Difficult English Vocabulary
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- obstreperous
- noisy, loud
- contumacious
- insubordinate, rebellious
- mettlesome
- courageous, high-spirited. Don't confuse with "meddlesome," meaning inclined to interfere.
- cadge
- to beg, to get by begging
- pith
- heart of the matter, basic trait. Also force, strength, or vigor
- supine
- lying on the back. Also slow to act, passive.
- remonstrate
- to protest, object
- inveigh
- to attack verbally, denounce, deprecate
- precepts
- rules establishing standards of conduct
- impute
- to attribute to a cause or source, ascribe
- feckless
- lacking purpose or vitality; ineffective; careless
- decorum
- propriety, properness.
- penchant
- strong inclination, a liking.
- appropriate (verb)
- take for one's own use, acquire, set aside. Don't confuse with "appropriate (adjective)," which means fitting or suitable.
- truculence
- aggressiveness, ferocity
- garrulity
- talkativeness. Adjective is garrulous--talkative
- arabesque
- a complex, ornate design. Also a dance position.
- beatify
- to bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to. Regard as saintly. Don't confuse with "beautify," which means to make beautiful.
- forbearance
- patience, willingness to wait.
- veritable
- unquestionable, true.
- pragmatic
- practical, favoring utility.
- arrant
- in every way, being completely such.
- consequential
- pompous, self important. Also having consequence, important. Also following as a result, or being an effect of some cause.
- malinger
- to fake illness or injury, in order to shirk a duty.
- paucity
- scarcity, a lacking of
- striated
- striped, grooved, or banded. Having stripes.
- seminal
- like a seed; constituting a source, originative.
- attenuate
- make thin. weaken, enervate.
- precarious
- uncertain, risky, dangerous.
- enervate
- weaken, deprive of strength, attenuate.
- partisan
- one-sided, committed to a party, biased or prejudiced.
- equivocate
- lie, mislead, conceal the truth.
- assiduous
- diligent, hard-working, sedulous.
- anachronism
- something out of place for its time
- lassitude
- weariness, tiredness
- phlegmatic
- calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional
- sycophant
- flatterer, parasite; a suck-up
- perfunctory
- superficial, listless, not thorough
- impair
- worsen, diminish in value
- transient
- temporary, fleeting
- qualify
- to limit
- nascent
- coming into existence, emerging
- Quixotic
- extravagantly chivalrous, romantically idealistic, impractical
- reprobate
- person hardened in sin; one devoid of decency
- libertine
- immoral person
- tractable
- easily influenced, obedient, docile
- craven
- cowardly
- picaresque
- involving clever rogues or adventurers. Don't confuse with "picturesque," which means picture-like, charming, or quaint.
- sedulous
- diligent, assiduous, devoted to a task
- aver
- affirm, assert, prove, justify
- intrepid
- fearless, brave, undaunted
- impassive
- without feeling, not affected by pain
- salient
- conspicuous, highly relevant, prominent
- morose
- gloomy, sullen
- raffish
- low, vulgar, base, tawdry
- loquacious
- talkative, garrulous
- piquant
- agreeably pungent, stimulating
- demur
- to hesitate, raise objections
- equipoise
- equal distribution of weight; equilibrium
- abysmal
- extreme; low, like an abyss
- tawdry
- cheap, gaudy, showy, tacky
- dross
- waste product, sludge; something worthless, common, or trivial
- ardor
- warm interest, passion, enthusiasm, zeal
- insouciant
- unconcerned, carefree
- volubility
- fluency, verbosity, easy use of spoken language
- dulcet
- melodious, harmonious
- mellifluous
- sweetly flowing; usually used to describe use of words (sweetly flowing words, as when the speech is characterized by high volubility.
- desiccate
- to dry up, dehydrate
- harrow
- to distress, create stress or torment
- pellucid
- transparent, easy to understand
- pariah
- an outcast, a rejected and despised person
- taciturn
- untalkative, silent
- pique
- resentment at being slighted
- turgid
- excessively ornate; swollen or bloated
- ]pillory
- to punish, hold up to public scorn
- adamant
- hard and inflexible; unyielding
- multifarious
- varied, motley, greatly diversified
- torpor
- lethargy, sluggishness, dormancy
- imprecation
- an invocation of evil; a curse
- audacious
- daring; bold
- hirsute
- hairy, shaggy
- tenacity
- firmness, persistency, adhesiveness, tending to hang on
- apostate
- one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
- lachrymose
- causing tears, tearful
- welter
- turmoil; a bewildering jumble
- discomfit
- to defeat, put down
- laconic
- brief, to the point, terse
- venal
- corruptible, bribable, unprincipled
- ossify
- to turn to bone; to settle rigidly into an idea or practice, become closed-minded
- disingenuous
- sophisticated, artful, trying to deceive, cunning
- insensible
- unconscious, unresponsive, unaffected
- turbid
- muddy, having the sediment stirred up
- erudite
- learned, scholarly
- saturnine
- gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
- abeyance
- suspended action
- diaphanous
- transparent, gauzy
- epitome
- representative, a summary or abstract, a typical example
- squalid
- foul, filthy
- quiescent
- at rest, dormant, torpid
- recreancy
- cowardice, a cowardly giving up
- misanthrope
- one who hates mankind
- misogynist
- one who hates women/females
- castigate
- to chastise, correct by punishing
- apprehension
- misgiving, dread. Also a stopping or arrest. Also an understandingprosaic--dull, tedious, commonplace
- gainsay
- deny
- pungency
- sharpness; stinging quality
- approbation
- approval
- refractory
- stubborn, unmanageable, intractable
- contentious
- quarrelsome, competitive, quick to fight, pugnacious
- antipathy
- aversion, dislike
- hapless
- unlucky, unfortunate
- prevaricate
- stray from or avoid the truth; equivocate
- countenance
- (n) mien, face (v) approve of
- dogmatic
- positive, certain, arbitrary, without room for discussion
- strut
- a supporting bar
- felicitous
- apt; suitably expressed, well chosen, apropos
- apropos
- appropriate to the situation; apt
- implacable
- incapable of being placated, unpleasable
- raffish
- disreputable; tawdry
- guileless
- without deceit, honest
- resigned
- unresisting, submissive
- vituperate
- berate, rail against, attack verbally
- render
- deliver, provide, represent
- diffidence
- shyness
- sophistry
- fallacious reasoning, faulty logic
- fulminate
- berate, vituperate, to thunder out, to explode,
- dynamo
- a generator, something that produces electric current; an energetic person
- assay
- an analysis, examination, test. To put to a test
- hallow
- to make holy; consecrate
- disabuse
- to undeceive, correct a false impression
- boisterous
- loud, noisy, rough, lacking restraint
- inveigle
- wheedle, led astray
- sodden
- soaked, saturated
- perfidious
- violating good faith, treacherous, dishonest
- conundrum
- a riddle, dilemma, enigma
- denouement
- an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
- stolid
- showing no emotion; impassive
- dissemble
- present false appearance; deceive
- desuetude
- cessation of use; disuse
- indefatigability
- not easily exhaustible; tirelessness
- dilatory
- causing delay, procrastinating
- garner
- to gather and save; to store up
- intractable
- unruly, refractory, stubborn
- delineate
- to portray, depict, sketch out
- ascetic
- practicing self-denial, austere, stark
- fervid
- intense, zealous
- daunt
- intimidate, make fearful
- burgeon
- grow forth, send out buds
- anomalous
- unexpected, not normal, odd
- nice
- precise, sensitive to subtleness
- prodigal
- wasteful, reckless with money
- lugubrious
- mournful, excessively sad
- baleful
- harmful, ominous, causing evil
- credulous
- gullible, too willing to believe
- incredulous
- skeptical, unwilling to believe (NOT "incredible," as many think)
- blithe
- cheerful, casual, carefree
- verisimilitude
- appearing true or real
- provident
- frugal; looking to the future
- edacious
- voracious, devouring
- expostulate
- argue earnestly to dissuade, correct, or protest
- auspice
- protection or support, patronage
- auspicious
- favorable, successful, prosperous
- punctilious
- precise, paying attention to trivialities, especially in regard to etiquette
- salutary
- remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
- imbroglio
- difficult or embarrassing situation
- wend
- to go, proceed
- nostrum
- a quack remedy, an untested cure
- personable
- pleasing in appearance, attractive
- salacious
- obscene
- exscind
- to cut out, cut away
- sublime
- lofty, noble
- quail
- lose courage, turn frightened
- urbane
- elegant, refined in manners
- tyro
- novice, amateur
- boorish
- crude, offensive, rude
- upbraid
- reprove, reproach
- effete
- infertile, worn out, weak
- obdurate
- stubborn, inflexible, adamant
- mince
- pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully. Also to take tiny steps, tiptoe
- inimitable
- defying imitation, unmatchable
- inveterate
- deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
- umbrage
- offense, resentment
- extirpate
- to destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind
- forswear
- renounce, disallow, repudiate
- ignoble
- dishonorable, common, undignified
- ostensible
- seeming, appearing as such, professed
- illusory
- deceptive; an illusion
- overweening
- presumptuously arrogant, overbearing, immoderate, being a jerk
- wag
- to be incessantly active, to waddle; also a mischievous person
- lucubrate
- write in scholarly fashion
- impetuous
- impulsive, forceful, with energy
- bellicose
- belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
- cabal
- a scheme or plot, a group of plotters
- irresolute
- unresolved, indecisive
- complaisance
- tending to comply, obliging, willingness to please
- apprise
- give notice to, inform
- pusillanimous
- cowardly, craven
- polemical
- controversial, argued
- luculent
- easily understood, lucid, clear
- poignant
- physically painful, distressing, pertinent, touching, stimulating, emotional
- engender
- cause, produce, give rise to
- dissemble
- to hide, conceal, disguise
- equanimity
- calmness of temperament
- ingenuous
- naive, young, artless, frank, honest, sincere. Don't confuse with "ingenious"--very clever
- epicure
- food lover, a connoisseur of food
- salient
- prominent, protruding, conspicuous, highly relevant
- inchoate
- not yet fully formed, rudimentary, elementary
- pugnacious
- contentious, quarrelsome, contumacious, given to fighting, belligerent
- peremptory
- urgent, imperative, unchallengeable, ending debate
- exigency
- emergency, an urgent situation
- ameliorate
- improve, make better
- august
- majestic, venerable. Don't confuse with the month, "August," which is always capitalized.
- minatory
- menacing, threatening
- froward
- intractable, not willing to yield or comply, stubborn (NOT "forward")
- fetter
- to shackle, put in chains
- pundit
- a learned scholar, an authority on a subject
- venal
- corruptible, open to bribery
- belie
- contradict, give a false impression
- epitome
- brief summary or abstract; representative example; a typical model
- prosaic
- everyday, mundane, commonplace, trite, pedestrian
- hermetic
- sealed by fusion
- fervor
- zeal, ardor, intense emotion
- endemic
- prevailing in a specific area
- reticent
- reserved, untalkative, silent, taciturn
- rapacious
- voracious, greedy, plundering
- coeval
- of the same period, coexisting
- austere
- forbiddingly stern, simple, unadorned, very plain
- indolence
- laziness
- pristine
- primitive, unspoiled, pure, as in earlier times, unadulterated
- capricious
- fickle, whimsical, given to change, unpredictable
- edifying
- enlightening
- philistine
- a smug ignorant person; one who lacks knowledge
- maladroit
- clumsy, bungling
- detumescence
- diminishing or lessening of swelling
- stygian
- gloomy, dark
- calumniate
- to slander, present false accusal
- baneful
- causing harm or ruin, pernicious, destructive
- forestall
- prevent by taking action in advance, preempt
- occult
- hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
- irascible
- irritable, easily angered
- facetious
- humorous, funny, jocular
- trenchant
- forceful, effective, vigorous; extremely perceptive, incisive
- stymie
- to hinder, obstruct, or block
- intransigence
- unwillingness to compromise, stubbornness, intractability
- mundane
- worldly as opposed to spiritual; commonplace, everyday
- mitigate
- appease, lessen, propitiate
- abstruse
- difficult to comprehend; obscure
- expatiate
- to roam, wander freely
- propitiate
- appease, mitigate
- slake
- to assuage, to satisfy, allay
- contentious
- argumentative, pugnacious, combative, quarrelsome
- inscrutable
- incapable of being discovered or understood
- elegy
- a lament, a melancholy composition
- derivative
- unoriginal, obtained from another source
- supercilious
- disdainful; characterized by haughty scorn
- sundry
- various, miscellaneous, separate
- mercurial
- quick, changeable in character, fleeting
- desultory
- aimless, haphazard, digressing at random
- sanctimony
- self-righteousness, hypocritical, with false piety
- indomitable
- not easily discouraged or subdued
- foment
- to stir up, arouse, incite
- splenetic
- bad-tempered, irritable
- flout
- reject, mock, to go against (as in going against tradition or conventions)
- obfuscate
- to darken, make obscure, muddle
- noisome
- unwholesomely bad-smelling, putrid; (NOT "noisy")
- incursion
- a raid, a sudden attack
- paean
- a song of praise or triumph
- turpitude
- wickedness, shamefulness
- detraction
- slandering, verbal attack, aspersion
- chastened
- corrected, punished
- brook
- to tolerate, endure
- ignominious
- shameful, dishonorable, undignified, disgraceful
- prolix
- long and wordy
- bane
- cause of injury, poison, source of harm
- abrogate
- abolish or annul by authority; put down
- conciliatory
- reconciling, soothing, comforting, mollifying
- insularity
- narrow-mindedness, isolated
- untoward
- perverse, unruly, unseemly
- perverted
- twisted, corrupted, turned from normal course
- odium
- contempt, dislike, aversion
- dissolution
- disintegration, looseness in morals
- sophomoric
- self-assured though immature, affected, bombastic, overblown, lacking maturity
- enormity
- excessive wickedness; evilness. Don't confuse with "enormousness," which means great size. ENORMITY DOES NOT MEAN "BIGNESS" OR "GREAT SIZE"
- obdurate
- hardened and unrepentant; stubborn, inflexible
- fatuous
- complacently stupid
- burnish
- to polish, rub to a shine
- tenuous
- unsubstantial, flimsy, weak
- repudiate
- disown, disavow, reject as untrue
- denigrate
- blacken, belittle, sully, defame
- maverick
- rebel, nonconformist
- effluvia
- outflow in a stream of particles; a noxious odor or vapor
- alacrity
- cheerful promptness
- salubrious
- healthful
- paradigm
- a model, example, or pattern
- apotheosis
- deification, glorification to godliness
- officious
- meddlesome, pushy in one's services
- cogent
- convincing
- spurious
- false, counterfeit
- panegyric
- formal praise, eulogy
- mollify
- to soothe
- peregrination
- traveling about, wandering
- acarpous
- effete, no longer fertile, worn out
- bedizen
- to adorn, especially in a cheap, showy manner
- alloy
- to debase by mixing with something inferior
- fecund
- fertile
- doggerel
- trivial, poorly constructed verse
- peripatetic
- walking
- mendicant
- a beggar
- propitiatory
- conciliatory, appeasing, mitigating
- pedantic
- bookish, showing off learning
- nadir
- bottom, the lowest point
- zenith
- top, the highest point
- broach
- bring up, announce, begin to talk about
- obtrusive
- projecting, prominent, undesirably noticeable
- ramify
- to be divided or subdivided; to branch out
- exculpate
- to clear from a charge of guilt
- ineluctable
- certain, inevitable
- gainsay
- to deny, declare false, to oppose
- episodic
- loosely connected, not flowing logically
- iconoclastic
- attacking cherished beliefs
- recidivism
- relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
- profligate
- wasteful, prodigal, licentious, extravagant
- inherent
- ingrained within one's nature; firmly established; a natural part of; definitionally so
- torpid
- sleeping, sluggish, lethargic, dormant
- gregarious
- sociable, outgoing
- recondite
- profound, abstruse, obscure
- judicious
- sound in judgment; wise
- sinuous
- winding, undulating, serpentine
- undulate
- to move in wavelike fashion, fluctuate
- probity
- uprightness, incorruptibility, principle
- rubric
- heading, title, or category
- interdict
- prohibit, forbid
- harangue
- a long, passionate speech
- calumny
- slander, aspersion
- petrous
- like a rock, hard, stony
- petrify
- to make hard, rocklike
- conjoin
- to join together
- nexus
- a connection, tie, or link
- penury
- extreme poverty
- idyll
- a carefree episode or experience; a short poem describing a picturesque episode
- countenance
- to favor or approve of
- fulsome
- disgusting, offensive due to excessiveness
- chauvinist
- a blindly devoted patriot
- veritably
- unquestionably, certainly
- itinerate
- to travel from place to place, to peregrinate
- eulogy
- formal praise; panegyric
- malleable
- yielding; easily shaped; moldable; adapting
- bilge
- bulge, the protuberance of a cask
- lubricious
- lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
- sagacious
- having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage
- impecunious
- poor, penniless
- recondite
- not easily understood, abstruse, inscrutable
- querulous
- complaining, peevish, discontented
- virago
- a loud, domineering woman; a scold or nag
- rarefy
- to make thin, to make less dense, to purify or refine
- expurgate
- to remove obscenity, purify, censor
- propinquity
- nearness in time or place, affinity of nature
- extenuate
- reduce the strength of, lessen seriousness, partially excuse
- deprecate
- protest against, express disapproval of
- excoriate
- to flay, strip off the skin; to denounce sharply
- obviate
- to make unnecessary, get rid of
- opprobrious
- shameful, expressing disgrace
- succor
- assistance, relief in time of distress
- censure
- expression of blame or disapproval; a rebuke
- proscribe
- ostracize, banish, outlaw
- platitude
- a trite or banal statement; unoriginality
- impetuous
- having sudden energy, impulsive, thrusting ahead, forceful
- obloquy
- abusively detractive language, sharp criticism, vituperation
- plaintive
- mournful, melancholy, sorrowful
- timorous
- fearful, timid, afraid
- debacle
- a breakup, overthrow, sudden disaster
- effrontery
- boldness, impudence, arrogance
- specious
- illogical, of questionable truth or merit
- redoubtable
- formidable, causing fear
- regale
- to delight or entertain; to feast
- volatile
- changeable, inconstant, fickle, unstable, explosive
- inured
- accustomed to, adapted
- blandishment
- flattery, enticement
- pernicious
- deadly, very destructive
- accretion
- growth, increase by successive addition, building up
- deposition
- accretion, depositing, building up layer by layer
- quotidian
- daily; commonplace, pedestrian
- pedestrian
- commonplace, trite, unremarkable
- sanguine
- cheerful, confident, optimistic
- consternation
- sudden confusion or amazement
- exsert
- thrust out, push forth
- petulant
- impatient, irritable
- scurvy
- mean, contemptible
- surfeit
- satiate, feed to fullness or to excess
- prevaricate
- to equivocate, to stray from the truth
- temerity
- boldness, brashness, intrepidness
- stint
- to be thrifty, to set limits
- obtain
- to be established, accepted, or customary
- propitious
- auspicious, presenting favorable circumstances
- ebullient
- overflowing with enthusiasm; showing excitement
- abjure
- recant solemnly, repudiate, renounce
- encomium
- warm or glowing praise; eulogy, panegyric
- arduous
- steep, difficult ascent; laborious
- tautology
- a repetition, a redundancy
- suppliant
- asking humbly, beseeching
- imperiousness
- arrogance, commanding presence, overbearingness
- evince
- to show clearly, to indicate
- stanch
- to stop the flow of a fluid
- vitiate
- to pervert, debase, make ineffective
- contemn
- to scorn or despise
- stentorian
- extremely loud and powerful
- poseur
- someone taking on airs to impress others; a phony
- grievous
- causing grief or pain; serious, dire, grave
- precipitate
- (v) to hurl down, to fall headlong (adj) speeding, acting recklessly
- sententious
- short and pithy, full of maxims/proverbs
- palliate
- to make something appear less serious, to alleviate, to gloss over, put a positive spin on
- floridness
- ruddiness; heavily decorated; ornateness
- asperity
- roughness, harshness, ill temper, irritability (Don't confuse with "aspersion," which means slander
- mendacity
- dishonesty
- involute
- intricate, complex
- importune
- ask incessantly, to beg, to nag
- precipitous
- rash, foolhardy; dropping sharply, dangerous
- aba
- garment of camel or goat hair; camel or goat-hair fabric
- abacinate
- to blind by putting red-hot copper basin near the eyes
- abactor
- cattle thief
- abaculus
- small tile for mosaic
- abaft
- toward or at the stern of a ship; further aft
- abampere
- unit equivalent to 10 amperes
- abapical
- at the lowest point
- abarticular
- not connected with the joint
- abasement
- action of humbling or degrading
- abasia
- inability to walk due to lack of muscular coordination
- abask
- in genial warmth
- abatis
- rampart of felled trees and branches
- abatjour
- skylight or device to direct light into a room
- abattoir
- public slaughterhouse
- abature
- trail through wood beaten down by a stag
- abb
- yarn used for warp
- abba
- Syriac or Coptic bishop
- abbatial
- of, like or pertaining to abbots or an abbey
- abbozzo
- preliminary sketch
- abditive
- remote; secret; hidden
- abdominous
- having a paunch or big belly
- abducent
- turning away; bearing away from
- abeam
- in a line at right angles to the length of a vessel, on the beam
- abear
- to bear; to comport; to behave
- abecedarian
- of, like or pertaining to the order of the alphabet; rudimentary
- abecedism
- word created from the initials of words in a phrase
- abele
- white poplar tree
- aberdevine
- alternate name for the siskin
- aberuncators
- long tool for pruning tall branches
- abessive
- indicating absence or lack
- abiectic
- of, like or pertaining to fir trees or fir sap
- abigail
- a lady's maid
- abigeus
- cattle rustler
- abiogenesis
- spontaneous generation of living matter
- abiotrophy
- degeneration; loss of physical vitality or ability
- abirritate
- to alleviate irritation; to reduce sensitivity
- abiturient
- pupil leaving school for university
- abject
- humble; miserable; craven
- ablactation
- weaning of a child from its mother's milk
- ablative
- indicating direction from or time when
- ablator
- thermal protection on outside of spacecraft
- ablaut
- variation in root vowel of words to change meaning
- ablegate
- papal envoy or legate
- ablepsia
- blindness
- ablow
- in a blowing state
- abluent
- cleanser or cleansing product
- ablutomania
- mania for washing oneself
- abnegate
- to renounce or repudiate
- abodement
- an omen; a foretelling
- aboideau
- tide gate
- abolla
- Roman military cloak
- abomasum
- ruminant's fourth stomach
- aboral
- away from the mouth
- abord
- to accost; to approach
- aborning
- during birth; while being born
- aborticide
- killing of a fetus; abortion
- abortuary
- anti-abortion term for an abortion clinic
- aboulia
- loss of ability to make decisions
- aboulomania
- pathological indecisiveness
- aboutsledge
- largest blacksmith's hammer
- abra
- narrow mountain pass
- abradant
- a substance that abrades
- abraid
- to awaken or rouse
- abraxas
- gem engraved with mystical word and bearing human-animal figure
- abreuvoir
- joint or gap between two stones in masonry
- abroach
- in a condition to allow liquor to run out
- abrosia
- fasting
- abscind
- to pare, reduce, cut off or away
- abscissa
- horizontal distance from a fixed line to a point
- abscission
- cutting off; cutting away
- absconce
- lantern used in monasteries and night offices
- abseil
- to descend a rock face using a double rope
- absentaneous
- done in absence; pertaining to absence
- absinthial
- of, like or pertaining to wormwood; bitter
- absinthism
- disease resembling alcoholism
- absit
- leave to pass one night away from college
- absolutism
- doctrine of government by a single absolute ruler; autocracy
- absolutive
- indicating subject or object of intransitive verb
- absolutory
- forgiving or absolving
- absonant
- discordant; abhorrent
- absorbefacient
- causing or promoting absorption
- absorptiometer
- instrument for measuring solubility of gases in liquids
- absquatulate
- to decamp; to leave quickly; to flee
- absterge
- wipe clean; expunge; purge; purify
- absurdism
- doctrine that we live in an irrational universe
- abterminal
- going from the end inwards
- abthane
- monastic region of the old Irish church
- abulia
- lack of ability to make decisions; aboulia
- abuna
- Ethiopian patriarch
- abusion
- misuse; outrage; deception
- abutment
- masonry on a wall that supports an arch
- abvolt
- unit of electrical potential equal to one hundred millionth of a volt
- aby
- to make amends; atone; pay a penalty
- abyssopelagic
- of, like or pertaining to the depths of the ocean
- academicism
- doctrine that nothing can be known
- acanaceous
- bearing prickles or thistles; prickly
- acantha
- prickle
- acanthous
- spiny; prickly
- acapnia
- lack or deficiency of carbon dioxide
- acapnotic
- non-smoker; non-smoking
- acariasis
- irritating itching insect infestation
- acaricide
- killer of mites and ticks
- acarine
- of, like or pertaining to ticks or mites
- acarology
- study of mites
- acarophobia
- fear of itching or of insects causing itching
- acarpous
- sterile; not bearing fruit
- acatalectic
- having complete or full number of syllables in a poetic line
- acatalepsy
- the unknowableness of all things to a certainty
- acatamathesia
- inability to understand data presented to the senses
- acates
- provisions that have been purchased
- acatour
- provisioner; quartermaster
- acaudate
- tailless
- acaulescent
- having a very short stem
- accelerometer
- instrument for measuring acceleration or vibrations
- accend
- to kindle
- accensor
- acolyte
- accentor
- songbird
- acceptilation
- remission of debt or liability through fictitious repayment
- accessit
- prize for students in second place; honourable mention
- acciaccatura
- very short note played before a longer one
- accidence
- grammar book; science of inflections in grammar
- accidentalism
- theory that events do not have causes
- accidie
- sloth; physical torpor
- accinge
- to gird
- accipiter
- bandage worn around the nose
- accipitral
- like a bird of prey; rapacious
- accipitrine
- of, like or pertaining to falcons and hawks
- accismus
- in rhetoric, pretending to refuse something
- accite
- to cite; to summon
- acclinate
- sloping upwards
- acclivity
- upward slope
- accloy
- to hobble with a horseshoe nail
- accolade
- curved architectural moulding; vertical line joining two musical staves
- accolent
- neighbouring
- accosted
- in heraldry, two figures placed side by side
- accoucheur
- male midwife
- accoucheuse
- female midwife
- accourage
- to encourage
- accourt
- to entertain
- accoy
- to subdue; to pacify; to soothe
- accrementition
- increase or growth by adding similar material
- accretion
- accumulation; addition of parts to form a whole
- accubation
- reclining as on a couch
- accubitum
- crescent-shaped couch
- accusative
- indicating direct object of a verb
- acedia
- listlessness; sloth
- aceldama
- site or scene of violence or bloodshed
- aceology
- therapeutics
- acequia
- irrigation ditch
- acerate
- of, like or resembling a needle
- acerbate
- to embitter; to irritate
- acerous
- lacking horns or antennae
- acersecomic
- one whose hair has never been cut
- acervate
- heaped; clustered
- acervuline
- like or in small mounds or heaps
- acescence
- becoming sour; souring; turning of milk
- acetabulum
- small anatomical cup or hollow, such as a sucker
- acetarious
- referring to plants that are used in salads
- acetimeter
- instrument for measuring strength of vinegar
- achaenocarp
- any dry indehiscent fruit
- acharné
- furious or desperate (of a battle)
- achene
- small one-seeded fruit or naked seed of plant
- achloropsia
- colour-blindness with respect to green
- achor
- eruption or scab on the head
- achromatopsia
- colour-blindness
- achroous
- colourless
- acicular
- needle-shaped
- acidaemia
- undue acidity of blood
- acidimeter
- instrument for measuring concentration of acids
- acidulous
- sharp or bitter-tasting
- acierate
- to turn into steel
- acinaceous
- full of kernels
- acinaciform
- scimitar-shaped
- aciniform
- shaped like a berry
- acinus
- berry which grows in clusters
- acipenser
- sturgeon
- aclinic
- having no inclination or magnetic dip
- acock
- defiantly
- acoemeti
- ancient monastic order who maintained eternal choir service
- acology
- study of medical remedies
- acolous
- limbless
- acolouthic
- of, like or pertaining to an after-image or other after-sensation
- acopic
- curing or relieving fatigue
- acoria
- pathologically great appetite
- acosmism
- disbelief in existence of eternal universe distinct from God
- acouasm
- ringing noise in head
- acquest
- object which is acquired
- acracy
- government by none; anarchy
- acratia
- impotence
- acre-breadth
- old unit of length of 22 yards
- acritochromacy
- colour-blindness
- acroamatic
- esoteric
- acrocephalous
- having a pointed or peaked skull
- acrography
- the art of making wood blocks in relief
- acrolith
- wooden statue with stone extremities
- acrologic
- of, like or pertaining to initials
- acromegaly
- glandular disorder causing gigantism of extremities
- acronical
- occurring at nightfall or sunset
- acronym
- word formed from initial letters of another word
- acronyx
- ingrown nail
- acropathy
- disease or illness of the extremities
- acrophobia
- fear of heights
- acrophonic
- using a symbol for the initial sound of a thing
- acropodium
- pedestal upon which a statue rests
- acroscopic
- looking or moving towards the apex
- acroteleutic
- phrase or words at the end of a psalm
- acroterion
- pedestal or ornament at the angle of a pediment
- acrotism
- absence of pulsing
- actinism
- action of solar radiation causing chemical change
- actinograph
- instrument used to calculate time of photographic exposure
- actinometer
- instrument for measuring incident radiation
- actinotherapy
- use of ultraviolet rays as medical therapy
- actuate
- communicate motion to; cause
- aculeate
- prickly; pointed; stinging; a stinging insect
- aculeiform
- shaped like a thorn
- acultomancy
- divination using needles
- acuminate
- tapered; pointed; to sharpen
- acutiator
- sharpener of weapons
- acutorsion
- twisting artery with needle to stop bleeding
- acyanopsia
- colour-blindness with respect to blue
- acyesis
- female sterility
- acyrology
- incorrect diction or pronunciation
- adactylous
- lacking fingers or claws
- adamantine
- unbreakable; impenetrable
- adamitism
- nakedness for religious reasons
- adaxial
- next to or towards the axis
- addax
- large African antelope
- additament
- thing added or appended; heraldic ornament
- addititious
- of, pertaining to or resulting from addition
- addle
- putrid; barren; muddled
- addorsed
- turned back to back in heraldry
- adduce
- cite as proof or instance
- adeciduate
- evergreen; coniferous
- adeem
- to cancel a bequest by destruction of the object
- adelaster
- provisional name for a plant whose flowers are unknown
- adelphogamy
- sharing of a wife by two or more brothers
- ademption
- revocation of donation by donor
- adenalgia
- painful swelling of a gland
- adenia
- glandular swelling
- adeniform
- shaped like a gland
- adenography
- descriptive work on the glandular system
- adenoid
- of, like or pertaining to or like a gland
- adenology
- study of glands
- adenotomy
- removal or excision of gland
- adespota
- anonymous works
- adessive
- indicating place where or proximity to
- adevism
- denial of gods of mythology and legend
- adharma
- unrighteousness
- adhibit
- to attach; to admit; to administer
- adhocracy
- government in an unstructured fashion; an unstructured organization
- adiabatic
- without transference of heat
- adiaphoresis
- absence of perspiration; inability to perspire
- adiaphorism
- doctrine of theological indifference or latitudinarianism
- adiaphoron
- tenet or belief on which a theological system is indifferent
- adiapneustia
- defective perspiration
- adiathermancy
- impermeability to radiant energy
- adipescent
- becoming fat or fatty
- adipic
- of, like or pertaining to fatty substances
- adipocere
- fatty substance occurring in corpses left in moist areas
- adipsia
- absence or lack of thirst
- adit
- opening or passage into a mine
- adjudge
- to decide; to award
- adjutage
- nozzle
- adjutor
- helper; assistant
- adjuvant
- substance added to make vaccine more effective
- admanuensis
- one who takes an oath on a religious book
- admaxillary
- connected to or near the jaw
- admeasurement
- the act of measuring or apportioning
- adminicle
- that which supports or aids, especially evidence
- adnascent
- growing on some other thing
- adnominal
- indicating adjective used as a noun
- adnomination
- punning
- adnoun
- adjective serving or used as a noun
- adonise
- to adorn oneself
- adoptionism
- belief that Christ was the adopted and not natural son of God
- adoral
- near the mouth
- adosculation
- impregnation by contact alone or by wind
- adoxography
- good writing on a trivial subject
- adoxy
- beliefs that are neither orthodox nor heterodox
- adpress
- to press together
- adrogation
- adoption of a boy or girl before adolescence
- adscititious
- added; additional
- adscript
- attached or feudally bound to the soil or earth
- adsorb
- to attract and stick to the surface
- adumbrate
- indicate faintly; foreshadow
- adunc
- hooked
- aduncate
- shaped like a hook or crook
- adust
- burnt; scorched
- advection
- horizontal movement of air
- advehent
- bringing inwards
- advenient
- due to outside causes
- adventitious
- accidental; casual
- adventive
- a thing or person coming from outside
- adversaria
- miscellaneous notes; commonplace books
- adversative
- word or phrase expressing opposition
- advert
- refer to in speech or writing
- advertorial
- advertisement presented as if it were editorial material
- advesperate
- darken; become late
- advocaat
- liqueur containing rum and raw eggs
- advowson
- right of presentation to church living
- adynamia
- helplessness; lack of strength
- adytum
- sacred part of a temple or church; church chancel
- aedile
- magistrate in charge of games, markets or buildings
- aedoeology
- science of generative organs
- aegilops
- stye in inner corner of eye
- aegis
- protection; support
- aegrotat
- medical certificate of illness excusing student's sickness
- aeneous
- shining bronze colour
- aeolian
- giving forth a tone as if produced by the wind
- aeolipyle
- hollow ball that turns through steam escaping through valves
- aeolistic
- long-winded
- aeolotropy
- variation in physical properties on basis of position
- aeonian
- lasting for an immeasurably long period of time
- aerenchyma
- respiratory tissue
- aeriform
- of the form or shape of gas; gaseous
- aerious
- of the nature of air; airy
- aerobe
- organism requiring oxygen to survive
- aerobiology
- study of airborne organisms
- aerodonetics
- science or study of gliding
- aerogenesis
- forming or generating gas or air
- aerography
- descriptive work on the atmosphere
- aerolite
- meteorite
- aerolith
- stone that falls from the sky; meteorite
- aerolithology
- study of aerolites; meteorites
- aerology
- study of the atmosphere
- aeromancy
- divination by means of the weather
- aerometer
- instrument for measuring weight or density of gas
- aerophane
- thin crinkled semi-transparent fabric
- aerophilately
- collecting of air-mail stamps
- aerophobia
- fear of flying or draughts
- aerophore
- instrument used to inflate stillborn child's lungs
- aeropleustic
- of, like or pertaining to aerial navigation
- aerostat
- any lighter-than air craft; balloon
- aerostatics
- science of air pressure; art of ballooning
- aeruginous
- of, like or pertaining to copper-rust or verdigris
- aerugo
- rust of any metal
- aesc
- letter used in Old English for 'ae'
- aesopian
- conveying meaning only to those in a secret movement
- aesthesia
- sensibility
- aesthesiogenic
- producing or causing a sensation
- aestheticism
- doctrine that beauty is central to other moral principles
- aestival
- of, like or pertaining to summer
- aethrioscope
- instrument for measuring temperature variations due to sky conditions
- aeviternal
- everlasting; endless
- aeviternity
- eternal existence
- afebrile
- not suffering from fever
- affabulation
- moral of a fable
- affeer
- to assess; to reduce to a fixed sum
- afferent
- bearing, bringing or carrying towards
- affiance
- to trust; to betroth
- affine
- a relation by marriage
- afflated
- inspired
- afflatus
- inspiration; divine impetus
- afforce
- to strengthen a jury by adding skilled people
- afforest
- to cover with forest; to convert into hunting grounds
- affranchise
- to free from slavery or similar obligation
- affray
- an attack or assault; an alarm or fright
- affrayer
- disturber of the peace
- affreightment
- hiring of a vessel
- affreux
- frightening
- affricate
- consonant that begins as a plosive and ends as a fricative
- affronté
- of two heraldic animals, facing one another
- affusion
- pouring on; as of baptismal water
- afore
- before
- afterclap
- unexpected damaging or unsettling after-effect
- afterdeck
- deck behind a ship's bridge
- aftergame
- rematch; means employed after first turn of affairs
- afterguard
- men who work the aft sails on the quarterdeck and poop deck
- afterings
- last milk drawn when milking a cow
- afterpiece
- minor piece after a play
- aftershaft
- second shaft coming out of the quill of a feather
- afterwil
- locking of the barn after the cows have been let out
- agacerie
- allurement; coquetry
- agalactia
- failure or inability to produce milk
- agalloch
- eaglewood
- agamist
- one who opposes marriage
- agamogenesis
- reproduction by non-sexual means
- agape
- selfless Christian love; a feast in celebration of such love
- agapeistic
- characterized by Christian love
- agapet
- lover of women
- agapetae
- churchwomen who live platonically with celibate men
- agapism
- ethics of love
- agastopia
- admiration of part of another's body
- agatewear
- type of ceramic resembling agate stone
- agathism
- belief in ultimate triumph of good despite evil means
- agathodaimon
- one's good genius; the good part of one's conscience
- agelast
- one who never laughs
- agennesic
- sterile; impotent
- agenocratia
- opposition to birth control
- agentive
- indicating agent performing an action
- ageotropic
- moving or turning away from the earth
- agersia
- quality of not growing old
- ageusia
- damage to the sense of taste
- agger
- artificial mound or elevation for military use
- aggerose
- in heaps; piled up
- aggiornamento
- modernization of ideas of the Catholic church
- aggrade
- to raise level of a surface through depositing detritus
- aggrandize
- increase power or rank of; make greater
- aggrate
- to gratify or please
- aggry
- type of West African glass beads
- agio
- premium paid on foreign currency exchange
- agiotage
- playing the stock market; speculation
- agist
- to charge with a public burden; to take in to graze for payment
- agistment
- land tax assessed for cattle pasturing
- aglet
- metal point attached to a lace or string
- agma
- symbol or sound for a velar nasal consonant "ng"
- agminate
- grouped
- agnail
- sore, corn or hangnail on the toe or foot
- agname
- name over and above the ordinary name and surname
- agnation
- kinship
- agnize
- to acknowledge or confess
- agnomen
- additional name; surname; nickname
- agnosic
- unable to recognize familiar objects due to brain damage
- agnosticism
- doctrine that we can know nothing beyond material phenomena
- agnosy
- ignorance
- agoge
- tempo or sequence in melody in ancient Greek music
- agogic
- accenting a musical note by slightly dwelling on it
- agomphosis
- looseness in the teeth
- agone
- ago
- agonic
- making no angle
- agonism
- competition; effort; striving
- agonistes
- someone in the grip of inner conflict
- agonistic
- of, like or pertaining to or being aggressive or argumentative
- agonistics
- art and theory of prize-fighting
- agoraphobia
- fear of open spaces
- agowilt
- sudden sickening and unnecessary fear
- agraffe
- hooked clasp used by masons to hold blocks together
- agrapha
- sayings of Jesus not found in the canonical gospels
- agraphia
- inability to write
- agravic
- having no gravity; pertaining to the condition of zero-gravity
- agrestic
- of the fields; rural; unpolished
- agriology
- the comparative study of primitive peoples
- agrize
- to horrify; to disfigure
- agrizoiatry
- medicine specializing in wild animals
- agrobiology
- study of plant nutrition; soil yields
- agrology
- study of agricultural soils
- agromania
- intense desire to be in open spaces
