| adscript | (adjective) written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it | - |
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| (adjective) (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner | Synonyms: adscripted |
| adscripted | (adjective) (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner | Synonyms: adscript |
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| airstrip | (noun) an airfield without normal airport facilities | Synonyms: flight strip, landing strip, strip |
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| amitriptyline | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Elavil) with serious side effects; interacts with many other medications | Synonyms: amitriptyline hydrochloride, Elavil |
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| ascription | (noun) assigning to a cause or source | Synonyms: attribution |
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| (noun) assigning some quality or character to a person or thing | Synonyms: attribution |
| atrip | (adjective) (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom | Synonyms: aweigh |
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| centripetal | (adjective) tending to move toward a center | - |
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| (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system | Synonyms: receptive, sensory |
| (adjective) tending to unify | Synonyms: unifying |
| circumscription | (noun) the act of circumscribing | - |
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| cirriped | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: barnacle, cirripede |
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| cirripede | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: barnacle, cirriped |
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| conscript | (noun) someone who is drafted into military service | Synonyms: draftee, inductee |
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| (verb) enroll into service compulsorily | - |
| conscription | (noun) compulsory military service | Synonyms: draft, muster, selective service |
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| cripple | (noun) someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back | - |
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| (verb) deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg | Synonyms: lame |
| (verb) deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless | Synonyms: stultify |
| crippled | (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: game, gimpy, halt, halting, lame |
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| crippling | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: disabling, incapacitating |
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| cypripedia | (noun) a plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium | - |
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| description | (noun) sort or variety | - |
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| (noun) the act of describing something | - |
| (noun) a statement that represents something in words | Synonyms: verbal description |
| descriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage | - |
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| (adjective) serving to describe or inform or characterized by description | - |
| descriptively | (adverb) by giving a description | - |
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| descriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting descriptive linguistics | - |
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| (noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements have a truth value | - |
| descriptor | (noun) a piece of stored information that is used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system | - |
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| (noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: form, signifier, word form |
| drip | (noun) (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway) | Synonyms: drip mold, drip mould |
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| (noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: dribble, trickle |
| (noun) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop | Synonyms: dripping |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: dribble, drop |
| (verb) fall in drops | - |
| dripless | (adjective) designed to prevent dripping | - |
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| drippage | (noun) a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house) | Synonyms: dripping |
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| drippily | (adverb) in a mawkish and emotional manner | Synonyms: mawkishly |
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| drippiness | (noun) the physical property of being soft and drippy | - |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
| dripping | (noun) a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house) | Synonyms: drippage |
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| (noun) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop | Synonyms: drip |
| (adverb) extremely wet | Synonyms: soaking, sopping |
| drippings | (noun) fat that exudes from meat and drips off while it is being roasted or fried | - |
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| drippy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| (adjective) leaking in drops | - |
| (adjective) wet with light rain | Synonyms: drizzly |
| dripstone | (noun) a protective drip that is made of stone | Synonyms: hoodmold, hoodmould |
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| (noun) the form of calcium carbonate found in stalactites and stalagmites | - |
| egotrip | (verb) act in a way that attracts attention | - |
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| frippery | (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: bagatelle, fluff, frivolity |
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| grip | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, hold |
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| (noun) a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes | Synonyms: bag, suitcase, traveling bag, travelling bag |
| (noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: handgrip, handle, hold |
| (noun) a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place | Synonyms: bobby pin, hairgrip |
| (noun) an intellectual hold or understanding | Synonyms: grasp |
| (noun) worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made | - |
| (noun) the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road) | Synonyms: adhesive friction, traction |
| (verb) hold fast or firmly | - |
| (verb) to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match | Synonyms: grapple |
| (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: fascinate, spellbind, transfix |
| gripe | (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, kick, squawk |
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| (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, grouse, holler, squawk |
| gripes | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: colic, griping, intestinal colic |
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| griping | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: colic, gripes, intestinal colic |
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| grippe | (noun) an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease | Synonyms: flu, influenza |
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| gripping | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, riveting |
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| gripsack | (noun) a small suitcase | - |
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| hairgrip | (noun) a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place | Synonyms: bobby pin, grip |
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| handgrip | (noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: grip, handle, hold |
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| horripilate | (verb) cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps | - |
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| (verb) have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps | - |
| horripilation | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, goosebump, gooseflesh, pilomotor reflex |
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| imparipinnate | (adjective) (a leaf shape) pinnate with a single leaflet at the apex | Synonyms: odd-pinnate |
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| inscription | (noun) the activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or words | - |
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| (noun) letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something | Synonyms: lettering |
| (noun) a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something | Synonyms: dedication |
| inscriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an inscription | - |
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| inscriptively | (adverb) by means of an inscription | - |
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| manuscript | (noun) the form of a literary work submitted for publication | Synonyms: ms |
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| (noun) handwritten book or document | Synonyms: holograph |
| mariposa | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having tulip-shaped flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals; southwestern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: mariposa lily, mariposa tulip |
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| nondescript | (adjective) lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting | Synonyms: characterless |
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| (noun) a person who is not easily classified and not very interesting | - |
| nonprescription | (adjective) purchasable without a doctor's prescription | Synonyms: over-the-counter |
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| nortriptyline | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Pamelor) used along with psychotherapy to treat dysthymic depression; may interact dangerously if taken with other drugs | Synonyms: Pamelor |
