| footrest | (noun) a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | Synonyms: footstool, ottoman, tuffet |
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| footslogger | (noun) fights on foot with small arms | Synonyms: foot soldier, infantryman, marcher |
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| footstall | (noun) an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue) | Synonyms: pedestal, plinth |
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| footstep | (noun) the act of taking a step in walking | - |
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| (noun) the sound of a step of someone walking | Synonyms: footfall, step |
| (noun) the distance covered by a step | Synonyms: pace, step, stride |
| footstool | (noun) a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | Synonyms: footrest, ottoman, tuffet |
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| footwall | (noun) the lower wall of an inclined fault | - |
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| footwear | (noun) covering for a person's feet | Synonyms: footgear |
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| (noun) clothing worn on a person's feet | - |
| footwork | (noun) the manner of using the feet | - |
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| (noun) skillful maneuvering or dealing | - |
| forefoot | (noun) a front foot of a quadruped | - |
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| forenoon | (noun) the time period between dawn and noon | Synonyms: morn, morning, morning time |
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| freebooter | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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| fruitwood | (noun) wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork | - |
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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 |
| galoot | (noun) a disreputable or clumsy man | - |
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| geezerhood | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, eld, old age, years |
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| gingerroot | (noun) pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery | Synonyms: ginger |
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| girlhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: maidenhood, maidhood |
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| gloom | (noun) a feeling of melancholy apprehension | Synonyms: gloominess, somberness, sombreness |
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| (noun) a state of partial or total darkness | Synonyms: somberness, sombreness |
| (noun) an atmosphere of depression and melancholy | Synonyms: gloominess, glumness |
| gloominess | (noun) the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness | Synonyms: lugubriousness, sadness |
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| (noun) The property of having a frowning or scowling appearance. | - |
| (noun) a feeling of melancholy apprehension | Synonyms: gloom, somberness, sombreness |
| (noun) an atmosphere of depression and melancholy | Synonyms: gloom, glumness |
| goatsfoot | (noun) short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers | Synonyms: goat's foot, Oxalis caprina |
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| gobbledygook | (noun) incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists | - |
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| goo | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
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| goober | (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: earthnut, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut, peanut |
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| good | (noun) a raw material that is sold in large quantities, usually to other businesses for manufacturing or production purposes | Synonyms: commodity, trade good |
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| (noun) benefit | - |
| (noun) moral excellence or admirableness | Synonyms: goodness |
| (noun) that which is pleasing or valuable or useful | Synonyms: goodness |
| goodby | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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| goodbye | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, sayonara, so long |
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| goodness | (noun) moral excellence or admirableness | Synonyms: good |
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| (noun) that which is pleasing or valuable or useful | Synonyms: good |
| goodwill | (noun) a disposition to kindness and compassion | Synonyms: good will, grace |
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| (noun) the friendly hope that something will succeed | Synonyms: good will |
| (noun) (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets) | Synonyms: good will |
| goody | (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: dainty, delicacy, kickshaw, treat |
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| goof | (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
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| (noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: buffoon, clown, goofball, merry andrew |
| goofball | (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
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| (noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: buffoon, clown, goof, merry andrew |
| googly | (noun) a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way | Synonyms: bosie, bosie ball, wrong 'un |
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| googol | (noun) a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred) | - |
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| googolplex | (noun) a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by a googol of zeros (ten raised to the power of a googol) | - |
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| gook | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
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| goon | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
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| (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie |
| gooney | (noun) a variety of albatross with black feet | Synonyms: black-footed albatross, Diomedea nigripes, gooney bird, goonie, goony |
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| goonie | (noun) a variety of albatross with black feet | Synonyms: black-footed albatross, Diomedea nigripes, gooney, gooney bird, goony |
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| goony | (noun) a variety of albatross with black feet | Synonyms: black-footed albatross, Diomedea nigripes, gooney, gooney bird, goonie |
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| goop | (noun) street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate | Synonyms: easy lay, Georgia home boy, grievous bodily harm, liquid ecstasy, max, scoop, soap |
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| (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
| goosander | (noun) common merganser of Europe and North America | Synonyms: Mergus merganser |
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| goose | (noun) web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a goose (domestic or wild) | - |
| (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, jackass, twat, zany |
| gooseberry | (noun) currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies | - |
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| (noun) spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries | Synonyms: gooseberry bush, Ribes grossularia, Ribes uva-crispa |
| goosebump | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, gooseflesh, horripilation, pilomotor reflex |
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| goosefish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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| gooseflesh | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, goosebump, horripilation, pilomotor reflex |
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| goosefoot | (noun) any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers | - |
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| gooseneck | (noun) something in a thin curved form (like the neck of a goose) | - |
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| gopherwood | (noun) small handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye | Synonyms: Cladrastis kentukea, Cladrastis lutea, Kentucky yellowwood |
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| greasewood | (noun) low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils of western America | Synonyms: black greasewood, Sarcobatus vermiculatus |
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| greenhood | (noun) any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood | Synonyms: helmet orchid |
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| greenroom | (noun) a backstage room in a theater where performers rest or have visitors | - |
