| amorist | (noun) one dedicated to love and lovemaking especially one who writes about love | - |
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| amort | (adjective) utterly cast down | - |
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| amount | (noun) how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Synonyms: measure, quantity |
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| (noun) the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion | - |
| (noun) a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers | Synonyms: sum, total |
| (noun) a quantity of money | Synonyms: amount of money, sum, sum of money |
| (verb) to measure up to in kind or quality | Synonyms: add up, come |
| (verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, come, number, total |
| (verb) be tantamount or equivalent to | - |
| amulet | (noun) a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease | Synonyms: talisman |
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| amusement | (noun) an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention | Synonyms: entertainment |
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| (noun) a feeling of delight at being entertained | - |
| anaesthetist | (noun) a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated | Synonyms: anesthesiologist, anesthetist |
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| anagnost | (noun) a cleric in the minor orders of the Eastern Orthodox Church who reads the lessons aloud in the liturgy (analogous to the lector in the Roman Catholic Church) | - |
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| analogist | (noun) someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy | - |
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| analphabet | (noun) an illiterate person who does not know the alphabet | Synonyms: analphabetic |
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| analyst | (noun) someone who is skilled at analyzing data | - |
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| (noun) a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis | Synonyms: psychoanalyst |
| (noun) an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions | - |
| anapaest | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables | Synonyms: anapest |
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| anapest | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables | Synonyms: anapaest |
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| anarchist | (noun) an advocate of anarchism | Synonyms: nihilist, syndicalist |
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| anastigmat | (noun) compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images | - |
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| anatomist | (noun) an expert in anatomy | - |
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| ancient | (adjective) very old | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire | - |
| (noun) a person who lived in ancient times | - |
| (noun) a very old person | Synonyms: antediluvian |
| anecdotist | (noun) a person skilled in telling anecdotes | Synonyms: raconteur |
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| anesthesiologist | (noun) a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated | Synonyms: anaesthetist, anesthetist |
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| anesthetist | (noun) a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated | Synonyms: anaesthetist, anesthesiologist |
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| angiologist | (noun) a physician who specializes in angiology | - |
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| angst | (noun) an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom | - |
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| animadvert | (verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: opine, sound off, speak out, speak up |
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| (verb) express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark | - |
| animist | (adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism | Synonyms: animistic |
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| (noun) one who accepts the doctrine of animism | - |
| anklet | (noun) an ornament worn around the ankle | Synonyms: ankle bracelet |
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| (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklets, bobbysock, bobbysocks |
| (noun) a shoe for a child or woman that has a strap around the ankle | - |
| annalist | (noun) a historian who writes annals | - |
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| announcement | (noun) a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen | Synonyms: promulgation |
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| (noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: annunciation, declaration, proclamation |
| annuitant | (noun) the recipient of an annuity | - |
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| annulet | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: bandelet, bandelette, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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| (noun) (heraldry) a charge in the shape of a small ring | - |
| annulment | (noun) (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc) | Synonyms: invalidation |
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| (noun) the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation | Synonyms: abrogation, repeal |
| (noun) the state of being cancelled or annulled | Synonyms: revocation |
| anoint | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, embrocate, inunct, oil |
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| (verb) choose by or as if by divine intervention | - |
| anointment | (noun) the act of applying oil or an oily liquid | Synonyms: anointing |
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| anomalist | (noun) someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases | - |
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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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| antagonist | (noun) a drug that neutralizes or counteracts the effects of another drug | - |
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| (noun) a muscle that relaxes while another contracts | - |
| (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, opponent, opposer, resister |
| antecedent | (adjective) preceding in time or order | - |
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| (noun) the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun | - |
| (noun) a preceding occurrence or cause or event | - |
| (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, root |
| (noun) anything that precedes something similar in time | Synonyms: forerunner |
| antepenult | (noun) the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end | Synonyms: antepenultima, antepenultimate |
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| anthologist | (noun) an editor who makes selections for an anthology | - |
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| anthropologist | (noun) a social scientist who specializes in anthropology | - |
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| antiaircraft | (adjective) designed for defense from a surface position against air attack | - |
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| (noun) artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes | Synonyms: ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft gun, flack, flak, pom-pom |
| anticatalyst | (noun) (chemistry) a substance that retards a chemical reaction or diminishes the activity of a catalyst | - |
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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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| antifeminist | (noun) someone who does not believe in the social or economic or political equality of men and women | - |
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| antiferromagnet | (noun) any material that has antiferromagnetic properties. | - |
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| antiflatulent | (noun) any agent that reduces intestinal gas | - |
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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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| antitrust | (adjective) of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices | Synonyms: antimonopoly |
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| aorist | (noun) a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation | - |
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| apart | (adjective) having characteristics not shared by others | - |
