| aggregate | (noun) the whole amount | Synonyms: sum, total, totality |
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| (noun) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together | Synonyms: congeries, conglomeration |
| (noun) material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster | - |
| aggregation | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: assembling, collecting, collection |
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| (noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, assemblage, collection |
| aggregator | (noun) a person who collects things | Synonyms: collector |
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| aggression | (noun) violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked | Synonyms: hostility |
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| (noun) deliberately unfriendly behavior | - |
| (noun) the act of initiating hostilities | - |
| (noun) a disposition to behave aggressively | - |
| (noun) a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack | Synonyms: aggressiveness |
| aggressiveness | (noun) the quality of being bold and enterprising | - |
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| (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: belligerence, pugnacity |
| (noun) a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack | Synonyms: aggression |
| aggressor | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: assailant, assaulter, attacker |
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| (noun) a confident assertive person who acts as instigator | - |
| agreeability | (noun) a temperamental disposition to be agreeable | Synonyms: agreeableness |
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| agreeableness | (noun) a temperamental disposition to be agreeable | Synonyms: agreeability |
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| (noun) pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions | Synonyms: amenity |
| agreement | (noun) compatibility of observations | Synonyms: correspondence |
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| (noun) the thing arranged or agreed to | Synonyms: arrangement |
| (noun) the verbal act of agreeing | - |
| (noun) the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises | Synonyms: understanding |
| (noun) the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations | Synonyms: concord |
| (noun) harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: accord |
| aigret | (noun) a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume | Synonyms: aigrette |
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| aigrette | (noun) a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume | Synonyms: aigret |
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| allegretto | (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed at a somewhat quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro | - |
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| (noun) a quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro | - |
| angrecum | (noun) any of various spectacular orchids of the genus Angraecum having dark green leathery leaves and usually nocturnally scented white or ivory flowers | - |
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| arcdegree | (noun) a measure for arcs and angles | Synonyms: degree |
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| beaugregory | (noun) a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies | Synonyms: Pomacentrus leucostictus |
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| congregant | (noun) a member of a congregation (especially that of a church or synagogue) | - |
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| congregating | (noun) the act of congregating | Synonyms: congregation |
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| congregation | (noun) the act of congregating | Synonyms: congregating |
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| (noun) a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church | Synonyms: faithful, fold |
| (noun) an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together | - |
| congress | (noun) the social act of assembling for some common purpose | Synonyms: coming together, meeting |
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| (noun) a meeting of elected or appointed representatives | - |
| (noun) a national legislative assembly | - |
| congressman | (noun) a male member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
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| congresswoman | (noun) a female member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
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| degreaser | (noun) a chemical substance that dissolves water-insoluble substances, such as greases and oils. | - |
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| degree | (noun) a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality | Synonyms: grade, level |
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| (noun) the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime) | - |
| (noun) the highest power of a term or variable | - |
| (noun) an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study | Synonyms: academic degree |
| (noun) a measure for arcs and angles | Synonyms: arcdegree |
| (noun) a unit of temperature on a specified scale | - |
| (noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: level, point, stage |
| desegregation | (noun) the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community | Synonyms: integrating, integration |
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| digression | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, divagation, diversion |
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| (noun) wandering from the main path of a journey | Synonyms: excursion |
| (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, divagation, excursus, parenthesis |
| digressiveness | (noun) The characteristic quality of poetry that is marked by departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; or by an exploration of a different or unrelated concern. | - |
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| disagreeableness | (noun) an ill-tempered and offensive disposition | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant | - |
| disagreement | (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: discrepancy, divergence, variance |
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| (noun) the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing | - |
| (noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: dissension, dissonance |
| eagre | (noun) a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) | Synonyms: aegir, bore, eager, tidal bore |
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| egress | (noun) the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent | Synonyms: egression, emergence |
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| (noun) (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse | Synonyms: emersion |
| (noun) the becoming visible | Synonyms: emergence, issue |
| egression | (noun) the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent | Synonyms: egress, emergence |
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| egret | (noun) any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season | - |
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| emigre | (noun) someone who leaves one country to settle in another | Synonyms: emigrant, emigree, outgoer |
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| emigree | (noun) someone who leaves one country to settle in another | Synonyms: emigrant, emigre, outgoer |
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| evergreen | (noun) a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year | Synonyms: evergreen plant |
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| fenugreek | (noun) aromatic seeds used as seasoning especially in curry | Synonyms: fenugreek seed |
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| (noun) annual herb or southern Europe and eastern Asia having off-white flowers and aromatic seeds used medicinally and in curry | Synonyms: Greek clover, Trigonella foenumgraecum |
| filagree | (noun) delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire) | Synonyms: filigree, fillagree |
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| filigree | (noun) delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire) | Synonyms: filagree, fillagree |
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| fillagree | (noun) delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire) | Synonyms: filagree, filigree |
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| gangrene | (noun) the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply) | Synonyms: mortification, necrosis, sphacelus |
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| (noun) necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass | Synonyms: slough, sphacelus |
| grease | (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grime, grunge, soil, stain |
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| (noun) a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery) | Synonyms: lubricating oil |
| greaseball | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, ginzo, Guinea, wop |
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| greasepaint | (noun) a greasy substance used as makeup by actors | - |
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| greaser | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent | Synonyms: taco, wetback |
