deteriorate(v) - degenerate; devolve; drop;grow worse;
#2 (v) - become worse or disintegrate;
detour(n) - roundabout way;a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked);
#2 (v) - travel via a detour;
detrimental(adj sat) - damaging; prejudicial; prejudicious;causing harm or injury;
deviate(n) - degenerate; deviant; pervert;a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior;
#2 (v) - divert;turn aside; turn away from;
#3 (v) - cause to turn away from a previous or expected course;
#4 (v) - depart; diverge; vary;be at variance with; be out of line with;
#5 (adj sat) - aberrant; deviant;markedly different from an accepted norm;
devotion(n) - religious observance or prayers (usually spoken silently);
#2 (n) - cultism; idolatry; veneration;religious zeal; the willingness to serve God;
#3 (n) - commitment to some purpose;
#4 (n) - devotedness;feelings of ardent love;
devour(v) - guttle; pig; raven;eat greedily;
#2 (v) - consume; down; go through;eat immoderately;
#3 (v) - destroy completely;
#4 (v) - enjoy avidly;
dewdrop(n) - a drop of dew;
diagnosis(n) - diagnosing;identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon;
dialectical(adj) - dialectic;of or relating to or employing dialectic;
dice(n) - die;a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers;
#2 (v) - play dice;
#3 (v) - cube;cut into cubes;
diesel(n) - diesel engine; diesel motor;an internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil;
#2 (n) - rudolf christian karl diesel; rudolf diesel;German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913);
diet(n) - dieting;the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods);
#2 (n) - the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal);
#3 (n) - a prescribed selection of foods;
#4 (n) - a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan);
#5 (v) - eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight;
#6 (v) - follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons;
differential(n) - differential gear;a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds; used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves;
#2 (n) - a quality that differentiates between similar things;
#3 (n) - derivative; derived function; differential coefficient; first derivative;the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx;
#4 (adj) - relating to or showing a difference;
#5 (adj) - involving or containing one or more derivatives;
dignity(n) - self-regard; self-respect; self-worth;the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect;
#2 (n) - gravitas; lordliness;formality in bearing and appearance;
#3 (n) - high office or rank or station;
dike(n) - dam; dyke;a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea;
#2 (n) - butch; dyke;offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine;
#3 (v) - dyke;enclose with a dike;
diligence(n) - application;a diligent effort;
#2 (n) - conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation;
#3 (n) - industriousness; industry;persevering determination to perform a task;
diligent(adj) - characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks;
#2 (adj sat) - persevering;quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness;
dilute(v) - cut; reduce; thin; thin out;lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture;
#2 (v) - adulterate; debase; load; stretch;corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones;
#3 (adj) - diluted;reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity;
dime(n) - dime bag;street name for a packet of illegal drugs that is sold for ten dollars;
#2 (n) - a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar;
dimensional(adj sat) - having dimension--the quality or character or stature proper to a person;
#2 (adj) - of or relating to dimensions;
diminish(v) - decrease; fall; lessen;decrease in size, extent, or range;
#2 (v) - belittle;lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of;
diode(n) - crystal rectifier; junction rectifier; semiconductor diode;a semiconductor that consists of a p-n junction;
#2 (n) - rectifying tube; rectifying valve;a thermionic tube having two electrodes; used as a rectifier;
dioxide(n) - an oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in the molecule;
diploma(n) - sheepskin;a document certifying the successful completion of a course of study;
diplomat(n) - diplomatist;an official engaged in international negotiations;
#2 (n) - a person who deals tactfully with others;
diplomatic(adj) - diplomatical;using or marked by tact in dealing with sensitive matters or people;
#2 (adj) - relating to or characteristic of diplomacy;
dire(adj sat) - awful; direful; dread; dreaded; dreadful; fearful; fearsome; frightening; horrendous; horrific; terrible;causing fear or dread or terror;
#2 (adj sat) - desperate;fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless;
directory(n) - an alphabetical list of names and addresses;
#2 (n) - a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk);
disable(v) - handicap; incapacitate; invalid;injure permanently;
#2 (v) - disenable; incapacitate;make unable to perform a certain action;
disarmament(n) - disarming;act of reducing or depriving of arms;
disastrous(adj sat) - black; calamitous; fatal; fateful;having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin;
discern(v) - distinguish; make out; pick out; recognise; recognize; spot; tell apart;detect with the senses;
disclose(v) - break; bring out; discover; divulge; expose; give away; let on; let out; reveal; unwrap;make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret;
#2 (v) - expose;disclose to view as by removing a cover;
discord(n) - discordance;strife resulting from a lack of agreement;
#2 (n) - discordance;a harsh mixture of sounds;
#3 (n) - dissension;disagreement among those expected to cooperate;
#4 (n) - strife;lack of agreement or harmony;
#5 (v) - disaccord; disagree;be different from one another;
discount(n) - deduction; price reduction;the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise;
#2 (n) - deduction;an amount or percentage deducted;
#3 (n) - rebate;a refund of some fraction of the amount paid;
#4 (n) - bank discount; discount rate;interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan;
#5 (v) - brush aside; brush off; dismiss; disregard; ignore; push aside;bar from attention or consideration;
#6 (v) - give a reduction in price on;
discourage(v) - admonish; monish; warn;admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior;
#2 (v) - deter;try to prevent; show opposition to;
#3 (v) - deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged;
discourse(n) - extended verbal expression in speech or writing;
#2 (n) - discussion; treatment;an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic;
#3 (n) - preaching; sermon;an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service);
#4 (v) - dissertate; hold forth;talk at length and formally about a topic;
#5 (v) - converse;carry on a conversation;
#6 (v) - discuss; talk about;to consider or examine in speech or writing;
discrepancy(n) - disagreement; divergence; variance;a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions;
#2 (n) - variance; variant;an event that departs from expectations;
discriminate(v) - know apart;recognize or perceive the difference;
#2 (v) - distinguish;
#3 (v) - separate; single out;treat differently on the basis of sex or race;
#4 (adj) - marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions;
discrimination(n) - favoritism; favouritism;unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice;
#2 (n) - secernment;the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished;
discus(n) - saucer;a disk used in throwing competitions;
#2 (n) - an athletic competition in which a disk-shaped object is thrown as far as possible;
disguise(n) - camouflage;the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance;
#2 (n) - any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer's identity;
#3 (n) - camouflage;an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something;
#4 (v) - mask;make unrecognizable;
disillusion(n) - disenchantment; disillusionment;freeing from false belief or illusions;
#2 (v) - disenchant;free from enchantment;
disincentive(n) - deterrence;a negative motivational influence;
dismount(n) - the act of dismounting (a horse or bike etc.);
#2 (v) - get down; get off; light; unhorse;alight from (a horse);
dispatch(n) - despatch; shipment;the act of sending off something;
#2 (n) - despatch;killing a person or animal;
#3 (n) - despatch; expedition; expeditiousness;the property of being prompt and efficient;
#4 (n) - communique; despatch;an official report (usually sent in haste);
#5 (v) - kill without delay;
#6 (v) - despatch; send off;send away towards a designated goal;
#7 (v) - dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently;
#8 (v) - bump off; hit; murder; off; polish off; remove; slay;kill intentionally and with premeditation;
#9 (v) - complete; discharge;complete or carry out;
dispel(v) - chase away; drive away; drive off; drive out; run off; turn back;force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings;
#2 (v) - break up; disperse; dissipate; scatter;to cause to separate and go in different directions;
dispense(v) - administer;give or apply (medications);
#2 (v) - administer; allot; deal; deal out; dish out; distribute; dole out; lot; mete out; parcel out; shell out;administer or bestow, as in small portions;
#3 (v) - grant a dispensation; grant an exemption;
displace(v) - move;cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense;
#2 (v) - cause to move, usually with force or pressure;
#3 (v) - can; dismiss; fire; force out; give notice; give the axe; give the sack; sack; send away; terminate;terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position;
#4 (v) - preempt;take the place of or have precedence over;
displease(v) - give displeasure to;
disposition(n) - disposal;the act or means of getting rid of something;
#2 (n) - temperament;your usual mood;
#3 (n) - a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing;
#4 (n) - inclination; tendency;an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others;
dissemination(n) - diffusion; dispersal; dispersion;the act of dispersing or diffusing something;
#2 (n) - diffusion;the property of being diffused or dispersed;
#3 (n) - airing; public exposure; spreading;the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate;
dissipate(v) - fool; fool away; fritter; fritter away; frivol away; shoot;spend frivolously and unwisely;
#2 (v) - disperse; scatter; spread out;move away from each other;
#3 (v) - break up; dispel; disperse; scatter;to cause to separate and go in different directions;
#4 (v) - live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption;
dissolution(n) - breakup;the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations);
#2 (n) - adjournment;the termination of a meeting;
#3 (n) - dissipation; licentiousness; looseness; profligacy;dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure;
#4 (n) - disintegration;separation into component parts;
#5 (n) - dissolving;the process of going into solution;
distillation(n) - distillment;the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors;
#2 (n) - distillate;a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling;
distinctly(adv) - clearly;clear to the mind; with distinct mental discernment;
#2 (adv) - to a distinct degree;
#3 (adv) - in a distinct and distinguishable manner;
distortion(n) - the mistake of misrepresenting the facts;
#2 (n) - overrefinement; straining; torture; twisting;the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean;
#3 (n) - deformation;a change for the worse;
#4 (n) - aberration; optical aberration;an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image;
#5 (n) - a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal);
#6 (n) - distorted shape;a shape resulting from distortion;
distract(v) - cark; disorder; disquiet; perturb; trouble; unhinge;disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed;
#2 (v) - deflect;draw someone's attention away from something;
distrust(n) - distrustfulness; mistrust;the trait of not trusting others;
#2 (n) - misgiving; mistrust; suspicion;doubt about someone's honesty;
#3 (v) - mistrust; suspect;regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in;
disturbance(n) - the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion;
