| acaulescent | (adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: stemless |
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| acquiescence | (noun) agreement with a statement or proposal to do something | Synonyms: assent |
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| (noun) acceptance without protest | - |
| acquiescent | (adjective) willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest | Synonyms: biddable |
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| adolescence | (noun) in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood | - |
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| (noun) the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood | - |
| adolescent | (adjective) relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent | - |
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| (adjective) in the state of development between puberty and maturity | - |
| (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: jejune, juvenile, puerile |
| (adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: teen, teenage, teenaged |
| (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: stripling, teen, teenager |
| albescent | (adjective) becoming or shading into white | - |
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| alcalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alkalescent |
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| alkalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alcalescent |
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| arborescent | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| ascend | (verb) slope upwards | - |
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| (verb) travel up | Synonyms: go up |
| (verb) come up, of celestial bodies | Synonyms: come up, rise, uprise |
| (verb) go along towards (a river's) source | - |
| (verb) move to a better position in life or to a better job | Synonyms: move up, rise |
| (verb) appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils | Synonyms: climb up |
| (verb) become king or queen | - |
| (verb) go back in order of genealogical succession | - |
| ascendable | (adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendible, climbable |
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| ascendance | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendancy | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendant | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendent, ascensive |
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| (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendent, dominating |
| (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendent, root |
| (noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendent |
| ascendence | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendency | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, control, dominance |
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| ascendent | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascensive |
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| (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, dominating |
| (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, root |
| (noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendant |
| ascender | (noun) (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters | - |
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| (noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters | - |
| (noun) someone who ascends | - |
| ascendible | (adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendable, climbable |
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| ascending | (adjective) moving or going or growing upward | - |
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| (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rise |
| ascension | (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascending, ascent, rise |
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| (noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascent, rise, rising |
| (noun) (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon | - |
| ascensional | (adjective) tending to rise | - |
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| ascensive | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent |
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| ascent | (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascending, ascension, rise |
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| (noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascension, rise, rising |
| (noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: acclivity, climb, raise, rise, upgrade |
| autofluorescence | (noun) self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| autofluorescent | (adjective) emitting light via self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| bioluminescence | (noun) luminescence produced by physiological processes (as in the firefly) | - |
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| bioluminescent | (adjective) (of living organisms) emitting light | - |
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| candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
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| canescent | (adjective) of greyish white | - |
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| (adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: hoary |
| caulescent | (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: cauline, stemmed |
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| chemiluminescence | (noun) luminescence resulting from a chemical reaction as the oxidation of luciferin in fireflies | - |
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| chemiluminescent | (adjective) relating to the phenomenon of chemiluminescence | - |
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| coalescence | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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| coalescency | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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| coalescent | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescing |
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| cognoscente | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: connoisseur |
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| concupiscence | (noun) a desire for sexual intimacy | Synonyms: eros, physical attraction, sexual desire |
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| concupiscent | (adjective) vigorously passionate | Synonyms: lustful, lusty |
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| condescend | (verb) treat condescendingly | Synonyms: patronise, patronize |
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| (verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: deign, descend |
| (verb) behave in a patronizing and condescending manner | - |
| (verb) debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way | Synonyms: lower oneself, stoop |
| condescending | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, patronising, patronizing |
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| condescendingly | (adverb) with condescension; in a patronizing manner | Synonyms: patronisingly, patronizingly |
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| condescendingness | (noun) affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank | Synonyms: condescension |
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| condescension | (noun) the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior | Synonyms: disdainfulness, superciliousness |
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| (noun) affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank | Synonyms: condescendingness |
| (noun) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient | Synonyms: disdain, patronage |
| convalescence | (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: recovery, recuperation |
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| convalescent | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: recovering |
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| (noun) a person who is recovering from illness | - |
| crescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in volume | - |
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| (noun) (music) a gradual increase in loudness | - |
| (verb) grow louder | - |
| crescent | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, lunate, semilunar |
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| (noun) any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters | - |
| damascene | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Damascus or its people | - |
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| (adjective) (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals | - |
| (noun) a design produced by inlaying gold or silver into steel | - |
| (verb) inlay metal with gold and silver | - |
| decalescence | (noun) phenomenon that occurs when a metal is being heated and there is a sudden slowing in the rate of temperature increase; slowing is caused by a change in the internal crystal structure of the metal | - |
