| accolade | (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: award, honor, honour, laurels |
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| acerola | (noun) acid red or yellow cherry-like fruit of a tropical American shrub very rich in vitamin C | Synonyms: barbados cherry, surinam cherry, West Indian cherry |
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| (noun) tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries | Synonyms: barbados cherry, Malpighia glabra, Surinam cherry, West Indian cherry |
| algolagnia | (noun) sexual pleasure derived from inflicting or experiencing pain | Synonyms: algophilia |
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| algolagnic | (adjective) of or relating to algolagnia | - |
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| alprazolam | (noun) an antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class | Synonyms: Xanax |
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| alveolar | (adjective) pertaining to the tiny air sacs of the lungs | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to the sockets of the teeth or that part of the upper jaw | - |
| (noun) a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge | Synonyms: alveolar consonant, dental, dental consonant |
| alveolate | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: cavitied, faveolate, honeycombed, pitted |
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| anthropolatry | (noun) the worship of human beings | Synonyms: worship of man |
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| arborolatry | (noun) the worship of trees | Synonyms: tree-worship |
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| areola | (noun) small circular area such as that around the human nipple or an inflamed area around a pimple or insect bite | Synonyms: ring of color |
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| (noun) small space in a tissue or body part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing | - |
| areolar | (adjective) relating to or like or divided into areolae | Synonyms: areolate |
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| areolate | (adjective) relating to or like or divided into areolae | Synonyms: areolar |
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| arteriola | (noun) one of the small thin-walled arteries that end in capillaries | Synonyms: arteriole, capillary artery |
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| arteriolar | (adjective) of or relating to or involving arterioles | - |
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| astrolabe | (noun) an early form of sextant | - |
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| astrolatry | (noun) the worship of planets or stars | Synonyms: worship of heavenly bodies |
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| autolatry | (noun) the worship of yourself | Synonyms: idiolatry, self-worship |
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| bardolatry | (noun) the idolization of William Shakespeare | - |
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| bibliolatrous | (adjective) given to Bible-worship | - |
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| bibliolatry | (noun) the worship of the Bible | Synonyms: Bible-worship |
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| bipolar | (adjective) having two poles | - |
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| (adjective) of, pertaining to, or occurring in both polar regions | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to manic depressive illness | - |
| bola | (noun) a rope with weights attached to the ends; is thrown to entangle the legs of an animal; of South American origin | - |
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| (noun) a cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie | Synonyms: bola tie, bolo, bolo tie |
| bracteolate | (adjective) having bracteoles | - |
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| brassavola | (noun) any of various tropical American orchids with usually solitary fleshy leaves and showy white to green nocturnally fragrant blossoms solitary or in racemes of up to 7 | - |
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| bricolage | (noun) construction of something by whatever material are available | - |
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| bronchiolar | (adjective) of or relating to or involving bronchioles | - |
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| calceolaria | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip | Synonyms: slipperwort |
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| calceolate | (adjective) of slipper-shaped blossoms | Synonyms: calceiform |
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| canafistola | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistula, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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| canola | (noun) vegetable oil made from rapeseed; it is high in monounsaturated fatty acids | Synonyms: canola oil |
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| carambola | (noun) deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert | Synonyms: star fruit |
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| (noun) East Indian tree bearing deeply ridged yellow-brown fruit | Synonyms: Averrhoa carambola, carambola tree |
| carbolated | (adjective) containing or treated with carbolic acid | - |
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| catecholamine | (noun) any of a group of chemicals including epinephrine and norepinephrine that are produced in the medulla of the adrenal gland | - |
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| chipolata | (noun) a small thin sausage | - |
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| chocolate | (noun) a medium brown to dark-brown color | Synonyms: burnt umber, coffee, deep brown, umber |
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| (noun) a food made from roasted ground cacao beans | - |
| (noun) a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot | Synonyms: cocoa, drinking chocolate, hot chocolate |
| cholangiography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of the bile ducts after a contrast medium has been injected | - |
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| cholangitis | (noun) inflammation of the bile ducts | - |
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| circumpolar | (adjective) located or found throughout a polar region | - |
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| (adjective) (of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel | - |
| cola | (noun) carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts | Synonyms: dope |
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| colander | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: cullender |
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| collembolan | (noun) any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern; found in soil rich in organic debris or on the surface of snow or water | Synonyms: springtail |
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| consolable | (adjective) able to be consoled | - |
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| consolation | (noun) the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction | Synonyms: comfort, solace |
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| (noun) the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment | Synonyms: solace, solacement |
| consolatory | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consoling |
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| coolant | (noun) a fluid agent (gas or liquid) that produces cooling; especially one used to cool a system by transferring heat away from one part to another | - |
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| coprolalia | (noun) an uncontrollable use of obscene language; often accompanied by mental disorders | - |
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| cosmolatry | (noun) the worship of the cosmos | - |
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| cupola | (noun) a roof in the form of a dome | - |
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| (noun) a vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting | - |
| demonolatry | (noun) the acts or rites of worshiping devils | Synonyms: devil-worship, diabolatry |
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| depolarisation | (noun) a loss of polarity or polarization | Synonyms: depolarization |
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| depolarise | (verb) eliminate the polarization of | Synonyms: depolarize |
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| depolarization | (noun) a loss of polarity or polarization | Synonyms: depolarisation |
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| depolarize | (verb) eliminate the polarization of | Synonyms: depolarise |
