| astraddle | (adverb) with one leg on each side | Synonyms: astride |
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| astragal | (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: bead, beading, beadwork |
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| (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: anklebone, astragalus, talus |
| astragalar | (adjective) of or relating to the anklebone | - |
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| astragalus | (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: anklebone, astragal, talus |
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| astrakhan | (noun) the fur of young lambs | - |
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| astral | (adjective) being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars | Synonyms: stellar |
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| astrantia | (noun) any plant of the genus Astrantia | Synonyms: masterwort |
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| astraphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of thunder and lightning | - |
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| astray | (adverb) away from the right path or direction | - |
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| (adverb) far from the intended target | Synonyms: wide |
| ataractic | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataraxic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
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| (noun) a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity | Synonyms: antianxiety agent, ataractic agent, ataractic drug, tranquilizer, tranquilliser, tranquillizer |
| ataraxia | (noun) peace of mind | - |
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| ataraxic | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataractic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
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| ataraxis | (noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: heartsease, peace, peace of mind, peacefulness, repose, serenity |
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| atmoradiograph | (noun) a device which measures the frequency of occurrence of atmospherics. | - |
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| atrabilious | (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: bilious, dyspeptic, liverish |
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| atrazine | (noun) a synthetic compound derived from triazine that is widely used as an agricultural herbicide | - |
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| attract | (verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: draw, draw in, pull, pull in |
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| (verb) exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away | - |
| (verb) be attractive to | Synonyms: appeal |
| attractable | (adjective) capable of being magnetized or attracted by a magnet | - |
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| attracter | (noun) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts | Synonyms: attraction, attractive feature, attractor, magnet |
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| (noun) (physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system | Synonyms: attractor |
| (noun) an entertainer who attracts large audiences | Synonyms: attraction, attractor, draw, drawing card |
| attraction | (noun) the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts | Synonyms: attractiveness |
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| (noun) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts | Synonyms: attracter, attractive feature, attractor, magnet |
| (noun) an entertainment that is offered to the public | - |
| (noun) an entertainer who attracts large audiences | Synonyms: attracter, attractor, draw, drawing card |
| (noun) the force by which one object attracts another | Synonyms: attractive force |
| attractive | (adjective) pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm | - |
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| (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull | - |
| (adjective) having power to arouse interest | - |
| attractively | (adverb) in a beautiful manner | Synonyms: beautifully |
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| attractiveness | (noun) sexual allure | - |
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| (noun) the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts | Synonyms: attraction |
| attractor | (noun) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts | Synonyms: attracter, attraction, attractive feature, magnet |
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| (noun) (physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system | Synonyms: attracter |
| (noun) an entertainer who attracts large audiences | Synonyms: attracter, attraction, draw, drawing card |
| audiogram | (noun) a graphical representation of a person's auditory sensitivity to sound | - |
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| aura | (noun) an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint | Synonyms: aureole, gloriole, glory, halo, nimbus |
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| (noun) a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing | Synonyms: air, atmosphere |
| (noun) a sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure | - |
| aural | (adjective) relating to or characterized by an aura | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to hearing or the ear | - |
| aurally | (adverb) with regard to sound or the ear | - |
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| aurora | (noun) an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force | - |
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| (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
| auroral | (adjective) characteristic of the dawn | Synonyms: aurorean |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the atmospheric phenomenon auroras | - |
| austral | (adjective) of the south or coming from the south | - |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Argentina; equal to 100 centavos | - |
| australopithecine | (adjective) of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus | - |
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| (noun) any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago | - |
| autobiographer | (noun) someone who writes their own biography | - |
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| autobiographic | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographical |
| autobiographical | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographic |
| autobiography | (noun) a biography of yourself | - |
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| autocracy | (noun) a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual | - |
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| (noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autarchy |
| autocrat | (noun) a cruel and oppressive dictator | Synonyms: despot, tyrant |
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| autocratic | (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| autocratically | (adverb) in an autocratic manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator | Synonyms: dictatorially, magisterially |
| autograft | (noun) tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person | Synonyms: autoplasty |
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| autograph | (noun) something written by one's own hand | - |
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| (noun) a person's own signature | Synonyms: John Hancock |
| (verb) mark with one's signature | Synonyms: inscribe |
| autographed | (adjective) bearing an autograph | - |
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| autographic | (adjective) written in the author's own handwriting | - |
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| autoradiograph | (noun) a radiogram produced by radiation emitted by the specimen being photographed | - |
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| autoradiographic | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by autoradiography | - |
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| autoradiography | (noun) producing a radiograph by means of the radiation emitted from the specimen being photographed | - |
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| autostrada | (noun) an expressway in an Italian-speaking country | - |
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| avaram | (noun) evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning; sometimes placed in genus Cassia | Synonyms: Cassia auriculata, Senna auriculata, tanner's cassia |
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| average | (adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: ordinary |
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| (adjective) around the middle of a scale of evaluation | Synonyms: intermediate, medium |
| (adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: fair, mediocre, middling |
| (adjective) relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values) | Synonyms: median |
