| ablutionary | (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: cleansing |
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| abolitionary | (adjective) relating to or favoring abolition, especially abolition of slavery | - |
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| accretionary | (adjective) marked or produced by accretion | - |
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| acinar | (adjective) pertaining to the individual parts making up an aggregate fruit like a blackberry | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinic, acinose, acinous |
| adrenarche | (noun) the increase in activity of the adrenal glands just before puberty | - |
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| anarchic | (adjective) without law or control | Synonyms: anarchical, lawless |
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| anarchical | (adjective) without law or control | Synonyms: anarchic, lawless |
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| anarchically | (adverb) in a lawless rebellious manner | - |
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| anarchism | (noun) a political theory favoring the abolition of governments | - |
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| anarchist | (noun) an advocate of anarchism | Synonyms: nihilist, syndicalist |
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| anarchistic | (adjective) of or related to anarchism or tending toward anarchism | - |
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| anarchy | (noun) a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government) | Synonyms: lawlessness |
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| anarthria | (noun) partial or total loss of articulate speech resulting from lesions of the central nervous system | - |
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| antennary | (adjective) of or relating to antennae | Synonyms: antennal |
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| antiphonary | (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonal |
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| (noun) bound collection of antiphons | Synonyms: antiphonal |
| bicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentennial |
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| (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentennial |
| bimillenary | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillennium |
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| (noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillennium |
| binary | (adjective) of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms) | - |
| (noun) a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system | Synonyms: binary program |
| (noun) a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation | Synonyms: binary star, double star |
| canard | (noun) a deliberately misleading fabrication | - |
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| canary | (adjective) having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow | Synonyms: canary-yellow |
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| (noun) any of several small Old World finches | Synonyms: canary bird |
| (noun) a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge | Synonyms: canary yellow |
| (noun) a female singer | - |
| (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
| carbonara | (noun) sauce for pasta; contains eggs and bacon or ham and grated cheese | - |
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| cardiopulmonary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiorespiratory |
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| catenary | (noun) the curve theoretically assumed by a perfectly flexible and inextensible cord of uniform density and cross section hanging freely from two fixed points | - |
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| cautionary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) warding off | Synonyms: prophylactic |
| centenarian | (adjective) being at least 100 years old | - |
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| (noun) someone who is at least 100 years old | - |
| centenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centennial |
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| (noun) the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: centennial |
| chanar | (noun) thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries | Synonyms: chanal, Geoffroea decorticans |
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| cislunar | (adjective) situated between the earth and the moon | Synonyms: sublunar, sublunary |
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| columnar | (adjective) characterized by columns | - |
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| (adjective) having the form of a column | Synonyms: columniform, columnlike |
| confectionary | (noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionery |
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| consuetudinary | (noun) a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order) | Synonyms: consuetudinal |
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| coplanar | (adjective) lying in the same plane | - |
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| coronary | (adjective) surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels surrounding the heart) | - |
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| (noun) obstruction of blood flow in a coronary artery by a blood clot (thrombus) | Synonyms: coronary thrombosis |
| counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
| (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionist |
| culinary | (adjective) of or relating to or used in cooking | - |
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| decennary | (noun) a period of 10 years | Synonyms: decade, decennium |
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| deflationary | (adjective) associated with or tending to cause decreases in consumer prices or increases in the purchasing power of money | - |
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| denary | (adjective) containing ten or ten parts | Synonyms: ten-fold, tenfold |
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| (adjective) numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten | Synonyms: decimal |
| dictionary | (noun) a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them | Synonyms: lexicon |
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| dinar | (noun) the basic unit of money in Algeria | Synonyms: Algerian dinar |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Bahrain; equal to 1,000 fils | Synonyms: Bahrain dinar |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Iraq; equal to 1,000 fils | Synonyms: Iraqi dinar |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Jordan; equal to 1,000 fils | Synonyms: Jordanian dinar |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Kuwait; equal 1,000 fils | Synonyms: Kuwaiti dinar |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Libya | Synonyms: Libyan dinar |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Tunisia | Synonyms: Tunisian dinar |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Yugoslavia | Synonyms: Yugoslavian dinar |
| (noun) 100 dinars equal 1 rial in Iran | Synonyms: Iranian dinar |
| disciplinarian | (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: martinet, moralist |
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| disciplinary | (adjective) relating to a specific field of academic study | - |
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| (adjective) relating to discipline in behavior | - |
| (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: corrective, disciplinal |
| discretionary | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretional |
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| (adjective) (especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed | - |
| diversionary | (adjective) (of tactics e.g.) likely or designed to confuse or deceive | - |
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| eleemosynary | (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, philanthropic |
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| elocutionary | (adjective) of or relating to elocution | - |
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| (adjective) (used of style of speaking) overly embellished | - |
| enarthrosis | (noun) a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone | Synonyms: articulatio spheroidea, ball-and-socket joint, cotyloid joint, enarthrodial joint, spheroid joint |
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| ensnare | (verb) catch in or as if in a trap | Synonyms: entrap, snare, trammel, trap |
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| (verb) take or catch as if in a snare or trap | Synonyms: entrap, frame, set up |
| ensnarl | (verb) entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh | Synonyms: enmesh, mesh |
