun) inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline | Synonyms: ancestry, filiation, lineage |
| (noun) a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions | - |
| (noun) (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase | Synonyms: deriving, etymologizing |
| (noun) the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues) | - |
| (noun) (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation | - |
| derivational | (adjective) characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base | - |
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| derivative | (adjective) resulting from or employing derivation | - |
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| (noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derived function, differential, differential coefficient, first derivative |
| (noun) (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word | - |
| (noun) a financial instrument whose value is based on another security | Synonyms: derivative instrument |
| (noun) a compound obtained from, or regarded as derived from, another compound | - |
| diva | (noun) a distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic star | Synonyms: prima donna |
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| divagate | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, stray, wander |
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| divagation | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, diversion |
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| (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, excursus, parenthesis |
| divalent | (adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: bivalent |
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| divan | (noun) a long backless sofa (usually with pillows against a wall) | - |
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| (noun) a Muslim council chamber or law court | Synonyms: diwan |
| (noun) a collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author) | Synonyms: diwan |
| (noun) a Muslim council of state | Synonyms: diwan |
| divaricate | (verb) spread apart | - |
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| (verb) branch off | - |
| divarication | (noun) branching at a wide angle | - |
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| equivalence | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, comparison |
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| (noun) essential equality and interchangeability | - |
| (noun) a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced | Synonyms: equality, equation, par |
| equivalent | (adjective) being essentially equal to something | Synonyms: tantamount |
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| (noun) the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen | Synonyms: combining weight, eq, equivalent weight |
| (noun) a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc | - |
| estival | (adjective) (rare) of or occurring in summer | Synonyms: aestival |
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| estivate | (verb) sleep during summer | Synonyms: aestivate |
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| estivation | (noun) (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens | Synonyms: aestivation |
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| (noun) (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period | Synonyms: aestivation |
| festival | (noun) an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place) | Synonyms: fete |
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| (noun) a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration | - |
| forgivable | (adjective) easily excused or forgiven | Synonyms: excusable, venial |
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| forgivably | (adverb) in an excusable manner or to an excusable degree | Synonyms: excusably, pardonably |
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| gallivant | (verb) wander aimlessly in search of pleasure | Synonyms: gad, jazz around |
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| gingiva | (noun) the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth | Synonyms: gum |
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| gingival | (adjective) of or relating to the gums | - |
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| inactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: deactivate |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilise, demobilize |
| inactivation | (noun) breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges) | Synonyms: deactivation |
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| (noun) the process of rendering inactive | - |
| inconceivability | (noun) the state of being impossible to conceive | Synonyms: inconceivableness |
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| inconceivable | (adjective) totally unlikely | Synonyms: impossible, out of the question, unimaginable |
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| inconceivableness | (noun) the state of being impossible to conceive | Synonyms: inconceivability |
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| inconceivably | (adverb) to an inconceivable degree | - |
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| infinitival | (adjective) relating to or formed with the infinitive | - |
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| iva | (noun) any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers; common in moist areas (as coastal salt marshes) of eastern and central North America | Synonyms: marsh elder |
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| livable | (adjective) fit or suitable to live in or with | Synonyms: liveable |
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| medivac | (noun) the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care | Synonyms: medevac, medical evacuation |
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| milliequivalent | (noun) one-thousandth of an equivalent | Synonyms: meq |
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| minivan | (noun) a small box-shaped passenger van; usually has removable seats; used as a family car | - |
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| motivate | (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, move, prompt, propel |
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| motivated | (adjective) provided with a motive or given incentive for action | - |
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| motivating | (adjective) impelling to action | Synonyms: motivative, motive |
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| (noun) the act of motivating; providing incentive | Synonyms: motivation |
| motivation | (noun) the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior | Synonyms: motive, need |
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| (noun) the act of motivating; providing incentive | Synonyms: motivating |
| (noun) the condition of being motivated | - |
| motivational | (adjective) of or relating to motivation | - |
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| motivative | (adjective) impelling to action | Synonyms: motivating, motive |
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| motivator | (noun) a positive motivational influence | Synonyms: incentive, inducement |
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| multivalence | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalency, polyvalence, polyvalency |
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| multivalency | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, polyvalence, polyvalency |
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| multivalent | (adjective) used of the association of three or more homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis | - |
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| (adjective) having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher | Synonyms: polyvalent |
| (adjective) having many values, meanings, or appeals | Synonyms: multi-valued |
| multivariate | (adjective) pertaining to any procedure involving two or more variables | - |
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| nonequivalence | (noun) not interchangeable | - |
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| nonequivalent | (adjective) not equal or interchangeable in value, quantity, or significance | - |
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| outrival | (verb) be more of a rival than | Synonyms: outvie |
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| overcultivate | (verb) to exhaust by excessive cultivation | Synonyms: overcrop |
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