| graviton | (noun) a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles | - |
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| gravity | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, soberness, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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| (noun) a solemn and dignified feeling | Synonyms: solemnity |
| (noun) (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface | Synonyms: gravitation, gravitational attraction, gravitational force |
| gravure | (noun) the act of intaglio printing | - |
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| (noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: heliogravure, photogravure |
| (noun) a printing plate used in the process of gravure | - |
| (noun) a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print | Synonyms: intaglio, intaglio printing |
| gravy | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, manna from heaven, windfall |
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| (noun) the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added | Synonyms: pan gravy |
| (noun) a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats | - |
| greave | (noun) armor plate that protects legs below the knee | Synonyms: jambeau |
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| greaves | (noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: crackling |
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| guava | (noun) tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp; eaten fresh or used for e.g. jellies | - |
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| (noun) small tropical American shrubby tree; widely cultivated in warm regions for its sweet globular yellow fruit | Synonyms: guava bush, Psidium guajava, true guava |
| (noun) small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit | Synonyms: Psidium littorale, strawberry guava, yellow cattley guava |
| hairweaving | (noun) the act of interweaving a hairpiece with your own hair | - |
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| have | (noun) a person who possesses great material wealth | Synonyms: rich person, wealthy person |
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| havelock | (noun) a cloth covering for a service cap with a flap extending over the back of the neck to protect the neck from direct rays of the sun | - |
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| haven | (noun) a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary | Synonyms: oasis |
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| (noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbor, harbour, seaport |
| haversack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, knapsack, packsack, rucksack |
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| havoc | (noun) violent and needless disturbance | Synonyms: mayhem |
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| heave | (noun) throwing something heavy (with great effort) | Synonyms: heaving |
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| (noun) the act of lifting something with great effort | Synonyms: heaving |
| (noun) the act of raising something | Synonyms: lift, raise |
| (noun) an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting | Synonyms: retch |
| (noun) (geology) a horizontal dislocation | - |
| (noun) an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) | Synonyms: heaving |
| heaven | (noun) any place of complete bliss and delight and peace | Synonyms: Eden, nirvana, paradise, promised land, Shangri-la |
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| heavens | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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| heaver | (noun) a bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope) | - |
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| (noun) a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard) | - |
| heaves | (noun) a chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks | Synonyms: broken wind |
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| heaviness | (noun) the property of being comparatively great in weight | Synonyms: weightiness |
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| (noun) used of a line or mark | Synonyms: thickness |
| (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: burdensomeness, onerousness, oppressiveness |
| (noun) an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency | Synonyms: ponderousness |
| (noun) persisting sadness | - |
| heaving | (noun) throwing something heavy (with great effort) | Synonyms: heave |
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| (noun) breathing heavily (as after exertion) | Synonyms: panting |
| (noun) the act of lifting something with great effort | Synonyms: heave |
| (noun) an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) | Synonyms: heave |
| heavy | (noun) a serious (or tragic) role in a play | - |
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| (noun) an actor who plays villainous roles | - |
| heavyheartedness | (noun) a feeling of dispirited melancholy | - |
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| heavyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the heaviest. | Synonyms: super heavyweight |
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| (noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, titan |
| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds | - |
| (noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, hulk, whale |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds | - |
| heliogravure | (noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: gravure, photogravure |
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| hemidemisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note | Synonyms: sixty-fourth note |
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| hepadnavirus | (noun) a group of animal DNA viruses including viruses of ducks and woodchucks and squirrels and others as well as the virus causing hepatitis B in humans | - |
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| hepatoflavin | (noun) a B vitamin that prevents skin lesions and weight loss | Synonyms: lactoflavin, ovoflavin, riboflavin, vitamin B2, vitamin G |
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| indinavir | (noun) a protease inhibitor (trade name Crixivan) used for treating HIV | Synonyms: Crixivan |
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| intravasation | (noun) entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel | - |
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| java | (noun) a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans | Synonyms: coffee |
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| javelin | (noun) a spear thrown as a weapon or in competitive field events | - |
