| abwatt | (noun) a power unit equal to the power dissipated when 1 abampere flows across a potential difference of 1 abvolt (one ten-thousandth of a milliwatt) | - |
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| afterward | (adverb) happening at a time subsequent to a reference time | Synonyms: after, afterwards, later, later on, subsequently |
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| afterwards | (adverb) happening at a time subsequent to a reference time | Synonyms: after, afterward, later, later on, subsequently |
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| agateware | (noun) pottery that is veined and mottled to resemble agate | - |
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| airwave | (noun) medium for radio and television broadcasting | Synonyms: air |
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| airway | (noun) a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers | Synonyms: airline, airline business |
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| (noun) a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines) | Synonyms: air duct, air passage |
| (noun) the passages through which air enters and leaves the body | Synonyms: respiratory tract |
| (noun) a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another | Synonyms: air lane, flight path, skyway |
| alleyway | (noun) a narrow street with walls on both sides | Synonyms: alley, back street |
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| allowable | (adjective) that may be permitted especially as according to rule | Synonyms: permissible |
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| (adjective) deserving to be allowed or considered | - |
| (adjective) deductible according to the tax laws | - |
| allowably | (adverb) in a permissible manner | Synonyms: permissibly |
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| allowance | (noun) the act of allowing | - |
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| (noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: leeway, margin, tolerance |
| (noun) an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period) | - |
| (noun) an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances | Synonyms: adjustment |
| (noun) a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses | - |
| (noun) a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets | Synonyms: allowance account, valuation account, valuation reserve |
| (verb) put on a fixed allowance, as of food | - |
| always | (adverb) at all times; all the time and on every occasion | Synonyms: e'er, ever |
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| (adverb) forever; throughout all time | - |
| (adverb) at any time or in any event | - |
| (adverb) invariably | Synonyms: constantly, forever, incessantly, perpetually |
| (adverb) without variation or change, in every case | Synonyms: constantly, invariably |
| angwantibo | (noun) a kind of yellow or golden lemur (Arctocebus calabarensis) | Synonyms: Arctocebus calabarensis, golden potto |
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| anyway | (adverb) used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement | Synonyms: anyhow, anyways, at any rate, in any case, in any event |
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| (adverb) in any way whatsoever | Synonyms: anyhow |
| anyways | (adverb) used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement | Synonyms: anyhow, anyway, at any rate, in any case, in any event |
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| archway | (noun) a passageway under a curved masonry construction | Synonyms: arch |
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| areaway | (noun) a passageway between buildings or giving access to a basement | - |
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| athwart | (adverb) at an oblique angle | Synonyms: aslant, obliquely |
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| (adverb) at right angles to the center line of a ship | - |
| avowal | (noun) a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something | Synonyms: affirmation, avouchment |
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| await | (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: expect, look, wait |
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| awaited | (adjective) expected hopefully | Synonyms: anticipated, hoped-for |
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| awake | (adjective) not in a state of sleep; completely conscious | - |
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| (adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive | Synonyms: alert, alive |
| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
| awaken | (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, rouse, wake, wake up, waken |
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| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
| (verb) make aware | - |
| awakened | (adjective) aroused or activated | - |
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| (adjective) (somewhat formal) having been waked up | - |
| awakening | (noun) the act of waking | Synonyms: wakening, waking up |
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| award | (noun) a grant made by a law court | Synonyms: awarding |
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| (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: accolade, honor, honour, laurels |
| (noun) something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery | Synonyms: prize |
| (verb) give, especially as an honor or reward | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) give as judged due or on the basis of merit | Synonyms: grant |
| awarding | (noun) a grant made by a law court | Synonyms: award |
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| aware | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: cognisant, cognizant |
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| (adjective) bearing in mind; attentive to | Synonyms: mindful |
| awareness | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: cognisance, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| (noun) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | Synonyms: sentience |
| awash | (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: afloat, flooded, inundated, overflowing |
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| away | (adjective) used of an opponent's ground | - |
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| (adjective) not present; having left | - |
| (adjective) (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter | Synonyms: outside |
| (adverb) from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete) | Synonyms: forth, off |
| (adverb) from one's possession | Synonyms: out |
| (adverb) in reserve; not for immediate use | Synonyms: aside, by |
| (adverb) out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts) | Synonyms: aside |