#2 (n) - affray; fray; ruffle;a noisy fight;
#3 (n) - perturbation;activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption;
#4 (n) - interference; noise;electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication;
#5 (n) - commotion; disruption; flutter; hoo-ha; hoo-hah; hurly burly; kerfuffle; to-do;a disorderly outburst or tumult;
#6 (n) - folie; mental disorder; mental disturbance; psychological disorder;a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness;
#7 (n) - perturbation; upset;an unhappy and worried mental state;
diversion(n) - deflection; deflexion; deviation; digression; divagation;a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern);
#2 (n) - recreation;an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates;
#3 (n) - diversionary attack;an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack;
diversity(n) - the condition or result of being changeable;
#2 (n) - diverseness; multifariousness; variety;noticeable heterogeneity;
divert(v) - send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one;
#2 (v) - deviate;turn aside; turn away from;
#3 (v) - hive off;withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions;
#4 (v) - amuse; disport;occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion;
dividend(n) - a bonus; something extra (especially a share of a surplus);
#2 (n) - that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly;
#3 (n) - a number to be divided by another number;
divine(n) - almighty; creator; god almighty; godhead; jehovah; lord; maker;terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God;
#2 (n) - churchman; cleric; ecclesiastic;a clergyman or other person in religious orders;
#3 (v) - search by divining, as if with a rod;
#4 (v) - perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers;
#5 (adj sat) - elysian; inspired;being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods;
#6 (adj sat) - godly;emanating from God;
#7 (adj sat) - godlike;being or having the nature of a god;
#8 (adj sat) - providential;resulting from divine providence;
#9 (adj sat) - godlike;appropriate to or befitting a god;
#10 (adj sat) - devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity;
dock(n) - bob; bobtail;a short or shortened tail of certain animals;
#2 (n) - the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair;
#3 (n) - dockage; docking facility;landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out;
#4 (n) - an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial;
#5 (n) - loading dock;a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded;
#6 (n) - pier; wharf; wharfage;a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats;
#7 (n) - sorrel; sour grass;any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine;
#8 (v) - maneuver into a dock;
#9 (v) - bob; tail;remove or shorten the tail of an animal;
#10 (v) - come into dock;
#11 (v) - deduct from someone's wages;
#12 (v) - deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty;
doctrine(n) - ism; philosophical system; philosophy; school of thought;a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school;
documentary(n) - docudrama; documentary film; infotainment;a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event;
#2 (adj sat) - objective;emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation;
#3 (adj) - documental;relating to or consisting of or derived from documents;
dogmatic(adj sat) - dogmatical;characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles;
#2 (adj) - relating to or involving dogma;
#3 (adj) - of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative;
doll(n) - dolly;a small replica of a person; used as a toy;
#2 (n) - bird; chick; dame; skirt; wench;informal terms for a (young) woman;
dolphin(n) - any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises;
#2 (n) - dolphinfish; mahimahi;large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii);
domain(n) - knowledge base; knowledge domain;the content of a particular field of knowledge;
#2 (n) - world;people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest;
#3 (n) - domain of a function;the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined;
#4 (n) - demesne; land;territory over which rule or control is exercised;
#5 (n) - area; arena; field; orbit; sphere;a particular environment or walk of life;
dome(n) - a hemispherical roof;
#2 (n) - covered stadium; domed stadium;a stadium that has a roof;
#3 (n) - attic; bean; bonce; noggin; noodle;informal terms for a human head;
#4 (n) - a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward;
dominate(v) - master;have dominance or the power to defeat over;
#2 (v) - predominate; prevail; reign; rule;be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance;
#3 (v) - be in control;
#4 (v) - command; overlook; overtop;look down on;
#5 (v) - eclipse; overshadow;be greater in significance than;
dominion(n) - one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth;
#2 (n) - district; territorial dominion; territory;a region marked off for administrative or other purposes;
#3 (n) - rule;dominance or power through legal authority;
donate(v) - give to a charity or good cause;
donor(n) - bestower; conferrer; giver; presenter;person who makes a gift of property;
#2 (n) - someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host);
doom(n) - day of reckoning; doomsday; end of the world;an unpleasant or disastrous destiny;
#2 (v) - designate; destine; fate;decree or designate beforehand;
#3 (v) - make certain of the failure or destruction of;
#4 (v) - condemn; sentence;pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law;
dosage(n) - dose;a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time;
#2 (n) - dose;the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time;
dough(n) - a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll;
#2 (n) - boodle; bread; cabbage; clams; dinero; gelt; kale; lettuce; lolly; loot; lucre; moolah; pelf; scratch; shekels; simoleons; sugar; wampum;informal terms for money;
dove(n) - any of numerous small pigeons;
#2 (n) - an emblem of peace;
#3 (n) - squab;flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled;
#4 (n) - columba;a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and Caelum;
#5 (n) - peacenik;someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations;
downtown(n) - business district;the central area or commercial center of a town or city;
#2 (adj) - of or located in the lower part of a town, or in the business center;
#3 (adv) - toward or in the lower or central part of town;
doze(n) - drowse;a light fitful sleep;
#2 (v) - drowse; snooze;sleep lightly or for a short period of time;
dragon(n) - flying dragon; flying lizard;any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body;
#2 (n) - draco;a faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus;
#3 (n) - firedrake;a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings;
#4 (n) - tartar;a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman;
drainage(n) - drain;emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it;
drape(n) - curtain; drapery; mantle; pall;hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window);
#2 (n) - a sterile covering arranged over a patient's body during a medical examination or during surgery in order to reduce the possibility of contamination;
#3 (n) - the manner in which fabric hangs or falls;
#4 (v) - arrange in a particular way;
#5 (v) - place casually;
#6 (v) - cover or dress loosely with cloth;
#7 (v) - cloak; clothe; robe;cover as if with clothing;
drapery(n) - curtain; drape; mantle; pall;hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window);
#2 (n) - cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds;
drastic(adj sat) - forceful and extreme and rigorous;
draught(n) - draft; drawing;the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling;
#2 (n) - draft; gulp; swig;a large and hurried swallow;
#3 (n) - draft;a dose of liquid medicine;
#4 (n) - draft;the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded);
#5 (n) - draft; potation; tipple;a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg;
#6 (n) - draft;a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle);
#7 (v) - blueprint; draft;make a blueprint of;
drawback(n) - the quality of being a hindrance;
dreadful(adj sat) - awful; dire; direful; dread; dreaded; fearful; fearsome; frightening; horrendous; horrific; terrible;causing fear or dread or terror;
#2 (adj sat) - abominable; atrocious; awful; painful; terrible; unspeakable;exceptionally bad or displeasing;
#3 (adj sat) - very unpleasant;
dreary(adj sat) - blue; dark; dingy; disconsolate; dismal; drab; drear; gloomy; grim; sorry;causing dejection;
#2 (adj sat) - drab;lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise;
drought(n) - drouth;a shortage of rainfall;
#2 (n) - drouth;a prolonged shortage;
dual(adj sat) - a grammatical number category referring to two items or units as opposed to one item (singular) or more than two items (plural);
#2 (adj sat) - double; duple;consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs;
#3 (adj sat) - double; threefold; three-fold; treble; twofold; two-fold;having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities;
dubious(adj sat) - doubtful;fraught with uncertainty or doubt;
#2 (adj sat) - not convinced;
#3 (adj sat) - doubtful; dubitable; in question;open to doubt or suspicion;
duchess(n) - the wife of a duke or a woman holding ducal title in her own right;
duke(n) - a British peer of the highest rank;
#2 (n) - a nobleman (in various countries) of high rank;
duly(adv) - punctually;at the proper time;
duplicate(n) - duplication;a copy that corresponds to an original exactly;
#2 (n) - extra;something additional of the same kind;
#3 (v) - double;increase twofold;
#4 (v) - double; reduplicate; repeat; replicate;make or do or perform again;
#5 (v) - make a duplicate or duplicates of;
#6 (v) - parallel; twin;duplicate or match;
#7 (adj sat) - matching; twin; twinned;being two identical;
#8 (adj sat) - identically copied from an original;
dustbin(n) - ash bin; ashbin; ash-bin; ashcan; garbage can; trash barrel; trash bin; trash can; wastebin;a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected;
dutch(n) - the West Germanic language of the Netherlands;
#2 (n) - dutch people;the people of the Netherlands;
#3 (adj) - of or relating to the Netherlands or its people or culture;
dwarf(n) - a plant or animal that is atypically small;
#2 (n) - gnome;a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure;
#3 (n) - midget; nanus;a person who is markedly small;
#4 (v) - check the growth of;
#5 (v) - overshadow; shadow;make appear small by comparison;
dwell(v) - brood;think moodily or anxiously about something;
#2 (v) - harp;come back to;
#3 (v) - inhabit; live; populate;inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of;
#4 (v) - consist; lie; lie in;originate (in);
#5 (v) - inhabit;exist or be situated within;
dynamite(n) - an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp;
#2 (v) - blow up with dynamite;
dynamo(n) - generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature;
dynasty(n) - a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family;
earnings(n) - lucre; net; net income; net profit; profit; profits;the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses);
#2 (n) - pay; remuneration; salary; wage;something that remunerates;
earthen(adj) - made of earth (or baked clay);
easter(n) - east wind; easterly;a wind from the east;
#2 (n) - a Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox;
eastwards(adv) - eastward;toward the east;
eclipse(n) - occultation;one celestial body obscures another;
#2 (v) - occult;cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention;
#3 (v) - dominate; overshadow;be greater in significance than;
ecological(adj) - bionomic; bionomical; ecologic;of or relating to the science of ecology;
#2 (adj) - ecologic;characterized by the interdependence of living organisms in an environment;
economics(n) - economic science; political economy;the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management;
economist(n) - economic expert;an expert in the science of economics;
eddy(n) - twist;a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself;
#2 (n) - mary baker eddy; mary morse baker eddy;founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910);
