| abalone | (noun) any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior | Synonyms: ear-shell |
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| acrylonitrile | (noun) a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene | Synonyms: propenonitrile, vinyl cyanide |
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| agelong | (adjective) lasting through all time | - |
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| alone | (adjective) exclusive of anyone or anything else | Synonyms: only |
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| (adjective) radically distinctive and without equal | Synonyms: unequaled, unequalled, unique, unparalleled |
| (adjective) lacking companions or companionship | Synonyms: lone, lonely, solitary |
| (adjective) isolated from others | - |
| (adverb) without any others being included or involved | Synonyms: entirely, exclusively, only, solely |
| (adverb) without anybody else or anything else | Synonyms: solo, unaccompanied |
| aloneness | (noun) a disposition toward being alone | Synonyms: loneliness, lonesomeness, solitariness |
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| along | (adverb) in accompaniment or as a companion | - |
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| (adverb) with a forward motion | Synonyms: on |
| (adverb) in addition (usually followed by `with') | - |
| (adverb) to a more advanced state | - |
| (adverb) in line with a length or direction (often followed by `by' or `beside') | - |
| alongside | (adverb) side by side | Synonyms: aboard |
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| anticyclone | (noun) (meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern | - |
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| anticyclonic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a high pressure center | - |
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| baloney | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| belong | (verb) be owned by; be in the possession of | - |
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| (verb) be rightly classified in a class or category | - |
| (verb) be suitable or acceptable | - |
| (verb) be in the right place or situation | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) be a part or adjunct | Synonyms: belong to |
| (verb) be a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (of a group, organization, or place) | - |
| belonging | (noun) happiness felt in a secure relationship | - |
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| belongings | (noun) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone | Synonyms: holding, property |
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| blond | (adjective) being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes | Synonyms: blonde, light-haired |
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| (noun) a light grayish yellow to near white | Synonyms: blonde |
| (noun) a male person with fair skin and hair | - |
| blonde | (adjective) being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes | Synonyms: blond, light-haired |
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| (noun) a light grayish yellow to near white | Synonyms: blond |
| (noun) a female person with fair skin and hair | - |
| blondness | (noun) the property of having a naturally light complexion | Synonyms: fairness, paleness |
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| boloney | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| bouillon | (noun) a clear seasoned broth | - |
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| cannelloni | (noun) tubular pasta filled with meat or cheese | - |
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| carillon | (noun) playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower | Synonyms: bell ringing, carillon playing |
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| (noun) set of bells hung in a bell tower | - |
| carillonneur | (noun) a musician who plays a carillon | - |
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| ceylonite | (noun) a dark-colored spinel containing iron | Synonyms: pleonaste |
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| chelonian | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or being a turtle or tortoise | - |
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| (noun) a reptile of the order Chelonia | Synonyms: chelonian reptile |
| chinchillon | (noun) gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas | Synonyms: Lagostomus maximus, viscacha |
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| chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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| clon | (noun) a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction | Synonyms: clone |
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| clonal | (adjective) of or relating to a clone | - |
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| clone | (noun) an unauthorized copy or imitation | Synonyms: knockoff |
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| (noun) a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction | Synonyms: clon |
| (noun) a person who is almost identical to another | Synonyms: dead ringer, ringer |
| (verb) make multiple identical copies of | - |
| clonic | (adjective) of or relating to abnormal neuromuscular activity characterized by rapidly alternating muscle contraction and relaxation | - |
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| clonidine | (noun) an antihypertensive (trade name Catapres) that can be administered orally or via transdermal patches | Synonyms: Catapres |
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| cloning | (noun) a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell) | - |
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| clonus | (noun) convulsion characterized by alternating contractions and relaxations | - |
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| colon | (noun) the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted | - |
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| (noun) a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter) | - |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos | Synonyms: Costa Rican colon |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos | Synonyms: El Salvadoran colon |
| colonel | (noun) a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general | - |
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| colonial | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony | - |
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| (adjective) of animals who live in colonies, such as ants | - |
