| acceptableness | (noun) satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards | Synonyms: acceptability |
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| acetylene | (noun) a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis | Synonyms: alkyne, ethyne |
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| acetylenic | (adjective) of or related to acetylene | - |
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| acidulent | (adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acid, acidic, acidulous |
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| admirableness | (noun) admirable excellence | Synonyms: admirability, wonderfulness |
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| adorableness | (noun) extreme attractiveness | Synonyms: adorability |
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| affableness | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality |
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| agreeableness | (noun) a temperamental disposition to be agreeable | Synonyms: agreeability |
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| (noun) pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions | Synonyms: amenity |
| alendronate | (noun) a tablet (trade name Fosamax) prescribed to prevent or treat osteoporosis in women after menopause | Synonyms: Fosamax |
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| 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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| amenableness | (noun) the trait of being cooperative | Synonyms: amenability, cooperativeness |
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| amiableness | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, affableness, amiability, bonhomie, geniality |
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| amicableness | (noun) having a disposition characterized by warmth and friendliness | Synonyms: amicability |
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| (noun) a disinclination to quarrel | Synonyms: amicability |
| ampleness | (noun) the property of impressive largeness in size | - |
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| (noun) the property of being more than sufficient; comfortable sufficiency | - |
| answerableness | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerability |
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| antiflatulent | (noun) any agent that reduces intestinal gas | - |
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| aposelene | (noun) apoapsis in orbit around the moon | Synonyms: apolune |
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| associableness | (noun) the capability of being easily associated or joined or connected in thought | Synonyms: associability |
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| attainableness | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: achievability, attainability |
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| audibleness | (noun) quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: audibility |
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| availableness | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: accessibility, availability, handiness |
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| avirulent | (adjective) not virulent; unable to produce disease | - |
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| benevolence | (noun) an act intending or showing kindness and good will | Synonyms: benefaction |
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| (noun) an inclination to do kind or charitable acts | - |
| (noun) disposition to do good | - |
| benevolent | (adjective) intending or showing kindness | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
| (adjective) generous in providing aid to others | Synonyms: freehearted |
| (adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: charitable, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
| benevolently | (adverb) in a benevolent manner | - |
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| bimillenary | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillennium |
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| (noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillennium |
| bimillenial | (adjective) of or relating to a bimillennium | - |
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| bimillennium | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillenary |
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| (noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillenary |
| 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 |
| blench | (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blanch, pale |
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| blend | (noun) the act of blending components together thoroughly | Synonyms: blending |
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| (noun) a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings | Synonyms: portmanteau, portmanteau word |
| (noun) an occurrence of thorough mixing | - |
| (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
| (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: immingle, intermingle, intermix |
| (verb) blend or harmonize | Synonyms: blend in, go |
| blende | (noun) an ore that is the chief source of zinc; consists largely of zinc sulfide in crystalline form | Synonyms: sphalerite, zinc blende |
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| blended | (adjective) combined or mixed together so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable | - |
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| blender | (noun) an electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods | Synonyms: liquidiser, liquidizer |
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| blending | (noun) a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades | Synonyms: shading |
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| (noun) the act of blending components together thoroughly | Synonyms: blend |
| blennioid | (noun) elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins | Synonyms: blennioid fish |
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| blenny | (noun) small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocks | Synonyms: combtooth blenny |
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| bottleneck | (noun) the narrow part of a bottle near the top | - |
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| (noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: chokepoint, constriction |
| (verb) become narrow, like a bottleneck | - |
| (verb) slow down or impede by creating an obstruction | - |
| bottlenose | (noun) northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead | Synonyms: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus |
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| (noun) any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean | Synonyms: bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose dolphin |
| breakableness | (noun) the consistency of something that breaks under pressure | - |
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| brittleness | (noun) firm but easily broken | Synonyms: crispiness, crispness |
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| butylene | (noun) any of three isomeric hydrocarbons C4H8; all used in making synthetic rubbers | Synonyms: butene |
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| calendar | (noun) a list or register of events (appointments or social events or court cases etc) | - |
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| (noun) a tabular array of the days (usually for one year) | - |
| (noun) a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year | - |
| (verb) enter into a calendar | - |
| calender | (noun) a machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers | - |
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| (verb) press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets | - |
| calendered | (adjective) (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers | Synonyms: glossy |
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| calendric | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement | Synonyms: calendrical |
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| calendrical | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement | Synonyms: calendric |
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| calendula | (noun) any of numerous chiefly annual herbs of the genus Calendula widely cultivated for their yellow or orange flowers; often used for medicinal and culinary purposes | - |