- agronomics
- study of productivity of land
- agrostography
- writing about grasses
- agrostology
- science or study of grasses
- agrypnia
- insomnia
- agrypnotic
- anything taken to aid wakefulness
- aguardiente
- Spanish or Portuguese brandy
- agyiophobia
- fear of crossing busy streets
- agynary
- lacking female genitals
- ahimsa
- the duty of sparing animal life; non-violence
- ahull
- with sails furled and helm lashed to the lee-side
- ai
- three-toed sloth
- aichmophobia
- fear of sharp or pointed objects
- aiger
- tidal wave occurring in rivers
- aigrette
- a spray of jewels; ornamental feather plume; an egret
- aiguille
- sharp; needle-like peak of rock
- aileron
- flap on airplane wing for lateral balance
- ailette
- plate of armour worn on shoulder
- ailuromancy
- divination by watching cats' movements
- ailurophilia
- love of cats
- ailurophobia
- fear of cats
- aioli
- garlic-flavoured mayonnaise
- airscrew
- aircraft propeller
- aischrolatry
- worship of filth, dirt, or smut
- aisling
- a vision or dream
- ait
- small island in lake or river
- aitchbone
- rump bone of cattle; rump cut of beef
- aiué
- elderly; senior
- akeratophorous
- not horned
- akinesia
- loss of ability to move
- ala
- membranous outgrowth on a plant or animal
- alabamine
- alternate name for the element astatine
- alack
- expression of sorrow or regret
- alalia
- loss of ability to speak
- alameda
- public walkway between rows of poplar trees
- alamort
- half-dead; dejected
- alannah
- term of endearment used with one's child
- alar
- of, like or pertaining to the wing or shoulder
- alastrim
- mild form of smallpox
- alate
- lately
- alation
- state of having wings; position of wings on a creature
- alaudine
- of, like or pertaining to skylarks
- alb
- long white robe worn by priests
- albarello
- cylindrical jar used to hold drugs
- albata
- variety of German silver
- albedo
- whiteness, as of a celestial object
- albescent
- becoming white; whiteness
- albicant
- whitish; becoming white
- albificative
- able to whiten or be whitened
- albion
- medieval astronomical device for finding positions of planets
- albocracy
- government by white people
- albolith
- white cement formed from magnesia and silica
- albugineous
- like the white of an eye or an egg; white-coloured
- alcahest
- alchemical universal solvent
- alcatote
- silly elf
- alcine
- of, like or pertaining to elks; of, like or pertaining to auks
- alcoholometer
- instrument for measuring proportion of alcohol in solutions
- alcovinometer
- instrument to measure strength of wine
- aleatoric
- depending on contingencies or chance
- aleberry
- beverage made from ale, spices, and dried bread
- alecost
- costmary, an herb used in flavouring ale
- alectormancy
- divination by sacrificing a rooster
- alectryomachy
- cock-fighting
- alectryomancy
- divination by watching a rooster gather corn kernels
- alee
- on or toward the lee
- alegar
- vinegar made by turning ale sour
- alembicated
- over-refined
- alepine
- mixed wool and silk or mohair and cotton fabric
- alethiology
- study of truth
- aleuromancy
- divination using flour or meal
- alexia
- inability to read
- alexipharmic
- antidote
- alfet
- cauldron of boiling water used during trials by ordeal
- alforge
- wallet or leather bag
- algedonics
- science of pleasure and pain
- algefacient
- cooling
- algetic
- causing or producing pain
- algicide
- killer of algae
- algid
- cold; chilly
- alginuresis
- painful urination
- algolagnia
- sexual pleasure derived from inflicting pain
- algology
- study of algae
- algophobia
- fear of pain
- algor
- coldness; shivering fit
- algraphy
- art of printing from aluminum plates
- alible
- nourishing
- alidade
- revolving index on astrolabe or other instrument for reading gradations
- aliform
- wing-shaped
- aligerous
- winged
- aliped
- having wings on the feet
- aliphatic
- of, like or pertaining to fat or fats in general
- aliquant
- number dividing into another with a remainder
- aliquot
- number dividing into another without leaving a remainder
- aliter
- requiring a different law or rule to be applied
- alk
- sap or resin from turpentine trees
- alkalimeter
- instrument for measuring strength of alkalines
- alkanet
- reddish plant-based dye
- allantiasis
- food poisoning resulting from inadequate preservation
- allantoid
- shaped like a sausage
- allative
- indicating movement towards
- allemain
- enormous pudding out of which acrobats leap
- allemande
- courtly baroque dance in which the arms are interlaced
- alliaceous
- of, like or pertaining to garlic; garlicky
- allicient
- attracting something else
- allision
- intentional collision of two ships
- allocatur
- amount allowed for costs
- allochthonous
- formed or produced elsewhere or externally
- allodic
- not subject to a superior
- allogamy
- cross-fertilization
- allogeneous
- different
- allography
- writing another individual's signature
- allolalia
- speech disorder featuring randomly spoken words
- allonge
- paper attached to commercial bill requiring signatures
- allonym
- other person's name used by an author
- allotheism
- belief in or worship of strange gods
- allotriophagy
- craving for strange foods
- allotropy
- of an element, having more than one form
- alluvion
- effect of water impacting on shoreline
- almacantar
- circle of altitude, parallel to the horizon
- almagest
- textbook or handbook, especially dealing with astronomy
- almandine
- violet-coloured garnet
- almoner
- giver of alms; social worker in a hospital
- almuce
- cloth or fur hood
- alnager
- inspector of cloth
- alogism
- illogical statement
- alomancy
- divination using salt
- alopecia
- baldness; hair loss
- alopecoid
- of or resembling a fox
- alow
- below
- alpaca
- fine wool made from alpaca hair
- alpenglow
- reddish glow appearing at sunrise or sunset in mountains
- alpenstocker
- mountain climber
- alpestrine
- of, like or pertaining to alpine regions
- alphenic
- sugary candy used in medicine
- alphitomancy
- divination using loaves of barley
- alphonsin
- instrument used to extract bullets from bodies
- alt
- high musical tone
- altarage
- payment to priest for mass; offerings at altar
- alterity
- state of being different
- alternatim
- alternately
- altiloquence
- pompous or high speech
- altisonant
- high-sounding
- altitonant
- thundering on high or loudly
- altricial
- having young requiring care for a lengthy period
- aludel
- pear-shaped pot used in sublimation
- aluminiferous
- bearing aluminum
- alveary
- beehive; area of the ear where wax collects; word-list
- alveolate
- of or like a honeycomb
- alveromancy
- divination using sounds
- alviducous
- purgative
- alvine
- of the belly
- ama
- a Japanese pearl-diver
- amadelphous
- outgoing; gregarious
- amain
- to a high degree; exceedingly; at full speed
- amanous
- lacking hands
- amanuensis
- one employed to write from dictation
- amaranth
- imaginary flower reputed never to fade
- amaranthine
- immortal; undying; deep purple-red colour
- amasesis
- inability to chew
- amasthenic
- focusing light rays to a single point
- amathophobia
- fear of dust
- amaxophobia
- fear of riding in a car
- ambages
- windings; roundabout ways; delays
- ambeer
- juice from chewing tobacco
- ambisinistrous
- awkward in the use of both hands
- ambit
- circuit; scope; compass; confines
- ambo
- early Christian raised reading desk or pulpit
- ambry
- recess for church vessels; cupboard or niche
- ambsace
- bad luck; a low score
- ambulatory
- aisle down the east end of a church
- ambulomancy
- divination by taking a walk
- ambulophobia
- fear of walking
- ambustion
- burn or scald
- amende
- fine or reparation paid
- ament
- a person who fails to develop mentally
- amerce
- to fine; to deprive; to punish
- ametropia
- abnormal optical refraction
- amice
- strip of fine linen worn as cloak or wrap by priest at mass
- amicicide
- murder of a friend
- amidships
- midway between the bow and stern of a ship
- ammeter
- instrument for measuring electrical current
- ammophilous
- sand-loving; preferring to dwell in sand
- amnicolist
- one who lives near a river
- amniomancy
- divination by examining afterbirth
- amorce
- percussion cap for a toy pistol
- amoret
- love sonnet or song
- amoretto
- a cherub or spirit of love
- ampelidious
- of, like or pertaining to vines
- ampelography
- scientific description of the vine
- ampere
- unit for measuring amount of electrical current
- amphibiolith
- fossilized amphibian
- amphibolic
- able to turn both backwards and forwards; double-jointed
- amphibology
- ambiguity in language; dual grammatical meaning
- amphigean
- occurring in both hemispheres of the brain or body
- amphigory
- a nonsense verse
- amphimixis
- interbreeding; intermixing of two individuals' genetic matter
- amphipneust
- animal with both lungs and gills
- amphisbaena
- mythical two-headed serpent or lizard
- amphiscian
- of, like or pertaining to torrid regions
- amplexus
- rutting of frogs and toads
- ampliative
- supplemental; additional
- amplivagant
- stretching far; having a great scope
- ampulla
- vessel for holy oil or wine for coronations or rituals
- amrita
- Hindu ambrosia bestowing immortality
- amygdaloid
- almond-shaped; of, like or pertaining to tonsils
- amyloid
- containing or pertaining to starch; starchy
- amyous
- lacking muscle
- an
- if
- ana
- in equal quantities
- anabasis
- journey leading upwards; first phase of an illness
- anabiosis
- return to life after apparent death
- anacampserote
- something which can bring back a lost love
- anacamptic
- reflecting or reflected light; sound or water
- anacardic
- of, like or pertaining to cashews
- anacathartic
- causing vomiting or expectoration
- anachoric
- foreign or geographically absurd relating to a country
- anaclastic
- refractive; of, like or pertaining to refraction
- anaclitic
- dependent on other phenomenon or ability
- anacoluthon
- moving to new topic of discussion before finishing current one
- anacrisis
- interrogation accompanied by torture
- anacrusis
- syllable prior to the normal rhythm of a verse
- anacusic
- completely deaf
- anadem
- wreath, fillet or band
- anadiplosis
- repeating last word of clause at beginning of next clause
- anadromous
- fish which ascend rivers to spawn
- anaerectic
- destructive
- anaesthesiology
- study of anaesthetics
- anagalactic
- coming from or existing beyond our own galaxy
- anaglyph
- ornament in low relief
- anaglyptics
- art of carving in bas-relief
- anaglyptography
- art of engraving so as to give the subject an embossed appearance
- anagnorisis
- recognition leading to denouement of a play
- anagogy
- mystical interpretation
- anagraphy
- art of constructing catalogues
- analects
- crumbs that fall from the table
- analemma
- sundial
- analgia
- inability to feel pain
- anamnesis
- reminiscence; prayer recalling death and resurrection of Jesus
- anamorphic
- changing to a more complex form
- anandrious
- impotent
- ananym
- name written backward; often used as synonym
- anapeiratic
- caused by excessive use
- anapest
- two short metrical syllables followed by one long one
- anaphalantiasis
- falling out of the eyebrows
- anaphia
- loss of sense of touch
- anaphora
- repetition of a word at beginning of successive phrases for emphasis
- anapnea
- recovery of one's breath; restoration of breath
- anastasic
- convalescent
- anastrophe
- reversing or inverting word order as rhetorical device
- anatine
- of, like or pertaining to ducks
- anatocism
- compound interest
- anatreptic
- overcoming; overturning
- anaudia
- loss of voice
- anbury
- soft fleshy tumour in horses
- anchorite
- one withdrawn from the world for religious reasons
- ancillary
- auxiliary; secondary
- ancipitous
- two-edged and flattened
- ancistroid
- hook-shaped
- ancon
- elbow
- anconoid
- of, like or pertaining to the elbow
- ancoral
- of, shaped like or resembling an anchor
- ancress
- female religious recluse
- andiron
- iron bar used to support the end of a log in a fire
- andragogy
- science of teaching adults
- androcracy
- government by men
- androlepsia
- governmental kidnapping for political purposes
- andromania
- nymphomania
- androphagy
- cannibalism
- aneabil
- single; unmarried
- anele
- to administer extreme unction to
- anemocracy
- government by the wind or by whim
- anemograph
- instrument for measuring pressure and velocity of wind
- anemography
- treatise on the winds
- anemology
- study of winds
- anemometer
- instrument for measuring wind velocity
- anemophilous
- pollinated by wind
- anencephalic
- lacking a brain
- anent
- about; concerning
- anergia
- failure of immune system; loss of energy
- anesis
- tuning to a lower musical pitch
- aneuria
- lack of nervous energy
- anfractuous
- full of windings and intricate turnings
- angary
- the right of a belligerent to seize neutral property
- angelocracy
- government by angels
- angelolatry
- worship of or belief in angels
- angelology
- study of angels
- angelus
- prayer said in morning, at noon and at sunset
- angiogenesis
- production of blood vessels
- angiology
- study of blood flow and lymphatic system
- anglomania
- craze or obsession with England and the English
- anglophilia
- love or fondness for England or the English
- anglophobia
- fear of England or the English
- angora
- silk-like fabric made from wool of angora goats
- angstrom
- unit of one ten-billionth of a meter
- anguiform
- shaped like a snake
- anguilliform
- shaped like an eel
- anguine
- of, like or pertaining to snakes
- anguine
- of, like or pertaining to snakes
- anhedonia
- an unresponsiveness to pleasure
- anhelation
- shortness of breath
- anhidrosis
- absence of perspiration
- aniconic
- symbolizing without aiming at resemblance
- anicular
- like an old woman
- anile
- imbecilic; senile; like a very old woman
- animadvert
- to comment critically on; to censure
- animastic
- spiritual; animate
- animism
- attribution of soul to inanimate objects
- anion
- positively charged ion
- anisothenic
- being of unequal strength
- anker
- liquid measure of 8 1/2 gallons
- ankus
- spiked elephant goad
- ankyroid
- hook-shaped
- anlace
- short two-edged dagger
- anneal
- to heat and cool metal gradually to temper
- annectent
- having intermediate features between two taxa
- annihilationism
- doctrine that the wicked are utterly destroyed after death
- annodated
- shaped like the letter S
- annomination
- pun; play on words
- annuent
- nodding or moving of the head
- annulet
- small ring around a classical column
- annulose
- ringed; composed of rings
- anocathartic
- emetic; causing vomiting or expectoration
- anodontia
- toothlessness
- anodyne
- something that relieves pain or suffering
- anoesis
- sensation not accompanied by understanding of it
- anogenic
- formed from below or beneath
- anomia
- inability to remember names
- anomic
- in a state lacking social order and norms
- anomie
- condition of lacking accepted social values or standards
- anomphalous
- without a navel
- anon
- at once; immediately
- anonym
- person whose name is not given; pseudonym
- anopheline
- of, like or pertaining to malarial mosquitoes
- anopisthographic
- bearing writing or inscription only on one side
- anopsia
- blindness
- anorchous
- lacking testicles
- anosmia
- lack or loss of sense of smell
- anotic
- lacking ears
- ansate
- having a handle or hand-like shape
- anserine
- of, like or pertaining to geese
- anta
- pier produced by thickening wall at one end
- antalgic
- alleviating or relieving pain
- antanaclasis
- repetition of key word of phrase as a play on words
- antapology
- response to an apology
- antarchy
- opposition to government; anarchy
- anteambulo
- usher
- antechapel
- anteroom to a chapel or church
- antejentacular
- before breakfast
- anteloquy
- a preface
- antelucan
- before dawn or daylight
- antemundane
- before one's own birth; before the creation of the world
- antenniferous
- bearing antennae
- antepast
- foretaste
- antependium
- covering or cloth over pulpit or altar
- antephialtic
- preventing nightmares
- antepone
- to put before; to prefer
- anteprandial
- before dinner
- antevenient
- preceding
- anthelion
- luminous ring seen on a cloud opposite the sun
- anthelminthic
- destroying or expelling worms
- anthesis
- full bloom
- anthomancy
- divination using flowers
- anthomania
- obsession with flowers
- anthophilous
- loving or frequenting flowers
- anthorism
- counter-definition
- anthracomancy
- divination using burning coals
- anthrophobia
- fear of humans
- anthropobiology
- study of human biology
- anthropogenesis
- origin of human beings
- anthropoglot
- animal with human tongue; animal capable of speech
- anthropolatry
- worship of human beings
- anthropolith
- fossilized human skeleton
- anthropomancy
- divination using human entrails
- anthropopathy
- ascription of human feelings to inanimate object
- anthropophaginian
- cannibal
- anthropophagous
- eating humans
- anthroposophy
- knowledge of the nature of humanity; human wisdom
- anthropotheism
- belief that gods are only deified men
- antibasilican
- opposed to monarchic principle
- antiblastic
- providing natural immunity against harmful substances
- antibromic
- eliminating offensive odours
- antichresis
- enjoyment of mortgaged property in lieu of interest payments
- antichthon
- hypothetical second Earth on the opposite side of the sun
- anticryptic
- camouflaged; having protective resemblance to environment
- antidisestablishmentarianism
- doctrine opposed to removing Church of England's official religion status
- antigalactic
- preventing the secretion of milk
- antigropelos
- waterproof leggings
- antilapsarianism
- denial of doctrine of the fall of humanity
- antilegomena
- books of the New Testament not part of early Christian Bible
- antilogarithm
- number of which a given number is the logarithm
- antilogism
- statement of three propositions containing contradiction
- antilogy
- contradiction
- antimnemonic
- damaging the memory; eliminating memories
- antimony
- brittle, bluish-white metallic element
- antinomianism
- doctrine of the rejection of moral law
- antinomy
- contradiction between two logical conclusions
- antipedobaptism
- denial of validity of infant baptism
- antiperistasis
- opposition or resistance
- antiphon
- anthem sung as a response during church service
- antiphrasis
- use of words in a sense opposite to literal
- antipudic
- concealing private parts of the body
- antiscian
- dweller on the exact opposite side of the world
- antistrophe
- repetition of words in reverse order
- antithalian
- opposed to mirth or fun
- antithesis
- contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangement of words or clauses
- antitypy
- resistance to being penetrated
- antonomasia
- use of descriptive phrase or epithet instead of proper name
- antre
- cave
- antrorse
- turned upward and forward
- anuptaphobia
- fear of staying single
- anuresis
- inability to urinate
- anurous
- tailless
- anzactile
- army biscuit
- aorist
- expressing simple past time with no continuance
- apaesthesia
- numbness or loss of sensation in a limb
- apagoge
- proof by showing the falsehood of the opposite
- apanage
- privilege of office; especially one given to younger offspring
- apantomancy
- divination using objects at hand
- apatetic
- of an animal's coloration or markings
- apay
- to satisfy
- apercu
- brief outline; glimpse; intuitive insight
- aperient
- laxative
- aphagia
- inability to eat or swallow
- aphemia
- loss of ability to produce articulate speech
- apheresis
- taking away a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word
- aphesis
- loss of initial unaccented vowel from beginning of a word
- aphicide
- killer of aphids
- aphidicide
- killer of aphids
- aphnology
- science of wealth
- aphologistic
- flameless
- aphotic
- lightless
- aphrasia
- inability to speak
- aphrodisiomania
- abnormal sexual interest
- aphthong
- silent letter
- apian
- of, like or pertaining to bees
- apiarian
- of, like or pertaining to bees or beekeeping
- apical
- of or at the apex
- apiculture
- beekeeping
- apiology
- study of bees
- apistia
- faithlessness in marriage
- apivorous
- eating bees
- aplanatic
- a lens free of spherical aberration
- apocalypticism
- doctrine of the imminent end of the world
- apocarteresis
- suicide by starvation
- apocatastasis
- final restitution of all things at the appearance of the Messiah
- apocatastisis
- reversion or restoration to original position
- apocope
- cutting off the last sound of a word
- apocrisiary
- papal secretary
- apodal
- lacking feet
- apodictic
- necessarily true beyond contradiction
- apodosis
- main clause in a conditional sentence
- apodysophilia
- feverish desire to undress
- apograph
- exact copy; facsimile
- apolaustic
- dedicated to the search for enjoyment
- apologetics
- defense and proof of Christianity or other doctrine
- aponia
- painlessness
- apopemptic
- valedictory
- apophasis
- saying something by stating that you will not mention it
- apophoret
- a gift given to celebrate a new year
- apophthegm
- brief saying; proverb; epigram
- aporia
- professed but false doubt of what to say or choose
- aposiopesis
- suddenly stopping in the middle of a speech for emphasis
- apositia
- dislike of or distaste for food
- apostasy
- renunciation of former beliefs
- apostil
- marginal note
- apostrophe
- addressing of a personified thing rhetorically
- apotelesm
- casting of a horoscope
- apothegm
- a short, instructive saying or formula
- apotheosis
- elevation to divine status; a perfect example
- apotropaic
- designed to turn away evil
- apparitor
- officer in court who attends to execute orders; harbinger
- appendant
- attached to; hanging from; adjunct
- apperception
- mind's perception of itself as a conscious agent
- appersonation
- irrational belief that one is another person
- appetence
- strong craving or powerful desire
- applanate
- flat; flattened; compressed
- apport
- to transport objects without material agency
- appose
- to place in juxtaposition or proximity
- apposite
- appropriate
- approbation
- approval; consent
- apprompt
- to borrow
- appropinquity
- nearness
- appui
- to support militarily
- appulse
- a striking against something
- appurtenance
- a subordinate or adjunct part of
- apricate
- to bask in the sun
- aprique
- sunny
- apse
- rounded extension of church or other building
- apselophesia
- loss of sense of touch
- apsidal
- shaped like an apse
- apterygial
- wingless; finless
- aptotic
- uninflected; indeclinable
- aptronym
- name that suits its owner
- apyrexy
- period of intermission in a fever
- aquamanile
- ewer in the form of a human or animal figure for ceremonial handwashing
- aquaphobia
- fear of water
- aquarelle
- watercolour painting
- aquifer
- a rock formation containing water
- aquiform
- watery; liquid
- aquiline
- of, like or pertaining to eagles; hooked like an eagle's beak
- araba
- wheeled Middle Eastern carriage
- arachibutyrophobia
- fear of peanut butter sticking to roof of mouth
- arachnivorous
- feeding on spiders
- arachnology
- study of spiders
- arachnophobia
- fear of spiders
- araneidan
- of, like or pertaining to spiders
- araneiform
- shaped like a spider
- araneous
- transparent; delicate; like a spider's web
- araphorostic
- seamless
- aration
- ploughing
- arbalest
- type of crossbow
- arborescent
- branched; branching; tree-shaped
- arboricolous
- growing on or living in trees
- arboriform
- shaped like a tree
- arbrolatry
- worship of start
- arbuscle
- dwarf or shrub-like tree
- arbustum
- orchard; copse of trees
- arcanna
- red chalk used to mark trees
- arcate
- bow-shaped
- archaeolatry
- worship of archaic things or old customs
- archelogy
- the study of first principles
- archet
- violin box
- archididascalian
- of, like or pertaining to headmasters
- archididascalos
- school principal
- archimandrite
- head of a monastery or convent
- archimime
- chief buffoon or mimic
- architectonics
- of, like or pertaining to the arrangement of knowledge
- architrave
- parts surrounding a door or window, especially the top
- archology
- science of the origins of government
- arciform
- shaped like a bow
- arctician
- one skilled in navigating arctic regions
- arctogaeal
- of the arctic regions of the earth
- arctoid
- bear-like
- arctophile
- collector of teddy bears
- arctophily
- study of teddy bears
- arcuate
- arched; bow-shaped
- ard
- plough used to scratch top surface of soil
- ardass
- fine silk
- arefy
- to dry up; to wither
- arenaceous
- like, growing in or consisting of sand
- arenoid
- sandy; like sand
- areology
- study of Mars
- areometer
- instrument used for measuring specific gravity
- areopagitic
- of, like or pertaining to tribunals or courts
- aret
- to assign or allot
- aretaics
- the science of virtue
- arete
- sharp mountain ridge
- argand
- gas or oil lamp
- argent
- the heraldic colour silver or white
- argentiferous
- bearing silver
- argentocracy
- government by money
- argil
- clay used in making pottery
- argillaceous
- clayey; of or resembling clay
- argol
- crust formed on wine kept too long or improperly
- argol
- dried cow dung used as fuel
- argosy
- a large merchant ship; a rich supply
- arguria
- silver poisoning
- argute
- shrill; keen; shrewd
- argyll
- silver gravy dish
- arietine
- of, like or pertaining to rams
- arietinous
- shaped like a ram's head
- aright
- right; correctly
- ariolation
- divination in general
- aristarch
- a severe critic
- aristarchy
- government by the best
- aristology
- the science or art of dining
- arithmancy
- divination using numbers
- arithmocracy
- government by simple majority
- arithmogram
- number composed of numerical values of letters in a word
- arithmomania
- obsessive preoccupation with numbers
- armamentarium
- collective equipment available to a doctor
- armigerous
- entitled to bear arms
- armillary
- like or composed of rings
- armipotent
- having strong weapons; militarily potent
- armisonant
- resounding with noises of battle or weapons
- armomancy
- divination by examining one's shoulders
- armure
- twilled woollen or silk fabric
- aroint
- begone
- arpent
- unit of land area slightly smaller than an acre
- arpenteur
- land surveyor
- arrant
- downright; unmitigated
- arras
- tapestry covering a wall
- arrasene
- embroidery fabric of wool and silk
- arrect
- attentive; erect; raised up
- arrendator
- one who rents or farms at a yearly rent
- arreptitious
- ecstatic; frantic; hasty or hurried
- arrestant
- substance causing an insect to stop moving
- arrhizal
- lacking roots
- arris
- sharp edge on stone; meeting of two surfaces
- arrogate
- to claim unduly as one's own; to ascribe
- arrosive
- gnawing; chewing; corroding
- arthrology
- study of joints
- arthroscope
- instrument for examining interior of a joint
- arundiferous
- bearing or producing reeds
- arundinaceous
- like or having the properties of a reed
- arval
- of, like or pertaining to ploughed land
- ascesis
- the practice of disciplining oneself; asceticism
- asceticism
- doctrine that self-denial of the body permits spiritual enlightenment
- ascham
- box for keeping bows and arrows dry
- ascian
- inhabitant of the equatorial zone
- aseity
- self-origination
- ashlar
- squared stone used in building walls
- ashplant
- walking stick
- asinine
- of, like or pertaining to asses; stupid
- asitia
- lack of appetite
- askefise
- one who blows on ashes to bring them to flame
- asomatous
- lacking a body; incorporeal
- asonia
- deafness to specific pitches of sound
- asperge
- to sprinkle
- aspergilliform
- shaped like a brush
- aspergillum
- vessel for sprinkling holy water
- asperity
- roughness of surface or sound
- asperse
- slander; disparage
- aspersory
- vessel for holding holy water
- aspheterism
- denial of the right to private property
- aspidate
- shield-shaped
- aspidomancy
- divination by sitting and chanting within a circle
- asportation
- to carry property away wrongfully
- assart
- to reclaim for agriculture by clearing away trees
- assecuration
- marine insurance
- assentation
- insincere or glib assent
- asseveration
- positive or earnest affirmation
- assibilate
- to pronounce with a hiss or sibilant
- assiduity
- persevering application to a pursuit
- assizer
- officer or judge in charge of weights and measures
- assocative
- indicating association with or accompaniment by
- assoil
- to absolve; to acquit
- assot
- to befool; to besot
- assuefaction
- habituation
- assuetude
- accustomedness; habit
- assurgent
- ascending; rising; curving upward
- astacology
- the science of crayfish
- astatic
- in equilibrium
- asteism
- refined irony
- asterism
- three asterisks used to direct attention to a passage
- astern
- at the stern of a ship
- astheniology
- study of diseases of weakening and aging
- asthenopia
- muscular weakening of the eyes
- astichous
- not in rows
- astragal
- small semicircular moulding; dice
- astragalomancy
- divination using dice or knucklebones
- astraphobia
- fear of being struck by lightning
- astrapophobia
- fear of thunder and lightning
- astriction
- binding obligation
- astringe
- to draw together; to tighten
- astrionics
- electronics as applied to space flight
- astrobleme
- scar on the earth's surface from meteorite impact
- astrobolism
- sun-stroke
- astrogeology
- study of extraterrestrial geology
- astrognosy
- knowledge of fixed stars
- astrogony
- theory of the origin of stars
- astrolatry
- worship of stars
- astrologaster
- a foolish or petty astrologer
- astromancy
- divination using stars
- astrometeorology
- study of effect of stars on climate
- astronomical unit
- unit of distance equal to the distance from the earth to the sun
- astrophile
- person interested in astronomy
- astroseismology
- study of star oscillations
- astrut
- protrudingly; distendedly
- asynartetic
- having two members with different rhythms
- asyndeton
- rhetorical device of omitting conjunctions
- atactic
- irregular
- ataraxia
- tranquility; freedom from anxiety; stoicism
- atavism
- reversion to early or ancestral type
- ateknia
- childlessness
- atelier
- artist's studio or workshop
- ateliosis
- imperfect development; developmental irregularity
- athanasy
- deathlessness
- athanor
- alchemist's self-feeding digesting furnace
- atheling
- Anglo-Saxon prince or nobleman
- athenaeum
- literary or scientific association
- athermic
- lacking heat
- athetesis
- rejection of a passage as spurious
- athetosis
- nervous twitching of digits and extremities
- athwart
- across; in opposition to; sideways; transversely
- athymia
- melancholy
- atimy
- loss of honour; disgrace
- atlantes
- male figures used as columns
- atlas
- rich satin fabric
- atmatertera
- great-grandfather's grandmother's sister
- atmology
- the science of aqueous vapour
- atmometer
- instrument for measuring evaporating capacity of air
- atocia
- female sterility
- atokous
- lacking offspring
- atomism
- belief that the universe consists of small indivisible particles
- atony
- muscular weakness
- atpatruus
- great-grandfather's grandfather's brother
- atrabiliary
- melancholy; hypochondriac
- atrabilious
- melancholy; splenetic; acrimonious
- atrament
- blacking; ink; black dye
- atresia
- absence or irregular closure of a passage in the body
- atrichia
- baldness
- atrous
- jet black
- attainder
- the loss of civil rights for high treason
- attaint
- disgrace; sully; infect; taint
- attemper
- to adapt or alter quality by adding to something
- attenuate
- make thin; reduce in value
- atticism
- expression characterized by conciseness and elegance
- attingent
- touching
- attollent
- lifting up; raising
- attorn
- to transfer to another
- attrahent
- attracting or drawing
- attrist
- to sadden
- attrite
- repentant through fear of punishment
- attuition
- operation between sensation and perception
- aubade
- musical announcement of dawn; sunrise song
- aubergine
- eggplant
- aubin
- horse's gait between an amble and a gallop
- auceps
- hawker or bird-tender
- aucupate
- to hunt birds; to pursue prey with vigilance
- audile
- person more attuned to sound than the other senses
- audiology
- study of hearing
- audiometer
- instrument for measuring acuity of hearing
- audiophile
- one who loves accurately reproduced recorded sound
- augean
- filthy; difficult
- augend
- number to which another number is added
- aught
- at all
- aularian
- of, like or pertaining to a hall in a university
- aulete
- flautist
- aulic
- courtly; ceremonious; genteel
- auncel
- crude balance for weighing
- aurantiaceous
- of, like or pertaining or pertaining to oranges or orange trees
- aureity
- property of being golden in colour or substance
- aureole
- radiant light around head or body of holy personage
- auricomous
- having golden or blond hair
- auricular
- of, like or pertaining to the ear; spoken secretly
- auriferous
- bearing gold
- aurifex
- goldsmith
- auriform
- shaped like an ear
- aurigation
- charioteering
- aurilave
- instrument for cleaning the ear
- auriphrygia
- gold embroidery
- auriscope
- instrument for examining the ear
- aurochs
- extinct wild ox
- aurulent
- gold-coloured
- auscultation
- listening to sounds arising within organs
- auslaut
- final sound of a word or syllable
- austringer
- keeper of goshawks
- austromancy
- divination using wind
- autarchy
- government by an absolute ruler
- autarkic
- self-sufficient; independent
- autecology
- study of ecology of one species
- autocephality
- ecclesiastical self-government
- autocoprophagy
- eating one's own feces
- autocracy
- government by one individual
- auto-da-fe
- burning of a heretic
- autodidact
- self-taught person
- autogenesis
- spontaneous generation
- autognosis
- knowledge of or about oneself
- autolatry
- self-worship
- autology
- scientific study of oneself
- automorphism
- ascription to others of one's own characteristics
- automysophobia
- fear of being dirty
- autonym
- a writer's real name; work published under writer's own name
- autophagy
- feeding on body's own tissues
- autophanous
- self-luminous
- autophobia
- fear of solitude
- autoschediasm
- anything extemporized
- autosoterism
- belief that one can obtain salvation through oneself
- autotelic
- being an end in itself
- autothaumaturgist
- person pretending to be mystical or mysterious
- autotheism
- belief that one is God incarnate or that one is Christ
- autotropic
- growing in a straight line
- auxanometer
- instrument for measuring growth of plants
- auxesis
- increase in size; hyperbole
- auxology
- science of growth
- auxometer
- instrument for measuring magnifying power
- aval
- of, like or pertaining to a grandparent
- avalement
- allowing knees to flex while skiing
- avaunt
- away; hence
- avaunt
- to boast
- aveniform
- shaped like oats
- averruncate
- to ward off; to uproot
- averruncator
- pole for pruning trees
- avicide
- killing of birds
- avicular
- of, like or pertaining to birds
- avinosis
- air sickness
- avionics
- the science of electronic devices for aircraft
- avital
- ancestral
- avizandum
- private consideration of a case by a judge
- avolitional
- involuntary
- avulse
- to pluck or tear away by force
- avuncular
- like an uncle; of, like or pertaining to uncles
- awn
- beard or similar bristly growth on stalk of grain
- axilla
- armpit
- axiniform
- shaped like an axe-head
- axinomancy
- divination using an axe or hatchet
- axiology
- the science of the ultimate nature of values
- azimuth
- arc of the horizon
- azoth
- alchemical name for mercury
- azuline
- blue
- azure
- light or sky blue; the heraldic colour blue
- azymous
- unleavened
- babeldom
- a confused sound of voices
- baccate
- having berries; berry-like
- bacchanal
- drunkard; reveller
- bacciferous
- bearing berries
- bacciform
- shaped like a berry
- baccivorous
- eating berries
- bacillicide
- killer of berries
- backstay
- stay extending from ship's mastheads to the side of the ship
- bactericide
- killer of bacteria
- baculiform
- rod-shaped
- baculine
- of, like or pertaining to the stick or cane; of, like or pertaining to flogging
- baculum
- penis bone in some mammals
- baculus
- rod, staff or scepter of power
- badigeon
- plaster and ground stone mixture for repairing masonry
- badinage
- playful repartee or banter
- badious
- chestnut-coloured
- baedeker
- guide book
- baetyl
- magical or holy meteoric stone
- baft
- cheap coarse cotton fabric
- bagarre
- scuffle or brawl
- bagging
- coarse fabric for making bags or sacks
- bagnio
- bathing house
- bahadur
- self-important official
- bahuvrihi
- compound word whose second part is a noun but that acts as an adjective
- bail
- barrier or pole separating horses in an open stable
- bailivate
- office of a bailiff
- bailment
- delivery of goods in trust
- baisemain
- kiss on the hand
- baize
- coarse napped cotton or wool fabric
- bakelite
- type of solid plastic
- balaniferous
- acorn-bearing
- balanism
- use of suppositories
- balanoid
- acorn-shaped
- balatron
- joker; clown
- balbriggan
- knitted cotton fabric
- balbutient
- stammering
- baldachin
- rich embroidered silk and gold fabric
- baldaquin
- covering or canopy over a throne or altar
- baldric
- shoulder strap for holding sword
- balefire
- bonfire or beacon-fire
- balisaur
- long-tailed badger
- balistarius
- crossbowman
- balistraria
- cross-shaped opening in wall for firing arrows
- balize
- pole mounted on seashore as beacon
- ballaster
- one who supplies ships with ballast
- balletomania
- abnormal fondness for ballet
- ballistocardiograph
- instrument for detecting body movements caused by heartbeat
- ballistophobia
- fear of missiles
- ballottement
- diagnosis of pregnancy by applying sharp force to abdomen
- balmorality
- superficial enthusiasm for Scottish culture
- balneary
- bath
- balneology
- the science of the therapeutic use of baths
- balustrade
- row of columns supporting a stair rail
- balzarine
- light cotton dress material
- banausic
- materialistic; merely mechanical; pertaining to workshops
- bandelet
- small flat moulding around a column
- banderol
- flat band with an inscription; small banner
- bandobast
- detailed organization; settlement
- bandolier
- shoulder belt for carrying ammunition
- bangtail
- mustang or wild horse
- bannock
- flat unleavened loaf of bread
- banquette
- raised way or footway above a parapet
- bantling
- brat; whelp; bastard child
- baptistery
- part of church reserved for performing baptisms
- bar
- unit of pressure of one million dynes per square centimeter
- baragnosis
- loss of ability to distinguish weight
- baragouin
- any jargon or unintelligible language
- barathea
- pebbly silk or worsted fabric with broken rib weave
- barathrum
- an abyss; an insatiable person
- barbarocracy
- government by barbarians
- barbate
- bearded
- barbette
- earthen terrace inside the parapet of a rampart
- barbican
- projecting watchtower over the gate of a castle
- barbigerous
- bearded; bearing a beard
- barbula
- small tuft of hair just below the lower lip
- barcarole
- gondolier's song
- bardel
- pack saddle
- bardocucullus
- hooded cloak worn by monks
- bardolatry
- excessive devotion to or worship of Shakespeare
- barege
- gauzy fabric of silk, cotton, wool, or worsted
- bargemaster
- owner of a barge
- barkentine
- three-masted vessel
- barleycorn
- old unit of length equal to one-third inch
- barm
- yeast; froth on fermenting liquor
- barmaster
- local judge among miners
- barmcloth
- an apron
- barmkin
- battlement or turret on the outer wall of a castle
- barn
- unit of area measurement of particles equal to 100 square femtometres
- barnard
- member of gang of thieves who acts as decoy
- barodynamics
- science of the support and mechanics of bridges
- barognosis
- ability to perceive weight
- barograph
- instrument for recording air pressure
- barology
- study of gravitation
- baroscope
- weather-glass
- barouche
- four-wheeled hooded carriage
- barracan
- fine silk cloth
- barracoon
- depot for slaves
- barras
- coarse linen fabric
- barrateen
- some kind of fabric
- barratry
- inciting riot or violence
- barre
- placing capo or finger across guitar strings
- barrulet
- narrow heraldic bar
- bartisan
- parapet or battlement
- barton
- farmyard
- baryecoia
- deafness; hardness of hearing
- baryphonic
- having difficulty speaking
- bascule
- apparatus of which one end rises as the other sinks
- basial
- of, like or pertaining to kissing
- basiation
- kissing
- basilica
- Roman Catholic church given special privileges
- basilicon
- kind of ointment
- bassinet
- light, conical helmet
- bastinade
- to beat with a stick or baton, especially on the feet
- bastion
- tower at the corner of a fortification
- bastle
- fortified house with vaulted ground floor
- bathmism
- directive evolutionary force
- batholith
- large mass of intruded igneous rock
- bathophobia
- fear of falling from a high place
- bathos
- appearance of the commonplace in elevated matter
- bathykolpian
- deep-bosomed
- bathymeter
- instrument for recording contours of deep oceans
- bathyorographical
- of, like or pertaining to depth underwater or elevation above sea level
- bathypelagic
- found in the depths of the sea
- bathysmal
- of, like or pertaining to the depths of the ocean
- bathythermograph
- instrument for recording water temperature as compared to depth
- batik
- method of dyeing fabric by covering certain sections with wax
- batiste
