| acreage | (noun) an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming) | Synonyms: land area |
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| adage | (noun) a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people | Synonyms: byword, proverb, saw |
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| advantage | (noun) the quality of having a superior or more favorable position | Synonyms: vantage |
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| (noun) benefit resulting from some event or action | Synonyms: reward |
| (noun) (tennis) first point scored after deuce | - |
| afterimage | (noun) an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased | Synonyms: aftersensation |
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| age | (noun) how long something has existed | - |
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| (noun) a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises | Synonyms: eld |
| (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: eld, geezerhood, old age, years |
| (noun) an era of history having some distinctive feature | Synonyms: historic period |
| (noun) a prolonged period of time | Synonyms: long time, years |
| agiotage | (noun) a fee charged for exchanging currencies | Synonyms: agio, exchange premium, premium |
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| (noun) speculative dealing in stock exchange securities or foreign exchange. | - |
| alienage | (noun) the quality of being alien | Synonyms: alienism |
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| ambage | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: circumlocution, periphrasis |
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| amperage | (noun) the strength of an electrical current measured in amperes | - |
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| anchorage | (noun) the act of anchoring | - |
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| (noun) place for vessels to anchor | Synonyms: anchorage ground |
| (noun) a fee for anchoring | - |
| (noun) the condition of being secured to a base | - |
| (noun) the provision of a sense of security or steadfastness | - |
| anlage | (noun) an organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development | Synonyms: primordium |
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| apanage | (noun) a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family | Synonyms: appanage |
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| (noun) any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life | Synonyms: appanage |
| appanage | (noun) a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family | Synonyms: apanage |
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| (noun) any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life | Synonyms: apanage |
| appendage | (noun) a part that is joined to something larger | - |
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| (noun) an external body part that projects from the body | Synonyms: extremity, member |
| (noun) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant | Synonyms: outgrowth, process |
| arbitrage | (noun) a kind of hedged investment meant to capture slight differences in price; when there is a difference in the price of something on two different markets the arbitrageur simultaneously buys at the lower price and sells at the higher price | - |
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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 |
| average | (noun) a statistic describing the location of a distribution | Synonyms: norm |
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| (noun) an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual | - |
| (noun) (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities | - |
| backstage | (noun) a stage area out of sight of the audience | Synonyms: offstage, wing |
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| bacteriophage | (noun) a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria | Synonyms: phage |
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| badinage | (noun) frivolous banter | - |
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| baggage | (noun) cases used to carry belongings when traveling | Synonyms: luggage |
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| (noun) the portable equipment and supplies of an army | - |
| (noun) a worthless or immoral woman | - |
| bandage | (noun) a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body | Synonyms: patch |
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| baronage | (noun) the peers of a kingdom considered as a group | Synonyms: peerage |
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| baronetage | (noun) the state of a baronet | - |
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| (noun) the collective body of baronets | - |
| barrage | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling |
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| (noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: bombardment, onslaught, outpouring |
| beverage | (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: drink, drinkable, potable |
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| birdcage | (noun) a cage in which a bird can be kept | - |
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| blockage | (noun) the act of blocking | Synonyms: closure, occlusion |
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| (noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage |
| (noun) the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction | Synonyms: obstruction |
| bondage | (noun) sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners | - |
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| (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: slavery, thraldom, thrall, thralldom |
| (noun) the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power | - |
| borage | (noun) an herb whose leaves are used to flavor sauces and punches; young leaves can be eaten in salads or cooked | - |
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| (noun) hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach | Synonyms: Borago officinalis, tailwort |
| breakage | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: break, breaking |
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| (noun) reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use | - |
| (noun) the quantity broken | - |
| brewage | (noun) drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling | Synonyms: brew |
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| bricolage | (noun) construction of something by whatever material are available | - |
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| brokerage | (noun) place where a broker conducts his business | Synonyms: brokerage house |
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| (noun) a stock broker's business; charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller | Synonyms: brokerage firm, securities firm |
| (noun) the business of a broker; charges a fee to arrange a contract between two parties | - |
| cabbage | (noun) any of various types of cabbage | Synonyms: chou |
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| (noun) any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea, cultivated cabbage |
| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| cabotage | (noun) navigation in coastal waters | - |
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| (noun) the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders | - |
| cage | (noun) an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept | Synonyms: coop |
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| (noun) the net that is the goal in ice hockey | - |
| (noun) a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice | Synonyms: batting cage |
| (noun) something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement | - |
| camouflage | (noun) the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance | Synonyms: disguise |
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| (noun) device or stratagem for concealment or deceit | - |
| (noun) fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan; intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background | Synonyms: camo |
| (noun) an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something | Synonyms: disguise |
| carnage | (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: butchery, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
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| carriage | (noun) a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses | Synonyms: equipage, rig |
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| (noun) a railcar where passengers ride | Synonyms: coach, passenger car |
| (noun) a machine part that carries something else | - |
| (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pushchair, pusher, stroller |
| (noun) characteristic way of bearing one's body | Synonyms: bearing, posture |
| cartage | (noun) the work of taking something away in a cart or truck and disposing of it | Synonyms: carting |
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| cartilage | (noun) tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults | Synonyms: gristle |
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| cellarage | (noun) a storage area in a cellar | - |
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| (noun) a charge for storing goods in a cellar | - |
| cleavage | (noun) the act of cleaving or splitting | - |
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| (noun) the line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts) | - |
| (noun) (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum | Synonyms: segmentation |
| (noun) the breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules | - |
| (noun) the state of being split or cleft | - |
| clientage | (noun) relation of a client to a patron | - |
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| coinage | (noun) the act of inventing a word or phrase | Synonyms: neologism, neology |
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| (noun) a newly invented word or phrase | Synonyms: neologism, neology |
