| absolutely | (adverb) completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: dead, perfectly, utterly |
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| (adverb) totally and definitely; without question | - |
| accurately | (adverb) with few mistakes | - |
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| (adverb) strictly correctly | - |
| acutely | (adverb) having a rapid onset | - |
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| (adverb) in a keen or penetrating way | Synonyms: keenly |
| (adverb) changing suddenly in direction and degree | Synonyms: sharp, sharply |
| (adverb) in a shrewd manner | Synonyms: astutely, sagaciously, sapiently, shrewdly |
| adequately | (adverb) in an adequate manner or to an adequate degree | - |
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| aerophilatelic | (adjective) of or relating to airmail stamps | - |
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| aerophilately | (noun) the collection and study of airmail stamps | - |
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| affectionately | (adverb) with affection | Synonyms: dear, dearly |
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| alternately | (adverb) in an alternating sequence or position | - |
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| angiotelectasia | (noun) dilation and enlargement of arterioles | - |
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| antelope | (noun) graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles, springboks, impalas, addax, gerenuks, blackbucks, dik-diks | - |
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| antisatellite | (adjective) of or relating to a system to destroy satellites in orbit | Synonyms: ASAT |
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| appropriately | (adverb) in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances | Synonyms: befittingly, duly, fitly, fittingly, properly, suitably |
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| approximately | (adverb) (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct | Synonyms: about, around, close to, just about, more or less, or so, roughly, some |
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| articulately | (adverb) in an articulate manner | Synonyms: eloquently |
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| (adverb) with eloquence | Synonyms: eloquently |
| astutely | (adverb) in a shrewd manner | Synonyms: acutely, sagaciously, sapiently, shrewdly |
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| atelectasis | (noun) collapse of an expanded lung (especially in infants); also failure of pulmonary alveoli to expand at birth | - |
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| ateleiosis | (noun) a form of infantilism characterized by physical underdevelopment but normal intelligence | Synonyms: ateliosis |
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| ateleiotic | (adjective) of or relating to ateleiosis | - |
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| atelier | (noun) a studio especially for an artist or designer | Synonyms: artist's workroom |
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| ateliosis | (noun) a form of infantilism characterized by physical underdevelopment but normal intelligence | Synonyms: ateleiosis |
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| autotelic | (adjective) of or relating to or believing in autotelism | - |
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| autotelism | (noun) belief that a work of art is an end in itself or its own justification | - |
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| bagatelle | (noun) a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over | Synonyms: bar billiards |
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| (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: fluff, frippery, frivolity |
| (noun) a light piece of music for piano | - |
| betel | (noun) Asian pepper plant whose leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians | Synonyms: betel pepper, Piper betel |
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| (noun) a leaf of a vine from the betel pepper | Synonyms: betel leaf |
| canistel | (noun) ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies | Synonyms: eggfruit |
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| (noun) tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit | Synonyms: canistel tree, Pouteria campechiana nervosa |
| cartel | (noun) a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service | Synonyms: combine, corporate trust, trust |
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| cartelization | (noun) the process of cartelizing, usually occuring in oligopolistic industry. | - |
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| casquetel | (noun) a light open casque without a visor or beaver | Synonyms: casquet |
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| casteless | (adjective) not belonging to or having been expelled from a caste and thus having no place or status in society | Synonyms: outcaste |
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| castellated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castled, crenelated, embattled |
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| chastely | (adverb) in a chaste and virtuous manner | Synonyms: virtuously |
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| chatelaine | (noun) a chain formerly worn at the waist by women; for carrying a purse or bunch of keys etc. | - |
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| (noun) the mistress of a chateau or large country house | - |
| chattel | (noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) | Synonyms: movable, personal chattel |
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| christella | (noun) any of several tropical ferns of the genus Christella having thin brittle fronds | - |
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| clientele | (noun) customers collectively | Synonyms: business, patronage |
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| compassionately | (adverb) in a sympathetic manner | Synonyms: pityingly |
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| completely | (adverb) so as to be complete; with everything necessary | - |
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| (adverb) to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely | Synonyms: all, altogether, entirely, right, totally, whole, wholly |
| concretely | (adverb) in concrete terms | - |
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| considerately | (adverb) in a considerate manner | - |
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| constellate | (verb) form a constellation or cluster | - |
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| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, cluster, flock |
| (verb) scatter or intersperse like dots or studs | Synonyms: dot, stud |
| constellation | (noun) an arrangement of parts or elements | Synonyms: configuration |
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| (noun) a configuration of stars as seen from the earth | - |
| contritely | (adverb) in a rueful manner | Synonyms: remorsefully, ruefully |
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| coordinately | (adverb) in a coordinated manner | - |
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| counterintelligence | (noun) intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism | - |
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| cutely | (adverb) in an attractive manner | Synonyms: cunningly |
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| dateless | (adjective) having no known beginning and presumably no end | Synonyms: endless, sempiternal |
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| (adjective) unaffected by time | Synonyms: timeless |
| (adjective) not bearing a date | Synonyms: undated |
| (adjective) of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date | - |
| dateline | (noun) a line at the beginning of a news article giving the date and place of origin of the news dispatch | - |
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| (noun) an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian | Synonyms: date line, International Date Line |
| (verb) mark with a date and place | Synonyms: date-mark, datemark |
| definitely | (adverb) without question and beyond doubt | Synonyms: by all odds, decidedly, emphatically, in spades, unquestionably |
