| abbreviate | (verb) shorten | - |
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| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| abbreviated | (adjective) (of clothing) very short | Synonyms: brief |
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| (adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: shortened, truncated |
| abbreviation | (noun) shortening something by omitting parts of it | - |
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| (noun) a shortened form of a word or phrase | - |
| abbreviator | (noun) one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work | Synonyms: abridger |
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| breve | (noun) a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound | - |
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| brevet | (noun) a document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay) | - |
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| (verb) promote somebody by brevet, in the military | - |
| breviary | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a book of prayers to be recited daily by certain priests and members of religious orders | - |
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| brevity | (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: briefness, transience |
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| (noun) the use of brief expressions | - |
| counterevidence | (noun) (philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis. | Synonyms: counter-evidence |
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| counterrevolution | (noun) a revolution whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by a previous revolution | - |
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| counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
| (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionist |
| counterrevolutionist | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary |
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| crevasse | (noun) a deep fissure | - |
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| crevice | (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, fissure, scissure |
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| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, crack, cranny, fissure |
| ecrevisse | (noun) small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America | Synonyms: Old World crayfish |
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| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
| forever | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: eternally, everlastingly, evermore |
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| (adverb) for a very long or seemingly endless time | Synonyms: forever and a day |
| (adverb) invariably | Synonyms: always, constantly, incessantly, perpetually |
| forevermore | (adverb) at any future time; in the future | Synonyms: evermore |
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| grevillea | (noun) any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea | - |
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| irreverence | (noun) a disrespectful act | Synonyms: violation |
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| (noun) an irreverent mental attitude | - |
| 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 | - |
| irreversibility | (noun) the quality of being irreversible (once done it cannot be changed) | - |
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| irreversible | (adjective) incapable of being reversed | - |
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| irreversibly | (adverb) in an irreversible manner | - |
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| irrevocability | (noun) The state or condition of being impossible to retract or reverse; finality. | - |
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| irrevocable | (adjective) incapable of being retracted or revoked | Synonyms: irrevokable |
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| irrevocably | (adverb) in an irrevocable manner | - |
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| irrevokable | (adjective) incapable of being retracted or revoked | Synonyms: irrevocable |
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| nonreversible | (adjective) not reversible or capable of having either side out | Synonyms: one-sided |
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| pareve | (adjective) containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism | Synonyms: parve |
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| prevail | (verb) use persuasion successfully | - |
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| (verb) prove superior | Synonyms: triumph |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, persist, run |
| (verb) be valid, applicable, or true | Synonyms: hold, obtain |
| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, predominate, reign, rule |
| prevailing | (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, predominant, prevalent, rife |
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| prevalence | (noun) the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread | - |
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| (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: preponderance |
| (noun) (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population | - |
| prevalent | (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, predominant, prevailing, rife |
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| prevaricate | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, palter, tergiversate |
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| prevarication | (noun) the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | Synonyms: fabrication, lying |
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| (noun) intentionally vague or ambiguous | Synonyms: equivocation, evasiveness |
| (noun) a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth | Synonyms: lie |
| prevaricator | (noun) a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly | Synonyms: liar |
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| prevenient | (adjective) in anticipation | Synonyms: anticipatory |
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| prevent | (verb) stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state | Synonyms: keep |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude |
| preventable | (adjective) capable of being prevented | - |
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| preventative | (adjective) tending to prevent or hinder | Synonyms: preventive |
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| (adjective) preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease | Synonyms: preventive, prophylactic |
| (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventive, prophylactic |
| (noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive, contraceptive device, preventive, prophylactic device |
| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventive |
| prevention | (noun) the act of preventing | Synonyms: bar |
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| preventive | (adjective) tending to prevent or hinder | Synonyms: preventative |
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| (adjective) preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease | Synonyms: preventative, prophylactic |
| (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventative, prophylactic |
| (noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive, contraceptive device, preventative, prophylactic device |
| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative |
| preventiveness | (noun) The property of preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to something. | - |
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| preview | (noun) a screening for a select audience in advance of release for the general public | - |
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| (noun) an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future | Synonyms: prevue, trailer |
| (verb) watch (a movie or play) before it is released to the general public | - |
| previous | (adjective) too soon or too hasty | Synonyms: premature |
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| (adjective) (used especially of persons) of the immediate past | Synonyms: former, late |
| (adjective) just preceding something else in time or order | Synonyms: old |
| previously | (adverb) at an earlier time or formerly | Synonyms: antecedently |
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| previse | (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: anticipate, foreknow, foresee |
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| (verb) warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning | Synonyms: forewarn |
| prevision | (noun) the power to foresee the future | Synonyms: prescience |
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| (noun) a prophetic vision (as in a dream) | - |
| (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, foresight, prospicience |
| (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: anticipation, prediction |
| prevue | (noun) an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future | Synonyms: preview, trailer |
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| rev | (noun) rate of revolution of a motor | Synonyms: revolutions per minute, rpm |
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| (verb) increase the number of rotations per minute | Synonyms: rev up |
| revaluation | (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reappraisal, reassessment, review |
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| revalue | (verb) gain in value | Synonyms: appreciate, apprise, apprize |
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| (verb) value anew | - |
| revamp | (verb) to patch up or renovate; repair or restore | - |
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| (verb) provide (a shoe) with a new vamp | Synonyms: vamp |
| reveal | (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, uncover, unwrap |
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| (verb) make manifest | Synonyms: bring out, unveil |