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| outstrip | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, surmount, surpass |
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| (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: distance, outdistance |
| overripe | (adjective) too ripe and beginning to turn soft | - |
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| paripinnate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) pinnate with a pair of leaflets at the apex | Synonyms: abruptly-pinnate, even-pinnate |
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| peripatetic | (adjective) of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy | Synonyms: Aristotelean, Aristotelian, Aristotelic |
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| (adjective) traveling especially on foot | Synonyms: wayfaring |
| (noun) a person who walks from place to place | - |
| peripateticism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science | Synonyms: Aristotelianism |
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| peripatus | (noun) any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms | Synonyms: onychophoran, velvet worm |
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| peripeteia | (noun) a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) | Synonyms: peripetia, peripety |
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| peripetia | (noun) a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) | Synonyms: peripeteia, peripety |
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| peripety | (noun) a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) | Synonyms: peripeteia, peripetia |
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| peripheral | (adjective) on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary; the outer area | - |
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| (adjective) related to the key issue but not of central importance | - |
| (noun) electronic equipment external to the circuit board that contains the CPU of a computer | Synonyms: computer peripheral, peripheral device |
| peripherally | (adverb) in or at or near a periphery or according to a peripheral role or function or relationship | - |
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| periphery | (noun) the outside boundary or surface of something | Synonyms: fringe, outer boundary |
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| periphrasis | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: ambage, circumlocution |
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| periphrastic | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, circumlocutory |
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| peripteral | (adjective) having columns on all sides | - |
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| pinstripe | (noun) a very thin stripe (especially a white stripe on a dark fabric) | - |
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| (noun) a fabric with very thin stripes | - |
| (noun) a suit made from a fabric with very thin stripes | - |
| pinstriped | (adjective) having very thin stripes | - |
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| playscript | (noun) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance | Synonyms: book, script |
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| postscript | (noun) a note appended to a letter after the signature | Synonyms: PS |
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| (noun) textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end | Synonyms: addendum, supplement |
| prescript | (noun) prescribed guide for conduct or action | Synonyms: rule |
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| prescription | (adjective) available only with a doctor's written prescription | - |
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| (noun) a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist | Synonyms: ethical drug, prescription drug, prescription medicine |
| (noun) directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions | - |
| (noun) written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient | - |
| (noun) written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person | - |
| prescriptive | (adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules | Synonyms: normative |
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| prescriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting prescriptive linguistics | - |
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| (noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements prescribe appropriate attitudes and behavior | - |
| proscription | (noun) rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone | Synonyms: banishment |
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| (noun) a decree that prohibits something | Synonyms: ban, prohibition |
| protriptyline | (noun) tricyclic antidepressant used to treat clinical depression | - |
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| pseudoperipteral | (adjective) having columniation completely circling an area of the structure | Synonyms: peristylar |
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| quadripara | (noun) (obstetrics) woman who has given birth to a viable infant in each of four pregnancies | - |
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| quadripartite | (adjective) involving four parties | Synonyms: four-party |
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| quadriphonic | (adjective) of or relating to quadraphony | Synonyms: quadraphonic, quadrasonic, quadrisonic |
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| quadriplegia | (noun) paralysis of both arms and both legs | - |
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| quadriplegic | (noun) a person who is paralyzed in both arms and both legs | - |
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| rescript | (noun) something that has been written again | Synonyms: revision, rewrite |
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| (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: revisal, revise, revision |
| (noun) a reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or morality | - |
| (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, edict, fiat, order |
| rip | (noun) the act of rending or ripping or splitting something | Synonyms: rent, split |
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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, crosscurrent, riptide, tide rip |
| (noun) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | Synonyms: rent, snag, split, tear |
| (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, profligate, rake, rakehell, roue |
| (verb) criticize or abuse strongly and violently | - |
| (verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: pull, rend, rive |
| (verb) cut (wood) along the grain | - |
| (verb) move precipitously or violently | - |
| (verb) take without the owner's consent | Synonyms: rip off, steal |
| riparian | (adjective) of or relating to or located on the banks of a river or stream | - |
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| ripcord | (noun) a cord that is pulled to open a parachute from its pack during a descent | - |
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| (noun) a cord that is pulled to open the gasbag of a balloon wide enough to release gas and so causes the balloon to descend | - |
| ripe | (adjective) fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used | Synonyms: mature |
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| (adjective) far along in time | Synonyms: advanced |
| (adjective) at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge | - |
| (adjective) most suitable or right for a particular purpose | Synonyms: good, right |
| (adjective) fully prepared or eager | - |
| ripely | (adverb) with mature or developed appearance | - |
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| ripen | (verb) grow ripe | - |
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| (verb) cause to ripen or develop fully | Synonyms: mature |
| ripened | (adjective) of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable) | Synonyms: aged |
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| ripeness | (noun) the state of being ripe | - |
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| ripening | (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturation, maturement |
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| (noun) acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time | Synonyms: ageing, aging |
| riposte | (noun) (fencing) a counterattack made immediately after successfully parrying the opponents lunge | - |
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| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, return |
| (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, retort, return |
| (verb) make a return thrust | - |
| ripped | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: drunk, gone, inebriated, intoxicated |
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| ripper | (noun) a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife | - |
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| ripping | (adjective) resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree | Synonyms: rending, splitting |
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| (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, fantabulous, first-class, mean, splendid |
| ripple | (noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: riffle, rippling, wavelet |
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| (noun) (electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value | - |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ruffle, undulate |
| (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle |
| rippled | (adjective) shaken into waves or undulations as by wind | Synonyms: ruffled |
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| (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkled, crinkly, wavelike, wavy |
| rippling | (noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: riffle, ripple, wavelet |
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