| allspice | (noun) ground dried berrylike fruit of a West Indian allspice tree; suggesting combined flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves | - |
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| (noun) aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries | Synonyms: allspice tree, Pimenta dioica, pimento tree |
| (noun) deciduous shrubs having aromatic bark; eastern China; southwestern and eastern United States | - |
| alsatian | (noun) breed of large shepherd dogs used in police work and as a guide for the blind | Synonyms: German police dog, German shepherd, German shepherd dog |
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| alstroemeria | (noun) any of various South American plants of the genus Alstroemeria valued for their handsome umbels of beautiful flowers | - |
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| anastalsis | (noun) muscular action of the alimentary tract in a direction opposite to peristalsis | - |
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| annals | (noun) a chronological account of events in successive years | Synonyms: chronological record |
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| (noun) reports of the work of a society or learned body etc | - |
| anticonvulsant | (noun) a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy) | Synonyms: anticonvulsant drug, antiepileptic, antiepileptic drug |
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| avulsion | (noun) a forcible tearing or surgical separation of one body part from another | - |
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| (noun) an abrupt change in the course of a stream that forms the boundary between two parcels of land resulting in the loss of part of the land of one landowner and a consequent increase in the land of another | - |
| balsa | (noun) forest tree of lowland Central America having a strong very light wood; used for making floats and rafts and in crafts | Synonyms: Ochroma lagopus |
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| (noun) strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats | Synonyms: balsa wood |
| balsam | (noun) an ointment containing a fragrant resin | - |
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| (noun) any seed plant yielding balsam | - |
| (noun) any of various fragrant oleoresins used in medicines and perfumes | - |
| balsamroot | (noun) a plant of the genus Balsamorhiza having downy leaves in a basal rosette and yellow flowers and long balsam-scented taproots | - |
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| barrels | (noun) the amount that many barrels might hold | - |
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| bifocals | (noun) (plural) eyeglasses having two focal lengths, one for near vision and the other for far vision | - |
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| bilsted | (noun) a North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap | Synonyms: American sweet gum, Liquidambar styraciflua, red gum, sweet gum, sweet gum tree |
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| bolshie | (noun) emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries | Synonyms: Bolshevik, bolshy, Marxist, red |
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| bolshy | (noun) emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries | Synonyms: Bolshevik, bolshie, Marxist, red |
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| bolster | (noun) a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows | Synonyms: long pillow |
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| bowels | (noun) the center of the Earth | - |
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| bowls | (noun) a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack | Synonyms: lawn bowling |
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| bullshit | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, crap, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull, shit |
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| bullshot | (noun) a cocktail made with vodka and beef bouillon or consomme | - |
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| cardinalship | (noun) the office of cardinal | Synonyms: cardinalate |
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| channels | (noun) official routes of communication | - |
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| coevals | (noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: contemporaries, generation |
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| compulsion | (noun) using force to cause something to occur | Synonyms: coercion |
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| (noun) an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will | Synonyms: obsession |
| (noun) an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid | Synonyms: irresistible impulse |
| compulsive | (noun) a person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things | - |
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| compulsiveness | (noun) the trait of acting compulsively | Synonyms: compulsivity |
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| compulsivity | (noun) the trait of acting compulsively | Synonyms: compulsiveness |
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| consulship | (noun) the post of consul | - |
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| convulsion | (noun) a physical disturbance such as an earthquake or upheaval | - |
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| (noun) violent uncontrollable contractions of muscles | - |
| (noun) a sudden uncontrollable attack | Synonyms: fit, paroxysm |
| (noun) a violent disturbance | Synonyms: turmoil, upheaval |
| coralbells | (noun) perennial plant of the western United States having bright red flowers in feathery spikes; used as an ornamental | Synonyms: Heuchera sanguinea |
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| crawlspace | (noun) low space beneath a floor of a building; gives workers access to wiring or plumbing | Synonyms: crawl space |
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| credentials | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credential |
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| details | (noun) true confidential information | Synonyms: inside information |
