| abcoulomb | (noun) a unit of electrical charge equal to 10 coulombs | - |
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| abdominous | (adjective) having a large belly | Synonyms: paunchy, potbellied |
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| abdominousness | (noun) the bodily property of a protruding belly | Synonyms: paunchiness |
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| aboulia | (noun) a loss of will power | Synonyms: abulia |
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| aboulic | (adjective) suffering from abulia; showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions | Synonyms: abulic |
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| abound | (verb) be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities | - |
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| (verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: bristle, burst |
| abounding | (adjective) existing in abundance | Synonyms: galore |
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| about | (adjective) on the move | Synonyms: astir |
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| (adverb) (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct | Synonyms: approximately, around, close to, just about, more or less, or so, roughly, some |
| (adverb) in the area or vicinity | Synonyms: around |
| (adverb) in or to a reversed position or direction | Synonyms: around |
| (adverb) in rotation or succession | - |
| (adverb) used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction | Synonyms: around |
| (adverb) (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but | Synonyms: almost, most, near, nearly, nigh, virtually, well-nigh |
| (adverb) all around or on all sides | Synonyms: around |
| aboveground | (adjective) on or above the surface of the ground | - |
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| abranchious | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchiate, gill-less |
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| abstemious | (adjective) sparing in consumption of especially food and drink | - |
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| (adjective) marked by temperance in indulgence | Synonyms: light |
| abstemiously | (adverb) in a sparing manner; without overindulgence | Synonyms: temperately |
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| abstemiousness | (noun) moderation in eating and drinking | - |
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| (noun) restricted to bare necessities | - |
| abstentious | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstinent |
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| acanthous | (adjective) shaped like a spine or thorn | Synonyms: acanthoid, spinous |
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| acarpellous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpelous |
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| acarpelous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpellous |
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| acarpous | (adjective) producing no fruit | - |
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| acclivitous | (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: rising, uphill |
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| accouchement | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: childbearing, childbirth, vaginal birth |
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| accoucheur | (noun) a physician specializing in obstetrics | Synonyms: obstetrician |
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| accoucheuse | (noun) a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies | Synonyms: midwife |
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| account | (noun) the quality of taking advantage | - |
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| (noun) importance or value | - |
| (noun) a record or narrative description of past events | Synonyms: chronicle, history, story |
| (noun) an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered | Synonyms: bill, invoice |
| (noun) a short account of the news | Synonyms: news report, report, story, write up |
| (noun) a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc. | Synonyms: explanation |
| (noun) the act of informing by verbal report | Synonyms: report |
| (noun) grounds | Synonyms: score |
| (noun) a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance | Synonyms: account statement, accounting |
| (noun) a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services | Synonyms: business relationship |
| (verb) furnish a justifying analysis or explanation | Synonyms: answer for |
| (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: describe, report |
| (verb) keep an account of | Synonyms: calculate |
| (verb) be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something | - |
| accountability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: answerability, answerableness |
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| accountable | (adjective) liable to account for one's actions | Synonyms: answerable |
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| accountancy | (noun) the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business | Synonyms: accounting |
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| accountant | (noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: comptroller, controller |
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| accountantship | (noun) the position of accountant | - |
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| accounting | (noun) the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business | Synonyms: accountancy |
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| (noun) a system that provides quantitative information about finances | - |
| (noun) a convincing explanation that reveals basic causes | - |
| (noun) a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance | Synonyms: account, account statement |
| (noun) a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts | Synonyms: accounting system, method of accounting |
| accouter | (verb) provide with military equipment | Synonyms: accoutre |
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| accoutered | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutred |
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| accouterment | (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accessory, accoutrement |
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| accoutre | (verb) provide with military equipment | Synonyms: accouter |
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| accoutred | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutered |
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| accoutrement | (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accessory, accouterment |
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| acephalous | (adjective) lacking a head or a clearly defined head | - |
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| acetous | (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetose, vinegarish, vinegary |
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| achlamydeous | (adjective) not having a floral envelope or perianth | - |
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| achromatous | (adjective) having little or inadequate color | - |
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| achromous | (adjective) having no color | Synonyms: achromic |
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| acidophilous | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilic, aciduric |
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| acidulous | (adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acid, acidic, acidulent |
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| acidulousness | (noun) the taste experience when something acidic is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: acidity |
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| acinous | (adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinar, acinic, acinose |
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| acousma | (noun) illusory auditory perception of strange nonverbal sounds | Synonyms: auditory hallucination |
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| acoustic | (adjective) of or relating to the science of acoustics | Synonyms: acoustical |
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| (noun) a remedy for hearing loss or deafness | - |
