| acapnia | (noun) a state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower than normal; can result from deep or rapid breathing | Synonyms: hypocapnia |
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| acapnial | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating acapnia | Synonyms: acapnic, acapnotic |
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| achenial | (adjective) pertaining to dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit | - |
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| acromyotonia | (noun) myotonia of the extremities only; causes spastic deformity of the hand or foot | - |
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| actinia | (noun) any sea anemone or related animal | Synonyms: actinian, actiniarian |
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| actinian | (noun) any sea anemone or related animal | Synonyms: actinia, actiniarian |
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| actiniarian | (noun) any sea anemone or related animal | Synonyms: actinia, actinian |
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| aeonian | (adjective) of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era) | Synonyms: eonian |
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| (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: ageless, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
| agrimonia | (noun) a plant of the genus Agrimonia having spikelike clusters of small yellow flowers | Synonyms: agrimony |
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| agromania | (noun) an intense desire to be alone or out in the open | - |
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| agrypnia | (noun) a vigil before certain feasts (as e.g. Easter) | - |
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| algolagnia | (noun) sexual pleasure derived from inflicting or experiencing pain | Synonyms: algophilia |
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| amenia | (noun) absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow | Synonyms: amenorrhea, amenorrhoea |
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| ammonia | (noun) a pungent gas compounded of nitrogen and hydrogen (NH3) | - |
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| (noun) a water solution of ammonia | Synonyms: ammonia water, ammonium hydroxide |
| ammoniac | (adjective) pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia | Synonyms: ammoniacal |
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| (noun) the aromatic gum of the ammoniac plant | Synonyms: gum ammoniac |
| ammoniacal | (adjective) pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia | Synonyms: ammoniac |
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| ammoniate | (verb) treat with ammonia | - |
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| ammoniated | (adjective) combined or treated with ammonia | - |
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| amyotonia | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: atonia, atonicity, atony |
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| anhedonia | (noun) an inability to experience pleasure | - |
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| aniseikonia | (noun) visual defect in which the shape and size of an ocular image differ in the two eyes | - |
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| antimonial | (adjective) containing antimony | - |
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| aphonia | (noun) a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice | Synonyms: voicelessness |
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| archegonial | (adjective) of or relating to an archegonium | Synonyms: archegoniate |
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| archegoniate | (adjective) of or relating to an archegonium | Synonyms: archegonial |
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| asthenia | (noun) an abnormal loss of strength | Synonyms: astheny |
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| atonia | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonicity, atony |
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| balletomania | (noun) extraordinary enthusiasm for ballets | - |
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| banian | (noun) a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India | Synonyms: banyan |
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| (noun) East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks | Synonyms: banian tree, banyan, banyan tree, East Indian fig tree, Ficus bengalensis, Indian banyan |
| baronial | (adjective) impressive in size, manner, or appearance | Synonyms: imposing, noble, stately |
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| bartonia | (noun) annual grown especially for its fragrant golden nocturnal flowers | Synonyms: Mentzelia lindleyi |
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| begonia | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Begonia grown for their attractive glossy asymmetrical leaves and colorful flowers in usually terminal cymes or racemes | - |
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| bergenia | (noun) any plant of the genus Bergenia; valued as an evergreen ground cover and for the spring blossoms | - |
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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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| bicentennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentenary |
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| (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentenary |
| biennial | (adjective) having a life cycle lasting two seasons | Synonyms: two-year |
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| (adjective) occurring every second year | Synonyms: biyearly |
| (noun) (botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season | - |
| biennially | (adverb) every two years | Synonyms: biyearly |
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| bignoniaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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| bignoniad | (noun) any woody plant of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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| bimillenial | (adjective) of or relating to a bimillennium | - |
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| bocconia | (noun) small Central American tree having loose racemes of purple-tinted green flowers | Synonyms: Bocconia frutescens, tree celandine |
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| (noun) herb of China and Japan widely cultivated for its plumelike panicles of creamy white flowers | Synonyms: Macleaya cordata, plume poppy |
| brachycranial | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranic |
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| brainiac | (noun) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality | Synonyms: brain, Einstein, genius, mastermind |
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| bronchopneumonia | (noun) pneumonia characterized by acute inflammation of the walls of the bronchioles | Synonyms: bronchial pneumonia |
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| caladenia | (noun) any of various orchids of the genus Caladenia | - |
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| 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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| catamenia | (noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum, period |
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| catamenial | (adjective) of or relating to menstruation or the menses | Synonyms: menstrual |
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| catarrhinian | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhine |
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| catatonia | (noun) a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way to short periods of extreme excitement | Synonyms: catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia |
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| (noun) extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia | - |
| centennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centenary |
