| abdomen | (noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: belly, stomach, venter |
|---|
| (noun) the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm | Synonyms: abdominal cavity |
| acetaminophen | (noun) an analgesic for mild pain but not for inflammation; also used as an antipyretic; (Datril, Tylenol, Panadol, Phenaphen, Tempra, and Anacin III are trademarks of brands of acetaminophen tablets) | Synonyms: Anacin III, Datril, Panadol, Phenaphen, Tempra, Tylenol |
|---|
| acrogen | (noun) any flowerless plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem | - |
|---|
| acumen | (noun) shrewdness shown by keen insight | Synonyms: insightfulness |
|---|
| (noun) a tapering point | - |
| agglutinogen | (noun) any substance that acts as an antigen to cause agglutinin production | - |
|---|
| agnomen | (noun) an additional name or an epithet appended to a name (as in `Ferdinand the Great') | - |
|---|
| albumen | (noun) the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water | Synonyms: egg white, ovalbumin, white |
|---|
| (noun) a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues and liquids | Synonyms: albumin |
| alien | (adjective) not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something | Synonyms: foreign |
|---|
| (adjective) being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world | Synonyms: exotic |
| (noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: foreigner, noncitizen, outlander |
| (noun) anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found | Synonyms: stranger, unknown |
| (noun) a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere | Synonyms: extraterrestrial, extraterrestrial being |
| (verb) transfer property or ownership | Synonyms: alienate |
| allergen | (noun) any substance that can cause an allergy | - |
|---|
| androgen | (noun) male sex hormone that is produced in the testes and responsible for typical male sexual characteristics | Synonyms: androgenic hormone |
|---|
| antigen | (noun) any substance (as a toxin or enzyme) that stimulates an immune response in the body (especially the production of antibodies) | - |
|---|
| ascolichen | (noun) a lichen in which the fungus component is an ascomycete | - |
|---|
| ashen | (adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: blanched, bloodless, livid, white |
|---|
| (adjective) made of wood of the ash tree | - |
| aspen | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Populus having leaves on flattened stalks so that they flutter in the lightest wind | - |
|---|
| awaken | (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, rouse, wake, wake up, waken |
|---|
| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
| (verb) make aware | - |
| awestricken | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestruck |
|---|
| baleen | (noun) a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets | Synonyms: whalebone |
|---|
| ballpen | (noun) a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper | Synonyms: ballpoint, ballpoint pen, Biro |
|---|
| barren | (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, bleak, desolate, stark |
|---|
| (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: destitute, devoid, free, innocent |
| (adjective) not bearing offspring | - |
| (noun) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation | Synonyms: waste, wasteland |
| basidiolichen | (noun) a lichen in which the fungus component is a basidiomycete | - |
|---|
| batten | (noun) a strip fixed to something to hold it firm | - |
|---|
| (noun) stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: batting |
| (verb) secure with battens | - |
| (verb) furnish with battens | Synonyms: batten down, secure |
| beaten | (adjective) formed or made thin by hammering | - |
|---|
| (adjective) much trodden and worn smooth or bare | - |
| bedizen | (verb) dress up garishly and tastelessly | Synonyms: dizen |
|---|
| (verb) decorate tastelessly | - |
| bedridden | (adjective) confined to bed (by illness) | Synonyms: bedfast, bedrid, sick-abed |
|---|
| beechen | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the beech tree | - |
|---|
| begotten | (adjective) (of offspring) generated by procreation | - |
|---|
| beholden | (adjective) under a moral obligation to someone | - |
|---|
| ben | (noun) a mountain or tall hill | - |
|---|
| bespoken | (adjective) pledged to be married | Synonyms: betrothed, engaged |
|---|
| (adjective) (of clothing) custom-made | Synonyms: bespoke, made-to-order, tailor-made, tailored |
| betoken | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
|---|
| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, indicate, point, signal |
| between | (adverb) in between | Synonyms: 'tween |
|---|
| (adverb) in the interval | Synonyms: betwixt |
| birchen | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree | Synonyms: birch, birken |
|---|
| birken | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree | Synonyms: birch, birchen |
|---|
| bitumen | (noun) any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of hydrocarbons | - |
|---|
| blacken | (verb) make or become black | Synonyms: black, melanise, melanize |
|---|
| (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: char, scorch, sear |
| boughten | (adjective) purchased; not homemade | Synonyms: store-bought |
|---|
| bounden | (adjective) morally obligatory | - |
|---|
| bracken | (noun) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: brake, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum |
|---|
| (noun) fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions | Synonyms: Pteridium esculentum |
