| friendliness | (noun) a friendly disposition | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of liking for another person; enjoyment in their company | - |
| friendly | (noun) troops belonging to or allied with your own military forces | - |
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| friendship | (noun) the state of being friends (or friendly) | Synonyms: friendly relationship |
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| frier | (noun) A kitchen appliance for deep frying; its size depends on intended use. | Synonyms: deep fat fryer, deep fryer, fryer, fryolator |
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| (noun) flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying | Synonyms: fryer, pullet |
| fries | (noun) strips of potato fried in deep fat | Synonyms: chips, french-fried potatoes, french fries |
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| frieze | (noun) a heavy woolen fabric with a long nap | - |
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| (noun) an architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice | - |
| frontier | (noun) an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development | - |
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| (noun) a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country | - |
| (noun) an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary | - |
| frontiersman | (noun) a man who lives on the frontier | Synonyms: backwoodsman, mountain man |
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| frontierswoman | (noun) a woman who lives on the frontier | - |
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| frontispiece | (noun) front illustration facing the title page of a book | - |
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| (noun) an ornamental facade | - |
| funnies | (noun) a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book | Synonyms: cartoon strip, comic strip, strip |
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| furrier | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing fur garments | Synonyms: cloakmaker |
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| fusilier | (noun) (formerly) a British infantryman armed with a light flintlock musket | - |
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| gaiety | (noun) a gay feeling | Synonyms: merriment |
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| (noun) a festive merry feeling | Synonyms: playfulness |
| garnierite | (noun) a green mineral consisting of hydrated nickel magnesium silicate; a source of nickel | - |
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| gasfield | (noun) a region where there is natural gas underground | - |
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| gaucherie | (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, slip, solecism |
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| (noun) the quality of being rustic or gauche | Synonyms: rusticity |
| gendarmerie | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmery |
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| genie | (noun) (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals | Synonyms: djinn, djinni, djinny, jinnee, jinni |
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| geordie | (noun) the nonstandard dialect of natives of Newcastle-upon-Tyne | - |
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| ghillie | (noun) a shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep | Synonyms: gillie |
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| gillie | (noun) a shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep | Synonyms: ghillie |
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| (noun) a young male attendant on a Scottish Highlander chief | - |
| girlfriend | (noun) a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved | Synonyms: girl, lady friend |
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| (noun) any female friend | - |
| glacier | (noun) a slowly moving mass of ice | - |
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| glazier | (noun) someone who cuts flat glass to size | Synonyms: glass-cutter, glass cutter, glassworker, glazer |
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| glockenspiel | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers | Synonyms: orchestral bells |
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| goalie | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalkeeper, goaltender, netkeeper |
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| (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalkeeper, goaltender, netkeeper, netminder |
| 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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| gondolier | (noun) a (Venetian) boatman who propels a gondola | Synonyms: gondoliere |
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| gondoliere | (noun) a (Venetian) boatman who propels a gondola | Synonyms: gondolier |
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| goonie | (noun) a variety of albatross with black feet | Synonyms: black-footed albatross, Diomedea nigripes, gooney, gooney bird, goony |
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| gradient | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal | Synonyms: slope |
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| (noun) a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension | - |
| grainfield | (noun) a field where grain is grown | Synonyms: grain field |
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| grandniece | (noun) a daughter of your niece or nephew | Synonyms: great-niece |
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| grannie | (noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: gran, grandma, grandmother, granny, nan, nanna |
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| grazier | (noun) a rancher who grazes cattle or sheep for market | - |
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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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| 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 |
| grief | (noun) something that causes great unhappiness | Synonyms: sorrow |
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| (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, heartache, heartbreak |
| grievance | (noun) a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action | - |
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| (noun) an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice | - |
| (noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grudge, score |
| griever | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: lamenter, mourner, sorrower |
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| grotesquerie | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesqueness, grotesquery |
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| groupie | (noun) an enthusiastic young fan (especially a young woman who follows rock groups around) | - |
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| gumshield | (noun) (especially boxing) equipment that protects an athlete's mouth | Synonyms: mouthpiece |
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| hacienda | (noun) the main house on a ranch or large estate | - |
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| (noun) a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries | - |
| haematopoiesis | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis, sanguification |
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| haemopoiesis | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis, sanguification |
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| hairpiece | (noun) a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment | Synonyms: false hair, postiche |
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| halberdier | (noun) a guard who carries a halberd (as a symbol of his duty) | - |
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| handkerchief | (noun) a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | Synonyms: hankey, hankie, hanky |
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| hankie | (noun) a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | Synonyms: handkerchief, hankey, hanky |
