| acatalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
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| (noun) (prosody) a line of verse that has the full number of syllables | - |
| adrenalectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands | Synonyms: suprarenalectomy |
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| alecost | (noun) tansy-scented Eurasian perennial herb with buttonlike yellow flowers; used as potherb or salad green and sometimes for potpourri or tea or flavoring; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: balsam herb, bible leaf, Chrysanthemum balsamita, costmary, mint geranium, Tanacetum balsamita |
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| analecta | (noun) a collection of excerpts from a literary work | Synonyms: analects |
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| analects | (noun) a collection of excerpts from a literary work | Synonyms: analecta |
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| angiotelectasia | (noun) dilation and enlargement of arterioles | - |
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| antielectron | (noun) an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation | Synonyms: positron |
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| apoplectic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy | - |
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| apoplectiform | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectoid |
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| apoplectoid | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectiform |
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| applecart | (noun) a handcart from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street | - |
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| (noun) the planning that is disrupted when someone `upsets the applecart' | - |
| atelectasis | (noun) collapse of an expanded lung (especially in infants); also failure of pulmonary alveoli to expand at birth | - |
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| bimolecular | (adjective) relating to or affecting two molecules | - |
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| bioelectricity | (noun) electric phenomena in animals or plants | - |
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| bottlecap | (noun) a cap that seals a bottle | - |
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| caleche | (noun) the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage | Synonyms: calash, calash top |
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| (noun) a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century | Synonyms: calash |
| catalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
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| (noun) (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot | - |
| celecoxib | (noun) a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Celebrex) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract | Synonyms: Celebrex |
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| cholecalciferol | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets | Synonyms: calciferol, D, ergocalciferol, viosterol, vitamin D |
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| cholecystectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the gall bladder (usually for relief of gallstone pain) | - |
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| cholecystitis | (noun) inflammation of the gall bladder | - |
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| cholecystokinin | (noun) a gastrointestinal hormone that stimulates the secretion of pancreatic enzymes and the contraction and emptying of the gall bladder; its release is stimulated by the presence of fatty acids and amino acids in the small intestine | - |
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| collect | (adjective) payable by the recipient on delivery | Synonyms: cod |
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| (noun) a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England | - |
| (adverb) make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays | - |
| (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: garner, gather, pull together |
| (verb) get or bring together | Synonyms: pull in |
| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| (verb) call for and obtain payment of | Synonyms: take in |
| (verb) gather or collect | Synonyms: call for, gather up, pick up |
| collectable | (adjective) subject to or requiring payment especially as specified | Synonyms: collectible, payable |
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| (noun) things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique) | Synonyms: collectible |
| collected | (adjective) brought together in one place | Synonyms: gathered |
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| (adjective) in full control of your faculties | Synonyms: equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed |
| collectedly | (adverb) in a self-collected or self-possessed manner | Synonyms: composedly |
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| collectibility | (noun) The quality of being subject to payment or likely to be paid. | - |
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| collectible | (adjective) subject to or requiring payment especially as specified | Synonyms: collectable, payable |
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| (noun) things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique) | Synonyms: collectable |
| collecting | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, assembling, collection |
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| collection | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, assembling, collecting |
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| (noun) a publication containing a variety of works | Synonyms: compendium |
| (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, ingathering, solicitation |
| (noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage |
| collective | (adjective) forming a whole or aggregate | - |
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| (adjective) done by or characteristic of individuals acting together | Synonyms: corporate |
| (adjective) set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government | - |
| (noun) members of a cooperative enterprise | - |
| collectively | (adverb) in conjunction with; combined | Synonyms: conjointly, jointly, together with |
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| collectivisation | (noun) the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | Synonyms: collectivization |
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| collectivise | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivize |
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| collectivised | (adjective) characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production | Synonyms: collectivized |
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| (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivist, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
| collectivism | (noun) a political theory that the people should own the means of production | - |
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| (noun) Soviet communism | Synonyms: Bolshevism, sovietism |
| collectivist | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| (noun) a person who belongs to the political left | Synonyms: left-winger, leftist |
| collectivistic | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| collectivization | (noun) the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | Synonyms: collectivisation |
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| collectivize | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivise |
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| collectivized | (adjective) characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production | Synonyms: collectivised |
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| (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivistic, state-controlled |
| collector | (noun) the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes | - |
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| (noun) a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth | - |
| (noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | Synonyms: accumulator, gatherer |
| (noun) a person who collects things | Synonyms: aggregator |
| complect | (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: interconnect, interlink |
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| cromlech | (noun) a prehistoric megalithic tomb typically having two large upright stones and a capstone | Synonyms: dolmen, portal tomb |
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| deflect | (verb) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) | Synonyms: block, parry |
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| (verb) draw someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: distract |
| (verb) turn aside and away from an initial or intended course | - |
| (verb) turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest | Synonyms: bend, turn away |
| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| deflection | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflexion, deviation, digression, divagation, diversion |
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| (noun) the property of being bent or deflected | Synonyms: bending, deflexion |
| (noun) the amount by which a propagating wave is bent | Synonyms: deflexion, refraction |
| (noun) the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position | Synonyms: deflexion |
| (noun) a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting | Synonyms: warp |
| deflective | (adjective) capable of changing the direction (of a light or sound wave) | Synonyms: refractive |
