| abbreviate | (verb) shorten | - |
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| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| abbreviated | (adjective) (of clothing) very short | Synonyms: brief |
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| (adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: shortened, truncated |
| abbreviation | (noun) shortening something by omitting parts of it | - |
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| (noun) a shortened form of a word or phrase | - |
| abbreviator | (noun) one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work | Synonyms: abridger |
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| administrivia | (noun) the tiresome but essential details that must be taken care of and tasks that must be performed in running an organization | - |
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| alleviant | (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviator, palliative |
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| alleviate | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: assuage, palliate, relieve |
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| (verb) make easier | Synonyms: ease, facilitate |
| alleviated | (adjective) (of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear | Synonyms: eased, relieved |
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| alleviation | (noun) the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Synonyms: easement, easing, relief |
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| (noun) the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced | Synonyms: assuagement, relief |
| alleviative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| alleviator | (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviant, palliative |
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| (noun) a therapist who makes suffering more endurable | - |
| alleviatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| alluvial | (adjective) of or relating to alluvium | - |
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| alluviation | (noun) the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating | Synonyms: deposit, sedimentation |
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| antediluvial | (adjective) of or relating to the period before the biblical flood | Synonyms: antediluvian |
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| antediluvian | (adjective) of or relating to the period before the biblical flood | Synonyms: antediluvial |
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| (adjective) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | Synonyms: antiquated, archaic |
| (noun) a very old person | Synonyms: ancient |
| (noun) any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge | Synonyms: antediluvian patriarch |
| avian | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of birds | - |
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| avianise | (verb) to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo | Synonyms: avianize |
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| avianize | (verb) to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo | Synonyms: avianise |
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| aviary | (noun) a building where birds are kept | Synonyms: bird sanctuary, volary |
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| aviate | (verb) operate an airplane | Synonyms: fly, pilot |
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| aviation | (noun) travel via aircraft | Synonyms: air, air travel |
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| (noun) the art of operating aircraft | Synonyms: airmanship |
| (noun) the aggregation of a country's military aircraft | Synonyms: air power |
| (noun) the operation of aircraft to provide transportation | - |
| aviator | (noun) someone who operates an aircraft | Synonyms: aeronaut, flier, flyer |
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| aviatress | (noun) a woman aviator | Synonyms: airwoman, aviatrix |
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| aviatrix | (noun) a woman aviator | Synonyms: airwoman, aviatress |
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| bloviate | (verb) orate verbosely and windily | - |
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| bolivia | (noun) a form of canasta in which sequences can be melded | - |
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| boliviano | (noun) the basic unit of money in Bolivia; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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| breviary | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a book of prayers to be recited daily by certain priests and members of religious orders | - |
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| caviar | (noun) salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish; usually served as an hors d'oeuvre | Synonyms: caviare |
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| caviare | (noun) salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish; usually served as an hors d'oeuvre | Synonyms: caviar |
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| convivial | (adjective) occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company | Synonyms: good-time |
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| conviviality | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: jollification, merrymaking |
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| (noun) a jovial nature | Synonyms: joviality |
| convivially | (adverb) in a convivial manner | - |
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| deviance | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviation |
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| (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration |
| deviant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviate |
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| (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
| deviate | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviant |
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| (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviant, perv, perve, pervert |
| (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: divert |
| (verb) cause to turn away from a previous or expected course | - |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, diverge, vary |
| deviation | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviance |
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| (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, digression, divagation, diversion |
| (noun) the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances | - |
| (noun) the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function | - |
| (noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, difference, divergence |
| deviationism | (noun) ideological defection from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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| deviationist | (noun) an ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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| diluvial | (adjective) of or connected with a deluge | Synonyms: diluvian |
