| ability | (noun) the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment | - |
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| (noun) possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done | Synonyms: power |
| abnormality | (noun) behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality | Synonyms: irregularity |
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| (noun) marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal | Synonyms: freakishness |
| (noun) retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence | Synonyms: mental defectiveness |
| (noun) an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies | Synonyms: abnormalcy |
| abolition | (noun) the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery) | Synonyms: abolishment |
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| abolitionary | (adjective) relating to or favoring abolition, especially abolition of slavery | - |
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| abolitionism | (noun) the doctrine that calls for the abolition of slavery | - |
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| abolitionist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: emancipationist |
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| acceptability | (noun) satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards | Synonyms: acceptableness |
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| accessibility | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: availability, availableness, handiness |
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| (noun) the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with | Synonyms: approachability |
| accountability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: answerability, answerableness |
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| achievability | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: attainability, attainableness |
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| actinolite | (noun) a green mineral of the amphibole group; calcium magnesium iron silicate | - |
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| actuality | (noun) the state of actually existing objectively | - |
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| adaptability | (noun) the ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances | - |
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| admirability | (noun) admirable excellence | Synonyms: admirableness, wonderfulness |
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| admissibility | (noun) acceptability by virtue of being admissible | - |
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| adorability | (noun) extreme attractiveness | Synonyms: adorableness |
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| advisability | (noun) the quality of being advisable | - |
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| aerolite | (noun) a stony meteorite consisting of silicate minerals | - |
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| aerolitic | (adjective) of or pertaining to certain stony meteorites | - |
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| affability | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affableness, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality |
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| agility | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: legerity, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness |
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| aglitter | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| agreeability | (noun) a temperamental disposition to be agreeable | Synonyms: agreeableness |
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| aliterate | (noun) a person who can read but is disinclined to derive information from literary sources | Synonyms: aliterate person |
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| alliterate | (verb) use alliteration as a form of poetry | - |
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| alliteration | (noun) use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse | Synonyms: beginning rhyme, head rhyme, initial rhyme |
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| alliterative | (adjective) having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable | - |
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| alliteratively | (adverb) in an alliterative manner | - |
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| alliterator | (noun) a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration | - |
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| alterability | (noun) the quality of being alterable | - |
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| alveolitis | (noun) inflammation of the alveoli in the lungs caused by inhaling dust; with repeated exposure the condition may become chronic | - |
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| (noun) inflammation in the socket of a tooth; sometimes occurs after a tooth is extracted and a blood clot fails to form | Synonyms: dry socket |
| amenability | (noun) the trait of being cooperative | Synonyms: amenableness, cooperativeness |
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| amiability | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, affableness, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality |
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| (noun) a cheerful and agreeable mood | Synonyms: good humor, good humour, good temper |
| amicability | (noun) having a disposition characterized by warmth and friendliness | Synonyms: amicableness |
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| (noun) a disinclination to quarrel | Synonyms: amicableness |
| amorality | (noun) the quality of being amoral | - |
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| amphibolite | (noun) a metamorphic rock composed chiefly of amphibole and plagioclase | - |
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| amplitude | (noun) greatness of magnitude | - |
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| (noun) the property of copious abundance | Synonyms: bountifulness, bounty |
| (noun) (physics) the maximum displacement of a periodic wave | - |
| anaclitic | (adjective) of or related to relationships that are characterized by the strong dependence of one person on another | - |
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| animality | (noun) the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect | Synonyms: animal nature |
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| answerability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerableness |
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| anthophyllite | (noun) a dark brown mineral of the amphibole group; magnesium iron silicate | - |
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| antifertility | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: contraceptive, prophylactic |
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| antimetabolite | (noun) an antineoplastic drug that inhibits the utilization of a metabolite | - |
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| antisatellite | (adjective) of or relating to a system to destroy satellites in orbit | Synonyms: ASAT |
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| antisyphilitic | (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that is effective against syphilis | - |
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| aplite | (noun) light-colored and fine-grained granitic rock consisting chiefly of quartz and feldspars | - |
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| aplitic | (adjective) of or related to aplite | - |
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| apolitical | (adjective) politically neutral | Synonyms: unpolitical |
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| apoliticism | (noun) Apathy and/or antipathy towards all political affiliations. | - |
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| applicability | (noun) relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand | Synonyms: pertinence, pertinency |
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| approachability | (noun) the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with | Synonyms: accessibility |
