| actinometrical | (adjective) of or related to actinometry | Synonyms: actinometric |
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| affricate | (noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') | Synonyms: affricate consonant, affricative |
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| affrication | (noun) the conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate | - |
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| affricative | (noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') | Synonyms: affricate, affricate consonant |
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| ahistorical | (adjective) unconcerned with or unrelated to history or to historical development or to tradition | - |
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| algometrical | (adjective) of or related to algometry | Synonyms: algometric |
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| allegorical | (adjective) used in or characteristic of or containing allegory | Synonyms: allegoric |
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| allegorically | (adverb) in an allegorical manner | - |
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| allegoricalness | (noun) The state or quality of being allegorical. | - |
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| alphamerical | (adjective) of or pertaining to alphanumeric characters | Synonyms: alphameric, alphanumeric, alphanumerical |
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| alphanumerical | (adjective) of or pertaining to alphanumeric characters | Synonyms: alphameric, alphamerical, alphanumeric |
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| amphitheatrical | (adjective) of or related to an amphitheater | Synonyms: amphitheatric |
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| anemometrical | (adjective) pertaining to the measurement of wind speed and direction | Synonyms: anemometric |
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| anthropometrical | (adjective) of or relating to anthropometry | Synonyms: anthropometric |
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| arborical | (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arborary, arboreal, arborous |
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| aspherical | (adjective) varying slightly from a perfectly spherical shape | Synonyms: aspheric |
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| asymmetrical | (adjective) characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components | Synonyms: asymmetric |
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| (adjective) irregular in shape or outline | Synonyms: crooked |
| asymmetrically | (adverb) in an asymmetrical manner | Synonyms: unsymmetrically |
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| atmospherical | (adjective) relating to or located in the atmosphere | Synonyms: atmospheric |
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| barometrical | (adjective) relating to atmospheric pressure or indicated by a barometer | Synonyms: barometric |
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| barricade | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: roadblock |
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| (noun) a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy | - |
| (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricado |
| (verb) prevent access to by barricading | - |
| (verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
| barricaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, blockaded |
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| barricado | (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricade |
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| bathymetrical | (adjective) of or relating to measurements of the depths of oceans or lakes | Synonyms: bathymetric |
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| bicylindrical | (adjective) having two cylindrical surfaces usually with parallel axes | - |
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| calendrical | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement | Synonyms: calendric |
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| caricature | (noun) a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect | Synonyms: imitation, impersonation |
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| (verb) represent in or produce a caricature of | Synonyms: ape |
| caricaturist | (noun) someone who parodies in an exaggerated manner | - |
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| categorical | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categoric |
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| (adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categoric, flat, unconditional |
| categorically | (adverb) in an unqualified manner | Synonyms: flatly, unconditionally |
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| catoptrical | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptric |
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| centrical | (adjective) having or situated at or near a center | Synonyms: centric |
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| chimerical | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeral, chimeric |
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| (adjective) produced by a wildly fanciful imagination | - |
| clerical | (adjective) of or relating to the clergy | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to clerks | - |
| (adjective) appropriate for or engaged in office work | - |
| clericalism | (noun) a policy of supporting the influence and power of the clergy in secular or political matters | - |
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| clericalist | (noun) one who advocates clericalism | - |
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| clericalization | (noun) The process of increasing the power or influence of a religious hierarchy. | - |
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| colorimetrical | (adjective) of or relating to colorimetry | Synonyms: colorimetric |
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| concentrical | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentric, homocentric |
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| congenerical | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congeneric, congenerous |
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| craniometrical | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometric |
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| cylindrical | (adjective) having the form of a cylinder | Synonyms: cylindric |
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| cylindricality | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder | Synonyms: cylindricalness |
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| cylindricalness | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder | Synonyms: cylindricality |
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| cytophotometrically | (adverb) by cytophotometric means | - |
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| diametrical | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametral, diametric |
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| (adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametric, opposite, polar |
| diametrically | (adverb) as from opposite ends of a diameter | - |
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| divaricate | (verb) spread apart | - |
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| (verb) branch off | - |
| divarication | (noun) branching at a wide angle | - |
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| eccentrically | (adverb) not symmetrically with respect to the center | - |
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| (adverb) in an eccentric or bizarre manner | - |
| electrical | (adjective) relating to or concerned with electricity | - |
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| (adjective) using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity | Synonyms: electric |
| electrically | (adverb) by electricity | - |
