| alterability | (noun) the quality of being alterable | - |
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| alternately | (adverb) in an alternating sequence or position | - |
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| alternatively | (adverb) in place of, or as an alternative to | Synonyms: instead, or else |
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| altruistically | (adverb) in an altruistic manner | Synonyms: selflessly |
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| amateurishly | (adverb) in an amateurish manner | - |
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| amatory | (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amorous, romantic |
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| amazingly | (adverb) in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise | Synonyms: astonishingly, surprisingly |
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| ambidexterity | (noun) the property of being equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: ambidextrousness |
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| ambiguity | (noun) unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning | Synonyms: equivocalness |
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| (noun) an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context | - |
| ambiguously | (adverb) in an ambiguous manner | Synonyms: equivocally |
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| ambitiously | (adverb) with ambition; in an ambitious and energetic manner | Synonyms: determinedly |
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| ambivalency | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalence |
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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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| amenability | (noun) the trait of being cooperative | Synonyms: amenableness, cooperativeness |
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| amendatory | (adjective) effecting amendment | - |
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| amenity | (noun) pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions | Synonyms: agreeableness |
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| amiability | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, affableness, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality |
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| (noun) a cheerful and agreeable mood | Synonyms: good humor, good humour, good temper |
| amiably | (adverb) in an affable manner | Synonyms: affably, genially |
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| amicability | (noun) having a disposition characterized by warmth and friendliness | Synonyms: amicableness |
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| (noun) a disinclination to quarrel | Synonyms: amicableness |
| amicably | (adverb) in an amicable manner | - |
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| amity | (noun) a cordial disposition | Synonyms: cordiality |
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| (noun) a state of friendship and cordiality | - |
| ammonify | (verb) treat with ammonia; cause to undergo ammonification | - |
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| amnesty | (noun) the formal act of liberating someone | Synonyms: free pardon, pardon |
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| (noun) a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense | Synonyms: pardon |
| (noun) a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment | - |
| (verb) grant a pardon to (a group of people) | - |
| amorality | (noun) the quality of being amoral | - |
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| amorally | (adverb) without regard for morality | Synonyms: immorally |
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| amorously | (adverb) in an amorous manner | - |
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| amphibology | (noun) an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes | Synonyms: amphiboly |
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| amphiboly | (noun) an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes | Synonyms: amphibology |
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| amphictyony | (noun) an association of neighboring states or tribes in ancient Greece; established originally to defend a common religious center | - |
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| amphidiploidy | (noun) the condition of being amphidiploid | - |
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| amphigory | (noun) nonsensical writing (usually verse) | Synonyms: nonsense verse |
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| amplify | (verb) increase in size, volume or significance | Synonyms: magnify |
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| (verb) increase the volume of | - |
| (verb) exaggerate or make bigger | Synonyms: blow up, expand, inflate |
| (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
| amply | (adverb) to an ample degree or in an ample manner | Synonyms: richly |
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| (adverb) sufficiently; more than adequately | Synonyms: fully |
| ampullary | (adjective) of or related to an ampulla | Synonyms: ampullar |
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| amusingly | (adverb) in an entertaining and amusing manner | Synonyms: divertingly |
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| amygdalotomy | (noun) psychosurgery in which amygdaloid fibers that mediate limbic system activity are severed (in cases of extreme uncontrollable violence) | - |
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| amyotrophy | (noun) progressive wasting of muscle tissues | Synonyms: amyotrophia |
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| anachronistically | (adverb) in an anachronistic manner | - |
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| anaglyphy | (noun) the process of producing pictures in contrasting colors that appear three-dimensional when superimposed and viewed through spectacles with one red and one green lens | - |
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| analogously | (adverb) in an analogous manner | - |
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| analogy | (noun) drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect | - |
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| (noun) an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others | - |
| (noun) the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate | Synonyms: doctrine of analogy |
| analytically | (adverb) by virtue of analysis | - |
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| analyticity | (noun) the property of being analytic | - |
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| anaplasty | (noun) surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue | Synonyms: plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery |
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| anarchically | (adverb) in a lawless rebellious manner | - |
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| anarchy | (noun) a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government) | Synonyms: lawlessness |
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| anatomically | (adverb) with respect to anatomy | - |
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| anatomy | (noun) a detailed analysis | - |
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| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (noun) the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals | Synonyms: general anatomy |
