| absquatulate | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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| antiflatulent | (noun) any agent that reduces intestinal gas | - |
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| betulaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of trees of the birch family | - |
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| blastula | (noun) early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs | Synonyms: blastosphere |
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| blastular | (adjective) of or relating to a blastula | Synonyms: blastospheric |
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| botuliform | (adjective) long with rounded ends | - |
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| botulin | (noun) potent bacterial toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes botulism; can be used as a bioweapon | Synonyms: botulinus toxin, botulismotoxin |
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| botulinal | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by the botulinus | - |
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| botulinum | (noun) anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism | Synonyms: botulinus, Clostridium botulinum |
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| botulinus | (noun) anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism | Synonyms: botulinum, Clostridium botulinum |
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| botulism | (noun) food poisoning from ingesting botulin; not infectious; affects the CNS; can be fatal if not treated promptly | - |
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| botulismotoxin | (noun) potent bacterial toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes botulism; can be used as a bioweapon | Synonyms: botulin, botulinus toxin |
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| brotula | (noun) deep-sea fishes | - |
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| canafistula | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistola, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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| capitula | (noun) a short scripture reading; done after a psalmody. | - |
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| capitular | (adjective) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter | Synonyms: capitulary |
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| capitulary | (adjective) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter | Synonyms: capitular |
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| capitulate | (verb) surrender under agreed conditions | - |
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| capitulation | (noun) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | Synonyms: fall, surrender |
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| (noun) a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic | - |
| (noun) a document containing the terms of surrender | - |
| capitulum | (noun) a dense cluster of flowers or foliage | Synonyms: head |
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| (noun) fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn | Synonyms: ear, spike |
| (noun) an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree | - |
| comatulid | (noun) free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms; found on muddy sea bottoms | Synonyms: feather star |
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| congratulate | (verb) say something to someone that expresses praise | Synonyms: compliment |
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| (verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: felicitate |
| (verb) pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement | Synonyms: preen |
| (verb) be proud of | Synonyms: plume, pride |
| congratulation | (noun) the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration | Synonyms: felicitation |
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| (noun) (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another | Synonyms: felicitation |
| congratulations | (noun) an expression of approval and commendation | Synonyms: extolment, kudos, praise |
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| congratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: gratulatory |
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| ductule | (noun) a very small duct | Synonyms: ductulus |
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| ductulus | (noun) a very small duct | Synonyms: ductule |
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| edentulate | (adjective) having few if any teeth | Synonyms: edental, edentate |
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| edentulous | (adjective) having lost teeth | - |
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| expostulate | (verb) reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion | - |
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| expostulation | (noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: objection, remonstrance, remonstration |
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| (noun) an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof | - |
| fistula | (noun) an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface | Synonyms: sinus |
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| (noun) a chronic inflammation of the withers of a horse | Synonyms: fistulous withers |
| fistular | (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistulate, fistulous |
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| fistulate | (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistular, fistulous |
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| fistulous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling a fistula | - |
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| (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistular, fistulate |
| flatulence | (noun) pompously embellished language | Synonyms: turgidity, turgidness |
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| (noun) a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: flatulency, gas |
| flatulency | (noun) a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: flatulence, gas |
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| flatulent | (adjective) generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal | - |
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| (adjective) suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: colicky, gassy |
| gratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: congratulatory |
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| kittul | (noun) fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago | Synonyms: Caryota urens, jaggery palm, kitul, kitul tree, toddy palm, wine palm |
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| kitul | (noun) fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago | Synonyms: Caryota urens, jaggery palm, kittul, kitul tree, toddy palm, wine palm |
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| petulance | (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness |
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| petulant | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| petulantly | (adverb) in a petulant manner | Synonyms: irritably, pettishly, testily |
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| portulaca | (noun) a plant of the genus Portulaca having pink or red or purple or white ephemeral flowers | - |
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| postulant | (noun) one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order | - |
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| postulate | (noun) (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning | Synonyms: posit |
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| (verb) take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom | Synonyms: posit |
| (verb) maintain or assert | Synonyms: contend |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, require, take |
| postulation | (noun) (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument | Synonyms: predication |
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| (noun) a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority | Synonyms: petition, request |
| postulational | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from axioms | Synonyms: axiomatic, axiomatical |
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| postulator | (noun) someone who assumes or takes something for granted as the basis of an argument | - |
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| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) someone who proposes or pleads for a candidate for beatification or canonization | - |
| pustulate | (adjective) (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin | Synonyms: acned, pimpled, pimply |
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| pustule | (noun) a small inflamed elevation of skin containing pus; a blister filled with pus | - |
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| recapitulate | (verb) summarize briefly | Synonyms: recap |
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| (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: repeat, reprise, reprize |
| (verb) repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life | - |
| recapitulation | (noun) (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement) | - |
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| (noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recap, review |
| (noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated | - |
| (noun) emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species | Synonyms: palingenesis |
| sertularian | (noun) feathery colony of long-branched stems bearing stalkless paired polyps | - |
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| spatula | (noun) a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances | - |
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| (noun) a turner with a narrow flexible blade | - |
| spatulate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a narrow base | Synonyms: spatula-shaped |
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| stultification | (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, deadening, impairment |
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| (noun) derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent | Synonyms: befooling |
| stultify | (verb) deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless | Synonyms: cripple |
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| (verb) cause to appear foolish | - |
| (verb) prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence | - |
| tarantula | (noun) large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites | - |
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| (noun) large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement) | Synonyms: European wolf spider, Lycosa tarentula |
| titular | (adjective) of or associated with or bearing a title signifying nobility | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to the title of a work of art | - |
| (adjective) of or bearing a title signifying status or function | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to a legal title to something | Synonyms: titulary |
| (adjective) existing in name only | Synonyms: nominal |
| titulary | (adjective) of or relating to a legal title to something | Synonyms: titular |
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| tularaemia | (noun) a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals | Synonyms: deer fly fever, rabbit fever, tularemia, yatobyo |
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| tularemia | (noun) a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals | Synonyms: deer fly fever, rabbit fever, tularaemia, yatobyo |
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| tulip | (noun) any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower | - |
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| tulipwood | (noun) light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer | Synonyms: true tulipwood, white poplar, whitewood, yellow poplar |
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| (noun) the variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees | - |
| tulle | (noun) a fine (often starched) net used for veils or tutus or gowns | - |
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