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| empirical | (adjective) derived from experiment and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: empiric |
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| (adjective) relying on medical quackery | Synonyms: empiric |
| empirically | (adverb) in an empirical manner | Synonyms: by trial and error, through empirical observation |
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| erica | (noun) any plant of the genus Erica | Synonyms: true heath |
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| esoterica | (noun) secrets known only to an initiated minority | - |
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| extricable | (adjective) capable of being extricated | - |
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| extricate | (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disencumber, disentangle, untangle |
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| extrication | (noun) the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition | Synonyms: disentanglement, unsnarling, untangling |
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| fabricate | (verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, invent, make up, manufacture |
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| (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: construct, manufacture |
| fabricated | (adjective) formed or conceived by the imagination | Synonyms: fancied, fictional, fictitious |
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| fabrication | (noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: manufacture, manufacturing |
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| (noun) the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: assembly |
| (noun) writing in a fictional form | Synonyms: fictionalisation, fictionalization |
| (noun) the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | Synonyms: lying, prevarication |
| (noun) a deliberately false or improbable account | Synonyms: fable, fiction |
| fabricator | (noun) someone who tells lies | Synonyms: fibber, storyteller |
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| fricandeau | (noun) larded veal braised and glazed in its own juices | - |
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| fricassee | (noun) pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings | - |
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| (verb) make a fricassee of by cooking | - |
| fricative | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident |
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| (noun) a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract | Synonyms: fricative consonant, spirant |
| fricativeness | (noun) (phonetics) The quality of being produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality, as the English /f/ and /s/. | - |
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| generically | (adverb) as sharing a common genus | - |
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| (adverb) without a trademark or brand name | - |
| geometrical | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by geometry | Synonyms: geometric |
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| (adjective) characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration | Synonyms: geometric |
| geometrically | (adverb) in a geometric fashion | - |
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| (adverb) with respect to geometry | - |
| hemispherical | (adjective) of or relating to or being a hemisphere | - |
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| historical | (adjective) used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time | Synonyms: diachronic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the study of history | - |
| (adjective) belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past | Synonyms: historic |
| (adjective) having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary | - |
| historically | (adverb) with respect to history | - |
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| (adverb) throughout history | - |
| historicalness | (noun) significance owing to its history | - |
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| (noun) the state of having in fact existed in the past | - |
| hurricane | (noun) a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale) | - |
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| hysterical | (adjective) marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria | Synonyms: hysteric |
| hysterically | (adverb) in a hysterical manner | - |
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| imbricate | (adjective) used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles | Synonyms: imbricated |
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| (verb) overlap | - |
| (verb) place so as to overlap | - |
| imbricated | (adjective) used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles | Synonyms: imbricate |
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| imbrication | (noun) covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) | Synonyms: lapping, overlapping |
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| inextricable | (adjective) not permitting extrication; incapable of being disentangled or untied | - |
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| inextricably | (adverb) in an inextricable manner | - |
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| intricacy | (noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaborateness, elaboration, involution |
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| intricate | (adjective) having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate | - |
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| intricately | (adverb) with elaboration | Synonyms: elaborately, in an elaborate way |
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| isometrical | (adjective) having equal dimensions or measurements | Synonyms: isometric |
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| lorica | (noun) a hard protective sheath (as secreted by certain protoctists, for example) | - |
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| lubricant | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lube, lubricating substance, lubricator |
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| lubricate | (verb) make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant | - |
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| (verb) apply a lubricant to | Synonyms: lube |
| (verb) have lubricating properties | - |
| lubricated | (adjective) smeared with oil or grease to reduce friction | Synonyms: greased |
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| lubrication | (noun) an application of a lubricant to something | - |
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| (noun) the condition of having been made smooth or slippery by the application of a lubricant | - |
| lubricator | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lube, lubricant, lubricating substance |
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| lyrical | (adjective) expressing deep emotion | Synonyms: lyric |
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| (adjective) suitable for or suggestive of singing | - |
| lyricality | (noun) the property of being suitable for singing | Synonyms: lyricism, songfulness |
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| lyrically | (adverb) in a lyrical manner | - |
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| merica | (noun) A pejorative term for the United States | - |
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| mericarp | (noun) a carpel with one seed; one of a pair split apart at maturity | - |
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| metaphorical | (adjective) expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another | Synonyms: metaphoric |
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| metaphorically | (adverb) in a metaphorical manner | - |
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| metrical | (adjective) based on the meter as a standard of measurement | Synonyms: metric |
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| (adjective) the rhythmic arrangement of syllables | Synonyms: measured, metric |