| absolve | (verb) let off the hook | Synonyms: free |
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| (verb) grant remission of a sin to | Synonyms: shrive |
| absolved | (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated |
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| absolver | (noun) someone who grants absolution | - |
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| absolvitory | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: exonerative, forgiving |
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| alveolar | (adjective) pertaining to the tiny air sacs of the lungs | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to the sockets of the teeth or that part of the upper jaw | - |
| (noun) a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge | Synonyms: alveolar consonant, dental, dental consonant |
| alveolate | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: cavitied, faveolate, honeycombed, pitted |
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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 |
| alveolus | (noun) a tiny sac for holding air in the lungs; formed by the terminal dilation of tiny air passageways | Synonyms: air cell, air sac |
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| (noun) a bony socket in the alveolar ridge that holds a tooth | Synonyms: tooth socket |
| alvine | (adjective) of or relating to the intestines | - |
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| belvedere | (noun) a gazebo sited to command a fine view | - |
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| (noun) densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn | Synonyms: Bassia scoparia, burning bush, fire-bush, fire bush, Kochia scoparia, summer cypress |
| bivalve | (adjective) used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) | Synonyms: bivalved |
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| (noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: lamellibranch, pelecypod |
| bivalved | (adjective) used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) | Synonyms: bivalve |
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| calvaria | (noun) the dome of the skull | Synonyms: skullcap |
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| calvary | (noun) any experience that causes intense suffering | Synonyms: martyrdom |
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| calve | (verb) give birth to (a calf) | Synonyms: have young |
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| (verb) release ice | Synonyms: break up |
| calving | (noun) giving birth to a calf | - |
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| circumvolve | (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: rotate |
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| clv | (adjective) being five more than one hundred fifty | Synonyms: 155, one hundred fifty-five |
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| convolve | (verb) curl, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: convolute |
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| convolvulus | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Convolvulus | - |
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| culverin | (noun) a medieval musket | - |
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| (noun) a heavy cannon with a long barrel used in the 16th and 17th centuries | - |
| culvert | (noun) a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway | - |
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| cxlv | (adjective) being five more than one hundred forty | Synonyms: 145, one hundred forty-five |
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| delve | (verb) turn up, loosen, or remove earth | Synonyms: cut into, dig, turn over |
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| devolve | (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, deteriorate, drop |
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| (verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: fall, pass, return |
| (verb) pass on or delegate to another | - |
| devolvement | (noun) the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) | Synonyms: devolution |
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| disinvolve | (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disembroil, disentangle |
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| dissolvable | (adjective) capable of dissolving | Synonyms: dissoluble |
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| dissolve | (noun) (film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out | - |
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| (verb) pass into a solution | - |
| (verb) cause to go into a solution | Synonyms: break up, resolve |
| (verb) come to an end | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) grow less and less substantial until it disappears | Synonyms: fade away, fade out |
| (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw |
| (verb) bring the association of to an end or cause to break up | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) declare void | Synonyms: dismiss |
| (verb) cause to fade away | - |
| (verb) lose control emotionally | - |
| (verb) cause to lose control emotionally | - |
| (verb) stop functioning or cohering as a unit | Synonyms: disband |
| dissolved | (adjective) (of solid matter) reduced to a liquid form | - |
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| dissolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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| dissolver | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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| dissolving | (noun) the process of going into solution | Synonyms: dissolution |
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| elver | (noun) young eel | - |
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| (noun) young eel; may be sauteed or batter-fried | - |
| elves | (noun) an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere | - |
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| elvish | (adjective) usually good-naturedly mischievous | Synonyms: elfin, elfish |
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| evolve | (verb) undergo development or evolution | - |
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| (verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: acquire, develop |
| (verb) work out | Synonyms: develop, germinate |
| galvanic | (adjective) pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action | Synonyms: voltaic |
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| (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: electric, galvanising, galvanizing |
