| axial | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling an axis of rotation | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or attached to the axis | Synonyms: axile |
| (adjective) situated on or along or in the direction of an axis | - |
| axially | (adverb) with respect to an axis | - |
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| axil | (noun) the upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk | - |
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| axile | (adjective) relating to or attached to the axis | Synonyms: axial |
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| axilla | (noun) the hollow under the arm where it is joined to the shoulder | Synonyms: armpit, axillary cavity, axillary fossa |
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| axillary | (adjective) of or relating to the armpit | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the axil | Synonyms: alar |
| axiological | (adjective) of or relating to the study of values | - |
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| axiology | (noun) the study of values and value judgments | - |
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| axiom | (noun) a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits | Synonyms: maxim |
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| (noun) (logic) a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof; its truth is assumed to be self-evident | - |
| axiomatic | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from axioms | Synonyms: axiomatical, postulational |
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| (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: aphoristic |
| (adjective) evident without proof or argument | Synonyms: self-evident, taken for granted |
| axiomatical | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from axioms | Synonyms: axiomatic, postulational |
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| axiomatically | (adverb) on the basis of axioms | - |
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| axis | (noun) the center around which something rotates | Synonyms: axis of rotation |
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| (noun) the 2nd cervical vertebra; serves as a pivot for turning the head | Synonyms: axis vertebra |
| (noun) a straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions | - |
| (noun) a group of countries in special alliance | Synonyms: bloc |
| (noun) the main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged | - |
| axle | (noun) a shaft on which a wheel rotates | - |
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| axletree | (noun) a dead axle on a carriage or wagon that has terminal spindles on which the wheels revolve | - |
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| axolemma | (noun) outer membrane covering an axon | - |
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| axolotl | (noun) larval salamander of mountain lakes of Mexico that usually lives without metamorphosing | Synonyms: Ambystoma mexicanum, mud puppy |
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| axon | (noun) long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron | Synonyms: axone |
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| axonal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling an axon | - |
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| axone | (noun) long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron | Synonyms: axon |
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| axseed | (noun) European herb resembling vetch; naturalized in the eastern United States; having umbels of pink-and-white flowers and sharp-angled pods | Synonyms: Coronilla varia, crown vetch |
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| bandbox | (noun) a light cylindrical box for holding light articles of attire (especially hats) | - |
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| basifixed | (adjective) attached by its base (as certain anthers to their filaments or stalks) | - |
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| bauxite | (noun) a clay-like mineral; the chief ore of aluminum; composed of aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides; used as an abrasive and catalyst | - |
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| bauxitic | (adjective) resembling or containing bauxite | - |
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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 | - |
| betwixt | (adverb) in the interval | Synonyms: between |
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| biaxal | (adjective) having two axes | Synonyms: biaxate, biaxial |
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| biaxate | (adjective) having two axes | Synonyms: biaxal, biaxial |
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| biaxial | (adjective) having two axes | Synonyms: biaxal, biaxate |
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| biconvex | (adjective) convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil | Synonyms: convexo-convex, lenticular, lentiform |
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| bisexual | (adjective) sexually attracted to both sexes | - |
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| (adjective) having an ambiguous sexual identity | Synonyms: epicene |
| (noun) a person who is sexually attracted to both sexes | Synonyms: bisexual person |
| bisexuality | (noun) sexual activity with both men and women | - |
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| (noun) showing characteristics of both sexes | Synonyms: androgyny, hermaphroditism |
| blaxploitation | (noun) the exploitation of black people (especially with regard to stereotyped roles in movies) | - |
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| bobbysoxer | (noun) an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s) | Synonyms: bobby-socker |
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| bollix | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| bonxie | (noun) gull-like jaeger of northern seas | Synonyms: skua |
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| borax | (noun) an ore of boron consisting of hydrated sodium borate; used as a flux or cleansing agent | - |
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| botulismotoxin | (noun) potent bacterial toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes botulism; can be used as a bioweapon | Synonyms: botulin, botulinus toxin |
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| box | (noun) a blow with the hand (usually on the ear) | - |
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| (noun) a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid | - |
| (noun) separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people | - |
| (noun) private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance | Synonyms: loge |
| (noun) the driver's seat on a coach | Synonyms: box seat |
| (noun) any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned | - |
| (noun) evergreen shrubs or small trees | Synonyms: boxwood |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a box | Synonyms: boxful |
| (noun) a rectangular drawing | - |
| (noun) a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible | Synonyms: corner |
| (verb) hit with the fist | - |
| (verb) engage in a boxing match | - |
| (verb) put into a box | Synonyms: package |
| boxberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: Mitchella repens, partridgeberry, twinberry |
| boxcar | (noun) a freight car with roof and sliding doors in the sides | - |
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| boxcars | (noun) (usually plural) an expression used when two dice are thrown and both come up showing six spots | - |
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| boxed | (adjective) enclosed in or set off by a border or box | - |
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| (adjective) enclosed in or as if in a box | Synonyms: boxed-in, boxed in |
| boxer | (noun) a breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany | - |
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| (noun) someone who fights with his fists for sport | Synonyms: pugilist |
| (noun) a workman employed to pack things into containers | Synonyms: bagger, packer |
| boxers | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxershorts, drawers, shorts, underdrawers |
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| boxershorts | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, drawers, shorts, underdrawers |
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| boxfish | (noun) any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates | Synonyms: trunkfish |
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| boxful | (noun) the quantity contained in a box | Synonyms: box |
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| boxing | (noun) fighting with the fists | Synonyms: fisticuffs, pugilism |
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| (noun) the enclosure of something in a package or box | Synonyms: packing |
| boxlike | (adjective) resembling a box in rectangularity | Synonyms: box-shaped, boxy |
