| achira | (noun) canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained | Synonyms: arrowroot, Canna edulis, Canna indica, indian shot |
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| bloodthirstiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodiness |
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| chiralgia | (noun) a pain in the hand that is not traumatic | - |
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| chirography | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: calligraphy, penmanship |
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| chirology | (noun) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | Synonyms: chiromancy, palm reading, palmistry |
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| chiromancer | (noun) fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms | Synonyms: palmist, palmister |
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| chiromancy | (noun) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | Synonyms: chirology, palm reading, palmistry |
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| chiropodist | (noun) a specialist in care for the feet | Synonyms: foot doctor, podiatrist |
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| chiropody | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the feet | Synonyms: podiatry |
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| chiropractic | (noun) a method of treatment that manipulates body structures (especially the spine) to relieve low back pain or even headache or high blood pressure | - |
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| chiropractor | (noun) a therapist who practices chiropractic | - |
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| chiropteran | (noun) nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate | Synonyms: bat |
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| chirp | (noun) a sharp sound made by small birds or insects | - |
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| chirpiness | (noun) cheerful and lively | - |
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| chirrup | (noun) a series of chirps | Synonyms: twitter |
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| enchiridion | (noun) a concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location | Synonyms: handbook, vade mecum |
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| hire | (noun) the act of hiring something or someone | - |
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| (noun) a newly hired employee | - |
| hireling | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: pensionary |
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| hirer | (noun) a person responsible for hiring workers | Synonyms: boss |
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| hirsuteness | (noun) excessive hairiness | Synonyms: hirsutism |
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| hirsutism | (noun) excessive hairiness | Synonyms: hirsuteness |
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| hirudinean | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: bloodsucker, leech |
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| menhir | (noun) a tall upright megalith; found primarily in England and northern France | Synonyms: standing stone |
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| nightshirt | (noun) nightclothes worn by men | - |
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| samphire | (noun) fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass | Synonyms: glasswort, Salicornia europaea |
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| sapphire | (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, cerulean, lazuline, sky-blue |
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| (noun) a transparent piece of sapphire that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
| (noun) a precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone | - |
| sapphirine | (noun) a rare light blue or green mineral; consists of aluminum and magnesium silicate and occurs as small grains in some metamorphic rocks | - |
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| shire | (noun) British breed of large heavy draft horse | Synonyms: shire horse |
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| (noun) a former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county | - |
| shirker | (noun) a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) | Synonyms: slacker |
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| shirking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, slacking, soldiering |
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| shirring | (noun) baking shelled eggs | - |
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| shirt | (noun) a garment worn on the upper half of the body | - |
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| shirtdress | (noun) a dress that is tailored like a shirt and has buttons all the way down the front | - |
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| shirtfront | (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickey, dickie, dicky |
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| (noun) the front of a shirt (usually the part not covered by a jacket) | - |
| shirting | (noun) any of various fabrics used to make men's shirts | - |
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| shirtlifter | (noun) a homosexual man | Synonyms: gay man |
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| shirtmaker | (noun) a maker of shirts | - |
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| shirtsleeve | (noun) the sleeve of a shirt | - |
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| shirtsleeves | (noun) not wearing a jacket | - |
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| shirttail | (noun) fabric forming the tail of a shirt | - |
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| (noun) a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article | - |
| shirtwaist | (noun) a blouse with buttons down the front | Synonyms: shirtwaister |
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| shirtwaister | (noun) a blouse with buttons down the front | Synonyms: shirtwaist |
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| sweatshirt | (noun) cotton knit pullover with long sleeves worn during athletic activity | - |
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| third | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate) | Synonyms: third base |
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| (noun) the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle | Synonyms: third gear |
| (noun) the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball | Synonyms: third base |
| (noun) the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it | - |
| (noun) one of three equal parts of a divisible whole | Synonyms: one-third, tierce |
| (noun) following the second position in an ordering or series | - |
| thirst | (noun) strong desire for something (not food or drink) | Synonyms: hunger, hungriness, thirstiness |
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| (noun) a physiological need to drink | Synonyms: thirstiness |
| thirster | (noun) a person with a strong desire for something | Synonyms: longer, yearner |
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| thirstiness | (noun) strong desire for something (not food or drink) | Synonyms: hunger, hungriness, thirst |
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| (noun) a physiological need to drink | Synonyms: thirst |
| (noun) a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall) | Synonyms: aridity, aridness |
| thirteen | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of twelve and one | Synonyms: 13, baker's dozen, long dozen, XIII |
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| thirteenth | (noun) position 13 in a countable series of things | - |
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| thirties | (noun) the time of life between 30 and 40 | Synonyms: mid-thirties, thirty-something |
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| (noun) the decade from 1930 to 1939 | Synonyms: 1930s |
| thirtieth | (noun) position 30 in a countable series of things | - |
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| thirty | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three | Synonyms: 30, XXX |
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| undershirt | (noun) a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body | Synonyms: singlet, vest |
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| whir | (noun) sound of something in rapid motion | Synonyms: birr, whirr, whirring |
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| whirl | (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, fling, go, offer, pass |
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| (noun) the act of rotating rapidly | Synonyms: spin, twirl, twist, twisting |
| (noun) confused movement | Synonyms: commotion |
| (noun) the shape of something rotating rapidly | Synonyms: convolution, swirl, vortex |
| whirler | (noun) a revolving mechanism | - |
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| (noun) a dervish whose actions include ecstatic dancing and whirling | Synonyms: whirling dervish |
| whirligig | (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, roundabout |
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| (noun) a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin | Synonyms: spinning top, teetotum, top |
| whirling | (noun) the act of rotating in a circle or spiral | Synonyms: gyration |
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| whirlpool | (noun) a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) | Synonyms: maelstrom, vortex |
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| whirlwind | (noun) a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth | - |
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| whirlybird | (noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: chopper, eggbeater, helicopter |
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| whirr | (noun) sound of something in rapid motion | Synonyms: birr, whir, whirring |
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| whirring | (noun) sound of something in rapid motion | Synonyms: birr, whir, whirr |
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