| Term | Definition |
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| abase | To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade. |
| abbess | The lady superior of a nunnery. |
| abbey | The group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns. |
| abbot | The superior of a community of monks. |
| abdicate | To give up (royal power or the like). |
| abdominal | Of, pertaining to, or situated on the abdomen. |
| abed | In bed; on a bed. |
| aberration | Deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course. |
| abet | To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense). |
| abeyance | A state of suspension or temporary inaction. |
| abhorrence | The act of detesting extremely. |
| abhorrent | Very repugnant; hateful. |
| abidance | An abiding. |
| abject | Sunk to a low condition. |
| abjure | To recant, renounce, repudiate under oath. |
| able-bodied | Competent for physical service. |
| ablution | A washing or cleansing, especially of the body. |
| abnegate | To renounce (a right or privilege). |
| abnormal | Not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard. |
| abominable | Very hateful. |
| abominate | To hate violently. |
| abomination | A very detestable act or practice. |
| aboriginal | Primitive; unsophisticated. |
| aborigines | The original of earliest known inhabitants of a country. |
| aboveboard | &; Without concealment, fraud, or trickery. |
| abrade | To wear away the surface or some part of by friction. |
| abrasion | That which is rubbed off. |
| abridge | To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles. |
| abridgment | A condensed form as of a book or play. |
| abrogate | To abolish, repeal. |
| abrupt | Beginning, ending, or changing suddenly or with a break. |
| abscess | A Collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body. |
| abscission | The act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation. |
| abscond | To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest. |
| absence | The fact of not being present or available. |
| absent-minded | Lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business. |
| absolution | Forgiveness, or passing over of offenses. |
| absolve | To free from sin or its penalties. |
| absorb | To drink in or suck up, as a sponge absorbs water. |
| absorption | The act or process of absorbing. |
| abstain | To keep oneself back (from doing or using something). |
| abstemious | Characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink, food. |
| abstinence | Self denial. |
| abstruse | Dealing with matters difficult to be understood. |
| absurd | Inconsistent with reason or common sense. |
| abundant | Plentiful. |
| abusive | Employing harsh words or ill treatment. |
| abut | To touch at the end or boundary line. |
| abyss | Bottomless gulf. |
| academic | Of or pertaining to an academy, college, or university. |
| academician | A member of an academy of literature, art, or science. |
| academy | Any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught. |
| accede | To agree. |
| accelerate | To move faster. |
| accept | To take when offered. |
| access | A way of approach or entrance; passage. |
| accessible | Approachable. |
| accession | Induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government. |
| accessory | A person or thing that aids the principal agent. |
| acclaim | To utter with a shout. |
| accommodate | To furnish something as a kindness or favor. |
| accompaniment | A subordinate part or parts, enriching or supporting the leading part. |
| accompanist | One who or that which accompanies. |
| accompany | To go with, or be associated with, as a companion. |
| accomplice | An associate in wrong-doing. |
| accomplish | To bring to pass. |
| accordion | A portable free-reed musical instrument. |
| accost | To speak to. |
| account | A record or statement of receipts and expenditures, or of business transactions. |
| accouter | To dress. |
| accredit | To give credit or authority to. |
| accumulate | To become greater in quantity or number. |
| accuracy | Exactness. |
| accurate | Conforming exactly to truth or to a standard. |
| accursed | Doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune. |
| accusation | A charge of crime, misdemeanor, or error. |
| accusatory | Of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation. |
| accuse | To charge with wrong doing, misconduct, or error. |
| accustom | To make familiar by use. |
| acerbity | Sourness, with bitterness and astringency. |
| acetate | A salt of acetic acid. |
| acetic | Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of vinegar. |
| ache | To be in pain or distress. |
| Achillean | Invulnerable. |
| achromatic | Colorless, |
| acid | A sour substance. |
| acidify | To change into acid. |
| acknowledge | To recognize; to admit the genuineness or validity of. |
| acknowledgment | Recognition. |
| acme | The highest point, or summit. |
| acoustic | Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing. |
| acquaint | To make familiar or conversant. |
| acquiesce | To comply; submit. |
| acquiescence | Passive consent. |
| acquire | To get as one's own. |
| acquisition | Anything gained, or made one's own, usually by effort or labor. |
| acquit | To free or clear, as from accusation. |
| acquittal | A discharge from accusation by judicial action. |
| acquittance | Release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility. |
| acreage | Quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land. |
| acrid | Harshly pungent or bitter. |
| acrimonious | Full of bitterness. |
| acrimony | Sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper. |
| actionable | Affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words. |
| actuality | Any reality. |
| actuary | An officer, as of an insurance company, who calculates and states the risks and premiums. |
| actuate | To move or incite to action. |
| acumen | Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of discrimination. |
| acute | Having fine and penetrating discernment. |
| adamant | Any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability. |
| addendum | Something added, or to be added. |
| addle | To make inefficient or worthless; muddle. |
| adduce | To bring forward or name for consideration. |
| adhere | To stick fast or together. |
| adherence | Attachment. |
| adherent | Clinging or sticking fast. |
| adhesion | The state of being attached or joined. |
| adieu inter. Good-by | farewell. |
| adjacency | The state of being adjacent. |
| adjacent | That which is near or bordering upon. |
| adjudge | To award or bestow by formal decision. |
| adjunct | Something joined to or connected with another thing, but holding a subordinate place. |
| adjuration | A vehement appeal. |
| adjutant | Auxiliary. |
| administrator | One who manages affairs of any kind. |
| admissible | Having the right or privilege of entry. |
| admittance | Entrance, or the right or permission to enter. |
| admonish | To warn of a fault. |
| admonition | Gentle reproof. |
| ado | unnecessary activity or ceremony. |
| adoration | Profound devotion. |
| adroit | Having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers. |
| adulterant | An adulterating substance. |
| adulterate | To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients. |
| adumbrate | To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem. |
| advent | The coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage. |
| adverse | Opposing or opposed. |
| adversity | Misfortune. |
| advert | To refer incidentally. |
| advertiser | One who advertises, especially in newspapers. |
| advisory | Not mandatory. |
| advocacy | The act of pleading a cause. |
| advocate | One who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court. |
| aerial | Of, pertaining to, or like the air. |
| aeronaut | One who navigates the air, a balloonist. |
| aeronautics | the art or practice of flying aircraft |
| aerostat | A balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air. |
| aerostatics | The branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties. |
| affable | Easy to approach. |
| affect | To act upon |
| affectation | A studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt. |
| affiliate | Some auxiliary person or thing. |
| affirmative | Answering yes; to a question at issue. |
| affix | To fasten. |
| affluence | A profuse or abundant supply of riches. |
| affront | An open insult or indignity. |
| afire | &; On fire, literally or figuratively. |
| afoot | In progress. |
| aforesaid | Said in a preceding part or before. |
| afresh | Once more, after rest or interval. |
| afterthought | A thought that comes later than its appropriate or expected time. |
| agglomerate | To pile or heap together. |
| aggrandize | To cause to appear greatly. |
| aggravate | To make heavier, worse, or more burdensome. |
| aggravation | The fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc. |
| aggregate | The entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something. |
| aggress | To make the first attack. |
| aggression | An unprovoked attack. |
| aggrieve | To give grief or sorrow to. |
| aghast | Struck with terror and amazement. |
| agile | Able to move or act quickly, physically, or mentally. |
| agitate | To move or excite (the feelings or thoughts). |
| agrarian | Pertaining to land, especially agricultural land. |
| aide-de-camp | An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general. |
| ailment | Slight sickness. |
| airy | Delicate, ethereal. |
| akin | Of similar nature or qualities. |
| alabaster | A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum. |
| alacrity | Cheerful willingness. |
| albino | A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris. |
| album | A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like. |
| alchemy | Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold. |
| alcohol | A volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste. |
| alcoholism | A condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages. |
| alcove | A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room. |
| alder | Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family. |
| alderman | A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions. |
| aldermanship | The dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman. |
| alias | An assumed name. |
| alien | One who owes allegiance to a foreign government. |
| alienable | Capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands. |
| alienate | To cause to turn away. |
| alienation | Estrangement. |
| aliment | That which nourishes. |
| alkali | Anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc. |
| allay | To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate. |
| allege | To assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court. |
| allegory | The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness. |
| alleviate | To make less burdensome or less hard to bear. |
| alley | A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like. |
| alliance | Any combination or union for some common purpose. |
| allot | To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person. |
| allotment | Portion. |
| allude | To refer incidentally, or by suggestion. |
| allusion | An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it. |
| alluvion | Flood. |
| ally | A person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness. |
| almanac | A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information. |
| aloof | Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others. |
| altar | Any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned. |
| alter | To make change in. |
| alteration | Change or modification. |
| altercate | To contend angrily or zealously in words. |
| alternate | One chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other. |
| alternative | Something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of something else. |
| altitude | Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea. |
| alto | The lowest or deepest female voice or part. |
| altruism | Benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest. |
| altruist | One who advocates or practices altruism. |
| amalgam | An alloy or union of mercury with another metal. |
| amalgamate | To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body. |
| amateur | Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession. |
| amatory | Designed to excite love. |
| ambidextrous | Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease. |
| ambiguous | Having a double meaning. |
| ambitious | Eagerly desirous and aspiring. |
| ambrosial | Divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious. |
| ambulance | A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded. |
| ambulate | To walk about |
| ambush | The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy. |
| ameliorate | To relieve, as from pain or hardship |
| amenable | Willing and ready to submit. |
| Americanism | A peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States. |
| amicable | Done in a friendly spirit. |
| amity | Friendship. |
| amorous | Having a propensity for falling in love. |
| amorphous | Without determinate shape. |
| amour | A love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature. |
| ampere | The practical unit of electric-current strength. |
| ampersand | The character &; and. |
| amphibious | Living both on land and in water. |
| amphitheater | An edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena. |
| amplitude | Largeness. |
| amply | Sufficiently. |
| amputate | To remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body. |
| amusement | Diversion. |
| anachronism | Anything occurring or existing out of its proper time. |
| anagram | The letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase. |
| analogous | Corresponding (to some other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion, relations. |
| analogy | Reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed. |
| analyst | One who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method. |
| analyze | To examine minutely or critically. |
| anarchy | Absence or utter disregard of government. |
| anathema | Anything forbidden, as by social usage. |
| anatomy | That branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms. |
| ancestry | One's ancestors collectively. |
| anecdote | A brief account of some interesting event or incident. |
| anemia | Deficiency of blood or red corpuscles. |
| anemic | Affected with anemia. |
| anemometer | An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind. |
| anesthetic | Pertaining to or producing loss of sensation. |
| anew | Once more. |
| angelic | Saintly. |
| Anglophobia | Hatred or dread of England or of what is English. |
| Anglo-Saxon | The entire English race wherever found, as in Europe, the United States, or India. |
| angular | Sharp-cornered. |
| anhydrous | Withered. |
| animadversion | The utterance of criticism or censure. |
| animadvert | To pass criticism or censure. |
| animalcule | An animal of microscopic smallness. |
| animate | To make alive. |
| animosity | Hatred. |
| annalist | Historian. |
| annals | A record of events in their chronological order, year by year. |
| annex | To add or affix at the end. |
| annihilate | To destroy absolutely. |
| annotate | To make explanatory or critical notes on or upon. |
| annual | Occurring every year. |
| annuity | An annual allowance, payment, or income. |
| annunciation | Proclamation. |
| anode | The point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like. |
| anonymous | Of unknown authorship. |
| antagonism | Mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces, principles, or persons. |
| Antarctic | Pertaining to the south pole or the regions near it. |
| ante | In the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt. |
| antecede | To precede. |
| antecedent | One who or that which precedes or goes before, as in time, place, rank, order, or causality. |
| antechamber | A waiting room for those who seek audience. |
| antedate | To assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one. |
| antediluvian | Of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah. |
| antemeridian | Before noon. |
| antemundane | Pertaining to time before the world's creation. |
| antenatal | Occurring or existing before birth. |
| anterior | Prior. |
| anteroom | A room situated before and opening into another, usually larger. |
| anthology | A collection of extracts from the writings of various authors. |
| anthracite | Hard coal. |
| anthropology | The science of man in general. |
| anthropomorphous | Having or resembling human form. |
| antic | A grotesque, ludicrous, or fantastic action. |
| Antichrist | Any opponent or enemy of Christ, whether a person or a power. |
| anticlimax | A gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said. |
| anticyclone | An atmospheric condition of high central pressure, with currents flowing outward. |
| antidote | Anything that will counteract or remove the effects of poison, disease, or the like. |
| antilogy | Inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas. |
| antipathize | To show or feel a feeling of antagonism, aversion, or dislike. |
| antiphon | A response or alteration of responses, generally musical. |
| antiphony | An anthem or other composition sung responsively. |
| antipodes | A place or region on the opposite side of the earth. |
| antiquary | One who collects and examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc. |
| antiquate | To make old or out of date. |
| antique | Pertaining to ancient times. |
| antiseptic | Anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms. |
| antislavery | Opposed to human slavery. |
| antispasmodic | Tending to prevent or relieve non-inflammatory spasmodic affections. |
| antistrophe | The inversion of terms in successive classes, as in "the home of joy and the joy of home". |
| antitoxin | A substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms. |
| antonym | A word directly opposed to another in meaning. |
| anxious | Distressed in mind respecting some uncertain matter. |
| apathy | Insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling. |
| aperture | Hole. |
| apex | The highest point, as of a mountain. |
| aphorism | Proverb. |
| apiary | A place where bees are kept. |
| apogee | The climax. |
| apology | A disclaimer of intentional error or offense. |
| apostasy | A total departure from one's faith or religion. |
| apostate | False. |
| apostle | Any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority. |
| apothecary | One who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions. |
| apotheosis | Deification. |
| appall | To fill with dismay or horror. |
| apparent | Easily understood. |
| apparition | Ghost. |
| appease | To soothe by quieting anger or indignation. |
| appellate | Capable of being appealed to. |
| appellation | The name or title by which a particular person, class, or thing is called. |
| append | To add or attach, as something accessory, subordinate, or supplementary. |
| appertain | To belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession, or natural relation. |
| apposite | Appropriate. |
| apposition | The act of placing side by side, together, or in contact. |
| appraise | To estimate the money value of. |
| appreciable | Capable of being discerned by the senses or intellect. |
| apprehend | To make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law. |
| apprehensible | Capable of being conceived. |
| approbation | Sanction. |
| appropriate | Suitable for the purpose and circumstances. |
| aqueduct | A water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance. |
| aqueous | Of, pertaining to, or containing water. |
| arbiter | One chosen or appointed, by mutual consent of parties in dispute, to decide matters. |
| arbitrary | Fixed or done capriciously. |
| arbitrate | To act or give judgment as umpire. |
| arbor | A tree. |
| arboreal | Of or pertaining to a tree or trees. |
| arborescent | Having the nature of a tree. |
| arboretum | A botanical garden or place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs. |
| arboriculture | The cultivation of trees or shrubs. |
| arcade | A vaulted passageway or street; a roofed passageway having shops, etc., opening from it. |
| archaic | Antiquated |
| archaism | Obsolescence. |
| archangel | An angel of high rank. |
| archbishop | The chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and Anglican church. |
| archdeacon | A high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese. |
| archaeology | The branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man. |
| archetype | A prototype. |
| archipelago | Any large body of water studded with islands, or the islands collectively themselves. |
| ardent | Burning with passion. |
| ardor | Intensity of passion or affection. |
| arid | Very dry. |
| aristocracy | A hereditary nobility |
| aristocrat | A hereditary noble or one nearly connected with nobility. |
| armada | A fleet of war-vessels. |
| armful | As much as can be held in the arm or arms. |
| armory | An arsenal. |
| aroma | An agreeable odor. |
| arraign | To call into court, as a person indicted for crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not. |
| arrange | To put in definite or proper order. |
| arrangement | The act of putting in proper order, or the state of being put in order. |
| arrant | Notoriously bad. |
| arrear | Something overdue and unpaid. |
| arrival | A coming to stopping-place or destination. |
| arrogant | Unduly or excessively proud, as of wealth, station, learning, etc. |
| arrogate | To take, demand, or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds. |
| Artesian well | A very deep bored well. water rises due to underground pressure |
| artful | Characterized by craft or cunning. |
| Arthurian | Pertaining to King Arthur, the real or legendary hero of British poetic story. |
| artifice | Trickery. |
| artless | Ingenuous. |
| ascendant | Dominant. |
| ascension | The act of rising. |
| ascent | A rising, soaring, or climbing. |
| ascetic | Given to severe self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion. |
| ascribe | To assign as a quality or attribute. |
| asexual | Having no distinct sexual organs. |
| ashen | Pale. |
| askance | With a side or indirect glance or meaning. |
| asperity | Harshness or roughness of temper. |
| aspirant | One who seeks earnestly, as for advancement, honors, place. |
| aspiration | An earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach. |
| aspire | To have an earnest desire, wish, or longing, as for something high and good, not yet attained. |
| assailant | One who attacks. |
| assassin | One who kills, or tries to kill, treacherously or secretly. |
| assassinate | To kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person. |
| assassination | Murderer, as by secret assault or treachery. |
| assay | The chemical analysis or testing of an alloy ore. |
| assent | To express agreement with a statement or matter of opinion. |
| assess | To determine the amount of (a tax or other sum to be paid). |
| assessor | An officer whose duty it is to assess taxes. |
| assets | pl. Property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts. |
| assiduous | Diligent. |
| assignee | One who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests. |
| assimilate | To adapt. |
| assonance | Resemblance or correspondence in sound. |
| assonant | Having resemblance of sound. |
| assonate | To accord in sound, especially vowel sound. |
| assuage | To cause to be less harsh, violent, or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain, or disease. |
| astringent | Harsh in disposition or character. |
| astute | Keen in discernment. |
| atheism | The denial of the existence of God. |
| athirst | Wanting water. |
| athwart | From side to side. |
| atomizer | An apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc. |
| atone | To make amends for. |
| atonement | Amends, reparation, or expiation made from wrong or injury. |
| atrocious | Outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel. |
| atrocity | Great cruelty or reckless wickedness. |
| attache | A subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy. |
| attest | To certify as accurate, genuine, or true. |
| attorney-general | The chief law-officer of a government. |
| auburn | Reddish-brown, said usually of the hair. |
| audacious | Fearless. |
| audible | Loud enough to be heard. |
| audition | The act or sensation of hearing. |
| auditory | Of or pertaining to hearing or the organs or sense of hearing. |
| augment | To make bigger. |
| augur | To predict. |
| Augustinian | Pertaining to St. Augustine, his doctrines, or the religious orders called after him. |
| aura | Pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons |
| aural | Of or pertaining to the ear. |
| auricle | One of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins. |
| auricular | Of or pertaining to the ear, its auricle, or the sense of hearing. |
| auriferous | Containing gold. |
| aurora | A luminous phenomenon in the upper regions of the atmosphere. |
| auspice | favoring, protecting, or propitious influence or guidance. |
| austere | Severely simple; unadorned. |
| autarchy | Unrestricted power. |
| authentic | Of undisputed origin. |
| authenticity | The state or quality of being genuine, or of the origin and authorship claimed. |
| autobiography | The story of one's life written by himself. |
| autocracy | Absolute government. |
| autocrat | Any one who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence. |
| automaton | Any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical. |
| autonomous | Self-governing. |
| autonomy | Self-government. |
| autopsy | The examination of a dead body by dissection to ascertain the cause of death. |
| autumnal | Of or pertaining to autumn. |
| auxiliary | One who or that which aids or helps, especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory. |
| avalanche | The fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock. |
| avarice | Passion for getting and keeping riches. |
| aver | To assert as a fact. |
| averse | Reluctant. |
| aversion | A mental condition of fixed opposition to or dislike of some particular thing. |
| avert | To turn away or aside. |
| aviary | A spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept. |
| avidity | Greediness. |
| avocation | Diversion. |
| avow | To declare openly. |
| awaken | To arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like. |
| awry | &; Out of the proper form, direction, or position. |
| aye | An expression of assent. |
| azalea | A flowering shrub. |
| azure | The color of the sky. |
| Baconian | Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon or his system of philosophy. |
| bacterium | A microbe. |
| badger | To pester. |
| baffle | To foil or frustrate. |
| bailiff | An officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment. |
| baize | A single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc. |
| bale | A large package prepared for transportation or storage. |
| baleful | Malignant. |
| ballad | Any popular narrative poem, often with epic subject and usually in lyric form. |
| balsam | A medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing. |
| banal | Commonplace. |
| barcarole | A boat-song of Venetian gondoliers. |
| barograph | An instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure. |
| barometer | An instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface. |
| baritone | Having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor. |
| bask | To make warm by genial heat. |
| bass | Low in tone or compass. |
| baste | To cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking. |
| baton | An official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege. |
| battalion | A body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment. |
| batten | A narrow strip of wood. |
| batter | A thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together, to be used in cookery. |
| bauble | A trinket. |
| bawl | To proclaim by outcry. |
| beatify | To make supremely happy. |
| beatitude | Any state of great happiness. |
| beau | An escort or lover. |
| becalm | To make quiet. |
| beck | To give a signal to, by nod or gesture. |
| bedaub | To smear over, as with something oily or sticky. |
| bedeck | To cover with ornament. |
| bedlam | Madhouse. |
| befog | To confuse. |
| befriend | To be a friend to, especially when in need. |
| beget | To produce by sexual generation. |
| begrudge | To envy one of the possession of. |
| belate | To delay past the proper hour. |
| belay | To make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat. |
| belie | To misrepresent. |
| believe | To accept as true on the testimony or authority of others. |
| belittle | To disparage. |
| belle | A woman who is a center of attraction because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc. |
| bellicose | Warlike. |
| belligerent | Manifesting a warlike spirit. |
| bemoan | To lament |
| benediction | a solemn invocation of the divine blessing. |
| benefactor | A doer of kindly and charitable acts. |
| benefice | A church office endowed with funds or property for the maintenance of divine service. |
| beneficent | Characterized by charity and kindness. |
| beneficial | Helpful. |
| beneficiary | One who is lawfully entitled to the profits and proceeds of an estate or property. |
| benefit | Helpful result. |
| benevolence | Any act of kindness or well-doing. |
| benevolent | Loving others and actively desirous of their well-being. |
| benign | Good and kind of heart. |
| benignant | Benevolent in feeling, character, or aspect. |
| benignity | Kindness of feeling, disposition, or manner. |
| benison | Blessing. |
| bequeath | To give by will. |
| bereave | To make desolate with loneliness and grief. |
| berth | A bunk or bed in a vessel, sleeping-car, etc. |
| beseech | To implore. |
| beset | To attack on all sides. |
| besmear | To smear over, as with any oily or sticky substance. |
| bestial | Animal. |
| bestrew | To sprinkle or cover with things strewn. |
| bestride | To get or sit upon astride, as a horse. |
| bethink | To remind oneself. |
| betide | To happen to or befall. |
| betimes | In good season or time. |
| betroth | To engage to marry. |
| betrothal | Engagement to marry. |
| bevel | Any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees. |
| bewilder | To confuse the perceptions or judgment of. |
| bibliomania | The passion for collecting books. |
| bibliography | A list of the words of an author, or the literature bearing on a particular subject. |
| bibliophile | One who loves books. |
| bibulous | Fond of drinking. |
| bide | To await. |
| biennial | A plant that produces leaves and roots the first year and flowers and fruit the second. |
| bier | A horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave. |
| bigamist | One who has two spouses at the same time. |
| bigamy | The crime of marrying any other person while having a legal spouse living. |
| bight | A slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coast-line. |
| bilateral | Two-sided. |
| bilingual | Speaking two languages. |
| biograph | A bibliographical sketch or notice. |
| biography | A written account of one's life, actions, and character. |
| biology | The science of life or living organisms. |
| biped | An animal having two feet. |
| birthright | A privilege or possession into which one is born. |
| bitterness | Acridity, as to the taste. |
| blase | Sated with pleasure. |
| blaspheme | To indulge in profane oaths. |
| blatant | Noisily or offensively loud or clamorous. |
| blaze | A vivid glowing flame. |
| blazon | To make widely or generally known. |
| bleak | Desolate. |
| blemish | A mark that mars beauty. |
| blithe | Joyous. |
| blithesome | Cheerful. |
| blockade | The shutting up of a town, a frontier, or a line of coast by hostile forces. |
| boatswain | A subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc. |
| bodice | A women's ornamental corset-shaped laced waist. |
| bodily | Corporeal. |
| boisterous | Unchecked merriment or animal spirits. |
| bole | The trunk or body of a tree. |
| bolero | A Spanish dance, illustrative of the passion of love, accompanied by caste nets and singing. |
| boll | A round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton. |
| bolster | To support, as something wrong. |
| bomb | A hollow projectile containing an explosive material. |
| bombard | To assail with any missile or with abusive speech. |
| bombardier | A person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells. |
| bombast | Inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects. |
| boorish | Rude. |
| bore | To weary by tediousness or dullness. |
| borough | An incorporated village or town. |
| bosom | The breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman. |
| botanical | Connected with the study or cultivation of plants. |
| botanize | To study plant-life. |
| botany | The science that treats of plants. |
| bountiful | Showing abundance. |
| Bowdlerize | To expurgate in editing (a literary composition) by omitting words or passages. |
| bowler | In cricket, the player who delivers the ball. |
| boycott | To place the products or merchandise of under a ban. |
| brae | Hillside. |
| braggart | A vain boaster. |
| brandish | To wave, shake, or flourish triumphantly or defiantly, as a sword or spear. |
