| fluster | (verb) cause to be nervous or upset | - |
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| (verb) be flustered; behave in a confused manner | - |
| flutter | (verb) wink briefly | Synonyms: bat |
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| (verb) beat rapidly | Synonyms: palpitate |
| (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, quiver, waver |
| (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: dart, fleet, flit |
| (verb) flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements | - |
| foster | (verb) help develop, help grow | Synonyms: nurture |
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| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: cultivate, further |
| (verb) bring up under fosterage; of children | - |
| fraternise | (verb) be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternize |
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| fraternize | (verb) be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternise |
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| fritter | (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
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| garter | (verb) fasten with or as if with a garter | - |
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| glitter | (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, shine |
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| gutter | (verb) provide with gutters | - |
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| (verb) wear or cut gutters into | - |
| (verb) flow in small streams | - |
| (verb) burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker | - |
| halter | (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, hamper, strangle |
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| (verb) hang with a halter | - |
| headquarter | (verb) provide with headquarters | - |
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| heterodyne | (verb) combine (a radio frequency wave) with a locally generated wave of a different frequency so as to produce a new frequency equal to the sum or the difference between the two | - |
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| huckster | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, monger, peddle, pitch, vend |
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| (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, higgle |
| immaterialise | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialize, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize |
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| immaterialize | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialise, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize |
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| inter | (verb) place in a grave or tomb | Synonyms: bury, entomb, inhume, lay to rest |
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| interact | (verb) act together or towards others or with others | - |
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| interbreed | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, hybridize |
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| intercalate | (verb) insert (days) in a calendar | - |
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| intercede | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intermediate, liaise, mediate |
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| intercept | (verb) seize on its way | Synonyms: stop |
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| (verb) tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information | Synonyms: bug, tap, wiretap |
| interchange | (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, switch, tack |
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| (verb) cause to change places | Synonyms: counterchange, transpose |
| (verb) give to, and receive from, one another | Synonyms: change, exchange |
| (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: exchange, replace, substitute |
| intercommunicate | (verb) transmit thoughts or feelings | Synonyms: communicate |
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| (verb) be interconnected, afford passage | - |
| interconnect | (verb) cause to be interconnected or interwoven | Synonyms: interlink |
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| (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: complect, interlink |
| interdepend | (verb) be connected | Synonyms: hang together |
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| interdict | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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| (verb) destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication | - |
| interest | (verb) excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of | - |
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| (verb) be of importance or consequence | Synonyms: matter to |
| (verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: concern, occupy, worry |
| interfere | (verb) get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force | Synonyms: interpose, intervene, step in |
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| (verb) come between so as to be hindrance or obstacle | - |
| interiorise | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorize, internalise, internalize |
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| interiorize | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorise, internalise, internalize |
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| interject | (verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, inject, interpose, put in, throw in |
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| interlace | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, intertwine, lace, twine |
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| (verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlock, lock |
| interlard | (verb) introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions | Synonyms: intersperse |
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| interleave | (verb) intersperse alternately, as of protective covers for book illustrations | - |
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| (verb) intersperse the sectors on the concentric magnetic circular patterns written on a computer disk surface to guide the storing and recording of data | - |
| (verb) provide (books) with blank leaves | - |
| interlink | (verb) cause to be interconnected or interwoven | Synonyms: interconnect |
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| (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: complect, interconnect |
| interlock | (verb) coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively | Synonyms: mesh |
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| (verb) become engaged or intermeshed with one another | Synonyms: lock |
| (verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlace, lock |
| interlope | (verb) encroach on the rights of others, as in trading without a proper license | - |
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| interlude | (verb) perform an interlude | - |
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| intermarry | (verb) marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group | - |
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| intermediate | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intercede, liaise, mediate |
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| intermingle | (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: blend, immingle, intermix |
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| intermit | (verb) cease an action temporarily | Synonyms: break, pause |
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| intermix | (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: blend, immingle, intermingle |
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| intern | (verb) deprive of freedom | - |
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| (verb) work as an intern | - |
| internalise | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorise, interiorize, internalize |
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| internalize | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorise, interiorize, internalise |
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| internationalise | (verb) make international in character | Synonyms: internationalize |
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| (verb) put under international control | Synonyms: internationalize |
| internationalize | (verb) make international in character | Synonyms: internationalise |
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| (verb) put under international control | Synonyms: internationalise |
| interpellate | (verb) question formally about policy or government business | - |
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| interpenetrate | (verb) penetrate mutually or be interlocked | Synonyms: permeate |
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| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| interpolate | (verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: alter, falsify |
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| (verb) estimate the value of something based on known values | Synonyms: extrapolate |
| interpose | (verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, inject, interject, put in, throw in |
