| grove | (noun) garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth | Synonyms: orchard, plantation, woodlet |
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| (noun) a small growth of trees without underbrush | - |
| have | (noun) a person who possesses great material wealth | Synonyms: rich person, wealthy person |
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| heave | (noun) throwing something heavy (with great effort) | Synonyms: heaving |
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| (noun) the act of lifting something with great effort | Synonyms: heaving |
| (noun) the act of raising something | Synonyms: lift, raise |
| (noun) an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting | Synonyms: retch |
| (noun) (geology) a horizontal dislocation | - |
| (noun) an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) | Synonyms: heaving |
| helve | (noun) the handle of a weapon or tool | Synonyms: haft |
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| hive | (noun) a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees | Synonyms: beehive |
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| (noun) a teeming multitude | - |
| (noun) a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree | Synonyms: beehive |
| hypertensive | (noun) a person who has abnormally high blood pressure | - |
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| hypotensive | (noun) a person who has abnormally low blood pressure | - |
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| immunosuppressive | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
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| imperative | (noun) some duty that is essential and urgent | - |
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| (noun) a verb in the imperative mood. | Synonyms: imperative verb |
| (noun) a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior | Synonyms: imperative form, imperative mood, jussive mood |
| imperfective | (noun) aspect without regard to the beginning or completion of the action of the verb | Synonyms: imperfective aspect |
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| incentive | (noun) a positive motivational influence | Synonyms: inducement, motivator |
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| (noun) an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output | Synonyms: bonus |
| inchoative | (noun) aspect with regard to the beginning of the action of the verb | Synonyms: inchoative aspect |
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| indicative | (noun) a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact | Synonyms: common mood, declarative, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative mood |
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| infinitive | (noun) the uninflected form of the verb | - |
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| ingressive | (noun) a speech sound by which the airstream flows inward through the mouth or nose. | - |
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| initiative | (noun) the first of a series of actions | Synonyms: first step, opening, opening move |
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| (noun) readiness to embark on bold new ventures | Synonyms: enterprise, enterprisingness, go-ahead |
| intensive | (noun) a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies | Synonyms: intensifier |
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| interrogative | (noun) a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply | Synonyms: interrogation, interrogative sentence, question |
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| (noun) some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood | Synonyms: interrogative mood |
| intransitive | (noun) a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object | Synonyms: intransitive verb, intransitive verb form |
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| invective | (noun) abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will | Synonyms: vitriol, vituperation |
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| iterative | (noun) the aspect of the verb that expresses the repetition of an action | Synonyms: iterative aspect |
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| jive | (noun) a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz | Synonyms: swing, swing music |
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| knave | (noun) one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince | Synonyms: jack |
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| (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallywag, varlet |
| ladylove | (noun) a woman who is a man's sweetheart | Synonyms: dulcinea |
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| landgrave | (noun) a count who had jurisdiction over a large territory in medieval Germany | - |
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| laxative | (noun) a mild cathartic | - |
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| leave | (noun) the act of departing politely | Synonyms: farewell, leave-taking, parting |
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| (noun) permission to do something | - |
| (noun) the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty | Synonyms: leave of absence |
| lenitive | (noun) remedy that eases pain and discomfort | - |
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| locative | (noun) the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb | Synonyms: locative role |
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| (noun) A case used to indicate place, or the place where, or wherein. | Synonyms: locative case |
| locomotive | (noun) a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks | Synonyms: engine, locomotive engine, railway locomotive |
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| love | (noun) sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people | Synonyms: love life, lovemaking, making love, sexual love |
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| (noun) any object of warm affection or devotion | Synonyms: passion |
| (noun) a strong positive emotion of regard and affection | - |
| (noun) a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction | Synonyms: erotic love, sexual love |
| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, sweetheart, sweetie |
| (noun) a score of zero in tennis or squash | - |
| mangrove | (noun) a tropical tree or shrub bearing fruit that germinates while still on the tree and having numerous prop roots that eventually form an impenetrable mass and are important in land building | Synonyms: Rhizophora mangle |
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| margrave | (noun) a German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess) | - |
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| (noun) the military governor of a frontier province in medieval Germany | - |
| mauve | (noun) a moderate purple | - |
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| microwave | (noun) kitchen appliance that cooks food by passing an electromagnetic wave through it; heat results from the absorption of energy by the water molecules in the food | Synonyms: microwave oven |
