| administrivia | (noun) the tiresome but essential details that must be taken care of and tasks that must be performed in running an organization | - |
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| arrival | (noun) accomplishment of an objective | Synonyms: reaching |
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| (noun) the act of arriving at a certain place | - |
| (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arriver, comer |
| arrive | (verb) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress | Synonyms: come, get |
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| (verb) succeed in a big way; get to the top | Synonyms: get in, go far, make it |
| arrivederci | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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| arriver | (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arrival, comer |
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| arriviste | (noun) a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart |
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| cabdriver | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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| cerivastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Baycol) to reduce blood cholesterol levels | Synonyms: Baycol |
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| charivari | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, callithump, chivaree, shivaree |
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| contrivance | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: devisal |
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| (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
| (noun) any improvised arrangement for temporary use | Synonyms: lash-up |
| (noun) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | Synonyms: dodge, stratagem |
| (noun) the faculty of contriving; inventive skill | - |
| (noun) an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. | - |
| contrive | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: devise, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
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| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: design, plan, project |
| (verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, project, throw |
| contrived | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, hokey, stilted |
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| (adjective) showing effects of planning or manipulation | - |
| contriver | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: deviser, planner |
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| deprivation | (noun) act of depriving someone of food or money or rights | Synonyms: privation |
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| (noun) the disadvantage that results from losing something | Synonyms: loss |
| (noun) a state of extreme poverty | Synonyms: neediness, privation, want |
| deprive | (verb) take away | Synonyms: impoverish |
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| (verb) keep from having, keeping, or obtaining | - |
| (verb) take away possessions from someone | Synonyms: divest, strip |
| deprived | (adjective) marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences | Synonyms: disadvantaged |
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| derivable | (adjective) capable of being derived | - |
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| derivation | (noun) the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin | - |
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| (noun) drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation | - |
| (noun) drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body | - |
| (noun) inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline | Synonyms: ancestry, filiation, lineage |
| (noun) a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions | - |
| (noun) (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase | Synonyms: deriving, etymologizing |
| (noun) the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues) | - |
| (noun) (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation | - |
| derivational | (adjective) characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base | - |
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| derivative | (adjective) resulting from or employing derivation | - |
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| (noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derived function, differential, differential coefficient, first derivative |
| (noun) (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word | - |
| (noun) a financial instrument whose value is based on another security | Synonyms: derivative instrument |
| (noun) a compound obtained from, or regarded as derived from, another compound | - |
| derive | (verb) develop or evolve from a latent or potential state | Synonyms: educe |
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| (verb) obtain from a particular source | - |
| (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduce, deduct, infer |
| (verb) obtain | Synonyms: gain |
| (verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: come, descend |
| derived | (adjective) formed or developed from something else; not original | - |
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| deriving | (noun) (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase | Synonyms: derivation, etymologizing |
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| downriver | (adverb) away from the source or with the current | Synonyms: downstream |
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| drive | (noun) a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile) | Synonyms: ride |
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| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, effort, movement |
| (noun) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | Synonyms: driving |
| (noun) the act of applying force to propel something | Synonyms: driving force, thrust |
| (noun) (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash) | - |
| (noun) the act of driving a herd of animals overland | - |
| (noun) a wide scenic road planted with trees | Synonyms: parkway |
| (noun) a road leading up to a private house | Synonyms: driveway, private road |
| (noun) a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium | - |
| (noun) the trait of being highly motivated | - |
| (noun) a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire | - |
| (verb) move into a desired direction of discourse | Synonyms: aim, get |
| (verb) (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground | - |
| (verb) (hunting) search for game | - |
| (verb) cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling | - |
| (verb) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically | Synonyms: force, ram |
| (verb) cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force | - |
| (verb) hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally | - |
| (verb) strike with a driver, as in teeing off | - |
| (verb) excavate horizontally | - |
| (verb) push, propel, or press with force | - |
| (verb) cause to move back by force or influence | Synonyms: beat back, force back, push back, repel, repulse |
| (verb) compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment | - |
| (verb) travel or be transported in a vehicle | Synonyms: motor |
| (verb) operate or control a vehicle | - |
| (verb) cause someone or something to move by driving | - |
| (verb) move by being propelled by a force | - |
| (verb) urge forward | - |
| (verb) proceed along in a vehicle | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: labor, labour, push, tug |
