| admirably | (adverb) in an admirable manner | Synonyms: commendable, laudably, praiseworthily |
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| admiralty | (noun) the office of admiral | - |
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| (noun) the department in charge of the navy (as in Great Britain) | - |
| admiringly | (adverb) with admiration | - |
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| admissibility | (noun) acceptability by virtue of being admissible | - |
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| admittedly | (adverb) as acknowledged | Synonyms: avowedly, confessedly, true |
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| 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 |
| adorability | (noun) extreme attractiveness | Synonyms: adorableness |
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| adorably | (adverb) in an adorable manner | Synonyms: endearingly |
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| adoringly | (adverb) with adoration | - |
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| adoxography | (noun) fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects | - |
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| adrenalectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands | Synonyms: suprarenalectomy |
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| adroitly | (adverb) with adroitness; in an adroit manner | - |
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| adulatory | (adjective) obsequiously complimentary | Synonyms: flattering |
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| adulterously | (adverb) in an adulterous manner | - |
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| adultery | (noun) extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations | Synonyms: criminal conversation, fornication |
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| advantageously | (adverb) in a manner affording benefit or advantage | Synonyms: well |
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| adverbially | (adverb) as an adverb | - |
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| adversary | (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister |
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| adversely | (adverb) in an adverse manner | - |
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| adversity | (noun) a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event | - |
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| (noun) a state of misfortune or affliction | Synonyms: hard knocks, hardship |
| advertency | (noun) the process of being heedful | Synonyms: advertence |
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| advertently | (adverb) in a careful deliberate manner | Synonyms: heedfully, mindfully |
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| advisability | (noun) the quality of being advisable | - |
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| advisedly | (adverb) with intention; in an intentional manner | Synonyms: by choice, by design, deliberately, designedly, intentionally, on purpose, purposely |
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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 | - |
| advocacy | (noun) active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something | Synonyms: protagonism |
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| aerially | (adverb) by means of aircraft | - |
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| aerify | (verb) turn into gas | Synonyms: gasify, vaporise, vaporize |
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| aerology | (noun) meteorology of the total extent of the atmosphere; especially the upper layers | - |
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| aerophilately | (noun) the collection and study of airmail stamps | - |
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| 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 |
| aesthetically | (adverb) in a tasteful way | Synonyms: esthetically |
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| aetiology | (noun) the philosophical study of causation | Synonyms: etiology |
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| (noun) the cause of a disease | Synonyms: etiology |
| affability | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affableness, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality |
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| affably | (adverb) in an affable manner | Synonyms: amiably, genially |
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| affectedly | (adverb) in an affected manner | - |
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| affectingly | (adverb) in a poignant or touching manner | Synonyms: poignantly, touchingly |
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| affectionately | (adverb) with affection | Synonyms: dear, dearly |
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| affinity | (noun) inherent resemblance between persons or things | - |
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| (noun) a natural attraction or feeling of kinship | - |
| (noun) the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule | Synonyms: chemical attraction |
| (noun) (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody | - |
| (noun) (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship | - |
| (noun) (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts | Synonyms: phylogenetic relation |
| (noun) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character | Synonyms: kinship |
| affirmatively | (adverb) in an affirmative manner | - |
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| affirmatory | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmative |
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| affray | (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: disturbance, fray, ruffle |
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| (noun) noisy quarrel | Synonyms: altercation, fracas |
| agency | (noun) to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end | Synonyms: means, way |
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| (noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office |
| (noun) a business or organization that provides a particular service, especially the mediation of transactions between two parties | - |
| (noun) the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent | Synonyms: delegacy, representation |
| (noun) the state of being in action or exerting power | - |
| aggravatingly | (adverb) in an aggravating fashion | - |
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| aggressively | (adverb) in an aggressive manner | Synonyms: sharply |
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| agilely | (adverb) in a nimble or agile manner; with quickness and lightness and ease | Synonyms: nimbly |
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| agility | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: legerity, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness |
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| agonizingly | (adverb) in a very painful manner | Synonyms: excruciatingly, torturously |
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| agony | (noun) intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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| (noun) a state of acute pain | Synonyms: excruciation, suffering |
| agreeability | (noun) a temperamental disposition to be agreeable | Synonyms: agreeableness |
