| accede | (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: bow, defer, give in, submit |
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| (verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: acquiesce, assent |
| (verb) take on duties or office | Synonyms: enter |
| accelerando | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in tempo | - |
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| (noun) a gradually increasing tempo of music | - |
| (adverb) with increasing speed | - |
| accelerate | (verb) move faster | Synonyms: quicken, speed, speed up |
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| (verb) cause to move faster | Synonyms: speed, speed up |
| accelerated | (adjective) speeded up, as of an academic course | - |
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| acceleration | (noun) the act of accelerating; increasing the speed | Synonyms: quickening, speedup |
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| (noun) an increase in rate of change | - |
| (noun) (physics) a rate of increase of velocity | - |
| accelerative | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: acceleratory |
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| accelerator | (noun) a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine | Synonyms: throttle, throttle valve |
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| (noun) a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles | Synonyms: atom smasher, particle accelerator |
| (noun) a pedal that controls the throttle valve | Synonyms: accelerator pedal, gas, gas pedal, gun, throttle |
| (noun) (chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected | Synonyms: catalyst |
| acceleratory | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: accelerative |
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| accelerometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring the acceleration of aircraft or rockets | - |
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| accent | (noun) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | Synonyms: emphasis, stress |
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| (noun) distinctive manner of oral expression | Synonyms: speech pattern |
| (noun) a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation | Synonyms: accent mark |
| (noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | Synonyms: dialect, idiom |
| (noun) special importance or significance | Synonyms: emphasis |
| (verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accentuate, stress |
| (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
| accented | (adjective) bearing a stress or accent | Synonyms: stressed |
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| (adjective) (used of syllables) bearing the principle stress, usually accompanied by a change in pitch | Synonyms: tonic |
| accenting | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accentuation, emphasizing |
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| accentor | (noun) small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasia | - |
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| accentual | (adjective) (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to accent or stress | - |
| accentuate | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accent, stress |
| accentuation | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accenting, emphasizing |
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| (noun) the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance | - |
| accept | (verb) consider or hold as true | - |
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| (verb) react favorably to; consider right and proper | - |
| (verb) tolerate or accommodate oneself to | Synonyms: live with, swallow |
| (verb) be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal | - |
| (verb) give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to | Synonyms: consent, go for |
| (verb) receive willingly something given or offered | Synonyms: have, take |
| (verb) take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person | Synonyms: assume, bear, take over |
| (verb) admit into a group or community | Synonyms: admit, take, take on |
| (verb) receive (a report) officially, as from a committee | - |
| (verb) make use of or accept for some purpose | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) be designed to hold or take | Synonyms: take |
| acceptability | (noun) satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards | Synonyms: acceptableness |
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| acceptable | (adjective) worthy of acceptance or satisfactory | - |
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| (adjective) adequate for the purpose | - |
| (adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: decent, satisfactory |
| (adjective) judged to be in conformity with approved usage | - |
| acceptableness | (noun) satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards | Synonyms: acceptability |
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| acceptably | (adverb) in an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner | Synonyms: so-so, tolerably |
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| acceptance | (noun) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | Synonyms: acceptation, adoption, espousal |
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| (noun) the act of taking something that is offered | - |
| (noun) a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations | Synonyms: sufferance, toleration |
| (noun) the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true | Synonyms: credence |
| (noun) (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract) | - |
| (noun) a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank | Synonyms: banker's acceptance |
| (noun) the state of being acceptable and accepted | - |
| acceptant | (adjective) accepting willingly | Synonyms: acceptive |
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| acceptation | (noun) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | Synonyms: acceptance, adoption, espousal |
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| (noun) the accepted meaning of a word | Synonyms: word meaning, word sense |
| (noun) acceptance as true or valid | - |
| accepted | (adjective) generally approved or compelling recognition | Synonyms: recognised, recognized |
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| accepting | (adjective) tolerating without protest | - |
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| acceptive | (adjective) inclined to accept rather than reject | - |
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| (adjective) accepting willingly | Synonyms: acceptant |
| acceptor | (noun) the person (or institution) who accepts a check or draft and becomes responsible for paying the party named in the draft when it matures | - |
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| (noun) (chemistry) in the formation of a coordinate bond it is the compound to which electrons are donated | - |
| access | (noun) the act of approaching or entering | - |
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| (noun) a way of entering or leaving | Synonyms: approach |
| (noun) (computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information | Synonyms: memory access |
| (noun) the right to enter | Synonyms: accession, admission, admittance, entree |
| (noun) the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership) | - |
| (noun) a code (a series of characters or digits) that must be entered in some way (typed or dialed or spoken) to get the use of something (a telephone line or a computer or a local area network etc.) | Synonyms: access code |
| (verb) reach or gain access to | Synonyms: get at |
| (verb) obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer | - |
| 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 |