| bravado | An aggressive display of boldness. |
| bray | A loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or the blast of a horn. |
| braze | To make of or ornament with brass. |
| brazier | An open pan or basin for holding live coals. |
| breach | The violation of official duty, lawful right, or a legal obligation. |
| breaker | One who trains horses, dogs, etc. |
| breech | The buttocks. |
| brethren | pl. Members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association, or the like. |
| brevity | Shortness of duration. |
| bric-a-brac | Objects of curiosity or for decoration. |
| bridle | The head-harness of a horse consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and the reins. |
| brigade | A body of troops consisting of two or more regiments. |
| brigadier | General officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general. |
| brigand | One who lives by robbery and plunder. |
| brimstone | Sulfur. |
| brine | Water saturated with salt. |
| bristle | One of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: used in brush-making, etc. |
| Britannia | The United Kingdom of Great Britain. |
| Briticism | A word, idiom, or phrase characteristic of Great Britain or the British. |
| brittle | Fragile. |
| broach | To mention, for the first time. |
| broadcast | Disseminated far and wide. |
| brogan | A coarse, heavy shoe. |
| brogue | Any dialectic pronunciation of English, especially that of the Irish people. |
| brokerage | The business of making sales and purchases for a commission; a broker. |
| bromine | A dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid element with a suffocating odor. |
| bronchitis | Inflammation of the bronchial tubes. |
| bronchus | Either of the two subdivisions of the trachea conveying air into the lungs. |
| brooch | An article of jewelry fastened by a hinged pin and hook on the underside. |
| brotherhood | Spiritual or social fellowship or solidarity. |
| browbeat | To overwhelm, or attempt to do so, by stern, haughty, or rude address or manner. |
| brusque | Somewhat rough or rude in manner or speech. |
| buffoon | A clown. |
| buffoonery | Low drollery, coarse jokes, etc. |
| bulbous | Of, or pertaining to, or like a bulb. |
| bullock | An ox. |
| bulrush | Any one of various tall rush-like plants growing in damp ground or water. |
| bulwark | Anything that gives security or defense. |
| bumper | A cup or glass filled to the brim, especially one to be drunk as a toast or health. |
| bumptious | Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit. |
| bungle | To execute clumsily. |
| buoyancy | Power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas. |
| buoyant | Having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat. |
| bureau | A chest of drawers for clothing, etc. |
| bureaucracy | Government by departments of men transacting particular branches of public business. |
| burgess | In colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of Maryland or Virginia. |
| burgher | An inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town. |
| burnish | To make brilliant or shining. |
| bursar | A treasurer. |
| bustle | To hurry. |
| butt | To strike with or as with the head, or horns. |
| butte | A conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated. |
| buttress | Any support or prop. |
| by-law | A rule or law adopted by an association, a corporation, or the like. |
| cabal | A number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose. |
| cabalism | Superstitious devotion to one's religion. |
| cabinet | The body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation. |
| cacophony | A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones. |
| cadaverous | Resembling a corpse. |
| cadence | Rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops. |
| cadenza | An embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument. |
| caitiff | Cowardly. |
| cajole | To impose on or dupe by flattering speech. |
| cajolery | Delusive speech. |
| calculable | That may be estimated by reckoning. |
| calculus | A concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness. |
| callosity | The state of being hard and insensible. |
| callow | Without experience of the world. |
| calorie | Amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree centigrade. |
| calumny | Slander. |
| Calvary | The place where Christ was crucified. |
| Calvinism | The system of doctrine taught by John Calvin. |
| Calvinize | To teach or imbue with the doctrines of Calvinism. |
| came | A leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows. |
| cameo | Any small engraved or carved work in relief. |
| campaign | A complete series of connected military operations. |
| Canaanite | A member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the land of Canaan, or western Palestine. |
| canary | Of a bright but delicate yellow. |
| candid | Straightforward. |
| candor | The quality of frankness or outspokenness. |
| canine | Characteristic of a dog. |
| canon | Any rule or law. |
| cant | To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity. |
| cantata | A choral composition. |
| canto | One of the divisions of an extended poem. |
| cantonment | The part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered. |
| capacious | Roomy. |
| capillary | A minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells. |
| capitulate | To surrender or stipulate terms. |
| caprice | A whim. |
| caption | A heading, as of a chapter, section, document, etc. |
| captious | Hypercritical. |
| captivate | To fascinate, as by excellence. eloquence, or beauty. |
| carcass | The dead body of an animal. |
| cardiac | Pertaining to the heart. |
| cardinal | Of prime or special importance. |
| caret | A sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted. |
| caricature | a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted. |
| carnage | Massacre. |
| carnal | Sensual. |
| carnivorous | Eating or living on flesh. |
| carouse | To drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner. |
| carrion | Dead and putrefying flesh. |
| cartilage | An elastic animal tissue of firm consistence. |
| cartridge | A charge for a firearm, or for blasting. |
| caste | The division of society on artificial grounds. |
| castigate | To punish. |
| casual | Accidental, by chance. |
| casualty | A fatal or serious accident or disaster. |
| cataclysm | Any overwhelming flood of water. |
| cataract | Opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness. |
| catastrophe | Any great and sudden misfortune or calamity. |
| cathode | The negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery. |
| Catholicism | The system, doctrine, and practice of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| catholicity | Universal prevalence or acceptance. |
| cat-o-nine-tails | An instrument consisting of nine pieces of cord, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy. |
| caucus | A private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates. |
| causal | Indicating or expressing a cause. |
| caustic | Sarcastic and severe. |
| cauterize | To burn or sear as with a heated iron. |
| cede | To pass title to. |
| censor | An official examiner of manuscripts empowered to prohibit their publication. |
| censorious | Judging severely or harshly. |
| census | An official numbering of the people of a country or district. |
| centenary | Pertaining to a hundred years or a period of a hundred years. |
| centiliter | A hundredth of a liter. |
| centimeter | A length of one hundredth of a meter. |
| centurion | A captain of a company of one hundred infantry in the ancient Roman army. |
| cereal | Pertaining to edible grain or farinaceous seeds. |
| ceremonial | Characterized by outward form or ceremony. |
| ceremonious | Observant of ritual. |
| cessation | Discontinuance, as of action or motion. |
| cession | Surrender, as of possessions or rights. |
| chagrin | Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, as at one's failures or errors. |
| chameleon | Changeable in appearance. |
| chancery | A court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court. |
| chaos | Any condition of which the elements or parts are in utter disorder and confusion. |
| characteristic | A distinctive feature. |
| characterize | To describe by distinctive marks or peculiarities. |
| charlatan | A quack. |
| chasm | A yawning hollow, as in the earth's surface. |
| chasten | To purify by affliction. |
| chastise | To subject to punitive measures. |
| chastity | Sexual or moral purity. |
| chateau | A castle or manor-house. |
| chattel | Any article of personal property. |
| check | To hold back. |
| chiffon | A very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc. |
| chivalry | The knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices. |
| cholera | An acute epidemic disease. |
| choleric | Easily provoked to anger. |
| choral | Pertaining to, intended for, or performed by a chorus or choir. |
| Christ | A title of Jesus |
| christen | To name in baptism. |
| Christendom | That part of the world where Christianity is generally professed. |
| chromatic | Belonging, relating to, or abounding in color. |
| chronology | The science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events. |
| chronometer | A portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision. |
| cipher | To calculate arithmetically. (also a noun meaning zero or nothing) |
| circulate | To disseminate. |
| circumference | The boundary-line of a circle. |
| circumlocution | Indirect or roundabout expression. |
| circumnavigate | To sail quite around. |
| circumscribe | To confine within bounds. |
| circumspect | Showing watchfulness, caution, or careful consideration. |
| citadel | Any strong fortress. |
| cite | To refer to specifically. |
| claimant | One who makes a claim or demand, as of right. |
| clairvoyance | Intuitive sagacity or perception. |
| clamorous | Urgent in complaint or demand. |
| clan | A tribe. |
| clandestine | Surreptitious. |
| clangor | Clanking or a ringing, as of arms, chains, or bells; clamor. |
| clarify | To render intelligible. |
| clarion | A small shrill trumpet or bugle. |
| classify | To arrange in a class or classes on the basis of observed resemblance's and differences. |
| clearance | A certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail. |
| clemency | Mercy. |
| clement | Compassionate. |
| close-hauled | Having the sails set for sailing as close to the wind as possible. |
| clothier | One who makes or sells cloth or clothing. |
| clumsy | Awkward of movement. |
| coagulate | To change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action, or by a ferment. |
| coagulant | Producing coagulation. |
| coalescence | The act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination, or product. |
| coalition | Combination in a body or mass. |
| coddle | To treat as a baby or an invalid. |
| codicil | A supplement adding to, revoking, or explaining in the body of a will. |
| coerce | To force. |
| coercion | Forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical. |
| coercive | Serving or tending to force. |
| cogent | Appealing strongly to the reason or conscience. |
| cognate | Akin. |
| cognizant | Taking notice. |
| cohere | To stick together. |
| cohesion | Consistency. |
| cohesive | Having the property of consistency. |
| coincide | To correspond. |
| coincidence | A circumstance so agreeing with another: often implying accident. |
| coincident | Taking place at the same time. |
| collaborate | To labor or cooperate with another or others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits. |
| collapse | To cause to shrink, fall in, or fail. |
| collapsible | That may or can collapse. |
| colleague | An associate in professional employment. |
| collective | Consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass, or sum. |
| collector | One who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books, or the like. |
| collegian | A college student. |
| collide | To meet and strike violently. |
| collier | One who works in a coal-mine. |
| collision | Violent contact. |
| colloquial | Pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary. |
| colloquialism | Form of speech used only or chiefly in conversation. |
| colloquy | Conversation. |
| collusion | A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose. |
| colossus | Any strikingly great person or object. |
| comely | Handsome. |
| comestible | Fit to be eaten. |
| comical | Funny. |
| commemorate | To serve as a remembrance of. |
| commentary | A series of illustrative or explanatory notes on any important work. |
| commingle | To blend. |
| commissariat | The department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs. |
| commission | To empower. |
| commitment | The act or process of entrusting or consigning for safe-keeping. |
| committal | The act, fact, or result of committing, or the state of being |
| commodity | Something that is bought and sold. |
| commotion | A disturbance or violent agitation. |
| commute | To put something, especially something less severe, in place of. |
| comparable | Fit to be compared. |
| comparative | Relative. |
| comparison | Examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness. |
| compensate | To remunerate. |
| competence | Adequate qualification or capacity. |
| competent | Qualified. |
| competitive | characterized by rivalry. |
| competitor | A rival. |
| complacence | Satisfaction with one's acts or surroundings. |
| complacent | Pleased or satisfied with oneself. |
| complaisance | Politeness. |
| complaisant | Agreeable. |
| complement | To make complete. |
| complex | Complicated. |
| compliant | Yielding. |
| complicate | To make complex, difficult, or hard to deal with. |
| complication | An intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner. |
| complicity | Participation or partnership, as in wrong-doing or with a wrong-doer. |
| compliment | To address or gratify with expressions of delicate praise. |
| component | A constituent element or part. |
| comport | To conduct or behave (oneself). |
| composure | Calmness. |
| comprehensible | Intelligible. |
| comprehension | Ability to know. |
| comprehensive | Large in scope or content. |
| compress | To press together or into smaller space. |
| compressible | Capable of being pressed into smaller compass. |
| compression | Constraint, as by force or authority. |
| comprise | To consist of. |
| compulsion | Coercion. |
| compulsory | Forced. |
| compunction | Remorseful feeling. |
| compute | To ascertain by mathematical calculation. |
| concede | To surrender. |
| conceit | Self-flattering opinion. |
| conceive | To form an idea, mental image or thought of. |
| concerto | A musical composition. |
| concession | Anything granted or yielded, or admitted in response to a demand, petition, or claim. |
| conciliate | To obtain the friendship of. |
| conciliatory | Tending to reconcile. |
| conclusive | Sufficient to convince or decide. |
| concord | Harmony. |
| concordance | Harmony. |
| concur | To agree. |
| concurrence | Agreement. |
| concurrent | Occurring or acting together. |
| concussion | A violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow. |
| condensation | The act or process of making dense or denser. |
| condense | To abridge. |
| condescend | To come down voluntarily to equal terms with inferiors. |
| condolence | Expression of sympathy with a person in pain, sorrow, or misfortune. |
| conduce | To bring about. |
| conducive | Contributing to an end. |
| conductible | Capable of being conducted or transmitted. |
| conduit | A means for conducting something, particularly a tube, pipe, or passageway for a fluid. |
| confectionery | The candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy. |
| confederacy | A number of states or persons in compact or league with each other, as for mutual aid. |
| confederate | One who is united with others in a league, compact, or agreement. |
| confer | To bestow. |
| conferee | A person with whom another confers. |
| confessor | A spiritual advisor. |
| confidant | One to whom secrets are entrusted. |
| confide | To reveal in trust or confidence. |
| confidence | The state or feeling of trust in or reliance upon another. |
| confident | Assured. |
| confinement | Restriction within limits or boundaries. |
| confiscate | To appropriate (private property) as forfeited to the public use or treasury. |
| conflagration | A great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like. |
| confluence | The place where streams meet. |
| confluent | A stream that unites with another. |
| conformance | The act or state or conforming. |
| conformable | Harmonious. |
| conformation | General structure, form, or outline. |
| conformity | Correspondence in form, manner, or use. |
| confront | To encounter, as difficulties or obstacles. |
| congeal | To coagulate. |
| congenial | Having kindred character or tastes. |
| congest | To collect into a mass. |
| congregate | To bring together into a crowd. |
| coniferous | Cone-bearing trees. |
| conjecture | A guess. |
| conjoin | To unite. |
| conjugal | Pertaining to marriage, marital rights, or married persons. |
| conjugate | Joined together in pairs. |
| conjugation | The state or condition of being joined together. |
| conjunction | The state of being joined together, or the things so joined. |
| connive | To be in collusion. |
| connoisseur | A critical judge of art, especially one with thorough knowledge and sound judgment of art. |
| connote | To mean; signify. |
| connubial | Pertaining to marriage or matrimony. |
| conquer | To overcome by force. |
| consanguineous | Descended from the same parent or ancestor. |
| conscience | The faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct. |
| conscientious | Governed by moral standard. |
| conscious | Aware that one lives, feels, and thinks. |
| conscript | To force into military service. |
| consecrate | To set apart as sacred. |
| consecutive | Following in uninterrupted succession. |
| consensus | A collective unanimous opinion of a number of persons. |
| conservatism | Tendency to adhere to the existing order of things. |
| conservative | Adhering to the existing order of things. |
| conservatory | An institution for instruction and training in music and declamation. |
| consign | To entrust. |
| consignee | A person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted. |
| consignor | One who entrusts. |
| consistency | A state of permanence. |
| console | To comfort. |
| consolidate | To combine into one body or system. |
| consonance | The state or quality of being in accord with. |
| consonant | Being in agreement or harmony with. |
| consort | A companion or associate. |
| conspicuous | Clearly visible. |
| conspirator | One who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose. |
| conspire | To plot. |
| constable | An officer whose duty is to maintain the peace. |
| constellation | An arbitrary assemblage or group of stars. |
| consternation | Panic. |
| constituency | The inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body. |
| constituent | One who has the right to vote at an election. |
| constrict | To bind. |
| consul | An officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country. |
| consulate | The place in which a consul transacts official business. |
| consummate | To bring to completion. |
| consumption | Gradual destruction, as by burning, eating, etc., or by using up, wearing out, etc. |
| consumptive | Designed for gradual destruction. |
| contagion | The communication of disease from person to person. |
| contagious | Transmitting disease. |
| contaminate | To pollute. |
| contemplate | To consider thoughtfully. |
| contemporaneous | Living, occurring, or existing at the same time. |
| contemporary | Living or existing at the same time. |
| contemptible | Worthy of scorn or disdain. |
| contemptuous | Disdainful. |
| contender | One who exerts oneself in opposition or rivalry. |
| contiguity | Proximity. |
| contiguous | Touching or joining at the edge or boundary. |
| continence | Self-restraint with respect to desires, appetites, and passion. |
| contingency | Possibility of happening. |
| contingent | Not predictable. |
| continuance | Permanence. |
| continuation | Prolongation. |
| continuity | Uninterrupted connection in space, time, operation, or development. |
| continuous | Connected, extended, or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence. |
| contort | To twist into a misshapen form. |
| contraband | Trade forbidden by law or treaty. |
| contradiction | The assertion of the opposite of that which has been said. |
| contradictory | Inconsistent with itself. |
| contraposition | A placing opposite. |
| contravene | To prevent or obstruct the operation of. |
| contribution | The act of giving for a common purpose. |
| contributor | One who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose. |
| contrite | Broken in spirit because of a sense of sin. |
| contrivance | The act planning, devising, inventing, or adapting something to or for a special purpose. |
| contrive | To manage or carry through by some device or scheme. |
| control | To exercise a directing, restraining, or governing influence over. |
| controller | One who or that which regulates or directs. |
| contumacious | Rebellious. |
| contumacy | Contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority. |
| contuse | To bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin. |
| contusion | A bruise. |
| convalesce | To recover after a sickness. |
| convalescence | The state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease. |
| convalescent | Recovering health after sickness. |
| convene | To summon or cause to assemble. |
| convenience | Fitness, as of time or place. |
| converge | To cause to incline and approach nearer together. |
| convergent | Tending to one point. |
| conversant | Thoroughly informed. |
| conversion | Change from one state or position to another, or from one form to another. |
| convertible | Interchangeable. |
| convex | Curving like the segment of the globe or of the surface of a circle. |
| conveyance | That by which anything is transported. |
| convivial | Devoted to feasting, or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking. |
| convolution | A winding motion. |
| convolve | To move with a circling or winding motion. |
| convoy | A protecting force accompanying property in course of transportation. |
| convulse | To cause spasms in. |
| convulsion | A violent and abnormal muscular contraction of the body. |
| copious | Plenteous. |
| coquette | A flirt. |
| cornice | An ornamental molding running round the walls of a room close to the ceiling. |
| cornucopia | The horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity. |
| corollary | A proposition following so obviously from another that it requires little demonstration. |
| coronation | The act or ceremony of crowning a monarch. |
| coronet | Inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereign. |
| corporal | Belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind. |
| corporate | Belonging to a corporation. |
| corporeal | Of a material nature; physical. |
| corps | A number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together. |
| corpse | A dead body. |
| corpulent | Obese. |
| corpuscle | A minute particle of matter. |
| correlate | To put in some relation of connection or correspondence. |
| correlative | Mutually involving or implying one another. |
| corrigible | Capable of reformation. |
| corroborate | To strengthen, as proof or conviction. |
| corroboration | Confirmation. |
| corrode | To ruin or destroy little by little. |
| corrosion | Gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration. |
| corrosive | That which causes gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration. |
| corruptible | Open to bribery. |
| corruption | Loss of purity or integrity. |
| cosmetic | Pertaining to the art of beautifying, especially the complexion. |
| cosmic | Pertaining to the universe. |
| cosmogony | A doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe. |
| cosmography | The science that describes the universe, including astronomy, geography, and geology. |
| cosmology | The general science of the universe. |
| cosmopolitan | Common to all the world. |
| cosmopolitanism | A cosmopolitan character. |
| cosmos | The world or universe considered as a system, perfect in order and arrangement. |
| counter-claim | A cross-demand alleged by a defendant in his favor against the plaintiff. |
| counteract | To act in opposition to. |
| counterbalance | To oppose with an equal force. |
| countercharge | To accuse in return. |
| counterfeit | Made to resemble something else. |
| counterpart | Something taken with another for the completion of either. |
| countervail | To offset. |
| counting-house | A house or office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc. |
| countryman | A rustic. |
| courageous | Brave. |
| course | Line of motion or direction. |
| courser | A fleet and spirited horse. |
| courtesy | Politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually. |
| covenant | An agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties. |
| covert | Concealed, especially for an evil purpose. |
| covey | A flock of quails or partridges. |
| cower | To crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame. |
| coxswain | One who steers a rowboat, or one who has charge of a ship's boat and its crew under an officer. |
| crag | A rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge. |
| cranium | The skull of an animal, especially that part enclosing the brain. |
| crass | Coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine. |
| craving | A vehement desire. |
| creak | A sharp, harsh, squeaking sound. |
| creamery | A butter-making establishment. |
| creamy | Resembling or containing cream. |
| credence | Belief. |
| credible | Believable. |
| credulous | Easily deceived. |
| creed | A formal summary of fundamental points of religious belief. |
| crematory | A place for cremating dead bodies. |
| crevasse | A deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier. |
| crevice | A small fissure, as between two contiguous surfaces. |
| criterion | A standard by which to determine the correctness of a judgment or conclusion. |
| critique | A criticism or critical review. |
| crockery | Earthenware made from baked clay. |
| crucible | A trying and purifying test or agency. |
| crusade | Any concerted movement, vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an idea or principle. |
| crustacean | Pertaining to a division of arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc. |
| crustaceous | Having a crust-like shell. |
| cryptogram | Anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning. |
| crystallize | To bring together or give fixed shape to. |
| cudgel | A short thick stick used as a club. |
| culinary | Of or pertaining to cooking or the kitchen. |
| cull | To pick or sort out from the rest. |
| culpable | Guilty. |
| culprit | A guilty person. |
| culvert | Any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road, canal. |
| cupidity | Avarice. |
| curable | Capable of being remedied or corrected. |
| curator | A person having charge as of a library or museum. |
| curio | A piece of bric-a-brac. |
| cursive | Writing in which the letters are joined together. |
| cursory | Rapid and superficial. |
| curt | Concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or expression. |
| curtail | To cut off or cut short. |
| curtsy | A downward movement of the body by bending the knees. |
| cycloid | Like a circle. |
| cygnet | A young swan. |
| cynical | Exhibiting moral skepticism. |
| cynicism | Contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value. |
| cynosure | That to which general interest or attention is directed. |
| daring | Brave. |
| darkling | Blindly. |
| Darwinism | The doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms. |
| dastard | A base coward. |
| datum | A premise, starting-point, or given fact. |
| dauntless | Fearless. |
| day-man | A day-laborer. |
| dead-heat | A race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner. |
| dearth | Scarcity, as of something customary, essential ,or desirable. |
| death's-head | A human skull as a symbol of death. |
| debase | To lower in character or virtue. |
| debatable | Subject to contention or dispute. |
| debonair | Having gentle or courteous bearing or manner. |
| debut | A first appearance in society or on the stage. |
| decagon | A figure with ten sides and ten angles. |
| decagram | A weight of 10 grams. |
| decaliter | A liquid and dry measure of 10 liters. |
| decalogue | The ten commandments. |
| Decameron | A volume consisting of ten parts or books. |
| decameter | A length of ten meters. |
| decamp | To leave suddenly or unexpectedly. |
| decapitate | To behead. |
| decapod | Ten-footed or ten-armed. |
| decasyllable | A line of ten syllables. |
| deceit | Falsehood. |
| deceitful | Fraudulent. |
| deceive | To mislead by or as by falsehood. |
| decency | Moral fitness. |
| decent | Characterized by propriety of conduct, speech, manners, or dress. |
| deciduous | Falling off at maturity as petals after flowering, fruit when ripe, etc. |
| decimal | Founded on the number 10. |
| decimate | To destroy a measurable or large proportion of. |
| decipher | To find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible. |
| declamation | A speech recited or intended for recitation from memory in public. |
| declamatory | A full and formal style of utterance. |
| declarative | Containing a formal, positive, or explicit statement or affirmation. |
| declension | The change of endings in nouns and; to express their different relations of gender. |
| decorate | To embellish. |
| decorous | Suitable for the occasion or circumstances. |
| decoy | Anything that allures, or is intended to allures into danger or temptation. |
| decrepit | Enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity. |
| dedication | The voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause. |
| deduce | To derive or draw as a conclusion by reasoning from given premises or principles. |
| deface | To mar or disfigure the face or external surface of. |
| defalcate | To cut off or take away, as a part of something. |
| defamation | Malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another. |
| defame | To slander. |
| default | The neglect or omission of a legal requirement. |
| defendant | A person against whom a suit is brought. |
| defensible | Capable of being maintained or justified. |
| defensive | Carried on in resistance to aggression. |
| defer | To delay or put off to some other time. |
| deference | Respectful submission or yielding, as to another's opinion, wishes, or judgment. |
| defiant | Characterized by bold or insolent opposition. |
| deficiency | Lack or insufficiency. |
| deficient | Not having an adequate or proper supply or amount. |
| definite | Having an exact signification or positive meaning. |
| deflect | To cause to turn aside or downward. |
| deforest | To clear of forests. |
| deform | To disfigure. |
| deformity | A disfigurement. |
| defraud | To deprive of something dishonestly. |
| defray | To make payment for. |
| degeneracy | A becoming worse. |
| degenerate | To become worse or inferior. |
| degradation | Diminution, as of strength or magnitude. |
| degrade | To take away honors or position from. |
| dehydrate | To deprive of water. |
| deify | To regard or worship as a god. |
| deign | To deem worthy of notice or account. |
| deist | One who believes in God, but denies supernatural revelation. |
| deity | A god, goddess, or divine person. |
| deject | To dishearten. |
| dejection | Melancholy. |
| delectable | Delightful to the taste or to the senses. |
| delectation | Delight. |
| deleterious | Hurtful, morally or physically. |
| delicacy | That which is agreeable to a fine taste. |
| delineate | To represent by sketch or diagram. |
| deliquesce | To dissolve gradually and become liquid by absorption of moisture from the air. |
| delirious | Raving. |
| delude | To mislead the mind or judgment of. |
| deluge | To overwhelm with a flood of water. |
| delusion | Mistaken conviction, especially when more or less enduring. |
| demagnetize | To deprive (a magnet) of magnetism. |
| demagogue | An unprincipled politician. |
| demeanor | Deportment. |
| demented | Insane. |
| demerit | A mark for failure or bad conduct. |
| demise | Death. |
| demobilize | To disband, as troops. |
| demolish | To annihilate. |
| demonstrable | Capable of positive proof. |
| demonstrate | To prove indubitably. |
| demonstrative | Inclined to strong exhibition or expression of feeling or thoughts. |
| demonstrator | One who proves in a convincing and conclusive manner. |
| demulcent | Any application soothing to an irritable surface |
| demurrage | the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing. |
| dendroid | Like a tree. |
| dendrology | The natural history of trees. |
| denizen | Inhabitant. |
| denominate | To give a name or epithet to. |
| denomination | A body of Christians united by a common faith and form of worship and discipline. |
| denominator | Part of a fraction which expresses the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided. |
| denote | To designate by word or mark. |
| denouement | That part of a play or story in which the mystery is cleared up. |