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| (noun) the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: centenary |
| centennially | (adverb) every hundred years; once in a century | - |
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| ceremonial | (adjective) marked by pomp or ceremony or formality | - |
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| (noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial occasion, ceremony, observance |
| ceremonially | (adverb) in a ceremonial manner | Synonyms: ritually |
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| (adverb) in a ceremonious manner | Synonyms: ceremoniously |
| chelonian | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or being a turtle or tortoise | - |
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| (noun) a reptile of the order Chelonia | Synonyms: chelonian reptile |
| chthonian | (adjective) dwelling beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: chthonic, nether |
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| clintonia | (noun) any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries | Synonyms: Clinton's lily |
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| colonial | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony | - |
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| (adjective) of animals who live in colonies, such as ants | - |
| (adjective) composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony | Synonyms: compound |
| (noun) a resident of a colony | - |
| colonialism | (noun) exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country | - |
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| colonialist | (noun) a believer in colonialism | - |
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| columniation | (noun) (architecture) the arrangement of columns (especially freestanding columns) in a structure | - |
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| congenial | (adjective) suitable to your needs | - |
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| (adjective) (used of plants) capable of cross-fertilization or of being grafted | - |
| congeniality | (noun) a congenial disposition | - |
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| (noun) compatibility between persons | Synonyms: congenialness |
| congenially | (adverb) in a congenial manner | - |
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| congenialness | (noun) compatibility between persons | Synonyms: congeniality |
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| cranial | (adjective) of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain | - |
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| craniate | (noun) animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium | Synonyms: vertebrate |
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| cytopenia | (noun) a deficiency of some cellular element of the blood | - |
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| czworniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using three units of water for each unit of honey. | - |
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| daphnia | (noun) minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae | Synonyms: water flea |
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| decalcomania | (noun) the art of transferring designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface | - |
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| (noun) either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface | Synonyms: decal |
| demoniac | (adjective) of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon | Synonyms: demoniacal, possessed |
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| (noun) someone who acts as if possessed by a demon | - |
| demoniacal | (adjective) of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon | Synonyms: demoniac, possessed |
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| demoniacally | (adverb) in a very agitated manner; as if possessed by an evil spirit | Synonyms: frenetically |
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| deniable | (adjective) capable of being denied or contradicted | - |
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| denial | (noun) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | Synonyms: defence, defense, demurrer |
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| (noun) renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others | Synonyms: abnegation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation |
| (noun) the act of refusing to comply (as with a request) | - |
| (noun) the act of asserting that something alleged is not true | Synonyms: disaffirmation |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts | - |
| dillenia | (noun) any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Dillenia grown for their foliage and nodding flowers resembling magnolias which are followed by fruit that is used in curries and jellies and preserves | - |
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| dipsomania | (noun) an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: alcoholism, potomania |
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| dipsomaniac | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, lush, soaker, souse |
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| dolichocranial | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocephalic, dolichocranic |
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| dwojniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using equal amounts of water and honey. | - |
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| dysphonia | (noun) speech disorder attributable to a disorder of phonation | - |
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| egomania | (noun) an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs | - |
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| egomaniac | (noun) an abnormally egotistical person | - |
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| engelmannia | (noun) common erect hairy perennial of plains and prairies of southern and central United States having flowers that resemble sunflowers | - |
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| eonian | (adjective) of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era) | Synonyms: aeonian |
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| (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
| eosinopenia | (noun) a decrease in the number of eosinophils in the blood | - |
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| erwinia | (noun) rod-shaped motile bacteria that attack plants | - |
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| eudaemonia | (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaimonia, upbeat, welfare, well-being, wellbeing |
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| eudaimonia | (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, upbeat, welfare, well-being, wellbeing |
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| finial | (noun) an ornament at the top of a spire or gable; usually a foliated fleur-de-lis | - |
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| gardenia | (noun) any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia having large fragrant white or yellow flowers | - |
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| gazania | (noun) any plant of the genus Gazania valued for their showy daisy flowers | - |
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| genial | (adjective) of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw | Synonyms: mental |
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| (adjective) diffusing warmth and friendliness | Synonyms: affable, amiable, cordial |
| (adjective) agreeable, conducive to comfort | Synonyms: kind |
| geniality | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, affableness, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie |
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| genially | (adverb) in an affable manner | Synonyms: affably, amiably |
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| glossodynia | (noun) pain in the tongue | Synonyms: glossalgia |
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