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| (noun) a short electromagnetic wave (longer than infrared but shorter than radio waves); used for radar and microwave ovens and for transmitting telephone, facsimile, video and data | - |
| missive | (noun) a written message addressed to a person or organization | Synonyms: letter |
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| motive | (noun) the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior | Synonyms: motivation, need |
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| (noun) a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration | Synonyms: motif |
| (noun) a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music | Synonyms: motif |
| move | (noun) the act of deciding to do something | - |
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| (noun) the act of changing your residence or place of business | Synonyms: relocation |
| (noun) (game) a player's turn to take some action permitted by the rules of the game | - |
| (noun) a change of position that does not entail a change of location | Synonyms: motility, motion, movement |
| (noun) the act of changing location from one place to another | Synonyms: motion, movement |
| narrative | (noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narration, story, tale |
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| native | (noun) indigenous plants and animals | - |
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| (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, indigene |
| (noun) a person born in a particular place or country | - |
| nave | (noun) the central area of a church | - |
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| negative | (noun) a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed | - |
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| (noun) a reply of denial | - |
| neoconservative | (noun) a conservative who subscribes to neoconservatism | Synonyms: neocon |
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| nerve | (noun) the courage to carry on | Synonyms: heart, mettle, spunk |
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| (noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: boldness, brass, cheek, face |
| (noun) any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body | Synonyms: nervus |
| neve | (noun) the upper part of a glacier (beyond the limit of perpetual snow) where the snow turns to ice | - |
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| nominative | (noun) the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb | Synonyms: nominative case, subject case |
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| nosedive | (noun) a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft | Synonyms: dive, nose dive |
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| (noun) a sudden sharp drop or rapid decline | - |
| objective | (noun) the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed | Synonyms: object glass, object lens, objective lens |
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| (noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: aim, object, target |
| obsessive | (noun) a person who has obsessions | - |
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| occlusive | (noun) a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it | Synonyms: plosive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, stop, stop consonant |
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| octave | (noun) a musical interval of eight tones | Synonyms: musical octave |
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| (noun) a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse | - |
| (noun) a feast day and the seven days following it | - |
| offensive | (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offence, offense |
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| ogive | (noun) front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere | Synonyms: nose cone |
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| oilstove | (noun) heater that burns oil (as kerosine) for heating or cooking | Synonyms: kerosene heater, kerosine heater, oil heater |
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| olive | (noun) a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation | - |
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| (noun) one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish | - |
| (noun) evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits | Synonyms: European olive tree, Olea europaea |
| (noun) small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil | - |
| (noun) hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork | - |
| operative | (noun) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations | Synonyms: PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus, sherlock |
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| (noun) a person secretly employed in espionage for a government | Synonyms: intelligence agent, intelligence officer, secret agent |
| optative | (noun) a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs | Synonyms: optative mood |
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| overdrive | (noun) a high gear used at high speeds to maintain the driving speed with less output power | - |
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| (noun) the state of high or excessive activity or productivity or concentration | - |
| palliative | (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviant, alleviator |
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| palsgrave | (noun) (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands | Synonyms: palatine |
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| partitive | (noun) word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole | - |
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| passive | (noun) the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb | Synonyms: passive voice |
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| pave | (noun) a setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows | - |
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| peeve | (noun) an annoyed or irritated mood | - |
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| perfective | (noun) the aspect of a verb that expresses a completed action | Synonyms: perfective aspect |
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| (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) | Synonyms: perfect, perfect tense, perfective tense |
| perijove | (noun) periapsis in orbit around Jupiter | - |
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| perspective | (noun) the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer | Synonyms: linear perspective |
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| (noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: position, view |
| perve | (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviant, deviate, perv, pervert |
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| plosive | (noun) a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it | Synonyms: occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, stop, stop consonant |
