| defense | (noun) (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies | Synonyms: defence, defensive measure |
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| (noun) the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury | Synonyms: defence |
| (noun) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | Synonyms: defence, demurrer, denial |
| (noun) protection from harm | Synonyms: defence |
| (noun) a structure used to defend against attack | Synonyms: defence, defensive structure |
| (noun) the justification for some act or belief | Synonyms: defence, vindication |
| (noun) the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions | Synonyms: defence, refutation |
| (noun) the defendant and his legal advisors collectively | Synonyms: defence, defense lawyers, defense team |
| (noun) (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring | Synonyms: defence, defending team |
| (noun) an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack | Synonyms: defence, defence force, defense force |
| (noun) (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Synonyms: defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense mechanism, defense reaction |
| defenselessness | (noun) the property of being helpless in the face of attack | Synonyms: defencelessness, unprotectedness |
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| defensibility | (noun) capability of being defended | - |
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| defensive | (noun) an attitude of defensiveness | Synonyms: defensive attitude |
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| defensiveness | (noun) excessive sensitivity to criticism | - |
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| demonstrability | (noun) capability of being demonstrated or logically proved | Synonyms: provability |
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| demonstration | (noun) a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view | Synonyms: presentation, presentment |
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| (noun) a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature) | Synonyms: manifestation |
| (noun) a show of military force or preparedness | - |
| (noun) a visual presentation showing how something works | Synonyms: demo |
| (noun) proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion | Synonyms: monstrance |
| demonstrative | (noun) a pronoun that points out an intended referent | Synonyms: demonstrative pronoun |
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| demonstrativeness | (noun) tending to express your feelings freely | - |
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| demonstrator | (noun) someone who participates in a public display of group feeling | Synonyms: protester |
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| (noun) someone who demonstrates an article to a prospective buyer | Synonyms: sales demonstrator |
| (noun) a teacher or teacher's assistant who demonstrates the principles that are being taught | - |
| denseness | (noun) the amount per unit size | Synonyms: density |
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| (noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: compactness, concentration, density, tightness |
| (noun) the quality of being mentally slow and limited | Synonyms: dumbness, slow-wittedness |
| densification | (noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compaction, compression, concretion |
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| densimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining density or specific gravity | Synonyms: densitometer |
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| densitometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining optical or photographic density | - |
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| (noun) a measuring instrument for determining density or specific gravity | Synonyms: densimeter |
| densitometry | (noun) measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light on it and measuring its transmission | - |
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| density | (noun) the amount per unit size | Synonyms: denseness |
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| (noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: compactness, concentration, denseness, tightness |
| descensus | (noun) the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus) | Synonyms: prolapse, prolapsus |
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| desensitisation | (noun) the process of reducing sensitivity | Synonyms: desensitization |
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| desensitization | (noun) the process of reducing sensitivity | Synonyms: desensitisation |
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| diapensia | (noun) any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of the genus Diapensia | - |
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| dickens | (noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion | Synonyms: deuce, devil |
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| dimension | (noun) the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height) | - |
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| (noun) magnitude or extent | Synonyms: proportion |
| (noun) a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished | Synonyms: attribute, property |
| (noun) one of three Cartesian coordinates that determine a position in space | - |
| dimensionality | (noun) the spatial property of having dimensions | - |
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| disconsolateness | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, despondency, heartsickness |
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| dispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensableness |
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| dispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensability |
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| dispensary | (noun) clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed | - |
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| dispensation | (noun) the act of dispensing (giving out in portions) | - |
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| (noun) an exemption from some rule or obligation | - |
| (noun) a share that has been dispensed or distributed | - |
| dispenser | (noun) a container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts | - |
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| (noun) a person who dispenses | - |
| dissension | (noun) disagreement among those expected to cooperate | Synonyms: discord |
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| (noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: disagreement, dissonance |
| distension | (noun) the act of expanding by pressure from within | Synonyms: distention |
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| (noun) the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions | Synonyms: dilatation, distention |
| downshift | (noun) a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle | - |
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| (noun) a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one | - |
| downside | (noun) a negative aspect of something that is generally positive | - |
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| downsizing | (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: curtailment, retrenchment |
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| downslope | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, fall |
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| downspin | (noun) a swift and dangerous downturn | - |
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| downstage | (noun) the front half of the stage (as seen from the audience) | - |
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| downstroke | (noun) a stroke normally made in a downward direction | - |
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| downswing | (noun) a swing downward of a golf club | - |
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| (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downturn |
| dozens | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| draftsmanship | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: drafting, drawing |
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| duckpins | (noun) a bowling game using a pin smaller than a tenpin but proportionately wider | - |
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| einsteinium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons | Synonyms: atomic number 99, E, Es |
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| ensemble | (noun) a coordinated outfit (set of clothing) | - |
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| (noun) the chorus of a ballet company | Synonyms: corps de ballet |
| (noun) a group of musicians playing or singing together | - |
| (noun) an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole | Synonyms: tout ensemble |
| (noun) a cast other than the principals | Synonyms: supporting players |
| ensign | (noun) colors flown by a ship to show its nationality | - |
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| (noun) an emblem flown as a symbol of nationality | Synonyms: national flag |
| (noun) a person who holds a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant junior grade | - |
| ensilage | (noun) fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo | Synonyms: silage |
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| enslavement | (noun) the act of making slaves of your captives | - |
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| (noun) the state of being a slave | Synonyms: captivity |
| environs | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environment, surround, surroundings |