- fine soft sheer fabric of plain weave
- batology
- the study of brambles
- batophobia
- fear of heights or being close to tall buildings
- batrachian
- of, like or pertaining to frogs or toads
- batrachivorous
- frog-eating
- batrachophobia
- fear of frogs and toads
- batraquomancy
- divination using frogs
- batten
- timber used to fasten down a door or hatch
- battledore
- bat used to strike shuttlecock; game played with such a bat
- battology
- futile, futile repetition in speech or writing
- battue
- indiscriminate slaughter; driving game towards slaughter
- baud
- unit of data transmission speed of one signal event per second
- bausond
- having white spots on the forehead
- bavardage
- chattering; prattle
- bavian
- insignificant or unskilled poet
- bavin
- a bundle of brushwood
- bayadere
- fabric with horizontal stripes in strongly contrasting colours
- bdellism
- use of leeches for blood-letting
- bdelloid
- of, like or pertaining to leeches
- bdellotomy
- act of cutting a leech to increase its suction
- beadle
- church caretaker or usher
- beadle
- mace-bearing official of an institution
- beadsman
- monk or almoner who prays for benefactor
- beata
- beatified woman
- Beatlemania
- obsession with the Beatles
- beatster
- fish net repairer
- beatus
- beatified man
- beaupers
- linen fabric used for flags
- beaver
- hinged face guard on a helmet
- beblubbered
- disfigured from weeping
- bechic
- relieving coughs
- becket
- large hook or bracket used to hold tackle or spars
- beckets
- rope handles
- bedaggle
- to soil by dragging along the wet ground
- bedswerver
- unfaithful spouse
- bee
- hardwood on either side of bowsprit through which forestays are reeved
- beele
- double-pointed miner's pick
- beerocracy
- government by brewers or brewing interests
- beeskep
- straw beehive
- beestings
- the first milk drawn from a cow after calving
- beforetime
- formerly
- behoof
- a benefit resulting from some course of action
- bel
- unit of noise intensity equal to ten decibels
- belay
- to secure a rope by winding on a pin or cleat
- belcher
- coloured; spotted neckerchief
- beldam
- an old woman; a hag; an ancestress
- belemnoid
- shaped like a dart
- belike
- most likely; probably
- bellarmine
- large jug with rounded belly and narrow neck
- bellcote
- ornamental structure to hold one or two large bells
- bellecism
- inclination towards violence; hawkishness
- belleter
- bell-founder
- belliferous
- bringing war
- belling
- deer's mating call
- bellipotent
- militarily powerful
- bellonion
- mechanical instrument combining trumpets and drums
- bellwether
- one who takes the lead; indicator of trends
- beloid
- shaped like an arrow
- belomancy
- divination by means of arrows
- belonephilia
- sexual obsession with sharp objects
- belonephobia
- fear of pins and needles
- belonoid
- shaped like a needle
- belvedere
- raised covered terrace or pavilion
- belvedere
- raised turret or lantern on the top of a house
- bema
- raised part of an Eastern church containing the altar
- benedict
- a newly married man who has long been a bachelor
- benefactive
- indicating for whom or which
- benefic
- kindly; benign; beneficent
- benefice
- ecclesiastical office to which revenue is attached
- beneficiate
- to treat ores to remove impurities
- benet
- exorcist
- bengaline
- crosswise ribbed fabric
- benthic
- of, like or pertaining to the depths of the ocean
- benthos
- flora and fauna of the ocean floor
- berceau
- covered walk
- berceuse
- lullaby
- bergamask
- country dance
- berge
- spy glass or telescope
- berlin
- four-wheeled covered carriage
- berline
- crude winter sled
- berm
- narrow shelf or ledge at the top or bottom of a slope
- bersatrix
- baby-sitter
- besom
- curler's broom
- bestiarian
- individual opposed to vivisection
- bestiocracy
- rule by beasts
- bethel
- a place of worship for seamen; nonconformist chapel
- betimes
- in short time; speedily
- bêtise
- foolish act or situation
- betwixt
- between
- bewray
- to reveal; to betray; to divulge
- bezel
- oblique side or face of a cut gem
- bezesteen
- Eastern marketplace
- bezique
- card game played with two decks of cards
- bezoar
- stony material found in ruminants' stomachs
- bialate
- two-winged
- biarchy
- government by two people; diarchy
- bibacious
- overly fond of drinking
- bibelot
- trinket; miniature book of elegant design
- bibitory
- of, like or pertaining or pertaining to drinking
- biblioclasm
- destruction of books or the Bible
- bibliogenesis
- production of books
- bibliognost
- well-read individual; person with wide knowledge of books
- biblioklept
- book-thief
- bibliolatry
- worship of the Bible or other books
- bibliology
- study of books
- bibliomancy
- divination by opening a book at random
- bibliomania
- craze for books or reading
- bibliopegist
- bookbinder
- bibliophagist
- one who devours books, literally or figuratively
- bibliophily
- love or fondness for books or reading
- bibliophobia
- fear of books
- bibliopoesy
- making of books
- bibliopolist
- bookseller
- bibliopoly
- bookselling
- bibliotaph
- one who hoards or hides books
- bibliotics
- study of documents to determine authenticity
- bibulous
- addicted to alcohol
- bicapitate
- two-headed
- bickern
- anvil pointed at both ends
- bicollateral
- having two identical sides
- bicorn
- having two horns or points
- biddery
- metal alloy inlaid with silver and/or gold
- bidenticulate
- having two teeth
- biduous
- lasting two days
- bienséance
- something appropriate or proper
- bifarious
- organized in two rows
- bifid
- divided in two by a deep split
- bifilar
- having two threads
- bigential
- consisting of two races, genera, or subspecies
- biggin
- a building
- bight
- a wide bay; a bend or coil in a rope
- bijugate
- having heads on both sides of a coin
- bilbo
- iron bar used to shackle prisoners' feet
- bilge
- lower point of inner hull of a ship
- bilious
- ill-tempered; very unpleasant
- billingsgate
- coarsely abusive language
- billon
- base metal, alloy of copper, tin or silver
- bilocation
- ability to be in two places at once
- biloquist
- one capable of speaking with two distinct voices
- bimetallism
- currency exchange on both the gold and silver standards
- binarchy
- government by two people; diarchy
- binate
- doubled; coupled
- binaural
- of, pertaining to or heard by both ears
- bindle
- blanket roll
- binnacle
- case in which a ship's compass is kept
- binotonous
- consisting or comprised of two musical tones
- biobibliography
- annotated biographical bibliography
- biocenosis
- state of association of creatures in a certain region
- biocentric
- having life as main principle
- biocide
- killing living material
- bioecology
- study of interaction of life in the environment
- biogenesis
- theory that all life is derived from living matter alone
- biognosy
- general study or theory of life
- biolith
- rock formed by living creatures
- biometrics
- study of biological measurement
- bionergy
- vital essence or force
- bionomics
- study of organisms interacting in their environments
- biopic
- film telling the life-story of a celebrity
- biotaxy
- classification of living organisms
- biotope
- region of uniform environment and types of organisms
- bipennate
- two-winged
- biramous
- forked; with two branches
- bireme
- rowed ship or galley with two banks of oars
- biretta
- square three-ridged cap worn by Catholic clergy
- birl
- to make a log spin by walking on it
- birostrate
- double-beaked
- bis
- twice; in two places
- biserial
- in two rows or columns
- bismer
- shame; disgrace; scorn
- bisociation
- association of an object with two or more ideas
- bisontine
- of, like or pertaining to bison
- bistoury
- narrow surgical knife
- bistre
- pigment with brownish colour derived from soot
- bisulcate
- cloven-footed; cleft in two
- bitheism
- belief in two gods
- bitts
- posts mounted on a ship for fastening ropes
- biune
- combining two entities into one
- biverbal
- of, like or pertaining to two words; having a double sense
- bivious
- offering a choice; splitting between two directions
- blackguard
- a menial helper
- blackguard
- to vituperate; to portray as a scoundrel
- blackmaster
- undertaker
- blague
- humbug; pretentious nonsense
- blain
- a boil or blister
- blandiloquence
- complimentary speech; flattery
- blandish
- to flatter and coax; to cajole
- blarney
- skilful flattery
- blastogenesis
- reproduction by budding
- blattnerphone
- instrument used to record sound on magnetic tape
- blattoid
- of, like or pertaining to cockroaches
- blauwbok
- extinct bluish-coloured antelope of southern Africa
- blazon
- heraldic arms painted on knight's shield or surcoat
- blench
- to shrink or flinch
- blendling
- hybrid
- blendure
- mixing
- blennoid
- of or resembling mucus
- blennophobia
- fear of slime
- blepharal
- of, like or pertaining to eyelids
- bletcherous
- having an ugly design
- bletherskate
- a garrulous talker of nonsense
- bletonism
- alleged ability to find an underground water supply
- blewit
- type of edible toadstool
- blissom
- subject to or having strong sexual desires
- bloomery
- factory where iron bars are manufactured
- bloviate
- to write or speak windily
- blucher
- leather half-boot
- bluepeter
- blue flag with white square in centre used as ship's signal
- bluestocking
- early feminist; educated or literary woman
- blunge
- to mix clay with water
- blype
- piece of skin that peels off after a sunburn
- boanerges
- skilled orator with powerful voice
- boatswain
- ship's crewmember in charge of equipment and maintenance
- bobeche
- circular wax catcher that fits over a candle
- bobstay
- rope used on ships to steady the bowsprit
- bocking
- smoked herring
- bodach
- old man; churl; goblin or spectre
- bodement
- prediction or prophecy
- bodewash
- cow dung
- bodge
- piece of poor or clumsy workmanship
- bodkin
- small tool for pricking holes; small dagger
- boeotian
- stupid; dull
- boethetic
- helpful, curative
- bogan
- quiet tributary or backwater
- boggart
- spectre; bugbear; goblin
- bolar
- of, like or pertaining to clay
- bolection
- moulding around a panel
- bolero
- Spanish dance with sudden pauses and sharp turns
- bolide
- large meteor that bursts; a fireball
- bollard
- short post on a wharf or ship to which ropes are tied
- bolometer
- instrument for measuring radiant energy or infrared light
- bolthead
- straight-necked distillation vessel or flask
- boltrope
- strong rope stitched to edges of a sail
- bolus
- rounded mass
- boman
- well dressed criminal
- bombaster
- one who stuffs or pads things
- bombastry
- bombastic language or composition
- bombazine
- twilled silk and worsted fabric
- bombé
- bulging outwards
- bombic
- of, like or pertaining to silkworms
- bombilate
- to hum, buzz or drone
- bombosity
- the buttocks
- bombous
- convex; rounded
- bombycine
- of, like or pertaining to silk or cotton
- bombylious
- humming or buzzing
- bonasus
- bison
- bonbonnière
- small box used for sweetmeats
- bonce
- large marble used in games
- bonification
- paying of bonus or reward
- boniform
- having the form of good
- bonify
- to improve or ameliorate
- boning
- estimating straightness by looking along a row of poles
- bonism
- the doctrine that the world is good but not perfect
- bonzery
- Buddhist monastery
- bonzoline
- artificial ivory-like substance used to make billiard balls
- boodle
- counterfeit money; funds obtained by corruption
- boopic
- ox-eyed
- borage
- rough-stemmed herb used in salads
- borasco
- violent wind squall
- borato
- thin fabric
- borborology
- filthy talk
- borborygmus
- rumbling noise in the intestines
- bordar
- tenant who holds land at his lord's pleasure
- bordereau
- detailed bill or invoice
- bordure
- border surrounding a heraldic shield
- bore
- tidal flow of water up estuaries
- borné
- limited; narrow-minded
- borsella
- instrument for shaping glass vessels
- bort
- diamond fragments or dust
- borzoi
- wolf-hound
- boscage
- thick foliage; woodland
- boschveldt
- bush country; wilderness
- bosket
- thicket; plantation
- bosky
- covered with trees or shrubs
- bossa-nova
- Brazilian dance similar to samba
- bosselated
- knobby
- boston
- waltz-like dance
- bosun
- boatswain
- bot
- larva of a botfly that infests horses
- botanomancy
- divination using burning branches or plants
- botryoidal
- like a bunch of grapes
- bottine
- small boot
- bottomry
- using the ship as collateral to finance a sea voyage
- bottony
- having three buds like a trefoil
- bouclé
- fabric of uneven looped yarn
- bouillotte
- card game resembling poker
- bouleuterion
- meeting-place; assembly hall
- bouleversement
- overturning; reversal; ruin
- boult
- to sift through cloth; to examine by sifting
- boun
- to prepare; to dress; to set out
- bourasque
- tempest
- bourdon
- drone bass of a bagpipe or organ
- bourrée
- French baroque dance with quick rhythm
- boustrophedon
- writing alternating left-right then right-left
- boutade
- sudden outburst
- bovicide
- slaughter of cattle; one who kills cattle
- boviform
- cow-shaped
- bower
- anchor carried at bow of a ship
- bowery
- seedy or run-down district of a city
- bowline
- rope used to keep weather edge of a sail taut
- bowsprit
- spar that extends at bows of a ship
- boyau
- communication trench
- boyg
- a problem difficult to get to grips with
- brabble
- to squabble or quarrel
- braccate
- having feathered legs or feet
- bracciale
- bracket or socket mounted on a wall
- brach
- female hunting hound
- brachet
- whelp; brat; ***** hound
- brachiation
- act of swinging by one's arms from place to place
- brachiferous
- bearing or having branches or arms
- brachiotomy
- amputation of an arm
- brachycatalectic
- lacking two syllables from end of a line of verse
- brachycerous
- having horns or antennae clipped or removed
- brachydactylous
- having short or stubby fingers
- brachymetropia
- short-sightedness
- brachyology
- laconic, abbreviated or interrupted speech
- brachypodous
- short-legged
- brachypterous
- short-winged
- brackish
- saltish; very salty
- brackle
- to break bread or cake into pieces
- bracteate
- thin beaten plate of gold or silver
- bradawl
- small boring tool
- bradyseism
- slow up-and-down movement of the earth's crust
- brail
- leather strap to bind a hawk's wing
- brails
- ropes on edge of sail for hauling up
- braird
- to appear above ground (of crops)
- branchial
- of, like or pertaining to gills
- branchiferous
- having or bearing gills
- branchiform
- gill-shaped
- brandling
- striped earthworm used as fishing bait
- brank
- to prance; toss the head; to strut
- bransle
- an old French follow-the-leader dance
- brasero
- a place where criminals and heretics are burned
- brash
- collection of broken pieces of rock or ice
- brassage
- difference between cost of minting coin and its value
- brassard
- badge worn on the arm; piece of armour for the arm
- brattice
- fixed tower of wood on a castle wall
- brattice
- partition in mine shaft used to support walls and roof
- braxy
- disease of sheep causing fits
- brayer
- instrument for spreading ink in printing
- bream
- to clean a ship's bottom by burning off seaweed
- breastsummer
- beam supporting front of a building; bressummer
- breccia
- geological formation of angular fragments of rock
- breedbate
- someone looking for an argument
- brehon
- judge or magistrate in ancient Ireland
- breloque
- an ornament attached to a watch
- breme
- fierce; cruel; keen
- bressummer
- beam supporting a wall over an opening
- bretasche
- partition to control ventilation in a mine
- breve
- mark over letter to indicate a short vowel sound
- brevet
- commission enabling officer to take higher rank
- breviary
- book containing daily church service
- breviate
- a brief compendium; a lawyer's brief
- brevicaudate
- short-tailed
- breviloquence
- short-windedness; tendency towards brevity in speech
- breviped
- short-legged creature
- brevipennate
- having short wings
- briarean
- many-handed
- bricole
- harness for humans to pull heavy loads
- bridewell
- house of corrections; jail
- bridgewater
- anything undesirable or worthless
- bridoon
- light military bridle
- brigandine
- leather armour with metal scales
- brigantine
- two-masted ship
- brigue
- to intrigue
- brilliantine
- light lustrous cotton and worsted fabric
- brilliantine
- perfumed oil for making hair glossy
- brindled
- marked with streaks or spots
- brio
- enthusiastic vigour
- brisure
- part of a parapet breaking from the general direction
- britska
- open four-wheeled carriage
- broadcloth
- dense twilled wool or worsted fabric
- brobdingnagian
- immense
- brocade
- rich silk fabric with raised patterns
- brocard
- elementary law or principle; canon; axiom; maxim
- broch
- luminous ring around the moon
- broché
- with raised pattern
- brochette
- skewer for holding food steady while cooking
- brocken
- two-year-old stag
- brockfaced
- having a white mark on the face or snout
- brodequin
- light boot worn inside heavier boots
- broderie
- embroidery pattern
- brogan
- strong and tough working shoe
- broma
- food; aliment
- bromatology
- study of food
- bromidrosis
- strong-smelling sweat
- bromopnea
- bad breath
- bronchos
- temporary loss of voice; laryngitis
- bronchoscope
- instrument for examining the windpipe
- brontology
- scientific study of thunder
- brontomancy
- divination using thunder
- brontophobia
- fear of thunder and lightning
- brouette
- small two-wheeled carriage
- brougham
- one-horse closed carriage
- bruit
- something rumoured widely; to report or spread rumour
- brumal
- of, like or pertaining to winter
- brumous
- foggy; wintry
- brunneous
- dark brown
- bruxism
- habitual grinding of the teeth
- bruxomania
- compulsion for grinding teeth
- bryology
- the study of mosses and liverworts
- bubaline
- of, like or pertaining to buffalo or antelopes
- bubonalgia
- painful inflammation of the groin
- buccal
- of, like or pertaining to the mouth or cheek
- buccan
- metal frame on which meat is dried and/or roasted
- buccina
- Roman curved trumpet
- buccinal
- shaped or sounding like a trumpet
- buccula
- double chin
- bucentaur
- legendary half-man and half-ox
- buck-and-wing
- solo tap dance with many leg flings and leaps
- buckram
- stiff-finished cotton or linen used for linings of garments
- bucoliast
- writer of pastoral poems
- bucolic
- of, like or pertaining to the tending of cattle; rustic; rural
- buddle
- sloping container for washing ore
- bufoniform
- shaped like a toad
- bufotenine
- hallucinogen found in certain tropical toads
- buhl
- inlaying of precious material onto furniture
- bulbiferous
- bearing bulbs
- bulgur
- cooked broken wheat
- bulimy
- extreme hunger
- bulla
- round seal attached to a papal bull
- bullace
- wild plum
- bullantic
- capitalized and ornamented, as letters used on papal bulls
- bullary
- collection of papal bulls
- bullate
- having a blistered or puckered appearance
- bulliform
- shaped like a blister or boil
- bullionism
- belief in the importance of metallic currency in economics
- bullition
- the act of boiling
- bullock
- an ox or castrated bull
- bullyrag
- to assault with abusive language; to badger
- bulse
- a small bag for diamonds or gold dust
- bulwark
- the side of a ship above the deck
- bumboat
- small boat used in harbours to carry provisions
- bumicky
- cement mixed with stone chips used in masonry
- bummel
- stroll; leisurely journey
- bump
- coarse cotton fabric
- bumpkin
- spar projecting from stern of ship
- bumptious
- offensively conceited or self-assertive
- buncombe
- speech-making intended for the mass media
- bunt
- middle of sail, fish-net or cloth when slack
- bunting
- light loosely woven fabric used for flags
- buntline
- rope attached to middle of square sail to haul it up to the yard
- burdet
- cotton fabric
- burgage
- tenure in socage for a yearly rent
- burganet
- light helmet with nose and cheek protection
- burgee
- small ship's flag used for identification or signalling
- burgensic
- of, like or pertaining to a borough or its citizens
- burgrave
- commander of a German town or castle
- burke
- to suppress quietly; to bypass or avoid
- burlap
- coarse plain-woven jute or hemp fabric
- burnet
- dark brown; dark woollen cloth
- burrel
- coarse russet cloth
- burrole
- an eavesdropper
- burrstone
- type of rock used to make millstones
- bursal
- of, like or pertaining to a state's revenues
- bursary
- treasury of a monastery or college
- burse
- square cloth case to carry the corporal during Communion service
- bursiculate
- resembling a small pouch
- bursiform
- shaped like a pouch or purse
- buskin
- tragedy as a dramatic genre
- buss
- rude or playful kiss
- buteonine
- of, like or pertaining to buzzards
- butt
- unit of volume equal to two hogsheads or 126 gallons
- buttery
- storeroom for provisions and liquors
- butyraceous
- resembling, producing or having the qualities of butter
- butyric
- of, like or pertaining to butter
- byre
- a cow barn
- byrnie
- coat of mail or breastplate
- byssaceous
- delicately filamentous
- byssiferous
- having tufts or threads
- byssine
- silky; soft; having many threads
- byssoid
- fibrous; cottony soft
- byssus
- mummy-wrapping fabric
- bywoner
- agricultural labourer
- caballine
- of, like or pertaining to or suited to a horse
- cabas
- woman's work basket or handbag
- cable
- heavy rope or chain for mooring a ship
- caboched
- heraldic animal shown in full face with no neck or body
- cabochon
- highly polished convex gem
- caboose
- kitchen on the deck of a ship
- cabotage
- shipping and sailing between points in the same country
- cabré
- flying upside down with tail down
- cabrie
- a pronghorn
- cabriole
- curved furniture leg ending in a ball; exuberant dance or caper
- cabriolet
- two-wheeled carriage
- cacaesthesia
- morbid sensation
- cachaemic
- having diseased or poisoned blood
- cachalot
- sperm whale
- cachepot
- ornamental container used to conceal a flowerpot
- cachet
- a seal of approval; a mark of prestige
- cachexic
- having an unhealthy physical or mental state
- cachinnate
- to laugh loudly and inappropriately
- cacidrosis
- smelly sweat
- cacodemomania
- pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit
- cacodoxy
- bad doctrine or wrong opinion
- cacoepy
- poor or wrong pronunciation
- cacoethes
- insatiable desire or mania; bad habit
- cacogen
- antisocial person
- cacogenics
- study of racial degeneration
- cacography
- bad handwriting or spelling
- cacolet
- military mule litter
- cacology
- bad choice of words or faulty pronunciation
- caconym
- wrongly derived name
- cacotopia
- a state in which everything is as bad as it can be
- cacuminal
- retroflex, pertaining to a point, crown, top or peak
- cadastre
- record of ownership and value of property
- caddis
- worsted yarn
- cadge
- to beg or sponge from another
- cadilesker
- chief judge in the Turkish empire
- cadrans
- instrument by which a gem is adjusted while being cut
- caducary
- passing or expiring due to lapse or forfeit
- caduceator
- herald; messenger
- caducity
- being of a transitory or impermanent nature
- caecity
- blindness
- caenogenesis
- process of growth in individual not common in its species
- caesaropapism
- control of the church by a secular ruler
- caesious
- bluish or greyish green
- caespitose
- growing in clusters or tufts
- caesura
- natural breathing space in a line of verse
- cafard
- depression; the blues
- cagamosis
- unhappy marriage
- cairngorm
- yellow-brown quartz
- caisson
- vehicle or chest for holding ammunition
- caitiff
- base; cowardly; despicable
- cakewalk
- prancing stage dance with backward tilt
- calamanco
- satin twilled woollen fabric
- calamist
- piper; one who plays using a reed
- calamus
- quill or reed used as a pen
- calando
- slowing with gradually lowering volume
- calash
- light low-wheeled carriage with folding top
- calathiform
- cup-shaped
- calathus
- fruit basket carried on the head
- calcar
- furnace or oven for annealing
- calcariferous
- having or bearing spurs
- calcariform
- spur-shaped
- calceate
- to shoe
- calceiform
- shaped like a slipper
- calciferous
- bearing lime
- calciform
- pebble-shaped
- calcifuge
- plant that will not tolerate limy soil
- calcimine
- to whitewash
- calcine
- to burn so as to drive out water and carbon dioxide
- calcivorous
- feeding on or living in limestone
- calcographer
- one who draws with crayons or pastels
- calefacient
- warming; anything that warms
- calefactory
- a monastery sitting room
- calender
- machine with rollers which presses paper or cloth
- calenture
- tropical fever due to heat exposure
- calescence
- increase in heat
- calico
- plain white cotton
- calicular
- like a chalice or cup
- caliginous
- misty; dark; dim; obscure
- caliology
- study of bird's nests
- calipace
- turtle's carapace
- calix
- cup; chalice
- calk
- pointed piece on a horseshoe to prevent slipping
- callant
- boy; fellow
- calligram
- design using the letters of a word
- callipygous
- having beautiful buttocks
- callisteia
- awards given for beauty
- callithump
- boisterous and noisy parade
- callow
- unfledged; inexperienced
- calodemon
- good or beneficial spirit
- calorifacient
- producing or generating heat
- calorifics
- study of heat
- calorimeter
- instrument for measuring absorbed or evolved heat
- calotte
- Roman Catholic skullcap
- calque
- word or expression introduced into a language by literally translating it
- calumet
- ornamented ceremonial pipe
- calumniate
- to slander; misrepresent; besmirch
- calumny
- vile misrepresentation
- calvary
- experience of intense mental suffering
- calver
- to prepare fish while alive or freshly caught
- calvities
- baldness
- calvous
- bald
- calycine
- of, like or pertaining to a cup or calyx
- calyx
- outer covering of a flower
- camaca
- fine silk fabric
- camaïeu
- monotonous or uninteresting play or literary work
- caman
- shinty stick
- camarilla
- secret society of favourites of the king
- camber
- slight arch or convexity to a beam or deck of a ship
- cambist
- person skilled in the science of financial exchange
- cambistry
- science of international exchange
- cambium
- soft tissue found in trees
- cambresine
- fine linen fabric
- cambric
- fine thin white cotton or linen fabric
- cameline
- of, like or pertaining to camels
- camelious
- jocular term describing camel's hump
- camelopard
- giraffe
- camelot
- newspaper vendor
- camelry
- troops mounted on camels
- cameralism
- mercantilism designed to increase a ruler's power
- camerated
- divided into separate chambers
- cameriere
- waiter or valet
- camerlengo
- papal treasurer
- camisade
- night attack
- camisole
- straitjacket used for unruly prisoners
- camlet
- strong waterproof silk or wool fabric
- camorra
- group united for nefarious or traitorous ends
- camouflet
- mine used to destroy underground enemy emplacement
- campaniform
- bell-shaped
- campanile
- freestanding bell tower on church property
- campanology
- the art of bell ringing
- campanulate
- shaped like a bell
- campestral
- of, like or pertaining to the country; pertaining to level ground
- camsteary
- perverse; unruly
- canaille
- riffraff; proletarian; the mob; rabble
- canaliculate
- grooved or channelled lengthwise
- canard
- false rumour; hoax
- canary
- lively Renaissance courtly dance
- cancellarial
- of, like or pertaining to a chancellor
- cancellous
- having a porous structure
- cancerophobia
- fear of cancer
- cancriform
- shaped like a crab
- cancrine
- of, like or pertaining to crabs; palindromic
- cancrine
- palindromic
- cancrizans
- moving backwards; repeating a musical theme backwards
- candela
- unit of luminous intensity
- candent
- heated to whiteness
- candescent
- glowing hotly
- canephor
- sculpted figure carrying a basket on the head
- canescent
- hoary; tending to become white or grey
- caneva
- fancy woollen fabric made to resemble canvas
- cang
- wooden yoke hung around a criminal's neck
- canicular
- of, like or pertaining to the dog star
- canities
- whiteness of the hair
- cannel
- bevel on the edge of a chisel
- cannelure
- groove or fluting
- cannikin
- small can or drinking vessel
- cannonade
- an attack with heavy artillery
- cannonarchy
- government by superior firepower or by cannons
- cannular
- hollow or tube-shaped
- canoness
- woman living in a community under a religious rule
- canonicate
- the rank or office of a cannon
- canophilia
- love or fondness for dogs
- canopus
- vase for holding dead individual's inner organs
- canorous
- musical; singing; resonant
- canque
- Chinese cotton fabric
- cantabank
- strolling singer; second-rate musician
- cantative
- of, like or pertaining to singing
- cantatrice
- female singer
- canter
- person who makes hypocritical or affected statements
- canterbury
- stand with divisions for holding books or music
- canthus
- angle between eyelids at the corner of the eye
- canticle
- short holy song or sung prayer
- cantillate
- to chant or intone
- cantle
- corner, edge or slice of anything
- canton
- dexter chief region of a heraldic field
- cantonment
- small military town
- cantorial
- located on the north side of the choir in a church
- canzone
- instrumental work that is melodious or song-like
- caparison
- ornamented covering for a horse
- capeline
- surgical bandage for the stump of amputated limb; small iron skullcap
- capelocracy
- government by shopkeepers
- capias
- writ authorizing the arrest of a person
- capillaceous
- hairlike
- capilotade
- stewed meat dish
- capistrate
- hooded
- capitalism
- doctrine that private ownership and free markets should govern economies
- capitation
- numbering of individuals; head tax
- capitulary
- of, like or pertaining to a chapter of an organization
- caple
- a horse
- capnomancy
- divination by means of smoke
- caponier
- covered passage across a moat or ditch
- capreolate
- having or resembling tentacles
- capric
- having a goatlike smell; of, like or pertaining to goats
- caprifoliaceous
- of, like or pertaining to the honeysuckle plant
- capriform
- goatlike
- caprine
- of, like or pertaining to goats
- capriole
- leap and kick performed by a trained horse
- capripede
- satyr
- capstan
- upright device for winding in heavy ropes or cables
- captation
- attempt to obtain applause or recognition
- captious
- peevish; ready to take offence or find fault
- capuchin
- pointed hooded cloak worn by friars
- caracole
- spiral staircase; a half turn by a trained horse
- caravanserai
- inn or rest station for caravans
- carbasus
- lint or gauze
- carboniferous
- bearing carbon
- carboy
- large green bottle encased in wicker
- carbuncle
- architectural monstrosity or eyesore; red precious stone
- carcanet
- ornamental necklace, collar or headband
- carcelage
- prison fees
- carceral
- of, like or pertaining to prisons
- carcinology
- study of crabs and other crustaceans
- cardialgia
- heartburn
- cardimelech
- supposed vital force causing heart to work
- cardinal
- deep scarlet red colour
- cardinalitial
- of, like or pertaining to church cardinals
- cardiognost
- one who knows the workings of the heart
- cardiograph
- instrument for recording movements of the heart
- cardioid
- heart-shaped
- cardophagus
- donkey; something that eats thistles
- careen
- to turn a ship on its side in order to clean or repair it
- caret
- mark (^) used to note an omission
- carfax
- place where four roads meet; intersection of roads at center of a town
- carferal
- compound of carbon, iron and aluminum
- caricology
- study of sedges
- caricous
- of, like or pertaining to figs
- carinated
- shaped like the prow or keel of a ship
- cariniform
- keel-shaped
- carioca
- variation of the samba
- cariogenic
- causing dental cavities
- cariole
- light open carriage
- carious
- of, like or pertaining to dental cavities; decayed
- caritative
- generous; charitable
- caritive
- indicating lack of something
- carking
- imposing great hardship or strain
- carminative
- expelling, causing or relieving flatulence
- carnaptious
- bad-tempered; cantankerous
- carnassial
- specially adapted for eating flesh
- carneous
- fleshy; flesh-coloured; like or pertaining to flesh
- carnet
- customs or other permit; book of coupons
- carniferous
- bearing flesh; fleshy
- carnifex
- executioner
- carnification
- conversion into flesh
- carnificial
- of, like or pertaining to butchers or executioners
- carnificine
- place of execution; office of the executioner
- carnose
- fleshy; of or like flesh
- caroche
- stately carriage used on ceremonial occasions
- carpal
- of, like or pertaining to the wrist
- carphology
- fitful plucking movements as in delirium
- carpogenous
- producing or bearing fruit
- carpology
- study of fruit
- carpophagous
- fruit-eating
- carrack
- galleon
- carriwitchet
- a quip or quibble; a pun; a conundrum
- carronade
- short and light maritime cannon
- cartiliginous
- like or composed of cartilage
- cartomancy
- telling fortunes using playing cards
- cartophily
- the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
- cartouche
- oval- or scroll-shaped ornamentation on monument or tomb
- cartulary
- keeper of monastic records
- carucate
- as much land as a team of oxen ploughs in a season
- caruncle
- any fleshy growth on the body
- caryatid
- column shaped like female figure
- cascabel
- part behind the base-ring of a cannon
- caschrom
- spade with bent handle for tilling soil
- casefy
- to become or make cheese-like
- casemate
- bombproof chamber or armored compartment
- caseous
- cheese-like
- casern
- barrack or billet for soldiers
- cashmere
- soft twilled fabric made of fine goat's wool
- cashmerette
- soft imitation of cashmere
- casque
- helmet
- cassation
- annulment; overthrow of legal decision
- cassideous
- helmet-shaped
- cassimere
- closely woven twilled cloth of fine wool
- cassock
- close-fitting ankle-length clergyman's garment
- castaneous
- chestnut-coloured
- castellan
- governor of castle or fortification
- castellar
- of, like or pertaining to a castle
- castellated
- having battlements or turrets
- castophrenia
- belief that one's thoughts are being stolen
- castory
- brown colour; brown dye derived from beaver pelts
- castral
- of or belonging to the camp
- castrametation
- the art of designing a camp
- casualism
- the belief that chance governs all things
- casuistry
- plausible but flawed moral reasoning
- catabaptism
- belief in the wrongness of infant baptism
- catabasis
- the decline of a disease in a population
- catachresis
- incorrect usage of a word
- catachthonian
- underground; subterranean
- cataclasm
- disruption; breaking down
- catacoustics
- science of echoes or reflected sounds
- catadioptric
- employing both reflection and refraction of light
- catadromous
- migrating from fresh to salt water to spawn
- catafalque
- temporary tomb used in funerals and processions
- catalactic
- of, like or pertaining to exchange
- catalactics
- science of commercial exchange
- catalectic
- incomplete; missing final syllable
- catamite
- boy kept for homosexual purposes
- catamount
- any wild large species of cat
- catapedamania
- obsession with jumping from high places
- cataphract
- suit of mail; soldier in full armour; armoured ship
- cataphysical
- unnatural
- cataplasm
- plaster or poultice
- cataplexy
- condition feigning death used by animals
- catarolysis
- letting off steam by cursing
- catarrhine
- of, like or pertaining to Old World Monkeys
- catasta
- scaffold or stage for torture or selling slaves
- catastaltic
- astringent
- catastasis
- part of drama where action is at its height
- catastrophism
- belief in rapid geological and biological change
- catchpole
- constable; sheriff's officer
- catechectics
- the art of teaching by question and answer
- catechumen
- one undergoing instruction prior to conversion to Christianity
- catena
- series, chain or sequence
- catenarian
- of, like or pertaining to chains
- catenate
- to connect as in or by a chain
- catenular
- chain-like
- cateran
- a Scottish military irregular or brigand
- cathead
- projection near the bow of a ship to which anchor is secured
- cathedra
- chair or throne of office for a bishop or other high official
- cathetometer
- instrument for measuring short vertical distances
- cathexis
- investment of emotional energy in a thought or idea
- cathisma
- short hymn used as response
- cathisophobia
- fear of sitting
- catholicon
- cure-all; panacea
- catholicos
- primate of Armenian or Nestorian church
- catogenic
- formed from above
- catoptric
- of, like or pertaining to reflection or reflected light
- catoptromancy
- divination by examining mirror placed underwater
- caudal
- of, like or pertaining to the tail
- caudiform
- tail-like; tail-shaped
- caudle
- warm drink given to the sick
- caul
- net or similar covering for the head; afterbirth
- cauliform
- shaped like or resembling a stem
- cauligenous
- originating on the stem of a plant
- caulotaxy
- disposition and location of branches on a stem
- cauponate
- to engage in questionable trade for the sake of gain
- causative
- indicating causation by
- causerie
- chat or gossip; short and informal essay
- causidical
- of, like or pertaining to those who plead legal cases
- causimancy
- divination by means of fire
- cautelous
- treacherous; cunning; wily; cautious
- cavatina
- short operatic air
- cavernicolous
- cave-dwelling
- cavernulous
- full of small cavities or holes
- cavesson
- noseband for a horse
- cavicorn
- hollow-horned
- cavil
- to raise trivial and frivolous objections
- cebocephalic
- having a head shaped like a monkey's
- cecils
- minced meat made into balls and fried
- cecity
- blindness
- cecutiency
- a tendency toward blindness
- cedrate
- citron
- ceilometer
- instrument for measuring height of cloud ceiling above earth
- celadon
- pale green; pale green glazed pottery
- celation
- concealment
- celeste
- sky blue
- celidography
- descriptions of markings on the sun, a planet or moon
- cella
- inner chamber of a classical temple
- cellarer
- monastery official in charge of provisions
- cellaret
- case or drawer for holding wine bottles
- celliferous
- bearing cells
- celluliferous
- bearing little cells
- celsitude
- loftiness
- celt
- prehistoric bevelled-edge axe
- celtuce
- lettuce with an edible stalk
- cementatory
- having the quality of binding or uniting firmly
- cementum
- hard tissue covering roots of teeth
- cenacle
- room where the Last Supper was eaten
- cenacle
- meeting or dining room; group with common interests
- cenatory
- of, like or pertaining to supper
- cendal
- silk fabric resembling taffeta
- ceneromancy
- divination using ashes
- cenobite
- monk; member of religious group
- cenoby
- monastery or convent
- cenophobia
- fear of empty spaces
- cenote
- deep natural well
- censer
- vessel for burning incense in religious rituals
- centesimal
- counting or counted by hundreds or hundredths
- centner
- old unit of weight equal to about 110 pounds
- cento
- patchwork composition; collection of short quotations
- centrobaric
- of, like or pertaining to the centre of gravity
- centuple
- hundred-fold
- cep
- brown edible mushroom
- cepaceous
- smelling or tasting of garlic or onion
- cephalate
- having a head
- cephaligation
- placing of major organs and bodily functions in the head
- cephalonomancy
- divination by boiling an ass head
- cephalophore
- decapitated saint depicted with head tucked under arm
- cephalopod
- creature with tentacles or limbs attached to head
- cepivorous
- onion-eating
- ceraceous
- resembling wax
- ceramography
- historical description of types of pottery
- cerated
- covered with wax
- ceratoid
- shaped like a horn; horny
- ceraunograph
- instrument for recording thunder and lightning
- ceraunomancy
- divination using thunderbolts
- ceraunoscopy
- divination using lightning
- cerberic
- vigilant; dragon-like; like Cerberus
- cercopithecan
- of, like or pertaining to long-tailed monkeys
- cercus
- tail-like appendage
- cerebration
- unconscious action of the brain
- cerements
- clothes placed on a deceased individual
- cerge
- large wax candle burned before the altar
- ceriferous
- producing wax
- cernuous
- drooping or hanging
- cerography
- writing or printing on plates spread with wax
- ceromancy
- divination by means of wax drippings
- ceroscopy
- divination using wax
- certes
- in truth; certainly
- cerulean
- sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green
- cerumen
- ear wax
- ceruminiferous
- bearing or yielding ear wax
- cervelat
- smoked pork sausage
- cervicorn
- branching like antlers
- cervine
- of, pertaining to or resembling deer, elk or moose
- cervisial
- of, like or pertaining or pertaining to beer
- cesious
- bluish-grey
- cespitous
- composed of or resembling turf
- cessionary
- someone to which something is ceded
- cetacean
- type of aquatic mammal, including whales and dolphins
- cete
- collective name for a group of badgers
- ceticide
- killing of whales and other cetaceans
- cetology
- study of whales and dolphins
- cevesaile
- ornamental corner of a coat
- chabouk
- horse-whip
- chaconne
- Spanish baroque dance in triple time
- chad
- bits of paper punched out of paper tape or cards
- chaetiferous
- bearing bristles; bristly
- chaetophorous
- in need of a shave
- chaffer
- to bargain or haggle
- chain
- unit of length equal to 22 yards
- chaise
- light open carriage for one or two people
- chalastic
- laxative
