| acerola | (noun) acid red or yellow cherry-like fruit of a tropical American shrub very rich in vitamin C | Synonyms: barbados cherry, surinam cherry, West Indian cherry |
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| (noun) tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries | Synonyms: barbados cherry, Malpighia glabra, Surinam cherry, West Indian cherry |
| acrolein | (noun) a pungent colorless unsaturated liquid aldehyde made from propene | Synonyms: propenal |
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| acylglycerol | (noun) an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils | Synonyms: glyceride |
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| aerolite | (noun) a stony meteorite consisting of silicate minerals | - |
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| aerolitic | (adjective) of or pertaining to certain stony meteorites | - |
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| aerological | (adjective) of or pertaining to aerology | - |
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| aerology | (noun) meteorology of the total extent of the atmosphere; especially the upper layers | - |
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| agrologic | (adjective) of or related to agrology | Synonyms: agrological |
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| agrological | (adjective) of or related to agrology | Synonyms: agrologic |
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| agrology | (noun) science of soils in relation to crops | - |
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| albuterol | (noun) a bronchodilator (trade names Ventolin or Proventil) used for asthma and emphysema and other lung conditions; available in oral or inhalant forms; side effects are tachycardia and shakiness | Synonyms: Proventil, Ventolin |
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| arborolatry | (noun) the worship of trees | Synonyms: tree-worship |
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| astrolabe | (noun) an early form of sextant | - |
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| astrolatry | (noun) the worship of planets or stars | Synonyms: worship of heavenly bodies |
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| astrologer | (noun) someone who predicts the future by the positions of the planets and sun and Moon | Synonyms: astrologist |
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| astrological | (adjective) relating to or concerned with astrology | - |
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| astrologist | (noun) someone who predicts the future by the positions of the planets and sun and Moon | Synonyms: astrologer |
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| astrology | (noun) a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon | Synonyms: star divination |
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| bankroll | (noun) a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.) | Synonyms: roll |
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| (verb) provide with sufficient funds; finance | - |
| barcarole | (noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers | Synonyms: barcarolle |
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| barcarolle | (noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers | Synonyms: barcarole |
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| bedroll | (noun) bedding rolled up for carrying | - |
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| brolly | (noun) colloquial terms for an umbrella | Synonyms: gamp |
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| calciferol | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets | Synonyms: cholecalciferol, D, ergocalciferol, viosterol, vitamin D |
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| carol | (noun) a joyful song (usually celebrating the birth of Christ) | - |
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| (noun) joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ | Synonyms: Christmas carol |
| (verb) sing carols | - |
| caroler | (noun) a singer of carols | Synonyms: caroller |
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| caroling | (noun) singing joyful religious songs (especially at Christmas) | - |
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| caroller | (noun) a singer of carols | Synonyms: caroler |
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| casserole | (noun) large deep dish in which food can be cooked and served | - |
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| (noun) food cooked and served in a casserole | - |
| chirology | (noun) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | Synonyms: chiromancy, palm reading, palmistry |
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| cholecalciferol | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets | Synonyms: calciferol, D, ergocalciferol, viosterol, vitamin D |
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| cholesterol | (noun) an animal sterol that is normally synthesized by the liver; the most abundant steroid in animal tissues | Synonyms: cholesterin |
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| comptroller | (noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: accountant, controller |
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| comptrollership | (noun) the position of comptroller | - |
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| control | (noun) the activity of managing or exerting control over something | - |
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| (noun) (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc | - |
| (noun) a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine | Synonyms: controller |
| (noun) power to direct or determine | - |
| (noun) discipline in personal and social activities | Synonyms: restraint |
| (noun) great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | Synonyms: command, mastery |
| (noun) a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment | Synonyms: control condition |
| (noun) the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc. | - |
| (noun) a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance | - |
| (noun) a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another | - |
| (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, dominance |
| (verb) have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of | Synonyms: master |
| (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, check, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
| (verb) verify by using a duplicate register for comparison | - |
| (verb) handle and cause to function | Synonyms: operate |
| (verb) maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage | Synonyms: keep in line, manipulate |
| (verb) exercise authoritative control or power over | Synonyms: command |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, contain, curb, hold, hold in, moderate |
| (verb) check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard | Synonyms: verify |
| (verb) place under restrictions; limit access to by law | Synonyms: restrict |
| controllable | (adjective) capable of being controlled | Synonyms: governable |
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| controlled | (adjective) restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds | - |
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| controller | (noun) a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine | Synonyms: control |
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| (noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: accountant, comptroller |
| (noun) a person who directs and restrains | Synonyms: restrainer |
| controllership | (noun) the position of controller | - |
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| controlling | (adjective) able to control or determine policy | - |
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| coprolalia | (noun) an uncontrollable use of obscene language; often accompanied by mental disorders | - |
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| coprolite | (noun) fossil excrement; petrified dung | - |
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| coprolith | (noun) a hard mass of fecal matter | Synonyms: faecalith, fecalith, stercolith |
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| corolla | (noun) (botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth | - |
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| corollary | (noun) (logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition | - |
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| (noun) a practical consequence that follows naturally | - |
| decontrol | (verb) relax or remove controls of | - |
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| deglycerolise | (verb) remove from glycerol | Synonyms: deglycerolize |