| (adjective) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value | Synonyms: mean |
| (adjective) relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution | Synonyms: modal |
| (noun) a statistic describing the location of a distribution | Synonyms: norm |
| (noun) an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual | - |
| (noun) (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities | - |
| (verb) compute the average of | Synonyms: average out |
| (verb) achieve or reach on average | - |
| (verb) amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain | Synonyms: average out |
| averageness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding | Synonyms: mediocrity |
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| (noun) the state of being that is average; indicates normality but with connotations of mediocrity | - |
| azadirachtin | (noun) insecticide | - |
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| azedarach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azederach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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| azederach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azedarach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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| babygram | (noun) an X-ray of the entire body of an infant. | - |
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| baccarat | (noun) a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine | Synonyms: chemin de fer |
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| bacitracin | (noun) a polypeptide antibiotic of known chemical structure effective against several types of Gram-positive organisms; usually applied locally | - |
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| backscratcher | (noun) a long-handled scratcher for scratching your back | - |
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| (noun) someone who is willing to trade favors or services for mutual advantage | - |
| backtrack | (verb) retrace one's course | Synonyms: double back, turn back |
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| ballistocardiogram | (noun) a graphical recording made by a ballistocardiograph | - |
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| ballistocardiograph | (noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: cardiograph |
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| ballyrag | (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: boss around, browbeat, bully, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
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| balmoral | (noun) a sturdy laced walking shoe | - |
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| balustrade | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, banister, bannister, handrail |
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| baranduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baronduki, barunduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| barbiturate | (noun) organic compound having powerful soporific effect; overdose can be fatal | - |
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| barmbrack | (noun) a rich currant cake or bun | - |
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| barograph | (noun) a recording barometer; automatically records on paper the variations in atmospheric pressure | - |
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| barographic | (adjective) relating to or registered by a barograph | - |
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| barrack | (noun) a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel | - |
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| (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: flout, gibe, jeer, scoff |
| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: cheer, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| (verb) lodge in barracks | - |
| barracking | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: heckling |
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| barracouta | (noun) a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa | Synonyms: snoek |
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| barracuda | (noun) any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth | - |
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| barrage | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling |
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| (noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: bombardment, onslaught, outpouring |
| (verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: bombard |
| barramundi | (noun) a species of large perch noted for its sporting and eating qualities; lives in marine, estuary, and freshwater habitats | Synonyms: Asian seabass, giant perch, giant seaperch, Lates calcarifer, white seabass |
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| barrater | (noun) someone guilty of barratry | Synonyms: barrator |
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| barrator | (noun) someone guilty of barratry | Synonyms: barrater |
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| barratry | (noun) the offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels | - |
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| (noun) (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo | - |
| (noun) the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery | - |
| (noun) traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments | Synonyms: simony |
| batrachian | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: anuran, salientian |
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| (noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species | Synonyms: anuran, frog, salientian, toad, toad frog |
| batrachomyomachia | (noun) a silly altercation | - |
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| bearable | (adjective) capable of being borne though unpleasant | Synonyms: endurable, sufferable, supportable |
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| bedframe | (noun) the framework of a bed | Synonyms: bedstead |
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| bedraggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: draggle |
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| bedraggled | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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| (adjective) limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud | Synonyms: draggled |
| bedstraw | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Galium | - |
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| behavioral | (adjective) of or relating to behavior | Synonyms: behavioural |
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| behavioural | (adjective) of or relating to behavior | Synonyms: behavioral |
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| benzofuran | (noun) a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins | Synonyms: coumarone, cumarone |
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| berate | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| berating | (noun) a severe rebuke | Synonyms: blowing up |
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| betray | (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
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| (verb) reveal unintentionally | Synonyms: bewray |
| (verb) cause someone to believe an untruth | Synonyms: deceive, lead astray |
| (verb) disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake | Synonyms: fail |
| (verb) deliver to an enemy by treachery | Synonyms: sell |
| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: cheat, cheat on, cuckold, wander |
| betrayal | (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: perfidy, treachery, treason |
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| (noun) the quality of aiding an enemy | - |
| betrayer | (noun) a person who says one thing and does another | Synonyms: double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer |
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| (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: blabber, informer, rat, squealer |
| betweenbrain | (noun) the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon | Synonyms: diencephalon, interbrain, thalmencephalon |
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| beverage | (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: drink, drinkable, potable |
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| bewray | (verb) reveal unintentionally | Synonyms: betray |
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| biaural | (adjective) relating to or having or hearing with two ears | Synonyms: binaural |
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| bibliographer | (noun) someone trained in compiling bibliographies | - |
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| bibliographic | (adjective) relating to or dealing with bibliography | Synonyms: bibliographical |
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| bibliographical | (adjective) relating to or dealing with bibliography | Synonyms: bibliographic |
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