| anthropomorphize | (verb) ascribe human features to something | Synonyms: anthropomorphise |
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| anthropomorphous | (adjective) suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things | Synonyms: anthropomorphic, humanlike |
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| anthropopathism | (noun) Attribution of human feelings to things not human, such as inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena. | - |
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| anthropophagite | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagus, cannibal, man-eater |
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| anthropophagous | (adjective) of or relating to eaters of human flesh | - |
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| anthropophagus | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagite, cannibal, man-eater |
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| anthropophagy | (noun) human cannibalism; the eating of human flesh | - |
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| anthroposophy | (noun) a system of beliefs and practices based on the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner; it claims to integrate the practical and psychological in child-centered education | - |
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| antiapartheid | (adjective) opposing the policy of apartheid in South Africa | - |
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| anticipant | (adjective) marked by eager anticipation | Synonyms: anticipative, expectant |
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| (noun) one who anticipates | Synonyms: anticipator |
| anticipate | (verb) be a forerunner of or occur earlier than | - |
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| (verb) regard something as probable or likely | Synonyms: expect |
| (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: foreknow, foresee, previse |
| (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
| (verb) be excited or anxious about | Synonyms: look for, look to |
| (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: counter, foresee, forestall |
| anticipated | (adjective) expected hopefully | Synonyms: awaited, hoped-for |
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| anticipation | (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: prediction, prevision |
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| (noun) something expected (as on the basis of a norm) | Synonyms: expectancy |
| (noun) an expectation | Synonyms: expectancy |
| (noun) anticipating with confidence of fulfillment | Synonyms: expectation |
| anticipative | (adjective) marked by eager anticipation | Synonyms: anticipant, expectant |
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| anticipator | (noun) one who anticipates | Synonyms: anticipant |
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| anticipatory | (adjective) in anticipation | Synonyms: prevenient |
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| antidepressant | (noun) any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects | Synonyms: antidepressant drug |
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| antiepileptic | (noun) a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy) | Synonyms: anticonvulsant, anticonvulsant drug, antiepileptic drug |
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| antihypertensive | (noun) a drug that reduces high blood pressure | Synonyms: antihypertensive drug |
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| antilepton | (noun) the antiparticle of a lepton | - |
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| antimonopoly | (adjective) of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices | Synonyms: antitrust |
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| antineoplastic | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antitumor, antitumour |
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| (noun) any of several drugs that control or kill neoplastic cells; used in chemotherapy to kill cancer cells; all have unpleasant side effects that may include nausea and vomiting and hair loss and suppression of bone marrow function | Synonyms: antineoplastic drug, cancer drug |
| antiparallel | (adjective) (especially of vectors) parallel but oppositely directed | - |
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| antiparticle | (noun) a particle that has the same mass as another particle but has opposite values for its other properties; interaction of a particle and its antiparticle results in annihilation and the production of radiant energy | - |
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| antipasto | (noun) a course of appetizers in an Italian meal | - |
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| antipathetic | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetical, averse, indisposed, loath, loth |
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| (adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antagonistic, antipathetical |
| antipathetical | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, averse, indisposed, loath, loth |
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| (adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antagonistic, antipathetic |
| antipathy | (noun) the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: aversion, distaste |
| antipersonnel | (adjective) designed to inflict death or personal injury rather than material destruction | - |
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| antiperspirant | (noun) an astringent substance applied to the skin to reduce perspiration | - |
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| antiphlogistic | (adjective) counteracting inflammation | - |
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| antiphon | (noun) a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response | Synonyms: antiphony |
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| antiphonal | (adjective) containing or using responses; alternating | Synonyms: responsive |
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| (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonary |
| (noun) bound collection of antiphons | Synonyms: antiphonary |
| antiphonary | (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonal |
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| (noun) bound collection of antiphons | Synonyms: antiphonal |
| antiphony | (noun) alternate (responsive) singing by a choir in two parts | - |
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| (noun) a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response | Synonyms: antiphon |
| antiphrasis | (noun) the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony) | - |
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| antipodal | (adjective) relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth | Synonyms: antipodean |
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| (noun) the relation of opposition along a diameter | Synonyms: antipodal opposition, diametrical opposition |
| antipode | (noun) direct opposite | - |
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| antipodean | (adjective) relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth | Synonyms: antipodal |
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| antipodes | (noun) any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth | - |
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| antipollution | (adjective) intended to reduce pollution | - |
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| antipope | (noun) someone who is elected pope in opposition to another person who is held to be canonically elected | - |
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| antiproton | (noun) an unstable negatively charged proton; the antiparticle of a proton | - |
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| antiprotozoal | (noun) a medicinal drug used to fight diseases (like malaria) that are caused by protozoa | Synonyms: antiprotozoal drug |
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| antipruritic | (noun) a substance that relieves or prevents itching | - |
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| antipsychotic | (noun) tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired | Synonyms: antipsychotic agent, antipsychotic drug, major tranquilizer, major tranquilliser, major tranquillizer, neuroleptic, neuroleptic agent, neuroleptic drug |
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| antipyresis | (noun) medication with antipyretics to treat a fever | - |
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| antipyretic | (adjective) preventing or alleviating fever | - |
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| (noun) any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever | Synonyms: febrifuge |
| antiredeposition | (noun) the process of preventing redeposition | - |
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| antisepsis | (noun) the process of inhibiting the growth and multiplication of microorganisms | Synonyms: asepsis |
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| (noun) (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms | Synonyms: asepsis, sterileness, sterility |