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| greenwood | (noun) woodlands in full leaf | - |
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| grillroom | (noun) a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill | Synonyms: grill |
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| groom | (noun) a man who has recently been married | Synonyms: bridegroom |
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| (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: hostler, ostler, stableboy, stableman |
| (noun) a man participant in his own marriage ceremony | Synonyms: bridegroom |
| grooming | (noun) the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes | Synonyms: dressing |
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| (noun) activity leading to skilled behavior | Synonyms: preparation, training |
| groomsman | (noun) a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding | - |
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| groove | (noun) a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape | Synonyms: rut |
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| (noun) (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part | Synonyms: vallecula |
| (noun) a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) | Synonyms: channel |
| groover | (noun) a device that makes grooves by cutting or punching | - |
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| grooving | (noun) the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm | Synonyms: rifling |
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| guardroom | (noun) a room used by soldiers on guard | - |
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| (noun) a cell in which soldiers who are prisoners are confined | - |
| guestroom | (noun) a bedroom that is kept for the use of guests | - |
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| guidebook | (noun) something that offers basic information or instruction | Synonyms: guide |
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| gumwood | (noun) wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum | Synonyms: gum |
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| halloo | (noun) a shout to attract attention | - |
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| handbook | (noun) a concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location | Synonyms: enchiridion, vade mecum |
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| handloom | (noun) a loom powered by hand | - |
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| hardihood | (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: boldness, daring, hardiness |
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| hardwood | (noun) the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers) | - |
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| harpoon | (noun) a spear with a shaft and barbed point for throwing; used for catching large fish or whales; a strong line is attached to it | - |
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| harpooneer | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooner |
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| harpooner | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooneer |
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| hazelwood | (noun) reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture | Synonyms: red gum, satin walnut, sweet gum |
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| headroom | (noun) the capacity of a system to reproduce loud sounds without distortion | Synonyms: dynamic headroom |
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| (noun) vertical space available to allow easy passage under something | Synonyms: clearance, headway |
| heartwood | (noun) the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood | Synonyms: duramen |
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| heirloom | (noun) something that has been in a family for generations | - |
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| (noun) (law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance | - |
| hencoop | (noun) a farm building for housing poultry | Synonyms: chicken coop, coop, henhouse |
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| henroost | (noun) a roost for hens at night | - |
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| highschool | (noun) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 | Synonyms: high, high school, senior high, senior high school |
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| hindfoot | (noun) a rear foot of a quadruped | - |
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| homeroom | (noun) a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business | Synonyms: home room |
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| honeymoon | (noun) a holiday taken by a newly married couple | - |
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| (noun) the early (usually calm and harmonious) period of a relationship; business or political | - |
| honeymooner | (noun) someone recently married | Synonyms: newlywed |
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| hooch | (noun) an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor | Synonyms: hootch |
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| hood | (noun) (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal | - |
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| (noun) protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | Synonyms: bonnet, cowl, cowling |
| (noun) a headdress that protects the head and face | - |
| (noun) the folding roof of a carriage | - |
| (noun) metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes | Synonyms: exhaust hood |
| (noun) (falconry) a leather covering for a hawk's head | - |
| (noun) a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera | Synonyms: lens hood |
| (noun) (slang) a neighborhood or community | Synonyms: 'hood |
| (noun) a protective covering that is part of a plant | Synonyms: cap |
| (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie |
| hoodlum | (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie |
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| hoodmold | (noun) a protective drip that is made of stone | Synonyms: dripstone, hoodmould |
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| hoodmould | (noun) a protective drip that is made of stone | Synonyms: dripstone, hoodmold |
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| hoodoo | (noun) a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers | Synonyms: fetich, fetish, juju, voodoo |
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| (noun) something believed to bring bad luck | - |
| (noun) a practitioner of voodoo | - |
| (noun) (geology) a column of weathered and unusually shaped rock | - |
| hoodooism | (noun) a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities | Synonyms: vodoun, voodoo, voodooism |
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| hooey | (noun) senseless talk | Synonyms: poppycock, stuff, stuff and nonsense |
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| hoof | (noun) the foot of an ungulate mammal | - |
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| (noun) the horny covering of the end of the foot in ungulate mammals | - |
| hoofer | (noun) a professional dancer | Synonyms: stepper |
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| hoofing | (noun) dancing in which the steps are more important than gestures or postures | Synonyms: step dancing |
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| hoofprint | (noun) a visible impression on a surface made by the hoof of an animal | Synonyms: hoof-mark, hoof mark |
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| hook | (noun) a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent | - |
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| (noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: draw, hooking |
| (noun) a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket | Synonyms: hook shot |
| (noun) a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something | - |
| (noun) a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something | Synonyms: claw |
| (noun) a catch for locking a door | - |
| (noun) anything that serves as an enticement | Synonyms: bait, come-on, lure, sweetener |
| (noun) a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook | Synonyms: crotchet |
| hookah | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| hooker | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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| (noun) (rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot | - |
| (noun) a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers) | - |
| hooking | (noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: draw, hook |
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| hooknose | (noun) a nose with a prominent slightly aquiline bridge | Synonyms: Roman nose |
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