ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION

August 28, 2020

One Word Substitution is the process to find a single word that describes the given definition or word phrase. This key-word suddenly dominates the whole sentence. The meaning of the whole sentence automatically converts into a single word. Let us see with the help of some examples.

A building where animals are butchered	Abattoir
An act of abdicating or renouncing the throne	Abdication
Do away with wholly	Abolish
To increase the speed; to hasten the progress of	Accelerate
That which falls to someone or something	Accident
Liable to be called to account	Accountable
The branch of physics concerned with the properties of sound	Acoustics
One who calculates premium	Actuary
The period between childhood and adulthood	Adolescence
Indefinite period of time	Aeon
Appreciation of beauty, by a set of principles	Aesthetics
To increase the gravity of an offence or the intensity of a disease	Aggravate
Some on who attacks first	Aggressor
One who doubts the existence of god	Agnostic
The medieval forerunner of chemistry	Alchemy
To turn friends in enemies	Alienate
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one	Allegory
The school or college one attends	Alma Mater
An annual calendar that contains important dates and time	Almanac
One who does something not professionally but for pleasure	Amateur
One who can use either hand with ease	Ambidextrous
Statements open to more than one interpretation	Ambiguous
Having opposing feelings	Ambivalent
To walk aimlessly	Amble
A carriage for sick people	Ambulance
General pardon for political offenders	Amnesty
A cold blooded vertebrate animal that lives in the water and breathes using gills	Amphibian
Someone or something out of time	Anachronism
One who is out to subvert a government	Anarchist
A state of disorder due to absence of authority	Anarchy
A person who presents a radio/television programme	Anchor
Madness or obsession with males	Andromania
One who loves men	Androphile
One who loves and admires the British	Anglophile
A book written by an unknown author	Anonymous
To date before the true time	Antedate
One who studies the evolution of mankind	Anthropologist
Strong, deep dislike	Antipathy
A word opposite in meaning to another	Antonym
A collection of beehives	Apiary
A place where bees are kept; a collection of beehives	Apiary
A person who has changed his faith	Apostate
To rise in value	Appreciate
A building containing tanks of live fish of different species	Aquarium
A person appointed by two parties to solve a dispute	Arbitrator
Collection of historical documents or records about a place, person or thing	Archives
A place or scene of activity, debate, or conflict	Arena
Nobility powered government	Aristocracy
A collection of weapons and military equipment	Arsenal
A person who deliberately sets fire to a building	Arsonist
One who leads an austere life	Ascetic
A person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft	Astronaut
An institution for the care of people who are mentally ill	Asylum
One who does not believe in the existence of God	Atheist
An assembly of hearers at a lecture or concert	Audience
One who makes an official examination of accounts	Auditor
The part of a theatre where people who are watching and listening sit	Auditorium
Writing of one’s own life story	Autobiography
Government by one absolutely	Autocracy
Self-fertilization especially in plants	Autogamy
A signature of a celebrity (signature of oneself)	Autograph
A machine that functions by itself	Automatic
A self-moving vehicle	Automobile
Self-rule or control	Autonomy
One who is greedy for money	Avaricious
A cage made for birds	Aviary
A structure on which abstractly defined structure is based	Axiom

A large bundle bound for storage or transport	Bale
A group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place	Battery
Cut off the head	Behead
The sound of Deers	Bell
A nation or person engaged in war or conflict, as recognized by international law	Belligerent
The sound of Alligators	Bellow
A large gathering of people of a particular type	Bevy
Someone who loves collecting books	Bibliophile
Practice of having two wives or husbands	Bigamy
One who has narrow and prejudiced religious views	Bigot
Writing of one’s life story	Biography
The science which treats with life	Biology
An examination of tissue removed from a living body to discover the presence, cause or extent of a disease	Biopsy
The action or offence of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk	Blasphemy
Spartan snowstorms with uncontrollable winds	Blizzard
An unconventional style of living	Bohemian
Huge fire for celebration	Bonfire
Dwarfed varieties of trees and shrubs in pots	Bonsai
The branch of biology dealing with plant life	Botany
An arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present	Bouquet
Hard but liable to be easily broken	Brittle
A family of young animals	Brood
Government by departments of state	Bureaucracy
State official decision making government	Bureaucratic
A hole or tunnel dug by a small animal	Burrow
A group of things that have been hidden in a secret place	Cache
The sound of Geese	Cackle
One who is bad in spellings	Cacographer
A person who writes beautiful writing	Calligrapher
Somebody who eats human flesh	Cannibal
A group of people, typically with vehicles or animals travelling together	Caravan
Living on flesh	Carnivorous
A person who draws or produces maps	Cartographer
A place to play games and bet on them	Casino
A list of books	Catalogue
A closed political meeting	Caucus
The sound of Crows	Caw
One who is unmarried	Celibate
A burial Ground	Cemetery
Celebration of a hundredth year, once	Centenary
A person employed to drive a private or hired car	Chauffeur
A person who is blindly devoted to an idea/ a person displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism	Chauvinist
A person who composes the sequence of steps and moves for a performance of dance	Choreographer
A thing occurring again and again for a long time	Chronic
The branch of biology concerned with cyclical physiological phenomena	Chronobiology
An instrument which records short intervals of time	Chronograph
The arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurrence	Chronology
A highly accurate timepiece	Chronometer
To walk around a place especially in a ritual fashion	Circumambulate
Talking around, a method of talking indirectly	Circumlocution
Careful, cautious watch on surroundings	Circumspect
A group of followers hired to applaud at a performance	Claque
The sound of Dolphins	Click
An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose	Clique
A room in a public building where outdoor clothes or luggage may be left	Cloakroom
The sound of Hens	Cluck
When two things befall together	Coincident
People who work together	Colleagues
Informal, less grammatically rigid language	Colloquial
A person who introduces the performers or contestants in a variety show	Compere
Belonging or pertaining to an individual from birth	Congenital
A group of worshippers	Congregation
One who knows a lot about good food and wine	Connoisseur
A series of stars	Constellation
Perfectly, highly skilled reached the zenith of art	Consummate
People living at the same time	Contemporaries
One who is recovering from illness	Convalescent
A Christian community of nuns living together under monastic vows	Convent
A girl/woman who flirts with a man	Coquette
A solemn procession, especially for a funeral	Cortege
Science of origin of universe	Cosmology
A person who regards the whole world as his country	Cosmopolitan
The sound of Crickets	Creak
Nursery where babies and young children are cared for during the working day	Creche
One who easily believes others	Credulous
A place where a dead person’s body is cremated	Crematorium
The sound of Frogs	Croak
A vigorous campaign for a cause	Crusade
A keeper or custodian of a museum or other collection	Curator
One who sneers at the beliefs of others	Cynic
One who is a centre of attraction	Cynosure
A secret or disguised way of writing	Cypher
The use of the fingers and hands to communicate and convey ideas	Dactylology
A person having a sophisticated charm	Debonair
A stoppered glass container into which wine or spirit is decanted	Decanter
Trees whose leaves fall every autumn	Deciduous
To transfer one’s authority to another	Delegate
A leader who sways his followers by his oratory	Demagogue
Government by the people	Democracy
The study of statistics	Demography
To go down in value	Depreciate
To go from bad to worse	Deteriorate
Government by two agencies	Diarchy
A dabbler (not serious) in art, science and literature	Dilettante
Morbid compulsion to keep on consuming alcohol	Dipsomania
A large bedroom for a number of people in a school or institution	Dormitory
A herd or flock of animals being driven in a body	Drove

One who has strange habits	Eccentric
Study of environment	Ecology
A thing that is fit to be eaten	Edible
A man who is womanish in his habits	Effeminate
A person who boasts of one’s achievements	Egotist
People who can vote in an election:	Electorate
A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead	Elegy
One who is qualifies for election.	Eligible
Expressive in the use of words	Eloquent
To explain something mysterious or difficult	Elucidate
Misappropriation of money	Embezzlement
Someone who leaves one country to settle in another	Emigrant