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| greasewood | (noun) low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils of western America | Synonyms: black greasewood, Sarcobatus vermiculatus |
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| greasiness | (noun) consisting of or covered with oil | Synonyms: oiliness, oleaginousness |
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| great | (noun) a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field | - |
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| greatcoat | (noun) a heavy coat worn over clothes in winter | Synonyms: overcoat, topcoat |
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| greatness | (noun) the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence | Synonyms: illustriousness |
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| (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
| 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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| grebe | (noun) small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests; similar to loons but smaller and with lobate rather than webbed feet | - |
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| greed | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avarice, avaritia, covetousness, rapacity |
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| (noun) excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves | - |
| greediness | (noun) an excessive desire for wealth (usually in large amounts) | Synonyms: rapaciousness, voraciousness |
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| (noun) an excessive desire for food | Synonyms: hoggishness, piggishness |
| greegree | (noun) an African amulet | Synonyms: gres-gris, grigri |
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| green | (noun) street names for ketamine | Synonyms: cat valium, honey oil, jet, K, special K, super acid, super C |
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| (noun) green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass | Synonyms: greenness, viridity |
| (noun) any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables | Synonyms: greens, leafy vegetable |
| (noun) an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course | Synonyms: putting green, putting surface |
| (noun) a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area | Synonyms: common, commons, park |
| greenback | (noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) | Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, bill, Federal Reserve note, government note, note |
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| greenbelt | (noun) a belt of parks or rural land surrounding a town or city | Synonyms: greenway |
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| greenbottle | (noun) blowfly with brilliant coppery green body | Synonyms: greenbottle fly |
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| greenbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, bullbrier, catbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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| greenery | (noun) green foliage | Synonyms: verdure |
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| greeneye | (noun) bottom-dwellers having large eyes with metallic green luster | - |
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| greenfly | (noun) greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants | - |
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| greengage | (noun) sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum | Synonyms: greengage plum |
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| greengrocer | (noun) a grocer who sells fresh fruits and vegetables | - |
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| greengrocery | (noun) a greengrocer's grocery store | - |
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| (noun) groceries sold by a greengrocer | - |
| greenhood | (noun) any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood | Synonyms: helmet orchid |
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| greenhorn | (noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: cub, rookie |
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| greenhouse | (noun) a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions | Synonyms: glasshouse |
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| greening | (noun) the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored | Synonyms: rejuvenation |
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| greenishness | (noun) the property of being somewhat green | - |
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| greenling | (noun) food fish of the northern Pacific | - |
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| greenmail | (noun) (corporation) the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm to threaten a takeover and thereby forcing the owners to buy those shares back at a premium in order to stay in business | - |
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| greenmarket | (noun) an open-air marketplace for farm products | Synonyms: farmer's market, green market |
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| greenness | (noun) green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass | Synonyms: green, viridity |
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| (noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: verdancy, verdure |
| (noun) the state of not being ripe | - |
| greenockite | (noun) ore of cadmium; a rare yellowish mineral consisting of cadmium sulphide in crystalline form | Synonyms: cadmium sulphide |
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| greenroom | (noun) a backstage room in a theater where performers rest or have visitors | - |
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| greens | (noun) any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables | Synonyms: green, leafy vegetable |
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| greensand | (noun) an olive-green sandstone containing glauconite | - |
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| greenshank | (noun) large European sandpiper with greenish legs | Synonyms: Tringa nebularia |
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| greensickness | (noun) iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin | Synonyms: chlorosis |
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| greenskeeper | (noun) someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course | - |
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| greensward | (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: sod, sward, turf |
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| greenway | (noun) a belt of parks or rural land surrounding a town or city | Synonyms: greenbelt |
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| greenweed | (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, whin, woadwaxen, woodwaxen |
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| greenwing | (noun) common teal of Eurasia and North America | Synonyms: Anas crecca, green-winged teal |
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| greenwood | (noun) woodlands in full leaf | - |
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| greeter | (noun) a person who greets | Synonyms: saluter, welcomer |
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| greeting | (noun) (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting) | Synonyms: salutation |
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| gregarine | (noun) vermiform protozoans parasitic in insects and other invertebrates | - |
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| gregariousness | (noun) the quality of being gregarious--having a dislike of being alone | - |
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| greisen | (noun) a granitic rock composed of quartz and mica | - |
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| gremlin | (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: brownie, elf, hob, imp, pixie, pixy |
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| grenade | (noun) a small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile | - |
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| grenadier | (noun) deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail | Synonyms: rattail, rattail fish |
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| (noun) an infantryman equipped with grenades | Synonyms: grenade thrower |
| grenadine | (noun) thin syrup made from pomegranate juice; used in mixed drinks | - |
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| grevillea | (noun) any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea | - |
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| grey | (noun) horse of a light gray or whitish color | Synonyms: gray |
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| (noun) clothing that is a grey color | Synonyms: gray |
| (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayness, greyness |
| (noun) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey | Synonyms: gray |
| greyback | (noun) a dowitcher with a grey back | Synonyms: grayback, Limnodromus griseus |
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| (noun) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere | Synonyms: Calidris canutus, grayback, knot |
| (noun) `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms | Synonyms: Johnny, Johnny Reb, Reb, Rebel |
| greybeard | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: bellarmine, long-beard, longbeard |
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| (noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: graybeard, Methuselah, old man |