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| diethylstilbesterol | (noun) synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy | Synonyms: DES, stilbesterol |
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| diethylstilbestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilboestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol |
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| diethylstilboestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilbestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol |
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| dulse | (noun) coarse edible red seaweed | Synonyms: Rhodymenia palmata |
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| elsholtzia | (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Elsholtzia having blue or purple flowers in one-sided spikes | - |
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| emulsifier | (noun) a surface-active agent that promotes the formation of an emulsion | - |
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| emulsion | (noun) a light-sensitive coating on paper or film; consists of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a gelatin | Synonyms: photographic emulsion |
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| (noun) (chemistry) a colloid in which both phases are liquids | - |
| entrails | (noun) internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | Synonyms: innards, insides, viscera |
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| excelsior | (noun) thin curly wood shavings used for packing or stuffing | Synonyms: wood shavings |
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| expulsion | (noun) the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting | Synonyms: ejection, forcing out, projection |
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| (noun) the act of forcing out someone or something | Synonyms: ejection, exclusion, riddance |
| (noun) squeezing out by applying pressure | Synonyms: extrusion |
| falls | (noun) a steep descent of the water of a river | Synonyms: waterfall |
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| (noun) the petals or sepals of a flower that bend downward (especially the outer perianth of an iris) | - |
| falsehood | (noun) the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting | Synonyms: falsification |
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| (noun) a false statement | Synonyms: falsity, untruth |
| falseness | (noun) the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical | Synonyms: hollowness, insincerity |
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| (noun) unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous | Synonyms: faithlessness, fickleness, inconstancy |
| (noun) the state of being false or untrue | Synonyms: falsity |
| falsetto | (noun) a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register | - |
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| falsie | (noun) padding that is worn inside a brassiere | - |
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| (noun) artificial eyelashes | - |
| falsification | (noun) the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting | Synonyms: falsehood |
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| (noun) the act of determining that something is false | Synonyms: disproof, falsifying, refutal, refutation |
| (noun) a willful perversion of facts | Synonyms: misrepresentation |
| (noun) any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something | Synonyms: disproof, refutation |
| falsifier | (noun) someone who falsifies | - |
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| falsifying | (noun) the act of determining that something is false | Synonyms: disproof, falsification, refutal, refutation |
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| falsity | (noun) a false statement | Synonyms: falsehood, untruth |
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| (noun) the state of being false or untrue | Synonyms: falseness |
| felspar | (noun) any of a group of hard crystalline minerals that consist of aluminum silicates of potassium or sodium or calcium or barium | Synonyms: feldspar |
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| fils | (noun) a fractional monetary unit in Bahrain and Iraq and Jordan and Kuwait; equal to one thousandth of a dinar | - |
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| (noun) 100 Yemeni fils are worth one Yemeni rial | Synonyms: Yemeni fils |
| foolscap | (noun) a size of paper used especially in Britain | - |
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| fulsomeness | (noun) smug self-serving earnestness | Synonyms: oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unction, unctuousness |
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| (noun) excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm | Synonyms: smarm, unction |
| fundamentals | (noun) principles from which other truths can be derived | Synonyms: basic principle, basics, bedrock, fundamental principle |
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| gallstone | (noun) a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts | Synonyms: bilestone |
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| generalship | (noun) the office and authority of a general | Synonyms: generalcy |
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| (noun) the leadership ability of a military general | - |
| genitals | (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: crotch, genital organ, genitalia, private parts, privates |
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| hailstone | (noun) small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm | - |
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| hailstorm | (noun) a storm during which hail falls | - |
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| hallstand | (noun) a piece of furniture where coats and hats and umbrellas can be hung; usually has a mirror | - |
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| hillside | (noun) the side or slope of a hill | - |
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| holster | (noun) a sheath (usually leather) for carrying a handgun | - |
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| (noun) a belt with loops or slots for carrying small hand tools | - |