| accessibility | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: availability, availableness, handiness |
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| (noun) the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with | Synonyms: approachability |
| accessible | (adjective) capable of being reached | - |
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| (adjective) easy to get along with or talk to; friendly | - |
| (adjective) easily obtained | - |
| (adjective) capable of being read with comprehension | Synonyms: approachable |
| accession | (noun) the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne) | Synonyms: rise to power |
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| (noun) the right to enter | Synonyms: access, admission, admittance, entree |
| (noun) agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly) | Synonyms: assenting |
| (noun) something added to what you already have | Synonyms: addition |
| (noun) (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement | - |
| (noun) a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group) | - |
| (verb) make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library | - |
| accessional | (adjective) of or constituting an accession | - |
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| accessorial | (adjective) nonessential but helpful | - |
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| 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 |
| acciaccatura | (noun) an embellishing note usually written in smaller size | Synonyms: appoggiatura, grace note |
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| accidence | (noun) the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words | Synonyms: inflectional morphology |
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| accident | (noun) anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause | Synonyms: chance event, fortuity, stroke |
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| (noun) an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury | - |
| accidental | (adjective) not of prime or central importance | Synonyms: incidental, nonessential |
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| (adjective) happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally | Synonyms: inadvertent |
| (noun) a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature | - |
| accidentally | (adverb) without advance planning | Synonyms: by chance, circumstantially, unexpectedly |
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| (adverb) without intention; in an unintentional manner | Synonyms: unintentionally |
| (adverb) of a minor or subordinate nature | Synonyms: incidentally |
| accipitrine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Accipiter (or to typical hawks) | - |
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| acclaim | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclamation, eclat, plaudit, plaudits |
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| (verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: hail, herald |
| (verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: applaud, clap, spat |
| acclamation | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclaim, eclat, plaudit, plaudits |
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| acclimate | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimatise, acclimatize |
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| acclimation | (noun) adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment) | Synonyms: acclimatisation, acclimatization |
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| acclimatisation | (noun) adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment) | Synonyms: acclimation, acclimatization |
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| acclimatise | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimate, acclimatize |
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| acclimatization | (noun) adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment) | Synonyms: acclimation, acclimatisation |
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| acclimatize | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimate, acclimatise |
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| acclivitous | (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: rising, uphill |
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| acclivity | (noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: ascent, climb, raise, rise, upgrade |
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| accolade | (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: award, honor, honour, laurels |
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| accommodate | (verb) make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose | Synonyms: adapt |
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| (verb) make (one thing) compatible with (another) | Synonyms: conciliate, reconcile |
| (verb) provide a service or favor for someone | Synonyms: oblige |
| (verb) provide with something desired or needed | - |
| (verb) be agreeable or acceptable to | Synonyms: fit, suit |
| (verb) provide housing for | Synonyms: lodge |
| (verb) have room for; hold without crowding | Synonyms: admit, hold |
| accommodating | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodative |
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| (adjective) obliging; willing to do favors | - |
| accommodatingly | (adverb) in accommodation | Synonyms: obligingly |
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| accommodation | (noun) the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need | - |
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| (noun) (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye | - |
| (noun) living quarters provided for public convenience | - |
| (noun) in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality | - |
| (noun) a settlement of differences | - |
| (noun) making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances | Synonyms: adjustment, fitting |
| accommodational | (adjective) of or relating to the accommodation of the lens of the eye | - |
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| accommodative | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodating |
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| (adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony | Synonyms: reconciling |
| (adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: cooperative |
| accommodator | (noun) someone who performs a service or does a favor | Synonyms: obliger |
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| accompanied | (adjective) having companions or an escort | - |
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| (adjective) playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment | Synonyms: attended |
| accompaniment | (noun) the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them | Synonyms: escort |
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| (noun) something added to complete or embellish or make perfect | Synonyms: complement |
| (noun) a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Synonyms: backup, musical accompaniment, support |
| (noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: attendant, co-occurrence, concomitant |
| accompanist | (noun) a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) | Synonyms: accompanyist |
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| accompany | (verb) perform an accompaniment to | Synonyms: follow, play along |
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| (verb) go or travel along with | - |
| (verb) be present or associated with an event or entity | Synonyms: attach to, come with, go with |
| (verb) be a companion to somebody | Synonyms: companion, company, keep company |
| accompanying | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| accompanyist | (noun) a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) | Synonyms: accompanist |
