| abstract | (adjective) existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment | - |
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| (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
| (adjective) dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention | - |
| (noun) a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance | Synonyms: abstraction |
| (noun) a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory | Synonyms: outline, precis, synopsis |
| (verb) consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically | - |
| (verb) consider apart from a particular case or instance | - |
| (verb) give an abstract (of) | - |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| abstracted | (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, absentminded, scatty |
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| abstractedly | (adverb) in an absentminded or preoccupied manner | Synonyms: absently, absentmindedly, inattentively |
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| abstractedness | (noun) preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else | Synonyms: abstraction |
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| abstracter | (noun) one who makes abstracts or summarizes information | Synonyms: abstractor |
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| abstraction | (noun) a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Synonyms: abstract entity |
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| (noun) the act of withdrawing or removing something | - |
| (noun) an abstract painting | - |
| (noun) a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance | Synonyms: abstract |
| (noun) preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else | Synonyms: abstractedness |
| (noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: generalisation, generalization |
| abstractionism | (noun) an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation | Synonyms: abstract art |
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| (noun) a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples | Synonyms: unrealism |
| abstractionist | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
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| (noun) a painter of abstract pictures | Synonyms: abstract artist |
| abstractive | (adjective) of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting | - |
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| abstractly | (adverb) in abstract terms | - |
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| abstractness | (noun) the quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object | - |
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| abstractor | (noun) one who makes abstracts or summarizes information | Synonyms: abstracter |
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| administrable | (adjective) capable of being administered or managed | - |
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| administrate | (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administer |
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| administration | (noun) a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs) | Synonyms: disposal |
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| (noun) the act of administering medication | Synonyms: giving medication |
| (noun) the act of meting out justice according to the law | Synonyms: judicature |
| (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: governance, governing, government, government activity |
| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: brass, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
| (noun) the tenure of a president | Synonyms: presidency, presidential term |
| administrative | (adjective) of or relating to or responsible for administration | - |
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| administratively | (adverb) by or for an administrator | - |
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| administrator | (noun) someone who administers a business | Synonyms: decision maker |
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| (noun) the party appointed by a probate court to distribute the estate of someone who dies without a will or without naming an executor | - |
| (noun) someone who manages a government agency or department | Synonyms: executive |
| altostratus | (noun) a stratus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles | Synonyms: altostratus cloud |
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| aminotransferase | (noun) a class of transferases that catalyze transamination (that transfer an amino group from an amino acid to another compound) | Synonyms: aminopherase, transaminase |
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| ancestral | (adjective) of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor | - |
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| (adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible |
| antitrade | (noun) winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics | Synonyms: antitrade wind |
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| antitrades | (noun) wind in the upper atmosphere blowing above but in the opposite direction from the trade winds | - |
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| arbitrable | (adjective) appropriate for or subject to settlement by arbitration | - |
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| arbitrage | (noun) a kind of hedged investment meant to capture slight differences in price; when there is a difference in the price of something on two different markets the arbitrageur simultaneously buys at the lower price and sells at the higher price | - |
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| (verb) practice arbitrage, as in the stock market | - |
| arbitrager | (noun) someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential) | Synonyms: arb, arbitrageur |
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| arbitrageur | (noun) someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential) | Synonyms: arb, arbitrager |
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| arbitral | (adjective) relating to or resulting from arbitration | Synonyms: arbitrational |
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| arbitrament | (noun) the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment | Synonyms: arbitration, arbitrement |
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| arbitrarily | (adverb) in a random manner | Synonyms: at random, every which way, haphazardly, indiscriminately, randomly, willy-nilly |
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| arbitrariness | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy |
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| arbitrary | (adjective) based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice | - |
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| arbitrate | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: intercede, intermediate, liaise, mediate |
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| arbitration | (noun) the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment | Synonyms: arbitrament, arbitrement |
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| (noun) (law) the hearing and determination of a dispute by an impartial referee agreed to by both parties (often used to settle disputes between labor and management) | - |
| arbitrational | (adjective) relating to or resulting from arbitration | Synonyms: arbitral |
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| arbitrative | (adjective) relating to or having the authority to arbitrate | - |
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| arbitrator | (noun) someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue | Synonyms: arbiter, umpire |
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| architrave | (noun) the lowest part of an entablature; rests immediately on the capitals of the columns | - |
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| (noun) the molding around a door or window | - |
| ashtray | (noun) a receptacle for the ash from smokers' cigars or cigarettes | - |
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| aspidistra | (noun) evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant | Synonyms: Aspidistra elatio, bar-room plant, cast-iron plant |
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| astraddle | (adverb) with one leg on each side | Synonyms: astride |
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| astragal | (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: bead, beading, beadwork |
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| (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: anklebone, astragalus, talus |
| astragalar | (adjective) of or relating to the anklebone | - |
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| astragalus | (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: anklebone, astragal, talus |
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| astrakhan | (noun) the fur of young lambs | - |
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| astral | (adjective) being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars | Synonyms: stellar |
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| astrantia | (noun) any plant of the genus Astrantia | Synonyms: masterwort |
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| astraphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of thunder and lightning | - |
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| astray | (adverb) away from the right path or direction | - |
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| (adverb) far from the intended target | Synonyms: wide |
| atrabilious | (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: bilious, dyspeptic, liverish |
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| atrazine | (noun) a synthetic compound derived from triazine that is widely used as an agricultural herbicide | - |
