| aboriginal | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aborigine, indigen, indigene, native |
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| aborigine | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, indigen, indigene, native |
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| affright | (noun) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety | Synonyms: panic, terror |
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| balbriggan | (noun) a cotton knit fabric used for underwear | - |
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| birthright | (noun) a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth | - |
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| (noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) | Synonyms: patrimony |
| brig | (noun) a penal institution (especially on board a ship) | - |
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| (noun) two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts | - |
| brigade | (noun) army unit smaller than a division, typically consisting of a small number of battalions | - |
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| brigadier | (noun) a general officer ranking below a major general | Synonyms: brigadier general |
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| brigand | (noun) an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band | Synonyms: bandit |
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| brigandine | (noun) a medieval coat of chain mail consisting of metal rings sewn onto leather or cloth | - |
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| brigantine | (noun) two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast | Synonyms: hermaphrodite brig |
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| brightness | (noun) the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness level, light, luminance, luminosity, luminousness |
| (noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: cleverness, smartness |
| budgerigar | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| cartwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons | - |
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| copyright | (noun) a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work | Synonyms: right of first publication |
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| corrigenda | (noun) a list of printing errors in a book along with their corrections | - |
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| corrigendum | (noun) a printer's error; to be corrected | - |
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| dirigible | (noun) a steerable self-propelled aircraft | Synonyms: airship |
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| downrightness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: straightforwardness |
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| forthrightness | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, candour, directness, frankness |
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| frigate | (noun) a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser | - |
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| (noun) a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries | - |
| fright | (noun) an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) | Synonyms: fear, fearfulness |
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| frightening | (noun) the act of inspiring with fear | Synonyms: terrorisation, terrorization |
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| frightfulness | (noun) the quality of being frightful | - |
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| frigidity | (noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coldness, coolness, frigidness, iciness |
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| (noun) sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse | Synonyms: frigidness |
| (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: cold, coldness, frigidness, low temperature |
| frigidness | (noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coldness, coolness, frigidity, iciness |
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| (noun) sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse | Synonyms: frigidity |
| (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: cold, coldness, frigidity, low temperature |
| grigri | (noun) an African amulet | Synonyms: greegree, gres-gris |
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| hayrig | (noun) a frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry | Synonyms: hayrack |
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| infrigidation | (noun) the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes | Synonyms: refrigeration |
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| intertrigo | (noun) chafing between two skin surfaces that are in contact (as in the armpit or under the breasts or between the thighs) | - |
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| intrigue | (noun) a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends | Synonyms: machination |
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| (noun) a clandestine love affair | - |
| intriguer | (noun) a person who devises plots or intrigues | Synonyms: designer |
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| irrigation | (noun) supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc | - |
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| (noun) (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution | - |
| krigia | (noun) any small branched yellow-flowered North American herb of the genus Krigia | - |
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| madrigal | (noun) an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form | - |
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| madrigalist | (noun) a singer of madrigals | - |
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| marigold | (noun) any of various tropical American plants of the genus Tagetes widely cultivated for their showy yellow or orange flowers | - |
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| millwright | (noun) a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery | - |
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| oilrig | (noun) rig used in drilling for oil or gas | Synonyms: drill rig, drilling rig, oil rig |
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| origami | (noun) the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds) | - |
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| origanum | (noun) any of various fragrant aromatic herbs of the genus Origanum used as seasonings | - |
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| origin | (noun) properties attributable to your ancestry | Synonyms: descent, extraction |
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| (noun) the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero | - |
| (noun) an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events | Synonyms: inception, origination |
| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| (noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: beginning, root, rootage, source |
| (noun) the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived | - |
| original | (noun) an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made | Synonyms: master, master copy |
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| (noun) something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies | Synonyms: archetype, pilot |
| originalism | (noun) the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it | - |
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| originality | (noun) the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else) | - |
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| (noun) the ability to think and act independently | - |
| origination | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction |
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| (noun) an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events | Synonyms: inception, origin |
| originator | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: conceiver, mastermind |
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| outrigger | (noun) a stabilizer for a canoe; spars attach to a shaped log or float parallel to the hull | - |
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| perigee | (noun) periapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is nearest to the Earth | - |
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| perigon | (noun) an angle of 360 degrees | Synonyms: round angle |
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| perigone | (noun) collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils | Synonyms: chlamys, floral envelope, perianth, perigonium |
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| perigonium | (noun) collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils | Synonyms: chlamys, floral envelope, perianth, perigone |
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| playwright | (noun) someone who writes plays | Synonyms: dramatist |
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| ploughwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs plows | Synonyms: plowwright |
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| plowwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs plows | Synonyms: ploughwright |
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| prig | (noun) a person regarded as arrogant and annoying | Synonyms: snob, snoot, snot |
