| agranulocytic | (adjective) relating to the blood disorder of agranulocytosis | - |
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| agranulocytosis | (noun) an acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes | Synonyms: agranulosis, granulocytopenia |
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| airlock | (noun) a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure | Synonyms: air lock |
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| allocable | (adjective) capable of being distributed | Synonyms: allocatable, apportionable |
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| allocatable | (adjective) capable of being distributed | Synonyms: allocable, apportionable |
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| allocate | (verb) distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose | Synonyms: apportion |
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| allocation | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling, parcelling |
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| (noun) (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions | Synonyms: storage allocation |
| (noun) a share set aside for a specific purpose | Synonyms: allotment |
| allocator | (noun) a person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion | Synonyms: distributor |
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| allochronic | (adjective) (of taxa) occurring in different geologic times | - |
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| allochthonous | (adjective) of rocks, deposits, etc.; found in a place other than where they and their constituents were formed | - |
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| allocution | (noun) (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts | - |
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| alocasia | (noun) any plant of the genus Alocasia having large showy basal leaves and boat-shaped spathe and reddish berries | Synonyms: elephant's ear, elephant ear |
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| anticlockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: contraclockwise, counterclockwise |
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| (adverb) in a direction opposite to the direction in which the hands of a clock move | Synonyms: counterclockwise |
| ballock | (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
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| bilocation | (noun) the ability (said of certain Roman Catholic saints) to exist simultaneously in two locations | - |
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| bilocular | (adjective) divided into or containing two cells or chambers | Synonyms: biloculate |
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| biloculate | (adjective) divided into or containing two cells or chambers | Synonyms: bilocular |
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| bloc | (noun) a group of countries in special alliance | Synonyms: axis |
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| block | (noun) the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements | Synonyms: blocking |
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| (noun) a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides) | - |
| (noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: blockage, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage |
| (noun) a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope | Synonyms: pulley-block, pulley, pulley block |
| (noun) a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine | Synonyms: cylinder block, engine block |
| (noun) a platform from which an auctioneer sells | Synonyms: auction block |
| (noun) housing in a large building that is divided into separate units | - |
| (noun) an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension | Synonyms: mental block |
| (noun) a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit | - |
| (noun) a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings | Synonyms: city block |
| (noun) (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted | - |
| (noun) a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides | Synonyms: cube |
| (verb) shape into a block or blocks | - |
| (verb) shape by using a block | - |
| (verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: freeze, immobilise, immobilize |
| (verb) be unable to remember | Synonyms: blank out, draw a blank, forget |
| (verb) interfere with or prevent the reception of signals | Synonyms: jam |
| (verb) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) | Synonyms: deflect, parry |
| (verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, barricade, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
| (verb) obstruct | Synonyms: choke up, lug, stuff |
| (verb) stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block | - |
| (verb) support, secure, or raise with a block | - |
| (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude |
| (verb) shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight | Synonyms: obstruct |
| (verb) interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia | - |
| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: blockade, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| (verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: halt, kibosh, stop |
| (verb) run on a block system | - |
| blockade | (noun) a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy | Synonyms: encirclement |
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| (noun) prevents access or progress | - |
| (verb) impose a blockade on | Synonyms: seal off |
| (verb) obstruct access to | Synonyms: block off |
| (verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, stop |
| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| blockaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, barricaded |
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| blockading | (adjective) blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors | - |
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| blockage | (noun) the act of blocking | Synonyms: closure, occlusion |
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| (noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage |
| (noun) the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction | Synonyms: obstruction |
| blockbuster | (noun) an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) | Synonyms: megahit, smash hit |
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| (noun) a large bomb used to demolish extensive areas (as a city block) | - |
| blocked | (adjective) closed to traffic | - |
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| (adjective) completely obstructed or closed off | Synonyms: plugged |
| blocker | (noun) a class of drugs that inhibit (block) some biological process | Synonyms: blocking agent |
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| (noun) a football player whose responsibility is to block players attempting to stop an offensive play | - |
| blockhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| blockheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| blockhouse | (noun) a stronghold that is reinforced for protection from enemy fire; with apertures for defensive fire | - |
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| blocking | (noun) the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements | Synonyms: block |
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| blockish | (adjective) resembling a block in shape | Synonyms: blocky |
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| blocky | (adjective) resembling a block in shape | Synonyms: blockish |
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| bollock | (noun) a pulley-block at the head of a topmast | Synonyms: bullock block |
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| (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
| bollocks | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| breechblock | (noun) a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert a cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing | Synonyms: breech closer |
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| bullock | (noun) castrated bull | Synonyms: steer |
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| (noun) young bull | - |
| bullocky | (adjective) resembling a bullock in strength and power | - |
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| cellblock | (noun) a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) | Synonyms: ward |
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| cephalochordate | (noun) fish-like animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column | - |
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| chadlock | (noun) weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields | Synonyms: Brassica kaber, charlock, field mustard, Sinapis arvensis, wild mustard |
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| charlock | (noun) weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields | Synonyms: Brassica kaber, chadlock, field mustard, Sinapis arvensis, wild mustard |
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| chockablock | (adjective) packed full to capacity | Synonyms: chock-full, chockful, choke-full, chuck-full, cram full |
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| circumlocution | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: ambage, periphrasis |
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| (noun) an indirect way of expressing something | Synonyms: indirect expression |
