| aboveground | (adjective) on or above the surface of the ground | - |
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| adulterous | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: extracurricular, extramarital |
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| (adjective) not faithful to a spouse or lover | Synonyms: cheating, two-timing |
| adulterously | (adverb) in an adulterous manner | - |
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| adulterousness | (noun) The quality of being adulterous, involving sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. | - |
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| adventurous | (adjective) willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises | Synonyms: adventuresome |
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| adventurousness | (noun) the trait of being adventurous | Synonyms: venturesomeness |
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| aeriferous | (adjective) conveying air; as the bronchial tubes | - |
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| aggroup | (verb) form a group or group together | Synonyms: group |
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| aground | (adjective) stuck in a place where a ship can no longer float | - |
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| (adverb) with the bottom lodged on the ground | - |
| allomerous | (adjective) pertaining to allomerism | - |
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| aluminiferous | (adjective) containing alum or aluminum | - |
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| ambidextrous | (adjective) equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: two-handed |
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| (adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced |
| ambidextrousness | (noun) the property of being equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: ambidexterity |
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| amentiferous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentaceous |
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| amorous | (adjective) inclined toward or displaying love | Synonyms: amative |
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| (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amatory, romantic |
| amorously | (adverb) in an amorous manner | - |
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| amorousness | (noun) a feeling of love or fondness | Synonyms: enamoredness |
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| (noun) the arousal of feelings of sexual desire | Synonyms: amativeness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness |
| anestrous | (adjective) (of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus; not in heat | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestric, anoestrous |
| anhydrous | (adjective) without water; especially without water of crystallization | - |
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| anoestrous | (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestric, anestrous |
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| anurous | (adjective) not having a tail | Synonyms: tailless |
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| apivorous | (adjective) feeding on bees | - |
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| apterous | (adjective) (of insects) without wings | Synonyms: apteral |
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| aquiferous | (adjective) of or relating to an aquifer | - |
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| arborous | (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arborary, arboreal, arborical |
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| argentiferous | (adjective) containing or yielding silver | - |
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| around | (adverb) in circumference | - |
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| (adverb) in the area or vicinity | Synonyms: about |
| (adverb) from beginning to end; throughout | Synonyms: round |
| (adverb) (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct | Synonyms: about, approximately, close to, just about, more or less, or so, roughly, some |
| (adverb) used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction | Synonyms: about |
| (adverb) by a circular or circuitous route | - |
| (adverb) in a circle or circular motion | - |
| (adverb) all around or on all sides | Synonyms: about |
| (adverb) to a particular destination either specified or understood | - |
| (adverb) in or to a reversed position or direction | Synonyms: about |
| arousal | (noun) the act of arousing | Synonyms: rousing |
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| (noun) mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse | Synonyms: foreplay, stimulation |
| (noun) awakening from sleep | - |
| (noun) a state of heightened physiological activity | - |
| arouse | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate |
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| (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: awaken, rouse, wake, wake up, waken |
| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
| (verb) to evoke sexual feelings | Synonyms: excite, sex, turn on, wind up |
| (verb) to begin moving | Synonyms: stir |
| aroused | (adjective) (of persons) excessively affected by emotion | Synonyms: emotional, excited, worked up |
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| (adjective) aroused to action | - |
| (adjective) emotionally aroused | Synonyms: stimulated, stirred, stirred up |
| (adjective) keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement | Synonyms: ablaze, aflame |
| (adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: horny, randy, ruttish, steamy, turned on |
| (adjective) brought to a state of great tension | Synonyms: wound up |
| arouser | (noun) someone who rouses others from sleep | Synonyms: rouser, waker |
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| arthrosporous | (adjective) of or relating to arthrospores | Synonyms: arthrosporic |
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| ascosporous | (adjective) of or relating to ascospores | Synonyms: ascosporic |
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| auriferous | (adjective) containing gold | Synonyms: gold-bearing |
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| aurous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing or derived from gold | Synonyms: auric |
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| babiroussa | (noun) Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth | Synonyms: babirusa, babirussa, Babyrousa Babyrussa |
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| bacciferous | (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: baccate, berried |
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| baccivorous | (adjective) feeding on berries | - |
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| background | (noun) scenery hung at back of stage | Synonyms: backcloth, backdrop |
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| (noun) (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear | Synonyms: desktop, screen background |
| (noun) a person's social heritage: previous experience or training | - |
| (noun) the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground | Synonyms: ground |
| (noun) information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem | Synonyms: background knowledge |
| (noun) extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured | Synonyms: background signal |
| (noun) relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation | - |
| (noun) the state of the environment in which a situation exists | Synonyms: scope, setting |
| (verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: downplay, play down |
| backgrounder | (noun) a press conference or interview in which a government official explains to reporters the background of an action or policy | - |
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| backgrounding | (noun) the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system | Synonyms: background processing |
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| barbarous | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
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| (adjective) primitive in customs and culture | - |
| barbarously | (adverb) in a barbarous manner | - |
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| barbarousness | (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, heinousness |
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| barouche | (noun) a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding top | - |
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| basidiosporous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by spores produced by basidia | - |
