| acupressure | (noun) treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body | Synonyms: G-Jo, shiatsu |
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| alyssum | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of small yellow or white flowers | Synonyms: madwort |
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| assuage | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: alleviate, palliate, relieve |
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| (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: allay, quench, slake |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| assuagement | (noun) the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced | Synonyms: alleviation, relief |
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| assuasive | (adjective) freeing from fear and anxiety | Synonyms: soothing |
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| assume | (verb) put clothing on one's body | Synonyms: don, get into, put on, wear |
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| (verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: acquire, adopt, take, take on |
| (verb) take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof | Synonyms: presume, take for granted |
| (verb) take up someone's soul into heaven | - |
| (verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: feign, sham, simulate |
| (verb) occupy or take on | Synonyms: strike, take, take up |
| (verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: arrogate, seize, take over, usurp |
| (verb) take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person | Synonyms: accept, bear, take over |
| (verb) take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities | Synonyms: adopt, take on, take over |
| assumed | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham |
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| assuming | (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assumptive, presumptuous |
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| assumption | (noun) the act of taking possession of or power over something | Synonyms: laying claim |
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| (noun) the act of assuming or taking for granted | - |
| (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: effrontery, presumption, presumptuousness |
| (noun) a hypothesis that is taken for granted | Synonyms: supposal, supposition |
| (noun) a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn | Synonyms: premise, premiss |
| assumptive | (adjective) accepted as real or true without proof | - |
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| (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, presumptuous |
| assurance | (noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: authority, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
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| (noun) a statement intended to inspire confidence | - |
| (noun) a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something | Synonyms: pledge |
| (noun) a British term for some kinds of insurance | - |
| assure | (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, check, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
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| (verb) inform positively and with certainty and confidence | Synonyms: tell |
| (verb) assure somebody of the truth of something with the intention of giving the listener confidence | - |
| (verb) make a promise or commitment | Synonyms: promise |
| (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: ensure, guarantee, insure, secure |
| assured | (adjective) marked by assurance; exhibiting confidence | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by certainty or security | - |
| assuredly | (adverb) without a doubt | - |
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| assuredness | (noun) great coolness and composure under strain | Synonyms: aplomb, cool, poise, sang-froid |
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| assurgent | (adjective) growing or extending upward | - |
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| (adjective) rising from the sea | - |
| assuring | (adjective) giving confidence | - |
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| babassu | (noun) tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory | Synonyms: babassu palm, coco de macao, Orbignya martiana, Orbignya phalerata, Orbignya spesiosa |
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| byssus | (noun) tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface | Synonyms: beard |
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| colossus | (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, giant, goliath, monster |
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| (noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, giant, heavyweight, titan |
| commissure | (noun) a bundle of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the brain or spinal cord | - |
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| depressurise | (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: decompress, depressurize |
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| depressurize | (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: decompress, depressurise |
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| dissuade | (verb) turn away from by persuasion | Synonyms: deter |
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| dissuasion | (noun) persuading not to do or believe something; talking someone out of a belief or an intended course of action | - |
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| (noun) a communication that dissuades you | - |
| dissuasive | (adjective) deterring from action | - |
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| fissure | (noun) (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes | - |
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| (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, crevice, scissure |
| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, crack, cranny, crevice |
| (verb) break into fissures or fine cracks | - |
| intussuscept | (verb) introvert or invaginate | - |
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| intussusception | (noun) (biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall | - |
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| (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, introversion, invagination |
| issuance | (noun) the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity) | Synonyms: issue, issuing |
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| issue | (noun) the act of issuing printed materials | Synonyms: publication |
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| (noun) the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity) | Synonyms: issuance, issuing |
| (noun) an opening that permits escape or release | Synonyms: exit, outlet, way out |
| (noun) some situation or event that is thought about | Synonyms: matter, subject, topic |
