| anastomosis | (noun) a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous | Synonyms: inosculation |
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| anastomotic | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting anastomosis | - |
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| anastrophe | (noun) the reversal of the normal order of words | Synonyms: inversion |
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| anastylosis | (noun) the archeological reassembly of ruined monuments from fallen or decayed fragments (incorporating new materials when necessary) | - |
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| anathema | (noun) a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication | - |
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| (noun) a detested person | Synonyms: bete noire |
| anathematisation | (noun) the formal act of pronouncing (someone or something) accursed | Synonyms: anathematization |
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| anathematise | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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| anathematization | (noun) the formal act of pronouncing (someone or something) accursed | Synonyms: anathematisation |
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| anathematize | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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| anathemise | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
| anathemize | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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| (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, comminate, execrate |
| anatomic | (adjective) of or relating to the structure of the body | Synonyms: anatomical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the branch of morphology that studies the structure of organisms | Synonyms: anatomical |
| anatomical | (adjective) of or relating to the structure of the body | Synonyms: anatomic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the branch of morphology that studies the structure of organisms | Synonyms: anatomic |
| (noun) an expression that relates to anatomy | Synonyms: anatomical reference |
| anatomically | (adverb) with respect to anatomy | - |
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| anatomise | (verb) dissect in order to analyze | Synonyms: anatomize |
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| anatomist | (noun) an expert in anatomy | - |
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| anatomize | (verb) analyze down to the smallest detail | - |
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| (verb) dissect in order to analyze | Synonyms: anatomise |
| anatomy | (noun) a detailed analysis | - |
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| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (noun) the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals | Synonyms: general anatomy |
| anatotitan | (noun) one of the largest and most famous duck-billed dinosaurs | - |
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| anatoxin | (noun) a bacterial toxin that has been weakened until it is no longer toxic but is strong enough to induce the formation of antibodies and immunity to the specific disease caused by the toxin | Synonyms: toxoid |
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| anatropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk | Synonyms: inverted |
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| andrena | (noun) a bee that is a member of the genus Andrena | Synonyms: andrenid, mining bee |
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| angina | (noun) any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain | - |
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| (noun) a heart condition marked by paroxysms of chest pain due to reduced oxygen to the heart | Synonyms: angina pectoris |
| anginal | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginose, anginous |
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| anna | (noun) a former copper coin of Pakistan and India | - |
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| annalism | (noun) The writing of annals. | - |
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| annalist | (noun) a historian who writes annals | - |
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| annalistic | (adjective) relating to annals | - |
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| annals | (noun) a chronological account of events in successive years | Synonyms: chronological record |
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| (noun) reports of the work of a society or learned body etc | - |
| annexational | (adjective) relating to annexation | - |
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| antenatal | (adjective) occurring or existing before birth | Synonyms: antepartum, prenatal |
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| antenna | (noun) one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste | Synonyms: feeler |
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| (noun) an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals | Synonyms: aerial, transmitting aerial |
| (noun) sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ | Synonyms: feeler |
| antennal | (adjective) of or relating to antennae | Synonyms: antennary |
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| antennary | (adjective) of or relating to antennae | Synonyms: antennal |
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| anticlinal | (adjective) sloping downward away from a common crest | - |
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| antiphonal | (adjective) containing or using responses; alternating | Synonyms: responsive |
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| (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonary |
| (noun) bound collection of antiphons | Synonyms: antiphonary |
| antiphonary | (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonal |
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| (noun) bound collection of antiphons | Synonyms: antiphonal |
| apadana | (noun) the great hall in ancient Persian palaces | - |
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| apanage | (noun) a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family | Synonyms: appanage |
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| (noun) any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life | Synonyms: appanage |
| aplanatic | (adjective) free from or corrected for spherical aberration | - |
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| apocynaceous | (adjective) of or relating to tropical plants of the family Apocynaceae | - |
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| appanage | (noun) a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family | Synonyms: apanage |
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| (noun) any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life | Synonyms: apanage |
| apparitional | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual |
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| apportionable | (adjective) capable of being distributed | Synonyms: allocable, allocatable |
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| appositional | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositive |
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| appurtenance | (noun) a supplementary component that improves capability | Synonyms: accessory, add-on, supplement |
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| (noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. | Synonyms: gear, paraphernalia |
| appurtenant | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, auxiliary |
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| aptitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to aptitudes | - |
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| aquanaut | (noun) an underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinder | Synonyms: skin-diver |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research | Synonyms: oceanaut |
