| artistry | (noun) a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation | Synonyms: art, prowess |
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| artlessly | (adverb) in an ingenuous manner | Synonyms: ingenuously |
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| (adverb) in a crude and unskilled manner | Synonyms: crudely, inexpertly |
| arty | (adjective) showily imitative of art or artists | - |
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| ascendancy | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendency | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, control, dominance |
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| ascetically | (adverb) in an ascetic manner | - |
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| asexuality | (noun) having no evident sex or sex organs | Synonyms: sexlessness |
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| asexually | (adverb) in an asexual manner | - |
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| ashamedly | (adverb) with a feeling of shame | - |
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| ashtray | (noun) a receptacle for the ash from smokers' cigars or cigarettes | - |
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| ashy | (adjective) of a light grey | Synonyms: ash-gray, ash-grey |
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| asininity | (noun) the quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with stubbornness | - |
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| asperity | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) harshness of manner | Synonyms: sharpness |
| assailability | (noun) vulnerability to forceful attack | - |
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| assay | (noun) a quantitative or qualitative test of a substance (especially an ore or a drug) to determine its components; frequently used to test for the presence or concentration of infectious agents or antibodies etc. | - |
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| (noun) an appraisal of the state of affairs | Synonyms: check |
| (noun) a written report of the results of an analysis of the composition of some substance | - |
| (noun) a substance that is undergoing an analysis of its components | - |
| (verb) analyze (chemical substances) | - |
| (verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: attempt, essay, seek, try |
| assembly | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assemblage, gathering |
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| (noun) the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: fabrication |
| (noun) a group of machine parts that fit together to form a self-contained unit | - |
| (noun) a public facility to meet for open discussion | Synonyms: forum, meeting place |
| (noun) a unit consisting of components that have been fitted together | - |
| (noun) a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose | - |
| assertively | (adverb) in an assertive manner | - |
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| assiduity | (noun) great and constant diligence and attention | Synonyms: assiduousness, concentration |
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| assiduously | (adverb) with care and persistence | - |
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| assimilability | (noun) Capability of being taken in and utilized as nourishment. | - |
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| assimilatory | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilating, assimilative |
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| associability | (noun) the capability of being easily associated or joined or connected in thought | Synonyms: associableness |
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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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| assuredly | (adverb) without a doubt | - |
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| astheny | (noun) an abnormal loss of strength | Synonyms: asthenia |
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| astonishingly | (adverb) in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise | Synonyms: amazingly, surprisingly |
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| astray | (adverb) away from the right path or direction | - |
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| (adverb) far from the intended target | Synonyms: wide |
| astringency | (noun) the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids | Synonyms: stypsis |
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| (noun) a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker | Synonyms: astringence |
| astrobiology | (noun) the branch of biology concerned with the effects of outer space on living organisms and the search for extraterrestrial life | Synonyms: exobiology, space biology |
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| astrolatry | (noun) the worship of planets or stars | Synonyms: worship of heavenly bodies |
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| astrology | (noun) a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon | Synonyms: star divination |
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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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| astronomically | (adverb) enormously | - |
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| astronomy | (noun) the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole | Synonyms: uranology |
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| astutely | (adverb) in a shrewd manner | Synonyms: acutely, sagaciously, sapiently, shrewdly |
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| asymmetrically | (adverb) in an asymmetrical manner | Synonyms: unsymmetrically |
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| asymmetry | (noun) (mathematics) a lack of symmetry | - |
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| asymptotically | (adverb) toward an asymptote | - |
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| asynchrony | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, desynchronisation, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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| asynergy | (noun) absence of coordination of organs or body parts that usually work together harmoniously | Synonyms: asynergia |
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| ataxy | (noun) inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait | Synonyms: ataxia, dyssynergia, motor ataxia |
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| atonality | (noun) the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system | Synonyms: atonalism |
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| atonally | (adverb) without tonality | - |
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| atonicity | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonia, atony |
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| atony | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonia, atonicity |
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| atopy | (noun) an allergic reaction that becomes apparent in a sensitized person only minutes after contact | Synonyms: atopic allergy, immediate allergy, type I allergic reaction |
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| atrociously | (adverb) in a terrible manner | Synonyms: abominably, abysmally, awfully, rottenly, terribly |
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| (adverb) to an extravagant or immoderate degree | Synonyms: outrageously |
| atrocity | (noun) an act of atrocious cruelty | Synonyms: inhumanity |
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| (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness |
| atrophy | (noun) any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use) | Synonyms: withering |
