| adventurism | (noun) recklessness in politics or foreign affairs | - |
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| adventuristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to adventurism | - |
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| agriculturist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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| algorism | (noun) computation with Arabic figures | - |
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| (noun) the Arabic (or decimal) system of numeration | - |
| allegorise | (verb) make into an allegory | Synonyms: allegorize |
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| (verb) interpret as an allegory | Synonyms: allegorize |
| allegoriser | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegorizer |
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| allomerism | (noun) (chemistry) variability in chemical composition without variation in crystalline form | - |
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| amateurish | (adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateur, inexpert, unskilled |
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| amateurishly | (adverb) in an amateurish manner | - |
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| amateurishness | (noun) something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency | - |
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| amateurism | (noun) the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money | - |
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| ambergris | (noun) waxy substance secreted by the sperm whale and found floating at sea or washed ashore; used in perfume | - |
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| amorist | (noun) one dedicated to love and lovemaking especially one who writes about love | - |
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| amoristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to romantic love | - |
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| aneurism | (noun) a cardiovascular disease characterized by a saclike widening of an artery resulting from weakening of the artery wall | Synonyms: aneurysm |
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| aneurismal | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismatic, aneurysmal, aneurysmatic |
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| aneurismatic | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurysmal, aneurysmatic |
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| angiopteris | (noun) highly variable species of very large primitive ferns of the Pacific tropical areas with high rainfall | Synonyms: Angiopteris evecta, giant fern |
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| anthropocentrism | (noun) an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values | Synonyms: anthropocentricity |
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| aorist | (noun) a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation | - |
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| aoristic | (adjective) of or relating to the aorist tense | - |
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| aphorise | (verb) speak or write in aphorisms | Synonyms: aphorize |
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| aphorism | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: apophthegm, apothegm |
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| aphorist | (noun) someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms | - |
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| aphoristic | (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: axiomatic |
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| (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: apothegmatic, epigrammatic |
| apiarist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiculturist, beekeeper |
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| apiculturist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, beekeeper |
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| apprisal | (noun) informing by words | Synonyms: notification, telling |
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| apprise | (verb) increase the value of | Synonyms: appreciate, apprize |
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| (verb) gain in value | Synonyms: appreciate, apprize, revalue |
| (verb) inform (somebody) of something | Synonyms: advise, apprize, give notice, notify, send word |
| (verb) make aware of | Synonyms: apprize, instruct |
| apriorism | (noun) belief in a priori principles or reasoning; specifically : the doctrine that knowledge rests upon principles that are self-evident to reason or are presupposed by experience in general. | - |
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| arboriculturist | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: forester, tree farmer |
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| arborise | (verb) branch out like trees | Synonyms: arborize |
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| arborist | (noun) a specialist in treating damaged trees | Synonyms: tree surgeon |
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| arise | (verb) get up and out of bed | Synonyms: get up, rise, turn out, uprise |
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| (verb) result or issue | Synonyms: come up |
| (verb) rise to one's feet | Synonyms: get up, rise, stand up, uprise |
| (verb) move upward | Synonyms: come up, go up, lift, move up, rise, uprise |
| (verb) take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance | Synonyms: rebel, rise, rise up |
| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: develop, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise |
| (verb) originate or come into being | Synonyms: bob up, come up |
| arishth | (noun) large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia | Synonyms: Azadirachta indica, margosa, Melia Azadirachta, neem, neem tree, nim tree |
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| arista | (noun) bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies | - |
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| aristocracy | (noun) a privileged class holding hereditary titles | Synonyms: nobility |
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| (noun) the most powerful members of a society | Synonyms: gentry |
| aristocrat | (noun) a member of the aristocracy | Synonyms: blue blood, patrician |
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| aristocratic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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| aristocratical | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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| aristocratically | (adverb) in an aristocratic manner | - |
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| aristocratism | (noun) the principles, practices or characteristics of aristocracy. | - |
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| asterisk | (noun) a star-shaped character * used in printing | Synonyms: star |
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| (verb) mark with an asterisk | Synonyms: star |
| asterisked | (adjective) marked with an asterisk | Synonyms: starred |
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| asterism | (noun) (astronomy) a cluster of stars (or a small constellation) | - |
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| (noun) (mineralogy) a star-shaped figure with six rays that is seen in some crystal structures under reflected or transmitted light | - |
| asterismal | (adjective) relating to asterisms or constellations | - |
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| auriscope | (noun) medical instrument consisting of a magnifying lens and light; used for examining the external ear (the auditory meatus and especially the tympanic membrane) | Synonyms: auroscope, otoscope |
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| authorisation | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorization, empowerment |
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| (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authority, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so |
| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authority, authorization, sanction |
| (noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorization, mandate |
| authorise | (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorize, clear, pass |
