| alumna | (noun) a female person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | - |
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| alumnus | (noun) a male person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | - |
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| amnesia | (noun) partial or total loss of memory | Synonyms: blackout, memory loss |
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| amnesiac | (adjective) suffering from a partial loss of memory | Synonyms: amnesic |
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| (noun) a person suffering from amnesia | Synonyms: amnesic |
| amnesic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by amnesia | Synonyms: amnestic |
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| (adjective) suffering from a partial loss of memory | Synonyms: amnesiac |
| (noun) a person suffering from amnesia | Synonyms: amnesiac |
| amnestic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by amnesia | Synonyms: amnesic |
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| amnesty | (noun) the formal act of liberating someone | Synonyms: free pardon, pardon |
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| (noun) a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense | Synonyms: pardon |
| (noun) a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment | - |
| (verb) grant a pardon to (a group of people) | - |
| amnic | (adjective) of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion | Synonyms: amnionic, amniotic |
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| amnio | (noun) (pregnancy) extraction by centesis of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman (after the 15th week of pregnancy) to aid in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities | Synonyms: amniocentesis |
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| amniocentesis | (noun) (pregnancy) extraction by centesis of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman (after the 15th week of pregnancy) to aid in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities | Synonyms: amnio |
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| amnion | (noun) thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) | Synonyms: amnios, amniotic sac |
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| amnionic | (adjective) of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion | Synonyms: amnic, amniotic |
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| amnios | (noun) thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) | Synonyms: amnion, amniotic sac |
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| amniote | (noun) any member of the Amniota | - |
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| amniotic | (adjective) of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion | Synonyms: amnic, amnionic |
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| anamnesis | (noun) the ability to recall past occurrences | Synonyms: recollection, remembrance |
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| (noun) the case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient | Synonyms: medical history, medical record |
| anamnestic | (adjective) of or relating to anamnesis; aiding the memory | - |
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| autumn | (noun) the season when the leaves fall from the trees | Synonyms: fall |
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| autumnal | (adjective) of or characteristic of or occurring in autumn | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of late maturity verging on decline | - |
| bedamn | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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| belemnite | (noun) a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae | - |
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| belemnitic | (adjective) of or relating to belemnites | - |
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| buxomness | (noun) the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomed | - |
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| calmness | (noun) steadiness of mind under stress | Synonyms: calm, composure, equanimity |
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| (noun) a feeling of calm; an absence of agitation or excitement | - |
| (noun) an absence of strong winds or rain | - |
| calumniate | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| calumniation | (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumny, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement |
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| calumniatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| calumnious | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| calumniously | (adverb) in a false and slanderous and defamatory manner; with slander or calumny | Synonyms: slanderously |
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| calumny | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, defamation, denigration, slander |
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| (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumniation, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement |
| chimney | (noun) a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building | - |
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| (noun) a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp | Synonyms: lamp chimney |
| chimneypiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece |
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| chimneypot | (noun) a short earthenware pipe on the top of a chimney to increase the draft | - |
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| chimneystack | (noun) the part of the chimney that is above the roof; usually has several flues | - |
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| chimneysweep | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweeper, sweep |
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| chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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| circumnavigate | (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: compass |
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| circumnavigation | (noun) traveling around something (by ship or plane) | - |
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| column | (noun) (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure | Synonyms: pillar |
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| (noun) a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument) | Synonyms: pillar |
| (noun) a vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands | Synonyms: chromatography column |
| (noun) any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body | - |
| (noun) an article giving opinions or perspectives | Synonyms: editorial, newspaper column |
| (noun) a page or text that is vertically divided | - |
| (noun) a line of units following one after another | - |
| (noun) a vertical array of numbers or other information | - |
| (noun) anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower | Synonyms: pillar, tower |
| columnar | (adjective) characterized by columns | - |
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| (adjective) having the form of a column | Synonyms: columniform, columnlike |
| columnea | (noun) tropical plant having thick hairy somewhat toothed leaves and solitary or clustered yellow to scarlet flowers; many cultivated for their flowers and ornamental foliage | - |
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| columned | (adjective) having or resembling columns; having columns of a specified kind (often used as a combining form) | - |
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| columniation | (noun) (architecture) the arrangement of columns (especially freestanding columns) in a structure | - |
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| columniform | (adjective) having the form of a column | Synonyms: columnar, columnlike |
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| columnist | (noun) a journalist who writes editorials | Synonyms: editorialist |
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| columnlike | (adjective) having the form of a column | Synonyms: columnar, columniform |
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| condemn | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: decry, excoriate, objurgate, reprobate |
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| (verb) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law | Synonyms: doom, sentence |
| (verb) declare or judge unfit for use or habitation | - |
| (verb) demonstrate the guilt of (someone) | - |
| (verb) appropriate (property) for public use | - |
| (verb) compel or force into a particular state or activity | - |
| condemnable | (adjective) bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure | Synonyms: criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious |
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| condemnation | (noun) (law) the act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building) | - |
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| (noun) (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed | Synonyms: conviction, judgment of conviction, sentence |
| (noun) an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable | Synonyms: disapprobation |
| (noun) an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group | Synonyms: curse, execration |