| (adjective) composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony | Synonyms: compound |
| (noun) a resident of a colony | - |
| colonialism | (noun) exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country | - |
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| colonialist | (noun) a believer in colonialism | - |
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| colonic | (adjective) of or relating to the colon | - |
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| (noun) a water enema given to flush out the colon | Synonyms: colonic irrigation |
| colonisation | (noun) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies | Synonyms: colonization, settlement |
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| colonise | (verb) settle as colonists or establish a colony (in) | Synonyms: colonize |
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| (verb) settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world | Synonyms: colonize |
| colonised | (adjective) inhabited by colonists | Synonyms: colonized, settled |
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| coloniser | (noun) someone who helps to found a colony | Synonyms: colonizer |
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| colonist | (noun) a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country | Synonyms: settler |
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| colonization | (noun) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies | Synonyms: colonisation, settlement |
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| colonize | (verb) settle as colonists or establish a colony (in) | Synonyms: colonise |
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| (verb) settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world | Synonyms: colonise |
| colonized | (adjective) inhabited by colonists | Synonyms: colonised, settled |
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| colonizer | (noun) someone who helps to found a colony | Synonyms: coloniser |
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| colonnade | (noun) structure consisting of a row of evenly spaced columns | - |
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| (noun) a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns | Synonyms: arcade |
| colonnaded | (adjective) having a series of columns arranged at regular intervals | - |
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| colonoscope | (noun) an elongated fiberoptic endoscope for examining the entire colon from cecum to rectum | - |
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| colonoscopy | (noun) visual examination of the colon (with a colonoscope) from the cecum to the rectum; requires sedation | - |
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| colony | (noun) a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government | Synonyms: settlement |
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| (noun) a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together | - |
| (noun) (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell | - |
| (noun) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country | Synonyms: dependency |
| (noun) a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated | - |
| cumulonimbus | (noun) a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms | Synonyms: cumulonimbus cloud, thundercloud |
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| cyclonal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm | Synonyms: cyclonic, cyclonical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center | Synonyms: cyclonic, cyclonical |
| cyclone | (noun) a violent rotating windstorm | - |
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| (noun) (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the southern | - |
| cyclonic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonical |
| cyclonical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonic |
| daylong | (adjective) lasting through an entire day | - |
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| (adverb) during the entire day | Synonyms: all day long |
| decathlon | (noun) an athletic contest consisting of ten different events | - |
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| decolonisation | (noun) the action of changing from colonial to independent status | Synonyms: decolonization |
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| decolonise | (verb) grant independence to (a former colony) | Synonyms: decolonize |
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| decolonization | (noun) the action of changing from colonial to independent status | Synonyms: decolonisation |
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| decolonize | (verb) grant independence to (a former colony) | Synonyms: decolonise |
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| diencephalon | (noun) the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon | Synonyms: betweenbrain, interbrain, thalmencephalon |
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| diethylmalonylurea | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, veronal |
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| echelon | (noun) a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset | - |
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| (noun) a body of troops arranged in a line | - |
| (noun) status in a society or organization | - |
| elongate | (adjective) having notably more length than width; being long and slender | Synonyms: elongated |
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| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) long and narrow | Synonyms: linear |
| (verb) make long or longer by pulling and stretching | Synonyms: stretch |
| elongated | (adjective) having notably more length than width; being long and slender | Synonyms: elongate |
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| (adjective) drawn out or made longer spatially | Synonyms: extended, lengthened, prolonged |
| elongation | (noun) the act of lengthening something | - |
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| (noun) an addition to the length of something | Synonyms: extension |
| (noun) the quality of being elongated | - |
| encephalon | (noun) that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord | Synonyms: brain |
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| epipelon | (noun) cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae that live on or in association with fine-grained substrata. | - |
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| epixylon | (noun) organisms that are attached to submerged wood surfaces in aquatic ecosystems. | - |