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| candlenut | (noun) large tree native to southeastern Asia; the nuts yield oil used in varnishes; nut kernels strung together are used locally as candles | Synonyms: Aleurites moluccana, varnish tree |
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| (noun) seed of candlenut tree; source of oil used in varnishes | - |
| capableness | (noun) the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: capability |
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| (noun) an aptitude that may be developed | Synonyms: capability, potentiality |
| challenge | (noun) a call to engage in a contest or fight | - |
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| (noun) questioning a statement and demanding an explanation | - |
| (noun) a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror | - |
| (noun) a demand by a sentry for a password or identification | - |
| (noun) a demanding or stimulating situation | - |
| (verb) issue a challenge to | - |
| (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: dispute, gainsay |
| (verb) raise a formal objection in a court of law | Synonyms: take exception |
| (verb) ask for identification | - |
| challengeable | (adjective) capable of being challenged | - |
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| challenger | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: competition, competitor, contender, rival |
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| challenging | (adjective) requiring full use of your abilities or resources | Synonyms: ambitious |
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| (adjective) disturbingly provocative | Synonyms: intriguing |
| (adjective) stimulating interest or thought | Synonyms: thought-provoking |
| changeableness | (noun) the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change | Synonyms: changeability |
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| chapfallen | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chopfallen, crestfallen, deflated |
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| charitableness | (noun) generosity as manifested by practicing charity (as for the poor or unfortunate) | - |
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| chopfallen | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chapfallen, crestfallen, deflated |
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| clench | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip, hold |
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| (noun) a small slip noose made with seizing | Synonyms: clinch |
| (verb) hold in a tight grasp | Synonyms: clinch |
| (verb) squeeze together tightly | - |
| clenched | (adjective) closed or squeezed together tightly | Synonyms: clinched |
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| coelenterate | (noun) radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms | Synonyms: cnidarian |
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| coelenteron | (noun) the saclike body cavity of a coelenterate | - |
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| combustibleness | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibility |
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| comfortableness | (noun) a feeling of being at ease in a relationship | - |
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| (noun) a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain | Synonyms: comfort |
| companionableness | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionability |
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| conceivableness | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivability |
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| condolence | (noun) an expression of sympathy with another's grief | Synonyms: commiseration |
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| condolent | (adjective) expressing sympathy with a person who experienced the death of a loved one | - |
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| corpulence | (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, overweight, stoutness |
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| corpulency | (noun) more than average fatness | Synonyms: fleshiness, obesity |
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| corpulent | (adjective) excessively fat | Synonyms: obese, rotund, weighty |
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| counterchallenge | (verb) challenge in turn | - |
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| covalence | (noun) valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share | Synonyms: covalency |
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| covalency | (noun) valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share | Synonyms: covalence |
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| covalent | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by covalence | - |
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| crapulence | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, drink, drinking, drunkenness |
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| crapulent | (adjective) suffering from excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: crapulous |
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| credibleness | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibility |
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| crestfallen | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chapfallen, chopfallen, deflated |
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| cromulent | (adjective) Legitimate or valid (frequently used ironically) | - |
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| cullender | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: colander |
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| culpableness | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: blameworthiness, culpability |
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| curableness | (noun) capability of being cured or healed | Synonyms: curability |
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| declension | (noun) a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms | - |
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| (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall |
| (noun) process of changing to an inferior state | Synonyms: decline in quality, deterioration, worsening |
| (noun) the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages | - |
| dependableness | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependability, reliability, reliableness |
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| desirableness | (noun) the quality of being worthy of desiring | Synonyms: desirability |
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| (noun) attractiveness to the opposite sex | Synonyms: desirability, oomph, sex appeal |
| despicableness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicability, sordidness |
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| digestibleness | (noun) the property of being easy to digest | Synonyms: digestibility |
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| dillenia | (noun) any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Dillenia grown for their foliage and nodding flowers resembling magnolias which are followed by fruit that is used in curries and jellies and preserves | - |
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| disagreeableness | (noun) an ill-tempered and offensive disposition | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant | - |
| dishonorableness | (noun) the quality of not deserving honor or respect | Synonyms: dishonourableness |
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| dishonourableness | (noun) the quality of not deserving honor or respect | Synonyms: dishonorableness |
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| dispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensability |
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| disreputableness | (noun) dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation | Synonyms: disreputability, unrespectability |
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| divalent | (adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: bivalent |
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| ductileness | (noun) the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets | Synonyms: ductility |
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| edibleness | (noun) the property of being fit to eat | Synonyms: edibility |
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| eelblenny | (noun) eellike fishes found in subarctic coastal waters | - |
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