| ague | (noun) a mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: acute, acute accent |
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| (noun) a fit of shivering or shaking | - |
| (noun) successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria | Synonyms: chills and fever |
| analogue | (noun) something having the property of being analogous to something else | Synonyms: analog, parallel |
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| angelique | (noun) any of various tall and stout herbs of the genus Angelica having pinnately compound leaves and small white or greenish flowers in compound umbels | Synonyms: angelica |
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| antique | (noun) any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity | - |
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| (noun) an elderly man | Synonyms: gaffer, old-timer, old geezer, oldtimer |
| apologue | (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) | Synonyms: allegory, fable, parable |
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| applique | (noun) a decorative design made of one material sewn over another | - |
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| arabesque | (noun) an ornament that interlaces simulated foliage in an intricate design | - |
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| (noun) position in which the dancer has one leg raised behind and arms outstretched in a conventional pose | - |
| autocue | (noun) a device that displays words for people to read | Synonyms: prompter |
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| avenue | (noun) a line of approach | - |
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| (noun) a wide street or thoroughfare | Synonyms: boulevard |
| barbecue | (noun) a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors | Synonyms: barbeque |
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| (noun) a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit | Synonyms: barbeque |
| (noun) meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce | Synonyms: barbeque |
| barbeque | (noun) a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors | Synonyms: barbecue |
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| (noun) a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit | Synonyms: barbecue |
| (noun) meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce | Synonyms: barbecue |
| baroque | (noun) elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century | Synonyms: baroqueness |
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| barque | (noun) a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts | Synonyms: bark |
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| battue | (noun) a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter | - |
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| (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed |
| bezique | (noun) a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist | Synonyms: penuchle, pinochle, pinocle |
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| bisque | (noun) a thick cream soup made from shellfish | - |
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| blue | (noun) any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae | - |
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| (noun) the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic | Synonyms: amobarbital sodium, Amytal, blue angel, blue devil |
| (noun) blue clothing | - |
| (noun) blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime | Synonyms: blueness |
| (noun) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue | - |
| (noun) the sky as viewed during daylight | Synonyms: blue air, blue sky, wild blue yonder |
| (noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | Synonyms: blueing, bluing |
| bluetongue | (noun) a viral disease of sheep and cattle that is transmitted by biting midges | - |
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| boutique | (noun) a shop that sells women's clothes and jewelry | Synonyms: dress shop |
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| brogue | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogan, clodhopper, work shoe |
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| burlesque | (noun) a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease) | - |
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| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
| cacique | (noun) black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics | Synonyms: cazique |
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| calque | (noun) an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language | Synonyms: calque formation, loan translation |
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| cangue | (noun) an instrument of punishment formerly used in China for petty criminals; consists of a heavy wooden collar enclosing the neck and arms | - |
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| casque | (noun) (15-16th century) any armor for the head; usually ornate without a visor | - |
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| catafalque | (noun) a decorated bier on which a coffin rests in state during a funeral | - |
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| catalogue | (noun) a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things | Synonyms: catalog |
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| (noun) a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically | Synonyms: catalog |
| cazique | (noun) black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics | Synonyms: cacique |
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| cheque | (noun) a written order directing a bank to pay money | Synonyms: bank check, check |
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| cinque | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, fin, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V |
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| cirque | (noun) a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake | Synonyms: corrie, cwm |
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| claque | (noun) a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance | - |
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| clique | (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: camp, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack |
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| clue | (noun) a slight indication | Synonyms: hint |
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| (noun) evidence that helps to solve a problem | Synonyms: clew, cue |
| colleague | (noun) an associate that one works with | Synonyms: co-worker, fellow worker, workfellow |
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| (noun) a person who is member of one's class or profession | Synonyms: confrere, fellow |
