| adamance | (noun) resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible | Synonyms: obduracy, unyieldingness |
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| adamant | (adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamantine, inexorable, intransigent |
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| (noun) very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem | Synonyms: diamond |
| adamantine | (adjective) consisting of or having the hardness of adamant | - |
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| (adjective) having the hardness of a diamond | - |
| (adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamant, inexorable, intransigent |
| adamantly | (adverb) inflexibly; unshakably | - |
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| adman | (noun) someone whose business is advertising | Synonyms: advertiser, advertizer |
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| agromania | (noun) an intense desire to be alone or out in the open | - |
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| aircraftman | (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force | Synonyms: aircraftsman |
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| aircraftsman | (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force | Synonyms: aircraftman |
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| aircrewman | (noun) a member of an aircrew | - |
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| airman | (noun) a male who operates an aircraft | - |
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| airmanship | (noun) the art of operating aircraft | Synonyms: aviation |
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| airwoman | (noun) a woman aviator | Synonyms: aviatress, aviatrix |
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| alderman | (noun) a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council) | - |
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| aldermanic | (adjective) of or relating to or like an alderman | Synonyms: aldermanly |
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| aldermanly | (adjective) of or relating to or like an alderman | Synonyms: aldermanic |
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| allamanda | (noun) a plant of the genus Allamanda having large showy funnel-shaped flowers in terminal cymes | - |
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| allemande | (noun) egg-thickened veloute | Synonyms: allemande sauce |
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| almanac | (noun) an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields arranged according to the calendar of a given year | - |
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| (noun) an annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year | Synonyms: farmer's calendar |
| almandine | (noun) a purple variety of the ruby spinel | - |
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| (noun) a deep red garnet consisting of iron aluminum silicate | Synonyms: almandite |
| almandite | (noun) a deep red garnet consisting of iron aluminum silicate | Synonyms: almandine |
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| amanuensis | (noun) someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation) | Synonyms: shorthand typist, stenographer |
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| anchorman | (noun) a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute | Synonyms: anchor, anchorperson |
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| archimandrite | (noun) the superior of an abbey of monks | Synonyms: abbot |
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| arithmancy | (noun) divination by means of numbers | - |
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| artilleryman | (noun) a serviceman in the artillery | Synonyms: cannoneer, gunner, machine gunner |
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| assemblyman | (noun) someone who is a member of a legislative assembly | - |
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| assemblywoman | (noun) a woman assemblyman | - |
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| autosemantic | (adjective) of a word or phrase meaningful in isolation, independent of context | - |
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| backwoodsman | (noun) a man who lives on the frontier | Synonyms: frontiersman, mountain man |
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| baggageman | (noun) an attendant who takes care of baggage | - |
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| bagman | (noun) a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money | - |
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| (noun) a salesman who travels to call on customers | Synonyms: commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, traveling salesman, travelling salesman |
| balletomane | (noun) a ballet enthusiast | - |
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| balletomania | (noun) extraordinary enthusiasm for ballets | - |
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| bandsman | (noun) a player in a band (especially a military band) | - |
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| bargeman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, lighterman |
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| barman | (noun) a male employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | - |
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| batman | (noun) an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer | - |
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| batsman | (noun) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting | Synonyms: batter, hitter, slugger |
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| beadsman | (noun) a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another | Synonyms: bedesman |
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| bedesman | (noun) a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another | Synonyms: beadsman |
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| beggarman | (noun) a man who is a beggar | - |
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| beggarwoman | (noun) a woman who is a beggar | - |
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| bellman | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellboy, bellhop |
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| bibliomania | (noun) preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books | - |
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| bibliomaniacal | (adjective) characteristic of or characterized by or noted for bibliomania | - |
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| bimanual | (adjective) requiring two hands or designed for two people | Synonyms: two-handed |
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| blancmange | (noun) sweet almond-flavored milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch; usually molded | - |
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| boatman | (noun) someone who drives or rides in a boat | Synonyms: boater, waterman |
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| boatmanship | (noun) skill in handling boats | - |
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| bogeyman | (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: booger, boogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear |
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| bondman | (noun) a male slave | Synonyms: bondsman |
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| (noun) a male bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondsman |
| bondsman | (noun) a male slave | Synonyms: bondman |
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| (noun) a male bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondman |
| (noun) a male who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
| bondswoman | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondwoman |
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| (noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondwoman |
| (noun) a female who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