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| poove | (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, pouf, queen, queer |
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| positive | (noun) a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject | - |
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| (noun) the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution | Synonyms: positive degree |
| possessive | (noun) the case expressing ownership | Synonyms: genitive, genitive case, possessive case |
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| prerogative | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, perquisite, privilege |
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| preservative | (noun) a chemical compound that is added to protect against decay or decomposition | - |
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| preserve | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserve, conserves, preserves |
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| (noun) a reservation where animals are protected | - |
| (noun) a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone | - |
| preventative | (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventive, prophylactic |
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| (noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive, contraceptive device, preventive, prophylactic device |
| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventive |
| preventive | (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventative, prophylactic |
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| (noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive, contraceptive device, preventative, prophylactic device |
| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative |
| primitive | (noun) a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms | - |
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| (noun) a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived | - |
| (noun) a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization | Synonyms: primitive person |
| progressive | (noun) a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties | Synonyms: liberal, liberalist |
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| (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going | Synonyms: continuous tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, progressive tense |
| purgative | (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: aperient, cathartic, physic |
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| rave | (noun) an extravagantly enthusiastic review | - |
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| (noun) a dance party that lasts all night and electronically synthesized music is played | - |
| recessive | (noun) an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical | Synonyms: recessive allele |
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| recitative | (noun) a vocal passage of narrative text that a singer delivers with natural rhythms of speech | - |
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| reeve | (noun) female ruff | - |
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| reflexive | (noun) a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent | Synonyms: reflexive pronoun |
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| relative | (noun) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | Synonyms: congenator, congener, congeneric |
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| (noun) a person related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: relation |
| remove | (noun) degree of figurative distance or separation | - |
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| representative | (noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: example, illustration, instance |
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| (noun) a person who represents others | - |
| (noun) a member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
| (noun) an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | Synonyms: interpreter, spokesperson, voice |
| reprieve | (noun) the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment | Synonyms: respite |
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| (noun) a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence) | - |
| (noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: abatement, hiatus, respite, suspension |
| (noun) a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort | Synonyms: respite |
| reserve | (noun) the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary | Synonyms: reticence, taciturnity |
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| (noun) formality and propriety of manner | Synonyms: modesty |
| (noun) armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency | Synonyms: military reserve |
| (noun) a district that is reserved for particular purpose | Synonyms: reservation |
| (noun) an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced | Synonyms: second-stringer, substitute |
| (noun) something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose | Synonyms: backlog, stockpile |
| (noun) (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions | - |
| resolve | (noun) the trait of being resolute | Synonyms: firmness, firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolution |
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| (noun) a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote | Synonyms: declaration, resolution |
| restorative | (noun) a device for treating injury or disease | Synonyms: corrective |
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| (noun) a medicine that strengthens and invigorates | Synonyms: tonic |
| retrospective | (noun) an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work | - |
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| ringdove | (noun) greyish Old World turtledove with a black band around the neck; often caged | Synonyms: Streptopelia risoria |
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| (noun) Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck | Synonyms: Columba palumbus, cushat, wood pigeon |
| salve | (noun) anything that remedies or heals or soothes | - |
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| (noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | Synonyms: balm, ointment, unction, unguent |
| save | (noun) (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring | - |
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| sedative | (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: depressant, downer, sedative drug |
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| semibreve | (noun) a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time) | Synonyms: whole note |
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| sensitive | (noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | Synonyms: medium, spiritualist |
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| serve | (noun) (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play | Synonyms: service |
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