#3 (v) - purl; swirl; whirl; whirlpool;flow in a circular current, of liquids;
edible(n) - comestible; eatable; pabulum; victual; victuals;any substance that can be used as food;
#2 (adj) - comestible; eatable;suitable for use as food;
edit(v) - redact;prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting;
#2 (v) - blue-pencil; delete;cut or eliminate;
#3 (v) - cut; edit out;cut and assemble the components of;
#4 (v) - supervise the publication of;
editorial(n) - column; newspaper column;an article giving opinions or perspectives;
#2 (adj) - of or relating to an article stating opinions or giving perspectives;
#3 (adj) - relating to or characteristic of an editor;
effectiveness(n) - potency; strength;capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects;
#2 (n) - effectivity; effectuality; effectualness;power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect;
egypt(n) - egyptian empire;an ancient empire to the west of Israel; centered on the Nile River and ruled by a Pharaoh; figured in many events described in the Old Testament;
#2 (n) - arab republic of egypt; united arab republic;a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC;
egyptian(n) - the ancient and now extinct language of Egypt under the Pharaohs; written records date back to 3000 BC;
#2 (n) - a native or inhabitant of Egypt;
#3 (adj) - of or relating to or characteristic of Egypt or its people or their language;
eject(v) - discharge; exhaust; expel; release;eliminate (a substance);
#2 (v) - force out; squeeze out; squirt;cause to come out in a squirt;
#3 (v) - boot out; chuck out; exclude; turf out; turn out;put out or expel from a place;
#4 (v) - leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule;
elbow(n) - the joint of a mammal or bird that corresponds to the human elbow;
#2 (n) - the part of a sleeve that covers the elbow joint;
#3 (n) - a sharp bend in a road or river;
#4 (n) - a length of pipe with a sharp bend in it;
#5 (n) - articulatio cubiti; cubital joint; cubitus; elbow joint; human elbow;hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped;
#6 (v) - shove one's elbow into another person's ribs;
#7 (v) - push one's way with the elbows;
elderly(n) - aged;people who are old collectively;
#2 (adj sat) - aged; older; senior;advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables);
electrify(v) - wire;equip for use with electricity;
#2 (v) - charge (a conductor) with electricity;
#3 (v) - excite suddenly and intensely;
electrode(n) - a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit;
electromagnetic(adj) - pertaining to or exhibiting magnetism produced by electric charge in motion;
electronics(n) - the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices;
elevate(v) - lift; raise;raise in rank or condition;
#2 (v) - bring up; get up; lift; raise;raise from a lower to a higher position;
#3 (v) - advance; kick upstairs; promote; raise; upgrade;give a promotion to or assign to a higher position;
elevation(n) - aggrandisement; aggrandizement;the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something;
#2 (n) - drawing of an exterior of a structure;
#3 (n) - the height of a dancer's leap or jump;
#4 (n) - distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level);
#5 (n) - lift; raising;the event of something being raised upward;
#6 (n) - natural elevation;a raised or elevated geological formation;
#7 (n) - alt; altitude; el;angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object);
#8 (n) - acme; height; meridian; peak; pinnacle; summit; superlative; tiptop; top;the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development;
elimination(n) - liquidation;the murder of a competitor;
#2 (n) - riddance;the act of removing or getting rid of something;
#3 (n) - the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations;
#4 (n) - reasoning by elimination;analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives;
#5 (n) - evacuation; excreting; excretion; voiding;the bodily process of discharging waste matter;
elliptical(adj sat) - elliptic;characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements;
#2 (adj sat) - egg-shaped; elliptic; oval; oval-shaped; ovate; oviform; ovoid; prolate;rounded like an egg;
eloquence(n) - fluency; smoothness;powerful and effective language;
elusive(adj sat) - skillful at eluding capture;
#2 (adj sat) - baffling; knotty; problematic; problematical; tough;making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe;
#3 (adj sat) - difficult to describe;
#4 (adj sat) - subtle;difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze;
embassy(n) - a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work;
#2 (n) - an ambassador and his entourage collectively;
embody(v) - be; personify;represent, as of a character on stage;
#2 (v) - body forth; incarnate; substantiate;represent in bodily form;
#3 (v) - represent or express something abstract in tangible form;
embroidery(n) - fancywork;decorative needlework;
#2 (n) - embellishment;elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail;
emigrant(n) - emigre; emigree; outgoer;someone who leaves one country to settle in another;
emigrate(v) - leave one's country of residence for a new one;
emigration(n) - expatriation; out-migration;migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another);
eminence(n) - tubercle; tuberosity;a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament;
#2 (n) - distinction; note; preeminence;high status importance owing to marked superiority;
emission(n) - emanation;the act of emitting; causing to flow forth;
#2 (n) - the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe);
#3 (n) - discharge; expelling;any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body;
#4 (n) - the release of electrons from parent atoms;
#5 (n) - discharge;a substance that is emitted or released;
empirical(adj) - empiric;derived from experiment and observation rather than theory;
#2 (adj) - empiric;relying on medical quackery;
empress(n) - a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor;
enact(v) - act out; reenact;act out; represent or perform as if in a play;
#2 (v) - ordain;order by virtue of superior authority; decree;
encircle(v) - gird;bind with something round or circular;
#2 (v) - circle;form a circle around;
encyclopedia(n) - cyclopaedia; cyclopedia; encyclopaedia;a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty;
endeavour(n) - attempt; effort; endeavor; try;earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something;
#2 (n) - endeavor; enterprise;a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness);
#3 (v) - endeavor; strive;attempt by employing effort;
endow(v) - dower;furnish with an endowment;
#2 (v) - empower; endue; gift; indue; invest;give qualities or abilities to;
endurance(n) - the power to withstand hardship or stress;
#2 (n) - survival;a state of surviving; remaining alive;
enforce(v) - apply; implement;ensure observance of laws and rules;
#2 (v) - impose;compel to behave in a certain way;
engrave(v) - grave; inscribe; scratch;carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface;
#2 (v) - etch;carve or cut a design or letters into;
#3 (v) - etch;carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block;
#4 (v) - impress or affect deeply;
engulf(v) - absorb; engross; immerse; plunge; soak up; steep;devote (oneself) fully to;
#2 (v) - flow over or cover completely;
enhance(v) - heighten; raise;increase;
#2 (v) - make better or more attractive;
enlist(v) - join the military;
#2 (v) - draft; muster in;engage somebody to enter the army;
#3 (v) - engage;hire for work or assistance;
enrage(v) - put into a rage; make violently angry;
enrich(v) - make better or improve in quality;
#2 (v) - make wealthy or richer;
enrol(v) - enroll; enter; inscribe; recruit;register formally as a participant or member;
entangle(v) - mat; snarl; tangle;twist together or entwine into a confusing mass;
#2 (v) - mire;entrap;
enterprise(n) - endeavor; endeavour;a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness);
#2 (n) - enterprisingness; go-ahead; initiative;readiness to embark on bold new ventures;
#3 (n) - an organization created for business ventures;
entertainment(n) - amusement;an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention;
entreat(v) - adjure; beseech; bid; conjure; press;ask for or request earnestly;
entrust(v) - commit; confide; intrust; trust;confer a trust upon;
#2 (v) - leave;put into the care or protection of someone;
enumerate(v) - itemise; itemize; recite;specify individually;
#2 (v) - count; number; numerate;determine the number or amount of;
envelop(v) - enclose; enfold; enwrap; wrap;enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering;
epidemic(n) - a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time;
#2 (adj) - of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously;
episode(n) - sequence;film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie;
#2 (n) - a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series;
#3 (n) - installment; instalment;a part of a broadcast serial;
#4 (n) - a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events;
epoch(n) - a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages;
#2 (n) - era;a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event;
#3 (n) - date of reference;an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded;
equator(n) - an imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles;
#2 (n) - a circle dividing a sphere or other surface into two usually equal and symmetrical parts;
erase(v) - wipe out;remove from memory or existence;
#2 (v) - delete;wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information;
#3 (v) - efface; rub out; score out; wipe off;remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing;
erosion(n) - corroding; corrosion;erosion by chemical action;
#2 (n) - eating away; eroding; wearing; wearing away;the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it);
#3 (n) - a gradual decline of something;
#4 (n) - condition in which the earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and wind;
errand(n) - a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission;
erroneous(adj sat) - containing or characterized by error;
erupt(v) - belch; extravasate;become active and spew forth lava and rocks;
#2 (v) - break open; burst out; flare; flare up; irrupt;erupt or intensify suddenly;
#3 (v) - break out; recrudesce;become raw or open;
#4 (v) - break out;start abruptly;
#5 (v) - appear on the skin;
#6 (v) - break through; come out; push through;break out;
#7 (v) - break; burst;force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up;
#8 (v) - catch fire; combust; conflagrate; ignite; take fire;start to burn or burst into flames;
escort(n) - accompaniment;the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them;
#2 (n) - bodyguard;someone who escorts and protects a prominent person;
#3 (n) - date;a participant in a date;
#4 (n) - an attendant who is employed to accompany someone;
#5 (v) - accompany as an escort;
#6 (v) - see;accompany or escort;
esteem(n) - regard; respect;an attitude of admiration or esteem;
#2 (n) - admiration;a feeling of delighted approval and liking;
#3 (n) - regard; respect;the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded);
#4 (v) - look on; look upon; regard as; repute; take to be; think of;look on as or consider;
#5 (v) - prise; prize; respect; value;regard highly; think much of;
evoke(v) - paint a picture; suggest;call to mind;
#2 (v) - arouse; bring up; call down; call forth; conjure; conjure up; invoke; put forward; raise; stir;summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic;
#3 (v) - draw out; educe; elicit; extract;deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning);
#4 (v) - call forth; kick up; provoke;evoke or provoke to appear or occur;
#5 (v) - arouse; elicit; enkindle; fire; kindle; provoke; raise;call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses);
evolutionary(adj) - of or relating to or produced by evolution;
excavate(v) - dig; hollow;remove the inner part or the core of;
#2 (v) - form by hollowing;
#3 (v) - dig up; turn up;find by digging in the ground;
#4 (v) - unearth;recover through digging;
exclamation(n) - ecphonesis;an exclamatory rhetorical device;
#2 (n) - exclaiming;an abrupt excited utterance;
#3 (n) - a loud complaint or protest or reproach;
exclusive(n) - scoop;a news report that is reported first by one news organization;
