最新GRE单词

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