| affright | (noun) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety | Synonyms: panic, terror |
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| backlighting | (noun) lighting from behind | - |
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| bantamweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the flyweight division and lighter than those in the featherweight division. | - |
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| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs 115-126 pounds | - |
| battlesight | (noun) an arrangement of sights that makes possible the rapid aiming of a firearm at short ranges | Synonyms: battle sight |
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| bighead | (noun) any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck | - |
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| bigheartedness | (noun) the quality of being kind and generous | - |
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| bighorn | (noun) wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns | Synonyms: bighorn sheep, cimarron, Ovis canadensis, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep |
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| bight | (noun) the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends) | - |
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| (noun) a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline | - |
| (noun) a bend or curve (especially in a coastline) | - |
| (noun) a loop in a rope | - |
| birthright | (noun) a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth | - |
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| (noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) | Synonyms: patrimony |
| blight | (noun) a state or condition being blighted | - |
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| (noun) any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting | - |
| blighter | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: cuss, gadfly, pest, pesterer |
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| (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
| bobsleigh | (noun) a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism | Synonyms: bob, bobsled |
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| (noun) formerly two short sleds coupled together | Synonyms: bobsled |
| bombsight | (noun) a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs | - |
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| brightness | (noun) the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness level, light, luminance, luminosity, luminousness |
| (noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: cleverness, smartness |
| bullfight | (noun) a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | Synonyms: corrida |
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| bullfighter | (noun) someone who fights bulls | Synonyms: toreador |
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| bullfighting | (noun) the activity at a bullfight | Synonyms: tauromachy |
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| bunfight | (noun) (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion | Synonyms: bun-fight |
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| candlelight | (noun) the light provided by a burning candle | Synonyms: candle flame |
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| cartwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons | - |
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| cockfight | (noun) a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs | - |
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| cockfighting | (noun) participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight | - |
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| copyright | (noun) a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work | Synonyms: right of first publication |
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| counterweight | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, equaliser, equalizer |
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| cruiserweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the middleweight division and lighter than those in the super heavyweight division. | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
| daylight | (noun) light during the daytime | - |
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| (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daytime |
| deadlight | (noun) a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather | - |
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| delight | (noun) something or someone that provides a source of happiness | Synonyms: joy, pleasure |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction | Synonyms: delectation |
| dogfight | (noun) a violent fight between dogs (sometimes organized illegally for entertainment and gambling) | - |
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| (noun) an aerial engagement between fighter planes | - |
| (noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: hassle, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle |
| (noun) a fiercely disputed contest | - |
| dogfighter | (noun) a fighter pilot who engages in an aerial dogfights | - |
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| downrightness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: straightforwardness |
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| eight | (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face | Synonyms: eight-spot |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
| eighteen | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one | Synonyms: 18, XVIII |
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| eighteenth | (noun) position 18 in a countable series of things | - |
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| eighter | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
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| eighth | (noun) one part in eight equal parts | Synonyms: one-eighth |
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| (noun) position eight in a countable series of things | - |
| eighties | (noun) the time of life between 80 and 90 | Synonyms: mid-eighties |
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| (noun) the decade from 1980 to 1989 | Synonyms: 1980s |
| (noun) the decade from 1880 to 1889 | Synonyms: 1880s |
| eightieth | (noun) position 80 in a countable series of things | - |
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| eightpence | (noun) a coin worth eight pennies | - |
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| eightsome | (noun) a Scottish reel for eight dancers | - |
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| (noun) eight people considered as a unit | Synonyms: octet, octette |
| eightvo | (noun) the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves | Synonyms: 8vo, octavo |
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| eighty | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight | Synonyms: 80, fourscore, LXXX |
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| enlightened | (noun) people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity | Synonyms: initiate |
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| enlightenment | (noun) education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge | - |
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| (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness | Synonyms: nirvana |
| eyesight | (noun) normal use of the faculty of vision | Synonyms: seeing, sightedness |
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| fanlight | (noun) a semicircular window over a door or window; usually has sash bars like the ribs of a fan | - |
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| (noun) a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door | Synonyms: transom, transom window |
| (noun) a window in a roof to admit daylight | Synonyms: skylight |
| farsightedness | (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: foresight, prevision, prospicience |
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| (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness |
| (noun) a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45 | Synonyms: presbyopia |
| featherweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the bantamweight division and lighter than those in the lightweight division. | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs 126-139 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds | - |
| fight | (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, conflict, engagement |
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| (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: combat, fighting, scrap |
| (noun) a boxing or wrestling match | - |
| (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: competitiveness |
| (noun) an intense verbal dispute | - |
| fighter | (noun) a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air | Synonyms: attack aircraft, fighter aircraft |
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| (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, combatant, scrapper |
| (noun) someone who fights for a cause | Synonyms: champion, hero, paladin |