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| desolate | (adjective) crushed by grief | - |
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| (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, stark |
| (verb) reduce in population | Synonyms: depopulate |
| (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste |
| (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desert, forsake |
| desolately | (adverb) in grief-stricken loneliness; without comforting circumstances or prospects | Synonyms: disconsolately |
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| desolation | (noun) an event that results in total destruction | Synonyms: devastation |
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| (noun) sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned | Synonyms: forlornness, loneliness |
| (noun) the state of being decayed or destroyed | Synonyms: devastation |
| (noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere | Synonyms: bareness, bleakness, nakedness |
| diabolatry | (noun) the acts or rites of worshiping devils | Synonyms: demonolatry, devil-worship |
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| dipolar | (adjective) having equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles having opposite signs and separated by a small distance | - |
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| disconsolate | (adjective) sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled | Synonyms: inconsolable, unconsolable |
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| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
| disconsolately | (adverb) in grief-stricken loneliness; without comforting circumstances or prospects | Synonyms: desolately |
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| disconsolateness | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, despondency, heartsickness |
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| dolabrate | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabriform |
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| dolabriform | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabrate |
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| echolalia | (noun) (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia) | - |
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| (noun) an infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others | - |
| epistolary | (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | Synonyms: epistolatory |
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| epistolatory | (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | Synonyms: epistolary |
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| escolar | (noun) large snake mackerel with rings like spectacles around its eyes | Synonyms: Lepidocybium flavobrunneum |
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| estazolam | (noun) a frequently prescribed sleeping pill (trade name ProSom) | Synonyms: ProSom |
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| etiolate | (adjective) (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light | Synonyms: blanched, etiolated |
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| (verb) make pale or sickly | - |
| (verb) bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight | - |
| (verb) make weak by stunting the growth or development of | - |
| etiolated | (adjective) (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light | Synonyms: blanched, etiolate |
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| etiolation | (noun) (botany) the act of causing a plant to develop without chlorophyll by growing it without exposure to sunlight | - |
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| (noun) the act of weakening by stunting the growth or development of something | - |
| (noun) a pale and sickly appearance | - |
| etodolac | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine) | Synonyms: Lodine |
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| extrapolate | (verb) estimate the value of something based on known values | Synonyms: interpolate |
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| (verb) gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating | - |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, infer |
| extrapolation | (noun) (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function outside the range of known values | - |
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| (noun) an inference about the future (or about some hypothetical situation) based on known facts and observations | - |
| faveolate | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: alveolate, cavitied, honeycombed, pitted |
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| folacin | (noun) a B vitamin that is essential for cell growth and reproduction | Synonyms: folate, folic acid, pteroylglutamic acid, pteroylmonoglutamic acid, vitamin Bc, vitamin M |
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| folate | (noun) a B vitamin that is essential for cell growth and reproduction | Synonyms: folacin, folic acid, pteroylglutamic acid, pteroylmonoglutamic acid, vitamin Bc, vitamin M |
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| foliolate | (adjective) (often used as a combining form) having leaflets (compound leaves) or a specified kind or number of leaflets | - |
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| fryolator | (noun) A kitchen appliance for deep frying; its size depends on intended use. | Synonyms: deep fat fryer, deep fryer, frier, fryer |
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| girandola | (noun) an ornate candle holder; often with a mirror | Synonyms: girandole |
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| gladiola | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers; widely cultivated | Synonyms: glad, gladiolus, sword lily |
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| glossolalia | (noun) repetitive nonmeaningful speech (especially that associated with a trance state or religious fervor) | - |
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| gondola | (noun) long narrow flat-bottomed boat propelled by sculling; traditionally used on canals of Venice | - |
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| (noun) a low flat-bottomed freight car with fixed sides but no roof | Synonyms: gondola car |
| (noun) the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant | Synonyms: car |
| gorgonzola | (noun) Italian blue cheese | - |
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| grammatolatry | (noun) the worship of words | Synonyms: verbolatry, word-worship |
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| granola | (noun) cereal made of especially rolled oats with dried fruits and nuts and honey or brown sugar | - |
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| gynaeolatry | (noun) the worship of women | Synonyms: gyneolatry, woman-worship |
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| gyneolatry | (noun) the worship of women | Synonyms: gynaeolatry, woman-worship |
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| hagiolatry | (noun) the worship of saints | Synonyms: hierolatry |
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| heliolatry | (noun) the worship of the sun | Synonyms: sun-worship |
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| hierolatry | (noun) the worship of saints | Synonyms: hagiolatry |
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| holometabola | (noun) insects that undergo complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabola |
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| hyperbola | (noun) an open curve formed by a plane that cuts the base of a right circular cone | - |
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| hypervolaemia | (noun) a blood disorder consisting of an increase in the volume of circulating blood | Synonyms: hypervolemia |
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| hypovolaemia | (noun) a blood disorder consisting of a decrease in the volume of circulating blood | Synonyms: hypovolemia |
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| hypovolaemic | (adjective) of or relating to a decrease in the volume of circulating blood | Synonyms: hypovolemic |
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| ichthyolatry | (noun) the worship of fish | Synonyms: fish-worship |
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| iconolatry | (noun) the worship of sacred images | - |
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| idiolatry | (noun) the worship of yourself | Synonyms: autolatry, self-worship |
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| idolater | (noun) a person who worships idols | Synonyms: idol worshiper, idoliser, idolizer |
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