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| battleground | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battlefield, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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| bedground | (noun) an area on which a drove of cattle or sheep can sleep for a night | Synonyms: bed-ground, bed ground |
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| belowground | (adjective) underneath the ground | - |
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| (adjective) under the level of the ground | Synonyms: underground |
| bibliolatrous | (adjective) given to Bible-worship | - |
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| biparous | (adjective) producing two offspring at a time | Synonyms: twinning |
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| blusterous | (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blustering, blustery |
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| boisterous | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly |
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| (adjective) full of rough and exuberant animal spirits | Synonyms: knockabout |
| (adjective) violently agitated and turbulent | Synonyms: fierce, rough |
| boisterously | (adverb) in a carefree manner | Synonyms: rollickingly |
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| boisterousness | (noun) the property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained | - |
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| (noun) a turbulent and stormy state of the sea | - |
| borough | (noun) one of the administrative divisions of a large city | - |
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| (noun) an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament | - |
| brachypterous | (adjective) (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings | Synonyms: short-winged |
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| brachyurous | (adjective) of or belonging to the suborder Brachyura | - |
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| breakthrough | (noun) a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense | - |
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| (noun) making an important discovery | - |
| (noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: discovery, find |
| brougham | (noun) a sedan that has no roof over the driver's seat | - |
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| (noun) light carriage; pulled by a single horse | - |
| brouhaha | (noun) a confused disturbance far greater than its cause merits | - |
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| (noun) loud confused noise from many sources | Synonyms: hubbub, katzenjammer, uproar |
| cadaverous | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaveric |
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| (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
| calciferous | (adjective) bearing or producing or containing calcium or calcium carbonate or calcite | - |
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| campground | (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment |
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| cancerous | (adjective) like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or affected with cancer | - |
| cankerous | (adjective) having an ulcer or canker | Synonyms: ulcerated, ulcerous |
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| canorous | (adjective) richly melodious | Synonyms: songful |
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| cantankerous | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: crotchety, ornery |
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| (adjective) stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate | Synonyms: bloody-minded |
| cantankerously | (adverb) in a bad mood | - |
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| carboniferous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carbonic, carbonous |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the Carboniferous geologic era | - |
| carnivorous | (adjective) (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of carnivores | - |
| carnivorousness | (noun) The quality of being an animal that eats meat as the main part of its diet. | Synonyms: zoophagy |
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| carousal | (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party | Synonyms: bender, booze-up, carouse, toot |
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| carouse | (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party | Synonyms: bender, booze-up, carousal, toot |
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| (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: riot, roister |
| carousel | (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carrousel, merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig |
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| (noun) a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers | Synonyms: carrousel, luggage carousel, luggage carrousel |
| carouser | (noun) someone who enjoys riotous drinking | Synonyms: wassailer |
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| carousing | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, orgiastic |
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| carposporous | (adjective) having carpospores | - |
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| carrousel | (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig |
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| (noun) a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers | Synonyms: carousel, luggage carousel, luggage carrousel |
| cerous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing cerium with valence 3 | - |
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| chancrous | (adjective) of or having chancres | - |
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| chelicerous | (adjective) having chelicerae | - |
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| cheliferous | (adjective) having chelae | - |
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| chivalrous | (adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: gallant, knightly |
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| chivalrously | (adverb) in a gallant manner | Synonyms: gallantly |
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| chyliferous | (adjective) transmitting chyle | - |
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| citrous | (adjective) of or relating to or producing fruit of the plants of the genus Citrus | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to plants of the genus Citrus | - |
| clamorous | (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamant, strident, vociferous |
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| clamorously | (adverb) in manner that attracts attention | Synonyms: loudly, obstreperously |
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| clangorous | (adjective) having a loud resonant metallic sound | Synonyms: clanging |
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| congenerous | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congeneric, congenerical |
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| coniferous | (adjective) of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves | Synonyms: cone-bearing |
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| crouch | (noun) the act of bending low with the limbs close to the body | - |
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| (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: hunker, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up, squat |
| (verb) bend one's back forward from the waist on down | Synonyms: bend, bow, stoop |
| croup | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croupe, hindquarters, rump |
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| (noun) a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing | Synonyms: spasmodic laryngitis |
| croupe | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croup, hindquarters, rump |
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| croupier | (noun) someone who collects and pays bets at a gaming table | - |
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| croupy | (adjective) resembling or arising from or indicating croup | - |
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| crouton | (noun) a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads | - |
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| cruciferous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae | - |
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| cumbrous | (adjective) difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight | Synonyms: cumbersome |
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