| abaft | (adverb) at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane | Synonyms: aft, astern |
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| aft | (adjective) (nautical, aeronautical) situated at or toward the stern or tail | - |
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| (adverb) at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane | Synonyms: abaft, astern |
| after | (adjective) located farther aft | - |
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| (adverb) behind or in the rear | - |
| (adverb) happening at a time subsequent to a reference time | Synonyms: afterward, afterwards, later, later on, subsequently |
| afterbirth | (noun) the placenta and fetal membranes that are expelled from the uterus after the baby is born | - |
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| afterburner | (noun) a device that injects fuel into a hot exhaust for extra thrust | - |
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| aftercare | (noun) care and treatment of a convalescent patient | - |
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| afterdamp | (noun) a toxic mixture of gases (including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and nitrogen) after an explosion of firedamp in a mine | - |
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| afterdeck | (noun) a deck abaft of midships | - |
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| aftereffect | (noun) any result that follows its cause after an interval | - |
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| (noun) a delayed effect of a drug or therapy | - |
| afterglow | (noun) the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event | - |
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| (noun) a glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset | - |
| afterimage | (noun) an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased | Synonyms: aftersensation |
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| afterlife | (noun) life after death | Synonyms: hereafter |
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| aftermath | (noun) the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual | Synonyms: consequence |
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| (noun) the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event) | Synonyms: backwash, wake |
| aftermost | (adjective) located closest to the stern or tail | - |
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| afternoon | (noun) a conventional expression of greeting or farewell, used to wish someone a good afternoon | Synonyms: good afternoon |
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| (noun) the part of the day between noon and evening | - |
| afterpains | (noun) pains felt by a woman after her baby is born; associated with contractions of the uterus | - |
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| afterpiece | (noun) a brief dramatic piece (usually comic) presented after a play | - |
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| afters | (noun) a dish served as the last course of a meal | Synonyms: dessert, sweet |
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| aftersensation | (noun) an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased | Synonyms: afterimage |
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| aftershaft | (noun) a supplementary feather (usually small) on the underside of the base of the shaft of some feathers in some birds | - |
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| aftershafted | (adjective) having an aftershaft (a small feather at the base of some feathers) | - |
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| aftershock | (noun) a tremor (or one of a series of tremors) occurring after the main shock of an earthquake | - |
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| aftertaste | (noun) an afterimage of a taste | - |
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| afterthought | (noun) an addition that was not included in the original plan | - |
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| (noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: reconsideration, rethink, second thought |
| afterward | (adverb) happening at a time subsequent to a reference time | Synonyms: after, afterwards, later, later on, subsequently |
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| afterwards | (adverb) happening at a time subsequent to a reference time | Synonyms: after, afterward, later, later on, subsequently |
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| afterworld | (noun) the place where you are after you die | - |
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| aircraft | (noun) a vehicle that can fly | - |
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| aircraftman | (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force | Synonyms: aircraftsman |
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| aircraftsman | (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force | Synonyms: aircraftman |
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| allograft | (noun) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor of the same species but different genetic makeup; recipient's immune system must be suppressed to prevent rejection of the graft | Synonyms: homograft |
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| antiaircraft | (adjective) designed for defense from a surface position against air attack | - |
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| (noun) artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes | Synonyms: ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft gun, flack, flak, pom-pom |
| autograft | (noun) tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person | Synonyms: autoplasty |
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| caftan | (noun) a (cotton or silk) cloak with full sleeves and sash reaching down to the ankles; worn by men in the Levant | Synonyms: kaftan |
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| (noun) a woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East | Synonyms: kaftan |
| camshaft | (noun) an engine shaft with cams attached to it | - |
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| craft | (noun) the skilled practice of a practical occupation | Synonyms: trade |
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| (noun) a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space | - |
| (noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
| (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craftsmanship, workmanship |