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| accomplice | (noun) a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) | Synonyms: confederate |
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| accomplish | (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill |
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| (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: achieve, attain, reach |
| accomplishable | (adjective) capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do | Synonyms: achievable, doable, manageable, realizable |
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| accomplished | (adjective) successfully completed or brought to an end | Synonyms: completed, realised, realized |
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| (adjective) settled securely and unconditionally | Synonyms: effected, established |
| (adjective) highly skilled | Synonyms: complete |
| accomplishment | (noun) the action of accomplishing something | Synonyms: achievement |
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| (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: acquirement, acquisition, attainment, skill |
| accord | (noun) sympathetic compatibility | - |
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| (noun) concurrence of opinion | Synonyms: accordance, conformity |
| (noun) a written agreement between two states or sovereigns | Synonyms: pact, treaty |
| (noun) harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: agreement |
| (verb) allow to have | Synonyms: allot, grant |
| (verb) go together | Synonyms: agree, concord, consort, fit in, harmonise, harmonize |
| accordance | (noun) the act of granting rights | Synonyms: accordance of rights |
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| (noun) concurrence of opinion | Synonyms: accord, conformity |
| accordant | (adjective) being in agreement or harmony; often followed by `with' | - |
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| (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: agreeable, concordant, conformable, consonant |
| according | (adjective) (followed by `to') in agreement with or accordant with | - |
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| (adjective) (followed by `to') as reported or stated by | - |
| accordingly | (adverb) (sentence connectors) because of the reason given | Synonyms: consequently |
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| (adverb) in accordance with | - |
| accordion | (noun) a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player | Synonyms: squeeze box |
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| accordionist | (noun) a musician who plays the accordion | - |
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| accost | (verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors | Synonyms: hook, solicit |
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| (verb) speak to someone | Synonyms: address, come up to |
| accouchement | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: childbearing, childbirth, vaginal birth |
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| accoucheur | (noun) a physician specializing in obstetrics | Synonyms: obstetrician |
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| accoucheuse | (noun) a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies | Synonyms: midwife |
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| account | (noun) the quality of taking advantage | - |
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| (noun) importance or value | - |
| (noun) a record or narrative description of past events | Synonyms: chronicle, history, story |
| (noun) an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered | Synonyms: bill, invoice |
| (noun) a short account of the news | Synonyms: news report, report, story, write up |
| (noun) a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc. | Synonyms: explanation |
| (noun) the act of informing by verbal report | Synonyms: report |
| (noun) grounds | Synonyms: score |
| (noun) a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance | Synonyms: account statement, accounting |
| (noun) a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services | Synonyms: business relationship |
| (verb) furnish a justifying analysis or explanation | Synonyms: answer for |
| (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: describe, report |
| (verb) keep an account of | Synonyms: calculate |
| (verb) be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something | - |
| accountability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: answerability, answerableness |
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| accountable | (adjective) liable to account for one's actions | Synonyms: answerable |
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| accountancy | (noun) the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business | Synonyms: accounting |
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| accountant | (noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: comptroller, controller |
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| accountantship | (noun) the position of accountant | - |
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| accounting | (noun) the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business | Synonyms: accountancy |
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| (noun) a system that provides quantitative information about finances | - |
| (noun) a convincing explanation that reveals basic causes | - |
| (noun) a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance | Synonyms: account, account statement |
| (noun) a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts | Synonyms: accounting system, method of accounting |
| accouter | (verb) provide with military equipment | Synonyms: accoutre |
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| accoutered | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutred |
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| accouterment | (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accessory, accoutrement |
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| accoutre | (verb) provide with military equipment | Synonyms: accouter |
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| accoutred | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutered |
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| accoutrement | (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accessory, accouterment |
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| accredit | (verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: credit |
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| (verb) grant credentials to | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) provide or send (envoys or ambassadors) with official credentials | - |
| accreditation | (noun) the act of granting credit or recognition (especially with respect to an educational institution that maintains suitable standards) | - |
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| accredited | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: commissioned, licenced, licensed |
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| accrete | (verb) grow together (of plants and organs) | Synonyms: grow together |
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| (verb) grow or become attached by accretion | - |
| accretion | (noun) (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance) | - |
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| (noun) an increase by natural growth or addition | Synonyms: accumulation |
| (noun) (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment | - |
| (noun) (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles | - |
| (noun) (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases | - |
| (noun) something contributing to growth or increase | - |