| abduct | (verb) pull away from the body | - |
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| (verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: kidnap, nobble, snatch |
| abducting | (adjective) especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part | Synonyms: abducent |
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| abduction | (noun) the criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force a family member; if a man's wife is abducted it is a crime against the family relationship and against the wife | - |
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| (noun) (physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body | - |
| abductor | (noun) a muscle that draws a body part away from the median line | Synonyms: abductor muscle |
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| (noun) someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) | Synonyms: kidnaper, kidnapper, snatcher |
| adduct | (noun) a compound formed by an addition reaction | - |
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| (verb) draw a limb towards the body | - |
| adducting | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducent, adductive |
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| adduction | (noun) (physiology) moving of a body part toward the central axis of the body | - |
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| adductive | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducent, adducting |
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| adductor | (noun) a muscle that draws a body part toward the median line | Synonyms: adductor muscle |
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| aqueduct | (noun) a conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley | - |
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| auction | (noun) the public sale of something to the highest bidder | Synonyms: auction sale, vendue |
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| (noun) a variety of bridge in which tricks made in excess of the contract are scored toward game; now generally superseded by contract bridge | Synonyms: auction bridge |
| (verb) sell at an auction | Synonyms: auction off, auctioneer |
| auctioneer | (noun) an agent who conducts an auction | - |
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| (verb) sell at an auction | Synonyms: auction, auction off |
| auctorial | (adjective) of or by or typical of an author | Synonyms: authorial |
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| byproduct | (noun) a product made during the manufacture of something else | Synonyms: by-product, spin-off |
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| (noun) a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence | Synonyms: by-product |
| circumduction | (noun) a circular movement of a limb or eye | - |
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| conduct | (noun) manner of acting or controlling yourself | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, doings |
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| (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, demeanor, demeanour, deportment |
| (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, deport, do |
| (verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: direct, lead |
| (verb) lead musicians in the performance of | - |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, convey, impart, transmit |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: direct, guide, lead, take |
| (verb) direct the course of; manage or control | Synonyms: carry on, deal |
| conductance | (noun) a material's capacity to conduct electricity; measured as the reciprocal of electrical resistance | - |
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| conducting | (noun) the way of administering a business | - |
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| (noun) the direction of an orchestra or choir | - |
| conduction | (noun) the transmission of heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: conductivity |
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| conductive | (adjective) having the quality or power of conducting heat or electricity or sound; exhibiting conductivity | - |
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| conductivity | (noun) the transmission of heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: conduction |
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| conductor | (noun) a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc. | - |
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| (noun) the person who leads a musical group | Synonyms: director, music director |
| (noun) the person who collects fares on a public conveyance | - |
| (noun) a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat | - |
| conductress | (noun) a woman conductor | - |
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| construct | (noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: concept, conception |
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| (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: reconstruct, retrace |
| (verb) draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions | - |
| (verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: build, make |
| (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: fabricate, manufacture |
| (verb) create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts | - |
| (verb) create by linking linguistic units | - |
| construction | (noun) the act of constructing something | Synonyms: building |
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| (noun) the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | Synonyms: building |
| (noun) drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem | - |
| (noun) a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts | Synonyms: structure |
| (noun) the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought | Synonyms: mental synthesis |
| (noun) an interpretation of a text or action | Synonyms: twist |
| (noun) a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | Synonyms: expression, grammatical construction |
| constructive | (adjective) constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development | - |
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| (adjective) emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good | - |
| constructively | (adverb) in a constructive manner | - |
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| constructiveness | (noun) the quality of serving to build or improve | - |
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| constructivism | (noun) an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects | - |
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| constructivist | (noun) an artist of the school of constructivism | - |
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| constructor | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: builder |
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| counterproductive | (adjective) tending to hinder the achievement of a goal | - |