| antiseptic | (adjective) thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of objectionable language | - |
| (adjective) clean and honest | - |
| (adjective) freeing from error or corruption | - |
| (noun) a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues | - |
| antisepticize | (verb) disinfect with an antiseptic | - |
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| antispasmodic | (noun) a drug used to relieve or prevent spasms (especially of the smooth muscles) | Synonyms: antispasmodic agent, spasmolytic |
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| antistrophe | (noun) the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem | - |
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| antistrophic | (adjective) of or relating to an antistrophe | - |
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| antisyphilitic | (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that is effective against syphilis | - |
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| antitype | (noun) a person or thing represented or foreshadowed by an earlier type or symbol; especially a figure or event in the New Testament having a counterpart in the Old Testament | - |
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| (noun) an opposite or contrasting type | - |
| antitypic | (adjective) of or relating to an antitype that is a symbol | Synonyms: antitypical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to an antitype that represents an opposite | Synonyms: antitypical |
| antitypical | (adjective) of or relating to an antitype that is a symbol | Synonyms: antitypic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to an antitype that represents an opposite | Synonyms: antitypic |
| anyplace | (adverb) at or in or to any place | Synonyms: anywhere |
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| apace | (adverb) with speed | Synonyms: chop-chop, in short order, quickly, rapidly, speedily |
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| (adverb) (poetic, literary) quickly | - |
| apache | (noun) a Parisian gangster | - |
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| apadana | (noun) the great hall in ancient Persian palaces | - |
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| apanage | (noun) a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family | Synonyms: appanage |
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| (noun) any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life | Synonyms: appanage |
| apar | (noun) South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates | Synonyms: three-banded armadillo, Tolypeutes tricinctus |
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| apart | (adjective) having characteristics not shared by others | - |
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| (adjective) remote and separate physically or socially | Synonyms: isolated, obscure |
| (adverb) not taken into account or excluded from consideration | Synonyms: aside |
| (adverb) into parts or pieces | Synonyms: asunder |
| (adverb) separated or at a distance in place or position or time | - |
| (adverb) one from the other | - |
| (adverb) placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose | Synonyms: aside |
| (adverb) away from another or others | - |
| apartheid | (noun) a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa | - |
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| apartment | (noun) a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house | Synonyms: flat |
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| apathetic | (adjective) showing little or no emotion or animation | - |
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| (adjective) marked by a lack of interest | Synonyms: indifferent |
| apathetically | (adverb) in an apathetic manner | - |
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| apathy | (noun) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | Synonyms: indifference, numbness, spiritlessness |
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| (noun) an absence of emotion or enthusiasm | - |
| apatite | (noun) a common complex mineral consisting of calcium fluoride phosphate or calcium chloride phosphate; a source of phosphorus | - |
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| apatosaur | (noun) huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic | Synonyms: apatosaurus, Apatosaurus excelsus, brontosaur, brontosaurus, thunder lizard |
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| apatosaurus | (noun) huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic | Synonyms: apatosaur, Apatosaurus excelsus, brontosaur, brontosaurus, thunder lizard |
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| ape | (noun) any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all | - |
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| (noun) person who resembles a nonhuman primate | Synonyms: anthropoid |
| (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: aper, copycat, emulator, imitator |
| (verb) represent in or produce a caricature of | Synonyms: caricature |
| (verb) imitate uncritically and in every aspect | - |
| apelike | (adjective) being or given to servile imitation | Synonyms: apish |
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| (adjective) resembling apes | Synonyms: anthropoid, anthropoidal |
| aper | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, copycat, emulator, imitator |
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| apercu | (noun) a short synopsis | - |
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| aperea | (noun) South American cavy; possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig | Synonyms: Cavia porcellus, wild cavy |
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| aperient | (adjective) mildly laxative | - |
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| (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: cathartic, physic, purgative |
| aperiodic | (adjective) not recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: nonperiodic |
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| aperitif | (noun) alcoholic beverage taken before a meal as an appetizer | - |
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| aperture | (noun) an man-made opening; usually small | - |
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| (noun) a device that controls amount of light admitted | - |
| (noun) a natural opening in something | - |
| apery | (noun) the act of mimicking; imitative behavior | Synonyms: mimicry |
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| apetalous | (adjective) (of flowers) having no petals | Synonyms: petalless |
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| apex | (noun) the highest point (of something) | Synonyms: acme, peak, vertex |
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| (noun) the point on the celestial sphere toward which the sun and solar system appear to be moving relative to the fixed stars | Synonyms: apex of the sun's way, solar apex |
| aphaeresis | (noun) (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' | Synonyms: apheresis |
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| aphaeretic | (adjective) relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis | Synonyms: apheretic |
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| aphagia | (noun) loss of the ability to swallow | - |
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| aphakia | (noun) absence of the natural lens of the eye (usually resulting from the removal of cataracts) | - |
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| aphakic | (adjective) of or relating to or afflicted with aphakia | - |
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| (noun) someone afflicted by aphakia; someone lacking the natural lenses of the eyes | - |
| aphanite | (noun) fine-grained homogeneous rock (such as basalt) containing minerals undetectable by the naked eye | - |
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| aphanitic | (adjective) of or relating to aphanite | - |
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| aphasia | (noun) inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion | - |
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| aphasic | (adjective) related to or affected by aphasia | - |
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| (adjective) unable to speak because of a brain lesion | - |
| (noun) someone affected by aphasia or inability to use or understand language | - |
| aphelion | (noun) apoapsis in solar orbit; the point in the orbit of a planet or comet that is at the greatest distance from the sun | - |
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| apheresis | (noun) a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion | Synonyms: pheresis |
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| (noun) (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' | Synonyms: aphaeresis |
| apheretic | (adjective) relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis | Synonyms: aphaeretic |
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| aphesis | (noun) the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire' | - |
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| aphetic | (adjective) produced by aphesis | - |
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