| adjutant | (noun) large Indian stork with a military gait | Synonyms: adjutant bird, adjutant stork, Leptoptilus dubius |
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| (noun) an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer | Synonyms: aide-de-camp, aide |
| amputate | (verb) remove surgically | Synonyms: cut off |
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| amputation | (noun) a surgical removal of all or part of a limb | - |
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| (noun) a condition of disability resulting from the loss of one or more limbs | - |
| amputator | (noun) a surgeon who removes part or all of a limb | - |
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| attributable | (adjective) capable of being attributed | - |
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| autacoid | (noun) any physiologically active internal secretion especially one of uncertain classification | Synonyms: autocoid |
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| autacoidal | (adjective) of or relating to an autacoid | - |
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| autarchic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by autarchy | Synonyms: autarchical, autarkical |
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| autarchical | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by autarchy | Synonyms: autarchic, autarkical |
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| autarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autocracy |
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| (noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarky |
| autarkic | (adjective) of countries; not relying on imports | Synonyms: autarkical |
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| autarkical | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by autarchy | Synonyms: autarchic, autarchical |
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| (adjective) of countries; not relying on imports | Synonyms: autarkic |
| autarky | (noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarchy |
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| barracouta | (noun) a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa | Synonyms: snoek |
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| brutal | (adjective) disagreeably direct and precise | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brute, brutish |
| (adjective) punishingly harsh | Synonyms: unrelenting |
| (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
| brutalisation | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, animalization, brutalization |
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| (noun) the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously | Synonyms: brutalization |
| (noun) the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner | Synonyms: brutalization |
| brutalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalize |
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| (verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalize |
| (verb) treat brutally | Synonyms: brutalize |
| brutality | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, barbarity, savagery |
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| (noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: ferociousness, savagery, viciousness |
| brutalization | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, animalization, brutalisation |
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| (noun) the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously | Synonyms: brutalisation |
| (noun) the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner | Synonyms: brutalisation |
| brutalize | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalise |
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| (verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalise |
| (verb) treat brutally | Synonyms: brutalise |
| brutally | (adverb) in a vicious manner | Synonyms: savagely, viciously |
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| butacaine | (noun) a white crystalline ester that is applied to mucous membranes as a local anesthetic | Synonyms: butacaine sulfate |
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| butadiene | (noun) a gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; used in making synthetic rubbers | - |
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| butane | (noun) occurs in natural gas; used in the manufacture of rubber and fuels | - |
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| butanol | (noun) a flammable alcohol derived from butanes and used for solvents | Synonyms: butyl alcohol |
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| butanone | (noun) colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid | Synonyms: methyl ethyl ketone |
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| butat | (noun) 100 bututs equal 1 dalasi in Gambia | Synonyms: butut |
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| commutability | (noun) the quality of being commutable | Synonyms: transmutability |
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| (noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: replaceability, substitutability |
| commutable | (adjective) subject to alteration or change | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being exchanged for another or for something else that is equivalent | Synonyms: substitutable |
| commutate | (verb) reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current | - |
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| commutation | (noun) the travel of a commuter | Synonyms: commuting |
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| (noun) (law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law | Synonyms: re-sentencing |
| (noun) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: | Synonyms: exchange, substitution |
| (noun) a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one | - |
| commutative | (adjective) (of a binary operation) independent of order; as in e.g. "a x b = b x a" | - |
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| commutator | (noun) switch for reversing the direction of an electric current | - |
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| computable | (adjective) may be computed or estimated | Synonyms: estimable |
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| computation | (noun) the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods | Synonyms: calculation, computing |
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| (noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: calculation, figuring, reckoning |
| computational | (adjective) of or involving computation or computers | - |
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| computationally | (adverb) with regard to computation | - |
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| confutable | (adjective) able to be refuted | Synonyms: confutative, questionable, refutable |
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| confutation | (noun) evidence that refutes conclusively | - |
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| (noun) the speech act of refuting conclusively | - |
| confutative | (adjective) able to be refuted | Synonyms: confutable, questionable, refutable |
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| cutaneal | (adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneous, dermal |
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| cutaneous | (adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneal, dermal |
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| cutaway | (noun) a man's coat cut diagonally from the waist to the back of the knees | - |
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| (noun) a representation (drawing or model) of something in which the outside is omitted to reveal the inner parts | Synonyms: cutaway drawing, cutaway model |
| debutante | (noun) a young woman making her debut into society | Synonyms: deb |
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| deputation | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegating, delegation, relegating, relegation |
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| (noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegacy, delegation, mission |
| dilutant | (noun) a diluting agent | Synonyms: diluent, thinner |
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| disputable | (adjective) capable of being disproved | Synonyms: debatable |
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| (adjective) open to argument or debate | Synonyms: arguable, debatable, moot |
