| gameboard | (noun) a flat portable surface (usually rectangular) designed for board games | Synonyms: board |
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| gamecock | (noun) a cock bred and trained for fighting | Synonyms: fighting cock |
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| (noun) someone who is a very fierce fighter | Synonyms: hell-kite, hell-rooster |
| gamedev | (noun) someone who develops a game | - |
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| gamekeeper | (noun) a person employed to take care of game and wildlife | Synonyms: game warden |
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| gamelan | (noun) a traditional Indonesian ensemble typically including many tuned percussion instruments including bamboo xylophones and wooden or bronze chimes and gongs | - |
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| gameness | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gimp, gimpiness, lameness, limping |
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| gamesmanship | (noun) the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win a game | - |
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| gametangium | (noun) cell or organ in which gametes develop | - |
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| gamete | (noun) a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes | - |
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| gametocyte | (noun) an immature animal or plant cell that develops into a gamete by meiosis | - |
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| gametoecium | (noun) gametangia and surrounding bracts | - |
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| gametogenesis | (noun) the development and maturation of sex cells through meiosis | - |
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| gametophore | (noun) a modified branch bearing gametangia as in the thalloid liverworts | - |
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| gametophyte | (noun) the gamete-bearing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations | - |
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| gossamer | (noun) a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture | - |
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| (noun) filaments from a web that was spun by a spider | Synonyms: cobweb |
| hame | (noun) stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces | - |
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| hamelia | (noun) any of several flowering tropical or subtropical shrubs of the genus Hamelia | - |
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| hereditament | (noun) any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited | - |
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| hexameter | (noun) a verse line having six metrical feet | - |
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| isogamete | (noun) either of a pair of conjugating gametes of the same size and structure | - |
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| kameez | (noun) a long tunic worn by many people from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a salwar or churidars) | - |
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| lame | (noun) a fabric interwoven with threads of metal | - |
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| (noun) someone who doesn't understand what is going on | Synonyms: square |
| lamedh | (noun) the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| lamella | (noun) thin plate | - |
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| (noun) a thin membrane that is one of the calcified layers that form bones | - |
| (noun) any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus | Synonyms: gill |
| lamellibranch | (noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: bivalve, pelecypod |
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| lameness | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimp, gimpiness, limping |
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| (noun) an imperfection or defectiveness | - |
| lament | (noun) a mournful poem; a lament for the dead | Synonyms: elegy |
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| (noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: coronach, dirge, requiem, threnody |
| (noun) a cry of sorrow and grief | Synonyms: lamentation, plaint, wail |
| lamentation | (noun) the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief | Synonyms: mourning |
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| (noun) a cry of sorrow and grief | Synonyms: lament, plaint, wail |
| lamenter | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, mourner, sorrower |
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| ligament | (noun) any connection or unifying bond | - |
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| (noun) a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles or organs | - |
| lineament | (noun) the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin | Synonyms: feature |
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| (noun) a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something | Synonyms: character, quality |
| macrame | (noun) a relatively coarse lace; made by weaving and knotting cords | - |
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| madame | (noun) title used for a married Frenchwoman | - |
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| mainframe | (noun) (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing | Synonyms: C.P.U., central processing unit, central processor, CPU, processor |
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| (noun) a large digital computer serving 100-400 users and occupying a special air-conditioned room | Synonyms: mainframe computer |
| mamey | (noun) globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh | Synonyms: mammee, mammee apple |
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| (noun) tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind | Synonyms: Mammea americana, mammee, mammee apple, mammee tree |
| medicament | (noun) (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Synonyms: medication, medicinal drug, medicine |
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| megagametophyte | (noun) the female gametophyte produced by the megaspore of a plant that produces both microspore and megaspores | - |
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| metamere | (noun) one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally | Synonyms: somite |
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| microgametophyte | (noun) the male gametophyte produced by a microspore | - |
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| moorgame | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorbird, moorfowl, red grouse |
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| myriameter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 10,000 meters | Synonyms: mym, myriametre |
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| myriametre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 10,000 meters | Synonyms: mym, myriameter |
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| name | (noun) by the sanction or authority of | - |
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| (noun) a language unit by which a person or thing is known | - |
| (noun) a defamatory or abusive word or phrase | Synonyms: epithet |
| (noun) family based on male descent | Synonyms: gens |
| (noun) a well-known or notable person | Synonyms: figure, public figure |
| (noun) a person's reputation | - |
| nameko | (noun) one of the most important fungi cultivated in Japan | Synonyms: Pholiota nameko, viscid mushroom |
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| namelessness | (noun) the state of being anonymous | Synonyms: anonymity |
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| nameplate | (noun) a plate bearing a name | - |
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| namer | (noun) a person who gives a name or names | - |
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| names | (noun) verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument | Synonyms: name calling |
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| namesake | (noun) a person with the same name as another | - |
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| nickname | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, sobriquet, soubriquet |
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| (noun) a descriptive name for a place or thing | - |
| octameter | (noun) a verse line having eight metrical feet | - |
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| ornament | (noun) something used to beautify | Synonyms: decoration, ornamentation |
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| ornamental | (noun) any plant grown for its beauty or ornamental value | - |
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| ornamentalism | (noun) the practice of ornamental display | - |