| (adverb) out of existence | - |
| (adverb) indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily | - |
| (adverb) in a different direction | Synonyms: aside |
| (adverb) in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping) | - |
| (adverb) at a distance in space or time | Synonyms: off |
| (adverb) so as to be removed or gotten rid of | - |
| (adverb) freely or at will | - |
| awayness | (noun) the state of being elsewhere than in particular place | - |
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| awkward | (adjective) lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance | - |
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| (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: embarrassing, sticky, unenviable |
| (adjective) causing inconvenience | - |
| (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
| (adjective) socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner | Synonyms: ill at ease, uneasy |
| (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly |
| awkwardly | (adverb) in an awkward manner | - |
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| awkwardness | (noun) the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant | Synonyms: clumsiness |
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| (noun) the quality of an embarrassing situation | Synonyms: nuisance value |
| (noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: cumbersomeness, unwieldiness |
| (noun) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | Synonyms: clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness |
| (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness |
| backward | (adjective) directed or facing toward the back or rear | - |
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| (adjective) (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature | - |
| (adjective) retarded in intellectual development | Synonyms: feebleminded, half-witted, slow-witted |
| (adjective) having made less than normal progress | - |
| (adverb) in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal | Synonyms: backwards |
| (adverb) in or to or toward a past time | Synonyms: back |
| (adverb) at or to or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: back, backwards, rearward, rearwards |
| backwardation | (noun) the market condition wherein the price of a forward or futures contract is trading below the expected spot price at contract maturity. | - |
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| backwardness | (noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: mental retardation, retardation, slowness, subnormality |
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| backwards | (adverb) in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal | Synonyms: backward |
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| (adverb) at or to or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: back, backward, rearward, rearwards |
| backwash | (noun) the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward | Synonyms: wake |
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| (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: airstream, race, slipstream, wash |
| (noun) the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event) | Synonyms: aftermath, wake |
| backwater | (noun) a place or condition in which no development or progress is occurring | - |
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| (noun) a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam | - |
| bandwagon | (noun) a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band | - |
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| (noun) a popular trend that attracts growing support | - |
| battlewagon | (noun) large and heavily armoured warship | Synonyms: battleship |
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| beeswax | (noun) a yellow to brown wax secreted by honeybees to build honeycombs | - |
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| (verb) cover with beeswax | - |
| beltway | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: bypass, ring road, ringway |
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| bestowal | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowment, conferment, conferral |
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| (noun) a gift that is bestowed or conferred | Synonyms: bestowment |
| bewail | (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bemoan, deplore, lament |
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| beware | (verb) be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to | Synonyms: mind |
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| bilgewater | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| birdwatch | (verb) watch and study birds in their natural habitat | Synonyms: bird |
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| blackwash | (noun) a wash that colors a surface black | - |
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| (noun) a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores | Synonyms: black lotion |
| (noun) an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation | Synonyms: assassination, character assassination |
| (verb) color with blackwash | - |
| (verb) bring (information) out of concealment | - |
| blackwater | (noun) any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells | - |
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| boardwalk | (noun) a walkway made of wooden boards; usually at seaside | - |
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| boatswain | (noun) a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen | Synonyms: bo's'n, bo'sun, bos'n, bosun |
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| brainwash | (verb) submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly | - |
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| (verb) persuade completely, often through coercion | - |
| brainwashed | (adjective) subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones | - |
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| brainwashing | (noun) forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
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| brainwave | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainstorm, insight |
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| (noun) (neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph | Synonyms: brain wave, cortical potential |
| breadthways | (adverb) in the direction of the breadth | Synonyms: breadthwise, broadwise |
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| breakaway | (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: fissiparous, separatist |
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| (noun) the act of breaking away or withdrawing from | Synonyms: breaking away |
