| gauffer | (noun) an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats | Synonyms: goffer |
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| (noun) an iron used to press pleats and ridges | Synonyms: gauffering iron, goffer, goffering iron |
| gauge | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. | Synonyms: gage |
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| (noun) the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train | - |
| (noun) the thickness of wire | - |
| (noun) diameter of a tube or gun barrel | Synonyms: bore, caliber, calibre |
| (noun) accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared | Synonyms: standard of measurement |
| gauntlet | (noun) a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim | Synonyms: gantlet |
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| (noun) a glove of armored leather; protects the hand | Synonyms: gantlet, metal glove |
| (noun) a glove with long sleeve | Synonyms: gantlet |
| (noun) to offer or accept a challenge | Synonyms: gantlet |
| gauntness | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: boniness, bonyness, emaciation, maceration |
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| gauntry | (noun) a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc. | Synonyms: gantry |
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| gaur | (noun) wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India | Synonyms: Bibos gaurus |
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| gauss | (noun) a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter | - |
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| gaussmeter | (noun) a meter to compare strengths of magnetic fields | Synonyms: magnetometer |
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| gauze | (noun) a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave | Synonyms: netting, veiling |
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| (noun) (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings | Synonyms: gauze bandage |
| glaucoma | (noun) an eye disease that damages the optic nerve and impairs vision (sometimes progressing to blindness) | - |
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| glauconite | (noun) a green mineral consisting of hydrated silicate of potassium or iron or magnesium or aluminum; found in greensand | - |
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| goddaughter | (noun) a female godchild | - |
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| grandaunt | (noun) an aunt of your father or mother | Synonyms: great-aunt |
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| granddaughter | (noun) a female grandchild | - |
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| hadrosaur | (noun) any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic | Synonyms: duck-billed dinosaur, hadrosaurus |
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| hadrosaurus | (noun) any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic | Synonyms: duck-billed dinosaur, hadrosaur |
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| hauberk | (noun) a long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor | Synonyms: byrnie |
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| haughtiness | (noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors | Synonyms: arrogance, hauteur, high-handedness, lordliness |
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| haul | (noun) the act of drawing or hauling something | Synonyms: draw, haulage |
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| (noun) the quantity that was caught | Synonyms: catch |
| haulage | (noun) the act of drawing or hauling something | Synonyms: draw, haul |
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| hauler | (noun) a haulage contractor | Synonyms: haulier |
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| haulier | (noun) a haulage contractor | Synonyms: hauler |
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| hauling | (noun) the activity of transporting goods by truck | Synonyms: truckage, trucking |
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| haulm | (noun) stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding | Synonyms: halm |
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| haunch | (noun) the loin and leg of a quadruped | - |
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| (noun) the hip and buttock and upper thigh in human beings | - |
| hauncher | (noun) a machine for making shaped cuts in the end or along the edge of a board. | Synonyms: haunching machine |
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| haunt | (noun) a frequently visited place | Synonyms: hangout, repair, resort, stamping ground |
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| hausen | (noun) valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas | Synonyms: Acipenser huso, beluga, white sturgeon |
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| hausmannite | (noun) a mineral consisting of manganese tetroxide; a source of manganese | - |
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| haustorium | (noun) a root-like attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host | - |
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| hautbois | (noun) a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece | Synonyms: hautboy, oboe |
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| hautboy | (noun) a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece | Synonyms: hautbois, oboe |
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| hauteur | (noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors | Synonyms: arrogance, haughtiness, high-handedness, lordliness |
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| heaume | (noun) a large medieval helmet supported on the shoulders | - |
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| heliopause | (noun) the boundary marking the edge of the sun's influence; the boundary (roughly 100 AU from the sun) between the interplanetary medium and the interstellar medium; where the solar wind from the sun and the radiation from other stars meet | - |
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| herrerasaur | (noun) a kind of theropod dinosaur found in Argentina | Synonyms: herrerasaurus |
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| herrerasaurus | (noun) a kind of theropod dinosaur found in Argentina | Synonyms: herrerasaur |
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| holocaust | (noun) an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire) | - |
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| horselaugh | (noun) a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing | Synonyms: ha-ha, haw-haw, hee-haw |
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| hydraulics | (noun) study of the mechanics of fluids | Synonyms: fluid mechanics |
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| ichthyosaur | (noun) any of several marine reptiles of the Mesozoic having a body like a porpoise with dorsal and tail fins and paddle-shaped limbs | - |
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| ichthyosaurus | (noun) ichthyosaurs of the Jurassic | - |
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| ictodosaur | (noun) intermediate in form between the therapsids and most primitive true mammals | - |
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| imaum | (noun) (Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque; for Shiites an imam is a recognized authority on Islamic theology and law and a spiritual guide | Synonyms: imam |
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| imbauba | (noun) tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems | Synonyms: Cecropia peltata, snake wood, trumpet-wood, trumpet tree, trumpetwood |
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| implausibility | (noun) the quality of provoking disbelief | Synonyms: implausibleness |
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| implausibleness | (noun) the quality of provoking disbelief | Synonyms: implausibility |
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| inaudibility | (noun) the quality of not being perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: inaudibleness |
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| inaudibleness | (noun) the quality of not being perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: inaudibility |
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| inaugural | (noun) the ceremonial induction into a position | Synonyms: inauguration |
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| (noun) an address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president) | Synonyms: inaugural address |
| inauguration | (noun) the ceremonial induction into a position | Synonyms: inaugural |
