| enslavement | (noun) the act of making slaves of your captives | - |
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| (noun) the state of being a slave | Synonyms: captivity |
| entailment | (noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: deduction, implication |
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| entanglement | (noun) an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim | Synonyms: web |
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| entertainment | (noun) an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention | Synonyms: amusement |
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| enthrallment | (noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: captivation, enchantment, fascination |
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| enthronement | (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronisation, enthronization, investiture |
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| enticement | (noun) the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire | Synonyms: temptation |
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| (noun) qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward | Synonyms: come-on, lure |
| (noun) something that seduces or has the quality to seduce | Synonyms: temptation |
| entitlement | (noun) right granted by law or contract (especially a right to benefits) | - |
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| entombment | (noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: burial, inhumation, interment, sepulture |
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| entrancement | (noun) a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment | Synonyms: ravishment |
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| entrapment | (noun) a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials | - |
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| entrenchment | (noun) an entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches | Synonyms: intrenchment |
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| envelopment | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, enclosure, inclosure |
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| environment | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environs, surround, surroundings |
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| (noun) the totality of surrounding conditions | - |
| environmentalism | (noun) the activity of protecting the environment from pollution or destruction | - |
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| (noun) the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth | - |
| environmentalist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: conservationist |
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| epiphenomenon | (noun) a secondary phenomenon that is a by-product of another phenomenon | - |
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| equipment | (noun) an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service | - |
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| escapement | (noun) mechanical device that regulates movement | - |
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| escarpment | (noun) a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification | Synonyms: escarp, protective embankment, scarp |
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| (noun) a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion | Synonyms: scarp |
| establishment | (noun) the act of forming or establishing something | Synonyms: constitution, formation, organisation, organization |
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| (noun) a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence | - |
| (noun) the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof | Synonyms: validation |
| (noun) an organization founded and united for a specific purpose | Synonyms: institution |
| (noun) any large organization | - |
| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
| (noun) (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat | Synonyms: ecesis |
| establishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentism |
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| establishmentism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentarianism |
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| estrangement | (noun) the feeling of being alienated from other people | Synonyms: alienation, disaffection |
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| (noun) separation resulting from hostility | Synonyms: alienation |
| examen | (noun) a detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits) | Synonyms: examination |
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| (noun) a critical study (as of a writer's work) | - |
| excitement | (noun) something that agitates and arouses | Synonyms: excitation |
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| (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, hullabaloo, turmoil, upheaval |
| (noun) the feeling of lively and cheerful joy | Synonyms: exhilaration |
| (noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, fervor, fervour, inflammation |
| excrement | (noun) waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body | Synonyms: body waste, excreta, excretion, excretory product |
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| experiment | (noun) the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation | Synonyms: experimentation |
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| (noun) a venture at something new or different | - |
| (noun) the testing of an idea | Synonyms: experimentation |
| experimentalism | (noun) an orientation that favors experimentation and innovation | - |
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| (noun) an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles | - |
| experimentation | (noun) the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation | Synonyms: experiment |
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| (noun) the testing of an idea | Synonyms: experiment |
| experimenter | (noun) a research worker who conducts experiments | - |
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| (noun) a person who enjoys testing innovative ideas | - |
| extolment | (noun) an expression of approval and commendation | Synonyms: congratulations, kudos, praise |
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| extremeness | (noun) the quality of being extreme | - |
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| famishment | (noun) a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period | Synonyms: starvation |
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| ferment | (noun) a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol | Synonyms: fermentation, fermenting, zymolysis, zymosis |
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| (noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | Synonyms: agitation, fermentation, tempestuousness, unrest |
| (noun) a substance capable of bringing about fermentation | - |
| fermentation | (noun) a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol | Synonyms: ferment, fermenting, zymolysis, zymosis |
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| (noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | Synonyms: agitation, ferment, tempestuousness, unrest |
| fermenting | (noun) a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol | Synonyms: ferment, fermentation, zymolysis, zymosis |
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| fermentologist | (noun) a specialist in wine making | Synonyms: enologist, oenologist |
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| figment | (noun) a contrived or fantastic idea | - |
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| filament | (noun) a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current | - |
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| (noun) a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) | Synonyms: filum |
| (noun) the stalk of a stamen | - |
| (noun) a very slender natural or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: fibril, strand |