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| (adjective) remote and separate physically or socially | Synonyms: isolated, obscure |
| (adverb) not taken into account or excluded from consideration | Synonyms: aside |
| (adverb) into parts or pieces | Synonyms: asunder |
| (adverb) separated or at a distance in place or position or time | - |
| (adverb) one from the other | - |
| (adverb) placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose | Synonyms: aside |
| (adverb) away from another or others | - |
| apartment | (noun) a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house | Synonyms: flat |
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| aperient | (adjective) mildly laxative | - |
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| (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: cathartic, physic, purgative |
| aphorist | (noun) someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms | - |
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| apiarist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiculturist, beekeeper |
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| apiculturist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, beekeeper |
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| apologist | (noun) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | Synonyms: justifier, vindicator |
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| apomict | (noun) a plant that reproduces or is reproduced by apomixis | - |
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| apparent | (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: evident, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
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| (adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so | Synonyms: ostensible, seeming |
| appeasement | (noun) the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of) | Synonyms: calming |
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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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| appetent | (adjective) marked by eager desire | - |
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| applecart | (noun) a handcart from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street | - |
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| (noun) the planning that is disrupted when someone `upsets the applecart' | - |
| applemint | (noun) mint with apple-scented stems of southern and western Europe; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: apple mint, Mentha rotundifolia, Mentha suaveolens |
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| applet | (noun) a Java application; an application program that uses the client's web browser to provide a user interface | - |
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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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| appoint | (verb) furnish | - |
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| (verb) assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to | Synonyms: charge |
| (verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: constitute, name, nominate |
| appointment | (noun) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | Synonyms: assignment, designation, naming |
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| (noun) the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed | - |
| (noun) (law) the act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment | - |
| (noun) (usually in the plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel) | Synonyms: fitting |
| (noun) a meeting arranged in advance | Synonyms: date, engagement |
| (noun) a person who is appointed to a job or position | Synonyms: appointee |
| apportionment | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, assignation, parceling, parcelling |
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| appurtenant | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, auxiliary |
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| apricot | (noun) a shade of pink tinged with yellow | Synonyms: peach, salmon pink, yellowish pink |
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| (noun) downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach | - |
| (noun) Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach | Synonyms: apricot tree |
| apt | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apposite, pertinent |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward | Synonyms: disposed, given, minded, tending |
| (adjective) mentally quick and resourceful | Synonyms: clever |
| (adjective) at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant | Synonyms: liable |
| aquanaut | (noun) an underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinder | Synonyms: skin-diver |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research | Synonyms: oceanaut |
| aquatint | (noun) a method of etching that imitates the broad washes of a water color | - |
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| (noun) an etching made by a process that makes it resemble a water color | - |
| (verb) etch in aquatint | - |
| aquavit | (noun) Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds | Synonyms: akvavit |
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| aqueduct | (noun) a conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley | - |
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| arbalest | (noun) late version of the crossbow with a steel bow | Synonyms: arbalist |
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| arbalist | (noun) late version of the crossbow with a steel bow | Synonyms: arbalest |
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| (noun) archer who uses an arbalest | - |
| arbitrament | (noun) the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment | Synonyms: arbitration, arbitrement |
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| arbitrement | (noun) the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment | Synonyms: arbitrament, arbitration |
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| arborescent | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| arboriculturist | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: forester, tree farmer |
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| arborist | (noun) a specialist in treating damaged trees | Synonyms: tree surgeon |
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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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| arccotangent | (noun) the inverse function of the cotangent; the angle that has a cotangent equal to a given number | Synonyms: arc cotangent, inverse cotangent |
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| archaeologist | (noun) an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture | Synonyms: archeologist |
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| archaist | (noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquarian, antiquary |
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| (noun) a person who archaizes | - |
| archeologist | (noun) an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture | Synonyms: archaeologist |
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| architect | (noun) someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings) | Synonyms: designer |
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| archivist | (noun) a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives | - |
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| archpriest | (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: hierarch, high priest, prelate, primate |
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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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| arctangent | (noun) the inverse function of the tangent; the angle that has a tangent equal to a given number | Synonyms: arc tangent, arctan, inverse tangent |
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| ardent | (adjective) glowing or shining like fire | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by strong enthusiasm | Synonyms: warm |
| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
| argent | (adjective) of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver | Synonyms: silver, silverish, silvery |
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| (noun) a metal tincture used in heraldry to give a silvery appearance | - |
| argonaut | (noun) someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure | - |
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| argot | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular |
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