| arbitrational | (adjective) relating to or resulting from arbitration | Synonyms: arbitral |
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| archidiaconal | (adjective) of or relating to an archdeacon or his office | - |
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| archidiaconate | (noun) office or position of an archdeacon | - |
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| arena | (noun) a playing field where sports events take place | Synonyms: scene of action |
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| (noun) a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments | Synonyms: bowl, sports stadium, stadium |
| (noun) the central area of an ancient Roman amphitheater where contests and spectacles were held; especially an area that was strewn with sand | - |
| (noun) a particular environment or walk of life | Synonyms: area, domain, field, orbit, sphere |
| arenaceous | (adjective) resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in sandy areas | Synonyms: sandlike, sandy |
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| arenavirus | (noun) animal viruses belonging to the family Arenaviridae | - |
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| argonaut | (noun) someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure | - |
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| arsenal | (noun) a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
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| (noun) a place where arms are manufactured | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
| (noun) all the weapons and equipment that a country has | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
| arsenate | (noun) a salt or ester of arsenic acid | - |
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| arundinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling reedlike plants of the genus Arundinaria | - |
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| asana | (noun) (Hinduism) a posture or manner of sitting (as in the practice of yoga) | - |
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| ascensional | (adjective) tending to rise | - |
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| ascertainable | (adjective) capable of being ascertained or found out | Synonyms: discoverable |
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| asparaginase | (noun) antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia | Synonyms: Elspar |
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| assassinate | (verb) destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation | - |
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| (verb) murder; especially of socially prominent persons | - |
| assassinated | (adjective) murdered by surprise attack for political reasons | - |
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| assassination | (noun) murder of a public figure by surprise attack | - |
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| (noun) an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation | Synonyms: blackwash, character assassination |
| assassinator | (noun) a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed | Synonyms: assassin, bravo |
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| assignable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: conveyable, negotiable, transferable, transferrable |
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| assignation | (noun) a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) | Synonyms: tryst |
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| (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, parceling, parcelling |
| associational | (adjective) of or relating to associations or associationism | - |
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| assonance | (noun) the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | Synonyms: vowel rhyme |
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| assonant | (adjective) having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables | - |
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| (adjective) having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables | - |
| assonate | (verb) correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance | - |
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| asternal | (adjective) not connected to the sternum or breastbone | - |
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| astrodynamics | (noun) the branch of astronomy that studies the motion of natural and artificial bodies in space | - |
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| astronaut | (noun) a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | Synonyms: cosmonaut, spaceman |
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| astronautic | (adjective) of or belonging to astronauts or the science of astronautics | Synonyms: astronautical |
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| astronautical | (adjective) of or belonging to astronauts or the science of astronautics | Synonyms: astronautic |
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| astronautics | (noun) the theory and practice of navigation through air or space | Synonyms: aeronautics |
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| astronavigation | (noun) navigating according to the positions of the stars | Synonyms: celestial navigation |
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| athenaeum | (noun) a place where reading materials are available | Synonyms: atheneum |
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| (noun) a literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning | Synonyms: atheneum |
| atonal | (adjective) characterized by avoidance of traditional western tonality | Synonyms: unkeyed |
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| atonalism | (noun) the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system | Synonyms: atonality |
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| atonalistic | (adjective) of or relating to atonalism | - |
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| atonality | (noun) the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system | Synonyms: atonalism |
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| atonally | (adverb) without tonality | - |
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| attainability | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: achievability, attainableness |
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| attainable | (adjective) capable of being attained or accomplished | Synonyms: come-at-able |
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| attainableness | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: achievability, attainability |
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| attentional | (adjective) of or relating to attention | - |
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| attitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to attitudes | - |
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| attritional | (adjective) relating to or caused by attrition | - |
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| autochthonal | (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous |
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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 | - |
| avifauna | (noun) the birds of a particular region or period | - |
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| avifaunal | (adjective) of or relating to birds of a particular region or period | Synonyms: avifaunistic |
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| avocational | (adjective) of or involved in an avocation | - |
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| axonal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling an axon | - |
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| ayapana | (noun) low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium | Synonyms: Ayapana triplinervis, Eupatorium aya-pana |
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| azonal | (adjective) not divided into zones | - |
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