| abhorrent | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
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| adherent | (adjective) sticking fast | - |
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| (noun) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another | Synonyms: disciple |
| afferent | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS | - |
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| (noun) a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system | Synonyms: afferent nerve, sensory nerve |
| apparent | (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: evident, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
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| (adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so | Synonyms: ostensible, seeming |
| apparently | (adverb) from appearances alone | Synonyms: on the face of it, ostensibly, seemingly |
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| (adverb) unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly') | Synonyms: evidently, manifestly, obviously, patently, plain, plainly |
| apparentness | (noun) the property of being apparent | Synonyms: apparency |
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| apprentice | (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: learner, prentice |
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| (verb) be or work as an apprentice | - |
| apprenticed | (adjective) bound by contract | Synonyms: articled, bound, indentured |
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| apprenticeship | (noun) the position of apprentice | - |
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| belligerent | (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: aggressive |
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| (adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: militant, war-ridden, warring |
| (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
| belligerently | (adverb) with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner | Synonyms: hostilely |
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| besprent | (adjective) sprinkled over | - |
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| brent | (noun) small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward | Synonyms: brant, brant goose, brent goose |
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| circumferent | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: encompassing, surrounding |
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| circumferential | (adjective) lying around or just outside the edges or outskirts | - |
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| coherent | (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: consistent, logical, ordered |
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| (adjective) (physics) of waves having a constant phase relation | - |
| (adjective) sticking together | Synonyms: tenacious |
| (adjective) capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner | Synonyms: logical, lucid |
| coherently | (adverb) in a coherent manner | - |
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| comburent | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, combustive |
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| concurrent | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| concurrently | (adverb) overlapping in duration | Synonyms: at the same time |
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| coreferent | (adjective) related by sharing a symbolic link to a concrete object or an abstraction | - |
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| coreferential | (adjective) relating to coreference | Synonyms: co-referent |
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| corticoafferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticipetal |
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| corticoefferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticifugal, corticofugal |
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| countercurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: crosscurrent |
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| (noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: crosscurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
| crosscurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: countercurrent |
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| (noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
| current | (adjective) occurring in or belonging to the present time | - |
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| (noun) a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) | Synonyms: stream |
| (noun) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas | Synonyms: flow, stream |
| (noun) a flow of electricity through a conductor | Synonyms: electric current |
| currently | (adverb) at this time or period; now | Synonyms: presently |
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| currentness | (noun) the property of belonging to the present time | Synonyms: currency, up-to-dateness |
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| dedifferentiate | (verb) lose specialization in form or function | - |
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| dedifferentiated | (adjective) having experienced or undergone dedifferentiation or the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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| dedifferentiation | (noun) the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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| deferent | (adjective) showing deference | Synonyms: deferential, regardful |
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| deferential | (adjective) showing deference | Synonyms: deferent, regardful |
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| deferentially | (adverb) in a respectfully deferential manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a servile manner | Synonyms: submissively |
| deterrent | (adjective) tending to deter | - |
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| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
| different | (adjective) unlike in nature or quality or form or degree | - |
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| (adjective) distinctly separate from the first | - |
| (adjective) differing from all others; not ordinary | - |
| (adjective) distinct or separate | - |
| differentia | (noun) distinguishing characteristics (especially in different species of a genus) | - |
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| differentiable | (adjective) possessing a differential coefficient or derivative | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being perceived as different | - |
| differential | (adjective) relating to or showing a difference | - |
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| (adjective) involving or containing one or more derivatives | - |
| (noun) a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds; used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves | Synonyms: differential gear |
| (noun) a quality that differentiates between similar things | - |
| (noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derivative, derived function, differential coefficient, first derivative |
| differentially | (adverb) in a differential manner | - |
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| differentiate | (verb) become distinct and acquire a different character | - |
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| (verb) become different during development | - |
| (verb) evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | Synonyms: specialise, specialize, speciate |
| (verb) calculate a derivative; take the derivative | - |
| (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: distinguish, mark |
| differentiated | (adjective) made different (especially in the course of development) or shown to be different | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting biological specialization; adapted during development to a specific function or environment | - |
| differentiation | (noun) the mathematical process of obtaining the derivative of a function | - |
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| (noun) a discrimination between things as different and distinct on the basis of their characteristics or attributes | Synonyms: distinction |
| (noun) (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function | Synonyms: specialisation, specialization |
| differentiator | (noun) a person who (or that which) differentiates | Synonyms: discriminator |
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| differently | (adverb) in another and different manner | Synonyms: otherwise |
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| efferent | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS | Synonyms: motorial |
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| (noun) a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands | Synonyms: efferent nerve, motor nerve |
| godparent | (noun) a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism | - |
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| grandparent | (noun) a parent of your father or mother | - |
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| incoherent | (adjective) without logical or meaningful connection | - |
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| (adjective) (physics) of waves having no stable definite or stable phase relation | - |
| (adjective) unable to express yourself clearly or fluently | Synonyms: tongue-tied |
| incoherently | (adverb) in an incoherent manner | - |
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| indifferent | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed | Synonyms: deaf |
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| (adjective) characterized by a lack of partiality | Synonyms: unbiased, unbiassed |
| (adjective) fairly poor to not very good | - |
