| acciaccatura | (noun) an embellishing note usually written in smaller size | Synonyms: appoggiatura, grace note |
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| acculturate | (verb) assimilate culturally | - |
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| acculturation | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: enculturation, socialisation, socialization |
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| (noun) all the knowledge and values shared by a society | Synonyms: culture |
| (noun) the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure | Synonyms: assimilation |
| acculturational | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturative |
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| acculturative | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturational |
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| agricultural | (adjective) relating to or used in or promoting agriculture or farming | - |
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| (adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agrarian, farming |
| agriculturalist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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| angostura | (noun) the bitter bark of a South American tree; used in medicines and liqueurs and bitters | Synonyms: angostura bark |
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| apicultural | (adjective) relating to the care and breeding of bees | - |
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| appoggiatura | (noun) an embellishing note usually written in smaller size | Synonyms: acciaccatura, grace note |
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| aquacultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquicultural, hydroponic |
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| aquicultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquacultural, hydroponic |
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| architectural | (adjective) of or pertaining to the art and science of architecture | - |
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| architecturally | (adverb) with regard to architecture | - |
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| barbiturate | (noun) organic compound having powerful soporific effect; overdose can be fatal | - |
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| coloratura | (noun) singing with florid ornamentation | - |
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| (noun) a lyric soprano who specializes in coloratura vocal music | Synonyms: coloratura soprano |
| conjectural | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
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| conjecturally | (adverb) in a manner involving or inclined to conjecture and supposition | - |
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| connatural | (adjective) normally existing at birth | Synonyms: inborn, inbred |
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| (adjective) similar in nature | - |
| cultural | (adjective) of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors | - |
| (adjective) relating to the raising of plants or animals | - |
| (adjective) denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people | Synonyms: ethnic, ethnical |
| culturally | (adverb) with regard to a culture | - |
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| culturati | (noun) people interested in culture and cultural activities | - |
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| cytoarchitectural | (adjective) of or relating to cytoarchitecture | Synonyms: cytoarchitectonic |
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| denaturalise | (verb) strip of the rights and duties of citizenship | Synonyms: denaturalize |
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| (verb) make less natural or unnatural | Synonyms: denaturalize |
| denaturalize | (verb) strip of the rights and duties of citizenship | Synonyms: denaturalise |
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| (verb) make less natural or unnatural | Synonyms: denaturalise |
| denaturant | (noun) any substance that serves as a denaturing agent | - |
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| enculturation | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: acculturation, socialisation, socialization |
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| floricultural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving floriculture | - |
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| gestural | (adjective) being other than verbal communication | Synonyms: nonverbal |
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| (adjective) used of the language of the deaf | Synonyms: sign-language, sign, signed |
| guttural | (adjective) relating to or articulated in the throat | - |
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| (adjective) like the sounds of frogs and crows | Synonyms: croaky |
| (noun) a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat | Synonyms: guttural consonant, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonant |
| gutturally | (adverb) in a guttural manner | - |
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| horticultural | (adjective) of or relating to the cultivation of plants | - |
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| horticulturally | (adverb) by means of horticulture | - |
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| maturate | (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: fester, suppurate |
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| (verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: grow, mature |
| (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, mature, senesce |
| maturation | (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
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| (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturement, ripening |
| (noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: festering, suppuration |
| maturational | (adjective) relating to or involved in maturation | - |
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| micturate | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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| monounsaturated | (adjective) (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) saturated except for one multiple bond | - |
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| multicultural | (adjective) of or relating to or including several cultures | - |
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| multiculturalism | (noun) the doctrine that several different cultures (rather than one national culture) can coexist peacefully and equitably in a single country | - |
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| natural | (adjective) (of a parent or child) related by blood; genetically related | Synonyms: biological |
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| (adjective) in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature | - |
| (adjective) existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation | - |
| (adjective) existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical | - |
| (adjective) (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone | - |
| (adjective) being talented through inherited qualities | Synonyms: born, innate |
| (adjective) functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies | - |
| (adjective) unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct | Synonyms: instinctive |
| (adjective) free from artificiality | Synonyms: lifelike |
| (adjective) (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes | Synonyms: raw, rude |
| (noun) (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake | - |
| (noun) a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat | Synonyms: cancel |
| (noun) someone regarded as certain to succeed | - |
| naturalisation | (noun) the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship | Synonyms: naturalization |
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| (noun) changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology | Synonyms: naturalization |
| (noun) the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous | Synonyms: naturalization |
| (noun) the quality of being brought into conformity with nature | Synonyms: naturalization |
| naturalise | (verb) make into a citizen | Synonyms: naturalize |
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| (verb) make more natural or lifelike | Synonyms: naturalize |
| (verb) adopt to another place | Synonyms: naturalize |
| (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalize, tame |
| naturalised | (adjective) planted so as to give an effect of wild growth | Synonyms: naturalized |
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| naturalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations | - |
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| (noun) an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description | Synonyms: realism |
| naturalist | (noun) a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology) | Synonyms: natural scientist |
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| (noun) an advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms | - |
| naturalistic | (adjective) representing what is real; not abstract or ideal | Synonyms: realistic |
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| naturalization | (noun) the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship | Synonyms: naturalisation |
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| (noun) changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| (noun) the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| (noun) the quality of being brought into conformity with nature | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| naturalize | (verb) make into a citizen | Synonyms: naturalise |