- chalcography
- the art of engraving on copper or brass
- chalcotriptics
- art of taking rubbings from ornamental brasses
- chaldron
- old unit of dry volume equal to between 32 and 72 bushels
- challis
- soft lightweight silk, wool or cotton fabric
- chambranle
- decoration around a door frame or fireplace
- chambray
- lightweight fabric with coloured warp and white filling
- chambré
- wine kept at room temperature
- chamfer
- to channel or make furrows upon; to bevel
- chamfrain
- piece of leather to protect a war horse's face
- chamois
- cotton fabric made in imitation of chamois leather
- champaign
- level countryside or plain
- champerty
- illegal contract to finance a lawsuit for a percentage fee
- chancel
- part of church containing altar and seats for choir
- chancery
- church office dealing with legal matters and archives
- chandelle
- sharp upward turn in aviation
- chantage
- blackmail to prevent exposure of scandalous facts
- chanter
- part of bagpipes on which the melody is played
- chanticleer
- a rooster
- chantry
- chapel or altar built for prayers for its benefactor's soul
- chaology
- the study of chaos or chaos theory
- chaomancy
- divination by examining phenomena of the air
- chapbook
- small independently produced popular book
- chaplet
- circlet or wreath for the head; short string of prayer beads
- chaptalize
- to add extra sugar to wine to raise alcohol content
- charabanc
- open tourist coach
- characterology
- study of development of character
- charientism
- expression of an unpleasant thing in an agreeable manner; euphemism
- charivari
- cacophonous mock-serenade performed for wedding
- chark
- to burn wood to charcoal
- Charleston
- fast-paced 1920s dance characterized by energetic kicking
- charmante
- silk fabric with a crepe back
- charmeuse
- soft and satiny silk fabric
- charmeuse
- soft satiny material
- charnel
- room where corpses are placed
- charpie
- shredded lint used to dress wounds
- chartaceous
- papery
- charterhouse
- Carthusian monastic building
- chartreuse
- yellow-green colour
- chary
- discreetly cautious or sparing
- chasmogamy
- opening of a flower in order to be fertilized
- chasmophile
- lover of nooks and crannies
- chasmophilous
- fond of nooks, crevices and crannies
- chasseur
- hunter; liveried hotel attendant
- chasuble
- sleeveless ecclesiastical garment
- chatelaine
- ring attached to belt for carrying keys
- chatelaine
- female castle owner, manager or caretaker
- chaton
- setting or stone of a finger-ring
- chatoyant
- with a changing lustre; iridescent
- chauffer
- small furnace
- chaussures
- general name for boots and shoes; footwear
- chawdron
- entrails
- cheiloplasty
- plastic surgery on the lip
- cheiloproclitic
- attracted to lips
- cheliferous
- bearing pincers or claws
- cheliform
- shaped like a pincer
- chelonian
- of, like or pertaining to tortoises or turtles
- chenille
- velvety silk, wool or cotton fabric with protruding pile
- chernozem
- black earth typically found in cool grassland climates
- chersonese
- peninsula
- chesil
- gravel
- chessel
- cheese-mould
- chevalet
- bridge of a stringed instrument
- chevaline
- horse meat
- chevaster
- double bandage for supporting chin in case of broken jaw
- chevelure
- nebulous part of a comet
- cheverel
- soft; flexible kidskin leather
- chevet
- east end of a church
- cheville
- unnecessary word used to extend line of verse
- cheviot
- coarse heavy plain or twilled wool or worsted
- chevisance
- resource; achievement; gain
- chevon
- goat flesh
- chevrotain
- small deer-like mammal
- chiaroscuro
- juxtaposition of light and shade in artwork or literature
- chiasmus
- contrast by parallelism in reverse order
- chicanery
- clever but misleading talk; deception
- chiffon
- sheer silk fabric
- chiffonier
- chest of drawers
- chignon
- knot or roll of hair worn at the back of the head
- chilgoza
- edible pine seed
- chiliad
- one thousand
- chiliahedron
- one-thousand sided solid figure
- chiliarchy
- government by one thousand people
- chiliasm
- belief that Jesus will reign on Earth for a thousand years
- chiliastic
- millenarian
- chiliomb
- sacrifice of one thousand animals
- chilopod
- multi-legged insect
- chimere
- loose sleeveless robes worn by Anglican bishops
- chimerical
- imaginary; fanciful
- chiminage
- toll paid for going through a forest
- chinamania
- obsession with collecting china
- chine
- the intersection of the middle and sides of a boat
- chine
- backbone and adjoining flesh of an animal
- chino
- strong twilled cotton cloth
- chintz
- glazed printed cotton fabric
- chionablepsia
- snow blindness
- chiral
- of, like or pertaining to the hand or handedness
- chirality
- chemical property of structural handedness
- chirapsia
- massage
- chirk
- cheer
- chirm
- collective term for goldfinches
- chirocosmetics
- beautifying the hands; art of manicure
- chirocracy
- government by physical force
- chirognomy
- divination by studying the hands
- chirograph
- written or signed document
- chirography
- study of handwriting or penmanship
- chirogymnast
- finger exercise machine for pianists
- chirology
- study of the hands
- chiromancy
- divination by means of palmistry
- chironomy
- gesticulation or mime
- chiropody
- medical science of feet
- chiropractic
- treatment of disorders of the locomotor system and spinal column
- chiropterophilous
- pollinated or frequented by bats
- chirosophy
- knowledge of palm-reading
- chirospasm
- writer's cramp
- chirotony
- election by a show of hands
- chlamydate
- having a mantle or hood
- chlamys
- horseman's loose cloak
- chlorochrous
- green-coloured
- chlorometer
- instrument for measuring amount of chlorine in a solution
- choanoid
- shaped like a funnel
- chock
- metal casting with curved arms for passing ropes for mooring ship
- cholelithiasis
- production of gall stones
- choliamb
- verse with an iambus in the fifth place and a spondee in the sixth
- cholic
- of, like or pertaining to bile
- choller
- double chin
- chololith
- gall stone
- chômage
- work stoppage or slump
- chondrogenesis
- production of cartilage
- chondroid
- like or resembling cartilage
- choragus
- leader of a choir or organizer of musical festivals
- chordee
- painful, downward-curving erection of the penis
- choreomania
- dancing mania or frenzy
- chorepiscopal
- of, like or pertaining to an early local bishop
- choreutic
- of, like or pertaining to a chorus
- chorisis
- multiplication of parts by branching or splitting
- chorizont
- one who disputes identity of authorship
- chorographer
- one who maps or describes a region
- chorology
- science of the geographic description of anything
- chorometry
- land surveying
- chouse
- to cheat; to swindle
- chrematistic
- of, like or pertaining to the pursuit of wealth or to business
- chrematistics
- the study of wealth; political economy
- chrematophobia
- fear of money
- chreotechnics
- useful or practical trades or arts
- chrestomathic
- of, like or pertaining to useful knowledge
- chrestomathy
- anthology of passages used in learning languages
- chrism
- consecrated or holy oil
- chrismation
- sacrament of baptism in Eastern churches
- chrismatory
- vessel for holding holy oil
- chrisom
- white robe put on newly baptised child
- chrisomalis
- the loser who wrote this damn list
- Christolatry
- worship of Christ
- christophany
- appearance of Christ to men
- chromatism
- presence of abnormal coloration
- chromatocracy
- government by rulers of a particular skin colour
- chromatograph
- instrument for performing chromatographic separations
- chromatoptometer
- instrument measuring eyes' sensitivity to colour
- chromophilous
- staining easily
- chronobiology
- study of biological rhythms
- chronogram
- inscription whose letters form a Roman numeral date
- chronograph
- instrument for recording the moment of an event
- chronomancy
- divination by means of time
- chronopher
- electrical instrument for transmitting time signals
- chronoscope
- instrument for measuring very short time intervals
- chronostichon
- chronogrammatic line or stanza
- chronosynchronicity
- presentation of all stages of a person's life in a single piece of art
- chryselephantine
- inlaid with gold and ivory
- chrysoaristocracy
- government by the wealthy; plutocracy
- chrysochlorous
- greenish-gold
- chrysocracy
- government by the wealthy; plutocracy
- chrysography
- writing in gold or silver letters
- chrysology
- study of precious metals
- chrysophilist
- gold-lover
- chrysopoetics
- transmutation of substances into gold
- chrystocrene
- rock formation resembling glacier
- chthonian
- of, like or pertaining to the earth or the underworld
- chthonophagia
- eating dirt
- churching
- church ceremony given to women after childbirth
- churchism
- devotion to church rules over religious precepts
- chyle
- milky fluid secreted into blood by small intestine
- chyliferous
- bearing chyle
- chyme
- partially digested food
- chymiferous
- bearing chyme
- chypre
- mixture of resins used in making perfume
- cibarious
- of, like or pertaining to food; useful for food
- cibation
- taking food; feeding
- cibophobia
- fear of or distaste for food
- ciborium
- freestanding canopy to cover altar; vessel for holding eucharistic bread
- cicatrization
- scarification; production of marks upon
- cicerone
- guide; tour guide
- cicisbeo
- male companion of a married woman
- ciconine
- of, like or pertaining to storks
- cienega
- marsh or swamp
- cilice
- haircloth shirt worn as penance
- cillosis
- spasm or twitch in the upper eyelid
- cimelia
- treasures in storage
- cimeliarch
- church vestry or treasury
- cimex
- bedbug
- cimicide
- substance used to kill bed-bugs
- cimier
- crest of helmet; removable heraldic device or favour of courtly love
- cincture
- to gird or surround; belt worn around ecclesiastical vestment
- cineast
- one who takes artistic interest in motion pictures
- cinerarium
- container for cremated ashes
- cinerary
- of, like or pertaining to ashes
- cinerious
- ashen; ash-grey
- cingular
- shaped like a girdle or ring
- cingulum
- girdle or girdle-like structure; priest's belt
- cinnabar
- red crystalline mercuric sulfide pigment; deep red or scarlet colour
- cinque-pace
- lively medieval dance with five steps
- ciplinarian
- one who teaches disorder
- cipolin
- white marble streaked with green
- cippus
- small column used to mark burial location
- cippus
- the stocks
- circa
- about; around
- circadian
- occurring every 24 hours
- circinate
- ring-shaped; rolled inwards; spiralling
- circiter
- about; around
- circuity
- motion in a roundabout course
- circumambagious
- roundabout in speech
- circumambient
- going round about; encompassing
- circumaviate
- to fly around
- circumbendibus
- a roundabout way or expression
- circumcrescent
- growing around; above or over
- circumduct
- to cause to revolve around an imaginary axis
- circumforaneous
- wandering about as from market to market
- circumforentor
- surveyor's instrument used to measure angles
- circumfulgent
- shining about or around
- circumfuse
- to pour around or about
- circumincession
- the reciprocal existence of three parts of the Trinity in each other
- circumjacent
- bordering on every side
- circumlittoral
- around or near the shore
- circumpose
- to place around
- circumvallate
- to surround with a rampart or fortification
- circumvolution
- anything winding or sinuous
- cire
- fabric with a glazed finish
- cirrate
- having tendrils
- cirriped
- barnacle or other parasitic crustacean
- ciselure
- the art of chasing metal
- cismarine
- on this or the near side of the ocean
- cismontane
- on this or the near side of the mountains
- cispontine
- on this or the near side of a bridge
- cist
- tomb consisting of stone chest covered with stone slabs
- cisvestism
- wearing strange or inappropriate clothes
- cithara
- ancient Greek musical instrument like a lyre
- citigrade
- moving quickly
- citreous
- lemon-coloured; lemony
- citrine
- dark greenish-yellow
- cittosis
- abnormal desire for strange foods
- cladistics
- taxonomic theory distinguishing by common ancestor
- cladogenesis
- origin and evolution as if branching from common ancestor
- cladoptosis
- annual shedding of twigs and branches
- cladose
- branching; branched
- clamancy
- urgency
- clamant
- loud; insistent; urgent
- clangor
- loud ringing noise or clang
- claque
- group of hired applauders or sycophants
- clarence
- four-wheeled carriage
- clarigate
- to declare war formally
- classis
- a group; governing body of Reformed churches
- clastic
- able to be disassembled into its component parts
- clathrate
- shaped like a net or lattice
- clathrose
- marked with latticed lines or grooves
- claudent
- closing; ending; confining
- claudication
- limpness; cramp-like pain
- claustral
- cloistral; secluded; narrow-minded
- claustration
- the act of shutting in a cloister
- claustrophobia
- fear of closed spaces
- clavate
- club-shaped
- claver
- gossip
- claviature
- keyboard
- clavichord
- old keyboard stringed instrument
- claviform
- in the shape of a club
- clavigerous
- club-bearing
- clavigerous
- keeping keys
- clavis
- key; glossary; index; legend
- cledonism
- circumlocution used to avoid speaking unlucky words
- cleg
- horse-fly
- cleidomancy
- divination using keys
- cleithral
- completely roofed over
- clem
- to starve
- clepe
- to name; to call
- clepsydra
- instrument which measures time by trickling water
- clerestory
- upper storey of a church; windows near the roof of a building
- clerihew
- jingle summing up person's life in two couplets
- clerisy
- scholars and educated people as a class
- cleromancy
- divination using dice
- cleronomy
- inheritance
- clevis
- U-shaped fastener with pin used to close the open end
- clew
- corner of sail with hole to attach ropes
- clicket
- a latch
- clientage
- the whole number of one's clients
- climacophobia
- fear of falling down stairs
- climacteric
- critical time in a person's life; any critical turning point
- climatarchic
- presiding over a climate or region of the earth
- clinamen
- inclination; bias; prejudice
- clinkstone
- type of igneous rock that rings when struck
- clinology
- study of aging or individual decline after maturity
- clinomania
- excessive desire to stay in bed
- clinometer
- instrument used to measure slopes and elevations
- clinophilia
- passion for beds
- clinophobia
- fear of staying in bed
- clinquant
- tinselly; glittering
- cliometrics
- the application of statistics in economic history
- clithridiate
- shaped like a keyhole
- clitter
- to make a shrill rattling noise
- clivose
- hilly; steep
- cloaca
- sewer; toilet; cesspool of moral filth
- clochard
- tramp; vagrant; hobo
- cloison
- partition; dividing band
- clonic
- spasmodic; occasional; irregular
- cloque
- fabric with an embossed design
- cloture
- means of ending legislative debate
- clou
- main point of interest; dominant idea
- clough
- ravine; trench; gully
- clove
- old weight of seven to ten pounds for wool or cheese
- clowder
- collective term for cats
- clupeoid
- like or resembling a herring
- clypeate
- shaped like a buckler
- clysmian
- of, like or pertaining to or caused by flood
- clyster
- enema
- cnemial
- of, like, or pertaining to the tibia (shin-bone)
- cnemis
- shin bone
- cnicnode
- point where tangents form a cone of the second order
- cnidarian
- of, like, or pertaining to invertebrates such as jellyfish and anemones
- coacervate
- to heap; to cause to mass together
- coadjument
- mutual assistance
- coadjutor
- bishop assisting a diocesan bishop and having the right of succession
- coadunate
- to unite; to combine
- coagment
- to join or cement together
- coalize
- to bring into coalition
- coaming
- raised edge around ship's hatches to keep water out
- coaptation
- joining or fitting together
- coarctation
- constriction
- cobaltiferous
- bearing cobalt
- coburg
- thin single-twilled worsted fabric with cotton or silk
- cocarde
- emblem on airplane's wing indicating its nationality
- cocciferous
- bearing or yielding berries
- coccineous
- bright red
- cochlear
- anything spiral-shaped; twisted spirally
- cockalorum
- boastful and self-important person
- cockamamie
- ridiculous; incredible
- cocker
- to pamper; to indulge
- cocket
- official shipping seal; customs clearance form
- cockloft
- small room just under the roof
- cockshy
- object of criticism or ridicule
- cocotte
- prostitute; a flirt or tease
- coctile
- baked; hardened by fire
- codicil
- supplement to a will
- codicology
- study of manuscripts
- codling
- unripe apple
- codon
- mouth of a trumpet or bell
- codswallop
- something utterly senseless; nonsense
- coehorn
- small mortar for throwing grenades
- coeliac
- of, like or pertaining to the abdomen
- coelom
- body cavity; abdomen
- coemption
- purchase of the entire supply of a commodity
- coenaculous
- fond of dining; relishing food; especially suppers
- coenaesthesis
- sensation
- coercimeter
- instrument for measuring coercive force
- coetaneous
- of the same age; coeval
- coeval
- of the same length of time; having the same duration
- cofferdam
- narrow vacant space between two bulkheads of a ship
- coffle
- gang of slaves tied together
- coffret
- small coffer; presentation box
- cog
- single-masted, square-sailed ship with raised stern
- cogent
- convincing; compelling
- coggage
- paper
- cogitabund
- meditative; engaged in deep thought
- cognomen
- family name
- cohibit
- to restrain
- cohobate
- to redistill
- cohyponym
- word which is one of multiple hyponyms of another word
- coign
- angle; viewpoint
- coinstantaneous
- simultaneous; at the same time
- col
- depression or pass in a mountain range
- colation
- filtration
- coleopterology
- study of beetles and weevils
- coliform
- resembling or shaped like a sieve
- collectanea
- collection of passages; miscellany
- collectic
- adhesive; sticky
- collectivism
- doctrine of communal control of means of production
- colleger
- mortar-board
- collegialism
- theory that church is independent from the state
- colliform
- shaped like or resembling a neck
- colligation
- bringing or binding together; conjunction
- collimation
- making parallel; adjusting to put into line
- colliquation
- the process of melting or wasting away
- collocation
- the placing of things together
- collogue
- to converse confidentially; to conspire with
- colloid
- jelly-like
- colloquy
- speaking together; mutual discourse
- colluctation
- strife; opposition
- collutory
- mouthwash
- colluvies
- accumulated filth; foul discharge
- collyrium
- eye lotion or ointment
- colonnade
- row of evenly spaced column or trees
- colonoscope
- instrument for viewing the colon
- colophon
- publisher's emblem or inscription in a book
- colorimeter
- instrument for measuring and determining color
- colostrum
- mother's first milk
- colporteur
- peddler of religious tracts and books
- colposcope
- instrument for viewing the neck of the uterus
- colubriform
- shaped like a snake
- colubrine
- like a snake; cunning; of, like or pertaining to snakes
- columbaceous
- of, like or pertaining to doves or pigeons
- columbarium
- a structure of vaults lined with recesses
- columbine
- of or like a dove; dove-coloured
- columella
- fleshy part of nose that separates nostrils
- colure
- celestial circle that intersects another at the poles
- colytic
- restraining; preventative
- comate
- hairy
- comburent
- burning; causing combustion
- comburivorous
- consuming by fire
- comedogenic
- causing blackheads
- comephorous
- bearing or having hair; hairy
- cometology
- study of comets
- comiphorous
- tufted
- comitative
- indicating accompaniment
- comitatus
- band of warriors who escort a prince; a county or shire
- comity
- courteousness; civility
- commatic
- divided into short lines; divided with commas
- commination
- threatening; denunciation
- comminute
- to reduce or break into minute particles
- commis
- assistant; deputy; apprentice
- commissure
- joint; joining surface
- commonalty
- common people; the general populace
- commonition
- warning; cautioning
- commorant
- resident of an institution
- commorient
- dying together
- commove
- to excite; to put into motion; to disturb
- comose
- having tufts of hair; tufted; hairy
- compaginate
- to join; to connect
- companionway
- stairs from upper deck of ship to lower deck
- compaternity
- spiritual relationship between child's parents and godparents
- compeer
- one who is equal in rank; a companion
- compellation
- the act of addressing someone
- compellative
- indicating address or appellation; vocative
- compendious
- concise but comprehensive
- comper
- one who habitually enters many competitions
- compital
- of, like or pertaining to crossroads
- complaisant
- wishing to please others; obliging
- complanate
- level
- complect
- to embrace; to interweave
- complicant
- overlapping
- compline
- prayer service held just before bedtime
- complot
- to plot or conspire
- comport
- a dish with a stemmed base for serving desserts
- compossible
- possible in coexistence with something else
- compotation
- an act of carousing in company
- comprecation
- prayer meeting
- compunction
- regret; remorse
- compurgation
- clearing an accused person by means of oaths
- compusion
- wrinkling one's face
- comstockery
- censorship of lewd and salacious material
- conation
- mental effort towards a goal, desire, purpose
- conative
- of, like or pertaining to purposeful action or desire
- conatus
- a natural impulse or tendency
- concameration
- vaulting
- concelebrate
- to jointly recite the canon of the Eucharist in unison with others
- concent
- a harmony or concord of sounds or voices
- conceptualism
- theory that universal truths exist as mental concepts
- concetto
- ingenious expression; witticism
- conchiferous
- bearing a shell
- conchiform
- shaped like a shell
- conchology
- study of shells
- conchomancy
- divination using shells
- conchyliferous
- bearing a shell
- conciliabule
- secret meeting of conspirators
- concinnity
- harmony; congruity; elegance
- concipient
- conceiving
- concision
- schism; separation; division
- conclamation
- a shout of many voices together
- concolorate
- having the same colour on both sides
- concomitant
- accompanying
- concordat
- agreement between the pope and a secular government
- concresce
- to grow together; coalesce
- concrew
- to grow together
- concubitant
- of a suitable age for marriage
- concupiscence
- strong desire, appetite or lust
- condign
- well-deserved; fitting; appropriate
- confabulate
- to chat; to invent past experiences
- confelicitous
- taking pleasure in others' happiness
- conferva
- green algae that floats on surface of stagnant water
- confirmand
- candidate for religious confirmation
- confiteor
- prayer of confession of sins
- conflate
- blend or fuse together
- conformative
- indicating resemblance; similative
- confute
- to disprove or overcome through argument
- congee
- permission to depart; dismissal; discharge
- congelation
- act of freezing something into a solid state
- congener
- something of the same kind or nature
- congeries
- aggregation; collection
- congiary
- gift distributed amongst the people or soldiers
- conglobate
- shaped like a small ball or globe
- conglobe
- to gather together into a globe or round mass
- conglutinate
- to glue or join together
- coniaker
- coin counterfeiter
- coniferous
- bearing cones
- conification
- making conical or pyramidal in shape
- connate
- congenitally or firmly united
- connubial
- of, like or pertaining to marriage
- connumerate
- to count together
- consectary
- deduction; conclusion or corollary; consequent
- consecution
- logical sequence or progression of an argument
- consenescence
- state of general decay
- consentaneous
- accordant or agreeable; consistent
- consentient
- unanimous; of one accord
- consilience
- concurrence; coincidence
- consilient
- having common inferences drawn from different premises
- consistory
- a solemn assembly or council; a church tribunal
- consociate
- to ally or associate
- conspecies
- different species that are part of the same genus
- conspectus
- comprehensive survey; synopsis; summary
- conspue
- to despise; to abhor; to loathe
- conspurcation
- defilement
- constate
- to assert
- constative
- capable of being true or false
- constellate
- to cluster; to compel by stellar influence
- constringe
- to draw together; to cause to contract or shrink
- constructivism
- belief that knowledge and reality do not have an objective value
- constuprate
- to ravish
- consuetude
- custom; familiarity
- consuetudinary
- book of customs, traditions and principles
- consultor
- advisor to a Catholic bishop
- contabescent
- wasting away; atrophied
- conteck
- strife
- contect
- to cover or overlay
- contemn
- to despise or scorn
- contemnor
- one found guilty of contempt of court
- contemper
- to blend together; to adapt
- contenement
- property necessary to maintain one's station
- contesseration
- forming a union by breaking a tablet as token
- conticent
- silent
- contignation
- joining together of timber
- contline
- space between casks or strands of rope
- contorniate
- having a groove around the edge
- contorno
- contour or outline
- contractile
- having the power or property of contracting
- contradistinguish
- to distinguish by contrasting qualities
- contrahent
- a contracting party
- contrail
- condensation trail
- contranatant
- swimming upstream
- contraplex
- having messages passing both ways simultaneously
- contraposition
- opposition; contrast
- contrariant
- opposed or acting contrary to; one who is opposed to something
- contraterrene
- opposite in character to earthly or terrestrial
- contravallation
- fortification built around besieged place
- contredanse
- folk dance in which two lines of couples face each other
- contretemps
- embarrassing occurrence; mishap
- contrist
- to sadden
- contriturate
- to pulverize
- contubernal
- living together in the same tent; cohabiting
- contumacious
- stubborn; obstinate; opposing lawful authority
- contumely
- insolence; a scornful insult
- contumulation
- lying in the same tomb as another
- conurbation
- city surrounded by many urban areas
- convenances
- what is suitable or proper; the required proprieties
- conventicle
- secret or illegal church assembly
- convicinity
- neighbourhood
- convolve
- to roll together
- copacetic
- very satisfactory; fine
- coparcenary
- joint heirship or ownership
- cophosis
- deafness
- coprolalia
- pathological use of obscene language
- coprolith
- ball of hardened feces
- coprology
- study of pornography
- copromania
- obsession with feces
- coprophagous
- eating feces
- coprophemia
- obscene language
- coprophilia
- abnormal love or fondness for feces
- coprostatis
- constipation
- copyhold
- land tenure dependent on will of the lord of the manor
- coquelicot
- brilliant red; poppy red
- coquillage
- shell-like decoration
- coracoid
- shaped like a crow's beak
- coralliferous
- bearing coral
- coralligenous
- producing coral
- coram
- in the presence of; before
- corban
- offering to God in fulfilment of a vow
- corbeau
- blackish green
- corbeil
- basket filled with earth used as a missile
- corbel
- bracket or projection from the face of a wall
- corbiculate
- like a small basket
- cordage
- ropes in the rigging of a ship
- cordate
- heart-shaped
- cordiform
- heart-shaped
- cordovan
- soft goatskin leather
- cordwainer
- shoemaker
- corf
- miner's basket, trolley or wagon
- coriaceous
- having a leathery appearance; consisting, of, like or pertaining to leather
- corium
- skin layer
- corm
- swollen subterranean part of a stem
- cornet
- military rank of horn-bearer or standard-bearer
- cornice
- moulding at the junction of ceiling and walls
- corniculate
- horn-shaped; horned
- cornific
- producing or forming horns
- corniform
- shaped like a horn
- cornigerous
- horned
- cornuted
- cuckolded
- cornuto
- cuckolder
- coronach
- funeral dirge
- coronagraph
- instrument for viewing the corona of the sun
- coronoid
- shaped like a beak
- corpocracy
- government by corporate bureaucrats
- corporal
- white cloth on which Communion bread and wine are placed
- corposant
- St. Elmo's fire or similar electrical discharge
- corrade
- to wear away through the action of loose solids
- correption
- shortening in pronunciation
- corrigendum
- something which requires correction
- corrivate
- to cause to flow together
- corrody
- right of lord to demand free lodging from vassal
- corsetier
- corset maker
- cortege
- train of attendants; procession
- cortinate
- like a cobweb
- coruscate
- to sparkle; to throw off flashes of light
- corvette
- highly manoeuvrable armed escort ship
- corviform
- shaped like a crow
- corvine
- crow-like; of, like or pertaining to crows or ravens
- corybantic
- wildly excited; frenzied
- coryphaeus
- spokesman; leader of a chorus
- coscinomancy
- divination using a sieve and a pair of shears
- cosher
- to live on dependents
- cosmarchy
- rulership over the entire world, esp. by the devil
- cosmetology
- study of cosmetics
- cosmism
- belief that the cosmos is a self-existing whole
- cosmocrat
- ruler of the world
- cosmogenic
- produced by interaction of cosmic rays with earth's surface
- cosmogony
- theory of the origin of the universe
- cosmolatry
- worship of the world
- cosmoplastic
- moulding or shaping the universe
- cosmorama
- a view of different parts of the world
- cosmosophy
- knowledge of the cosmos
- cosmotellurian
- of, like or pertaining to both heaven and earth
- cosmotheism
- the belief that identifies God with the cosmos
- cosset
- to fondle or pamper
- costal
- of, like or pertaining to the ribs
- costellate
- ribbed
- costive
- affected with or causing constipation
- coteau
- uplands; higher ground of a region
- cotehardie
- medieval long close-fitting garment with tight sleeves
- coterie
- a social or literary circle
- cothurnal
- of, like or pertaining to tragedy
- coticular
- of, like or pertaining to whetstones
- cotillion
- elaborate ballroom dance with frequent changes of partner
- cotquean
- man who does women's work
- cottar
- medieval peasant inhabiting a cottage
- cottonocracy
- government by those involved in the cotton trade
- cotyliform
- disc-shaped with a raised rim
- couchant
- in heraldry, an animal lying on its belly with head lifted
- couchee
- evening reception
- coulée
- steep and dry gully
- couloir
- gully
- coulombmeter
- instrument for measuring electric charge
- coulometer
- instrument measuring amount of substance released in electrolysis
- coulter
- iron cutter in front of a ploughshare
- countenance
- approve of; condone; encourage
- counterblast
- a defiant pronouncement or denunciation
- counterfoil
- part of ticket or cheque retained by giver
- countermand
- to revoke an order by a contrary order
- counterphobic
- seeking out situation that is feared
- counterscarp
- narrow earth band on the outer wall of a defensive ditch
- coupe
- four-wheeled closed horse-drawn carriage
- courante
- quick Italian baroque dance involving running steps
- courgette
- zucchini
- couvade
- symptoms of pregnancy suffered by the father
- couveuse
- incubator for babies
- covinous
- fraudulent
- cowcat
- person whose function is to occupy space
- coxalgia
- hip pain
- coxcomb
- foolishly vain or conceited man
- cozen
- to coax or deceive by trickery
- crachoir
- spittoon
- crackjaw
- hard to pronounce
- crambo
- game in which rhyme must be found for given word
- cramoisy
- crimson
- crampon
- boot-spike for rock and ice climbing
- craniometer
- instrument for measuring the skull
- crapehanger
- pessimist
- crapulent
- physically ill through overeating or overdrinking
- craquelure
- fine cracking that appears in old paintings
- crash
- coarse drapery and towelling fabric
- crasis
- blending; melding two vowels into a diphthong
- crassilingual
- having a thick tongue
- crassitude
- state of being coarse, gross or crass
- crateriform
- cup-shaped
- cratometer
- instrument for measuring power of magnification
- creancer
- guardian or mentor
- creant
- creating; formative
- creatic
- of, like or pertaining to flesh
- creatophagous
- carnivorous; flesh-eating
- crebrous
- frequent
- credal
- of, like or pertaining to a creed
- credence
- small table for holding sacred vessels
- credenda
- things to be believed
- credenza
- credence table or shelf; a sideboard
- credo
- concise statement of doctrine; section of Mass followed by offertory
- cremaillere
- zigzag line of fortification
- cremaster
- muscle by which the testicles are suspended
- cremnophobia
- fear of cliffs and precipices
- crenate
- scalloped
- crenel
- open space on a parapet used for launching projectiles at enemies
- crenellated
- notched; having battlements
- crenitic
- of, like or pertaining to mineral springs
- creophagous
- flesh-eating; carnivorous
- crepance
- sore on a horse's hind ankle-joint
- crepe
- light crinkled fabric
- crepehanger
- pessimist; gloomy person
- crepitate
- to crackle; to snap; to rattle
- crepitus
- fart
- crepon
- heavy crepe fabric with lengthwise crinkles
- crepuscular
- of, like or pertaining to twilight
- crescive
- growing; increasing
- crescograph
- instrument for measuring the growth of plants
- cresset
- iron basket for burning oil to provide light
- cretaceous
- of or resembling chalk; of a whitish colour
- cretify
- to change into calcium or lime; to fossilize
- cretonne
- heavy cotton or linen cloth
- crewel
- fine worsted yarn used in tapestry
- criant
- garish; discordantly coloured
- cribble
- to decorate wood or metal with small dots or punctures
- cribration
- sifting
- cribriform
- shaped like a sieve
- cribrous
- perforated or punctured like a sieve
- cricoid
- ring-shaped
- criminogenic
- causing crime
- criminology
- study of crime; criminals
- crin
- horsehair fabric
- crinal
- of or related to the hair
- cringle
- loop at corner of sail to which a line is attached
- crinigerous
- hairy
- crinoline
- stiff flax or cotton fabric
- criophore
- sculpture of a man carrying a ram
- crista
- ridge or fold resembling a crest
- crithomancy
- divination by strewing meal over sacrifices
- criticaster
- inferior or petty critic
- critomancy
- divination using viands and cakes
- croceate
- saffron-coloured
- croche
- knob at top of a deer's horn
- cromlech
- prehistoric stone circle
- cromnyomancy
- divination using onions
- croquinole
- curling of one's hair with curling iron
- crosier
- pastoral staff or crook held by bishop or abbot
- crosslet
- small cross with crossed arms used as heraldic bearing
- crosstrees
- horizontal crosspieces at a masthead used to support ship's mast
- crotal
- small spherical bell
- crotaline
- of, like or pertaining to rattlesnakes
- croze
- groove in the staves of a cask
- crubeen
- term for pig's feet as food
- cruciferous
- bearing a cross
- cruciform
- cross-shaped
- cruentation
- leaking or oozing of blood from dead body
- cruet
- vessel used in religious ceremonies, especially to hold the Eucharist
- cruive
- pen or sty for animals
- crumenal
- a purse
- crupper
- strap of saddle that passes beneath horse's tail; armour for horse's flanks
- crural
- of or belonging to the leg
- cruset
- goldsmith's crucible
- crwth
- Welsh six-stringed instrument played with a bow
- cryobiology
- study of life under cold conditions
- cryometer
- instrument for measuring low temperatures
- cryoscope
- instrument for determining freezing points of substances
- cryptadia
- things to be kept hidden
- cryptaesthetic
- of, like or pertaining to supranormal perception
- cryptarchy
- secret rulership
- cryptodynamic
- having secret or hidden power
- cryptogenic
- of unknown origin
- cryptonym
- secret name
- cryptotype
- an implicit and specific rule of language use
- cryptous
- of, like or pertaining to crypts
- crystallogenesis
- production of crystals
- crystallomancy
- divination by means of clear objects
- crystalomancy
- divination using a crystal globe
- cteniform
- comb-shaped
- ctetology
- study of the inheritance of acquired characteristics
- cubation
- act of lying down or reclining
- cubica
- fine unglazed fabric resembling shalloon
- cubiform
- shaped like a cube
- cubomancy
- divination by throwing dice
- cuculine
- of, like or pertaining to cuckoos
- cucullate
- hooded; hood-shaped
- cucumiform
- cucumber-shaped
- cucurbit
- chemical vessel used in a still or alembic
- cucurbitaceous
- of, like or pertaining to gourds
- cuddy
- right of a lord to entertainment from a tenant
- culet
- flat back or base of a gemstone
- culiciform
- like or resembling a mosquito
- culicino
- mark left on a tablecloth by a wet glass
- cullet
- waste glass which is melted into new objects
- cullion
- mean or base person; rascal
- culm
- stem of grass or sedge
- culmen
- highest point
- culmiferous
- bearing coal-dust
- cultch
- flooring of an oyster-bed; rubbish
- cultriform
- knife-shaped
- cultus
- religious ritual; a cult
- culver
- dove or pigeon
- culverin
- lightweight, portal, long-barrelled cannon
- culvertage
- degradation of a peasant to the position of serf
- cumbent
- lying down; reclining
- cumuliform
- shaped like a heap
- cumulose
- containing or consisting of small heaps
- cunabula
- cradle
- cunctation
- delay; procrastination
- cuneate
- wedge-shaped
- cuneiform
- shaped like a wedge
- cuniculous
- full of holes and tunnels; full of rabbits
- cupel
- goldsmith's vessel for assaying metal
- cupola
- spherical vault or concave ceiling
- cupriferous
- bearing copper
- cupulate
- of, like or pertaining to a cup; cup-shaped
- cupuliferous
- bearing cupules
- curate
- assistant to a parish priest
- curette
- instrument for scraping sides of body cavities
- curia
- papal court and its officials
- curie
- unit of radioactive decay and intensity
- curiology
- picture-writing
- curiosa
- pornographic books
- curmurring
- rumbling or flatulent sound
- curricle
- two-wheeled open carriage
- currycomb
- metal comb used to groom horses
- cursorial
- used in walking or running
- curtal
- short; abbreviated; curtailed; early form of the bassoon
- curtate
- shortened; short
- curtilage
- court or field attached to a dwelling
- curule
- of high authority
- curvet
- to leap; to frisk
- curvicaudate
- having a curvy tail
- cusec
- unit of liquid flow equal to one cubic foot per second
- cuspidor
- a spittoon
- custos
- guardian, custodian or keeper, especially of convents or monasteries
- custrel
- attendant to a knight; a knave
- cutaneous
- of or related to the skin
- cuvette
- shallow dish for holding liquids
- cwm
- valley or glen
- cyaneous
- sky blue
- cyanogenesis
- production of cyanide
- cyanometer
- instrument for measuring blueness of the sky or ocean
- cyanotype
- blueprint
- cyathiform
- shaped like a cup
- cybernate
- to control by means of a computer
- cyberphobia
- fear of computers
- cyclograph
- instrument for describing arcs of circles without compasses
- cyclolith
- stone circle
- cyclometer
- instrument for measuring revolutions of a wheel
- cyclophoria
- squint due to weakness in the eye muscles
- cyclosis
- circulation
- cyclostyle
- device for making multiple copies of written text
- cyesis
- pregnancy
- cyesolagnia
- sexual attraction to pregnant women
- cylix
- shallow cup with long stem
- cyllosis
- congenital physical deformity
- cymaphen
- telephone receiver
- cymbiform
- shaped like a boat
- cymograph
- instrument for tracing the outline of mouldings
- cymometer
- instrument for measuring frequency of electrical waves
- cymophanous
- opalescent; having a wavy or floating light
- cymotrichous
- wavy-haired
- cynanthropy
- pathological belief that one is a dog
- cynartomachy
- bear-baiting using dogs
- cynegetic
- of or related to hunting
- cynoclept
- one who steals dogs
- cynography
- writing or treatise on dogs
- cynoid
- dog-like; canine
- cynolatry
- worship of dogs
- cynology
- scientific study of dogs
- cynomorphic
- pertaining to a dog's viewpoint
- cynophilist
- one who loves dogs
- cynophobia
- fear of dogs
- cynosure
- anything that attracts attention; object of interest
- cyphonism
- use of pillorying as punishment
- cypress
- silk or cotton gauze fabric, usually black
- cyprian
- lewd woman; prostitute
- cyprinoid
- of, like or pertaining to carp
- cypseline
- of, like or pertaining to swifts
- cyrenaic
- adherent of doctrine that pleasure is ultimate goal
- cystolith
- calcium carbonate that masses in cell wall of some plants
- cystoscope
- instrument for examining the bladder
- cytheromania
- nymphomania
- cytogenesis
- formation of cells
- cytology
- study of living cells
- cytometer
- instrument for counting cells
- czardas
- Hungarian dance that increases in speed
- dacnomania
- obsession with killing
- dacoitage
- robbery by gang or mob
- dacryops
- wateriness of the eyes
- dactylioglyph
- engraver of rings or of gems
- dactyliology
- study of rings
- dactyliomancy
- divination by means of a finger
- dactylogram
- fingerprint
- dactylography
- the study of fingerprints
- dactyloid
- like or resembling a finger
- dactylology
- study of sign language
- dactylomancy
- divination using rings
- dactylomegaly
- condition of having abnormally large digits
- dactylonomy
- counting using the fingers and toes
- dactyloscopy
- comparing fingerprints for purpose of identification
- dado
- large wooden moulding along bottom of wall
- daedal
- formed with art; displaying inventive skill