| 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 |
| anchovy | (noun) small herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide | - |
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| (noun) tiny fishes usually canned or salted; used for hors d'oeuvres or as seasoning in sauces | - |
| anciently | (adverb) in ancient times; long ago | - |
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| ancillary | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary |
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| androgeny | (noun) male parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only paternal chromosomes due to the failure of the egg nucleus to participate in fertilization | Synonyms: androgenesis |
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| androgyny | (noun) showing characteristics of both sexes | Synonyms: bisexuality, hermaphroditism |
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| anemography | (noun) recording anemometrical measurements | - |
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| anemometry | (noun) measuring wind speed and direction | - |
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| anencephaly | (noun) a defect in brain development resulting in small or missing brain hemispheres | Synonyms: anencephalia |
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| anergy | (noun) reduction or lack of an immune response to a specific antigen | - |
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| (noun) inactivity and lack of energy | - |
| anesthesiology | (noun) the branch of medical science that studies and applies anesthetics | - |
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| aneuploidy | (noun) an abnormality involving a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number (one chromosome set is incomplete) | - |
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| angelically | (adverb) like an angel | - |
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| angelology | (noun) the branch of theology that is concerned with angels | - |
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| angiography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of blood vessels after injection of a radiopaque contrast medium; produces an angiogram | - |
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| angiology | (noun) the branch of medical science that studies the blood and lymph vessels and their disorders | - |
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| angiopathy | (noun) any disease of the blood vessels or lymph ducts | - |
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| angioplasty | (noun) an operation to repair a damaged blood vessel or unblock a coronary artery | - |
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| angrily | (adverb) with anger | - |
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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 | - |
| angularity | (noun) the property possessed by a shape that has angles | - |
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| (noun) a shape having one or more sharp angles | Synonyms: angular shape |
| animality | (noun) the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect | Synonyms: animal nature |
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| animatedly | (adverb) in an animated manner | - |
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| animosity | (noun) a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility | Synonyms: animus, bad blood |
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| anisogamy | (noun) (biology) reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size) | - |
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| anisotropically | (adverb) in an anisotropic manner | - |
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| anisotropy | (noun) the property of being anisotropic; having a different value when measured in different directions | - |
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| 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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| annoy | (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
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| annoyingly | (adverb) in an annoying manner or to an annoying degree | - |
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| annually | (adverb) without missing a year | Synonyms: each year, every year, yearly |
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| (adverb) by the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received) | Synonyms: each year, p.a., per annum, per year |
| annualry | (noun) the third finger (especially of the left hand) | Synonyms: ring finger |
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| annuity | (noun) income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments | Synonyms: rente |
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| annunciatory | (adjective) relating to the act of announcing or being announced | - |
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| anomalously | (adverb) in an anomalous manner | - |
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| anomaly | (noun) (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun) | - |
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| (noun) a person who is unusual | Synonyms: unusual person |
| (noun) deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule | Synonyms: anomalousness |
| anomy | (noun) lack of moral standards in a society | Synonyms: anomie |
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| (noun) personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation | Synonyms: anomie |
| anonymity | (noun) the state of being anonymous | Synonyms: namelessness |
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| anonymously | (adverb) without giving a name | - |
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| anorthography | (noun) a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion | Synonyms: agraphia, logagraphia |
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| answerability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerableness |
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| antagonistically | (adverb) in an antagonistic manner | - |
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| antecedency | (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, anteriority, precedence, precedency, priority |
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| antecedently | (adverb) at an earlier time or formerly | Synonyms: previously |
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| antennary | (adjective) of or relating to antennae | Synonyms: antennal |
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| anteriority | (noun) the quality of being in front or (in lower animals) toward the head | - |
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| (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, precedence, precedency, priority |
| anteriorly | (adverb) in an anterior direction | - |
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| anthology | (noun) a collection of selected literary passages | - |
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| anthropocentricity | (noun) an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values | Synonyms: anthropocentrism |
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| anthropogeny | (noun) the evolution or genesis of the human race | Synonyms: anthropogenesis |
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| anthropolatry | (noun) the worship of human beings | Synonyms: worship of man |
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