| adenohypophysis | (noun) the anterior lobe of the pituitary body; primarily glandular in nature | Synonyms: anterior pituitary, anterior pituitary gland |
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| agrypnia | (noun) a vigil before certain feasts (as e.g. Easter) | - |
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| agrypnotic | (adjective) of or pertaining to agrypnia | - |
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| anaglyph | (noun) anything carved in low relief | - |
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| (noun) moving or still pictures in contrasting colors that appear three-dimensional when superimposed | - |
| anaglyphic | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphical, anaglyptic, anaglyptical |
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| anaglyphical | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyptic, anaglyptical |
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| anaglyphy | (noun) the process of producing pictures in contrasting colors that appear three-dimensional when superimposed and viewed through spectacles with one red and one green lens | - |
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| anaglyptic | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyphical, anaglyptical |
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| anaglyptical | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyphical, anaglyptic |
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| antihypertensive | (noun) a drug that reduces high blood pressure | Synonyms: antihypertensive drug |
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| antisyphilitic | (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that is effective against syphilis | - |
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| antitype | (noun) a person or thing represented or foreshadowed by an earlier type or symbol; especially a figure or event in the New Testament having a counterpart in the Old Testament | - |
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| (noun) an opposite or contrasting type | - |
| antitypic | (adjective) of or relating to an antitype that is a symbol | Synonyms: antitypical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to an antitype that represents an opposite | Synonyms: antitypical |
| antitypical | (adjective) of or relating to an antitype that is a symbol | Synonyms: antitypic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to an antitype that represents an opposite | Synonyms: antitypic |
| anyplace | (adverb) at or in or to any place | Synonyms: anywhere |
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| apocalypse | (noun) a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil | - |
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| apocalyptic | (adjective) of or relating to an apocalypse | - |
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| (adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom | Synonyms: apocalyptical, revelatory |
| apocalyptical | (adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom | Synonyms: apocalyptic, revelatory |
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| apocryphal | (adjective) being of questionable authenticity | - |
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| apocryphalness | (noun) The property of being of doubtful authenticity, of lacking authority, or of not being regarded as canonical. | - |
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| (noun) The property of being of dubious veracity; of questionable accuracy or truthfulness. | - |
| archetypal | (adjective) representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned | Synonyms: archetypical, prototypal, prototypic, prototypical |
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| archetype | (noun) something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies | Synonyms: original, pilot |
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| archetypical | (adjective) representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned | Synonyms: archetypal, prototypal, prototypic, prototypical |
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| atypic | (adjective) not representative of a group, class, or type | Synonyms: atypical, untypical |
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| atypical | (adjective) not representative of a group, class, or type | Synonyms: atypic, untypical |
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| (adjective) deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal | Synonyms: irregular |
| atypicality | (noun) any state that is not typical | Synonyms: untypicality |
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| atypically | (adverb) in a manner that is not typical | Synonyms: untypically |
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| autostereotype | (noun) the standardized mental picture held in common by members of a cultural group depicting an oversimplified image of themselves and their behaviour. | - |
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| autotype | (noun) an exact copy or reproduction | Synonyms: facsimile |
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| (noun) process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment | Synonyms: autotypy |
| autotypic | (adjective) of or relating to autotypy | - |
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| autotypy | (noun) process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment | Synonyms: autotype |
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| biotype | (noun) organisms sharing a specified genotype or the genotype (or peculiarities) so shared | - |
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| biotypic | (adjective) of or relating to a biotype | - |
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| bodypaint | (verb) apply paint to a body | - |
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| brachypterous | (adjective) (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings | Synonyms: short-winged |
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| bypass | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: beltway, ring road, ringway |
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| (noun) a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current | Synonyms: electrical shunt, shunt |
| (noun) a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part) | - |
| (verb) avoid something unpleasant or laborious | Synonyms: get around, go around, short-circuit |
| bypast | (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, departed, foregone, gone |
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| bypath | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: byroad, byway |
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| byplay | (noun) incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect | Synonyms: business, stage business |
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| byproduct | (noun) a product made during the manufacture of something else | Synonyms: by-product, spin-off |
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| (noun) a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence | Synonyms: by-product |
| calypso | (noun) rare north temperate bog orchid bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above 1 basal leaf | Synonyms: Calypso bulbosa, fairy-slipper |
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| calypter | (noun) scalelike structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly | Synonyms: alula |
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| calyptra | (noun) the hood or cap covering the calyx of certain plants: e.g., the California poppy | - |
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| calyptrate | (adjective) having a calyptra | - |
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| (adjective) having calypters | - |
| chimneypiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece |
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| chimneypot | (noun) a short earthenware pipe on the top of a chimney to increase the draft | - |
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| chlamyphore | (noun) very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck | Synonyms: Chlamyphorus truncatus, fairy armadillo, pichiciago, pichiciego |
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| clypeus | (noun) a shield-like plate on the front of an insect's head | - |
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| collotype | (noun) a photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors | Synonyms: collotype printing, photogelatin process |
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| coryphantha | (noun) a cactus of the genus Coryphantha | - |
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| coypu | (noun) aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur | Synonyms: Myocastor coypus, nutria |
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| crypt | (noun) a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church) | - |
