| abdominoplasty | (noun) cosmetic surgery of the abdomen to remove wrinkles and tighten the skin over the stomach | Synonyms: tummy tuck |
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| achondroplasia | (noun) an inherited skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism | Synonyms: achondroplasty, chondrodystrophy, osteosclerosis congenita |
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| achondroplastic | (adjective) of or relating to achondroplasia | - |
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| achondroplasty | (noun) an inherited skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism | Synonyms: achondroplasia, chondrodystrophy, osteosclerosis congenita |
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| aeroplane | (noun) an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets | Synonyms: airplane, plane |
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| airplane | (noun) an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets | Synonyms: aeroplane, plane |
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| aminoplast | (noun) a plastic (synthetic resin) made from amino compounds; used as an adhesive and as a coating for paper and textiles | Synonyms: amino plastic, amino resin |
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| anaplasia | (noun) loss of structural differentiation within a cell or group of cells often with increased capacity for multiplication, as in a malignant tumor | - |
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| anaplasmosis | (noun) a disease of cattle that is transmitted by cattle ticks; similar to Texas fever | - |
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| anaplastic | (adjective) of or relating to anaplasia | - |
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| anaplasty | (noun) surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue | Synonyms: plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery |
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| angioplasty | (noun) an operation to repair a damaged blood vessel or unblock a coronary artery | - |
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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 |
| anyplace | (adverb) at or in or to any place | Synonyms: anywhere |
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| aplacental | (adjective) having no placenta | - |
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| aplacophoran | (noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle | Synonyms: solenogaster |
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| aplanatic | (adjective) free from or corrected for spherical aberration | - |
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| aplasia | (noun) failure of some tissue or organ to develop | - |
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| applaud | (verb) express that something is worthy of praise | - |
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| (verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: acclaim, clap, spat |
| applaudable | (adjective) worthy of high praise | Synonyms: commendable, laudable, praiseworthy |
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| applauder | (noun) someone who applauds | Synonyms: clapper |
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| applause | (noun) a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together | Synonyms: clapping, hand clapping |
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| aquaplane | (noun) a board that is pulled by a speedboat as a person stands on it and skims over the top of the water | - |
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| (verb) ride on an aquaplane | - |
| (verb) rise up onto a thin film of water between the tires and road so that there is no more contact with the road | - |
| arthroplasty | (noun) surgical reconstruction or replacement of a malformed or degenerated joint | - |
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| autoplastic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in autoplasty | - |
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| autoplasty | (noun) surgical repair by using tissue from another part of the patient's own body | - |
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| (noun) tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person | Synonyms: autograft |
| backplate | (noun) plate armor protecting the back; worn as part of a cuirass | - |
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| ballplayer | (noun) an athlete who plays baseball | Synonyms: baseball player |
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| beplaster | (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: plaster |
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| biplane | (noun) old fashioned airplane; has two wings one above the other | - |
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| birthplace | (noun) the place where someone was born | Synonyms: place of birth |
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| (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience |
| biteplate | (noun) a removable dental appliance that is worn in the palate for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes | Synonyms: bite plate |
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| boilerplate | (noun) thick plate iron used in the production of boilers | - |
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| (noun) standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories | - |
| bookplate | (noun) a label identifying the owner of a book in which it is pasted | Synonyms: ex libris |
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| breastplate | (noun) armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass | Synonyms: aegis, egis |
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| byplay | (noun) incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect | Synonyms: business, stage business |
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| cataplasia | (noun) (biology) degenerative reversion of cells or tissue to a less differentiated or more primitive form | - |
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| cataplasm | (noun) a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc. | Synonyms: plaster, poultice |
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| cataplastic | (adjective) of or relating to cataplasia | - |
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| ceroplastics | (noun) the art of modeling in wax. | - |
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| chaplain | (noun) a clergyman ministering to some institution | - |
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| chaplaincy | (noun) the position of chaplain | Synonyms: chaplainship |
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| chaplainship | (noun) the position of chaplain | Synonyms: chaplaincy |
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| chloroplast | (noun) plastid containing chlorophyll and other pigments; in plants that carry out photosynthesis | - |
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| chloroplatinate | (noun) any salt of chloroplatinic acid. | - |
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| chromoplast | (noun) plastid containing pigments other than chlorophyll usually yellow or orange carotenoids | - |
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| commonplace | (adjective) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement | Synonyms: humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous |
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| (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
| (adjective) completely ordinary and unremarkable | - |
| (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: banality, bromide, cliche, platitude |
| commonplaceness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonness, everydayness |
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| complacence | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacency, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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| complacency | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacence, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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| complacent | (adjective) contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions | Synonyms: self-complacent, self-satisfied |
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| complacently | (adverb) in a self-satisfied manner | - |
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| complain | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: kick, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off |
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| (verb) make a formal accusation; bring a formal charge | - |
| complainant | (noun) a person who brings an action in a court of law | Synonyms: plaintiff |