#2 (adj sat) - single; undivided;not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective;
#3 (adj) - excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority;
#4 (adj sat) - sole;not divided or shared with others;
execution(n) - carrying into action; carrying out; performance;the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it;
#2 (n) - murder; slaying;unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being;
#3 (n) - carrying out; implementation;the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order;
#4 (n) - capital punishment; death penalty; executing;putting a condemned person to death;
#5 (n) - writ of execution;a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out;
#6 (n) - execution of instrument;the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable;
#7 (n) - instruction execution;the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer;
exemplify(v) - illustrate; instance;clarify by giving an example of;
#2 (v) - represent;be characteristic of;
exempt(v) - excuse; let off; relieve;grant exemption or release to;
#2 (v) - free; relieve;grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to;
#3 (adj) - freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject;
#4 (adj) - nontaxable;not subject to taxation;
exile(n) - deportation; expatriation; transportation;the act of expelling a person from their native land;
#2 (n) - deportee;a person who is expelled from home or country by authority;
#3 (n) - expat; expatriate;a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country;
#4 (v) - deport; expatriate;expel from a country;
expanse(n) - sweep;a wide scope;
#2 (n) - area; surface area;the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary;
#3 (n) - a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky;
expectancy(n) - anticipation;something expected (as on the basis of a norm);
#2 (n) - anticipation;an expectation;
expedition(n) - a journey organized for a particular purpose;
#2 (n) - excursion; jaunt; junket; outing; pleasure trip; sashay;a journey taken for pleasure;
#3 (n) - hostile expedition; military expedition;a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country;
#4 (n) - despatch; dispatch; expeditiousness;the property of being prompt and efficient;
#5 (n) - an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose;
expel(v) - discharge; eject; exhaust; release;eliminate (a substance);
#2 (v) - rout; rout out;cause to flee;
#3 (v) - boot out; drum out; kick out; oust; throw out;remove from a position or office;
#4 (v) - kick out; throw out;force to leave or move out;
expend(v) - use;use up, consume fully;
#2 (v) - drop; spend;pay out;
expenditure(n) - consumption; using up;the act of consuming something;
#2 (n) - expending;the act of spending money for goods or services;
#3 (n) - outgo; outlay; spending;money paid out; an amount spent;
experiment(n) - experimentation;the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation;
#2 (n) - a venture at something new or different;
#3 (n) - experimentation;the testing of an idea;
#4 (v) - to conduct a test or investigation;
#5 (v) - try out;try something new, as in order to gain experience;
expertise(n) - expertness;skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge;
expiration(n) - breathing out; exhalation;the act of expelling air from the lungs;
#2 (n) - departure; exit; going; loss; passing; release;euphemistic expressions for death;
#3 (n) - expiry; termination;a coming to an end of a contract period;
explicit(adj) - expressed;precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication;
#2 (adj sat) - denotative;in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term;
exploitation(n) - using; victimisation; victimization;an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly);
#2 (n) - development;the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful;
exponential(n) - exponential function;a function in which an independent variable appears as an exponent;
#2 (adj) - of or involving exponents;
exposition(n) - the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur;
#2 (n) - an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse;
#3 (n) - expounding;a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic;
#4 (n) - exhibition; expo;a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display;
expository(adj sat) - expositive;serving to expound or set forth;
expressible(adj) - capable of being expressed;
expressive(adj sat) - characterized by expression;
expulsion(n) - ejection; forcing out; projection;the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting;
#2 (n) - ejection; exclusion; riddance;the act of forcing out someone or something;
#3 (n) - extrusion;squeezing out by applying pressure;
exquisite(adj sat) - of extreme beauty;
#2 (adj sat) - dainty;delicately beautiful;
#3 (adj sat) - recherche;lavishly elegant and refined;
#4 (adj sat) - keen;intense or sharp;
exterminate(v) - kill off;kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many;
#2 (v) - eradicate; extirpate; root out; uproot;destroy completely, as if down to the roots;
extinct(adj) - permanently inactive;
#2 (adj sat) - out;being out or having grown cold;
#3 (adj) - nonextant;no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives;
extinction(n) - extinguishing; quenching;the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning;
#2 (n) - experimental extinction;a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus;
#3 (n) - extermination;complete annihilation;
#4 (n) - the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation;
#5 (n) - defunctness;no longer in existence;
#6 (n) - no longer active; extinguished;
extraction(n) - the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force);
#2 (n) - descent; origin;properties attributable to your ancestry;
#3 (n) - the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means;
extraterrestrial(n) - alien; extraterrestrial being;a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere;
#2 (adj) - originating or located or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere;
extravagance(n) - high life; highlife; lavishness; prodigality;excessive spending;
#2 (n) - prodigality; profligacy;the trait of spending extravagantly;
#3 (n) - extravagancy;the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth;
extravagant(adj sat) - excessive; exuberant; overweening;unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings;
#2 (adj sat) - prodigal; profligate; spendthrift;recklessly wasteful;
eyelid(n) - lid; palpebra;either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye;
eyewitness(n) - a spectator who can describe what happened;
#2 (v) - be present at an event and see it with one's own eyes;
fable(n) - legend;a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events;
#2 (n) - allegory; apologue; parable;a short moral story (often with animal characters);
#3 (n) - fabrication; fiction;a deliberately false or improbable account;
fabricate(v) - cook up; invent; make up; manufacture;make up something artificial or untrue;
#2 (v) - construct; manufacture;put together out of artificial or natural components or parts;
fabrication(n) - lying; prevarication;the deliberate act of deviating from the truth;
#2 (n) - assembly;the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery);
#3 (n) - manufacture; manufacturing;the act of making something (a product) from raw materials;
#4 (n) - fictionalisation; fictionalization;writing in a fictional form;
#5 (n) - fable; fiction;a deliberately false or improbable account;
facilitate(v) - alleviate; ease;make easier;
#2 (v) - increase the likelihood of (a response);
#3 (v) - help;be of use;
facsimile(n) - facsimile machine; fax;duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio;
#2 (n) - autotype;an exact copy or reproduction;
#3 (v) - fax; telefax;send something via a facsimile machine;
faction(n) - cabal; camarilla; junto;a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue;
#2 (n) - sect;a dissenting clique;
factual(adj sat) - actual;existing in act or fact;
#2 (adj) - of or relating to or characterized by facts;
fahrenheit(n) - gabriel daniel fahrenheit;German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736);
#2 (adj) - of or relating to a temperature scale proposed by the inventor of the mercury thermometer;
fairy(n) - faerie; faery; fay; sprite;a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers;
#2 (n) - fag; faggot; fagot; nance; pansy; poof; poove; pouf; queen; queer;offensive term for an openly homosexual man;
fairyland(n) - faerie; faery;the enchanted realm of fairies;
#2 (n) - fantasy world; phantasy world;something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality);
fallacy(n) - false belief;a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning;
familiarity(n) - impropriety; indecorum; liberty;an act of undue intimacy;
#2 (n) - closeness; intimacy;close or warm friendship;
#3 (n) - usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known;
#4 (n) - casualness;a casual manner;
#5 (n) - acquaintance; conversance; conversancy;personal knowledge or information about someone or something;
fantastical(adj sat) - antic; fantastic; grotesque;ludicrously odd;
#2 (adj sat) - fantastic;existing in fancy only;
fantasy(n) - phantasy;imagination unrestricted by reality;
#2 (n) - fancy; illusion; phantasy;something many people believe that is false;
#3 (n) - phantasy;fiction with a large amount of imagination in it;
#4 (v) - fantasise; fantasize;indulge in fantasies;
fascination(n) - the capacity to attract intense interest;
#2 (n) - captivation; enchantment; enthrallment;a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual;
#3 (n) - captivation;the state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror);
fastener(n) - fastening; fixing; holdfast;restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place;
#2 (n) - a person who fastens or makes fast;
feeble(adj sat) - nerveless;lacking strength;
#2 (adj sat) - debile; decrepit; infirm; rickety; sapless; weak; weakly;lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality;
#3 (adj sat) - faint;lacking strength or vigor;
#4 (adj sat) - lame;pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness;
fell(n) - the act of felling something (as a tree);
#2 (n) - felled seam;seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges;
#3 (n) - hide;the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal);
#4 (v) - cut down; drop; strike down;cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow;
#5 (v) - sew a seam by folding the edges;
#6 (v) - fly; vanish;pass away rapidly;
#7 (adj sat) - barbarous; brutal; cruel; roughshod; savage; vicious;able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering;
feminine(n) - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female;
#2 (adj) - associated with women and not with men;
#3 (adj) - womanly;befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman;
#4 (adj) - of grammatical gender;
#5 (adj sat) - ending on an unaccented beat or syllable;
ferrous(adj) - ferric;of or relating to or containing iron;
ferry(n) - ferrying;transport by boat or aircraft;
#2 (n) - ferryboat;a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule;
#3 (v) - travel by ferry;
#4 (v) - transport by ferry;
#5 (v) - transport from one place to another;
fertility(n) - prolificacy; rankness; richness;the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth;
#2 (n) - fecundity;the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring;
#3 (n) - birth rate; birthrate; fertility rate; natality;the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year;
fertilize(v) - fecundate; fertilise; inseminate;introduce semen into (a female);
#2 (v) - feed; fertilise;provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to;
#3 (v) - fecundate; fertilise;make fertile or productive;
feudal(adj) - feudalistic;of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism;
fiery(adj sat) - igneous;like or suggestive of fire;
#2 (adj sat) - flaming;very intense;
#3 (adj sat) - ardent; fervent; fervid; impassioned; perfervid; torrid;characterized by intense emotion;
filament(n) - a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current;
#2 (n) - filum;a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells);
#3 (n) - the stalk of a stamen;
#4 (n) - fibril; strand;a very slender natural or synthetic fiber;
filthy(adj sat) - foul; nasty;disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter;