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| harrier | (noun) hawks that hunt over meadows and marshes and prey on small terrestrial animals | - |
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| (noun) a hound that resembles a foxhound but is smaller; used to hunt rabbits | - |
| (noun) a persistent attacker | Synonyms: harasser |
| haulier | (noun) a haulage contractor | Synonyms: hauler |
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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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| headpiece | (noun) a protective helmet for the head | - |
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| (noun) the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head | Synonyms: headstall |
| hematopoiesis | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis, sanguification |
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| hemiepiphyte | (noun) a plant that is an epiphyte for part of its life | Synonyms: semiepiphyte |
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| hemopoiesis | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, sanguification |
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| hierarch | (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: archpriest, high priest, prelate, primate |
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| (noun) a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy | - |
| hierarchisation | (noun) The act or result of hierarchizing; the establishment of a hierarchy. | Synonyms: hierarchization |
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| hierarchization | (noun) The act or result of hierarchizing; the establishment of a hierarchy. | Synonyms: hierarchisation |
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| hierarchy | (noun) a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system | - |
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| (noun) the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body | Synonyms: pecking order, power structure |
| hieratic | (noun) a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests | Synonyms: hieratic script |
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| hierocracy | (noun) a ruling body composed of clergy | - |
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| hieroglyph | (noun) a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt | Synonyms: hieroglyphic |
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| (noun) writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible) | Synonyms: hieroglyphic |
| hieroglyphic | (noun) a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt | Synonyms: hieroglyph |
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| (noun) writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible) | Synonyms: hieroglyph |
| hierolatry | (noun) the worship of saints | Synonyms: hagiolatry |
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| highflier | (noun) a person of great ability and ambition | Synonyms: highflyer |
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| hippie | (noun) someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle | Synonyms: flower child, hippy, hipster |
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| hippies | (noun) a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music | Synonyms: flower people, hipsters |
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| hoagie | (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
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| honkie | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkey, honky, whitey |
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| hosier | (noun) a tradesman who sells hosiery and (in England) knitwear | - |
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| hosiery | (noun) socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear) | Synonyms: hose |
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| hostilities | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: belligerency |
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| hotelier | (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hosteller, hotel manager, hotelkeeper, hotelman |
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| humanities | (noun) studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills) | Synonyms: arts, humanistic discipline, liberal arts |
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| humidifier | (noun) an appliance designed to add moisture to the air in a building | - |
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| hurriedness | (noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: haste, hastiness, hurry, precipitation |
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| hydroisopieze | (noun) a line on a map connecting points of identical pressures in the water bearing stratum. | - |
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| hygiene | (noun) the science concerned with the prevention of illness and maintenance of health | Synonyms: hygienics |
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| (noun) a condition promoting sanitary practices | - |
| hygienics | (noun) the science concerned with the prevention of illness and maintenance of health | Synonyms: hygiene |
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| hygienist | (noun) a medical specialist in hygiene | - |
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| hymie | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew | Synonyms: kike, sheeny, yid |
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| hyperpiesia | (noun) persistent and pathological high blood pressure for which no specific cause can be found | Synonyms: essential hypertension, hyperpiesis |
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| hyperpiesis | (noun) persistent and pathological high blood pressure for which no specific cause can be found | Synonyms: essential hypertension, hyperpiesia |
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| identifier | (noun) a symbol that establishes the identity of the one bearing it | - |
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| immunodeficiency | (noun) immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced | - |
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| impatience | (noun) a dislike of anything that causes delay | - |
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| (noun) a restless desire for change and excitement | - |
| (noun) a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay | Synonyms: restlessness |
| impiety | (noun) unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god | Synonyms: impiousness |
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| impropriety | (noun) an act of undue intimacy | Synonyms: familiarity, indecorum, liberty |
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| (noun) an indecent or improper act | Synonyms: indecency |
| (noun) an improper demeanor | Synonyms: improperness |
| (noun) the condition of being improper | - |
| inalienability | (noun) The condition of being incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another. | - |
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| incienso | (noun) fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine | Synonyms: brittle bush, brittlebush, Encelia farinosa |
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| incipience | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipiency |
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| incipiency | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipience |
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| inconvenience | (noun) the quality of not being useful or convenient | - |
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| (noun) a difficulty that causes anxiety | Synonyms: troublesomeness, worriment |
| (noun) an inconvenient discomfort | Synonyms: incommodiousness |
| indie | (noun) a pop group not affiliated with a major record company | - |
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| (noun) an independent film company not associated with an established studio | - |
| inebriety | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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| inefficiency | (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency | - |
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