| affair | (noun) a vaguely specified concern | Synonyms: matter, thing |
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| (noun) a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people | Synonyms: function, occasion, social affair, social function, social gathering, social occasion |
| (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affaire, amour, intimacy, involvement, liaison |
| affaire | (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, amour, intimacy, involvement, liaison |
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| affairs | (noun) transactions of professional or public interest | - |
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| (noun) matters of personal concern | Synonyms: personal business, personal matters |
| air | (noun) travel via aircraft | Synonyms: air travel, aviation |
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| (noun) a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing | Synonyms: atmosphere, aura |
| (noun) a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence | Synonyms: line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, strain, tune |
| (noun) medium for radio and television broadcasting | Synonyms: airwave |
| (noun) the region above the ground | - |
| (noun) the mass of air surrounding the Earth | Synonyms: atmosphere |
| (noun) a slight wind (usually refreshing) | Synonyms: breeze, gentle wind, zephyr |
| (noun) a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of | - |
| (noun) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour blood | - |
| airbrake | (noun) a vehicular brake that operates by compressed air; especially for heavy vehicles | - |
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| (noun) a small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft | Synonyms: dive brake |
| airbrush | (noun) an atomizer to spray paint by means of compressed air | - |
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| airburst | (noun) an explosion in the atmosphere | - |
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| airbus | (noun) a subsonic jet airliner operated over short distances | - |
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| aircraft | (noun) a vehicle that can fly | - |
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| aircraftman | (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force | Synonyms: aircraftsman |
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| aircraftsman | (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force | Synonyms: aircraftman |
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| aircrew | (noun) the crew of an aircraft | Synonyms: air crew |
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| aircrewman | (noun) a member of an aircrew | - |
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| airdock | (noun) a large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained | Synonyms: hangar, repair shed |
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| airdrome | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: aerodrome, airport, drome |
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| airdrop | (noun) delivery of supplies or equipment or personnel by dropping them by parachute from an aircraft | - |
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| airfare | (noun) the fare charged for traveling by airplane | - |
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| airfield | (noun) a place where planes take off and land | Synonyms: field, flying field, landing field |
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| airflow | (noun) the flow of air | Synonyms: air flow, flow of air |
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| airfoil | (noun) a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight | Synonyms: aerofoil, control surface, surface |
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| airforce | (noun) the airborne branch of a country's armed forces | Synonyms: air force |
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| airframe | (noun) the framework and covering of an airplane or rocket (excluding the engines) | - |
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| airgun | (noun) a gun that propels a projectile by compressed air | Synonyms: air gun, air rifle |
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| airhead | (noun) a bridgehead seized by airborne troops | - |
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| (noun) a flighty scatterbrained simpleton | - |
| airiness | (noun) the property of something weightless and insubstantial | Synonyms: buoyancy |
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| (noun) the property of something spacious and abounding in fresh air | - |
| (noun) lightness in movement or manner | Synonyms: delicacy |
| airing | (noun) the act of supplying fresh air and getting rid of foul air | Synonyms: ventilation |
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| (noun) a short excursion (a walk or ride) in the open air | - |
| (noun) the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate | Synonyms: dissemination, public exposure, spreading |
| airlift | (noun) transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) | Synonyms: lift |
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| airline | (noun) a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers | Synonyms: airline business, airway |
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| (noun) a hose that carries air under pressure | Synonyms: air hose |
| airliner | (noun) a commercial airplane that carries passengers | - |
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| airlock | (noun) a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure | Synonyms: air lock |
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| airmail | (noun) a system of conveying mail by aircraft | Synonyms: airpost |
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| (noun) letters and packages that are transported by aircraft | - |
| airmailer | (noun) a mailer for airmail | - |
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| airman | (noun) a male who operates an aircraft | - |
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| airmanship | (noun) the art of operating aircraft | Synonyms: aviation |
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| airplane | (noun) an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets | Synonyms: aeroplane, plane |
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| airport | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: aerodrome, airdrome, drome |
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| airpost | (noun) a system of conveying mail by aircraft | Synonyms: airmail |
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| airs | (noun) affected manners intended to impress others | Synonyms: pose |
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| airscrew | (noun) a propeller that rotates to push against air | Synonyms: airplane propeller, prop |
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| airship | (noun) a steerable self-propelled aircraft | Synonyms: dirigible |
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| airsickness | (noun) motion sickness experienced while traveling by air (especially during turbulence) | Synonyms: air sickness |
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| airspace | (noun) the atmosphere above a nation that is deemed to be under its jurisdiction | - |
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| (noun) the space in the atmosphere immediately above the earth | Synonyms: air space |
| airspeed | (noun) the speed of an aircraft relative to the air in which it is flying | - |
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| airstream | (noun) a relatively well-defined prevailing wind | - |
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| (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: backwash, race, slipstream, wash |
| airstrip | (noun) an airfield without normal airport facilities | Synonyms: flight strip, landing strip, strip |
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| airwave | (noun) medium for radio and television broadcasting | Synonyms: air |
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| airway | (noun) a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers | Synonyms: airline, airline business |
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| (noun) a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines) | Synonyms: air duct, air passage |
| (noun) the passages through which air enters and leaves the body | Synonyms: respiratory tract |
| (noun) a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another | Synonyms: air lane, flight path, skyway |
| airwoman | (noun) a woman aviator | Synonyms: aviatress, aviatrix |
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| airworthiness | (noun) fitness to fly | - |
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| antiaircraft | (noun) artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes | Synonyms: ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft gun, flack, flak, pom-pom |
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| armchair | (noun) chair with a support on each side for arms | - |
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| backstairs | (noun) a second staircase at the rear of a building | - |
