| abecedarian | (adjective) alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers) | - |
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| (noun) a novice learning the rudiments of some subject | - |
| actiniarian | (noun) any sea anemone or related animal | Synonyms: actinia, actinian |
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| agrarian | (adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agricultural, farming |
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| antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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| antiestablishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentism |
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| antiquarian | (adjective) of or relating to antiques or antiquities | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques or antiquities | - |
| (noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquary, archaist |
| apiarian | (adjective) relating to bees or beekeeping | - |
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| archosaurian | (adjective) of or relating to reptiles of the subclass Archosauria | - |
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| (noun) extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, thecodonts | Synonyms: archosaur, archosaurian reptile |
| arianist | (noun) an adherent of Arianism (the belief that Jesus Christ was not truly God) | - |
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| authoritarian | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| (noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: dictator |
| authoritarianism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| barbarian | (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild |
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| (noun) a member of an uncivilized people | Synonyms: savage |
| (noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: boor, churl, Goth, peasant, tike, tyke |
| biriani | (noun) an Indian dish made with highly seasoned rice and meat or fish or vegetables | Synonyms: biryani |
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| caesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, cesarean, cesarian |
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| (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
| centenarian | (adjective) being at least 100 years old | - |
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| (noun) someone who is at least 100 years old | - |
| cesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, caesarian, cesarean |
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| (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian section |
| cnidarian | (noun) radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms | Synonyms: coelenterate |
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| contrarian | (noun) an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors | - |
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| coriander | (noun) parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, cilantro |
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| (noun) dried coriander seeds used whole or ground | Synonyms: coriander seed |
| (noun) Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, cilantro, coriander plant, Coriandrum sativum |
| covariance | (noun) (statistics) the mean value of the product of the deviations of two variates from their respective means | - |
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| covariant | (adjective) changing so that interrelations with another variable quantity or set of quantities remain unchanged | - |
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| cyprian | (adjective) resembling the ancient orgiastic worship of Aphrodite on Cyprus | - |
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| (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
| disciplinarian | (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: martinet, moralist |
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| durian | (noun) huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts | - |
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| (noun) tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind | Synonyms: durian tree, Durio zibethinus, durion |
| egalitarian | (adjective) favoring social equality | Synonyms: classless |
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| (noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: equalitarian |
| egalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: equalitarianism |
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| equalitarian | (noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: egalitarian |
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| equalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: egalitarianism |
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| equestrian | (adjective) of or relating to or featuring horseback riding | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or composed of knights | - |
| (noun) a person skilled in equitation | Synonyms: horseback rider |
| establishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentism |
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| euphoriant | (adjective) tending to produce euphoria | - |
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| (noun) a psychoactive drug that tends to produce elation and euphoria | - |
| eutherian | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the subclass Eutheria | - |
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| (noun) mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials | Synonyms: eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal |
| flexitarianism | (noun) The practice of eating mainly vegetarian food, but making occasional exceptions for social, pragmatic, cultural, or nutritional reasons. | Synonyms: semi-vegetarianism |
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| grammarian | (noun) a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax | Synonyms: syntactician |
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| hereditarianism | (noun) the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth | - |
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| historian | (noun) a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it | Synonyms: historiographer |
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| holothurian | (noun) echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders | Synonyms: sea cucumber |
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| humanitarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of humanitarianism | - |
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| (adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanist, humanistic |
| (noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, improver |
| (noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanist |
| humanitarianism | (noun) the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare | Synonyms: humanism |
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| inebriant | (noun) a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent | Synonyms: alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, intoxicant |
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| infusorian | (noun) any member of the subclass Infusoria | - |
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| invariance | (noun) the quality of being resistant to variation | Synonyms: invariability, invariableness |
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| (noun) the nature of a quantity or property or function that remains unchanged when a given transformation is applied to it | - |
| invariant | (adjective) unvarying in nature | Synonyms: changeless, constant, unvarying |
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| (adjective) unaffected by a designated operation or transformation | - |
| (noun) a feature (quantity or property or function) that remains unchanged when a particular transformation is applied to it | - |
| lapidarian | (adjective) inscribed on stone | - |
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| latitudinarian | (adjective) unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion) | Synonyms: free-thinking, undogmatic, undogmatical |
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| (noun) a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct) | - |
| libertarian | (noun) someone who believes the doctrine of free will | - |
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| (noun) an advocate of libertarianism | - |
| libertarianism | (noun) an ideological belief in freedom of thought, speech and action | - |
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| librarian | (noun) a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services | Synonyms: bibliothec |
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| librarianship | (noun) the position of librarian | - |
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| luxuriance | (noun) the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses | Synonyms: lushness, voluptuousness |