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| deconstruct | (verb) interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstructing | - |
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| deconstruction | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstructionism |
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| deconstructionism | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstruction |
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| deconstructionist | (adjective) of or concerned with the philosophical theory of literature known as deconstructionism | - |
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| deconstructivism | (noun) a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction | - |
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| deduct | (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduce, derive, infer |
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| (verb) make a subtraction | Synonyms: subtract, take off |
| (verb) retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments | Synonyms: recoup, withhold |
| deductible | (adjective) acceptable as a deduction (especially as a tax deduction) | - |
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| (noun) a clause in an insurance policy that relieves the insurer of responsibility to pay the initial loss up to a stated amount | - |
| (noun) (taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax) | - |
| deduction | (noun) the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole) | Synonyms: subtraction |
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| (noun) the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise | Synonyms: discount, price reduction |
| (noun) reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) | Synonyms: deductive reasoning, synthesis |
| (noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: entailment, implication |
| (noun) an amount or percentage deducted | Synonyms: discount |
| (noun) a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket | Synonyms: tax deduction, tax write-off |
| deductive | (adjective) involving inferences from general principles | - |
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| (adjective) relating to logical deduction | - |
| destruct | (verb) do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of | Synonyms: destroy |
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| (verb) destroy (one's own missile or rocket) | - |
| destructibility | (noun) vulnerability to destruction | - |
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| destructible | (adjective) easily destroyed | - |
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| destruction | (noun) the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists | Synonyms: devastation |
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| (noun) an event that completely destroys something | Synonyms: demolition, wipeout |
| (noun) a final state | Synonyms: death, end |
| destructive | (adjective) causing destruction or much damage | - |
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| destructively | (adverb) in a destructive manner | - |
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| destructiveness | (noun) the quality of causing destruction | - |
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| duct | (noun) an enclosed conduit for a fluid | - |
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| (noun) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance | Synonyms: canal, channel, epithelial duct |
| (noun) a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls | - |
| ductile | (adjective) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out | Synonyms: malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile |
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| (adjective) easily influenced | Synonyms: malleable |
| ductileness | (noun) the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets | Synonyms: ductility |
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| ductility | (noun) the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets | Synonyms: ductileness |
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| ductless | (adjective) not having a duct | - |
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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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| eruct | (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: belch, bubble, burp |
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| (verb) eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical | Synonyms: spew, spew out |
| eructation | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, belching, burp, burping |
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| (noun) (of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed) | Synonyms: eruption, extravasation |
| fluctuate | (verb) be unstable | - |
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| (verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: vacillate, waver |
| (verb) cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern | - |
| fluctuating | (adjective) having unpredictable ups and downs | - |
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| fluctuation | (noun) the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes | Synonyms: wavering |
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| (noun) an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change | Synonyms: variation |
| (noun) a wave motion | - |
| fructification | (noun) organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses) | - |
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| (noun) the bearing of fruit | - |
| fructify | (verb) produce fruit | Synonyms: set |
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| (verb) become productive or fruitful | - |
| (verb) make productive or fruitful | - |
| fructose | (noun) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits | Synonyms: fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose |
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| fructosuria | (noun) the presence of levulose is the urine | - |
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| indestructibility | (noun) the strength to resist destruction | - |
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| indestructible | (adjective) not easily destroyed | - |
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| (adjective) very long lasting | Synonyms: durable, perdurable, undestroyable |
| induct | (verb) introduce or initiate | - |
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| (verb) produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes | Synonyms: induce |
| (verb) place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position | Synonyms: invest, seat |
| (verb) accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite | Synonyms: initiate |
| (verb) admit as a member | - |
| inductance | (noun) an electrical device (typically a conducting coil) that introduces inductance into a circuit | Synonyms: inductor |