- daedalist
- aviator; pilot
- dag
- dirty tatted tuft of sheep's wool
- dal
- a dried legume, such as lentils, beans or peas
- dalmatic
- ecclesiastical robe or other outer vestment
- dalton
- unit of atomic mass
- damascene
- decorate or engrave metal with wavy lines and patterns
- damask
- fine lustrous fabric with flat patterns and a satin weave
- damine
- having antlers like a fallow deer
- dammar
- hard resin used in making varnish
- damnification
- causation of injury or loss
- damoiseau
- male form of damsel; a young man not yet dubbed a knight
- dancetté
- deeply indented
- danism
- lending money on usury
- dap
- to dip gently into water; to fish with a surface fly
- dapatical
- lavish; sumptuous; costly
- daphnomancy
- divination using a laurel
- dapifer
- one who brings meat to the table
- dapocaginous
- mean-spirited; heartless
- darbies
- handcuffs
- darby
- large trowel for levelling concrete or plaster
- darcy
- unit of permeability of rock to various substances
- darkle
- to grow or make dark
- darraign
- to vindicate; to justify or prove
- dash
- non-specific very small unit of measurement used in cooking
- dashpot
- shock absorber
- dasyphyllous
- having crowded, thick or woolly leaves
- dasypoedes
- types of birds having downy-feathered young
- dasyure
- flesh-eating marsupial
- datary
- papal officer who registers and dates bulls and edicts
- dation
- act of giving, conferring or donating
- dative
- indicating indirect object of a verb
- davenport
- small ornamental writing desk; large sofa
- davit
- device for hoisting and lowering a boat
- daw
- simpleton; bird of the crow family
- deaconing
- act of putting best looking goods on top of pile
- deadeye
- rounded wooden block with hole used to set up ship's stays
- deadhouse
- mortuary
- deadstock
- farm equipment
- deadwood
- timbers built into ends of ship when too narrow to permit framing
- dealate
- insect divested of its wings
- dealbation
- whitening; bleaching
- deambulatory
- place for walking around or about in
- dearticulate
- to disjoint
- deasil
- sunwise motion
- debarrass
- to disembarrass; disentangle; free
- debel
- to conquer in war
- debellate
- to conquer or overcome through battle
- debouch
- to issue or emerge; to flow from a confined place
- debouchure
- mouth of a river or strait
- debridement
- the removal of foreign matter from a wound
- decadarchy
- government by ten individuals; decarchy
- decadist
- author who writes works in ten parts
- decalcomania
- process of transferring a design onto a surface using specially prepared paper
- decalescence
- point in heating metal where it appears to cool
- decalogist
- exponent of rules such as the Ten Commandments
- decalvant
- removing hair; depilatory
- decamerous
- having parts in tens
- decanal
- located on south side of the choir in a church
- decanal
- of, like or pertaining to a dean or deacon
- decantate
- to chant or say repeatedly
- decarchy
- government by ten individuals
- decare
- 1000 square metres
- decarnate
- denied or deprived of physical bodily form
- decastich
- ten-line poem
- decatise
- to uncurl through the use of steam or moisture
- decaudate
- to cut off the tail of
- decelerometer
- instrument for measuring deceleration
- decennoval
- of, like or pertaining to the number nineteen
- decession
- departure
- decimestrial
- lasting ten months
- deckle
- ragged edge of paper
- declassé
- below one's social class
- declinometer
- instrument for measuring magnetic declination
- declivity
- place that slopes downwards; inclination downwards
- decoct
- to prepare or extract by boiling; to devise
- decollate
- to behead; to disorganize
- decomplex
- repeatedly compound
- decorticate
- to remove the bark, husk or peel of
- decoupage
- the application of paper cutouts to wood surfaces
- decrassify
- to make less crass or boorish
- decrement
- a gradual decrease in quantity or quality
- decrepitate
- to crackle; to roast so as to cause to crackle
- decrescent
- becoming gradually less
- decretal
- papal decree deciding a point of church law
- decretal
- of, like or pertaining to a decree
- decrudescence
- diminution or reduction of a disease
- decuman
- principle; large; primary
- decumbent
- lying down; reclining on the ground
- decumbiture
- the time spent by an invalid in bed
- decurrent
- extending or running downwards
- decurtate
- to curtail, shorten or abbreviate
- decussate
- to divide in the form of an X; to cross or intersect
- dedans
- spectators at a court tennis match
- dedition
- surrender; capitulation
- deek
- look at; see
- deemster
- judge on the Isle of Man
- defalcate
- to embezzle money held on trust
- defeasible
- that may be annulled
- defenestration
- throwing a person or object out a window
- deferrise
- to remove iron from
- defervescence
- abatement of heat; coolness; decrease of fever
- defilade
- to arrange fortifications against frontal attack
- defiliation
- depriving a parent of a child
- definiens
- word or words used in a dictionary definition
- deflexure
- deviation
- deflocculate
- to break down into small pieces
- defluent
- running down; decurrent
- defluvium
- falling of hair
- dégagé
- at rest; untroubled; at ease
- deglutinate
- to unglue or unstick
- deglutition
- the power or act of swallowing
- degression
- gradual decrease; reduction in taxes
- dégringolade
- rapid decline or decay; downfall
- degustation
- eating in a series of small portions
- dehisce
- to gape; to burst open
- dehort
- to dissuade
- deicide
- destruction or killing of a god
- deictic
- directly demonstrating something or some proposition
- deiform
- appearing like or shaped like a god
- deiparous
- bearing a god
- deipnosophy
- learned dinner-conversation
- deipotent
- having godlike power
- deism
- belief in God but rejection of religion
- deixis
- relating to time and place of a linguistic utterance
- delactation
- weaning
- delaine
- light fabric of wool or mixed wool and cotton
- delaminate
- to split into layers
- delate
- to pass on; to charge with a crime
- delative
- indicating motion downward
- delectus
- anthology of useful passages or quotations
- delenda
- things to be deleted or destroyed
- deleterious
- harmful to body or mind
- delf
- drain; ditch; excavation
- delibate
- to sip
- deligation
- bandaging
- delignate
- to remove wood from; to deprive of wood
- deliquesce
- to melt into liquid by absorbing moisture
- deliration
- madness; aberration
- delirifacient
- producing or creating delirium
- delitescent
- latent
- delope
- to fire one's gun into the air in a duel
- delphically
- enigmatically; obscurely
- delphine
- pertaining to the Dauphin of France
- delphinine
- of, like or pertaining to dolphins
- deltiology
- the collection and study of picture postcards
- deltoid
- shaped like a delta or triangle
- delubrum
- a font, a temple or shrine having a font
- demagogue
- political agitator appealing to popular prejudices
- démarche
- decisive course of action taken in diplomacy
- demarchy
- government by the people; popular government
- demegoric
- of, like or pertaining to demagogues or demagogic speech
- démenti
- official denial or refusal
- demephitise
- to purify air
- demerge
- to immerse; to plunge
- demersal
- subaqueous; living underwater; sinking to the bottom
- demesne
- feudal manor-house with adjacent lands
- demicastor
- beaver pelt of poor quality; beaver fur mixed with another type of fur
- demigration
- change of abode
- demijohn
- large bottle having a wicker case
- demisang
- half-breed; hybrid
- demiurge
- creative spirit or entity
- demogenic
- of, like or pertaining to membership by citizenship rather than kinship
- demology
- study of human behaviour
- demonarchy
- government by a demon
- demonetise
- to deprive of monetary value; to withdraw from circulation
- demonocracy
- government by demons or evil forces
- demonolatry
- worship of or devotion to demons
- demonology
- study of demons
- demonomancy
- divination using demons
- demonomania
- pathological belief that one is possessed by demons
- demonosopher
- one who is inspired by a demon or devil
- demotic
- of, like or pertaining to the common people
- demulcent
- emulsifier; something soothing
- demurrage
- delay of vessel's departure or loading with cargo
- denary
- one of ten; tenfold; of, like or pertaining to group of ten
- dendriform
- shaped like a tree
- dendritiform
- branched
- dendrochronology
- study of tree rings
- dendroid
- tree-like; resembling a tree
- dendrolatry
- worship of trees
- dendrology
- study of trees
- dendrometer
- instrument for measuring trees
- dendrophilous
- fond of trees
- denehole
- vertical shaft having chambers at the base
- denier
- unit of yarn fineness
- dennet
- light two-wheeled carriage
- densimeter
- instrument for measuring closeness of grain of a substance
- densitometer
- instrument for measuring optical or photographic density
- dentagra
- toothache
- dentellated
- having small notches or teeth
- dentelle
- lace; lacework
- denticle
- small toothlike structure
- dentiform
- shaped like a tooth
- dentigerous
- toothed; bearing teeth
- dentiloquy
- speaking with clenched teeth
- dentine
- ivory-like material making up teeth
- dentiologist
- one who speaks with closed teeth
- dentirostral
- with notched beak
- deobstruent
- something that removes an obstacle
- deodate
- a gift to or from God
- deonerate
- to disburden
- deontic
- of or relating to duty or obligation
- deontology
- the theory or study of moral obligation
- deoppilate
- to free from obstruction
- deordination
- abnormality or irregularity
- deorsumversion
- turning downwards
- deosculate
- to kiss affectionately
- depascent
- eating
- depaysé
- out of one's element or natural environment
- depeculation
- embezzlement of public funds
- deponent
- having a passive form but active meaning
- depotentiate
- to deprive or divest of power
- deprehend
- to catch; to seize
- depurate
- to purify
- deracinate
- to root up
- deray
- to go wild; to derange
- deric
- of, like or pertaining to the skin
- dermatoglyphics
- the study of skin patterns and fingerprints
- dermatoid
- like or resembling skin
- dermatology
- study of skin
- dermographia
- condition where writing on skin causes red mark to form
- derodidymus
- two-headed beast
- derrick
- hoisting mechanism using a boom and a central post
- desacralise
- to deprive or remove sacred qualities
- descrive
- to describe
- desideratum
- something which is greatly desired
- desiderium
- longing or yearning
- desinent
- terminal; ending
- desipient
- playing the fool; trifling
- desmology
- study of ligaments
- désobligeante
- carriage for one passenger
- despoliation
- despoiling; despoilment
- despotocracy
- government by despots or tyrants
- despumate
- to throw off impurities in foam; to skim; to remove scum
- desquamate
- to scale or flake off
- desudation
- extreme sweating
- desuetude
- state of disuse
- desultory
- jumping from one thing to another; rambling; unplanned
- detersion
- the act of cleaning
- detinue
- wrongful seizure of property; action to recover it
- detort
- to untwist; to twist the other way
- détraqué
- a person who is deranged
- detritus
- waste or debris
- detrude
- to thrust downward or outward
- detumescence
- diminution of swelling
- deuteragonist
- a person who serves as a foil to another
- deuterogamy
- second marriage after the death of the first wife
- deuteropathy
- second illness in addition to an initial one
- deuteroscopy
- second view or meaning; second sight
- devall
- to sink; to decline
- devisee
- one to whom property is bequeathed in a will
- devoir
- what is due; duty
- dewlap
- turkey's wattle; flap of skin under the throat
- dexiotropic
- turning to the right
- dexter
- relating to the right side of a heraldic shield
- dextroduction
- shifting the eyes from left to right
- dextrogyratory
- turning to the right
- diable
- unglazed earthenware casserole
- diablerie
- magic; sorcery; mischief
- diabolocracy
- government by the Devil
- diabology
- study of devils
- diabrotic
- corrosive
- diacatholicon
- panacea
- diachoretic
- laxative
- diaclastic
- refractory
- diaconal
- of, like or pertaining to a deacon
- diaconicon
- sacristy for sacred vessels in Orthodox churches
- diacope
- deep wound or incision
- diacoustic
- of, like or pertaining to the refraction of sound
- diacritic
- making a distinction; aiding a diagnosis or evaluation
- diactinal
- having two pointed ends
- diadermic
- of, like or pertaining to the puncturing of the skin
- diadrom
- course or passing; vibration
- diagenesis
- production of rock out of sediment
- diaglyph
- figure etched or engraved in surface of gem or stone; intaglio
- diagometer
- instrument for measuring electrical conductivity
- diagraph
- instrument for enlarging or projecting drawings
- diagraphics
- art of making diagrams or drawings
- dialectology
- study of dialects
- diallage
- device in which many arguments brought upon one point
- diallelus
- circular argument
- diamanté
- glittering; decoration using glitter
- diamantiferous
- bearing diamonds
- dianoetic
- capable of, like or pertaining to thought
- diaphanometer
- instrument for measuring the transparency of air
- diaphanous
- transparent; translucent
- diaphone
- low-pitched fog signal consisting of two tones
- diaphoresis
- artificially induced sweat
- diapyesis
- release or discharge of pus
- diarchy
- government by two people
- diaskeuast
- reviser; interpolator
- diaspora
- dispersion
- diastema
- space between teeth
- diastomatic
- moving through the pores
- diastrophe
- upheaval or drastic modification of the earth's crust
- diasyrm
- rhetorical device of condemning through faint praise
- diatessaron
- medicine of four ingredients
- diathermic
- permeable to or able to conduct radiant heat
- diathesis
- particular condition of body or mind; predisposing factor
- dibble
- pointed tool for making holes for seeds or plants
- dicacity
- raillery; banter
- dicaeology
- defending oneself in argument by claiming justification
- dicephalous
- two-headed
- dicephalus
- conjoined twins with two heads
- dicerous
- two-horned; having two antennae
- dichogamous
- having males and females maturing at different rates
- dichord
- musical instrument with two strings
- dichroscope
- instrument for examining crystals for dichroism
- didact
- a person given to lecturing or moralizing
- didapper
- someone who disappears and bobs up again
- didascalic
- didactic; pertaining to education or teaching
- diddicoy
- itinerant tinker or scrap-dealer
- didelphine
- of, like or pertaining to opossums
- didelphous
- marsupial or pouched mammal
- didine
- of, like or pertaining to dodos
- didymous
- twin; twinned; growing in pairs
- diectasis
- extending line of verse by adding extra syllable
- diegesis
- the narration of facts
- diesis
- double dagger sign
- diestrus
- period of sexual inactivity
- diffarreation
- Roman form of divorce
- differentia
- property which distinguishes one from another
- diffident
- overly shy or modest
- diffinity
- lack of similarity or affinity
- diffluent
- readily flowing away
- diffract
- to break up into segments or portions
- diffractometer
- instrument for determining structure of crystal through light diffraction
- diffrangible
- capable of being diffracted or separated
- diffugient
- dispersing; diffusing
- dight
- disposed, adorned, clothed
- digitate
- having or resembling fingers
- digitiform
- shaped like a finger
- digitigrade
- walking on the toes alone
- digitorium
- silent piano for practicing
- digladiate
- to fight with swords; to fence
- digonal
- figure such that a half-turn gives the same figure
- digoneutic
- double brooded
- digraph
- two letters expressing a single sound
- dijudicate
- to judge; to decide
- dilacerate
- to rend or tear asunder
- dilaniate
- to tear to pieces
- dilatometer
- instrument for measuring expansion
- dilatory
- slow; given to delay or procrastination
- dilettante
- dabbler or lover of fine arts
- dilogical
- ambiguous; having two meanings
- dilogy
- intentional ambiguousness
- diluent
- diluting
- diluvial
- of, like or pertaining to floods; especially mythical ones
- dimerous
- consisting of two parts
- dimidiate
- divided into halves
- dimissory
- sending away or giving leave to depart; dismissing
- dimity
- sheer and stout white cotton
- dinanderie
- bronze-coloured metal alloy used for decorative vessels
- dinarchy
- government by two people; diarchy
- dinic
- of, like or pertaining to vertigo or dizziness
- dinomania
- mania for dancing
- dioecious
- having male and female sexual organs in different individuals
- diogenic
- cynical
- dionym
- name containing two parts or terms
- dioptometer
- instrument for measuring focus or refraction of the eyes
- dioptre
- unit of measurement of power of lens or eye
- dioptric
- transparent
- dioptrics
- study of light refraction
- diorism
- distinction; definition
- diorthosis
- a critical revision of a text; any correction or adjustment
- diotic
- affecting both ears
- diphyletic
- descended from two distinct ancestral groups
- diphyodont
- having second set of teeth that replaces the first
- diphysitism
- belief in the dual nature of Christ
- dipleidoscope
- instrument for measuring moment when an object passes a meridian
- diplocephalus
- two-headed monster
- diplogenesis
- doubling of ordinarily single organ or part
- diplograph
- instrument for writing two lines of text at once
- diplomatics
- science of deciphering ancient writings and texts
- diplomatology
- study of diplomats
- diplopia
- double vision
- dipnoous
- having both lungs and gills
- dippydro
- person who often changes mind
- diprionidian
- serrated on both sides
- dipsetic
- causing to be thirsty
- dipsomania
- abnormal craving for alcohol
- dipsosis
- pathological great thirst
- diptote
- noun taking two grammatical cases only
- diptych
- pair of pictures on hinged panels; register of bishops and saints
- diremption
- separation into two; disjunction
- dirigent
- guiding
- dirigible
- able to be directed
- dirigism
- state control in economic and social spheres
- diriment
- condition of legal nullification
- disafforest
- to clear of forest; to disforest
- disagio
- fee charged for exchanging foreign or depreciated currency
- disbosom
- to make known; to reveal
- discalced
- without shoes; barefoot; a religious order wearing no shoes
- discarnate
- disembodied; separated from the body
- discept
- to dispute; to debate
- discerptible
- able to be separated
- disciform
- round or oval in shape
- discigerous
- bearing a disc or discus
- discinct
- ungirded
- discission
- open incision or cut
- discobolus
- discus thrower
- discomania
- obsession for disco music
- discombobulate
- to disconcert; to upset
- discommodious
- inconvenient
- discophile
- one who loves and studies sound recordings
- discophoran
- of, like or pertaining to jellyfishes
- discountenance
- to abash; to discourage
- disculpate
- to free from blame
- disembogue
- to discharge or eject into the sea
- disembrangle
- to free from dispute
- diseuse
- female orator or reciter of verse
- disgarnish
- to despoil
- disgeneric
- being of a different genus
- disgregation
- separation; scattering
- disillude
- to free from illusion
- disimmure
- to liberate; to release from walls
- disinure
- to render unfamiliar
- disjection
- scattering or dispersion
- disomus
- monster with two bodies
- disorbed
- deprived of authority or sovereignty
- dispendious
- extravagant; expensive
- dispiteous
- pitiless; malicious
- dispone
- to set in order; dispose
- disponge
- to sprinkle or discharge as if from a sponge
- disport
- to play about, frolic or gambol
- dispread
- to spread in different ways
- dispurvey
- to deprive of provisions
- disquisition
- carefully argued examination of a topic
- disseize
- to seize or deprive of property wrongfully
- dissentient
- one who dissents; dissenter
- dissepiment
- partition or separation of tissue
- dissilient
- springing apart; bursting open with force
- dissimulate
- to pretend; to feign; to fake
- dissolute
- of loose morals; debauched
- distaff
- of, like or pertaining to the female branch of a family or women's work
- distichous
- in or having two rows
- distraint
- seizure of goods
- distrait
- distracted; inattentive
- distributary
- branch of river that flows away from the main stream
- distributive
- indicating separate members of a group, one at a time
- dit
- poem; words of a song
- ditheism
- belief in two equal gods, one good and one evil
- ditheletism
- doctrine that Christ had two wills
- dithyrambic
- passionate; ecstatic; frenzied
- ditokous
- producing two at a birth or in a clutch
- ditrichotomous
- divided into either two or three parts
- dittography
- unintentional repetition of letters in print
- dittology
- double reading or interpretation
- diurnation
- hibernating or sleeping during daylight
- diutiurnal
- lasting long
- divagate
- to digress; wander about
- divaricate
- to divide into two branches
- divellent
- drawing apart; pulling apart in pieces
- diversiloquent
- speaking in different ways; speaking on different subjects
- diverticulum
- blind passage or tunnel
- divisim
- separately
- divulsion
- act of pulling or rendering apart or away
- dixit
- individual's uncorroborated statement
- dizen
- to dress up; to dress gaudily
- dobbin
- workhorse
- dobhash
- interpreter
- docimasy
- scrutiny; assaying; application of tests
- docimology
- the art of assaying
- doctiloquent
- speaking learnedly
- doddered
- decayed with loss of branches
- dodecafid
- divisible into twelve parts or regions
- dodecarchy
- government by twelve people
- dodger
- shield against rain or spray on a ship's bridge
- dodoism
- stupid remark
- dogcart
- light two-wheeled carriage with seats back-to-back
- dogwatch
- a short, evening period of watch duty on a ship
- doit
- a trifle or minor thing
- dol
- unit for measuring intensity of pain
- dolabrate
- of, like or pertaining to axes or hatchets
- dolabriform
- resembling a hatchet or cleaver
- dolee
- one who receives a government benefit, especially unemployment benefits
- dolent
- mourning; doleful
- dolichocephalic
- long-headed
- dolichopodous
- having long feet
- dolioform
- shaped like a barrel
- dolmen
- prehistoric structure or tomb of unhewn stones
- doloriferous
- bearing grief or pain
- dolorific
- causing great sadness or sorrow
- dolose
- having evil or malicious intent
- domal
- of, like or pertaining to a house or dome
- domett
- plain cotton-wool blend
- dompteuse
- female animal trainer
- donary
- thing given for a sacred purpose
- donative
- benefice presented to church without reference to bishop
- donné
- basic assumption or axiom; basic principle of an artwork
- donnism
- self-importance
- donnybrook
- an uproarious brawl
- dontopedalogy
- putting one's foot in one's mouth
- doomster
- judge; pessimist
- dop
- copper cup for holding a diamond while cutting it
- doppio
- double meter Renaissance dance step
- doramania
- obsession with owning furs
- dormer
- gabled window
- dormition
- falling asleep; death
- dornick
- stout linen
- doromania
- obsession with giving gifts
- dorsiventral
- having differentiated opposite faces or surfaces
- doryphorus
- sculpture of a spear-bearer
- dos-a-dos
- carriage where passengers seated back to back
- dosimeter
- instrument for measuring dose of radiation
- dosimetry
- measurement of doses of drugs
- dosiology
- the study of doses
- dossal
- ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar
- dossil
- plug; spigot; wad of lint for wiping a wound
- dotation
- endowment or donation
- douanier
- customs official
- doublette
- copy of own artwork made by an artist
- doucet
- savory tart baked in sweet dough
- douceur
- gentleness or sweetness; a subtly offered bribe
- doulocracy
- government by slaves
- dowlas
- coarse linen
- downhaul
- rope for holding down or hauling down a sail or spar
- doxastic
- of, like or pertaining to opinion
- doxographer
- compiler of opinions of philosophers
- doxology
- hymn or verse of praise to God
- drabbet
- coarse linen
- drabble
- to besmear; bedraggle
- draconiform
- shaped like a dragon
- draconites
- jewel supposedly found inside a dragon's head
- draffish
- worthless
- drageoir
- box for holding sweetmeats
- dragoman
- interpreter
- dragonism
- unremitting watchfulness
- dragonnade
- persecution by military means
- dragoon
- to compel by military bullying; to compel by force
- drail
- iron bow of a plough; heavy fishhook
- dramaturgy
- art of producing and staging dramatic works
- drap-de-Berry
- old woollen cloth
- drapetomania
- intense desire to run away from home
- dreadnought
- heavy woollen cloth
- dreamery
- a place favourable to dreams
- dree
- to endure or withstand
- dreikanter
- three-faced pebble worn by wind
- drepaniform
- shaped like a sickle
- drepanoid
- like a sickle
- drill
- durable twilled cotton
- dripstone
- stone projection used to dispose of rainwater
- dririmancy
- divination by observing dripping blood
- droguet
- ribbed woollen dress fabric
- drogulus
- entity whose existence is unverifiable due to lack of physical effects
- drollery
- drollness; comic show; jest
- dromestoners
- persons who remove stones from temporary airfields
- dromic
- of, like or pertaining to a racecourse
- dromomania
- compulsive longing for travel
- dromometer
- instrument for measuring speed
- dromond
- large single-sailed ship powered by rowers
- dromophobia
- fear of crossing streets
- droskhy
- low four-wheeled open carriage
- drosometer
- instrument for measuring dew
- drugget
- coarse durable wool fabric
- drumlin
- long hill formed by glacial retreat
- drung
- narrow road or path to a pasture
- drupaceous
- of, like or pertaining to drupes or stone-fruits
- druxy
- having decayed spots concealed by healthy wood
- drygulch
- to murder by pushing off a cliff
- drysalter
- seller of dry goods and chemicals
- duarchy
- government by two people; diarchy
- dubiety
- doubtfulness
- dubitate
- to doubt; to hesitate
- dubitative
- mood signifying doubt or incertitude
- ducape
- plain-woven stout silk fabric
- ducdame
- meaningless refrain
- duck
- durable closely woven cotton fabric
- ductia
- vigorous stamping dance
- dudgeon
- resentment; offended resignation
- duende
- power to attract through personal charm
- duenna
- governess; chaperone
- duffel
- fabric of thick, low-quality woolen cloth
- dulcian
- a small early bassoon
- dulcifluous
- flowing sweetly
- dulciloquy
- a soft manner of speaking
- dulia
- inferior veneration of saints and angels in comparison with God
- dulocracy
- government by slaves; doulocracy
- dulosis
- slavery practiced by animals; especially ants
- dumose
- bushy
- dump
- obsolete English dance in 4/4 time
- duncical
- stupid; dim-witted
- dungaree
- heavy coarse durable twilled cotton, usually coloured
- duniwassal
- a Scottish gentleman
- dunnage
- wood laid in hold to keep cargo dry and safe
- duodenary
- of, like or pertaining to the number twelve
- duomachy
- duel or fight between two people
- dupion
- coarse silk
- duramen
- heartwood
- durative
- continuing; not completed; undergoing transformation
- dure
- to last; to endure
- durity
- hardness
- durometer
- instrument for measuring hardness of substances
- duroy
- coarse woollen
- duteous
- devoted to duty; obedient
- duumvirate
- governing council or body of two individuals
- duvetyn
- smooth lustrous velvety fabric
- dwale
- stupefying drink
- dwile
- floorcloth or mop
- dyarchy
- government by two people; diarchy
- dynamogenesis
- production of increased nerve activity
- dynamograph
- instrument for recording mechanical forces
- dynamometer
- instrument for measuring mechanical force
- dyne
- unit of force to accelerate 1 gram to 1 cm per second per second
- dyogram
- ship's chart indicating compass deflection due to ship's iron
- dysaesthesia
- loss of sensation
- dysania
- having a hard time waking up in the morning
- dysbulia
- loss of willpower
- dyschroa
- discoloration of the skin
- dyschromatopic
- colour-blind
- dysgenesis
- sterility in hybrid creatures
- dysgenics
- the study of racial degeneration
- dyslogia
- inability to express ideas due to mental incompetence
- dyslogistic
- conveying censure; opprobrious
- dysmorphophobia
- fear of physical deformities
- dysphagia
- pathological difficulty in swallowing
- dysphemism
- replacement of an inoffensive by an offensive word
- dysphonia
- physical abnormality causing speech impediment
- dysphoria
- uneasiness; restlessness; general depression
- dystectic
- not easily fused
- dysteleology
- study of purposeless organs
- dysteleology
- doctrine of purposelessness
- dystocia
- difficult childbirth
- dystopia
- place where all is as bad as possible
- eagre
- sudden rise of tide in a river
- earing
- line for fastening corner of a sail to the gaff or yard
- earwig
- a small insect; to bias; to pester with demands; to eavesdrop
- easement
- rights held over another's land
- eau-de-nil
- pale green colour
- ebberman
- one who fishes under bridges
- ebeneous
- like or resembling ebony
- éboulement
- falling in of wall of a fort; landslide
- ebriection
- mental breakdown from too much drinking
- ébrillade
- jerking of horse's rein when it does not turn
- ebrious
- tending towards excessive drinking
- ebullioscope
- instrument for measuring boiling point of liquids
- ebullition
- boiling over; agitation; outbreak
- eburnean
- of or like ivory; ivory-coloured
- ecardinate
- without hinges
- ecarlate
- fine woollen cloth, usually dyed scarlet
- ecaudate
- tailless
- ecbatic
- grammatical construction indicating result without intention
- ecbole
- digression
- ecbolic
- assisting childbirth; aiding abortion
- eccaleobion
- incubator
- ecchymosis
- black-and-blue spot
- ecclesiarchy
- government by clerics or ecclesiastical authorities
- ecclesiastry
- affairs of the church
- ecclesiolatry
- excessive devotion to church tradition and form
- ecclesiology
- study of church affairs
- eccoprotic
- laxative; mildly cathartic; purgative
- eccrinology
- study of excretion
- ecdemic
- not endemic; of foreign origin
- ecdemomania
- abnormal compulsion for wandering
- ecdysiast
- striptease performer
- ecesis
- the establishment of a plant or animal in a new habitat
- echard
- water in the soil not available to plants
- echinate
- like a hedgehog; prickly
- echinuliform
- resembling small spines
- echoism
- the formation of imitative words
- echolalia
- echo-like repetition of another's words
- echopraxia
- echo-like repetition of another's actions
- eclaircise
- to clear up
- éclaircissement
- clarification; enlightenment
- eclat
- to make notorious
- éclat
- publicity; dazzling effect; brilliance; applause
- eclegme
- ancient syrupy medicine that is licked off a spoon
- eclipsareon
- astronomical toy used to show phenomena of solar and lunar eclipses
- eclipsis
- omission of sounds or words in speech
- ecliptic
- imaginary circle which the sun follows from Earth perspective
- eclogue
- pastoral or rustic poem
- eclosion
- emergence, as from a larva or egg, or of an era or movement
- ecmnesia
- loss of memory of the events of a specific period
- ecocide
- destruction of the environment
- economacy
- position of controller of ecclesiastical affairs
- ecophene
- range of phenotypes produced by a genotype in a given environment
- ecophobia
- fear of home
- écorché
- a human figure portrayed stripped of the skin
- ecphasis
- explicit declaration or interpretation
- ecphonensis
- exclamation
- ecphrasis
- plain interpretation of a thing
- ecthlipsis
- omitting one or more sounds in pronouncing a word
- ectobatic
- carrying or leading towards the outside
- ectogenesis
- variation in response to outside conditions
- ectopia
- displacement of internal organs in the body
- ectype
- reproduction or copy
- ectypography
- etching in relief
- écuelle
- two-handled soup or porridge bowl
- ecydisis
- shedding or moulting of the skin
- edacious
- voracious; gluttonous; pertaining to eating
- edapha
- organisms living in soil
- edaphic
- of, like or pertaining to the soil
- edaphology
- study of soils
- edentate
- toothless; without teeth; pertaining to aardvarks and sloths
- edulcorate
- to sweeten; to rid of soluble particles by washing
- eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious
- good
- effable
- capable of being expressed
- efferent
- carrying outward or away
- effete
- weak or worn-out; degenerate
- effigurate
- having a definite shape
- effleurage
- stroking movement in massage
- effluvium
- invisible emanation; offensive exhalation or smell
- effodient
- burrowing
- effulge
- to shine out; to beam
- effusiometer
- instrument for comparing molecular weights of gases
- eft
- again; afterwards
- eft
- newt
- eftsoons
- soon after
- egad
- mild oath
- egency
- need
- egestion
- the removal of materials from the body
- egoism
- doctrine that the pursuit of self-interest is the highest good
- egotheism
- identification of oneself with God
- Egyptology
- study of ancient Egypt
- eidetic
- vivid mental image or memory
- eidograph
- instrument for copying drawings
- eidolism
- belief in ghosts
- eidolon
- image, phantom or apparition; confusing reflected image
- eigne
- first born
- eikonology
- metaphor
- eirenarch
- officer in charge of keeping the public peace; justice of the peace
- eirenicon
- peace-making message, proposition for peace
- eirenics
- theological doctrine of religious unification
- eirenism
- peaceful state of mind
- eisegesis
- faulty interpretation or explanation of text
- eisel
- sour wine resembling vinegar
- ejectamenta
- material ejected from a volcano
- eke
- in addition; also; likewise
- ekistics
- study of human settlement
- ekka
- small one-horse carriage
- ekphrasis
- description of a work of art as rhetorical exercise
- élan
- impetuosity; dash or style; brilliancy or vivacity
- elance
- to throw as a lance
- elaphine
- of, like or belonging to a red deer; of, of, like or pertaining to red deer
- elapid
- of, like or pertaining to cobras
- elative
- indicating movement out of or away from
- elatrometer
- instrument for measuring gaseous pressure
- elchee
- ambassador
- eldritch
- horrifying; arcane; strange
- electrocardiograph
- instrument for recording unusual electrical fluctuations of the heart
- electrochemistry
- study of relations between electricity and chemicals
- electrodynamometer
- instrument for measuring electrical current
- electroencephalograph
- instrument for measuring the brain's electrical impulses
- electrogenesis
- production of electricity
- electrograph
- instrument for recording electrical potential
- electrology
- study of electricity
- electrometer
- instrument for measuring electrical potential
- electromyograph
- instrument for diagnosing neuromuscular disorders
- electrophile
- substance having an affinity for electrons or negative charge
- electroretinograph
- instrument for measuring electrical activity in the retina
- electroscope
- instrument for detecting electrical charges in the body
- electrostatics
- study of static electricity
- electuary
- medicine mixed with honey or syrup
- eleemosynary
- of, like or pertaining to charity or giving alms; dependent on charity
- elenchus
- refutation; sophism
- elenctic
- of, like or pertaining to argument; cross-examination or refuting
- elephant
- large unit of paper measurement equal to 28 by 23 inches
- elephantine
- of, like or pertaining to elephants
- eleutherian
- freedom-giving
- eleutheromania
- manic desire for freedom
- eleutherophobia
- fear of freedom
- elflock
- lock of tangled hair
- elide
- omit; ignore; suppress or abridge
- ell
- old unit of length equal to 45 inches
- ellipsograph
- instrument for describing ellipses
- elocation
- removal from someone's control; alienation
- éloge
- funeral oration; panegyric
- eloign
- to convey to a distance; to remove
- elsin
- shoemaker's awl
- elumbated
- made weak in the loins
- elution
- purification or separation by washing
- elutriate
- to separate by washing into finer portions
- elydoric
- painted with both oil and watercolour
- elytriferous
- having or bearing hardened forewings
- em
- unit of measuring width of typeface where width of letters equals height
- emacity
- itch to be buying
- type of dark ink
- emarcid
- wilted; limp
- embale
- to enclose; to bind in; to make into a bale
- embar
- to shut in; to hinder; to put under embargo
- embase
- to lower; to debase
- embayment
- bay
- emberlucock
- to confuse; to bewilder
- emblements
- growing crops
- embonpoint
- stout; plump or full in figure; corpulent
- embouchement
- opening of a passage or tunnel
- embower
- to place in a bower; to shelter with trees
- embracery
- attempt to influence a jury corruptly
- embrangle
- to confuse or perplex
- embrasure
- recess of a door or window
- embrocate
- to moisten and rub with a lotion
- embryogenesis
- production of an embryo
- embryoniform
- shaped like an embryo
- emendation
- correction; usually of a text
- emergicenter
- urban clinic offering emergency outpatient services
- emesis
- the act of vomiting
- emetology
- study of vomiting
- émeute
- a popular rising or uproar
- emicate
- to sparkle
- emiction
- the discharging of urine
- emissile
- able to be emitted or pushed out
- emmenagogue
- drug aiding menstrual flow
- emmenology
- the study of menstruation
- emmet
- ant
- emmetropia
- correct refraction of light by the eyes
- emmew
- to confine or mew up
- emollient
- softening; making supple
- emolument
- payment; profit arising from employment
- emonomancy
- divination using demons
- emotivism
- theory that moral statements are inherently biased
- empaestic
- of, like or pertaining to the art of embossing
- empanoply
- to clothe in full armor
- empasm
- deodorant powder
- empennage
- airplane's tail unit
- empery
- wide dominion; empire
- emphractic
- stopping the pores of the skin
- emphyteusis
- perpetual but conditional lease of property
- empiecement
- an insertion in a garment
- empleomania
- mania for holding public office
- emporeutic
- of, like or pertaining to trade
- empressment
- show of affection or eagerness
- emprise
- adventurous undertaking
- emption
- the act of buying; purchase
- emptysis
- spitting up of blood
- empyreal
- of, like or pertaining to heaven; sublime; skyward
- emulge
- to milk or drain out
- emunctory
- conveying waste; pertaining to nose-blowing
- enallage
- the exchange of one grammatical case for another
- enantiodromia
- process when a thing is replaced by its opposite
- enantiomorph
- object which is the mirror image of another
- enantiopathy
- allopathy; sympathy with one's opposite
- enantiosis
- ironic expression of idea by refuting its contrary
- enation
- outgrowth; extension
- encaenia
- anniversary festival of renewal of an institution
- encaustic
- having the colours burned in
- enceinte
- pregnant
- encephalograph
- instrument for recording brain images
- encephaloid
- like or resembling a brain
- enchiridion
- book carried in the hand for reference, esp. for music or theology
- enchorial
- belonging to or used in a country; domestic
- encolpion
- reliquary; cross worn on the breast
- encomiast
- person who utters encomiums; praiser
- encomic
- having closely curled hair
- encomium
- glowing and warmly enthusiastic praise
- encraty
- self-control
- encyclical
- letter sent by the pope to multiple bishops
- endarchy
- centralised government
- endeictic
- showing, exhibiting or demonstrating
- endeixis
- an indication
- endemiology
- study of local diseases
- endlong
- lengthwise
- endocrinology
- study of glands
- endogenous
- having no external cause
- endophagy
- cannibalism within a tribe; eating away from within
- endoscope
- instrument for visualizing interior of a hollow organ
- endosmometer
- instrument for measuring osmosis into a solution
- endysis
- growth of new feathers, hair or skin
- energumen
- individual inhabited by an evil spirit
- enervate
- to weaken
- enfilade
- series arranged as if threaded on a string
- engastration
- stuffing of one bird inside another
- engastrimyth
- ventriloquist
- engouement
- excessive infatuation
- engrailment
- ring of dots around edge of a coin
- engram
- lasting effect on memory
- engrenage
- series of decisions leading towards unspoken goal
- enigmatography
- composition of riddles or enigmas
- enigmatology
- study of enigmas
- enjambment
- continuation of the sense of a verse without pause
- enjoin
- to command; to order; to prohibit by injunction
- ennead
- any group of nine objects
- enneagon
- polygon with nine sides
- ennomic
- lawful; legal
- enoptromancy
- divination using mirrors
- enosimania
- pathological belief that one has sinned
- enosis
- union; unification
- enounce
- to enunciate; to proclaim
- enow
- enough
- ensanguine
- to cover with blood
- ensiform
- resembling or possessing characteristics of a sword
- ensign
- large naval flag
- ensilage
- storage of green fodder in silos
- entablature
- wall that rests on top of columns
- entasis
- swelling on vertical columns to counteract optical illusion of concavity
- entelechy
- perfect realization of ultimate goal or reason for existence
- enteral
- of, pertaining to or within the intestine
- enthalpy
- heat per unit mass
- entheomania
- abnormal belief that one is divinely inspired
- enthetic
- introduced from outside the body
- entify
- to treat as or cause to become a separate entity