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| luxuriant | (adjective) produced or growing in extreme abundance | Synonyms: exuberant, lush, profuse, riotous |
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| (adjective) marked by complexity and richness of detail | Synonyms: elaborate |
| (adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: epicurean, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous |
| luxuriantly | (adverb) in a manner marked by complexity and richness of detail | - |
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| (adverb) extremely abundant in growth or production | - |
| megatherian | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian mammal, megatheriid |
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| metatherian | (noun) primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas | - |
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| millenarian | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: chiliastic |
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| (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarist |
| millenarianism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarism, millenniumism |
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| necessitarian | (noun) someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will | - |
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| nonagenarian | (adjective) being from 90 to 99 years old | - |
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| (noun) someone whose age is in the nineties | - |
| nonsectarian | (adjective) not restricted to one sect or school or party | Synonyms: unsectarian |
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| octogenarian | (adjective) being from 80 to 89 years old | - |
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| (noun) someone whose age is in the eighties | - |
| ovarian | (adjective) of or involving the ovaries | - |
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| parliamentarian | (noun) an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures | - |
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| pedestrian | (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: earthbound, prosaic, prosy |
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| (noun) a person who travels by foot | Synonyms: footer, walker |
| perianal | (adjective) around the anus | - |
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| perianth | (noun) collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils | Synonyms: chlamys, floral envelope, perigone, perigonium |
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| planarian | (noun) free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts | Synonyms: planaria |
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| platitudinarian | (noun) a bore who makes excessive use of platitudes | - |
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| pollotarianism | (noun) the practice of following a diet that includes chicken or other poultry, but not meat from mammals. | - |
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| praetorian | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, pretorial, pretorian |
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| predestinarian | (adjective) of or relating to predestination; holding the doctrine of predestination | - |
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| (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinationist |
| predestinarianism | (noun) the belief or doctrine of predestinarians | - |
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| prelapsarian | (adjective) of or relating to the time before the Fall of Adam and Eve | - |
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| pretorian | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, praetorian, pretorial |
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| proletarian | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat | - |
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| (noun) a member of the working class (not necessarily employed) | Synonyms: prole, worker |
| proletarianism | (noun) The condition or political position of a member of the working class. | - |
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| prototherian | (noun) primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea | - |
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| radiolarian | (noun) protozoa with amoeba-like bodies and radiating filamentous pseudopods | - |
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| riant | (adjective) showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness | Synonyms: laughing |
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| riparian | (adjective) of or relating to or located on the banks of a river or stream | - |
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| salutatorian | (noun) a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises | Synonyms: salutatory speaker |
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| saurian | (adjective) of or relating to lizards | Synonyms: lacertilian |
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| (noun) any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs | - |
| sectarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects | - |
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| (noun) a member of a sect | Synonyms: sectarist, sectary |
| sectarianism | (noun) a narrow-minded adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination | Synonyms: denominationalism |
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| seminarian | (noun) a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary) | Synonyms: seminarist |
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| septuagenarian | (noun) someone whose age is in the seventies | - |
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| sertularian | (noun) feathery colony of long-branched stems bearing stalkless paired polyps | - |
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| sexagenarian | (adjective) being from 60 to 69 years old | - |
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| (noun) someone whose age is in the sixties | - |
| solitudinarian | (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: hermit, recluse, solitary, troglodyte |
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| stentorian | (adjective) (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant | Synonyms: booming |
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| tarriance | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: lingering |
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| tellurian | (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: telluric, terrene, terrestrial |
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| (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, earthman, worldling |
| titanosaurian | (noun) amphibious quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur with a long thin neck and whiplike tail; of the Cretaceous mostly in the Southern Hemisphere | Synonyms: titanosaur |
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| totalitarian | (adjective) of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life | Synonyms: totalistic |
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| (adjective) characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control | - |
| (noun) an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government | - |
| totalitarianism | (noun) an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government. | Synonyms: absolutism, totalism |
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| (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, tyranny |
| triangle | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle | - |
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| (noun) any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles | - |
| (noun) a three-sided polygon | Synonyms: trigon, trilateral |
| (noun) something approximating the shape of a triangle | - |
| triangular | (adjective) having three angles; forming or shaped like a triangle | - |
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| (adjective) having three sides | Synonyms: three-sided, trilateral |
| triangularity | (noun) the property of being shaped like a triangle | - |
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| triangulate | (adjective) composed of or marked with triangles | - |
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| (verb) survey by triangulation | - |
| (verb) measure by using trigonometry | - |
| (verb) divide into triangles or give a triangular form to | - |
| triangulation | (noun) a method of surveying; the area is divided into triangles and the length of one side and its angles with the other two are measured, then the lengths of the other sides can be calculated | - |
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| (noun) a trigonometric method of determining the position of a fixed point from the angles to it from two fixed points of a known distance apart; useful in navigation | - |
| unsectarian | (adjective) not restricted to one sect or school or party | Synonyms: nonsectarian |
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