| (noun) an important question that is in dispute and must be settled | - |
| (noun) one of a series published periodically | Synonyms: number |
| (noun) the becoming visible | Synonyms: egress, emergence |
| (noun) the immediate descendants of a person | Synonyms: offspring, progeny |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, event, outcome, result, upshot |
| (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings, yield |
| (noun) supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government | Synonyms: government issue, military issue |
| (verb) come out of | Synonyms: come forth, come out, egress, emerge, go forth |
| (verb) prepare and issue for public distribution or sale | Synonyms: bring out, publish, put out, release |
| (verb) bring out an official document (such as a warrant) | - |
| (verb) make out and issue | Synonyms: cut, make out, write out |
| (verb) circulate or distribute or equip with | Synonyms: supply |
| issuer | (noun) an institution that issues something (securities or publications or currency etc.) | - |
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| issuing | (noun) the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity) | Synonyms: issuance, issue |
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| messuage | (noun) (law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household | - |
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| missus | (noun) informal term of address for someone's wife | Synonyms: missis |
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| narcissus | (noun) bulbous plant having erect linear leaves and showy yellow or white flowers either solitary or in clusters | - |
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| odontoglossum | (noun) any of numerous and diverse orchids of the genus Odontoglossum having racemes of few to many showy usually large flowers in many colors | - |
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| opossum | (noun) nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America | Synonyms: possum |
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| (noun) small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: phalanger, possum |
| ossuary | (noun) any receptacle for the burial of human bones | - |
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| overpressure | (noun) a transient air pressure greater than the surrounding atmospheric pressure | - |
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| possum | (noun) nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America | Synonyms: opossum |
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| (noun) small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: opossum, phalanger |
| possumwood | (noun) medium-sized tree of dry woodlands in the southern and eastern United States bearing yellow or orange very astringent fruit that is edible when fully ripe | Synonyms: American persimmon, Diospyros virginiana |
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| pressure | (noun) the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure | Synonyms: press, pressing |
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| (noun) a force that compels | - |
| (noun) the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin | Synonyms: pressure sensation |
| (noun) the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit) | Synonyms: force per unit area, pressure level |
| (noun) the pressure exerted by the atmosphere | Synonyms: air pressure, atmospheric pressure |
| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistence, insistency, press |
| (noun) an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress | - |
| (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, force, hale, squeeze |
| (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, blackmail |
| pressurise | (verb) increase the pressure in or of | Synonyms: pressurize |
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| (verb) maintain a certain pressure | Synonyms: pressurize |
| (verb) increase the pressure on a gas or liquid | Synonyms: pressurize, supercharge |
| pressurize | (verb) increase the pressure in or of | Synonyms: pressurise |
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| (verb) maintain a certain pressure | Synonyms: pressurise |
| (verb) increase the pressure on a gas or liquid | Synonyms: pressurise, supercharge |
| reassurance | (noun) the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence | - |
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| reassure | (verb) give reassurance to; give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure or certain | - |
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| reassured | (adjective) having confidence restored; freed from anxiety | - |
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| reassuring | (adjective) restoring confidence and relieving anxiety | - |
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| reassuringly | (adverb) in a reassuring manner | - |
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| reissue | (noun) a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale | Synonyms: reprint, reprinting |
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| (verb) print anew | Synonyms: reprint |
| (verb) issue (a new version of) | - |
| sargassum | (noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | Synonyms: gulfweed, sargasso, Sargassum bacciferum |
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| scissure | (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, crevice, fissure |
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| sissu | (noun) East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder; yields a compact dark brown durable timber used in shipbuilding and making railroad ties | Synonyms: Dalbergia sissoo, sisham, sissoo |
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| tissue | (noun) part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function | - |
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| (noun) a soft thin (usually translucent) paper | Synonyms: tissue paper |
| (verb) create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton | Synonyms: weave |
| tossup | (noun) an unpredictable phenomenon | Synonyms: even chance, toss-up |
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| tussur | (noun) oriental moth that produces brownish silk | Synonyms: Antheraea mylitta, tussah, tusseh, tusser, tussore |
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| unassuming | (adjective) not arrogant or presuming | Synonyms: retiring |
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| unassumingly | (adverb) in an unassuming manner | - |
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| unassumingness | (noun) a quality of naturalness and simplicity | Synonyms: sincerity |
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| unassured | (adjective) lacking boldness or confidence | - |
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| unreassuring | (adjective) not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety | Synonyms: worrisome |
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