| arterialize | (verb) change venous blood into arterial blood | Synonyms: arterialise |
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| assize | (noun) an ancient writ issued by a court of assize to the sheriff for the recovery of property | - |
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| (noun) the regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale | - |
| assizes | (noun) the county courts of England (replaced in 1971 by Crown courts) | Synonyms: court of assize, court of assize and nisi prius |
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| atomization | (noun) separating something into fine particles | Synonyms: atomisation, fragmentation |
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| (noun) annihilation by reducing something to atoms | Synonyms: atomisation |
| atomize | (verb) break up into small particles | Synonyms: atomise |
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| (verb) strike at with firepower or bombs | Synonyms: atomise, nuke, zap |
| (verb) spray very finely | Synonyms: atomise |
| atomizer | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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| atrazine | (noun) a synthetic compound derived from triazine that is widely used as an agricultural herbicide | - |
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| attitudinize | (verb) assume certain affected attitudes | Synonyms: attitudinise |
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| authorization | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, empowerment |
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| (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, dominance, potency, say-so |
| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, sanction |
| (noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorisation, mandate |
| authorize | (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, clear, pass |
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| (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, empower |
| authorized | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authoritative |
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| authorizer | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authoriser |
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| automatize | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automate, automatise |
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| (verb) turn into an automaton | Synonyms: automatise |
| autotomize | (verb) cause a body part to undergo autotomy | Synonyms: autotomise |
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| avianize | (verb) to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo | Synonyms: avianise |
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| azadirachtin | (noun) insecticide | - |
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| azalea | (noun) any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors | - |
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| azathioprine | (noun) an immunosuppressive drug (trade name Imuran) used to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ | Synonyms: Imuran |
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| azedarach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azederach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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| azederach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azedarach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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| azide | (noun) a chemical compound containing the azido group combined with an element or radical | - |
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| azido | (adjective) relating to or containing the azido group N3 | - |
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| azimuth | (noun) the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian | Synonyms: AZ |
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| azimuthal | (adjective) of or relating to or in azimuth | - |
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| azithromycin | (noun) a systemic antibacterial medicine (trade name Zithromax) that is prescribed to treat bacterial infections in many different parts of the body | Synonyms: Zithromax |
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| azo | (adjective) relating to or containing the azo radical | - |
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| azoic | (adjective) before the appearance of life | - |
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| azoimide | (noun) a colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling | Synonyms: HN, hydrazoic acid, hydrogen azide |
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| azonal | (adjective) not divided into zones | - |
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| azonic | (adjective) not restricted to any particular zone or region | - |
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| azotaemia | (noun) accumulation in the blood of nitrogenous waste products (urea) that are usually excreted in the urine | Synonyms: azotemia, uraemia, uremia |
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| azote | (noun) an obsolete name for nitrogen | - |
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| azotemia | (noun) accumulation in the blood of nitrogenous waste products (urea) that are usually excreted in the urine | Synonyms: azotaemia, uraemia, uremia |
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| azotemic | (adjective) of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine (usually due to kidney insufficiency) | Synonyms: uraemic, uremic |
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| azotic | (adjective) of or containing nitrogen | Synonyms: nitric, nitrous |
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| azoturia | (noun) excess of urea in the urine | - |
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| aztreonam | (noun) an antibiotic (trade name Azactam) used against severe infections; has minimal side effects | Synonyms: Azactam |
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| azure | (adjective) of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky | Synonyms: bright blue, cerulean, sky-blue |
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| (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: cerulean, lazuline, sapphire, sky-blue |
| (verb) color azure | - |
| azurite | (noun) blue carbonate of copper; blue malachite | - |
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| azygos | (adjective) occurring singly; not one of a pair | Synonyms: azygous |
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| azygous | (adjective) occurring singly; not one of a pair | Synonyms: azygos |
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| azymia | (noun) absence of an enzyme | - |
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| bacterize | (verb) subject to the action of bacteria | Synonyms: bacterise |
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| baiza | (noun) 1,000 baiza equal 1 riyal-omani in Oman | Synonyms: baisa |
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| baize | (noun) a bright green fabric napped to resemble felt; used to cover gaming tables | - |
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| bamboozle | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: hoodwink, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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| banzai | (noun) a Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph | - |
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| baptize | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptise, christen |
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| baptized | (adjective) having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism | Synonyms: baptised |
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| barbarization | (noun) an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized | Synonyms: barbarisation |
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| barbarize | (verb) make crude or savage in behavior or speech | Synonyms: barbarise |
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| (verb) become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language | Synonyms: barbarise |
| baronetize | (verb) confer baronetcy upon | Synonyms: baronetise |
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| bastardization | (noun) an act that debases or corrupts | Synonyms: bastardisation |
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| (noun) declaring or rendering bastard | - |