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| priggishness | (noun) exaggerated and arrogant properness | Synonyms: primness |
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| prurigo | (noun) chronic inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by blister capped papules and intense itching | - |
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| refrigerant | (noun) any substance used to provide cooling (as in a refrigerator) | - |
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| refrigeration | (noun) deliberately lowering the body's temperature for therapeutic purposes | - |
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| (noun) the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes | Synonyms: infrigidation |
| refrigerator | (noun) white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures | Synonyms: icebox |
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| rig | (noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | Synonyms: cheat, fraud, swindle |
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| (noun) gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise | - |
| (noun) formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel | Synonyms: rigging |
| (noun) a set of clothing (with accessories) | Synonyms: getup, outfit, turnout |
| (noun) a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses | Synonyms: carriage, equipage |
| (noun) a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together | Synonyms: articulated lorry, semi, tractor trailer, trailer truck, trucking rig |
| (noun) gear used in fishing | Synonyms: fishing gear, fishing rig, fishing tackle, tackle |
| rigamarole | (noun) a long and complicated and confusing procedure | Synonyms: rigmarole |
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| (noun) a set of confused and meaningless statements | Synonyms: rigmarole |
| rigatoni | (noun) tubular pasta in short ribbed pieces | - |
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| rigger | (noun) a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists | Synonyms: rigger brush |
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| (noun) a sailing vessel with a specified rig | - |
| (noun) someone who rigs ships | - |
| (noun) someone who works on an oil rig | Synonyms: oil rigger |
| rigging | (noun) gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails | Synonyms: tackle |
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| (noun) formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel | Synonyms: rig |
| right | (noun) a turn toward the side of the body that is on the south when the person is facing east | - |
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| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right | Synonyms: right field, rightfield |
| (noun) an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature | - |
| (noun) anything in accord with principles of justice | Synonyms: rightfulness |
| (noun) the hand that is on the right side of the body | Synonyms: right hand |
| (noun) those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged | Synonyms: right wing |
| (noun) location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east | - |
| (noun) (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing | - |
| righteousness | (noun) adhering to moral principles | - |
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| rightfield | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the right third of the outfield (looking from home plate) | Synonyms: right field |
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| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right | Synonyms: right, right field |
| rightfulness | (noun) anything in accord with principles of justice | Synonyms: right |
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| righthander | (noun) a person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left | Synonyms: right-hander, right hander |
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| rightism | (noun) the ideology of the political right; belief in or support of the tenets of the political right | - |
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| rightist | (noun) a member of a right wing political party | Synonyms: right-winger |
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| rightness | (noun) according with conscience or morality | - |
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| (noun) conformity to fact or truth | Synonyms: correctness |
| (noun) appropriate conduct; doing the right thing | Synonyms: appropriateness |
| (noun) conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety | Synonyms: justness, nicety |
| rigidification | (noun) the process of becoming stiff or rigid | Synonyms: rigidifying, stiffening |
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| rigidifying | (noun) the process of becoming stiff or rigid | Synonyms: rigidification, stiffening |
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| rigidity | (noun) the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending | Synonyms: rigidness |
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| (noun) the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe | Synonyms: inflexibility, rigidness |
| rigidness | (noun) the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending | Synonyms: rigidity |
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| (noun) the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe | Synonyms: inflexibility, rigidity |
| rigmarole | (noun) a long and complicated and confusing procedure | Synonyms: rigamarole |
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| (noun) a set of confused and meaningless statements | Synonyms: rigamarole |
| rigor | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) the quality of being valid and rigorous | Synonyms: cogency, rigour, validity |
| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
| rigorousness | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
| rigour | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) the quality of being valid and rigorous | Synonyms: cogency, rigor, validity |
| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
| rigourousness | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severeness, severity, stiffness |
| rigout | (noun) a person's costume (especially if bizarre) | - |
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| serigraph | (noun) a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil | Synonyms: silk screen print, silkscreen |
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| serigraphy | (noun) the act of making a print by the silkscreen method | - |
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| shipwright | (noun) a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels | Synonyms: ship builder, shipbuilder |
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| sprig | (noun) an ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers | - |
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| (noun) a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year | Synonyms: branchlet, twig |
| sprigger | (noun) a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books | Synonyms: stemmer, stripper |
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| sprightliness | (noun) animation and energy in action or expression | Synonyms: life, liveliness, spirit |
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| sprigtail | (noun) large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America | Synonyms: Pedioecetes phasianellus, sharp-tailed grouse, sprig tail |
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| thimblerig | (noun) a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under | Synonyms: shell game |
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| trig | (noun) the mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions | Synonyms: trigonometry |
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| trigeminal | (noun) the main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication | Synonyms: fifth cranial nerve, nervus trigeminus, trigeminal nerve, trigeminus |
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| trigeminus | (noun) the main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication | Synonyms: fifth cranial nerve, nervus trigeminus, trigeminal, trigeminal nerve |
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| trigger | (noun) an act that sets in motion some course of events | Synonyms: induction, initiation |
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| (noun) lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun | Synonyms: gun trigger |
| (noun) a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen | - |
| triggerfish | (noun) any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin | - |
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| triggerman | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo |
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| triglyceride | (noun) glyceride occurring naturally in animal and vegetable tissues; it consists of three individual fatty acids bound together in a single large molecule; an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body | - |
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| trigon | (noun) a triangular lyre of ancient Greece and Rome | - |
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| (noun) (astrology) one of four groups of the zodiac where each group consists of three signs separated from each other by 120 degrees | Synonyms: triplicity |
| (noun) a three-sided polygon | Synonyms: triangle, trilateral |