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| (noun) the act of starting a new operation or practice | Synonyms: startup |
| inauspiciousness | (noun) the quality of suggesting an unsuccessful result | Synonyms: unpropitiousness |
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| incaution | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring possible danger | Synonyms: incautiousness |
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| incautiousness | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring possible danger | Synonyms: incaution |
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| inexhaustibility | (noun) The state or condition of being impossible to exhaust; of being unlimited. | - |
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| instauration | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, institution, introduction, origination |
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| jambeau | (noun) armor plate that protects legs below the knee | Synonyms: greave |
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| jaundice | (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, tartness, thorniness |
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| (noun) yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia | Synonyms: icterus |
| jaunt | (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, expedition, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
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| jauntiness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: dapperness, nattiness, rakishness |
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| (noun) a breezy liveliness | Synonyms: breeziness |
| juggernaut | (noun) a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way | Synonyms: steamroller |
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| kauri | (noun) tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood | Synonyms: Agathis australis, kaury |
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| (noun) white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis | - |
| (noun) resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum | Synonyms: kauri copal, kauri gum, kauri resin |
| kaury | (noun) tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood | Synonyms: Agathis australis, kauri |
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| kraurosis | (noun) atrophy and shriveling of the skin or mucous membrane | - |
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| landau | (noun) a four-wheel covered carriage with a roof divided into two parts (front and back) that can be let down separately | - |
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| langlaufer | (noun) a cross-country skier | - |
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| laudability | (noun) the quality of being worthy of praise | Synonyms: laudableness, praiseworthiness |
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| laudableness | (noun) the quality of being worthy of praise | Synonyms: laudability, praiseworthiness |
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| laudanum | (noun) narcotic consisting of an alcohol solution of opium or any preparation in which opium is the main ingredient | Synonyms: tincture of opium |
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| laudator | (noun) someone who communicates high praise | Synonyms: extoller, lauder |
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| lauder | (noun) someone who communicates high praise | Synonyms: extoller, laudator |
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| laugh | (noun) the sound of laughing | Synonyms: laughter |
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| (noun) a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter | Synonyms: gag, jape, jest, joke |
| (noun) a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing | - |
| laugher | (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, romp, runaway, shoo-in, walkaway |
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| (noun) a person who is laughing or who laughs easily | - |
| laughingstock | (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: butt, goat, stooge |
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| laughter | (noun) the activity of laughing; the manifestation of joy or mirth or scorn | - |
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| (noun) the sound of laughing | Synonyms: laugh |
| lauhala | (noun) Polynesian screw pine | Synonyms: Pandanus tectorius, textile screw pine |
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| launce | (noun) very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches | Synonyms: sand eel, sand lance, sand launce |
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| launch | (noun) the act of propelling with force | Synonyms: launching |
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| (noun) a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck | - |
| launcher | (noun) armament in the form of a device capable of launching a rocket | Synonyms: rocket launcher |
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| (noun) a device that launches aircraft from a warship | Synonyms: catapult |
| launching | (noun) the act of propelling with force | Synonyms: launch |
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| (noun) the act of beginning something new | Synonyms: debut, entry, first appearance, introduction, unveiling |
| (noun) the act of moving a newly built vessel into the water for the first time | - |
| launchpad | (noun) a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched | Synonyms: launch area, launch pad, launching pad, pad |
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| launderette | (noun) a self-service laundry (service mark Laundromat) where coin-operated washing machines are available to individual customers | Synonyms: Laundromat |
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| laundering | (noun) washing clothes and bed linens | - |
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| laundress | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | Synonyms: laundrywoman, washerwoman, washwoman |
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| laundry | (noun) workplace where clothes are washed and ironed | - |
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| (noun) garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering | Synonyms: wash, washables, washing |
| laundryman | (noun) a man who operates an industrial washing machine | Synonyms: washerman |
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| laundrywoman | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | Synonyms: laundress, washerwoman, washwoman |
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| laureate | (noun) someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath | - |
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| laurel | (noun) (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory | Synonyms: bay wreath, laurel wreath |
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| (noun) any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family | - |
| laurels | (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: accolade, award, honor, honour |
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| (noun) the state of being honored | Synonyms: honor, honour |
| laurelwood | (noun) tropical American tree; valued for its hard durable wood | Synonyms: Calophyllum candidissimum, lancewood tree |
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| lebensraum | (noun) space sought for occupation by a nation whose population is expanding | Synonyms: living space |
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| leprechaun | (noun) a mischievous elf in Irish folklore | - |
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| liebfraumilch | (noun) a sweetened Rhenish wine (especially one from Hesse in western Germany) | - |
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| luau | (noun) an elaborate Hawaiian feast or party (especially one accompanied by traditional foods and entertainment) | - |
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| manslaughter | (noun) homicide without malice aforethought | - |
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| maraud | (noun) a sudden short attack | Synonyms: foray, raid |
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| marauder | (noun) someone who attacks in search of booty | Synonyms: piranha, predator, vulture |
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| marauding | (noun) Raiding and pillaging. | - |
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| massasauga | (noun) pygmy rattlesnake found in moist areas from the Great Lakes to Mexico; feeds on mice and small amphibians | Synonyms: massasauga rattler, Sistrurus catenatus |
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| (noun) small pygmy rattlesnake | Synonyms: ground rattler, Sistrurus miliaris |