| circumlocutious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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| circumlocutory | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic |
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| clochard | (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: drifter, floater, vagabond, vagrant |
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| cloche | (noun) a woman's close-fitting hat that resembles a helmet | - |
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| (noun) a low transparent cover put over young plants to protect them from cold | - |
| clock | (noun) a timepiece that shows the time of day | - |
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| (verb) measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time | Synonyms: time |
| clocking | (noun) the time taken to traverse a measured course | - |
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| clockmaker | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches | Synonyms: clocksmith |
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| clocks | (noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfilaria, alfileria, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, filaria, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
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| clocksmith | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches | Synonyms: clockmaker |
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| clockwise | (adjective) in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock | - |
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| (adverb) in the direction that the hands of a clock move | - |
| clockwork | (noun) any mechanism of geared wheels that is driven by a coiled spring; resembles the works of a mechanical clock | - |
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| collocate | (verb) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side | Synonyms: chunk, lump |
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| (verb) have a strong tendency to occur side by side | - |
| collocation | (noun) the act of positioning close together (or side by side) | Synonyms: apposition, juxtaposition |
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| (noun) a grouping of words in a sentence | - |
| contraclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, counterclockwise |
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| counterclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, contraclockwise |
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| (adverb) in a direction opposite to the direction in which the hands of a clock move | Synonyms: anticlockwise |
| deadlock | (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, impasse, stalemate, standstill |
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| deadlocked | (adjective) at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions | Synonyms: stalemated |
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| delocalize | (verb) remove from the proper or usual locality | - |
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| diplococcus | (noun) Gram-positive bacteria usually occurring in pairs | - |
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| dislocate | (verb) move out of position | Synonyms: luxate, slip, splay |
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| (verb) put out of its usual place, position, or relationship | - |
| dislocated | (adjective) separated at the joint | Synonyms: disjointed, separated |
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| dislocation | (noun) the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue | Synonyms: breakdown |
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| (noun) an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity | Synonyms: disruption |
| (noun) a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column) | - |
| doorlock | (noun) a lock on an exterior door | - |
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| dreadlock | (noun) one of many long thin braids of hair radiating from the scalp; popularized by Rastafarians | - |
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| echolocation | (noun) determining the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it | Synonyms: echo sounding |
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| electrolocation | (noun) The use of electroreception to locate surrounding objects. | - |
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| elocute | (verb) declaim in an elocutionary manner | - |
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| elocution | (noun) an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture | - |
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| elocutionary | (adjective) of or relating to elocution | - |
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| (adjective) (used of style of speaking) overly embellished | - |
| elocutionist | (noun) a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery | - |
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| encephalocele | (noun) protrusion of brain tissue through a congenital fissure in the skull | - |
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| fetlock | (noun) projection behind and above a horse's hoof | - |
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| (noun) the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern | Synonyms: fetlock joint |
| firelock | (noun) a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock | Synonyms: flintlock |
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| flintlock | (noun) an obsolete gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer; the flint makes a spark that ignites the charge | - |
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| (noun) a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock | Synonyms: firelock |
| floc | (noun) a small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid | Synonyms: floccule |
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| floccose | (adjective) (of plants) having tufts of soft woolly hairs | - |
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| flocculate | (verb) form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass | - |
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| (verb) cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate | - |
| flocculation | (noun) the process of flocculating; forming woolly cloudlike aggregations | - |
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| flocculator | (noun) An apparatus used in the process of flocculation. | - |
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| floccule | (noun) a small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid | Synonyms: floc |
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| flocculent | (adjective) having a fluffy character or appearance | Synonyms: woolly, wooly |
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| flock | (noun) a group of birds | - |
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| (noun) a group of sheep or goats | Synonyms: fold |
| (noun) a church congregation guided by a pastor | - |
| (noun) an orderly crowd | Synonyms: troop |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, cluster, constellate |
| (verb) move as a crowd or in a group | - |
| footlocker | (noun) a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks) | Synonyms: locker |
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| forelock | (noun) a lock of a horse's mane that grows forward between the ears | Synonyms: foretop |
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| (noun) a lock of hair growing (or falling) over the forehead | - |
| glochid | (noun) a barbed spine or bristle (often tufted on cacti) | Synonyms: glochidium |
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| glochidium | (noun) a barbed spine or bristle (often tufted on cacti) | Synonyms: glochid |
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| glockenspiel | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers | Synonyms: orchestral bells |
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| goldilocks | (noun) early-flowering perennial of southern and southeastern Europe with flower heads resembling those of goldenrod | Synonyms: Aster linosyris, goldilocks aster, Linosyris vulgaris |
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| granulocyte | (noun) a leukocyte that has granules in its cytoplasm | - |
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| granulocytic | (adjective) of or relating to granulocytes | - |
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| granulocytopenia | (noun) an acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes | Synonyms: agranulocytosis, agranulosis |
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| gridlock | (noun) a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible | - |
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| guilloche | (noun) an architectural decoration formed by two intersecting wavy bands | - |
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| gunlock | (noun) the action that ignites the charge in a firearm | Synonyms: firing mechanism |
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| halocarbon | (noun) one of various compounds of carbon and any of the halogens | - |
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| hammerlock | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back | - |
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| handlock | (noun) shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs | Synonyms: cuff, handcuff, manacle |
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