| apace | (adverb) with speed | Synonyms: chop-chop, in short order, quickly, rapidly, speedily |
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| (adverb) (poetic, literary) quickly | - |
| apache | (noun) a Parisian gangster | - |
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| apadana | (noun) the great hall in ancient Persian palaces | - |
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| apanage | (noun) a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family | Synonyms: appanage |
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| (noun) any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life | Synonyms: appanage |
| apar | (noun) South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates | Synonyms: three-banded armadillo, Tolypeutes tricinctus |
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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 | - |
| apartheid | (noun) a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa | - |
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| apartment | (noun) a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house | Synonyms: flat |
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| apathetic | (adjective) showing little or no emotion or animation | - |
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| (adjective) marked by a lack of interest | Synonyms: indifferent |
| apathetically | (adverb) in an apathetic manner | - |
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| apathy | (noun) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | Synonyms: indifference, numbness, spiritlessness |
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| (noun) an absence of emotion or enthusiasm | - |
| apatite | (noun) a common complex mineral consisting of calcium fluoride phosphate or calcium chloride phosphate; a source of phosphorus | - |
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| apatosaur | (noun) huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic | Synonyms: apatosaurus, Apatosaurus excelsus, brontosaur, brontosaurus, thunder lizard |
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| apatosaurus | (noun) huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic | Synonyms: apatosaur, Apatosaurus excelsus, brontosaur, brontosaurus, thunder lizard |
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| ape | (noun) any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all | - |
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| (noun) person who resembles a nonhuman primate | Synonyms: anthropoid |
| (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: aper, copycat, emulator, imitator |
| (verb) represent in or produce a caricature of | Synonyms: caricature |
| (verb) imitate uncritically and in every aspect | - |
| apelike | (adjective) being or given to servile imitation | Synonyms: apish |
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| (adjective) resembling apes | Synonyms: anthropoid, anthropoidal |
| aper | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, copycat, emulator, imitator |
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| apercu | (noun) a short synopsis | - |
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| aperea | (noun) South American cavy; possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig | Synonyms: Cavia porcellus, wild cavy |
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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 |
| aperiodic | (adjective) not recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: nonperiodic |
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| aperitif | (noun) alcoholic beverage taken before a meal as an appetizer | - |
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| aperture | (noun) an man-made opening; usually small | - |
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| (noun) a device that controls amount of light admitted | - |
| (noun) a natural opening in something | - |
| apery | (noun) the act of mimicking; imitative behavior | Synonyms: mimicry |
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| apetalous | (adjective) (of flowers) having no petals | Synonyms: petalless |
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| apex | (noun) the highest point (of something) | Synonyms: acme, peak, vertex |
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| (noun) the point on the celestial sphere toward which the sun and solar system appear to be moving relative to the fixed stars | Synonyms: apex of the sun's way, solar apex |
| aphaeresis | (noun) (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' | Synonyms: apheresis |
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| aphaeretic | (adjective) relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis | Synonyms: apheretic |
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| aphagia | (noun) loss of the ability to swallow | - |
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| aphakia | (noun) absence of the natural lens of the eye (usually resulting from the removal of cataracts) | - |
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| aphakic | (adjective) of or relating to or afflicted with aphakia | - |
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| (noun) someone afflicted by aphakia; someone lacking the natural lenses of the eyes | - |
| aphanite | (noun) fine-grained homogeneous rock (such as basalt) containing minerals undetectable by the naked eye | - |
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| aphanitic | (adjective) of or relating to aphanite | - |
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| aphasia | (noun) inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion | - |
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| aphasic | (adjective) related to or affected by aphasia | - |
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| (adjective) unable to speak because of a brain lesion | - |
| (noun) someone affected by aphasia or inability to use or understand language | - |
| aphelion | (noun) apoapsis in solar orbit; the point in the orbit of a planet or comet that is at the greatest distance from the sun | - |
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| apheresis | (noun) a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion | Synonyms: pheresis |
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| (noun) (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' | Synonyms: aphaeresis |
| apheretic | (adjective) relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis | Synonyms: aphaeretic |
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| aphesis | (noun) the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire' | - |
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| aphetic | (adjective) produced by aphesis | - |
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| aphid | (noun) any of various small plant-sucking insects | - |
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| aphonia | (noun) a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice | Synonyms: voicelessness |
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| aphonic | (adjective) being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech | Synonyms: voiceless |
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| aphorise | (verb) speak or write in aphorisms | Synonyms: aphorize |
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| aphorism | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: apophthegm, apothegm |
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| aphorist | (noun) someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms | - |
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| aphoristic | (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: axiomatic |
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| (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: apothegmatic, epigrammatic |