#2 (adj sat) - cruddy; foul; nasty; smutty;characterized by obscenity;
#3 (adj sat) - dirty; lousy;vile; despicable;
finite(adj) - bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent;
#2 (adj) - of verbs; relating to forms of the verb that are limited in time by a tense and (usually) show agreement with number and person;
firmament(n) - celestial sphere; empyrean; heavens; sphere; vault of heaven; welkin;the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected;
fission(n) - nuclear fission;a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy;
#2 (n) - reproduction of some unicellular organisms by division of the cell into two more or less equal parts;
fist(n) - clenched fist;a hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting);
fitting(n) - trying on; try-on;putting clothes on to see whether they fit;
#2 (n) - appointment;furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel);
#3 (n) - a small and often standardized accessory to a larger system;
#4 (n) - accommodation; adjustment;making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances;
#5 (adj sat) - meet;being precisely fitting and right;
#6 (adj sat) - in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion;
fixture(n) - fix; fixing; mend; mending; repair; reparation;the act of putting something in working order again;
#2 (n) - an object firmly fixed in place (especially in a household);
#3 (n) - fastness; fixedness; fixity; secureness;the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment;
#4 (n) - habitue; regular;a regular patron;
flake(n) - bit; chip; fleck; scrap;a small fragment of something broken off from the whole;
#2 (n) - eccentric; eccentric person; geek; oddball;a person with an unusual or odd personality;
#3 (n) - snowflake;a crystal of snow;
#4 (v) - flake off; peel; peel off;come off in flakes or thin small pieces;
#5 (v) - cover with flakes or as if with flakes;
#6 (v) - form into flakes;
flank(n) - the side between ribs and hipbone;
#2 (n) - a cut from the fleshy part of an animal's side between the ribs and the leg;
#3 (n) - wing;the side of military or naval formation;
#4 (n) - a subfigure consisting of a side of something;
#5 (v) - be located at the sides of something or somebody;
flannel(n) - a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing;
#2 (n) - gabardine; tweed; white;trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth;
#3 (n) - face cloth; washcloth; washrag;bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body;
flap(n) - any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely;
#2 (n) - flaps;a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag;
#3 (n) - a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body;
#4 (n) - flapping; flutter; fluttering;the motion made by flapping up and down;
#5 (n) - dither; fuss; pother; tizzy;an excited state of agitation;
#6 (v) - pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds;
#7 (v) - dither; pother;make a fuss; be agitated;
#8 (v) - move noisily;
#9 (v) - roll; undulate; wave;move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion;
#10 (v) - beat;move with a flapping motion;
#11 (v) - beat;move with a thrashing motion;
flare(n) - a fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield;
#2 (n) - flare pass;a short forward pass to a back who is running toward the sidelines;
#3 (n) - a device that produces a bright light for warning or illumination or identification;
#4 (n) - flash;a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate;
#5 (n) - a sudden outburst of emotion;
#6 (n) - am unwanted reflection in an optical system (or the fogging of an image that is caused by such a reflection);
#7 (n) - solar flare;a sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference;
#8 (n) - a sudden burst of flame;
#9 (n) - flair;a shape that spreads outward;
#10 (n) - a sudden recurrence or worsening of symptoms;
#11 (n) - reddening of the skin spreading outward from a focus of infection or irritation;
#12 (v) - flare out;become flared and widen, usually at one end;
#13 (v) - break open; burst out; erupt; flare up; irrupt;erupt or intensify suddenly;
#14 (v) - blaze up; burn up; flame up;burn brightly;
#15 (v) - flame;shine with a sudden light;
flatter(v) - blandish;praise somewhat dishonestly;
flattery(n) - excessive or insincere praise;
flaw(n) - an imperfection in a plan or theory or legal document that causes it to fail or that reduces its effectiveness;
#2 (n) - defect or weakness in a person's character;
#3 (n) - defect; fault;an imperfection in an object or machine;
#4 (v) - blemish;add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective;
flax(n) - plant of the genus Linum that is cultivated for its seeds and for the fibers of its stem;
#2 (n) - fiber of the flax plant that is made into thread and woven into linen fabric;
fleece(n) - wool;outer coat of especially sheep and yaks;
#2 (n) - a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing;
#3 (n) - sheepskin;tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing;
#4 (n) - the wool of a sheep or similar animal;
#5 (v) - shear;shear the wool from;
#6 (v) - gazump; hook; overcharge; pluck; plume; rob; soak; surcharge;rip off; ask an unreasonable price;
flexibility(n) - flexibleness;the quality of being adaptable or variable;
#2 (n) - tractability; tractableness;the trait of being easily persuaded;
#3 (n) - flexibleness;the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped;
flick(n) - film; motion picture; motion-picture show; movie; moving picture; moving-picture show; pic; picture; picture show;a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement;
#2 (n) - a short stroke;
#3 (n) - a light sharp contact (usually with something flexible);
#4 (v) - remove with a flick (of the hand);
#5 (v) - touch or hit with a light, quick blow;
#6 (v) - click; snap;cause to make a snapping sound;
#7 (v) - jerk;throw or toss with a quick motion;
#8 (v) - riffle; ruffle;twitch or flutter;
#9 (v) - flip;cause to move with a flick;
#10 (v) - flip; leaf; riff; riffle; thumb;look through a book or other written material;
#11 (v) - flicker;flash intermittently;
#12 (v) - flicker;shine unsteadily;
flicker(n) - flutter; waver;the act of moving back and forth;
#2 (n) - North American woodpecker;
#3 (n) - glint; spark;a momentary flash of light;
#4 (v) - flitter; flutter; quiver; waver;move back and forth very rapidly;
#5 (v) - flick;flash intermittently;
#6 (v) - flick;shine unsteadily;
fling(n) - the act of flinging;
#2 (n) - spree;a brief indulgence of your impulses;
#3 (n) - crack; go; offer; pass; whirl;a usually brief attempt;
#4 (v) - throw with force or recklessness;
#5 (v) - move in an abrupt or headlong manner;
#6 (v) - cast aside; cast away; cast out; chuck out; discard; dispose; put away; throw away; throw out; toss; toss away; toss out;throw or cast away;
#7 (v) - splurge;indulge oneself;
flip(n) - pass; toss;the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team;
#2 (n) - somersault; somersaulting; somerset; summersault; summerset;an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return;
#3 (n) - a dive in which the diver somersaults before entering the water;
#4 (n) - toss;the act of flipping a coin;
#5 (n) - a sudden, quick movement;
#6 (n) - hot or cold alcoholic mixed drink containing a beaten egg;
#7 (v) - alternate; flip-flop; interchange; switch; tack;reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action);
#8 (v) - flip out;go mad, go crazy;
#9 (v) - flip out;react in an excited, delighted, or surprised way;
#10 (v) - flip over; turn over;turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse;
#11 (v) - move with a flick or light motion;
#12 (v) - switch; throw;cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation;
#13 (v) - pitch; sky; toss;throw or toss with a light motion;
#14 (v) - toss;lightly throw to see which side comes up;
#15 (v) - flick;cause to move with a flick;
#16 (v) - twitch;toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air;
#17 (v) - flick; leaf; riff; riffle; thumb;look through a book or other written material;
#18 (adj sat) - impudent; insolent; snotty-nosed;marked by casual disrespect;
fluctuate(v) - be unstable;
#2 (v) - vacillate; waver;move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern;
#3 (v) - cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern;
fluctuation(n) - wavering;the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes;
#2 (n) - variation;an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change;
#3 (n) - a wave motion;
fluorescent(n) - fluorescent fixture;a lighting fixture that uses a fluorescent lamp;
#2 (adj sat) - emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source;
#3 (adj sat) - brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light;
flush(n) - blush;sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty);
#2 (n) - gush; outpouring;a sudden rapid flow (as of water);
#3 (n) - bang; boot; charge; kick; rush; thrill;the swift release of a store of affective force;
#4 (n) - a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit;
#5 (n) - bloom; blush; rosiness;a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health;
#6 (n) - hot flash;sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders);
#7 (n) - bloom; blossom; efflorescence; flower; heyday; peak; prime;the period of greatest prosperity or productivity;
#8 (v) - blush; crimson; redden;turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame;
#9 (v) - cause to flow or flood with or as if with water;
#10 (v) - flow freely;
#11 (v) - sluice;irrigate with water from a sluice;
#12 (v) - purge; scour;rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid;
#13 (v) - even; even out; level;make level or straight;
#14 (v) - glow or cause to glow with warm color or light;
#15 (adj sat) - of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane;
#16 (adj sat) - affluent; loaded; moneyed; wealthy;having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value;
#17 (adv) - squarely or solidly;
#18 (adv) - in the same plane;
flutter(n) - flicker; waver;the act of moving back and forth;
#2 (n) - flap; flapping; fluttering;the motion made by flapping up and down;
#3 (n) - commotion; disruption; disturbance; hoo-ha; hoo-hah; hurly burly; kerfuffle; to-do;a disorderly outburst or tumult;
#4 (n) - abnormally rapid beating of the auricles of the heart (especially in a regular rhythm); can result in heart block;
#5 (v) - bat;wink briefly;
#6 (v) - flicker; flitter; quiver; waver;move back and forth very rapidly;
#7 (v) - palpitate;beat rapidly;
#8 (v) - dart; fleet; flit;move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart;
#9 (v) - flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements;
flux(n) - in constant change;
#2 (n) - flux density;the number of changes in energy flow across a given surface per unit area;
#3 (n) - fluxion;a flow or discharge;
#4 (n) - magnetic field; magnetic flux;the lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a moving charged particle;
#5 (n) - state of flux;a state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action;
#6 (n) - excessive discharge of liquid from a cavity or organ (as in watery diarrhea);
#7 (n) - a substance added to molten metals to bond with impurities that can then be readily removed;
#8 (n) - the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface;
#9 (v) - blend; coalesce; combine; commingle; conflate; fuse; immix; meld; merge; mix;mix together different elements;
#10 (v) - liquefy; liquify;become liquid or fluid when heated;
#11 (v) - flow;move or progress freely as if in a stream;
foam(n) - froth;a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid;
#2 (n) - a lightweight material in cellular form; made by introducing gas bubbles during manufacture;
#3 (v) - effervesce; fizz; form bubbles; froth; sparkle;become bubbly or frothy or foaming;
foil(n) - a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button;
#2 (n) - a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal;
#3 (n) - transparency;picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector;
#4 (n) - hydrofoil;a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through;
#5 (n) - enhancer;anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities;
#6 (v) - cover or back with foil;
#7 (v) - baffle; bilk; cross; frustrate; queer; scotch; spoil; thwart;hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of;
