| aberrant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: deviant, deviate |
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| (noun) one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group | - |
| abeyant | (adjective) inactive but capable of becoming active | Synonyms: dormant |
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| abradant | (noun) a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing | Synonyms: abrader |
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| (noun) a substance that abrades or wears down | Synonyms: abrasive, abrasive material |
| abundant | (adjective) present in great quantity | - |
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| acceptant | (adjective) accepting willingly | Synonyms: acceptive |
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| accordant | (adjective) being in agreement or harmony; often followed by `with' | - |
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| (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: agreeable, concordant, conformable, consonant |
| accountant | (noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: comptroller, controller |
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| adamant | (adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamantine, inexorable, intransigent |
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| (noun) very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem | Synonyms: diamond |
| adjutant | (noun) large Indian stork with a military gait | Synonyms: adjutant bird, adjutant stork, Leptoptilus dubius |
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| (noun) an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer | Synonyms: aide-de-camp, aide |
| adjuvant | (adjective) enhancing the action of a medical treatment | - |
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| (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
| (noun) an additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment | - |
| adulterant | (adjective) making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials | Synonyms: adulterating |
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| (noun) any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance | Synonyms: adulterator |
| affiant | (noun) a person who makes an affidavit | - |
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| aliquant | (noun) an integer that is not an exact divisor of some quantity | Synonyms: aliquant part |
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| allegiant | (adjective) steadfast in devotion (especially to your lawful monarch or government) | - |
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| alleviant | (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviator, palliative |
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| ambulant | (adjective) able to walk about | Synonyms: ambulatory |
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| annuitant | (noun) the recipient of an annuity | - |
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| anovulant | (noun) a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception | Synonyms: anovulatory drug, birth control pill, contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive, oral contraceptive pill, pill |
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| ant | (noun) social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers | Synonyms: emmet, pismire |
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| anticipant | (adjective) marked by eager anticipation | Synonyms: anticipative, expectant |
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| (noun) one who anticipates | Synonyms: anticipator |
| anticoagulant | (noun) medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood | Synonyms: anticoagulant medication, decoagulant |
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| anticonvulsant | (noun) a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy) | Synonyms: anticonvulsant drug, antiepileptic, antiepileptic drug |
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| antidepressant | (noun) any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects | Synonyms: antidepressant drug |
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| antioxidant | (noun) substance that inhibits oxidation or inhibits reactions promoted by oxygen or peroxides | - |
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| antiperspirant | (noun) an astringent substance applied to the skin to reduce perspiration | - |
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| appellant | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellate |
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| (noun) the party who appeals a decision of a lower court | Synonyms: plaintiff in error |
| appendant | (adjective) affixed as an appendage | - |
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| applicant | (noun) a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission | Synonyms: applier |
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| appurtenant | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, auxiliary |
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| arccosecant | (noun) the angle that has a cosecant equal to a given number | Synonyms: arc cosecant, inverse cosecant |
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| arcsecant | (noun) the inverse function of the secant; the angle that has a secant equal to a given number | Synonyms: arc secant, arcsec, inverse secant |
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| arrant | (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
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| arrogant | (adjective) having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride | Synonyms: chesty, self-important |
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| ascendant | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendent, ascensive |
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| (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendent, dominating |
| (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendent, root |
| (noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendent |
| askant | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| aslant | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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| (adverb) at an oblique angle | Synonyms: athwart, obliquely |
| (adverb) over or across in a slanting direction | - |
| aspirant | (adjective) desiring or striving for recognition or advancement | Synonyms: aspiring, wishful |
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| (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirer, hopeful, wannabe, wannabee |
| assailant | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: aggressor, assaulter, attacker |
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| assistant | (adjective) of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another | Synonyms: adjunct |
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| (noun) a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: help, helper, supporter |
| assonant | (adjective) having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables | - |
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| (adjective) having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables | - |
| attendant | (adjective) being present (at a meeting or event, etc.) | - |
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| (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
| (noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: accompaniment, co-occurrence, concomitant |
| (noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | Synonyms: attender, tender |
| (noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting | Synonyms: attendee, attender, meeter |
| attestant | (noun) (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | Synonyms: attestator, attestor, witness |
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| (noun) someone who affirms or vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of something | Synonyms: attester |
| bacchant | (noun) (classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus | - |
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| (noun) a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus | Synonyms: bacchanal |
| (noun) someone who engages in drinking bouts | Synonyms: bacchanal, drunken reveler, drunken reveller |
| benignant | (adjective) pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence | Synonyms: benign |
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| (adjective) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | Synonyms: gracious |
| 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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| 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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| blatant | (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: clamant, clamorous, strident, vociferous |
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| (adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blazing, conspicuous |
| bouffant | (adjective) being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing | Synonyms: puffy |
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| (noun) a woman's hairstyle in which the hair gives a puffy appearance | - |
| brant | (noun) small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward | Synonyms: brant goose, brent, brent goose |
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| brilliant | (adjective) full of light; shining intensely | - |
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| (adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: bright, vivid |
| (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: glorious, magnificent, splendid |
| (adjective) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | Synonyms: brainy, smart as a whip |