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| attract | (verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: draw, draw in, pull, pull in |
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| (verb) exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away | - |
| (verb) be attractive to | Synonyms: appeal |
| attractable | (adjective) capable of being magnetized or attracted by a magnet | - |
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| attracter | (noun) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts | Synonyms: attraction, attractive feature, attractor, magnet |
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| (noun) (physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system | Synonyms: attractor |
| (noun) an entertainer who attracts large audiences | Synonyms: attraction, attractor, draw, drawing card |
| attraction | (noun) the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts | Synonyms: attractiveness |
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| (noun) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts | Synonyms: attracter, attractive feature, attractor, magnet |
| (noun) an entertainment that is offered to the public | - |
| (noun) an entertainer who attracts large audiences | Synonyms: attracter, attractor, draw, drawing card |
| (noun) the force by which one object attracts another | Synonyms: attractive force |
| attractive | (adjective) pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm | - |
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| (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull | - |
| (adjective) having power to arouse interest | - |
| attractively | (adverb) in a beautiful manner | Synonyms: beautifully |
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| attractiveness | (noun) sexual allure | - |
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| (noun) the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts | Synonyms: attraction |
| attractor | (noun) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts | Synonyms: attracter, attraction, attractive feature, magnet |
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| (noun) (physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system | Synonyms: attracter |
| (noun) an entertainer who attracts large audiences | Synonyms: attracter, attraction, draw, drawing card |
| austral | (adjective) of the south or coming from the south | - |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Argentina; equal to 100 centavos | - |
| australopithecine | (adjective) of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus | - |
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| (noun) any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago | - |
| autostrada | (noun) an expressway in an Italian-speaking country | - |
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| bacitracin | (noun) a polypeptide antibiotic of known chemical structure effective against several types of Gram-positive organisms; usually applied locally | - |
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| backtrack | (verb) retrace one's course | Synonyms: double back, turn back |
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| balustrade | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, banister, bannister, handrail |
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| batrachian | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: anuran, salientian |
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| (noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species | Synonyms: anuran, frog, salientian, toad, toad frog |
| batrachomyomachia | (noun) a silly altercation | - |
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| bedstraw | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Galium | - |
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| betray | (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
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| (verb) reveal unintentionally | Synonyms: bewray |
| (verb) cause someone to believe an untruth | Synonyms: deceive, lead astray |
| (verb) disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake | Synonyms: fail |
| (verb) deliver to an enemy by treachery | Synonyms: sell |
| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: cheat, cheat on, cuckold, wander |
| betrayal | (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: perfidy, treachery, treason |
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| (noun) the quality of aiding an enemy | - |
| betrayer | (noun) a person who says one thing and does another | Synonyms: double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer |
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| (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: blabber, informer, rat, squealer |
| bitartrate | (noun) an acid tartrate; a hydrogen tartrate | - |
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| bootstrap | (noun) a strap that is looped and sewn to the top of a boot for pulling it on | - |
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| (verb) help oneself, often through improvised means | - |
| cadastral | (adjective) of or relating to the records of a cadastre | - |
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| calyptra | (noun) the hood or cap covering the calyx of certain plants: e.g., the California poppy | - |
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| calyptrate | (adjective) having a calyptra | - |
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| (adjective) having calypters | - |
| campestral | (adjective) of fields or open country | - |
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| castrate | (noun) a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction | Synonyms: eunuch |
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| (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculate |
| (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: alter, neuter, spay |
| (verb) deprive of strength or vigor | Synonyms: emasculate |
| (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, expurgate, shorten |
| castrated | (adjective) deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes | Synonyms: unsexed |
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| castration | (noun) neutering a male animal by removing the testicles | Synonyms: emasculation |
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| (noun) surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men) | - |
| (noun) the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work | Synonyms: expurgation |
| castrato | (noun) a male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voice | - |
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| central | (adjective) in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area | - |
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| (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, fundamental, key, primal |
| (noun) a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication | Synonyms: exchange, telephone exchange |
| centralisation | (noun) the act of consolidating power under a central control | Synonyms: centralization |
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| (noun) gathering to a center | Synonyms: centralization |
| centralise | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralize, concentrate |
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| centralised | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralized |
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| centralising | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralizing |
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| centralism | (noun) the political policy of concentrating power in a central organization | - |
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| centralist | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralistic |
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| centralistic | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralist |
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| centrality | (noun) the property of being central | - |
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| centralization | (noun) the act of consolidating power under a central control | Synonyms: centralisation |
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| (noun) gathering to a center | Synonyms: centralisation |
| centralize | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralise, concentrate |
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| centralized | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralised |
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| centralizing | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralising |
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| centrally | (adverb) in or near or toward a center or according to a central role or function | - |
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| centrarchid | (noun) small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies, black bass, bluegills, pumpkinseed | Synonyms: sunfish |
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| chemoattractant | (noun) a substance inducing positive chemotaxis in motile cells. | - |
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| chlortetracycline | (noun) a yellow crystalline antibiotic (trade name Aureomycin) used to treat certain bacterial and rickettsial diseases | Synonyms: Aureomycin |
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| cirrostratus | (noun) a thin uniform layer of hazy cloud at high altitude | Synonyms: cirrostratus cloud |
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| citrange | (noun) more aromatic and acid tasting than oranges; used in beverages and marmalade | - |
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| (noun) more aromatic and acidic than oranges | Synonyms: citrange tree, Citroncirus webberi |