| araceous | (adjective) relating to a plant of the family Araceae | Synonyms: aroid |
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| arboraceous | (adjective) abounding in trees | Synonyms: arboreous, woodsy, woody |
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| brace | (noun) a structural member used to stiffen a framework | Synonyms: bracing |
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| (noun) a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring | Synonyms: bitstock |
| (noun) an appliance that corrects dental irregularities | Synonyms: braces, orthodontic braces |
| (noun) a support that steadies or strengthens something else | - |
| (noun) elastic straps that hold trousers up | Synonyms: gallus, suspender |
| (noun) a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it | - |
| (noun) either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material | - |
| (noun) a set of two similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: pair |
| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
| (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate |
| (verb) support by bracing | - |
| (verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: stabilise, stabilize, steady |
| (verb) prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult | Synonyms: poise |
| braced | (adjective) positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger | - |
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| (adjective) held up by braces or buttresses | Synonyms: buttressed |
| bracelet | (noun) jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration | Synonyms: bangle |
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| (noun) a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist | Synonyms: watch bracelet, watchband, watchstrap, wristband |
| bracer | (noun) a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor) | Synonyms: pick-me-up |
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| (noun) a protective covering for the wrist or arm that is used in archery and fencing and other sports | Synonyms: armguard |
| bracero | (noun) a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II | - |
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| braces | (noun) an appliance that corrects dental irregularities | Synonyms: brace, orthodontic braces |
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| butyraceous | (adjective) having the qualities of butter or yielding or containing a substance like butter | - |
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| camphoraceous | (adjective) being or having the properties of camphor | - |
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| contraception | (noun) birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery | Synonyms: contraceptive method |
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| contraceptive | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: antifertility, prophylactic |
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| (noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive device, preventative, preventive, prophylactic device |
| disgrace | (noun) a state of dishonor | Synonyms: ignominy, shame |
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| (verb) damage the reputation of | Synonyms: discredit |
| (verb) reduce in worth or character, usually verbally | Synonyms: degrade, demean, put down, take down |
| (verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: attaint, dishonor, dishonour, shame |
| disgraced | (adjective) suffering shame | Synonyms: discredited, dishonored, shamed |
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| disgraceful | (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
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| (adjective) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation | Synonyms: scandalous, shameful, shocking |
| disgracefully | (adverb) in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree | Synonyms: discreditably, dishonorably, dishonourably, ignominiously, ingloriously, shamefully |
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| disgracefulness | (noun) unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor | Synonyms: ignominiousness, shamefulness |
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| embrace | (noun) the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection) | Synonyms: embracement, embracing |
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| (noun) a close affectionate and protective acceptance | Synonyms: bosom |
| (noun) the state of taking in or encircling | - |
| (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, espouse, sweep up |
| (verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: bosom, hug, squeeze |
| (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, cover, encompass |
| embracement | (noun) the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection) | Synonyms: embrace, embracing |
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| extracellular | (adjective) located or occurring outside a cell or cells | - |
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| footrace | (noun) a race run on foot | Synonyms: foot race, run |
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| grace | (noun) a sense of propriety and consideration for others | Synonyms: seemliness |
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| (noun) elegance and beauty of movement or expression | Synonyms: gracility |
| (noun) (Christian theology) the free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God | Synonyms: free grace, grace of God |
| (noun) a disposition to kindness and compassion | Synonyms: good will, goodwill |
| (noun) a short prayer of thanks before a meal | Synonyms: blessing, thanksgiving |
| (noun) (Christian theology) a state of sanctification by God; the state of one who is under such divine influence | Synonyms: saving grace, state of grace |
| (noun) a period of time past the deadline for fulfilling an obligation during which a penalty that would be imposed for being late is waived, especially an extended period granted as a special favor | Synonyms: grace period |
| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, embellish |
| graceful | (adjective) characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution | - |
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| (adjective) suggesting taste, ease, and wealth | Synonyms: elegant, refined |
| gracefully | (adverb) in a graceful manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a gracious or graceful manner | Synonyms: graciously |
| gracefulness | (noun) beautiful carriage | - |
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| graceless | (adjective) lacking grace; clumsy | Synonyms: ungraceful |
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| (adjective) lacking social polish | Synonyms: gauche, unpolished |
| (adjective) lacking graciousness | - |
| gracelessly | (adverb) in a graceless manner | - |
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| (adverb) without grace; rigidly | Synonyms: ungracefully, ungraciously, woodenly |
| gracelessness | (noun) an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression | Synonyms: ungracefulness |
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| (noun) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, stiffness |
| headrace | (noun) a waterway that feeds water to a mill or water wheel or turbine | - |
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| intracellular | (adjective) located or occurring within a cell or cells | - |