| (noun) the condition of being strongly disapproved of | - |
| condemnatory | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemning |
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| condemning | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemnatory |
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| contemn | (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: despise, disdain, scorn |
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| damn | (adjective) used as expletives | Synonyms: goddamn |
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| (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
| (noun) something of little value | Synonyms: darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
| (adverb) extremely | Synonyms: all-fired, all-firedly, bloody |
| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, imprecate, maledict |
| damnable | (adjective) deserving to be execrated | Synonyms: execrable |
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| damnably | (adverb) in a damnable manner | Synonyms: cursedly, damned |
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| damnation | (noun) the act of damning | - |
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| (noun) the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell | Synonyms: eternal damnation |
| damnatory | (adjective) threatening with damnation | Synonyms: damning |
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| damned | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| (adjective) in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell | Synonyms: cursed, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved |
| (noun) people who are condemned to eternal punishment | - |
| (adverb) in a damnable manner | Synonyms: cursedly, damnably |
| damning | (adjective) threatening with damnation | Synonyms: damnatory |
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| dimness | (noun) the property of lights or sounds that lack brilliance or are reduced in intensity | Synonyms: subduedness |
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| (noun) the quality of being dim or lacking contrast | Synonyms: faintness |
| (noun) the state of being poorly illuminated | Synonyms: duskiness |
| firmness | (noun) the quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place | Synonyms: steadiness |
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| (noun) the trait of being resolute | Synonyms: firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolution, resolve |
| (noun) the property of being unyielding to the touch | - |
| (noun) the muscle tone of healthy tissue | Synonyms: soundness |
| glumness | (noun) a gloomy ill-tempered feeling | Synonyms: moroseness, sullenness |
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| (noun) an atmosphere of depression and melancholy | Synonyms: gloom, gloominess |
| goddamn | (adjective) used as expletives | Synonyms: damn |
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| (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamned, infernal |
| (adverb) expressing anger, despair, frustration, approval, or surprise | Synonyms: goddam, goddamned |
| goddamned | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, infernal |
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| (adverb) expressing anger, despair, frustration, approval, or surprise | Synonyms: goddam, goddamn |
| grimness | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) the quality of being ghastly | Synonyms: ghastliness, gruesomeness, luridness |
| gymnasium | (noun) athletic facility equipped for sports or physical training | Synonyms: gym |
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| gymnast | (noun) an athlete who is skilled in gymnastics | - |
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| gymnastic | (adjective) of or relating to or used in exercises intended to develop strength and agility | - |
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| (adjective) vigorously active | Synonyms: acrobatic, athletic |
| gymnastics | (noun) a sport that involves exercises intended to display strength and balance and agility | Synonyms: gymnastic exercise |
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| gymnosophical | (adjective) of or relating to gymnosophy | - |
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| gymnosophist | (noun) member of a Hindu sect practicing gymnosophy (especially nudism) | - |
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| gymnosophy | (noun) the doctrine of a sect of Hindu philosophers who practiced nudity and asceticism and meditation | - |
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| gymnosperm | (noun) plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary | - |
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| gymnospermous | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of plants of the class Gymnospermae | - |
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| hydramnios | (noun) an abnormality of pregnancy; accumulation of excess amniotic fluid | - |
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| hymn | (noun) a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation) | Synonyms: anthem |
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| (verb) praise by singing a hymn | - |
| (verb) sing a hymn | - |
| hymnal | (noun) a songbook containing a collection of hymns | Synonyms: hymnary, hymnbook |
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| hymnary | (noun) a songbook containing a collection of hymns | Synonyms: hymnal, hymnbook |
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| hymnbook | (noun) a songbook containing a collection of hymns | Synonyms: hymnal, hymnary |
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| hymnody | (noun) the act of singing psalms or hymns | Synonyms: psalmody |
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| hymnography | (noun) (music) the craft of hymn composition. | - |
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| hypersomnia | (noun) an inability to stay awake | - |
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| indemnification | (noun) an act of compensation for actual loss or damage or for trouble and annoyance | - |
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| (noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: amends, damages, indemnity, redress, restitution |
| indemnify | (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, recompense, repair |
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| (verb) secure against future loss, damage, or liability; give security for | - |
| indemnity | (noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: amends, damages, indemnification, redress, restitution |
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| (noun) legal exemption from liability for damages | - |
| (noun) protection against future loss | Synonyms: insurance |
| insomnia | (noun) an inability to sleep; chronic sleeplessness | - |
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| insomniac | (adjective) experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness | Synonyms: sleepless, watchful |
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| (noun) someone who cannot sleep | Synonyms: sleepless person |
| lemniscate | (noun) any of several plane algebraic curves in the shape of a figure eight | - |
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| lemniscus | (noun) a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus | Synonyms: fillet |
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| limn | (verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: depict, portray |
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| (verb) trace the shape of | Synonyms: delineate, outline |
| limner | (noun) a painter or drawer of portraits | Synonyms: portrait painter, portraitist, portrayer |
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| limnimeter | (noun) a tide gage used for measuring lake level variations. | - |
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| limning | (noun) a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects | Synonyms: delineation, depiction, line drawing |
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| limnological | (adjective) of or relating to limnology | - |
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| limnologically | (adverb) with regard to or concerning limnology | - |
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| limnologist | (noun) a specialist in the study of freshwater ponds and lakes | - |
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| limnology | (noun) the scientific study of bodies of fresh water for their biological and physical and geological properties | - |
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| lukewarmness | (noun) a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin | Synonyms: tepidity, tepidness |
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| (noun) lack of passion, force or animation | Synonyms: tepidness |
| mnemometer | (noun) An outdated mechanical device used for presenting a series of stimuli to be memorized. | Synonyms: memory apparatus |
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| mnemonic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory | Synonyms: mnemotechnic, mnemotechnical |
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| (noun) a device (such as a rhyme or acronym) used to aid recall | - |