Professional vocabulary

Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.

That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.

To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.

The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.

an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared; "they established a baseline for the budget"

a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point

Short in duration.

The act or state of declining or sinking.

To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standa…

The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability.

The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.

To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup.

The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.

The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity.

Union or connection; the state of touching or contact.

Equal in rank or order; not subordinate.

Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entitled to confidence; trustworthy.

To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actua…

Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered.

State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

To ascertain by diagnosis; to diagnosticate. See Diagnosticate.

See Distill.

To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.

To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task.

Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable.

To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.

To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting pa…

To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority.

Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement.

That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of…

The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.

A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into.

To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.

To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness.

The act of intervening; interposition.

Recital or performance a second time; repetition.

Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation.

A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.

To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate hea…

One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.

To transact business; to carry on trade.

That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.

Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision.

One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.

Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional.

An explanation or exposition of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or the like; also, the principles themselves.

To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as,…

To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify…

To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolv…

The level of risk an organisation is prepared to take.

Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.

The channel of a stream.

Capable of being scaled.

A preliminary sketch of the plot, or main incidents, of an opera.

That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultima…

The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.

To make simple; to make less complex; to make clear by giving the explanation for; to show an easier or shorter process for doing or making.

The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.

Alt. of Strategical

To make to exist; to make real.

To bring several ideas together into one explanation.

The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence,…

The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance.

an exchange that occurs as a compromise; "I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine"

The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air.

To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.

Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, t…

To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to.

The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.

To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.

Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely bo…