- entitative
- regarded as a distinct entity without regard to context
- entomical
- of, like or pertaining to insects
- entomology
- study of insects
- entomophagous
- eating insects
- entomophilous
- adapted for pollination by insects
- entoptic
- within the eyeball; visibility of objects in the eye
- entozoology
- study of parasites that live inside larger organisms
- entremets
- edible pastry sculpture served between main courses
- entrepot
- a warehouse, particularly for international trade
- entresol
- mezzanine
- entropion
- inversion of the edge of the eyelid
- entryism
- doctrine of joining a group to change its policies
- enuresis
- uncontrollable urination
- enzone
- to engirdle or surround with a zone or belt
- enzymology
- study of enzymes
- eoan
- of, like or pertaining to dawn
- eolation
- geological effects of the wind
- éolienne
- fine silk and wool
- eolith
- stone naturally formed but thought to be manufactured
- eonism
- adoption by a male of female dress and manner
- eosophobia
- fear of dawn
- eozoic
- containing early evidence of animals
- epact
- excess of the calendar month over the lunar month
- epaenetic
- eulogistic
- epagoge
- induction
- epagomenal
- intercalary; inserted between others
- epanadiplosis
- sentence which begins and ends with same word
- epanalepsis
- repetition
- epanodos
- recapitulation of chief points in a discourse after digression
- epanorthosis
- retraction of statement in order to intensify it
- eparchy
- diocese of an Eastern church
- epedaphic
- of, like or pertaining to atmospheric conditions
- epeirogenesis
- building continents by moving of earth's crust
- epenthesis
- insertion of extra sound into a word
- epeolatry
- worship of words
- epergne
- branched ornamental centrepiece
- epexegesis
- addition of words to make the sense more clear
- ephebiatrics
- branch of medicine dealing with adolescence
- ephectic
- tending to reserve judgement
- ephelis
- freckle or mole
- ephemeris
- table giving location of celestial body at different specific times
- ephemeromorph
- life form that cannot be classified as animal or vegetable
- ephemeron
- creature that lives for only one day
- ephestian
- domestic
- ephidrosis
- profuse perspiration
- ephod
- Jewish priestly vestment
- epibole
- device of beginning several clauses with same word
- epicede
- funeral ode
- epicedial
- of, like or pertaining to dirges or elegies
- epicene
- having one form or characteristics of either sex
- epicheirema
- syllogism confirmed by an incidental proposition
- epichoric
- belonging or pertaining to a rural area
- epiclesis
- calling on the Holy Spirit to consecrate the Eucharist
- epicrisis
- critical appreciation for literature
- epideictic
- done for show or display
- epidemiology
- study of diseases; epidemics
- epidiascope
- instrument for projecting images of objects
- epidiascope
- magic lantern used for opaque and translucent objects
- epigamic
- attractive to the other sex
- epigeal
- living near or in the ground
- epigenesis
- theory of embryonic development
- epigeous
- growing or living on or above the ground
- epigon
- descendant or successor
- epigone
- inferior follower or imitator of a distinguished original
- epilate
- to remove hair from
- epileptology
- study of epilepsy
- epimyth
- moral of a story or work of literature
- epinician
- celebrating a triumph
- epinikion
- ode in honour of a victor or winner
- epinosic
- unhealthy; unwelcome
- epipastic
- dusting powder used in medicine
- epiphenomenalism
- doctrine that mental processes are epiphenomena of brain activity
- epiphonema
- exclamation, finishing phrase or reflection
- epiphora
- watering of the eyes
- epipolism
- fluorescence
- episcope
- instrument for projecting images of opaque objects
- episcopicide
- killing of bishops
- episcopolatry
- worship of bishops
- episemon
- badge or characteristic device; one of three extra Greek numeral-letters
- epistatic
- suppressing some factor
- epistaxis
- nose bleeding
- epistemology
- study of grounds of knowledge
- epistemology
- theory of a method or grounds of knowledge
- epistolary
- of, like or pertaining to letters
- epistoler
- reader of the epistle in Anglican service
- epistolography
- letter-writing
- epistrophe
- ending of successive clauses with the same word
- epitasis
- part of a play where the action is developed
- epithalamion
- song or poem composed for weddings
- epithesis
- addition of one or more letters to a word
- epithymetic
- of, like or pertaining to desire
- epitimesis
- adverse criticism
- epitoga
- wide academic gown with bell sleeves
- epitonic
- subjected to excessive strain; overstrained
- epitrachelion
- stole of an Orthodox priest or bishop
- epitrope
- ironic permission
- epizeuxis
- immediate repetition of a word for emphasis
- epizoic
- dwelling upon an animal
- epomania
- craze for writing epics
- eponym
- personal name from which another name is derived
- epopee
- epic poem; saga
- epopoean
- befitting an epic poet
- epopoeist
- one who writes epic poetry
- epopt
- one who is initiated into mysteries
- epos
- epic poem
- éprouvette
- instrument for testing strength of gunpowder
- epulary
- of, like or pertaining to banquets
- epulation
- feasting
- epulotic
- substance encouraging growth of scar tissue
- epuration
- purification or purging
- equable
- smooth; without wide variations
- equanimity
- evenness of mind or temper; calmness
- equative
- indicating likeness or identity
- equatorium
- computational instrument for planetary astronomy
- equilibrist
- tightrope walker
- equine
- of, like or pertaining to horses
- equiparate
- to regard or treat as equal
- equiparent
- having a level or mutual relationship
- equipluve
- line drawn through locations having same annual rainfall
- equipoise
- equilibrium; counterbalancing thing
- equipollent
- having equal power or force
- equiponderate
- to be equal in weight; to balance
- equison
- horse groom; jockey
- equitation
- horseback riding
- equivorous
- consuming horseflesh
- eradiate
- to shoot out like a ray of light
- ere
- before
- erean
- made of copper or brass
- erelong
- before long; soon
- eremic
- of or belonging to deserts
- eremite
- hermit; religious recluse
- eremology
- study of deserts
- eremophyte
- plant that lives in desert biome
- erethism
- abnormal irritability
- erewhile
- until now
- erg
- unit of work measuring force of one dyne applied over one centimeter
- ergasia
- love of work; workaholism
- ergasiomania
- excessive desire to work; ergomania
- ergasiophobia
- fear of work
- ergative
- indicating subject of a transitive verb
- ergatocracy
- government by the workers or the working class
- ergo
- therefore; hence
- ergograph
- instrument for measuring and recording muscular work
- ergology
- study of effects of work on humans
- ergomania
- excessive desire to work; workaholism
- ergometer
- instrument for measuring work performed
- ergonomics
- study of people at work
- ergophile
- one who loves work
- ergophobia
- fear of work
- ergotise
- to wrangle
- eriometer
- instrument for measuring very small diameters
- eristic
- of, like or pertaining to controversy or argument
- erogenesis
- induction of sexual desire; production of arousal
- eromancy
- divination using water vessels
- erotetic
- engaging in or pertaining to rhetorical questioning
- erotogenic
- producing erotic desire or sexual gratification
- erotology
- erotic description in literature
- erotomania
- abnormally powerful sex drive
- erotopathy
- pathological sexual desire
- erotophobia
- fear of sex
- errhine
- something which causes sneezing or for nasal ingestion
- erubescent
- growing red; blushing
- eruciform
- like or resembling a caterpillar
- eructate
- to belch out; to emit lava
- erumpent
- bursting out; bursting forth
- erythema
- redness of the skin
- erythraean
- reddish colour
- erythrochroism
- excessive or pathological redness of the hair
- erythrophobia
- fear of red lights or of blushing
- erythropsia
- condition of seeing all colour as red
- esbat
- meeting of a witches' coven
- escadrille
- squadron of aircraft; flotilla
- escalade
- crossing moat or scaling wall using ladders
- escalier
- staircase
- escapology
- study of freeing oneself from constraints
- escargatoire
- place where snails are reared
- escharotic
- caustic
- eschatocol
- concluding clause or section of a charter
- eschatology
- doctrine of life and afterlife
- eschatology
- study of death; final matters
- eschaton
- end of the world; end time
- escheatment
- forfeiture of property to state for lack of heir
- esclandre
- notoriety; unpleasantness
- escritoire
- writing-desk
- esculent
- eatable; fit for consumption
- escutcheon
- part of ship's stern where name is displayed
- escutcheon
- shield on which coat of arms is represented
- esemplastic
- unifying; moulding diverse ideas into one
- esemplasy
- the unifying power of imagination
- esker
- ridge of sandy soil
- esotropic
- squinting
- espalier
- lattice on which trees are trained across
- espiègle
- roguish; frolicsome; mischievous
- essive
- indicating a temporary state of being
- essoin
- giving of an excuse for not appearing in court
- essorant
- soaring
- estacade
- dike of stakes in a river against an enemy
- estafette
- military courier or express
- estaminet
- small bar or cafe
- estampie
- vigorous rhythmic Provençal stamping dance
- estiferous
- producing heat
- estival
- of, like or pertaining to summer
- estoppage
- preventing someone from alleging a fact due to prior denial
- estrade
- low platform or dais
- estrapade
- horse's attempt to throw its rider
- estreat
- to consult court records in order to enable prosecution
- estuosity
- heated state or condition
- esurient
- hungry; greedy; starving
- etamine
- light open-mesh cotton or worsted
- eternalism
- the belief that matter has existed eternally
- etesian
- periodic; winds blowing at certain seasons
- eth
- old English letter for voiced 'th' sound
- etheromania
- craving for ether
- ethmoid
- of or like a sieve
- ethnarchy
- government over an ethnic group
- ethnocracy
- government by an ethnic group or race
- ethnogenesis
- origin of an ethnic group
- ethnogeny
- study of origins of races or ethnic groups
- ethnomania
- obsessive devotion to one's own people
- ethnomethodology
- study of everyday communication
- ethnomusicology
- study of comparative musical systems
- ethology
- study of natural or biological character
- ethonomics
- study of economic and ethical principles of a society
- etiolate
- to become pale; to make pale by depriving of light
- etiology
- the science of causes; especially of disease
- étui
- case for holding sewing articles
- etymology
- study of origins of words
- etymon
- true origin of a word
- etypical
- unconformable to type
- euchology
- prayer book
- eucrasy
- state of fitness and physical well-being
- eudaemonism
- ethical belief that happiness equals morality
- eudaemony
- happiness or well-being
- eudiaphoresis
- normal perspiration
- eudiometer
- instrument for measuring air purity
- euhemerism
- explanation of mythology as growing out of history
- eulogomania
- obsessive craze for eulogies
- eumoiriety
- happiness due to state of innocence and purity
- eunomia
- state of being well governed
- euonym
- a pleasing or beautiful name
- euonymous
- appropriately named
- eupathy
- state of contentment
- eupeptic
- of, like or pertaining to good digestion; cheerful
- euphobia
- fear of good news
- euphonism
- custom of using pleasing sounding words
- euphonym
- euphonious synonym
- euphuism
- high-flown and affected style of writing
- eupraxia
- correct or orthodox action
- eupsychics
- proper education to induce human progress
- euripus
- arm of the sea with strong currents
- Europhile
- one who loves Europe
- eurythermic
- tolerating a wide variation in temperature
- eurythmics
- system of rhythmic and harmonious movement
- eustacy
- changes in world shoreline by changes in sea level
- eustatic
- remaining at same altitude despite geological activity
- eusuchian
- of, like or pertaining to alligators and crocodiles
- eutaxy
- good order
- eutechnics
- improvement in condition of humanity through natural forces
- eutexia
- the property of being easily melted
- euthenics
- science concerned with improving living conditions
- eutony
- pleasantness of the sound of a word
- eutrapely
- wit, ease and urbanity of conversation
- eutropic
- turning to face the sun
- evagation
- wandering; digression
- evaginate
- to remove from a sheath; without a sheath
- evanescent
- tending to vanish like vapour
- evanish
- to vanish; to die away
- evanition
- vanishing; dying away
- evaporimeter
- instrument for measuring rate of evaporation
- evection
- attraction of the moon to the sun causing change in its orbit
- eventration
- protrusion of an organ from the abdomen
- eversion
- turning inside out or outwards
- evince
- indicate or exhibit
- evirate
- to castrate; to make weak
- eviscerate
- disembowel
- eviternal
- eternal
- évolué
- primitive person educated in modern ways
- evulgate
- to divulge; to publish
- evulse
- to pluck out
- exactor
- one who exacts; extortioner; claimer of rights
- exallotriote
- foreign
- exanimate
- lifeless; spiritless; depressed
- exarate
- containing grooves or furrows
- exarch
- viceroy; rank below patriarch in Eastern church
- exarchy
- government by bishops
- exaugurate
- to desanctify; to deprive of sacred status
- excalation
- omission of one of a series or sequence
- excarnate
- to remove flesh from
- exclaustration
- return to public upon release from vows
- exclave
- part of a country surrounded by foreign soil
- excogitate
- to discover by thinking out or reasoning
- excoriate
- censure severely; strip the hide off of
- excorticate
- to strip the bark off of
- excrementitial
- of, like or pertaining to excrement
- excresence
- outgrowth; projection; tumour
- excubant
- on guard
- excursive
- constituting a digression
- exeat
- permission from bishop for clergyman to work elsewhere
- exeat
- formal leave of absence; permission to be absent
- execrate
- to denounce or place under a curse
- executancy
- technique in music
- exedra
- semicircular bench beside episcopal throne; outdoor bench or recess
- exegetic
- explanatory, especially of Scripture
- exemplum
- short story or anecdote with a moral
- exenterate
- to disembowel
- exequy
- funeral rites; procession
- exercitation
- putting into practice; exercise
- exergue
- reverse of coin where date is contained
- exgorgitation
- vomited material
- exheredate
- to disinherit
- exigible
- liable to be exacted
- exiguous
- scanty; slender; sparse
- exility
- slenderness or smallness; refinement
- eximious
- excellent or distinguished
- existentialism
- doctrine of individual human responsibility in an unfathomable universe
- exlex
- outside the law
- exobiology
- study of extraterrestrial life
- exocentric
- of a linguistic compound, having a different grammatical function than its parts
- exoculate
- blind; eyeless
- exode
- farce or afterpiece
- exodist
- one who goes out; emigrant
- exodontia
- extraction of teeth
- exodromy
- stabilizing movement of exchange
- exogenous
- having an external origin
- exonym
- name for a town or country in a foreign language
- exopathic
- due to external forces or causes
- exophagy
- cannibalism outside one's own group
- exorable
- capable of being moved or influenced
- exordium
- beginning or introduction to a composition
- exosculate
- to kiss fervently or heartily
- exoteric
- intelligible to the uninitiated; commonplace
- exotropia
- outward squint
- expatiate
- to wander freely; to write about in great detail
- expeditate
- to deprive of the ball of the foot or the claws
- expergefacient
- awakening; arousing
- experientialism
- doctrine that knowledge comes from experience
- expiate
- to make amends for wrong
- expiscate
- to find out by strict examination
- explement
- complement
- exponible
- able to be explained
- expostulate
- to remonstrate; to discuss or reason with
- exprobate
- to reproach; to upbraid
- expromission
- relieving another person's debt by taking it upon oneself
- expugn
- to take by storm; to overcome
- expurgate
- to purify or revise; to censor
- exsanguinous
- without blood
- exscind
- to cut off; to uproot
- exsect
- to cut out
- exsert
- to protrude
- exsiccate
- to dry up
- exspuition
- spitting
- exstrophy
- turning an organ inside out
- exsuccous
- lacking sap
- exsufflate
- to blow away; to exorcise
- extensometer
- instrument for measuring deformation in object due to forces applied
- exterritority
- exemption from local regulations
- extispicy
- divination using entrails
- extramundane
- beyond the known universe
- extravasate
- to let out of the proper vessels; to flow out
- extrorse
- turned outward
- extrospection
- examination of matters external to oneself
- exungulation
- paring of the nails
- exuviate
- to cast off or shed
- eyas
- unfledged falcon or other bird of prey
- eyelet
- small hole in fabric to allow passage of a cord; cotton fabric with small holes
- eyeservice
- work done while the boss is watching
- eyne
- eyes
- eyot
- small island in a lake or river
- fabaceous
- bean-like
- fabiform
- shaped like a bean
- fabulist
- one who invents fables
- faburden
- harmony in thirds and sixths
- face-cord
- unit of wood measurement equal to a stack four by eight feet in volume
- facetiae
- term for books of inappropriate or lewd nature
- facia
- nameplate or sign above shop
- facinorous
- atrociously wicked
- factious
- turbulent; given to faction; seditious
- factitious
- produced by humans or artificial forces
- factitive
- signifying making or causing something to be
- factive
- indicating causation
- factotum
- lackey; person employed to do various jobs
- facture
- workmanship; the products of making
- facula
- unusually bright spot on sun's surface
- facultative
- optional; incidental; conferring privilege
- facundity
- eloquence
- fagin
- an adult who instructs others in crime
- fagottist
- bassoon player
- faience
- glazed coloured earthware
- faille
- shiny closely woven silk, cotton or rayon fabric
- fain
- happy; inclined; pleased
- fainéant
- puppet ruler; do-nothing; idle person
- fairlead
- ring through which rope is led to change its direction without friction
- falcade
- motion of a horse throwing itself on its haunches
- falcate
- resembling a sickle
- falciform
- shaped like a sickle
- falconine
- of, like or pertaining to falcons or hawks
- falderal
- nonsense; meaningless refrain of a song
- faldstool
- desk from which the Litany is read at church service
- fallibilism
- the doctrine that empirical knowledge is uncertain
- falsidical
- conveying a meaning that is false
- famicide
- one who destroys another's reputation; slanderer
- familic
- pertaining to a family; domestic
- familism
- the tendency of a family to cohere as a group
- familistery
- house for communal living
- famulus
- private secretary or attendant
- fanal
- lighthouse or beacon
- fandango
- lively Spanish dance performed by a couple
- fane
- flag or banner; weather-cock
- fane
- temple
- fanfaron
- an empty boaster
- fanfaronade
- grandiose trumpet blast
- fanion
- cloth worn on priest's arm and used for handling holy vessels
- fanion
- small flag used in surveying
- fantassin
- infantry soldier
- fantasticate
- to fantasize over something
- fantigue
- anxiety or irritation
- fantod
- a state of irritability or tension; an emotional fit
- farad
- unit measuring electrical capacitance
- farandine
- silk and wool cloth
- farandole
- lively Provençal dance in which men and women hold hands
- farctate
- full; stuffed
- fardage
- wood placed in bottom of ship to keep cargo dry
- fardel
- anything cumbersome or irksome
- farinaceous
- mealy; consisting of cereals
- farinose
- resembling or yielding flour
- farouche
- wild; unpolished
- farraginous
- disordered; jumbled; miscellaneous
- farrago
- confused mass of objects or people; disordered mixture
- farrier
- one who shoes horses or cares for horses
- farris
- female blacksmith
- farrow
- to give birth to piglets
- farruca
- Spanish gypsy dance with sudden tempo and mood changes
- fasces
- bundle of rods with an axe used to symbolise authority
- fascia
- board over a shop-front
- fascicle
- bundle; division of book published in parts
- fascine
- bundle of brushwood used to fill ditches
- fasti
- record or register
- fastigiate
- pointed; conical
- fastigium
- roof; peak; gable
- fastuous
- haughty; ostentatious
- fatalism
- doctrine that events are fixed and humans are powerless
- fathometer
- instrument for measuring underwater depth using sound
- fatidical
- prophetic; having the power to foretell the future
- fatuous
- silly; purposeless
- fauteuil
- enclosed seat in theatre
- favela
- slum area
- faveolate
- honeycombed
- faviform
- shaped like a honeycomb
- favonian
- of, like or pertaining to the west wind; mild and favourable
- feague
- to whip; to perplex
- feak
- lock of hair
- featous
- shapely; well-made; handsome; neat
- febricant
- causing fever
- febricity
- feverishness
- febrifuge
- something which reduces fever
- fecalith
- stony heap or mass of feces
- feckless
- feeble; helpless; futile; ineffectual
- feculent
- covered with filth; filthy
- felicide
- killing of a cat
- felicificative
- tending to make happy
- feliform
- having a catlike form or shape
- fell
- barren or rocky hill or moor
- felloe
- circular rim of a wheel
- felsenmeer
- flat arctic area covered with angular boulders
- femerall
- outlet for smoke in a roof
- femicide
- killing of a woman
- fenestella
- recess in church wall for storing communion vessels
- fenestral
- of, like or pertaining to windows
- feracious
- fruitful; fecund
- feretory
- shrine for relics during a procession or for a funeral bier
- feria
- weekday of a church calendar on which no holiday falls
- ferial
- of, like or pertaining to holidays
- ferity
- state of savagery or barbarism
- fermi
- unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a metre
- ferriferous
- bearing iron
- ferronière
- jewel held on the forehead by a chain
- ferruginous
- of the colour of rust; impregnated with iron
- ferrule
- band on the end of a stick for reinforcing it
- ferula
- flat piece of wood
- ferulaceous
- like a cane or reed
- ferule
- cane or rod used for punishment
- fescennine
- marked by the use of vulgarity or obscene language
- fess
- broad horizontal bar across heraldic field
- festilogy
- treatise on ecclesiastical festivals
- festinate
- to accelerate; to quicken
- fetial
- heraldic; ambassadorial
- feticide
- killing of a fetus
- fetlock
- tuft of hair immediately above horse's hoof
- fettling
- loose material thrown on furnace hearth for protection
- feuilleton
- critical article at the bottom of a newspaper page
- fiacre
- hackney coach; cab
- fiberscope
- instrument using fiberoptics to examine inaccessible areas
- fibriform
- shaped like a fibre
- fibrilliform
- shaped like a small fibre
- fibula
- brooch in the shape of a safety pin
- ficiform
- shaped like a fig
- fictile
- capable of being moulded; of, like or pertaining to pottery
- fictor
- sculptor; one who makes images from clay
- fid
- conical wooden pin used to splice strands of rope
- fiddley
- iron framework around hatchway opening
- fideism
- doctrine that knowledge depends on faith over reason
- fidicinal
- of, like or pertaining to stringed musical instruments
- fiduciary
- held in trust; depending on trust
- fie
- expression of disgust or disapproval
- figuline
- of, like or pertaining to earthenware
- figurant
- ballet dancer who dances only in groups
- figuration
- the act of giving figure or form
- figurehead
- ornament or (usually female) bust attached to the bow of a ship
- filaceous
- composed of threads
- filatory
- machine for forming or spinning threads
- filature
- drawing out of threads
- filemot
- dead-leaf colour; dull brown
- filibeg
- kilt
- filicide
- killing of one's own child
- filiciform
- shaped like a fern or frond
- filiferous
- thread-bearing
- filiform
- shaped like a thread
- filiopietistic
- marked by excessive veneration of ancestors
- filipendulous
- hanging by or strung on a thread
- fillister
- groove in window pane into which glass is set
- filose
- threadlike; having a threadlike end
- filoselle
- coarse floss silk
- fimbriate
- fringed; having a narrow border
- fimetic
- of, like or pertaining to dung
- fimicolous
- living in dung
- finalism
- belief that an end has or can be reached
- fingent
- moulding; shaping
- finial
- decoration on the top of a gable or spire
- finical
- excessively precise in trivial matters
- fipple
- plug in the mouthpiece of a wind instrument
- firkin
- old unit of capacity equal to one quarter of a barrel
- firkin
- small keg
- fissicostate
- having divided ribs
- fissilingual
- with forked or cloven tongue
- fissility
- ability to be split
- fissiparous
- tending to break up into parts
- fissiped
- animal with separated toes
- fistula
- long narrow passage or duct
- fistuliform
- shaped like a pipe
- fitch
- brush made from hair of polecat
- fixity
- fixed state; stability; permanence
- flabellation
- the act of fanning
- flabelliform
- shaped like a fan
- flacon
- scent-bottle
- flagellantism
- the practice of whipping oneself or another
- flagelliferous
- bearing a whip or flagellum
- flagelliform
- shaped like a whip
- flagellomania
- abnormal enthusiasm for flogging
- flageolet
- small flute or recorder with two thumb holes
- flagitate
- to entreat or importune
- flagitious
- grossly wicked; guilty of heinous crimes
- flagstaff
- flag pole at stern of a ship
- flambeau
- flaming torch
- flamen
- pagan priest
- flammeous
- flame-coloured
- flammiferous
- producing flame
- flammulated
- ruddy
- flammulation
- flamelike marking
- flammule
- little flame
- flânerie
- idling; strolling about aimlessly
- flapdoodle
- gross flattery; nonsense
- flaught
- snowflake
- flaughter
- to flutter or flicker; to strip or skin
- flavescent
- yellowish or turning yellow
- fleam
- surgical instrument
- flèche
- narrow wooden spire on church roof
- fleer
- to mock; to jeer; to make faces in contempt
- flench
- to cut up the blubber of; to flay
- fleshling
- a sensualist
- fleuret
- ornament resembling a small flower
- flews
- drooping or pendulous lips
- flexion
- a bend; a fold
- flexuose
- full of windings and turnings; undulating
- flibbertigibbet
- gossipy or flighty person
- flinty
- unyielding; stern
- flivver
- cheap car or airplane
- floatant
- agent causing flotation
- floccilation
- fitful plucking at the bedclothes
- floccinaucinihilipilification
- setting at little or no value
- floccose
- woolly
- flocculate
- to collect or mass together in tufts or masses
- floricide
- killing or killer of flowers
- floricomous
- crowned or topped with flowers
- floriferous
- bearing flowers
- floriform
- shaped like a flower
- florilegium
- anthology of writings, especially of church fathers
- florimania
- craze for flowers
- floriscope
- instrument for inspecting flowers
- floristry
- the art of cultivating and selling flowers
- florisugent
- sucking honey from flowers
- floromancy
- belief that flowers have feelings
- floruit
- dates of a person's birth and death
- flounce
- to move impatiently or abruptly
- flowmeter
- instrument for measuring properties of flowing liquids
- fluke
- part of an anchor that fastens in the ground
- flumen
- right to direct excess rain water to neighbour's yard
- fluminous
- having many rivers or streams
- flummery
- anything insipid; empty compliment; humbug
- fluorimeter
- instrument for measuring fluorescence
- fluoroscope
- instrument using x-rays to examine internal structure of opaque object
- fluvialist
- one stressing the role of rivers in explanation
- fluviology
- study of watercourses
- fluxional
- variable; inconstant
- flype
- to strip back; to turn partially inside out
- flysch
- sandstone deposit
- focimeter
- instrument for measuring focal length of a lens
- fodient
- of, like or pertaining to digging
- foehn
- dry wind that blows down from mountaintops
- foeticide
- killing a fetus
- foetiferous
- bearing or carrying a fetus
- fogram
- antiquated
- foin
- to thrust with a sword or spear
- foinery
- fencing; swordplay
- foison
- plenty; plentiful yield
- foliaceous
- bearing leaves; leaf-like
- foliate
- to cover with leaf metal; to number the leaves of
- foliferous
- bearing leaves
- foliform
- shaped like a leaf
- foliophagous
- eating leaves; eating folios of books
- folkloristics
- study of folklore and fables
- fontinal
- growing near springs
- fooliaminy
- collective term for fools
- foolocracy
- government by fools
- foothot
- hastily; immediately; on the spot
- footlambert
- unit of luminance of a surface emitting one lumen per square foot
- footle
- to waste time; to act foolishly
- footling
- inept; trivial
- foraminate
- to pierce
- foraminated
- perforated or pierced with small holes
- foraminiferous
- bearing foramina
- foraneous
- of, like or pertaining to forums
- forby
- past; near
- forcipate
- of, like or pertaining to forceps
- forcipiform
- shaped like forceps
- fore
- at an earlier time or period
- forebitt
- post for fastening cables at a ship's foremast
- forecabin
- cabin in fore part of ship
- forecastle
- short raised deck at fore end of ship; fore of ship under main deck
- forecome
- to come early; to come before
- forefoot
- foremost end of ship's keel
- forel
- parchment for covering books
- foremast
- mast nearest the bow of a ship
- foresail
- lowest sail set on the foremast of square-rigged ship
- foreshots
- first liquid to come out of a still
- forestay
- stay leading from the foremast to the bow of a ship
- forfaiting
- export finance where debts on goods are transacted
- forfend
- to ward off or avert
- forfex
- a pair of scissors or pincers
- forficate
- forked; like scissors
- forficulate
- like scissors
- forinsecal
- foreign; alien; extrinsic
- forisfamiliate
- to emancipate from parental authority
- formant
- anything that limits, determines or defines
- formate
- to join or fly in a formation
- formic
- of, like or pertaining to ants
- formicate
- resembling an ant
- formication
- sensation like ants crawling on the skin
- formicide
- substance that kills ants
- formicine
- of, like or pertaining to ants
- formivorous
- eating ants
- fornicate
- vaulted or arched
- forsooth
- in truth; indeed
- forswink
- to exhaust by labour
- fortalice
- fortress; small outwork of a fortification
- forthwith
- immediately
- fortuitism
- belief in evolution by chance variation
- foss
- ditch, moat, trench or canal
- fossarian
- clergyman moonlighting as a gravedigger
- fossick
- to search by turning over earth or rock
- fossiliferous
- bearing fossils
- fossor
- grave-digger
- fossorial
- adapted for digging
- fossulate
- grooved; pitted
- foudroyant
- thundering; dazzling
- fougade
- piece of improvised artillery
- foulard
- soft lightweight plain-woven or twilled silk fabric
- foulé
- light woollen fulled cloth
- foumart
- polecat
- fourchette
- anything forked
- fourgon
- baggage-wagon
- foursquare
- forthright
- fouter
- to mess about with aimlessly
- fovea
- depression or pit
- foveate
- pitted
- foveiform
- shaped like a depression or pit
- fractionalism
- the state of consisting of discrete units
- fractious
- irritable; peevish
- fragor
- a crash
- francomania
- craze or obsession with France and the French
- Francophile
- one who loves France or the French
- Francophobia
- fear of France or the French
- frangible
- easily broken
- frankalmoign
- land tenure requiring religious obligations on part of tenant
- frantling
- mating call of a peacock
- frap
- to draw a sail tight with ropes or cables
- frazil
- ground-ice; ice in small spikes in streams
- freeboard
- distance between waterline and main deck of a ship
- freestone
- building stone difficult to split into layers
- fremescent
- growling or muttering
- fremitus
- vibration; rumbling
- frescade
- a cool walk; cool or shady place
- fresnel
- unit of optical frequency equal to one terahertz
- fretum
- strait
- friable
- easily crumbled or pulverized
- fricandeau
- thick slice of veal or similar meat
- frieze
- rough heavy woollen cloth
- frigiferous
- bearing or bringing cold
- frigolabile
- susceptible to the cold
- frigorific
- causing cold; freezing
- fringillaceous
- of, like or pertaining to finches
- fringilliform
- resembling a finch
- fringilline
- of, like or pertaining to finches
- frisson
- shiver; shudder; thrill
- frist
- delay or respite, as for debt repayment
- frit
- material from which glass is made
- frith
- peace; sanctuary
- fritiniency
- the noise of insects
- frogmarch
- to carry an uncooperative drunkard or prisoner
- frondescence
- the formation of leaves
- frondiferous
- bearing or producing fronds
- frondose
- having or like leaves
- frontal
- cloth hanging over front of altar
- frontogenesis
- creation of a weather front by meeting of air currents
- frostwork
- delicate figures and patterns in which frost forms on surfaces
- frottage
- rubbing, especially for sexual gratification
- froward
- turned away; self-willed; unreasonable; perverse; adverse
- frowst
- to luxuriate in hot stuffiness and stupefaction
- fructiferous
- bearing fruit
- fructivorous
- feeding on fruit
- fructuary
- person enjoying the fruits of anything
- fructuation
- coming to fruit or bearing of fruit
- fructuous
- fruitful
- frugiferous
- bearing fruit
- frugivorous
- eating fruit
- frumentaceous
- resembling wheat or other grain
- frumentarious
- of, like or pertaining to corn
- frutescent
- like or resembling a shrub
- fruticose
- shrubby
- fub
- to put off; to fob
- fucivorous
- eating seaweed
- fucoid
- shaped like seaweed
- fuero
- code or body of laws; a constitution
- fug
- hot; close; smoky state of atmosphere
- fugacious
- inclined to run away or flee
- fuji
- plain spun silk fabric
- fulcible
- capable of being propped up
- fulciform
- shaped like or resembling a prop
- fulcrate
- supported with fulcrums
- fulgent
- shining; bright
- fulgid
- flashing
- fulgorous
- flashing
- fulgour
- splendour
- fulgural
- of, like or pertaining to lightning
- fulgurate
- to flash like lightning
- fulgurous
- resembling lightning
- fuliginous
- sooty; dusky
- fuligo
- soot
- fuliguline
- of, like or pertaining to sea ducks
- fullonical
- of, like or pertaining or belonging to a fuller
- fulminate
- express loudly; explode violently
- fulmineous
- of, like or pertaining to thunder and lightning
- fulsome
- nauseatingly affectionate, admiring or praiseful
- fulvous
- dull yellow; tawny
- fumage
- hearth-tax
- fumarole
- hole emitting gases in a volcanic region
- fumatorium
- a place for smoking
- fumet
- the scent of game when high
- fumiduct
- smoke vent; smokestack
- fumosity
- condition of fuming; an exhalation
- funambulism
- tightrope walking; show of mental agility
- functionalism
- doctrine emphasising utility and function
- fundiform
- shaped like a sling
- fundus
- the bottom of anything
- funebral
- of, like or pertaining to a funeral
- funest
- deadly; lamentable
- fungible
- interchangeable
- fungiform
- shaped like a fungus
- fungous
- of or like fungus; soft; spongy
- funicular
- of, like or pertaining to a string or cable
- funipendulous
- hanging by a rope or cord
- furacious
- thievish
- furcate
- forked
- furciferous
- bearing a fork
- furciferous
- bearing a forked appendage; rascally
- furcular
- shaped like a fork
- furfur
- dandruff or scurf
- furfuraceous
- branny; scaly
- furibund
- raging; furious
- furnicular
- hanging from a rope or cable
- furuncular
- of, like or pertaining to boils
- furunculoid
- like a boil
- fusain
- fine charcoal used in drawing
- fuscous
- brown; tawny; dingy
- fusee
- spindle in a watch on which the chain is wound
- fusiform
- shaped like a spindle
- fusillation
- death by shooting
- fustian
- coarse twilled cotton
- fustian
- pretentious writing or speech
- fustigate
- to cudgel
- fustilarian
- a term of abuse
- futtock
- rib of a ship
- futurition
- future existence; time to come
- futurology
- study of future
- gabardine
- closely woven cotton or wool twill
- gabbart
- barge
- gabble
- to chatter or talk inarticulately
- gabbro
- granular igneous rock
- gabelle
- a salt tax
- gabion
- wicker or wire basket of earth or rock
- gablock
- spur attached to the heel of a fighting cock
- gad
- to wander about idly or in pursuit of pleasure
- gadarene
- headlong; precipitate
- gadoid
- of, resembling or pertaining to the cod
- gadroon
- embossed decoration or fluting on silverware
- gadzookery
- the use of archaisms in literature
- gadzooks
- mild oath
- gaff
- spar on which head of fore-and-aft sail is extended
- gaff-topsail
- triangular topsail with its foot extended upon the gaff
- gage
- token of defiance or challenge; thing deposited as pledge of performance
- gal
- unit of acceleration of one centimeter per second per second
- galactic
- of, like or pertaining to or obtained from milk
- galactoid
- like or resembling milk; milky
- galactometer
- instrument for measuring specific gravity of milk
- galactophagist
- milk drinker
- galactophorous
- bearing or carrying milk
- galanty
- shadow play
- galatea
- striped cotton
- galeanthropy
- belief that one is a cat
- galeated
- shaped like a helmet
- galeiform
- shaped like a helmet
- galère
- group of undesirable people; unpleasant situation
- galericulate
- topped by a hat-like covering
- galilee
- porch in front of church
- galimatias
- nonsense; confused mixture of unrelated things
- gallet
- to fill in mortar joints with small pebbles
- galliard
- sprightly Renaissance and Baroque dance
- galliard
- brisk; gallant; lively
- gallimaufry
- a mixture of different things; hodge-podge
- gallinaceous
- of or resembling pheasants and other domestic birds
- gallionic
- uncaring; indifferent
- galliot
- small galley
- gallipot
- small medicine jar
- gallize
- to bring wine to standard proportions
- gallomania
- craze or obsession with France and the French
- galloon
- lace trim or binding material
- Gallophile
- one who loves France or the French
- gallophobia
- fear of France or the French
- galop
- lively double-time dance
- galvanometer
- instrument for measuring electrical current
- galvanoscope
- instrument for detecting presence and direction of electric current
- gambado
- bound or spring of a horse; fantastic movement
- gambeson
- ancient leather or quilted coat worn as armour
- gambrel
- crooked stick used by butchers for hanging carcasses
- gambrel
- horse's hock
- gambrel
- roof having a pentagonal gable
- gambroon
- twilled worsted and cloth
- gametogenesis
- formation of gametes
- gamic
- sexual; sexually produced
- gamidolatry
- worship of marriage
- gamin
- street urchin; precocious imp
- gaminesque
- playful; impish; boyish
- gamma
- unit of magnetic flux density equal to one nanotesla
- gammadion
- figure comprised of capital gammas; swastika
- gammicism
- inability or hardship in pronouncing letters 'g' and 'k'
- gammon
- to feign an action; perpetrate a hoax on
- gamogenesis
- sexual reproduction
- gamomania
- obsession with issuing odd marriage proposals
- gamophagia
- destruction of one gamete by another
- gamophobia
- fear of marriage
- gangue
- worthless rock in which valuable metals occur
- gangway
- either of the sides of the upper deck of a ship
- ganister
- flint-like rock used to surface roads
- ganoid
- having shiny smooth scales
- ganosis
- reduction in shininess of marble
- gantline
- rope used in single-block hoist
- gantry
- shelving for barrels; shelf where drinks are displayed
- gaposis
- gap in a row of buttons or snaps
- gar
- mild oath
- garboard
- plank on a ship's bottom next to the keel
- garbology
- study of garbage
- garçonniere
- bachelor apartment
- gardyloo
- warning cry
- gargarize
- to gargle
- garner
- granary; store of anything
- garnetiferous
- bearing garnets
- garret
- room just under the roof of a house; attic
- gasconade
- to brag or boast
- gasconism
- boastfulness
- gasiform
- of the form or shape of gas
- gasometer
- instrument for holding and measuring gases
- gastriloquist
- ventriloquist
- gastroenterology
- study of stomach; intestines
- gastrolatry
- gluttony; excessive love of food
- gastrolith
- stone ingested by an animal to aid in digestion
- gastrology
- good eating; cookery
- gastromancy
- divination by sounds from the belly
- gastronomy
- study of fine dining
- gastropod
- mollusks including snails; slugs; whelks
- gastroscope
- instrument for examining interior of the stomach
- gastrosopher
- a person skilled in matters of eating
- gat
- opening or strait between two sandbanks
- gatefold
- oversized page in a book
- gaucherie
- awkward or socially unacceptable remark
- gaud
- trick or practical joke
- gauffer
- to make pleats or ripples in material
- gauleiter
- overbearing wielder of petty authority
- gault
- heavy clay used for bricks
- gaumless
- stupid; witless; vacant
- gaur
- wild ox
- gauss
- unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1/10000 tesla
- gavage
- force-feeding of poultry
- gavelkind
- land inheritance by all sons in equal portion
- gavotte
- moderate tempo French peasant dance
- gawdelpus
- helpless person
- gazar
- silk organza fabric
- geal
- of, like or pertaining or pertaining to the earth
- gegenschein
- glow of zodiacal light seen opposite the sun
- geist
