| acorea | (noun) absence of the pupil in an eye | - |
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| adore | (verb) love intensely | - |
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| adored | (adjective) regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god) | Synonyms: idolised, idolized, worshipped |
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| adorer | (noun) someone who admires a young woman | Synonyms: admirer |
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| aeciospore | (noun) spore of a rust fungus formed in an aecium | - |
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| afforest | (verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land | Synonyms: forest |
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| afforestation | (noun) the conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest (originally for the purpose of hunting) | - |
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| aforementioned | (adjective) being the one previously mentioned or spoken of | Synonyms: aforesaid, said |
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| aforesaid | (adjective) being the one previously mentioned or spoken of | Synonyms: aforementioned, said |
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| aforethought | (adjective) with planning and intention | Synonyms: planned, plotted |
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| albacore | (noun) large pelagic tuna the source of most canned tuna; reaches 93 pounds and has long pectoral fins; found worldwide in tropical and temperate waters | Synonyms: long-fin tunny, Thunnus alalunga |
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| (noun) relatively small tuna with choice white flesh; major source of canned tuna | - |
| allegoresis | (noun) the interpretation of written, oral, or artistic expression as allegory. | - |
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| alligatored | (adjective) of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide | Synonyms: cracked |
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| anorectal | (adjective) pertaining to the anus and rectum considered together | - |
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| anorectic | (adjective) causing loss of appetite | Synonyms: anorexigenic |
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| (adjective) suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin | Synonyms: anorexic |
| (noun) a person suffering from anorexia nervosa | Synonyms: anorexic |
| anorexia | (noun) a prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite | - |
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| anorexic | (adjective) suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin | Synonyms: anorectic |
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| (noun) a person suffering from anorexia nervosa | Synonyms: anorectic |
| anorexigenic | (adjective) causing loss of appetite | Synonyms: anorectic |
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| antheridiophore | (noun) gametophore bearing antheridia as in certain mosses and liverworts | - |
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| anymore | (adverb) at the present or from now on; usually used with a negative | Synonyms: any longer |
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| apishamore | (noun) a saddle blanket made of buffalo hide | - |
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| arboreal | (adjective) inhabiting or frequenting trees | Synonyms: arboreous, tree-living |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arborary, arborical, arborous |
| (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
| arboreous | (adjective) inhabiting or frequenting trees | Synonyms: arboreal, tree-living |
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| (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
| (adjective) abounding in trees | Synonyms: arboraceous, woodsy, woody |
| arborescent | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| arboresque | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| arboretum | (noun) a facility where trees and shrubs are cultivated for exhibition | Synonyms: botanical garden |
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| archespore | (noun) primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops | Synonyms: archesporium |
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| armored | (adjective) protected by armor (used of persons or things military) | Synonyms: armoured |
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| (adjective) used of animals; provided with protective covering | Synonyms: armoured |
| (adjective) equipped with the complete arms and armor of a warrior | Synonyms: panoplied |
| armorer | (noun) a manufacturer of firearms | Synonyms: armourer |
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| (noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armourer, artificer |
| (noun) a worker skilled in making armor or arms | Synonyms: armourer |
| arthrospore | (noun) one of a string of thick walled vegetative resting cells formed by some algae and fungi | - |
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| (noun) a body that resembles a spore but is not an endospore; produced by some bacteria | - |
| ascospore | (noun) sexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus | - |
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| ashore | (adverb) towards the shore from the water | - |
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| aurorean | (adjective) characteristic of the dawn | Synonyms: auroral |
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| authoress | (noun) a woman author | - |
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| autofluorescence | (noun) self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| autofluorescent | (adjective) emitting light via self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| autoregulation | (noun) (physiology) processes that maintain a generally constant physiological state in a cell or organism | - |
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| bachelorette | (noun) a young unmarried woman who lives alone | Synonyms: bachelor girl |
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| baroreceptor | (noun) a sensory receptor that responds to pressure | - |
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| basidiospore | (noun) a sexually produced fungal spore borne on a basidium | - |
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| battledore | (noun) an ancient racket game | Synonyms: battledore and shuttlecock |
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| (noun) a light long-handled racket used by badminton players | Synonyms: badminton racket, badminton racquet |
| bedsore | (noun) a chronic ulcer of the skin caused by prolonged pressure on it (as in bedridden patients) | Synonyms: decubitus ulcer, pressure sore |
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| before | (adverb) at or in the front | Synonyms: ahead, in front |
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| (adverb) earlier in time; previously | Synonyms: earlier |
| beforehand | (adjective) being ahead of time or need | Synonyms: advance |
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| (adverb) ahead of time; in anticipation | Synonyms: ahead, in advance |
| bicolored | (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bichrome, bicolor, bicolour, bicoloured, dichromatic |
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| bimotored | (adjective) having two motors | - |
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| bioremediation | (noun) the act of treating waste or pollutants by the use of microorganisms (as bacteria) that can break down the undesirable substances | - |
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| (noun) the branch of biotechnology that uses biological process to overcome environmental problems | - |
| blastopore | (noun) the opening into the archenteron | - |
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| bookstore | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookshop, bookstall |
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| bore | (noun) a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes | Synonyms: bore-hole, drill hole |
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| (noun) diameter of a tube or gun barrel | Synonyms: caliber, calibre, gauge |
| (noun) a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) | Synonyms: aegir, eager, eagre, tidal bore |
| (noun) a person who evokes boredom | Synonyms: dullard |
| (verb) make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool | Synonyms: drill |
| (verb) cause to be bored | Synonyms: tire |
