| abdominocentesis | (noun) centesis of the belly to remove fluid for diagnosis | Synonyms: paracentesis |
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| amniocentesis | (noun) (pregnancy) extraction by centesis of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman (after the 15th week of pregnancy) to aid in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities | Synonyms: amnio |
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| artesian | (adjective) (of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure | - |
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| arthrocentesis | (noun) removal of fluid from a joint by centesis | - |
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| ascites | (noun) accumulation of serous fluid in peritoneal cavity | - |
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| associateship | (noun) the position of associate (as in an office or academy) | - |
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| attest | (verb) authenticate, affirm to be true, genuine, or correct, as in an official capacity | - |
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| (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: certify, demonstrate, evidence, manifest |
| (verb) give testimony in a court of law | Synonyms: bear witness, take the stand, testify |
| (verb) establish or verify the usage of | - |
| attestant | (noun) (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | Synonyms: attestator, attestor, witness |
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| (noun) someone who affirms or vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of something | Synonyms: attester |
| 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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| attested | (adjective) established as genuine | Synonyms: authenticated, documented |
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| attester | (noun) someone who affirms or vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of something | Synonyms: attestant |
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| attestor | (noun) (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | Synonyms: attestant, attestator, witness |
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| barytes | (noun) a white or colorless mineral (BaSO4); the main source of barium | Synonyms: barite, barium sulphate, heavy spar |
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| celiocentesis | (noun) removal of fluid from the abdomen by centesis | - |
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| centesimal | (adjective) relating to or divided into hundredths | - |
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| (adjective) the ordinal number of one hundred in counting order | Synonyms: 100th, hundredth |
| centesimo | (noun) a fractional monetary unit of several countries: Panama and Italy and Uruguay and Chile | - |
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| centesis | (noun) (surgery) the act of puncturing a body cavity or organ with a hollow needle in order to draw out fluid | - |
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| cerastes | (noun) highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye | Synonyms: Cerastes cornutus, horned asp, horned viper, sand viper |
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| contest | (noun) a struggle between rivals | - |
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| (noun) an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants | Synonyms: competition |
| (verb) to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation | Synonyms: contend, repugn |
| contestable | (adjective) capable of being contested | - |
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| contestant | (noun) a person who participates in competitions | - |
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| (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: dissenter, dissident, objector, protester |
| 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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| contested | (adjective) disputed or made the object of contention or competition | - |
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| contestee | (noun) a winner (of a race or an election etc.) whose victory is contested | - |
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| contester | (noun) someone who contests an outcome (of a race or an election etc.) | - |
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| countess | (noun) female equivalent of a count or earl | - |
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| courtesan | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: concubine, doxy, paramour |
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| courtesy | (noun) a courteous or respectful or considerate act | - |
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| (noun) a courteous manner | Synonyms: good manners |
| (noun) a courteous or respectful or considerate remark | - |
| crudites | (noun) raw vegetables cut into bite-sized strips and served with a dip | - |
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| delicatessen | (noun) a shop selling ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: deli, food shop |
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| (noun) ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: delicatessen food |
| detest | (verb) dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards | Synonyms: hate |
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| detestable | (adjective) unequivocally detestable | Synonyms: abominable, execrable, odious |
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| (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
| detestably | (adverb) in an offensive and hateful manner | Synonyms: abominably, odiously, repulsively |
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| detestation | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, execration, loathing, odium |
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| detested | (adjective) treated with dislike or contempt | Synonyms: despised, hated, scorned |
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| diabetes | (noun) a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood; any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst | - |
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| discourtesy | (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: offence, offense, offensive activity |
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| (noun) a manner that is rude and insulting | Synonyms: rudeness |
| (noun) an expression of lack of respect | Synonyms: disrespect |
| fastest | (adverb) most quickly | Synonyms: quickest |
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| gastrointestinal | (adjective) of or relating to the stomach and intestines | Synonyms: GI |
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| giantess | (noun) a female giant | - |
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| greatest | (adjective) highest in quality | Synonyms: sterling, superlative |
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| grotesque | (adjective) ludicrously odd | Synonyms: antic, fantastic, fantastical |
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| (adjective) distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous | Synonyms: monstrous |
| (noun) art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants | - |
| grotesquely | (adverb) in a grotesque manner | Synonyms: monstrously |
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| grotesqueness | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesquerie, grotesquery |
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| grotesquerie | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesqueness, grotesquery |
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| grotesquery | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesqueness, grotesquerie |
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| hostess | (noun) a woman innkeeper | - |
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| (noun) a woman steward on an airplane | Synonyms: air hostess, stewardess |
| (noun) a woman host | - |
| incontestable | (adjective) incapable of being contested or disputed | Synonyms: incontestible |
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| (adjective) not open to question; obviously true | Synonyms: indisputable, undisputable |
| incontestible | (adjective) incapable of being contested or disputed | Synonyms: incontestable |
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| infinitesimal | (adjective) infinitely or immeasurably small | Synonyms: minute |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit | - |
| infructescence | (noun) the fruiting stage of the inflorescence | - |