#8 (v) - enhance by contrast;
foliage(n) - foliation;leaf-like architectural ornament;
#2 (n) - leaf; leafage;the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants;
forbear(n) - forebear;a person from whom you are descended;
#2 (v) - refrain;resist doing something;
#3 (v) - hold back;refrain from doing;
ford(n) - fording;the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse;
#2 (n) - crossing;a shallow area in a stream that can be forded;
#3 (n) - henry ford;United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947);
#4 (n) - gerald ford; gerald r. ford; gerald rudolph ford; president ford;38th President of the United States; appointed vice president and succeeded Nixon when Nixon resigned (1913-);
#5 (n) - ford hermann hueffer; ford madox ford;English writer and editor (1873-1939);
#6 (n) - edsel bryant ford;son of Henry Ford (1893-1943);
#7 (n) - henry ford ii;grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987);
#8 (n) - john ford;United States film maker (1896-1973);
#9 (v) - cross a river where it's shallow;
fore(n) - bow; prow; stem;front part of a vessel or aircraft;
#2 (adj) - situated at or toward the bow of a vessel;
#3 (adv) - forward;near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane;
forefather(n) - father; sire;the founder of a family;
#2 (n) - person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group;
forefinger(n) - index; index finger;the finger next to the thumb;
foregoing(adj sat) - especially of writing or speech; going before;
foreman(n) - boss; chief; gaffer; honcho;a person who exercises control over workers;
#2 (n) - a man who is foreperson of a jury;
foremost(adj sat) - frontmost;preceding all others in spatial position;
#2 (adj sat) - first; world-class;ranking above all others;
#3 (adj sat) - situated closest to the bow;
#4 (adv) - first; first of all; first off; firstly;before anything else;
#5 (adv) - first;prominently forward;
forenoon(n) - morn; morning; morning time;the time period between dawn and noon;
foresee(v) - anticipate; foreknow; previse;realize beforehand;
#2 (v) - envision;picture to oneself; imagine possible;
#3 (v) - anticipate; counter; forestall;act in advance of; deal with ahead of time;
foresight(n) - foresightedness; foresightfulness;providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future;
#2 (n) - farsightedness; prevision; prospicience;seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing;
formidable(adj sat) - redoubtable; unnerving;inspiring fear;
#2 (adj sat) - extremely impressive in strength or excellence;
formulate(v) - develop; explicate;elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses;
#2 (v) - articulate; give voice; phrase; word;put into words or an expression;
#3 (v) - contrive; devise; excogitate; forge; invent;come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort;
#4 (v) - prepare according to a formula;
formulation(n) - conceptualisation; conceptualization;inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally;
#2 (n) - expression;the style of expressing yourself;
#3 (n) - preparation;a substance prepared according to a formula;
forsake(v) - abandon; desert; desolate;leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch;
forthcoming(adj sat) - available when required or as promised;
#2 (adj sat) - approaching; coming; upcoming;of the relatively near future;
#3 (adj sat) - extroverted; outgoing;at ease in talking to others;
forthwith(adv) - at once; directly; immediately; instantly; like a shot; now; right away; straight off; straightaway;without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening;
fortification(n) - the addition of an ingredient for the purpose of enrichment (as the addition of alcohol to wine or the addition of vitamins to food);
#2 (n) - munition;defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it;
#3 (n) - the art or science of strengthening defenses;
fortify(v) - beef up; strengthen;make strong or stronger;
#2 (v) - lace; spike;add alcohol to (beverages);
#3 (v) - add nutrients to;
#4 (v) - arm; build up; gird;prepare oneself for a military confrontation;
#5 (v) - fort;enclose by or as if by a fortification;
fortress(n) - fort;a fortified defensive structure;
fossil(n) - the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil;
#2 (n) - dodo; fogey; fogy;someone whose style is out of fashion;
#3 (adj) - characteristic of a fossil;
foster(n) - stephen collins foster; stephen foster;United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864);
#2 (v) - nurture;help develop, help grow;
#3 (v) - bring up under fosterage; of children;
#4 (v) - further;promote the growth of;
#5 (adj sat) - surrogate;providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties;
fracture(n) - crack; cracking;the act of cracking something;
#2 (n) - break; fault; faulting; geological fault; shift;a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other;
#3 (n) - break;breaking of hard tissue such as bone;
#4 (v) - break;fracture a bone of;
#5 (v) - break (a bone);
#6 (v) - become fractured;
#7 (v) - violate or abuse;
#8 (v) - break into pieces;
#9 (v) - interrupt, break, or destroy;
fragile(adj sat) - vulnerably delicate;
#2 (adj sat) - delicate; frail;easily broken or damaged or destroyed;
#3 (adj sat) - flimsy; slight; tenuous; thin;lacking substance or significance;
fragrance(n) - bouquet; fragrancy; redolence; sweetness;a pleasingly sweet olfactory property;
#2 (n) - aroma; perfume; scent;a distinctive odor that is pleasant;
fragrant(adj) - pleasant-smelling;
frail(n) - a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs);
#2 (n) - the weight of a frail (basket) full of raisins or figs; between 50 and 75 pounds;
#3 (adj sat) - delicate; fragile;easily broken or damaged or destroyed;
#4 (adj sat) - fallible; imperfect; weak;wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings;
#5 (adj) - physically weak;
franc(n) - the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 centimes;
frantically(adv) - madly;in an uncontrolled manner;
fraternity(n) - brotherhood; sodality;people engaged in a particular occupation;
#2 (n) - frat;a social club for male undergraduates;
fraud(n) - dupery; fraudulence; hoax; humbug; put-on;something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage;
#2 (n) - intentional deception resulting in injury to another person;
#3 (n) - fake; faker; imposter; impostor; pretender; pseud; pseudo; role player; sham; shammer;a person who makes deceitful pretenses;
freeman(n) - freewoman;a person who is not a serf or a slave;
freshen(v) - refresh; refreshen;make fresh again;
#2 (v) - freshen up; refresh; refreshen;become or make oneself fresh again;
#3 (v) - refresh;make (to feel) fresh;
fried(adj sat) - deep-fried;cooked by frying in fat;
frighteningly(adv) - scarily;in an alarming manner;
frustrate(v) - bedevil; crucify; dun; rag; torment;treat cruelly;
#2 (v) - baffle; bilk; cross; foil; queer; scotch; spoil; thwart;hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of;
frustration(n) - foiling; thwarting;an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts;
#2 (n) - a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized;
#3 (n) - defeat;the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals;
fulfill(v) - fill; fulfil; meet; satisfy;fill or meet a want or need;
#2 (v) - accomplish; action; carry out; carry through; execute; fulfil;put in effect;
#3 (v) - fulfil; live up to; satisfy;meet the requirements or expectations of;
fume(n) - smoke;a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas;
#2 (v) - reek;be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face;
#3 (v) - be mad, angry, or furious;
#4 (v) - fumigate;treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests;
#5 (v) - smoke;emit a cloud of fine particles;
functional(adj) - designed for or capable of a particular function or use;
#2 (adj sat) - operative; running; working;performing or capable of performing;
#3 (adj) - involving or affecting function rather than physiology;
#4 (adj sat) - designed for or adapted to a function or use;
#5 (adj sat) - operable; operational; usable; useable;fit or ready for use or service;
#6 (adj) - relating to or based on function especially as opposed to structure;
furious(adj sat) - angered; enraged; infuriated; maddened;marked by extreme anger;
#2 (adj sat) - angry; raging; tempestuous; wild;as if showing violent anger;
#3 (adj sat) - ferocious; fierce; savage;marked by extreme and violent energy;
fuse(n) - fusee; fuze; fuzee; primer; priming;any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant;
#2 (n) - electrical fuse; safety fuse;an electrical device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when it is overloaded;
#3 (v) - blend; coalesce; combine; commingle; conflate; flux; immix; meld; merge; mix;mix together different elements;
#4 (v) - make liquid or plastic by heating;
#5 (v) - become plastic or fluid or liquefied from heat;
#6 (v) - equip with a fuse; provide with a fuse;
fusion(n) - the act of fusing (or melting) together;
#2 (n) - spinal fusion;correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization;
#3 (n) - optical fusion;the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept;
#4 (n) - merger; unification;an occurrence that involves the production of a union;
#5 (n) - nuclear fusion; nuclear fusion reaction;a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy;
#6 (n) - the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words;
#7 (n) - coalition;the state of being combined into one body;
fuss(n) - ado; bustle; flurry; hustle; stir;a rapid active commotion;
#2 (n) - bicker; bickering; pettifoggery; spat; squabble; tiff;a quarrel about petty points;
#3 (n) - bother; hassle; trouble;an angry disturbance;
#4 (n) - dither; flap; pother; tizzy;an excited state of agitation;
#5 (v) - fret; niggle;worry unnecessarily or excessively;
#6 (v) - mother; overprotect;care for like a mother;
galaxy(n) - a splendid assemblage (especially of famous people);
#2 (n) - extragalactic nebula;a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust;
#3 (n) - beetleweed; coltsfoot; galax; galax urceolata; wandflower;tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall;
gale(n) - a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale;
gallop(n) - a fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously;
#2 (v) - ride at a galloping pace;
#3 (v) - extend;cause to move at full gallop;
#4 (v) - go at galloping speed;
gamble(n) - a risky act or venture;
#2 (n) - money that is risked for possible monetary gain;
#3 (v) - play games for money;
#4 (v) - adventure; chance; hazard; risk; run a risk; take a chance; take chances;take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome;
gangster(n) - mobster;a criminal who is a member of gang;
garb(n) - attire; dress;clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion;
#2 (v) - apparel; clothe; dress; enclothe; fit out; garment; habilitate; raiment; tog;provide with clothes or put clothes on;
garbage(n) - a receptacle where waste can be discarded;
#2 (n) - drivel;a worthless message;
#3 (n) - food waste; refuse; scraps;food that is discarded (as from a kitchen);
garlic(n) - ail;aromatic bulb used as seasoning;
#2 (n) - allium sativum;bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong-flavored cloves;
garment(n) - an article of clothing;
#2 (v) - apparel; clothe; dress; enclothe; fit out; garb; habilitate; raiment; tog;provide with clothes or put clothes on;
gauze(n) - netting; veiling;a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave;
#2 (n) - gauze bandage;bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings;
gazelle(n) - small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes;
gear(n) - cogwheel; gear wheel; geared wheel;a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion;
#2 (n) - appurtenance; paraphernalia;equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.;
#3 (n) - gear mechanism;a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle);
#4 (n) - gearing; geartrain; power train; train;wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed;
#5 (v) - pitch;set the level or character of;
gender(n) - sex; sexuality;the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles;
#2 (n) - grammatical gender;a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness;
gene(n) - cistron; factor;a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity;