| breakwater | (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: bulwark, groin, groyne, jetty, mole, seawall |
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| brewage | (noun) drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling | Synonyms: brew |
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| browallia | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Browallia cultivated for their blue or violet or white flowers | Synonyms: bush violet |
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| bulwark | (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: breakwater, groin, groyne, jetty, mole, seawall |
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| (noun) an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes | Synonyms: rampart, wall |
| (noun) a fencelike structure around a deck | - |
| (verb) defend with a bulwark | - |
| byway | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: bypath, byroad |
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| cakewalk | (noun) a strutting dance based on a march; was performed in minstrel shows; originated as a competition among Black dancers to win a cake | - |
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| (noun) an easy accomplishment | - |
| (verb) perform the cakewalk dance | - |
| caraway | (noun) leaves used sparingly in soups and stews | - |
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| (noun) a Eurasian plant with small white flowers yielding caraway seed | Synonyms: Carum carvi |
| carriageway | (noun) one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanes | - |
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| cassowary | (noun) large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest | - |
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| castaway | (noun) a shipwrecked person | Synonyms: shipwreck survivor |
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| (noun) a person who is rejected (from society or home) | Synonyms: Ishmael, outcast, pariah |
| caterwaul | (noun) the yowling sound made by a cat in heat | - |
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| (verb) utter shrieks, as of cats | Synonyms: yowl |
| catwalk | (noun) narrow pathway high in the air (as above a stage or between parts of a building or along a bridge) | - |
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| (noun) narrow platform extending out into an auditorium | - |
| causeway | (noun) a road that is raised above water or marshland or sand | - |
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| (verb) pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles | - |
| (verb) provide with a causeway | - |
| chewable | (adjective) able to be chewed or cut | Synonyms: cuttable |
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| chinaware | (noun) dishware made of high quality porcelain | Synonyms: china |
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| chuckwalla | (noun) a herbivorous lizard that lives among rocks in the arid parts of southwestern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: Sauromalus obesus |
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| churchwarden | (noun) an officer in the Episcopal church who helps a parish priest with secular matters | - |
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| clayware | (noun) ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln | Synonyms: pottery |
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| clearway | (noun) a road on which you are not allowed to stop (unless you have a breakdown) | - |
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| coastward | (adverb) in the direction of the coast | - |
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| codswallop | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| companionway | (noun) a stairway or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship | - |
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| cookware | (noun) a kitchen utensil made of material that does not melt easily; used for cooking | Synonyms: cooking utensil |
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| coolwart | (noun) stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant | Synonyms: false miterwort, false mitrewort, foamflower, Tiarella cordifolia |
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| copperware | (noun) utensils made with copper | - |
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| cowage | (noun) the annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods; cultivated in southern United States for green manure and grazing | Synonyms: Bengal bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean, Mucuna aterrima, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Stizolobium deeringiana, velvet bean |
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| (noun) pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey | - |
| coward | (noun) a person who shows fear or timidity | - |
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| cowardice | (noun) the trait of lacking courage | Synonyms: cowardliness |
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| cowardliness | (noun) the trait of lacking courage | Synonyms: cowardice |
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| cowardly | (adjective) lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted | Synonyms: fearful |
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| coxswain | (noun) the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew | Synonyms: cox |
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| crackleware | (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle, crackle china |
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| crosswalk | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crossover |
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| crossway | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossroad, intersection |
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| crossways | (adverb) transversely | Synonyms: across, crosswise |
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| cumswallow | (verb) to swallow ejaculate | - |
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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 |
| cyberwar | (noun) an assault on electronic communication networks | Synonyms: cyber-terrorism |
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| dawah | (noun) missionary work for Islam | Synonyms: da'wah |
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| deathwatch | (noun) bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death | Synonyms: deathwatch beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum |
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| (noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, booklouse, Liposcelis divinatorius |
| dhawa | (noun) an Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum | Synonyms: dhava |
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