| artefact | (noun) a man-made object taken as a whole | Synonyms: artifact |
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| artefactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artifactual |
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| artemisia | (noun) any of various composite shrubs or herbs of the genus Artemisia having aromatic green or greyish foliage | - |
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| arteria | (noun) a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body | Synonyms: arterial blood vessel, artery |
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| arterial | (adjective) of or involving or contained in the arteries | - |
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| arterialise | (verb) change venous blood into arterial blood | Synonyms: arterialize |
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| arterialize | (verb) change venous blood into arterial blood | Synonyms: arterialise |
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| arteriectasia | (noun) an abnormal distension of an artery | Synonyms: arteriectasis |
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| arteriectasis | (noun) an abnormal distension of an artery | Synonyms: arteriectasia |
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| arteriogram | (noun) an X ray of an artery filled with a contrast medium | - |
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| arteriography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of arteries | - |
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| arteriola | (noun) one of the small thin-walled arteries that end in capillaries | Synonyms: arteriole, capillary artery |
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| arteriolar | (adjective) of or relating to or involving arterioles | - |
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| arteriole | (noun) one of the small thin-walled arteries that end in capillaries | Synonyms: arteriola, capillary artery |
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| arteriolosclerosis | (noun) sclerosis of the arterioles | - |
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| arteriosclerosis | (noun) sclerosis of the arterial walls | Synonyms: arterial sclerosis, coronary-artery disease, hardening of the arteries, induration of the arteries |
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| arteriosclerotic | (adjective) affected by arteriosclerosis | - |
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| arteriovenous | (adjective) connecting an artery to a vein | - |
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| arteritis | (noun) inflammation of an artery | - |
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| artery | (noun) a major thoroughfare that bears important traffic | - |
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| (noun) a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body | Synonyms: arteria, arterial blood vessel |
| artesian | (adjective) (of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure | - |
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| bartender | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist |
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| barter | (noun) an equal exchange | Synonyms: swap, swop, trade |
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| (verb) exchange goods without involving money | - |
| barterer | (noun) a trader who exchanges goods and not money | - |
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| bighearted | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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| bigheartedness | (noun) the quality of being kind and generous | - |
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| brokenhearted | (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: heartbroken, heartsick |
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| brokenheartedness | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: grief, heartache, heartbreak |
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| carte | (noun) a list of dishes available at a restaurant | Synonyms: bill of fare, card, carte du jour, menu |
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| cartel | (noun) a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service | Synonyms: combine, corporate trust, trust |
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| cartelization | (noun) the process of cartelizing, usually occuring in oligopolistic industry. | - |
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| carter | (noun) someone whose work is driving carts | - |
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| charter | (noun) a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation | - |
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| (noun) a contract to hire or lease transportation | - |
| (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: engage, hire, lease, rent, take |
| (verb) grant a charter to | - |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: hire, lease, rent |
| chartered | (adjective) hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers | Synonyms: hired, leased |
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| charterhouse | (noun) a Carthusian monastery | - |
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| chickenhearted | (adjective) easily frightened | Synonyms: chicken, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow |
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| coldhearted | (adjective) lacking in sympathy or feeling | - |
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| coldheartedness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: hardheartedness, heartlessness |
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| darter | (noun) a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly | - |
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| (noun) fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill | Synonyms: anhinga, snakebird |
| departed | (adjective) dead | Synonyms: asleep, at peace, at rest, deceased, gone |
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| (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, bypast, foregone, gone |
| (noun) someone who is no longer alive | Synonyms: dead person, dead soul, deceased, deceased person, decedent |
| departer | (noun) someone who leaves | Synonyms: goer, leaver |
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| dishearten | (verb) take away the enthusiasm of | Synonyms: put off |
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| disheartened | (adjective) made less hopeful or enthusiastic | Synonyms: demoralised, demoralized, discouraged |
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| disheartening | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, demoralizing, dispiriting |
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| disheartenment | (noun) a communication that leaves you disheartened or daunted | - |
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| (noun) the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | Synonyms: discouragement, dismay |
| downhearted | (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
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| downheartedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, dispiritedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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| ecarte | (noun) a card game for 2 players; played with 32 cards and king high | - |
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| endarterectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the inner lining of an artery that is clogged with atherosclerosis | - |
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| endarteritis | (noun) inflammation of the inner lining of an artery | - |
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| fainthearted | (adjective) lacking conviction or boldness or courage | Synonyms: faint-hearted, faint, timid |
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| faintheartedness | (noun) the trait of lacking boldness and courage | Synonyms: faintness |
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| forequarter | (noun) the front half of a side of meat | - |
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| freehearted | (adjective) generous in providing aid to others | Synonyms: benevolent |
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| garter | (noun) a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve) | Synonyms: supporter |
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| (verb) fasten with or as if with a garter | - |
| greathearted | (adjective) noble and generous in spirit | Synonyms: magnanimous |
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| halfhearted | (adjective) feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm | Synonyms: half-hearted, lukewarm, tepid |
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| halfheartedness | (noun) the characteristic of being half-hearted; not sincere; lacking full energy, effort, commitment, or resolve. | - |
