| alarm | (noun) a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event | Synonyms: alarm system, warning device |
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| (noun) a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time | Synonyms: alarm clock |
| (noun) an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger | Synonyms: alarum, alert, warning signal |
| (noun) fear resulting from the awareness of danger | Synonyms: consternation, dismay |
| (verb) warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness | Synonyms: alert |
| (verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: appal, appall, dismay, horrify |
| alarmed | (adjective) experiencing a sudden sense of danger | - |
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| alarming | (adjective) frightening because of an awareness of danger | - |
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| alarmingly | (adverb) in an alarming manner | - |
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| alarmism | (noun) needless warnings | - |
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| alarmist | (noun) a person who alarms others needlessly | - |
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| arm | (noun) the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm | Synonyms: sleeve |
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| (noun) any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting | Synonyms: weapon, weapon system |
| (noun) the part of an armchair or sofa that supports the elbow and forearm of a seated person | - |
| (noun) any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm | Synonyms: branch, limb |
| (noun) a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb | - |
| (noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | Synonyms: branch, subdivision |
| (verb) prepare oneself for a military confrontation | Synonyms: build up, fortify, gird |
| (verb) supply with arms | - |
| armada | (noun) a large fleet | - |
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| armadillo | (noun) burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates | - |
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| armament | (noun) the act of equipping with weapons in preparation for war | Synonyms: arming, equipping |
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| (noun) weaponry used by military or naval force | - |
| armamentarium | (noun) the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicine | - |
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| armature | (noun) coil in which voltage is induced by motion through a magnetic field | - |
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| armband | (noun) a band worn around the upper arm | - |
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| (noun) worn around arm as identification or to indicate mourning | - |
| armchair | (noun) chair with a support on each side for arms | - |
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| armed | (adjective) (used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms | - |
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| (adjective) (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns | - |
| (adjective) having arms or arms as specified; used especially in combination | - |
| armet | (noun) a medieval helmet with a visor and a neck guard | - |
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| armful | (noun) the quantity that can be contained in the arms | - |
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| armguard | (noun) a protective covering for the wrist or arm that is used in archery and fencing and other sports | Synonyms: bracer |
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| armhole | (noun) a hole through which you put your arm and where a sleeve can be attached | - |
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| armiger | (noun) a squire carrying the armor of a knight | Synonyms: armor-bearer |
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| (noun) a nobleman entitled to bear heraldic arms | - |
| armilla | (noun) (archeology) a bracelet worn around the wrist or arm | - |
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| (noun) a celestial globe consisting of metal hoops; used by early astronomers to determine the positions of stars | Synonyms: armillary sphere |
| armillary | (adjective) of or relating to bracelets | - |
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| arming | (noun) the act of equipping with weapons in preparation for war | Synonyms: armament, equipping |
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| armistice | (noun) a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms | Synonyms: cease-fire, truce |
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| armless | (adjective) having no arms | - |
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| armlet | (noun) a band worn around the arm for decoration | Synonyms: arm band |
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| armlike | (adjective) resembling an arm | - |
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| armoire | (noun) a large wardrobe or cabinet; originally used for storing weapons | - |
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| armor | (noun) tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant | Synonyms: armour |
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| (noun) protective covering made of metal and used in combat | Synonyms: armour |
| (noun) a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles | Synonyms: armour |
| (verb) equip with armor | Synonyms: armour |
| armored | (adjective) protected by armor (used of persons or things military) | Synonyms: armoured |
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| (adjective) used of animals; provided with protective covering | Synonyms: armoured |
| (adjective) equipped with the complete arms and armor of a warrior | Synonyms: panoplied |
| armorer | (noun) a manufacturer of firearms | Synonyms: armourer |
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| (noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armourer, artificer |
| (noun) a worker skilled in making armor or arms | Synonyms: armourer |
| armorial | (adjective) of or relating to heraldry or heraldic arms | - |
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| armory | (noun) a place where arms are manufactured | Synonyms: armoury, arsenal |
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| (noun) a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms | Synonyms: armoury, arsenal |