| bastardize | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardise |
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| (verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardise |
| bastardized | (adjective) deriving from more than one source or style | Synonyms: bastardised |
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| bazaar | (noun) a sale of miscellany; often for charity | Synonyms: fair |
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| (noun) a shop where a variety of goods are sold | Synonyms: bazar |
| (noun) a street of small shops (especially in Orient) | Synonyms: bazar |
| bazar | (noun) a shop where a variety of goods are sold | Synonyms: bazaar |
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| (noun) a street of small shops (especially in Orient) | Synonyms: bazaar |
| bazillion | (noun) a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) | Synonyms: billion, gazillion, jillion, million, trillion, zillion |
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| bazooka | (noun) a portable rocket launcher used by infantrymen as an antitank weapon | - |
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| bedaze | (verb) overcome as with astonishment or disbelief | Synonyms: daze, stun |
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| bedazzle | (verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: daze, dazzle |
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| bedizen | (verb) dress up garishly and tastelessly | Synonyms: dizen |
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| (verb) decorate tastelessly | - |
| benzene | (noun) a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly flammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds | Synonyms: benzine, benzol |
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| benzenoid | (adjective) similar to benzene in structure or linkage | - |
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| benzine | (noun) a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly flammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds | Synonyms: benzene, benzol |
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| benzoate | (noun) any salt or ester of benzoic acid | - |
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| benzocaine | (noun) a white crystalline ester used as a local anesthetic | Synonyms: ethyl aminobenzoate |
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| benzodiazepine | (noun) any of several similar lipophilic amines used as tranquilizers or sedatives or hypnotics or muscle relaxants; chronic use can lead to dependency | - |
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| benzofuran | (noun) a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins | Synonyms: coumarone, cumarone |
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| benzoic | (adjective) containing or derived from benzoic acid or benzoin | - |
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| benzoin | (noun) gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation | Synonyms: asa dulcis, benjamin, gum benjamin, gum benzoin |
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| benzol | (noun) a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly flammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds | Synonyms: benzene, benzine |
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| benzoquinone | (noun) any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including several that are biologically important as coenzymes or acceptors or vitamins; used in making dyes | Synonyms: quinone |
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| benzyl | (noun) the univalent radical derived from toluene | Synonyms: benzyl group, benzyl radical |
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| benzylic | (adjective) relating to benzyl | - |
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| benzylpenicillin | (noun) the penicillin that constitutes the principal component of many commercial antibiotics | Synonyms: penicillin G |
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| bestialize | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialise |
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| bezant | (noun) a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: bezzant, byzant, solidus |
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| bezel | (noun) a sloping edge on a cutting tool | - |
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| bezique | (noun) a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist | Synonyms: penuchle, pinochle, pinocle |
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| bezzant | (noun) a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: bezant, byzant, solidus |
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| bilharzia | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharziasis, schistosomiasis |
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| bilharziasis | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharzia, schistosomiasis |
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| biohazard | (noun) any bacterium or virus or toxin that could be used in biological warfare | Synonyms: biological agent |
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| (noun) hazard to humans or the environment resulting from biological agents or conditions | - |
| bipartizan | (adjective) supported by both sides | Synonyms: bipartisan, two-party, two-way |
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| bituminize | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminise |
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| biz | (noun) your occupation or line of work | Synonyms: game |
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| bizarre | (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: eccentric, flakey, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
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| bizarreness | (noun) strikingly out of the ordinary | Synonyms: outlandishness, weirdness |
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| bize | (noun) a dry cold north wind in southeastern France | Synonyms: bise |
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| bizonal | (adjective) relating to or concerned with the combined affairs of two administrative zones | - |
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| blaze | (noun) noisy and unrestrained mischief | Synonyms: hell |
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| (noun) a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted | Synonyms: brilliance, glare |
| (noun) a light-colored marking | - |
| (noun) a cause of difficulty and suffering | Synonyms: hell |
| (noun) a strong flame that burns brightly | Synonyms: blazing |
| (verb) indicate by marking trees with blazes | - |
| (verb) shoot rapidly and repeatedly | Synonyms: blaze away |
| (verb) move rapidly and as if blazing | Synonyms: blaze out |
| (verb) burn brightly and intensely | - |
| (verb) shine brightly and intensively | - |
| blazer | (noun) lightweight single-breasted jacket; often striped in the colors of a club or school | Synonyms: sport coat, sport jacket, sports coat, sports jacket |
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| blazing | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| (adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blatant, conspicuous |
| (noun) a strong flame that burns brightly | Synonyms: blaze |
| blazon | (noun) the official symbols of a family, state, etc. | Synonyms: arms, blazonry, coat of arms |
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| (verb) decorate with heraldic arms | Synonyms: emblazon |
| blazonry | (noun) the official symbols of a family, state, etc. | Synonyms: arms, blazon, coat of arms |
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| blintz | (noun) (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked | Synonyms: blintze |
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| blintze | (noun) (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked | Synonyms: blintz |
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| blitz | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitzkrieg |
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| (noun) (American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line | Synonyms: linebacker blitzing, safety blitz |
| (verb) attack suddenly and without warning | - |
| blitzkrieg | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitz |
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| (verb) fight a quick and surprising war | - |