| denounce | To point out or publicly accuse as deserving of punishment, censure, or odium. |
| dentifrice | Any preparation used for cleaning the teeth. |
| denude | To strip the covering from. |
| denunciation | The act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment. |
| deplete | To reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion, or waste. |
| deplorable | Contemptible. |
| deplore | To regard with grief or sorrow. |
| deponent | Laying down. |
| depopulate | To remove the inhabitants from. |
| deport | To take or send away forcibly, as to a penal colony. |
| deportment | Demeanor. |
| deposition | Testimony legally taken on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in court. |
| depositor | One who makes a deposit, or has an amount deposited. |
| depository | A place where anything is kept in safety. |
| deprave | To render bad, especially morally bad. |
| deprecate | To express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite. |
| depreciate | To lessen the worth of. |
| depreciation | A lowering in value or an underrating in worth. |
| depress | To press down. |
| depression | A falling of the spirits. |
| depth | Deepness. |
| derelict | Neglectful of obligation. |
| deride | To ridicule. |
| derisible | Open to ridicule. |
| derision | Ridicule. |
| derivation | That process by which a word is traced from its original root or primitive form and meaning. |
| derivative | Coming or acquired from some origin. |
| derive | To deduce, as from a premise. |
| dermatology | The branch of medical science which relates to the skin and its diseases. |
| derrick | An apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights. |
| descendant | One who is descended lineally from another, as a child, grandchild, etc. |
| descendent | Proceeding downward. |
| descent | The act of moving or going downward. |
| descry | To discern. |
| desert | To abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned |
| desiccant | Any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds. |
| designate | To select or appoint, as by authority. |
| desist | To cease from action. |
| desistance | Cessation. |
| despair | Utter hopelessness and despondency. |
| desperado | One without regard for law or life. |
| desperate | Resorted to in a last extremity, or as if prompted by utter despair. |
| despicable | Contemptible. |
| despond | To lose spirit, courage, or hope. |
| despondent | Disheartened. |
| despot | An absolute and irresponsible monarch. |
| despotism | Any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part. |
| destitute | Poverty-stricken. |
| desultory | Not connected with what precedes. |
| deter | To frighten away. |
| deteriorate | To grow worse. |
| determinate | Definitely limited or fixed. |
| determination | The act of deciding. |
| deterrent | Hindering from action through fear. |
| detest | To dislike or hate with intensity. |
| detract | To take away in such manner as to lessen value or estimation. |
| detriment | Something that causes damage, depreciation, or loss. |
| detrude | To push down forcibly. |
| deviate | To take a different course. |
| devilry | Malicious mischief. |
| deviltry | Wanton and malicious mischief. |
| devious | Out of the common or regular track. |
| devise | To invent. |
| devout | Religious. |
| dexterity | Readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work. |
| diabolic | Characteristic of the devil. |
| diacritical | Marking a difference. |
| diagnose | To distinguish, as a disease, by its characteristic phenomena. |
| diagnosis | Determination of the distinctive nature of a disease. |
| dialect | Forms of speech collectively that are peculiar to the people of a particular district. |
| dialectician | A logician. |
| dialogue | A formal conversation in which two or more take part. |
| diaphanous | Transparent. |
| diatomic | Containing only two atoms. |
| diatribe | A bitter or malicious criticism. |
| dictum | A positive utterance. |
| didactic | Pertaining to teaching. |
| difference | Dissimilarity in any respect. |
| differentia | Any essential characteristic of a species by reason of which it differs from other species. |
| differential | Distinctive. |
| differentiate | To acquire a distinct and separate character. |
| diffidence | Self-distrust. |
| diffident | Affected or possessed with self-distrust. |
| diffusible | Spreading rapidly through the system and acting quickly. |
| diffusion | Dispersion. |
| dignitary | One who holds high rank. |
| digraph | A union of two characters representing a single sound. |
| digress | To turn aside from the main subject and for a time dwell on some incidental matter. |
| dilate | To enlarge in all directions. |
| dilatory | Tending to cause delay. |
| dilemma | A situation in which a choice between opposing modes of conduct is necessary. |
| dilettante | A superficial amateur. |
| diligence | Careful and persevering effort to accomplish what is undertaken. |
| dilute | To make more fluid or less concentrated by admixture with something. |
| diminution | Reduction. |
| dimly | Obscurely. |
| diphthong | The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sounds. |
| diplomacy | Tact, shrewdness, or skill in conducting any kind of negotiations or in social matters. |
| diplomat | A representative of one sovereign state at the capital or court of another. |
| diplomatic | Characterized by special tact in negotiations. |
| diplomatist | One remarkable for tact and shrewd management. |
| disagree | To be opposite in opinion. |
| disallow | To withhold permission or sanction. |
| disappear | To cease to exist, either actually or for the time being. |
| disappoint | To fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish, or desire of. |
| disapprove | To regard with blame. |
| disarm | To deprive of weapons. |
| disarrange | To throw out of order. |
| disavow | To disclaim responsibility for. |
| disavowal | Denial. |
| disbeliever | One who refuses to believe. |
| disburden | To disencumber. |
| disburse | To pay out or expend, as money from a fund. |
| discard | To reject. |
| discernible | Perceivable. |
| disciple | One who believes the teaching of another, or who adopts and follows some doctrine. |
| disciplinary | Having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority. |
| discipline | To train to obedience. |
| disclaim | To disavow any claim to, connection with, or responsibility to. |
| discolor | To stain. |
| discomfit | To put to confusion. |
| discomfort | The state of being positively uncomfortable. |
| disconnect | To undo or dissolve the connection or association of. |
| disconsolate | Grief-stricken. |
| discontinuance | Interruption or intermission. |
| discord | Absence of harmoniousness. |
| discountenance | To look upon with disfavor. |
| discover | To get first sight or knowledge of, as something previously unknown or unperceived. |
| discredit | To injure the reputation of. |
| discreet | Judicious. |
| discrepant | Opposite. |
| discriminate | To draw a distinction. |
| discursive | Passing from one subject to another. |
| discussion | Debate. |
| disenfranchise | To deprive of any right privilege or power |
| disengage | To become detached. |
| disfavor | Disregard. |
| disfigure | To impair or injure the beauty, symmetry, or appearance of. |
| dishabille | Undress or negligent attire. |
| dishonest | Untrustworthy. |
| disillusion | To disenchant. |
| disinfect | To remove or destroy the poison of infectious or contagious diseases. |
| disinfectant | A substance used to destroy the germs of infectious diseases. |
| disinherit | To deprive of an inheritance. |
| disinterested | Impartial. |
| disjunctive | Helping or serving to disconnect or separate. |
| dislocate | To put out of proper place or order. |
| dismissal | Displacement by authority from an office or an employment. |
| dismount | To throw down, push off, or otherwise remove from a horse or the like. |
| disobedience | Neglect or refusal to comply with an authoritative injunction. |
| disobedient | Neglecting or refusing to obey. |
| disown | To refuse to acknowledge as one's own or as connected with oneself. |
| disparage | To regard or speak of slightingly. |
| disparity | Inequality. |
| dispel | To drive away by or as by scattering in different directions. |
| dispensation | That which is bestowed on or appointed to one from a higher power. |
| displace | To put out of the proper or accustomed place. |
| dispossess | To deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate. |
| disputation | Verbal controversy. |
| disqualify | To debar. |
| disquiet | To deprive of peace or tranquillity. |
| disregard | To take no notice of. |
| disreputable | Dishonorable or disgraceful. |
| disrepute | A bad name or character. |
| disrobe | To unclothe. |
| disrupt | To burst or break asunder. |
| dissatisfy | To displease. |
| dissect | To cut apart or to pieces. |
| dissection | The act or operation of cutting in pieces, specifically of a plant or an animal. |
| dissemble | To hide by pretending something different. |
| disseminate | To sow or scatter abroad, as seed is sown. |
| dissension | Angry or violent difference of opinion. |
| dissent | Disagreement. |
| dissentient | One who disagrees. |
| dissentious | Contentious. |
| dissertation | Thesis. |
| disservice | An ill turn. |
| dissever | To divide. |
| dissimilar | Different. |
| dissipate | To disperse or disappear. |
| dissipation | The state of being dispersed or scattered. |
| dissolute | Lewd. |
| dissolution | A breaking up of a union of persons. |
| dissolve | To liquefy or soften, as by heat or moisture. |
| dissonance | Discord. |
| dissonant | Harsh or disagreeable in sound. |
| dissuade | To change the purpose or alter the plans of by persuasion, counsel, or pleading. |
| dissuasion | The act of changing the purpose of or altering the plans of through persuasion, or pleading. |
| disyllable | A word of two syllables. |
| distemper | A disease or malady. |
| distend | To stretch out or expand in every direction. |
| distensible | Capable of being stretched out or expanded in every direction. |
| distention | Expansion. |
| distill | To extract or produce by vaporization and condensation. |
| distillation | Separation of the more volatile parts of a substance from those less volatile. |
| distiller | One occupied in the business of distilling alcoholic liquors. |
| distinction | A note or designation of honor, officially recognizing superiority or success in studies. |
| distort | To twist into an unnatural or irregular form. |
| distrain | To subject a person to distress. |
| distrainor | One who subjects a person to distress. |
| distraught | Bewildered. |
| distrust | Lack of confidence in the power, wisdom, or good intent of any person. |
| disunion | Separation of relations or interests. |
| diurnal | Daily. |
| divagation | Digression. |
| divergent | Tending in different directions. |
| diverse | Capable of various forms. |
| diversion | Pastime. |
| diversity | Dissimilitude. |
| divert | To turn from the accustomed course or a line of action already established. |
| divertible | Able to be turned from the accustomed course or a line of action already established. |
| divest | To strip, specifically of clothes, ornaments, or accouterments or disinvestment. |
| divination | The pretended forecast of future events or discovery of what is lost or hidden. |
| divinity | The quality or character of being godlike. |
| divisible | Capable of being separated into parts. |
| divisor | That by which a number or quantity is divided. |
| divulge | To tell or make known, as something previously private or secret. |
| divulgence | A divulging. |
| docile | Easy to manage. |
| docket | The registry of judgments of a court. |
| doe | The female of the deer. |
| dogma | A statement of religious faith or duty formulated by a body claiming authority. |
| dogmatic | Making statements without argument or evidence. |
| dogmatize | To make positive assertions without supporting them by argument or evidence. |
| doleful | Melancholy. |
| dolesome | Melancholy. |
| dolor | Lamentation. |
| dolorous | Expressing or causing sorrow or pain. |
| domain | A sphere or field of action or interest. |
| domesticity | Life in or fondness for one's home and family. |
| domicile | The place where one lives. |
| dominance | Ascendancy. |
| dominant | Conspicuously prominent. |
| dominate | To influence controllingly. |
| domination | Control by the exercise of power or constituted authority. |
| domineer | To rule with insolence or unnecessary annoyance. |
| donate | To bestow as a gift, especially for a worthy cause. |
| donator | One who makes a donation or present. |
| donee | A person to whom a donation is made. |
| donor | One who makes a donation or present. |
| dormant | Being in a state of or resembling sleep. |
| doublet | One of a pair of like things. |
| doubly | In twofold degree or extent. |
| dowry | The property which a wife brings to her husband in marriage. |
| drachma | A modern and an ancient Greek coin. |
| dragnet | A net to be drawn along the bottom of the water. |
| dragoon | In the British army, a cavalryman. |
| drainage | The means of draining collectively, as a system of conduits, trenches, pipes, etc. |
| dramatist | One who writes plays. |
| dramatize | To relate or represent in a dramatic or theatrical manner. |
| drastic | Acting vigorously. |
| drought | Dry weather, especially when so long continued as to cause vegetation to wither. |
| drowsy | Heavy with sleepiness. |
| drudgery | Hard and constant work in any menial or dull occupation. |
| dubious | Doubtful. |
| duckling | A young duck. |
| ductile | Capable of being drawn out, as into wire or a thread. |
| duet | A composition for two voices or instruments. |
| dun | To make a demand or repeated demands on for payment. |
| duplex | Having two parts. |
| duplicity | Double-dealing. |
| durance | Confinement. |
| duration | The period of time during which anything lasts. |
| duteous | Showing submission to natural superiors. |
| dutiable | Subject to a duty, especially a customs duty. |
| dutiful | Obedient. |
| dwindle | To diminish or become less. |
| dyne | The force which, applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second, would give it a velocity of 1 cm/s. |
| earnest | Ardent in spirit and speech. |
| earthenware | Anything made of clay and baked in a kiln or dried in the sun. |
| eatable | Edible. |
| ebullient | Showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of feeling. |
| eccentric | Peculiar. |
| eccentricity | Idiosyncrasy. |
| eclipse | The obstruction of a heavenly body by its entering into the shadow of another body. |
| economize | To spend sparingly. |
| ecstasy | Rapturous excitement or exaltation. |
| ecstatic | Enraptured. |
| edible | Suitable to be eaten. |
| edict | That which is uttered or proclaimed by authority as a rule of action. |
| edify | To build up, or strengthen, especially in morals or religion. |
| editorial | An article in a periodical written by the editor and published as an official argument. |
| educe | To draw out. |
| efface | To obliterate. |
| effect | A consequence. |
| effective | Fit for a destined purpose. |
| effectual | Efficient. |
| effeminacy | Womanishness. |
| effeminate | Having womanish traits or qualities. |
| effervesce | To bubble up. |
| effervescent | Giving off bubbles of gas. |
| effete | Exhausted, as having performed its functions. |
| efficacious | Effective. |
| efficacy | The power to produce an intended effect as shown in the production of it. |
| efficiency | The state of possessing adequate skill or knowledge for the performance of a duty. |
| efficient | Having and exercising the power to produce effects or results. |
| efflorescence | The state of being flowery, or a flowery appearance. |
| efflorescent | Opening in flower. |
| effluvium | A noxious or ill-smelling exhalation from decaying or putrefying matter. |
| effrontery | Unblushing impudence. |
| effulgence | Splendor. |
| effuse | To pour forth. |
| effusion | an outpouring. |
| egoism | The theory that places man's chief good in the completeness of self. |
| egoist | One who advocates or practices egoism. |
| egotism | Self-conceit. |
| egotist | One given to self-mention or who is constantly telling of his own views and experiences. |
| egregious | Extreme. |
| egress | Any place of exit. |
| eject | To expel. |
| elapse | To quietly terminate: said of time. |
| elasticity | That property of matter by which a body tends to return to a former shape after being changed. |
| electrolysis | The process of decomposing a chemical compound by the passage of an electric current. |
| electrotype | A metallic copy of any surface, as a coin. |
| elegy | A lyric poem lamenting the dead. |
| element | A component or essential part. |
| elicit | To educe or extract gradually or without violence. |
| eligible | Qualified for selection. |
| eliminate | To separate and cast aside. |
| Elizabethan | Relating to Elizabeth, queen of England, or to her era. |
| elocution | The art of correct intonation, inflection, and gesture in public speaking or reading. |
| eloquent | Having the ability to express emotion or feeling in lofty and impassioned speech. |
| elucidate | To bring out more clearly the facts concerning. |
| elude | To evade the search or pursuit of by dexterity or artifice. |
| elusion | Evasion. |
| emaciate | To waste away in flesh. |
| emanate | To flow forth or proceed, as from some source. |
| emancipate | To release from bondage. |
| embargo | Authoritative stoppage of foreign commerce or of any special trade. |
| embark | To make a beginning in some occupation or scheme. |
| embarrass | To render flustered or agitated. |
| embellish | To make beautiful or elegant by adding attractive or ornamental features. |
| embezzle | To misappropriate secretly. |
| emblazon | To set forth publicly or in glowing terms. |
| emblem | A symbol. |
| embody | To express, formulate, or exemplify in a concrete, compact or visible form. |
| embolden | To give courage to. |
| embolism | An obstruction or plugging up of an artery or other blood-vessel. |
| embroil | To involve in dissension or strife. |
| emerge | To come into view or into existence. |
| emergence | A coming into view. |
| emergent | Coming into view. |
| emeritus | Retired from active service but retained to an honorary position. |
| emigrant | One who moves from one place to settle in another. |
| emigrate | To go from one country, state, or region for the purpose of settling or residing in another. |
| eminence | An elevated position with respect to rank, place, character, condition, etc. |
| eminent | High in station, merit, or esteem. |
| emit | To send or give out. |
| emphasis | Any special impressiveness added to an utterance or act, or stress laid upon some word. |
| emphasize | To articulate or enunciate with special impressiveness upon a word, or a group of words. |
| emphatic | Spoken with any special impressiveness laid upon an act, word, or set of words. |
| employee | One who works for wages or a salary. |
| employer | One who uses or engages the services of other persons for pay. |
| emporium | A bazaar or shop. |
| empower | To delegate authority to. |
| emulate | To imitate with intent to equal or surpass. |
| enact | To make into law, as by legislative act. |
| enamor | To inspire with ardent love. |
| encamp | To pitch tents for a resting-place. |
| encomium | A formal or discriminating expression of praise. |
| encompass | To encircle. |
| encore | The call for a repetition, as of some part of a play or performance. |
| encourage | To inspire with courage, hope, or strength of mind. |
| encroach | To invade partially or insidiously and appropriate the possessions of another. |
| encumber | To impede with obstacles. |
| encyclical | Intended for general circulation. |
| encyclopedia | A work containing information on subjects, or exhaustive of one subject. |
| endanger | To expose to peril. |
| endear | To cause to be loved. |
| endemic | Peculiar to some specified country or people. |
| endue | To endow with some quality, gift, or grace, usually spiritual. |
| endurable | Tolerable. |
| endurance | The ability to suffer pain, distress, hardship, or stress of any kind without succumbing. |
| energetic | Working vigorously. |
| enervate | To render ineffective or inoperative. |
| enfeeble | To debilitate. |
| enfranchise | To endow with a privilege, especially with the right to vote. |
| engender | To produce. |
| engrave | To cut or carve in or upon some surface. |
| engross | To occupy completely. |
| enhance | To intensify. |
| enigma | A riddle. |
| enjoin | To command. |
| enkindle | To set on fire. |
| enlighten | To cause to see clearly. |
| enlist | To enter voluntarily the military service by formal enrollment. |
| enmity | Hatred. |
| ennoble | To dignify. |
| enormity | Immensity. |
| enormous | Gigantic. |
| enrage | To infuriate. |
| enrapture | To delight extravagantly or intensely. |
| enshrine | To keep sacred. |
| ensnare | To entrap. |
| entail | To involve; necessitate. |
| entangle | To involve in difficulties, confusion, or complications. |
| enthrall | To bring or hold under any overmastering influence. |
| enthrone | To invest with sovereign power. |
| enthuse | To yield to or display intense and rapturous feeling. |
| enthusiastic | Full of zeal and fervor. |
| entirety | A complete thing. |
| entomology | The branch of zoology that treats of insects. |
| entrails | pl. The internal parts of an animal. |
| entreaty | An earnest request. |
| entree | The act of entering. |
| entrench | To fortify or protect, as with a trench or ditch and wall. |
| entwine | To interweave. |
| enumerate | To name one by one. |
| epic | A poem celebrating in formal verse the mythical achievements of great personages, heroes, etc. |
| epicure | One who cultivates a delicate taste for eating and drinking. |
| Epicurean | Indulging, ministering, or pertaining to daintiness of appetite. |
| epicycle | A circle that rolls upon the external or internal circumference of another circle. |
| epicycloid | A curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls upon another circle. |
| epidemic | Wide-spread occurrence of a disease in a certain region. |
| epidermis | The outer skin. |
| epigram | A pithy phrasing of a shrewd observation. |
| epilogue | The close of a narrative or dramatic poem. |
| epiphany | Any appearance or bodily manifestation of a deity. |
| episode | An incident or story in a literary work, separable from yet growing out of it. |
| epitaph | An inscription on a tomb or monument in honor or in memory of the dead. |
| epithet | Word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in "Father Aeneas". |
| epitome | A simplified representation. |
| epizootic | Prevailing among animals. |
| epoch | A interval of time, memorable for extraordinary events. |
| epode | A species of lyric poems. |
| equalize | To render uniform. |
| equanimity | Evenness of mind or temper. |
| equestrian | Pertaining to horses or horsemanship. |
| equilibrium | A state of balance. |
| equitable | Characterized by fairness. |
| equity | Fairness or impartiality. |
| equivalent | Equal in value, force, meaning, or the like. |
| equivocal | Ambiguous. |
| equivocate | To use words of double meaning. |
| eradicate | To destroy thoroughly. |
| errant | Roving or wandering, as in search of adventure or opportunity for gallant deeds. |
| erratic | Irregular. |
| erroneous | Incorrect. |
| erudite | Very-learned. |
| erudition | Extensive knowledge of literature, history, language, etc. |
| eschew | To keep clear of. |
| espy | To keep close watch. |
| esquire | A title of dignity, office, or courtesy. |
| essence | That which makes a thing to be what it is. |
| esthetic | Pertaining to beauty, taste, or the fine arts. |
| estimable | Worthy of respect. |
| estrange | To alienate. |
| estuary | A wide lower part of a tidal river. |
| eugenic | Relating to the development and improvement of race. |
| eulogize | To speak or write a laudation of a person's life or character. |
| eulogy | A spoken or written laudation of a person's life or character. |
| euphemism | A figure of speech by which a phrase less offensive is substituted. |
| euphonious | Characterized by agreeableness of sound. |
| euphony | Agreeableness of sound. |
| evade | To avoid by artifice. |
| evanesce | To vanish gradually. |
| evanescent | Fleeting. |
| evangelical | Seeking the conversion of sinners. |
| evangelist | A preacher who goes from place to place holding services. |
| evasion | Escape. |
| eventual | Ultimate. |
| evert | To turn inside out. |
| evict | To dispossess pursuant to judicial decree. |
| evidential | Indicative. |
| evince | To make manifest or evident. |
| evoke | To call or summon forth. |
| evolution | Development or growth. |
| evolve | To unfold or expand. |
| exacerbate | To make more sharp, severe, or virulent. |
| exaggerate | To overstate. |
| exasperate | To excite great anger in. |
| excavate | To remove by digging or scooping out. |
| exceed | To go beyond, as in measure, quality, value, action, power, skill, etc. |
| excel | To be superior or distinguished. |
| excellence | Possession of eminently or unusually good qualities. |
| excellency | A title of honor bestowed upon various high officials. |
| excellent | Possessing distinguished merit. |
| excerpt | An extract or selection from written or printed matter. |
| excess | That which passes the ordinary, proper, or required limit, measure, or experience. |
| excitable | Nervously high-strung. |
| excitation | Intensified emotion or action. |
| exclamation | An abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling. |
| exclude | To shut out purposely or forcibly. |
| exclusion | Non-admission. |
| excrescence | Any unnatural addition, outgrowth, or development. |
| excretion | The getting rid of waste matter. |
| excruciate | To inflict severe pain or agony upon. |
| excursion | A journey. |
| excusable | Justifiable. |
| execrable | Abominable. |
| execration | An accursed thing. |
| executor | A person nominated by the will of another to execute the will. |
| exegesis | Biblical exposition or interpretation. |
| exemplar | A model, pattern, or original to be copied or imitated. |
| exemplary | Fitted to serve as a model or example worthy of imitation. |
| exemplify | To show by example. |
| exempt | Free, clear, or released, as from some liability, or restriction affecting others. |
| exert | To make an effort. |
| exhale | To breathe forth. |
| exhaust | To empty by draining off the contents. |
| exhaustible | Causing or tending to cause exhaustion. |
| exhaustion | Deprivation of strength or energy. |
| exhaustive | Thorough and complete in execution. |
| exhilarate | To fill with high or cheerful spirits. |
| exhume | To dig out of the earth (what has been buried). |
| exigency | A critical period or condition. |
| exigent | Urgent. |
| existence | Possession or continuance of being. |
| exit | A way or passage out. |
| exodus | A going forth or departure from a place or country, especially of many people. |
| exonerate | To relieve or vindicate from accusation, imputation, or blame. |
| exorbitance | Extravagance or enormity. |
| exorbitant | Going beyond usual and proper limits. |
| exorcise | To cast or drive out by religious or magical means. |
| exotic | Foreign. |
| expand | To increase in range or scope. |
| expanse | A continuous area or stretch. |
| expansion | Increase of amount, size, scope, or the like. |
| expatriate | To drive from one's own country. |
| expect | To look forward to as certain or probable. |
| expectancy | The act or state of looking forward to as certain or probable. |
| expectorate | To cough up and spit forth. |
| expediency | Fitness to meet the requirements of a particular case. |
| expedient | Contributing to personal advantage. |
| expedite | To hasten the movement or progress of. |
| expeditious | Speedy. |
| expend | To spend. |
| expense | The laying out or expending or money or other resources, as time or strength. |
| expiate | To make satisfaction or amends for. |
| explicate | To clear from involvement. |
| explicit | Definite. |
| explode | To cause to burst in pieces by force from within. |
| explosion | A sudden and violent outbreak. |
| explosive | Pertaining to a sudden and violent outbreak. |
| exposition | Formal presentation. |
| expository | Pertaining to a formal presentation. |
| expostulate | To discuss. |
| exposure | An open situation or position in relation to the sun, elements, or points of the compass. |
| expressive | Full of meaning. |
| expulsion | Forcible ejection. |
| extant | Still existing and known. |
| extemporaneous | Done or made without much or any preparation. |
| extempore | Without studied or special preparation. |
| extensible | Capable of being thrust out. |
| extension | A reaching or stretching out, as in space, time or scope. |
| extensive | Extended widely in space, time, or scope. |
| extensor | A muscle that causes extension. |
| extenuate | To diminish the gravity or importance of. |
| exterior | That which is outside. |
| external | Anything relating or belonging to the outside. |
| extinct | Being no longer in existence. |
| extinguish | To render extinct. |
| extol | To praise in the highest terms. |
| extort | To obtain by violence, threats, compulsion, or the subjection of another to some necessity. |
| extortion | The practice of obtaining by violence or compulsion. |
| extradite | To surrender the custody of. |
| extradition | The surrender by a government of a person accused of crime to the justice of another government. |
| extrajudicial | Happening out of court. |
| extraneous | Having no essential relation to a subject. |
| extraordinary | Unusual. |
| extravagance | Undue expenditure of money. |
| extravagant | Needlessly free or lavish in expenditure. |
| extremist | One who supports extreme measures or holds extreme views. |
| extremity | The utmost point, side, or border, or that farthest removed from a mean position. |
| extricate | Disentangle. |
| extrude | To drive out or away. |
| exuberance | Rich supply. |
| exuberant | Marked by great plentifulness. |
| fabricate | To invent fancifully or falsely. |
| fabulous | Incredible. |
| facet | One of the small triangular plane surfaces of a diamond or other gem. |
| facetious | Amusing. |
| facial | Pertaining to the face. |
| facile | Not difficult to do. |
| facilitate | To make more easy. |
| facility | Ease. |
| facsimile | An exact copy or reproduction. |
| faction | A number of persons combined for a common purpose. |
| factious | Turbulent. |
| fallacious | Illogical. |
| fallacy | Any unsound or delusive mode of reasoning, or anything based on such reasoning. |
| fallible | Capable of erring. |
| fallow | Land broken up and left to become mellow or to rest. |
| famish | To suffer extremity of hunger or thirst. |
| fanatic | A religious zealot. |
| fancier | One having a taste for or interest in special objects. |
| fanciless | Unimaginative. |
| fastidious | Hard to please. |
| fathom | A measure of length, 6 feet. |
| fatuous | Idiotic |
| faulty | Imperfect. |
| faun | One of a class of deities of the woods and herds represented as half human, with goats feet. |
| fawn | A young deer. |
| fealty | Loyalty. |
| feasible | That may be done, performed, or effected; practicable. |
| federate | To league together. |
| feint | Any sham, pretense, or deceptive movement. |
| felicitate | To wish joy or happiness to, especially in view of a coming event. |
| felicity | A state of well-founded happiness. |
| felon | A criminal or depraved person. |
| felonious | Showing criminal or evil purpose. |
| felony | One of the highest class of offenses, and punishable with death or imprisonment. |
| feminine | Characteristic of woman or womankind. |
| fernery | A place in which ferns are grown. |
| ferocious | Of a wild, fierce, and savage nature. |
| ferocity | Savageness. |
| fervent | Ardent in feeling. |
| fervid | Intense. |
| fervor | Ardor or intensity of feeling. |
| festal | Joyous. |
| festive | Merry. |
| fete | A festival or feast. |
| fetus | The young in the womb or in the egg. |
| feudal | Pertaining to the relation of lord and vassal. |
| feudalism | The feudal system. |
| fez | A brimless felt cap in the shape of a truncated cone, usually red with a black tassel. |
| fiasco | A complete or humiliating failure. |
| fickle | Unduly changeable in feeling, judgment, or purpose. |
| fictitious | Created or formed by the imagination. |
| fidelity | Loyalty. |
| fiducial | Indicative of faith or trust. |
| fief | A landed estate held under feudal tenure. |
| filibuster | One who attempts to obstruct legislation. |
| finale | Concluding performance. |
| finality | The state or quality of being final or complete. |
| finally | At last. |
| financial | Monetary. |
| financier | One skilled in or occupied with financial affairs or operations. |
| finery | That which is used to decorate the person or dress. |
| finesse | Subtle contrivance used to gain a point. |
| finite | Limited. |
| fiscal | Pertaining to the treasury or public finances of a government. |
| fishmonger | One who sells fish. |
| fissure | A crack or crack-like depression. |
| fitful | Spasmodic. |
| fixture | One who or that which is expected to remain permanently in its position. |
| flag-officer | The captain of a flag-ship. |
| flagrant | Openly scandalous. |
| flamboyant | Characterized by extravagance and in general by want of good taste. |
| flatulence | Accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowels. |
