| cornice | (noun) the topmost projecting part of an entablature | - |
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| (noun) a molding at the corner between the ceiling and the top of a wall | - |
| (noun) a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing | Synonyms: pelmet, valance, valance board |
| cornmeal | (noun) coarsely ground corn | Synonyms: Indian meal |
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| cornpone | (noun) cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern) | Synonyms: pone |
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| cornsilk | (noun) each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn | Synonyms: corn silk |
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| cornsmut | (noun) a smut fungus attacking Indian corn | Synonyms: corn smut |
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| cornstalk | (noun) the stalk of a corn plant | Synonyms: corn stalk |
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| cornstarch | (noun) starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener | Synonyms: cornflour |
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| cornu | (noun) (anatomy) any structure that resembles a horn in shape | - |
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| cornucopia | (noun) the property of being extremely abundant | Synonyms: profuseness, profusion, richness |
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| (noun) a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity | Synonyms: horn of plenty |
| cowbarn | (noun) a barn for cows | Synonyms: byre, cow barn, cowhouse, cowshed |
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| cromorne | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: crumhorn, krummhorn |
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| crumhorn | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: cromorne, krummhorn |
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| cybernation | (noun) the control of processes by computer | Synonyms: computerization |
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| cybernaut | (noun) a computer user who uses the internet; someone who explores cyberspace | - |
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| cybernetics | (noun) (biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems) | - |
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| czworniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using three units of water for each unit of honey. | - |
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| dapperness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: jauntiness, nattiness, rakishness |
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| darn | (noun) sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment) | Synonyms: mend, patch |
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| (noun) something of little value | Synonyms: damn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
| darnel | (noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum, tare |
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| darner | (noun) a person who mends by darning | - |
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| darning | (noun) the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads | - |
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| dearness | (noun) the quality possessed by something with a great price or value | Synonyms: costliness, preciousness |
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| dirndl | (noun) a dress with a tight bodice and full skirt | - |
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| (noun) a full skirt with a gathered waistband | - |
| discernability | (noun) distinctness that makes perception easy | Synonyms: legibility |
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| discernment | (noun) the trait of judging wisely and objectively | Synonyms: discretion |
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| (noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: judgement, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity |
| (noun) the cognitive condition of someone who understands | Synonyms: apprehension, savvy, understanding |
| (noun) perception of that which is obscure | Synonyms: perceptiveness |
| (noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: appreciation, perceptiveness, taste |
| doornail | (noun) a nail with a large head; formerly used to decorate doors | - |
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| downturn | (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downswing |
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| eagerness | (noun) prompt willingness | Synonyms: forwardness, readiness, zeal |
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| (noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidity, avidness, keenness |
| earner | (noun) someone who earn wages in return for their labor | Synonyms: wage earner |
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| earnest | (noun) something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract | - |
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| earnestness | (noun) the trait of being serious | Synonyms: serious-mindedness, seriousness, sincerity |
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| (noun) an earnest and sincere feeling | Synonyms: seriousness, sincerity |
| earnings | (noun) something that remunerates | Synonyms: pay, remuneration, salary, wage |
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| (noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits |
| easterner | (noun) an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the U.S. | - |
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| eburnation | (noun) a change that occurs in degenerative joint disease in which bone is converted into a dense smooth substance resembling ivory | - |
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| ern | (noun) bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland | Synonyms: erne, European sea eagle, gray sea eagle, grey sea eagle, Haliatus albicilla, white-tailed sea eagle |
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| erne | (noun) bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland | Synonyms: ern, European sea eagle, gray sea eagle, grey sea eagle, Haliatus albicilla, white-tailed sea eagle |
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| eternity | (noun) a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife | Synonyms: timeless existence, timelessness |
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| (noun) time without end | Synonyms: infinity |
| (noun) a seemingly endless time interval (waiting) | - |
| ethernet | (noun) a type of network technology for local area networks; coaxial cable carries radio frequency signals between computers at a rate of 10 megabits per second | - |
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| extern | (noun) a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there | Synonyms: medical extern |
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| external | (noun) outward features | - |
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| externalisation | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalization |
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| (noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalization |
| externality | (noun) the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior | Synonyms: outwardness |
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| externalization | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalisation |
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| (noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalisation |
| fairness | (noun) conformity with rules or standards | Synonyms: equity |
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| (noun) the property of having a naturally light complexion | Synonyms: blondness, paleness |
| (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: beauteousness, comeliness, loveliness |
| (noun) ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty | Synonyms: candor, candour, fair-mindedness |
| farness | (noun) the property of being remote | Synonyms: farawayness, remoteness |
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| fern | (noun) any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | - |
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| fingernail | (noun) the nail at the end of a finger | - |
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| firethorn | (noun) any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries | Synonyms: fire thorn, pyracanth, Pyracantha |
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| firstborn | (noun) the offspring who came first in the order of birth | Synonyms: eldest |
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| fluegelhorn | (noun) a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore | Synonyms: flugelhorn |
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| flugelhorn | (noun) a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore | Synonyms: fluegelhorn |
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| foghorn | (noun) a warning device consisting of a horn that generates a loud low tone | - |
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| (noun) a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships | Synonyms: fogsignal |
| forewarning | (noun) an early warning about a future event | Synonyms: premonition |
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| forlornness | (noun) sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned | Synonyms: desolation, loneliness |
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| fornication | (noun) voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other | - |
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| (noun) extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations | Synonyms: adultery, criminal conversation |
| fornicator | (noun) someone who commits adultery or fornication | Synonyms: adulterer |
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| fornicatress | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop |
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| fornix | (noun) an arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mamillary bodies | Synonyms: trigonum cerebrale |
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| (noun) generally any arch shaped structure (but often it refers to the arched roof of an anatomical space) | - |
| fraternisation | (noun) associating with others in a brotherly or friendly way; especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternization |
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| fraternity | (noun) people engaged in a particular occupation | Synonyms: brotherhood, sodality |
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| (noun) a social club for male undergraduates | Synonyms: frat |
| fraternization | (noun) associating with others in a brotherly or friendly way; especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternisation |
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| furnace | (noun) an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc. | - |
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| furnishing | (noun) the act of providing a house or room with furniture and other removable items such as shelves, carpets, appliances, etc. | - |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel | Synonyms: trappings |
| furniture | (noun) furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy | Synonyms: article of furniture, piece of furniture |
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| garner | (noun) a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed | Synonyms: granary |
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| garnet | (noun) any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive | - |
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| garnierite | (noun) a green mineral consisting of hydrated nickel magnesium silicate; a source of nickel | - |
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| garnish | (noun) any decoration added as a trimming or adornment | - |
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| (noun) something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration | - |
| garnishee | (noun) a wage earner who is served with a garnishment | - |
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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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| gittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, cittern |
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| globularness | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globosity, rotundity, rotundness, sphericalness, sphericity |
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| governance | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governing, government, government activity |
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| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, establishment, governing body, organisation, organization |
| governed | (noun) the body of people who are citizens of a particular government | - |
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| governess | (noun) a woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home) | - |
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| governing | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, government, government activity |
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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 |
| governor | (noun) a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel) | Synonyms: regulator |
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| (noun) the head of a state government | - |
| governorship | (noun) the office of governor | - |
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| greenhorn | (noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: cub, rookie |
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| gurnard | (noun) bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom | - |
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| gurney | (noun) a metal stretcher with wheels | - |
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| hairnet | (noun) a small net that some women wear over their hair to keep it in place | - |
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| harness | (noun) stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart | - |
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| (noun) a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute) | - |
| hawthorn | (noun) a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus | Synonyms: haw |
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| heartburn | (noun) a painful burning sensation in the chest caused by gastroesophageal reflux (backflow from the stomach irritating the esophagus); symptomatic of an ulcer or a diaphragmatic hernia or other disorder | Synonyms: pyrosis |
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| heartburning | (noun) intense resentment | - |
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| hernia | (noun) rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes | Synonyms: herniation |
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| herniation | (noun) rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes | Synonyms: hernia |
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| hibernation | (noun) the act of retiring into inactivity | - |
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| (noun) the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter | - |
| (noun) cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals | - |
| horn | (noun) one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates | - |
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| (noun) any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn | - |
| (noun) a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves | Synonyms: French horn |
| (noun) a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves | Synonyms: cornet, trump, trumpet |
| (noun) an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound | - |
| (noun) a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather) | Synonyms: saddle horn |
| (noun) a device on an automobile for making a warning noise | Synonyms: automobile horn, car horn, hooter, motor horn |
| (noun) a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it | - |
| (noun) a device having the shape of a horn | - |
| (noun) a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning | - |
| (noun) the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails | - |
| hornbeam | (noun) any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus | - |
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| hornbill | (noun) bird of tropical Africa and Asia having a very large bill surmounted by a bony protuberance; related to kingfishers | - |
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| hornblende | (noun) a green to black mineral of the amphibole group; consists of silicates of calcium and sodium and magnesium and iron | - |
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| hornbook | (noun) a primer that provides instruction in the rudiments or basic skills of a branch of knowledge | - |
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| hornet | (noun) large stinging paper wasp | - |
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| hornfels | (noun) a fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks | Synonyms: hornstone |
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| horniness | (noun) a state of sexual arousal | Synonyms: hot pants, hotness |
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| hornist | (noun) a musician who plays a horn (especially a French horn) | - |
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| hornpipe | (noun) a British solo dance performed by sailors | - |
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| (noun) an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone | Synonyms: pibgorn, stockhorn |
| (noun) music for dancing the hornpipe | - |