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| intestacy | (noun) the situation of being or dying without a legally valid will | - |
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| intestate | (adjective) having made no legally valid will before death or not disposed of by a legal will | - |
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| intestinal | (adjective) of or relating to or inside the intestines | Synonyms: enteral, enteric |
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| intestine | (noun) the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus | Synonyms: bowel, gut |
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| latest | (adjective) up to the immediate present; most recent or most up-to-date | Synonyms: up-to-the-minute |
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| (adjective) in the current fashion or style | Synonyms: a la mode, in style, in vogue, modish |
| (noun) the most recent news or development | - |
| legateship | (noun) the post or office of legate | Synonyms: legation |
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| litotes | (noun) understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary) | Synonyms: meiosis |
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| mates | (noun) a pair of people who live together | Synonyms: couple, match |
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| methyltestosterone | (noun) an androgenic compound contained in drugs that are used to treat testosterone deficiency and female breast cancer and to stimulate growth and weight gain | - |
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| minutes | (noun) a written account of what transpired at a meeting | Synonyms: proceedings, transactions |
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| nates | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| ovotestis | (noun) hermaphroditic gonad that contains both testicular and ovarian tissue | - |
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| paracentesis | (noun) centesis of the belly to remove fluid for diagnosis | Synonyms: abdominocentesis |
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| planetesimal | (noun) one of many small solid celestial bodies thought to have existed at an early stage in the development of the solar system | - |
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| poetess | (noun) a woman poet | - |
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| politesse | (noun) courtesy towards women | Synonyms: chivalry, gallantry |
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| priestess | (noun) a woman priest | - |
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| primateship | (noun) the office of primate | - |
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| privates | (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: crotch, genital organ, genitalia, genitals, private parts |
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| prophetess | (noun) a woman prophet | - |
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| protest | (noun) the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent | Synonyms: dissent, objection |
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| (noun) a formal and solemn declaration of objection | Synonyms: protestation |
| (noun) the act of making a strong public expression of disagreement and disapproval | - |
| (verb) utter words of protest | - |
| (verb) affirm or avow formally or solemnly | - |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: dissent, resist |
| protestant | (adjective) protesting | - |
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| protestation | (noun) a strong declaration of protest | - |
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| (noun) a formal and solemn declaration of objection | Synonyms: protest |
| protester | (noun) someone who participates in a public display of group feeling | Synonyms: demonstrator |
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| (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissenter, dissident, objector |
| pyrites | (noun) any of various metallic-looking sulfides (of which pyrite is the commonest) | - |
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| quintessence | (noun) the purest and most concentrated essence of something | - |
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| (noun) the most typical example or representative of a type | - |
| (noun) the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies | Synonyms: ether |
| quintessential | (adjective) representing the perfect example of a class or quality | - |
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| rates | (noun) a local tax on property | - |
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| salopettes | (noun) trousers usually of stretch material and kept taut by a strap under the foot, worn for skiing or as a fashion garment. | Synonyms: ski pants |
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| somatesthesia | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| (noun) the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia |
| sprites | (noun) atmospheric electricity (lasting 10 msec) appearing as globular flashes of red (pink to blood-red) light rising to heights of 60 miles (sometimes seen together with elves) | Synonyms: red sprites |
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| statesman | (noun) a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs | - |
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| statesmanlike | (adjective) marked by the qualities of or befitting a statesman | Synonyms: statesmanly |
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| statesmanly | (adjective) marked by the qualities of or befitting a statesman | Synonyms: statesmanlike |
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| statesmanship | (noun) wisdom in the management of public affairs | Synonyms: diplomacy, statecraft |
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| stateswoman | (noun) a woman statesman | - |
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| subartesian | (adjective) (of water) rising naturally in a well to a height appreciably above that of the surrounding water table but not flowing out of the well | - |
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| suffrutescent | (adjective) of a plant; having a woody base that does not die down each year | - |
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| tesla | (noun) a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter | - |
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| tessella | (noun) a small tessera | - |
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| tessellate | (verb) tile with tesserae | - |
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| (verb) fit together exactly, of identical shapes | - |
| tessellated | (adjective) decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together in a mosaic | - |
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| (adjective) having a checkered or mottled appearance | - |
| tessellation | (noun) the act of adorning with mosaic | - |
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| (noun) the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern | - |
| tessera | (noun) a small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics | - |
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| tesseract | (noun) the four-dimensional analogue of a cube | - |
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| test | (noun) the act of testing something | Synonyms: run, trial |
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| (noun) any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc | Synonyms: mental test, mental testing, psychometric test |
| (noun) the act of undergoing testing | Synonyms: trial |
| (noun) a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins | - |
| (noun) trying something to find out about it | Synonyms: trial, trial run, tryout |
| (noun) a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge | Synonyms: exam, examination |
| (verb) undergo a test | - |
| (verb) examine someone's knowledge of something | Synonyms: quiz |
| (verb) determine the presence or properties of (a substance) | - |
| (verb) achieve a certain score or rating on a test | - |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, examine, prove, try, try out |
| (verb) test or examine for the presence of disease or infection | Synonyms: screen |
| (verb) show a certain characteristic when tested | - |
| testa | (noun) protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants | Synonyms: episperm, seed coat |
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| testacean | (noun) any of various rhizopods of the order Testacea characterized by having a shell | - |
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