| (verb) to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly | - |
| (verb) work as a driver | - |
| (verb) have certain properties when driven | Synonyms: ride |
| drivel | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drool, slobber |
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| (noun) a worthless message | Synonyms: garbage |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
| driveller | (noun) someone whose talk is trivial drivel | Synonyms: jabberer |
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| (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, drooler, slobberer |
| driven | (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: compulsive, determined |
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| (adjective) compelled forcibly by an outside agency | Synonyms: goaded |
| (adjective) urged or forced to action through moral pressure | Synonyms: impelled |
| driver | (noun) a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee | Synonyms: number one wood |
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| (noun) (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device | Synonyms: device driver |
| (noun) the operator of a motor vehicle | - |
| (noun) a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver | - |
| (noun) someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle | - |
| driveshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application | - |
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| driveway | (noun) a road leading up to a private house | Synonyms: drive, private road |
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| driving | (adjective) having the power of driving or impelling | Synonyms: impulsive |
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| (adjective) acting with vigor | - |
| (noun) the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal | - |
| (noun) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | Synonyms: drive |
| frivol | (verb) act frivolously | Synonyms: trifle |
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| frivolity | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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| (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: bagatelle, fluff, frippery |
| (noun) the trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible | Synonyms: frivolousness |
| frivolous | (adjective) not serious in content or attitude or behavior | - |
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| frivolously | (adverb) in a frivolous manner | - |
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| frivolousness | (noun) the trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible | Synonyms: frivolity |
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| grivet | (noun) white and olive green East African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the face | Synonyms: Cercopithecus aethiops |
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| nondriver | (noun) a person who is not a driver | - |
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| outrival | (verb) be more of a rival than | Synonyms: outvie |
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| overdrive | (noun) a high gear used at high speeds to maintain the driving speed with less output power | - |
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| (noun) the state of high or excessive activity or productivity or concentration | - |
| (verb) make use of too often or too extensively | Synonyms: overuse |
| (verb) drive or work too hard | - |
| privacy | (noun) the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others | Synonyms: privateness, seclusion |
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| (noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: concealment, privateness, secrecy |
| private | (adjective) confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy | - |
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| (adjective) not expressed | Synonyms: secret |
| (adjective) concerning one person exclusively | Synonyms: individual |
| (adjective) concerning things deeply private and personal | Synonyms: intimate |
| (noun) an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines | Synonyms: buck private, common soldier |
| privateer | (noun) a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation | - |
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| (noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateersman |
| privateersman | (noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateer |
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| privately | (adverb) kept private or confined to those intimately concerned | Synonyms: in camera, in private |
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| (adverb) by a private person or interest | - |
| privateness | (noun) the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others | Synonyms: privacy, seclusion |
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| (noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: concealment, privacy, secrecy |
| privates | (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: crotch, genital organ, genitalia, genitals, private parts |
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| privation | (noun) act of depriving someone of food or money or rights | Synonyms: deprivation |
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| (noun) a state of extreme poverty | Synonyms: deprivation, neediness, want |
| privatisation | (noun) changing something from state to private ownership or control | Synonyms: denationalisation, denationalization, privatization |
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| privatise | (verb) change from governmental to private control or ownership | Synonyms: privatize |
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| privatization | (noun) changing something from state to private ownership or control | Synonyms: denationalisation, denationalization, privatisation |
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| privatize | (verb) change from governmental to private control or ownership | Synonyms: privatise |
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| privet | (noun) any of various Old World shrubs having smooth entire leaves and terminal panicles of small white flowers followed by small black berries; many used for hedges | - |
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| privilege | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, perquisite, prerogative |
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| (noun) (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship | - |
| (noun) a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all | - |
| (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, favour |
| privileged | (adjective) blessed with privileges | - |
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| (adjective) confined to an exclusive group | Synonyms: inner, inside |
| (adjective) not subject to usual rules or penalties | - |
| privily | (adverb) confidentially or in secret | - |
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| privy | (adjective) (followed by `to') informed about something secret or not generally known | - |
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| (adjective) hidden from general view or use | Synonyms: secluded, secret |
| (noun) a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate | Synonyms: earth-closet, jakes, outhouse |
| (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lav, lavatory, toilet |
| quadrivium | (noun) (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy | - |
