| abduce | (verb) advance evidence for | Synonyms: adduce, cite |
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| abducens | (noun) a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye | Synonyms: abducens nerve, abducent, abducent nerve, nervus abducens, sixth cranial nerve |
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| abducent | (adjective) especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part | Synonyms: abducting |
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| (noun) a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye | Synonyms: abducens, abducens nerve, abducent nerve, nervus abducens, sixth cranial nerve |
| adduce | (verb) advance evidence for | Synonyms: abduce, cite |
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| adducent | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducting, adductive |
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| adducer | (noun) a discussant who offers an example or a reason or a proof | - |
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| applesauce | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: codswallop, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| (noun) puree of stewed apples usually sweetened and spiced | Synonyms: apple sauce |
| brucellosis | (noun) an infectious disease of domestic animals often resulting in spontaneous abortion; transmittable to human beings | Synonyms: Bang's disease, contagious abortion |
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| (noun) infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache | Synonyms: Gibraltar fever, Malta fever, Mediterranean fever, Rock fever, undulant fever |
| caducean | (adjective) of or relating to a caduceus | - |
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| caduceus | (noun) an insignia used by the medical profession; modeled after the staff of Hermes | - |
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| celtuce | (noun) leaves having celery-like stems eaten raw or cooked | - |
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| (noun) lettuce valued especially for its edible stems | Synonyms: Lactuca sativa asparagina, stem lettuce |
| conduce | (verb) be conducive to | Synonyms: contribute, lead |
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| deduce | (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduct, derive, infer |
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| (verb) conclude by reasoning; in logic | Synonyms: infer |
| deuce | (noun) one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots | Synonyms: two |
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| (noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion | Synonyms: devil, dickens |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number | Synonyms: 2, II, two |
| (noun) a tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game | - |
| deuced | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| deucedly | (adverb) (used as intensives) excessively | Synonyms: deadly, devilishly, insanely, madly |
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| duce | (noun) leader | - |
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| educe | (verb) develop or evolve from a latent or potential state | Synonyms: derive |
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| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, elicit, evoke, extract |
| fauces | (noun) the passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx | - |
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| faucet | (noun) a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir | Synonyms: spigot |
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| induce | (verb) reason or establish by induction | - |
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| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, get, have, make, stimulate |
| (verb) cause to arise | Synonyms: bring on |
| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: hasten, rush, stimulate |
| (verb) produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes | Synonyms: induct |
| induced | (adjective) brought about or caused; not spontaneous | - |
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| inducement | (noun) act of bringing about a desired result | Synonyms: inducing |
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| (noun) a positive motivational influence | Synonyms: incentive, motivator |
| inducer | (noun) someone who tries to persuade or induce or lead on | Synonyms: persuader |
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| (noun) an agent capable of activating specific genes | - |
| introduce | (verb) be a precursor of | Synonyms: inaugurate, usher in |
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| (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: enclose, inclose, insert, put in, stick in |
| (verb) put before (a body) | - |
| (verb) cause to come to know personally | Synonyms: acquaint, present |
| (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: precede, preface, premise |
| (verb) bring before the public for the first time, as of an actor, song, etc. | Synonyms: bring out |
| (verb) put or introduce into something | Synonyms: enter, infix, insert |
| (verb) bring something new to an environment | Synonyms: innovate |
| (verb) bring in or establish in a new place or environment | - |
| (verb) bring in a new person or object into a familiar environment | Synonyms: bring in |
| lettuce | (noun) leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Lactuca | - |
| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| lucent | (adjective) softly bright or radiant | Synonyms: aglow, lambent, luminous |
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| lucerne | (noun) important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop | Synonyms: alfalfa, Medicago sativa |
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| noctilucent | (adjective) shining or glowing by night | - |
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| nucellus | (noun) central part of a plant ovule; contains the embryo sac | - |
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| overproduce | (verb) produce in excess; produce more than needed or wanted | - |
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| (verb) produce in excess | - |
| prepuce | (noun) a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis | Synonyms: foreskin |
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| (noun) a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris | Synonyms: foreskin |
| produce | (noun) fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market | Synonyms: garden truck, green goods, green groceries |
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| (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, develop, get, grow |
| (verb) create or manufacture a man-made product | Synonyms: create, make |
| (verb) bring forth or yield | Synonyms: bring forth |
| (verb) cause to happen, occur or exist | Synonyms: bring about, give rise |
| (verb) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques | Synonyms: farm, grow, raise |
