| addressee | (noun) one to whom something is addressed | - |
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| assegai | (noun) the slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa | Synonyms: assagai |
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| assemblage | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assembly, gathering |
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| (noun) a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose | Synonyms: hookup |
| (noun) a group of persons together in one place | Synonyms: gathering |
| (noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, aggregation, collection |
| assembler | (noun) a program to convert assembly language into machine language | Synonyms: assembly program |
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| assembling | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, collecting, collection |
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| assembly | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assemblage, gathering |
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| (noun) the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: fabrication |
| (noun) a group of machine parts that fit together to form a self-contained unit | - |
| (noun) a public facility to meet for open discussion | Synonyms: forum, meeting place |
| (noun) a unit consisting of components that have been fitted together | - |
| (noun) a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose | - |
| assemblyman | (noun) someone who is a member of a legislative assembly | - |
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| assemblywoman | (noun) a woman assemblyman | - |
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| assent | (noun) agreement with a statement or proposal to do something | Synonyms: acquiescence |
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| assenter | (noun) a person who assents | - |
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| assenting | (noun) agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly) | Synonyms: accession |
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| asserter | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asseverator, avower, declarer |
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| assertion | (noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | Synonyms: asseveration, averment |
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| (noun) the act of affirming or asserting or stating something | Synonyms: affirmation, statement |
| assertiveness | (noun) aggressive self-assurance; given to making bold assertions | Synonyms: self-assertiveness |
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| assessee | (noun) a person (or property) that is assessed | - |
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| assessment | (noun) the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | Synonyms: judgement, judgment |
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| (noun) the market value set on assets | - |
| (noun) the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth | Synonyms: appraisal |
| (noun) an amount determined as payable | - |
| assessor | (noun) an official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it | Synonyms: tax assessor |
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| asset | (noun) a useful or valuable quality | Synonyms: plus |
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| assets | (noun) anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company | - |
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| asseveration | (noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | Synonyms: assertion, averment |
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| asseverator | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, avower, declarer |
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| audiocassette | (noun) a cassette for audiotape | - |
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| bagasse | (noun) the dry dusty pulp that remains after juice is extracted from sugar cane or similar plants | - |
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| basset | (noun) smooth-haired breed of hound with short legs and long ears | Synonyms: basset hound |
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| blessedness | (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatification, beatitude |
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| bouillabaisse | (noun) highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs | - |
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| brasserie | (noun) a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap | - |
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| cabasset | (noun) a metal helmet worn by common soldiers in the 16th century | Synonyms: morion |
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| canvasser | (noun) someone who conducts surveys of public opinion | Synonyms: headcounter, poll taker, pollster |
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| (noun) someone who examines votes at an election | Synonyms: scrutineer |
| (noun) a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes | Synonyms: solicitor |
| (noun) a person who takes or counts votes | - |
| casserole | (noun) large deep dish in which food can be cooked and served | - |
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| (noun) food cooked and served in a casserole | - |
| cassette | (noun) a container that holds a magnetic tape used for recording or playing sound or video | - |
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| chasse | (noun) (ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading | Synonyms: sashay |
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| connoisseur | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: cognoscente |
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| connoisseurship | (noun) love of or taste for fine objects of art | Synonyms: vertu, virtu |
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| coulisse | (noun) a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel | - |
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| (noun) a flat situated in the wings | Synonyms: wing flat |
| crevasse | (noun) a deep fissure | - |
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| crosse | (noun) a long racket with a triangular frame; used in playing lacrosse | - |
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| cuisse | (noun) armor plate that protects the thigh | - |
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| cussedness | (noun) meanspirited disagreeable contrariness | Synonyms: orneriness |
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| delicatessen | (noun) a shop selling ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: deli, food shop |
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| (noun) ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: delicatessen food |
| demitasse | (noun) small coffee cup; for serving black coffee | - |
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| (noun) small cup of strong black coffee without milk or cream | Synonyms: cafe noir |
| dessert | (noun) a dish served as the last course of a meal | Synonyms: afters, sweet |
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| dessertspoon | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoonful |
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| dessertspoonful | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoon |
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| disassembly | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: dismantlement, dismantling |
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| dispossession | (noun) the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law | Synonyms: eviction, legal ouster |
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| (noun) freeing from evil spirits | Synonyms: exorcism |
| dissection | (noun) cutting so as to separate into pieces | - |
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| (noun) detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work) | - |
| (noun) a minute and critical analysis | - |
| dissembler | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender |
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| dissembling | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation |
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| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretense |
| dissemination | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersal, dispersion |
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| (noun) the property of being diffused or dispersed | Synonyms: diffusion |
| (noun) the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate | Synonyms: airing, public exposure, spreading |
| disseminator | (noun) someone who spreads the news | Synonyms: propagator |
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| 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 |
| dissent | (noun) the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent | Synonyms: objection, protest |
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| (noun) (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority | - |
| (noun) a difference of opinion | - |
| dissenter | (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissident, objector, protester |
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| dissertation | (noun) a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree | Synonyms: thesis |
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| disservice | (noun) an act intended to help that turns out badly | Synonyms: ill service, ill turn |
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| dossel | (noun) an ornamental hanging of rich fabric hung behind the altar of a church or at the sides of a chancel | Synonyms: dossal |
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| dosser | (noun) someone who sleeps in any convenient place | Synonyms: street person |
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| dresser | (noun) furniture with drawers for keeping clothes | Synonyms: bureau, chest, chest of drawers |
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| (noun) a cabinet with shelves | - |
| (noun) low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup | Synonyms: dressing table, toilet table, vanity |
| (noun) a wardrobe assistant for an actor | Synonyms: actor's assistant |
| (noun) a person who dresses in a particular way | - |
| ecrevisse | (noun) small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America | Synonyms: Old World crayfish |
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| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
| essence | (noun) a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor | Synonyms: perfume |
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| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: burden, core, effect, gist |
| (noun) any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted | - |
| essential | (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: necessary, necessity, requirement, requisite |
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| essentiality | (noun) basic importance | Synonyms: essentialness |
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| essentialness | (noun) basic importance | Synonyms: essentiality |
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| eyeglasses | (noun) (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision | Synonyms: glasses, specs, spectacles |
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| fesse | (noun) (heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield | Synonyms: fess |
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| finesse | (noun) subtly skillful handling of a situation | Synonyms: delicacy, diplomacy, discreetness |
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| fosse | (noun) ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water | Synonyms: moat |
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| fricassee | (noun) pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings | - |
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| glasses | (noun) (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision | Synonyms: eyeglasses, specs, spectacles |
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| guesser | (noun) a person who guesses | - |
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| gusset | (noun) a piece of material used to strengthen or enlarge a garment | Synonyms: inset |
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| (noun) a metal plate used to strengthen a joist | Synonyms: gusset plate |
| (noun) a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plate | Synonyms: voider |
| hairdresser | (noun) someone who cuts or beautifies hair | Synonyms: hairstylist, styler, stylist |
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| harasser | (noun) a persistent attacker | Synonyms: harrier |
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| (noun) a persistent tormentor | - |
| hisser | (noun) someone who communicates disapproval by hissing | - |
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| impasse | (noun) a street with only one way in or out | Synonyms: blind alley, cul de sac, dead-end street |
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| (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, deadlock, stalemate, standstill |
| inessential | (noun) anything that is not essential | Synonyms: nonessential |
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| inessentiality | (noun) not of basic importance | - |
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| kisser | (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, mug, phiz, physiognomy, smiler, visage |
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| (noun) someone who kisses | Synonyms: osculator |
| lacrosse | (noun) a game invented by American Indians; now played by two teams who use long-handled rackets to catch and carry and throw the ball toward the opponents' goal | - |
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| largesse | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, magnanimity, munificence, openhandedness |
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| (noun) a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously | Synonyms: largess |
| lessee | (noun) a tenant who holds a lease | Synonyms: leaseholder |
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| lessening | (noun) a change downward | Synonyms: decrease, drop-off |
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| losses | (noun) something lost (especially money lost at gambling) | Synonyms: losings |
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| masse | (noun) a shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball | Synonyms: masse shot |
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| masses | (noun) the common people generally | Synonyms: hoi polloi, mass, multitude, people, the great unwashed |
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| masseter | (noun) a large muscle that raises the lower jaw and is used in chewing | - |
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| masseur | (noun) a male massager | - |
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| masseuse | (noun) a female massager | - |
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| messenger | (noun) a person who carries a message | Synonyms: courier |
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| molasses | (noun) thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining | - |
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| mousse | (noun) toiletry consisting of an aerosol foam used in hair styling | Synonyms: hair mousse |
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| (noun) a light creamy dish made from fish or meat and set with gelatin | - |
| (noun) a rich, frothy, creamy dessert made with whipped egg whites and heavy cream | - |
| mussel | (noun) marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc. | - |
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| (noun) black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine | - |
| noblesse | (noun) members of the nobility (especially of the French nobility) | - |
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| (noun) the state of being of noble birth | Synonyms: nobility |
| nonessential | (noun) anything that is not essential | Synonyms: inessential |
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| odyssey | (noun) a long wandering and eventful journey | - |
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| paillasse | (noun) mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust | Synonyms: palliasse |
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| palliasse | (noun) mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust | Synonyms: paillasse |
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| passel | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
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| passementerie | (noun) a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment | Synonyms: trim, trimming |
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