Mentally identifying oneself with other person or a thing	Empathy
To lay special stress on	Emphasize
Marriage within one’s own tribe	Endogamy
Lasting for a very short time	Ephemeral
One who is fond of sensuous pleasures	Epicure
Inscription on a tombstone	Epitaph
Person who rides on horse-back	Equestrian
To root out an evil, disease	Eradicate
Marriage outside one’s tribe	Exogamy
To free somebody from all blame	Exonerate
To send out of one’s native country	Expatriate
A speech delivered without any previous preparation	Extempore
Spoken or done without preparation	Extempore
One who turns his thoughts outwards	Extrovert
An exact copy	Facsimile
One who is filled with excessive enthusiasm in religious matters	Fanatic
A person difficult to please	Fastidious
Anything that leads to death	Fatal
One who believes in fate	Fatalist
One who thinks only of welfare of women	Feminist
Killing of one’s son or daughter	Filicide
A person who sells and arranges cut flowers	Florist
A small fleet of ships or boats	Flotilla
Destruction or abortion of a fetus	Foeticide
Something that has been determined beforehand	Foregone
Killing of one’s brother or sister	Fratricide
Living on fruits	Frugivorous
One who eat only fruits	Fruitarian
One who runs away from justice	Fugitive
A line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor	Genealogy
Killing of a large group of people	Genocide
A group governed by old people	Gerontocracy
The sound of Monkeys	Gibber
One who eats too much	Glutton
A lover of good food	Gourmand
One who has keen interest in food and drinks	Gourmet
A storehouse for threshed grain	Granary
High sounding pompous speech or writing	Grandiloquent
Without payment	Gratis
Fond of company	Gregarious
A small growth of trees without underbrush	Grove
The sound of Camels	Grunt
One who is easily deceived	Gullible
A place of exercising and training	Gym
A room or building equipped for gymnastics, games, and other physical exercise	Gymnasium
A community of people smaller than a village	Hamlet
A large building with an extensive floor area, typically for housing aircraft	Hangar
The therapeutic use of sunlight	Heliotherapy
A person who is controlled by wife	Henpeck
Of animals feeding on grass and plants	Herbivorous
A group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals	Herd
A person who acts against religion	Heretic
People who have both male and female sexual organs	Hermaphrodite
A person of intellectual or erudite tastes	Highbrow
The remote regions of a country which are far away from the rivers	Hinterland
The killing of a human being	Homicide
The sound of Penguins	Honk
Work for which no salary is paid	Honorary
The sound of Owls	Hoot
A large group of people	Horde
The art or practice of garden cultivation and management	Horticulture
State of antagonism	Hostility
One who feels sympathetic towards human beings	Humanitarian
Assembly or parliament in which no party has got clear majority	Hung
A box or cage, typically with a wire mesh front, for keeping rabbits or other small domesticated animals	Hutch
A patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments	Hypochondriac
One who pretends to be what he is not	Hypocrite

One who is violently against established beliefs and traditions	Iconoclast
Someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions	Iconoclast
Worship of idols	Idolatry
That which is against law	Illegal
A handwriting that cannot be read	Illegible
That is prohibited by law	Illicit
Complex situation or a mix-up	Imbroglio
One who lives in a foreign country	Immigrant
Who behaves without moral principles	Immoral
That which cannot be noticed	Imperceptible
Incapable of being seized by attack	Impregnable
A person who is incapable of being tampered with	Impregnable
That which is unlikely to happen	Improbable
Without life	Inanimate
A sound that cannot be heard	Inaudible
That which falls upon, befalls, happens	Incident
One who cannot be corrected	Incorrigible
That which cannot be believed	Incredible
That which cannot be cured	Incurable
One incapable of being tired	Indefatigable
That which cannot be defended	Indefensible
Making marks that cannot be removed	Indelible
Something that is essential and cannot be dispensed with	Indispensable
That which cannot be avoided	Inevitable
Certain to happen	Inevitable
That which cannot be explained	Inexplicable
One who does not make mistakes	Infallible
The killing of a new born child	Infanticide
A place in a large institution for the care of those who are ill	Infirmary
Something that is quickly and easily set on fire and burned	Inflammable
Something that cannot be imitated	Inimitable
That which cannot be satisfied	Insatiable