| (noun) all the weapons and equipment that a country has | Synonyms: armoury, arsenal |
| (noun) a collection of resources | Synonyms: armoury, inventory |
| armour | (noun) tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant | Synonyms: armor |
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| (noun) protective covering made of metal and used in combat | Synonyms: armor |
| (noun) a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles | Synonyms: armor |
| (verb) equip with armor | Synonyms: armor |
| armoured | (adjective) protected by armor (used of persons or things military) | Synonyms: armored |
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| (adjective) used of animals; provided with protective covering | Synonyms: armored |
| armourer | (noun) a manufacturer of firearms | Synonyms: armorer |
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| (noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armorer, artificer |
| (noun) a worker skilled in making armor or arms | Synonyms: armorer |
| armoury | (noun) a place where arms are manufactured | Synonyms: armory, arsenal |
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| (noun) a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms | Synonyms: armory, arsenal |
| (noun) all the weapons and equipment that a country has | Synonyms: armory, arsenal |
| (noun) a collection of resources | Synonyms: armory, inventory |
| armpit | (noun) the hollow under the arm where it is joined to the shoulder | Synonyms: axilla, axillary cavity, axillary fossa |
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| armrest | (noun) a support for the arm | - |
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| arms | (noun) weapons considered collectively | Synonyms: implements of war, munition, weaponry, weapons system |
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| (noun) the official symbols of a family, state, etc. | Synonyms: blazon, blazonry, coat of arms |
| army | (noun) a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state | Synonyms: ground forces, regular army |
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| (noun) a large number of people united for some specific purpose | - |
| armyworm | (noun) moth whose destructive larvae travel in multitudes | Synonyms: Pseudaletia unipuncta |
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| (noun) noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain | Synonyms: army worm, Pseudaletia unipuncta |
| (noun) larva of fungus gnat that feed on cereals and other grains; they march in large companies in regular order when the food is exhausted | - |
| autoalarm | (noun) a radio receiving device used on ships that rings an alarm bell when a distress signal is received. | Synonyms: auto-alarm |
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| barm | (noun) a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey | Synonyms: yeast |
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| barmaid | (noun) a female bartender | - |
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| barman | (noun) a male employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | - |
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| barmbrack | (noun) a rich currant cake or bun | - |
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| barmy | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) marked by spirited enjoyment | Synonyms: yeasty, zestful, zesty |
| becharm | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| (verb) control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft | Synonyms: charm |
| beggarman | (noun) a man who is a beggar | - |
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| bellarmine | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: greybeard, long-beard, longbeard |
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| bioarm | (noun) any weapon usable in biological warfare | Synonyms: biological weapon, bioweapon |
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| carmaker | (noun) a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles | Synonyms: auto maker, auto manufacturer, automaker, car maker, car manufacturer |
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| carminative | (adjective) relieving gas in the alimentary tract (colic or flatulence or griping) | Synonyms: flatus-relieving |
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| (noun) medication that prevents the formation of gas in the alimentary tract or eases its passing | - |
| carmine | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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| (noun) a variable color averaging a vivid red | Synonyms: cardinal |
| (verb) color carmine | - |
| charm | (noun) something believed to bring good luck | Synonyms: good luck charm |
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| (noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | Synonyms: appeal, appealingness |
| (noun) (physics) one of the six flavors of quark, the third most massive of all quarks | - |
| (noun) a verbal formula believed to have magical force | Synonyms: magic spell, magical spell, spell |
| (verb) induce into action by using one's charm | Synonyms: influence, tempt |
| (verb) protect through supernatural powers or charms | - |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| (verb) control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft | Synonyms: becharm |
| charman | (noun) a human male employed to do housework | - |
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| charmed | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, delighted, enthralled, entranced |
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| (adjective) strongly attracted | Synonyms: captivated |
| charmer | (noun) a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness) | Synonyms: beguiler |
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| (noun) someone with an assured and ingratiating manner | Synonyms: smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker |
| charming | (adjective) pleasing or delighting | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: magic, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizard, wizardly |
| charmingly | (adverb) in a charming manner | - |
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| darmstadtium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 110 | Synonyms: atomic number 110, Ds, element 110 |
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| debarment | (noun) the act of prevention by legal means | - |