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| deglycerolize | (verb) remove from glycerol | Synonyms: deglycerolise |
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| dendrology | (noun) the study of wooden plants | - |
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| dicoumarol | (noun) an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin | Synonyms: dicumarol |
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| dicumarol | (noun) an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin | Synonyms: dicoumarol |
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| dielectrolysis | (noun) the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode | Synonyms: cataphoresis, electrophoresis, ionophoresis |
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| diethylstilbesterol | (noun) synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy | Synonyms: DES, stilbesterol |
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| diethylstilbestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilboestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol |
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| diethylstilboestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilbestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol |
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| droll | (adjective) comical in an odd or whimsical manner | - |
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| drollery | (noun) a quaint and amusing jest | Synonyms: waggery |
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| (noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: clowning, comedy, funniness |
| electrolocation | (noun) The use of electroreception to locate surrounding objects. | - |
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| electrologist | (noun) someone skilled in the use of electricity to remove moles or warts or hair roots | - |
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| electrolysis | (noun) removing superfluous or unwanted hair by passing an electric current through the hair root | - |
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| (noun) (chemistry) a chemical decomposition reaction produced by passing an electric current through a solution containing ions | - |
| electrolyte | (noun) a solution that conducts electricity | - |
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| electrolytic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing an electrolyte | - |
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| (adjective) of or concerned with or produced by electrolysis | - |
| (noun) a fixed capacitor consisting of two electrodes separated by an electrolyte | Synonyms: electrolytic capacitor, electrolytic condenser |
| enrol | (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enroll, enter, inscribe, raise, recruit |
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| enroll | (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enter, inscribe, raise, recruit |
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| enrollee | (noun) a person who enrolls in (or is enrolled in) a class or course of study | - |
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| enrollment | (noun) the act of enrolling | Synonyms: enrolment, registration |
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| (noun) the body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time | Synonyms: registration |
| enrolment | (noun) the act of enrolling | Synonyms: enrollment, registration |
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| enterolith | (noun) a calculus occurring in the intestines | - |
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| enterolithiasis | (noun) the presence of calculi in the intestines | - |
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| ergocalciferol | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets | Synonyms: calciferol, cholecalciferol, D, viosterol, vitamin D |
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| ergosterol | (noun) a plant sterol that is converted into vitamin D by ultraviolet radiation | - |
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| erythrolysin | (noun) any substance that can cause lysis (destruction) of erythrocytes (red blood cells) and the release of their hemoglobin | Synonyms: erythrocytolysin, haemolysin, hemolysin |
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| escarole | (noun) variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges | Synonyms: chicory escarole, endive |
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| falderol | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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| folderol | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| frolic | (noun) gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement | Synonyms: caper, gambol, play, romp |
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| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
| frolicky | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicsome, rollicking, sportive |
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| frolicsome | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, rollicking, sportive |
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| frolicsomeness | (noun) lively high-spirited playfulness | Synonyms: friskiness, sportiveness |
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| futurology | (noun) the study or prediction of future developments on the basis of existing conditions | Synonyms: futuristics |
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| gastroenterologist | (noun) a physician who specializes in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract | - |
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| gastroenterology | (noun) the branch of medicine that studies the gastrointestinal tract and its diseases | - |
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| gastrolobium | (noun) any of various Australian evergreen shrubs of the genus Gastrolobium having whorled compound leaves poisonous to livestock and showy yellow to deep reddish-orange flowers followed by two-seeded pods | Synonyms: poison bush, poison pea |
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| gingerol | (noun) derived from ginger; source of the hotness of ginger | - |
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| glycerol | (noun) a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils | Synonyms: glycerin, glycerine |
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| glycerole | (noun) a medicine made by mixing a substance in glycerin | Synonyms: glycerite |
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| glycerolise | (verb) place in glycerol | Synonyms: glycerolize |
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| glycerolize | (verb) place in glycerol | Synonyms: glycerolise |
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| heterologic | (adjective) not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin | Synonyms: heterological, heterologous |
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| heterological | (adjective) not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin | Synonyms: heterologic, heterologous |
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| heterologous | (adjective) derived from organisms of a different but related species | - |
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| (adjective) not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin | Synonyms: heterologic, heterological |
| heterology | (noun) (biology) the lack of correspondence of apparently similar body parts | - |
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| hexestrol | (noun) estrogen compound used to treat menstrual irregularities and menopausal symptoms and to prevent pregnancy | - |
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| hierolatry | (noun) the worship of saints | Synonyms: hagiolatry |
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| horologe | (noun) a measuring instrument or device for keeping time | Synonyms: timekeeper, timepiece |
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| horologer | (noun) someone who makes or repairs watches | Synonyms: horologist, watchmaker |
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| horologist | (noun) someone who makes or repairs watches | Synonyms: horologer, watchmaker |
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| horology | (noun) the art of designing and making clocks | - |
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| hydrolise | (verb) make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis | Synonyms: hydrolize |
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| hydrolith | (noun) a saltlike binary compound (CaH2) used as a reducing agent and source of hydrogen | Synonyms: calcium hydride |
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