| aphorize | (verb) speak or write in aphorisms | Synonyms: aphorise |
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| aphotic | (adjective) lacking light; especially not reached by sunlight | - |
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| aphrodisia | (noun) a desire for heterosexual intimacy | - |
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| aphrodisiac | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiacal, sexy |
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| (noun) a drug or other agent that stimulates sexual desire | - |
| aphrodisiacal | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiac, sexy |
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| aphyllous | (adjective) devoid of leaves | - |
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| apian | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of bees | - |
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| apiarian | (adjective) relating to bees or beekeeping | - |
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| apiarist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiculturist, beekeeper |
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| apiary | (noun) a shed containing a number of beehives | Synonyms: bee house |
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| apical | (adjective) situated at an apex | - |
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| apicalization | (noun) (phonetics) An articulatory feature of phones, usually consonants, produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue. | - |
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| apiculate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a short sharply pointed tip | - |
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| apicultural | (adjective) relating to the care and breeding of bees | - |
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| apiculture | (noun) the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey | Synonyms: beekeeping |
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| apiculturist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, beekeeper |
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| apiece | (adverb) to or from every one of two or more (considered individually) | Synonyms: each, for each one, from each one, to each one |
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| apish | (adjective) being or given to servile imitation | Synonyms: apelike |
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| apishamore | (noun) a saddle blanket made of buffalo hide | - |
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| apivorous | (adjective) feeding on bees | - |
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| aplacental | (adjective) having no placenta | - |
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| aplacophoran | (noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle | Synonyms: solenogaster |
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| aplanatic | (adjective) free from or corrected for spherical aberration | - |
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| aplasia | (noun) failure of some tissue or organ to develop | - |
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| aplite | (noun) light-colored and fine-grained granitic rock consisting chiefly of quartz and feldspars | - |
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| aplitic | (adjective) of or related to aplite | - |
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| aplomb | (noun) great coolness and composure under strain | Synonyms: assuredness, cool, poise, sang-froid |
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| apnea | (noun) transient cessation of respiration | - |
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| apneic | (adjective) of or relating to apnea | Synonyms: apnoeic |
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| apnoeic | (adjective) of or relating to apnea | Synonyms: apneic |
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| apoapsis | (noun) (astronomy) the point in an orbit farthest from the body being orbited | Synonyms: point of apoapsis |
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| apocalypse | (noun) a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil | - |
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| apocalyptic | (adjective) of or relating to an apocalypse | - |
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| (adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom | Synonyms: apocalyptical, revelatory |
| apocalyptical | (adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom | Synonyms: apocalyptic, revelatory |
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| apocarpous | (adjective) (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in buttercups or roses | - |
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| apochromatic | (adjective) corrected for both chromatic and spherical aberration | - |
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| apocope | (noun) abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds | - |
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| apocrine | (adjective) (of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion | - |
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| apocryphal | (adjective) being of questionable authenticity | - |
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| apocryphalness | (noun) The property of being of doubtful authenticity, of lacking authority, or of not being regarded as canonical. | - |
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| (noun) The property of being of dubious veracity; of questionable accuracy or truthfulness. | - |
| apocynaceous | (adjective) of or relating to tropical plants of the family Apocynaceae | - |
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| apodal | (adjective) (of snakes and eels) naturally footless | Synonyms: apodous |
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| apodeictic | (adjective) of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | Synonyms: apodictic |
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| apodeme | (noun) ridge-like ingrowth of the exoskeleton of an arthropod that supports internal organs and provides attachment points for muscles | - |
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| apodictic | (adjective) of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | Synonyms: apodeictic |
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| apodous | (adjective) (of snakes and eels) naturally footless | Synonyms: apodal |
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| apoenzyme | (noun) a protein that combines with a coenzyme to form an active enzyme | - |
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| apogametic | (adjective) of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization | Synonyms: apogamic, apogamous |
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| apogamic | (adjective) of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization | Synonyms: apogametic, apogamous |
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| apogamous | (adjective) of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization | Synonyms: apogametic, apogamic |
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| apogamy | (noun) (botany) development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte without fertilization | - |
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| apogean | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of an apogee | - |
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| apogee | (noun) apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth | - |
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| (noun) a final climactic stage | Synonyms: culmination |