| absoluteness | (noun) the quality of being absolute | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being complete or utter or extreme | Synonyms: starkness, utterness |
| abstention | (noun) the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) | Synonyms: abstinence |
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| abstentious | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstinent |
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| acuteness | (noun) the quality of having a sharp edge or point | - |
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| (noun) a quick and penetrating intelligence | Synonyms: acuity, keenness, sharpness |
| (noun) a sensitivity that is keen and highly developed | - |
| adequateness | (noun) the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: | Synonyms: adequacy |
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| advertence | (noun) the process of being heedful | Synonyms: advertency |
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| advertency | (noun) the process of being heedful | Synonyms: advertence |
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| advertent | (adjective) giving attention | Synonyms: heedful |
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| advertently | (adverb) in a careful deliberate manner | Synonyms: heedfully, mindfully |
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| affectionateness | (noun) a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | Synonyms: fondness, lovingness, warmth |
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| (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
| angiotensin | (noun) any of several vasoconstrictor substances (trade name Hypertensin) that cause narrowing of blood vessels | Synonyms: angiotonin, Hypertensin |
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| animateness | (noun) the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life | Synonyms: aliveness, liveness |
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| antenatal | (adjective) occurring or existing before birth | Synonyms: antepartum, prenatal |
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| antenna | (noun) one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste | Synonyms: feeler |
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| (noun) an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals | Synonyms: aerial, transmitting aerial |
| (noun) sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ | Synonyms: feeler |
| antennal | (adjective) of or relating to antennae | Synonyms: antennary |
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| antennary | (adjective) of or relating to antennae | Synonyms: antennal |
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| antenuptial | (adjective) relating to events before a marriage | Synonyms: premarital, prenuptial |
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| antihypertensive | (noun) a drug that reduces high blood pressure | Synonyms: antihypertensive drug |
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| appetence | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetency, appetite |
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| appetency | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetence, appetite |
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| appetent | (adjective) marked by eager desire | - |
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| appositeness | (noun) appropriateness for the occasion | Synonyms: aptness |
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| appropriateness | (noun) the quality of being specially suitable | - |
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| (noun) appropriate conduct; doing the right thing | Synonyms: rightness |
| appurtenance | (noun) a supplementary component that improves capability | Synonyms: accessory, add-on, supplement |
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| (noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. | Synonyms: gear, paraphernalia |
| appurtenant | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, auxiliary |
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| articulateness | (noun) the quality of being facile in speech and writing | Synonyms: fluency, volubility |
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| arytenoid | (noun) either of two small cartilages at the back of the larynx to which the vocal folds are attached | Synonyms: arytaenoid, arytenoid cartilage |
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| astuteness | (noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: perspicaciousness, perspicacity, shrewdness |
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| (noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: deepness, depth, profoundness, profundity |
| atenolol | (noun) an oral beta blocker (trade name Tenormin) used in treating hypertension and angina; has adverse side effects (depression and exacerbation of congestive heart failure etc.) | Synonyms: Tenormin |
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| attend | (verb) give heed (to) | Synonyms: advert, give ear, hang, pay heed |
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| (verb) work for, or be a servant to | Synonyms: assist, attend to, serve, wait on |
| (verb) take charge of or deal with | Synonyms: look, see, take care |
| (verb) be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc. | Synonyms: go to |
| (verb) to accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result | - |
| attendance | (noun) the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.) | Synonyms: attending |
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| (noun) the number of people that are present | - |
| (noun) the frequency with which a person is present | - |
| attendant | (adjective) being present (at a meeting or event, etc.) | - |
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| (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
| (noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: accompaniment, co-occurrence, concomitant |
| (noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | Synonyms: attender, tender |
| (noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting | Synonyms: attendee, attender, meeter |
| attended | (adjective) playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment | Synonyms: accompanied |
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| (adjective) having a caretaker or other watcher | Synonyms: tended to |
| attendee | (noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting | Synonyms: attendant, attender, meeter |
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| attender | (noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | Synonyms: attendant, tender |
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| (noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting | Synonyms: attendant, attendee, meeter |
| (noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: auditor, hearer, listener |
| attending | (adjective) giving practical help to | Synonyms: ministrant |
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| (noun) the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.) | Synonyms: attendance |
| (noun) the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others | Synonyms: attention |
| attention | (noun) the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something | Synonyms: aid, care, tending |
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| (noun) a courteous act indicating affection | - |
| (noun) a motionless erect stance with arms at the sides and feet together; assumed by military personnel during drill or review | - |
| (noun) the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others | Synonyms: attending |
| (noun) the faculty or power of mental concentration | - |
| (noun) a general interest that leads people to want to know more | - |
| attentional | (adjective) of or relating to attention | - |
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| attentive | (adjective) (often followed by `to') giving care or attention | - |
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| (adjective) taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention | Synonyms: heedful, paying attention, thoughtful |
| attentively | (adverb) with attention; in an attentive manner | - |
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| attentiveness | (noun) the trait of being considerate and thoughtful of others | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being observant and paying attention | - |
| (noun) paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: heed, paying attention, regard |
| attenuate | (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuated, faded, weakened |
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| (verb) become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude | - |
| (verb) weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) | Synonyms: rarefy |
| attenuated | (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuate, faded, weakened |
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| (adjective) of an electrical signal; reduced in amplitude with little or no distortion | - |
| attenuation | (noun) the property of something that has been weakened or reduced in thickness or density | - |
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| (noun) weakening in force or intensity | Synonyms: fading |
| attenuator | (noun) an electrical device for attenuating the strength of an electrical signal | - |
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| austenite | (noun) a solid solution of ferric carbide or carbon in iron; cools to form pearlite or martensite | - |
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| austenitic | (adjective) composed of austenite | - |
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| banteng | (noun) wild ox of the Malay Archipelago | Synonyms: banting, Bos banteng, tsine |
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| bartender | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist |
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| batten | (noun) a strip fixed to something to hold it firm | - |
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| (noun) stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: batting |