| (verb) disclose directly or through prophets | - |
| revealing | (adjective) showing or making known | - |
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| (adjective) disclosing unintentionally something concealed | Synonyms: telling, telltale |
| (noun) the speech act of making something evident | Synonyms: disclosure, revelation |
| reveille | (noun) a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise | - |
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| (noun) (military) signal to wake up | Synonyms: wake-up signal |
| revel | (noun) unrestrained merrymaking | Synonyms: revelry |
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| (verb) take delight in | Synonyms: delight, enjoy |
| (verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopee, racket, wassail, whoop it up |
| revelation | (noun) an enlightening or astonishing disclosure | - |
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| (noun) communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency | Synonyms: divine revelation |
| (noun) the speech act of making something evident | Synonyms: disclosure, revealing |
| revelatory | (adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom | Synonyms: apocalyptic, apocalyptical |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, significative, suggestive |
| reveler | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: merrymaker, reveller |
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| reveller | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: merrymaker, reveler |
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| revelry | (noun) unrestrained merrymaking | Synonyms: revel |
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| revenant | (adjective) of or relating to or typical of a revenant | - |
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| (adjective) coming back | Synonyms: recurring |
| (noun) someone who has returned from the dead | - |
| (noun) a person who returns after a lengthy absence | - |
| revenge | (noun) action taken in return for an injury or offense | Synonyms: retaliation |
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| (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: avenge, retaliate |
| revengeful | (adjective) disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge | Synonyms: vengeful, vindictive |
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| revengefully | (adverb) in a vindictive, revengeful manner | Synonyms: vengefully, vindictively |
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| revenue | (noun) the entire amount of income before any deductions are made | Synonyms: gross, receipts |
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| (noun) government income due to taxation | Synonyms: tax income, tax revenue, taxation |
| revenuer | (noun) a government agent responsible for collecting revenue (especially one responsible for stopping bootlegging) | - |
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| reverberance | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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| reverberant | (adjective) having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected | - |
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| reverberate | (verb) treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace | - |
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| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: echo, resound, ring |
| (verb) to throw or bend back (from a surface) | Synonyms: reflect |
| (verb) be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves | - |
| (verb) have a long or continuing effect | - |
| reverberating | (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberative |
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| reverberation | (noun) the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves | Synonyms: echo, replication, sound reflection |
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| (noun) a remote or indirect consequence of some action | Synonyms: repercussion |
| reverberative | (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating |
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| revere | (noun) a lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side | Synonyms: revers |
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| (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: fear, reverence, venerate |
| (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, idolize, worship |
| revered | (adjective) profoundly honored | Synonyms: august, venerable |
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| reverence | (noun) an act showing respect (especially a bow or curtsy) | - |
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| (noun) a reverent mental attitude | - |
| (noun) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something | Synonyms: awe, fear, veneration |
| (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: fear, revere, venerate |
| reverend | (adjective) worthy of adoration or reverence | Synonyms: sublime |
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| (noun) a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church | Synonyms: clergyman, man of the cloth |
| 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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| reverie | (noun) an abstracted state of absorption | Synonyms: revery |
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| (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, revery |
| revers | (noun) a lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side | Synonyms: revere |
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| reversal | (noun) a change from one state to the opposite state | - |
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| (noun) the act of reversing the order or place of | Synonyms: transposition |
| (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reverse, reversion, turnabout, turnaround |
| (noun) a major change in attitude or principle or point of view | Synonyms: about-face, policy change, volte-face |
| (noun) a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside | - |
| (noun) a decision to reverse an earlier decision | Synonyms: change of mind, flip-flop, turnabout, turnaround |
| (noun) turning in an opposite direction or position | Synonyms: turn around |
| (noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, blow, reverse, setback |
| reverse | (adjective) of the transmission gear causing backward movement in a motor vehicle | - |
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| (adjective) directed or moving toward the rear | Synonyms: rearward |
| (adjective) reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect | Synonyms: inverse |
| (noun) (American football) a running play in which a back running in one direction hands the ball to a back running in the opposite direction | - |
| (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reversion, turnabout, turnaround |
| (noun) the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed | Synonyms: reverse gear |
| (noun) the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design | Synonyms: verso |
| (noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, blow, reversal, setback |
| (noun) a relation of direct opposition | Synonyms: contrary, opposite |
| (verb) change to the contrary | Synonyms: change by reversal, turn |
| (verb) turn inside out or upside down | Synonyms: invert, turn back |
| (verb) reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of | Synonyms: invert |
| (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overthrow, overturn |
| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, revoke, vacate |
| reversed | (adjective) turned about in order or relation | Synonyms: converse, transposed |
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| (adjective) turned inside out and resewn | - |
| reversely | (adverb) in an opposite way; so as to be reversed | - |
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| reversibility | (noun) the quality of being reversible in either direction | - |
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| reversible | (adjective) capable of reversing or being reversed | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being reversed or used with either side out | Synonyms: two-sided |
| (adjective) capable of assuming or producing either of two states | - |
| (adjective) capable of being reversed | - |
| (noun) a garment (especially a coat) that can be worn inside out (with either side of the cloth showing) | - |
| reversibly | (adverb) in a reversible manner | - |
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| reversion | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reverting |
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| (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reverse, turnabout, turnaround |
| (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retrogression, retroversion |
| (noun) (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation) | - |
| (noun) a reappearance of an earlier characteristic | Synonyms: atavism, throwback |
| (noun) (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee) | - |
| reversionary | (adjective) of or relating to or involving a reversion (especially a legal reversion) | - |
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| reversioner | (noun) (law) a party who is entitled to an estate in reversion | - |
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| reversionist | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: backslider, recidivist |
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| reversive | (adjective) tending to be turned back | Synonyms: returning |
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| revert | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, retrovert, return, turn back |
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| (verb) undergo reversion, as in a mutation | - |
| revertible | (adjective) to be returned to the former owner or that owner's heirs | - |
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| reverting | (adjective) tending to return to an earlier state | Synonyms: returning |
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| (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion |