| allspice | (noun) ground dried berrylike fruit of a West Indian allspice tree; suggesting combined flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves | - |
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| (noun) aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries | Synonyms: allspice tree, Pimenta dioica, pimento tree |
| (noun) deciduous shrubs having aromatic bark; eastern China; southwestern and eastern United States | - |
| anaspid | (noun) extinct small freshwater jawless fish usually having a heterocercal tail and an armored head; of the Silurian and Devonian | - |
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| antiperspirant | (noun) an astringent substance applied to the skin to reduce perspiration | - |
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| aspic | (noun) savory jelly based on fish or meat stock used as a mold for meats or vegetables | - |
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| aspidistra | (noun) evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant | Synonyms: Aspidistra elatio, bar-room plant, cast-iron plant |
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| aspirant | (adjective) desiring or striving for recognition or advancement | Synonyms: aspiring, wishful |
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| (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirer, hopeful, wannabe, wannabee |
| aspirate | (noun) a consonant pronounced with aspiration | - |
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| (noun) a speech sound having as an obvious concomitant an audible puff of breath, as initial stop consonants or initial h -sounds. | - |
| (verb) inhale (air, water, etc.) | - |
| (verb) pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds | - |
| (verb) remove by suction | Synonyms: draw out, suck out |
| aspiration | (noun) the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing | Synonyms: breathing in, inhalation, inspiration, intake |
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| (noun) a will to succeed | - |
| (noun) a manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath | - |
| (noun) a cherished desire | Synonyms: ambition, dream |
| aspirator | (noun) a pump that draws air or another gas through a liquid | - |
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| aspire | (verb) have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal | Synonyms: aim, draw a bead on, shoot for |
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| aspirer | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, hopeful, wannabe, wannabee |
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| aspirin | (noun) the acetylated derivative of salicylic acid; used as an analgesic anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Bayer, Empirin, and St. Joseph) usually taken in tablet form; used as an antipyretic; slows clotting of the blood by poisoning platelets | Synonyms: acetylsalicylic acid, Bayer, Empirin, St. Joseph |
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| aspiring | (adjective) desiring or striving for recognition or advancement | Synonyms: aspirant, wishful |
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| auspicate | (verb) commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck | - |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| auspice | (noun) a favorable omen | - |
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| auspices | (noun) kindly endorsement and guidance | Synonyms: aegis, protection |
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| auspicious | (adjective) auguring favorable circumstances and good luck | - |
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| auspiciously | (adverb) in an auspicious manner | Synonyms: propitiously |
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| auspiciousness | (noun) the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result | Synonyms: propitiousness |
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| backspin | (noun) spin (usually of a moving ball) that retards or reverses the forward motion | - |
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| bicuspid | (adjective) having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth) | Synonyms: bicuspidate |
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| (noun) a tooth having two cusps or points; located between the incisors and the molars | Synonyms: premolar |
| bicuspidate | (adjective) having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth) | Synonyms: bicuspid |
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| buspirone | (noun) a drug (trade name BuSpar) designed specifically for anxiety | Synonyms: BuSpar |
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| caespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: cespitose, tufted |
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| cardiorespiratory | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiopulmonary |
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| cephalaspid | (noun) extinct jawless fish of the Devonian with armored head | Synonyms: osteostracan |
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| cerebrospinal | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and spinal cord | - |
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| cespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: caespitose, tufted |
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| cesspit | (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspool, sink, sump |
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| clothespin | (noun) wood or plastic fastener; for holding clothes on a clothesline | Synonyms: clothes peg, clothes pin |
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| coconspirator | (noun) a member of a conspiracy | Synonyms: conspirator, machinator, plotter |
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| coconspire | (verb) conspire together | - |
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| conspicuous | (adjective) obvious to the eye or mind | - |
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| (adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blatant, blazing |
| conspicuously | (adverb) in a manner tending to attract attention | - |
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| (adverb) in a prominent way | Synonyms: prominently |
| conspicuousness | (noun) high visibility | - |
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| (noun) the state of being conspicuous | - |
| conspiracy | (noun) a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot) | Synonyms: cabal |
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| (noun) a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act | Synonyms: confederacy |
| (noun) a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: confederacy |
| conspirative | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators | Synonyms: conspiratorial |
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| conspirator | (noun) a member of a conspiracy | Synonyms: coconspirator, machinator, plotter |
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| conspiratorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators | Synonyms: conspirative |
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| conspire | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, machinate |
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| (verb) act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: collude |
| counterespionage | (noun) spying on the spies | - |
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| crispiness | (noun) firm but easily broken | Synonyms: brittleness, crispness |
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| crosspiece | (noun) a transverse brace | - |
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| (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, trave, traverse |
| cuspid | (noun) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | Synonyms: canine, canine tooth, dogtooth, eye tooth, eyetooth |
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| cuspidal | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cuspidate | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidated |
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| cuspidated | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate |
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| cuspidation | (noun) a decoration using cusps | - |
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| cuspidor | (noun) a receptacle for spit (usually in a public place) | Synonyms: spittoon |
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| despicability | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicableness, sordidness |