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| (verb) make more natural or lifelike | Synonyms: naturalise |
| (verb) adopt to another place | Synonyms: naturalise |
| (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, tame |
| (verb) explain with reference to nature | - |
| naturalized | (adjective) planted so as to give an effect of wild growth | Synonyms: naturalised |
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| (adjective) introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation | Synonyms: established |
| naturally | (adverb) as might be expected | Synonyms: course, of course |
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| (adverb) according to nature; by natural means; without artificial help | - |
| (adverb) in a natural or normal manner | - |
| (adverb) through inherent nature | Synonyms: by nature |
| naturalness | (noun) the quality of being natural or based on natural principles | - |
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| (noun) the likeness of a representation to the thing represented | - |
| (noun) the quality of innocent naivete | Synonyms: artlessness, ingenuousness, innocence |
| nomenklatura | (noun) the system of patronage in communist countries; controlled by committees in the Communist Party | - |
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| nonnatural | (adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: otherworldly, preternatural, transcendental |
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| nonstructural | (adjective) not structural | - |
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| nurtural | (adjective) resulting from nurture | - |
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| nurturance | (noun) physical and emotional care and nourishment | - |
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| nurturant | (adjective) providing physical and emotional care and nourishment | - |
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| obturate | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, occlude |
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| obturator | (noun) a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate) | - |
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| pasturage | (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, forage, grass, pasture |
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| (noun) succulent herbaceous vegetation of pastureland | Synonyms: herbage |
| pictural | (adjective) pertaining to or consisting of pictures | Synonyms: pictorial |
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| polyunsaturated | (adjective) (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) having many unsaturated bonds | - |
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| postural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving posture | - |
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| prefectural | (adjective) of or relating to a prefecture | - |
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| preternatural | (adjective) surpassing the ordinary or normal | Synonyms: uncanny |
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| (adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: nonnatural, otherworldly, transcendental |
| preternaturally | (adverb) in a supernatural manner | Synonyms: supernaturally |
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| proturan | (noun) any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head; inhabit damp soil or decaying organic matter | Synonyms: telsontail |
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| puncturable | (adjective) capable of being punctured | - |
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| saturant | (noun) a substance which is used to saturate another. | - |
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| saturate | (verb) cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance | - |
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| (verb) infuse or fill completely | Synonyms: impregnate |
| saturated | (adjective) used especially of organic compounds; having all available valence bonds filled | - |
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| (adjective) being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance | Synonyms: concentrated |
| (adjective) (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black | Synonyms: pure |
| saturation | (noun) the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid | - |
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| (noun) chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue | Synonyms: chroma, intensity, vividness |
| (noun) the process of totally saturating something with a substance | Synonyms: impregnation |
| (noun) a condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence | - |
| scriptural | (adjective) of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible | Synonyms: biblical |
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| (adjective) written or relating to writing | - |
| sculptural | (adjective) relating to or consisting of sculpture | - |
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| (adjective) resembling sculpture | Synonyms: modeled, modelled, sculptured, sculpturesque |
| sericultural | (adjective) of or relating to sericulture | - |
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| sociocultural | (adjective) relating to both social and cultural matters | - |
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| structural | (adjective) relating to or having or characterized by structure | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure | - |
| (adjective) relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals | Synonyms: morphologic, morphological |
| (adjective) pertaining to geological structure | Synonyms: geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphologic, morphological |
| (adjective) concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study | - |
| (adjective) affecting or involved in structure or construction | - |
| structuralism | (noun) linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse | Synonyms: structural linguistics |
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| (noun) an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena | Synonyms: structural anthropology |
| (noun) a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals | Synonyms: structural sociology |
| structurally | (adverb) with respect to structure | - |
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| supernatural | (adjective) not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material | - |
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| (noun) supernatural forces and events and beings collectively | Synonyms: occult |
| supernaturalism | (noun) the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces | Synonyms: supernaturalness |
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| (noun) a belief in forces beyond ordinary human understanding | - |
| supernaturalist | (adjective) of or relating to supernaturalism | Synonyms: supernaturalistic |
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| supernaturalistic | (adjective) of or relating to supernaturalism | Synonyms: supernaturalist |
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| supernaturally | (adverb) in a supernatural manner | Synonyms: preternaturally |
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| supernaturalness | (noun) the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces | Synonyms: supernaturalism |
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| supersaturated | (adjective) being more concentrated than normally possible and therefore not in equilibrium | - |
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| sutura | (noun) an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull) | Synonyms: fibrous joint, suture |
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| transcultural | (adjective) extending through all human cultures | - |
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| turaco | (noun) large brightly crested bird of Africa | Synonyms: touraco, turacou, turakoo |
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| turacou | (noun) large brightly crested bird of Africa | Synonyms: touraco, turaco, turakoo |
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| turakoo | (noun) large brightly crested bird of Africa | Synonyms: touraco, turaco, turacou |
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| unnatural | (adjective) not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature | - |
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| (adjective) not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm | Synonyms: abnormal |
| (adjective) speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression | Synonyms: affected |
| unnaturalised | (adjective) not having acquired citizenship | Synonyms: unnaturalized |
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| unnaturalized | (adjective) not having acquired citizenship | Synonyms: unnaturalised |
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| unnaturally | (adverb) not according to nature; not by natural means | Synonyms: artificially, by artificial means |
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| (adverb) in an unnatural way | - |
| (adverb) in a manner at variance with what is natural or normal | - |
| unnaturalness | (noun) the quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles | - |
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| unsaturated | (adjective) used of a compound (especially of carbon) containing atoms sharing more than one valence bond | - |
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| (adjective) not saturated; capable of dissolving more of a substance at a given temperature | - |
| (adjective) (of color) not chromatically pure; diluted | - |