| airfield | (noun) a place where planes take off and land | Synonyms: field, flying field, landing field |
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| backfield | (noun) the offensive football players who line up behind the linemen | - |
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| battlefield | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battleground, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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| beldam | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldame |
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| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldame, crone, hag, witch |
| beldame | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldam |
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| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, crone, hag, witch |
| brickfield | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickyard |
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| canfield | (noun) a form of solitaire that involves gambling | - |
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| centerfield | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the central third of the outfield | Synonyms: center field |
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| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher | Synonyms: center, center field, centre |
| centerfielder | (noun) the person who plays center field | Synonyms: center fielder |
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| chesterfield | (noun) a fitted overcoat with a velvet collar | - |
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| (noun) an overstuffed davenport with upright armrests | - |
| coalfield | (noun) a region where there is coal underground | - |
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| cornfield | (noun) a field planted with corn | Synonyms: corn field |
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| eld | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, geezerhood, old age, years |
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| (noun) a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises | Synonyms: age |
| elder | (noun) a person who is older than you are | Synonyms: senior |
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| (noun) any of various church officers | - |
| (noun) any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit | Synonyms: elderberry bush |
| elderberry | (noun) berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies | - |
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| (noun) a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies | Synonyms: black elder, bourtree, common elder, European elder, Sambucus nigra |
| elderly | (noun) people who are old collectively | Synonyms: aged |
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| eldership | (noun) the office of elder | - |
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| eldest | (noun) the offspring who came first in the order of birth | Synonyms: firstborn |
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| eldorado | (noun) an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers | Synonyms: El Dorado |
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| feldspar | (noun) any of a group of hard crystalline minerals that consist of aluminum silicates of potassium or sodium or calcium or barium | Synonyms: felspar |
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| field | (noun) a particular kind of commercial enterprise | Synonyms: field of operation, line of business |
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| (noun) a place where planes take off and land | Synonyms: airfield, flying field, landing field |
| (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: bailiwick, discipline, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
| (noun) the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument) | Synonyms: field of view |
| (noun) (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1 | - |
| (noun) all of the horses in a particular horse race | - |
| (noun) all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information | - |
| (noun) a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed | - |
| (noun) somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected | - |
| (noun) a piece of land prepared for playing a game | Synonyms: athletic field, playing area, playing field |
| (noun) a region in which active military operations are in progress | Synonyms: field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations |
| (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor |
| (noun) a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found | - |
| (noun) extensive tract of level open land | Synonyms: champaign, plain |
| (noun) the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it | Synonyms: field of force, force field |
| (noun) a particular environment or walk of life | Synonyms: area, arena, domain, orbit, sphere |
| fielder | (noun) a member of the baseball team that is in the field instead of at bat | - |
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| (noun) a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting | Synonyms: fieldsman |
| fieldfare | (noun) medium-sized Eurasian thrush seen chiefly in winter | Synonyms: snowbird, Turdus pilaris |
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| fieldhand | (noun) a hired hand on a farm | Synonyms: farm worker, farmhand, field hand |
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| fielding | (noun) (baseball) handling the ball while playing in the field | - |
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| fieldmouse | (noun) any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens | Synonyms: field mouse |
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| fieldsman | (noun) a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting | Synonyms: fielder |
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| fieldstone | (noun) stone that occurs naturally in fields; often used as building material | - |
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| fieldwork | (noun) a temporary fortification built by troops in the field | - |
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| fieldworker | (noun) a researcher who works in the field | - |
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| gasfield | (noun) a region where there is natural gas underground | - |
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| gelding | (noun) castrated male horse | - |
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| goldfield | (noun) a district where gold is mined | - |
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| goldfields | (noun) small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivated | Synonyms: Lasthenia chrysostoma |
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| grainfield | (noun) a field where grain is grown | Synonyms: grain field |
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| gumshield | (noun) (especially boxing) equipment that protects an athlete's mouth | Synonyms: mouthpiece |
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| hayfield | (noun) a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay | Synonyms: meadow |
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| infield | (noun) the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate | Synonyms: baseball diamond, diamond |
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| infielder | (noun) (baseball) a person who plays a position in the infield | - |
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| leftfield | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the left third of the outfield (looking from home plate) | Synonyms: left field |
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| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left | Synonyms: left, left field |
| meld | (noun) a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to form groups of the same rank | Synonyms: basket rummy, canasta |
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| midfield | (noun) (sports) the middle part of a playing field (as in football or lacrosse) | - |
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| minefield | (noun) a region in which explosives mines have been placed | - |
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| oilfield | (noun) a region rich in petroleum deposits (especially one with producing oil wells) | - |
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| outfield | (noun) the area of a baseball playing field beyond the lines connecting the bases | - |
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| outfielder | (noun) (baseball) a person who plays in the outfield | - |
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| (noun) a fielder in cricket who is stationed in the outfield | - |
| overshielding | (noun) excessive protection | Synonyms: momism, overprotection |
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| rightfield | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the right third of the outfield (looking from home plate) | Synonyms: right field |
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| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right | Synonyms: right, right field |
| sheldrake | (noun) Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill | - |
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| (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, merganser, sawbill |
| shelduck | (noun) female sheldrake | - |
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| shield | (noun) hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles | Synonyms: carapace, cuticle, shell |
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| (noun) armor carried on the arm to intercept blows | Synonyms: buckler |
| (noun) a protective covering or structure | - |
| shielder | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: defender, guardian, protector |
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| shielding | (noun) the act of shielding from harm | - |
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| (noun) a shield of lead or concrete intended as a barrier to radiation emitted in nuclear decay | - |
| (noun) shield consisting of an arrangement of metal mesh or plates designed to protect electronic equipment from ambient electromagnetic interference | - |
| snowfield | (noun) a permanent wide expanse of snow | - |
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| unwieldiness | (noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: awkwardness, cumbersomeness |
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| (noun) the quality of being difficult to direct or control by reason of complexity | - |
| unyieldingness | (noun) resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible | Synonyms: adamance, obduracy |
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| veld | (noun) elevated open grassland in southern Africa | Synonyms: veldt |
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| veldt | (noun) elevated open grassland in southern Africa | Synonyms: veld |
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| weld | (noun) a metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together | - |
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| (noun) European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America | Synonyms: dyer's mignonette, dyer's rocket, Reseda luteola |
| welder | (noun) joins pieces of metal by welding them together | - |
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| welding | (noun) fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure | - |
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| weldment | (noun) an assembly of parts welded together | - |
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| wheatfield | (noun) a field planted with wheat | Synonyms: wheat field |
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| windshield | (noun) transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a vehicle | Synonyms: windscreen |
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| yield | (noun) production of a certain amount | Synonyms: output |
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| (noun) an amount of a product | Synonyms: fruit |
| (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings |
| (noun) the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time) | Synonyms: output, production |
| yielder | (noun) a person who yields or surrenders | Synonyms: surrenderer |
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| yielding | (noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: conceding, concession |
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| (noun) a verbal act of admitting defeat | Synonyms: giving up, surrender |