| flection | The act of bending. |
| fledgling | A young bird. |
| flexible | Pliable. |
| flimsy | Thin and weak. |
| flippant | Having a light, pert, trifling disposition. |
| floe | A collection of tabular masses of floating polar ice. |
| flora | The aggregate of plants growing without cultivation in a district. |
| floral | Pertaining to flowers. |
| florid | Flushed with red. |
| florist | A dealer in flowers. |
| fluctuate | To pass backward and forward irregularly from one state or degree to another. |
| fluctuation | Frequent irregular change back and forth from one state or degree to another. |
| flue | A smoke-duct in a chimney. |
| fluent | Having a ready or easy flow of words or ideas. |
| fluential | Pertaining to streams. |
| flux | A state of constant movement, change, or renewal. |
| foggy | Obscure. |
| foible | A personal weakness or failing. |
| foist | To palm off. |
| foliage | Any growth of leaves. |
| folio | A sheet of paper folded once, or of a size adapted to folding once. |
| folk-lore | The traditions, beliefs, and customs of the common people. |
| fondle | To handle tenderly and lovingly. |
| foolery | Folly. |
| foot-note | A note of explanation or comment at the foot of a page or column. |
| foppery | Dandyism. |
| foppish | Characteristic of one who is unduly devoted to dress and the niceties of manners. |
| forbearance | Patient endurance or toleration of offenses. |
| forby | Besides. |
| forcible | Violent. |
| forecourt | A court opening directly from the street. |
| forejudge | To judge of before hearing evidence. |
| forepeak | The extreme forward part of a ship's hold, under the lowest deck. |
| foreshore | That part of a shore uncovered at low tide. |
| forebode | To be an omen or warning sign of, especially of evil. |
| forecast | To predict. |
| forecastle | That part of the upper deck of a ship forward of the after fore-shrouds. |
| foreclose | To bar by judicial proceedings the equitable right of a mortgagor to redeem property. |
| forefather | An ancestor. |
| forego | To deny oneself the pleasure or profit of. |
| foreground | That part of a landscape or picture situated or represented as nearest the spectator. |
| forehead | The upper part of the face, between the eyes and the hair. |
| foreign | Belonging to, situated in, or derived from another country. |
| foreigner | A citizen of a foreign country. |
| foreknowledge | Prescience. |
| foreman | The head man. |
| foreordain | To predetermine. |
| foreordination | Predestination. |
| forerun | To go before as introducing or ushering in. |
| foresail | A square sail. |
| foresee | To discern beforehand. |
| foresight | Provision against harm or need. |
| foretell | To predict. |
| forethought | Premeditation. |
| forfeit | To lose possession of through failure to fulfill some obligation. |
| forfend | To ward off. |
| forgery | Counterfeiting. |
| forgo | To deny oneself. |
| formation | Relative disposition of parts. |
| formidable | Difficult to accomplish. |
| formula | Fixed rule or set form. |
| forswear | To renounce upon oath. |
| forte | A strong point. |
| forth | Into notice or view. |
| forthright | With directness. |
| fortify | To provide with defensive works. |
| fortitude | Patient courage. |
| foursome | Consisting of four. |
| fracture | A break. |
| fragile | Easily broken. |
| frailty | Liability to be broken or destroyed. |
| fragile | Capable of being broken. |
| frankincense | A gum or resin which on burning yields aromatic fumes. |
| frantic | Frenzied. |
| fraternal | Brotherly. |
| fraudulence | Deceitfulness. |
| fraudulent | Counterfeit. |
| fray | To fret at the edge so as to loosen or break the threads. |
| freemason | A member of an ancient secret fraternity originally confined to skilled artisans. |
| freethinker | One who rejects authority or inspiration in religion. |
| free trade | Commerce unrestricted by tariff or customs. |
| frequency | The comparative number of any kind of occurrences within a given time or space. |
| fresco | The art of painting on a surface of plaster, particularly on walls and ceilings. |
| freshness | The state, quality, or degree of being fresh. |
| fretful | Disposed to peevishness. |
| frightful | Apt to induce terror or alarm. |
| frigid | Lacking warmth. |
| frigidarium | A room kept at a low temperature for preserving fruits, meat, etc. |
| frivolity | A trifling act, thought, saying, or practice. |
| frivolous | Trivial. |
| frizz | To give a crinkled, fluffy appearance to. |
| frizzle | To cause to crinkle or curl, as the hair. |
| frolicsome | Prankish. |
| frontier | The part of a nation's territory that abuts upon another country. |
| frowzy | Slovenly in appearance. |
| frugal | Economical. |
| fruition | Fulfillment. |
| fugacious | Fleeting. |
| fulcrum | The support on or against which a lever rests, or the point about which it turns. |
| fulminate | To cause to explode. |
| fulsome | Offensive from excess of praise or commendation. |
| fumigate | To subject to the action of smoke or fumes, especially for disinfection. |
| functionary | An official. |
| fundamental | Basal. |
| fungible | That may be measured, counted, or weighed. |
| fungous | Spongy. |
| fungus | A plant destitute of chlorophyll, as a mushroom. |
| furbish | To restore brightness or beauty to. |
| furlong | A measure, one-eighth of a mile. |
| furlough | A temporary absence of a soldier or sailor by permission of the commanding officer. |
| furrier | A dealer in or maker of fur goods. |
| further | More distant or advanced. |
| furtherance | Advancement. |
| furtive | Stealthy or sly, like the actions of a thief. |
| fuse | To unite or blend as by melting together. |
| fusible | Capable of being melted by heat. |
| futile | Of no avail or effect. |
| futurist | A person of expectant temperament. |
| gauge | An instrument for measuring. |
| gaiety | Festivity. |
| gaily | Merrily. |
| gait | Carriage of the body in going. |
| gallant | Possessing a brave or chivalrous spirit. |
| galore | Abundant. |
| galvanic | Pertaining or relating to electricity produced by chemical action. |
| galvanism | Current electricity, especially that arising from chemical action. |
| galvanize | To imbue with life or animation. |
| gamble | To risk money or other possession on an event, chance, or contingency. |
| gambol | Playful leaping or frisking. |
| gamester | A gambler. |
| gamut | The whole range or sequence. |
| garnish | In cookery, to surround with additions for embellishment. |
| garrison | The military force stationed in a fort, town, or other place for its defense. |
| garrote | To execute by strangling. |
| garrulous | Given to constant trivial talking. |
| gaseous | Light and unsubstantial. |
| gastric | Of, pertaining to, or near the stomach. |
| gastritis | Inflammation of the stomach. |
| gastronomy | The art of preparing and serving appetizing food. |
| gendarme | In continental Europe, particularly in France, a uniformed and armed police officer. |
| genealogy | A list, in the order of succession, of ancestors and their descendants. |
| genealogist | A tracer of pedigrees. |
| generality | The principal portion. |
| generalize | To draw general inferences. |
| generally | Ordinarily. |
| generate | To produce or cause to be. |
| generic | Noting a genus or kind; opposed to specific. |
| generosity | A disposition to give liberally or to bestow favors heartily. |
| genesis | Creation. |
| geniality | Warmth and kindliness of disposition. |
| genital | Of or pertaining to the animal reproductive organs. |
| genitive | Indicating source, origin, possession, or the like. |
| genteel | Well-bred or refined. |
| gentile | Belonging to a people not Jewish. |
| geology | The department of natural science that treats of the constitution and structure of the earth. |
| germane | Relevant. |
| germinate | To begin to develop into an embryo or higher form. |
| gestation | Pregnancy. |
| gesticulate | To make gestures or motions, as in speaking, or in place of speech. |
| gesture | A movement or action of the hands or face, expressive of some idea or emotion. |
| ghastly | Hideous. |
| gibe | To utter taunts or reproaches. |
| giddy | Affected with a whirling or swimming sensation in the head. |
| gigantic | Tremendous. |
| giver | One who gives, in any sense. |
| glacial | Icy, or icily cold. |
| glacier | A field or stream of ice. |
| gladden | To make joyous. |
| glazier | One who cuts and fits panes of glass, as for windows. |
| glimmer | A faint, wavering, unsteady light. |
| glimpse | A momentary look. |
| globose | Spherical. |
| globular | Spherical. |
| glorious | Of excellence and splendor. |
| glutinous | Sticky. |
| gluttonous | Given to excess in eating. |
| gnash | To grind or strike the teeth together, as from rage. |
| Gordian knot | Any difficulty the only issue out of which is by bold or unusual manners. |
| gourmand | A connoisseur in the delicacies of the table. |
| gosling | A young goose. |
| gossamer | Flimsy. |
| gourd | A melon, pumpkin, squash, or some similar fruit having a hard rind. |
| graceless | Ungracious. |
| gradation | A step, degree, rank, or relative position in an order or series. |
| gradient | Moving or advancing by steps. |
| granary | A storehouse for grain after it is thrashed or husked. |
| grandeur | The quality of being grand or admirably great. |
| grandiloquent | Speaking in or characterized by a pompous or bombastic style. |
| grandiose | Having an imposing style or effect. |
| grantee | The person to whom property is transferred by deed. |
| grantor | The maker of a deed. |
| granular | Composed of small grains or particles. |
| granulate | To form into grains or small particles. |
| granule | A small grain or particle. |
| grapple | To take hold of. |
| gratification | Satisfaction. |
| gratify | To please, as by satisfying a physical or mental desire or need. |
| gratuitous | Voluntarily. |
| gratuity | That which is given without demand or claim. Tip. |
| gravity | Seriousness. |
| gregarious | Not habitually solitary or living alone. |
| grenadier | A member of a regiment composed of men of great stature. |
| grief | Sorrow. |
| grievance | That which oppresses, injures, or causes grief and at the same time a sense of wrong. |
| grievous | Creating affliction. |
| grimace | A distortion of the features, occasioned by some feeling of pain, disgust, etc. |
| grindstone | A flat circular stone, used for sharpening tools. |
| grisly | Fear-inspiring. |
| grotesque | Incongruously composed or ill-proportioned. |
| grotto | A small cavern. |
| ground | A pavement or floor or any supporting surface on which one may walk. |
| guess | Surmise. |
| guile | Duplicity. |
| guileless | Frank. |
| guinea | An English monetary unit. |
| guise | The external appearance as produced by garb or costume. |
| gullible | Credulous. |
| gumption | Common sense. |
| gusto | Keen enjoyment. |
| guy | Stay-rope. |
| guzzle | To swallow greedily or hastily; gulp. |
| gynecocracy | Female supremacy. |
| gynecology | The science that treats of the functions and diseases peculiar to women. |
| gyrate | To revolve. |
| gyroscope | An instrument for illustrating the laws of rotation. |
| habitable | Fit to be dwelt in. |
| habitant | Dweller. |
| habitual | According to usual practice. |
| habitude | Customary relation or association. |
| hackney | To make stale or trite by repetition. |
| haggard | Worn and gaunt in appearance. |
| halcyon | Calm. |
| hale | Of sound and vigorous health. |
| handwriting | Penmanship. |
| hanger-on | A parasite. |
| happy-go-lucky | Improvident. |
| harangue | A tirade. |
| harass | To trouble with importunities, cares, or annoyances. |
| harbinger | One who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing. |
| hard-hearted | Lacking pity or sympathy. |
| hardihood | Foolish daring. |
| harmonious | Concordant in sound. |
| havoc | Devastation. |
| hawthorn | A thorny shrub much used in England for hedges. |
| hazard | Risk. |
| head first | Precipitately, as in diving. |
| head foremost | Precipitately, as in diving. |
| heartrending | Very depressing. |
| heathenish | Irreligious. |
| heedless | Thoughtless. |
| heifer | A young cow. |
| heinous | Odiously sinful. |
| hemorrhage | Discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-vessel. |
| hemorrhoids | pl. Tumors composed of enlarged and thickened blood-vessels, at the lower end of the rectum. |
| henchman | A servile assistant and subordinate. |
| henpeck | To worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances. |
| heptagon | A figure having seven sides and seven angles. |
| heptarchy | A group of seven governments. |
| herbaceous | Having the character of a herb. |
| herbarium | A collection of dried plants scientifically arranged for study. |
| herbivorous | Feeding on herbs or other vegetable matter, as animals. |
| hereditary | Passing naturally from parent to child. |
| heredity | Transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases, etc., from parent to offspring. |
| heresy | An opinion or doctrine subversive of settled beliefs or accepted principles. |
| heretic | One who holds opinions contrary to the recognized standards or tenets of any philosophy. |
| heritage | Birthright. |
| hernia | Protrusion of any internal organ in whole or in part from its normal position. |
| hesitancy | A pausing to consider. |
| hesitant | Vacillating. |
| hesitation | Vacillation. |
| heterodox | At variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion. |
| heterogeneity | Unlikeness of constituent parts. |
| heterogeneous | Consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds. |
| heteromorphic | Deviating from the normal form or standard type. |
| hexangular | Having six angles. |
| hexapod | Having six feet. |
| hexagon | A figure with six angles. |
| hiatus | A break or vacancy where something necessary to supply the connection is wanting. |
| hibernal | Pertaining to winter. |
| Hibernian | Pertaining to Ireland, or its people. |
| hideous | Appalling. |
| hilarious | Boisterously merry. |
| hillock | A small hill or mound. |
| hinder | To obstruct. |
| hindmost | Farthest from the front. |
| hindrance | An obstacle. |
| hirsute | Having a hairy covering. |
| hoard | To gather and store away for the sake of accumulation. |
| hoarse | Having the voice harsh or rough, as from a cold or fatigue. |
| homage | Reverential regard or worship. |
| homogeneity | Congruity of the members or elements or parts. |
| homogeneous | Made up of similar parts or elements. |
| homologous | Identical in nature, make-up, or relation. |
| homonym | A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another. |
| homophone | A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another. |
| honorarium | A token fee or payment to a professional man for services. |
| hoodwink | To deceive. |
| horde | A gathered multitude of human beings. |
| hosiery | A stocking. |
| hospitable | Disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness. |
| hospitality | The practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness. |
| hostility | Enmity. |
| huckster | One who retails small wares. |
| humane | Compassionate. |
| humanitarian | A philanthropist. |
| humanize | To make gentle or refined. |
| humbug | Anything intended or calculated to deceive or mislead. |
| humiliate | To put to shame. |
| hussar | A light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine. |
| hustle | To move with haste and promptness. |
| hybrid | Cross-bred. |
| hydra | The seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by Hercules. |
| hydraulic | Involving the moving of water, of the force exerted by water in motion. |
| hydrodynamics | The branch of mechanics that treats of the dynamics of fluids. |
| hydroelectric | Pertaining to electricity developed water or steam. |
| hydromechanics | The mechanics of fluids. |
| hydrometer | An instrument for determining the density of solids and liquids by flotation. |
| hydrostatics | The branch of science that treats of the pressure and equilibrium of fluids. |
| hydrous | Watery. |
| hygiene | The branch of medical science that relates to improving health. |
| hypercritical | Faultfinding. |
| hypnosis | An artificial trance-sleep. |
| hypnotic | Tending to produce sleep. |
| hypnotism | An artificially induced somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestion. |
| hypnotize | To produce a somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestions. |
| hypocrisy | Extreme insincerity. |
| hypocrite | One who makes false professions of his views or beliefs. |
| hypodermic | Pertaining to the area under the skin. |
| hypotenuse | The side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle. |
| hypothesis | A proposition taken for granted as a premise from which to reach a conclusion. |
| hysteria | A nervous affection occurring typically in paroxysms of laughing and crying. |
| ichthyic | Fish-like. |
| ichthyology | The branch of zoology that treats of fishes. |
| ichthyosaurs | A fossil reptile. |
| icily | Frigidly. |
| iciness | The state of being icy. |
| icon | An image or likeness. |
| iconoclast | An image-breaker. |
| idealize | To make to conform to some mental or imaginary standard. |
| idiom | A use of words peculiar to a particular language. |
| idiosyncrasy | A mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual. |
| idolize | To regard with inordinate love or admiration. |
| ignoble | Low in character or purpose. |
| ignominious | Shameful. |
| Iliad | A Greek epic poem describing scenes from the siege of Troy. |
| illegal | Not according to law. |
| illegible | Undecipherable. |
| illegitimate | Unlawfully begotten. |
| illiberal | Stingy. |
| illicit | Unlawful. |
| illimitable | Boundless. |
| illiterate | Having little or no book-learning. |
| ill-natured | Surly. |
| illogical | Contrary to the rules of sound thought. |
| illuminant | That which may be used to produce light. |
| illuminate | To supply with light. |
| illumine | To make bright or clear. |
| illusion | An unreal image presented to the senses. |
| illusive | Deceptive. |
| illusory | Deceiving or tending to deceive, as by false appearance. |
| imaginable | That can be imagined or conceived in the mind. |
| imaginary | Fancied. |
| imbibe | To drink or take in. |
| imbroglio | A misunderstanding attended by ill feeling, perplexity, or strife. |
| imbrue | To wet or moisten. |
| imitation | That which is made as a likeness or copy. |
| imitator | One who makes in imitation. |
| immaculate | Without spot or blemish. |
| immaterial | Of no essential consequence. |
| immature | Not full-grown. |
| immeasurable | Indefinitely extensive. |
| immense | Very great in degree, extent, size, or quantity. |
| immerse | To plunge or dip entirely under water or other fluid. |
| immersion | The act of plunging or dipping entirely under water or another fluid. |
| immigrant | A foreigner who enters a country to settle there. |
| immigrate | To come into a country or region from a former habitat. |
| imminence | Impending evil or danger. |
| imminent | Dangerous and close at hand. |
| immiscible | Separating, as oil and water. |
| immoral | Habitually engaged in licentious or lewd practices. |
| immortalize | To cause to last or to be known or remembered throughout a great or indefinite length of time. |
| immovable | Steadfast. |
| immune | Exempt, as from disease. |
| immutable | Unchangeable. |
| impair | To cause to become less or worse. |
| impalpable | Imperceptible to the touch. |
| impartial | Unbiased. |
| impassable | That can not be passed through or over. |
| impassible | Not moved or affected by feeling. |
| impassive | Unmoved by or not exhibiting feeling. |
| impatience | Unwillingness to brook delays or wait the natural course of things. |
| impeccable | Blameless. |
| impecunious | Having no money. |
| impede | To be an obstacle or to place obstacles in the way of. |
| impel | To drive or urge forward. |
| impend | To be imminent. |
| imperative | Obligatory. |
| imperceptible | Indiscernible. |
| imperfectible | That can not be perfected. |
| imperil | To endanger. |
| imperious | Insisting on obedience. |
| impermissible | Not permissible. |
| impersonal | Not relating to a particular person or thing. |
| impersonate | To appear or act in the character of. |
| impersuadable | Unyielding. |
| impertinence | Rudeness. |
| imperturbable | Calm. |
| impervious | Impenetrable. |
| impetuosity | Rashness. |
| impetuous | Impulsive. |
| impetus | Any impulse or incentive. |
| impiety | Irreverence toward God. |
| impious | Characterized by irreverence or irreligion. |
| implausible | Not plausible. |
| impliable | Capable of being inferred. |
| implicate | To show or prove to be involved in or concerned |
| implicit | Implied. |
| imply | To signify. |
| impolitic | Inexpedient. |
| importation | The act or practice of bringing from one country into another. |
| importunate | Urgent in character, request, or demand. |
| importune | To harass with persistent demands or entreaties. |
| impotent | Destitute of or lacking in power, physical, moral, or intellectual. |
| impoverish | To make indigent or poor. |
| impracticable | Not feasible. |
| impregnable | That can not be taken by assault. |
| impregnate | To make pregnant. |
| impromptu | Anything done or said on the impulse of the moment. |
| improper | Not appropriate, suitable, or becoming. |
| impropriety | The state or quality of being unfit, unseemly, or inappropriate. |
| improvident | Lacking foresight or thrift. |
| improvise | To do anything extemporaneously or offhand. |
| imprudent | Heedless. |
| impudence | Insolent disrespect. |
| impugn | To assail with arguments, insinuations, or accusations. |
| impulsion | Impetus. |
| impulsive | Unpremeditated. |
| impunity | Freedom from punishment. |
| impure | Tainted. |
| impute | To attribute. |
| inaccessible | Difficult of approach. |
| inaccurate | Not exactly according to the facts. |
| inactive | Inert. |
| inadequate | Insufficient. |
| inadmissible | Not to be approved, considered, or allowed, as testimony. |
| inadvertent | Accidental. |
| inadvisable | Unadvisable. |
| inane | Silly. |
| inanimate | Destitute of animal life. |
| inapprehensible | Not to be understood. |
| inapt | Awkward or slow. |
| inarticulate | Speechless. |
| inaudible | That can not be heard. |
| inborn | Implanted by nature. |
| inbred | Innate. |
| incandescence | The state of being white or glowing with heat. |
| incandescent | White or glowing with heat. |
| incapacitate | To deprive of power, capacity, competency, or qualification. |
| incapacity | Want of power to apprehend, understand, and manage. |
| incarcerate | To imprison. |
| incendiary | Chemical or person who starts a fire-literally or figuratively. |
| incentive | That which moves the mind or inflames the passions. |
| inception | The beginning. |
| inceptive | Beginning. |
| incessant | Unceasing. |
| inchmeal | Piecemeal. |
| inchoate | Incipient. |
| inchoative | That which begins, or expresses beginning. |
| incidence | Casual occurrence. |
| incident | A happening in general, especially one of little importance. |
| incidentally | Without intention. |
| incinerate | To reduce to ashes. |
| incipience | Beginning. |
| incipient | Initial. |
| incisor | A front or cutting tooth. |
| incite | To rouse to a particular action. |
| incitement | That which moves to action, or serves as an incentive or stimulus. |
| incoercible | Incapable of being forced, constrained, or compelled. |
| incoherence | Want of connection, or agreement, as of parts or ideas in thought, speech, etc. |
| incoherent | Not logically coordinated, as to parts, elements, or details. |
| incombustible | That can not be burned. |
| incomparable | Matchless. |
| incompatible | Discordant. |
| incompetence | General lack of capacity or fitness. |
| incompetent | Not having the abilities desired or necessary for any purpose. |
| incomplete | Lacking some element, part, or adjunct necessary or required. |
| incomprehensible | Not understandable. |
| incompressible | Resisting all attempts to reduce volume by pressure. |
| inconceivable | Incomprehensible. |
| incongruous | Unsuitable for the time, place, or occasion. |
| inconsequential | Valueless. |
| inconsiderable | Small in quantity or importance. |
| inconsistent | Contradictory. |
| inconstant | Changeable. |
| incontrovertible | Indisputable. |
| inconvenient | Interfering with comfort or progress. |
| indefensible | Untenable. |
| indefinitely | In a vague or uncertain way. |
| indelible | That can not be blotted out, effaced, destroyed, or removed. |
| indescribable | That can not be described. |
| indestructible | That can not be destroyed. |
| indicant | That which points out. |
| indicator | One who or that which points out. |
| indict | To find and declare chargeable with crime. |
| indigence | Poverty. |
| indigenous | Native. |
| indigent | Poor. |
| indigestible | Not digestible, or difficult to digest. |
| indigestion | Difficulty or failure in the alimentary canal in changing food into absorptive nutriment. |
| indignant | Having such anger and scorn as is aroused by meanness or wickedness. |
| indignity | Unmerited contemptuous conduct or treatment. |
| indiscernible | Not perceptible. |
| indiscreet | Lacking wise judgment. |
| indiscriminate | Promiscuous. |
| indispensable | Necessary or requisite for the purpose. |
| indistinct | Vague. |
| indivertible | That can not be turned aside. |
| indivisible | Not separable into parts. |
| indolence | Laziness. |
| indolent | Habitually inactive or idle. |
| indomitable | Unconquerable. |
| induct | To bring in. |
| indulgence | The yielding to inclination, passion, desire, or propensity in oneself or another. |
| indulgent | Yielding to the desires or humor of oneself or those under one's care. |
| inebriate | To intoxicate. |
| inedible | Not good for food. |
| ineffable | Unutterable. |
| inefficient | Not accomplishing an intended purpose. |
| inefficiency | That which does not accomplish an intended purpose. |
| ineligible | Not suitable to be selected or chosen. |
| inept | Not fit or suitable. |
| inert | Inanimate. |
| inestimable | Above price. |
| inevitable | Unavoidable. |
| inexcusable | Not to be justified. |
| inexhaustible | So large or furnishing so great a supply as not to be emptied, wasted, or spent. |
| inexorable | Unrelenting. |
| inexpedient | Unadvisable. |
| inexpensive | Low-priced. |
| inexperience | Lack of or deficiency in experience. |
| inexplicable | Such as can not be made plain. |
| inexpressible | Unutterable. |
| inextensible | Of unchangeable length or area. |
| infallible | Exempt from error of judgment, as in opinion or statement. |
| infamous | Publicly branded or notorious, as for vice, or crime. |
| infamy | Total loss or destitution of honor or reputation. |
| inference | The derivation of a judgment from any given material of knowledge on the ground of law. |
| infernal | Akin to or befitting hell or its occupants. |
| infest | To be present in such numbers as to be a source of annoyance, trouble, or danger. |
| infidel | One who denies the existence of God. |
| infidelity | Disloyalty. |
| infinite | Measureless. |
| infinity | Boundless or immeasurable extension or duration. |
| infirm | Lacking in bodily or mental strength. |
| infirmary | A place for the reception or treatment of the sick. |
| infirmity | A physical, mental, or moral weakness or flaw. |
| inflammable | Easily set on fire or excited. |
| inflammation | A morbid process in some part of the body characterized by heat, swelling, and pain. |
| inflexible | That can not be altered or varied. |
| influence | Ability to sway the will of another. |
| influential | Having the power to sway the will of another. |
| influx | Infusion. |
| infrequence | Rareness. |
| infrequent | Uncommon. |
| infringe | To trespass upon. |
| infuse | To instill, introduce, or inculcate, as principles or qualities. |
| infusion | The act of imbuing, or pouring in. |
| ingenious | Evincing skill, originality, or cleverness, as in contrivance or arrangement. |
| ingenuity | Cleverness in contriving, combining, or originating. |
| ingenuous | Candid, frank, or open in character or quality. |
| inglorious | Shameful. |
| ingraft | To set or implant deeply and firmly. |
| ingratiate | To win confidence or good graces for oneself. |
| ingratitude | Insensibility to kindness. |
| ingredient | Component. |
| inherence | The state of being permanently existing in something. |
| inherent | Intrinsic. |
| inhibit | To hold back or in. |
| inhospitable | Not disposed to entertain strangers gratuitously. |
| inhuman | Savage. |
| inhume | To place in the earth, as a dead body. |
| inimical | Adverse. |
| iniquity | Gross wrong or injustice. |
| initiate | To perform the first act or rite. |
| inject | To introduce, as a fluid, by injection. |
| injunction | Mandate. |
| inkling | A hint. |
| inland | Remote from the sea. |
| inlet | A small body of water leading into a larger. |
| inmost | Deepest within. |
| innocuous | Harmless. |
| innovate | To introduce or strive to introduce new things. |
| innuendo | Insinuation. |
| innumerable | Countless. |
| inoffensive | Causing nothing displeasing or disturbing. |
| inopportune | Unsuitable or inconvenient, especially as to time. |
| inquire | To ask information about. |
| inquisition | A court or tribunal for examination and punishment of heretics. |
| inquisitive | Given to questioning, especially out of curiosity. |
| inquisitor | One who makes an investigation. |
| inroad | Forcible encroachment or trespass. |
| insatiable | That desires or craves immoderately or unappeasably. |
| inscribe | To enter in a book, or on a list, roll, or document, by writing. |
| inscrutable | Impenetrably mysterious or profound. |
| insecure | Not assured of safety. |
| insensible | Imperceptible. |
| insentient | Lacking the power of feeling or perceiving. |
| inseparable | That can not be separated. |
| insidious | Working ill by slow and stealthy means. |
| insight | Intellectual discernment. |
| insignificance | Lack of import or of importance. |
| insignificant | Without importance, force, or influence. |
| insinuate | To imply. |
| insipid | Tasteless. |
| insistence | Urgency. |
| insistent | Urgent. |
| insolence | Pride or haughtiness exhibited in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others. |
| insolent | Impudent. |
| insomnia | Sleeplessness. |
| inspector | An official appointed to examine or oversee any matter of public interest or importance. |
| instance | A single occurrence or happening of a given kind. |
| instant | A very brief portion of time. |
| instantaneous | Done without perceptible lapse of time. |
| instigate | To provoke. |
| instigator | One who incites to evil. |
| instill | To infuse. |
| instructive | Conveying knowledge. |
| insufficiency | Inadequacy. |
| insufficient | Inadequate for some need, purpose, or use. |
| insular | Pertaining to an island. |
| insulate | To place in a detached state or situation. |
| insuperable | Invincible. |
| insuppressible | Incapable of being concealed. |
| insurgence | Uprising. |
| insurgent | One who takes part in forcible opposition to the constituted authorities of a place. |
| insurrection | The state of being in active resistance to authority. |
| intangible | Not perceptible to the touch. |
| integrity | Uprightness of character and soundness of moral principle. |
| intellect | The faculty of perception or thought. |
| intellectual | Characterized by intelligence. |
| intelligence | Capacity to know or understand. |
| intelligible | Comprehensible. |
| intemperance | Immoderate action or indulgence, as of the appetites. |
| intension | The act of stringing or stretching, or state of being strained. |
| intensive | Adding emphasis or force. |
| intention | That upon which the mind is set. |
| interact | To act reciprocally. |
| intercede | To mediate between persons. |
| intercept | To interrupt the course of. |
| intercession | Entreaty in behalf of others. |
| intercessor | A mediator. |
| interdict | Authoritative act of prohibition. |
| interim | Time between acts or periods. |
| interlocutor | One who takes part in a conversation or oral discussion. |
| interlude | An action or event considered as coming between others of greater length. |
| intermediate | Being in a middle place or degree or between extremes. |
| interminable | Having no limit or end. |
| intermission | A recess. |
| intermit | To cause to cease temporarily. |
| intermittent | A temporary discontinuance. |
| interpolation | Verbal interference. |
| interpose | To come between other things or persons. |
| interposition | A coming between. |
| interpreter | A person who makes intelligible the speech of a foreigner by oral translation. |
| interrogate | To examine formally by questioning. |
| interrogative | Having the nature or form of a question. |
| interrogatory | A question or inquiry. |
| interrupt | To stop while in progress. |
| intersect | To cut through or into so as to divide. |
| intervale | A low tract of land between hills, especially along a river. |
| intervene | To interfere for some end. |
| intestacy | The condition resulting from one's dying not having made a valid will. |
| intestate | Not having made a valid will. |
| intestine | That part of the digestive tube below or behind the stomach, extending to the anus. |
| intimacy | Close or confidential friendship. |
| intimidate | To cause to become frightened. |
| intolerable | Insufferable. |