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| epsilon | (noun) the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| felon | (noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: criminal, crook, malefactor, outlaw |
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| (noun) a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail | Synonyms: whitlow |
| felonious | (adjective) involving or being or having the nature of a crime | Synonyms: criminal |
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| feloniousness | (noun) The property of relating to, or having the nature of a serious criminal offense. | - |
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| felony | (noun) a serious crime (such as murder or arson) | - |
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| furlong | (noun) a unit of length equal to 220 yards | - |
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| gallon | (noun) United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters | Synonyms: gal |
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| (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters | Synonyms: congius, Imperial gallon |
| glomerulonephritis | (noun) nephritis marked by inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney; characterized by decreased production of urine and by the presence of blood and protein in the urine and by edema | - |
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| halon | (noun) a compound in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon have been replaced by bromine and other halogen atoms; very stable; used in fire extinguishers although it is thought to release bromine that depletes the ozone layer | - |
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| headlong | (adjective) with the head foremost | Synonyms: headfirst |
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| (adjective) excessively quick | Synonyms: hasty |
| (adverb) with the head before the body | Synonyms: headfirst |
| (adverb) in a hasty and foolhardy manner | Synonyms: rashly |
| (adverb) at breakneck speed | Synonyms: precipitately |
| holonym | (noun) a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part | Synonyms: whole name |
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| holonymy | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between a whole and its parts | Synonyms: whole to part relation |
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| hourlong | (adjective) lasting for an hour | - |
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| klondike | (noun) a form of solitaire that begins with seven piles of cards with the top cards facing up; descending sequences of cards of alternating colors are built on these piles; as aces become available they are placed above the seven piles; the object is to build sequences in suit from ace to king as the remaining cards are dealt out one at a time | - |
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| lifelong | (adjective) continuing through life | Synonyms: womb-to-tomb |
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| livelong | (adjective) (of time) constituting the full extent or duration | - |
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| (noun) perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers | Synonyms: live-forever, orpin, orpine, Sedum telephium |
| lone | (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lonesome, only, sole, solitary |
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| (adjective) lacking companions or companionship | Synonyms: alone, lonely, solitary |
| (adjective) characterized by or preferring solitude | Synonyms: lonely, solitary |
| loneliness | (noun) a disposition toward being alone | Synonyms: aloneness, lonesomeness, solitariness |
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| (noun) sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned | Synonyms: desolation, forlornness |
| (noun) the state of being alone in solitary isolation | Synonyms: solitariness |
| lonely | (adjective) marked by dejection from being alone | Synonyms: lonesome |
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| (adjective) lacking companions or companionship | Synonyms: alone, lone, solitary |
| (adjective) devoid of creatures | Synonyms: solitary, unfrequented |
| (adjective) characterized by or preferring solitude | Synonyms: lone, solitary |
| loner | (noun) a person who avoids the company or assistance of others | Synonyms: lone hand, lone wolf |
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| lonesome | (adjective) marked by dejection from being alone | Synonyms: lonely |
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| (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lone, only, sole, solitary |
| lonesomeness | (noun) a disposition toward being alone | Synonyms: aloneness, loneliness, solitariness |
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| long | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: recollective, retentive, tenacious |
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| (adjective) primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified | - |
| (adjective) primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified | - |
| (adjective) (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration | - |
| (adjective) holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices | - |
| (adjective) having or being more than normal or necessary | - |
| (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, longsighted, prospicient |
| (adjective) of relatively great height | - |
| (adjective) involving substantial risk | - |
| (adverb) for an extended time or at a distant time | - |
| (adverb) for an extended distance | - |
| (verb) desire strongly or persistently | Synonyms: hanker, yearn |
| longan | (noun) tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium | Synonyms: Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, longanberry, lungen, Nephelium longana |
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| longanberry | (noun) Asian fruit similar to litchi | Synonyms: dragon's eye |
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| (noun) tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium | Synonyms: Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, longan, lungen, Nephelium longana |
| longanimity | (noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | Synonyms: forbearance, patience |
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| longanimous | (adjective) showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment | Synonyms: forbearing |
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| longbeard | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: bellarmine, greybeard, long-beard |
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