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| decalescent | (adjective) absorbing heat without increase in temperature when heated beyond a certain point | - |
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| decrescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: diminuendo |
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| (noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: diminuendo |
| (verb) grow quieter | - |
| defervescence | (noun) abatement of a fever as indicated by a reduction in body temperature | - |
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| defervescent | (adjective) of or relating to the reduction of a fever | - |
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| dehiscence | (noun) (biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound | - |
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| dehiscent | (adjective) (of e.g. fruits and anthers) opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds | - |
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| deliquescent | (adjective) (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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| descend | (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: fall, settle |
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| (verb) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | Synonyms: come down, fall, go down |
| (verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: condescend, deign |
| (verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: come, derive |
| descendant | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendent |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
| (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
| descendants | (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: posterity |
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| descendent | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendant |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
| (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
| descender | (noun) (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters | - |
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| (noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters | - |
| (noun) someone who descends | - |
| descending | (adjective) coming down or downward | - |
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| descensus | (noun) the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus) | Synonyms: prolapse, prolapsus |
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| descent | (noun) the act of changing your location in a downward direction | - |
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| (noun) properties attributable to your ancestry | Synonyms: extraction, origin |
| (noun) a movement downward | - |
| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, downslope, fall |
| (noun) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors | Synonyms: filiation, line of descent, lineage |
| detumescence | (noun) diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen | - |
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| effervescence | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: bubbliness, frothiness |
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| (noun) the process of bubbling as gas escapes | - |
| effervescent | (adjective) (of a liquid) giving off bubbles | - |
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| (adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: sparkling |
| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
| efflorescence | (noun) a powdery deposit on a surface | Synonyms: bloom |
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| (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
| (noun) any red eruption of the skin | Synonyms: rash, roseola, skin rash |
| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
| efflorescent | (adjective) when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower | Synonyms: abloom |
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| evanescence | (noun) the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight | - |
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| evanescent | (adjective) tending to vanish like vapor | - |
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| excrescence | (noun) (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body | - |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
| excrescent | (adjective) forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth) | - |
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| florescence | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, flowering, inflorescence |
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| fluorescence | (noun) light emitted during absorption of radiation of some other (invisible) wavelength | - |
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| fluorescent | (adjective) brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light | - |
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| (adjective) emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source | - |
| (noun) a lighting fixture that uses a fluorescent lamp | Synonyms: fluorescent fixture |
| glabrescent | (adjective) lacking hair or a similar growth or tending to become hairless | - |
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| ignescent | (adjective) can emit sparks or burst into flame | - |
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| immunofluorescence | (noun) (immunology) a technique that uses antibodies linked to a fluorescent dye in order to study antigens in a sample of tissue | - |
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| incalescence | (noun) the property of being warming | Synonyms: calefaction |
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| incandescence | (noun) light from heat | - |
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| (noun) the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised | Synonyms: glow |
| incandescent | (adjective) characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance | - |
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| (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: candent |
| indehiscent | (adjective) (of e.g. fruits) not opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds | - |
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| inflorescence | (noun) the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk | - |
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| (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering |
| infructescence | (noun) the fruiting stage of the inflorescence | - |
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| intumescence | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescency, swelling |
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| (noun) swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) | Synonyms: intumescency |
| intumescency | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescence, swelling |
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| (noun) swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) | Synonyms: intumescence |
| intumescent | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
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| iridescence | (noun) the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface | Synonyms: opalescence |
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| iridescent | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent |
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| (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, chatoyant, shot |
| juvenescence | (noun) the process of growing into a youth | - |
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| liquescent | (adjective) becoming liquid | Synonyms: melting |
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| luminescence | (noun) light from nonthermal sources | Synonyms: glow |
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| (noun) light not due to incandescence; occurs at low temperatures | - |
| luminescent | (adjective) emitting light not caused by heat | - |
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| nascence | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascency, nativity |
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| nascency | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascence, nativity |
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| nascent | (adjective) being born or beginning | - |
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| noneffervescent | (adjective) not effervescent | - |
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| (adjective) not sparkling | Synonyms: still |
| obscene | (adjective) suggestive of or tending to moral looseness | Synonyms: lewd, raunchy, salacious |
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| (adjective) designed to incite to indecency or lust | - |
| (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, repugnant, repulsive |