| intolerance | Inability or unwillingness to bear or endure. |
| intolerant | Bigoted. |
| intoxicant | Anything that unduly exhilarates or excites. |
| intoxicate | To make drunk. |
| intracellular | Occurring or situated within a cell. |
| intramural | Situated within the walls of a city. |
| intrepid | Fearless and bold. |
| intricacy | Perplexity. |
| intricate | Difficult to follow or understand. |
| intrigue | A plot or scheme, usually complicated and intended to accomplish something by secret ways. |
| intrinsic | Inherent. |
| introductory | Preliminary. |
| introgression | Entrance. |
| intromit | To insert. |
| introspect | To look into. |
| introspection | The act of observing and analyzing one's own thoughts and feelings. |
| introversion | The act of turning or directing inward, physically or mentally. |
| introvert | To turn within. |
| intrude | To come in without leave or license. |
| intrusion | The act of entering without warrant or invitation; encroachment. |
| intuition | Instinctive knowledge or feeling. |
| inundate | To fill with an overflowing abundance. |
| inundation | Flood. |
| inure | To harden or toughen by use, exercise, or exposure. |
| invalid | Having no force, weight, or cogency. |
| invalid | One who is disabled by illness or injury. |
| invalidate | To render of no force or effect. |
| invaluable | Exceedingly precious. |
| invariable | Unchangeable. |
| invasion | Encroachment, as by an act of intrusion or trespass. |
| invective | An utterance intended to cast censure, or reproach. |
| inveigh | To utter vehement censure or invective. |
| inventive | Quick at contrivance. |
| inverse | Contrary in tendency or direction. |
| inversion | Change of order so that the first shall become last and the last first. |
| invert | To turn inside out, upside down, or in opposite direction. |
| investigator | One who investigates. |
| investor | One who invests money. |
| inveterate | Habitual. |
| invidious | Showing or feeling envy. |
| invigorate | To animate. |
| invincible | Not to be conquered, subdued, or overcome. |
| inviolable | Incapable of being injured or disturbed. |
| invoke | To call on for assistance or protection. |
| involuntary | Unwilling. |
| involution | Complication. |
| involve | To draw into entanglement, literally or figuratively. |
| invulnerable | That can not be wounded or hurt. |
| inwardly | With no outward manifestation. |
| iota | A small or insignificant mark or part. |
| irascible | Prone to anger. |
| irate | Moved to anger. |
| ire | Wrath. |
| iridescence | A many-colored appearance. |
| iridescent | Exhibiting changing rainbow-colors due to the interference of the light. |
| irk | To afflict with pain, vexation, or fatigue. |
| irksome | Wearisome. |
| irony | Censure or ridicule under cover of praise or compliment. |
| irradiance | Luster. |
| irradiate | To render clear and intelligible. |
| irrational | Not possessed of reasoning powers or understanding. |
| irreducible | That can not be lessened. |
| irrefragable | That can not be refuted or disproved. |
| irrefrangible | That can not be broken or violated. |
| irrelevant | Inapplicable. |
| irreligious | Indifferent or opposed to religion. |
| irreparable | That can not be rectified or made amends for. |
| irrepressible | That can not be restrained or kept down. |
| irresistible | That can not be successfully withstood or opposed. |
| irresponsible | Careless of or unable to meet responsibilities. |
| irreverence | The quality showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things. |
| irreverent | Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things. |
| irreverential | Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things. |
| irreversible | Irrevocable. |
| irrigant | Serving to water lands by artificial means. |
| irrigate | To water, as land, by ditches or other artificial means. |
| irritable | Showing impatience or ill temper on little provocation. |
| irritancy | The quality of producing vexation. |
| irritant | A mechanical, chemical, or pathological agent of inflammation, pain, or tension. |
| irritate | To excite ill temper or impatience in. |
| irruption | Sudden invasion. |
| isle | An island. |
| islet | A little island. |
| isobar | A line joining points at which the barometric pressure is the same at a specified moment. |
| isochronous | Relating to or denoting equal intervals of time. |
| isolate | To separate from others of its kind. |
| isothermal | Having or marking equality of temperature. |
| itinerant | Wandering. |
| itinerary | A detailed account or diary of a journey. |
| itinerate | To wander from place to place. |
| jargon | Confused, unintelligible speech or highly technical speech. |
| jaundice | A morbid condition, due to obstructed excretion of bile or characterized by yellowing of the skin. |
| jeopardize | To imperil. |
| Jingo | One of a party in Great Britain in favor of spirited and demonstrative foreign policy. |
| jocose | Done or made in jest. |
| jocular | Inclined to joke. |
| joggle | A sudden irregular shake or a push causing such a shake. |
| journalize | To keep a diary. |
| jovial | Merry. |
| jubilation | Exultation. |
| judgment | The faculty by the exercise of which a deliberate conclusion is reached. |
| judicature | Distribution and administration of justice by trial and judgment. |
| judicial | Pertaining to the administration of justice. |
| judiciary | That department of government which administers the law relating to civil and criminal justice. |
| judicious | Prudent. |
| juggle | To play tricks of sleight of hand. |
| jugglery | The art or practice of sleight of hand. |
| jugular | Pertaining to the throat. |
| juicy | Succulent. |
| junction | The condition of being joined. |
| juncture | An articulation, joint, or seam. |
| junta | A council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon the affairs of government. |
| juridical | Assumed by law to exist. |
| jurisdiction | Lawful power or right to exercise official authority. |
| jurisprudence | The science of rights in accordance with positive law. |
| juror | One who serves on a jury or is sworn in for jury duty in a court of justice. |
| joust | To engage in a tilt with lances on horseback. |
| justification | Vindication. |
| juvenile | Characteristic of youth. |
| juxtapose | To place close together. |
| keepsake | Anything kept or given to be kept for the sake of the giver. |
| kerchief | A square of linen, silk, or other material, used as a covering for the head or neck. |
| kernel | A grain or seed. |
| kiln | An oven or furnace for baking, burning, or drying industrial products. |
| kiloliter | One thousand liters. |
| kilometer | A length of 1,000 meters. |
| kilowatt | One thousand watts. |
| kimono | A loose robe, fastening with a sash, the principal outer garment in Japan. |
| kind-hearted | Having a kind and sympathetic nature. |
| kingling | A petty king. |
| kingship | Royal state. |
| kinsfolk | pl. Relatives. |
| knavery | Deceitfulness in dealing. |
| knead | To mix and work into a homogeneous mass, especially with the hands. |
| knickknack | A small article, more for ornament that use. |
| knight errant | One of the wandering knights who in the middle ages went forth in search of adventure. |
| knighthood | Chivalry. |
| laborious | Toilsome. |
| labyrinth | A maze. |
| lacerate | To tear rudely or raggedly. |
| lackadaisical | Listless. |
| lactation | The secretion of milk. |
| lacteal | Milky. |
| lactic | Pertaining to milk. |
| laddie | A lad. |
| ladle | A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, intended for dipping up and pouring liquids. |
| laggard | Falling behind. |
| landholder | Landowner. |
| landlord | A man who owns and lets a tenement or tenements. |
| landmark | A familiar object in the landscape serving as a guide to an area otherwise easily lost track of. |
| landscape | A rural view, especially one of picturesque effect, as seen from a distance or an elevation. |
| languid | Relaxed. |
| languor | Lassitude of body or depression. |
| lapse | A slight deviation from what is right, proper, or just. |
| lascivious | Lustful. |
| lassie | A little lass. |
| latent | Dormant. |
| latency | The state of being dormant. |
| later | At a subsequent time. |
| lateral | Directed toward the side. |
| latish | Rather late. |
| lattice | Openwork of metal or wood, formed by crossing or interlacing strips or bars. |
| laud | To praise in words or song. |
| laudable | Praiseworthy. |
| laudation | High praise. |
| laudatory | Pertaining to, expressing, or containing praise. |
| laundress | Washerwoman. |
| laureate | Crowned with laurel, as a mark of distinction. |
| lave | To wash or bathe. |
| lawgiver | A legislator. |
| lawmaker | A legislator. |
| lax | Not stringent or energetic. |
| laxative | Having power to open or loosen the bowels. |
| lea | A field. |
| leaflet | A little leaf or a booklet. |
| leaven | To make light by fermentation, as dough. |
| leeward | That side or direction toward which the wind blows. |
| left-handed | Using the left hand or arm more dexterously than the right. |
| legacy | A bequest. |
| legalize | To give the authority of law to. |
| legging | A covering for the leg. |
| legible | That may be read with ease. |
| legionary | A member of an ancient Roman legion or of the modern French Legion of Honor. |
| legislate | To make or enact a law or laws. |
| legislative | That makes or enacts laws. |
| legislator | A lawgiver. |
| legitimacy | Accordance with law. |
| legitimate | Having the sanction of law or established custom. |
| leisure | Spare time. |
| leniency | Forbearance. |
| lenient | Not harsh. |
| leonine | Like a lion. |
| lethargy | Prolonged sluggishness of body or mind. |
| levee | An embankment beside a river or stream or an arm of the sea, to prevent overflow. |
| lever | That which exerts, or through which one may exert great power. |
| leviathan | Any large animal, as a whale. |
| levity | Frivolity. |
| levy | To impose and collect by force or threat of force. |
| lewd | Characterized by lust or lasciviousness. |
| lexicographer | One who makes dictionaries. |
| lexicography | The making of dictionaries. |
| lexicon | A dictionary. |
| liable | Justly or legally responsible. |
| libel | Defamation. |
| liberalism | Opposition to conservatism. |
| liberate | To set free or release from bondage. |
| licentious | Wanton. |
| licit | Lawful. |
| liege | Sovereign. |
| lien | A legal claim or hold on property, as security for a debt or charge. |
| lieu | Stead. |
| lifelike | Realistic. |
| lifelong | Lasting or continuous through life. |
| lifetime | The time that life continues. |
| ligament | That which binds objects together. |
| ligature | Anything that constricts, or serves for binding or tying. |
| light-hearted | Free from care. |
| ligneous | Having the texture of appearance of wood. |
| likelihood | A probability. |
| likely | Plausible. |
| liking | Fondness. |
| limitation | A restriction. |
| linear | Of the nature of a line. |
| liner | A vessel belonging to a steamship-line. |
| lingo | Language. |
| lingua | The tongue. |
| lingual | Pertaining to the use of the tongue in utterance. |
| linguist | One who is acquainted with several languages. |
| linguistics | The science of languages, or of the origin, history, and significance of words. |
| liniment | A liquid preparation for rubbing on the skin in cases of bruises, inflammation, etc. |
| liquefacient | Possessing a liquefying nature or power. |
| liquefy | To convert into a liquid or into liquid form. |
| liqueur | An alcoholic cordial sweetened and flavored with aromatic substances. |
| liquidate | To deliver the amount or value of. |
| liquor | Any alcoholic or intoxicating liquid. |
| listless | Inattentive. |
| literacy | The state or condition of knowing how to read and write. |
| literal | Following the exact words. |
| literature | The written or printed productions of the human mind collectively. |
| lithe | Supple. |
| lithesome | Nimble. |
| lithograph | A print made by printing from stone. |
| lithotype | In engraving, an etched stone surface for printing. |
| litigant | A party to a lawsuit. |
| litigate | To cause to become the subject-matter of a suit at law. |
| litigious | Quarrelsome. |
| littoral | Of, pertaining to, or living on a shore. |
| liturgy | A ritual. |
| livelihood | Means of subsistence. |
| livid | Black-and-blue, as contused flesh. |
| loam | A non-coherent mixture of sand and clay. |
| loath | Averse. |
| loathe | To abominate. |
| locative | Indicating place, or the place where or wherein an action occurs. |
| loch | A lake. |
| locomotion | The act or power of moving from one place to another. |
| lode | A somewhat continuous unstratified metal- bearing vein. |
| lodgment | The act of furnishing with temporary quarters. |
| logic | The science of correct thinking. |
| logical | Capable of or characterized by clear reasoning. |
| logician | An expert reasoner. |
| loiterer | One who consumes time idly. |
| loneliness | Solitude. |
| longevity | Unusually prolonged life. |
| loot | To plunder. |
| loquacious | Talkative. |
| lordling | A little lord. |
| lough | A lake or loch. |
| louse | A small insect parasitic on and sucking the blood of mammals. |
| lovable | Amiable. |
| low-spirited | Despondent. |
| lowly | Rudely. |
| lucid | Mentally sound. |
| lucrative | Highly profitable. |
| ludicrous | Laughable. |
| luminary | One of the heavenly bodies as a source of light. |
| luminescent | Showing increase of light. |
| luminescence | Showing increase. |
| luminosity | The quality of giving or radiating light. |
| luminous | Giving or radiating light. |
| lunacy | Mental unsoundness. |
| lunar | Pertaining to the moon. |
| lunatic | An insane person. |
| lune | The moon. |
| lurid | Ghastly and sensational. |
| luscious | Rich, sweet, and delicious. |
| lustrous | Shining. |
| luxuriance | Excessive or superfluous growth or quantity. |
| luxuriant | Abundant or superabundant in growth. |
| luxuriate | To live sumptuously. |
| lying | Untruthfulness. |
| lyre | One of the most ancient of stringed instruments of the harp class. |
| lyric | Fitted for expression in song. |
| macadamize | To cover or pave, as a path or roadway, with small broken stone. |
| machinery | The parts of a machine or engine, taken collectively. |
| machinist | One who makes or repairs machines, or uses metal-working tools. |
| macrocosm | The whole of any sphere or department of nature or knowledge to which man is related. |
| madden | To inflame with passion. |
| Madonna | A painted or sculptured representation of the Virgin, usually with the infant Jesus. |
| magician | A sorcerer. |
| magisterial | Having an air of authority. |
| magistracy | The office or dignity of a magistrate. |
| magnanimous | Generous in treating or judging others. |
| magnate | A person of rank or importance. |
| magnet | A body possessing that peculiar form of polarity found in nature in the lodestone. |
| magnetize | To make a magnet of, permanently, or temporarily. |
| magnificence | The exhibition of greatness of action, character, intellect, wealth, or power. |
| magnificent | Grand or majestic in appearance, quality, or action. |
| magnitude | Importance. |
| maharaja | A great Hindu prince. |
| maidenhood | Virginity. |
| maintain | To hold or preserve in any particular state or condition. |
| maintenance | That which supports or sustains. |
| maize | Indian corn: usually in the United States called simply corn. |
| makeup | The arrangements or combination of the parts of which anything is composed. |
| malady | Any physical disease or disorder, especially a chronic or deep-seated one. |
| malaria | A fever characterized by alternating chills, fever, and sweating. |
| malcontent | One who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs. |
| malediction | The calling down of a curse or curses. |
| malefactor | One who injures another. |
| maleficent | Mischievous. |
| malevolence | Ill will. |
| malevolent | Wishing evil to others. |
| malign | To speak evil of, especially to do so falsely and severely. |
| malignant | Evil in nature or tending to do great harm or mischief. |
| malleable | Pliant. |
| mallet | A wooden hammer. |
| maltreat | To treat ill, unkindly, roughly, or abusively. |
| man-trap | A place or structure dangerous to human life. |
| mandate | A command. |
| mandatory | Expressive of positive command, as distinguished from merely directory. |
| mane | The long hair growing upon and about the neck of certain animals, as the horse and the lion. |
| man-eater | An animal that devours human beings. |
| maneuver | To make adroit or artful moves: manage affairs by strategy. |
| mania | Insanity. |
| maniac | a person raving with madness. |
| manifesto | A public declaration, making announcement, explanation or defense of intentions, or motives. |
| manlike | Like a man. |
| manliness | The qualities characteristic of a true man, as bravery, resolution, etc. |
| mannerism | Constant or excessive adherence to one manner, style, or peculiarity, as of action or conduct. |
| manor | The landed estate of a lord or nobleman. |
| mantel | The facing, sometimes richly ornamented, about a fireplace, including the usual shelf above it. |
| mantle | A cloak. |
| manufacturer | A person engaged in manufacturing as a business. |
| manumission | Emancipation. |
| manumit | To set free from bondage. |
| marine | Of or pertaining to the sea or matters connected with the sea. |
| maritime | Situated on or near the sea. |
| maroon | To put ashore and abandon (a person) on a desolate coast or island. |
| martial | Pertaining to war or military operations. |
| Martian | Pertaining to Mars, either the Roman god of war or the planet. |
| martyrdom | Submission to death or persecution for the sake of faith or principle. |
| marvel | To be astonished and perplexed because of (something). |
| masonry | The art or work of constructing, as buildings, walls, etc., with regularly arranged stones. |
| masquerade | A social party composed of persons masked and costumed so as to be disguised. |
| massacre | The unnecessary and indiscriminate killing of human beings. |
| massive | Of considerable bulk and weight. |
| masterpiece | A superior production. |
| mastery | The attainment of superior skill. |
| material | That of which anything is composed or may be constructed. |
| materialize | To take perceptible or substantial form. |
| maternal | Pertaining or peculiar to a mother or to motherhood. |
| matinee | An entertainment (especially theatrical) held in the daytime. |
| matricide | The killing, especially the murdering, of one's mother. |
| matrimony | The union of a man and a woman in marriage. |
| matrix | That which contains and gives shape or form to anything. |
| matter of fact | Something that has actual and undeniable existence or reality. |
| maudlin | Foolishly and tearfully affectionate. |
| mausoleum | A tomb of more than ordinary size or architectural pretensions. |
| mawkish | Sickening or insipid. |
| maxim | A principle accepted as true and acted on as a rule or guide. |
| maze | A labyrinth. |
| mead | A meadow. |
| meager | scanty. |
| mealy-mouthed | Afraid to express facts or opinions plainly. |
| meander | To wind and turn while proceeding in a course. |
| mechanics | The branch of physics that treats the phenomena caused by the action of forces. |
| medallion | A large medal. |
| meddlesome | Interfering. |
| medial | Of or pertaining to the middle. |
| mediate | To effect by negotiating as an agent between parties. |
| medicine | A substance possessing or reputed to possess curative or remedial properties. |
| medieval | Belonging or relating to or descriptive of the middle ages. |
| mediocre | Ordinary. |
| meditation | The turning or revolving of a subject in the mind. |
| medley | A composition of different songs or parts of songs arranged to run as a continuous whole. |
| meliorate | To make better or improve, as in quality or social or physical condition. |
| mellifluous | Sweetly or smoothly flowing. |
| melodious | Characterized by a sweet succession of sounds. |
| melodrama | A drama with a romantic story or plot and sensational situation and incidents. |
| memento | A souvenir. |
| memorable | Noteworthy. |
| menace | A threat. |
| menagerie | A collection of wild animals, especially when kept for exhibition. |
| mendacious | Untrue. |
| mendicant | A beggar. |
| mentality | Intellectuality. |
| mentor | A wise and faithful teacher, guide, and friend. |
| mercantile | Conducted or acting on business principles; commercial. |
| mercenary | Greedy |
| merciful | Disposed to pity and forgive. |
| merciless | Cruel. |
| meretricious | Alluring by false or gaudy show. |
| mesmerize | To hypnotize. |
| messieurs | pl. Gentlemen. |
| metal | An element that forms a base by combining with oxygen, is usually hard, heavy, and lustrous. |
| metallurgy | The art or science of extracting a metal from ores, as by smelting. |
| metamorphosis | A passing from one form or shape into another. |
| metaphor | A figure of speech in which one object is likened to another, by speaking as if the other. |
| metaphysical | Philosophical. |
| metaphysician | One skilled in metaphysics. |
| metaphysics | The principles of philosophy as applied to explain the methods of any particular science. |
| mete | To apportion. |
| metempsychosis | Transition of the soul of a human being at death into another body, whether human or beast. |
| meticulous | Over-cautious. |
| metonymy | A figure of speech that consists in the naming of a thing by one of its attributes. |
| metric | Relating to measurement. |
| metronome | An instrument for indicating and marking exact time in music. |
| metropolis | A chief city, either the capital or the largest or most important city of a state. |
| metropolitan | Pertaining to a chief city. |
| mettle | Courage. |
| mettlesome | Having courage or spirit. |
| microcosm | The world or universe on a small scale. |
| micrometer | An instrument for measuring very small angles or dimensions. |
| microphone | An apparatus for magnifying faint sounds. |
| microscope | An instrument for assisting the eye in the vision of minute objects or features of objects. |
| microscopic | Adapted to or characterized by minute observation. |
| microscopy | The art of examing objects with the microscope. |
| midsummer | The middle of the summer. |
| midwife | A woman who makes a business of assisting at childbirth. |
| mien | The external appearance or manner of a person. |
| migrant | Wandering. |
| migrate | To remove or pass from one country, region, or habitat to another. |
| migratory | Wandering. |
| mileage | A distance in miles. |
| militant | Of a warlike or combative disposition or tendency. |
| militarism | A policy of maintaining great standing armies. |
| militate | To have weight or influence (in determining a question). |
| militia | Those citizens, collectively, who are enrolled and drilled in temporary military organizations. |
| Milky Way | The galaxy. |
| millet | A grass cultivated for forage and cereal. |
| mimic | To imitate the speech or actions of. |
| miniature | Much smaller than reality or that the normal size. |
| minimize | To reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree. |
| minion | A servile favorite. |
| ministration | Any religious ceremonial. |
| ministry | A service. |
| minority | The smaller in number of two portions into which a number or a group is divided. |
| minute | Exceedingly small in extent or quantity. |
| minutia | A small or unimportant particular or detail. |
| mirage | An optical effect looking like a sheet of water in the desert. |
| misadventure | An unlucky accident. |
| misanthropic | Hating mankind. |
| misanthropy | Hatred of mankind. |
| misapprehend | To misunderstand. |
| misbehave | To behave ill. |
| misbehavior | Ill or improper behavior. |
| mischievous | Fond of tricks. |
| miscount | To make a mistake in counting. |
| miscreant | A villain. |
| misdeed | A wrong or improper act. |
| misdemeanor | Evil conduct, small crime. |
| miser | A person given to saving and hoarding unduly. |
| mishap | Misfortune. |
| misinterpret | To misunderstand. |
| mislay | To misplace. |
| mismanage | To manage badly, improperly, or unskillfully. |
| misnomer | A name wrongly or mistakenly applied. |
| misogamy | Hatred of marriage. |
| misogyny | Hatred of women. |
| misplace | To put into a wrong place. |
| misrepresent | To give a wrong impression. |
| misrule | To misgovern. |
| missal | The book containing the service for the celebration of mass. |
| missile | Any object, especially a weapon, thrown or intended to be thrown. |
| missive | A message in writing. |
| mistrust | To regard with suspicion or jealousy. |
| misty | Lacking clearness |
| misunderstand | To Take in a wrong sense. |
| misuse | To maltreat. |
| mite | A very small amount, portion, or particle. |
| miter | The junction of two bodies at an equally divided angle. |
| mitigate | To make milder or more endurable. |
| mnemonics | A system of principles and formulas designed to assist the recollection in certain instances. |
| moat | A ditch on the outside of a fortress wall. |
| mobocracy | Lawless control of public affairs by the mob or populace. |
| moccasin | A foot-covering made of soft leather or buckskin. |
| mockery | Ridicule. |
| moderation | Temperance. |
| moderator | The presiding officer of a meeting. |
| modernity | The state or character of being modern. |
| modernize | To make characteristic of the present or of recent times. |
| modification | A change. |
| modify | To make somewhat different. |
| modish | Fashionable. |
| modulate | To vary in tone, inflection, pitch or other quality of sound. |
| mollify | To soothe. |
| molt | To cast off, as hair, feathers, etc. |
| momentary | Lasting but a short time. |
| momentous | Very significant. |
| momentum | An impetus. |
| monarchy | Government by a single, sovereign ruler. |
| monastery | A dwelling-place occupied in common by persons under religious vows of seclusion. |
| monetary | Financial. |
| mongrel | The progeny resulting from the crossing of different breeds or varieties. |
| monition | Friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof. |
| monitory | Admonition or warning. |
| monocracy | Government by a single person. |
| monogamy | The habit of pairing, or having but one mate. |
| monogram | A character consisting of two or more letters interwoven into one, usually initials of a name. |
| monograph | A treatise discussing a single subject or branch of a subject. |
| monolith | Any structure or sculpture in stone formed of a single piece. |
| monologue | A story or drama told or performed by one person. |
| monomania | The unreasonable pursuit of one idea. |
| monopoly | The control of a thing, as a commodity, to enable a person to raise its price. |
| monosyllable | A word of one syllable. |
| monotone | The sameness or monotony of utterance. |
| monotonous | Unchanging and tedious. |
| monotony | A lack of variety. |
| monsieur | A French title of respect, equivalent to Mr. and sir. |
| monstrosity | Anything unnaturally huge or distorted. |
| moonbeam | A ray of moonlight. |
| morale | A state of mind with reference to confidence, courage, zeal, and the like. |
| moralist | A writer on ethics. |
| morality | Virtue. |
| moralize | To render virtuous. |
| moratorium | An emergency legislation authorizing a government suspend some action temporarily. |
| morbid | Caused by or denoting a diseased or unsound condition of body or mind. |
| mordacious | Biting or giving to biting. |
| mordant | Biting. |
| moribund | On the point of dying. |
| morose | Gloomy. |
| morphology | the science of organic forms. |
| motley | Composed of heterogeneous or inharmonious elements. |
| motto | An expressive word or pithy sentence enunciating some guiding rule of life, or faith. |
| mountaineer | One who travels among or climbs mountains for pleasure or exercise. |
| mountainous | Full of or abounding in mountains. |
| mouthful | As much as can be or is usually put into the or exercise. |
| muddle | To confuse or becloud, especially with or as with drink. |
| muffle | To deaden the sound of, as by wraps. |
| mulatto | The offspring of a white person and a black person. |
| muleteer | A mule-driver. |
| multiform | Having many shapes, or appearances. |
| multiplicity | the condition of being manifold or very various. |
| mundane | Worldly, as opposed to spiritual or celestial. |
| municipal | Of or pertaining to a town or city, or to its corporate or local government. |
| municipality | A district enjoying municipal government. |
| munificence | A giving characterized by generous motives and extraordinary liberality. |
| munificent | Extraordinarily generous. |
| muster | An assemblage or review of troops for parade or inspection, or for numbering off. |
| mutation | The act or process of change. |
| mutilate | To disfigure. |
| mutiny | Rebellion against lawful or constituted authority. |
| myriad | A vast indefinite number. |
| mystic | One who professes direct divine illumination, or relies upon meditation to acquire truth. |
| mystification | The act of artfully perplexing. |
| myth | A fictitious narrative presented as historical, but without any basis of fact. |
| mythology | The whole body of legends cherished by a race concerning gods and heroes. |
| nameless | Having no fame or reputation. |
| naphtha | A light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints. |
| Narcissus | The son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection. |
| narrate | To tell a story. |
| narration | The act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence. |
| narrative | An orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event. |
| narrator | One who narrates anything. |
| narrow-minded | Characterized by illiberal views or sentiments. |
| nasal | Pertaining to the nose. |
| natal | Pertaining to one's birth. |
| nationality | A connection with a particular nation. |
| naturally | According to the usual order of things. |
| nausea | An affection of the stomach producing dizziness and usually an impulse to vomit |
| nauseate | To cause to loathe. |
| nauseous | Loathsome. |
| nautical | Pertaining to ships, seamen, or navigation. |
| naval | Pertaining to ships. |
| navel | The depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached. |
| navigable | Capable of commercial navigation. |
| navigate | To traverse by ship. |
| nebula | A gaseous body of unorganized stellar substance. |
| necessary | Indispensably requisite or absolutely needed to accomplish a desired result. |
| necessitate | To render indispensable. |
| necessity | That which is indispensably requisite to an end desired. |
| necrology | A list of persons who have died in a certain place or time. |
| necromancer | One who practices the art of foretelling the future by means of communication with the dead. |
| necropolis | A city of the dead. |
| necrosis | the death of part of the body. |
| nectar | Any especially sweet and delicious drink. |
| nectarine | A variety of the peach. |
| needlework | Embroidery. |
| needy | Being in need, want, or poverty. |
| nefarious | Wicked in the extreme. |
| negate | To deny. |
| negation | The act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition. |
| neglectful | Exhibiting or indicating omission. |
| negligee | A loose gown worn by women. |
| negligence | Omission of that which ought to be done. |
| negligent | Apt to omit what ought to be done. |
| negligible | Transferable by assignment, endorsement, or delivery. |
| negotiable | To bargain with others for an agreement, as for a treaty or transfer of property. |
| Nemesis | A goddess; divinity of chastisement and vengeance. |
| neocracy | Government administered by new or untried persons. |
| neo-Darwinsim | Darwinism as modified and extended by more recent students. |
| neo-Latin | Modernized Latin. |
| neopaganism | A new or revived paganism. |
| Neolithic | Pertaining to the later stone age. |
| neology | The coining or using of new words or new meanings of words. |
| neophyte | Having the character of a beginner. |
| nestle | To adjust cozily in snug quarters. |
| nestling | Recently hatched. |
| nettle | To excite sensations of uneasiness or displeasure in. |
| network | Anything that presents a system of cross- lines. |
| neural | Pertaining to the nerves or nervous system. |
| neurology | The science of the nervous system. |
| neuter | Neither masculine nor feminine. |
| neutral | Belonging to or under control of neither of two contestants. |
| Newtonian | Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, the English philosopher. |
| niggardly | Stingy. (no longer acceptable to use) |
| nihilist | An advocate of the doctrine that nothing either exists or can be known. |
| nil | Nothing |
| nimble | Light and quick in motion or action. |
| nit | The egg of a louse or some other insect. |
| nocturnal | Of or pertaining to the night. |
| noiseless | Silent. |
| noisome | Very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell. |
| noisy | Clamorous. |
| nomad | Having no fixed abode. |
| nomic | Usual or customary. |
| nominal | Trivial. |
| nominate | To designate as a candidate for any office. |
| nomination | The act or ceremony of naming a man or woman for office. |
| nominee | One who receives a nomination. |
| non-existent | That which does not exist. |
| non-resident | Not residing within a given jurisdiction. |
| nonchalance | A state of mind indicating lack of interest. |
| non-combatant | One attached to the army or navy, but having duties other than that of fighting. |