Incapable of being dissolved in a liquid	Insoluble
One who is unable to pay his debts	Insolvent
To examine carefully	Inspect
One who takes part in dialogue or conversation	Interlocutor
Burial of a corpse in a grave or tomb	Interment
One who dies without a Will	Intestate
One who exhibits courage or fearlessness	Intrepid
Examine one’s motives or look inwards	Introspect
The action of looking back on past time	Introspection
One who does not express himself freely	Introvert
One who supervises in the examination hall	Invigilator
That which cannot be conquered	Invincible
A thing that cannot be seen with human eyes	Invisible
That which cannot be hurt	Invulnerable
Remarks which do not apply to the subject under discussion	Irrelevant
That cannot be altered or withdrawn	Irrevocable
The area over which an official has control	Jurisdiction
The theory or philosophy of law	Jurisprudence
A small shelter for a dog	Kennel
Morbid compulsion to steal	Kleptomania
Few words packed with meaning, concise	Laconic
A place where wild animal live	Lair
That which is lawful	Legal
A person who compiles dictionaries	Lexicographer
One who loves to speak	Loquacious
A person who is mentally ill	Lunatic
Generous, forgiving talk	Magniloquent
The first speech made by a person	Maiden
Madness with obsession with something	Mania
Handwritten book	Manuscript
One who demands strict conformity to rules	Martinet
The rule or control of mother	Matriarchy
The killing of a mother	Matricide
Related to marriage	Matrimony
Belonging to the Middle Ages	Medieval
Morbid delusion of power, importance or godliness	Megalomania
A collection of wild animals kept in captivity for exhibition	Menagerie
One who can do anything for money	Mercenary
A place where coins, medals, or tokens are made	Mint
One who hates men	Misandrist
One who hates mankind	Misanthrope
One who hates marriage	Misogamist
One who hates women	Misogynist
Violation or misuse of power	Misusage
Rule by the mob	Mobocracy
Government by one person (royal)	Monarchy
A building or buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows	Monastery
Practice of having one wife or husband	Monogamy
Person with one-track mind	Monomania
One who believes in the theory of only one God	Monotheist
The sound of Cattle	Moo
A place where bodies are kept for identification	Morgue
A room or building in which dead bodies are kept	Mortuary
Ordinary and Dull	Mundane
A place where objects are exhibited	Museum
Compulsion to tell lies	Mythomania
Somebody or something with the same name as somebody or something else	Namesake
Someone in love with himself	Narcissist
A person who loves himself the most	Narcissist
The sound of Horses	Neigh
Inexperienced people governing a state or a region	Neocracy
One who is a newcomer	Neophyte
One who walks at night	Noctambulist
A sentimental memory of the past	Nostalgia
Well known for bad qualities	Notorious
One who is new to a trade or profession	Novice
Science of coins or medals	Numismatics
One who collect coins as hobby	Numismatist
Morbid, uncontrollable desire on the part of a woman	Nymphomania

A news article that reports the recent death of a person	Obituary
A thing no longer in use	Obsolete
That which falls on the western countries	Occidental
The scientific study of the structure and diseases of teeth	Odontology
Government by a few powerful people	Oligarchy
Book containing all the published work of an author	Omnibus
Capable of moving in all directions	Omnidirectional
One who is all powerful	Omnipotent
One who is present everywhere	Omnipresent
A person who knows everything	Omniscient
One who eats all kinds of food	Omnivorous
That through which light cannot pass	Opaque
One who looks on the bright side of things	Optimist
A piece of enclosed land planted with fruit trees	Orchard
A solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases	Panacea
A doctrine which identifies God with the universe	Pantheism
One who believes that God is union of all forces of the universe	Pantheist
Killing of a parent or other near relative	Parricide
A system of governing a country suggesting a father-child relation	Paternalism
Fatherhood	Paternity
Something or someone makes you feel deep sadness or pity	Pathetic
A father-like figure	Patriarch
A system ruled or controlled by men	Patriarchy
The killing of a father	Patricide
An inheritance from father	Patrimony
One who loves his country	Patriot
A name framed after father’s name	Patronymic
One who has no money	Pauper
Excessively concerned with minor details or rules	Pedantic
One who goes on foot	Pedestrian
A baby carriage	Perambulator
One who looks on the dark side of things	Pessimist
The branch of science concerned with the origin, structure and composition of rocks	Petrology
