| anticoagulant | (noun) medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood | Synonyms: anticoagulant medication, decoagulant |
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| anticoagulation | (noun) the administration of an anticoagulant drug to retard coagulation of the blood | - |
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| anticoagulative | (adjective) of or relating to an anticoagulant | - |
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| anticonvulsant | (noun) a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy) | Synonyms: anticonvulsant drug, antiepileptic, antiepileptic drug |
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| antiflatulent | (noun) any agent that reduces intestinal gas | - |
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| apiculate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a short sharply pointed tip | - |
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| apicultural | (adjective) relating to the care and breeding of bees | - |
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| apiculture | (noun) the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey | Synonyms: beekeeping |
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| apiculturist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, beekeeper |
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| appendicular | (adjective) relating to or consisting of an appendage or appendages; especially the limbs | - |
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| appendicularia | (noun) free-swimming tadpole-shaped pelagic tunicate resembling larvae of other tunicates | - |
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| aquacultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquicultural, hydroponic |
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| aquaculture | (noun) rearing aquatic animals or cultivating aquatic plants for food | - |
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| aquicultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquacultural, hydroponic |
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| aquiculture | (noun) a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients | Synonyms: hydroponics, tank farming |
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| arboriculture | (noun) the tending of and caring for trees | Synonyms: tree farming |
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| arboriculturist | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: forester, tree farmer |
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| armful | (noun) the quantity that can be contained in the arms | - |
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| artful | (adjective) marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft | - |
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| (adjective) not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness | Synonyms: disingenuous |
| artfully | (adverb) in a manner exhibiting art or skill | - |
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| (adverb) in a disingenuous manner | Synonyms: disingenuously |
| (adverb) in an subtle, cunning manner | Synonyms: craftily, cunningly, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily |
| artfulness | (noun) the quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage | - |
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| articular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the joints of the body | Synonyms: articulary |
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| articulary | (adjective) relating to or affecting the joints of the body | Synonyms: articular |
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| articulate | (adjective) expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of segments held together by joints | Synonyms: articulated |
| (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out |
| (verb) express or state clearly | Synonyms: enunciate, vocalise, vocalize |
| (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: formulate, give voice, phrase, word |
| (verb) provide with a joint | Synonyms: joint |
| (verb) unite by forming a joint or joints | - |
| articulated | (adjective) consisting of segments held together by joints | Synonyms: articulate |
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| articulately | (adverb) in an articulate manner | Synonyms: eloquently |
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| (adverb) with eloquence | Synonyms: eloquently |
| articulateness | (noun) the quality of being facile in speech and writing | Synonyms: fluency, volubility |
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| articulatio | (noun) (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Synonyms: articulation, joint |
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| articulation | (noun) the act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible | - |
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| (noun) (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Synonyms: articulatio, joint |
| (noun) the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech | - |
| (noun) expressing in coherent verbal form | Synonyms: voice |
| (noun) the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made | Synonyms: join, joint, junction, juncture |
| articulative | (adjective) of or relating to articulation | Synonyms: articulatory |
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| articulator | (noun) a movable speech organ | - |
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| (noun) someone who pronounces words | - |
| articulatory | (adjective) of or relating to articulation | Synonyms: articulative |
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| arugula | (noun) erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender | Synonyms: Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativa, garden rocket, rocket, rocket salad, roquette |
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| assault | (noun) close fighting during the culmination of a military attack | - |
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| (noun) a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped | - |
| (noun) the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will | Synonyms: rape, ravishment, violation |
| (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, attack, lash out, round, snipe |
| (verb) attack someone physically or emotionally | Synonyms: assail, attack, set on |
| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, ravish, violate |
| assaulter | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: aggressor, assailant, attacker |
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| assaultive | (adjective) disposed to attack | Synonyms: attacking |
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| atrioventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: auriculoventricular |
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| auld | (adjective) a Scottish word | - |
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| auricula | (noun) a pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart | Synonyms: auricular appendage, auricular appendix |
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| (noun) yellow-flowered primrose native to Alps; commonly cultivated | Synonyms: bear's ear, Primula auricula |
| auricular | (adjective) of or relating to near the ear | Synonyms: otic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to an auricle of the heart | - |
| (adjective) relating to or perceived by or shaped like the organ of hearing | - |
| auriculare | (noun) the craniometric point at the center of the opening of the external acoustic meatus | Synonyms: auricular point |
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| auriculate | (adjective) having auricles | Synonyms: auriculated |
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| auriculated | (adjective) having auricles | Synonyms: auriculate |
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| auriculoventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: atrioventricular |
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| auscultate | (verb) examine by auscultation | - |
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| auscultation | (noun) listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope) | - |