| (adjective) neither too great nor too little | - |
| (adjective) being neither good nor bad | Synonyms: so-so |
| (adjective) showing no care or concern in attitude or action | - |
| (adjective) (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other | Synonyms: immaterial |
| (adjective) marked by a lack of interest | Synonyms: apathetic |
| (adjective) having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive | Synonyms: inert, neutral |
| (adjective) marked by no especial liking or dislike or preference for one thing over another | - |
| indifferently | (adverb) with indifference; in an indifferent manner | - |
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| inferential | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of illation or inference | Synonyms: illative |
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| (adjective) derived or capable of being derived by inference | - |
| (adjective) based on interpretation; not directly expressed | - |
| (adjective) of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion | - |
| (adjective) resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference | Synonyms: illative |
| inherent | (adjective) in the nature of something though not readily apparent | Synonyms: implicit in, underlying |
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| (adjective) existing as an essential constituent or characteristic | Synonyms: built-in, constitutional, inbuilt, integral |
| inherently | (adverb) in an inherent manner | - |
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| irreverent | (adjective) showing lack of due respect or veneration | - |
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| (adjective) not revering god | Synonyms: godless |
| (adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: impertinent, pert, saucy |
| irreverently | (adverb) without respect | - |
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| (adverb) in an irreverent manner | - |
| nonbelligerent | (adjective) not directly at war | - |
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| noncurrent | (adjective) not current or belonging to the present time | - |
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| occurrent | (adjective) presently occurring (either causally or incidentally) | - |
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| (noun) an event that happens | Synonyms: happening, natural event, occurrence |
| overenthusiastic | (adjective) unduly enthusiastic | - |
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| parent | (noun) an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained | - |
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| (noun) a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian | - |
| (verb) look after a child until it is an adult | Synonyms: bring up, nurture, raise, rear |
| parentage | (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, pedigree, stemma, stock |
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| (noun) the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents | Synonyms: birth |
| (noun) the state of being a parent | Synonyms: parenthood |
| parental | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent | Synonyms: maternal, paternal |
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| (adjective) designating the generation of organisms from which hybrid offspring are produced | - |
| parentally | (adverb) in a parental manner | - |
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| parented | (adjective) having a parent or parents or cared for by parent surrogates | - |
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| parenteral | (adjective) located outside the alimentary tract | - |
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| (adjective) administered by means other than through the alimentary tract (as by intramuscular or intravenous injection) | - |
| parenterally | (adverb) by parenteral means | - |
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| parenthesis | (noun) either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material | - |
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| (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, divagation, excursus |
| parenthetic | (adjective) qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses | Synonyms: parenthetical |
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| parenthetical | (adjective) qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses | Synonyms: parenthetic |
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| (noun) an expression in parentheses | Synonyms: parenthetical expression |
| parenthetically | (adverb) in a parenthetical manner | - |
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| parenthood | (noun) the state of being a parent | Synonyms: parentage |
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| parentless | (adjective) having no parent or parents or not cared for by parent surrogates | Synonyms: unparented |
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| preferent | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, favourite, pet, preferred |
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| preferential | (adjective) manifesting partiality | Synonyms: discriminatory |
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| preferentially | (adverb) in a preferential manner | - |
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| prentice | (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: apprentice, learner |
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| recurrent | (adjective) recurring again and again | Synonyms: perennial, repeated |
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| recurrently | (adverb) in a recurrent manner | - |
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| referent | (adjective) having reference | - |
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| (noun) something referred to; the object of a reference | - |
| (noun) the first term in a proposition; the term to which other terms relate | - |
| (noun) something that refers; a term that refers to another term | - |
| referential | (adjective) referring or pointing to something | - |
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| rent | (noun) the act of rending or ripping or splitting something | Synonyms: rip, split |
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| (noun) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | Synonyms: rip, snag, split, tear |
| (noun) a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service | - |
| (noun) the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions | Synonyms: economic rent |
| (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, engage, hire, lease, take |
| (verb) grant use or occupation of under a term of contract | Synonyms: lease, let |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: charter, hire, lease |
| (verb) let for money | Synonyms: lease |
| rentable | (adjective) that is able or fit be rented | - |
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| rental | (adjective) of or relating to rent | - |
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| (adjective) available to rent or lease | - |
| (noun) the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment or house or car) | Synonyms: renting |
| (noun) property that is leased or rented out or let | Synonyms: lease, letting |
| rente | (noun) income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments | Synonyms: annuity |
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| renter | (noun) someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else | Synonyms: tenant |
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| (noun) an owner of property who receives payment for its use by another person | - |
| rentier | (noun) someone whose income is from property rents or bond interest and other investments | - |
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| renting | (noun) the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment or house or car) | Synonyms: rental |
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| reverent | (adjective) feeling or showing profound respect or veneration | - |
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| (adjective) showing great reverence for god | Synonyms: godly, worshipful |
| reverential | (adjective) feeling or manifesting veneration | Synonyms: respectful, venerating |
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| reverentially | (adverb) with reverence; in a reverent manner | Synonyms: reverently |
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| reverently | (adverb) with reverence; in a reverent manner | Synonyms: reverentially |
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| semitransparent | (adjective) allowing light to pass through diffusely | Synonyms: translucent |
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| stepparent | (noun) the spouse of your parent by a subsequent marriage | - |
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| torrent | (noun) a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: violent stream |
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| (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, waterspout |
| (noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundation |
| torrential | (adjective) relating to or resulting from the action of a torrent | - |
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| (adjective) pouring in abundance | - |
| (adjective) resembling a torrent in force and abundance | - |
| transparent | (adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, lucid, pellucid |
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| (adjective) easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety) | - |
| (adjective) free of deceit | Synonyms: guileless |
| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, vaporous, vapourous |
| transparently | (adverb) so as to allow the passage of light | - |
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| (adverb) so as to be easily understood or seen through | - |