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| (noun) an outer adjacent area of any place | Synonyms: purlieu |
| evensong | (noun) (Anglican Church) a daily evening service with prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer | Synonyms: Evening Prayer |
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| (noun) the sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays | Synonyms: vespers |
| expanse | (noun) the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary | Synonyms: area, surface area |
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| (noun) a wide scope | Synonyms: sweep |
| (noun) a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky | - |
| expansion | (noun) the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope | Synonyms: enlargement |
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| (noun) adding information or detail | Synonyms: expanding upon |
| (noun) a discussion that provides additional information | Synonyms: elaboration, enlargement |
| (noun) a function expressed as a sum or product of terms | - |
| expansionism | (noun) the doctrine of expanding the territory or the economic influence of a country | - |
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| expansiveness | (noun) a friendly open trait of a talkative person | Synonyms: effusiveness, expansivity |
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| (noun) a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand | Synonyms: expansivity |
| expansivity | (noun) a friendly open trait of a talkative person | Synonyms: effusiveness, expansiveness |
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| (noun) a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand | Synonyms: expansiveness |
| (noun) the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure | Synonyms: coefficient of expansion |
| expense | (noun) a detriment or sacrifice | - |
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| (noun) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) | Synonyms: disbursal, disbursement |
| (noun) money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer | - |
| expensiveness | (noun) the quality of being high-priced | - |
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| explanans | (noun) (logic) statements that explain the explicandum; the explanatory premises | - |
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| extension | (noun) an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students | Synonyms: extension service, university extension |
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| (noun) act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb | - |
| (noun) act of expanding in scope; making more widely available | - |
| (noun) an addition that extends a main building | Synonyms: annex, annexe, wing |
| (noun) an addition to the length of something | Synonyms: elongation |
| (noun) an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line | Synonyms: extension phone, telephone extension |
| (noun) amount or degree or range to which something extends | Synonyms: lengthiness, prolongation |
| (noun) the ability to raise the working leg high in the air | - |
| (noun) the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to | Synonyms: denotation, reference |
| (noun) a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename | Synonyms: file name extension, filename extension |
| (noun) the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions | Synonyms: propagation |
| (noun) a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt | - |
| extensiveness | (noun) large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness | Synonyms: largeness |
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| extensor | (noun) a skeletal muscle whose contraction extends or stretches a body part | Synonyms: extensor muscle |
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| fansign | (noun) a sign made by a fan, usually with the target's name on it | - |
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| foremanship | (noun) the position of foreman | - |
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| forensics | (noun) scientific tests or techniques used in the investigation of crimes | - |
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| frankincense | (noun) an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation | Synonyms: gum olibanum, olibanum, thus |
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| gamesmanship | (noun) the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win a game | - |
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| gegenschein | (noun) a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space | Synonyms: counterglow |
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| gens | (noun) family based on male descent | Synonyms: name |
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| ginseng | (noun) Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers | Synonyms: nin-sin, Panax ginseng, Panax pseudoginseng, Panax schinseng |
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| (noun) aromatic root of ginseng plants | - |
| glans | (noun) a small rounded structure; especially that at the end of the penis or clitoris | - |
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| glockenspiel | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers | Synonyms: orchestral bells |
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| goldenseal | (noun) perennial herb of northeastern United States having a thick knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves | Synonyms: golden seal, Hydrastis Canadensis, turmeric root, yellow root |
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| greens | (noun) any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables | Synonyms: green, leafy vegetable |
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| greensand | (noun) an olive-green sandstone containing glauconite | - |
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| greenshank | (noun) large European sandpiper with greenish legs | Synonyms: Tringa nebularia |
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| greensickness | (noun) iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin | Synonyms: chlorosis |
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| greenskeeper | (noun) someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course | - |
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| greensward | (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: sod, sward, turf |
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| guardianship | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: keeping, safekeeping |
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| (noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: care, charge, tutelage |
| gubbins | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| gunshot | (noun) the act of shooting a gun | Synonyms: gunfire |
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| gunsight | (noun) a sight used for aiming a gun | Synonyms: gun-sight |
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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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| gunsmith | (noun) someone who makes or repairs guns | - |
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| gunstock | (noun) the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun | Synonyms: stock |
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| hansom | (noun) a two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers | Synonyms: hansom cab |
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| happenstance | (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: coincidence |
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| heavens | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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| hornstone | (noun) a fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks | Synonyms: hornfels |
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| horsemanship | (noun) skill in handling and riding horses | - |
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| hortensia | (noun) deciduous shrub bearing roundheaded flower clusters opening green and aging to pink or blue | Synonyms: Hydrangea macrophylla hortensis |
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| (noun) very tall branching herb with showy much-doubled yellow flower heads | Synonyms: double gold, golden glow, Rudbeckia laciniata hortensia |
| humans | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, man, mankind, world |
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| hyperextension | (noun) greater than normal extension | - |
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| hypersensitivity | (noun) extreme sensitivity | - |
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| (noun) pathological sensitivity | - |
| hypertension | (noun) a common disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high (a reading of 140/90 mm Hg or greater) | Synonyms: high blood pressure |
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| hypertensive | (noun) a person who has abnormally high blood pressure | - |
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| hypotension | (noun) abnormally low blood pressure | - |
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| hypotensive | (noun) a person who has abnormally low blood pressure | - |
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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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| incense | (noun) the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned | - |
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| (noun) a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned | - |