| abseiler | (noun) a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point | Synonyms: rappeller |
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| acidophile | (noun) an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment | Synonyms: acidophil |
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| acrylonitrile | (noun) a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene | Synonyms: propenonitrile, vinyl cyanide |
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| aerophile | (noun) a lover of aviation | - |
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| aileron | (noun) an airfoil that controls lateral motion | - |
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| airmailer | (noun) a mailer for airmail | - |
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| alfileria | (noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfilaria, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, filaria, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
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| anglophile | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophil |
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| antiepileptic | (noun) a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy) | Synonyms: anticonvulsant, anticonvulsant drug, antiepileptic drug |
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| antilepton | (noun) the antiparticle of a lepton | - |
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| aquilege | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilegia, columbine |
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| aquilegia | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilege, columbine |
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| audile | (noun) one whose mental imagery is auditory rather than visual or motor | - |
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| automobile | (noun) a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine | Synonyms: auto, car, machine, motorcar |
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| bailee | (noun) the agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered | - |
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| bailey | (noun) the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle | - |
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| (noun) the outer courtyard of a castle | - |
| basileus | (noun) a ruler of the eastern Roman Empire | - |
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| basophile | (noun) a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains | Synonyms: basophil |
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| beguilement | (noun) an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations | Synonyms: distraction |
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| (noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, bewitchery |
| beguiler | (noun) a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness) | Synonyms: charmer |
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| (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
| bibliophile | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: book lover, booklover |
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| bile | (noun) a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats | Synonyms: gall |
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| bilestone | (noun) a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts | Synonyms: gallstone |
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| blackmailer | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: extortioner, extortionist |
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| bloodmobile | (noun) a motor vehicle equipped to collect blood donations | - |
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| boiler | (noun) sealed vessel where water is converted to steam | Synonyms: steam boiler |
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| (noun) a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid | Synonyms: kettle |
| boilerplate | (noun) thick plate iron used in the production of boilers | - |
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| (noun) standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories | - |
| boilersuit | (noun) a loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work | Synonyms: boilers suit, overall |
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| bookmobile | (noun) a van with shelves of books; serves as a mobile library or bookstore | - |
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| broiler | (noun) an oven or part of a stove used for broiling | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a small young chicken not over 2 1/2 lb suitable for broiling | - |
| camachile | (noun) common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum | Synonyms: huamachil, manila tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce, wild tamarind |
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| camomile | (noun) Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis | Synonyms: Anthemis nobilis, Chamaemelum nobilis, chamomile |
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| campanile | (noun) a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building | Synonyms: belfry |
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| cantilever | (noun) projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only | - |
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| caviler | (noun) a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections | Synonyms: caviller, pettifogger, quibbler |
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| centile | (noun) (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total | Synonyms: percentile |
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| chamomile | (noun) Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis | Synonyms: Anthemis nobilis, camomile, Chamaemelum nobilis |
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| chile | (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chili, chili pepper, chilli, chilly |
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| chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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| chrysotile | (noun) a grey or green fibrous mineral; an important source of commercial asbestos | - |
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| compiler | (noun) (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program | Synonyms: compiling program |
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| (noun) a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes) | - |
| crocodile | (noun) large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish tropical waters | - |
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| decile | (noun) (statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores | - |
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| defile | (noun) a narrow pass (especially one between mountains) | Synonyms: gorge |
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| defilement | (noun) the state of being polluted | Synonyms: befoulment, pollution |
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| defiler | (noun) a person or organization that causes pollution of the environment | Synonyms: polluter |
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| despoiler | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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| dilemma | (noun) state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options | Synonyms: quandary |
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| dilettante | (noun) an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge | Synonyms: dabbler, sciolist |
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| domicile | (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home |
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| (noun) (law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time | Synonyms: legal residence |
| ductileness | (noun) the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets | Synonyms: ductility |
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| enophile | (noun) someone who appreciates wine | Synonyms: oenophile |
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| eosinophile | (noun) a leukocyte readily stained with eosin | Synonyms: eosinophil |
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| epilepsy | (noun) a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions | - |
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| epileptic | (noun) a person who has epilepsy | - |
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| exile | (noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: deportation, expatriation, transportation |
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| (noun) a person who is expelled from home or country by authority | Synonyms: deportee |