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| complainer | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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| complaining | (adjective) expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment | Synonyms: complaintive |
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| complainingly | (adverb) with complaints | - |
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| complaint | (noun) an expression of grievance or resentment | - |
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| (noun) (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow | - |
| (noun) (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based | - |
| (noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense | Synonyms: charge |
| (noun) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining | Synonyms: ailment, ill |
| complaintive | (adjective) expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment | Synonyms: complaining |
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| complaisance | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: compliance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
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| complaisant | (adjective) showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others | Synonyms: obliging |
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| contemplate | (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: meditate, study |
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| (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
| (verb) consider as a possibility | - |
| (verb) look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought | - |
| contemplation | (noun) a long and thoughtful observation | - |
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| (noun) a calm, lengthy, intent consideration | Synonyms: musing, reflection, reflexion, rumination, thoughtfulness |
| contemplative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| (noun) a person devoted to the contemplative life | - |
| contemplativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: meditativeness, pensiveness |
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| coplanar | (adjective) lying in the same plane | - |
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| copperplate | (noun) an engraving consisting of a smooth plate of copper that has been etched or engraved | Synonyms: copperplate engraving |
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| (noun) a print made from an engraved copperplate | - |
| (noun) a graceful style of handwriting based on the writing used on copperplate engravings | - |
| cosplay | (verb) wear a costume to resemble a character from some media especially anime | - |
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| cosplayer | (noun) Someone who wears a costume from a comic book or similar media | - |
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| cothromboplastin | (noun) a coagulation factor formed in the kidney under the influence of vitamin K | Synonyms: factor VII, proconvertin, stable factor |
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| counterplan | (noun) a plot intended to subvert another plot | Synonyms: counterplot |
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| counterplay | (noun) (chess) an attack that is intended to counter the opponent's advantage in another part of the board | Synonyms: counterattack |
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| cytoplasm | (noun) the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism | Synonyms: cytol |
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| cytoplasmatic | (adjective) of or relating to cytoplasm | Synonyms: cytoplasmic |
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| cytoplasmic | (adjective) of or relating to cytoplasm | Synonyms: cytoplasmatic |
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| cytoplasmically | (adverb) by means of cytoplasm | - |
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| cytoplast | (noun) the intact cytoplasmic content of a cell | - |
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| cytoplastic | (adjective) of or relating to a cytoplast | - |
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| deplane | (verb) get off an airplane | - |
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| displace | (verb) cause to move, usually with force or pressure | - |
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| (verb) cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense | Synonyms: move |
| (verb) take the place of or have precedence over | Synonyms: preempt |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| displacement | (noun) act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics | Synonyms: supplanting |
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| (noun) act of removing from office or employment | - |
| (noun) the act of uniform movement | Synonyms: translation |
| (noun) to move something from its natural environment | Synonyms: deracination |
| (noun) an event in which something is displaced without rotation | Synonyms: shift |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound | Synonyms: displacement reaction |
| display | (noun) something shown to the public | Synonyms: exhibit, showing |
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| (noun) a visual representation of something | Synonyms: presentation |
| (noun) an electronic device that represents information in visual form | Synonyms: video display |
| (noun) exhibiting openly in public view | - |
| (noun) something intended to communicate a particular impression | Synonyms: show |
| (noun) behavior that makes your feelings public | - |
| (verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: exhibit, expose |
| (verb) attract attention by displaying some body part or posing; of animals | - |
| doorplate | (noun) a nameplate fastened to a door; indicates the person who works or lives there | - |
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| downplay | (verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: background, play down |
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| (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: minimise, minimize, understate |
| dysplasia | (noun) abnormal development (of organs or cells) or an abnormal structure resulting from such growth | - |
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| dysplastic | (adjective) relating to or evidencing dysplasia | - |
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| ectoplasm | (noun) the outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm | - |
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| (noun) (spiritualism) a substance supposed to emanate from the body of the medium during a trance | - |
| eggplant | (noun) egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow | Synonyms: aubergine, mad apple |
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| (noun) hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable | Synonyms: aubergine, brinjal, eggplant bush, garden egg, mad apple, Solanum melongena |
| electroplate | (noun) any artifact that has been plated with a thin coat of metal by electrolysis | - |
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| (verb) coat with metal by electrolysis | - |
| electroplater | (noun) a plater who uses electrolysis | - |
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| emplace | (verb) put into place or position | - |
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| (verb) provide a new emplacement for guns | - |
| emplacement | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: locating, location, placement, position, positioning |
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| (noun) military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon | - |
| emplane | (verb) board a plane | Synonyms: enplane |
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| endoplasm | (noun) the inner portion of the cytoplasm of a cell | - |
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| endplate | (noun) the flattened end of a motor neuron that transmits neural impulses to a muscle | Synonyms: end-plate, motor end plate |
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| enplane | (verb) board a plane | Synonyms: emplane |
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| esplanade | (noun) a long stretch of open level ground (paved or grassy) for walking beside the seashore | - |
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| everyplace | (adverb) to or in any or all places; pronoun, location; quantifier: universal | Synonyms: all over, everywhere |
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| exemplar | (noun) something to be imitated | Synonyms: example, good example, model |
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| exemplariness | (noun) The state or condition of being exemplary, serving as a shining example. | - |
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