| addlebrained | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlepated, muddleheaded, puddingheaded |
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| afraid | (adjective) filled with fear or apprehension | - |
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| (adjective) filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement | - |
| (adjective) having feelings of aversion or unwillingness | - |
| (adjective) feeling worry or concern or insecurity | - |
| algebraic | (adjective) of or relating to algebra | Synonyms: algebraical |
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| algebraical | (adjective) of or relating to algebra | Synonyms: algebraic |
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| algebraically | (adverb) in an algebraic manner | - |
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| algebraist | (noun) a mathematician whose specialty is algebra | - |
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| appraisal | (noun) an expert estimation of the quality, quantity, and other characteristics of someone or something | - |
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| (noun) the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth | Synonyms: assessment |
| (noun) a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation) | Synonyms: estimate, estimation |
| appraise | (verb) consider in a comprehensive way | Synonyms: survey |
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| (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: assess, evaluate, measure, valuate, value |
| appraiser | (noun) one who estimates officially the worth or value or quality of things | Synonyms: valuator |
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| (noun) one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity | Synonyms: authenticator |
| appraising | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: evaluative |
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| arraign | (verb) accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy | - |
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| (verb) call before a court to answer an indictment | - |
| arraignment | (noun) a legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment | - |
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| betweenbrain | (noun) the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon | Synonyms: diencephalon, interbrain, thalmencephalon |
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| birdbrain | (noun) a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought | Synonyms: addle-head, addlehead, loon |
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| braid | (noun) trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains | Synonyms: braiding, gold braid |
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| (noun) a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair | Synonyms: plait, tress, twist |
| (verb) form or weave into a braid or braids | Synonyms: pleach |
| (verb) decorate with braids or ribbons | - |
| (verb) make by braiding or interlacing | Synonyms: lace, plait |
| braided | (adjective) woven by (or as if by) braiding | - |
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| braiding | (noun) trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains | Synonyms: braid, gold braid |
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| brail | (noun) a small rope (one of several) used to draw a sail in | - |
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| (noun) a small net used to draw fish into a boat | - |
| (verb) haul fish aboard with brails | - |
| (verb) take in a sail with a brail | - |
| braille | (noun) a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals | - |
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| (verb) transcribe in braille | - |
| brain | (noun) that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord | Synonyms: encephalon |
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| (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit |
| (noun) that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason | Synonyms: head, mind, nous, psyche |
| (noun) the brain of certain animals used as meat | - |
| (noun) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality | Synonyms: brainiac, Einstein, genius, mastermind |
| (verb) hit on the head | - |
| (verb) kill by smashing someone's skull | - |
| braincase | (noun) the part of the skull that encloses the brain | Synonyms: brainpan, cranium |
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| brainchild | (noun) a product of your creative thinking and work | Synonyms: inspiration |
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| brainiac | (noun) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality | Synonyms: brain, Einstein, genius, mastermind |
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| brainish | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
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| brainless | (adjective) not using intelligence | Synonyms: headless |
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| brainpan | (noun) the part of the skull that encloses the brain | Synonyms: braincase, cranium |
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| brainpower | (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brain, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit |
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| brainsick | (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
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| brainstem | (noun) the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus | Synonyms: brain-stem, brain stem |
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| brainstorm | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainwave, insight |
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| (verb) try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it | - |
| brainstorming | (noun) a group problem-solving technique in which members spontaneously share ideas and solutions | - |
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| brainwash | (verb) submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly | - |
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| (verb) persuade completely, often through coercion | - |
| brainwashed | (adjective) subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones | - |
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| brainwashing | (noun) forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
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| brainwave | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainstorm, insight |
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| (noun) (neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph | Synonyms: brain wave, cortical potential |
| brainworker | (noun) someone whose profession involves using his head to solve problems | Synonyms: brain-worker |
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| brainy | (adjective) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | Synonyms: brilliant, smart as a whip |
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| braise | (verb) cook in liquid | - |
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| braised | (adjective) cooked by browning in fat and then simmering in a closed container | - |
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| braising | (noun) cooking slowly in fat in a closed pot with little moisture | - |
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| caravanserai | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravansary, khan |
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| choleraic | (adjective) relating to or resulting from or resembling cholera | - |
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| constrain | (verb) severely restrict in scope or extent | Synonyms: stiffen, tighten, tighten up |
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| (verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: confine, hold, restrain |
| (verb) compel to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: enforce, impose |
| constrained | (adjective) lacking spontaneity; not natural | Synonyms: forced, strained |
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| constrainedly | (adverb) in a constrained manner | - |
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| constraining | (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constrictive, limiting, restricting |
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| constraint | (noun) the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others | - |
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| (noun) a device that retards something's motion | Synonyms: restraint |
| (noun) the state of being physically constrained | Synonyms: restraint |
| contrail | (noun) an artificial cloud created by an aircraft; caused either by condensation due to the reduction in air pressure above the wing surface or by water vapor in the engine exhaust | Synonyms: condensation trail |
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| contraindicate | (verb) make a treatment inadvisable | - |
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| contraindication | (noun) (medicine) a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment | - |
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| crackbrained | (adjective) insanely irresponsible | Synonyms: idiotic |
