| ablution | (noun) the ritual washing of a priest's hands or of sacred vessels | - |
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| ablutionary | (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: cleansing |
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| absolution | (noun) the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance | Synonyms: remission, remission of sin, remittal |
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| (noun) the condition of being formally forgiven by a priest in the sacrament of penance | - |
| absolutisation | (noun) the process of rendering something absolute or converting it into an absolute. | Synonyms: absolutization |
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| absolutism | (noun) the doctrine of an absolute being, often related to idealism in philosophy. | - |
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| (noun) an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government. | Synonyms: totalism, totalitarianism |
| (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
| (noun) dominance through threat of punishment and violence | Synonyms: despotism, tyranny |
| absolutist | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutistic |
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| (noun) one who advocates absolutism | - |
| absolutistic | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutist |
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| absolutization | (noun) the process of rendering something absolute or converting it into an absolute. | Synonyms: absolutisation |
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| aeronautic | (adjective) of or pertaining to aeronautics | Synonyms: aeronautical |
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| aeronautical | (adjective) of or pertaining to aeronautics | Synonyms: aeronautic |
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| aeronautics | (noun) the theory and practice of navigation through air or space | Synonyms: astronautics |
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| agglutinate | (adjective) united as if by glue | Synonyms: agglutinative |
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| (verb) clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc. | - |
| (verb) string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language) | - |
| agglutination | (noun) the building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining | - |
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| (noun) a clumping of bacteria or red cells when held together by antibodies (agglutinins) | - |
| (noun) the coalescing of small particles that are suspended in solution; these larger masses are then (usually) precipitated | Synonyms: agglutinating activity |
| agglutinative | (adjective) united as if by glue | Synonyms: agglutinate |
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| (adjective) forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning | Synonyms: polysynthetic |
| agglutinin | (noun) an antibody that causes agglutination of a specific antigen | - |
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| agglutinogen | (noun) any substance that acts as an antigen to cause agglutinin production | - |
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| agouti | (noun) agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food | Synonyms: Dasyprocta aguti |
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| allocution | (noun) (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts | - |
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| antipollution | (adjective) intended to reduce pollution | - |
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| astronautic | (adjective) of or belonging to astronauts or the science of astronautics | Synonyms: astronautical |
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| astronautical | (adjective) of or belonging to astronauts or the science of astronautics | Synonyms: astronautic |
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| astronautics | (noun) the theory and practice of navigation through air or space | Synonyms: aeronautics |
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| attribution | (noun) assigning to a cause or source | Synonyms: ascription |
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| (noun) assigning some quality or character to a person or thing | Synonyms: ascription |
| attributive | (adjective) of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify | Synonyms: prenominal |
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| attributively | (adverb) in an attributive manner | - |
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| autism | (noun) (psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self; marked by communication disorders and short attention span and inability to treat others as people | - |
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| autistic | (adjective) characteristic of or affected with autism | - |
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| beautician | (noun) someone who works in a beauty parlor | Synonyms: cosmetician |
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| beautification | (noun) the act of making something more beautiful | - |
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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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| beautify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: embellish, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, deck, decorate, embellish, grace |
| boutique | (noun) a shop that sells women's clothes and jewelry | Synonyms: dress shop |
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| brutish | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brutal, brute |
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| brutishly | (adverb) in the manner of a beast | Synonyms: bestially, in a beastly manner |
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| caution | (noun) the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger | Synonyms: carefulness, cautiousness |
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| (noun) the trait of being circumspect and prudent | Synonyms: circumspection |
| (noun) judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger | Synonyms: care, forethought, precaution |
| (noun) a warning against certain acts | Synonyms: caveat |
| (verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: admonish, monish |
| cautionary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) warding off | Synonyms: prophylactic |
| cautious | (adjective) showing careful forethought | - |
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| (adjective) avoiding excess | Synonyms: conservative |
| (noun) people who are fearful and cautious | Synonyms: timid |
| cautiously | (adverb) as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact | Synonyms: carefully, with kid gloves |
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| (adverb) in a conservative manner | Synonyms: conservatively, guardedly |
| cautiousness | (noun) the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger | Synonyms: carefulness, caution |
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| chemotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutical |
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| chemotherapeutical | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutic |
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| circumlocution | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: ambage, periphrasis |
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| (noun) an indirect way of expressing something | Synonyms: indirect expression |
| circumlocutious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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| circumvolution | (noun) the act of turning or winding or folding around a central axis | - |
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| commuting | (noun) the travel of a commuter | Synonyms: commutation |
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| computing | (noun) the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods | Synonyms: calculation, computation |
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| (noun) the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures | Synonyms: computer science |
| conglutinate | (verb) stick together | - |
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| (verb) cause to adhere | Synonyms: coapt |
| conglutination | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion |
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| (noun) healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones | Synonyms: union |
| consecutive | (adjective) successive (without a break) | Synonyms: straight |
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| (adjective) in regular succession without gaps | Synonyms: sequent, sequential, serial, successive |
| (adjective) one after the other | Synonyms: back-to-back |
| (adverb) in a sequential manner | Synonyms: sequentially |
| consecutively | (adverb) in a consecutive manner | - |
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| constitution | (noun) the act of forming or establishing something | Synonyms: establishment, formation, organisation, organization |
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| (noun) the way in which someone or something is composed | Synonyms: composition, make-up, makeup, physical composition |
| (noun) law determining the fundamental political principles of a government | Synonyms: fundamental law, organic law |
