| anlage | (noun) an organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development | Synonyms: primordium |
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| assemblage | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assembly, gathering |
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| (noun) a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose | Synonyms: hookup |
| (noun) a group of persons together in one place | Synonyms: gathering |
| (noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, aggregation, collection |
| bricolage | (noun) construction of something by whatever material are available | - |
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| camouflage | (noun) the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance | Synonyms: disguise |
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| (noun) device or stratagem for concealment or deceit | - |
| (noun) fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan; intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background | Synonyms: camo |
| (noun) an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something | Synonyms: disguise |
| cartilage | (noun) tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults | Synonyms: gristle |
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| collage | (noun) a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image | Synonyms: montage |
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| (noun) any collection of diverse things | - |
| collagen | (noun) a fibrous scleroprotein in bone and cartilage and tendon and other connective tissue; yields gelatin on boiling | - |
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| collagenase | (noun) any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of collagen and gelatin | - |
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| curtilage | (noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: grounds, yard |
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| dinoflagellate | (noun) chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton | - |
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| enallage | (noun) a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I') | - |
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| ensilage | (noun) fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo | Synonyms: silage |
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| fibrocartilage | (noun) cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue | - |
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| flagellant | (noun) a person who whips himself as a religious penance | - |
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| (noun) a person who is whipped or whips himself for sexual gratification | - |
| flagellate | (noun) a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals | Synonyms: flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore |
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| flagellation | (noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | Synonyms: flogging, lashing, tanning, whipping |
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| (noun) beating as a source of erotic or religious stimulation | - |
| flagellum | (noun) a lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm cells and some bacteria and protozoa) | - |
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| (noun) a whip used to inflict punishment | Synonyms: scourge |
| flageolet | (noun) a small fipple flute with four finger holes and two thumb holes | Synonyms: shepherd's pipe, treble recorder |
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| (noun) a French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried | Synonyms: haricot |
| fuselage | (noun) the central body of an airplane that is designed to accommodate the crew and passengers (or cargo) | - |
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| haulage | (noun) the act of drawing or hauling something | Synonyms: draw, haul |
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| hypallage | (noun) reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face') | - |
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| lagend | (noun) goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered | Synonyms: lagan, ligan |
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| lager | (noun) a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons | Synonyms: laager |
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| (noun) a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September | Synonyms: lager beer |
| lagerphone | (noun) an Australian percussion instrument used for playing bush music; a long stick with bottle caps nailed loosely to it; played by hitting it with a stick or banging it on the ground | - |
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| milage | (noun) distance measured in miles | Synonyms: mileage |
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| mucilage | (noun) a gelatinous substance secreted by plants | - |
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| (noun) cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive | Synonyms: glue, gum |
| pelage | (noun) growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal | Synonyms: coat |
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| persiflage | (noun) light teasing | - |
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| pillage | (noun) the act of stealing valuable things from a place | Synonyms: pillaging, plundering |
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| (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, plunder, prize, swag |
| pillager | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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| plage | (noun) the beach at a seaside resort | - |
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| scalage | (noun) the act of scaling in weight or quantity or dimension | - |
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| (noun) estimation of the amount of lumber in a log | - |
| silage | (noun) fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo | Synonyms: ensilage |
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| spillage | (noun) the act of allowing a fluid to escape | Synonyms: release, spill |
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| (noun) the amount that has spilled | - |
| spoilage | (noun) the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it | Synonyms: spoil, spoiling |
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| (noun) the process of becoming spoiled | Synonyms: spoiling |
| (noun) the amount that has spoiled | - |
| tillage | (noun) the cultivation of soil for raising crops | - |
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| (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tilled land, tilth |
| treillage | (noun) latticework used to support climbing plants | Synonyms: trellis |
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| tutelage | (noun) teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately) | Synonyms: tuition, tutorship |
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| (noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: care, charge, guardianship |
| ullage | (noun) the amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full | - |
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| vassalage | (noun) the state of a serf | Synonyms: serfdom, serfhood |
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| village | (noun) a community of people smaller than a town | Synonyms: settlement, small town |
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| (noun) a settlement smaller than a town | Synonyms: hamlet |
| villager | (noun) one who has lived in a village most of their life | - |
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| zooflagellate | (noun) flagellate protozoan lacking photosynthesis and other plant-like characteristics | Synonyms: zoomastigote |
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