| comradery | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, chumminess, comradeliness, comradeship |
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| comradeship | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, chumminess, comradeliness, comradery |
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| coolheaded | (adjective) marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional | Synonyms: cool, nerveless |
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| copyreader | (noun) an editor who prepares text for publication | Synonyms: copy editor, text editor |
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| corrade | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrade, abrase, rub down, rub off |
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| couvade | (noun) a custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the child | - |
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| crusade | (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, drive, effort, movement |
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| (verb) go on a crusade; fight a holy war | - |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, fight, press, push |
| crusader | (noun) a disputant who advocates reform | Synonyms: meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer |
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| deaden | (verb) become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor | - |
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| (verb) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation | Synonyms: blunt |
| (verb) lessen the momentum or velocity of | - |
| (verb) make vapid or deprive of spirit | - |
| (verb) convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil | - |
| (verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, dampen |
| (verb) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients | Synonyms: girdle |
| deadened | (adjective) made or become less intense | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of physical sensation; numb | Synonyms: dead |
| deadening | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, impairment, stultification |
| deadeye | (noun) (nautical) a round hardwood disk with holes and a grooved perimeter used to tighten a shroud | - |
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| (noun) a dead shot | - |
| decade | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system | Synonyms: 10, ten, tenner, X |
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| (noun) a period of 10 years | Synonyms: decennary, decennium |
| decadence | (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadency, degeneracy, degeneration |
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| decadency | (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadence, degeneracy, degeneration |
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| decadent | (adjective) marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay | Synonyms: fin-de-siecle |
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| (adjective) luxuriously self-indulgent | - |
| (noun) a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically) | - |
| defilade | (noun) the arrangement of defensive fortifications to protect against enemy fire | - |
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| degrade | (verb) lower the grade of something; reduce its worth | Synonyms: cheapen |
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| (verb) reduce the level of land, as by erosion | - |
| (verb) reduce in worth or character, usually verbally | Synonyms: demean, disgrace, put down, take down |
| degraded | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| (adjective) lowered in value | Synonyms: debased, devalued |
| degrader | (noun) a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins) | Synonyms: debaser |
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| deoxyadenosine | (noun) a nucleoside component of DNA; composed of adenosine and deoxyribose | - |
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| diadem | (noun) an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty | Synonyms: crown |
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| digitigrade | (adjective) (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do) | - |
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| (noun) an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses | Synonyms: digitigrade mammal |
| dissuade | (verb) turn away from by persuasion | Synonyms: deter |
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| doubleheader | (noun) two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) | Synonyms: double feature, twin bill |
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| downgrade | (noun) the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends | - |
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| (verb) rate lower; lower in value or esteem | - |
| dreaded | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| enfilade | (noun) gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation | Synonyms: enfilade fire |
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| (verb) rake or be in a position to rake with gunfire in a lengthwise direction | - |
| escalade | (noun) an act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification) | - |
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| (verb) climb up and over | - |
| escalader | (noun) someone who gains access by the use of ladders | - |
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| escapade | (noun) any carefree episode | Synonyms: lark |
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| (noun) a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful) | Synonyms: adventure, dangerous undertaking, risky venture |
| esplanade | (noun) a long stretch of open level ground (paved or grassy) for walking beside the seashore | - |
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| evade | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid | - |
| (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: bilk, elude |
| (verb) practice evasion | - |
| eyeshade | (noun) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes | Synonyms: bill, peak, visor, vizor |
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| facade | (noun) the face or front of a building | Synonyms: frontage, frontal |
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| (noun) a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant | Synonyms: window dressing |
| fade | (noun) gradually ceasing to be visible | Synonyms: disappearance |
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| (noun) a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: slice, slicing |
| (verb) become feeble | Synonyms: languish |
| (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fleet, pass, pass off |
| (verb) lose freshness, vigor, or vitality | Synonyms: wither |
