| allemande | (noun) egg-thickened veloute | Synonyms: allemande sauce |
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| andelmin | (noun) any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira | Synonyms: angelim |
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| andesite | (noun) a dark grey volcanic rock | - |
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| backhanded | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: backhand |
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| (adjective) roundabout or ambiguous | - |
| backhander | (noun) a backhanded blow | - |
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| bandeau | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bra, brassiere |
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| banded | (adjective) identified with a band especially around a leg | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by a band of especially white around the body | - |
| (adjective) marked with bands or strips of contrasting color or texture | - |
| bandelet | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelette, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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| bandelette | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelet, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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| banderilla | (noun) a decorated dart that is implanted in the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight | - |
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| banderillero | (noun) the bullfighter who implants decorated darts (banderillas) into the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight | - |
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| barehanded | (adjective) with bare hands | - |
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| branded | (adjective) marked with a brand | - |
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| (adjective) (of goods and merchandise) marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights | - |
| bystander | (noun) a nonparticipant spectator | - |
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| candela | (noun) the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin | Synonyms: candle, cd, standard candle |
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| candelabra | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabrum |
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| candelabrum | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabra |
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| candelilla | (noun) wax-coated shrub of northern Mexico and southwestern United States | Synonyms: Euphorbia antisyphilitica |
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| (noun) wax-coated Mexican shrub related to Euphorbia antisyphilitica | Synonyms: Pedilanthus bracteatus, Pedilanthus pavonis |
| candent | (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: incandescent |
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| candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
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| chandelier | (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: pendant, pendent |
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| chandelle | (noun) a flight maneuver consisting of a steep climbing turn executed to gain altitude while changing direction | - |
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| (verb) climb suddenly and steeply | - |
| clandestine | (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
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| colander | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: cullender |
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| commandeer | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: highjack, hijack, pirate |
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| commander | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commandant, commanding officer |
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| (noun) a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain | - |
| (noun) an officer in the airforce | Synonyms: air force officer |
| (noun) someone in an official position of authority who can command or control others | - |
| commandership | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandery |
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| commandery | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandership |
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| compander | (noun) a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus. | - |
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| coriander | (noun) parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, cilantro |
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| (noun) dried coriander seeds used whole or ground | Synonyms: coriander seed |
| (noun) Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, cilantro, coriander plant, Coriandrum sativum |
| curandera | (noun) a Mexican woman who practices healing techniques inherited from the Mayans | - |
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| curandero | (noun) a Mexican man who practices healing techniques inherited from the Mayans | - |
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| dandelion | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Taraxacum having long tap roots and deeply notched leaves and bright yellow flowers followed by fluffy seed balls | Synonyms: blowball |
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| dander | (noun) a feeling of anger and animosity | Synonyms: hackles |
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| (noun) small scales from animal skins or hair or bird feathers that can cause allergic reactions in some people | - |
| demander | (noun) a person who makes demands | - |
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| evenhanded | (adjective) without partiality | - |
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| evenhandedly | (adverb) without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner | Synonyms: fair, fairly |
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| expanded | (adjective) increased in extent or size or bulk or scope | - |
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| expander | (noun) an electronic device that increases the dynamic range of the audio signal. | - |
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| forehanded | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made with palm facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: forehand |
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| (adjective) having provided for the future | - |
| fourhanded | (adjective) (of card games) involving or requiring four players | - |
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| freehanded | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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| (adjective) done by hand without mechanical aids or devices | Synonyms: freehand |
| fricandeau | (noun) larded veal braised and glazed in its own juices | - |
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| gander | (noun) mature male goose | - |
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| germander | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Teucrium | - |
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| gerrymander | (noun) an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage) | - |
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| (verb) divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts | - |
| glanders | (noun) a destructive and contagious bacterial disease of horses that can be transmitted to humans | - |
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| goosander | (noun) common merganser of Europe and North America | Synonyms: Mergus merganser |
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| grandee | (noun) a nobleman of highest rank in Spain or Portugal | - |
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| grandeur | (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandness, magnificence, splendor, splendour |
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| (noun) the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct | Synonyms: magnanimousness, nobility, nobleness |
| grandstander | (noun) someone who performs with an eye to the applause from spectators in the grandstand | - |
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| handed | (adjective) having or involving the use of hands | - |
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| handedness | (noun) the property of using one hand more than the other | Synonyms: laterality |
