| aspirate | (noun) a consonant pronounced with aspiration | - |
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| (noun) a speech sound having as an obvious concomitant an audible puff of breath, as initial stop consonants or initial h -sounds. | - |
| (verb) inhale (air, water, etc.) | - |
| (verb) pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds | - |
| (verb) remove by suction | Synonyms: draw out, suck out |
| assassinate | (verb) destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation | - |
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| (verb) murder; especially of socially prominent persons | - |
| asseverate | (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: assert, maintain |
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| assibilate | (verb) change into a sibilant | - |
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| (verb) insert a sibilant sound before or after (another sound) | - |
| assimilate | (verb) become similar to one's environment | - |
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| (verb) make similar | - |
| (verb) become similar in sound | - |
| (verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: absorb, ingest, take in |
| (verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: imbibe |
| associate | (adjective) having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status | - |
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| (noun) a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies | Synonyms: associate degree |
| (noun) any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another | - |
| (noun) a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor | - |
| (noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: companion, comrade, familiar, fellow |
| (noun) a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise | - |
| (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: colligate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in |
| (verb) bring or come into association or action | Synonyms: consociate |
| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: affiliate, assort, consort |
| assonate | (verb) correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance | - |
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| astrogate | (verb) navigate in space | - |
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| (verb) guide in interplanetary travel | - |
| attenuate | (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuated, faded, weakened |
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| (verb) become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude | - |
| (verb) weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) | Synonyms: rarefy |
| aureate | (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: gilded, gilt, gold, golden |
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| (adjective) elaborately or excessively ornamented | Synonyms: flamboyant, florid |
| auriculate | (adjective) having auricles | Synonyms: auriculated |
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| auscultate | (verb) examine by auscultation | - |
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| auspicate | (verb) commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck | - |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| authenticate | (verb) establish the authenticity of something | - |
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| automate | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automatise, automatize |
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| aviate | (verb) operate an airplane | Synonyms: fly, pilot |
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| baccalaureate | (noun) an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies | Synonyms: bachelor's degree |
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| (noun) a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies | - |
| baccate | (adjective) resembling a berry | Synonyms: berrylike |
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| (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: bacciferous, berried |
| backdate | (verb) make effective from an earlier date | - |
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| backplate | (noun) plate armor protecting the back; worn as part of a cuirass | - |
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| baldpate | (noun) a widgeon the male of which has a white crown | Synonyms: American widgeon, Anas americana |
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| (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldy, skin, skinhead |
| barbate | (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: bearded, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery |
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| barbellate | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| barbiturate | (noun) organic compound having powerful soporific effect; overdose can be fatal | - |
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| bate | (verb) soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments | - |
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| (verb) flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons | - |
| (verb) moderate or restrain; lessen the force of | - |
| bedmate | (noun) a person with whom you share a bed | Synonyms: bedfellow |
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| beneficiate | (verb) process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction | - |
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| benficiate | (verb) subject to a reduction process | - |
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| benzoate | (noun) any salt or ester of benzoic acid | - |
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| berate | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| biaxate | (adjective) having two axes | Synonyms: biaxal, biaxial |
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| bicarbonate | (noun) a salt of carbonic acid (containing the anion HCO3) in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced; an acid carbonate | Synonyms: hydrogen carbonate |
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| bichromate | (noun) a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid | Synonyms: dichromate |
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| bicornate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicorned, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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| bicornuate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicorned, bicornuous |
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| bicuspidate | (adjective) having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth) | Synonyms: bicuspid |
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| bidentate | (adjective) having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed | - |
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| biflagellate | (adjective) having two flagella | - |
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| bifoliate | (adjective) having two leaves | - |
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| bifurcate | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
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| (verb) divide into two branches | - |
| (verb) split or divide into two | - |
| bilabiate | (adjective) having two lips | Synonyms: two-lipped |
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| billingsgate | (noun) foul-mouthed or obscene abuse | Synonyms: scurrility |
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| bilobate | (adjective) divided into two lobes | Synonyms: bilobated, bilobed |
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| biloculate | (adjective) divided into or containing two cells or chambers | Synonyms: bilocular |
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| binate | (adjective) growing in two parts or in pairs | - |
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| binucleate | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binuclear, binucleated |
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| bipinnate | (adjective) of a leaf shape; having doubly pinnate leaflets (as ferns) | - |
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| biquadrate | (noun) an algebraic equation or function of the fourth degree | Synonyms: biquadratic, fourth power, quartic |