| honeybells | (noun) African shrub having decumbent stems and slender yellow honey-scented flowers either solitary or in pairs | Synonyms: Hermannia verticillata, honey bell, Mahernia verticillata |
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| hornfels | (noun) a fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks | Synonyms: hornstone |
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| hymeneals | (noun) the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed | Synonyms: nuptials, wedding, wedding ceremony |
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| impulse | (noun) the act of applying force suddenly | Synonyms: impetus, impulsion |
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| (noun) an impelling force or strength | Synonyms: momentum |
| (noun) the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber | Synonyms: nerve impulse, nervous impulse, neural impulse |
| (noun) (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients) | Synonyms: pulsation, pulse, pulsing |
| (noun) a sudden desire | Synonyms: caprice, whim |
| (noun) an instinctive motive | Synonyms: urge |
| impulsion | (noun) the act of applying force suddenly | Synonyms: impetus, impulse |
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| (noun) a force that moves something along | Synonyms: drift, impetus |
| impulsiveness | (noun) the trait of acting suddenly on impulse without reflection | - |
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| keelson | (noun) a longitudinal beam connected to the keel of ship to strengthen it | - |
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| laurels | (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: accolade, award, honor, honour |
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| (noun) the state of being honored | Synonyms: honor, honour |
| maelstrom | (noun) a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) | Synonyms: vortex, whirlpool |
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| mahlstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: maulstick |
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| mailsorter | (noun) a sorter for sorting mail according to the address | - |
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| marlstone | (noun) metamorphic rock with approximately the same composition as marl | Synonyms: marlite |
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| marshalship | (noun) the post of marshall | - |
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| maulstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: mahlstick |
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| millstone | (noun) one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain | - |
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| (noun) any load that is difficult to carry | - |
| (noun) (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps | Synonyms: albatross |
| minstrelsy | (noun) the art of a minstrel | - |
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| (noun) ballads sung by minstrels | - |
| (noun) a troupe of minstrels | - |
| mittelschmerz | (noun) pain in the area of the ovary that is felt at the time of ovulation (usually midway through the menstrual cycle) | - |
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| morals | (noun) motivation based on ideas of right and wrong | Synonyms: ethical motive, ethics, morality |
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| nelson | (noun) any of several wrestling holds in which an arm is passed under the opponent's arm from behind and the hand exerts pressure on the back of the neck | - |
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| nuptials | (noun) the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed | Synonyms: hymeneals, wedding, wedding ceremony |
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| oilseed | (noun) any of several seeds that yield oil | Synonyms: oil-rich seed |
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| oilskin | (noun) a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof | Synonyms: slicker |
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| oilstone | (noun) a whetstone for use with oil | - |
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| oilstove | (noun) heater that burns oil (as kerosine) for heating or cooking | Synonyms: kerosene heater, kerosine heater, oil heater |
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| palsgrave | (noun) (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands | Synonyms: palatine |
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| palsy | (noun) loss of the ability to move a body part | Synonyms: paralysis |
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| (noun) a condition marked by uncontrollable tremor | - |
| peristalsis | (noun) the process of wavelike muscle contractions of the alimentary tract that moves food along | Synonyms: vermiculation |
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| phacoemulsification | (noun) extracapsular surgery for cataracts in which ultrasonic sound breaks the cortex and nucleus of the lens into small fragments that are then vacuumed away through a small tube | - |
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| phalsa | (noun) drought-resistant Asiatic treelike shrub bearing pleasantly acid small red edible fruits commonly used in sherbets | Synonyms: Grewia asiatica |
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| polls | (noun) the place where people vote | - |
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| pollster | (noun) someone who conducts surveys of public opinion | Synonyms: canvasser, headcounter, poll taker |
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| principalship | (noun) the post of principal | - |
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| proconsulship | (noun) the position of proconsul | Synonyms: proconsulate |
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| propulsion | (noun) the act of propelling | Synonyms: actuation |
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| (noun) a propelling force | - |
| pulsar | (noun) a degenerate neutron star; small and extremely dense; rotates very fast and emits regular pulses of polarized radiation | - |
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