| nondescript | Indescribable. |
| nonentity | A person or thing of little or no account. |
| nonpareil | One who or that which is of unequaled excellence. |
| norm | A model. |
| normalcy | The state of being normal. |
| Norman | Of or peculiar to Normandy, in northern France. |
| nostrum | Any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character. |
| noticeable | Perceptible. |
| notorious | Unfavorably known to the general public. |
| novellette | A short novel. |
| novice | A beginner in any business or occupation. |
| nowadays | In the present time or age. |
| nowhere | In no place or state. |
| noxious | Hurtful. |
| nuance | A slight degree of difference in anything perceptible to the sense of the mind. |
| nucleus | A central point or part about which matter is aggregated. |
| nude | Naked. |
| nugatory | Having no power or force. |
| nuisance | That which annoys, vexes, or irritates. |
| numeration | The act or art of reading or naming numbers. |
| numerical | Of or pertaining to number. |
| nunnery | A convent for nuns. |
| nuptial | Of or pertaining to marriage, especially to the marriage ceremony. |
| nurture | The process of fostering or promoting growth. |
| nutriment | That which nourishes. |
| nutritive | Having nutritious properties. |
| oaken | Made of or from oak. |
| oakum | Hemp-fiber obtained by untwisting and picking out loosely the yarns of old hemp rope. |
| obdurate | Impassive to feelings of humanity or pity. |
| obelisk | A square shaft with pyramidal top, usually monumental or commemorative. |
| obese | Exceedingly fat. |
| obesity | Excessive fatness. |
| obituary | A published notice of a death. |
| objective | Grasping and representing facts as they are. |
| objector | One who objects, as to a proposition, measure, or ruling. |
| obligate | To hold to the fulfillment of duty. |
| obligatory | Binding in law or conscience. |
| oblique | Slanting; said of lines. |
| obliterate | To cause to disappear. |
| oblivion | The state of having passed out of the memory or of being utterly forgotten. |
| oblong | Longer than broad: applied most commonly to rectangular objects considerably elongated |
| obnoxious | Detestable. |
| obsequies | Funeral rites. |
| obsequious | Showing a servile readiness to fall in with the wishes or will of another. |
| observance | A traditional form or customary act. |
| observant | Quick to notice. |
| observatory | A building designed for systematic astronomical observations. |
| obsolescence | The condition or process of gradually falling into disuse. |
| obsolescent | Passing out of use, as a word. |
| obsolete | No longer practiced or accepted. |
| obstetrician | A practitioner of midwifery. |
| obstetrics | The branch of medical science concerned with the treatment and care of women during pregnancy. |
| obstinacy | Stubborn adherence to opinion, arising from conceit or the desire to have one's own way. |
| obstreperous | Boisterous. |
| obstruct | To fill with impediments so as to prevent passage, either wholly or in part. |
| obstruction | Hindrance. |
| obtrude | To be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence. |
| obtrusive | Tending to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence. |
| obvert | To turn the front or principal side of (a thing) toward any person or object. |
| obviate | To clear away or provide for, as an objection or difficulty. |
| occasion | An important event or celebration. |
| Occident | The countries lying west of Asia and the Turkish dominions. |
| occlude | To absorb, as a gas by a metal. |
| occult | Existing but not immediately perceptible. |
| occupant | A tenant in possession of property, as distinguished from the actual owner. |
| occurrence | A happening. |
| octagon | A figure with eight sides and eight angles. |
| octave | A note at this interval above or below any other, considered in relation to that other. |
| octavo | A book, or collection of paper in which the sheets are so folded as to make eight leaves. |
| octogenarian | A person of between eighty and ninety years. |
| ocular | Of or pertaining to the eye. |
| oculist | One versed or skilled in treating diseases of the eye. |
| oddity | An eccentricity. |
| ode | The form of lyric poetry anciently intended to be sung. |
| odious | Hateful. |
| odium | A feeling of extreme repugnance, or of dislike and disgust. |
| odoriferous | Having or diffusing an odor or scent, especially an agreeable one. |
| odorous | Having an odor, especially a fragrant one. |
| off | Farther or more distant. |
| offhand | Without preparation. |
| officiate | To act as an officer or leader. |
| officious | Intermeddling with what is not one's concern. |
| offshoot | Something that branches off from the parent stock. |
| ogre | A demon or monster that was supposed to devour human beings. |
| ointment | A fatty preparation with a butter-like consistency in which a medicinal substance exists. |
| olfactory | of or pertaining to the sense of smell. |
| olive-branch | A branch of the olive-tree, as an emblem of peace. |
| ominous | Portentous. |
| omission | Exclusion. |
| omnipotence | Unlimited and universal power. |
| Omnipotent | Possessed of unlimited and universal power. |
| omniscience | Unlimited or infinite knowledge. |
| omniscient | Characterized by unlimited or infinite knowledge. |
| omnivorous | Eating or living upon food of all kinds indiscriminately. |
| onerous | Burdensome or oppressive. |
| onrush | Onset. |
| onset | An assault, especially of troops, upon an enemy or fortification. |
| onslaught | A violent onset. |
| onus | A burden or responsibility. |
| opalescence | The property of combined refraction and reflection of light, resulting in smoky tints. |
| opaque | Impervious to light. |
| operate | To put in action and supervise the working of. |
| operative | Active. |
| operator | One who works with or controls some machine or scientific apparatus. |
| operetta | A humorous play in dialogue and music, of more than one act. |
| opinion | A conclusion or judgment held with confidence, but falling short of positive knowledge. |
| opponent | One who supports the opposite side in a debate, discussion, struggle, or sport. |
| opportune | Especially fit as occurring, said, or done at the right moment. |
| opportunist | One who takes advantage of circumstances to gain his ends. |
| opportunity | Favorable or advantageous chance or opening. |
| opposite | Radically different or contrary in action or movement. |
| opprobrium | The state of being scornfully reproached or accused of evil. |
| optic | Pertaining to the eye or vision. |
| optician | One who makes or deals in optical instruments or eye-glasses. |
| optics | The science that treats of light and vision, and all that is connected with sight. |
| optimism | The view that everything in nature and the history of mankind is ordered for the best. |
| option | The right, power, or liberty of choosing. |
| optometry | Measurement of the powers of vision. |
| opulence | Affluence. |
| opulent | Wealthy. |
| oral | Uttered through the mouth. |
| orate | To deliver an elaborate or formal public speech. |
| oration | An elaborate or formal public speech. |
| orator | One who delivers an elaborate or formal speech. |
| oratorio | A composition for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, generally taken from the Scriptures. |
| oratory | The art of public speaking. |
| ordeal | Anything that severely tests courage, strength, patience, conscience, etc. |
| ordinal | That form of the numeral that shows the order of anything in a series, as first, second, third. |
| ordination | A consecration to the ministry. |
| ordnance | A general name for all kinds of weapons and their appliances used in war. |
| orgies | Wild or wanton revelry. |
| origin | The beginning of that which becomes or is made to be. |
| original | Not copied nor produced by imitation. |
| originate | To cause or constitute the beginning or first stage of the existence of. |
| ornate | Ornamented to a marked degree. |
| orthodox | Holding the commonly accepted faith. |
| orthodoxy | Acceptance of the common faith. |
| orthogonal | Having or determined by right angles. |
| orthopedic | Relating to the correcting or preventing of deformity |
| orthopedist | One who practices the correcting or preventing of deformity |
| oscillate | To swing back and forth. |
| osculate | To kiss. |
| ossify | to convert into bone. |
| ostentation | A display dictated by vanity and intended to invite applause or flattery. |
| ostracism | Exclusion from intercourse or favor, as in society or politics. |
| ostracize | To exclude from public or private favor. |
| ought | To be under moral obligation to be or do. |
| oust | To eject. |
| out-and-out | Genuinely. |
| outbreak | A sudden and violent breaking forth, as of something that has been pent up or restrained. |
| outburst | A violent issue, especially of passion in an individual. |
| outcast | One rejected and despised, especially socially. |
| outcry | A vehement or loud cry or clamor. |
| outdo | To surpass. |
| outlandish | Of barbarous, uncouth, and unfamiliar aspect or action. |
| outlast | To last longer than. |
| outlaw | A habitual lawbreaker. |
| outlive | To continue to exist after. |
| out-of-the-way | Remotely situated. |
| outpost | A detachment of troops stationed at a distance from the main body to guard against surprise. |
| outrage | A gross infringement of morality or decency. |
| outrageous | Shocking in conduct. |
| outreach | To reach or go beyond. |
| outride | To ride faster than. |
| outrigger | A part built or arranged to project beyond a natural outline for support. |
| outright | Entirely. |
| outskirt | A border region. |
| outstretch | To extend. |
| outstrip | To go beyond. |
| outweigh | To surpass in importance or excellence. |
| overdo | To overtax the strength of. |
| overdose | An excessive dose, usually so large a dose of a medicine that its effect is toxic. |
| overeat | To eat to excess. |
| overhang | A portion of a structure which projects or hangs over. |
| overleap | To leap beyond. |
| overlord | One who holds supremacy over another. |
| overpass | To pass across or over, as a river. |
| overpay | To pay or reward in excess. |
| overpower | To gain supremacy or victory over by superior power. |
| overproduction | Excessive production. |
| overreach | To stretch out too far. |
| overrun | To infest or ravage. |
| oversee | To superintend. |
| overseer | A supervisor. |
| overshadow | To cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison. |
| overstride | To step beyond. |
| overthrow | To vanquish an established ruler or government. |
| overtone | A harmonic. |
| overture | An instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio, or ballet. |
| overweight | Preponderance. |
| pacify | To bring into a peaceful state. |
| packet | A bundle, as of letters. |
| pact | A covenant. |
| pagan | A worshiper of false gods. |
| pageant | A dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one. |
| palate | The roof of the mouth. |
| palatial | Magnificent. |
| paleontology | The branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms. |
| palette | A thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting. |
| palinode | A retraction. |
| pall | To make dull by satiety. |
| palliate | To cause to appear less guilty. |
| pallid | Of a pale or wan appearance. |
| palpable | perceptible by feeling or touch. |
| palsy | Paralysis. |
| paly | Lacking color or brilliancy. |
| pamphlet | A brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest. |
| pamphleteer | To compose or issue pamphlets, especially controversial ones. |
| panacea | A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases. |
| Pan-American | Including or pertaining to the whole of America, both North and South. |
| pandemic | Affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease. |
| pandemonium | A fiendish or riotous uproar. |
| panegyric | A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act. |
| panel | A rectangular piece set in or as in a frame. |
| panic | A sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear. |
| panoply | A full set of armor. |
| panorama | A series of large pictures representing a continuous scene. |
| pantheism | The worship of nature for itself or its beauty. |
| Pantheon | A circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof. |
| pantomime | Sign-language. |
| pantoscope | A very wide-angled photographic lens. |
| papacy | The official head of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| papyrus | The writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians, and later of the Romans. |
| parable | A brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral. |
| paradox | A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief. |
| paragon | A model of excellence. |
| parallel | To cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts. |
| parallelism | Essential likeness. |
| paralysis | Loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles. |
| paralyze | To deprive of the power to act. |
| paramount | Supreme in authority. |
| paramour | One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress. |
| paraphernalia | Miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment. |
| paraphrase | Translate freely. |
| pare | To cut, shave, or remove (the outside) from anything. |
| parentage | The relation of parent to child, of the producer to the produced, or of cause to effect. |
| Pariah | A member of a degraded class; a social outcast. |
| parish | The ecclesiastical district in charge of a pastor. |
| Parisian | Of or pertaining to the city of Paris. |
| parity | Equality, as of condition or rank. |
| parlance | Mode of speech. |
| parley | To converse in. |
| parliament | A legislative body. |
| parlor | A room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests. |
| parody | To render ludicrous by imitating the language of. |
| paronymous | Derived from the same root or primitive word. |
| paroxysm | A sudden outburst of any kind of activity. |
| parricide | The murder of a parent. |
| parse | To describe, as a sentence, by separating it into its elements and describing each word. |
| parsimonious | Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money. |
| partible | Separable. |
| participant | One having a share or part. |
| participate | To receive or have a part or share of. |
| partition | That which separates anything into distinct parts. |
| partisan | Characterized by or exhibiting undue or unreasoning devotion to a party. |
| passible | Capable of feeling of suffering. |
| passive | Unresponsive. |
| pastoral | Having the spirit or sentiment of rural life. |
| paternal | Fatherly. |
| paternity | Fatherhood. |
| pathos | The quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy. |
| patriarch | The chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right. |
| patrician | Of senatorial or noble rank. |
| patrimony | An inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father. |
| patriotism | Love and devotion to one's country. |
| patronize | To exercise an arrogant condescension toward. |
| patronymic | Formed after one's father's name. |
| patter | To mumble something over and over. |
| paucity | Fewness. |
| pauper | One without means of support. |
| pauperism | Dependence on charity. |
| pavilion | An open structure for temporary shelter. |
| payee | A person to whom money has been or is to be paid. |
| peaceable | Tranquil. |
| peaceful | Tranquil. |
| peccable | Capable of sinning. |
| peccadillo | A small breach of propriety or principle. |
| peccant | Guilty. |
| pectoral | Pertaining to the breast or thorax. |
| pecuniary | Consisting of money. |
| pedagogics | The science and art of teaching. |
| pedagogue | A schoolmaster. |
| pedagogy | The science and art of teaching |
| pedal | A lever for the foot usually applied only to musical instruments, cycles, and other machines. |
| pedant | A scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning. |
| peddle | To go about with a small stock of goods to sell. |
| pedestal | A base or support as for a column, statue, or vase. |
| pedestrian | One who journeys on foot. |
| pediatrics | The department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood. |
| pedigree | One's line of ancestors. |
| peddler | One who travels from house to house with an assortment of goods for retail. |
| peerage | The nobility. |
| peerless | Of unequaled excellence or worth. |
| peevish | Petulant. (irritable) |
| pellucid | Translucent. |
| penalty | The consequences that follow the transgression of natural or divine law. |
| penance | Punishment to which one voluntarily submits or subjects himself as an expression of penitence. |
| penchant | A bias in favor of something. |
| pendant | Anything that hangs from something else, either for ornament or for use. |
| pendulous | Hanging, especially so as to swing by an attached end or part. |
| pendulum | A weight hung on a rod, serving by its oscillation to regulate the rate of a clock. |
| penetrable | That may be pierced by physical, moral, or intellectual force. |
| penetrate | To enter or force a way into the interior parts of. |
| penetration | Discernment. |
| peninsular | Pertaining to a piece of land almost surrounded by water. |
| penitence | Sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone. |
| penitential | Pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone. |
| pennant | A small flag. |
| pension | A periodical allowance to an individual on account of past service done by him/her. |
| pentagram | A figure having five points or lobes. |
| pentavalent | Quinqeuvalent. |
| pentad | The number five. |
| pentagon | A figure, especially, with five angles and five sides. |
| pentahedron | A solid bounded by five plane faces. |
| pentameter | In prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet. |
| pentathlon | The contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants. |
| penultimate | A syllable or member of a series that is last but one. |
| penurious | Excessively sparing in the use of money. |
| penury | Indigence. |
| perambulate | To walk about. |
| perceive | To have knowledge of, or receive impressions concerning, through the medium of the body senses. |
| perceptible | Cognizable. |
| perception | Knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world. |
| percipience | The act of perceiving. |
| percipient | One who or that which perceives. |
| percolate | To filter. |
| percolator | A filter. |
| percussion | The sharp striking of one body against another. |
| peremptory | Precluding question or appeal. |
| perennial | Continuing though the year or through many years. |
| perfectible | Capable of being made perfect. |
| perfidy | Treachery. |
| perforate | To make a hole or holes through. |
| perform | To accomplish. |
| perfumery | The preparation of perfumes. |
| perfunctory | Half-hearted. |
| perhaps | Possibly. |
| perigee | The point in the orbit of the moon when it is nearest the earth. |
| periodicity | The habit or characteristic of recurrence at regular intervals. |
| peripatetic | Walking about. |
| perjure | To swear falsely to. |
| perjury | A solemn assertion of a falsity. |
| permanence | A continuance in the same state, or without any change that destroys the essential form or nature. |
| permanent | Durable. |
| permeate | To pervade. |
| permissible | That may be allowed. |
| permutation | Reciprocal change, different ordering of same items. |
| pernicious | Tending to kill or hurt. |
| perpendicular | Straight up and down. |
| perpetrator | The doer of a wrong or a criminal act. |
| perpetuate | To preserve from extinction or oblivion. |
| perquisite | Any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages. |
| persecution | Harsh or malignant oppression. |
| perseverance | A persistence in purpose and effort. |
| persevere | To continue striving in spite of discouragements. |
| persiflage | Banter. |
| persist | To continue steadfast against opposition. |
| persistence | A fixed adherence to a resolve, course of conduct, or the like. |
| personage | A man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high station. |
| personal | Not general or public. |
| personality | The attributes, taken collectively, that make up the character and nature of an individual. |
| personnel | The force of persons collectively employed in some service. |
| perspective | The relative importance of facts or matters from any special point of view. |
| perspicacious | Astute. |
| perspicacity | Acuteness or discernment. |
| perspicuous | Lucid. |
| perspiration | Sweat. |
| perspire | To excrete through the pores of the skin. |
| persuade | To win the mind of by argument, eloquence, evidence, or reflection. |
| persuadable | capable of influencing to action by entreaty, statement, or anything that moves the feelings. |
| pertinacious | Persistent or unyielding. |
| pertinacity | Unyielding adherence. |
| pertinent | Relevant. |
| perturb | To disturb greatly. |
| perturbation | Mental excitement or confusion. |
| perusal | The act of reading carefully or thoughtfully. |
| pervade | To pass or spread through every part. |
| pervasion | The state of spreading through every part. |
| pervasive | Thoroughly penetrating or permeating. |
| perverse | Unreasonable. |
| perversion | Diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose. |
| perversity | Wickedness. |
| pervert | One who has forsaken a doctrine regarded as true for one esteemed false. |
| pervious | Admitting the entrance or passage of another substance. |
| pestilence | A raging epidemic. |
| pestilent | Having a malign influence or effect. |
| pestilential | having the nature of or breeding pestilence. |
| peter | To fail or lose power, efficiency, or value. |
| petrify | To convert into a substance of stony hardness and character. |
| petulance | The character or condition of being impatient, capricious or petulant. |
| petulant | Displaying impatience. |
| pharmacopoeia | A book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists. |
| pharmacy | The art or business of compounding and dispensing medicines. |
| phenomenal | Extraordinary or marvelous. |
| phenomenon | Any unusual occurrence. |
| philander | To play at courtship with a woman. |
| philanthropic | Benevolent. |
| philanthropist | One who endeavors to help his fellow men. |
| philanthropy | Active humanitarianism. |
| philately | The study and collection of stamps. |
| philharmonic | Fond of music. |
| philogynist | One who is fond of women. |
| philologist | An expert in linguistics. |
| philology | The study of language in connection with history and literature. |
| philosophize | To seek ultimate causes and principles. |
| philosophy | The general principles, laws, or causes that furnish the rational explanation of anything. |
| phlegmatic | Not easily roused to feeling or action. |
| phonetic | Representing articulate sounds or speech. |
| phonic | Pertaining to the nature of sound. |
| phonogram | A graphic character symbolizing an articulate sound. |
| phonology | The science of human vocal sounds. |
| phosphorescence | The property of emitting light. |
| photoelectric | Pertaining to the combined action of light and electricity. |
| photometer | Any instrument for measuring the intensity of light or comparing the intensity of two lights. |
| photometry | The art of measuring the intensity of light. |
| physicist | A specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy. |
| physics | The science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy. |
| physiocracy | The doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth. |
| physiognomy | The external appearance merely. |
| physiography | Description of nature. |
| physiology | The science of organic functions. |
| physique | The physical structure or organization of a person. |
| picayune | Of small value. |
| piccolo | A small flute. |
| piece | A loose or separated part, as distinguished from the whole or the mass. |
| piecemeal | Gradually. |
| pillage | Open robbery, as in war. |
| pillory | A wooden framework in which an offender is fastened to boards and is exposed to public scorn. |
| pincers | An instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot. |
| pinchers | An instrument having two jaws working on a pivot. |
| pinnacle | A high or topmost point, as a mountain-peak. |
| pioneer | One among the first to explore a country. |
| pious | Religious. |
| pique | To excite a slight degree of anger in. |
| piteous | Compassionate. |
| pitiable | Contemptible. |
| pitiful | Wretched. |
| pitiless | Hard-hearted. |
| pittance | Any small portion or meager allowance. |
| placate | To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness. |
| placid | Serene. |
| plagiarism | The stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one's own. |
| planisphere | A polar projection of the heavens on a chart. |
| plasticity | The property of some substances through which the form of the mass can readily be changed. |
| platitude | A written or spoken statement that is flat, dull, or commonplace. |
| plaudit | An expression of applause. |
| plausible | Seeming likely to be true, though open to doubt. |
| playful | Frolicsome. |
| playwright | A maker of plays for the stage. |
| plea | An argument to obtain some desired action. |
| pleasant | Agreeable. |
| pleasurable | Affording gratification. |
| plebeian | Common. |
| pledgee | The person to whom anything is pledged. |
| pledgeor | One who gives a pledge. |
| plenary | Entire. |
| plenipotentiary | A person fully empowered to transact any business. |
| plenitude | Abundance. |
| plenteous | Abundant. |
| plumb | A weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something. |
| plummet | A piece of lead for making soundings, adjusting walls to the vertical. |
| pluperfect | Expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action. |
| plural | Containing or consisting of more than one. |
| plurality | A majority. |
| plutocracy | A wealthy class in a political community who control the government by means of their money. |
| pneumatic | Pertaining to or consisting of air or gas. |
| poesy | Poetry. |
| poetaster | An inferior poet. |
| poetic | Pertaining to poetry. |
| poetics | The rules and principles of poetry. |
| poignancy | Severity or acuteness, especially of pain or grief. |
| poignant | Severely painful or acute to the spirit. |
| poise | Equilibrium. |
| polar | Pertaining to the poles of a sphere, especially of the earth. |
| polemics | The art of controversy or disputation. |
| pollen | The fine dust-like grains or powder formed within the anther of a flowering plant. |
| pollute | To contaminate. |
| polyarchy | Government by several or many persons of what- ever class. |
| polycracy | The rule of many. |
| polygamy | the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at once. |
| polyglot | Speaking several tongues. |
| polygon | A figure having many angles. |
| polyhedron | A solid bounded by plane faces, especially by more than four. |
| polysyllable | Having several syllables, especially more than three syllables. |
| polytechnic | Pertaining to, embracing, or practicing many arts. |
| polytheism | The doctrine or belief that there are more gods than one. |
| pommel | To beat with something thick or bulky. |
| pomposity | The quality of being marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner. |
| pompous | Marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner. |
| ponder | To meditate or reflect upon. |
| ponderous | Unusually weighty or forcible. |
| pontiff | The Pope. |
| populace | The common people. |
| populous | Containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory. |
| portend | To indicate as being about to happen, especially by previous signs. |
| portent | Anything that indicates what is to happen. |
| portfolio | A portable case for holding writing-materials, drawings, etc. |
| posit | To present in an orderly manner. |
| position | The manner in which a thing is placed. |
| positive | Free from doubt or hesitation. |
| posse | A force of men. |
| possess | To own. |
| possession | The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command. |
| possessive | Pertaining to the having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command. |
| possessor | One who owns, enjoys, or controls anything, as property. |
| possible | Being not beyond the reach of power natural, moral, or supernatural. |
| postdate | To make the date of any writing later than the real date. |
| posterior | The hinder part. |
| postgraduate | Pertaining to studies that are pursued after receiving a degree. |
| postscript | Something added to a letter after the writer's signature. |
| potency | Power. |
| potent | Physically powerful. |
| potentate | One possessed of great power or sway. |
| potential | Anything that may be possible. |
| potion | A dose of liquid medicine. |
| powerless | Impotent. |
| practicable | Feasible. |
| prate | To talk about vainly or foolishly. |
| prattle | To utter in simple or childish talk. |
| preamble | A statement introductory to and explanatory of what follows. |
| precarious | Perilous. |
| precaution | A provision made in advance for some possible emergency or danger. |
| precede | To happen first. |
| precedence | Priority in place, time, or rank. |
| precedent | An instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule. |
| precedential | Of the nature of an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule. |
| precession | The act of going forward. |
| precipice | A high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff. |
| precipitant | Moving onward quickly and heedlessly. |
| precipitate | To force forward prematurely. |
| precise | Exact. |
| precision | Accuracy of limitation, definition, or adjustment. |
| preclude | To prevent. |
| precocious | Having the mental faculties prematurely developed. |
| precursor | A forerunner or herald. |
| predatory | Prone to pillaging. |
| predecessor | An incumbent of a given office previous to another. |
| predicament | A difficult, trying situation or plight. |
| predicate | To state as belonging to something. |
| predict | To foretell. |
| prediction | A prophecy. |
| predominance | Ascendancy or preponderance. |
| predominant | Superior in power, influence, effectiveness, number, or degree. |
| predominate | To be chief in importance, quantity, or degree. |
| preeminence | Special eminence. |
| preempt | To secure the right of preference in the purchase of public land. |
| preemption | The right or act of purchasing before others. |
| preengage | To preoccupy. |
| preestablish | To settle or arrange beforehand. |
| preexist | To exist at a period or in a state earlier than something else. |
| preexistence | Existence antecedent to something. |
| preface | A brief explanation or address to the reader, at the beginning of a book. |
| prefatory | Pertaining to a brief explanation to the reader at the beginning of a book. |
| prefer | To hold in higher estimation. |
| preferable | More desirable than others. |
| preference | An object of favor or choice. |
| preferential | Possessing, giving, or constituting preference or priority. |
| preferment | Preference. |
| prefix | To attach at the beginning. |
| prehensible | Capable of being grasped. |
| prehensile | Adapted for grasping or holding. |
| prehension | The act of laying hold of or grasping. |
| prejudice | A judgment or opinion formed without due examination of the facts. |
| prelacy | A system of church government. |
| prelate | One of a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy. |
| prelude | An introductory or opening performance. |
| premature | Coming too soon. |
| premier | First in rank or position. |
| premise | A judgment as a conclusion. |
| premonition | Foreboding. |
| preoccupation | The state of having the mind, attention, or inclination preoccupied. |
| preoccupy | To fill the mind of a person to the exclusion of other subjects. |
| preordain | To foreordain. |
| preparation | An act or proceeding designed to bring about some event. |
| preparatory | Having to do with what is preliminary. |
| preponderant | Prevalent. |
| preponderate | To exceed in influence or power. |
| prepossession | A preconceived liking. |
| preposterous | Utterly ridiculous or absurd. |
| prerogative | Having superior rank or precedence. |
| presage | To foretell. |
| prescience | Knowledge of events before they take place. |
| prescient | Foreknowing. |
| prescript | Prescribed as a rule or model. |
| prescriptible | Derived from authoritative direction. |
| prescription | An authoritative direction. |
| presentient | Perceiving or feeling beforehand. |
| presentiment | Foreboding. |
| presentment | Semblance. |
| preservation | Conservation. |
| presumption | That which may be logically assumed to be true until disproved. |
| presumptuous | Assuming too much. |
| pretension | A bold or presumptuous assertion. |
| pretentious | Marked by pretense, conceit, or display. |
| preternatural | Extraordinary. |
| pretext | A fictitious reason or motive. |
| prevalence | Frequency. |
| prevalent | Of wide extent or frequent occurrence. |
| prevaricate | To use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention. |
| prevention | Thwarting. |
| prickle | To puncture slightly with fine, sharp points. |
| priggish | Conceited. |
| prim | Stiffly proper. |
| prima | First. |
| primer | An elementary reading-book for children. |
| primeval | Belonging to the first ages. |