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| arability | (noun) the quality of land that is appropriate for cultivation | - |
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| argillite | (noun) a sedimentary rock differing from shale in being bound by silica and from slate in having no slate cleavages | - |
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| artificiality | (noun) the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally | - |
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| asexuality | (noun) having no evident sex or sex organs | Synonyms: sexlessness |
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| assailability | (noun) vulnerability to forceful attack | - |
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| assimilability | (noun) Capability of being taken in and utilized as nourishment. | - |
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| associability | (noun) the capability of being easily associated or joined or connected in thought | Synonyms: associableness |
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| asynclitism | (noun) the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle | Synonyms: obliquity |
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| atonality | (noun) the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system | Synonyms: atonalism |
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| attainability | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: achievability, attainableness |
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| atypicality | (noun) any state that is not typical | Synonyms: untypicality |
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| audibility | (noun) quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: audibleness |
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| availability | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: accessibility, availableness, handiness |
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| banality | (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: bromide, cliche, commonplace, platitude |
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| batholite | (noun) large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth | Synonyms: batholith, pluton, plutonic rock |
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| batholith | (noun) large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth | Synonyms: batholite, pluton, plutonic rock |
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| batholithic | (adjective) of or relating to a batholith | Synonyms: batholitic |
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| batholitic | (adjective) of or relating to a batholith | Synonyms: batholithic |
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| believability | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: credibility, credibleness |
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| belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: diminish |
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| (verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: disparage, pick at |
| (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: denigrate, derogate, minimize |
| belittled | (adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: diminished, small |
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| belittlement | (noun) the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant. | - |
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| belittling | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| (noun) the act of belittling | - |
| (noun) a belittling comment | Synonyms: denigration |
| bendability | (noun) the property of being easily bent without breaking | Synonyms: pliability |
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| bestiality | (noun) sexual activity between a person and an animal | Synonyms: sodomy, zooerastia, zooerasty |
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| (noun) the stupid brutal quality of a beast | - |
| bilaterality | (noun) the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane | Synonyms: bilateral symmetry, bilateralism |
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| bisexuality | (noun) sexual activity with both men and women | - |
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| (noun) showing characteristics of both sexes | Synonyms: androgyny, hermaphroditism |
| blithe | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome |
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| (adjective) lacking or showing a lack of due concern | - |
| blithely | (adverb) in a joyous manner | Synonyms: gayly, happily, jubilantly, merrily, mirthfully |
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| blitheness | (noun) a feeling of spontaneous good spirits | Synonyms: cheerfulness |
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| blither | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blether, smatter |
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| blithesome | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome |
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| blitz | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitzkrieg |
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| (noun) (American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line | Synonyms: linebacker blitzing, safety blitz |
| (verb) attack suddenly and without warning | - |
| blitzkrieg | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitz |
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| (verb) fight a quick and surprising war | - |
| breakability | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: fragility, frangibility, frangibleness |
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| bronchiolitis | (noun) inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchioles | - |
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| brutality | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, barbarity, savagery |
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| (noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: ferociousness, savagery, viciousness |
| burnability | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: combustibility, combustibleness |
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| calculability | (noun) The quality of being subject to or ascertainable by calculation. | - |
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| callithump | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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| (noun) a noisy boisterous parade | Synonyms: callathump, callithump parade |
| callithumpian | (adjective) of or relating to a callithump | - |
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| capability | (noun) the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: capableness |
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| (noun) an aptitude that may be developed | Synonyms: capableness, potentiality |
| (noun) the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment | Synonyms: capacity |
| 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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| cardinality | (noun) (mathematics) the number of elements in a set or group (considered as a property of that grouping) | - |
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| carnality | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: lasciviousness, lubricity, prurience, pruriency |
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| carnallite | (noun) a white or reddish mineral consisting of hydrous chlorides of potassium and magnesium; used as a fertilizer and as a source of potassium and magnesium | - |
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| causality | (noun) the relation between causes and effects | - |
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| cellulite | (noun) lumpy deposits of body fat especially on women's thighs etc. | - |
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| cellulitis | (noun) an inflammation of body tissue (especially that below the skin) characterized by fever and swelling and redness and pain | - |
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