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| (verb) to put forth by way of intervention | - |
| (verb) be or come between | - |
| (verb) get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force | Synonyms: interfere, intervene, step in |
| interpret | (verb) make sense of; assign a meaning to | Synonyms: construe, see |
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| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: read, translate, understand |
| (verb) give an interpretation or explanation to | Synonyms: rede |
| (verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: render, translate |
| (verb) give an interpretation or rendition of | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) create an image or likeness of | Synonyms: represent |
| interrelate | (verb) place into a mutual relationship | - |
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| (verb) be in a relationship with | Synonyms: relate |
| interrogate | (verb) pose a series of questions to | Synonyms: question |
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| (verb) transmit (a signal) for setting off an appropriate response, as in telecommunication | - |
| interrupt | (verb) terminate or end | Synonyms: break |
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| (verb) destroy the peace or tranquility of | Synonyms: disturb |
| (verb) interfere in someone else's activity | Synonyms: disrupt |
| (verb) make a break in | Synonyms: break up, cut off, disrupt |
| intersect | (verb) meet at a point | Synonyms: cross |
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| intersperse | (verb) introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions | Synonyms: interlard |
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| (verb) place at intervals in or among | - |
| interstratify | (verb) arrange rocks in alternating strata | - |
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| intertwine | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, interlace, lace, twine |
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| (verb) make a loop in | Synonyms: loop |
| (verb) make lacework by knotting or looping | Synonyms: tat |
| intervene | (verb) occur between other event or between certain points of time | - |
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| (verb) get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force | Synonyms: interfere, interpose, step in |
| (verb) be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events | - |
| interview | (verb) conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting | Synonyms: question |
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| (verb) discuss formally with (somebody) for the purpose of an evaluation | - |
| (verb) go for an interview in the hope of being hired | - |
| interweave | (verb) interlace by or as if by weaving | Synonyms: weave |
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| iterate | (verb) run or be performed again | - |
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| (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell |
| jitterbug | (verb) do the jitterbug | - |
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| lateralize | (verb) move or displace to one side so as to make lateral | - |
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| letter | (verb) mark letters on or mark with letters | - |
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| (verb) set down or print with letters | - |
| (verb) win an athletic letter | - |
| lighter | (verb) transport in a flatbottom boat | - |
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| literalise | (verb) make literal | Synonyms: literalize |
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| literalize | (verb) make literal | Synonyms: literalise |
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| litter | (verb) give birth to a litter of animals | - |
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| (verb) make a place messy by strewing garbage around | - |
| (verb) strew | - |
| loiter | (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
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| master | (verb) have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of | Synonyms: control |
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| (verb) be or become completely proficient or skilled in | Synonyms: get the hang |
| (verb) get on top of; deal with successfully | Synonyms: get over, overcome, subdue, surmount |
| (verb) have dominance or the power to defeat over | Synonyms: dominate |
| mastermind | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, orchestrate, organise, organize |
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| materialise | (verb) come into being; become reality | Synonyms: happen, materialize |
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| materialize | (verb) come into being; become reality | Synonyms: happen, materialise |
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| matter | (verb) have weight; have import, carry weight | Synonyms: count, weigh |
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| meter | (verb) measure with a meter | - |
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| (verb) stamp with a meter indicating the postage | - |
| minister | (verb) work as a minister | - |
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| (verb) attend to the wants and needs of others | - |
| misinterpret | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misread |
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| (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misunderstand |
| (verb) interpret falsely | - |
| miter | (verb) bevel the edges of, to make a miter joint | - |
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| (verb) fit together in a miter joint | - |
| (verb) confer a miter on (a bishop) | - |
| muster | (verb) call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc. | - |
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| (verb) gather or bring together | Synonyms: come up, muster up, rally, summon |
| mutter | (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, grumble, murmur |
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| (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mumble, mussitate |
| natter | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| neuter | (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: alter, castrate, spay |
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| obliterate | (verb) remove completely from recognition or memory | Synonyms: efface |
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| (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, hide, obscure, veil |
| (verb) mark for deletion, rub off, or erase | Synonyms: kill, wipe out |
| (verb) do away with completely, without leaving a trace | - |
| overmaster | (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overpower, overwhelm |
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| overwinter | (verb) spend the winter | Synonyms: winter |
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| oyster | (verb) gather oysters, dig oysters | - |
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| palter | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, prevaricate, tergiversate |
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| patter | (verb) make light, rapid and repeated sounds | Synonyms: pitter-patter |
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| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: pitter-patter, spatter, spit, sprinkle |
| pattern | (verb) plan or create according to a model or models | Synonyms: model |
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| (verb) form a pattern | - |
| pester | (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, tease |
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| plaster | (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: poultice |
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| (verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: daub |
| (verb) apply a heavy coat to | Synonyms: plaster over, stick on |
| (verb) apply a plaster cast to | - |
| (verb) affix conspicuously | - |
| (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: beplaster |
| porter | (verb) carry luggage or supplies | - |
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| potter | (verb) move around aimlessly | Synonyms: potter around, putter, putter around |
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| (verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, putter, tinker |
| (verb) work lightly | Synonyms: putter |
| predetermine | (verb) determine beforehand | - |
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| (verb) cause to be biased | Synonyms: bias |
| pretermit | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook |
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| (verb) disregard intentionally or let pass | - |
| putter | (verb) move around aimlessly | Synonyms: potter, potter around, putter around |
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| (verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, tinker |
| (verb) work lightly | Synonyms: potter |
| quarter | (verb) divide by four; divide into quarters | - |
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| (verb) divide into quarters | - |
| (verb) pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him | Synonyms: draw, draw and quarter |
| (verb) provide housing for (military personnel) | Synonyms: billet, canton |