| afterburner | (noun) a device that injects fuel into a hot exhaust for extra thrust | - |
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| attorney | (noun) a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice | Synonyms: lawyer |
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| attorneyship | (noun) the position of attorney | - |
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| barnburner | (noun) an impressively successful event | - |
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| (noun) someone who burns down a barn | - |
| bicorne | (noun) a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points | Synonyms: bicorn |
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| bitterness | (noun) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste | Synonyms: bitter |
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| (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
| (noun) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: bitter |
| (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: gall, rancor, rancour, resentment |
| blarney | (noun) flattery designed to gain favor | Synonyms: coaxing, soft soap, sweet talk |
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| bourne | (noun) an archaic term for a goal or destination | Synonyms: bourn |
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| (noun) an archaic term for a boundary | Synonyms: bourn |
| burner | (noun) an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse) | - |
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| (noun) the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking | - |
| carnelian | (noun) a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: cornelian |
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| charnel | (noun) a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited | Synonyms: charnel house |
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| clearness | (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
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| (noun) the quality of clear water | Synonyms: clarity, uncloudedness |
| cleverness | (noun) the property of being ingenious | Synonyms: ingeniousness, ingenuity |
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| (noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: brightness, smartness |
| (noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness |
| cornea | (noun) the transparent dome-shaped anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye; it covers the iris and pupil and is continuous with the sclera | - |
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| cornel | (noun) a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers | Synonyms: dogwood, dogwood tree |
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| cornelian | (noun) a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: carnelian |
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| corner | (noun) the intersection of two streets | Synonyms: street corner, turning point |
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| (noun) (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone | Synonyms: quoin |
| (noun) an interior angle formed by two meeting walls | Synonyms: nook |
| (noun) the point where two lines meet or intersect | - |
| (noun) the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect | - |
| (noun) a place off to the side of an area | - |
| (noun) a remote area | - |
| (noun) a projecting part where two sides or edges meet | - |
| (noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: niche, recess, recession |
| (noun) a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade | - |
| (noun) a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible | Synonyms: box |
| cornerback | (noun) a defensive football player stationed outside the linebackers | - |
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| cornerstone | (noun) a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls | - |
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| (noun) a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies | - |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork |
| cornet | (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: horn, trump, trumpet |
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| cornetfish | (noun) slender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales | - |
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| cornetist | (noun) a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet | Synonyms: trumpeter |
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| corneum | (noun) the outermost layer of the epidermis consisting of dead cells that slough off | Synonyms: horny layer, stratum corneum |
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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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| 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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| dapperness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: jauntiness, nattiness, rakishness |
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| 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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| dearness | (noun) the quality possessed by something with a great price or value | Synonyms: costliness, preciousness |
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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 |
| easterner | (noun) an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the U.S. | - |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| globularness | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globosity, rotundity, rotundness, sphericalness, sphericity |
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| 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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| 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) | - |
| hornet | (noun) large stinging paper wasp | - |
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| improperness | (noun) an improper demeanor | Synonyms: impropriety |
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| interne | (noun) an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience | Synonyms: houseman, intern, medical intern |
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| internee | (noun) a person who is interned | - |
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| internet | (noun) a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange | Synonyms: cyberspace, net |
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| journey | (noun) the act of traveling from one place to another | Synonyms: journeying |
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| journeyer | (noun) a traveler going on a trip | Synonyms: wayfarer |
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| journeying | (noun) the act of traveling from one place to another | Synonyms: journey |
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| journeyman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, craftsman |
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| kernel | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
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| (noun) a single whole grain of a cereal | - |
| (noun) the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone | Synonyms: meat |
| kosherness | (noun) The property of being fit to eat under Jewish dietary laws. | - |
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| learnedness | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learning, scholarship |
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| learner | (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: assimilator, scholar, student |
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| (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: apprentice, prentice |
| leatherneck | (noun) a member of the United States Marine Corps | Synonyms: devil dog, Marine, shipboard soldier |
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| lucerne | (noun) important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop | Synonyms: alfalfa, Medicago sativa |
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| meagerness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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| mourner | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, lamenter, sorrower |
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| nearness | (noun) the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance | Synonyms: closeness |
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| nocturne | (noun) a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano) | Synonyms: notturno |
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| orneriness | (noun) meanspirited disagreeable contrariness | Synonyms: cussedness |
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| otherness | (noun) the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known | Synonyms: distinctness, separateness |
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| pimpernel | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Anagallis | - |
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| (noun) European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads | Synonyms: burnet bloodwort, Poterium sanguisorba, salad burnet |
| poorness | (noun) the quality of being poorly made or maintained | - |
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| (noun) less than adequate | - |
| (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness |
| (noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: impoverishment, poverty |
| properness | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: correctitude, propriety |
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| queerness | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gayness, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality |
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| (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, quirk, quirkiness |
| rubberneck | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubbernecker |
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| (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, sightseer, tripper |
| rubbernecker | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubberneck |
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| scorner | (noun) a person who expresses contempt by remarks or facial expression | Synonyms: sneerer |
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| slenderness | (noun) the quality of being slight or inadequate | - |
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| (noun) the property of an attractively thin person | Synonyms: slightness, slimness |
| (noun) relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | Synonyms: tenuity, thinness |
| soberness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, gravity, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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| (noun) the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol | Synonyms: sobriety |
| sojourner | (noun) a temporary resident | - |
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| somberness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, gravity, soberness, sobriety, sombreness |
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| (noun) a feeling of melancholy apprehension | Synonyms: gloom, gloominess, sombreness |
| (noun) a state of partial or total darkness | Synonyms: gloom, sombreness |
| sourness | (noun) the property of being acidic | Synonyms: acidity, sour |
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| (noun) a sullen moody resentful disposition | Synonyms: moroseness, sulkiness, sullenness |
| (noun) the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: sour, tartness |
| spurner | (noun) a person who rejects (someone or something) with contempt | - |
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| suborner | (noun) someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act | Synonyms: briber |
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| tenderness | (noun) a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless) | Synonyms: softheartedness |
| (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, warmheartedness, warmness |
| (noun) warm compassionate feelings | Synonyms: tenderheartedness |
| (noun) a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched) | Synonyms: rawness, soreness |
| togetherness | (noun) affectionate closeness | - |
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| tournedos | (noun) thick steak cut from the beef tenderloin | - |
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| tourney | (noun) a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner | Synonyms: tournament |
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| tricorne | (noun) cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points | Synonyms: tricorn |
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| turner | (noun) cooking utensil having a flat flexible part and a long handle; used for turning or serving food | Synonyms: food turner |
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| (noun) one of two persons who swing ropes for jumpers to skip over in the game of jump rope | - |
| (noun) a lathe operator | - |
| (noun) a tumbler who is a member of a turnverein | - |
| turnery | (noun) products made on a lathe | - |
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| (noun) workshop where objects are made on a lathe | - |
| unclearness | (noun) incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear | - |
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| unfairness | (noun) an unjust act | Synonyms: iniquity, injustice, shabbiness |
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| (noun) injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards | Synonyms: inequity |
| (noun) partiality that is not fair or equitable | - |
| utterness | (noun) the quality of being complete or utter or extreme | Synonyms: absoluteness, starkness |
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| warner | (noun) someone who gives a warning to others | - |
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| westerner | (noun) an inhabitant of a western area; especially of the U.S. | - |
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| wilderness | (noun) a bewildering profusion | - |
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| (noun) a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition | Synonyms: wild |
| (noun) (politics) a state of disfavor | - |
| yearner | (noun) a person with a strong desire for something | Synonyms: longer, thirster |
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