- spirit; intellectual inclination
- geitonogamy
- pollination of a flower by another flower on the same plant
- gelasin
- dimple in the cheek that appears when one smiles
- gelastic
- of, like or pertaining to or provoking laughter
- gelation
- solidification by cooling
- gelid
- extremely cold
- gelogenic
- tending to produce laughter
- geloscopy
- fortune-telling by means of laughter
- gemel
- twinned; occurring in pairs
- gemelliparous
- having given birth to twins
- gement
- groaning, lamenting
- geminate
- to double; to arrange in pairs
- geminiform
- paired; double
- gemma
- bud from which a new plant can grow
- gemmate
- to deck with gems
- gemmation
- budding
- gemmeous
- of, like or pertaining to gems; like a gem
- gemmiferous
- bearing gems
- gemmology
- study of gems and jewels
- genappe
- smooth worsted yarn
- genarch
- head of a family or clan
- generalate
- the office of a general
- genesic
- of, like or pertaining to procreation or the genitals
- genesiology
- study of reproduction and heredity
- genethliacon
- birthday ode
- genethlialogy
- the art of casting horoscopes
- genetrix
- mother; female ancestor
- geniculate
- bent like a knee; jointed
- geniophobia
- fear of chins
- genitive
- indicating possession, origin or relation
- genoa
- large jib that overlaps the mainsail
- genophobia
- fear of sex
- genouillère
- jointed knee-piece of armour
- gentilitian
- belonging to a race or clan
- gentrification
- movement of middle class to working class area
- geocarpy
- the production or ripening of fruit underground
- geocentrism
- belief that Earth is the centre of the universe
- geochemistry
- study of chemistry of the earth's crust
- geochronology
- study of measuring geological time
- geocyclic
- of, like or pertaining to the rotation and revolution of the Earth
- geodesy
- earth measurement on a large scale
- geofact
- rock chipped naturally that looks like an artifact
- geogenous
- growing on the ground
- geogeny
- science of the formation of the earth's crust
- geognosy
- knowledge of the general structure of the earth
- geogony
- study of formation of the earth
- geogony
- theory of the formation of the earth
- geoid
- figure of the earth
- geolatry
- earth-worship
- geology
- study of earth's crust
- geomancy
- divination by casting earth onto a surface
- geomorphogeny
- study of the origins of land forms
- geophagy
- practice of feeding on soil; dirt-eating
- geophilous
- living in or near the ground
- geophone
- device for detecting sound waves underground
- geophyte
- plant that grows in the earth
- geoponic
- agricultural
- geoponics
- study of agriculture
- georgette
- thin silk
- georgic
- of, like or pertaining to agricultural or rustic affairs; rural; agrarian
- geoscopy
- examination or analysis of soil
- geoselenic
- of, like or pertaining to both the Earth and the moon
- geostrophic
- of, like or pertaining to deflection due to effects of Earth's rotation
- geotaxis
- response of an organism to gravity
- geotechnics
- study of increasing habitability of the earth
- geothermometer
- instrument for measuring subterranean temperatures
- gerascophobia
- fear of growing old
- geratology
- study of decadence and decay
- gerdoying
- imitation sound of a crash
- gerendum
- something that is to be done
- gerent
- one that rules or manages
- german
- of one's parents' siblings
- Germanophilia
- love or fondness for Germany or the Germans
- germicide
- substance that kills germs
- gerocomy
- study of old age
- geromorphism
- appearing to be older than one's actual age
- gerontocracy
- government by the aged
- gerontogenous
- of, like or pertaining to the Old World
- gerontology
- study of the elderly; aging
- gerontophilia
- sexual attraction towards the elderly
- gerrymander
- to divide electoral districts for one's own political gain
- gesso
- plaster of Paris used in painting
- gestatorial
- of, like or pertaining to carrying
- gestic
- of, like or pertaining to gestures
- geta
- wooden-soled Japanese shoe
- gewgaw
- toy; trifling object; bauble
- ghawazi
- Egyptian dancing girls
- giaour
- one who does not follow the Islamic faith; unbeliever
- gib
- wedge-shaped piece of metal that holds another in place
- gibbet
- gallows
- gibbous
- hump-backed; humped; swollen
- gibus
- hat worn to the opera
- gid
- brain disease suffered by sheep
- gig
- light two-wheeled one-horse carriage
- giganticide
- killing of a giant
- gigantology
- study of giants
- gigantology
- giant-lore
- gigantomachy
- war of giants against the gods
- gigot
- leg of mutton
- gigue
- lively Baroque dance in triple time
- gilbert
- unit of magnetomotive force
- gilderoy
- proud person
- gilliver
- wallflower
- gimbals
- arrangement of rings allowing free motion of supported object
- gimcrack
- trick; trivial mechanism
- gimmal
- ring that can be divided into two or three rings
- gingham
- striped cotton cloth
- ginglymus
- joint that permits movement in one plane only
- ginnel
- narrow alley between high buildings
- ginnery
- place where cotton is ginned
- girandole
- branched chandelier or similar structure
- girasol
- fire-opal that glows like fire in certain light
- glabrous
- hairless; smooth
- glaciology
- study of ice ages and glaciation
- glacis
- a gentle slope in fortification
- gladiate
- shaped like a sword
- glair
- egg white used as medium for binding paint
- glaireous
- slimy; viscous
- glandiferous
- bearing acorns or nuts
- glandiform
- gland-shaped; acorn-shaped
- glanduliferous
- bearing glands
- glareous
- gravelly; growing on gravel
- glaucous
- sea-green; greyish-blue
- glebe
- church land granted to clergyman
- glebe
- sod; the soil
- glebous
- earthy; full of clods
- gleed
- hot coal; burning ember
- gleek
- a trick or joke
- gleet
- mucus discharge from the urethra
- glenoid
- slightly cupped; socket-shaped
- gliriform
- resembling a rodent
- glirine
- rodent-like; of, like or pertaining to rodents
- glissade
- moving on snow without skis
- gloaming
- period between sunset and full night; dusk
- globuliferous
- bearing globules
- glochidiate
- bristled; barbed
- glomerate
- packed or bunched together
- glossa
- the tongue
- glossographer
- writer of short explanatory notes or glosses
- glossoid
- like a tongue
- glossology
- study of language; study of the tongue
- glossophagine
- eating using the tongue
- glottogonic
- of, like or pertaining to the origins of language
- glozing
- flattery; deceit
- gluconeogenesis
- production of glucose from non-carbohydrates
- glumiferous
- bearing glumes
- glutinous
- gluey; sticky
- glutition
- swallowing
- glycogenesis
- production of glycogen
- glyptic
- of, like or pertaining to carving or gem-engraving
- glyptography
- the art of engraving on gems
- glyptology
- study of gem engravings
- gnathal
- of, like or pertaining to the jaws
- gnathion
- tip of the chin
- gnathonic
- flattering
- gnomic
- signifying general truth; pertaining to aphorisms or proverbs
- gnomology
- collection of aphorisms, proverbs and short poems
- gnomon
- upright rod of a sundial
- gnomonics
- the art of measuring time using sundials
- gnosiology
- study of knowledge; philosophy of knowledge
- gnosis
- knowledge; especially spiritual
- gnosticism
- belief that freedom derives solely from knowledge
- gnotobiology
- study of life in germ-free conditions
- goatish
- lustful; foolish
- godet
- triangular piece of cloth inserted in a skirt
- goetic
- of, like or pertaining to black magic
- goitrous
- affected by or pertaining to goitre
- goldenrod
- dark golden yellow
- goliard
- wandering student
- goliardy
- riotous or lustful behaviour
- goluptious
- delightful; luscious
- gomphiasis
- looseness of the teeth
- gomphosis
- growth of teeth into the bone cavity
- gonalgia
- knee pain
- gonfalon
- ensign with streamers hung from a horizontal bar
- gonfalonier
- standard-bearer
- goniometer
- instrument for measuring angles between faces
- gonoph
- pickpocket; thief
- gorget
- piece of armour for the throat
- gorgoneion
- representation of the gorgon's head
- gorgonize
- to turn into stone; to paralyze with one's gaze
- gormandism
- gluttony
- gormless
- dull or unintelligent
- gorsedd
- assembly for granting awards to Welsh bards
- gorsoon
- boy-servant
- gossypine
- cottony
- gouache
- opaque watercolour paint
- gowk
- a cuckoo; a fool
- grabble
- search with the hand; grope
- graben
- a rift valley
- gracility
- slenderness
- gradatim
- step by step
- gradgrind
- one who regulates things by means of statistics
- gradin
- a rising tier of seats in a theatre
- gradiometer
- instrument for measuring gradient of a physical quantity
- gradual
- part of mass between epistle and gospel
- gradualism
- belief that things proceed by degrees
- Graecomania
- obsession with Greece and the Greeks
- grafology
- divination by studying writing
- grain
- unit of weight equal to 1/7000 of a pound
- graip
- pitchfork; dungfork
- grallatory
- of, like or pertaining to wading birds
- gramary
- magic; enchantment
- gramercy
- expression of gratitude or surprise
- gramineous
- of, like or pertaining to grass; grassy
- graminivorous
- feeding on grass or cereals
- graminology
- study of grasses
- grammalogue
- word represented by a single sign; logogram
- grammaticaster
- a piddling grammarian
- grammatolatry
- worship of letters and words
- grammatology
- study of systems of writing
- grandeval
- of great age; ancient
- grandiloquent
- bombastic
- grandinous
- full of hail; consisting of hail
- grandisonant
- pompous-sounding
- grangerize
- to cut plates out of many books to illustrate one
- granivorous
- feeding on seeds
- granuliferous
- bearing granules
- grapheme
- a letter of the alphabet
- graphemics
- study of systems of representing speech in writing
- grapholagnia
- obsession with obscene pictures
- graphology
- study of handwriting
- graphomania
- obsession with writing
- graphophobia
- fear of writing
- graphospasm
- writer's cramp
- grapnel
- small anchor used for dragging or grappling
- graptomancy
- divination by studying handwriting
- grassing
- bleaching by exposure on grass
- graticulation
- division of design into squares when scaling
- gratis
- without charge; for free
- grattoir
- scraper made of flint
- gratulatory
- congratulatory
- grauncher
- clumsy and incompetent mechanic
- graupel
- frozen rain or snowflakes
- gravamen
- grievance; grounds of legal complaint
- graveolent
- rank-smelling; fetid
- gravid
- pregnant
- gravimeter
- instrument for measuring variations in gravitational fields
- gravimetrical
- of, like or pertaining to measuring by weight
- gray
- unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation equal to 100 rads
- greave
- armour for the shin
- greaves
- tallow waste
- gregal
- of, like or pertaining to a flock
- gregatim
- in flocks
- greige
- of a grey-beige colour
- gremial
- intimate; pertaining to the lap or bosom
- grenadine
- thin silk
- gressorial
- adapted for walking
- gricer
- train-spotter or railway enthusiast
- gridelin
- violet-grey
- griffade
- sudden seizure with the claws
- grillage
- framework of timber
- grilse
- salmon first returning to the river from the sea
- grimgribber
- learned gibberish; legal jargon
- grimoire
- magician's book for summoning spirits
- grinagog
- one who is constantly grinning
- gripulous
- grasping; greedy
- grisaille
- style of painting in grey tints
- griseous
- pearl-grey or blue-grey; grizzled
- grith
- sanctuary; asylum
- grithbreach
- breach of the peace
- grobianism
- slovenly boorishness
- groggery
- low public-house
- grognard
- old or veteran soldier
- grogram
- coarse loosely woven silk fabric
- gromatic
- of, like or pertaining to surveys or surveying
- gromatics
- science of surveying
- grosgrain
- heavy close-woven corded silk
- grough
- deep gully in peat moor area
- groundage
- a charge on a ship in port
- groundling
- person of inferior taste; commoner
- groundprox
- altitude warning system in aircraft
- groundsel
- lowest timber of a structure
- groupuscule
- small clique or faction
- grout
- to root or grub with the snout
- growlery
- a retreat for times of ill humour
- groyne
- wooden breakwater
- grufted
- dirty; begrimed
- gruine
- of, like or pertaining to cranes or similar birds
- grum
- morose; surly
- grumous
- clotted; lumpy
- guaniferous
- bearing dung
- guardant
- of a heraldic animal turned to side with head facing the viewer
- guarish
- to heal
- gudgeon
- metal pin or bearing connecting rudder to a boat
- gudgeon
- a person easily cheated
- guerdon
- reward; recompense
- guéridon
- small ornate table or stand
- guérite
- chair with raised back forming a hood
- guichet
- ticket window or similar small opening
- guidon
- pennant with rounded outer edge
- guignol
- something intended to horrify people
- guilloche
- to decorate with intersecting curved lines
- guimpe
- wide cloth covering neck and shoulders worn by nuns
- guipure
- lace having no ground or mesh
- gules
- heraldic name for the colour red
- gulix
- kind of fine linen
- gullery
- place where gulls breed
- gulosity
- gluttony; greed
- gulpin
- credulous person; simpleton
- gummiferous
- bearing gum
- gummosity
- gumminess
- gumnivorous
- feeding on tree saps
- gunarchy
- government by women; gynarchy
- gunnage
- number of guns carried on a warship
- gunwale
- upper edge of the side of a ship
- gurgitate
- to bubble; to boil
- gurgitation
- surging
- gurlet
- pickaxe with one pointed and one bladed end
- guttate
- spotted; having drops or droplike markings
- guttatim
- drop by drop
- guttation
- release of drops of moisture
- guttiferous
- exuding drops
- guttiform
- shaped like a drop
- gutturotetany
- spasm in the throat causing stutter
- guyot
- flat-topped underwater mountain
- gybe
- to swing a sail from one side to another
- gyle
- fermenting vat for beer
- gymnasiarch
- the head of a gymnasium
- gymnasiarchy
- government over a school or academy
- gymnasiast
- a pupil in a gymnasium
- gymnobiblism
- belief that the Bible can be presented to unlearned without commentary
- gymnophobia
- fear of nudity
- gymnosophy
- deep contemplation performed while naked
- gynaecide
- killing of women
- gynaecocracy
- government by women; gynarchy
- gynaecology
- study of women's physiology
- gynaecomania
- abnormal sexual obsession with women
- gynandroid
- hermaphroditic; being of or resembling both sexes
- gynarchy
- government by women
- gynics
- knowledge of women
- gyniolatry
- deep respect or devotion for women
- gynocentric
- focused on or concerned with women
- gynocracy
- government by women; gynarchy
- gynotikolobomassophile
- one who nibbles on women's earlobes
- gypsiferous
- bearing gypsum
- gyrograph
- instrument for counting a wheel's revolutions
- gyroidal
- spiral; rotatory
- gyromancy
- divination by falling from dizziness
- gyron
- triangular heraldic charge
- gyrose
- having a folded surface; marked with wavy lines
- gyrostatics
- the study of rotating bodies
- gyrus
- convoluted ridge between two grooves
- gyve
- to fetter; to shackle
- habanera
- slow and seductive Cuban dance
- habergeon
- sleeveless mail coat
- habilable
- capable of being clothed
- habilatory
- of, like or pertaining to clothes or dressing
- habile
- dexterous; adroit
- habiliment
- attire
- habilitate
- to equip or finance; to qualify
- habromania
- insanity featuring cheerful delusions
- hachure
- shading or lines showing a slope on a map
- hackle
- comb for flax or hemp
- hackney
- four-wheeled two-horse carriage
- hadal
- parts of the ocean below 6000 metres
- hadeharia
- constant use of the word "hell"
- haecceity
- aspect of existence on which individuality depends
- haemal
- of, like or pertaining to blood
- haemataulics
- study of movement of blood through blood vessels
- haemathermal
- warm-blooded
- haematic
- blood-coloured
- haematogenesis
- production of blood
- haemophilia
- hereditary disease causing excessive bleeding
- hagiarchy
- government by saints or holy persons
- hagiocracy
- government by holy men
- hagiolatry
- worship or reverence for saints
- hagiology
- study of saints
- hagiomania
- mania for sainthood
- hagioscope
- opening in wall to enable viewing of altar
- hakenkreuz
- swastika
- halation
- blurring in a photograph due to light reflection
- halcyonine
- of, like or pertaining to kingfishers
- halfpace
- landing or broad step
- halibiotic
- of, like or pertaining to the entirety of life under the sea
- halieutic
- of, like or pertaining to fishing
- halieutics
- study of fishing
- haligraphy
- treatise on salt
- halitosis
- bad breath
- halitous
- vaporous
- halitus
- vapour; breath
- hallux
- big toe
- halolimnic
- of, like or pertaining to sea creatures who spend time in fresh water
- halomancy
- divination using salt
- halophilous
- tolerant of salt or salt-water
- halyard
- rope or tackle for hoisting and lowering sails
- hamarchy
- government by a cooperative body of parts
- hamartia
- flaw in a character leading to his downfall
- hamartiology
- study of sin
- hamartiology
- section of theology dealing with sin
- hamate
- hooked
- hamble
- to mutilate a dog by cutting of the balls of its feet
- hambo
- Swedish folk dance in three-four time
- hame
- curved projection attached to the collar of a draft horse
- hamiform
- shaped like a hook
- hamose
- hooked
- hamshackle
- to fetter; to restrain
- hamular
- like a small hook
- hamulate
- tipped with a small hook
- hamulus
- a small hook or hook-like process
- hanap
- chalice used in communion whose cover is a second chalice
- hanaster
- one who paid the entrance fee for Oxford's medieval merchant's guild
- handfast
- a firm grip; a contract
- handlist
- list without detail
- handsel
- inaugural gift; first installment or payment
- handspike
- bar used as a lever
- hank
- series of rings or clips for attaching a jib or staysail to a stay
- hansom
- light two-wheeled cab
- hapax
- word which occurs only once
- hapaxanthous
- flowering only once
- haplography
- omission of words or lines in recopying text
- haplology
- omission of a doubled or similar sound or syllable in a word
- haptic
- of, like or pertaining to the sense of touch
- haptometer
- instrument measuring sensitivity to touch
- haptotropic
- curving in response to touch
- haqueton
- stuffed jacket worn under mail
- hardihood
- boldness; audacity
- hardparts
- skeletal parts of an organism
- harengiform
- shaped like a herring
- hariolate
- to divine; to foretell
- hark
- to pay close attention; to listen
- harl
- barb of feather used to make artificial fishing fly
- harmonics
- study of musical acoustics
- harmoniphone
- keyboard instrument with reeds
- harmonograph
- instrument drawing curves representing vibrations
- harmonometer
- instrument measuring harmonic relations of sounds
- harn
- coarse linen
- harpagon
- harpoon
- harridan
- sharp-tongued; scolding woman
- harrier
- medium-sized scenting dog for hunting hares
- harry
- to plunder; to ravage; to destroy
- haruspication
- divination by inspecting animal entrails
- haslock
- wool on sheep's throat and neck
- haslot
- cooked animal entrails
- hassock
- kneeling cushion in a church
- hastate
- spear-shaped
- hatchment
- coat of arms of a deceased person
- hauberk
- long chain mail coat
- haulm
- stems of plants or straw collectively
- haurient
- rising as if to breathe
- haussmannize
- to open out; to rebuild
- haustellum
- sucking proboscis or sucking end
- haustorial
- having a sucking proboscis
- haut
- high; haughty
- hauteur
- haughtiness; arrogance
- havelock
- white cover for a military cap
- haversack
- bag worn over the shoulder for carrying provisions
- havier
- castrated deer
- hawkshaw
- detective
- hawse
- distance between ship's bow and its anchor
- hawsehole
- hole for ship's cable
- hawser
- large rope for mooring or towing a ship
- haycock
- conical pile of hay in a field
- haysel
- hay season
- headborough
- petty constable
- headland
- cape; point; promontory
- headsail
- sail set forward of the foremast of a ship
- headstock
- device for supporting end or head of a member
- heapstead
- buildings and places around a mine shaft
- hearsecloth
- cloth lain over coffin during funeral
- heartsome
- exhilarating; merry
- hebamic
- of, like or pertaining to the socratic method
- hebdomadally
- every week
- hebenon
- anything with poisonous juices
- hebephrenia
- form of dementia occurring at puberty
- hebetate
- to make dull or obtuse
- hebetic
- of, like or pertaining to puberty
- hebetude
- stupidity
- hecatarchy
- government by one hundred people; hecatontarchy
- hecatomb
- large sacrifice or slaughter; killing of one hundred animals or people
- hecatontarchy
- government by one hundred people
- hector
- to intimidate by bluster, pomp or arrogance
- heddle
- series of vertical cords to receive warp-thread
- hederaceous
- of, like or pertaining to ivy
- hederated
- crowned with a wreath of ivy
- hederiferous
- ivy-bearing
- hederiform
- shaped like ivy
- hednon
- wedding present
- hedonics
- part of ethics or psychology dealing with pleasure
- hedonism
- belief that pleasure is the highest good
- heeler
- a worker for a local politician or political party
- hegemony
- leadership of one state within a confederacy
- hegumene
- head of a nunnery
- hekistotherm
- plant which can grow in very cold environments
- helcoid
- ulcerous
- helcology
- study of ulcers
- heliac
- solar; coincident with that of the sun
- helicograph
- instrument for drawing spirals on a plane
- helicoid
- screw-shaped; like a coil
- helicon
- bass tuba
- helicosophy
- geometry that deals with spirals
- helictite
- twisted; branching stalactite
- heliofugal
- moving away from the sun
- heliograph
- instrument for measuring intensity of sunlight
- heliolatry
- sun worship
- heliology
- science of the sun
- heliometer
- instrument for measuring apparent diameter of the sun
- heliophilous
- preferring or attracted to the sunlight
- heliophobia
- fear of sunlight
- heliosciophyte
- plant that thrives in sun better than shade
- helioscope
- instrument for observing sun without injury to the eyes
- helioseismology
- study of sun's interior by observing its surface oscillations
- heliosis
- exposure to the sun; sunburn
- heliotaxis
- response of an organism to the sun's rays
- heliotrope
- purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror
- heliotropism
- movement of plants towards sunlight
- helix
- screw-shaped coil
- Hellenomania
- obsession with Greece and the Greeks; Graecomania
- hellkite
- kite of infernal breed; extremely cruel person
- helm
- ship's steering wheel
- helminth
- worm
- helminthiasis
- infestation with worms
- helminthoid
- worm-shaped
- helminthology
- study of worms
- helobious
- living in marshes or moors
- helotage
- the state of helots or being enslaved
- helotry
- class of slaves
- helve
- handle of an axe or similar tool
- hemacytometer
- instrument for counting blood cells
- hematology
- study of blood
- hematomancy
- divination using blood
- hemeralopia
- day-blindness; vision requiring dim light
- hemerology
- calendar
- hemialgia
- pain in one side of the body alone
- hemianopsia
- blindness in one eye
- hemiolic
- based on the ratio of 3 to 2
- hemiplegic
- paralyzed on one side only
- hemistich
- half a verse line
- hemitery
- congenital deformity
- hendecagon
- eleven-sided figure
- hendecarchy
- government by eleven people
- hendiadys
- expression of adjective and noun as two adjectives
- henism
- doctrine that there is only one kind of existence
- henotheism
- belief in one tribal god, but not as the only god
- henotic
- tending to unify or reconcile; promoting harmony
- henry
- unit of electrical inductance
- hent
- to grasp; to seize
- heortology
- study of religious feasts
- hepatic
- of, like or pertaining to or acting upon the liver
- hepatology
- study of liver
- hepatoscopy
- divination by examining animal livers
- hephaestic
- of, like or pertaining to iron-working and blacksmiths
- heptamerous
- having parts in sevens
- heptarchy
- government by seven people
- hepteris
- ship with seven rows of oars
- herbarium
- collection of preserved plants and herbs
- herbescent
- growing like an herb
- herborize
- to gather or tend herbs
- herbose
- abounding with herbs
- hercogamy
- prevention of self-pollination in plants
- herdic
- low-hung carriage with back entrance
- hereditament
- property that may pass on to an heir
- heresiarch
- leader of a heretical movement
- heresiology
- study of heresies
- hereticaster
- a petty or contemptible heretic
- hereticate
- to denounce as heretical
- hereticide
- killing of heretics
- heretofore
- until now
- heriot
- payment to feudal lord upon death of tenant farmer
- hérissé
- bristled
- herisson
- swinging beam bearing iron spikes
- herm
- head or bust of Hermes with a big wang on a square base
- hermeneutic
- of, like or pertaining to the interpretation of passages
- hermetic
- of, like or pertaining to sorcery or alchemy
- heroarchy
- government by heroes
- heroon
- temple to a hero; temple-shaped tomb
- herpetic
- creeping
- herpetiform
- resembling or shaped like a reptile
- herpetoid
- of, like or pertaining to snakes
- herpetology
- study of reptiles and amphibians
- herpetophobia
- fear of snakes
- herringbone
- twilled fabric woven in rows of parallel sloping lines
- hesternal
- of, like or pertaining to yesterday
- hesternopothia
- yearning for yesterday or earlier times
- hesychastic
- keeping silence; soothing or quieting
- hetaera
- paramour; prostitute; concubine
- hetaerocracy
- government by paramours
- hetairism
- concubinage; system of communal marriage
- heterarchy
- government by a foreign ruler
- heterism
- variation
- heterochrony
- divergence from normal time sequence
- heteroclitous
- irregularly inflected
- heterodymus
- conjoined twins with two heads and torsos but one pair of legs
- heterodyne
- interference due to different wave frequencies
- heteroecious
- parasitism upon several hosts
- heteroepy
- irregular or non-standard pronunciation
- heterogenesis
- spontaneous or alternate generation
- heterology
- differences due to different origin
- heteronomous
- subject to different or foreign laws
- heteronym
- word having same spelling but different sound and meaning
- heteropathy
- excessive sensitivity
- heterophemy
- accidental use of word different from that meant
- heteroscian
- dweller of a temperate zone
- heterotaxis
- anomalous arrangement of body parts
- heterothermal
- taking the temperature of the surroundings
- heterotrichosis
- having hair of varied or mixed colours
- heterotropic
- squinting
- heuristic
- helping to discover by trial and error
- hexactinal
- having six rays
- hexaemeron
- period of six days of creation
- hexamerous
- having six parts
- hexametromania
- mania for writing in hexameter
- hexastichal
- having six lines or rows
- hexeris
- galley with six rows of oars
- heyday
- expression of elation or wonder
- hiant
- gaping
- hibernaculum
- winter retreat
- hibernal
- of, like or pertaining to winter
- hidation
- measuring or assessing land by hides
- hide
- old unit of land area equal to 120 acres
- hidrotic
- causing or exuding sweat
- hiemal
- of, like or pertaining to winter
- hieratical
- priestly; bound by religious convention
- hierocracy
- government by priests or religious ministers
- hierodule
- temple slave
- hierogram
- sacred or hieroglyphic symbol
- hierography
- description of sacred things
- hierolatry
- worship of saints or sacred things
- hierology
- science of sacred matters
- hieromachy
- fight or quarrel between priests
- hieromancy
- divination by studying objects offered in sacrifice
- hieromania
- pathological religious visions or delusions
- hieromonach
- monk who also serves as a priest
- hieropathic
- pertaining to a strong love of the clergy
- hierophant
- one who shows or reveals sacred things
- hierophobia
- fear of sacred things
- hieroscopy
- divination using entrails
- hierurgy
- sacred performance
- highbinder
- a scheming or corrupt politician
- hight
- named; called; to command or call
- hilasmic
- propitiatory
- himation
- loose outer garment worn by ancient Greeks
- hindermate
- companion who is a hindrance
- hindforemost
- with the back part in the front place
- hinnable
- able to neigh or whinny
- hiplings
- with the hips foremost
- hipparchy
- rule or control of horses
- hipped
- melancholy; peevish; offended
- hippiatric
- of, like or pertaining to the treatment of horses' diseases
- hippiatrics
- study of diseases of horses
- hippic
- of, like or pertaining to horses
- hippocras
- medieval hot spiced wine
- hippocrepian
- horseshoe-shaped
- hippocrepiform
- shaped like a horseshoe
- hippodamist
- horse-tamer
- hippoid
- equine; of, like or pertaining to horses
- hippology
- the study of horses
- hippomancy
- divination using horses
- hippomania
- obsession with horses
- hippometer
- instrument to measure height of horses
- hippomobile
- horse-drawn vehicle
- hippophagy
- feeding on horses
- hippophile
- lover of horses
- hippophobe
- hater of horses
- hircine
- goat-like; having a goatish smell; of, like or pertaining to smelly goats
- hircismus
- stinky armpits
- hircosity
- goatishness
- hirrient
- roughly trilled
- hirsute
- having or covered with coarse shaggy hair
- hirsuties
- hairiness
- hirudine
- of, like or pertaining to leeches
- hirudinean
- of, like or pertaining to leeches
- hirundine
- of, like or pertaining to swallows
- hispid
- rough with or covered with strong hairs or bristles
- hist
- expression used to attract attention
- histogenesis
- the formation or differentiation of tissues
- histology
- study of the tissues of organisms
- histopathology
- study of changes in tissue due to disease
- historicism
- belief that all phenomena are historically determined
- historiography
- study of writing history
- historiology
- study of history
- histrionic
- of, like or pertaining to the stage or actors
- hither
- to this place
- hithermost
- nearest on this side
- hitherside
- the nearest side
- hoary
- pale silver-grey colour; grey with age
- hobbish
- clownish
- hobbledehoy
- awkward; gawky youth
- hobnail
- thick and strong nail for shoeing horses
- hobohemia
- community of hoboes
- hod
- V-shaped trough for carrying bricks or mortar on the shoulders
- hodden
- coarse undyed woollen cloth
- hodiernal
- of, like or pertaining to the present day
- hodometry
- measurement of distance of a sea voyage
- hodoscope
- instrument for tracing paths of ionizing particles
- hoggaster
- young sheep, hog, or boar
- hogget
- one-year-old sheep or colt
- hoggin
- sifted gravel
- hogmanay
- gift or cake made on New Year's Eve
- hogshead
- unit of capacity equal to 63 gallons
- holderbat
- clamp fixed around sides of pipe
- holism
- belief that fundamental universal principle is creation of wholes
- holland
- coarse plain-woven cotton or linen
- holm
- island in a river
- holobaptism
- belief in baptism with total immersion in water
- holobenthic
- passing entire life in the deep ocean
- holocryptic
- inscrutable; undecipherable
- holograph
- text written entirely in its author's handwriting
- holophrase
- single word expressing sentence or phrase
- holoptic
- having the eyes meeting in front
- holosteric
- totally solid
- holt
- woody hill or grove
- holystone
- sandstone material used to scrape ships' decks
- homaloidal
- of the nature of a plane; flat; plane-shaped
- homarine
- of, like or pertaining to lobsters
- homeomerous
- composed of similar parts
- homeoteleuton
- the use or occurrence of similar endings
- homichlophobia
- fear of fog
- homiletical
- of, like or pertaining to homilies
- homiletics
- the art of preaching
- homiliary
- book of sermons
- hominiform
- shaped like a human
- hommock
- ridge in an ice field
- homnivorous
- eating humans
- homocentric
- having the same central or focal point
- homochiral
- identically shaped
- homodont
- having teeth all alike
- homograph
- words spelled the same but of different meaning
- homoiousia
- similarity but not identicality in substance
- homolegomena
- books of the Bible used in early Christianity
- homologate
- to confirm; to agree; to ratify
- homomerous
- possessing similar parts or components
- homonym
- words having the same sound but different meanings
- homoousia
- identicality in substance
- homophile
- one who prefers the company of the same sex; a homosexual
- homophobia
- fear of homosexuals
- homophyly
- resemblance due to common ancestry
- homoplasty
- resemblance due to convergent evolution
- homotaxic
- arranged in a similar manner
- honorificabilitudinity
- honourableness
- hoplarchy
- government by the military
- hoplite
- a heavily armed Greek foot soldier
- hoplology
- the study of weapons
- hoplomachy
- fighting while heavily armoured
- hopple
- to restrain by tying the feet together
- hopsack
- rough-surfaced loose fabric
- hora
- circle dance
- horal
- of, like or pertaining to hours; hourly
- horary
- of, like or pertaining to an hour; continuing for an hour; hourly
- hordeaceous
- of, like or pertaining to barley
- hordeiform
- shaped like a barleycorn
- horme
- goal-directed or purposive behaviour
- hornbook
- rudimentary treatise
- hornito
- low oven
- hornpipe
- lively British folk dance
- hornwork
- cuckoldry
- horography
- art of constructing sundials or clocks
- horology
- science of time measurement
- horometry
- time measurement
- horrent
- bristling
- horrescent
- expressing or showing horror
- horripilation
- process causing goose-bumps
- horrisonant
- dreadful-sounding
- hortatory
- giving exhortation or advice
- hortensial
- of, like or pertaining to gardens
- hortulan
- of, like or pertaining to gardens
- hospitate
- to greet; to welcome
- hospitium
- hospice
- hotchpot
- aggregation of property prior to equal division among heirs
- houghmagandy
- fornication
- houndstooth
- fabric with an irregular checked pattern
- hourd
- timber gallery on summit of castle tower
- housal
- belonging to the house
- housel
- the eucharist; the act of taking the eucharist
- howbeit
- although
- howdah
- seat with a canopy erected on an elephant's back
- hoy
- large one-decked boat
- hoyden
- tomboy
- huckaback
- absorbent cotton or linen used for towels
- huggery
- the action of hugging
- huitain
- group of eight lines of verse
- hula
- sinuous Polynesian dance with rhythmic hip movements
- hulchy
- swollen
- humanism
- belief that human interests and mind are paramount
- humanitarianism
- doctrine that the highest moral obligation is to improve human welfare
- humect
- to moisten; to cause to become moist
- humectation
- moisture
- humgruffin
- terrible person
- humicubation
- act of lying on the ground penitently
- humify
- to moisten
- hummock
- pile or ridge of ice
- humoral
- of, like or pertaining to body fluid
- humpenscrump
- crude musical instrument like a hurdy-gurdy
- hustle
- lively disco dance derived from swing elements with a plus-like pattern
- hwyl
- emotional state capable of arousing intense eloquence
- hyacinthine
- of a blue or purple colour
- hyaline
- glassy, of or like glass, transparent
- hyalography
- engraving upon glass
- hyaloid
- of, like or pertaining to glass
- hyalopterous
- having glassy or transparent wings
- hydatoid
- watery
- hydragogue
- removing water or serum
- hydrargyrism
- mercury poisoning
- hydric
- of, like or pertaining to an abundance of moisture
- hydriotaphia
- burial in an urn
- hydrobiology
- study of aquatic organisms
- hydrodynamics
- study of movement in liquids
- hydrogenic
- caused or formed by water
- hydrogeology
- study of ground water
- hydrognosy
- historical account of water surfaces of the earth
- hydrography
- study of investigating bodies of water
- hydrokinetics
- study of motion of fluids
- hydrology
- study of water resources
- hydromancy
- divination using water
- hydromania
- irrational craving for water
- hydrometeorology
- study of atmospheric moisture
- hydrometer
- instrument for measuring specific gravity of liquids
- hydropathy
- study of treating diseases with water
- hydropathy
- treating diseases with water
- hydrophanous
- becoming transparent when placed in water
- hydrophilous
- loving or preferring water
- hydrophobia
- fear of water
- hydropic
- dropsical; thirsty
- hydroscope
- instrument for viewing under water
- hydroscopist
- one who divines sources of fresh water
- hydrospace
- regions beneath the oceans' surface
- hydrotaxis
- movement towards or away from water
- hydrotimeter
- instrument for measuring water hardness
- hyetal
- rainy; of, like or pertaining to rainfall
- hyetograph
- instrument for recording rainfall
- hyetology
- science of rainfall
- hyetometer
- instrument for measuring rainfall
- hyetometrograph
- instrument for recording rainfall
- hygeian
- of, like or pertaining to health; healthy
- hygeiolatry
- excessive devotion to health
- hygiastics
- science of health and hygiene
- hygiology
- hygienics; study of cleanliness
- hygric
- of, like or pertaining to water or moisture
- hygrograph
- instrument for recording variations in atmospheric humidity
- hygrology
- study of humidity
- hygrometer
- instrument for measuring air moisture
- hygrometry
- science of humidity
- hygrophilous
- preferring or living where there is an abundance of moisture
- hygroscope
- instrument for displaying changes in air humidity
- hygrostat
- machine for regulating humidity of air
- hylactic
- barking; in a barking manner
- hylarchic
- ruling over matter
- hyle
- matter
- hylicism
- materialism
- hylobatine
- of, like or pertaining to gibbons
- hylogenesis
- the origin of matter
- hylomania
- excessive tendency towards materialism
- hylomorphism
- belief that matter is cause of the universe
- hylopathism
- belief in ability of matter to affect the spiritual world
- hylophagous
- eating wood
- hylotheism
- belief that the universe is purely material
- hylotomous
- wood-cutting
- hylozoism
- doctrine that all matter is endowed with life
- hymeneal
- of, like or pertaining to marriage
- hymnal
- collection of church hymns
- hymnody
- hymns collectively; hymn-singing
- hymnography
- study of writing hymns
- hymnology
- study of hymns
- hyoid
- having a "U" shape
- hypactic
- purgative
- hypaethral
- roofless; open to the sky
- hypalgesia
- diminished susceptibility to pain
- hypallage
- figure in which relations between words are changed
- hypaspist
- shield-bearing elite soldier
- hyperacusis
- abnormally good sense of hearing
- hyperalgia
- extreme sensitivity to pain
- hyperanarchy
- condition of extreme anarchy
- hyperaphia
- extraordinarily keen sense of touch
- hyperarchy
- excessive government
- hyperbaton
- rhetorical device in which word order is reversed
- hyperbole
- impression by extravagant exaggeration
- hyperborean
- an inhabitant of the extreme north
- hyperbulia
- excessive zeal for action or activity
- hypercatalectic
- having an extra syllable on the end of a line of verse
- hypercathexis
- manic desire for a particular object
- hyperdulia
- veneration of the Virgin Mary above saints and angels
- hyperemesis
- excessive vomiting
- hypergamy
- marriage of a man to a woman of lower status
- hyperhidrosis
- excessive sweating
- hypermania
- severe mania
- hypermetropia
- long-sightedness
- hypernym
- word representing a class of words or things
- hyperope
- far-sighted person
- hyperosmia
- very keen sense of smell
- hyperphagia
- eating too much
- hyperpyrexia
- excessive body temperature
- hypertrichologist
- person who treats unsightly facial hair
- hyphaeresis
- omission of sound or letter from a word
- hypnagogic
- sleep-inducing; pertaining to drowsiness or sleep
- hypnoetic
- of, like or pertaining to unconscious logical thought
- hypnogeny
- production of the hypnotic state
- hypnoid
- like sleep or hypnosis
- hypnology
- study of sleep; study of hypnosis
- hypnomancy
- divination using sleep
- hypnomogia
- insomnia
- hypnopompic
- of, like or pertaining to period between sleep and wakefulness
- hypnosophy
- knowledge of phenomena relating to sleep
- hypobole
- anticipating and refuting objections to an argument
- hypobulic
- weak-willed; lacking willpower
- hypocaust
- space under floor for heating by hot air
- hypocorism
- pet-name; diminutive or abbreviated name
- hypodynamia
- loss of strength
- hypogeal
- underground
- hypogeiody
- surveying underground
- hypogeum
- underground chamber
- hypogeusia
- diminished sense of taste
- hypolimnion
- colder and deeper layer of water in a lake
- hypomania
- minor mania
- hypometropia
- shortsightedness
- hyponychial
- underneath fingernail or toenail
- hyponym
- term which is a member of a larger class
- hypophrenia
- weakness of mental facilities
- hypostasis
- basis; foundation; essence
- hypostrophe
- return to primary argument after digression
- hypostyle
- pillar
- hypotaxis
- dependent construction
- hypothecary
- of, like or pertaining to mortgages
- hypothecate
- to mortgage; to place as security
- hypotrichosis
- hairlessness
- hypotyposis
- vivid description of a scene
- hypsiloid
- shaped like the Greek letter upsilon
- hypsography
- science of measuring heights
- hypsometer
- instrument for measuring height of trees through triangulation
- hypsophobia
- fear of high places
- hypural
- situated beneath the tail
- hyrax
- shrew
- hysteresis
- lagging of an effect behind its cause
- hysterogenic
- causing hysteria
- hysteroid
- like or resembling a womb
- hysteromania
- nymphomania
- hystricine
- of, like or pertaining to porcupines
- iamatology