| (verb) secure with battens | - |
| (verb) furnish with battens | Synonyms: batten down, secure |
| beaten | (adjective) formed or made thin by hammering | - |
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| (adjective) much trodden and worn smooth or bare | - |
| begotten | (adjective) (of offspring) generated by procreation | - |
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| bicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentennial |
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| (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentennial |
| bicentennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentenary |
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| (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentenary |
| boughten | (adjective) purchased; not homemade | Synonyms: store-bought |
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| brighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: lighten, lighten up |
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| (verb) become clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, light up |
| butene | (noun) any of three isomeric hydrocarbons C4H8; all used in making synthetic rubbers | Synonyms: butylene |
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| carotene | (noun) an orange isomer of an unsaturated hydrocarbon found in many plants; is converted into vitamin A in the liver | Synonyms: carotin, provitamin A |
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| (noun) yellow or orange-red fat-soluble pigments in plants | - |
| carotenemia | (noun) excess carotene in the blood stream; can cause the skin to turn a pale yellow or red color | Synonyms: xanthemia |
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| carotenoid | (noun) any of a class of highly unsaturated yellow to red pigments occurring in plants and animals | - |
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| catena | (noun) a chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma) | - |
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| catenary | (noun) the curve theoretically assumed by a perfectly flexible and inextensible cord of uniform density and cross section hanging freely from two fixed points | - |
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| catenate | (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenulate |
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| catenulate | (adjective) having a chainlike form | Synonyms: chainlike |
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| (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenate |
| centenarian | (adjective) being at least 100 years old | - |
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| (noun) someone who is at least 100 years old | - |
| centenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centennial |
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| (noun) the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: centennial |
| centennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centenary |
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| (noun) the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: centenary |
| centennially | (adverb) every hundred years; once in a century | - |
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| chasten | (verb) change by restraining or moderating | Synonyms: temper |
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| (verb) correct by punishment or discipline | Synonyms: subdue, tame |
| (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chastise, correct, objurgate |
| chasteness | (noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: restraint, simpleness, simplicity |
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| chastening | (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastisement, correction |
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| christen | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptise, baptize |
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| christening | (noun) giving a Christian name at baptism | - |
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| coexistence | (noun) existing peacefully together | - |
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| coexistent | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexisting |
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| coextension | (noun) equality of extension or duration | - |
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| coextensive | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: conterminous, coterminous |
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| commensurateness | (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: correspondence, proportionateness |
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| compassionateness | (noun) a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering | Synonyms: compassion |
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| competence | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competency |
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| competency | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competence |
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| competent | (adjective) properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient | - |
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| (adjective) legally qualified or sufficient | - |
| (adjective) adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional | - |
| competently | (adverb) with competence; in a competent capable manner | Synonyms: ably, aptly, capably |
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| completeness | (noun) (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that a contradiction arises if any proposition is introduced that cannot be derived from the axioms of the system | - |
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| (noun) the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed | - |
| compositeness | (noun) the property of being a composite number | - |
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| concatenate | (verb) add by linking or joining so as to form a chain or series | - |
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| (verb) combine two strings to form a single one | - |
| concatenation | (noun) the act of linking together as in a series or chain | - |
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| (noun) a series of things depending on each other as if linked together | Synonyms: chain |
| (noun) the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or events or ideas etc | - |
| (noun) the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series | - |
| concreteness | (noun) the quality of being concrete (not abstract) | - |
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| considerateness | (noun) kind and considerate regard for others | Synonyms: consideration, thoughtfulness |
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| consistence | (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistency, substance |
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| (noun) a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts | Synonyms: consistency |
| consistency | (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistence, substance |
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| (noun) (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another | - |
| (noun) a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts | Synonyms: consistence |
| (noun) logical coherence and accordance with the facts | - |
| consistent | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `with') in agreement or consistent or reliable | - |
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| (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherent, logical, ordered |
| (adjective) capable of being reproduced | Synonyms: reproducible |
| (adjective) the same throughout in structure or composition | Synonyms: uniform |
| consistently | (adverb) in a systematic or consistent manner | Synonyms: systematically |
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| contend | (verb) to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation | Synonyms: contest, repugn |
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| (verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: argue, debate, fence |
| (verb) maintain or assert | Synonyms: postulate |
| (verb) compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others | Synonyms: compete, vie |
| (verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: fight, struggle |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage |
| contender | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, competitor, rival |
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| content | (adjective) satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are | Synonyms: contented |
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| (noun) something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation | Synonyms: depicted object, subject |
| (noun) the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned | Synonyms: cognitive content, mental object |
| (noun) content communicating a message; what something is about | Synonyms: message, subject matter, substance |
| (noun) (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something | Synonyms: contents |
| (noun) the amount that can be contained | Synonyms: capacity |
| (noun) the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc. | - |
| (noun) the state of being contented with your situation in life | Synonyms: contentedness |
| (verb) satisfy in a limited way | - |
| (verb) make content | - |
| contented | (adjective) satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are | Synonyms: content |
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| contentedly | (adverb) with equanimity | - |
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| contentedness | (noun) the state of being contented with your situation in life | Synonyms: content |
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| contention | (noun) the act of competing as for profit or a prize | Synonyms: competition, rivalry |
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| (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
| (noun) a point asserted as part of an argument | - |