One who loves without seriousness	Philanderer
A lover of mankind	Philanthropist
Love for mankind	Philanthropy
One who does not care for art, literature etc.	Philistine
A person who likes or admires women	Philogynist
Fondness towards women	Philogyny
One who loves wisdom (hence pursues it)	Philosopher
Written by light	Photograph
The sound of Nightingales	Pipe
Living on fish	Piscivorous
Copying someone else’s work and trying to submit as your own	Plagiarism
One who copies from other writers	Plagiarist
An optical device for projecting various celestial images and effects	Planetarium
Government governed by wealth	Plutocracy
A place for feet or speaker’s platform	Podium
Practice of having several husbands	Polyandry
The custom of having more than one wife at a time	Polygamy
One who knows many languages	Polyglot
One who believes in many Gods	Polytheist
A temporary police force	Posse
A book published after the death of its author	Posthumous
Medical examination of a dead body	Postmortem
Water fit for drinking	Potable
Safe to drink	Potable
Walk before hand or an introductory statement	Preamble
An animal who preys on other animals	Predator
A forward look or a view into future	Prospect
One who studies the elections and trends in voting	Psephologist
Systematic study of election trends	Psephology
To write under a different name	Pseudonym
Morbid compulsion to start a fire	Pyromania
The sound of Ducks	Quack
One who is extravagantly romantic, chivalrous and impractical	Quixotic
One who presents a radio Programme	Radio Jockey
A person who lives in solitude	Recluse
Emblem of Royalty	Regalia
The killing of a king	Regicide
Make someone feel young	Rejuvenate
Not showing enough care and attention	Remiss
A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply	Reservoir
One who speaks less	Reticent
A backward look or a view into the past	Retrospect
The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing	Rhetoric
Violating the sanctity of a church	Sacrilege
One who helps others Good	Samaritan
A room or building for sick children in a boarding school	Sanatorium
Morbid, uncontrollable desire on the part of a man	Satyromania
The sound of Parrots	Screech
An artist who makes sculptures.	Sculptor
Government not concerned with religious activities	Secular
A close-fitting cover for the blade of a knife or sword	Sheath
A large number of fish swimming together	Shoal
An office with high salary but no work	Sinecure
A place for sun to enter where one can sunbath	Solarium
A speech to oneself, alone	Soliloquy
One who walks in sleep	Somnambulist
One who talks while sleeping	Somniloquist
The killing of one’s sister	Sororicide
A thing that is kept as a reminder of a person, place, or event	Souvenir
The sound of Rats	Squeak
One who is indifferent to pleasure or pain	Stoic
Government by military class	Stratocracy
The killing of oneself	Suicide
Excessive love for one’s country	Super patriotism
A doubtful look or examination of one’s motives	Suspect
One who is a boot licker, flatterer	Sycophant
Simultaneously affected by similar feelings	Sympathy
Make to happen at the same time	Synchronize
Words which have the same meaning	Synonyms
A place where animal hides are tanned	Tannery
One who doesn’t consume alcohol	Teetotaler
A written message from far off place	Telegraph
A scolding nagging bad-tempered woman	Termagant
One who believes in God	Theist
Government by divine guidance	Theocracy
Battle among the Gods	Theomachy
Religious madness	Theomania
A strong and fast-moving stream of water or other liquid	Torrent
That through which light can partly pass	Translucent
That through which light can pass	Transparent
The sound of Elephants	Trumpet
One who changes sides	Turncoat
The sound of Birds	Twitter
An imaginary society free from crimes and poverty	Utopia
The killing of one’s wife	Uxoricide
A person who shows a great or excessive fondness for one’s wife	Uxorious
One who always thinks himself to be ill	Valetudinarian
One who damages public property	Vandal
One who eats no animal flesh	Vegetarian
Denoting a sin that is not regarded as depriving the soul of divine grace	Venial
One who can throw his voice	Ventriloquist
Exact use of words that were being used originally	Verbatim
Somebody who is considerably experienced in something	Veteran
A shrewish loud-mouthed female	Virago
One who possesses outstanding technical ability in a particular art or field	Virtuoso
One who works for free	Volunteer
A large, tall cupboard in which clothes may be hung or stored	Wardrobe
The sound of Mosquitoes	Whine
The scientific study of the behaviour, structure, physiology, classification and distribution of animals	Zoology