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| derail | (verb) run off or leave the rails | Synonyms: jump |
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| (verb) cause to run off the tracks | - |
| derailment | (noun) an accident in which a train runs off its track | - |
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| detrain | (verb) leave a train | - |
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| dispraise | (noun) the act of speaking contemptuously of | Synonyms: disparagement |
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| distrain | (verb) confiscate by distress | - |
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| (verb) levy a distress on | - |
| (verb) legally take something in place of a debt payment | - |
| distraint | (noun) the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim | Synonyms: distress |
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| distrait | (adjective) having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety | Synonyms: distracted |
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| drain | (noun) emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it | Synonyms: drainage |
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| (noun) a gradual depletion of energy or resources | - |
| (noun) a pipe through which liquid is carried away | Synonyms: drainpipe, waste pipe |
| (noun) tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material | - |
| (verb) empty of liquid; drain the liquid from | - |
| (verb) make weak | Synonyms: debilitate, enfeeble |
| (verb) deplete of resources | - |
| (verb) flow off gradually | Synonyms: run out |
| drainage | (noun) emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it | Synonyms: drain |
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| drainboard | (noun) a board beside a kitchen sink and inclined to drain into the sink | Synonyms: draining board |
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| drained | (adjective) emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid) | - |
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| (adjective) extremely exhausted | Synonyms: knackered |
| (adjective) drained of electric charge; discharged | Synonyms: dead |
| draining | (adjective) having a debilitating effect | Synonyms: exhausting |
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| drainpipe | (noun) a pipe through which liquid is carried away | Synonyms: drain, waste pipe |
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| drainplug | (noun) a removable plug for holding water in a tub or basin | - |
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| entrails | (noun) internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | Synonyms: innards, insides, viscera |
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| entrain | (verb) board a train | - |
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| eyestrain | (noun) a tiredness of the eyes caused by prolonged close work by a person with an uncorrected vision problem | Synonyms: asthenopia |
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| featherbrained | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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| forebrain | (noun) the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube | Synonyms: prosencephalon |
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| frail | (adjective) physically weak | - |
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| (adjective) easily broken or damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: delicate, fragile |
| (adjective) wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings | Synonyms: fallible, imperfect, weak |
| (noun) a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs) | - |
| (noun) the weight of a frail (basket) full of raisins or figs; between 50 and 75 pounds | - |
| frailness | (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: debility, feebleness, frailty, infirmity, valetudinarianism |
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| frailty | (noun) moral weakness | Synonyms: vice |
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| (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: debility, feebleness, frailness, infirmity, valetudinarianism |
| fraise | (noun) sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes | - |
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| (noun) a ruff for the neck worn in the 16th century | - |
| fundraise | (verb) raise money for a cause or project | Synonyms: fund-raise, fund raise |
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| fundraiser | (noun) a social function that is held for the purpose of raising money | - |
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| (noun) someone who solicits financial contributions | - |
| geartrain | (noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gear, gearing, power train, train |
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| grail | (noun) (legend) chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper | Synonyms: Holy Grail, Sangraal |
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| (noun) the object of any prolonged endeavor | - |
| grain | (noun) the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric | - |
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| (noun) the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance) | Synonyms: texture |
| (noun) the smallest possible unit of anything | - |
| (noun) foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses | Synonyms: cereal, food grain |
| (noun) a relatively small granular particle of a substance | - |
| (noun) dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn | Synonyms: caryopsis |
| (noun) a cereal grass | - |
| (noun) 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams | - |
| (noun) 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams | - |
| (noun) a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat | Synonyms: metric grain |
| (noun) the side of leather from which the hair has been removed | - |
| (verb) form into grains | Synonyms: granulate |
| (verb) become granular | Synonyms: granulate |
| (verb) thoroughly work in | Synonyms: ingrain |
| (verb) paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood | - |
| grainfield | (noun) a field where grain is grown | Synonyms: grain field |
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| graininess | (noun) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles | Synonyms: coarseness, granularity |
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| graining | (noun) a texture like that of wood | Synonyms: woodgraining |
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| grainy | (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy |
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| grosgrain | (noun) a silk or silklike fabric with crosswise ribs | - |
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| guardrail | (noun) a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety | Synonyms: safety rail |
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| handrail | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, banister, bannister |
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| harebrained | (adjective) very foolish | Synonyms: insane, mad |
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| hindbrain | (noun) the posterior portion of the brain including cerebellum and brainstem | Synonyms: rhombencephalon |
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| ingrain | (verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: impress, instill |
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| (verb) thoroughly work in | Synonyms: grain |
| ingrained | (adjective) (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held | Synonyms: deep-rooted, deep-seated, implanted, planted |
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| ingraining | (noun) teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition | Synonyms: inculcation, instilling |
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| interbrain | (noun) the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon | Synonyms: betweenbrain, diencephalon, thalmencephalon |
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| krait | (noun) brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern Asia and Malay peninsula | - |
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| midbrain | (noun) the middle portion of the brain | Synonyms: mesencephalon |
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| migraine | (noun) a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men | Synonyms: hemicrania, megrim, sick headache |
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| mithraic | (adjective) of or relating to Mithraism or its god | Synonyms: mithraistic |
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| mithraistic | (adjective) of or relating to Mithraism or its god | Synonyms: mithraic |
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| monorail | (noun) a railway having a single track | - |
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| moraine | (noun) accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier | - |
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| murrain | (noun) any disease of domestic animals that resembles a plague | - |
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