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| (noun) the state of being debarred (excluded from enjoying certain possessions or rights or practices) | - |
| disarm | (verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarise, demilitarize |
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| (verb) take away the weapons from; render harmless | Synonyms: unarm |
| (verb) make less hostile; win over | - |
| disarmament | (noun) act of reducing or depriving of arms | Synonyms: disarming |
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| disarmer | (noun) someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes | Synonyms: pacificist, pacifist |
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| disarming | (adjective) capable of allaying hostility | - |
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| (noun) act of reducing or depriving of arms | Synonyms: disarmament |
| disbarment | (noun) the act of expelling a lawyer from the practice of law | - |
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| disharmonious | (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, dissonant, inharmonic |
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| disharmonize | (verb) cause to sound harsh and unpleasant | Synonyms: dissonate |
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| disharmony | (noun) a lack of harmony | Synonyms: inharmoniousness |
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| earmark | (noun) a distinctive characteristic or attribute of someone or something | Synonyms: hallmark, stylemark, trademark |
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| (noun) identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal | - |
| (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: allow, appropriate, reserve, set aside |
| earmuff | (noun) either of a pair of ear coverings (usually connected by a headband) that are worn to keep the ears warm in cold weather | - |
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| endearment | (noun) the act of showing affection | - |
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| farm | (noun) workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit | - |
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| (verb) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques | Synonyms: grow, produce, raise |
| (verb) collect fees or profits | - |
| (verb) be a farmer; work as a farmer | - |
| farmer | (noun) a person who operates a farm | Synonyms: granger, husbandman, sodbuster |
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| farmerette | (noun) a woman working on a farm | - |
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| farmhand | (noun) a hired hand on a farm | Synonyms: farm worker, field hand, fieldhand |
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| farmhouse | (noun) house for a farmer and family | - |
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| farming | (adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agrarian, agricultural |
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| (noun) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock | Synonyms: agriculture, husbandry |
| (noun) agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life | Synonyms: land |
| farmland | (noun) a rural area where farming is practiced | Synonyms: farming area |
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| (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, ploughland, plowland, tillage, tilled land, tilth |
| farmplace | (noun) a farm together with its buildings | Synonyms: farm-place, farmstead |
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| farmstead | (noun) a farm together with its buildings | Synonyms: farm-place, farmplace |
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| (noun) the buildings and adjacent grounds of a farm | - |
| farmyard | (noun) an area adjacent to farm buildings | - |
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| firearm | (noun) a portable gun | Synonyms: piece, small-arm |
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| forearm | (noun) the part of the superior limb between the elbow and the wrist | - |
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| (verb) arm in advance of a confrontation | - |
| garment | (noun) an article of clothing | - |
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| (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, habilitate, raiment, tog |
| garmented | (adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | Synonyms: appareled, attired, dressed, garbed, habilimented, robed |
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| garmentless | (adjective) possessing no clothing | Synonyms: clothesless, raimentless |
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| garmentmaker | (noun) a person who makes garments | Synonyms: dressmaker, garment-worker, garment worker |
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| gearmotor | (noun) a motor combined with a set of speed-reducing gears. | - |
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| gendarme | (noun) a French policeman | - |
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| gendarmerie | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmery |
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| gendarmery | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmerie |
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| harm | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: damage, hurt, scathe |
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| (noun) the occurrence of a change for the worse | Synonyms: damage, impairment |
| (noun) any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury | Synonyms: hurt, injury, trauma |
| (verb) cause or do harm to | - |
| harmattan | (noun) a dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western coast of Africa during the winter | - |
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| harmful | (adjective) causing or capable of causing harm | - |
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| harmfully | (adverb) in a detrimental manner | Synonyms: detrimentally, noxiously |
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| harmfulness | (noun) destructiveness that causes harm or injury | Synonyms: injuriousness |
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| (noun) the quality of being noxious | Synonyms: noisomeness, noxiousness |
| harmless | (adjective) not causing or capable of causing harm | - |
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