| abhenry | (noun) a unit of inductance equal to one billionth of a henry | - |
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| ablutionary | (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: cleansing |
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| abolitionary | (adjective) relating to or favoring abolition, especially abolition of slavery | - |
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| absolvitory | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: exonerative, forgiving |
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| acceleratory | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: accelerative |
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| accessary | (adjective) aiding and abetting in a crime | Synonyms: accessory |
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| (noun) someone who helps another person commit a crime | Synonyms: accessory |
| accessory | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
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| (adjective) aiding and abetting in a crime | Synonyms: accessary |
| (noun) a supplementary component that improves capability | Synonyms: add-on, appurtenance, supplement |
| (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accouterment, accoutrement |
| (noun) someone who helps another person commit a crime | Synonyms: accessary |
| accretionary | (adjective) marked or produced by accretion | - |
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| accusatory | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusing, accusive |
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| acidimetry | (noun) volumetric analysis using standard solutions of acids to measure the amount of a base present | - |
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| actinometry | (noun) measuring the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (especially of the sun's rays) | - |
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| actuary | (noun) someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) | Synonyms: statistician |
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| adjudicatory | (adjective) concerned with adjudicating | Synonyms: adjudicative |
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| adjuratory | (adjective) earnestly or solemnly entreating | - |
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| (adjective) containing a solemn charge or command | - |
| admonitory | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonishing, reproachful, reproving |
| adulatory | (adjective) obsequiously complimentary | Synonyms: flattering |
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| adultery | (noun) extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations | Synonyms: criminal conversation, fornication |
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| adversary | (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister |
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| advisory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: consultative, consultatory, consultive |
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| (noun) an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of some threat | - |
| aery | (adjective) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air | Synonyms: aerial, aeriform, airy, ethereal |
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| (noun) any habitation at a high altitude | Synonyms: aerie, eyrie, eyry |
| (noun) the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) | Synonyms: aerie, eyrie, eyry |
| affirmatory | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmative |
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| airy | (adjective) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air | Synonyms: aerial, aeriform, aery, ethereal |
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| (adjective) having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air | - |
| (adjective) not practical or realizable; speculative | Synonyms: impractical, Laputan, visionary, windy |
| (adjective) open to or abounding in fresh air | Synonyms: aired |
| alary | (adjective) having or resembling wings | Synonyms: alar, aliform, wing-shaped |
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| aleatory | (adjective) dependent on chance | - |
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| algometry | (noun) measuring sensitivity to pain or pressure | - |
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| alimentary | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive |
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| alkalimetry | (noun) volumetric analysis using standard solutions of alkali to measure the amount of acid present | - |
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| allegory | (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) | Synonyms: apologue, fable, parable |
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| (noun) an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor | - |
| (noun) a visible symbol representing an abstract idea | Synonyms: emblem |
| alleviatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| allometry | (noun) the study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole | - |
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| allopatry | (noun) the occurrence of related organisms in separate geographical areas with no overlap | - |
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| amatory | (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amorous, romantic |
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| ambulatory | (adjective) relating to or adapted for walking | - |
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| (adjective) able to walk about | Synonyms: ambulant |
| (noun) a covered walkway (as in a cloister) | - |
| amelioratory | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, ameliorative, meliorative |
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| amendatory | (adjective) effecting amendment | - |
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| amphigory | (noun) nonsensical writing (usually verse) | Synonyms: nonsense verse |
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| ampullary | (adjective) of or related to an ampulla | Synonyms: ampullar |
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| ancestry | (noun) inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline | Synonyms: derivation, filiation, lineage |
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| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| ancillary | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary |
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| anemometry | (noun) measuring wind speed and direction | - |
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| angry | (adjective) feeling or showing anger | - |
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| (adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: furious, raging, tempestuous, wild |
| (adjective) severely inflamed and painful | - |
| anniversary | (noun) the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: day of remembrance |
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| annualry | (noun) the third finger (especially of the left hand) | Synonyms: ring finger |
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| annunciatory | (adjective) relating to the act of announcing or being announced | - |
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| antennary | (adjective) of or relating to antennae | Synonyms: antennal |
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| anthropolatry | (noun) the worship of human beings | Synonyms: worship of man |
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| anthropometry | (noun) measurement and study of the human body and its parts and capacities | - |
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| anticipatory | (adjective) in anticipation | Synonyms: prevenient |
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| antiphonary | (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonal |
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| (noun) bound collection of antiphons | Synonyms: antiphonal |
| antiquary | (noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquarian, archaist |
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| apery | (noun) the act of mimicking; imitative behavior | Synonyms: mimicry |
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| apiary | (noun) a shed containing a number of beehives | Synonyms: bee house |
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| apothecary | (noun) a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs | Synonyms: chemist, druggist, pharmacist, pill pusher, pill roller |
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| applicatory | (adjective) readily applicable or practical | Synonyms: applicative |