| acoustical | (adjective) of or relating to the science of acoustics | Synonyms: acoustic |
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| acoustically | (adverb) with respect to acoustics | - |
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| acoustician | (noun) a physicist who specializes in acoustics | - |
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| acousticophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of sounds including your own voice | Synonyms: phonophobia |
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| acoustics | (noun) the study of the physical properties of sound | - |
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| acrimonious | (adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism | Synonyms: bitter |
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| acrocarpous | (adjective) (of mosses) having the archegonia at the top of the stem | - |
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| acrogenous | (adjective) pertaining to flowerless plants (ferns or mosses) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem | Synonyms: acrogenic |
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| acronymous | (adjective) characterized by the use of acronyms | Synonyms: acronymic |
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| actinomorphous | (adjective) capable of division into symmetrical halves by any longitudinal plane passing through the axis | Synonyms: actinomorphic |
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| actinomycetous | (adjective) of or belonging to the actinomycetes | Synonyms: actinomycetal |
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| adactylous | (adjective) without fingers and/or toes | - |
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| adenocarcinomatous | (adjective) of or pertaining to adenocarcinoma | - |
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| adjourn | (verb) close at the end of a session | Synonyms: break up, recess |
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| (verb) break from a meeting or gathering | Synonyms: retire, withdraw |
| adjournment | (noun) the termination of a meeting | Synonyms: dissolution |
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| (noun) the act of postponing to another time or place | - |
| adnoun | (noun) an adjective used as a noun | - |
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| adscititious | (adjective) added or derived from something outside; not inherent | - |
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| (adjective) supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a thing | - |
| adulterous | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: extracurricular, extramarital |
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| (adjective) not faithful to a spouse or lover | Synonyms: cheating, two-timing |
| adulterously | (adverb) in an adulterous manner | - |
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| adulterousness | (noun) The quality of being adulterous, involving sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. | - |
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| advantageous | (adjective) giving an advantage | Synonyms: favorable, favourable |
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| (adjective) appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness | - |
| advantageously | (adverb) in a manner affording benefit or advantage | Synonyms: well |
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| advantageousness | (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: favorableness, favourableness, positiveness, positivity, profitableness |
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| adventitious | (adjective) associated by chance and not an integral part | - |
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| adventurous | (adjective) willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises | Synonyms: adventuresome |
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| adventurousness | (noun) the trait of being adventurous | Synonyms: venturesomeness |
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| aeriferous | (adjective) conveying air; as the bronchial tubes | - |
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| aerophilous | (adjective) depending on free oxygen or air | Synonyms: aerobic, aerophilic |
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| aforethought | (adjective) with planning and intention | Synonyms: planned, plotted |
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| afoul | (adjective) especially of a ship's lines etc | Synonyms: foul, fouled |
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| afterthought | (noun) an addition that was not included in the original plan | - |
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| (noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: reconsideration, rethink, second thought |
| agamous | (adjective) (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | Synonyms: agamic, agamogenetic, apomictic, parthenogenetic |
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| aggroup | (verb) form a group or group together | Synonyms: group |
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| agouti | (noun) agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food | Synonyms: Dasyprocta aguti |
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| aground | (adjective) stuck in a place where a ship can no longer float | - |
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| (adverb) with the bottom lodged on the ground | - |
| alacritous | (adjective) quick and eager | - |
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| albuminous | (adjective) relating to or containing or resembling albumin | - |
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| alehouse | (noun) a tavern where ale is sold | - |
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| alliaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to the botanical genus Allium | - |
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| (adjective) smelling of onions or garlic | - |
| allmouth | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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| allochthonous | (adjective) of rocks, deposits, etc.; found in a place other than where they and their constituents were formed | - |
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| allogamous | (adjective) relating to cross-fertilization in plants | - |
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| allomerous | (adjective) pertaining to allomerism | - |
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| aloud | (adverb) using the voice; not silently | Synonyms: out loud |
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| (adverb) with relatively high volume | Synonyms: loud, loudly |
| altitudinous | (adjective) indefinitely high; lofty | - |
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| aluminiferous | (adjective) containing alum or aluminum | - |
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| aluminous | (adjective) pertaining to or containing aluminum or alum | - |
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| ambagious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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| ambidextrous | (adjective) equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: two-handed |
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| (adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced |
| ambidextrousness | (noun) the property of being equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: ambidexterity |
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| ambiguous | (adjective) having more than one possible meaning | - |
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| (adjective) open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead | Synonyms: equivocal |
| (adjective) having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns | - |
| ambiguously | (adverb) in an ambiguous manner | Synonyms: equivocally |
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| ambitious | (adjective) having a strong desire for success or achievement | - |
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| (adjective) requiring full use of your abilities or resources | Synonyms: challenging |
| ambitiously | (adverb) with ambition; in an ambitious and energetic manner | Synonyms: determinedly |
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