| (noun) a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country | Synonyms: expat, expatriate |
| facsimile | (noun) duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio | Synonyms: facsimile machine, fax |
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| (noun) an exact copy or reproduction | Synonyms: autotype |
| file | (noun) a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal | - |
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| (noun) office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order | Synonyms: file cabinet, filing cabinet |
| (noun) a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together | Synonyms: data file |
| (noun) a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other | Synonyms: Indian file, single file |
| filefish | (noun) narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine | - |
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| filename | (noun) (computer science) the name given to a computer file in order to distinguish it from other files; may contain an extension that indicates the type of file | Synonyms: computer file name, computer filename, file name |
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| filer | (noun) a party who files a notice with a law court | - |
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| (noun) a clerk who is employed to maintain the files of an organization | Synonyms: file clerk, filing clerk |
| filet | (noun) lace having a square mesh | Synonyms: fillet |
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| (noun) a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef | Synonyms: fillet |
| (noun) a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish | Synonyms: fillet, fish filet, fish fillet |
| florilegium | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: garland, miscellany |
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| gentile | (noun) a Christian as contrasted with a Jew | Synonyms: goy, non-Jew |
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| (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: heathen, infidel, pagan |
| (noun) a person who is not a member of one's own religion; used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus | - |
| (noun) a Christian | - |
| guile | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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| (noun) the quality of being crafty | Synonyms: craftiness |
| (noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness |
| haemophile | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophiliac, hemophile, hemophiliac |
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| halophile | (noun) archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival | Synonyms: halophil |
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| hemophile | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophile, haemophiliac, hemophiliac |
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| homiletics | (noun) the branch of theology that deals with sermons and homilies | - |
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| (noun) the art of preaching | - |
| homophile | (noun) someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gay, homo, homosexual |
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| hostile | (noun) troops belonging to the enemy's military forces | - |
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| ileitis | (noun) inflammation of the ileum | - |
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| ileostomy | (noun) surgical procedure that creates an opening from the ileum through the abdominal wall to function as an anus; performed in cases of cancer of the colon or ulcerative colitis | - |
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| ileum | (noun) the part of the small intestine between the jejunum and the cecum | - |
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| ileus | (noun) blockage of the intestine (especially the ileum) that prevents the contents of the intestine from passing to the lower bowel | Synonyms: intestinal obstruction |
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| imbecile | (noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: changeling, cretin, half-wit, idiot, moron, retard |
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| jailer | (noun) someone who guards prisoners | Synonyms: gaoler, jailor, prison guard, screw, turnkey |
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| jejunoileitis | (noun) inflammation of the jejunum and the ileum of the small intestine | - |
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| jubilee | (noun) a special anniversary (or the celebration of it) | - |
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| juvenile | (noun) a young person, not fully developed | Synonyms: juvenile person |
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| kiley | (noun) an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex | Synonyms: kylie |
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| laetrile | (noun) a substance derived from amygdalin; publicized as an antineoplastic drug although there is no supporting evidence | - |
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| madrilene | (noun) a tomato-flavored consomme; often served chilled | - |
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| mailer | (noun) a container for something to be mailed | - |
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| (noun) an advertisement that is sent by mail | - |
| (noun) a person who mails something | - |
| meanwhile | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meantime |
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| mercilessness | (noun) inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving | Synonyms: unmercifulness |
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| (noun) feelings of extreme heartlessness | Synonyms: cruelty, pitilessness, ruthlessness |
| methapyrilene | (noun) antihistamine used to treat allergic responses (as rhinitis or dermatitis or pruritus) | - |
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| mexiletine | (noun) antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Mexitil) used to treat ventricular arrhythmias | Synonyms: Mexitil |
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| mile | (noun) a footrace extending one mile | - |
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| (noun) a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters | Synonyms: international mile, land mile, mi, stat mi, statute mile |
| (noun) a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km | Synonyms: mil, Swedish mile |
| (noun) an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards | Synonyms: Roman mile |
| (noun) a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude | Synonyms: air mile, international nautical mile, mi, naut mi, nautical mile |
| (noun) a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters) | Synonyms: sea mile |
| (noun) a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile | Synonyms: Admiralty mile, geographical mile, mi, naut mi, nautical mile |
| (noun) a large distance | - |
| mileage | (noun) distance measured in miles | Synonyms: milage |
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| (noun) a travel allowance at a given rate per mile traveled | - |
| (noun) the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned | Synonyms: fuel consumption rate, gas mileage, gasoline mileage |
| mileometer | (noun) a meter that shows mileage traversed | Synonyms: hodometer, milometer, odometer |
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| milepost | (noun) stone post at side of a road to show distances | Synonyms: milestone |
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| miler | (noun) a runner in a one-mile race | - |
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| (noun) (used only in combinations) the length of something in miles | - |
| milestone | (noun) stone post at side of a road to show distances | Synonyms: milepost |
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| (noun) a significant event in your life (or in a project) | - |
| missile | (noun) a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled | Synonyms: projectile |
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| (noun) a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control | - |
| mobile | (noun) sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents | - |
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| motile | (noun) one whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action | - |
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| myrmecophile | (noun) an organism such as an insect that habitually shares the nest of a species of ant | - |
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| nailer | (noun) a worker who attaches something by nailing it | - |
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| nailfile | (noun) a small flat file for shaping the nails | - |
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