| dovetail | (noun) a mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises | Synonyms: dovetail joint |
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| drawshave | (noun) a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces | Synonyms: drawknife |
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| drive | (noun) a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile) | Synonyms: ride |
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| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, effort, movement |
| (noun) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | Synonyms: driving |
| (noun) the act of applying force to propel something | Synonyms: driving force, thrust |
| (noun) (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash) | - |
| (noun) the act of driving a herd of animals overland | - |
| (noun) a wide scenic road planted with trees | Synonyms: parkway |
| (noun) a road leading up to a private house | Synonyms: driveway, private road |
| (noun) a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium | - |
| (noun) the trait of being highly motivated | - |
| (noun) a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire | - |
| drivel | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drool, slobber |
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| (noun) a worthless message | Synonyms: garbage |
| driveller | (noun) someone whose talk is trivial drivel | Synonyms: jabberer |
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| (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, drooler, slobberer |
| driver | (noun) a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee | Synonyms: number one wood |
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| (noun) (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device | Synonyms: device driver |
| (noun) the operator of a motor vehicle | - |
| (noun) a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver | - |
| (noun) someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle | - |
| driveshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application | - |
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| driveway | (noun) a road leading up to a private house | Synonyms: drive, private road |
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| drove | (noun) a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone | Synonyms: drove chisel |
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| (noun) a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together | - |
| (noun) a moving crowd | Synonyms: horde, swarm |
| drover | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: herder, herdsman |
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| durative | (noun) the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration | Synonyms: durative aspect |
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| duvet | (noun) a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider | Synonyms: continental quilt, eiderdown |
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| eaves | (noun) the overhang at the lower edge of a roof | - |
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| eavesdropper | (noun) a secret listener to private conversations | - |
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| effectiveness | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectivity, effectuality, effectualness |
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| (noun) capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects | Synonyms: potency, strength |
| effervescence | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: bubbliness, frothiness |
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| (noun) the process of bubbling as gas escapes | - |
| effusiveness | (noun) a friendly open trait of a talkative person | Synonyms: expansiveness, expansivity |
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| ejective | (noun) a type of consonant in some languages, e.g., Hausa, produced by sudden release of pressure from the glottis. | Synonyms: ejective consonant |
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| elective | (noun) a course that the student can select from among alternatives | Synonyms: elective course |
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| electiveness | (noun) Quality or state in which choice or discretion is allowed. | Synonyms: optionality |
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| eleven | (noun) a team that plays football | Synonyms: football team |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one | Synonyms: 11, XI |
| eleventh | (noun) position 11 in a countable series of things | - |
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| elusiveness | (noun) the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down | - |
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| elver | (noun) young eel | - |
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| (noun) young eel; may be sauteed or batter-fried | - |
| elves | (noun) an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere | - |
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| enclave | (noun) an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it | - |
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| endive | (noun) variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges | Synonyms: chicory escarole, escarole |
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| (noun) widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched | Synonyms: Cichorium endivia, witloof |
| engraver | (noun) a printmaker who prints from an engraved printing plate | - |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching | - |
| enlivener | (noun) an agent that gives or restores life or vigor | Synonyms: invigorator, quickener |
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| enslavement | (noun) the act of making slaves of your captives | - |
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| (noun) the state of being a slave | Synonyms: captivity |
| envelope | (noun) any wrapper or covering | - |
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| (noun) a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc. | - |
| (noun) the bag containing the gas in a balloon | Synonyms: gasbag |
| (noun) the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft) | - |
| (noun) a natural covering (as by a fluid) | - |
| (noun) a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves | - |
| envelopment | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, enclosure, inclosure |
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| erosiveness | (noun) The state or quality of causing or tending to wear away or erode. | - |
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| evasiveness | (noun) intentionally vague or ambiguous | Synonyms: equivocation, prevarication |
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| eve | (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: even, evening, eventide |
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| (noun) the day before | - |
| (noun) the period immediately before something | - |
| even | (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: eve, evening, eventide |
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| evenfall | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| evening | (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: eve, even, eventide |
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| (noun) a later concluding time period | - |
| (noun) the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way | - |
| eveningwear | (noun) attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening | Synonyms: evening clothes, evening dress, formalwear |
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| evenness | (noun) a quality of uniformity and lack of variation | Synonyms: invariability |
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| (noun) the quality of being balanced | - |
| (noun) the parity of even numbers (divisible by two) | - |
| evensong | (noun) (Anglican Church) a daily evening service with prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer | Synonyms: Evening Prayer |
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| (noun) the sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays | Synonyms: vespers |
| event | (noun) something that happens at a given place and time | - |
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| (noun) a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory | - |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, issue, outcome, result, upshot |
| (noun) a special set of circumstances | Synonyms: case |
| eventide | (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: eve, even, evening |
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| eventration | (noun) protrusion of the intestine through the abdominal wall | - |
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| eventuality | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingence, contingency |
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| evergreen | (noun) a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year | Synonyms: evergreen plant |
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| everlasting | (noun) any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color | Synonyms: everlasting flower |
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| everlastingness | (noun) the property of lasting forever | - |