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| birthrate | (noun) the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year | Synonyms: birth rate, fertility, fertility rate, natality |
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| biserrate | (adjective) having saw-like notches with the notches themselves similarly notched | - |
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| bisulcate | (adjective) (used of hooves) split, divided | Synonyms: cloven |
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| bisulfate | (noun) a salt or an ester of sulphuric acid with the chemical formula HSO4-. | Synonyms: hydrogen sulfate |
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| bitartrate | (noun) an acid tartrate; a hydrogen tartrate | - |
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| biteplate | (noun) a removable dental appliance that is worn in the palate for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes | Synonyms: bite plate |
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| bivariate | (adjective) having two variables | - |
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| blate | (adjective) disposed to avoid notice | Synonyms: bashful |
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| (verb) cry plaintively | Synonyms: baa, blat, bleat |
| bloviate | (verb) orate verbosely and windily | - |
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| boilerplate | (noun) thick plate iron used in the production of boilers | - |
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| (noun) standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories | - |
| bombilate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombinate, buzz |
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| bombinate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombilate, buzz |
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| bookplate | (noun) a label identifying the owner of a book in which it is pasted | Synonyms: ex libris |
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| borate | (noun) a salt or ester of boric acid | - |
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| borosilicate | (noun) a salt of boric and silicic acids | - |
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| brachiate | (adjective) having arms or armlike appendages | - |
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| (adjective) having widely spreading paired branches | - |
| (verb) swing from one hold to the next | - |
| bracteate | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracted |
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| bracteolate | (adjective) having bracteoles | - |
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| branchiate | (adjective) provided with gills | Synonyms: gilled |
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| breastplate | (noun) armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass | Synonyms: aegis, egis |
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| brecciate | (verb) break into breccia | - |
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| (verb) form into breccia | - |
| bromate | (noun) a chemical compound that contains the bromate ion. | - |
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| (verb) treat with bromine | Synonyms: brominate |
| (verb) react with bromine | Synonyms: brominate |
| brominate | (verb) treat with bromine | Synonyms: bromate |
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| (verb) react with bromine | Synonyms: bromate |
| bullate | (adjective) of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered | - |
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| bunkmate | (noun) someone who occupies the same sleeping quarters as yourself | - |
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| butylate | (verb) introduce the butyl group into a chemical compound | - |
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| cachinnate | (verb) laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way | - |
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| calceolate | (adjective) of slipper-shaped blossoms | Synonyms: calceiform |
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| calculate | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, direct |
| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: count on, estimate, figure, forecast, reckon |
| (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, count, depend, look, reckon, rely, swear |
| (verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: forecast |
| (verb) keep an account of | Synonyms: account |
| calibrate | (verb) make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring | Synonyms: fine-tune, graduate |
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| (verb) measure the caliber of | - |
| (verb) mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units | - |
| caliphate | (noun) the office of a caliph | - |
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| (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph | - |
| calumniate | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| calyculate | (adjective) having a calyculus | Synonyms: calycled |
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| calyptrate | (adjective) having a calyptra | - |
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| (adjective) having calypters | - |
| campanulate | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanular, campanulated |
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| camphorate | (verb) treat with camphor | - |
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| campmate | (noun) someone who lives in the same camp you do | - |
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| canaliculate | (adjective) having thin parallel channels | - |
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| cancellate | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellated, cancellous |
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| (adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellated, clathrate |
| candidate | (noun) someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.) | Synonyms: prospect |
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| (noun) a politician who is running for public office | Synonyms: campaigner, nominee |
| cannulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulise, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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| cantillate | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: chant, intonate, intone |
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| canulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, cannulize, intubate |
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| capacitate | (verb) make capable | - |
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| (verb) cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg | - |
| (verb) make legally capable or qualify in law | - |
| capitate | (adjective) being abruptly enlarged and globose at the tip | - |
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| (noun) the wrist bone with a rounded head shape that articulates with the 3rd metacarpus | Synonyms: capitate bone, os capitatum |
| capitulate | (verb) surrender under agreed conditions | - |
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| capsulate | (adjective) used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulated |
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| (verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, capsulize |
| captivate | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| carbamate | (noun) a salt (or ester) of carbamic acid | - |
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| carbohydrate | (noun) an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain | Synonyms: saccharide, sugar |
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| carbonate | (noun) a salt or ester of carbonic acid (containing the anion CO3) | - |
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| (verb) treat with carbon dioxide | - |
| (verb) turn into a carbonate | - |
| carboxylate | (verb) treat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acid | - |
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