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| approbatory | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approving, plausive |
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| arbitrary | (adjective) based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice | - |
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| arborary | (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arboreal, arborical, arborous |
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| arborolatry | (noun) the worship of trees | Synonyms: tree-worship |
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| archdeaconry | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of an archdeacon | - |
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| archery | (noun) the sport of shooting arrows with a bow | - |
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| armillary | (adjective) of or relating to bracelets | - |
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| armory | (noun) a place where arms are manufactured | Synonyms: armoury, arsenal |
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| (noun) a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms | Synonyms: armoury, arsenal |
| (noun) all the weapons and equipment that a country has | Synonyms: armoury, arsenal |
| (noun) a collection of resources | Synonyms: armoury, inventory |
| armoury | (noun) a place where arms are manufactured | Synonyms: armory, arsenal |
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| (noun) a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms | Synonyms: armory, arsenal |
| (noun) all the weapons and equipment that a country has | Synonyms: armory, arsenal |
| (noun) a collection of resources | Synonyms: armory, inventory |
| artery | (noun) a major thoroughfare that bears important traffic | - |
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| (noun) a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body | Synonyms: arteria, arterial blood vessel |
| articulary | (adjective) relating to or affecting the joints of the body | Synonyms: articular |
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| articulatory | (adjective) of or relating to articulation | Synonyms: articulative |
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| artillery | (noun) large but transportable armament | Synonyms: gun, heavy weapon, ordnance |
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| (noun) a means of persuading or arguing | Synonyms: weapon |
| (noun) an army unit that uses big guns | Synonyms: artillery unit |
| artistry | (noun) a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation | Synonyms: art, prowess |
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| assimilatory | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilating, assimilative |
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| associatory | (adjective) characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: associative |
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| astrolatry | (noun) the worship of planets or stars | Synonyms: worship of heavenly bodies |
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| astrometry | (noun) the branch of astronomy that deals with the measurement of the position and motion of celestial bodies | - |
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| asymmetry | (noun) (mathematics) a lack of symmetry | - |
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| audiometry | (noun) measuring sensitivity of hearing | - |
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| (noun) the measurement of hearing | Synonyms: audiology |
| auditory | (adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing | Synonyms: audile, auditive |
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| augury | (noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | Synonyms: foretoken, preindication, sign |
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| auscultatory | (adjective) of or relating to auscultation | - |
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| autolatry | (noun) the worship of yourself | Synonyms: idiolatry, self-worship |
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| auxiliary | (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary |
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| (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant |
| (noun) someone who acts as assistant | Synonyms: aide |
| aviary | (noun) a building where birds are kept | Synonyms: bird sanctuary, volary |
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| aweary | (adjective) physically and mentally fatigued | Synonyms: weary |
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| awry | (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: askew, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky |
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| (adjective) not functioning properly | Synonyms: amiss, haywire, wrong |
| (adverb) away from the correct or expected course | Synonyms: amiss |
| (adverb) turned or twisted to one side | Synonyms: askew, skew-whiff |
| axillary | (adjective) of or relating to the armpit | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the axil | Synonyms: alar |
| bacillary | (adjective) relating to or produced by or containing bacilli | Synonyms: bacillar |
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| (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped |
| bakery | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakehouse, bakeshop |
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| banditry | (noun) the practice of plundering in gangs | - |
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| baneberry | (noun) a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries | Synonyms: cohosh, herb Christopher |
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| (noun) a poisonous berry of a plant of the genus Actaea | - |
| baptistery | (noun) bowl for baptismal water | Synonyms: baptismal font, baptistry, font |
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| baptistry | (noun) bowl for baptismal water | Synonyms: baptismal font, baptistery, font |
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| barberry | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Berberis having prickly stems and yellow flowers followed by small red berries | - |
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| bardolatry | (noun) the idolization of William Shakespeare | - |
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| barratry | (noun) the offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels | - |
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| (noun) (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo | - |
| (noun) the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery | - |
| (noun) traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments | Synonyms: simony |
| basilary | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilar |
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| basketry | (noun) the craft of basket making | - |
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| bathymetry | (noun) measuring the depths of the oceans | Synonyms: plumbing |
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| battery | (noun) an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact | Synonyms: assault and battery |
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| (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, bombardment, shelling |
| (noun) a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series | Synonyms: electric battery |
| (noun) a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores | Synonyms: stamp battery |
| (noun) a collection of related things intended for use together | - |
| (noun) group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place | - |
| (noun) a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher | - |
| bawdry | (noun) lewd or obscene talk or writing | Synonyms: bawdy |
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| bayberry | (noun) West Indian tree; source of bay rum | Synonyms: bay-rum tree, Jamaica bayberry, Pimenta acris, wild cinnamon |
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| (noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: candleberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry, waxberry |
| bearberry | (noun) chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas | - |
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| (noun) deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States | Synonyms: Ilex decidua, possum haw, winterberry |
| (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
| beaugregory | (noun) a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies | Synonyms: Pomacentrus leucostictus |
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