| (noun) people who perform a particular kind of skilled work | Synonyms: trade |
| (verb) make by hand and with much skill | - |
| crafter | (noun) a creator of great skill in the manual arts | Synonyms: craftsman |
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| craftily | (adverb) in an subtle, cunning manner | Synonyms: artfully, cunningly, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily |
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| craftiness | (noun) the quality of being crafty | Synonyms: guile |
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| (noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
| craftsman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, journeyman |
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| (noun) a creator of great skill in the manual arts | Synonyms: crafter |
| (noun) a professional whose work is consistently of high quality | - |
| craftsmanship | (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craft, workmanship |
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| crafty | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| crankshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft driven by (or driving) a crank | - |
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| daft | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| daftly | (adverb) in a mildly insane manner | Synonyms: balmily, dottily, nuttily, wackily |
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| daftness | (noun) informal terms for insanity | Synonyms: craziness, flakiness |
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| downdraft | (noun) a strong downward air current | - |
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| draft | (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draught, drawing |
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| (noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draught, gulp, swig |
| (noun) compulsory military service | Synonyms: conscription, muster, selective service |
| (noun) a dose of liquid medicine | Synonyms: draught |
| (noun) a preliminary sketch of a design or picture | Synonyms: rough drawing |
| (noun) a regulator for controlling the flow of air in a fireplace | - |
| (noun) the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded) | Synonyms: draught |
| (noun) any of the various versions in the development of a written work | Synonyms: draft copy |
| (noun) a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg | Synonyms: draught, potation, tipple |
| (noun) a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle) | Synonyms: draught |
| (noun) a document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another | Synonyms: bill of exchange, order of payment |
| (verb) engage somebody to enter the army | Synonyms: enlist, muster in |
| (verb) draw up an outline or sketch for something | Synonyms: outline |
| (verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: blueprint, draught |
| draftee | (noun) someone who is drafted into military service | Synonyms: conscript, inductee |
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| drafter | (noun) a writer of a draft | - |
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| drafting | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: draftsmanship, drawing |
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| (noun) writing a first version to be filled out and polished later | - |
| (noun) the craft of drawing blueprints | Synonyms: mechanical drawing |
| draftsman | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsperson, draughtsman |
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| (noun) an artist skilled at drawing | Synonyms: drawer |
| draftsmanship | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: drafting, drawing |
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| draftsperson | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draughtsman |
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| drafty | (adjective) not airtight | Synonyms: draughty |
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| driveshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application | - |
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| engraft | (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, imbed, implant, plant |
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| (verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants | Synonyms: graft, ingraft |
| graft | (noun) the act of grafting something onto something else | Synonyms: grafting |
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| (noun) the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage | Synonyms: bribery |
| (noun) (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient | Synonyms: transplant |
| (verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants | Synonyms: engraft, ingraft |
| (verb) place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient | Synonyms: transplant |
| grafting | (noun) the act of grafting something onto something else | Synonyms: graft |
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| haft | (noun) the handle of a weapon or tool | Synonyms: helve |
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| handcraft | (noun) a work produced by hand labor | Synonyms: handicraft, handiwork, handwork |
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| (verb) make something by hand | - |
| handicraft | (noun) a craft that requires skillful hands | - |
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| (noun) a work produced by hand labor | Synonyms: handcraft, handiwork, handwork |
| hereafter | (noun) the time yet to come | Synonyms: future, futurity, time to come |
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| (noun) life after death | Synonyms: afterlife |
| (adverb) in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc. | Synonyms: hereinafter, hereunder |
| (adverb) following this in time or order or place; after this | - |
| (adverb) in a future life or state | - |
| hereinafter | (adverb) in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc. | Synonyms: hereafter, hereunder |
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| heterograft | (noun) tissue from an animal of one species used as a temporary graft (as in cases of severe burns) on an individual of another species | Synonyms: xenograft |
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| homograft | (noun) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor of the same species but different genetic makeup; recipient's immune system must be suppressed to prevent rejection of the graft | Synonyms: allograft |