| fighting | (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: combat, fight, scrap |
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| firefighter | (noun) a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires | Synonyms: fire-eater, fire fighter, fireman |
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| firelight | (noun) the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace) | - |
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| firelighter | (noun) (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire | - |
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| fistfight | (noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fisticuffs, slugfest |
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| flashlight | (noun) a small portable battery-powered electric lamp | Synonyms: torch |
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| flight | (noun) an instance of traveling by air | Synonyms: flying |
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| (noun) the act of escaping physically | Synonyms: escape |
| (noun) a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports | - |
| (noun) a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next | Synonyms: flight of stairs, flight of steps |
| (noun) passing above and beyond ordinary bounds | - |
| (noun) an air force unit smaller than a squadron | - |
| (noun) a formation of aircraft in flight | - |
| (noun) a flock of flying birds | - |
| (noun) the path followed by an object moving through space | Synonyms: trajectory |
| flightiness | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy |
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| flightlessness | (noun) The condition of being unable to fly, usually used with birds such as the penguin, ostrich, and emu. | - |
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| floodlight | (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood, flood lamp, photoflood |
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| flyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the lightest. | - |
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| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 112 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs no more than 115 pounds | - |
| footlights | (noun) theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors | - |
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| foresight | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresightedness, foresightfulness |
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| (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, prevision, prospicience |
| foresightedness | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresight, foresightfulness |
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| foresightfulness | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresight, foresightedness |
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| forthrightness | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, candour, directness, frankness |
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| fortnight | (noun) a period of fourteen consecutive days | Synonyms: two weeks |
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| freight | (noun) transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates | Synonyms: freightage |
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| (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
| (noun) the charge for transporting something by common carrier | Synonyms: freight rate, freightage |
| freightage | (noun) transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates | Synonyms: freight |
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| (noun) the charge for transporting something by common carrier | Synonyms: freight, freight rate |
| freighter | (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: bottom, merchant ship, merchantman |
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| fright | (noun) an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) | Synonyms: fear, fearfulness |
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| frightening | (noun) the act of inspiring with fear | Synonyms: terrorisation, terrorization |
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| frightfulness | (noun) the quality of being frightful | - |
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| gaslight | (noun) light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas | - |
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| gunfight | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunplay, shootout |
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| gunsight | (noun) a sight used for aiming a gun | Synonyms: gun-sight |
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| headlight | (noun) a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive | Synonyms: headlamp |
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| heavyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the heaviest. | Synonyms: super heavyweight |
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| (noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, titan |
| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds | - |
| (noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, hulk, whale |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds | - |
| height | (noun) the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top | Synonyms: tallness |
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| (noun) (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot | Synonyms: stature |
| (noun) elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface | Synonyms: altitude |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| heights | (noun) a high place | Synonyms: high |
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| high | (noun) a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed | Synonyms: high gear |
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| (noun) a lofty level or position or degree | - |
| (noun) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 | Synonyms: high school, highschool, senior high, senior high school |
| (noun) a high place | Synonyms: heights |
| (noun) an air mass of higher than normal pressure | - |
| (noun) a state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics | - |
| (noun) a state of sustained elation | - |
| highball | (noun) a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass | - |
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| highbinder | (noun) a corrupt politician | - |
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| highboard | (noun) a high diving board | - |
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| highboy | (noun) a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs | Synonyms: tallboy |
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| highbrow | (noun) a person of intellectual or erudite tastes | - |
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| highchair | (noun) a chair for feeding a very young child; has four long legs and a footrest and a detachable tray | Synonyms: feeding chair |
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| highflier | (noun) a person of great ability and ambition | Synonyms: highflyer |
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| highflyer | (noun) a person of great ability and ambition | Synonyms: highflier |
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| highjack | (noun) seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination | Synonyms: hijack |
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| highjacker | (noun) a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it | Synonyms: highwayman, hijacker, road agent |
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| (noun) someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination | Synonyms: hijacker |
| highjacking | (noun) robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force | Synonyms: hijacking |
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| highland | (noun) elevated (e.g., mountainous) land | Synonyms: upland |
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| highlife | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: extravagance, high life, lavishness, prodigality |
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| highlight | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlighting |
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| (noun) the most interesting or memorable part | Synonyms: high spot |
| highlighter | (noun) a fluorescent marker used to mark important passages in a text | - |
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| (noun) a cosmetic used to highlight the eyes or cheekbones | - |
| highlighting | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlight |
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| highness | (noun) the quality of being high or lofty | Synonyms: loftiness |
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| (noun) a high degree (of amount or force etc.) | - |
| highroad | (noun) a highway | Synonyms: trunk road |
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| highschool | (noun) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 | Synonyms: high, high school, senior high, senior high school |
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