| constitutional | (adjective) sanctioned by or consistent with or operating under the law determining the fundamental political principles of a government | - |
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| (adjective) of benefit to or intended to benefit your physical makeup | - |
| (adjective) constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) | Synonyms: constituent, constitutive, organic |
| (adjective) existing as an essential constituent or characteristic | Synonyms: built-in, inbuilt, inherent, integral |
| (noun) a regular walk taken as a form of exercise | - |
| constitutionalise | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalize |
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| constitutionalism | (noun) advocacy of a system of government according to constitutional principles | - |
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| (noun) a constitutional system of government (usually with a written constitution) | - |
| constitutionalist | (noun) an advocate of constitutional government | - |
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| constitutionalize | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalise |
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| (verb) take a walk for one's health or to aid digestion, as after a meal | - |
| (verb) provide with a constitution, as of a country | - |
| constitutionally | (adverb) according to the constitution | - |
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| constitutive | (adjective) constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) | Synonyms: constituent, constitutional, organic |
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| contributing | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributive, contributory, tributary |
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| contribution | (noun) act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity | Synonyms: donation |
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| (noun) a writing for publication especially one of a collection of writings as an article or story | - |
| (noun) the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result | Synonyms: part, share |
| (noun) a voluntary gift (as of money or service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause | Synonyms: donation |
| (noun) an amount of money contributed | - |
| contributive | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributory, tributary |
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| convolution | (noun) the action of coiling or twisting or winding together | - |
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| (noun) a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain | Synonyms: gyrus |
| (noun) the shape of something rotating rapidly | Synonyms: swirl, vortex, whirl |
| counterrevolution | (noun) a revolution whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by a previous revolution | - |
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| counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
| (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionist |
| counterrevolutionist | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary |
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| cuticle | (noun) hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles | Synonyms: carapace, shell, shield |
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| (noun) the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates | Synonyms: epidermis |
| (noun) the dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail | - |
| cuticula | (noun) the outer body wall of an insect | - |
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| cuticular | (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: dermal, epidermal, epidermic |
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| cutin | (noun) (biochemistry) a waxy transparent material that occurs in the cuticle of plants and consists of highly polymerized esters of fatty acids | - |
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| cutinize | (verb) convert into cutin | - |
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| cutis | (noun) a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch | Synonyms: skin, tegument |
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| deglutition | (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: drink, swallow |
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| deputise | (verb) appoint as a substitute | Synonyms: depute, deputize |
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| (verb) act as a substitute | Synonyms: deputize, step in, substitute |
| deputize | (verb) appoint as a substitute | Synonyms: depute, deputise |
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| (verb) act as a substitute | Synonyms: deputise, step in, substitute |
| destitution | (noun) a state without friends or money or prospects | - |
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| devolution | (noun) the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) | Synonyms: devolvement |
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| (noun) the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality | Synonyms: degeneration |
| dilution | (noun) weakening (reducing the concentration) by the addition of water or a thinner | - |
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| (noun) a diluted solution | - |
| diminution | (noun) the act of decreasing or reducing something | Synonyms: decrease, reduction, step-down |
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| (noun) the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original) | - |
| (noun) change toward something smaller or lower | Synonyms: decline |
| diminutive | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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| (noun) a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness | - |
| diminutiveness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: minuteness, petiteness, tininess, weeness |
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| dissolution | (noun) the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations) | Synonyms: breakup |
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| (noun) the termination of a meeting | Synonyms: adjournment |
| (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, licentiousness, looseness, profligacy |
| (noun) separation into component parts | Synonyms: disintegration |
| (noun) the process of going into solution | Synonyms: dissolving |
| distribution | (noun) the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning | - |
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| (noun) the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer | - |
| (noun) the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume | Synonyms: dispersion |
| (noun) (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence | Synonyms: statistical distribution |
| distributional | (adjective) of or relating to spatial distribution | - |
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| distributive | (adjective) serving to distribute or allot or disperse | - |
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| distributively | (adverb) in a distributive manner | - |
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| (adverb) as individuals or as separate units (not collectively) | - |
| dutiable | (adjective) subject to import tax | - |
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| dutiful | (adjective) willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect | Synonyms: duteous |
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| dutifully | (adverb) out of a sense of duty; in a dutiful manner | - |
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| dutifulness | (noun) piety by virtue of devotion to duty | - |
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| electrocution | (noun) killing by electric shock | - |
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| (noun) execution by electricity | Synonyms: burning |
| electrocutioner | (noun) an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person | - |
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| elocution | (noun) an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture | - |
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| elocutionary | (adjective) of or relating to elocution | - |
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| (adjective) (used of style of speaking) overly embellished | - |
| elocutionist | (noun) a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery | - |
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| elution | (noun) the process of extracting one material from another by washing with a solvent to remove adsorbed material from an adsorbent (as in washing of loaded ion-exchange resins to remove captured ions); used to obtain uranium ions | - |
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| equidistribution | (noun) a flat distribution having equal frequencies of occurrence | - |
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| evolution | (noun) (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms | Synonyms: organic evolution, phylogenesis, phylogeny |
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| (noun) a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | Synonyms: development |
| evolutionarily | (adverb) in an evolutionary way; from an evolutionary point of view | - |
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| evolutionary | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by evolution | - |
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