| communique | (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch |
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| critique | (noun) a serious examination and judgment of something | Synonyms: criticism |
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| (noun) an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play) | Synonyms: critical review, review, review article |
| cue | (noun) sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards | Synonyms: cue stick, pool cue, pool stick |
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| (noun) a stimulus that provides information about what to do | Synonyms: discriminative stimulus |
| (noun) an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech | - |
| (noun) evidence that helps to solve a problem | Synonyms: clew, clue |
| curlicue | (noun) a short twisting line | Synonyms: squiggle |
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| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl |
| demagogue | (noun) a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices | Synonyms: demagog, rabble-rouser |
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| dengue | (noun) an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints | Synonyms: breakbone fever, dandy fever, dengue fever |
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| dialogue | (noun) the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction | Synonyms: dialog |
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| (noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialog, duologue |
| (noun) a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people | Synonyms: dialog |
| (noun) a discussion intended to produce an agreement | Synonyms: negotiation, talks |
| discotheque | (noun) a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music | Synonyms: disco |
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| drogue | (noun) a parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly | Synonyms: drogue chute, drogue parachute |
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| (noun) restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind | Synonyms: sea anchor |
| (noun) a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: air-sleeve, air sock, sock, wind cone, wind sleeve, wind sock, windsock |
| (noun) a funnel-shaped device towed as a target by an airplane | - |
| due | (noun) that which is deserved or owed | - |
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| (noun) a payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership) | - |
| duologue | (noun) a part of the script in which the speaking roles are limited to two actors | - |
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| (noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialog, dialogue |
| earthtongue | (noun) any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum | Synonyms: earth-tongue |
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| eclogue | (noun) a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | Synonyms: bucolic, idyl, idyll |
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| eigenvalue | (noun) (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant | Synonyms: characteristic root of a square matrix, eigenvalue of a matrix, eigenvalue of a square matrix |
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| emmenagogue | (noun) any agent that promotes menstrual discharge | - |
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| epilogue | (noun) a short passage added at the end of a literary work | Synonyms: epilog |
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| (noun) a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play | Synonyms: epilog |
| fatigue | (noun) labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on) | Synonyms: fatigue duty |
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| (noun) (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something | - |
| (noun) temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work | Synonyms: tiredness, weariness |
| (noun) used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress | - |
| fescue | (noun) grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns | Synonyms: fescue grass, Festuca elatior, meadow fescue |
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| flue | (noun) a conduit to carry off smoke | - |
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| (noun) organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip | Synonyms: flue pipe, labial pipe |
| (noun) flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor | Synonyms: fluke |
| fondue | (noun) hot cheese or chocolate melted to the consistency of a sauce into which bread or fruits are dipped | Synonyms: fondu |
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| (noun) cubes of meat or seafood cooked in hot oil and then dipped in any of various sauces | Synonyms: fondu |
| fugue | (noun) a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement | - |
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| (noun) a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days | - |
| (noun) dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state | Synonyms: psychogenic fugue |
| galactagogue | (noun) agent that induces milk secretion | - |
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| gigue | (noun) music in three-four time for dancing a jig | Synonyms: jig |
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| glue | (noun) cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive | Synonyms: gum, mucilage |
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| grotesque | (noun) art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants | - |
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| habitue | (noun) a regular patron | Synonyms: fixture, regular |
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| harangue | (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: rant, ranting |
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| hue | (noun) the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength | Synonyms: chromaticity |
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| hypnagogue | (noun) an agent that induces drowsiness or sleep | - |
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| idealogue | (noun) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | Synonyms: theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer |
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| ideologue | (noun) an advocate of some ideology | Synonyms: ideologist |
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| ingenue | (noun) the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play | - |
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| (noun) an artless innocent young girl (especially as portrayed on the stage) | - |
| (noun) an actress who specializes in playing the role of an artless innocent young girl | - |
