| abjuration | (noun) a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion | Synonyms: recantation, retraction |
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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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| accurate | (adjective) conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy | - |
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| (adjective) (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct | Synonyms: exact, precise |
| accurately | (adverb) with few mistakes | - |
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| (adverb) strictly correctly | - |
| adjuration | (noun) a solemn and earnest appeal to someone to do something | - |
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| adjuratory | (adjective) earnestly or solemnly entreating | - |
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| (adjective) containing a solemn charge or command | - |
| barbiturate | (noun) organic compound having powerful soporific effect; overdose can be fatal | - |
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| colouration | (noun) choice and use of colors (as by an artist) | Synonyms: coloration |
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| (noun) appearance with regard to color | Synonyms: coloration |
| (noun) the timbre of a musical sound | Synonyms: color, coloration, colour |
| commensurate | (adjective) corresponding in size or degree or extent | - |
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| commensurateness | (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: correspondence, proportionateness |
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| configuration | (noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: conformation, contour, form, shape |
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| (noun) an arrangement of parts or elements | Synonyms: constellation |
| configurational | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by configuration | - |
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| configurationism | (noun) (psychology) a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties | Synonyms: Gestalt psychology |
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| conjuration | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
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| (noun) calling up a spirit or devil | Synonyms: conjuring, conjury, invocation |
| (noun) a ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect | Synonyms: incantation |
| culturati | (noun) people interested in culture and cultural activities | - |
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| curate | (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: minister, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rector |
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| curative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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| (noun) a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain | Synonyms: cure, remedy, therapeutic |
| curator | (noun) the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) | Synonyms: conservator |
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| curatorial | (adjective) of or relating to a curator or the duties of a curator | - |
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| curatorship | (noun) the position of curator | - |
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| discolouration | (noun) the act of changing the natural color of something by making it duller or dingier or unnatural or faded | Synonyms: discoloration |
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| (noun) a soiled or discolored appearance | Synonyms: discoloration, stain |
| disfiguration | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: defacement, disfigurement, mutilation |
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| (noun) an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | Synonyms: deformity, disfigurement |
| duration | (noun) continuance in time | Synonyms: length |
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| (noun) the property of enduring or continuing in time | Synonyms: continuance |
| (noun) the period of time during which something continues | Synonyms: continuance |
| durative | (noun) the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration | Synonyms: durative aspect |
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| enculturation | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: acculturation, socialisation, socialization |
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| figuration | (noun) decorating with a design | - |
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| (noun) representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory | - |
| figurative | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech | Synonyms: nonliteral |
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| (adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figural |
| figuratively | (adverb) in a figurative sense | - |
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| figurativeness | (noun) The property of being metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures of speech. | - |
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| (noun) The representation of form or figure in art. | - |
| fulgurating | (adjective) sharp and piercing | - |
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| inaccurate | (adjective) erroneous | - |
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| inaccurately | (adverb) in an inaccurate manner | - |
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| inaugurate | (verb) be a precursor of | Synonyms: introduce, usher in |
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| (verb) commence officially | Synonyms: kick off |
| (verb) open ceremoniously or dedicate formally | - |
| inauguration | (noun) the ceremonial induction into a position | Synonyms: inaugural |
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| (noun) the act of starting a new operation or practice | Synonyms: startup |
| incommensurate | (adjective) not corresponding in size or degree or extent | - |
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| indurate | (adjective) emotionally hardened | Synonyms: callous, pachydermatous |
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| (verb) become hard or harder | Synonyms: harden |
| (verb) make hard or harder | Synonyms: harden |
| (verb) become fixed or established | - |
| (verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate | Synonyms: harden, inure |
| induration | (noun) any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue | Synonyms: sclerosis |
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| instauration | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, institution, introduction, origination |
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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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| mensurate | (verb) determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of | Synonyms: measure, measure out |
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| mensuration | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measurement, measuring |
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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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| murmuration | (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuring, mussitation, mutter, muttering |
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| nonfigurative | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, abstractionist, nonobjective |
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| nonsuppurative | (adjective) not suppurative | - |
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| obdurate | (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, flinty, granitic, stony |
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| (adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: cussed, obstinate, unrepentant |
| obdurately | (adverb) in a stubborn unregenerate manner | Synonyms: cussedly, mulishly, obstinately, pig-headedly, stubbornly |
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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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| pandurate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having rounded ends and a contracted center | Synonyms: fiddle-shaped, panduriform |
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| polyunsaturated | (adjective) (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) having many unsaturated bonds | - |
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| prefiguration | (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, foreshadowing |
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| (noun) an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come | - |
| prefigurative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, foreshadowing |
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| procurator | (noun) (ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman Emperor to manage finance and taxes | - |
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| (noun) a person authorized to act for another | Synonyms: placeholder, proxy |
| purpurate | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: empurple, purple |
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| restaurateur | (noun) the proprietor of a restaurant | Synonyms: restauranter |
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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 | - |
| supersaturated | (adjective) being more concentrated than normally possible and therefore not in equilibrium | - |
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| suppurate | (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: fester, maturate |
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| (verb) cause to ripen and discharge pus | Synonyms: mature |
| suppuration | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: festering, ichor, purulence, pus, sanies |
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| (noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: festering, maturation |
| suppurative | (adjective) relating to or characterized by suppuration | - |
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| transfiguration | (noun) the act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify | - |
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| (noun) a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances | Synonyms: metamorphosis |
| 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 | - |
| urate | (noun) a salt of uric acid | - |
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| uratemia | (noun) presence of abnormal amounts of uric acid salts in the blood; symptom of gout | - |
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| uraturia | (noun) presence of abnormally large amounts of uric acid in the urine; symptom of gout | - |
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| ziggurat | (noun) a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians | Synonyms: zikkurat, zikurat |
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| zikkurat | (noun) a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians | Synonyms: ziggurat, zikurat |
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| zikurat | (noun) a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians | Synonyms: ziggurat, zikkurat |
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