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| bairn | (noun) a child: son or daughter | - |
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| billionaire | (noun) a very rich person whose material wealth is valued at more than a billion dollars | - |
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| bookfair | (noun) bazaar at which books are sold or auctioned off in order to raise funds for a worthy cause | Synonyms: book fair |
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| (noun) fair organized by publishers or booksellers to promote the sale of books | Synonyms: book fair |
| cairn | (noun) small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland | Synonyms: cairn terrier |
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| (noun) a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path | - |
| cairngorm | (noun) a smoky yellow or brown quartz | Synonyms: smoky quartz |
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| camelhair | (noun) a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel | Synonyms: camel's hair |
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| chair | (noun) the position of professor | Synonyms: professorship |
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| (noun) a seat for one person, with a support for the back | - |
| (noun) an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person | Synonyms: death chair, electric chair, hot seat |
| (noun) a particular seat in an orchestra | - |
| (noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chairperson, president |
| chairlift | (noun) a ski lift on which riders (skiers or sightseers) are seated and carried up or down a mountainside; seats are hung from an endless overhead cable | Synonyms: chair lift |
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| chairman | (noun) the male officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
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| chairmanship | (noun) the position of chairman | - |
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| chairperson | (noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chair, president |
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| chairwoman | (noun) the female officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
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| clairvoyance | (noun) apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses | Synonyms: E.S.P., ESP, extrasensory perception, second sight |
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| clairvoyant | (noun) someone who has the power of clairvoyance | - |
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| commissionaire | (noun) a uniformed doorman | - |
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| concessionaire | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessioner |
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| corsair | (noun) a swift pirate ship (often operating with official sanction) | - |
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| (noun) a pirate along the Barbary Coast | Synonyms: Barbary pirate |
| crosshairs | (noun) a center of interest | - |
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| dairy | (noun) a farm where dairy products are produced | Synonyms: dairy farm |
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| dairying | (noun) the business of a dairy | Synonyms: dairy farming |
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| dairymaid | (noun) a woman who works in a dairy | Synonyms: milkmaid |
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| dairyman | (noun) the owner or manager of a dairy | Synonyms: dairy farmer |
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| (noun) a man who works in a dairy | - |
| despair | (noun) the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well | - |
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| (noun) a state in which all hope is lost or absent | Synonyms: desperation |
| disrepair | (noun) in need of repairs; in need of repair | - |
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| doctrinaire | (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: dogmatist |
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| eclair | (noun) oblong cream puff | - |
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| fair | (noun) a sale of miscellany; often for charity | Synonyms: bazaar |
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| (noun) a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. | Synonyms: carnival, funfair |
| (noun) a competitive exhibition of farm products | - |
| (noun) gathering of producers to promote business | - |
| fairground | (noun) an open area for holding fairs or exhibitions or circuses | - |
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| fairlead | (noun) a pulley-block used to guide a rope forming part of a ship's rigging to avoid chafing | - |
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| fairness | (noun) conformity with rules or standards | Synonyms: equity |
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| (noun) the property of having a naturally light complexion | Synonyms: blondness, paleness |
| (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: beauteousness, comeliness, loveliness |
| (noun) ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty | Synonyms: candor, candour, fair-mindedness |
| fairway | (noun) the area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut short | - |
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| (noun) a tract of ground free of obstacles to movement | - |
| (noun) the usual course taken by vessels through a harbor or coastal waters | - |
| fairy | (noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faerie, faery, fay, sprite |
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| (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
| fairyland | (noun) something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality) | Synonyms: fantasy world, phantasy world |
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| (noun) the enchanted realm of fairies | Synonyms: faerie, faery |
| fairytale | (noun) a story about fairies; told to amuse children | Synonyms: fairy story, fairy tale |
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| (noun) an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse | Synonyms: cock-and-bull story, fairy story, fairy tale, song and dance |
| flair | (noun) distinctive and stylish elegance | Synonyms: dash, elan, panache, style |
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| (noun) a natural talent | Synonyms: genius |
| (noun) a shape that spreads outward | Synonyms: flare |
| funfair | (noun) a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. | Synonyms: carnival, fair |
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| (noun) a commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement | Synonyms: amusement park, pleasure ground |
| hair | (noun) a filamentous projection or process on an organism | - |
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| (noun) cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments | Synonyms: haircloth |
| (noun) a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss | - |
| (noun) any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal | Synonyms: pilus |
| (noun) filamentous hairlike growth on a plant | Synonyms: fuzz, tomentum |
| (noun) a very small distance or space | Synonyms: hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, whisker |
| hairball | (noun) a compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur) | Synonyms: hair ball, trichobezoar |
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| hairbrush | (noun) a brush used to groom a person's hair | - |
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| haircare | (noun) care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair | Synonyms: hair care, hairdressing |
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| haircloth | (noun) cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments | Synonyms: hair |
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| haircut | (noun) the act of cutting the hair | - |
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| (noun) the style in which hair has been cut | - |
| hairdo | (noun) the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) | Synonyms: coif, coiffure, hair style, hairstyle |
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| hairdresser | (noun) someone who cuts or beautifies hair | Synonyms: hairstylist, styler, stylist |
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| hairdressing | (noun) care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair | Synonyms: hair care, haircare |
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| (noun) a toiletry for the hair | Synonyms: hair grease, hair oil, hair tonic |
| hairgrip | (noun) a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place | Synonyms: bobby pin, grip |
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| hairiness | (noun) the quality of having hair | Synonyms: pilosity |
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| hairlessness | (noun) the quality of not having hair | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being void of hair | Synonyms: depilation |