| primitive | Pertaining to the beginning or early times. |
| principal | Most important. |
| principality | The territory of a reigning prince. |
| principle | A general truth or proposition. |
| priory | A monastic house. |
| pristine | Primitive. |
| privateer | A vessel owned and officered by private persons, but carrying on maritime war. |
| privilege | A right or immunity not enjoyed by all, or that may be enjoyed only under special conditions. |
| privity | Knowledge shared with another or others regarding a private matter. |
| privy | Participating with another or others in the knowledge of a secret transaction. |
| probate | Relating to making proof, as of a will. |
| probation | Any proceeding designed to ascertain or test character, qualification, or the like. |
| probe | To search through and through. |
| probity | Virtue or integrity tested and confirmed. |
| procedure | A manner or method of acting. |
| proceed | To renew motion or action, as after rest or interruption. |
| proclamation | Any announcement made in a public manner. |
| procrastinate | To put off till tomorrow or till a future time. |
| procrastination | Delay. |
| proctor | An agent acting for another. |
| prodigal | One wasteful or extravagant, especially in the use of money or property. |
| prodigious | Immense. |
| prodigy | A person or thing of very remarkable gifts or qualities. |
| productive | Yielding in abundance. |
| profession | Any calling or occupation involving special mental or other special disciplines. |
| professor | A public teacher of the highest grade in a university or college. |
| proffer | To offer to another for acceptance. |
| proficiency | An advanced state of acquirement, as in some knowledge, art, or science. |
| proficient | Possessing ample and ready knowledge or of skill in any art, science, or industry. |
| profile | An outline or contour. |
| profiteer | One who profits. |
| profligacy | Shameless viciousness. |
| profligate | Abandoned to vice. |
| profuse | Produced or displayed in overabundance. |
| progeny | Offspring. |
| progression | A moving forward or proceeding in course. |
| prohibition | A decree or an order forbidding something. |
| prohibitionist | One who favors the prohibition by law of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. |
| prohibitory | Involving or equivalent to prohibition, especially of the sale of alcoholic beverages. |
| projection | A prominence. |
| proletarian | A person of the lowest or poorest class. |
| prolific | Producing offspring or fruit. |
| prolix | Verbose. |
| prologue | A prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse, or performance. |
| prolong | To extend in time or duration. |
| promenade | To walk for amusement or exercise. |
| prominence | The quality of being noticeable or distinguished. |
| prominent | Conspicuous in position, character, or importance. |
| promiscuous | Brought together without order, distinction, or design (for sex). |
| promissory | Expressing an engagement to pay. |
| promontory | A high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea. |
| promoter | A furtherer, forwarder, or encourager. |
| promulgate | To proclaim. |
| propaganda | Any institution or systematic scheme for propagating a doctrine or system. |
| propagate | To spread abroad or from person to person. |
| propel | To drive or urge forward. |
| propellant | Propelling. |
| propeller | One who or that which propels. |
| prophecy | Any prediction or foretelling. |
| prophesy | To predict or foretell, especially under divine inspiration and guidance. |
| propitious | Kindly disposed. |
| proportionate | Being in proportion. |
| propriety | Accordance with recognized usage, custom, or principles. |
| propulsion | A driving onward or forward. |
| prosaic | Unimaginative. |
| proscenium | That part of the stage between the curtain and the orchestra. |
| proscribe | To reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation. |
| proscription | Any act of condemnation and rejection from favor and privilege. |
| proselyte | One who has been won over from one religious belief to another. |
| prosody | The science of poetical forms. |
| prospector | One who makes exploration, search, or examination, especially for minerals. |
| prospectus | A paper or pamphlet containing information of a proposed undertaking. |
| prostrate | Lying prone, or with the head to the ground. |
| protagonist | A leader in any enterprise or contest. |
| protection | Preservation from harm, danger, annoyance, or any other evil. |
| protective | Sheltering. |
| protector | A defender. |
| protege | One specially cared for and favored by another usually older person. |
| Protestant | A Christian who denies the authority of the Pope and holds the right of special judgment. |
| protomartyr | The earliest victim in any cause. |
| protocol | A declaration or memorandum of agreement less solemn and formal than a treaty. |
| protoplasm | The substance that forms the principal portion of an animal or vegetable cell. |
| prototype | A work, original in character, afterward imitated in form or spirit. |
| protract | To prolong. |
| protrude | To push out or thrust forth. |
| protrusion | The act of protruding. |
| protuberance | Something that swells out from a surrounding surface. |
| protuberant | Bulging. |
| protuberate | To swell or bulge beyond the surrounding surface. |
| proverb | A brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience. |
| provident | Anticipating and making ready for future wants or emergencies. |
| providential | Effected by divine guidance. |
| provincial | Uncultured in thought and manner. |
| proviso | A clause in a contract, will, etc., by which its operation is rendered conditional. |
| provocation | An action or mode of conduct that excites resentment. |
| prowess | Strength, skill, and intrepidity in battle. |
| proximately | Immediately. |
| proxy | A person who is empowered by another to represent him or her in a given matter. |
| prudence | Caution. |
| prudential | Proceeding or marked by caution. |
| prudery | An undue display of modesty or delicacy. |
| prurient | Inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires. |
| pseudapostle | A pretended or false apostle. |
| pseudonym | A fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer. |
| pseudonymity | The state or character of using a fictitious name. |
| psychiatry | The branch of medicine that relates to mental disease. |
| psychic | Pertaining to the mind or soul. |
| psychopathic | Morally irresponsible. |
| psychotherapy | The treatment of mental disease. |
| pudgy | Small and fat. |
| puerile | Childish. |
| pugnacious | Quarrelsome. |
| puissant | Possessing strength. |
| pulmonary | Pertaining to the lungs. |
| punctilious | Strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom. |
| punctual | Observant and exact in points of time. |
| pungent | Affecting the sense of smell. |
| pungency | The quality of affecting the sense of smell. |
| punitive | Pertaining to punishment. |
| pupilage | The state or period of being a student. |
| purgatory | An intermediate state where souls are made fit for paradise or heaven by expiatory suffering. |
| purl | To cause to whirl, as in an eddy. |
| purloin | To steal. |
| purport | Intent. |
| purveyor | one who supplies |
| pusillanimous | Without spirit or bravery. |
| putrescent | Undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors. |
| pyre | A heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body. |
| pyromania | An insane propensity to set things on fire. |
| pyrotechnic | Pertaining to fireworks or their manufacture. |
| pyx | A vessel or casket, usually of precious metal, in which the host is preserved. |
| quackery | Charlatanry |
| quadrate | To divide into quarters. |
| quadruple | To multiply by four. |
| qualification | A requisite for an employment, position, right, or privilege. |
| qualify | To endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill, or possessions. |
| qualm | A fit of nausea. |
| quandary | A puzzling predicament. |
| quantity | Magnitude. |
| quarantine | The enforced isolation of any person or place infected with contagious disease. |
| quarrelsome | Irascible. |
| quarter | One of four equal parts into which anything is or may be divided. |
| quarterly | Occurring or made at intervals of three months. |
| quartet | A composition for four voices or four instruments. |
| quarto | An eight-page newspaper of any size. |
| quay | A wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it. |
| querulous | Habitually complaining. |
| query | To make inquiry. |
| queue | A file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance. |
| quibble | An utterly trivial distinction or objection. |
| quiescence | Quiet. |
| quiescent | Being in a state of repose or inaction. |
| quiet | Making no noise. |
| quietus | A silencing, suppressing, or ending. |
| quintessence | The most essential part of anything. |
| quintet | Musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments. |
| quite | Fully. |
| Quixotic | Chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree. |
| rabid | Affected with rabies or hydrophobia. |
| racy | Exciting or exhilarating to the mind. |
| radiance | Brilliant or sparkling luster. |
| radiate | To extend in all directions, as from a source or focus. |
| radical | One who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures. |
| radix | That from or on which something is developed. |
| raillery | Good-humored satire. |
| ramify | To divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions. |
| ramose | Branch-like. |
| rampant | Growing, climbing, or running without check or restraint. |
| rampart | A bulwark or construction to oppose assault or hostile entry. |
| rancor | Malice. |
| rankle | To produce irritation or festering. |
| rapacious | Disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods. |
| rapid | Having great speed. |
| rapine | The act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war. |
| rapt | Enraptured. |
| raptorial | Seizing and devouring living prey. |
| ration | To provide with a fixed allowance or portion, especially of food. |
| rationalism | The formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority. |
| raucous | Harsh. |
| ravage | To lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring, or other destructive methods. |
| ravenous | Furiously voracious or hungry. |
| ravine | A deep gorge or hollow, especially one worn by a stream or flow of water. |
| reaction | Tendency towards a former, or opposite state of things, as after reform, revolution, or inflation. |
| reactionary | Pertaining to, of the nature of, causing, or favoring reaction. |
| readily | Without objection or reluctance. |
| readjust | To put in order after disarrangement. |
| ready | In a state of preparedness for any given purpose or occasion. |
| realism | The principle and practice of depicting persons and scenes as they are believed really to exist. |
| rearrange | To arrange again or in a different order. |
| reassure | To give new confidence. |
| rebellious | Insubordinate. |
| rebuff | A peremptory or unexpected rejection of advances or approaches. |
| rebuild | To build again or anew. |
| rebut | To oppose by argument or a sufficient answer. |
| recant | To withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained). |
| recapitulate | To repeat again the principal points of. |
| recapture | To capture again. |
| recede | To move back or away. |
| receivable | Capable of being or fit to be received - often money. |
| receptive | Having the capacity, quality, or ability of receiving, as truths or impressions. |
| recessive | Having a tendency to go back. |
| recidivist | A confirmed criminal. |
| reciprocal | Mutually interchangeable or convertible. |
| reciprocate | To give and take mutually. |
| reciprocity | Equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed. |
| recitation | The act of reciting or repeating, especially in public and from memory. |
| reck | To have a care or thought for. |
| reckless | Foolishly headless of danger. |
| reclaim | To demand or to obtain the return or restoration of. |
| recline | To cause to assume a leaning or recumbent attitude or position. |
| recluse | One who lives in retirement or seclusion. |
| reclusory | A hermitage. |
| recognizance | An acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act. |
| recognize | To recall the identity of (a person or thing). |
| recoil | To start back as in dismay, loathing, or dread. |
| recollect | To recall the knowledge of. |
| reconcilable | Capable of being adjusted or harmonized. |
| reconnoiter | To make a preliminary examination of for military, surveying, or geological purposes. |
| reconsider | To review with care, especially with a view to a reversal of previous action. |
| reconstruct | To rebuild. |
| recourse | Resort to or application for help in exigency or trouble. |
| recover | To regain. |
| recreant | A cowardly or faithless person. |
| recreate | To refresh after labor. |
| recrudescence | The state of becoming raw or sore again. |
| recrudescent | Becoming raw or sore again. |
| recruit | To enlist men for military or naval service. |
| rectify | To correct. |
| rectitude | The quality of being upright in principles and conduct. |
| recuperate | To recover. |
| recur | To happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals. |
| recure | To cure again. |
| recurrent | Returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals. |
| redemption | The recovery of what is mortgaged or pledged, by paying the debt. |
| redolent | Smelling sweet and agreeable. |
| redolence | Smelling sweet and agreeable. |
| redoubtable | Formidable. |
| redound | Rebound. |
| redress | To set right, as a wrong by compensation or the punishment of the wrong-doer. |
| reducible | That may be reduced. |
| redundance | Excess. |
| redundant | Constituting an excess. |
| reestablish | To restore. |
| refer | To direct or send for information or other purpose. |
| referrer | One who refers. |
| referable | Ascribable. |
| referee | An umpire. |
| refinery | A place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified. |
| reflectible | Capable of being turned back. |
| reflection | The throwing off or back of light, heat, sound, or any form of energy that travels in waves. |
| reflector | A mirror, as of metal, for reflecting light, heat, or sound in a particular direction. |
| reflexible | Capable of being reflected. |
| reform | Change for the better. |
| reformer | One who carries out a reform. |
| refract | To bend or turn from a direct course. |
| refractory | Not amenable to control. |
| refragable | Capable of being refuted. |
| refringency | Power to refract. |
| refringent | Having the power to refract. |
| refusal | Denial of what is asked. |
| refute | To prove to be wrong. |
| regale | To give unusual pleasure. |
| regalia | pl. The emblems of royalty. |
| regality | Royalty. |
| regenerate | To reproduce. |
| regent | One who is lawfully deputized to administer the government for the time being in the name of the ruler. |
| regicide | The killing of a king or sovereign. |
| regime | Particular conduct or administration of affairs. |
| regimen | A systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing and personal habits. |
| regiment | A body of soldiers. |
| regnant | Exercising royal authority in one's own right. |
| regress | To return to a former place or condition. |
| regretful | Feeling, expressive of, or full of regret. |
| rehabilitate | To restore to a former status, capacity, right rank, or privilege. |
| reign | To hold and exercise sovereign power. |
| reimburse | To pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended. |
| rein | A step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal. |
| reinstate | To restore to a former state, station, or authority. |
| reiterate | To say or do again and again. |
| rejoin | To reunite after separation. |
| rejuvenate | To restore to youth. |
| rejuvenescence | A renewal of youth. |
| relapse | To suffer a return of a disease after partial recovery. |
| relegate | To send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destination. |
| relent | To yield. |
| relevant | Bearing upon the matter in hand. |
| reliance | Dependence. |
| reliant | Having confidence. |
| relinquish | To give up using or having. |
| reliquary | A casket, coffer, or repository in which relics are kept. |
| relish | To like the taste or savor of. |
| reluctance | Unwillingness. |
| reluctant | Unwilling. |
| remembrance | Recollection. |
| reminiscence | The calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience. |
| reminiscent | Pertaining to the recollection of matters of personal interest. |
| remiss | Negligent. |
| remission | Temporary diminution of a disease. |
| remodel | Reconstruct. |
| remonstrance | Reproof. |
| remonstrant | Having the character of a reproof. |
| remonstrate | To present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong. |
| remunerate | To pay or pay for. |
| remuneration | Compensation. |
| Renaissance | The revival of letters, and then of art, which marks the transition from medieval to modern time. |
| rendezvous | A prearranged place of meeting. |
| rendition | Interpretation. |
| renovate | To restore after deterioration, as a building. |
| renunciation | An explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege. |
| reorganize | To change to a more satisfactory form of organization. |
| reparable | Capable of repair. |
| reparation | The act of making amends, as for an injury, loss, or wrong. |
| repartee | A ready, witty, or apt reply. |
| repeal | To render of no further effect. |
| repel | To force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally. |
| repellent | Having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally. |
| repentance | Sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong. |
| repertory | A place where things are stored or gathered together. |
| repetition | The act of repeating. |
| repine | To indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding. |
| replenish | To fill again, as something that has been emptied. |
| replete | Full to the uttermost. |
| replica | A duplicate executed by the artist himself, and regarded, equally with the first, as an original. |
| repository | A place in which goods are stored. |
| reprehend | To find fault with. |
| reprehensible | Censurable. |
| reprehension | Expression of blame. |
| repress | To keep under restraint or control. |
| repressible | Able to be kept under restraint or control. |
| reprieve | To grant a respite from punishment to. |
| reprimand | To chide or rebuke for a fault. |
| reprisal | Any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy. |
| reprobate | One abandoned to depravity and sin. |
| reproduce | To make a copy of. |
| reproduction | The process by which an animal or plant gives rise to another of its kind. |
| reproof | An expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured. |
| repudiate | To refuse to have anything to do with. |
| repugnance | Thorough dislike. |
| repugnant | Offensive to taste and feeling. |
| repulse | The act of beating or driving back, as an attacking or advancing enemy. |
| repulsive | Grossly offensive. |
| repute | To hold in general opinion. |
| requiem | A solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead. |
| requisite | Necessary. |
| requital | Adequate return for good or ill. |
| requite | To repay either good or evil to, as to a person. |
| rescind | To make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority. |
| reseat | To place in position of office again. |
| resemblance | Similarity in quality or form. |
| resent | To be indignant at, as an injury or insult. |
| reservoir | A receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept. |
| residue | A remainder or surplus after a part has been separated or otherwise treated. |
| resilience | The power of springing back to a former position |
| resilient | Having the quality of springing back to a former position. |
| resistance | The exertion of opposite effort or effect. |
| resistant | Offering or tending to produce resistance. |
| resistive | Having or exercising the power of resistance. |
| resistless | Powerless. |
| resonance | The quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations. |
| resonance | Able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations. |
| resonate | To have or produce resonance. |
| resource | That which is restored to, relied upon, or made available for aid or support. |
| respite | Interval of rest. |
| resplendent | Very bright. |
| respondent | Answering. |
| restitution | Restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs. |
| resumption | The act of taking back, or taking again. |
| resurgent | Surging back or again. |
| resurrection | A return from death to life |
| resuscitate | To restore from apparent death. |
| retaliate | To repay evil with a similar evil. |
| retch | To make an effort to vomit. |
| retention | The keeping of a thing within one's power or possession. |
| reticence | The quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance. |
| reticent | Habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance. |
| retinue | The body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance. |
| retort | A retaliatory speech. |
| retouch | To modify the details of. |
| retrace | To follow backward or toward the place of beginning, as a track or marking. |
| retract | To recall or take back (something that one has said). |
| retrench | To cut down or reduce in extent or quantity. |
| retrieve | To recover something by searching. |
| retroactive | Operative on, affecting, or having reference to past events, transactions, responsibilities. |
| retrograde | To cause to deteriorate or to move backward. |
| retrogression | A going or moving backward or in a reverse direction. |
| retrospect | A view or contemplation of something past. |
| retrospective | Looking back on the past. |
| reunite | To unite or join again, as after separation. |
| revelation | A disclosing, discovering, or making known of what was before secret, private, or unknown. |
| revere | To regard with worshipful veneration. |
| reverent | Humble. |
| reversion | A return to or toward some former state or condition. |
| revert | To return, or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like. |
| revile | To heap approach or abuse upon. |
| revisal | Revision. |
| revise | To examine for the correction of errors, or for the purpose of making changes. |
| revocation | Repeal. |
| revoke | To rescind. |
| rhapsody | Rapt or rapturous utterance. |
| rhetoric | The art of discourse. |
| rhetorician | A showy writer or speaker. |
| ribald | Indulging in or manifesting coarse indecency or obscenity. |
| riddance | The act or ridding or delivering from something undesirable. |
| ridicule | Looks or acts expressing amused contempt. |
| ridiculous | Laughable and contemptible. |
| rife | Abundant. |
| righteousness | Rectitude. |
| rightful | Conformed to a just claim according to established laws or usage. |
| rigmarole | Nonsense. |
| rigor | Inflexibility. |
| rigorous | Uncompromising. |
| ripplet | A small ripple, as of water. |
| risible | capable of exciting laughter. |
| rivulet | A small stream or brook. |
| robust | Characterized by great strength or power of endurance. |
| rondo | A musical composition during which the first part or subject is repeated several times. |
| rookery | A place where crows congregate to breed. |
| rotary | Turning around its axis, like a wheel, or so constructed as to turn thus. |
| rotate | To cause to turn on or as on its axis, as a wheel. |
| rote | Repetition of words or sounds as a means of learning them, with slight attention. |
| rotund | Round from fullness or plumpness. |
| rudimentary | Being in an initial, early, or incomplete stage of development. |
| rue | To regret extremely. |
| ruffian | A lawless or recklessly brutal fellow. |
| ruminant | Chewing the cud. |
| ruminate | To chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated. |
| rupture | To separate the parts of by violence. |
| rustic | Characteristic of dwelling in the country. |
| ruth | Sorrow for another's misery. |
| sacrifice | To make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar. |
| sacrificial | Offering or offered as an atonement for sin. |
| sacrilege | The act of violating or profaning anything sacred. |
| sacrilegious | Impious. |
| safeguard | To protect. |
| sagacious | Able to discern and distinguish with wise perception. |
| salacious | Having strong sexual desires. |
| salience | The condition of standing out distinctly. |
| salient | Standing out prominently. |
| saline | Constituting or consisting of salt. |
| salutary | Beneficial. |
| salutation | Any form of greeting, hailing, or welcome, whether by word or act. |
| salutatory | The opening oration at the commencement in American colleges. |
| salvage | Any act of saving property. |
| salvo | A salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer. |
| sanctimonious | Making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety. |
| sanction | To approve authoritatively. |
| sanctity | Holiness. |
| sanguinary | Bloody. |
| sanguine | Having the color of blood. |
| sanguineous | Consisting of blood. |
| sapid | Affecting the sense of taste. |
| sapience | Deep wisdom or knowledge. |
| sapient | Possessing wisdom. |
| sapiential | Possessing wisdom. |
| saponaceous | Having the nature or quality of soap. |
| sarcasm | Cutting and reproachful language. |
| sarcophagus | A stone coffin or a chest-like tomb. |
| sardonic | Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic. |
| satiate | To satisfy fully the appetite or desire of. |
| satire | The employment of sarcasm, irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices. |
| satiric | Resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity ,or corruption is held up to ridicule. |
| satirize | To treat with sarcasm or derisive wit. |
| satyr | A very lascivious person. |
| savage | A wild and uncivilized human being. |
| savor | To perceive by taste or smell. |
| scabbard | The sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon. |
| scarcity | Insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands. |
| scholarly | Characteristic of an erudite person. |
| scholastic | Pertaining to education or schools. |
| scintilla | The faintest ray. |
| scintillate | To emit or send forth sparks or little flashes of light. |
| scope | A range of action or view. |
| scoundrel | A man without principle. |
| scribble | Hasty, careless writing. |
| scribe | One who writes or is skilled in writing. |
| script | Writing or handwriting of the ordinary cursive form. |
| Scriptural | Pertaining to, contained in, or warranted by the Holy Scriptures. |
| scruple | Doubt or uncertainty regarding a question of moral right or duty. |
| scrupulous | Cautious in action for fear of doing wrong. |
| scurrilous | Grossly indecent or vulgar. |
| scuttle | To sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom. |
| scythe | A long curved blade for mowing, reaping, etc. |
| seance | A meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits. |
| sear | To burn on the surface. |
| sebaceous | Pertaining to or appearing like fat. |
| secant | Cutting, especially into two parts. |
| secede | To withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body. |
| secession | Voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies. |
| seclude | To place, keep, or withdraw from the companionship of others. |
| seclusion | Solitude. |
| secondary | Less important or effective than that which is primary. |
| secondly | In the second place in order or succession. |
| second-rate | Second in quality, size, rank, importance, etc. |
| secrecy | Concealment. |
| secretary | One who attends to correspondence, keeps records. or does other writing for others. |
| secretive | Having a tendency to conceal. |
| sedate | Even-tempered. |
| sedentary | Involving or requiring much sitting. |
| sediment | Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid. |
| sedition | Conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state. |
| seditious | Promotive of conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state. |
| seduce | To entice to surrender chastity. |
| sedulous | Persevering in effort or endeavor. |
| seer | A prophet. |
| seethe | To be violently excited or agitated. |
| seignior | A title of honor or respectful address, equivalent to sir. |
| seismograph | An instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes. |
| seize | To catch or take hold of suddenly and forcibly. |
| selective | Having the power of choice. |
| self-respect | Rational self-esteem. |
| semblance | Outward appearance. |
| semicivilized | Half-civilized. |
| semiconscious | Partially conscious. |
| semiannual | Recurring at intervals of six months. |
| semicircle | A half-circle. |
| seminar | Any assemblage of pupils for real research in some specific study under a teacher. |
| seminary | A special school, as of theology or pedagogics. |
| senile | Peculiar to or proceeding from the weakness or infirmity of old age. |
| sensation | A condition of mind resulting from spiritual or inherent feeling. |
| sense | The signification conveyed by some word, phrase, or action. |
| sensibility | Power to perceive or feel. |
| sensitive | Easily affected by outside operations or influences. |
| sensorium | The sensory apparatus. |
| sensual | Pertaining to the body or the physical senses. |
| sensuous | Having a warm appreciation of the beautiful or of the refinements of luxury. |
| sentence | A related group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought. |
| sentience | Capacity for sensation or sense-perception. |
| sentient | Possessing the power of sense or sense-perception. |
| sentinel | Any guard or watch stationed for protection. |
| separable | Capable of being disjoined or divided. |
| separate | To take apart. |
| separatist | A seceder. |
| septennial | Recurring every seven years. |
| sepulcher | A burial-place. |
| sequacious | Ready to be led. |
| sequel | That which follows in consequence of what has previously happened. |
| sequence | The order in which a number or persons, things, or events follow one another in space or time. |
| sequent | Following in the order of time. |
| sequester | To cause to withdraw or retire, as from society or public life. |
| sequestrate | To confiscate. |
| sergeant | A non-commissioned military officer ranking next above a corporal. |
| sergeant-at-arms | An executive officer in legislative bodies who enforces the orders of the presiding officer. |
| sergeant-major | The highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment. |
| service | Any work done for the benefit of another. |
| serviceable | Durable. |
| servitude | Slavery. |
| severance | Separation. |
| severely | Extremely. |
| sextet | A band of six singers or players. |
| sextuple | Multiplied by six. |
| sheer | Absolute. |
| shiftless | Wanting in resource, energy, or executive ability. |
| shrewd | Characterized by skill at understanding and profiting by circumstances. |
| shriek | A sharp, shrill outcry or scream, caused by agony or terror. |
| shrinkage | A contraction of any material into less bulk or dimension. |
| shrivel | To draw or be drawn into wrinkles. |
| shuffle | A mixing or changing the order of things. |
| sibilance | A hissing sound. |
| sibilant | Made with a hissing sound. |
| sibilate | To give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s. |
| sidelong | Inclining or tending to one side. |
| sidereal | Pertaining to stars or constellations. |
| siege | A beleaguerment. |
| significance | Importance. |
| significant | Important, especially as pointing something out. |
| signification | The meaning conveyed by language, actions, or signs. |
| similar | Bearing resemblance to one another or to something else. |
| simile | A comparison which directs the mind to the representative object itself. |
| similitude | Similarity. |
| simplify | To make less complex or difficult. |
| simulate | Imitate. |
| simultaneous | Occurring, done, or existing at the same time. |
| sinecure | Any position having emoluments with few or no duties. |
| singe | To burn slightly or superficially. |
| sinister | Evil. |
| sinuosity | The quality of curving in and out. |
| sinuous | Curving in and out. |
| sinus | An opening or cavity. |
| siren | A sea-nymph, described by Homer as dwelling between the island of Circe and Scylla. |
| sirocco | hot winds from Africa. |
| sisterhood | A body of sisters united by some bond of sympathy or by a religious vow. |
| skeptic | One who doubts any statements. |
| skepticism | The entertainment of doubt concerning something. |
| skiff | Usually, a small light boat propelled by oars. |
| skirmish | Desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies. |
| sleight | A trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observation. |
| slight | Of a small importance or significance. |
| slothful | Lazy. |
| sluggard | A person habitually lazy or idle. |
| sociable | Inclined to seek company. |
| socialism | A theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society. |
| socialist | One who advocates reconstruction of society by collective ownership of land and capital. |
| sociology | The philosophical study of society. |
| Sol | The sun. |
| solace | Comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity. |