generalization(n) - generalisation; stimulus generalisation; stimulus generalization;transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus;
#2 (n) - generalisation; induction; inductive reasoning;reasoning from detailed facts to general principles;
#3 (n) - abstraction; generalisation;the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances;
#4 (n) - generalisation; generality;an idea or conclusion having general application;
generalize(v) - generalise;become systemic and spread throughout the body;
#2 (v) - generalise; popularise; popularize; vulgarise; vulgarize;cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use;
#3 (v) - extrapolate; generalise; infer;draw from specific cases for more general cases;
#4 (v) - generalise;speak or write in generalities;
generosity(n) - unselfishness;acting generously;
#2 (n) - generousness;the trait of being willing to give your money or time;
genetic(adj sat) - familial; hereditary; inherited; transmissible; transmitted;occurring among members of a family usually by heredity;
#2 (adj) - genetical;of or relating to the science of genetics;
#3 (adj) - pertaining to or referring to origin;
#4 (adj) - genetical; genic;of or relating to or produced by or being a gene;
genetically(adv) - by genetic mechanisms;
geographical(adj) - geographic;determined by geography;
#2 (adj) - geographic;of or relating to the science of geography;
geological(adj) - geologic;of or relating to or based on geology;
geologist(n) - a specialist in geology;
geology(n) - a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks;
giddy(adj sat) - airheaded; dizzy; empty-headed; featherbrained; lightheaded; light-headed; silly;lacking seriousness; given to frivolity;
#2 (adj sat) - dizzy; vertiginous; woozy;having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling;
gigantic(adj sat) - mammoth;so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth;
giggle(n) - a foolish or nervous laugh;
#2 (v) - titter;laugh nervously;
gild(n) - club; guild; lodge; order; social club; society;a formal association of people with similar interests;
#2 (v) - begild; engild;decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold;
gill(n) - branchia;respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water;
#2 (n) - lamella;any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus;
#3 (n) - a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces;
#4 (n) - a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters;
ginger(n) - pep; peppiness;liveliness and energy;
#2 (n) - gingerroot;pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery;
#3 (n) - powdered ginger;dried ground gingerroot;
#4 (n) - perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems;
#5 (v) - add ginger to in order to add flavor;
#6 (adj sat) - gingery;having a bright orange-brown color;
girdle(n) - corset; stays;a woman's close-fitting foundation garment;
#2 (n) - cincture; sash; waistband; waistcloth;a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers;
#3 (n) - an encircling or ringlike structure;
#4 (v) - gird;put a girdle on or around;
#5 (v) - deaden;cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients;
glacier(n) - a slowly moving mass of ice;
glare(n) - glower;an angry stare;
#2 (n) - blaze; brilliance;a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted;
#3 (n) - limelight; public eye; spotlight;a focus of public attention;
#4 (v) - glower;look at with a fixed gaze;
#5 (v) - shine intensely;
#6 (v) - be sharply reflected;
glaze(n) - a coating for ceramics, metal, etc.;
#2 (n) - a glossy finish on a fabric;
#3 (n) - any of various thin shiny (savory or sweet) coatings applied to foods;
#4 (v) - glass; glass over; glaze over;become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance;
#5 (v) - coat with a glaze;
#6 (v) - candy; sugarcoat;coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze;
#7 (v) - glass;furnish with glass;
gleam(n) - gleaming; glow; lambency;an appearance of reflected light;
#2 (n) - gleaming; glimmer;a flash of light (especially reflected light);
#3 (v) - appear briefly;
#4 (v) - glimmer;shine brightly, like a star or a light;
#5 (v) - glint; glisten; glitter; shine;be shiny, as if wet;
glee(n) - gleefulness; hilarity; mirth; mirthfulness;great merriment;
#2 (n) - gloat; gloating;malicious satisfaction;
glen(n) - a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains);
glide(n) - gliding; sailing; sailplaning; soaring;the activity of flying a glider;
#2 (n) - coast; slide;the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it;
#3 (n) - semivowel;a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant;
#4 (v) - move smoothly and effortlessly;
#5 (v) - cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly;
#6 (v) - fly in or as if in a glider plane;
glider(n) - sailplane;aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces;
glitter(n) - glisten; glister; scintillation; sparkle;the quality of shining with a bright reflected light;
#2 (n) - coruscation; sparkle;the occurrence of a small flash or spark;
#3 (v) - gleam; glint; glisten; shine;be shiny, as if wet;
global(adj sat) - planetary; world; worldwide; world-wide;involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope;
#2 (adj sat) - ball-shaped; globose; globular; orbicular; spheric; spherical;having the shape of a sphere or ball;
gloom(n) - gloominess; somberness; sombreness;a feeling of melancholy apprehension;
#2 (n) - somberness; sombreness;a state of partial or total darkness;
#3 (n) - gloominess; glumness;an atmosphere of depression and melancholy;
gloomy(adj sat) - gloomful; glooming; sulky;depressingly dark;
#2 (adj sat) - blue; dark; dingy; disconsolate; dismal; drab; drear; dreary; grim; sorry;causing dejection;
#3 (adj sat) - blue; depressed; dispirited; down; down in the mouth; downcast; downhearted; grim; low; low-spirited;filled with melancholy and despondency;
glossary(n) - gloss;an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field;
gnaw(v) - eat at; erode; gnaw at; wear away;become ground down or deteriorate;
#2 (v) - bite or chew on with the teeth;
goblin(n) - hob; hobgoblin;a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings;
golf(n) - golf game;a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes;
#2 (v) - play golf;
gorilla(n) - gorilla gorilla;largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa;
gossip(n) - causerie; chin wag; chin wagging; chin-wag; chin-wagging; chit chat; chitchat; chit-chat; gab; gabfest; small talk; tittle-tattle;light informal conversation for social occasions;
#2 (n) - comment; scuttlebutt;a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people;
#3 (n) - gossiper; gossipmonger; newsmonger; rumormonger; rumourmonger;a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others;
#4 (v) - chaffer; chat; chatter; chew the fat; chitchat; chit-chat; claver; confab; confabulate; jaw; natter; shoot the breeze; visit;talk socially without exchanging too much information;
#5 (v) - dish the dirt;wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies;
gown(n) - a woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions;
#2 (n) - robe;outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions;
#3 (n) - scrubs; surgical gown;protective garment worn by surgeons during operations;
#4 (n) - nightdress; nightgown; nightie; night-robe;lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women;
#5 (n) - the members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located;
#6 (v) - dress in a gown;
grab(n) - catch; snap; snatch;the act of catching an object with the hands;
#2 (n) - a mechanical device for gripping an object;
#3 (v) - seize;capture the attention or imagination of;
#4 (v) - take or grasp suddenly;
#5 (v) - catch; take hold of;take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of;
#6 (v) - make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand;
#7 (v) - snaffle; snap up;get hold of or seize quickly and easily;
#8 (v) - obtain illegally or unscrupulously;
gradient(n) - slope;the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal;
#2 (n) - a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension;
granite(n) - something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness);
#2 (n) - plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture; generally composed of feldspar and mica and quartz;
granny(n) - granny knot;a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure;
#2 (n) - gran; grandma; grandmother; grannie; nan; nanna;the mother of your father or mother;
#3 (n) - an old woman;
graphite(n) - black lead; plumbago;used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors;
grasshopper(n) - hopper;terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping;
#2 (n) - a cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao);
grassland(n) - land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life;
gratify(v) - indulge; pander;yield (to); give satisfaction to;
#2 (v) - satisfy;make happy or satisfied;
gravel(n) - crushed rock;rock fragments and pebbles;
#2 (v) - amaze; baffle; beat; bewilder; dumbfound; flummox; get; mystify; nonplus; perplex; pose; puzzle; stick; stupefy; vex;be a mystery or bewildering to;
#3 (v) - cover with gravel;
#4 (v) - annoy; bother; chafe; devil; get at; get to; irritate; nark; nettle; rag; rile; vex;cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations;
graveyard(n) - burial ground; burial site; burying ground; cemetery; memorial park; necropolis;a tract of land used for burials;
gravitation(n) - a figurative movement toward some attraction;
#2 (n) - movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction;
#3 (n) - gravitational attraction; gravitational force; gravity;the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface;
gravitational(adj) - gravitative;of or relating to or caused by gravitation;
graze(n) - grazing;the act of grazing;
#2 (n) - a superficial abrasion;
#3 (v) - browse;eat lightly, try different dishes;
#4 (v) - crease; rake;scrape gently;
#5 (v) - browse; crop; pasture; range;feed as in a meadow or pasture;
#6 (v) - crop; pasture;let feed in a field or pasture or meadow;
#7 (v) - break the skin (of a body part) by scraping;
greenwich(n) - a borough of Greater London on the Thames; zero degrees of longitude runs through Greenwich; time is measured relative to Greenwich Mean Time;
grievance(n) - a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action;
#2 (n) - an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice;
#3 (n) - grudge; score;a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation;
grieve(v) - sorrow;feel grief;
#2 (v) - aggrieve;cause to feel sorrow;
grievous(adj sat) - dangerous; grave; life-threatening; serious; severe;causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm;
#2 (adj sat) - atrocious; flagitious; monstrous;shockingly brutal or cruel;
#3 (adj sat) - grave; heavy; weighty;of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought;
#4 (adj sat) - heartbreaking; heartrending;causing or marked by grief or anguish;
grin(n) - grinning; smile; smiling;a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement;
#2 (v) - to draw back the lips and reveal the teeth, in a smile, grimace, or snarl;
grocery(n) - foodstuff;consumer goods sold by a grocer;
#2 (n) - food market; grocery store; market;a marketplace where groceries are sold;
groom(n) - bridegroom;a man who has recently been married;
#2 (n) - bridegroom;a man participant in his own marriage ceremony;
#3 (n) - hostler; ostler; stableboy; stableman;someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses;
#4 (v) - neaten;care for one's external appearance;
#5 (v) - curry; dress;give a neat appearance to;
#6 (v) - prepare; train;educate for a future role or function;
groove(n) - rut;a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape;
#2 (n) - vallecula;any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part;
#3 (n) - channel;a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record);
#4 (v) - furrow; rut;hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove;
#5 (v) - make a groove in, or provide with a groove;
growl(n) - growling;the sound of growling (as made by animals);
#2 (v) - grumble; rumble;to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds;
grumble(n) - grumbling; murmur; murmuring; mutter; muttering;a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone;
#2 (n) - grumbling; rumble; rumbling;a loud low dull continuous noise;