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| housecraft | (noun) skill in domestic management | - |
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| hovercraft | (noun) a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines | Synonyms: ground-effect machine |
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| ingraft | (verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants | Synonyms: engraft, graft |
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| kaftan | (noun) a (cotton or silk) cloak with full sleeves and sash reaching down to the ankles; worn by men in the Levant | Synonyms: caftan |
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| (noun) a woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East | Synonyms: caftan |
| kraft | (noun) strong wrapping paper made from pulp processed with a sulfur solution | Synonyms: kraft paper |
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| midafternoon | (noun) the middle part of the afternoon | - |
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| mineshaft | (noun) excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine | - |
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| needlecraft | (noun) work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle | Synonyms: needlework |
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| (noun) a creation created or assembled by needle and thread | Synonyms: needlework |
| overdraft | (noun) a draft in excess of the credit balance | - |
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| priestcraft | (noun) the skills involved in the work of a priest | - |
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| (noun) a derogatory reference to priests who use their influence to control secular or political affairs | - |
| raft | (noun) a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers | - |
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| (noun) a foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete | Synonyms: mat, raft foundation |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (verb) make into a raft | - |
| (verb) travel by raft in water | - |
| (verb) transport on a raft | - |
| rafter | (noun) one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof | Synonyms: balk, baulk |
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| (noun) someone who travels by raft | Synonyms: raftman, raftsman |
| (verb) provide (a ceiling) with rafters | - |
| raftered | (adjective) having the rafters especially having them visible | - |
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| raftman | (noun) someone who travels by raft | Synonyms: rafter, raftsman |
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| rafts | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| raftsman | (noun) someone who travels by raft | Synonyms: rafter, raftman |
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| redraft | (noun) a draft for the amount of a dishonored draft plus the costs and charges of drafting again | - |
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| shaft | (noun) the hollow spine of a feather | Synonyms: calamus, quill |
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| (noun) a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow) | - |
| (noun) a revolving rod that transmits power or motion | Synonyms: rotating shaft |
| (noun) a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel | - |
| (noun) (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column | Synonyms: scape |
| (noun) a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator) | - |
| (noun) a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon | Synonyms: lance, spear |
| (noun) the main (mid) section of a long bone | Synonyms: diaphysis |
| (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, prick, putz, tool |
| (noun) a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer | - |
| (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, gibe, jibe, shot, slam |
| (noun) a column of light (as from a beacon) | Synonyms: beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft of light |
| (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, screw |
| (verb) equip with a shaft | - |
| spacecraft | (noun) a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun | Synonyms: ballistic capsule, space vehicle |
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| stagecraft | (noun) skill in writing or staging plays | - |
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| statecraft | (noun) wisdom in the management of public affairs | Synonyms: diplomacy, statesmanship |
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| thereafter | (adverb) from that time on | Synonyms: thenceforth |
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| thereinafter | (adverb) in the following part of a given matter, as in a document or speech | - |
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| tradecraft | (noun) skill acquired through experience in a trade; often used to discuss skill in espionage | - |
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| updraft | (noun) a strong upward air current | - |
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| waft | (noun) a long flag; often tapering | Synonyms: pennant, pennon, streamer |
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| (verb) be driven or carried along, as by the air | - |
| (verb) blow gently | - |
| wafture | (noun) the act of signaling by a movement of the hand | Synonyms: wave, waving |
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| watercraft | (noun) a craft designed for water transportation | Synonyms: vessel |
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| (noun) skill in the management of boats | - |
| witchcraft | (noun) the art of sorcery | Synonyms: witchery |
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| woodcraft | (noun) skill in carving or fashioning objects from wood | - |
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| (noun) skill and experience in matters relating to the woods (as hunting or fishing or camping) | - |
| xenograft | (noun) tissue from an animal of one species used as a temporary graft (as in cases of severe burns) on an individual of another species | Synonyms: heterograft |
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| zaftig | (adjective) (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous | Synonyms: buxom, zoftig |
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