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| boxthorn | (noun) any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries | Synonyms: matrimony vine |
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| boxwood | (noun) evergreen shrubs or small trees | Synonyms: box |
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| (noun) very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks | Synonyms: Turkish boxwood |
| boxy | (adjective) resembling a box in rectangularity | Synonyms: box-shaped, boxlike |
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| breadbox | (noun) a container used to keep bread or cake in | Synonyms: bread-bin |
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| breakax | (noun) West Indian timber tree having very hard wood | Synonyms: break-axe, breakaxe, Sloanea jamaicensis |
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| breakaxe | (noun) West Indian timber tree having very hard wood | Synonyms: break-axe, breakax, Sloanea jamaicensis |
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| broadax | (noun) a large ax with a broad cutting blade | Synonyms: broadaxe |
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| broadaxe | (noun) a large ax with a broad cutting blade | Synonyms: broadax |
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| bruxism | (noun) involuntarily or unconsciously clenching or grinding the teeth, typically during sleep | - |
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| bulimarexia | (noun) a disorder of eating in which the person alternates between strong craving for food and aversion to food; characterized by excessive eating followed by periods of fasting or self-induced vomiting | Synonyms: binge-purge syndrome, binge-vomit syndrome, bulimia nervosa |
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| buxom | (adjective) (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous | Synonyms: zaftig, zoftig |
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| (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
| buxomly | (adverb) in a curvaceous way | Synonyms: curvaceously |
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| buxomness | (noun) the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomed | - |
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| cachexia | (noun) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | Synonyms: cachexy, wasting |
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| cachexy | (noun) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | Synonyms: cachexia, wasting |
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| cacomixle | (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, bassarisk, cacomistle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail |
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| calx | (noun) a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide | Synonyms: burnt lime, calcined lime, calcium oxide, fluxing lime, lime, quicklime, unslaked lime |
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| calyx | (noun) (botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud; usually green | - |
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| camelpox | (noun) a viral disease of camels closely related to smallpox | - |
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| carboxyl | (adjective) relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical | Synonyms: carboxylic |
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| (noun) the univalent radical -COOH; present in and characteristic of organic acids | Synonyms: carboxyl group |
| carboxylate | (verb) treat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acid | - |
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| carboxylic | (adjective) relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical | Synonyms: carboxyl |
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| cashbox | (noun) a strongbox for holding cash | Synonyms: money box, till |
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| catalexis | (noun) the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse | - |
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| cathexis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object | Synonyms: charge |
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| caudex | (noun) woody stem of palms and tree ferns | - |
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| (noun) persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant | Synonyms: stock |
| cefadroxil | (noun) a cephalosporin antibiotic (trade name Ultracef) | Synonyms: Ultracef |
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| cefotaxime | (noun) a parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Claforan) used for severe infections of the lungs or throat or ears or urinary tract | Synonyms: Claforan |
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| ceftriaxone | (noun) a parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Rocephin) used for severe infection of the lungs or throat or ears or urinary tract | Synonyms: Rocephin |
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| cefuroxime | (noun) a cephalosporin that can be given parenterally (trade name Zinacef) or orally by tablets (trade name Ceftin); indicated for infections of the lungs or throat or ears or urinary tract or meninges | Synonyms: Ceftin, Zinacef |
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| celecoxib | (noun) a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Celebrex) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract | Synonyms: Celebrex |
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| centrex | (noun) (CENTRal EXchange) a kind of telephone exchange | - |
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| cephalexin | (noun) a cephalosporin antibiotic (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribed for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract | Synonyms: Keflex, Keflin, Keftab |
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| cervix | (noun) the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body | Synonyms: neck |
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| (noun) necklike opening to the uterus | Synonyms: cervix uteri, uterine cervix |
| chatterbox | (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter |
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| (noun) orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf | Synonyms: Epipactis gigantea, giant helleborine, stream orchid |
| chemotaxis | (noun) movement by a cell or organism in reaction to a chemical stimulus | - |
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| chickenpox | (noun) an acute contagious disease caused by herpes varicella zoster virus; causes a rash of vesicles on the face and body | Synonyms: varicella |
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| chlordiazepoxide | (noun) a tranquilizer (trade names Librium and Libritabs) used in the treatment of alcoholism | Synonyms: Libritabs, Librium |
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| chlorhexidine | (noun) a long-lasting liquid antiseptic; used by surgeons to wash their hands before performing surgery | - |
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| cicatrix | (noun) a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue | Synonyms: cicatrice, scar |
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| ciprofloxacin | (noun) an oral antibiotic (trade name Cipro) used against serious bacterial infections of the skin or respiratory tract or urinary tract or bones or joints | Synonyms: Cipro |
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| circumflex | (noun) a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality | - |
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| claxon | (noun) a kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles | Synonyms: klaxon |
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| (verb) use the horn of a car | Synonyms: honk |
| (verb) make a strident noise | Synonyms: beep, blare, honk, toot |
| climax | (noun) the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: coming, orgasm, sexual climax |
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| (noun) the decisive moment in a novel or play | Synonyms: culmination |
| (noun) arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness | - |
| (noun) the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding | Synonyms: flood tide |
| (noun) the most severe stage of a disease | - |
| (verb) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage | Synonyms: culminate |
| clx | (adjective) being ten more than one hundred fifty | Synonyms: 160, one hundred sixty |
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| clxv | (adjective) being five more than one hundred sixty | Synonyms: 165, one hundred sixty-five |
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| clxx | (adjective) being ten more than one hundred sixty | Synonyms: 170, one hundred seventy |
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| clxxv | (adjective) being five more than one hundred seventy | Synonyms: 175, one hundred seventy-five |
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| clxxx | (adjective) being ten more than one hundred seventy | Synonyms: 180, one hundred eighty |
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