| abnormal | (adjective) not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm | Synonyms: unnatural |
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| (adjective) departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development | - |
| (adjective) much greater than the normal | - |
| abnormalcy | (noun) an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies | Synonyms: abnormality |
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| abnormality | (noun) behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality | Synonyms: irregularity |
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| (noun) marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal | Synonyms: freakishness |
| (noun) retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence | Synonyms: mental defectiveness |
| (noun) an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies | Synonyms: abnormalcy |
| abnormally | (adverb) in an abnormal manner | - |
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| acneiform | (adjective) resembling acne | - |
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| aeriform | (adjective) resembling air or having the form of air | Synonyms: airlike |
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| (adjective) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air | Synonyms: aerial, aery, airy, ethereal |
| aliform | (adjective) having or resembling wings | Synonyms: alar, alary, wing-shaped |
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| amygdaliform | (adjective) shaped like an almond | Synonyms: almond-shaped, amygdaloid, amygdaloidal |
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| anchorman | (noun) a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute | Synonyms: anchor, anchorperson |
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| angleworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| apoplectiform | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectoid |
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| arboriform | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| arciform | (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arching, arcuate, bowed |
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| armyworm | (noun) moth whose destructive larvae travel in multitudes | Synonyms: Pseudaletia unipuncta |
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| (noun) noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain | Synonyms: army worm, Pseudaletia unipuncta |
| (noun) larva of fungus gnat that feed on cereals and other grains; they march in large companies in regular order when the food is exhausted | - |
| arrowworm | (noun) any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth | Synonyms: chaetognath |
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| auriform | (adjective) having a shape resembling an ear | Synonyms: ear-like, ear-shaped |
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| bacilliform | (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacillary, baculiform, rod-shaped |
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| baculiform | (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacillary, bacilliform, rod-shaped |
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| barnstorm | (verb) tour the country making political speeches, giving lectures, or presenting plays | - |
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| (verb) appear at county fairs and carnivals as a stunt flier and parachute jumper | - |
| barnstormer | (noun) a pilot who travels around the country giving exhibits of stunt flying and parachuting | Synonyms: stunt flier, stunt pilot |
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| (noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: play-actor, playactor, trouper |
| biform | (adjective) having or combining two forms | - |
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| blindworm | (noun) small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind | Synonyms: Anguis fragilis, slowworm |
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| (noun) any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions | Synonyms: caecilian |
| bloodworm | (noun) a segmented marine worm with bright red body; often used for bait | - |
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| bollworm | (noun) any of various moth caterpillars that destroy cotton bolls | - |
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| bookworm | (noun) someone who spends a great deal of time reading | - |
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| (noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | Synonyms: pedant, scholastic |
| botuliform | (adjective) long with rounded ends | - |
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| brainstorm | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainwave, insight |
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| (verb) try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it | - |
| brainstorming | (noun) a group problem-solving technique in which members spontaneously share ideas and solutions | - |
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| bromoform | (noun) colorless liquid haloform CHBr3 | Synonyms: tribromomethane |
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| bursiform | (adjective) shaped like a pouch | Synonyms: pouch-shaped, pouchlike, saclike |
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| cabbageworm | (noun) toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly | Synonyms: Pieris rapae |
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| caddisworm | (noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: strawworm |
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| cairngorm | (noun) a smoky yellow or brown quartz | Synonyms: smoky quartz |
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| calceiform | (adjective) of slipper-shaped blossoms | Synonyms: calceolate |
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| cankerworm | (noun) green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees | - |
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| caseworm | (noun) insect larva that constructs a protective case around its body | - |
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| chloroform | (noun) a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic | Synonyms: trichloromethane |
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| (verb) anesthetize with chloroform | - |
| columniform | (adjective) having the form of a column | Synonyms: columnar, columnlike |
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| conform | (verb) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions | Synonyms: adapt, adjust |
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| (verb) be similar, be in line with | - |