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| ornamentalist | (noun) someone who decorates | Synonyms: decorator |
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| ornamentation | (noun) the act of adding extraneous decorations to something | Synonyms: embellishment |
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| (noun) something used to beautify | Synonyms: decoration, ornament |
| (noun) the state of being ornamented | - |
| paramecia | (noun) any member of the genus Paramecium | Synonyms: paramecium |
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| paramecium | (noun) any member of the genus Paramecium | Synonyms: paramecia |
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| paramedic | (noun) a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment | Synonyms: paramedical |
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| paramedical | (noun) a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment | Synonyms: paramedic |
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| parameter | (noun) a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves | Synonyms: parametric quantity |
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| (noun) a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program | Synonyms: argument |
| (noun) any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance | - |
| parametritis | (noun) inflammation of connective tissue adjacent to the uterus | - |
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| parliament | (noun) a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards | Synonyms: fantan, sevens |
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| (noun) a legislative assembly in certain countries | - |
| parliamentarian | (noun) an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures | - |
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| pentameter | (noun) a verse line having five metrical feet | - |
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| pentamethylenetetrazol | (noun) a drug used as a circulatory and respiratory stimulant; larger doses cause convulsions in shock therapy; Metrazol is a trademark | Synonyms: Metrazol, pentylenetetrazol |
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| predicament | (noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: plight, quandary |
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| pronunciamento | (noun) a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government) | Synonyms: manifesto |
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| putamen | (noun) the outer reddish part of the lenticular nucleus | - |
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| ramee | (noun) tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves; cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax | Synonyms: Boehmeria nivea, China grass, Chinese silk plant, ramie |
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| ramekin | (noun) a small fireproof dish used for baking and serving individual portions | Synonyms: ramequin |
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| (noun) a cheese dish made with egg and bread crumbs that is baked and served in individual fireproof dishes | Synonyms: ramequin |
| ramequin | (noun) a small fireproof dish used for baking and serving individual portions | Synonyms: ramekin |
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| (noun) a cheese dish made with egg and bread crumbs that is baked and served in individual fireproof dishes | Synonyms: ramekin |
| reamer | (noun) a drill that is used to shape or enlarge holes | - |
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| (noun) a squeezer with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice from citrus fruit | Synonyms: juice reamer, juicer |
| rearmament | (noun) the act of arming again | - |
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| roamer | (noun) someone who leads a wandering unsettled life | Synonyms: bird of passage, rover, wanderer |
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| sacrament | (noun) a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction | - |
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| samekh | (noun) the 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| sameness | (noun) the quality of being alike | - |
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| (noun) the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety | Synonyms: humdrum, monotony |
| screamer | (noun) a very hard hit ball | Synonyms: scorcher |
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| (noun) gooselike aquatic bird of South America having a harsh trumpeting call | - |
| (noun) a sensational newspaper headline | - |
| (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, roarer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
| selfsameness | (noun) the quality of being identical with itself | - |
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| semidiameter | (noun) the apparent radius of a celestial body when viewed as a disc from the earth | - |
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| sesame | (noun) East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil | Synonyms: benne, benni, benny, Sesamum indicum |
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| shame | (noun) an unfortunate development | Synonyms: pity |
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| (noun) a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt | - |
| (noun) a state of dishonor | Synonyms: disgrace, ignominy |
| shamefacedness | (noun) feeling embarrassed about yourself | Synonyms: sheepishness |
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| shamefulness | (noun) unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor | Synonyms: disgracefulness, ignominiousness |
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| shamelessness | (noun) behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame | Synonyms: brazenness |
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| siamese | (noun) an inlet with two or more couplings to which a hose can be attached so that fire engines can pump water into the sprinkler system of a building | Synonyms: siamese connection |
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| stamen | (noun) the male reproductive organ of a flower | - |
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| steamer | (noun) an edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe | Synonyms: long-neck clam, Mya arenaria, soft-shell clam, steamer clam |
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| (noun) a ship powered by one or more steam engines | Synonyms: steamship |
| (noun) a cooking utensil that can be used to cook food by steaming it | - |
| (noun) a clam that is usually steamed in the shell | Synonyms: long-neck clam, soft-shell clam, steamer clam |
| streamer | (noun) long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising | Synonyms: banner |
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| (noun) a long flag; often tapering | Synonyms: pennant, pennon, waft |
| (noun) a newspaper headline that runs across the full page | Synonyms: banner |
| (noun) light that streams | - |
| sulfamethazine | (noun) a sulfa drug used like sulfadiazine and also in veterinary medicine | Synonyms: sulfamezathine |
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| sulfamethoxazole | (noun) a sulfonamide (trade name Gantanol) used to treat infections (especially infections of the urinary tract) | Synonyms: Gantanol |
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| sulfamezathine | (noun) a sulfa drug used like sulfadiazine and also in veterinary medicine | Synonyms: sulfamethazine |
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| surname | (noun) the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) | Synonyms: cognomen, family name, last name |
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| tameness | (noun) the attribute of having been domesticated | Synonyms: domestication |
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| (noun) the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated | Synonyms: jejuneness, jejunity, vapidity, vapidness |
| tamer | (noun) an animal trainer who tames wild animals | - |
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| temperament | (noun) an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys | - |
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| (noun) your usual mood | Synonyms: disposition |
| (noun) excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly) | - |
| testament | (noun) a profession of belief | - |
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| (noun) a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die | Synonyms: will |
| (noun) strong evidence for something | - |
| tetrameter | (noun) a verse line having four metrical feet | - |
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| tetramethyldiarsine | (noun) a poisonous oily liquid with a garlicky odor composed of 2 cacodyl groups; undergoes spontaneous combustion in dry air | Synonyms: cacodyl |
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