| intrigue | (noun) a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends | Synonyms: machination |
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| (noun) a clandestine love affair | - |
| issue | (noun) the act of issuing printed materials | Synonyms: publication |
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| (noun) the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity) | Synonyms: issuance, issuing |
| (noun) an opening that permits escape or release | Synonyms: exit, outlet, way out |
| (noun) some situation or event that is thought about | Synonyms: matter, subject, topic |
| (noun) an important question that is in dispute and must be settled | - |
| (noun) one of a series published periodically | Synonyms: number |
| (noun) the becoming visible | Synonyms: egress, emergence |
| (noun) the immediate descendants of a person | Synonyms: offspring, progeny |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, event, outcome, result, upshot |
| (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings, yield |
| (noun) supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government | Synonyms: government issue, military issue |
| league | (noun) an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action | - |
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| (noun) an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members | Synonyms: conference |
| (noun) an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles) | - |
| macaque | (noun) short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa | - |
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| marque | (noun) a name given to a product or service | Synonyms: brand, brand name, trade name |
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| masque | (noun) a party of guests wearing costumes and masks | Synonyms: mask, masquerade, masquerade party |
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| meringue | (noun) sweet topping especially for pies made of beaten egg whites and sugar | - |
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| miscue | (noun) a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball | - |
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| (noun) a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. | Synonyms: parapraxis, slip-up, slip |
| monologue | (noun) speech you make to yourself | Synonyms: soliloquy |
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| (noun) a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor | - |
| (noun) a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation) | - |
| morgue | (noun) a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation | Synonyms: dead room, mortuary |
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| mosque | (noun) (Islam) a Muslim place of worship that usually has a minaret | - |
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| moue | (noun) a disdainful grimace | Synonyms: pout, wry face |
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| mystique | (noun) an aura of heightened value or interest or meaning surrounding a person or thing | - |
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| neobaroque | (noun) art or architecture based on study of 17th century baroque. | Synonyms: neo-baroque |
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| oblique | (noun) a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso | Synonyms: abdominal external oblique muscle, external oblique muscle, musculus obliquus externus abdominis |
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| (noun) any grammatical case other than the nominative | Synonyms: oblique case |
| odalisque | (noun) a woman slave in a harem | - |
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| oxtongue | (noun) widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: bitterweed, bristly oxtongue, bugloss, Picris echioides |
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| pedagogue | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: educator, pedagog |
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| philologue | (noun) a humanist specializing in classical scholarship | Synonyms: philologist |
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| physique | (noun) constitution of the human body | Synonyms: body-build, build, habitus |
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| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, shape, soma |
| pique | (noun) tightly woven fabric with raised cords | - |
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| (noun) a sudden outburst of anger | Synonyms: irritation, temper |
| pirogue | (noun) a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log | Synonyms: dugout, dugout canoe |
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| plague | (noun) an annoyance | - |
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| (noun) any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) | - |
| (noun) a swarm of insects that attack plants | Synonyms: infestation |
| (noun) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal | Synonyms: pest, pestilence, pestis |
| (noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate | Synonyms: pest, pestilence |
| plaque | (noun) a memorial made of brass | Synonyms: brass, memorial tablet |
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| (noun) (pathology) a small abnormal patch on or inside the body | - |
| plastique | (noun) an explosive material that is easily molded around the object it is intended to destroy | Synonyms: plastic explosive |
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| prevue | (noun) an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future | Synonyms: preview, trailer |
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| prologue | (noun) an introduction to a play | - |
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| pulque | (noun) fermented Mexican drink from juice of various agave plants especially the maguey | - |
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| queue | (noun) a braid of hair at the back of the head | - |
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| (noun) (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted | - |
| (noun) a line of people or vehicles waiting for something | Synonyms: waiting line |
| reissue | (noun) a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale | Synonyms: reprint, reprinting |
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| rescue | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: deliverance, delivery, saving |
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| residue | (noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, remainder, residual, residuum, rest |
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| (noun) matter that remains after something has been removed | - |
| retinue | (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: cortege, entourage, suite |
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