| affect | (noun) the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion | - |
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| affectation | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectedness, mannerism, pose |
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| affectedness | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectation, mannerism, pose |
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| (noun) the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) | - |
| affection | (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
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| affectionateness | (noun) a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | Synonyms: fondness, lovingness, warmth |
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| (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
| aftereffect | (noun) any result that follows its cause after an interval | - |
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| (noun) a delayed effect of a drug or therapy | - |
| confect | (noun) a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts | Synonyms: candy |
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| confection | (noun) the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components | Synonyms: concoction |
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| (noun) a food rich in sugar | Synonyms: sweet |
| confectionary | (noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionery |
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| confectioner | (noun) someone who makes candies and other sweets | Synonyms: candymaker |
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| confectionery | (noun) the occupation and skills of a confectioner | - |
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| (noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionary |
| (noun) candy and other sweets considered collectively | - |
| defecation | (noun) the elimination of fecal waste through the anus | Synonyms: laxation, shitting |
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| defecator | (noun) (obsolete) that which cleanses or purifies; especially, an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and syrups. | - |
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| (noun) a person who defecates | Synonyms: shitter, voider |
| defect | (noun) a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: blemish, mar |
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| (noun) a failing or deficiency | Synonyms: shortcoming |
| (noun) an imperfection in an object or machine | Synonyms: fault, flaw |
| (noun) an imperfection in a bodily system | - |
| defection | (noun) withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility | Synonyms: abandonment, desertion |
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| (noun) the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) | Synonyms: apostasy, renunciation |
| defectiveness | (noun) the state of being defective | Synonyms: faultiness |
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| defector | (noun) a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post) | Synonyms: deserter |
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| disaffection | (noun) disloyalty to the government or to established authority | - |
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| (noun) the feeling of being alienated from other people | Synonyms: alienation, estrangement |
| disinfectant | (noun) an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease | Synonyms: antimicrobial, antimicrobic, germicide |
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| disinfection | (noun) treatment to destroy harmful microorganisms | - |
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| disinfector | (noun) an apparatus for applying disinfectants. | - |
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| effect | (noun) an outward appearance | Synonyms: impression |
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| (noun) (of a law) having legal validity | Synonyms: force |
| (noun) an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived) | - |
| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: burden, core, essence, gist |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot |
| (noun) a symptom caused by an illness or a drug | - |
| effecter | (noun) one who brings about a result or event; one who accomplishes a purpose | Synonyms: effector |
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| effectiveness | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectivity, effectuality, effectualness |
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| (noun) capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects | Synonyms: potency, strength |
| effectivity | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectiveness, effectuality, effectualness |
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| effector | (noun) an organ (a gland or muscle) that becomes active in response to nerve impulses | - |
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| (noun) a nerve fiber that terminates on a muscle or gland and stimulates contraction or secretion | - |
| (noun) one who brings about a result or event; one who accomplishes a purpose | Synonyms: effecter |
| effects | (noun) property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business | Synonyms: personal effects |
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| effectuality | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectiveness, effectivity, effectualness |
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| effectualness | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectiveness, effectivity, effectuality |
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| effectuation | (noun) the act of implementing (providing a practical means for accomplishing something); carrying into effect | Synonyms: implementation |
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| fecalith | (noun) a hard mass of fecal matter | Synonyms: coprolith, faecalith, stercolith |
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| feces | (noun) solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | Synonyms: BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, ordure, stool |
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| fecklessness | (noun) worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual | - |
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| fecula | (noun) excreta (especially of insects) | - |
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| feculence | (noun) something that is feculent | - |
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| fecundation | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fertilisation, fertilization, impregnation |
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| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: dressing, fertilisation, fertilization |
| fecundity | (noun) the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth | Synonyms: fruitfulness |
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| (noun) the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination | Synonyms: fruitfulness |
| (noun) the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring | Synonyms: fertility |
| imperfect | (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going | Synonyms: continuous tense, imperfect tense, progressive, progressive tense |
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| imperfectibility | (noun) the capability of becoming imperfect | - |
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| imperfection | (noun) the state or an instance of being imperfect | Synonyms: imperfectness |
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| imperfective | (noun) aspect without regard to the beginning or completion of the action of the verb | Synonyms: imperfective aspect |
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| imperfectness | (noun) the state or an instance of being imperfect | Synonyms: imperfection |
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| ineffectiveness | (noun) lacking the power to be effective | Synonyms: ineffectuality, ineffectualness |
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| ineffectuality | (noun) lacking the power to be effective | Synonyms: ineffectiveness, ineffectualness |
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| ineffectualness | (noun) lacking the power to be effective | Synonyms: ineffectiveness, ineffectuality |
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| infection | (noun) moral corruption or contamination | - |
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| (noun) (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure | - |
| (noun) the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people | Synonyms: contagion |
| (noun) an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted | Synonyms: contagion, transmission |
| (noun) (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease | - |
| (noun) (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound | - |
| (noun) the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms | - |
| perfect | (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) | Synonyms: perfect tense, perfective, perfective tense |
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| perfecta | (noun) a bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order | Synonyms: exacta |
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| perfecter | (noun) a skilled worker who perfects something | - |
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| perfectibility | (noun) the capability of becoming perfect | - |
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| perfection | (noun) the act of making something perfect | - |
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| (noun) an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept | Synonyms: beau ideal, idol, paragon |
| (noun) the state of being without a flaw or defect | Synonyms: flawlessness, ne plus ultra |
| perfectionism | (noun) a disposition to feel that anything less than perfect is unacceptable | - |
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| perfectionist | (noun) a person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards | - |
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| perfective | (noun) the aspect of a verb that expresses a completed action | Synonyms: perfective aspect |
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| (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) | Synonyms: perfect, perfect tense, perfective tense |
| pluperfect | (noun) a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past | Synonyms: past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect tense |
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| prefect | (noun) a chief officer or chief magistrate | - |
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| prefecture | (noun) the office of prefect | - |
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| (noun) the district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire) | - |
| refection | (noun) a light meal or repast | - |
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| refectory | (noun) a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery) | - |
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| rofecoxib | (noun) a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Vioxx) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract; voluntarily withdrawn from the market in 2004 | Synonyms: Vioxx |
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| safecracker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safebreaker |
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| superfecta | (noun) a bet that you can pick the first four finishers in a race in the right order | - |
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| superfecundation | (noun) fertilization of two or more ova released during the same menstrual cycle by sperm from separate acts of coitus (especially by different males) | - |
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| superinfection | (noun) infection that occurs while you are being treated for another infection | - |
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| suprainfection | (noun) secondary infection caused by an opportunistic infection | - |
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| unaffectedness | (noun) not affected; a personal manner that is not consciously constrained | - |
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