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| eversion | (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: everting, inversion |
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| (noun) the position of being turned outward | - |
| everting | (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: eversion, inversion |
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| everydayness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonness, commonplaceness |
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| everyman | (noun) the ordinary person | - |
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| everything | (noun) all things that are of importance to a person | - |
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| excessiveness | (noun) immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits | Synonyms: excess, inordinateness |
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| exclusive | (noun) a news report that is reported first by one news organization | Synonyms: scoop |
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| exclusiveness | (noun) tendency to associate with only a select group | Synonyms: clannishness, cliquishness |
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| executive | (noun) persons who administer the law | - |
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| (noun) a person responsible for the administration of a business | Synonyms: executive director |
| (noun) someone who manages a government agency or department | Synonyms: administrator |
| expansiveness | (noun) a friendly open trait of a talkative person | Synonyms: effusiveness, expansivity |
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| (noun) a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand | Synonyms: expansivity |
| expensiveness | (noun) the quality of being high-priced | - |
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| expletive | (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, oath, swearing, swearword |
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| (noun) a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line | - |
| explosive | (noun) a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck | - |
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| expressiveness | (noun) the quality of being expressive | - |
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| extensiveness | (noun) large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness | Synonyms: largeness |
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| extraversion | (noun) (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self | Synonyms: extroversion |
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| extravert | (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extrovert |
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| extroversion | (noun) (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self | Synonyms: extraversion |
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| extrovert | (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extravert |
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| fervency | (noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, ardour, fervidness, fervor, fervour, fire |
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| fever | (noun) a state of nervous excitement | - |
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| (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, febrility, feverishness, pyrexia |
| feverfew | (noun) bushy aromatic European perennial herb having clusters of buttonlike white-rayed flower heads; valued traditionally for medicinal uses; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum parthenium, Tanacetum parthenium |
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| feverishness | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, febrility, fever, pyrexia |
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| (noun) A state of wildly excited activity or emotion. | - |
| feverroot | (noun) coarse weedy American perennial herb with large usually perfoliate leaves and purple or dull red flowers | Synonyms: horse gentian, tinker's root, Triostium perfoliatum, wild coffee |
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| figurativeness | (noun) The property of being metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures of speech. | - |
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| (noun) The representation of form or figure in art. | - |
| five | (noun) a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips | Synonyms: five-spot |
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| (noun) a team that plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball team |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V |
| fivepence | (noun) a coin worth five cents | - |
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| fiver | (noun) a United States bill worth 5 dollars | Synonyms: five-spot, five dollar bill |
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| fives | (noun) a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls | - |
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| fivesome | (noun) five people considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V |
| fixative | (noun) a varnish dissolved in alcohol and sprayed over pictures to prevent smudging | - |
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| (noun) a compound (such as ethanol or formaldehyde) that fixes tissues and cells for microscopic study | - |
| flashover | (noun) an unintended electric discharge (as over or around an insulator) | - |
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| flyover | (noun) a flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground | Synonyms: fly-by, flypast |
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| (noun) bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels | Synonyms: overpass |
| forgiveness | (noun) the act of excusing a mistake or offense | Synonyms: pardon |
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| (noun) compassionate feelings that support a willingness to forgive | - |
| forgiver | (noun) a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense | Synonyms: excuser, pardoner |
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| formative | (noun) minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function | - |
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| fovea | (noun) area consisting of a small depression in the retina containing cones and where vision is most acute | Synonyms: fovea centralis |
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| foxglove | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Digitalis | Synonyms: digitalis |
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| frequentative | (noun) a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action | - |
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| fricative | (noun) a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract | Synonyms: fricative consonant, spirant |
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| fricativeness | (noun) (phonetics) The quality of being produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality, as the English /f/ and /s/. | - |
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| fugitive | (noun) someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice | Synonyms: fugitive from justice |
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| (noun) someone who flees from an uncongenial situation | Synonyms: fleer, runaway |
| furtiveness | (noun) a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously | Synonyms: sneakiness, stealthiness |
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| gavel | (noun) a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge | - |
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| genitive | (noun) the case expressing ownership | Synonyms: genitive case, possessive, possessive case |
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| give | (noun) the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length | Synonyms: spring, springiness |
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| giveaway | (noun) an unintentional disclosure | - |
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| (noun) a television or radio program in which contestants compete for awards | Synonyms: game show |
| (noun) a gift of public land or resources for the private gain of a limited group | - |
| given | (noun) an assumption that is taken for granted | Synonyms: precondition, presumption |
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| givenness | (noun) the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed | - |
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| giver | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: bestower, conferrer, donor, presenter |
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| (noun) someone who devotes himself completely | - |
| glove | (noun) handwear: covers the hand and wrist | - |
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| (noun) the handwear used by fielders in playing baseball | Synonyms: baseball glove, baseball mitt, mitt |
| (noun) boxing equipment consisting of big and padded coverings for the fists of the fighters; worn for the sport of boxing | Synonyms: boxing glove |
| 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 |