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| (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorize, empower |
| authorised | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authoritative, authorized |
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| authoriser | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authorizer |
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| bacterise | (verb) subject to the action of bacteria | Synonyms: bacterize |
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| barbarisation | (noun) an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized | Synonyms: barbarization |
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| barbarise | (verb) make crude or savage in behavior or speech | Synonyms: barbarize |
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| (verb) become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language | Synonyms: barbarize |
| barbarism | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarity, brutality, savagery |
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| barrister | (noun) a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution | - |
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| bassarisk | (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, cacomistle, cacomixle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail |
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| bearish | (adjective) expecting prices to fall | - |
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| behaviorism | (noun) an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior | Synonyms: behavioristic psychology, behaviourism, behaviouristic psychology |
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| behaviorist | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behavioristic, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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| (noun) a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviourist |
| behavioristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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| behaviourism | (noun) an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior | Synonyms: behaviorism, behavioristic psychology, behaviouristic psychology |
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| behaviourist | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviouristic |
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| (noun) a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist |
| behaviouristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviourist |
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| belletristic | (adjective) written and regarded for aesthetic value rather than content | - |
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| bioterrorism | (noun) terrorism using the weapons of biological warfare | Synonyms: biological terrorism |
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| biprism | (noun) an optical device for obtaining interference fringes | - |
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| bitterish | (adjective) somewhat bitter | Synonyms: sharp-tasting |
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| blepharism | (noun) condition in which a person blinks continuously | - |
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| bonderise | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderize |
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| boorish | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish, swinish |
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| boorishly | (adverb) like a boor | - |
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| boorishness | (noun) inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor | Synonyms: uncouthness |
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| (noun) the manner of a rude or insensitive person | - |
| bounderish | (adjective) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace | Synonyms: ill-bred, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish |
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| bowdlerisation | (noun) the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent | Synonyms: bowdlerization |
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| (noun) written material that has been bowdlerized | Synonyms: bowdlerization |
| bowdlerise | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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| bowdleriser | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdlerizer, expurgator |
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| brisance | (noun) the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion | - |
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| brisant | (adjective) of or relating to the power (the shattering effect) of an explosive | - |
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| brisk | (adjective) very active | - |
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| (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
| (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: bracing, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
| (verb) become brisk | Synonyms: brisk up, brisken |
| brisken | (verb) become brisk | Synonyms: brisk, brisk up |
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| brisket | (noun) a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest especially of beef | - |
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| briskly | (adverb) in a brisk manner | - |
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| briskness | (noun) liveliness and eagerness | Synonyms: alacrity, smartness |
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| brisling | (noun) small herring processed like a sardine | Synonyms: Clupea sprattus, sprat |
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| (noun) small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines | Synonyms: sprat |
| bristle | (noun) a stiff hair | - |
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| (noun) a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic | - |
| (verb) react in an offended or angry manner | - |
| (verb) rise up as in fear | Synonyms: stand up, uprise |
| (verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: abound, burst |
| (verb) have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles | - |
| bristled | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| bristlegrass | (noun) grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet | Synonyms: bristle grass |
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| bristlelike | (adjective) resembling a bristle | - |
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| bristletail | (noun) small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail | - |
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| bristliness | (noun) the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines | Synonyms: prickliness, spininess, thorniness |
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| bristly | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| (adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: prickly, splenetic, waspish |
| burglarise | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarize, burgle, heist |
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| calorisator | (noun) an apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion. | Synonyms: calorizator |
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| caparison | (noun) stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse | Synonyms: housing, trapping |
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| (verb) put a caparison on | Synonyms: bard, barde, dress up |
| caparisoned | (adjective) clothed in finery (especially a horse in ornamental trappings) | - |
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| carburise | (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carbonize, carburize |
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| careerism | (noun) the practice of advancing your career at the expense of your personal integrity | - |
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| careerist | (noun) a professional who is intent on furthering his or her career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity | - |
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| caricaturist | (noun) someone who parodies in an exaggerated manner | - |
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