| disputant | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: controversialist, eristic |
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| disputation | (noun) the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote) | Synonyms: debate, public debate |
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| (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, tilt |
| disputatious | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputative, litigious |
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| disputatiously | (adverb) in a disputatious manner | Synonyms: argumentatively |
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| disputative | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputatious, litigious |
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| disreputability | (noun) dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation | Synonyms: disreputableness, unrespectability |
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| disreputable | (adjective) lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance | - |
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| disreputableness | (noun) dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation | Synonyms: disreputability, unrespectability |
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| disreputably | (adverb) in a disreputable manner | - |
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| distributary | (noun) a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it | - |
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| edutainment | (noun) entertainment that is intended to be educational | - |
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| executability | (noun) capability of being executed | - |
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| executable | (adjective) capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are | Synonyms: feasible, practicable, viable, workable |
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| executant | (noun) a performer (usually of musical works) | - |
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| glutamate | (noun) a salt or ester of glutamic acid | - |
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| glutamine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid occurring in proteins; important in protein metabolism | - |
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| immutability | (noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: fixity, immutableness |
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| immutable | (adjective) not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature | Synonyms: changeless |
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| (adjective) constant and unchanging | - |
| immutableness | (noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: fixity, immutability |
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| immutably | (adverb) in an unalterable and unchangeable manner | Synonyms: unalterably, unassailably, unchangeably |
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| imputable | (adjective) capable of being assigned or credited to | Synonyms: ascribable, due, referable |
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| imputation | (noun) the attribution to a source or cause | - |
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| (noun) a statement attributing something dishonest (especially a criminal offense) | - |
| incommutability | (noun) the quality of being not interchangeable | - |
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| incommutable | (adjective) not subject to alteration or change | - |
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| (adjective) not interchangeable or able to substitute one for another | - |
| incomputable | (adjective) beyond calculation or measure | Synonyms: immeasurable, inestimable |
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| indisputability | (noun) the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt | Synonyms: indubitability, unquestionability, unquestionableness |
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| indisputable | (adjective) impossible to doubt or dispute | Synonyms: sure |
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| (adjective) not open to question; obviously true | Synonyms: incontestable, undisputable |
| inscrutability | (noun) the quality of being impossible to investigate | - |
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| inscrutable | (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, deep, mysterious, mystifying |
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| inscrutably | (adverb) in an inscrutable manner | - |
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| intracutaneous | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intradermal, intradermic |
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| irrefutable | (adjective) impossible to deny or disprove | Synonyms: incontrovertible, positive |
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| likuta | (noun) 100 makuta equal 1 zaire in Zaire | - |
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| lutanist | (noun) a musician who plays the lute | Synonyms: lutenist, lutist |
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| mucocutaneous | (adjective) of or relating to the mucous membranes and skin | - |
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| mutability | (noun) the quality of being capable of mutation | Synonyms: mutableness |
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| mutable | (adjective) capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature | Synonyms: changeable |
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| (adjective) tending to undergo genetic mutation | - |
| (adjective) prone to frequent change; inconstant | - |
| mutableness | (noun) the quality of being capable of mutation | Synonyms: mutability |
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| mutafacient | (adjective) capable of inducing mutation (used mainly of intracellular agents) | - |
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| mutagen | (noun) any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation | - |
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| mutagenesis | (noun) an event capable of causing a mutation | - |
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| mutagenic | (adjective) capable of inducing mutation (used mainly of extracellular factors such as X-rays or chemical pollution) | - |
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| mutant | (adjective) tending to undergo or resulting from mutation | - |
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| (noun) an animal that has undergone mutation | - |
| (noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutation, sport, variation |
| mutate | (verb) undergo mutation | - |
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| mutation | (noun) (genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism | Synonyms: chromosomal mutation, genetic mutation |
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| (noun) a change or alteration in form or qualities | - |
| (noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutant, sport, variation |
| mutational | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting from mutation | - |
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| mutative | (adjective) of or pertaining to or marked by genetic mutation | - |
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| nutate | (verb) rock, sway, or nod; usually involuntarily | - |
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| nutation | (noun) uncontrolled nodding | - |
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| orangutan | (noun) large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits | Synonyms: orang, orangutang, Pongo pygmaeus |
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| orangutang | (noun) large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits | Synonyms: orang, orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus |
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| outage | (noun) a temporary suspension of operation (as of computers) | - |
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| (noun) the amount of something (as whiskey or oil) lost in storage or transportation | - |
| oxyphenbutazone | (noun) an anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Tandearil) used to treat arthritis and bursitis | Synonyms: Tandearil |
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