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| ethnarch | (noun) the ruler of a province (as in the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire) or certain religious rulers with secular authority | - |
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| evolutionarily | (adverb) in an evolutionary way; from an evolutionary point of view | - |
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| evolutionary | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by evolution | - |
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| expeditionary | (adjective) (used of military forces) designed for military operations abroad | - |
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| extraordinarily | (adverb) to a surprising degree | Synonyms: inordinately |
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| extraordinariness | (noun) the quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered | - |
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| extraordinary | (adjective) beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable; special | - |
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| (adjective) far more than usual or expected | Synonyms: over-the-top, sinful |
| (adjective) (of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials | - |
| functionary | (noun) a worker who holds or is invested with an office | Synonyms: official |
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| genitourinary | (adjective) of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions | Synonyms: GU |
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| geostationary | (adjective) of or having a geosynchronous orbit such that the position in such an orbit is fixed with respect to the earth | - |
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| gnarl | (noun) something twisted and tight and swollen | Synonyms: knot |
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| (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, grumble, murmur, mutter |
| (verb) twist into a state of deformity | - |
| gnarled | (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarly, knobbed, knotted, knotty |
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| gnarly | (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarled, knobbed, knotted, knotty |
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| granary | (noun) a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed | Synonyms: garner |
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| gurnard | (noun) bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom | - |
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| gynarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a woman | Synonyms: gynecocracy |
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| hymnary | (noun) a songbook containing a collection of hymns | Synonyms: hymnal, hymnbook |
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| illusionary | (adjective) marked by or producing illusion | Synonyms: illusional |
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| imaginary | (adjective) not based on fact; existing only in the imagination | Synonyms: fanciful, notional |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 | Synonyms: complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number |
| inarguable | (adjective) against which no argument can be made | Synonyms: unarguable |
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| inarguably | (adverb) in an unarguable and undisputed manner | Synonyms: unarguably, undisputedly |
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| inarticulate | (adjective) without or deprived of the use of speech or words | Synonyms: unarticulate |
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| inarticulately | (adverb) in an inarticulate manner | - |
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| (adverb) without eloquence; in an inarticulate manner | Synonyms: ineloquently |
| inartistic | (adjective) lacking aesthetic sensibility | Synonyms: unartistic |
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| inflationary | (adjective) associated with or tending to cause increases in inflation | - |
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| innards | (noun) internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | Synonyms: entrails, insides, viscera |
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| insurrectionary | (adjective) of or relating to or given to insurrection | Synonyms: insurrectional |
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| interdisciplinary | (adjective) drawing from or characterized by participation of two or more fields of study | - |
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| intrapulmonary | (adjective) being or occurring within a lung | - |
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| lacunar | (noun) an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome | Synonyms: caisson, coffer |
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| laminar | (adjective) arranged in or consisting of laminae | Synonyms: laminal |
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| latitudinarian | (adjective) unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion) | Synonyms: free-thinking, undogmatic, undogmatical |
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| (noun) a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct) | - |
| legionary | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionnaire |
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| luminary | (noun) a celebrity who is an inspiration to others | Synonyms: guiding light, leading light, notability, notable |
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| lunar | (adjective) of or relating to or associated with the moon | - |
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| marinara | (noun) sauce for pasta; contains tomatoes and garlic and herbs | - |
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| menarche | (noun) the first occurrence of menstruation in a woman | - |
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| mercenariness | (noun) The state or condition of being motivated by private gain. | - |
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| mercenary | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, moneymaking |
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| (adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, freelance |
| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: materialistic, worldly-minded |
| (noun) a person hired to fight for another country than their own | Synonyms: soldier of fortune |
| millenarian | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: chiliastic |
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| (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarist |
| millenarianism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarism, millenniumism |
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| millenarism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarianism, millenniumism |
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| millenarist | (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarian |
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| millenary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of 1000 | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the doctrine of the millennium | - |
| (noun) a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years) | - |
| (noun) a span of 1000 years | Synonyms: millennium |
| (noun) the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: millennium |
| minaret | (noun) slender tower with balconies | - |
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| missionary | (adjective) relating to or connected to a religious mission | Synonyms: missional |
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| (noun) someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program | - |
| (noun) someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country | Synonyms: missioner |
| monarch | (noun) large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed | Synonyms: Danaus plexippus, milkweed butterfly, monarch butterfly |
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| (noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, sovereign |
| monarchal | (adjective) having the characteristics of or befitting or worthy of a monarch | Synonyms: monarchical |
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| (adjective) ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch | Synonyms: monarchic, monarchical |
| monarchic | (adjective) ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch | Synonyms: monarchal, monarchical |
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| monarchical | (adjective) having the characteristics of or befitting or worthy of a monarch | Synonyms: monarchal |
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| (adjective) ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch | Synonyms: monarchal, monarchic |
| monarchism | (noun) a belief in and advocacy of monarchy as a political system | - |
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