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| rival | (adjective) as a rival in a competition | - |
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| (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, competitor, contender |
| (verb) be the rival of, be in competition with | - |
| (verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: equal, match, touch |
| rivalrous | (adjective) eager to surpass others | Synonyms: emulous |
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| rivalry | (noun) the act of competing as for profit or a prize | Synonyms: competition, contention |
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| rive | (verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: pull, rend, rip |
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| (verb) separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cleave, split |
| river | (noun) a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek) | - |
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| riverbank | (noun) the bank of a river | Synonyms: riverside |
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| riverbed | (noun) a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river | Synonyms: river bottom |
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| riverside | (noun) the bank of a river | Synonyms: riverbank |
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| rivet | (noun) heavy pin having a head at one end and the other end being hammered flat after being passed through holes in the pieces that are fastened together | - |
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| (noun) ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt) | Synonyms: stud |
| (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, concentrate, focus, pore |
| (verb) hold (someone's attention) | - |
| (verb) fasten with a rivet or rivets | - |
| riveter | (noun) a machine for driving rivets | Synonyms: riveting machine, rivetter |
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| (noun) a worker who inserts and hammers rivets | Synonyms: rivetter |
| riveting | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, gripping |
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| rivetter | (noun) a machine for driving rivets | Synonyms: riveter, riveting machine |
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| (noun) a worker who inserts and hammers rivets | Synonyms: riveter |
| rivulet | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, run, runnel, streamlet |
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| rivulus | (noun) found in small streams of tropical America; often kept in aquariums; usually hermaphroditic | - |
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| screwdriver | (noun) a hand tool for driving screws; has a tip that fits into the head of a screw | - |
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| (noun) a cocktail made with vodka and orange juice | - |
| scrivened | (adjective) copied in handwriting | - |
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| scrivener | (noun) someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts | Synonyms: copyist, scribe |
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| semiprivate | (adjective) confined to a small number of hospital patients | - |
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| shrive | (verb) grant remission of a sin to | Synonyms: absolve |
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| shrivel | (verb) wither, as with a loss of moisture | Synonyms: shrink, shrivel up, wither |
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| (verb) decrease in size, range, or extent | Synonyms: shrink |
| shriveled | (adjective) reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity | Synonyms: shrivelled, shrunken |
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| (adjective) (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture | Synonyms: dried-up, sear, sere, shrivelled, withered |
| (adjective) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness | Synonyms: shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened |
| shrivelled | (adjective) reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity | Synonyms: shriveled, shrunken |
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| (adjective) (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture | Synonyms: dried-up, sear, sere, shriveled, withered |
| (adjective) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness | Synonyms: shriveled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened |
| strive | (verb) to exert much effort or energy | Synonyms: reach, strain |
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| (verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavor, endeavour |
| striver | (noun) someone who works as hard as a slave | Synonyms: hard worker, slave |
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| striving | (noun) an effortful attempt to attain a goal | Synonyms: nisus, pains, strain |
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| taxidriver | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabdriver, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taximan |
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| thrive | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, expand, flourish |
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| (verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: flourish, fly high, prosper |
| thriving | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring |
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| trivalent | (adjective) having a valence of three | - |
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| trivet | (noun) a stand with short feet used under a hot dish on a table | - |
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| (noun) a three-legged metal stand for supporting a cooking vessel in a hearth | - |
| trivia | (noun) something of small importance | Synonyms: small beer, trifle, triviality |
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| trivial | (adjective) concerned with trivialities | - |
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| (adjective) of little substance or significance | Synonyms: superficial |
| (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling |
| trivialise | (verb) make trivial or insignificant | Synonyms: trivialize |
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| triviality | (noun) something of small importance | Synonyms: small beer, trifle, trivia |
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| (noun) the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous | Synonyms: pettiness, puniness, slightness |
| (noun) a detail that is considered insignificant | Synonyms: trifle |
| trivialize | (verb) make trivial or insignificant | Synonyms: trivialise |
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| trivially | (adverb) in a frivolously trivial manner | - |
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| (adverb) with little effort | - |
| trivium | (noun) (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence | - |
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| uncontrived | (adjective) not by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu | Synonyms: unstudied |
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| underivative | (adjective) not derivative or imitative | - |
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| underived | (adjective) not derived; primary or simple | - |
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| underprivileged | (adjective) lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society | - |
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