| acrylonitrile | (noun) a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene | Synonyms: propenonitrile, vinyl cyanide |
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| afebrile | (adjective) having no fever | - |
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| airily | (adverb) in a flippant manner | Synonyms: flippantly |
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| angrily | (adverb) with anger | - |
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| arbitrarily | (adverb) in a random manner | Synonyms: at random, every which way, haphazardly, indiscriminately, randomly, willy-nilly |
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| aril | (noun) fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelops the seed | - |
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| ariled | (adjective) (of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover | Synonyms: arillate |
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| arillate | (adjective) (of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover | Synonyms: ariled |
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| banderilla | (noun) a decorated dart that is implanted in the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight | - |
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| banderillero | (noun) the bullfighter who implants decorated darts (banderillas) into the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight | - |
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| barilla | (noun) Algerian plant formerly burned to obtain calcium carbonate | Synonyms: Halogeton souda |
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| (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort |
| brill | (noun) European food fish | Synonyms: Scophthalmus rhombus |
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| brilliance | (noun) a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted | Synonyms: blaze, glare |
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| (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: grandeur, grandness, magnificence, splendor, splendour |
| (noun) unusual mental ability | Synonyms: genius |
| brilliancy | (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: luster, lustre, splendor, splendour |
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| brilliant | (adjective) full of light; shining intensely | - |
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| (adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: bright, vivid |
| (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: glorious, magnificent, splendid |
| (adjective) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | Synonyms: brainy, smart as a whip |
| (adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: bright |
| (adjective) of surpassing excellence | Synonyms: superb |
| brilliantine | (noun) a pomade to make the hair manageable and lustrous | - |
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| brilliantly | (adverb) in an extremely intelligent way | - |
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| (adverb) with brightness | Synonyms: bright, brightly |
| camarilla | (noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue | Synonyms: cabal, faction, junto |
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| captopril | (noun) a drug (trade name Capoten) that blocks the formation of angiotensin in the kidneys resulting in vasodilation; used in the treatment of hypertension and congestive heart failure | Synonyms: Capoten |
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| carillon | (noun) playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower | Synonyms: bell ringing, carillon playing |
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| (noun) set of bells hung in a bell tower | - |
| carillonneur | (noun) a musician who plays a carillon | - |
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| cascarilla | (noun) West Indian shrub with aromatic bark | Synonyms: Croton eluteria |
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| charily | (adverb) with great caution; warily | - |
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| cheerily | (adverb) in a good-humoured manner | Synonyms: pleasantly, sunnily |
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| chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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| cigarillo | (noun) small cigar or cigarette wrapped in tobacco instead of paper | - |
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| compulsorily | (adverb) in a manner that cannot be evaded | Synonyms: mandatorily, obligatorily |
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| contradictorily | (adverb) in a contradictory manner | - |
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| contrarily | (adverb) contrary to expectations | Synonyms: contrariwise, on the contrary, to the contrary |
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| (adverb) in a contrary disobedient manner | Synonyms: contrariwise, perversely |
| courbaril | (noun) West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood | Synonyms: Hymenaea courbaril |
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| cursorily | (adverb) without taking pains | Synonyms: quickly |
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| customarily | (adverb) by custom; according to common practice | - |
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| cyrilla | (noun) shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage | Synonyms: Cyrilla racemiflora, leatherwood, white titi |
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| defibrillate | (verb) stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks | - |
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| defibrillation | (noun) treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator) | - |
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| defibrillator | (noun) an electronic device that administers an electric shock of preset voltage to the heart through the chest wall in an attempt to restore the normal rhythm of the heart during ventricular fibrillation | - |
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| derisorily | (adverb) in a disrespectful and mocking manner | Synonyms: derisively, mockingly, scoffingly |
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| drearily | (adverb) in a cheerless manner | Synonyms: dismally |
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| drill | (noun) systematic training by multiple repetitions | Synonyms: exercise, practice, practice session, recitation |
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| (noun) (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms | - |
| (noun) similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored | Synonyms: Mandrillus leucophaeus |
| (noun) a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows) | - |
| (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: exercise, practice, practise |
| (verb) teach by repetition | - |
| (verb) train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons | - |
| (verb) undergo military training or do military exercises | - |
| (verb) make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool | Synonyms: bore |
| drilled | (adjective) trained in a skill by repetitious practice | - |
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| drilling | (noun) the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum | Synonyms: boring, oil production |
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| (noun) the act of drilling | Synonyms: boring |
| drily | (adverb) in a dry laconic manner | Synonyms: dryly, laconically |
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| eerily | (adverb) in an unnatural eery manner | Synonyms: spookily |
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| elementarily | (adverb) in an elementary manner | - |
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| enalapril | (noun) an ACE inhibitor (trade name Vasotec) that blocks the formation of angiotensin in the kidney and so results in vasodilation; administered after heart attacks | Synonyms: Vasotec |
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| escadrille | (noun) an air force squadron typically containing six airplanes (as in France during World War I) | - |
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| (noun) a small squadron | - |
| espadrille | (noun) a sandal with a sole made of rope or rubber and a cloth upper part | - |
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| evolutionarily | (adverb) in an evolutionary way; from an evolutionary point of view | - |
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| extemporarily | (adverb) without prior preparation | Synonyms: extemporaneously, extempore |