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| cryptanalysis | (noun) the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms | Synonyms: cryptanalytics, cryptography, cryptology |
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| cryptanalyst | (noun) decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms | Synonyms: cryptographer, cryptologist |
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| cryptanalytic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptologic, cryptological |
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| cryptanalytics | (noun) the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms | Synonyms: cryptanalysis, cryptography, cryptology |
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| cryptic | (adjective) having a puzzling terseness | - |
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| (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
| (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying |
| cryptical | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
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| (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptic, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying |
| cryptically | (adverb) in a cryptic manner | Synonyms: enigmatically, mysteriously |
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| cryptobiosis | (noun) a state in which an animal's metabolic activities come to a reversible standstill | - |
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| cryptobiotic | (adjective) of or related to the state of cryptobiosis | - |
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| cryptococcosis | (noun) a fungal infection characterized by nodular lesions--first in the lungs and spreading to the nervous system | - |
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| cryptocoryne | (noun) any plant of the genus Cryptocoryne; evergreen perennials growing in fresh or brackish water; tropical Asia | Synonyms: water trumpet |
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| cryptocurrency | (noun) a currency based on the usage of cryptography to secure transactions | - |
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| cryptogam | (noun) formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi | - |
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| cryptogamic | (adjective) of or relating to a cryptogam | Synonyms: cryptogamous |
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| cryptogamous | (adjective) of or relating to a cryptogam | Synonyms: cryptogamic |
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| cryptogram | (noun) a piece of writing in code or cipher | Synonyms: cryptograph, secret writing |
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| cryptograph | (noun) a device for deciphering codes and ciphers | - |
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| (noun) a piece of writing in code or cipher | Synonyms: cryptogram, secret writing |
| (noun) a secret method of writing | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, secret code |
| cryptographer | (noun) decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms | Synonyms: cryptanalyst, cryptologist |
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| cryptographic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographical, cryptologic, cryptological |
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| cryptographical | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptologic, cryptological |
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| cryptographically | (adverb) in a cryptographic manner | - |
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| cryptography | (noun) act of writing in code or cipher | Synonyms: coding, secret writing, steganography |
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| (noun) the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms | Synonyms: cryptanalysis, cryptanalytics, cryptology |
| cryptologic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptological |
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| cryptological | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptologic |
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| cryptologist | (noun) decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms | Synonyms: cryptanalyst, cryptographer |
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| cryptology | (noun) the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms | Synonyms: cryptanalysis, cryptanalytics, cryptography |
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| cryptomonad | (noun) common in fresh and salt water appearing along the shore as algal blooms | Synonyms: cryptophyte |
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| cryptophyte | (noun) common in fresh and salt water appearing along the shore as algal blooms | Synonyms: cryptomonad |
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| cryptorchidism | (noun) failure of one or both testes to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops | Synonyms: cryptorchidy, cryptorchism |
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| cryptorchidy | (noun) failure of one or both testes to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops | Synonyms: cryptorchidism, cryptorchism |
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| cryptorchism | (noun) failure of one or both testes to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops | Synonyms: cryptorchidism, cryptorchidy |
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| cypher | (noun) a secret method of writing | Synonyms: cipher, cryptograph, secret code |
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| (noun) a message written in a secret code | Synonyms: cipher |
| (noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: cipher, nobody, nonentity |
| (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
| (noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number | Synonyms: 0, cipher, nought, zero |
| (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, figure, reckon, work out |
| (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
| cypre | (noun) large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood | Synonyms: Cordia alliodora, Equador laurel, princewood, salmwood, Spanish elm |
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| cypress | (noun) any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones | Synonyms: cypress tree |
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| (noun) wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus | - |
| cyprian | (adjective) resembling the ancient orgiastic worship of Aphrodite on Cyprus | - |
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| (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
| cyprinid | (adjective) of or relating to members of fish family Cyprinidae | Synonyms: cyprinoid |
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| (noun) soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales | Synonyms: cyprinid fish |
| cyprinodont | (noun) any member of the family Cyprinodontidae | - |
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| cyprinoid | (adjective) of or relating to members of fish family Cyprinidae | Synonyms: cyprinid |
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| cypripedia | (noun) a plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium | - |
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| cyproheptadine | (noun) an antihistamine (trade name Periactin) used to treat some allergic reactions | Synonyms: Periactin |
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| daguerreotype | (noun) a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor | - |
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| decrypt | (verb) convert code into ordinary language | Synonyms: decipher, decode |
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| decryption | (noun) the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text | Synonyms: decipherment, decoding |
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| dermatoglyphic | (noun) the lines that form patterns on the skin (especially on the fingertips and the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet) | - |
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| dermatoglyphics | (noun) the study of the whorls and loops and arches in the fingertips and on the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet | - |
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| diaglyph | (noun) glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo) | Synonyms: intaglio |
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| dihydroxyphenylalanine | (noun) amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain | Synonyms: dopa |
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| drypis | (noun) spiny-leaved perennial herb of southern Europe having terminal clusters of small flowers | - |
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