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| (noun) an athletic competition in which a javelin is thrown as far as possible | - |
| javelina | (noun) dark grey peccary with an indistinct white collar; of semi desert areas of Mexico and southwestern United States | Synonyms: collared peccary, Peccari angulatus, Tayassu angulatus, Tayassu tajacu |
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| kamilavka | (noun) A headdress worn among Orthodox Christian monastics and clergy. | - |
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| kava | (noun) an alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub | Synonyms: kavakava |
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| kavakava | (noun) an alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub | Synonyms: kava |
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| klavern | (noun) a local unit of the Ku Klux Klan | - |
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| knave | (noun) one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince | Synonyms: jack |
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| (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallywag, varlet |
| knavery | (noun) lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing | Synonyms: dishonesty |
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| lactoflavin | (noun) a B vitamin that prevents skin lesions and weight loss | Synonyms: hepatoflavin, ovoflavin, riboflavin, vitamin B2, vitamin G |
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| landgrave | (noun) a count who had jurisdiction over a large territory in medieval Germany | - |
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| lav | (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lavatory, privy, toilet |
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| lava | (noun) rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanoes; lava is what magma is called when it reaches the surface | - |
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| lavabo | (noun) a basin for washing the hands | Synonyms: handbasin, wash-hand basin, washbasin, washbowl |
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| lavage | (noun) washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water | - |
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| lavalava | (noun) a skirt consisting of a rectangle of calico or printed cotton; worn by Polynesians (especially Samoans) | - |
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| lavalier | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavaliere, lavalliere |
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| lavaliere | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavalier, lavalliere |
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| lavalliere | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavalier, lavaliere |
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| lavation | (noun) the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) | Synonyms: wash, washing |
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| lavatory | (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lav, privy, toilet |
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| (noun) a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face | Synonyms: basin, washbasin, washbowl, washstand |
| (noun) a toilet that is cleaned of waste by the flow of water through it | Synonyms: flush toilet |
| lavender | (noun) a pale purple color | - |
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| (noun) any of various Old World aromatic shrubs or subshrubs with usually mauve or blue flowers; widely cultivated | - |
| laver | (noun) (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions | - |
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| (noun) seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds | Synonyms: sea lettuce |
| (noun) edible red seaweeds | Synonyms: red laver |
| lavishness | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: extravagance, high life, highlife, prodigality |
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| (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: luxury, sumptuosity, sumptuousness |
| leave | (noun) the act of departing politely | Synonyms: farewell, leave-taking, parting |
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| (noun) permission to do something | - |
| (noun) the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty | Synonyms: leave of absence |
| leaven | (noun) an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something | Synonyms: leavening |
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| (noun) a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid | Synonyms: leavening |
| leavening | (noun) an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something | Synonyms: leaven |
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| (noun) a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid | Synonyms: leaven |
| leaver | (noun) someone who leaves | Synonyms: departer, goer |
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| leaving | (noun) the act of departing | Synonyms: departure, going, going away |
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| lifesaver | (noun) a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material | Synonyms: life belt, life buoy, life ring |
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| (noun) an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents | Synonyms: lifeguard |
| lifesaving | (noun) saving the lives of drowning persons | - |
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| lyssavirus | (noun) a neurotropic non-arbovirus of the family Rhabdoviridae that causes rabies | - |
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| maravilla | (noun) leafy wildflower having fragrant slender white or pale pink trumpet-shaped flowers; southwestern United States and northern Mexico | Synonyms: Mirabilis longiflora, sweet four o'clock |
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| (noun) wildflower having vibrant deep pink tubular evening-blooming flowers; found in sandy and desert areas from southern California to southern Colorado and into Mexico | Synonyms: Colorado four o'clock, desert four o'clock, Mirabilis multiflora |
| margrave | (noun) a German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess) | - |
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| (noun) the military governor of a frontier province in medieval Germany | - |
| maven | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
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| maverick | (noun) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it | - |
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| (noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: rebel |
| mavin | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