| bondwoman | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondswoman |
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| (noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondswoman |
| boogeyman | (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: bogeyman, booger, bugaboo, bugbear |
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| bookman | (noun) a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines | Synonyms: scholar, scholarly person |
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| bowman | (noun) a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow | Synonyms: archer |
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| brahman | (noun) the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category | Synonyms: brahmin |
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| (noun) a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas | Synonyms: brahmin |
| (noun) a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family) | Synonyms: brahmin |
| brakeman | (noun) a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes | - |
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| brinkmanship | (noun) the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety) | - |
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| bromance | (noun) non-sexual but intense relationship between two men | - |
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| bushman | (noun) a dweller in the Australian bush country | - |
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| businessman | (noun) a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) | Synonyms: man of affairs |
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| businesswoman | (noun) a female businessperson | - |
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| busman | (noun) someone who drives a bus | Synonyms: bus driver |
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| cabman | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabdriver, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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| caiman | (noun) a semiaquatic reptile of Central and South America that resembles an alligator but has a more heavily armored belly | Synonyms: cayman |
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| cameraman | (noun) a photographer who operates a movie camera | Synonyms: camera operator, cinematographer |
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| cattleman | (noun) a man who raises (or tends) cattle | Synonyms: beef man, cow man |
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| (noun) a male hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowboy, cowman |
| cavalryman | (noun) a soldier mounted on horseback | Synonyms: trooper |
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| (noun) a soldier in a motorized army unit | Synonyms: trooper |
| caveman | (noun) someone who lives in a cave | Synonyms: cave dweller, cave man, troglodyte |
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| cayman | (noun) a semiaquatic reptile of Central and South America that resembles an alligator but has a more heavily armored belly | Synonyms: caiman |
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| ceriman | (noun) tropical cylindrical fruit resembling a pinecone with pineapple-banana flavor | Synonyms: monstera |
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| (noun) tropical American vine having roots that hang like cords and cylindrical fruit with a pineapple and banana flavor | Synonyms: Monstera deliciosa |
| chairman | (noun) the male officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
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| (verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chair |
| chairmanship | (noun) the position of chairman | - |
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| chairwoman | (noun) the female officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
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| chapman | (noun) archaic term for an itinerant peddler | - |
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| chargeman | (noun) a workman employed to blast with explosives | Synonyms: blaster |
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| charman | (noun) a human male employed to do housework | - |
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| charwoman | (noun) a human female employed to do housework | Synonyms: char, cleaning lady, cleaning woman |
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| chessman | (noun) any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess | Synonyms: chess piece |
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| chiromance | (verb) divine by reading someone's palms | - |
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| chiromancer | (noun) fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms | Synonyms: palmist, palmister |
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| chiromancy | (noun) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | Synonyms: chirology, palm reading, palmistry |
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| chiromantic | (adjective) of or relating to palmistry | - |
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| churchman | (noun) a clergyman or other person in religious orders | Synonyms: cleric, divine, ecclesiastic |
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| claimant | (noun) someone who claims a benefit or right or title | - |
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| clamant | (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: crying, exigent, insistent, instant |
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| (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamorous, strident, vociferous |
| clansman | (noun) a male member of a clan | - |
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| clanswoman | (noun) a female member of a clan | - |
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| clergyman | (noun) a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church | Synonyms: man of the cloth, reverend |
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| coachman | (noun) a man who drives a coach (or carriage) | - |
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| coalman | (noun) someone who delivers coal | - |
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| coastguardsman | (noun) a member of a coastguard | - |
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| command | (noun) the power or authority to command | - |
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| (noun) availability for use | - |
| (noun) great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | Synonyms: control, mastery |
| (noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, bidding, dictation |
| (noun) (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program | Synonyms: instruction, program line, statement |
| (noun) a military unit or region under the control of a single officer | - |
| (noun) a position of highest authority | - |
| (verb) make someone do something | Synonyms: require |
| (verb) be in command of | - |
| (verb) demand as one's due | - |
| (verb) exercise authoritative control or power over | Synonyms: control |
| (verb) look down on | Synonyms: dominate, overlook, overtop |
| commandant | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commander, commanding officer |
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| commandeer | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: highjack, hijack, pirate |
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| commander | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commandant, commanding officer |
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| (noun) a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain | - |
| (noun) an officer in the airforce | Synonyms: air force officer |
| (noun) someone in an official position of authority who can command or control others | - |
| commandership | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandery |
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| commandery | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandership |
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