| brazen | (adjective) made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness) | - |
|---|
| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, insolent |
| (verb) face with defiance or impudence | - |
| brethren | (noun) (plural) the lay members of a male religious order | - |
|---|
| brighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: lighten, lighten up |
|---|
| (verb) become clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, light up |
| brisken | (verb) become brisk | Synonyms: brisk, brisk up |
|---|
| broaden | (verb) become broader | - |
|---|
| (verb) make broader | - |
| (verb) extend in scope or range or area | Synonyms: extend, widen |
| (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, diversify |
| broken | (adjective) physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split | - |
|---|
| (adjective) not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly | - |
| (adjective) (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded | Synonyms: unkept |
| (adjective) out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken') | Synonyms: busted |
| (adjective) destroyed financially | Synonyms: impoverished, wiped out |
| (adjective) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion | Synonyms: confused, disordered, upset |
| (adjective) discontinuous | - |
| (adjective) subdued or brought low in condition or status | Synonyms: crushed, humbled, humiliated, low |
| (adjective) weakened and infirm | - |
| (adjective) imperfectly spoken or written | - |
| (adjective) lacking a part or parts | - |
| (adjective) topographically very uneven | Synonyms: rugged |
| (adjective) tamed or trained to obey | Synonyms: broken in |
| bullpen | (noun) a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily | Synonyms: detention cell, detention centre |
|---|
| (noun) a place on a baseball field where relief pitchers can warm up during a game | - |
| bunsen | (noun) a gas burner used in laboratories; has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air | Synonyms: bunsen burner, etna |
|---|
| burden | (noun) weight to be borne or conveyed | Synonyms: load, loading |
|---|
| (noun) the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse | - |
| (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: encumbrance, incumbrance, load, onus |
| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: core, effect, essence, gist |
| (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: charge, saddle |
| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burthen, weight, weight down |
| burthen | (noun) a variant of `burden' | - |
|---|
| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burden, weight, weight down |
| businessmen | (noun) the body of individuals who manage businesses | Synonyms: business community |
|---|
| canteen | (noun) a flask for carrying water; used by soldiers or travelers | - |
|---|
| (noun) restaurant in a factory; where workers can eat | - |
| (noun) a recreation room in an institution | - |
| (noun) a restaurant outside; often for soldiers or policemen | Synonyms: mobile canteen |
| (noun) sells food and personal items to personnel at an institution or school or camp etc. | - |
| carageen | (noun) dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America | Synonyms: carrageen, carragheen, Chondrus crispus, Irish moss |
|---|
| carcinogen | (noun) any substance that produces cancer | - |
|---|
| careen | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: rock, sway, tilt |
|---|
| (verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: shift, tilt, wobble |
| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: keel, lurch, reel, stagger, swag |
| carrageen | (noun) dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America | Synonyms: carageen, carragheen, Chondrus crispus, Irish moss |
|---|
| carragheen | (noun) dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America | Synonyms: carageen, carrageen, Chondrus crispus, Irish moss |
|---|
| carven | (adjective) made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary) | Synonyms: carved |
|---|
| catechumen | (noun) a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist | Synonyms: neophyte |
|---|
| cerumen | (noun) a soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal | Synonyms: earwax |
|---|
| chapfallen | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chopfallen, crestfallen, deflated |
|---|
| chasten | (verb) change by restraining or moderating | Synonyms: temper |
|---|
| (verb) correct by punishment or discipline | Synonyms: subdue, tame |
| (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chastise, correct, objurgate |
| cheapen | (verb) lower the grade of something; reduce its worth | Synonyms: degrade |
|---|
| chicken | (adjective) easily frightened | Synonyms: chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow |
|---|
| (noun) a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl | Synonyms: Gallus gallus |
| (noun) a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops | - |
| (noun) the flesh of a chicken used for food | Synonyms: poulet, volaille |
| (noun) a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy | Synonyms: crybaby, wimp |
| chopfallen | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chapfallen, crestfallen, deflated |
|---|
| chosen | (noun) an exclusive group of people | Synonyms: elect |
|---|
| (noun) one who is the object of choice; who is given preference | - |
| christen | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptise, baptize |
|---|
| chromogen | (noun) a compound that can be converted to a pigment | - |
|---|