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| incandesce | (verb) become incandescent or glow with heat | - |
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| (verb) cause to become incandescent or glow | - |
| incandescence | (noun) light from heat | - |
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| (noun) the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised | Synonyms: glow |
| incandescent | (adjective) characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance | - |
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| (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: candent |
| islander | (noun) an inhabitant of an island | Synonyms: island-dweller |
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| landed | (adjective) owning or consisting of land or real estate | - |
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| lander | (noun) a space vehicle that is designed to land on the moon or another planet | - |
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| lefthander | (noun) a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand | Synonyms: left-handed pitcher, left-hander, left hander, lefty, southpaw |
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| lemanderin | (noun) hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel | Synonyms: Citrus limonia, rangpur, rangpur lime |
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| meander | (noun) an aimless amble on a winding course | Synonyms: ramble |
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| (noun) a bend or curve, as in a stream or river | - |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: thread, wander, weave, wind |
| meandering | (adjective) of a path e.g. | Synonyms: rambling, wandering, winding |
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| meanderingly | (adverb) in a meandering manner | - |
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| misbranded | (adjective) branded or labeled falsely and in violation of statutory requirements | Synonyms: mislabeled |
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| neandertal | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neanderthal, oafish, swinish |
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| neanderthal | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, oafish, swinish |
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| offhanded | (adjective) casually thoughtless or inconsiderate | Synonyms: offhand |
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| (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, unrehearsed |
| (adverb) in a casually inconsiderate manner | Synonyms: offhand, offhandedly |
| (adverb) without previous thought or preparation | Synonyms: offhand, offhandedly |
| offhandedly | (adverb) in a casually inconsiderate manner | Synonyms: offhand, offhanded |
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| (adverb) without previous thought or preparation | Synonyms: offhand, offhanded |
| oleander | (noun) an ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers: native to East Indies but widely cultivated in warm regions | Synonyms: Nerium oleander, rose bay |
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| openhanded | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal |
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| openhandedness | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, magnanimity, munificence |
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| outlander | (noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: alien, foreigner, noncitizen |
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| overhanded | (adjective) with hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level | Synonyms: overarm, overhand |
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| pandeism | (noun) the belief that God created the universe and its phenomena by becoming the universe, thereafter the sole manifestation of God | - |
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| pandemic | (adjective) epidemic over a wide geographical area | - |
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| (adjective) existing everywhere | - |
| (noun) an epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world | - |
| pandemonium | (noun) a state of extreme confusion and disorder | Synonyms: bedlam, chaos, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness |
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| pander | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, panderer, pimp, ponce, procurer |
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| (verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pimp, procure |
| (verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to | Synonyms: gratify, indulge |
| panderer | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, pimp, ponce, procurer |
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| (noun) a person who serves or caters to the vulgar passions or plans of others (especially in order to make money) | - |
| philander | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, romance |
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| (verb) have amorous affairs; of men | Synonyms: womanise, womanize |
| philanderer | (noun) a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them | Synonyms: womaniser, womanizer |
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| righthander | (noun) a person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left | Synonyms: right-hander, right hander |
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| salamander | (noun) any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed | - |
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| (noun) fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire | Synonyms: fire hook, poker, stove poker |
| (noun) reptilian creature supposed to live in fire | - |
| sander | (noun) a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor | Synonyms: drum sander, electric sander, smoother |
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| sanderling | (noun) small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world | Synonyms: Crocethia alba |
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| scandent | (adjective) used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb | - |
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| slander | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, defamation, denigration |
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| (noun) words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another | - |
| (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, smear, smirch, sully |
| slanderer | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, traducer, vilifier |
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| slanderous | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous |
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| slanderously | (adverb) in a false and slanderous and defamatory manner; with slander or calumny | Synonyms: calumniously |
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| slanderousness | (noun) The property of being both untrue and harmful to a reputation. | - |
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| spandex | (noun) an elastic synthetic fabric | - |
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| squander | (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, ware, waste |
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| (verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away | Synonyms: blow, waste |
| squandered | (adjective) not used to good advantage | Synonyms: wasted |
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| squanderer | (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: prodigal, profligate |
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| squandering | (noun) spending resources lavishly and wastefully | - |
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| squandermania | (noun) prodigious squandering (usually by a government) | - |
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| standee | (noun) a lifesize cardboard cutout (usually of a celebrity) | - |
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| (noun) someone who stands in a place where one might otherwise sit (as a spectator who uses standing room in a theater or a passenger on a crowded bus or train) | - |
| stander | (noun) an organism (person or animal) that stands | - |
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| stranded | (adjective) cut off or left behind | Synonyms: isolated, marooned |
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