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| hardhearted | (adjective) lacking in feeling or pity or warmth | Synonyms: heartless |
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| (adjective) devoid of feeling for others | Synonyms: stonyhearted, unfeeling |
| hardheartedness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: coldheartedness, heartlessness |
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| hartebeest | (noun) a large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward | - |
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| headquarter | (verb) provide with headquarters | - |
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| headquarters | (noun) the military installation from which a commander performs the functions of command | Synonyms: HQ, military headquarters |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise | Synonyms: central office, home base, home office, main office |
| (noun) (plural) a military unit consisting of a commander and the headquarters staff | - |
| hearten | (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, embolden, recreate |
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| heartening | (adjective) cheerfully encouraging | Synonyms: inspiriting |
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| heavyhearted | (adjective) depressed | - |
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| heavyheartedness | (noun) a feeling of dispirited melancholy | - |
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| hindquarter | (noun) the back half of a side of meat | - |
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| hindquarters | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croup, croupe, rump |
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| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| kindergarten | (noun) a preschool for children age 4 to 6 to prepare them for primary school | - |
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| kindergartener | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartner, preschooler |
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| kindhearted | (adjective) having or proceeding from an innately kind disposition | Synonyms: kind-hearted |
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| kindheartedness | (noun) sympathy arising from a kind heart | Synonyms: kind-heartedness |
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| lighthearted | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, lightsome |
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| lightheartedness | (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, insouciance, lightsomeness |
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| lionhearted | (adjective) extraordinarily courageous | - |
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| marten | (noun) agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels | Synonyms: marten cat |
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| martensite | (noun) a solid solution of carbon in alpha-iron that is formed when steel is cooled so rapidly that the change from austenite to pearlite is suppressed; responsible for the hardness of quenched steel | - |
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| nonstarter | (noun) a horse that fails to run in a race for which it has been entered | - |
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| (noun) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently | Synonyms: failure, loser, unsuccessful person |
| openhearted | (adjective) freely communicative; candidly straightforward | - |
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| (adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: benevolent, charitable, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, sympathetic |
| parted | (adjective) having a margin incised almost to the base so as to create distinct divisions or lobes | - |
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| parterre | (noun) seating at the rear of the main floor (beneath the balconies) | Synonyms: parquet circle |
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| (noun) an ornamental flower garden; beds and paths are arranged to form a pattern | - |
| periarteritis | (noun) inflammation of the outer coat of an artery | - |
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| polyarteritis | (noun) inflammation of several arteries | - |
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| quarter | (noun) clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent | - |
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| (noun) the rear part of a ship | Synonyms: after part, poop, stern, tail |
| (noun) piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp | - |
| (noun) a district of a city having some distinguishing character | - |
| (noun) an unspecified person | - |
| (noun) a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar | - |
| (noun) one of four equal parts | Synonyms: fourth, fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quartern, twenty-five percent |
| (noun) a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds) | - |
| (noun) a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds) | - |
| (noun) one of the four major division of the compass | - |
| (noun) one of four periods into which the school year is divided | - |
| (noun) (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided | - |
| (noun) a fourth part of a year; three months | - |
| (noun) a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour | - |
| (verb) divide by four; divide into quarters | - |
| (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 |
| quarterback | (noun) (American football) the position of the football player in the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team | Synonyms: field general, signal caller |
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| (noun) (football) the person who plays quarterback | Synonyms: field general, signal caller |
| (verb) play the quarterback | - |
| quarterdeck | (noun) the stern area of a ship's upper deck | - |
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| quarterfinal | (noun) one of the four competitions in an elimination tournament whose winners go on to play in the semifinals | - |
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| quartering | (noun) dividing into four equal parts | - |
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| (noun) living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel) | - |
| (noun) a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages | - |
| quarterlight | (noun) car window consisting of a small pivoted glass vent in the door of a car | - |
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| quarterly | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of a quarter | - |
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| (noun) a periodical that is published every quarter (or four issues per year) | - |
| (adverb) in three month intervals | Synonyms: every quarter |
| (adverb) in diagonally opposed quarters of an escutcheon | - |
| quartermaster | (noun) an army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops | - |
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| quartern | (noun) one of four equal parts | Synonyms: fourth, fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quarter, twenty-five percent |
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| quarters | (noun) housing available for people to live in | Synonyms: living quarters |
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| quarterstaff | (noun) a long stout staff used as a weapon | - |
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| quartervine | (noun) woody flowering vine of southern United States; stems show a cross in transverse section | Synonyms: Bignonia capreolata, cross vine, quarter-vine, trumpet flower |
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| quartet | (noun) a musical composition for four performers | Synonyms: quartette |
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| (noun) four people considered as a unit | Synonyms: foursome, quartette |
| (noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruple, quadruplet, quartette |
| (noun) four performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: quartette |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
| quartette | (noun) a musical composition for four performers | Synonyms: quartet |
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| (noun) four people considered as a unit | Synonyms: foursome, quartet |
| (noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruple, quadruplet, quartet |
| (noun) four performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: quartet |
| repartee | (noun) adroitness and cleverness in reply | - |
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| softhearted | (adjective) easily moved to pity or sorrow | Synonyms: soft-boiled |
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