| frame | (noun) one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided | - |
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| (noun) a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror | Synonyms: framing |
| (noun) the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape | Synonyms: skeletal frame, skeleton, underframe |
| (noun) the framework for a pair of eyeglasses | - |
| (noun) a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film | - |
| (noun) a structure supporting or containing something | Synonyms: framework |
| (noun) the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal | Synonyms: skeletal system, skeleton, systema skeletale |
| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (noun) a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning | Synonyms: frame of reference |
| (noun) a single drawing in a comic strip | - |
| (noun) an application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently | - |
| (noun) (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat | Synonyms: inning |
| framer | (noun) someone who writes a new law or plan | - |
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| (noun) someone who makes frames (as for pictures) | - |
| framework | (noun) a structure supporting or containing something | Synonyms: frame |
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| (noun) the underlying structure | Synonyms: fabric |
| (noun) a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process | Synonyms: model, theoretical account |
| frolicsomeness | (noun) lively high-spirited playfulness | Synonyms: friskiness, sportiveness |
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| frumenty | (noun) sweet spiced porridge made from hulled wheat | - |
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| fulfillment | (noun) the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc) | Synonyms: fulfilment |
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| (noun) a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires | Synonyms: fulfilment |
| fulfilment | (noun) the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc) | Synonyms: fulfillment |
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| (noun) a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires | Synonyms: fulfillment |
| 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 |
| fume | (noun) a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas | Synonyms: smoke |
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| fumeroot | (noun) delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Fumaria officinalis, fumewort, fumitory |
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| (noun) herb of northern Europe and Asia having erect racemes of red flowers | Synonyms: Corydalis solida, fumewort |
| fumes | (noun) gases ejected from an engine as waste products | Synonyms: exhaust, exhaust fumes |
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| fumewort | (noun) delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Fumaria officinalis, fumeroot, fumitory |
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| (noun) herb of northern Europe and Asia having erect racemes of red flowers | Synonyms: Corydalis solida, fumeroot |
| fundament | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
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| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, groundwork |
| fundamental | (noun) the lowest tone of a harmonic series | Synonyms: first harmonic, fundamental frequency |
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| (noun) any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business | - |
| fundamentalism | (noun) a form of Protestantism that takes the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth | - |
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| (noun) the strict adherence to the basic principles or doctrines of a religion, ideology, etc. | - |
| fundamentalist | (noun) a supporter of fundamentalism | - |
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| (noun) an adherent of fundamentalist principles | - |
| fundamentalness | (noun) The state or condition of being fundamental; essential importance. | - |
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| fundamentals | (noun) principles from which other truths can be derived | Synonyms: basic principle, basics, bedrock, fundamental principle |
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| galvanometer | (noun) meter for detecting or comparing or measuring small electric currents | - |
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| game | (noun) a contest with rules to determine a winner | - |
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| (noun) an amusement or pastime | - |
| (noun) your occupation or line of work | Synonyms: biz |
| (noun) a single play of a sport or other contest | - |
| (noun) frivolous or trifling behavior | - |
| (noun) animal hunted for food or sport | - |
| (noun) the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game | - |
| (noun) a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal) | Synonyms: plot, secret plan |
| (noun) the flesh of wild animals that is used for food | - |
| (noun) (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win | - |
| (noun) (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves | - |
| gamebag | (noun) a canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter | - |
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| gameboard | (noun) a flat portable surface (usually rectangular) designed for board games | Synonyms: board |
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| gamecock | (noun) a cock bred and trained for fighting | Synonyms: fighting cock |
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| (noun) someone who is a very fierce fighter | Synonyms: hell-kite, hell-rooster |
| gamedev | (noun) someone who develops a game | - |
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| gamekeeper | (noun) a person employed to take care of game and wildlife | Synonyms: game warden |
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| gamelan | (noun) a traditional Indonesian ensemble typically including many tuned percussion instruments including bamboo xylophones and wooden or bronze chimes and gongs | - |
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| gameness | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gimp, gimpiness, lameness, limping |
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| gamesmanship | (noun) the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win a game | - |
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| gametangium | (noun) cell or organ in which gametes develop | - |
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| gamete | (noun) a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes | - |
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| gametocyte | (noun) an immature animal or plant cell that develops into a gamete by meiosis | - |
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| gametoecium | (noun) gametangia and surrounding bracts | - |
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| gametogenesis | (noun) the development and maturation of sex cells through meiosis | - |
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| gametophore | (noun) a modified branch bearing gametangia as in the thalloid liverworts | - |
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| gametophyte | (noun) the gamete-bearing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations | - |
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| garment | (noun) an article of clothing | - |
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| garmentmaker | (noun) a person who makes garments | Synonyms: dressmaker, garment-worker, garment worker |
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| garnishment | (noun) a court order to an employer to withhold all or part of an employee's wages and to send the money to the court or to the person who won a lawsuit against the employee | - |
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| gasometer | (noun) a large gas-tight spherical or cylindrical tank for holding gas to be used as fuel | Synonyms: gas holder |
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| (noun) a meter for measuring the amount of gas flowing through a particular pipe | Synonyms: gas meter |
| gastronome | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, epicurean, foodie, gourmet |
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| gaussmeter | (noun) a meter to compare strengths of magnetic fields | Synonyms: magnetometer |
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| gendarme | (noun) a French policeman | - |
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| gendarmerie | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmery |
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| gendarmery | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmerie |
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| genome | (noun) the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism | - |
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| geometer | (noun) a mathematician specializing in geometry | Synonyms: geometrician |
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| geometrician | (noun) a mathematician specializing in geometry | Synonyms: geometer |
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| geometrid | (noun) slender-bodied broad-winged moth whose larvae are called measuring worms | Synonyms: geometrid moth |