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| deliberately | (adverb) with intention; in an intentional manner | Synonyms: advisedly, by choice, by design, designedly, intentionally, on purpose, purposely |
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| (adverb) in a deliberate unhurried manner | Synonyms: measuredly |
| delicately | (adverb) in a delicate manner | Synonyms: exquisitely, fine, finely |
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| desolately | (adverb) in grief-stricken loneliness; without comforting circumstances or prospects | Synonyms: disconsolately |
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| desperately | (adverb) with great urgency | Synonyms: urgently |
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| (adverb) in intense despair | - |
| digitately | (adverb) in a digitate manner | - |
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| disconsolately | (adverb) in grief-stricken loneliness; without comforting circumstances or prospects | Synonyms: desolately |
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| dispassionately | (adverb) in an impartially dispassionate manner | - |
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| disproportionately | (adverb) to a disproportionate degree | - |
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| (adverb) in a manner which is out of proportion | - |
| dissolutely | (adverb) in a dissolute way | Synonyms: profligately |
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| elaborately | (adverb) with elaboration | Synonyms: in an elaborate way, intricately |
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| entelechy | (noun) (Aristotle) the state of something that is fully realized; actuality as opposed to potentiality | - |
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| entellus | (noun) langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India | Synonyms: hanuman, Presbytes entellus, Semnopithecus entellus |
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| eruditely | (adverb) with erudition; in an erudite manner | Synonyms: learnedly |
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| exquisitely | (adverb) in a delicate manner | Synonyms: delicately, fine, finely |
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| extortionately | (adverb) to an exorbitant degree | Synonyms: exorbitantly, usuriously |
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| fenestella | (noun) oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault | Synonyms: lunette |
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| finitely | (adverb) with a finite limit | - |
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| foretell | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, harbinger, herald |
| foretelling | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: divination, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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| (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, prediction, prognostication |
| fortunately | (adverb) by good fortune | Synonyms: as luck would have it, fortuitously, luckily |
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| fortuneteller | (noun) a person who foretells your personal future | Synonyms: fortune teller |
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| fortunetelling | (noun) the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment) | - |
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| glutelin | (noun) a simple protein found in the seeds of cereals | - |
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| granitelike | (adjective) hard as granite | Synonyms: granitic, rocklike, stony |
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| hostel | (noun) inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips) | Synonyms: student lodging, youth hostel |
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| (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: auberge, hostelry, inn, lodge |
| hosteller | (noun) a traveler who lodges in hostels | - |
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| (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hotel manager, hotelier, hotelkeeper, hotelman |
| hostelry | (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: auberge, hostel, inn, lodge |
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| hotel | (noun) a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services | - |
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| hotelier | (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hosteller, hotel manager, hotelkeeper, hotelman |
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| hotelkeeper | (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hosteller, hotel manager, hotelier, hotelman |
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| hotelman | (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hosteller, hotel manager, hotelier, hotelkeeper |
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| hyperintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: superintelligence |
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| illegitimately | (adverb) of biological parents not married to each other | Synonyms: out of wedlock |
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| (adverb) in a manner disapproved or not allowed by custom | Synonyms: illicitly |
| immaculately | (adverb) in an immaculate manner | - |
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| immediately | (adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, directly, forthwith, instantly, like a shot, now, right away, straight off, straightaway |
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| (adverb) near or close by | - |
| (adverb) bearing an immediate relation | - |
| immoderately | (adverb) without moderation; in an immoderate manner | - |
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| (adverb) to a degree that exceeds the bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: unreasonably |
| immortelle | (noun) mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere | Synonyms: Xeranthemum annuum |
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| impolitely | (adverb) in an impolite manner | Synonyms: discourteously, rudely |
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| importunately | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: beseechingly, entreatingly, imploringly, pleadingly |
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| inaccurately | (adverb) in an inaccurate manner | - |
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| inadequately | (adverb) in an inadequate manner or to an inadequate degree | - |
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| inappropriately | (adverb) in an inappropriate manner | Synonyms: unsuitably |
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| inarticulately | (adverb) in an inarticulate manner | - |
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| (adverb) without eloquence; in an inarticulate manner | Synonyms: ineloquently |
| incompletely | (adverb) not to a full degree or extent | - |
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| inconsiderately | (adverb) without consideration; in an inconsiderate manner | - |
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| indefinitely | (adverb) to an indefinite extent; for an indefinite time | - |
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| indiscriminately | (adverb) in a random manner | Synonyms: arbitrarily, at random, every which way, haphazardly, randomly, willy-nilly |
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| (adverb) in an indiscriminate manner | Synonyms: promiscuously |
| infinitely | (adverb) continuing forever without end | Synonyms: endlessly |
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| (adverb) without bounds | Synonyms: boundlessly, immeasurably |
| innately | (adverb) in an innate manner | - |
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| inordinately | (adverb) to a surprising degree | Synonyms: extraordinarily |
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| insensately | (adverb) in an insensate manner | - |
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| intellect | (noun) the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination | Synonyms: reason, understanding |
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| (noun) knowledge and intellectual ability | Synonyms: mind |
| (noun) a person who uses the mind creatively | Synonyms: intellectual |