| astringence | (noun) a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker | Synonyms: astringency |
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| astringency | (noun) the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids | Synonyms: stypsis |
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| (noun) a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker | Synonyms: astringence |
| astringent | (noun) a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals | Synonyms: astringent drug, styptic |
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| binge | (noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: bout, bust, tear |
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| (noun) any act of immoderate indulgence | Synonyms: orgy, splurge |
| binger | (noun) someone addicted to crack cocaine | Synonyms: crack addict |
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| birefringence | (noun) splitting a ray into two parallel rays polarized perpendicularly | Synonyms: double refraction |
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| butterfingers | (noun) someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball) | - |
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| contingence | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingency, eventuality |
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| contingency | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingence, eventuality |
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| (noun) the state of being contingent on something | - |
| contingent | (noun) a temporary military unit | Synonyms: detail |
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| (noun) a gathering of persons representative of some larger group | - |
| cringe | (noun) A posture or gesture of shrinking or recoiling. | - |
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| (noun) some event or object that causes embarrassment and shame | - |
| derringer | (noun) a pocket pistol of large caliber with a short barrel | - |
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| dinge | (noun) discoloration due to dirtiness | Synonyms: dinginess |
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| disingenuousness | (noun) the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor | - |
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| finger | (noun) one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb | - |
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| (noun) any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb) | - |
| (noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: digit, finger's breadth, fingerbreadth |
| fingerboard | (noun) a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers | - |
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| (noun) a bank of keys on a musical instrument | Synonyms: clavier, piano keyboard |
| (noun) a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger | Synonyms: fingerpost |
| fingerbreadth | (noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: digit, finger's breadth, finger |
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| fingerflower | (noun) tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, fairy bell, finger-flower, finger-root, fingerroot |
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| fingering | (noun) touching something with the fingers | - |
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| (noun) the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument | - |
| fingerling | (noun) a young or small fish | - |
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| fingermark | (noun) a smudge made by a (dirty) finger | Synonyms: fingerprint |
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| fingernail | (noun) the nail at the end of a finger | - |
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| fingerpaint | (noun) paint that has the consistency of jelly | Synonyms: finger paint |
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| fingerpointing | (noun) the imputation of blame | Synonyms: finger-pointing |
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| fingerpost | (noun) a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger | Synonyms: fingerboard |
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| fingerprint | (noun) a smudge made by a (dirty) finger | Synonyms: fingermark |
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| (noun) a generic term for any identifying characteristic | - |
| (noun) a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations | - |
| fingerprinting | (noun) the procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification | - |
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| fingerroot | (noun) tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, fairy bell, finger-flower, finger-root, fingerflower |
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| fingerspelling | (noun) an alphabet of manual signs | Synonyms: finger spelling |
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| fingerstall | (noun) a sheath worn to protect a finger | Synonyms: cot |
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| fingertip | (noun) the end (tip) of a finger | - |
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| forefinger | (noun) the finger next to the thumb | Synonyms: index, index finger |
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| fringe | (noun) an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels | - |
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| (noun) a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead | Synonyms: bang |
| (noun) a social group holding marginal or extreme views | - |
| (noun) a part of the city far removed from the center | Synonyms: outskirt |
| (noun) one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light | Synonyms: interference fringe |
| (noun) the outside boundary or surface of something | Synonyms: outer boundary, periphery |
| fringepod | (noun) annual herb having pinnatifid basal leaves and slender racemes of small white flowers followed by one-seeded winged silicles | Synonyms: lacepod |
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| ginger | (noun) liveliness and energy | Synonyms: pep, peppiness |
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| (noun) dried ground gingerroot | Synonyms: powdered ginger |
| (noun) pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery | Synonyms: gingerroot |
| (noun) perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems | - |
| gingerbread | (noun) cake flavored with ginger | - |
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| gingerol | (noun) derived from ginger; source of the hotness of ginger | - |
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| gingerroot | (noun) pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery | Synonyms: ginger |
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| gingersnap | (noun) a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger | Synonyms: ginger nut, ginger snap, snap |
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| gunslinger | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
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| harbinger | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: forerunner, herald, precursor, predecessor |
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| hinge | (noun) a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other | Synonyms: flexible joint |
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| (noun) a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend | - |
| humdinger | (noun) someone of remarkable excellence | - |
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| impingement | (noun) influencing strongly | Synonyms: encroachment, impact |
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| (noun) a sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something | Synonyms: impaction |
| infringement | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, violation |
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| (noun) an act that disregards an agreement or a right | Synonyms: violation |
| ingeniousness | (noun) the property of being ingenious | Synonyms: cleverness, ingenuity |
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| (noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: cleverness, ingenuity, inventiveness |
| ingenue | (noun) the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play | - |
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| (noun) an artless innocent young girl (especially as portrayed on the stage) | - |
| (noun) an actress who specializes in playing the role of an artless innocent young girl | - |
| ingenuity | (noun) the property of being ingenious | Synonyms: cleverness, ingeniousness |
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| (noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: cleverness, ingeniousness, inventiveness |
| ingenuousness | (noun) openly straightforward or frank | - |
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| (noun) the quality of innocent naivete | Synonyms: artlessness, innocence, naturalness |
| ingesta | (noun) solid and liquid nourishment taken into the body through the mouth | - |
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| ingestion | (noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: consumption, intake, uptake |
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| ladyfinger | (noun) small finger-shaped sponge cake | - |
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| leptomeninges | (noun) the two innermost layers of the meninges; cerebrospinal fluid circulates between these innermost layers | - |
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| lingenberry | (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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| lingerer | (noun) someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place | Synonyms: loiterer |
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| lingerie | (noun) women's underwear and nightclothes | Synonyms: intimate apparel |
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| lingering | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: tarriance |
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| malingerer | (noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: shammer, skulker |
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| malingering | (noun) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated | Synonyms: skulking |
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| meninges | (noun) a membrane (one of 3) that envelops the brain and spinal cord | Synonyms: meninx |
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| minge | (noun) vulgar term for a woman's pubic hair or genitals | - |
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| mudslinger | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: muckraker |
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| mudspringer | (noun) found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins | Synonyms: mudskipper |
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| myringectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the eardrum | - |
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| oophorosalpingectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both ovaries and the corresponding Fallopian tubes | - |
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| palingenesis | (noun) emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species | Synonyms: recapitulation |
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| pinger | (noun) a pulse generator used for echo sounding in sonar | - |
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| porringer | (noun) a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle) | - |
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| ringer | (noun) (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg | - |
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| (noun) a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses | - |
| (noun) a person who is almost identical to another | Synonyms: clone, dead ringer |
| (noun) a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation) | Synonyms: bell ringer, toller |
| salpingectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both Fallopian tubes | - |
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| singe | (noun) a surface burn | Synonyms: scorch |
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| singer | (noun) a person who sings | Synonyms: vocaliser, vocalist, vocalizer |
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| slinger | (noun) a person who uses a sling to throw something | - |
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| springer | (noun) a cow about to give birth | Synonyms: springing cow |
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| (noun) a large spaniel with wavy silky coat usually black or liver and white | Synonyms: springer spaniel |
| (noun) the lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs | Synonyms: impost |
| stinger | (noun) a sharp stinging blow | - |
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| (noun) a sharp organ of offense or defense (as of a wasp or stingray or scorpion) often connected with a poison gland | - |
| (noun) a remark capable of wounding mentally | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) a cocktail made of made of creme de menthe and brandy | - |
| stringency | (noun) conscientious attention to rules and details | Synonyms: strictness |
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| (noun) a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit | Synonyms: tightness |
| stringer | (noun) a long horizontal timber to connect uprights | - |
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| (noun) brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull | - |
| (noun) a worker who strings | - |
| (noun) a member of a squad on a team | - |
| swinger | (noun) a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex | Synonyms: tramp |
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| (noun) someone who swings sports implements | - |
| syringe | (noun) a medical instrument used to inject or withdraw fluids | - |
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| syringeful | (noun) the quantity that a syringe will hold. | - |
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| tinge | (noun) a pale or subdued color | Synonyms: undertone |
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| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, touch |
| twinge | (noun) a sharp stab of pain | - |
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| (noun) a sudden sharp feeling | Synonyms: pang, stab |
| winger | (noun) (sports) player in wing position | - |
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| wringer | (noun) a clothes dryer consisting of two rollers between which the wet clothes are squeezed | - |
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| zinger | (noun) a striking or amusing or caustic remark | - |
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