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| geometry | (noun) the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces | - |
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| gimel | (noun) the 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| gladsomeness | (noun) experiencing joy and pleasure | Synonyms: gladfulness, gladness |
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| glimmer | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmering, inkling, intimation |
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| (noun) a flash of light (especially reflected light) | Synonyms: gleam, gleaming |
| glimmering | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, inkling, intimation |
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| glomerule | (noun) a compacted or sessile cyme | - |
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| glomerulonephritis | (noun) nephritis marked by inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney; characterized by decreased production of urine and by the presence of blood and protein in the urine and by edema | - |
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| glomerulus | (noun) a small intertwined group of capillaries in the malpighian body; it filters the blood during urine formation | - |
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| glume | (noun) small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae | - |
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| gnathostome | (noun) a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws | - |
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| gnome | (noun) a short pithy saying expressing a general truth | - |
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| (noun) a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure | Synonyms: dwarf |
| goniometer | (noun) direction finder that determines the angular direction of incoming radio signals | - |
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| gossamer | (noun) a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture | - |
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| (noun) filaments from a web that was spun by a spider | Synonyms: cobweb |
| gourmet | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, epicurean, foodie, gastronome |
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| government | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, governing, government activity |
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| (noun) (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed | - |
| (noun) the study of government of states and other political units | Synonyms: political science, politics |
| (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: authorities, regime |
| gramme | (noun) a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram | Synonyms: g, gm, gram |
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| grapheme | (noun) a written symbol that is used to represent speech | Synonyms: character, graph, graphic symbol |
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| gravimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid or solid | Synonyms: hydrometer |
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| (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring variations in the gravitational field of the earth | Synonyms: gravity meter |
| gravimetry | (noun) the measurement of specific gravity | Synonyms: hydrometry |
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| grime | (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grunge, soil, stain |
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| grommet | (noun) fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines | Synonyms: cringle, eyelet, grummet, loop |
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| gruesomeness | (noun) the quality of being ghastly | Synonyms: ghastliness, grimness, luridness |
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| grume | (noun) a semisolid mass of coagulated red and white blood cells | Synonyms: blood clot |
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| (noun) a thick viscous liquid | - |
| grummet | (noun) fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines | Synonyms: cringle, eyelet, grommet, loop |
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| gunmetal | (noun) a type of bronze used for parts subject to wear or corrosion (especially corrosion by sea water) | - |
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| gymel | (noun) the technique, found in some medieval English music, of singing voice parts in parallel thirds. | - |
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| habiliment | (noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | Synonyms: article of clothing, clothing, vesture, wear, wearable |
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| haematemesis | (noun) vomiting blood | Synonyms: hematemesis |
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| haematocolpometra | (noun) accumulation of blood in the vagina and uterus | Synonyms: hematocolpometra |
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| halftime | (noun) an intermission between the first and second half of a game | - |
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| hame | (noun) stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces | - |
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| hamelia | (noun) any of several flowering tropical or subtropical shrubs of the genus Hamelia | - |
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| hammer | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammering, pound, pounding |
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| (noun) a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking | - |
| (noun) a power tool for drilling rocks | Synonyms: power hammer |
| (noun) a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate | - |
| (noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. | Synonyms: mallet |
| (noun) the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled | Synonyms: cock |
| (noun) a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw | - |
| (noun) the ossicle attached to the eardrum | Synonyms: malleus |
| hammerhead | (noun) medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous | Synonyms: hammerhead shark |
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| (noun) the striking part of a hammer | - |
| (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
| hammering | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammer, pound, pounding |
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| hammerlock | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back | - |
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| hammertoe | (noun) a deformed toe which is bent in a clawlike arch | - |
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| handsomeness | (noun) the quality of having regular well-defined features (especially of a man) | Synonyms: good looks |
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| harassment | (noun) the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism | Synonyms: molestation |
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| (noun) a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented | Synonyms: torment |
| heaume | (noun) a large medieval helmet supported on the shoulders | - |
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| hectometer | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 100 meters | Synonyms: hectometre, hm |
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| hectometre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 100 meters | Synonyms: hectometer, hm |
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| heliometer | (noun) an instrument used to measure the angular separation of two stars that are too far apart to be included in the field of view of an ordinary telescope | - |
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| helmet | (noun) a protective headgear made of hard material to resist blows | - |
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| (noun) armor plate that protects the head | - |
| helmetflower | (noun) a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised | Synonyms: skullcap |
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| (noun) a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite | Synonyms: Aconitum napellus, helmet flower, monkshood |
| (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process | Synonyms: helmet orchid |
| helpmeet | (noun) a helpful partner | Synonyms: helpmate |
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| hematemesis | (noun) vomiting blood | Synonyms: haematemesis |
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| hematochrome | (noun) a reddish coloring material found in some algae | - |
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| hematocolpometra | (noun) accumulation of blood in the vagina and uterus | Synonyms: haematocolpometra |
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| heme | (noun) a complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds | Synonyms: haem, haemitin, hematin, protoheme |
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| hemeralopia | (noun) inability to see clearly in bright light | Synonyms: day blindness |
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| hemerobiid | (noun) small dark-colored lacewing fly | Synonyms: brown lacewing, hemerobiid fly |
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