| (verb) bring onto the market or release | Synonyms: bring on, bring out |
| (verb) bring out for display | Synonyms: bring forth |
| producer | (noun) something that produces | - |
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| (noun) someone who manufactures something | Synonyms: manufacturer |
| (noun) someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work) | - |
| puce | (noun) a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red | - |
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| radiolucent | (adjective) almost complete transparent to X-rays or other forms of radiation | - |
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| reduce | (verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin |
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| (verb) cut down on; make a reduction in | Synonyms: bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, trim, trim back, trim down |
| (verb) narrow or limit | Synonyms: tighten |
| (verb) cook until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, concentrate |
| (verb) to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons | Synonyms: deoxidise, deoxidize |
| (verb) make smaller | Synonyms: scale down |
| (verb) reduce in size; reduce physically | Synonyms: shrink |
| (verb) make less complex | - |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, shorten |
| (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: cut, dilute, thin, thin out |
| (verb) be cooked until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, concentrate, decoct |
| (verb) be the essential element | Synonyms: boil down, come down |
| (verb) destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it | - |
| (verb) undergo meiosis | - |
| (verb) reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site | - |
| (verb) lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation | - |
| (verb) lessen and make more modest | - |
| (verb) simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another | - |
| (verb) bring to humbler or weaker state or condition | - |
| (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, quash, repress, subdue, subjugate |
| reduced | (adjective) made less in size or amount or degree | Synonyms: decreased |
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| (adjective) well below normal (especially in price) | Synonyms: rock-bottom |
| reducer | (noun) pipefitting that joins two pipes of different diameter | - |
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| (noun) a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver | Synonyms: reducing agent, reductant |
| reintroduce | (verb) introduce anew | Synonyms: re-introduce |
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| reproduce | (verb) have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant | Synonyms: multiply, procreate |
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| (verb) repeat after memorization | Synonyms: regurgitate |
| (verb) make a copy or equivalent of | - |
| (verb) recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc. | - |
| reproducer | (noun) an audio system that can reproduce and amplify signals to produce sound | - |
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| sauce | (noun) flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food | - |
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| (verb) add zest or flavor to, make more interesting | - |
| (verb) dress (food) with a relish | - |
| (verb) behave saucily or impudently towards | - |
| sauceboat | (noun) a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce | Synonyms: boat, gravy boat, gravy holder |
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| saucepan | (noun) a deep pan with a handle; used for stewing or boiling | - |
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| saucepot | (noun) a cooking pot that has handles on either side and tight fitting lid; used for stewing or boiling | - |
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| saucer | (noun) a small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table | - |
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| (noun) a disk used in throwing competitions | Synonyms: discus |
| (noun) directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation | Synonyms: dish, dish aerial, dish antenna |
| (noun) something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate | Synonyms: disc, disk |
| seduce | (verb) lure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct | - |
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| (verb) induce to have sex | Synonyms: make, score |
| seducer | (noun) a man who takes advantage of women | Synonyms: ladies' man, lady killer |
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| (noun) a bad person who entices others into error or wrongdoing | - |
| spruce | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy |
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| (noun) any coniferous tree of the genus Picea | - |
| (noun) light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork | - |
| (verb) dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spruce up |
| (verb) make neat, smart, or trim | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce up, titivate, tittivate |
| sprucely | (adverb) in a fashionable manner | Synonyms: modishly, smartly |
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| spruceness | (noun) the state of being neat and smart and trim | Synonyms: neatness |
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| traduce | (verb) speak unfavorably about | Synonyms: badmouth, drag through the mud, malign |
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| traducement | (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumniation, calumny, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy |
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| traducer | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, slanderer, vilifier |
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| transduce | (verb) cause transduction (of energy forms) | - |
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| transducer | (noun) an electrical device that converts one form of energy into another | - |
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| translucence | (noun) the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely | Synonyms: semitransparency, translucency |
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| translucency | (noun) the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely | Synonyms: semitransparency, translucence |
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| translucent | (adjective) allowing light to pass through diffusely | Synonyms: semitransparent |
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| truce | (noun) a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms | Synonyms: armistice, cease-fire |
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| underproduce | (verb) produce below capacity or demand | - |
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| unreduced | (adjective) not altered by reduction | - |
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