| galvanisation | (noun) either the work of covering with metal by the use of a galvanic current or the coating of iron with zinc to protect it from rusting | Synonyms: galvanization |
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| (noun) stimulation that arouses a person to lively action | Synonyms: galvanization |
| (noun) stimulation with a galvanic current | Synonyms: galvanization |
| galvanise | (verb) stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock | Synonyms: galvanize |
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| (verb) cover with zinc | Synonyms: galvanize |
| (verb) to stimulate to action | Synonyms: galvanize, startle |
| galvaniser | (noun) a leader who stimulates and excites people to action | Synonyms: galvanizer, inspirer |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who coats iron or steel with zinc | Synonyms: galvanizer |
| galvanising | (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: electric, galvanic, galvanizing |
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| galvanism | (noun) the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis) | Synonyms: electric healing, electrical healing, electrotherapy |
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| (noun) electricity produced by chemical action | - |
| galvanization | (noun) either the work of covering with metal by the use of a galvanic current or the coating of iron with zinc to protect it from rusting | Synonyms: galvanisation |
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| (noun) stimulation that arouses a person to lively action | Synonyms: galvanisation |
| (noun) stimulation with a galvanic current | Synonyms: galvanisation |
| galvanize | (verb) stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock | Synonyms: galvanise |
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| (verb) cover with zinc | Synonyms: galvanise |
| (verb) to stimulate to action | Synonyms: galvanise, startle |
| galvanizer | (noun) a leader who stimulates and excites people to action | Synonyms: galvaniser, inspirer |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who coats iron or steel with zinc | Synonyms: galvaniser |
| galvanizing | (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: electric, galvanic, galvanising |
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| galvanometer | (noun) meter for detecting or comparing or measuring small electric currents | - |
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| griseofulvin | (noun) a kind of penicillin (a fungicidal antibiotic with the trade name Fulvicin) produced by molds of the genus Penicillium | Synonyms: Fulvicin |
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| halve | (verb) divide by two; divide into halves | - |
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| helve | (noun) the handle of a weapon or tool | Synonyms: haft |
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| helvella | (noun) any fungus of the genus Helvella having the ascocarps stalked or pleated or often in folds | - |
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| insolvable | (adjective) not easily solved | Synonyms: unresolvable, unsoluble, unsolvable |
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| insolvency | (noun) the lack of financial resources | - |
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| insolvent | (adjective) unable to meet or discharge financial obligations | - |
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| (noun) someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts | Synonyms: bankrupt |
| involve | (verb) make complex or intricate or complicated | - |
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| (verb) occupy or engage the interest of | - |
| (verb) have as a necessary feature | Synonyms: imply |
| (verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly | Synonyms: affect, regard |
| (verb) contain as a part | - |
| (verb) engage as a participant | - |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take |
| involved | (adjective) connected by participation or association or use | - |
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| (adjective) emotionally involved | - |
| (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous |
| (adjective) enveloped | - |
| (adjective) entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire | Synonyms: mired |
| involvement | (noun) the act of sharing in the activities of a group | Synonyms: engagement, involution, participation |
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| (noun) a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something | Synonyms: interest |
| (noun) a connection of inclusion or containment | - |
| (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, affaire, amour, intimacy, liaison |
| (noun) the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.) | Synonyms: participation |
| kelvin | (noun) the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: K |
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| lv | (adjective) being five more than fifty | Synonyms: 55, fifty-five |
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| lvi | (adjective) being six more than fifty | Synonyms: 56, fifty-six |
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| lvii | (adjective) being seven more than fifty | Synonyms: 57, fifty-seven |
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| lviii | (adjective) being eight more than fifty | Synonyms: 58, fifty-eight |
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| malvasia | (noun) grape used to make malmsey wine | - |
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| malversate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, misappropriate, peculate |
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| malversation | (noun) misconduct in public office | - |
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| pelvic | (adjective) of or relating to the pelvis | - |
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| pelvimeter | (noun) measuring instrument for performing pelvimetry | - |
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| pelvimetry | (noun) measurement of the dimensions of the bony birth canal (to determine whether vaginal birth is possible) | - |
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| pelvis | (noun) the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates | Synonyms: hip, pelvic arch, pelvic girdle |
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| (noun) a structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter | Synonyms: renal pelvis |
| postalveolar | (noun) (phonetics) Any sound articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge. | Synonyms: post-alveolar, post-alveolar consonant, postalveolar consonant |