- study of remedies
- iamb
- poetic foot consisting of short then a long syllable
- ianthine
- violet-coloured
- iatraliptic
- relating to the curing of diseases by means of unguents
- iatramelia
- medical negligence
- iatrarchy
- government by physicians
- iatrochemistry
- application of chemistry to medical theory
- iatrogenic
- induced inadvertently by medical treatment
- iatrology
- treatise or text on medical topics
- iatromathematics
- archaic practice of medicine in conjunction with astrology
- iatrophobia
- fear of going to the doctor
- ibidem
- in the same place
- iceblink
- glare in the sky caused by light reflected off ice
- ichneumous
- parasitical
- ichneutic
- of, like or pertaining to a tracker or tracking
- ichnite
- fossilized footprint
- ichnogram
- footprint
- ichnography
- art of drawing ground plans
- ichnology
- science of fossilized footprints
- ichnomancy
- divination using footprints
- ichthyic
- of, resembling or pertaining to fish
- ichthyoid
- fishlike
- ichthyolatry
- the worship of fish
- ichthyology
- study of fish
- ichthyomancy
- divination by inspecting fish entrails
- ichthyomorphic
- shaped like a fish
- ichthyophagous
- fish-eating
- ichthyopolist
- fish seller
- iconoclasm
- attacking of established beliefs
- iconography
- study of drawing symbols
- iconolagny
- sexual stimulation from pictures or statues
- iconolatry
- image-worship
- iconology
- study of icons; symbols
- iconomachy
- opposition to the worship of images or icons
- iconomancy
- divination using icons
- iconomania
- obsession with icons or portraits
- iconomatic
- using pictures to represent sounds of words
- iconometer
- instrument for finding size of object by measuring its image
- iconophilism
- a taste for pictures and symbols
- iconoplast
- one who makes images or icons
- iconostasis
- screen or partition in Eastern churches with tiers of icons
- icterical
- of, like or pertaining to or suffering from jaundice
- icterine
- yellowish or marked with yellow
- icterine
- of, like or pertaining to orioles and related birds
- icteritious
- jaundiced; yellow
- ictus
- stress in poetry or verse
- idempotent
- quantity which does not change when squared
- ideogenous
- being of mental origin
- ideogeny
- study of origins of ideas
- ideogram
- symbol that stands for a concept rather than a word
- ideophone
- word that is spoken but not written
- ideopraxist
- one who is impelled to carry out an idea
- idiochromatic
- having unique or distinctive coloration
- idiocrasis
- intrinsic peculiarity or unique feature
- idioglossia
- private language developed between children
- idiograph
- private mark; trademark
- idiolect
- distinctive individual form of speech
- idiologism
- personal speech peculiarity
- idiomology
- study of idiom, jargon or dialect
- idiomorphic
- having a unique or distinct form
- idiopathic
- disease particular to an individual
- idiophone
- percussion instrument made of naturally resonant material
- idiorhythmic
- self-regulating
- idiothermous
- warm-blooded
- idioticon
- vocabulary of a particular district
- idolomancy
- divination using idols
- idolomania
- obsession or devotion to idols
- idolothyte
- sacrifice presented to an idol
- idolum
- mental image; logical fallacy
- idoneous
- suitable; appropriate
- ifsoever
- if ever
- ignavia
- laziness; laxity
- ignescent
- capable of emitting sparks; of a volatile mood
- ignicolist
- fire-worshipper
- ignify
- to burn
- ignipotent
- presiding over fire
- ignivomous
- vomiting or spewing forth fire
- ignoscency
- forgiveness
- ignotism
- mistake due to ignorance
- ilastical
- propitiatory; expiatory
- iliac
- of, like or pertaining to the loins
- ilicic
- of, like or pertaining to holly
- ilke
- kind or nature
- illapse
- to glide in
- illaqueate
- to ensnare
- illation
- the act of inferring from premises
- illative
- indicating movement into or toward
- illaudable
- not praiseworthy
- illeist
- one who refers to oneself in the third person
- illimitable
- limitlessly infinite
- illinition
- act of rubbing against or on
- illiquation
- the melting of one thing into another
- illision
- the act of striking against something
- illocution
- an act which is performed by speaking words
- illude
- to trick
- illuminism
- belief in an inward spiritual light
- illusionism
- belief that the external world is philosophy
- illutation
- mud bath
- illuvium
- material dissolved in water and deposited in layers
- imagism
- doctrine of use of precise images with unrestricted subject
- imago
- idealized mental image of a person
- imbibition
- the absorption of a liquid by a solid or gel
- imbreviate
- to enroll
- imbricate
- to lay overlapping one another
- imbroglio
- confusing or disturbing situation; confused mass or heap
- imbrue
- to wet or moisten
- imbrute
- to degrade to the state of a brute
- imburse
- to put in a purse; to pay
- immanation
- flowing in
- immanent
- inherent; permanently pervading the universe
- immanentism
- belief in an immanent or permanent god
- immarcescible
- unfading; imperishable
- immaterialism
- the doctrine that there is no material substance
- immeability
- state of being impassable or impermeable
- immerge
- to immerse; to dip into water
- immeritous
- undeserving
- imminution
- lessening; decreasing
- immiseration
- progressive impoverishment or degradation
- immission
- insertion; infusion
- immix
- to commingle
- immoralism
- rejection of morality
- immortelle
- everlasting dried flower
- immunifacient
- causing immunity
- immunogenetics
- study of genetic characteristics of immunity
- immunogenic
- producing an immune response
- immunopathology
- study of immunity to disease
- immure
- to imprison; to shut in
- impacable
- not able to be quieted or appeased
- impanate
- embodied in bread
- imparidigitate
- having an odd number of fingers on each limb
- imparlance
- delay in pleading for amicable adjustment
- impaste
- to lay paint or colours thickly on
- impavid
- fearless; undaunted
- impecunious
- without money; penniless
- impedimenta
- things that impede; baggage
- impedimentary
- hindering; obstructing
- impennate
- featherless; wingless
- imperscriptible
- not recorded; unwritten
- imperseverant
- lacking the power to perceive
- impest
- to infest with plague or pestilence
- impetrate
- to obtain by entreaty, request or prayer
- impignorate
- to pledge, pawn or mortgage
- impleach
- to intertwine
- impletion
- filling; fullness; fulfilment
- implex
- not simple; involved; complicated
- implodent
- an implosive sound
- implumous
- without feathers
- imponent
- that which imposes an obligation
- importune
- to press or urge with repeated requests
- impostume
- abscess
- imprecate
- to call down by prayer; to curse; to invoke evil on
- imprescriptible
- inalienable
- imprest
- a loan or advance of money
- imprimatur
- licence to print a book
- imprimis
- in the first place
- imprimitive
- not primitive
- impropriate
- to appropriate for private use
- improvident
- lacking foresight; thoughtless
- impudicity
- shamelessness
- impugn
- to oppose; to attack by words or arguments
- imputation
- attribution of fault to
- imsonic
- onomatopoetic
- inaniloquent
- prone to foolish or empty babbling
- inanition
- emptiness; starvation
- inappetent
- lacking desire or appetite
- inapt
- unfit or unqualified
- inaurate
- gilded; golden
- inbeing
- inherence; inherent existence
- inboard
- inside the line of a ship's bulwarks or hull
- incalescent
- growing warm
- incanous
- covered with soft white hair
- incardination
- acceptance by a diocese of clergyman from another diocese
- incarnadine
- carnation-coloured; blood-red
- incatenation
- harnessing; chaining together
- incede
- to advance majestically
- incendivity
- the power of causing ignition
- incentivize
- to be given an incentive
- incept
- to take into the body; ingest
- inceptive
- marking the beginning or formation
- inchoate
- undeveloped; just begun
- incipient
- beginning; in an early stage
- incivism
- neglect of duty as a citizen
- inclinometer
- instrument for measuring inclination to the horizontal of an axis
- incommiscible
- unable to be mixed or intermingled
- incommode
- to cause trouble or inconvenience to
- incommutable
- that cannot be commuted or exchanged
- incompossible
- incapable of coexisting
- inconcinnity
- lack of congruousness or proportion
- incondite
- not well put together; poorly constructed
- inconscient
- unconscious; abstracted
- incoronate
- crowned
- incorpse
- to incorporate
- incrassate
- to thicken
- increscent
- waxing
- incubus
- nightmare; burden
- inculcate
- implant in by persistent urging
- inculpate
- to blame; to incriminate
- incult
- uncultivated; coarse
- incunabulist
- one who collects early books
- incunabulum
- early printed book; early version of a thing
- incuse
- impressed or stamped upon
- indagate
- to search out; to investigate
- indehiscent
- not opening when mature
- indicia
- indicating marks or symptoms
- indifferentism
- the belief that all religions are equally valid
- indigence
- poverty; state of being needy
- indign
- unworthy; disgraceful; unseemly
- indigo
- deep blue-violet colour; a blue-violet dye
- indiscerptible
- not able to be separated
- indite
- to compose
- individualism
- belief that individual interests and rights are paramount
- indoles
- inherent disposition
- induciae
- peace treaty or armistice
- indue
- to supply; to endow
- indulgence
- former Catholic pardon granted for remission of punishment for sins
- indult
- special temporary dispensation granted by the Catholic church
- indumentum
- total body covering of hair, fur or feathers
- indurate
- to make hard, callous or unfeeling
- induviae
- withered leaves which persist on plants
- indwell
- to exist within as a guiding force
- ineluctable
- against which it is useless to struggle
- inescatory
- of, like or pertaining to baiting; adapted to bait
- inesculent
- inedible
- inessive
- indicating location within
- ineunt
- entering
- inexpiable
- that which cannot be expiated or atoned for
- inexpugnable
- not able to be attacked or captured
- infandous
- unmentionable
- infantocracy
- government by an infant
- infarction
- tissue dying due to lack of blood flow
- infaust
- unlucky; ill-omened
- infelicitous
- inappropriate in application or expression
- inferiae
- offerings to the spirits of the dead
- inficete
- not facetious; rudely jesting
- inflorescence
- process of producing flowers; flowering
- infomania
- excessive devotion to accumulating facts
- infra
- below; later in a text
- infrangible
- not able to be broken or violated
- infructuous
- not fruitful
- infumate
- smoky; blackened
- infundibuliform
- having the form or shape of a funnel or cone
- infuscate
- clouded or tinged with brown; obscured; cloudy brown colour
- ingannation
- deception
- ingate
- inlet for molten metal in founding
- ingeminate
- to reiterate; to redouble
- ingerence
- intrusion; interference
- ingle
- a fire in a room; a fireplace
- inglenook
- alcove by a large open fire
- ingluvies
- a crop or craw of birds
- ingravescent
- becoming more severe
- ingression
- pronounced with inhalation rather than exhalation
- inguinal
- of, like or pertaining to the groin
- ingurgitate
- to swallow; to guzzle
- inhaust
- to drink in
- inhere
- be inherent
- inhumation
- burial; act of depositing in the ground
- inhumist
- referring to a society that burns its dead
- inimical
- hostile; harmful
- iniquity
- wickedness; gross injustice
- inkhorn
- portable case for ink
- inkhornism
- pedantic word or expression
- inlagation
- pardoning of an outlaw
- inlapidate
- to petrify
- inly
- inwardly; thoroughly
- innitency
- state of leaning or resting upon something
- innominate
- having no name
- innoxious
- harmless
- inoperculate
- without an operculum or lid
- inopinate
- not thought of; unexpected
- inosculate
- to join together with ducts or openings; to blend or combine
- inquiline
- living with another; dwelling in another creature's lair
- inquinate
- to corrupt or defile
- inquirendo
- authority to inquire into something
- inquisiturient
- eager to act as an inquisitor
- inquorate
- not making up a quorum
- inscenation
- staging; setting
- inscient
- having little or no knowledge
- insculp
- to engrave, to cut or carve from something
- insectifuge
- insect repellent
- insectivorous
- eating insects
- insectology
- study of insects
- insessorial
- adapted for perching
- insidiate
- to conspire against; to betray
- insipience
- lack of wisdom; stupidity
- insolate
- to treat by exposure to the sun's rays
- insouciance
- indifference; apathy
- insouciant
- lighthearted and unconcerned
- inspan
- to bring or force into service
- inspissate
- to thicken or condense
- instauration
- restoration; renewal
- institorial
- of, like or pertaining to an agent or factor
- instructive
- indicating means whereby
- instrumental
- indicating means by which
- instrumentalism
- doctrine that ideas are instruments of action
- insufflate
- to disseminate by blowing; to breathe upon
- insulse
- lacking wit; dull; stupid; insipid
- intaglio
- a figure engraved into a gem or another substance
- integument
- an external covering or coating
- intellection
- act of thinking; exercise of the intellect
- intellectualism
- belief that all knowledge is derived from reason
- intemerate
- pure; undefiled
- intempestive
- unseasonable; untimely; inopportune
- intenerate
- to make tender; to soften
- intenible
- not capable of holding or retaining
- interactionism
- belief that mind and body act on each other
- interamnian
- between two rivers
- intercalary
- interpolated; inserted between other things
- intercalation
- interpolation; insertion between others
- interciliary
- between the eyebrows
- intercipient
- intercepting
- interclude
- to block; to enclose; to cut off
- intercolline
- lying between hills
- intercostal
- between the ribs
- intercrural
- within or pertaining to the area between the legs
- interdigitate
- to interlock in the manner of locked fingers
- interdine
- to eat together
- interfenestration
- spacing of windows
- interferometer
- instrument for analysing spectra of light
- interfluve
- area between two rivers that flow in the same direction
- intergrade
- to merge or shade by means of intermediate steps
- interim
- meanwhile
- interjacent
- intervening; situated between two things
- interjaculate
- to ejaculate in interruption
- interlaminate
- to insert between layers
- interlocutor
- one who converses; interpreter; participant in conversation
- interlucation
- thinning of a forest to let some light in
- interlunation
- dark time between old moon and new
- intermure
- to wall in
- internecine
- causing (mutual) destruction
- internuncio
- messenger between two parties; low-ranking papal legate
- interosculant
- possessing attributes common to different groups
- interpellation
- question raised during the course of debate
- interpilaster
- space between two pilasters
- interpunction
- insertion of punctuation marks in writing
- interramification
- interweaving of branches
- interrex
- one who rules during an interregnum; regent
- interscribe
- to write between
- intersidereal
- between stars
- interstitial
- of, like or pertaining to the space between things
- intertesselation
- complex interrelationship
- intertie
- short timber binding together upright posts
- intertrigo
- skin rash due to friction of two moist surfaces
- intervallum
- between the ramparts
- intervolve
- to roll up or entwine with one another
- intinction
- administering communion by dipping bread into wine
- intitule
- to endow or furnish with a title
- intorted
- twisted inwards; involved
- intrados
- undersurface of an arch or vault
- intrant
- entering; penetrating
- introessive
- indicating motion into
- introit
- psalm or hymn sung at beginning of church service
- intromit
- to introduce; to admit; to insert
- introrse
- turned or facing inward
- introspectionism
- doctrine that knowledge of mind must derive from introspection
- intuitionism
- belief that the perception of truth is by intuition
- intumesce
- to enlarge; to swell; to bubble
- intussusception
- movement of one part of a thing into another
- inumbrate
- to cast a shadow upon; to shade
- inunction
- anointing, smearing or rubbing with ointment
- inurbanity
- lack of manners or deportment; incivility
- inusitation
- disuse; disrepair
- inustion
- burning in; cauterization
- invaginate
- to sheathe; to draw in; to enfold
- inveigh
- to make an attack in speech or writing
- inveigle
- to entice; to wheedle
- invenit
- invented it
- inverecund
- shameless; unabashed
- inveterate
- long-established; confirmed
- invictive
- insurmountable; undefeatable
- invidious
- likely to excite indignation against the performer
- invination
- presence of Christ's blood in sanctified wine
- inviscate
- to entrap with sticky material
- invitatory
- psalm or anthem sung before prayer during church service
- invultuation
- the making of an image for use in witchcraft
- ipseity
- selfhood; state of being oneself
- iracund
- inclined to become angry
- iracundulous
- somewhat inclined to become angry
- irascent
- becoming enraged or angry
- irenic
- conducive to or working towards peace
- irenology
- the study of peace
- iridian
- having or suggestive of the colours of a rainbow
- iridic
- of, like or pertaining to the iris of the eye
- iridize
- to make iridescent
- iridology
- study of iris
- iriscope
- instrument for exhibiting the prismatic colours
- irradicate
- to fix firmly
- irrecusable
- that cannot be rejected
- irredentism
- advocating restoration of territory to a nation
- irrefragable
- that cannot be refuted; unanswerable
- irrefrangible
- incapable of refraction
- irremeable
- which cannot be returned; irrevocable
- irriguous
- watered; wet; irrigating
- irrision
- the act of laughing at another
- irrisory
- mocking; derisive
- irroration
- watering a plant with discharge of a sick person
- irruption
- breaking or bursting in
- isabelline
- greyish yellow
- isabnormal
- line connecting points of equal deviation from mean temperature
- isacoustic
- line connecting points of equal acoustic quality
- isagoge
- academic introduction to a subject
- isagogic
- introductory
- isallobar
- line connecting points of equal change in barometric pressure
- isanemone
- line connecting points on map having same wind velocity
- isapostolic
- equal to or contemporary with the apostles
- isatis
- Arctic fox
- ischaemia
- lack of blood in a part of the body due to an obstruction
- ischiatic
- of or pertaining to the ischium or hip
- ischiorrhogic
- of an iambic line, having spondees in the second, fourth or sixth place
- ischuretic
- diuretic
- ischuria
- retention of urine
- iseidomal
- line connecting points of equal visibility of a spectacle
- isentropic
- line connecting points of equal entropy
- ishan
- prehistoric Iraqi mound
- ishies
- hip-joints
- ising
- meat sausage
- isinglass
- firm semitransparent substance used to make jellies
- islandic
- of or pertaining to an island
- islesman
- inhabitant of a group of islands
- islomania
- craze or obsession for islands
- ismatic
- addicted to "isms" or faddish theories
- isness
- the fact of being; essence
- isobar
- line connecting points of same atmospheric pressure
- isobase
- line connecting points of equal land upheaval
- isobath
- line connecting points of equal underwater depth
- isobathytherm
- line connecting points of equal temperature and depth underground
- isobront
- line connecting points of simultaneous storm development
- isocephaly
- arrangement of figures in art so that their heads are at the same height
- isochar
- line connecting points of similar distinguishing characteristics of plant life
- isochasm
- line connecting points of equal frequency of aurorae
- isocheim
- line connecting points of same average winter temperature
- isochlor
- line connecting points of equal chlorine concentration
- isochor
- line connecting points of varying conditions under constant volume
- isochrone
- line connecting points of equal time difference or simultaneous occurrence
- isochronous
- having the same duration; recurring at equal intervals
- isochroous
- having a uniform colour
- isoclinal
- line connecting points of same magnetic dip
- isocracy
- equal political power
- isocryme
- line connecting points of equal winter temperature
- isodiabatic
- having equal transmission of heat
- isodose
- line connecting points that receive equal doses of radiation
- isodynamic
- line connecting points of equal magnetic intensity
- isoflor
- line connecting points of equal number of plant species
- isogam
- line connecting points of equal acceleration due to gravity
- isogen
- line connecting points of equal birthrates
- isogeny
- sameness or similarity of origin
- isogeotherm
- line connecting points of equal subterranean temperature
- isogloss
- line connecting points of similar regional dialect
- isoglossal
- having similar speech patterns or language
- isogonal
- line connecting points of equal magnetic declination
- isogonal
- having equal angles
- isograd
- line connecting points of similar conditions during geological metamorphism
- isogram
- line connecting points on a map having some similar feature
- isograph
- line connecting points of same linguistic usage in some respect
- isohaline
- line connecting points of equal salinity
- isohalsine
- line connecting points of equal ocean salinity
- isohel
- line connecting points of equal sunlight
- isohyet
- line connecting points of equal rainfall
- isokeraunic
- line connecting points of equal occurrence of thunderstorms
- isolex
- line connecting points of same vocabulary usage
- isoline
- line connecting points on a map having some similar feature
- isomagnetic
- line connecting points of equal magnetic induction
- isometric
- line connecting points of equal variations of pressure
- isomorph
- line connecting points of same linguistic morphological forms
- isonephelic
- line connecting points of equal cloud cover
- isonomy
- equal law; rights or privileges
- isonym
- word having the same derivation or form as another
- isopach
- line connecting points of equal thickness of geological strata
- isophene
- line connecting points of the same phenotype or seasonal variation
- isophote
- line connecting points of equal light intensity from a given source
- isopiestic
- line connecting points of equal pressure but varying temperature and volume
- isopiptesis
- line connecting points of same arrival date of migratory species
- isopleth
- line connecting points of equal aspect of climate
- isopolity
- reciprocity of rights of citizenship in two communities
- isopor
- line connecting points of equal annual change in magnetic field
- isopsephic
- equal in number
- isopycnic
- line connecting points of equal density
- isorithm
- line connecting points of equal population density
- isorropic
- of equal value
- isoseismal
- line connecting points of same earthquake intensity
- isostasy
- condition of equilibrium in the earth's crust
- isostere
- line connecting points of equal specific volume of a substance
- isotac
- line joining points where the ice melts at the same time of year
- isotach
- line connecting points of the same wind speed
- isothere
- line connecting points of equal summer temperature
- isotherm
- line connecting points of equal temperature
- isothermobath
- line connecting points of equal temperature at a given ocean depth
- isotherombrose
- line connecting points of equal ratio of summer rainfall to annual rainfall
- isotropic
- having the same properties in every direction
- isovol
- line connecting points of equal ratio of fixed to volatile carbon in coal
- issles
- sparks; embers
- issuant
- issuing from; in heraldry, emerging from the bottom of a chief
- ist
- one who holds to an 'ism'
- isthmian
- living on or situated on an isthmus
- isthmoid
- resembling an isthmus
- istle
- coarse tough Central American fibre used to make cords and nets
- itacism
- pronunciation of the Greek letter eta as 'ee'
- itai-itai
- disease caused by cadmium poisoning and resulting in back pain
- Italiot
- person of Greek descent dwelling in ancient Italy
- Italomania
- obsession with Italy or Italians
- item
- likewise; also
- iter
- circuit; path; road or line of travel
- iterant
- repeating; echoing
- iteration
- repetition
- iterum
- again; afresh; anew
- ithomiid
- tropical South American butterfly
- ithyphallic
- indecent; immoral
- itinerarian
- traveller
- itinerarily
- in the course of wandering
- ition
- the action of going
- itis
- bodily condition or disease
- iulan
- of the first growth of the beard
- iulus
- millipede
- ivi
- Tahitian chestnut tree
- ivoride
- imitation ivory
- ivorine
- white and smooth like ivory
- ivorist
- one who carves ivory professionally
- ivresse
- drunkenness
- iwis
- surely; certainly
- ixia
- South African beautiful flowering plant
- ixiodic
- of, like or pertaining to ticks
- ixora
- tropical evergreen shrub with white flowers
- izard
- goatlike antelope found in the Pyrenees
- izzard
- archaic name for the letter Z
- izzat
- public esteem; honour
- jabberwock
- nonsense, gibberish
- jabot
- lace frill worn on shirt or dress front
- jacent
- lying flat; sluggish
- jacinthe
- orange colour
- jack
- medieval leather coat worn as armour
- jack
- ship's flag flown from jack-staff at bow of vessel
- jackanapes
- impudent child; conceited fellow
- jack-block
- pulley system for raising topgallant masts
- jack-cross-tree
- single iron cross-tree at head of a topgallant mast
- jackstaff
- short staff at ship's bow from which the jack is hoisted
- jackstay
- iron or wooden bar running along yard of ship to which sails fastened
- jackyard
- spar used to spread the foot of a gaff-topsail
- jacobin
- extremist or radical in politics
- jaconet
- stout cotton cloth
- jacquard
- intricately-woven variegated fabric; loom for making jacquard
- jactancy
- boastfulness, vainglory
- jactation
- throwing; boasting
- jactitation
- a tossing, twitching or jerking of the body; a false claim
- jaculation
- the act of throwing or hurling
- jaculiferous
- having arrow-like prickles
- jade
- pitiful horse; a nag
- jaggery
- coarse and dark sugar
- jalouse
- to suspect; to be jealous of
- jalousie
- outside shutter with slats
- jambeau
- armour worn on the legs
- jambiya
- curved dagger with two edges
- jampan
- an Indian sedan chair
- janiform
- having two faces
- janitrix
- a female janitor
- janizary
- a follower or supporter
- janker
- long pole on wheels for transporting logs
- jannock
- outspoken; honest; outgoing
- jansky
- unit of strength of radio wave emission
- japan
- glossy black varnish or lacquer
- japanophilia
- love or admiration for Japan or the Japanese
- jardinière
- container for displaying flowers
- jargonelle
- early pear
- jargoon
- brilliant pale or colourless zircon
- jark
- seal or insignia on a counterfeit document
- jarta
- term of endearment
- jaseran
- fine chain mail jacket
- jaspe
- cotton or rayon cloth with shaded effect
- jasperated
- mottled; streaked with various colours
- jaunce
- to prance; to cause a horse to prance
- jawhole
- cesspool; sewer entrance
- jazzetry
- poetry read to jazz accompaniment
- jebel
- hill or mountain
- jecoral
- of, like or pertaining to the liver
- jectigation
- wagging, tremulous movement
- jejunator
- one who fasts
- jejune
- lacking interest or significance; dull or insipid; dry; empty
- jellygraph
- old device for copying that used a plate of jelly
- jemadar
- an Indian police or customs officer
- jemmy
- burglar's short crowbar
- jennet
- small Spanish horse
- jenneting
- early type of apple
- jentacular
- of, like or pertaining to breakfast
- jeofail
- official or legal acknowledgement of a mistake
- jeremiad
- prolonged complaint; angry or cautionary harangue; lamentation
- jerkinhead
- truncated gable with a lipped roof
- jeroboam
- large bottle for holding equivalent of 6 ordinary wine bottles
- jerque
- to search for smuggled goods
- jersey
- plain weft-knitted fabric of wool, cotton, nylon or silk
- jess
- ringed strap tied to leg of falcon or hawk
- jessamy
- yellow like a jasmine
- jessant
- in heraldry, overlying
- jesserant
- splinted armour
- jesuitical
- cunning; quibbling
- jesuitocracy
- government by Jesuits
- jetavator
- control surface for deflecting rocket exhaust
- jeton
- stamped metal token used in card-playing or reckoning accounts
- jettatura
- the evil eye
- jib
- small triangular sail extending from the head of the foremast
- jibboom
- spar forming an extension of the bowsprit
- jibe
- to change a ship's course to make the boom shift sides
- jiffy
- unit of time used in computing equal to 1/100 second; any small unit of time
- jigamaree
- a thingamajig; a cunning manoeuvre
- jiggermast
- aftermost mast of a four-masted ship
- jiggumbob
- a thingamabob; a gadget; a whatsit; a gewgaw
- jimswinger
- a frock coat
- jink
- to move quickly with sudden turns and shifts
- jinker
- light horse-drawn passenger carriage
- jitney
- small passenger vehicle
- jitterbug
- jazz dance featuring vigorous acrobatic feats
- jive
- fast dance done to jazz or swing music
- jnana
- knowledge obtained through meditation
- jobation
- tedious scolding
- jobbernowl
- a blockish or stupid head
- jobbery
- the conduct of public business for private gain
- jocko
- a chimpanzee
- jockteleg
- large clasp knife
- jocose
- merry; characterized by joking
- jocoserious
- half in jest; half serious
- joculator
- professional jester or minstrel
- joggle
- tooth or pin to prevent surfaces from slipping
- joinder
- legal uniting or joining
- jointure
- property granted to wife for use after husband's death
- joist
- beam supporting boards of a floor or laths of a ceiling
- jolley
- guide for fixing a pottery mould for plates
- jollyboat
- small boat kept hoisted at ship's stern
- jolterhead
- clumsy oaf; blockhead
- jongleur
- wandering minstrel
- jordan
- a chamberpot
- jorum
- large bowl containing drinks
- joss
- luck, fate
- jota
- fast Spanish folk dance in triple time
- jougs
- iron collar attached to post and put around neck as punishment
- jounce
- to bump or jolt
- jovialist
- a convivial person
- jow
- to ring a bell; a stroke of a bell
- juba
- dance with clapping and leg slapping performed by Southern blacks
- jubate
- maned; having or possessing a mane
- jubbah
- long loose outer garment worn by Muslims
- jube
- ornamental choir-screen
- jubilarian
- one who celebrates a jubilee, especially a priest, monk, or nun
- jubilate
- the third Sunday after Easter
- jud
- mass of coal ready for final removal
- judder
- strong vibration in an aircraft
- judicature
- power of dispensing justice by trial
- judogi
- jacket and trousers worn by practitioner of judo
- jug
- sound of the nightingale
- jugate
- side by side; in pairs; overlapping
- juggins
- a simpleton
- juglandaceous
- of, like or pertaining to walnuts
- jugulate
- to cut the throat of
- julep
- sweetened and often medicated drink
- jumar
- mountaineering clip that grips rope when weight is applied
- jumart
- impossible mythical offspring of a cow and donkey
- jumbal
- thin crisp sweet cake
- jumboism
- admiration for large things
- jumelle
- paired or twinned article; opera-glasses
- jumentous
- like a horse
- juncaceous
- of, like or pertaining to rushes
- juntocracy
- government by a junta
- jupon
- sleeveless jacket worn beneath a hauberk
- jural
- of, like or pertaining to the law
- juramentum
- oath
- jurant
- taking an oath; one who takes an oath
- jurat
- memorandum at end of affidavit showing to whom it was sworn
- juratory
- of, like or pertaining to an oath
- jure
- by law
- jurimetrics
- application of scientific methods to legal problems
- jurisconsult
- legal expert
- jurymast
- mast erected on ship in place of one lost
- jus
- law; legal right
- jussive
- expressing a command
- justiciar
- administrator of justice; supreme judge
- jutty
- projecting part of a wall
- juvenal
- a youth; young bird's plumage
- juvenescent
- becoming youthful
- juvenilia
- works of one's youth; early works of an artist or author
- juxtapositive
- indicating juxtaposition
- kainotophobia
- fear of change
- kaiserin
- wife of a kaiser
- kakidrosis
- body odour
- kakistocracy
- government by the worst
- kakorrhaphiophobia
- fear of failure
- kalamkari
- fabric coloured by repeated dyeing
- kaleidophone
- instrument for demonstrating sound waves by lines of light
- kalology
- study of beauty
- kalon
- beauty that is more than skin deep
- kalpis
- a water jar
- kalyptra
- veil worn by Greek women
- kame
- steep irregular ridge
- kamelaukion
- tall cylindrical hat worn by Orthodox priests
- kamerad
- to surrender
- kamik
- knee-length sealskin boot
- kaneh
- Hebrew measure of 6 cubits
- kantar
- Turkish unit of weight equal to approximately 100 pounds
- kantele
- Finnish zither
- kantikoy
- to dance as an act of worship
- kapnography
- means of producing designs on smoked glass surfaces
- karabiner
- steel link with clip on side used in mountaineering
- karezza
- prolonged sex avoiding orgasm
- karrozzin
- Maltese horse-drawn carriage
- karst
- rough limestone country with underground drainage
- karyokinesis
- division of cell nucleus
- karyology
- study of cell nuclei
- karyotype
- appearance, number and arrangements of chromosomes
- kasha
- porridge or gruel-like dish made from crushed buckwheat
- katabasis
- going down; military retreat
- katabothron
- underground water-channel
- katathermometer
- instrument for measuring the cooling power of air
- katharometer
- instrument measuring changes in composition of gases
- kathenotheism
- polytheism in which each god is considered single and supreme
- katzenjammer
- hangover; uproar; clamour
- kausia
- Macedonian felt hat with broad brim
- kava
- narcotic drink prepared from Polynesian plant
- kazachoc
- Slavic fast dance in which dancer squats and kicks out legs alternately
- kazatzka
- Slavic folk dance performed by a couple
- keb
- ewe that gives birth to stillborn lamb
- kebbie
- a shepherd's crook
- keck
- to retch; to feel disgust
- keckle
- to protect by binding with rope
- ked
- wingless fly that feeds on livestock
- kedge
- small anchor to keep a ship steady
- keelhaul
- to punish by dragging under keel of ship
- keelson
- lengthwise wooden or steel beam in ship for bearing stress
- keeve
- a large tub
- kef
- state of dreamy or drug-induced repose
- keffel
- a horse; a nag
- keister
- burglar's tool kit
- keloid
- hard scar tissue which grows over injured skin
- kelpie
- mischievous water spirit
- kelt
- coarse fabric made of black and white wool
- kemb
- to comb
- kemp
- coarse, rough strand of wool
- kennebecker
- knapsack
- kenodoxy
- the love or study of vain-glory
- kenophobia
- fear of empty spaces
- kenosis
- Christ's rejection of his divine side upon assuming human form
- kenotism
- doctrine that Christ rid himself of divinity in becoming human
- kenspeckle
- easily recognizable or distinguishable
- kent-bugle
- an obsolete keybugle
- kente
- hand-woven African silk fabric
- kentledge
- pig-iron used as ballast in ship's hold
- kep
- to catch an approaching object or falling liquid
- kephalonomancy
- divination using a baked ass's head
- kerasine
- horny; made of horn
- keratogenic
- causing growth of horn, skin or hair
- keratometer
- instrument for measuring curvature of the cornea
- keraunograph
- instrument for recording distant thunderstorms
- keraunoscopia
- divination using thunder
- kerf
- cut, notch or groove; quantity of something cut at the same time
- kermes
- brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects
- kermesse
- cycle race held in an urban area
- kermis
- indoor charity fair
- kern
- Irish foot-soldier
- kern
- part of typeface letter that sticks out beyond its body
- kern
- to granulate
- kersey
- coarse woollen cloth
- kerseymere
- twilled fine wool
- kerygma
- preaching of the Christian gospel
- kerygmatic
- of, like or pertaining to preaching the Gospel
- ket
- carrion; matted wool
- ketch
- small two-masted sailing vessel
- ketjak
- traditional Balinese dance accompanied by male chorus
- kettlestitch
- stitch made at head and tail of section of book to connect sections
- kex
- dry hollow plant stalk
- keybugle
- bugle with keys
- keyline
- outline showing shape and position of an illustration
- keystone
- to double the wholesale price for retail
- khaddar
- homespun cotton cloth
- khor
- a dry watercourse; a ravine
- kibble
- the bucket of a well
- kibble
- to grind cereal coarsely
- kibe
- chapped area of skin
- kickie-wickie
- a wife
- kickshaws
- a trinket; a cheap, worthless article
- kidder
- a forestaller; a huckster
- kiddle
- stake-fence set in stream for catching fish
- kidlet
- a very little kid
- kidology
- study of kidding
- kier
- bleaching vat
- kif
- drug like marijuana smoked in North Africa
- kilderkin
- old unit of capacity equal to 1/2 barrel or 18 gallons
- kilfud-yoking
- a fireside disputation
- killas
- clay slate
- killcow
- a bully; a swaggerer
- killcrop
- greedy insatiable baby; a changeling
- killock
- small anchor
- kilobase
- unit of measure of length of nucleic acid chain equal to 1000 base pairs
- kinchin
- a child
- kincob
- embroidered silk with gold and silver threads
- kindergraph
- photograph of a child
- kinderspiel
- a children's cantata or play
- kine
- cows
- kinematics
- study of motion
- kinescope
- cathode ray tube for a television
- kinesics
- study of gestural communication
- kinetheodolite
- theodolite used in tracking missiles and satellites
- kinetics
- study of forces producing or changing motion
- kinetogenic
- causing movement
- kinetoscope
- instrument for producing curves by combination of circular movements
- kingpost
- perpendicular beam in frame of roof
- kinkle
- a slight kink
- kip
- skin of a young animal
- kip
- unit of weight equivalent to 1000 pounds
- kippage
- state of displeasure or anger
- kir
- drink of black currant syrup and white wine
- kirking
- first attendance of a couple at church after marriage
- kirpan
- small sword or dagger worn by Sikhs
- kirsch
- liqueur made from the wild cherry
- kirtle
- man's or woman's tunic or coat
- kish
- solid graphite that separates from pig-iron
- kismet
- fate; destiny
- kissel
- thickened fruit purée dessert
- kistvaen
- tomb covered with stone slabs
- kit
- a small pocket violin
- kith
- knowledge; one's native land; one's friends
- kitthoge
- left-handed; awkward
- klangfarbe
- tone-colour; timbre
- klaxon
- loud mechanical horn
- klendusic
- able to withstand disease due to protective mechanism
- kleptocracy
- government by thieves
- klopemania
- kleptomania
- knackish
- cunning; crafty
- knag
- knot in wood
- knarred
- gnarled; knotty
- knickerbockers
- loose breeches gathered in at the knee
- knick-knackatory
- collection of knick-knacks
- knickpoint
- discontinuity in river profile due to intersection of new erosion curve
- knissomancy
- divination using burning incense
- knitch
- bundle of wood tied together
- knobber
- a stag in its second year
- knop
- loop or tuft in yarn
- knosp
- unopened bud of a flower; ornament shaped like a bud
- knout
- to flog; to scourge
- knubble
- to beat with the fists
- knur
- knob or knot in wood
- knurl
- small excrescence or protuberance; to make knurls on
- koan
- nonsensical question given to Buddhist students for contemplation
- kobold
- spirit of the mines
- kohl
- eye-shadow; mascara
- kohlrabi
- variety of cabbage
- koine
- dialect that spreads to become common language of a region
- kolo
- Central European folk dance having a ring of dancers
- komatik
- sled with wooden runners
- konimeter
- instrument measuring amount of dust in air
- koniology
- study of atmospheric pollutants and dust
- koniscope
- instrument for measuring dust in air
- kop
- bank of terracing at a football field
- kora
- musical instrument similar to a harp
- kore
- ancient Greek statue of a draped maiden
- koto
- obnoxious-sounding Japanese stringed instrument
- kouros
- statue of a nude male
- kraken
- legendary sea monster
- krasis
- addition of water to sacramental wine
- kraurosis
- shrivelling of the skin
- kreatophagia
- eating of raw meat
- kremlin
- a Russian citadel
- kreng
- whale carcass after blubber is removed
- kriegspiel
- war-game used to teach strategy
- krimmer
- tightly curled grey or black lamb's wool
- kritarchy
- government by judges
- krobylos
- tuft of hair on the top of the head
- krummhorn
- ancient double-reed wind instrument
- krypsis
- doctrine that Christ secretly exercised divine powers
- ktenology
- science of putting people to death
- kumiss
- fermented mare's milk
- kummel
- cumin-flavoured liqueur
- kurgan
- prehistoric burial mound
- kurtosis
- relative degree of sharpness of peak of distribution curve
- kuru
- brain disease transmitted by cannibalism
- kvass
- Eastern European rye beer
- kwashiorkor
- tropical disease of infants due to protein deficiency
- kyle
- narrow strait
- kylin
- Chinese mythical animal
- kyllosis
- club foot
- kyloe
- small long-haired cattle
- kymatology
- study of wave motion
- kymograph
- instrument for recording fluid pressure
- kyphorrhinos
- humped nose
- kyphosis
- hunchbacked condition
- kyrie
- religious petition for mercy
- kyrielle
- string of short lines in stanzas all ending with the same word
- kyriolexy
- the use of literal expressions