#3 (v) - croak; gnarl; murmur; mutter;make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath;
#4 (v) - grouch; scold;show one's unhappiness or critical attitude;
#5 (v) - growl; rumble;to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds;
#6 (v) - rumble;make a low noise;
grunt(n) - medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught;
#2 (n) - oink;the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs;
#3 (n) - an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker;
#4 (v) - issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise;
guardian(n) - defender; protector; shielder;a person who cares for persons or property;
guideline(n) - guidepost; rule of thumb;a rule or principle that provides guidance to appropriate behavior;
#2 (n) - road map;a detailed plan or explanation to guide you in setting standards or determining a course of action;
#3 (n) - a light line that is used in lettering to help align the letters;
guitar(n) - a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking;
gulp(n) - draft; draught; swig;a large and hurried swallow;
#2 (n) - gulping;a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing;
#3 (v) - utter or make a noise, as when swallowing too quickly;
#4 (v) - quaff; swig;to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught;
gush(n) - blowup; ebullition; effusion; outburst;an unrestrained expression of emotion;
#2 (n) - flush; outpouring;a sudden rapid flow (as of water);
#3 (v) - rave;praise enthusiastically;
#4 (v) - jet;issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth;
#5 (v) - spirt; spout; spurt;gush forth in a sudden stream or jet;
gust(n) - blast; blow;a strong current of air;
gutter(n) - trough;a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater;
#2 (n) - a tool for gutting fish;
#3 (n) - a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.);
#4 (n) - sewer; toilet;misfortune resulting in lost effort or money;
#5 (v) - provide with gutters;
#6 (v) - wear or cut gutters into;
#7 (v) - flow in small streams;
#8 (v) - burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker;
gypsy(n) - romany;the Indic language of the Gypsies;
#2 (n) - bohemian; gipsy; roma; romani; romany; rommany;a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America);
#3 (n) - gipsy; itinerant;a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment;
habitat(n) - home ground;the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs;
habitation(n) - inhabitancy; inhabitation;the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men);
#2 (n) - abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; home;housing that someone is living in;
#3 (n) - the native habitat or home of an animal or plant;
hail(n) - enthusiastic greeting;
#2 (n) - many objects thrown forcefully through the air;
#3 (n) - precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents;
#4 (v) - acclaim; herald;praise vociferously;
#5 (v) - herald;greet enthusiastically or joyfully;
#6 (v) - call for;
#7 (v) - come;be a native of;
#8 (v) - precipitate as small ice particles;
hamburger(n) - ground beef;beef that has been ground;
#2 (n) - beefburger; burger;a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients;
hamper(n) - a basket usually with a cover;
#2 (n) - bond; shackle; trammel;a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner);
#3 (v) - cramp; halter; strangle;prevent the progress or free movement of;
#4 (v) - handicap; hinder;put at a disadvantage;
handicap(n) - advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning;
#2 (n) - balk; baulk; check; deterrent; hinderance; hindrance; impediment;something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress;
#3 (n) - disability; disablement; impairment;the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness;
#4 (v) - disable; incapacitate; invalid;injure permanently;
#5 (v) - hamper; hinder;put at a disadvantage;
#6 (v) - attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant;
handicraft(n) - a craft that requires skillful hands;
#2 (n) - handcraft; handiwork; handwork;a work produced by hand labor;
handout(n) - giving money or food or clothing to a needy person;
#2 (n) - press release; release;an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation;
hardy(n) - thomas hardy;English novelist and poet (1840-1928);
#2 (n) - oliver hardy;United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957);
#3 (adj sat) - audacious; brave; dauntless; fearless; intrepid; unfearing;invulnerable to fear or intimidation;
#4 (adj sat) - stalwart; stout; sturdy;having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships;
#5 (adj sat) - able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions;
hare(n) - swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes;
#2 (n) - rabbit;flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food;
#3 (v) - run quickly, like a hare;
harp(n) - harmonica; mouth harp; mouth organ;a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole;
#2 (n) - a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers;
#3 (n) - a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade;
#4 (v) - dwell;come back to;
#5 (v) - play the harp;
hastily(adv) - hurriedly; in haste;in a hurried or hasty manner;
hasty(adj sat) - headlong;excessively quick;
#2 (adj sat) - overhasty; precipitant; precipitate; precipitous;done with very great haste and without due deliberation;
hatch(n) - a movable barrier covering a hatchway;
#2 (n) - crosshatch; hachure; hatching;shading consisting of multiple crossing lines;
#3 (n) - hatching;the production of young from an egg;
#4 (v) - brood; cover; incubate;sit on (eggs);
#5 (v) - emerge from the eggs;
#6 (v) - draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper;
#7 (v) - concoct; dream up; think of; think up;devise or invent;
#8 (v) - inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating;
hateful(adj) - evoking or deserving hatred;
#2 (adj sat) - mean;characterized by malice;
haul(n) - draw; haulage;the act of drawing or hauling something;
#2 (n) - catch;the quantity that was caught;
#3 (v) - transport in a vehicle;
#4 (v) - cart; drag; hale;draw slowly or heavily;
haunt(n) - hangout; repair; resort; stamping ground;a frequently visited place;
#2 (v) - ghost; obsess;haunt like a ghost; pursue;
#3 (v) - frequent;be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place;
#4 (v) - stalk;follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to;
hawk(n) - diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail;
#2 (n) - mortarboard;a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar;
#3 (n) - war hawk;an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations;
#4 (v) - clear the throat;clear mucus or food from one's throat;
#5 (v) - hunt with hawks;
#6 (v) - huckster; monger; peddle; pitch; vend;sell or offer for sale from place to place;
headlong(adj sat) - headfirst;with the head foremost;
#2 (adj sat) - hasty;excessively quick;
#3 (adv) - headfirst;with the head foremost;
#4 (adv) - rashly;in a hasty and foolhardy manner;
#5 (adv) - precipitately;at breakneck speed;
headmaster(n) - master; schoolmaster;presiding officer of a school;
hearth(n) - fireplace; open fireplace;an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built;
#2 (n) - fireside;home symbolized as a part of the fireplace;
#3 (n) - fireside;an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room);
heath(n) - heathland;a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation;
#2 (n) - a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers;
heathen(n) - gentile; infidel; pagan;a person who does not acknowledge your god;
#2 (adj sat) - ethnic; heathenish; pagan;not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam;
heating(n) - heat; heating plant; heating system;utility to warm a building;
#2 (n) - warming;the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature;
heave(n) - heaving;throwing something heavy (with great effort);
#2 (n) - lift; raise;the act of raising something;
#3 (n) - retch;an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting;
#4 (n) - heaving;the act of lifting something with great effort;
#5 (n) - a horizontal dislocation;
#6 (n) - heaving;an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling);
#7 (v) - gasp; pant; puff;breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted;
#8 (v) - gag; retch;make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit;
#9 (v) - buckle; warp;bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat;
#10 (v) - utter a sound, as with obvious effort;
#11 (v) - heave up; heft; heft up;lift or elevate;
#12 (v) - throw with great effort;
#13 (v) - billow; surge;rise and move, as in waves or billows;
#14 (v) - move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position;
heed(n) - attentiveness; paying attention; regard;paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people);
#2 (v) - listen; mind;pay close attention to; give heed to;
heedless(adj sat) - reckless;characterized by careless unconcern;
#2 (adj) - unheeding;marked by or paying little heed or attention;
heir(n) - heritor; inheritor;a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another;
#2 (n) - successor;a person who inherits some title or office;
helm(n) - a position of leadership;
#2 (n) - steering mechanism for a vessel; a mechanical device by which a vessel is steered;
#3 (v) - be at or take the helm of;
helmet(n) - a protective headgear made of hard material to resist blows;
#2 (n) - armor plate that protects the head;
henceforth(adv) - henceforward;from this time forth; from now on;
herb(n) - aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities;
#2 (n) - herbaceous plant;a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests;
hereafter(n) - future; futurity; time to come;the time yet to come;
#2 (n) - afterlife;life after death;
#3 (adv) - following this in time or order or place; after this;
#4 (adv) - in a future life or state;
#5 (adv) - hereinafter; hereunder;in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc.;
heredity(n) - genetic endowment;the total of inherited attributes;
#2 (n) - the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next;
herein(adv) - in this place or thing or document;
heritage(n) - inheritance;hereditary succession to a title or an office or property;
#2 (n) - inheritance;any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors;
#3 (n) - practices that are handed down from the past by tradition;
#4 (n) - inheritance;that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner;
hertz(n) - gustav hertz; gustav ludwig hertz;German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975);
#2 (n) - heinrich hertz; heinrich rudolph hertz;German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894);
#3 (n) - cps; cycle; cycle per second; cycles/second; hz;the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second;
hierarchy(n) - pecking order; power structure;the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body;
#2 (n) - a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system;
hi-fi(n) - high fidelity;the reproduction of sound with little or no distortion;
#2 (n) - high fidelity sound system;equipment for the reproduction of sound with high fidelity;
#3 (adj sat) - high-fidelity;characterized by minimal distortion in sound reproduction;
highland(n) - upland;elevated (e.g., mountainous) land;
#2 (adj) - upland;used of high or hilly country;
highlight(n) - highlighting;an area of lightness in a picture;
#2 (n) - high spot;the most interesting or memorable part;
#3 (v) - apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent;
#4 (v) - foreground; play up; spotlight;move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent;
hijack(n) - highjack;seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination;
#2 (v) - commandeer; highjack; pirate;take arbitrarily or by force;
#3 (v) - seize control of;
hike(n) - hiking; tramp;a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure;
#2 (n) - raise; rise; salary increase; wage hike; wage increase;the amount a salary is increased;
#3 (n) - boost; cost increase; rise;an increase in cost;
#4 (v) - walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise;
#5 (v) - boost; hike up;increase;
hind(n) - a female deer, especially an adult female red deer;
#2 (n) - any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers;
#3 (adj sat) - back; hinder;located at or near the back of an animal;