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| mavis | (noun) common Old World thrush noted for its song | Synonyms: song thrush, throstle, Turdus philomelos |
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| microwave | (noun) kitchen appliance that cooks food by passing an electromagnetic wave through it; heat results from the absorption of energy by the water molecules in the food | Synonyms: microwave oven |
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| (noun) a short electromagnetic wave (longer than infrared but shorter than radio waves); used for radar and microwave ovens and for transmitting telephone, facsimile, video and data | - |
| misbehavior | (noun) improper or wicked or immoral behavior | Synonyms: misbehaviour, misdeed |
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| misbehaviour | (noun) improper or wicked or immoral behavior | Synonyms: misbehavior, misdeed |
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| moshav | (noun) a cooperative Israeli village or settlement comprised of small farms | - |
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| nave | (noun) the central area of a church | - |
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| navel | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, bellybutton, omphalos, omphalus, umbilicus |
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| (noun) the center point or middle of something | Synonyms: navel point |
| navicular | (noun) the largest wrist bone on the thumb side | Synonyms: os scaphoideum, scaphoid bone |
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| navigability | (noun) the quality of being suitable for the passage of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| navigation | (noun) the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place | Synonyms: pilotage, piloting |
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| (noun) the work of a sailor | Synonyms: sailing, seafaring |
| (noun) ship traffic | - |
| navigator | (noun) in earlier times, a person who explored by ship | - |
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| (noun) the member of an aircrew who is responsible for the aircraft's course | - |
| (noun) the ship's officer in charge of navigation | Synonyms: sailing master |
| navvy | (noun) a laborer who is obliged to do menial work | Synonyms: drudge, galley slave, peon |
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| navy | (noun) a dark shade of blue | Synonyms: dark blue, navy blue |
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| (noun) an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare | Synonyms: naval forces |
| nelfinavir | (noun) a protease inhibitor (trade name Viracept) used in treating HIV usually in combination with other drugs | Synonyms: Viracept |
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| neobehaviorism | (noun) a school of psychology based on the general principles of behaviorism but broader and more flexible in concept. It stresses experimental research and laboratory analyses in the study of overt behavior and in various subjective phenomena that cannot be directly observed and measured, such as fantasies, love, stress, empathy, trust, and personality. | - |
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| octave | (noun) a musical interval of eight tones | Synonyms: musical octave |
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| (noun) a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse | - |
| (noun) a feast day and the seven days following it | - |
| octavo | (noun) the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves | Synonyms: 8vo, eightvo |
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| ovoflavin | (noun) a B vitamin that prevents skin lesions and weight loss | Synonyms: hepatoflavin, lactoflavin, riboflavin, vitamin B2, vitamin G |
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| palaver | (noun) loud and confused and empty talk | Synonyms: empty talk, empty words, hot air, rhetoric |
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| (noun) flattery intended to persuade | Synonyms: blandishment, cajolery |
| palsgrave | (noun) (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands | Synonyms: palatine |
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| papaverine | (noun) an alkaloid medicine (trade name Kavrin) obtained from opium; used to relax smooth muscles; it is nonaddictive | Synonyms: Kavrin |
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| papovavirus | (noun) any of a group of animal viruses associated with or causing papillomas or polyomas | - |
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| pavage | (noun) the act of applying paving materials to an area | Synonyms: paving |
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| (noun) a tax toward paving streets | - |
| pavan | (noun) a stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: pavane |
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| (noun) music composed for dancing the pavane | Synonyms: pavane |
| pavane | (noun) a stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: pavan |
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| (noun) music composed for dancing the pavane | Synonyms: pavan |
| pave | (noun) a setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows | - |
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| pavement | (noun) the paved surface of a thoroughfare | Synonyms: paving |
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| (noun) walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway | Synonyms: sidewalk |
| (noun) material used to pave an area | Synonyms: paving, paving material |
| pavilion | (noun) large and often sumptuous tent | Synonyms: marquee |
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| paving | (noun) the act of applying paving materials to an area | Synonyms: pavage |
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| (noun) the paved surface of a thoroughfare | Synonyms: pavement |
| (noun) material used to pave an area | Synonyms: pavement, paving material |
| pavior | (noun) a machine for laying pavement | Synonyms: paving machine, paviour |
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| paviour | (noun) a machine for laying pavement | Synonyms: paving machine, pavior |
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| pavis | (noun) (Middle Ages) a large heavy oblong shield protecting the whole body; originally carried but sometimes set up in permanent position | Synonyms: pavise |
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| pavise | (noun) (Middle Ages) a large heavy oblong shield protecting the whole body; originally carried but sometimes set up in permanent position | Synonyms: pavis |
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| pavlova | (noun) a dessert consisting of a meringue base or cup filled with fruit and whipped cream | - |
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