| conformable | (adjective) disposed or willing to conform | Synonyms: amenable |
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| (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: accordant, agreeable, concordant, consonant |
| (adjective) quick to comply | - |
| conformably | (adverb) in a conformable manner | - |
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| conformance | (noun) correspondence in form or appearance | Synonyms: conformity |
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| conformation | (noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: abidance, compliance, conformity |
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| (noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: configuration, contour, form, shape |
| (noun) a symmetrical arrangement of the parts of a thing | - |
| conforming | (adjective) adhering to established customs or doctrines (especially in religion) | Synonyms: conformist |
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| conformism | (noun) orthodoxy in thoughts and belief | Synonyms: conformity |
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| conformist | (adjective) marked by convention and conformity to customs or rules or styles | - |
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| (adjective) adhering to established customs or doctrines (especially in religion) | Synonyms: conforming |
| (noun) someone who conforms to established standards of conduct (especially in religious matters) | - |
| conformity | (noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: abidance, compliance, conformation |
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| (noun) hardened conventionality | Synonyms: ossification |
| (noun) correspondence in form or appearance | Synonyms: conformance |
| (noun) orthodoxy in thoughts and belief | Synonyms: conformism |
| (noun) concurrence of opinion | Synonyms: accord, accordance |
| cordiform | (adjective) (of a leaf) shaped like a heart | Synonyms: cordate, heart-shaped |
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| corm | (noun) solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure | - |
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| cormorant | (noun) large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish | Synonyms: Phalacrocorax carbo |
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| cormose | (adjective) having or producing corms | Synonyms: cormous |
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| cormous | (adjective) having or producing corms | Synonyms: cormose |
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| counterreformation | (noun) a reformation intended to counter the results of a prior reformation | - |
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| cruciform | (adjective) shaped like a cross | Synonyms: cruciate |
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| cubiform | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cuboid, cuboidal |
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| cumuliform | (adjective) shaped like a cumulus cloud | - |
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| cuneiform | (adjective) of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones) | - |
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| (adjective) shaped like a wedge | Synonyms: cuneal, wedge-shaped |
| (noun) an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | - |
| cutworm | (noun) North American moth whose larvae feed on young plant stems cutting them off at the ground | - |
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| deform | (verb) become misshapen | - |
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| (verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress | Synonyms: distort, strain |
| (verb) assume a different shape or form | Synonyms: change form, change shape |
| (verb) make formless | - |
| (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, flex, turn, twist |
| (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: contort, distort, wring |
| deformation | (noun) the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself) | Synonyms: contortion |
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| (noun) a change for the worse | Synonyms: distortion |
| (noun) alteration in the shape or dimensions of an object as a result of the application of stress to it | - |
| deformational | (adjective) relating to or causing change in either shape or size of a material body or geometric figure | - |
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| deformed | (adjective) so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly | Synonyms: distorted, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen |
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| deformity | (noun) an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | Synonyms: disfiguration, disfigurement |
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| (noun) an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed | Synonyms: malformation, misshapenness |
| dendriform | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| disciform | (adjective) having a round or oval shape like a disc | - |
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| disinformation | (noun) misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.) | - |
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| dolabriform | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabrate |
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| doorman | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| doormat | (noun) a mat placed outside an exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering | Synonyms: welcome mat |
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| (noun) a person who is physically weak and ineffectual | Synonyms: weakling, wuss |
| dorm | (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dormitory, hall, residence hall, student residence |
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| dormancy | (noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: quiescence, quiescency, sleeping |
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| (noun) a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction | Synonyms: quiescence, quiescency |
| dormant | (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct | Synonyms: inactive |
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| (adjective) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation | Synonyms: hibernating, torpid |
| (adjective) inactive but capable of becoming active | Synonyms: abeyant |
| (adjective) lying with head on paws as if sleeping | Synonyms: sleeping |
| dormer | (noun) a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window | Synonyms: dormer window |