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| pulverisation | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: grind, mill, pulverization |
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| (noun) annihilation by pulverizing something | Synonyms: pulverization |
| (noun) a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized | Synonyms: powder, pulverization |
| pulverise | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, powderize, pulverize |
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| (verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverize |
| (verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: demolish, pulverize |
| pulverised | (adjective) consisting of fine particles | Synonyms: fine-grained, powdered, powdery, pulverized, small-grained |
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| pulverization | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: grind, mill, pulverisation |
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| (noun) annihilation by pulverizing something | Synonyms: pulverisation |
| (noun) a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized | Synonyms: powder, pulverisation |
| pulverize | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, powderize, pulverise |
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| (verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverise |
| (verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: demolish, pulverise |
| pulverized | (adjective) consisting of fine particles | Synonyms: fine-grained, powdered, powdery, pulverised, small-grained |
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| quicksilver | (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, fickle, mercurial |
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| (noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum, mercury |
| resolvable | (adjective) capable of being settled or resolved | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being solved | Synonyms: solvable |
| resolve | (noun) the trait of being resolute | Synonyms: firmness, firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolution |
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| (noun) a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote | Synonyms: declaration, resolution |
| (verb) cause to go into a solution | Synonyms: break up, dissolve |
| (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: adjudicate, decide, settle |
| (verb) reach a decision | Synonyms: purpose |
| (verb) find the solution | Synonyms: solve |
| (verb) understand the meaning of | Synonyms: answer |
| (verb) reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation | Synonyms: conclude |
| (verb) make clearly visible | - |
| resolved | (adjective) explained or answered | Synonyms: solved |
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| (adjective) determined | Synonyms: single-minded |
| resolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, solvent |
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| resolving | (noun) analysis into clear-cut components | Synonyms: resolution |
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| revolve | (verb) turn on or around an axis or a center | Synonyms: go around, rotate |
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| (verb) move in an orbit | Synonyms: orb, orbit |
| (verb) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis | Synonyms: roll |
| revolved | (adjective) turned in a circle around an axis | Synonyms: rotated |
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| revolver | (noun) a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets) | Synonyms: six-gun, six-shooter |
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| (noun) a door consisting of four orthogonal partitions that rotate about a central pivot; a door designed to equalize the air pressure in tall buildings | Synonyms: revolving door |
| salvage | (noun) the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire | - |
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| (noun) the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction | - |
| (noun) property or goods saved from damage or destruction | - |
| (verb) collect discarded material | Synonyms: scavenge |
| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salve, save |
| salvageable | (adjective) capable of being saved from ruin | - |
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| salvager | (noun) someone who salvages | Synonyms: salvor |
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| salvation | (noun) (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil | Synonyms: redemption |
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| (noun) a means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness | - |
| (noun) saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation | - |
| (noun) the state of being saved or preserved from harm | - |
| salve | (noun) anything that remedies or heals or soothes | - |
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| (noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | Synonyms: balm, ointment, unction, unguent |
| (verb) apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing | - |
| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salvage, save |
| salver | (noun) a tray (or large plate) for serving food or drinks; usually made of silver | - |
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| salverform | (adjective) of or concerning a gamopetalous that has a slender tube and an abruptly expanded tip | - |
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| salvia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb | Synonyms: sage |
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| salvific | (adjective) pertaining to the power of salvation or redemption | - |
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| salving | (adjective) having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin | Synonyms: demulcent, emollient, softening |
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| salvinorin | (noun) a hallucinogen obtained from Salvia divinorum | - |
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| salvo | (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: burst, fusillade, volley |
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| (noun) a sudden outburst of cheers | - |
| (noun) an outburst resembling the discharge of firearms or the release of bombs | - |
| salvor | (noun) someone who salvages | Synonyms: salvager |
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| selva | (noun) a rain forest in a tropical area | Synonyms: tropical rain forest |
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