| (verb) become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly | Synonyms: melt |
| faded | (adjective) having lost freshness or brilliance of color | Synonyms: bleached, washed-out, washy |
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| (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuate, attenuated, weakened |
| fadedness | (noun) The quality of having lost some of a former colour or intensity. | - |
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| fadeout | (noun) a slow or gradual disappearance | Synonyms: receding |
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| (noun) a gradual temporary loss of a transmitted signal due to electrical disturbances | - |
| fatheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| fibroadenoma | (noun) benign and movable and firm and not tender tumor of the breast; common in young women and caused by high levels of estrogen | - |
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| forrader | (adverb) in a forward direction | Synonyms: ahead, forward, forwards, onward, onwards |
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| freeloader | (noun) someone who takes advantage of the generosity of others | - |
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| fusillade | (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: burst, salvo, volley |
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| (verb) attack with fusillade | - |
| gasconade | (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, bragging, crow, crowing, line-shooting, vaporing |
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| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
| glade | (noun) a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area | Synonyms: clearing |
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| glissade | (noun) (ballet) a gliding or sliding step in ballet | - |
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| (verb) perform a glissade, in ballet | - |
| goaded | (adjective) compelled forcibly by an outside agency | Synonyms: driven |
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| grade | (noun) a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed | - |
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| (noun) a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality | Synonyms: degree, level |
| (noun) the gradient of a slope or road or other surface | - |
| (noun) the height of the ground on which something stands | Synonyms: ground level |
| (noun) a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance) | Synonyms: mark, score |
| (noun) a degree of ablaut | Synonyms: gradation |
| (noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: class, course, form |
| (noun) one-hundredth of a right angle | Synonyms: grad |
| (noun) a relative position or degree of value in a graded group | Synonyms: level, tier |
| (verb) determine the grade of or assign a grade to | - |
| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: order, place, range, rank, rate |
| (verb) assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation | Synonyms: mark, score |
| (verb) level to the right gradient | - |
| graded | (adjective) arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks | Synonyms: ranked, stratified |
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| grader | (noun) a judge who assigns grades to something | - |
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| grenade | (noun) a small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile | - |
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| handmade | (adjective) made by hand or a hand process | Synonyms: hand-crafted |
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| hardheaded | (adjective) guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: hard-nosed, practical, pragmatic |
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| (adjective) unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack | Synonyms: mulish |
| hardheadedness | (noun) The characteristic of being stubborn or wilful. | - |
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| harlequinade | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, japery, prank |
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| headed | (adjective) having a head of a specified kind or anything that serves as a head; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) having a heading or caption | - |
| (adjective) of leafy vegetables; having formed into a head | - |
| (adjective) having a heading or course in a certain direction | - |
| header | (noun) (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head | - |
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| (noun) a headlong jump (or fall) | - |
| (noun) a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon | - |
| (noun) a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters | - |
| (noun) brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall | Synonyms: cope, coping |
| (noun) horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window | Synonyms: lintel |
| (noun) a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about | Synonyms: head, heading |
| hexadecimal | (adjective) of or pertaining to a number system having 16 as its base | Synonyms: hex |
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| homemade | (adjective) made or produced in the home or by yourself | - |
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| homesteader | (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: nester, squatter |
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| hotheaded | (adjective) quickly aroused to anger | Synonyms: choleric, hot-tempered, irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered |
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| (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
| inadequacy | (noun) unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate | Synonyms: inadequateness |
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| (noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number | Synonyms: deficiency, insufficiency |
| (noun) a lack of competence | Synonyms: insufficiency |
| inadequate | (adjective) lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task | Synonyms: unequal |
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| (adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: jejune, poor, short |
| inadequately | (adverb) in an inadequate manner or to an inadequate degree | - |
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| inadequateness | (noun) unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate | Synonyms: inadequacy |
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| intradepartmental | (adjective) within a department | - |
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| intradermal | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intracutaneous, intradermic |