| (adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: bright |
| (adjective) of surpassing excellence | Synonyms: superb |
| brisant | (adjective) of or relating to the power (the shattering effect) of an explosive | - |
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| buoyant | (adjective) characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness | Synonyms: chirpy, perky |
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| (adjective) tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas | Synonyms: floaty |
| byzant | (noun) a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: bezant, bezzant, solidus |
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| cant | (noun) two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees | Synonyms: bevel, chamfer |
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| (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular |
| (noun) stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition | Synonyms: buzzword |
| (noun) insincere talk about religion or morals | Synonyms: pious platitude |
| (noun) a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force | Synonyms: bank, camber |
| (verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant over, pitch, slant, tilt |
| cauterant | (noun) an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (e.g., removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it | Synonyms: cautery |
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| celebrant | (noun) an officiating priest celebrating the Eucharist | - |
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| (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrater, celebrator |
| chant | (noun) a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone | - |
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| (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: cantillate, intonate, intone |
| (verb) utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically | Synonyms: intone, tone |
| chatoyant | (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, iridescent, shot |
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| chemoattractant | (noun) a substance inducing positive chemotaxis in motile cells. | - |
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| claimant | (noun) someone who claims a benefit or right or title | - |
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| clairvoyant | (adjective) perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses | - |
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| (adjective) foreseeing the future | Synonyms: precognitive, second-sighted |
| (noun) someone who has the power of clairvoyance | - |
| clamant | (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: crying, exigent, insistent, instant |
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| (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamorous, strident, vociferous |
| clinquant | (adjective) glittering with gold or silver | Synonyms: tinseled, tinselly |
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| coagulant | (noun) an agent that produces coagulation | Synonyms: coagulator |
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| codefendant | (noun) a defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action | Synonyms: co-defendant |
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| cognisant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognizant |
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| cognizant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognisant |
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| combatant | (adjective) engaging in or ready for combat | - |
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| (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper |
| comburant | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburent, combustive |
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| commandant | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commander, commanding officer |
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| communicant | (noun) a person entitled to receive Communion | - |
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| complainant | (noun) a person who brings an action in a court of law | Synonyms: plaintiff |
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| complaisant | (adjective) showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others | Synonyms: obliging |
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| compliant | (adjective) inclined to comply | - |
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| concomitant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| (noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: accompaniment, attendant, co-occurrence |
| concordant | (adjective) being of the same opinion | Synonyms: concurring |
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| (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: accordant, agreeable, conformable, consonant |
| confidant | (noun) someone to whom private matters are confided | Synonyms: intimate |
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| congregant | (noun) a member of a congregation (especially that of a church or synagogue) | - |
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| consonant | (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: accordant, agreeable, concordant, conformable |
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| (adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: harmonic, harmonical, harmonised, harmonized |
| (noun) a speech sound that is not a vowel | - |
| (noun) a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant | - |
| constant | (adjective) steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection | - |
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| (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: ceaseless, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting |
| (adjective) unvarying in nature | Synonyms: changeless, invariant, unvarying |
| (noun) a quantity that does not vary | Synonyms: constant quantity, invariable |
| (noun) a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context | - |
| consultant | (noun) an expert who gives advice | Synonyms: adviser, advisor |
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| contaminant | (noun) a substance that contaminates | Synonyms: contamination |
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| contestant | (noun) a person who participates in competitions | - |
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| (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: dissenter, dissident, objector, protester |
| continuant | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: fricative, sibilant, spirant, strident |
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| (noun) consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract | Synonyms: continuant consonant |
| conversant | (adjective) (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly | Synonyms: familiar |
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| coolant | (noun) a fluid agent (gas or liquid) that produces cooling; especially one used to cool a system by transferring heat away from one part to another | - |
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| cormorant | (noun) large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish | Synonyms: Phalacrocorax carbo |
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| corposant | (noun) an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere | Synonyms: corona, corona discharge, electric glow, Saint Elmo's fire, Saint Elmo's light, Saint Ulmo's fire, Saint Ulmo's light, St. Elmo's fire |
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| corroborant | (adjective) used of a medicine that is strengthening | - |
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| coruscant | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| cosecant | (noun) ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: cosec |
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| cotenant | (noun) one of two or more tenants holding title to the same property | - |
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| couchant | (adjective) lying on the stomach with head raised with legs pointed forward | - |
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| counterirritant | (noun) a medicine applied locally to produce superficial inflammation in order to reduce deeper inflammation | - |
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| covariant | (adjective) changing so that interrelations with another variable quantity or set of quantities remain unchanged | - |
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| covenant | (noun) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action | Synonyms: compact, concordat |
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| (noun) (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return | - |
| (verb) enter into a covenant or formal agreement | - |
| (verb) enter into a covenant | - |
| croissant | (noun) very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll | Synonyms: crescent roll |
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| currant | (noun) any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams | - |
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| (noun) small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking | - |
| (noun) any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants | Synonyms: currant bush |
| decant | (verb) pour out gradually, so as to separate out sediment | Synonyms: pour, pour out |
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| decoagulant | (noun) medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood | Synonyms: anticoagulant, anticoagulant medication |
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