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| dormie | (adjective) in match play a side that stands as many holes ahead as there are holes remaining to be played | Synonyms: dormy |
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| dormitory | (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dorm, hall, residence hall, student residence |
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| (noun) a large sleeping room containing several beds | Synonyms: dorm room, dormitory room |
| dormouse | (noun) small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather | - |
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| dormy | (adjective) in match play a side that stands as many holes ahead as there are holes remaining to be played | Synonyms: dormie |
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| earthworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| eelworm | (noun) any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms | - |
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| enormity | (noun) an act of extreme wickedness | - |
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| (noun) the quality of extreme wickedness | - |
| (noun) the quality of being outrageous | Synonyms: outrageousness |
| (noun) vastness of size or extent | - |
| enormous | (adjective) extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree | Synonyms: tremendous |
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| enormously | (adverb) vastly | Synonyms: hugely, staggeringly, tremendously |
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| enormousness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
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| ensiform | (adjective) shaped like a sword blade | Synonyms: bladelike, sword-shaped, swordlike |
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| falciform | (adjective) curved like a sickle | Synonyms: falcate, sickle-shaped |
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| filiform | (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filamentous, threadlike, thready |
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| firestorm | (noun) an outburst of controversy | - |
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| (noun) a storm in which violent winds are drawn into the column of hot air rising over a severely bombed area | - |
| fishworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| flatworm | (noun) parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body | Synonyms: platyhelminth |
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| fluoroform | (noun) colorless gas haloform CHF3 (similar to chloroform) | Synonyms: trifluoromethane |
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| form | (noun) the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance | Synonyms: shape |
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| (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: manakin, manikin, mannequin, mannikin |
| (noun) a mold for setting concrete | - |
| (noun) the visual appearance of something or someone | Synonyms: cast, shape |
| (noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: configuration, conformation, contour, shape |
| (noun) an ability to perform well | - |
| (noun) a particular mode in which something is manifested | - |
| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (noun) a perceptual structure | Synonyms: pattern, shape |
| (noun) a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality | Synonyms: kind, sort, variety |
| (noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: descriptor, signifier, word form |
| (noun) a printed document with spaces in which to write | - |
| (noun) an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse | - |
| (noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: class, course, grade |
| (noun) (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups | Synonyms: strain, var., variant |
| (noun) (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary | Synonyms: phase |
| (verb) give shape or form to | Synonyms: shape |
| (verb) assume a form or shape | - |
| (verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: forge, mold, mould, shape, work |
| (verb) create (as an entity) | Synonyms: organise, organize |
| (verb) establish or impress firmly in the mind | Synonyms: imprint |
| (verb) to compose or represent | Synonyms: constitute, make |
| (verb) develop into a distinctive entity | Synonyms: spring, take form, take shape |
| formal | (adjective) being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress) | - |
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| (adjective) (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms | - |
| (adjective) refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court | Synonyms: courtly, stately |
| (adjective) logically deductive | - |
| (adjective) represented in simplified or symbolic form | Synonyms: conventional, schematic |
| (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a person in authority | - |
| (noun) a gown for evening wear | Synonyms: dinner dress, dinner gown, evening gown |
| (noun) a lavish dance requiring formal attire | Synonyms: ball |
| formaldehyde | (noun) a colorless poisonous gas; made by the oxidation of methanol | Synonyms: methanal |
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| formalin | (noun) a 10% solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant or to preserve biological specimens | Synonyms: formol |
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| formalisation | (noun) the act of making formal (as by stating formal rules governing classes of expressions) | Synonyms: formalization |
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| formalise | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalize |
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| (verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalize, validate |
| formalised | (adjective) concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art) | Synonyms: formalistic, formalized |
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| (adjective) given formal standing or endorsement; made official or legitimate by the observance of proper procedures | Synonyms: formalized |
| formalism | (noun) the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms | - |
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| (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications | - |
| (noun) the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented | - |
| formalistic | (adjective) concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art) | Synonyms: formalised, formalized |
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| formalities | (noun) a requirement of etiquette or custom | Synonyms: formality |
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