| ablactate | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: wean |
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| ablactation | (noun) the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal | Synonyms: weaning |
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| (noun) the cessation of lactation | - |
| acceptation | (noun) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | Synonyms: acceptance, adoption, espousal |
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| (noun) the accepted meaning of a word | Synonyms: word meaning, word sense |
| (noun) acceptance as true or valid | - |
| accreditation | (noun) the act of granting credit or recognition (especially with respect to an educational institution that maintains suitable standards) | - |
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| acetate | (noun) a fabric made from fibers of cellulose acetate | Synonyms: acetate rayon |
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| (noun) a salt or ester of acetic acid | Synonyms: ethanoate |
| adaptation | (noun) (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light) | - |
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| (noun) a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form | Synonyms: version |
| (noun) the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions) | Synonyms: adaption, adjustment |
| adaptational | (adjective) of or relating to adaptation | - |
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| adaptative | (adjective) having a capacity for adaptation | Synonyms: adaptive |
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| affectation | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectedness, mannerism, pose |
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| afforestation | (noun) the conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest (originally for the purpose of hunting) | - |
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| agitate | (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: commove, disturb, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
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| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: budge, shift, stir |
| (verb) move or cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: shake |
| (verb) try to stir up public opinion | Synonyms: foment, stir up |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: campaign, crusade, fight, press, push |
| agitated | (adjective) troubled emotionally and usually deeply | - |
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| (adjective) physically disturbed or set in motion | - |
| agitating | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitative, provoking |
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| agitation | (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: excitement, hullabaloo, turmoil, upheaval |
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| (noun) the act of agitating something; causing it to move around (usually vigorously) | - |
| (noun) the feeling of being agitated; not calm | - |
| (noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | Synonyms: ferment, fermentation, tempestuousness, unrest |
| (noun) a mental state of extreme emotional disturbance | - |
| agitative | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitating, provoking |
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| agitator | (noun) one who agitates; a political troublemaker | Synonyms: fomenter |
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| alimentation | (noun) the act of supplying food and nourishment | Synonyms: feeding |
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| (noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals |
| alimentative | (adjective) related to the supply of aliment | - |
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| amputate | (verb) remove surgically | Synonyms: cut off |
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| amputation | (noun) a surgical removal of all or part of a limb | - |
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| (noun) a condition of disability resulting from the loss of one or more limbs | - |
| amputator | (noun) a surgeon who removes part or all of a limb | - |
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| annotate | (verb) provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases | Synonyms: comment, gloss |
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| (verb) add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments | Synonyms: footnote |
| annotating | (noun) the act of adding notes | Synonyms: annotation |
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| annotation | (noun) the act of adding notes | Synonyms: annotating |
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| (noun) a comment or instruction (usually added) | Synonyms: notation, note |
| annotator | (noun) a commentator who writes notes to a text | - |
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| antimetathesis | (noun) A rhetorical figure resulting from a reverted arrangement in the last clause of a sentence of the two principal words of the clause preceding; inversion of the members of an antithesis: as, "A poem is a speaking picture; a picture a mute poem". | - |
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| apostate | (adjective) not faithful to religion or party or cause | - |
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| (noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: deserter, ratter, recreant, renegade, turncoat |
| apostatise | (verb) abandon one's beliefs or allegiances | Synonyms: apostatize, tergiversate |
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| apostatize | (verb) abandon one's beliefs or allegiances | Synonyms: apostatise, tergiversate |
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| argumentation | (noun) a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning | Synonyms: argument, line, line of reasoning, logical argument |
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| (noun) a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal | Synonyms: argument, debate |
| argumentative | (adjective) given to or characterized by argument | - |
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| argumentatively | (adverb) in a disputatious manner | Synonyms: disputatiously |
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| astatic | (adjective) not static or stable | - |
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| astatine | (noun) a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium | Synonyms: At, atomic number 85 |
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| atorvastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Lipitor) that is effective in lowering triglycerides; potent in reducing LDL cholesterol because higher doses can be given | Synonyms: Lipitor |
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| attestation | (noun) the action of bearing witness | - |
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| (noun) the evidence by which something is attested | - |
| attestator | (noun) (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | Synonyms: attestant, attestor, witness |
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| augmentation | (noun) the act of augmenting | - |
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| (noun) the statement of a theme in notes of greater duration (usually twice the length of the original) | - |
| (noun) the amount by which something becomes greater | - |
| augmentative | (adjective) increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree | - |
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| (adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement | Synonyms: enhancive |
| auscultate | (verb) examine by auscultation | - |
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| auscultation | (noun) listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope) | - |
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| auscultatory | (adjective) of or relating to auscultation | - |
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| authoritative | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authorized |
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| (adjective) having authority or ascendancy or influence | Synonyms: important |
| (adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: definitive |
| authoritatively | (adverb) in an authoritative and magisterial manner | Synonyms: magisterially |
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| bacteriostat | (noun) a chemical or biological material that inhibits bacterial growth | - |
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| bacteriostatic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriostasis | - |
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| betatron | (noun) accelerates a continuous beam of electrons to high speeds by means of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux | Synonyms: induction accelerator |
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| bidentate | (adjective) having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed | - |
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| biostatistics | (noun) a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis | Synonyms: biometrics, biometry |
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| blaxploitation | (noun) the exploitation of black people (especially with regard to stereotyped roles in movies) | - |
