| equivalence | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, comparison |
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| (noun) essential equality and interchangeability | - |
| (noun) a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced | Synonyms: equality, equation, par |
| equivalent | (noun) the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen | Synonyms: combining weight, eq, equivalent weight |
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| (noun) a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc | - |
| equivocalness | (noun) unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning | Synonyms: ambiguity |
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| ergocalciferol | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets | Synonyms: calciferol, cholecalciferol, D, viosterol, vitamin D |
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| escalade | (noun) an act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification) | - |
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| escalader | (noun) someone who gains access by the use of ladders | - |
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| escalation | (noun) an increase to counteract a perceived discrepancy | - |
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| escalator | (noun) a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt | Synonyms: moving staircase, moving stairway |
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| (noun) a clause in a contract that provides for an increase or a decrease in wages or prices or benefits etc. depending on certain conditions (as a change in the cost of living index) | Synonyms: escalator clause |
| escallop | (noun) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions | Synonyms: scallop, scollop |
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| (noun) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces | Synonyms: scallop, scollop |
| (noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: cutlet, scallop, scollop |
| eschalot | (noun) type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning | Synonyms: Allium ascalonicum, Allium cepa aggregatum, multiplier onion, shallot |
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| espalier | (noun) a trellis on which ornamental shrub or fruit tree is trained to grow flat | - |
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| espial | (noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | Synonyms: catching, detection, spotting, spying |
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| espousal | (noun) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | Synonyms: acceptance, acceptation, adoption |
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| (noun) archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast | Synonyms: bridal |
| (noun) the act of becoming betrothed or engaged | Synonyms: betrothal |
| essential | (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: necessary, necessity, requirement, requisite |
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| essentiality | (noun) basic importance | Synonyms: essentialness |
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| essentialness | (noun) basic importance | Synonyms: essentiality |
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| ethanal | (noun) a colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde used chiefly in the manufacture of acetic acid and perfumes and drugs | Synonyms: acetaldehyde |
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| ethicality | (noun) The state, quality or manner of conforming to accepted standards of conduct. | - |
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| eucalypt | (noun) a tree of the genus Eucalyptus | Synonyms: eucalyptus, eucalyptus tree |
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| eucalyptus | (noun) a tree of the genus Eucalyptus | Synonyms: eucalypt, eucalyptus tree |
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| (noun) wood of any of various eucalyptus trees valued as timber | - |
| evaluation | (noun) act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of | Synonyms: rating |
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| (noun) an appraisal of the value of something | Synonyms: rating, valuation |
| evaluator | (noun) an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality | Synonyms: judge |
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| evangelicalism | (noun) stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation | - |
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| evenfall | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| eventuality | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingence, contingency |
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| exaltation | (noun) the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) | Synonyms: apotheosis, deification |
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| (noun) a flock of larks (especially a flock of larks in flight overhead) | - |
| (noun) the location of a planet in the zodiac at which it is believed to exert its maximum influence | - |
| (noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: ecstasy, rapture, raptus, transport |
| exaltolide | (noun) the macrocyclic lactone having fifteen carbon atoms; it has a musky scent, similar to exaltone. | - |
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| exhalation | (noun) the act of expelling air from the lungs | Synonyms: breathing out, expiration |
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| (noun) exhaled breath | Synonyms: halitus |
| existentialism | (noun) (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves | Synonyms: existential philosophy, existentialist philosophy |
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| existentialist | (noun) a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable | Synonyms: existential philosopher, existentialist philosopher |
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| exomphalos | (noun) an umbilical hernia at birth in which some abdominal organs push into the umbilical cord | - |
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| exophthalmos | (noun) protrusion of the eyeball from the socket | - |
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| experimentalism | (noun) an orientation that favors experimentation and innovation | - |
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| (noun) an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles | - |
| exponential | (noun) a function in which an independent variable appears as an exponent | Synonyms: exponential function |
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| external | (noun) outward features | - |
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| externalisation | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalization |
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| (noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalization |
| externality | (noun) the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior | Synonyms: outwardness |
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| externalization | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalisation |
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| (noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalisation |
| extraterrestrial | (noun) a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere | Synonyms: alien, extraterrestrial being |
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| eyeball | (noun) the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye | Synonyms: orb |
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| facepalm | (noun) the act of putting your hand to cover your face to show disappointment or despair | - |
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| facial | (noun) care for the face that usually involves cleansing and massage and the application of cosmetic creams | - |
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| (noun) cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles | Synonyms: facial nerve, nervus facialis, seventh cranial nerve |
| factorial | (noun) the product of all the integers up to and including a given integer | - |
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| factuality | (noun) the quality of being actual or based on fact | Synonyms: factualness |
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| factualness | (noun) the quality of being actual or based on fact | Synonyms: factuality |
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| faecalith | (noun) a hard mass of fecal matter | Synonyms: coprolith, fecalith, stercolith |
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| 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 |
| falafel | (noun) small croquette of mashed chick peas or fava beans seasoned with sesame seeds | Synonyms: felafel |
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| falanga | (noun) a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels | Synonyms: bastinado |
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| falangist | (noun) a Spanish member of General Franco's political party | Synonyms: phalangist |
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| falchion | (noun) a short broad slightly convex medieval sword with a sharp point | - |
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| falcon | (noun) diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight | - |
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| falconer | (noun) a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry | Synonyms: hawker |
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| falconry | (noun) the art of training falcons to hunt and return | - |
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| falderol | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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| fall | (noun) a sudden drop from an upright position | Synonyms: spill, tumble |
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| (noun) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | Synonyms: capitulation, surrender |
| (noun) a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity | - |
| (noun) a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity | Synonyms: dip, drop, free fall |
| (noun) a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity | Synonyms: drop |
| (noun) a sudden decline in strength or number or importance | Synonyms: downfall |
| (noun) when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat | Synonyms: pin |
| (noun) a movement downward | - |
| (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope |
| (noun) the season when the leaves fall from the trees | Synonyms: autumn |
| (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
| fallaciousness | (noun) result of a fallacy or error in reasoning | - |
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| fallacy | (noun) a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning | Synonyms: false belief |
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| fallal | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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| fallback | (noun) to break off a military action with an enemy | Synonyms: disengagement, pullout |
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| fallboard | (noun) the hinged protective covering that protects the keyboard of a piano when it is not being played | Synonyms: fall-board |
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| faller | (noun) a person who falls | - |
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| (noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: feller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman |
| fallibility | (noun) the likelihood of making errors | - |
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| falloff | (noun) a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality | Synonyms: drop-off, falling off, slack, slump |
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| fallout | (noun) any adverse and unwanted secondary effect | Synonyms: side effect |
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| (noun) the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion | Synonyms: radioactive dust |
| fallow | (noun) cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons | - |
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| falls | (noun) a steep descent of the water of a river | Synonyms: waterfall |
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| (noun) the petals or sepals of a flower that bend downward (especially the outer perianth of an iris) | - |
| falsehood | (noun) the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting | Synonyms: falsification |
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| (noun) a false statement | Synonyms: falsity, untruth |
| falseness | (noun) the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical | Synonyms: hollowness, insincerity |
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| (noun) unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous | Synonyms: faithlessness, fickleness, inconstancy |
| (noun) the state of being false or untrue | Synonyms: falsity |
| falsetto | (noun) a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register | - |
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| falsie | (noun) padding that is worn inside a brassiere | - |
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| (noun) artificial eyelashes | - |
| falsification | (noun) the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting | Synonyms: falsehood |
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| (noun) the act of determining that something is false | Synonyms: disproof, falsifying, refutal, refutation |
| (noun) a willful perversion of facts | Synonyms: misrepresentation |
| (noun) any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something | Synonyms: disproof, refutation |
| falsifier | (noun) someone who falsifies | - |
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| falsifying | (noun) the act of determining that something is false | Synonyms: disproof, falsification, refutal, refutation |
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| falsity | (noun) a false statement | Synonyms: falsehood, untruth |
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| (noun) the state of being false or untrue | Synonyms: falseness |
| falter | (noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: faltering, hesitation, waver |
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| faltering | (noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: falter, hesitation, waver |
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| fanaloka | (noun) civet of Madagascar | Synonyms: Fossa fossa |
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| fantasticalness | (noun) The state or condition of pertaining to fantasy; of being fanciful or whimsical. | - |
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| farcicality | (noun) The property of resembling a farce; of being ludicrous, absurd. | - |
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| farfalle | (noun) pasta shaped with scalloped edges and pinched in the middle, suggestive of a bow tie | Synonyms: bowtie pasta |
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| farthingale | (noun) a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries | - |
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| fastball | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: bullet, heater, hummer, smoke |
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| fatalism | (noun) a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them | - |
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| (noun) a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable | - |
| fatalist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
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| fatality | (noun) the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters | - |
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| (noun) a death resulting from an accident or a disaster | Synonyms: human death |
| fealty | (noun) the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign) | Synonyms: allegiance |
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| fecalith | (noun) a hard mass of fecal matter | Synonyms: coprolith, faecalith, stercolith |
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| federalisation | (noun) the act of being put under federal control | Synonyms: federalization |
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| (noun) the state of being under federal control | Synonyms: federalization |
| federalism | (noun) the idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units | - |
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| federalist | (noun) an advocate of federalism | - |
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| federalization | (noun) the act of being put under federal control | Synonyms: federalisation |
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| (noun) the state of being under federal control | Synonyms: federalisation |
| female | (noun) an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa) | - |
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| (noun) a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies | Synonyms: female person |
| femaleness | (noun) the properties characteristic of the female sex | Synonyms: feminineness |
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| festival | (noun) an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place) | Synonyms: fete |
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| (noun) a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration | - |
| feudalism | (noun) the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war | Synonyms: feudal system |
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| fictionalisation | (noun) writing in a fictional form | Synonyms: fabrication, fictionalization |
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| (noun) a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction | Synonyms: fictionalization |
| fictionalization | (noun) writing in a fictional form | Synonyms: fabrication, fictionalisation |
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| (noun) a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction | Synonyms: fictionalisation |
| final | (noun) an examination administered at the end of an academic term | Synonyms: final exam, final examination |
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| (noun) the final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament | - |
| finale | (noun) the concluding part of any performance | Synonyms: close, closing curtain, finis |
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| (noun) the closing section of a musical composition | Synonyms: coda |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finis, finish, last, stopping point |