| boreal | (adjective) toward or located in the north | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or marked by qualities associated with the north wind | - |
| (adjective) comprising or throughout far northern regions | Synonyms: circumboreal |
| boreas | (noun) a wind that blows from the north | Synonyms: north wind, norther, northerly |
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| borecole | (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, colewort, kail, kale |
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| bored | (adjective) tired of the world | Synonyms: world-weary |
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| (adjective) uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence | Synonyms: blase |
| boredom | (noun) the feeling of being bored by something tedious | Synonyms: ennui, tedium |
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| borer | (noun) any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood | Synonyms: woodborer |
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| (noun) a drill for penetrating rock | Synonyms: bore bit, rock drill, stone drill |
| cardiorespiratory | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiopulmonary |
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| carnivore | (noun) a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal | - |
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| (noun) any animal that feeds on flesh | - |
| carpophore | (noun) a slender stalk that furnishes an axis for a carpel | - |
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| carpospore | (noun) a nonmotile spore of red algae | - |
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| cataphoresis | (noun) the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode | Synonyms: dielectrolysis, electrophoresis, ionophoresis |
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| cataphoretic | (adjective) of or relating to electrophoresis | Synonyms: electrophoretic |
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| categorem | (noun) a categorematic expression; a term capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition | Synonyms: categoreme |
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| categorematic | (adjective) of a term or phrase capable of standing as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition | - |
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| categoreme | (noun) a categorematic expression; a term capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition | Synonyms: categorem |
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| censored | (adjective) suppressed or subject to censorship | - |
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| chemoreceptive | (adjective) of or relating to chemoreceptors | - |
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| chemoreceptor | (noun) a sensory receptor that responds to chemical stimuli | - |
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| chlamydospore | (noun) thick-walled asexual resting spore of certain fungi and algae | - |
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| chlamyphore | (noun) very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck | Synonyms: Chlamyphorus truncatus, fairy armadillo, pichiciago, pichiciego |
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| chlorella | (noun) any alga of the genus Chlorella | - |
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| chlorenchyma | (noun) parenchyma whose cells contain chloroplasts | - |
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| chore | (noun) a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee | Synonyms: job, task |
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| chorea | (noun) any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs | - |
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| (noun) chorea in dogs | Synonyms: canine chorea |
| choreograph | (verb) plan and oversee the development and details of | - |
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| (verb) compose a sequence of dance steps, often to music | - |
| choreographer | (noun) someone who creates new dances | - |
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| choreographic | (adjective) of or concerned with choreography | - |
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| choreography | (noun) a show involving artistic dancing | Synonyms: stage dancing |
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| (noun) the representation of dancing by symbols as music is represented by notes | - |
| (noun) a notation used by choreographers | - |
| chorioretinitis | (noun) inflammation of the choroid layer behind the retina | - |
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| chromophore | (noun) the chemical group that gives color to a molecule | - |
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| circumboreal | (adjective) comprising or throughout far northern regions | Synonyms: boreal |
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| claymore | (noun) an antipersonnel land mine whose blast is aimed at the oncoming enemy | Synonyms: claymore mine |
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| (noun) a large double-edged broadsword; formerly used by Scottish Highlanders | - |
| colorectal | (adjective) relating to or affecting the colon and the rectum | - |
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| colored | (adjective) having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: colorful, coloured, colourful |
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| (adjective) (used of color) artificially produced; not natural | Synonyms: bleached, coloured, dyed |
| (adjective) having skin rich in melanin pigments; | Synonyms: coloured, negro |
| (adjective) favoring one person or side over another | Synonyms: biased, coloured, one-sided, slanted |
| (noun) a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive | Synonyms: colored person, coloured, coloured person |
| commodore | (noun) a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral | - |
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| conidiophore | (noun) a specialized fungal hypha that produces conidia | - |
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| conidiospore | (noun) an asexually produced fungal spore formed on a conidiophore | Synonyms: conidium |
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| core | (noun) a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil | - |
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| (noun) the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories | Synonyms: magnetic core |
| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: burden, effect, essence, gist |
| (noun) a small group of indispensable persons or things | Synonyms: core group, nucleus |
| (noun) the center of an object | - |
| (noun) the central part of the Earth | - |
| (noun) a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill | - |
| (verb) remove the core or center from | - |
| coreference | (noun) the grammatical relation between two words that have a common referent | - |
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| coreferent | (adjective) related by sharing a symbolic link to a concrete object or an abstraction | - |
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| coreferential | (adjective) relating to coreference | Synonyms: co-referent |
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| coreid | (noun) a true bug | Synonyms: coreid bug |
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| coreligionist | (noun) someone having the same religion as another person | - |
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| coreopsis | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America | Synonyms: tick-weed, tickseed, tickweed |
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| corer | (noun) a device for removing the core from apples | - |
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| corespondent | (noun) the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding | Synonyms: co-respondent |
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| corporeal | (adjective) having material or physical form or substance | Synonyms: material |
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| (adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: bodily, corporal, somatic |
| corporeality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporality, materiality, physicalness |
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| counterbore | (noun) a bit for enlarging the upper part of a hole | Synonyms: countersink, countersink bit |
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| crore | (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 7 zeros; ten million | - |
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