| (noun) coins collectively | Synonyms: metal money, mintage, specie |
| coliphage | (noun) a bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli | - |
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| collage | (noun) a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image | Synonyms: montage |
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| (noun) any collection of diverse things | - |
| commonage | (noun) property held in common | - |
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| concubinage | (noun) cohabitation without being legally married | - |
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| cordage | (noun) the ropes in the rigging of a ship | - |
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| (noun) the amount of wood in an area as measured in cords | - |
| corkage | (noun) a charge added at a restaurant for every bottle of wine served that was not bought on the premises | - |
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| corsage | (noun) an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present | Synonyms: bouquet, nosegay, posy |
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| cottage | (noun) a small house with a single story | Synonyms: bungalow |
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| counterespionage | (noun) spying on the spies | - |
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| courage | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, bravery, courageousness |
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| coverage | (noun) the extent to which something is covered | - |
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| (noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: reportage, reporting |
| (noun) the total amount and type of insurance carried | Synonyms: insurance coverage |
| cowage | (noun) the annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods; cultivated in southern United States for green manure and grazing | Synonyms: Bengal bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean, Mucuna aterrima, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Stizolobium deeringiana, velvet bean |
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| (noun) pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey | - |
| cozenage | (noun) a fraudulent business scheme | Synonyms: scam |
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| cribbage | (noun) a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two | Synonyms: crib |
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| curettage | (noun) surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette | Synonyms: curettement |
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| curtilage | (noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: grounds, yard |
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| damage | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: harm, hurt, scathe |
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| (noun) any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right | Synonyms: legal injury, wrong |
| (noun) the occurrence of a change for the worse | Synonyms: harm, impairment |
| (noun) loss of military equipment | Synonyms: equipment casualty |
| (noun) the amount of money needed to purchase something | Synonyms: price, terms |
| decolletage | (noun) a low-cut neckline on a woman's dress | - |
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| decoupage | (noun) the art of decorating a surface with shapes or pictures and then coating it with varnish or lacquer | - |
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| (noun) art produced by decorating a surface with cutouts and then coating it with several layers of varnish or lacquer | - |
| demurrage | (noun) detention of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure | - |
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| (noun) a charge required as compensation for the delay of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure | - |
| disadvantage | (noun) the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position | - |
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| dockage | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: docking, moorage, tying up |
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| (noun) landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out | Synonyms: dock, docking facility |
| (noun) a fee charged for a vessel to use a dock | Synonyms: docking fee |
| dosage | (noun) a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time | Synonyms: dose |
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| (noun) the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time | Synonyms: dose |
| dotage | (noun) mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations | Synonyms: second childhood, senility |
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| downstage | (noun) the front half of the stage (as seen from the audience) | - |
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| drainage | (noun) emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it | Synonyms: drain |
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| dressage | (noun) maneuvers of a horse in response to body signals by the rider | - |
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| driftage | (noun) the deviation (by a vessel or aircraft) from its intended course due to drifting | - |
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| drippage | (noun) a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house) | Synonyms: dripping |
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| eatage | (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: forage, grass, pasturage, pasture |
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| effleurage | (noun) a rhythmic stroking | - |
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| empennage | (noun) the rear part of an aircraft | Synonyms: tail, tail assembly |
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| enallage | (noun) a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I') | - |
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| ensilage | (noun) fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo | Synonyms: silage |
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| entourage | (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: cortege, retinue, suite |
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| equipage | (noun) a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses | Synonyms: carriage, rig |
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| (noun) equipment and supplies of a military force | Synonyms: materiel |
| espionage | (noun) the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets | - |
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| expressage | (noun) rapid transport of goods | Synonyms: express |
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| fibrocartilage | (noun) cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue | - |
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| flowage | (noun) the act of flooding; filling to overflowing | Synonyms: flood |
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| (noun) a body of water that has been created by deliberately flooding an area | - |
| (noun) gradual internal motion or deformation of a solid body (as by heat) | - |
| foliage | (noun) (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament | Synonyms: foliation |
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| (noun) the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants | Synonyms: leaf, leafage |
| footage | (noun) film that has been shot | - |
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| (noun) a rate of charging by the linear foot of work done | - |
| forage | (noun) the act of searching for food and provisions | Synonyms: foraging |
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| (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, grass, pasturage, pasture |
| forecarriage | (noun) a small wheeled carriage attached under the front end of a plow beam. | Synonyms: fore carriage, wheeled forecarriage |
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| forestage | (noun) the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain) | Synonyms: apron, proscenium |
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| fosterage | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
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| (noun) encouragement; aiding the development of something | Synonyms: fostering |
| freightage | (noun) transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates | Synonyms: freight |
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| (noun) the charge for transporting something by common carrier | Synonyms: freight, freight rate |
| frontage | (noun) the face or front of a building | Synonyms: facade, frontal |
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| (noun) the extent of land abutting on a street or water | - |
| (noun) the direction in which something (such as a building) faces | - |
| frottage | (noun) masturbation by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd) | - |
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| fruitage | (noun) the yield of fruit | - |
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| fuselage | (noun) the central body of an airplane that is designed to accommodate the crew and passengers (or cargo) | - |
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| gage | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. | Synonyms: gauge |
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| (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
| garage | (noun) an outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles | - |
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| (noun) a repair shop where cars and trucks are serviced and repaired | Synonyms: service department |
| garbage | (noun) a receptacle where waste can be discarded | - |
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| (noun) a worthless message | Synonyms: drivel |
| (noun) food that is discarded (as from a kitchen) | Synonyms: food waste, refuse, scraps |