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| intradermally | (adverb) into the skin | - |
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| intradermic | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intracutaneous, intradermal |
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| invade | (verb) march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation | Synonyms: occupy |
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| (verb) penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way | - |
| (verb) to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate | Synonyms: encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon |
| (verb) occupy in large numbers or live on a host | Synonyms: infest, overrun |
| invader | (noun) someone who enters by force in order to conquer | Synonyms: encroacher |
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| jade | (adjective) of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green | Synonyms: jade-green |
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| (noun) an old or over-worked horse | Synonyms: hack, nag, plug |
| (noun) a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green | Synonyms: jade green |
| (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop |
| (noun) a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite | Synonyms: jadestone |
| (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: fatigue, pall, tire, weary |
| (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
| jaded | (adjective) dulled by surfeit | - |
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| (adjective) exhausted | Synonyms: wearied |
| jadeite | (noun) a hard green mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate in monoclinic crystalline form; a source of jade; found principally in Burma | - |
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| jadestone | (noun) a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite | Synonyms: jade |
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| lade | (verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: laden, load, load up |
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| (verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: laden, ladle |
| laden | (adjective) burdened psychologically or mentally | Synonyms: oppressed |
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| (adjective) filled with a great quantity | Synonyms: ladened, loaded |
| (verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: lade, ladle |
| (verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: lade, load, load up |
| ladened | (adjective) filled with a great quantity | Synonyms: laden, loaded |
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| lampshade | (noun) a protective ornamental covering for a lamp, used to screen a light bulb from direct view | Synonyms: lamp shade, shade |
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| leaded | (adjective) treated or mixed with lead | - |
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| (adjective) (of panes of glass) fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead | - |
| (adjective) having thin strips of lead between the lines of type | - |
| leaden | (adjective) made of lead | - |
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| (adjective) darkened with overcast | Synonyms: dull |
| (adjective) lacking lightness or liveliness | Synonyms: heavy |
| (adjective) (of movement) slow and laborious | Synonyms: plodding |
| (adjective) made heavy or weighted down with weariness | Synonyms: weighted |
| leader | (noun) a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers | Synonyms: drawing card, loss leader |
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| (noun) a person who rules or guides or inspires others | - |
| leaders | (noun) the body of people who lead a group | Synonyms: leadership |
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| leadership | (noun) the activity of leading | Synonyms: leading |
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| (noun) the ability to lead | - |
| (noun) the body of people who lead a group | Synonyms: leaders |
| (noun) the status of a leader | - |
| lemonade | (noun) sweetened beverage of diluted lemon juice | - |
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| levelheaded | (adjective) exercising or showing good judgment | Synonyms: healthy, intelligent, level-headed, sound |
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| levelheadedness | (noun) the property of having or showing sound judgment. | - |
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| lightheaded | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, silly |
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| (adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness | Synonyms: faint, light-headed, light, swooning |
| lightheadedness | (noun) a frivolous lack of prudence | - |
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| (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: dizziness, giddiness, vertigo |
| limeade | (noun) sweetened beverage of lime juice and water | - |
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| loaded | (adjective) (of weapons) charged with ammunition | - |
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| (adjective) filled with a great quantity | Synonyms: laden, ladened |
| (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
| (adjective) (of statements or questions) charged with associative significance and often meant to mislead or influence | - |
| (adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: affluent, flush, moneyed, substantial, wealthy |
| loader | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| (noun) an attendant who loads guns for someone shooting game | - |
| loggerheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| lymphadenitis | (noun) inflammation of lymph nodes | - |
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| lymphadenoma | (noun) an abnormally enlarged lymph node | - |
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| lymphadenopathy | (noun) chronic abnormal enlargement of the lymph nodes (usually associated with disease) | - |
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| made | (adjective) (of a bed) having the sheets and blankets set in order | - |
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| (adjective) produced by a manufacturing process | - |
| (adjective) successful or assured of success | - |
| mademoiselle | (noun) small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico | Synonyms: Bairdiella chrysoura, silver perch |
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| marinade | (noun) mixtures of vinegar or wine and oil with various spices and seasonings; used for soaking foods before cooking | - |
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| (verb) soak in marinade | Synonyms: marinate |