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| auscultatory | (adjective) of or relating to auscultation | - |
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| autoregulation | (noun) (physiology) processes that maintain a generally constant physiological state in a cell or organism | - |
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| avascular | (adjective) without blood vessels | - |
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| avirulent | (adjective) not virulent; unable to produce disease | - |
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| avulse | (verb) separate by avulsion | - |
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| avulsion | (noun) a forcible tearing or surgical separation of one body part from another | - |
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| (noun) an abrupt change in the course of a stream that forms the boundary between two parcels of land resulting in the loss of part of the land of one landowner and a consequent increase in the land of another | - |
| avuncular | (adjective) being or relating to an uncle | - |
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| (adjective) resembling an uncle in kindness or indulgence | - |
| awful | (adjective) offensive or even (of persons) malicious | Synonyms: nasty |
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| (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
| (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
| (adjective) extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact | Synonyms: frightful, terrible, tremendous |
| (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awing |
| (adjective) inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence | Synonyms: awed |
| (adverb) used as intensifiers | Synonyms: awfully, frightfully, terribly |
| awfully | (adverb) used as intensifiers | Synonyms: awful, frightfully, terribly |
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| (adverb) of a dreadful kind | Synonyms: dreadfully, horribly |
| (adverb) in a terrible manner | Synonyms: abominably, abysmally, atrociously, rottenly, terribly |
| awfulness | (noun) a quality of extreme unpleasantness | Synonyms: dreadfulness, horridness, terribleness |
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| baculiform | (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacillary, bacilliform, rod-shaped |
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| bagful | (noun) the quantity that a bag will hold | Synonyms: bag |
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| baleful | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| (adjective) deadly or sinister | Synonyms: baneful |
| balefully | (adverb) in a baleful manner | - |
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| balefulness | (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: maleficence, mischief |
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| baneful | (adjective) deadly or sinister | Synonyms: baleful |
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| (adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: deadly, pernicious, pestilent |
| banefully | (adverb) in a noxiously baneful way | Synonyms: perniciously |
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| barnful | (noun) the quantity that a barn will hold | - |
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| barrelful | (noun) the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold | Synonyms: barrel |
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| barrowful | (noun) the quantity that a barrow will hold | Synonyms: barrow |
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| bascule | (noun) a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw) | - |
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| bashful | (adjective) disposed to avoid notice | Synonyms: blate |
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| (adjective) self-consciously timid | - |
| bashfully | (adverb) in a shy or timid or bashful manner | Synonyms: shyly, timidly |
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| bashfulness | (noun) feeling embarrassed due to modesty | Synonyms: abashment |
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| basinful | (noun) the quantity that a basin will hold | Synonyms: basin |
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| basketful | (noun) the quantity contained in a basket | Synonyms: basket |
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| battleful | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicose, combative |
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| baulk | (noun) one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof | Synonyms: balk, rafter |
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| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
| (noun) the area on a billiard table behind the balkline | Synonyms: balk |
| (verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: balk, jib, resist |
| baulker | (noun) a person who refuses to comply | Synonyms: balker, noncompliant |
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| beautiful | (adjective) delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration | - |
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| (adjective) (of weather) highly enjoyable | - |
| beautifully | (adverb) in a beautiful manner | Synonyms: attractively |
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| befoul | (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: defile, foul, maculate |
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| befouled | (adjective) made dirty or foul | Synonyms: fouled |
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| befoulment | (noun) the state of being polluted | Synonyms: defilement, pollution |
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| bellpull | (noun) a handle or cord that is pulled to ring a doorbell or a servant's bell etc. | - |
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| bellyful | (noun) an undesirable overabundance | - |
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| betulaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of trees of the birch family | - |
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| biauricular | (adjective) relating to the two auditory openings | - |
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| bibulous | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: boozy, drunken, sottish |
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| bicapsular | (adjective) divided into two capsules or having a two-part capsule | - |
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| bilocular | (adjective) divided into or containing two cells or chambers | Synonyms: biloculate |
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| biloculate | (adjective) divided into or containing two cells or chambers | Synonyms: bilocular |
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| bimolecular | (adjective) relating to or affecting two molecules | - |
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| binful | (noun) the quantity contained in a bin | Synonyms: bin |
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| binocular | (adjective) relating to both eyes | - |
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| binoculars | (noun) (plural) an optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes | Synonyms: field glasses, opera glasses |
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| biovular | (adjective) (of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova | Synonyms: fraternal |
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| bisulcate | (adjective) (used of hooves) split, divided | Synonyms: cloven |
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| bisulfate | (noun) a salt or an ester of sulphuric acid with the chemical formula HSO4-. | Synonyms: hydrogen sulfate |
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| blameful | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameworthy, censurable, culpable |
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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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| blissful | (adjective) completely happy and contented | - |
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| blissfully | (adverb) in a blissful manner | - |
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