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| diluvian | (adjective) of or connected with a deluge | Synonyms: diluvial |
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| enviable | (adjective) causing envy | - |
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| enviably | (adverb) in an enviable manner | - |
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| exuviae | (noun) cast-off skins or coverings of various organisms during ecdysis | - |
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| exuvial | (adjective) of or relating to the cast-off skins or cuticles of various animals | - |
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| exuviate | (verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | Synonyms: molt, moult, shed, slough |
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| fluvial | (adjective) of or relating to or happening in a river | - |
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| gavial | (noun) large fish-eating Indian crocodilian with a long slender snout | Synonyms: Gavialis gangeticus |
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| imperviable | (adjective) not admitting of passage or capable of being affected | Synonyms: impervious |
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| jovial | (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jocund, jolly, merry, mirthful |
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| joviality | (noun) a jovial nature | Synonyms: conviviality |
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| (noun) feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor | Synonyms: jolliness, jollity |
| jovially | (adverb) in a jovial manner | - |
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| leviathan | (noun) the largest or most massive thing of its kind | - |
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| (noun) monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament | - |
| nonviable | (adjective) not capable of living or developing successfully | - |
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| obviate | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, stave off, ward off |
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| (verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: eliminate, rid of |
| obviating | (adjective) made impossible | Synonyms: preclusive |
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| obviation | (noun) the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively | Synonyms: forestalling, preclusion |
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| postdiluvian | (adjective) existing or occurring after Noah's flood | - |
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| (noun) anything living after Noah's flood | - |
| salvia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb | Synonyms: sage |
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| stevia | (noun) any plant of the genus Stevia or the closely related genus Piqueria having glutinous foliage and white or purplish flowers; Central and South America | - |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Piqueria or the closely related genus Stevia | - |
| subclavian | (adjective) situated beneath the clavicle | - |
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| synovia | (noun) viscid lubricating fluid secreted by the membrane lining joints and tendon sheaths etc. | Synonyms: synovial fluid |
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| synovial | (adjective) relating to or secreting synovia | - |
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| trivia | (noun) something of small importance | Synonyms: small beer, trifle, triviality |
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| trivial | (adjective) concerned with trivialities | - |
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| (adjective) of little substance or significance | Synonyms: superficial |
| (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling |
| trivialise | (verb) make trivial or insignificant | Synonyms: trivialize |
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| triviality | (noun) something of small importance | Synonyms: small beer, trifle, trivia |
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| (noun) the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous | Synonyms: pettiness, puniness, slightness |
| (noun) a detail that is considered insignificant | Synonyms: trifle |
| trivialize | (verb) make trivial or insignificant | Synonyms: trivialise |
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| trivially | (adverb) in a frivolously trivial manner | - |
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| (adverb) with little effort | - |
| undeviating | (adjective) going directly ahead from one point to another without veering or turning aside | Synonyms: unswerving |
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| (adjective) used of values and principles; not subject to change; steady | - |
| unenviable | (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: awkward, embarrassing, sticky |
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| (adjective) so undesirable as to be incapable of arousing envy | - |
| vesuvian | (noun) a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone | Synonyms: idocrase, vesuvianite |
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| vesuvianite | (noun) a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone | Synonyms: idocrase, vesuvian |
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| viability | (noun) (of living things) capable of normal growth and development | - |
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| (noun) capable of being done in a practical and useful way | - |
| viable | (adjective) capable of life or normal growth and development | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are | Synonyms: executable, feasible, practicable, workable |
| viaduct | (noun) bridge consisting of a series of arches supported by piers used to carry a road (or railroad) over a valley | - |
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| vial | (noun) a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle) | Synonyms: ampoule, ampul, ampule, phial |
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| viand | (noun) a choice or delicious dish | - |
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| viands | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provender, provisions, victuals |
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| viatical | (adjective) pertaining to the purchase of insurance policies from terminally ill policy holders | - |
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| viatication | (noun) purchasing insurance policies for cash from terminally ill policy holders | Synonyms: viaticus |
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| viaticus | (noun) purchasing insurance policies for cash from terminally ill policy holders | Synonyms: viatication |
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| whitlavia | (noun) desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubular flowers in terminal racemes | Synonyms: California bluebell, Phacelia minor, Phacelia whitlavia |
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