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| extraordinarily | (adverb) to a surprising degree | Synonyms: inordinately |
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| febrile | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by fever | Synonyms: feverish |
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| febrility | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, fever, feverishness, pyrexia |
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| fibril | (noun) a very slender natural or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: filament, strand |
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| fibrillate | (verb) make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements | - |
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| fibrillation | (noun) act or process of forming fibrils | - |
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| (noun) muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination | - |
| fibrillose | (adjective) covered with fibrils more or less evenly disposed | - |
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| fierily | (adverb) with passionate fervor | Synonyms: fervently, fervidly |
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| florilegium | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: garland, miscellany |
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| frill | (noun) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim | Synonyms: flounce, furbelow, ruffle |
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| (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
| (noun) an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal | Synonyms: ruff |
| (noun) (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs | - |
| frilled | (adjective) having decorative ruffles or frills | Synonyms: frilly, ruffled |
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| frilly | (adjective) having decorative ruffles or frills | Synonyms: frilled, ruffled |
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| gorilla | (noun) largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa | Synonyms: Gorilla gorilla |
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| grill | (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grille, grillwork |
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| (noun) a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill | Synonyms: grillroom |
| (verb) cook over or under a grill | - |
| (verb) examine thoroughly | - |
| grille | (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grill, grillwork |
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| (noun) grating that admits cooling air to car's radiator | Synonyms: radiator grille |
| (noun) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted | Synonyms: lattice, wicket |
| grilled | (adjective) cooked over an outdoor grill | Synonyms: barbecued |
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| (adjective) cooked by radiant heat (as over a grill) | Synonyms: broiled |
| grilling | (noun) cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) | Synonyms: broil, broiling |
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| grillroom | (noun) a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill | Synonyms: grill |
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| grillwork | (noun) mesh netting made of wires | Synonyms: wirework |
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| (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grill, grille |
| guerilla | (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerrilla, insurgent, irregular |
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| guerrilla | (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerilla, insurgent, irregular |
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| hungrily | (adverb) in the manner of someone who is very hungry | Synonyms: ravenously |
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| hydrilla | (noun) submersed plant with whorled lanceolate leaves and solitary axillary flowers; Old World plant naturalized in southern United States and clogging Florida's waterways | Synonyms: Hydrilla verticillata |
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| imperil | (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
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| involuntarily | (adverb) against one's will or done without conscious thought | - |
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| krill | (noun) shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales | - |
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| laetrile | (noun) a substance derived from amygdalin; publicized as an antineoplastic drug although there is no supporting evidence | - |
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| lisinopril | (noun) an ACE inhibiting drug (trade names Prinivil or Zestril) administered as an antihypertensive and after heart attacks | Synonyms: Prinivil, Zestril |
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| madrilene | (noun) a tomato-flavored consomme; often served chilled | - |
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| mandatorily | (adverb) in a manner that cannot be evaded | Synonyms: compulsorily, obligatorily |
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| mandril | (noun) any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts | Synonyms: arbor, mandrel, spindle |
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| mandrill | (noun) baboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters | Synonyms: Mandrillus sphinx |
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| matrilineage | (noun) line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family | Synonyms: cognation, enation |
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| matrilineal | (adjective) based on or tracing descent through the female line | Synonyms: matrilinear |
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| matrilineality | (noun) a system in which a person's descent is traced through their mother and her maternal ancestors. | - |
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| matrilineally | (adverb) by descent through the female line | - |
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| matrilinear | (adjective) based on or tracing descent through the female line | Synonyms: matrilineal |
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| merrily | (adverb) in a joyous manner | Synonyms: blithely, gayly, happily, jubilantly, mirthfully |
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| methapyrilene | (noun) antihistamine used to treat allergic responses (as rhinitis or dermatitis or pruritus) | - |
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| militarily | (adverb) with respect to the military | - |
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| momentarily | (adverb) at any moment | Synonyms: momently |
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| (adverb) for an instant or moment | Synonyms: momently |
| myofibril | (noun) one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber | Synonyms: myofibrilla, sarcostyle |
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| myofibrilla | (noun) one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber | Synonyms: myofibril, sarcostyle |
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| necessarily | (adverb) in an essential manner | Synonyms: needfully |
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| (adverb) as a highly likely consequence | - |
| (adverb) in such a manner as could not be otherwise | Synonyms: inevitably, needs, of necessity |
| neurilemma | (noun) thin membranous sheath around a nerve fiber | Synonyms: neurolemma |
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| neurilemoma | (noun) tumor of the fibrous covering of a peripheral nerve | Synonyms: neurofibroma |
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| neurofibril | (noun) Any of the long, thin, microscopic fibrils that run through the body of a neuron and extend into the axon and dendrites, giving the neuron support and shape. | - |
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| nitril | (noun) any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN | Synonyms: cyanide, nitrile |
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| nitrile | (noun) any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN | Synonyms: cyanide, nitril |
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| nombril | (noun) the center point on a shield | - |
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| nostril | (noun) either one of the two external openings to the nasal cavity in the nose | Synonyms: anterior naris |
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