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| agreeably | (adverb) in an enjoyable manner | Synonyms: enjoyably, pleasantly |
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| agrimony | (noun) a plant of the genus Agrimonia having spikelike clusters of small yellow flowers | Synonyms: agrimonia |
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| agrobiology | (noun) the study of plant nutrition and growth especially as a way to increase crop yield | - |
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| agrology | (noun) science of soils in relation to crops | - |
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| agronomy | (noun) the application of soil and plant sciences to land management and crop production | Synonyms: scientific agriculture |
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| aimlessly | (adverb) without aim; in an aimless manner | - |
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| airily | (adverb) in a flippant manner | Synonyms: flippantly |
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| airway | (noun) a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers | Synonyms: airline, airline business |
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| (noun) a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines) | Synonyms: air duct, air passage |
| (noun) the passages through which air enters and leaves the body | Synonyms: respiratory tract |
| (noun) a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another | Synonyms: air lane, flight path, skyway |
| airworthy | (adjective) (of aircraft) fit to fly | - |
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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 |
| alacrity | (noun) liveliness and eagerness | Synonyms: briskness, smartness |
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| alarmingly | (adverb) in an alarming manner | - |
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| alary | (adjective) having or resembling wings | Synonyms: alar, aliform, wing-shaped |
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| alchemy | (noun) a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times | - |
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| (noun) the way two individuals relate to each other | Synonyms: chemistry, interpersonal chemistry |
| alderfly | (noun) dark-colored insect having predaceous aquatic larvae | Synonyms: alder fly, Sialis lutaria |
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| aldermanly | (adjective) of or relating to or like an alderman | Synonyms: aldermanic |
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| aleatory | (adjective) dependent on chance | - |
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| alertly | (adverb) in mentally perceptive and responsive way | - |
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| algebraically | (adverb) in an algebraic manner | - |
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| algidity | (noun) prostration characterized by cold and clammy skin and low blood pressure | - |
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| algology | (noun) the branch of botany that studies algae | Synonyms: phycology |
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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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| alimony | (noun) court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated | Synonyms: maintenance |
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| alkalify | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalise, alkalize, basify |
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| alkalimetry | (noun) volumetric analysis using standard solutions of alkali to measure the amount of acid present | - |
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| alkalinity | (noun) pH values above 7 | - |
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| alky | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, souse |
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| allay | (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: assuage, quench, slake |
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| (verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: ease, relieve, still |
| allegedly | (adverb) according to what has been alleged | - |
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| allegorically | (adverb) in an allegorical manner | - |
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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 |
| allergology | (noun) the branch of medical science that studies the causes and treatment of allergies | - |
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| allergy | (noun) hypersensitivity reaction to a particular allergen; symptoms can vary greatly in intensity | Synonyms: allergic reaction |
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| alleviatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| alley | (noun) a narrow street with walls on both sides | Synonyms: alleyway, back street |
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| (noun) a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins | Synonyms: bowling alley, skittle alley |
| alleyway | (noun) a narrow street with walls on both sides | Synonyms: alley, back street |
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| alliteratively | (adverb) in an alliterative manner | - |
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| alloantibody | (noun) an antibody that occurs naturally against foreign tissues from a person of the same species | Synonyms: isoantibody |
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| allogamy | (noun) cross-fertilization in plants | - |
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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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| allopathy | (noun) the usual method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects differing from those produced by the disease itself | - |
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| allopatry | (noun) the occurrence of related organisms in separate geographical areas with no overlap | - |
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| allotropy | (noun) the phenomenon of an element existing in two or more physical forms | Synonyms: allotropism |
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| allowably | (adverb) in a permissible manner | Synonyms: permissibly |
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| alloy | (noun) the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something | Synonyms: admixture |
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| (noun) a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten | Synonyms: metal |
| (verb) lower in value by increasing the base-metal content | Synonyms: debase |
| (verb) make an alloy of | - |
| ally | (noun) a friendly nation | - |
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| (noun) an associate who provides cooperation or assistance | Synonyms: friend |
| (verb) become an ally or associate, as by a treaty or marriage | - |
| almighty | (adjective) having unlimited power | Synonyms: all-powerful, omnipotent |
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| alphabetically | (adverb) in alphabetical order | - |
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| already | (adverb) prior to a specified or implied time | - |
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