| firmament | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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| fitment | (noun) any of the items furnishing or equipping a room (especially built-in furniture) | - |
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| flamen | (noun) a priest who served a particular deity in ancient Rome | - |
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| flamenco | (noun) a style of dancing characteristic of the Andalusian Gypsies; vigorous and rhythmic with clapping and stamping of feet | Synonyms: gypsy dancing |
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| (noun) guitar music composed for dancing the flamenco | - |
| flavorsomeness | (noun) having an appetizing flavor | Synonyms: flavoursomeness, savoriness |
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| flavoursomeness | (noun) having an appetizing flavor | Synonyms: flavorsomeness, savoriness |
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| fomentation | (noun) deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord) | Synonyms: instigation |
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| (noun) application of warm wet coverings to a part of the body to relieve pain and inflammation | - |
| (noun) a substance used as a warm moist medicinal compress or poultice | - |
| fomenter | (noun) one who agitates; a political troublemaker | Synonyms: agitator |
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| foramen | (noun) a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure | Synonyms: hiatus |
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| fragment | (noun) a broken piece of a brittle artifact | Synonyms: shard, sherd |
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| (noun) an incomplete piece | - |
| (noun) a piece broken off or cut off of something else | - |
| fragmentation | (noun) separating something into fine particles | Synonyms: atomisation, atomization |
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| (noun) the scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes | - |
| (noun) (computer science) the condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk | - |
| (noun) the disintegration of social norms governing behavior and thought and social relationships | - |
| 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 |
| 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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| gameness | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gimp, gimpiness, lameness, limping |
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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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| gladsomeness | (noun) experiencing joy and pleasure | Synonyms: gladfulness, gladness |
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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 |
| gruesomeness | (noun) the quality of being ghastly | Synonyms: ghastliness, grimness, luridness |
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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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| 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 |
| hereditament | (noun) any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited | - |
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| hermeneutics | (noun) the branch of theology that deals with principles of exegesis | - |
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| hutment | (noun) an encampment of huts (chiefly military) | - |
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| hymen | (noun) a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin | Synonyms: maidenhead, virginal membrane |
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| hymeneal | (noun) a wedding hymn | - |
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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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| hymenium | (noun) spore-bearing layer of cells in certain fungi containing asci or basidia | - |
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| hymenopter | (noun) insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing | Synonyms: hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect |
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| hymenopteran | (noun) insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing | Synonyms: hymenopter, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect |
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| hymenopteron | (noun) insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing | Synonyms: hymenopter, hymenopteran, hymenopterous insect |
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| hyperalimentation | (noun) administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava; used in cases of long-term coma or severe burns or severe gastrointestinal syndromes | Synonyms: total parenteral nutrition, TPN |
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| hypermenorrhea | (noun) abnormally heavy or prolonged menstruation; can be a symptom of uterine tumors and can lead to anemia if prolonged | Synonyms: menorrhagia |
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| hyperpigmentation | (noun) unusual darkening of the skin | - |
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| hypopigmentation | (noun) unusual lack of skin color | - |
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| ilmenite | (noun) a weakly magnetic black mineral found in metamorphic and plutonic rocks; an iron titanium oxide in crystalline form; a source of titanium | - |
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| immenseness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
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| immensity | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
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| immurement | (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: captivity, imprisonment, incarceration |
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| impairment | (noun) damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality | - |
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| (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, deadening, stultification |
| (noun) the occurrence of a change for the worse | Synonyms: damage, harm |
| (noun) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness | Synonyms: disability, disablement, handicap |
| (noun) a symptom of reduced quality or strength | Synonyms: deterioration |
| impalement | (noun) the act of piercing with a sharpened stake as a form of punishment or torture | - |
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| impeachment | (noun) a formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office | - |
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| impediment | (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impedimenta, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor |
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| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance |
| impedimenta | (noun) the baggage and equipment carried by an army | - |
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| (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor |
| impingement | (noun) influencing strongly | Synonyms: encroachment, impact |
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| (noun) a sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something | Synonyms: impaction |
| implement | (noun) instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end | - |
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| implementation | (noun) the act of implementing (providing a practical means for accomplishing something); carrying into effect | Synonyms: effectuation |
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| (noun) the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order | Synonyms: carrying out, execution |
| impoundment | (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impounding, internment, poundage |
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| impoverishment | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: pauperisation, pauperization |
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| (noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: poorness, poverty |