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| deflector | (noun) a device intended to turn aside the flow of something (water or air or smoke etc) | - |
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| delectability | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: deliciousness, lusciousness, toothsomeness |
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| delectable | (adjective) capable of arousing sexual desire | Synonyms: sexually attractive |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy |
| delectation | (noun) act of receiving pleasure from something | Synonyms: enjoyment |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction | Synonyms: delight |
| dialect | (noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | Synonyms: accent, idiom |
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| dialectal | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of a dialect | - |
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| dialectic | (adjective) of or relating to or employing dialectic | Synonyms: dialectical |
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| (noun) any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments | - |
| (noun) a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction | - |
| dialectical | (adjective) of or relating to or employing dialectic | Synonyms: dialectic |
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| dialectically | (adverb) in a dialectic manner | - |
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| dialectician | (noun) a logician skilled in dialectic | - |
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| dialectics | (noun) a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces | - |
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| dialectology | (noun) the branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects | - |
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| dielectric | (noun) a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity | Synonyms: insulator, nonconductor |
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| dielectrolysis | (noun) the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode | Synonyms: cataphoresis, electrophoresis, ionophoresis |
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| dyslectic | (adjective) having impaired ability to comprehend written words usually associated with a neurologic disorder | Synonyms: dyslexic |
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| (noun) a person who has dyslexia | Synonyms: dyslexic |
| eclectic | (adjective) selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas | - |
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| (noun) someone who selects according to the eclectic method | Synonyms: eclecticist |
| eclecticism | (noun) making decisions on the basis of what seems best instead of following some single doctrine or style | Synonyms: eclectic method |
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| eclecticist | (noun) someone who selects according to the eclectic method | Synonyms: eclectic |
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| elecampane | (noun) tall coarse Eurasian herb having daisylike yellow flowers with narrow petals whose rhizomatous roots are used medicinally | Synonyms: Inula helenium |
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| elect | (adjective) elected but not yet installed in office | - |
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| (adjective) selected as the best | Synonyms: elite |
| (noun) an exclusive group of people | Synonyms: chosen |
| (verb) choose | - |
| (verb) select by a vote for an office or membership | - |
| elected | (adjective) subject to popular election | Synonyms: elective |
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| election | (noun) the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice | - |
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| (noun) a vote to select the winner of a position or political office | - |
| (noun) the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists) | - |
| (noun) the status or fact of being elected | - |
| electioneer | (verb) work actively for a political candidate or a party | - |
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| electioneering | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: campaigning, candidacy, candidature, political campaign |
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| (noun) persuasion of voters in a political campaign | Synonyms: bell ringing, canvassing |
| elective | (adjective) subject to popular election | Synonyms: elected |
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| (adjective) optional | Synonyms: facultative |
| (noun) a course that the student can select from among alternatives | Synonyms: elective course |
| electiveness | (noun) Quality or state in which choice or discretion is allowed. | Synonyms: optionality |
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| elector | (noun) a citizen who has a legal right to vote | Synonyms: voter |
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| electoral | (adjective) of or relating to elections | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or composed of electors | - |
| electorate | (noun) the body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote | - |
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| electric | (adjective) using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity | Synonyms: electrical |
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| (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: galvanic, galvanising, galvanizing |
| (adjective) (of a situation) exceptionally tense | - |
| (noun) a car that is powered by electricity | Synonyms: electric automobile, electric car |
| electrical | (adjective) relating to or concerned with electricity | - |
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| (adjective) using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity | Synonyms: electric |
| electrically | (adverb) by electricity | - |
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| electrician | (noun) a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines | Synonyms: lineman, linesman |
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| electricity | (noun) keen and shared excitement | - |
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| (noun) a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons | - |
| (noun) energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor | Synonyms: electrical energy, power |
| electrification | (noun) the activity of thrilling or markedly exciting some person or group | - |
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| (noun) the act of providing electricity | - |
| electrify | (verb) equip for use with electricity | Synonyms: wire |
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| (verb) charge (a conductor) with electricity | - |
| (verb) excite suddenly and intensely | - |
| electrifying | (adjective) causing a surge of emotion or excitement | Synonyms: thrilling |
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| electrocardiogram | (noun) a graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph | Synonyms: cardiogram, ECG, EKG |
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| electrocardiograph | (noun) medical instrument that records electric currents associated with contractions of the heart | Synonyms: cardiograph |
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| electrocardiographic | (adjective) of or relating to an electrocardiograph | - |
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| electrocardiography | (noun) diagnostic procedure consisting of recording the activity of the heart electronically with a cardiograph (and producing a cardiogram) | Synonyms: cardiography |
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| electrocautery | (noun) application of a needle heated by an electric current to destroy tissue (as to remove warts) | - |
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| electrochemical | (adjective) of or involving electrochemistry | - |
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| electrochemistry | (noun) branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of electricity and the production of electricity by chemical reactions | - |
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| electrocute | (verb) kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair | Synonyms: fry |
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| (verb) kill by electric shock | - |
| electrocution | (noun) killing by electric shock | - |
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| (noun) execution by electricity | Synonyms: burning |
| electrocutioner | (noun) an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person | - |
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| electrode | (noun) a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit | - |
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| electrodeposition | (noun) the deposition of a substance on an electrode by the action of electricity (especially by electrolysis) | - |
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| electrodynamometer | (noun) measuring instrument that uses the interaction of the magnetic fields of two coils to measure current or voltage or power | - |
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| electroencephalogram | (noun) a graphical record of electrical activity of the brain; produced by an electroencephalograph | Synonyms: EEG, encephalogram |
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| electroencephalograph | (noun) medical instrument that records electric currents generated by the brain | - |
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| electroencephalographic | (adjective) of or relating to an electroencephalograph | - |
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