| solar | Pertaining to the sun. |
| solder | A fusible alloy used for joining metallic surfaces or margins. |
| soldier | A person engaged in military service. |
| solecism | Any violation of established rules or customs. |
| solicitor | One who represents a client in court of justice; an attorney. |
| solicitude | Uneasiness of mind occasioned by desire, anxiety, or fear. |
| soliloquy | A monologue. |
| solstice | The time of year when the sun is at its greatest declination. |
| soluble | Capable of being dissolved, as in a fluid. |
| solvent | Having sufficient funds to pay all debts. |
| somber | Gloomy. |
| somniferous | Tending to produce sleep. |
| somnolence | Oppressive drowsiness. |
| somnolent | Sleepy. |
| sonata | An instrumental composition. |
| sonnet | A poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases. |
| sonorous | Resonant. |
| soothsayer | One who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight. |
| sophism | A false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive |
| sophistical | Fallacious. |
| sophisticate | To deprive of simplicity of mind or manner. |
| sophistry | Reasoning sound in appearance only, especially when designedly deceptive. |
| soprano | A woman's or boy's voice of high range. |
| sorcery | Witchcraft. |
| sordid | Of degraded character or nature. |
| souvenir | A token of remembrance. |
| sparse | Thinly diffused. |
| Spartan | Exceptionally brave; rigorously severe. |
| spasmodic | Convulsive. |
| specialize | To assume an individual or specific character, or adopt a singular or special course. |
| specialty | An employment limited to one particular line of work. |
| specie | A coin or coins of gold, silver, copper, or other metal. |
| species | A classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus. |
| specimen | One of a class of persons or things regarded as representative of the class. |
| specious | Plausible. |
| spectator | One who beholds or looks on. |
| specter | Apparition. |
| spectrum | An image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy. |
| speculate | To pursue inquiries and form conjectures. |
| speculator | One who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss, but also a chance of profit. |
| sphericity | The state or condition of being a sphere. |
| spheroid | A body having nearly the form of a sphere. |
| spherometer | An instrument for measuring curvature or radii of spherical surfaces. |
| spinous | Having spines. |
| spinster | A woman who has never been married. |
| spontaneous | Arising from inherent qualities or tendencies without external efficient cause. |
| sprightly | Vivacious. |
| spurious | Not genuine. |
| squabble | To quarrel. |
| squalid | Having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance. |
| squatter | One who settles on land without permission or right. |
| stagnant | Not flowing: said of water, as in a pool. |
| stagnate | To become dull or inert. |
| stagnation | The condition of not flowing or not changing. |
| stagy | Having a theatrical manner. |
| staid | Of a steady and sober character. |
| stallion | An uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding. |
| stanchion | A vertical bar, or a pair of bars, used to confine cattle in a stall. |
| stanza | A group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem. |
| statecraft | The art of conducting state affairs. |
| static | Pertaining to or designating bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium. |
| statics | The branch of mechanics that treats of the relations that subsist among forces in order. |
| stationary | Not moving. |
| statistician | One who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts. |
| statuesque | Having the grace, pose, or quietude of a statue. |
| statuette | A figurine. |
| stature | The natural height of an animal body. |
| statute | Any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree, or law. |
| stealth | A concealed manner of acting. |
| stellar | Pertaining to the stars. |
| steppe | One of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia. |
| sterling | Genuine. |
| stifle | To smother. |
| stigma | A mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of evil-doing. |
| stiletto | A small dagger. |
| stimulant | Anything that rouses to activity or to quickened action. |
| stimulate | To rouse to activity or to quickened action. |
| stimulus | Incentive. |
| stingy | Cheap, unwilling to spend money. |
| stipend | A definite amount paid at stated periods in compensation for services or as an allowance. |
| Stoicism | The principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure. |
| stolid | Expressing no power of feeling or perceiving. |
| strait | A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water. |
| stratagem | Any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage. |
| stratum | A natural or artificial layer, bed, or thickness of any substance or material. |
| streamlet | Rivulet. |
| stringency | Strictness. |
| stringent | Rigid. |
| stripling | A mere youth. |
| studious | Having or showing devotion to the acquisition of knowledge. |
| stultify | To give an appearance of foolishness to. |
| stupendous | Of prodigious size, bulk, or degree. |
| stupor | Profound lethargy. |
| suasion | The act of persuading. |
| suave | Smooth and pleasant in manner. |
| subacid | Somewhat sharp or biting. |
| subaquatic | Being, formed, or operating under water. |
| subconscious | Being or occurring in the mind, but without attendant consciousness or conscious perception. |
| subjacent | Situated directly underneath. |
| subjection | The act of bringing into a state of submission. |
| subjugate | To conquer. |
| subliminal | Being beneath the threshold of consciousness. |
| sublingual | Situated beneath the tongue. |
| submarine | Existing, done, or operating beneath the surface of the sea. |
| submerge | To place or plunge under water. |
| submergence | The act of submerging. |
| submersible | Capable of being put underwater. |
| submersion | The act of submerging. |
| submission | A yielding to the power or authority of another. |
| submittal | The act of submitting. |
| subordinate | Belonging to an inferior order in a classification. |
| subsequent | Following in time. |
| subservience | The quality, character, or condition of being servilely following another's behests. |
| subservient | Servilely following another's behests. |
| subside | To relapse into a state of repose and tranquillity. |
| subsist | To be maintained or sustained. |
| subsistence | Sustenance. |
| substantive | Solid. |
| subtend | To extend opposite to. |
| subterfuge | Evasion. |
| subterranean | Situated or occurring below the surface of the earth. |
| subtle | Discriminating. |
| subtrahend | That which is to be subtracted. |
| subversion | An overthrow, as from the foundation. |
| subvert | To bring to ruin. |
| succeed | To accomplish what is attempted or intended. |
| success | A favorable or prosperous course or termination of anything attempted. |
| successful | Having reached a high degree of worldly prosperity. |
| successor | One who or that which takes the place of a predecessor or preceding thing. |
| succinct | Concise. |
| succulent | Juicy. |
| succumb | To cease to resist. |
| sufferance | Toleration. |
| sufficiency | An ample or adequate supply. |
| suffrage | The right or privilege of voting. |
| suffuse | To cover or fill the surface of. |
| suggestible | That can be suggested. |
| suggestive | Stimulating to thought or reflection. |
| summary | An abstract. |
| sumptuous | Rich and costly. |
| superabundance | An excessive amount. |
| superadd | To add in addition to what has been added. |
| superannuate | To become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service. |
| superb | Sumptuously elegant. |
| supercilious | Exhibiting haughty and careless contempt. |
| superficial | Knowing and understanding only the ordinary and the obvious. |
| superfluity | That part of anything that is in excess of what is needed. |
| superfluous | Being more than is needed. |
| superheat | To heat to excess. |
| superintend | To have the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement. |
| superintendence | Direction and management. |
| superintendent | One who has the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement. |
| superlative | That which is of the highest possible excellence or eminence. |
| supernatural | Caused miraculously or by the immediate exercise of divine power. |
| supernumerary | Superfluous. |
| supersede | To displace. |
| supine | Lying on the back. |
| supplant | To take the place of. |
| supple | Easily bent. |
| supplementary | Being an addition to. |
| supplicant | One who asks humbly and earnestly. |
| supplicate | To beg. |
| supposition | Conjecture. |
| suppress | To prevent from being disclosed or punished. |
| suppressible | Capable of being suppressed. |
| suppression | A forcible putting or keeping down. |
| supramundane | Supernatural. |
| surcharge | An additional amount charged. |
| surety | Security for payment or performance. |
| surfeit | To feed to fullness or to satiety. |
| surmise | To conjecture. |
| surmount | To overcome by force of will. |
| surreptitious | Clandestine. |
| surrogate | One who or that which is substituted for or appointed to act in place of another. |
| surround | To encircle. |
| surveyor | A land-measurer. |
| susceptibility | A specific capability of feeling or emotion. |
| susceptible | Easily under a specified power or influence. |
| suspense | Uncertainty. |
| suspension | A hanging from a support. |
| suspicious | Inclined to doubt or mistrust. |
| sustenance | Food. |
| swarthy | Having a dark hue, especially a dark or sunburned complexion. |
| Sybarite | A luxurious person. |
| sycophant | A servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence. |
| syllabic | Consisting of that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse. |
| syllabication | Division of words into that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse. |
| syllable | That which is uttered in a single vocal impulse. |
| syllabus | Outline of a subject, course, lecture, or treatise. |
| sylph | A slender, graceful young woman or girl. |
| symmetrical | Well-balanced. |
| symmetry | Relative proportion and harmony. |
| sympathetic | Having a fellow-feeling for or like feelings with another or others. |
| sympathize | To share the sentiments or mental states of another. |
| symphonic | Characterized by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds. |
| symphonious | Marked by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds. |
| symphony | A harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds. |
| synchronism | Simultaneousness. |
| syndicate | An association of individuals united for the prosecution of some enterprise. |
| syneresis | The coalescence of two vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever. |
| synod | An ecclesiastical council. |
| synonym | A word having the same or almost the same meaning as some other. |
| synopsis | A syllabus or summary. |
| systematic | Methodical. |
| tableau | An arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life. |
| tacit | Understood. |
| taciturn | Disinclined to conversation. |
| tack | A small sharp-pointed nail. |
| tact | Fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing. |
| tactician | One who directs affairs with skill and shrewdness. |
| tactics | Any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object. |
| tangency | The state of touching. |
| tangent | Touching. |
| tangible | Perceptible by touch. |
| tannery | A place where leather is tanned. |
| tantalize | To tease. |
| tantamount | Having equal or equivalent value, effect, or import. |
| tapestry | A fabric to which a pattern is applied with a needle, designed for ornamental hangings. |
| tarnish | To lessen or destroy the luster of in any way. |
| taut | Stretched tight. |
| taxation | A levy, by government, of a fixed contribution. |
| taxidermy | The art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them. |
| technic | Technical. |
| technicality | Something peculiar to a particular art, trade, or the like. |
| technique | Manner of performance. |
| technography | The scientific description or study of human arts and industries in their historic development. |
| technology | The knowledge relating to industries and manufactures. |
| teem | To be full to overflowing. |
| telepathy | Thought-transference. |
| telephony | The art or process of communicating by telephone. |
| telescope | To drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass. |
| telltale | That gives warning or information. |
| temerity | Recklessness. |
| temporal | Pertaining to or concerned with the affairs of the present life. |
| temporary | Lasting for a short time only. |
| temporize | To pursue a policy of delay. |
| tempt | To offer to (somebody) an inducement to do wrong. |
| tempter | An allurer or enticer to evil. |
| tenacious | Unyielding. |
| tenant | An occupant. |
| tendency | Direction or inclination, as toward some objector end. |
| tenet | Any opinion, principle, dogma, or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as true. |
| tenor | A settled course or manner of progress. |
| tense | Strained to stiffness. |
| tentative | Done as an experiment. |
| tenure | The term during which a thing is held. |
| tercentenary | Pertaining to a period of 300 years. |
| termagant | Violently abusive and quarrelsome. |
| terminal | Pertaining to or creative of a boundary, limit. |
| terminate | To put an end or stop to. |
| termination | The act of ending or concluding. |
| terminus | The final point or goal. |
| terrify | To fill with extreme fear. |
| territorial | Pertaining to the domain over which a sovereign state exercises jurisdiction. |
| terse | Pithy. |
| testament | A will. |
| testator | The maker of a will. |
| testimonial | A formal token of regard, often presented in public. |
| thearchy | Government by a supreme deity. |
| theism | Belief in God. |
| theocracy | A government administered by ecclesiastics. |
| theocrasy | The mixed worship of polytheism. |
| theologian | A professor of divinity. |
| theological | Based on or growing out of divine revelation. |
| theology | The branch of theological science that treats of God. |
| theoretical | Directed toward knowledge for its own sake without respect to applications. |
| theorist | One given to speculating. |
| theorize | To speculate. |
| thereabout | Near that number, quantity, degree, place, or time, approximately. |
| therefor | For that or this. |
| thermal | Of or pertaining to heat. |
| thermoelectric | Denoting electricity produced by heat. |
| thermoelectricity | Electricity generated by differences of temperature, |
| thesis | An essay or treatise on a particular subject. |
| thoroughbred | Bred from the best or purest blood or stock. |
| thoroughfare | A public street or road. |
| thrall | One controlled by an appetite or a passion. |
| tilth | Cultivation. |
| timbre | The quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch. |
| timorous | Lacking courage. |
| tincture | A solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine. |
| tinge | A faint trace of color. |
| tipsy | Befuddled with drinks. |
| tirade | Harangue. |
| tireless | Untiring. |
| tiresome | Wearisome. |
| Titanic | Of vast size or strength. |
| toilsome | Laborious. |
| tolerable | Moderately good. |
| tolerance | Forbearance in judging of the acts or opinions of others. |
| tolerant | Indulgent. |
| tolerate | To passively permit or put up with. |
| toleration | A spirit of charitable leniency. |
| topography | The art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy. |
| torpor | Apathy. |
| torrid | Excessively hot. |
| tortious | Wrongful. |
| tortuous | Abounding in irregular bends or turns. |
| torturous | Marked by extreme suffering. |
| tractable | Easily led or controlled. |
| trait | A distinguishing feature or quality. |
| trajectory | The path described by a projectile moving under given forces. |
| trammel | An impediment. |
| tranquil | Calm. |
| tranquilize | To soothe. |
| tranquility | Calmness. |
| transalpine | Situated on the other side of the Alps. |
| transact | To do business. |
| transatlantic | Situated beyond or on the other side of the Atlantic. |
| transcend | To surpass. |
| transcendent | Surpassing. |
| transcontinental | Extending or passing across a continent. |
| transcribe | To write over again (something already written) |
| transcript | A copy made directly from an original. |
| transfer | To convey, remove, or cause to pass from one person or place to another. |
| transferable | Capable of being conveyed from one person or place to another. |
| transferee | The person to whom a transfer is made. |
| transference | The act of conveying from one person or place to another. |
| transferrer | One who or that which conveys from one person or place to another. |
| transfigure | To give an exalted meaning or glorified appearance to. |
| transfuse | To pour or cause to pass, as a fluid, from one vessel to another. |
| transfusible | Capable of being poured from one vessel to another. |
| transfusion | The act of pouring from one vessel to another. |
| transgress | To break a law. |
| transience | Something that is of short duration. |
| transient | One who or that which is only of temporary existence. |
| transition | Passage from one place, condition, or action to another. |
| transitory | Existing for a short time only. |
| translate | To give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect. |
| translator | An interpreter. |
| translucence | The property or state of allowing the passage of light. |
| translucent | Allowing the passage of light. |
| transmissible | That may e sent through or across. |
| transmission | The act of sending through or across. |
| transmit | To send trough or across. |
| transmute | To change in nature, substance, or form. |
| transparent | Easy to see through or understand. |
| transpire | To come to pass. |
| transplant | To remove and plant in another place. |
| transposition | The act of reversing the order or changing the place of. |
| transverse | Lying or being across or in a crosswise direction. |
| travail | Hard or agonizing labor. |
| travesty | A grotesque imitation. |
| treacherous | Perfidious. |
| treachery | Violation of allegiance, confidence, or plighted faith. |
| treasonable | Of the nature of betrayal, treachery, or breech of allegiance. |
| treatise | An elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts. |
| treble | Multiplied by three. |
| trebly | Triply. |
| tremendous | Awe-inspiring. |
| tremor | An involuntary trembling or shivering. |
| tremulous | Characterized by quivering or unsteadiness. |
| trenchant | Cutting deeply and quickly. |
| trepidation | Nervous uncertainty of feeling. |
| trestle | An open braced framework for supporting the horizontal stringers of a railway-bridge. |
| triad | A group of three persons of things. |
| tribune | Any champion of the rights and liberties of the people: often used as the name for a newspaper. |
| trickery | Artifice. |
| tricolor | Of three colors. |
| tricycle | A three-wheeled vehicle. |
| trident | The three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune. |
| triennial | Taking place every third year. |
| trimness | Neatness. |
| trinity | A threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance. |
| trio | Three things grouped or associated together. |
| triple | Threefold. |
| triplicate | Composed of or pertaining to three related things or parts. |
| triplicity | The state of being triple or threefold. |
| tripod | A three-legged stand, usually hinged near the top, for supporting some instrument. |
| trisect | To divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts. |
| trite | Made commonplace by frequent repetition. |
| triumvir | One of three men united coordinately in public office or authority. |
| trivial | Of little importance or value. |
| troublesome | Burdensome. |
| truculence | Ferocity. |
| truculent | Having the character or the spirit of a savage. |
| truism | A statement so plainly true as hardly to require statement or proof. |
| truthful | Veracious. |
| turgid | Swollen. |
| turpitude | Depravity. |
| tutelage | The act of training or the state of being under instruction. |
| tutelar | Protective. |
| tutorship | The office of a guardian. |
| twinge | A darting momentary local pain. |
| typical | Characteristic. |
| typify | To serve as a characteristic example of. |
| typographical | Pertaining to typography or printing. |
| typography | The arrangement of composed type, or the appearance of printed matter. |
| tyrannical | Despotic. |
| tyranny | Absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly administrated. |
| tyro | One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession. |
| ubiquitous | Being present everywhere. |
| ulterior | Not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of. |
| ultimate | Beyond which there is nothing else. |
| ultimatum | A final statement or proposal, as concerning terms or conditions. |
| ultramundane | Pertaining to supernatural things or to another life. |
| ultramontane | Beyond the mountains, especially beyond the Alps (that is, on their Italian side). |
| umbrage | A sense of injury. |
| unaccountable | Inexplicable. |
| unaffected | Sincere. |
| unanimous | Sharing the same views or sentiments. |
| unanimity | The state or quality of being of one mind. |
| unavoidable | Inevitable. |
| unbearable | Unendurable. |
| unbecoming | Unsuited to the wearer, place, or surroundings. |
| unbelief | Doubt. |
| unbiased | Impartial, as judgment. |
| unbridled | Being without restraint. |
| uncommon | Rare. |
| unconscionable | Ridiculously or unjustly excessive. |
| unconscious | Not cognizant of objects, actions, etc. |
| unction | The art of anointing as with oil. |
| unctuous | Oily. |
| undeceive | To free from deception, as by apprising of the real state of affairs. |
| undercharge | To make an inadequate charge for. |
| underexposed | Insufficiently exposed for proper or full development, as negatives in photography. |
| undergarment | A garment to be worn under the ordinary outer garments. |
| underman | To equip with less than the full complement of men. |
| undersell | To sell at a lower price than. |
| undersized | Of less than the customary size. |
| underhanded | Clandestinely carried on. |
| underlie | To be the ground or support of. |
| underling | A subordinate. |
| undermine | To subvert in an underhand way. |
| underrate | To undervalue. |
| understate | To fail to put strongly enough, as a case. |
| undervalue | To underestimate. |
| underworld | Hades. |
| underwrite | To issue or be party to the issue of a policy of insurance. |
| undue | More than sufficient. |
| undulate | To move like a wave or in waves. |
| undulous | Resembling waves. |
| unfavorable | Adverse. |
| ungainly | Clumsy. |
| unguent | Any ointment or lubricant for local application. |
| unicellular | Consisting of a single cell. |
| univalence | Monovalency. |
| unify | To cause to be one. |
| unique | Being the only one of its kind. |
| unison | A condition of perfect agreement and accord. |
| unisonant | Being in a condition of perfect agreement and accord. |
| Unitarian | Pertaining to a religious body that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity. |
| unlawful | Illegal. |
| unlimited | Unconstrained. |
| unnatural | Artificial. |
| unnecessary | Not essential under the circumstances. |
| unsettle | To put into confusion. |
| unsophisticated | Showing inexperience. |
| unspeakable | Abominable. |
| untimely | Unseasonable. |
| untoward | Causing annoyance or hindrance. |
| unutterable | Inexpressible. |
| unwieldy | Moved or managed with difficulty, as from great size or awkward shape. |
| unwise | Foolish. |
| unyoke | To separate. |
| up-keep | Maintenance. |
| upbraid | To reproach as deserving blame. |
| upcast | A throwing upward. |
| upheaval | Overthrow or violent disturbance of established order or condition. |
| upheave | To raise or lift with effort. |
| uppermost | First in order of precedence. |
| uproarious | Noisy. |
| uproot | To eradicate. |
| upturn | To throw into confusion. |
| urban | Of, or pertaining to, or like a city. |
| urbanity | Refined or elegant courtesy. |
| urchin | A roguish, mischievous boy. |
| urgency | The pressure of necessity. |
| usage | Treatment. |
| usurious | Taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned. |
| usurp | To take possession of by force. |
| usury | The demanding for the use of money as a loan, a rate of interest beyond what is allowed by law. |
| utilitarianism | The ethical doctrine that actions are right because they are useful or of beneficial tendency. |
| utility | Fitness for some desirable practical purpose. |
| utmost | The greatest possible extent. |
| vacate | To leave. |
| vaccinate | To inoculate with vaccine virus or virus of cowpox. |
| vacillate | To waver. |
| vacuous | Empty. |
| vacuum | A space entirely devoid of matter. |
| vagabond | A wanderer. |
| vagrant | An idle wanderer. |
| vainglory | Excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity. |
| vale | Level or low land between hills. |
| valediction | A bidding farewell. |
| valedictorian | Student who delivers an address at graduating exercises of an educational institution. |
| valedictory | A parting address. |
| valid | Founded on truth. |
| valorous | Courageous. |
| vapid | Having lost sparkling quality and flavor. |
| vaporizer | An atomizer. |
| variable | Having a tendency to change. |
| variance | Change. |
| variant | A thing that differs from another in form only, being the same in essence or substance. |
| variation | Modification. |
| variegate | To mark with different shades or colors. |
| vassal | A slave or bondman. |
| vaudeville | A variety show. |
| vegetal | Of or pertaining to plants. |
| vegetarian | One who believes in the theory that man's food should be exclusively vegetable. |
| vegetate | To live in a monotonous, passive way without exercise of the mental faculties. |
| vegetation | Plant-life in the aggregate. |
| vegetative | Pertaining to the process of plant-life. |
| vehement | Very eager or urgent. |
| velocity | Rapid motion. |
| velvety | Marked by lightness and softness. |
| venal | Mercenary, corrupt. |
| vendible | Marketable. |
| vendition | The act of selling. |
| vendor | A seller. |
| veneer | Outside show or elegance. |
| venerable | Meriting or commanding high esteem. |
| venerate | To cherish reverentially. |
| venereal | Pertaining to or proceeding from sexual intercourse. |
| venial | That may be pardoned or forgiven, a forgivable sin. |
| venison | The flesh of deer. |
| venom | The poisonous fluid that certain animals secrete. |
| venous | Of, pertaining to, or contained or carried in a vein or veins. |
| veracious | Habitually disposed to speak the truth. |
| veracity | Truthfulness. |
| verbatim | Word for word. |
| verbiage | Use of many words without necessity. |
| verbose | Wordy. |
| verdant | Green with vegetation. |
| verification | The act of proving to be true, exact, or accurate. |
| verify | To prove to be true, exact, or accurate. |
| verily | In truth. |
| verity | Truth. |
| vermin | A noxious or troublesome animal. |
| vernacular | The language of one's country. |
| vernal | Belonging to or suggestive of the spring. |
| versatile | Having an aptitude for applying oneself to new and varied tasks or to various subjects. |
| version | A description or report of something as modified by one's character or opinion. |
| vertex | Apex. |
| vertical | Lying or directed perpendicularly to the horizon. |
| vertigo | Dizziness. |
| vestige | A visible trace, mark, or impression, of something absent, lost, or gone. |
| vestment | Clothing or covering. |
| veto | The constitutional right in a chief executive of refusing to approve an enactment. |
| vicarious | Suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another. |
| viceroy | A ruler acting with royal authority in place of the sovereign in a colony or province. |
| vicissitude | A change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune. |
| vie | To contend. |
| vigilance | Alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger. |
| vigilant | Being on the alert to discover and ward off danger or insure safety. |
| vignette | A picture having a background or that is shaded off gradually. |
| vincible | Conquerable. |
| vindicate | To prove true, right, or real. |
| vindicatory | Punitive. |
| vindicative | Revengeful. |
| vinery | A greenhouse for grapes. |
| viol | A stringed instrument of the violin class. |
| viola | A musical instrument somewhat larger than a violin. |
| violator | One who transgresses. |
| violation | Infringement. |
| violoncello | A stringed instrument held between the player's knees. |
| virago | A bold, impudent, turbulent woman. |
| virile | Masculine. |
| virtu | Rare, curious, or beautiful quality. |
| virtual | Being in essence or effect, but not in form or appearance. |
| virtuoso | A master in the technique of some particular fine art. |
| virulence | Extreme poisonousness. |
| virulent | Exceedingly noxious or deleterious. |
| visage | The face, countenance, or look of a person. |
| viscount | In England, a title of nobility, ranking fourth in the order of British peerage. |
| vista | A view or prospect. |
| visual | Perceptible by sight. |
| visualize | To give pictorial vividness to a mental representation. |
| vitality | The state or quality of being necessary to existence or continuance. |
| vitalize | To endow with life or energy. |
| vitiate | To contaminate. |
| vituperable | Deserving of censure. |
| vivacity | Liveliness. |
| vivify | To endue with life. |
| vivisection | The dissection of a living animal. |
| vocable | a word, especially one regarded in relation merely to its qualities of sound. |
| vocative | Of or pertaining to the act of calling. |
| vociferance | The quality of making a clamor. |
| vociferate | To utter with a loud and vehement voice. |
| vociferous | Making a loud outcry. |
| vogue | The prevalent way or fashion. |
| volant | Flying or able to fly. |
| volatile | Changeable. |
| volition | An act or exercise of will. |
| volitive | Exercising the will. |
| voluble | Having great fluency in speaking. |
| voluptuous | having fullness of beautiful form, as a woman, with or without sensuous or sensual quality. |
| voracious | Eating with greediness or in very large quantities. |
| vortex | A mass of rotating or whirling fluid, especially when sucked spirally toward the center. |
| votary | Consecrated by a vow or promise. |
| votive | Dedicated by a vow. |
| vulgarity | Lack of refinement in conduct or speech. |
| vulnerable | Capable of receiving injuries. |
| waif | A homeless, neglected wanderer. |
| waistcoat | A vest. |
| waive | To relinquish, especially temporarily, as a right or claim. |
| wampum | Beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency. |
| wane | To diminish in size and brilliancy. |
| wantonness | Recklessness. |
| warlike | Belligerent. |
| wavelet | A ripple. |
| weak-kneed | Without resolute purpose or energy. |
| weal | Well-being. |
| wean | To transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment. |
| wearisome | Fatiguing. |
| wee | Very small. |
| well-bred | Of good ancestry. |
| well-doer | A performer of moral and social duties. |
| well-to-do | In prosperous circumstances. |
| whereabouts | The place in or near which a person or thing is. |
| whereupon | After which. |
| wherever | In or at whatever place. |
| wherewith | The necessary means or resources. |
| whet | To make more keen or eager. |
| whimsical | Capricious. |
| whine | To utter with complaining tone. |
| wholly | Completely. |
| wield | To use, control, or manage, as a weapon, or instrument, especially with full command. |
| wile | An act or a means of cunning deception. |
| winsome | Attractive. |
| wintry | Lacking warmth of manner. |
| wiry | Thin, but tough and sinewy. |
| witchcraft | Sorcery. |
| witless | Foolish, indiscreet, or silly. |
| witling | A person who has little understanding. |
| witticism | A witty, brilliant, or original saying or sentiment. |
| wittingly | With knowledge and by design. |
| wizen | To become or cause to become withered or dry. |
| wizen-faced | Having a shriveled face. |
| working-man | One who earns his bread by manual labor. |
| workmanlike | Like or befitting a skilled workman. |
| workmanship | The art or skill of a workman. |
| wrangle | To maintain by noisy argument or dispute. |
| wreak | To inflict, as a revenge or punishment. |
| wrest | To pull or force away by or as by violent twisting or wringing. |
| wretchedness | Extreme misery or unhappiness. |
| writhe | To twist the body, face, or limbs or as in pain or distress. |
| writing | The act or art of tracing or inscribing on a surface letters or ideographs. |
| wry | Deviating from that which is proper or right. |
| yearling | A young animal past its first year and not yet two years old. |
| zealot | One who espouses a cause or pursues an object in an immoderately partisan manner. |
| zeitgeist | The intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch. |
| zenith | The culminating-point of prosperity, influence, or greatness. |
| zephyr | Any soft, gentle wind. |
| zodiac | An imaginary belt encircling the heavens within which are the larger planets. |
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