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| butat | (noun) 100 bututs equal 1 dalasi in Gambia | Synonyms: butut |
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| cantata | (noun) a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text | Synonyms: oratorio |
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| capacitate | (verb) make capable | - |
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| (verb) cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg | - |
| (verb) make legally capable or qualify in law | - |
| capitate | (adjective) being abruptly enlarged and globose at the tip | - |
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| (noun) the wrist bone with a rounded head shape that articulates with the 3rd metacarpus | Synonyms: capitate bone, os capitatum |
| capitation | (noun) a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per person | - |
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| catathymia | (noun) A state in which mental processes are under the control of the emotions. | - |
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| catatonia | (noun) a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way to short periods of extreme excitement | Synonyms: catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia |
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| (noun) extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia | - |
| catatonic | (adjective) characterized by catatonia especially either rigidity or extreme laxness of limbs | - |
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| cerivastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Baycol) to reduce blood cholesterol levels | Synonyms: Baycol |
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| citation | (noun) an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | Synonyms: commendation |
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| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
| (noun) a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding | - |
| (noun) a passage or expression that is quoted or cited | Synonyms: quotation, quote |
| (noun) (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.) | - |
| coarctate | (adjective) (of an insect pupa) enclosed in a rigid case | - |
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| coarctation | (noun) (biology) a narrowing or constriction of a vessel or canal; especially a congenital narrowing of the aorta | - |
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| (noun) tight or narrow compression | Synonyms: constriction |
| coelostat | (noun) optical device used to follow the path of a celestial body and reflect its light into a telescope; has a movable and a fixed mirror | - |
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| cogitate | (verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cerebrate, think |
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| (verb) consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind | - |
| cogitation | (noun) attentive consideration and meditation | Synonyms: study |
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| (noun) a carefully considered thought about something | - |
| cogitative | (adjective) of or relating to having capacities for cogitation | - |
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| (adjective) given to cogitation | - |
| cohabitation | (noun) the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married) | - |
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| commentate | (verb) serve as a commentator, as in sportscasting | - |
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| (verb) make a commentary on | - |
| commentator | (noun) a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day | Synonyms: reviewer |
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| (noun) an expert who observes and comments on something | Synonyms: observer |
| commutate | (verb) reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current | - |
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| commutation | (noun) the travel of a commuter | Synonyms: commuting |
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| (noun) (law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law | Synonyms: re-sentencing |
| (noun) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: | Synonyms: exchange, substitution |
| (noun) a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one | - |
| commutative | (adjective) (of a binary operation) independent of order; as in e.g. "a x b = b x a" | - |
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| commutator | (noun) switch for reversing the direction of an electric current | - |
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| complementation | (noun) (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts | Synonyms: complementary distribution |
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| (noun) the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate | - |
| computation | (noun) the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods | Synonyms: calculation, computing |
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| (noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: calculation, figuring, reckoning |
| computational | (adjective) of or involving computation or computers | - |
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| computationally | (adverb) with regard to computation | - |
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| confrontation | (noun) the act of hostile groups opposing each other | Synonyms: opposition |
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| (noun) a focussed comparison; bringing together for a careful comparison | - |
| (noun) a hostile disagreement face-to-face | Synonyms: encounter, face-off, showdown |
| (noun) a bold challenge | - |
| (noun) discord resulting from a clash of ideas or opinions | - |
| confrontational | (adjective) of or relating to confrontation | - |
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| confutation | (noun) evidence that refutes conclusively | - |
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| (noun) the speech act of refuting conclusively | - |
| confutative | (adjective) able to be refuted | Synonyms: confutable, questionable, refutable |
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| connotation | (noun) an idea that is implied or suggested | - |
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| (noun) what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression | Synonyms: intension |
| connotational | (adjective) of or relating to a connotation | Synonyms: connotative of |
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| connotative | (adjective) having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit | - |
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| constatation | (noun) an assumption that is basic to an argument | Synonyms: basic assumption, self-evident truth |
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| consultation | (noun) the act of referring or consulting | Synonyms: reference |
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| (noun) a conference (usually with someone important) | Synonyms: audience, interview |
| (noun) a conference between two or more people to consider a particular question | - |
| consultative | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultatory, consultive |
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| consultatory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultative, consultive |
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| contestation | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, controversy, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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| costate | (adjective) having ribs | - |
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| (adjective) (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture | Synonyms: ribbed |
| crepitate | (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crackle |
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| crepitation | (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackle, crackling |
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| cryostat | (noun) a thermostat that operates at very low temperatures | - |
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| cunctation | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time | Synonyms: procrastination, shillyshally |
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| cunctator | (noun) someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) | Synonyms: postponer, procrastinator |
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| debilitate | (verb) make weak | Synonyms: drain, enfeeble |
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| debilitated | (adjective) lacking energy or vitality | Synonyms: adynamic, asthenic, enervated |
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| debilitating | (adjective) impairing the strength and vitality | - |
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| debilitation | (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion |
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| debilitative | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: enervating, enfeebling, weakening |
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