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| (noun) a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse | Synonyms: wasting, wasting away |
| (verb) undergo atrophy | - |
| attainability | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: achievability, attainableness |
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| attentively | (adverb) with attention; in an attentive manner | - |
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| attorney | (noun) a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice | Synonyms: lawyer |
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| attractively | (adverb) in a beautiful manner | Synonyms: beautifully |
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| attributively | (adverb) in an attributive manner | - |
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| atypicality | (noun) any state that is not typical | Synonyms: untypicality |
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| atypically | (adverb) in a manner that is not typical | Synonyms: untypically |
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| audaciously | (adverb) in an audacious manner | - |
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| audacity | (noun) fearless daring | Synonyms: audaciousness, temerity |
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| (noun) aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery | Synonyms: audaciousness |
| audibility | (noun) quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: audibleness |
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| audibly | (adverb) in an audible manner | - |
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| audiology | (noun) the measurement of hearing | Synonyms: audiometry |
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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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| aunty | (noun) the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle | Synonyms: aunt, auntie |
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| aurally | (adverb) with regard to sound or the ear | - |
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| aurify | (verb) turn golden | - |
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| (verb) transform into gold | - |
| auscultatory | (adjective) of or relating to auscultation | - |
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| auspiciously | (adverb) in an auspicious manner | Synonyms: propitiously |
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| austerely | (adverb) in an austere fashion | - |
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| austerity | (noun) the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Synonyms: asceticism, nonindulgence |
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| autarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autocracy |
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| (noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarky |
| autarky | (noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarchy |
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| authentically | (adverb) genuinely; with authority | Synonyms: genuinely |
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| authenticity | (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: genuineness, legitimacy |
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| authoritatively | (adverb) in an authoritative and magisterial manner | Synonyms: magisterially |
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| authority | (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so |
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| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization, sanction |
| (noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: assurance, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
| (noun) an authoritative written work | - |
| (noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office |
| (noun) an expert whose views are taken as definitive | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others | - |
| autoantibody | (noun) an antibody acting against tissues of the organism that produces it | - |
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| autobiography | (noun) a biography of yourself | - |
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| autochthony | (noun) nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place) | Synonyms: endemism, indigenousness |
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| autocracy | (noun) a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual | - |
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| (noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autarchy |
| autocratically | (adverb) in an autocratic manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator | Synonyms: dictatorially, magisterially |
| autogamy | (noun) self-fertilization in plants | - |
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| autogeny | (noun) a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter | Synonyms: abiogenesis, autogenesis, spontaneous generation |
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| autoimmunity | (noun) production of antibodies against the tissues of your own body; produces autoimmune disease or hypersensitivity reactions | - |
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| autolatry | (noun) the worship of yourself | Synonyms: idiolatry, self-worship |
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| automatically | (adverb) in a reflex manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a mechanical manner; by a mechanism | Synonyms: mechanically |
| autonomy | (noun) immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence | Synonyms: liberty |
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| (noun) personal independence | Synonyms: self-direction, self-reliance, self-sufficiency |
| autoplasty | (noun) surgical repair by using tissue from another part of the patient's own body | - |
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| (noun) tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person | Synonyms: autograft |
| autopsy | (noun) an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease | Synonyms: necropsy, PM, post-mortem, post-mortem examination, postmortem, postmortem examination |
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| (verb) perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem | - |
| autoradiography | (noun) producing a radiograph by means of the radiation emitted from the specimen being photographed | - |
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| autotomy | (noun) spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw of a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack | - |
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| autotypy | (noun) process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment | Synonyms: autotype |
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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 |
| availability | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: accessibility, availableness, handiness |
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| avariciously | (adverb) in a greedy manner | Synonyms: covetously, greedily |
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| aviary | (noun) a building where birds are kept | Synonyms: bird sanctuary, volary |
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| avidity | (noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidness, eagerness, keenness |
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| avidly | (adverb) in an avid manner | - |
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| avowedly | (adverb) by open declaration | Synonyms: professedly |
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| (adverb) as acknowledged | Synonyms: admittedly, confessedly, true |