| churchwarden | (noun) an officer in the Episcopal church who helps a parish priest with secular matters | - |
|---|
| citizen | (noun) a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community | - |
|---|
| cloven | (adjective) (used of hooves) split, divided | Synonyms: bisulcate |
|---|
| coarsen | (verb) make less subtle or refined | - |
|---|
| (verb) make or become coarse or coarser | - |
| cognomen | (noun) the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) | Synonyms: family name, last name, surname |
|---|
| (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, moniker, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet |
| collagen | (noun) a fibrous scleroprotein in bone and cartilage and tendon and other connective tissue; yields gelatin on boiling | - |
|---|
| colleen | (noun) an Irish girl | - |
|---|
| comedogen | (noun) A substance that tends to produce acne, such as by clogging pores on the skin. | Synonyms: comedogenic, comedogenic substance |
|---|
| coven | (noun) an assembly of witches; usually 13 witches | - |
|---|
| cozen | (verb) cheat or trick | - |
|---|
| (verb) act with artful deceit | - |
| (verb) be false to; be dishonest with | Synonyms: deceive, delude, lead on |
| craven | (adjective) lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful | Synonyms: recreant |
|---|
| (noun) an abject coward | Synonyms: poltroon, recreant |
| crestfallen | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chapfallen, chopfallen, deflated |
|---|
| crispen | (verb) make brown and crisp by heating | Synonyms: crisp, toast |
|---|
| cryogen | (noun) a liquid that boils at below -160 C and is used as a refrigerant | - |
|---|
| crystallogen | (noun) any chemical element that belongs to the carbon group. | Synonyms: carbon group element, Group 14 element, tetragen, tetrel |
|---|
| cyanogen | (noun) a colorless toxic gas with a pungent almond odor; has been used in chemical warfare | - |
|---|
| cyclamen | (noun) Mediterranean plant widely cultivated as a houseplant for its showy dark green leaves splotched with silver and nodding white or pink to reddish flowers with reflexed petals | Synonyms: Cyclamen purpurascens |
|---|
| dampen | (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, damp, soften, weaken |
|---|
| (verb) make moist | Synonyms: moisten, wash |
| (verb) check; keep in check (a fire) | - |
| (verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, deaden |
| (verb) reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves) | - |
| (verb) suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity | Synonyms: stifle |
| (verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dull, muffle, mute, tone down |
| darken | (verb) become dark or darker | - |
|---|
| (verb) make dark or darker | - |
| (verb) tarnish or stain | - |
| dasheen | (noun) tropical starchy tuberous root | Synonyms: cocoyam, edda, taro, taro root |
|---|
| (noun) herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves | Synonyms: Colocasia esculenta, dalo, taro, taro plant |
| (noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants | Synonyms: cocoyam, eddo, taro |
| deaden | (verb) become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor | - |
|---|
| (verb) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation | Synonyms: blunt |
| (verb) lessen the momentum or velocity of | - |
| (verb) make vapid or deprive of spirit | - |
| (verb) convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil | - |
| (verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, dampen |
| (verb) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients | Synonyms: girdle |
| deafen | (verb) make soundproof | - |
|---|
| (verb) make or render deaf | Synonyms: deaf |
| (verb) be unbearably loud | - |
| deepen | (verb) become more intense | Synonyms: intensify |
|---|
| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, heighten, intensify |
| (verb) become deeper in tone | Synonyms: change |
| (verb) make deeper | - |
| delicatessen | (noun) a shop selling ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: deli, food shop |
|---|
| (noun) ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: delicatessen food |
| den | (noun) a room that is comfortable and secluded | - |
|---|
| (noun) a unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts | - |
| (noun) the habitation of wild animals | Synonyms: lair |
| (noun) a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws | Synonyms: hideaway, hideout |
| denizen | (noun) a plant or animal naturalized in a region | - |
|---|
| (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: dweller, habitant, indweller, inhabitant |
| disburden | (verb) take the burden off; remove the burden from | Synonyms: unburden |
|---|
| dishearten | (verb) take away the enthusiasm of | Synonyms: put off |
|---|
| dizen | (verb) dress up garishly and tastelessly | Synonyms: bedizen |
|---|
| dolmen | (noun) a prehistoric megalithic tomb typically having two large upright stones and a capstone | Synonyms: cromlech, portal tomb |
|---|
| downtrodden | (adjective) abused or oppressed by people in power | - |
|---|
| doyen | (noun) a man who is the senior member of a group | Synonyms: dean |
|---|
| dozen | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units | Synonyms: 12, twelve, xii |
|---|
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one | Synonyms: 12, twelve, XII |
| driven | (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: compulsive, determined |
|---|
| (adjective) compelled forcibly by an outside agency | Synonyms: goaded |
| (adjective) urged or forced to action through moral pressure | Synonyms: impelled |