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| despicable | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched |
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| despicableness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicability, sordidness |
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| despicably | (adverb) in a despicable manner | - |
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| despisal | (noun) a feeling of scornful hatred | Synonyms: despising |
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| despise | (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, disdain, scorn |
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| despised | (adjective) treated with dislike or contempt | Synonyms: detested, hated, scorned |
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| despising | (noun) a feeling of scornful hatred | Synonyms: despisal |
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| despite | (noun) contemptuous disregard | - |
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| (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: contempt, disdain, scorn |
| despiteful | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: spiteful, vindictive |
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| despitefully | (adverb) in a maliciously spiteful manner | Synonyms: spitefully |
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| dispirit | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, get down |
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| dispirited | (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
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| (adjective) marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm | Synonyms: listless |
| dispiritedly | (adverb) in a dispirited manner without hope | Synonyms: hopelessly |
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| dispiritedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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| dispiriting | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, demoralizing, disheartening |
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| downspin | (noun) a swift and dangerous downturn | - |
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| espial | (noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | Synonyms: catching, detection, spotting, spying |
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| espionage | (noun) the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets | - |
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| fitspiration | (noun) something that inspires you to exercise | - |
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| frontispiece | (noun) front illustration facing the title page of a book | - |
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| (noun) an ornamental facade | - |
| glockenspiel | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers | Synonyms: orchestral bells |
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| grasping | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, greedy, prehensile |
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| (noun) the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles) | Synonyms: prehension, seizing, taking hold |
| (noun) understanding with difficulty | - |
| handspike | (noun) a metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever | - |
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| hispid | (adjective) (of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles | - |
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| hospice | (noun) a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill | - |
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| (noun) a lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order) | - |
| hospitable | (adjective) favorable to life and growth | - |
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| (adjective) disposed to treat guests and strangers with cordiality and generosity | - |
| (adjective) having an open mind | - |
| hospitableness | (noun) having a disposition that welcomes guests and is fond of entertaining | - |
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| hospitably | (adverb) in a hospitable manner | - |
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| hospital | (noun) a health facility where patients receive treatment | Synonyms: infirmary |
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| (noun) a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care | - |
| hospitalisation | (noun) placing in medical care in a hospital | Synonyms: hospital care, hospitalization |
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| hospitalise | (verb) admit into a hospital | Synonyms: hospitalize |
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| hospitality | (noun) kindness in welcoming guests or strangers | Synonyms: cordial reception |
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| hospitalization | (noun) placing in medical care in a hospital | Synonyms: hospital care, hospitalisation |
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| (noun) insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense | Synonyms: hospitalization insurance |
| (noun) the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital | - |
| (noun) a period of time when you are confined to a hospital | - |
| hospitalize | (verb) admit into a hospital | Synonyms: hospitalise |
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| hospitaller | (noun) title of the member of any of several religious orders that cared for the sick in hospitals. | - |
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| inauspicious | (adjective) not auspicious; boding ill | Synonyms: unfortunate |
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| (adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: adverse, untoward |
| (adjective) presaging ill fortune | Synonyms: ill, ominous |
| inauspiciously | (adverb) in an inauspicious manner | Synonyms: unpropitiously |
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| inauspiciousness | (noun) the quality of suggesting an unsuccessful result | Synonyms: unpropitiousness |
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| inconspicuous | (adjective) not prominent or readily noticeable | Synonyms: invisible |
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| inconspicuously | (adverb) in a manner intended to avoid attracting attention | - |
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| inconspicuousness | (noun) the quality of being not easily seen | - |
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| inhospitable | (adjective) unfavorable to life or growth | - |
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| (adjective) not hospitable | - |
| inhospitableness | (noun) having an unfriendly and inhospitable disposition | - |
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| (noun) the environmental condition in a region that lacks a favorable climate or terrain for life or growth | - |
| inhospitably | (adverb) in an inhospitable manner | - |
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| inhospitality | (noun) unkind and inconsiderate welcome | - |
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| inspiration | (noun) the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing | Synonyms: aspiration, breathing in, inhalation, intake |
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| (noun) arousing to a particular emotion or action | Synonyms: stirring |
| (noun) a product of your creative thinking and work | Synonyms: brainchild |
| (noun) (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings | Synonyms: divine guidance |
| (noun) a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem | - |
| (noun) arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity | - |
| inspirational | (adjective) imparting a divine influence on the mind and soul | - |
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| inspirationally | (adverb) with inspiration; in an inspiring manner | - |
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| inspiratory | (adjective) pertaining to the drawing in phase of respiration | - |
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| inspire | (verb) draw in (air) | Synonyms: breathe in, inhale |
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| (verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: revolutionise, revolutionize |
| (verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: instigate, prompt |
| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, cheer, exhort, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| (verb) supply the inspiration for | - |
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, enliven, exalt, invigorate |