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| (noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current | Synonyms: induction |
| inductee | (noun) someone who is drafted into military service | Synonyms: conscript, draftee |
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| (noun) a person inducted into an organization or social group | - |
| induction | (noun) the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time) | - |
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| (noun) an act that sets in motion some course of events | Synonyms: initiation, trigger |
| (noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalisation, generalization, inductive reasoning |
| (noun) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | Synonyms: elicitation, evocation |
| (noun) a formal entry into an organization or position or office | Synonyms: initiation, installation |
| (noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current | Synonyms: inductance |
| inductionism | (noun) the scientific philosophy where laws are "induced" from sets of data. | - |
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| inductive | (adjective) of reasoning; proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion | - |
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| (adjective) arising from inductance | - |
| (adjective) inducing or influencing; leading on | Synonyms: inducive |
| inductor | (noun) an electrical device (typically a conducting coil) that introduces inductance into a circuit | Synonyms: inductance |
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| ineluctability | (noun) the quality of being impossible to avoid or evade | Synonyms: unavoidability |
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| ineluctable | (adjective) impossible to avoid or evade | Synonyms: inescapable, unavoidable |
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| ineluctably | (adverb) by necessity | Synonyms: inescapably, inevitably, unavoidably |
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| infrastructure | (noun) the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area | Synonyms: base |
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| (noun) the basic structure or features of a system or organization | Synonyms: substructure |
| infructescence | (noun) the fruiting stage of the inflorescence | - |
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| instruct | (verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: learn, teach |
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| (verb) give instructions or directions for some task | - |
| (verb) make aware of | Synonyms: apprise, apprize |
| instruction | (noun) the profession of a teacher | Synonyms: pedagogy, teaching |
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| (noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, pedagogy, teaching |
| (noun) (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program | Synonyms: command, program line, statement |
| (noun) a message describing how something is to be done | Synonyms: direction |
| instructional | (adjective) of or relating to or used in instruction | - |
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| instructions | (noun) a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it | Synonyms: book of instructions, instruction manual, operating instructions |
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| instructive | (adjective) serving to instruct or enlighten or inform | Synonyms: informative |
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| instructively | (adverb) in an informative manner | Synonyms: informatively |
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| instructor | (noun) a person whose occupation is teaching | Synonyms: teacher |
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| instructorship | (noun) the position of instructor | - |
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| instructress | (noun) a woman instructor | - |
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| introduction | (noun) the act of putting one thing into another | Synonyms: insertion, intromission |
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| (noun) the act of beginning something new | Synonyms: debut, entry, first appearance, launching, unveiling |
| (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, origination |
| (noun) the first section of a communication | - |
| (noun) formally making a person known to another or to the public | Synonyms: intro, presentation |
| (noun) a basic or elementary instructional text | - |
| (noun) a new proposal | - |
| introductoriness | (noun) The quality of being introducing; of giving a preview or idea of. | - |
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| introductory | (adjective) serving as a base or starting point | Synonyms: basic |
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| (adjective) serving to open or begin | - |
| (adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: prefatorial, prefatory |
| liposuction | (noun) lipectomy (especially for cosmetic purposes) in which excess fatty tissue is removed from under the skin by suction | Synonyms: suction lipectomy |
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| manduction | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chew, chewing, mastication |
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| (noun) the act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist | Synonyms: Communion, Holy Communion, sacramental manduction |
| misconduct | (noun) activity that transgresses moral or civil law | Synonyms: actus reus, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct |
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| (noun) bad or dishonest management by persons supposed to act on another's behalf | - |
| (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: mishandle, mismanage |
| (verb) behave badly | Synonyms: misbehave, misdemean |
| misconstruction | (noun) an ungrammatical constituent | - |
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| (noun) a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately) | Synonyms: misconstrual |
| nonconducting | (adjective) not able to conduct heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: non-conducting, nonconductive |
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| nonconductive | (adjective) not able to conduct heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: non-conducting, nonconducting |
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| nonconductor | (noun) a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity | Synonyms: dielectric, insulator |
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| nondeductible | (adjective) not allowable as a deduction | - |
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| nonproductive | (adjective) not directly productive | - |
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| nonstructural | (adjective) not structural | - |
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