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| intracerebral | (adjective) within the brain | - |
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| millrace | (noun) a channel for the water current that turns a millwheel | Synonyms: millrun |
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| moraceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Moraceae | - |
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| paracentesis | (noun) centesis of the belly to remove fluid for diagnosis | Synonyms: abdominocentesis |
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| race | (noun) a canal for a current of water | Synonyms: raceway |
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| (noun) a contest of speed | - |
| (noun) any competition | - |
| (noun) people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock | - |
| (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species | Synonyms: subspecies |
| (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: airstream, backwash, slipstream, wash |
| (verb) compete in a race | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, rush, rush along, speed, step on it |
| (verb) cause to move fast or to rush or race | Synonyms: rush |
| (verb) to work as fast as possible towards a goal, sometimes in competition with others | - |
| raceabout | (noun) a small sloop having the keep of a knockabout but with finer lines and carrying more sail | - |
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| racecard | (noun) a program for a race meeting; lists the races and the names of the horses | - |
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| racecourse | (noun) a course over which races are run | Synonyms: racetrack, raceway, track |
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| racehorse | (noun) a horse bred for racing | Synonyms: bangtail, race horse |
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| raceme | (noun) usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first | - |
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| racemose | (adjective) having stalked flowers along an elongated stem that continue to open in succession from below as the stem continues to grow | - |
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| racer | (noun) an animal that races | - |
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| (noun) slender fast-moving North American snakes | - |
| (noun) a fast car that competes in races | Synonyms: race car, racing car |
| (noun) someone who drives racing cars at high speeds | Synonyms: automobile driver, race driver |
| racerunner | (noun) very swift lizard of eastern and central United States | Synonyms: Cnemidophorus sexlineatus, race runner, six-lined racerunner |
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| racetrack | (noun) a course over which races are run | Synonyms: racecourse, raceway, track |
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| raceway | (noun) a canal for a current of water | Synonyms: race |
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| (noun) a course over which races are run | Synonyms: racecourse, racetrack, track |
| rerebrace | (noun) cannon that provides plate armor for the upper arm | Synonyms: upper cannon |
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| retrace | (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: construct, reconstruct |
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| (verb) to go back over again | Synonyms: trace |
| scapegrace | (noun) a reckless and unprincipled reprobate | Synonyms: black sheep |
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| tailrace | (noun) a watercourse that carries water away from a mill or water wheel or turbine | - |
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| terrace | (noun) usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence | Synonyms: patio |
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| (noun) a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face) | - |
| (noun) a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below) | Synonyms: bench |
| (verb) make into terraces as for cultivation | - |
| (verb) provide (a house) with a terrace | Synonyms: terrasse |
| thoracentesis | (noun) removal of fluid from the chest by centesis for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes | Synonyms: thoracocentesis |
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| trace | (noun) a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image | Synonyms: tracing |
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| (noun) either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree | - |
| (noun) an indication that something has been present | Synonyms: shadow, tincture, vestige |
| (noun) a suggestion of some quality | Synonyms: ghost, touch |
| (noun) a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle | - |
| (noun) a just detectable amount | Synonyms: hint, suggestion, tint |
| (verb) follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something | Synonyms: follow |
| (verb) read with difficulty | Synonyms: decipher |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, describe, draw, line |
| (verb) copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of | - |
| (verb) pursue or chase relentlessly | Synonyms: hound, hunt |
| (verb) to go back over again | Synonyms: retrace |
| (verb) make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along | - |
| (verb) discover traces of | - |
| traceable | (adjective) capable of being traced or tracked | Synonyms: trackable |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') able to be traced to | - |
| tracer | (noun) ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke | Synonyms: tracer bullet |
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| (noun) (radiology) any radioactive isotope introduced into the body to study metabolism or other biological processes | - |
| (noun) an instrument used to make tracings | - |
| (noun) an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods | - |
| tracery | (noun) decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs | - |
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| ultracentrifugation | (noun) centrifugation at very high speeds | - |
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| ultracentrifuge | (noun) a high speed centrifuge used to determine the relative molecular masses of large molecules in high polymers and proteins | - |
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| (verb) subject to the action of an ultracentrifuge | - |
| unbrace | (verb) remove a brace or braces from | - |
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| (verb) remove from tension | - |
| (verb) undo the ties of | Synonyms: unlace, untie |
| unbraced | (adjective) without braces or props | - |
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| ungraceful | (adjective) lacking grace; clumsy | Synonyms: graceless |
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| ungracefully | (adverb) without grace; rigidly | Synonyms: gracelessly, ungraciously, woodenly |
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| ungracefulness | (noun) an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression | Synonyms: gracelessness |
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| untraceable | (adjective) incapable of being traced or tracked down | - |
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| vambrace | (noun) cannon of plate armor protecting the forearm | Synonyms: lower cannon |
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