| acathexia | (noun) an inability to retain bodily secretions | - |
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| acathexis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual | - |
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| anathema | (noun) a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication | - |
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| (noun) a detested person | Synonyms: bete noire |
| anathematisation | (noun) the formal act of pronouncing (someone or something) accursed | Synonyms: anathematization |
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| anathematise | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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| anathematization | (noun) the formal act of pronouncing (someone or something) accursed | Synonyms: anathematisation |
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| anathematize | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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| anathemise | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
| anathemize | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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| (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, comminate, execrate |
| antimetathesis | (noun) A rhetorical figure resulting from a reverted arrangement in the last clause of a sentence of the two principal words of the clause preceding; inversion of the members of an antithesis: as, "A poem is a speaking picture; a picture a mute poem". | - |
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| antipathetic | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetical, averse, indisposed, loath, loth |
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| (adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antagonistic, antipathetical |
| antipathetical | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, averse, indisposed, loath, loth |
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| (adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antagonistic, antipathetic |
| apathetic | (adjective) showing little or no emotion or animation | - |
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| (adjective) marked by a lack of interest | Synonyms: indifferent |
| apathetically | (adverb) in an apathetic manner | - |
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| aromatherapy | (noun) the therapeutic use of aromatic plant extracts and essential oils in baths or massage | - |
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| atheism | (noun) a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods | - |
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| atheist | (adjective) related to or characterized by or given to atheism | Synonyms: atheistic, atheistical |
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| (noun) someone who does not believe in the existence of a god | - |
| atheistic | (adjective) related to or characterized by or given to atheism | Synonyms: atheist, atheistical |
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| (adjective) rejecting any belief in gods | Synonyms: atheistical, unbelieving |
| atheistical | (adjective) related to or characterized by or given to atheism | Synonyms: atheist, atheistic |
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| (adjective) rejecting any belief in gods | Synonyms: atheistic, unbelieving |
| athenaeum | (noun) a place where reading materials are available | Synonyms: atheneum |
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| (noun) a literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning | Synonyms: atheneum |
| atheneum | (noun) a place where reading materials are available | Synonyms: athenaeum |
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| (noun) a literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning | Synonyms: athenaeum |
| atherodyde | (noun) a simple type of jet engine; must be launched at high speed | Synonyms: athodyd, flying drainpipe, ramjet, ramjet engine |
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| atherogenesis | (noun) the formation of atheromas on the walls of the arteries as in atherosclerosis | - |
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| atheroma | (noun) a fatty deposit in the intima (inner lining) of an artery; can obstruct blood flow | - |
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| atheromatic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling atheroma | Synonyms: atheromatous |
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| atheromatous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling atheroma | Synonyms: atheromatic |
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| atherosclerosis | (noun) a stage of arteriosclerosis involving fatty deposits (atheromas) inside the arterial walls, thus narrowing the arteries | Synonyms: coronary artery disease |
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| atherosclerotic | (adjective) of or relating to atherosclerosis | - |
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| athetosis | (noun) a continuous succession of slow, writhing, involuntary movements of the hands and feet and other body parts | - |
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| bathe | (noun) the act of swimming for pleasure or recreation | - |
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| (verb) cleanse the entire body | - |
| (verb) suffuse or envelope with something | - |
| (verb) swim for pleasure or recreation | - |
| bather | (noun) a person who travels through the water by swimming | Synonyms: natator, swimmer |
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| (noun) a person who takes a bath | - |
| bathetic | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| blather | (noun) foolish gibberish | Synonyms: blatherskite |
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| (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blether, blither, smatter |
| blatherskite | (noun) foolish gibberish | Synonyms: blather |
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| breathe | (verb) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs | Synonyms: respire, suspire, take a breath |
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| (verb) expel (gases or odors) | Synonyms: emit, pass off |
| (verb) reach full flavor by absorbing air and being let to stand after having been uncorked | - |
| (verb) take a short break from one's activities in order to relax | Synonyms: catch one's breath, rest, take a breather |
| (verb) utter or tell | - |
| (verb) manifest or evince | - |
| (verb) impart as if by breathing | - |
| (verb) be alive | - |
| (verb) allow the passage of air through | - |
| breathed | (adjective) uttered without voice | Synonyms: voiceless |
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| breather | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: schnorchel, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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| (noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breath, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
| cathect | (verb) inject with libidinal energy | - |
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| cathectic | (adjective) of or relating to cathexis | - |
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| cathedra | (noun) a throne that is the official chair of a bishop | Synonyms: bishop's throne |
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| cathedral | (adjective) relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne | - |
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| (noun) any large and important church | - |
| (noun) the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese | Synonyms: duomo |
| catheter | (noun) a thin flexible tube inserted into the body to permit introduction or withdrawal of fluids or to keep the passageway open | - |
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| catheterisation | (noun) the operation of introducing a catheter into the body | Synonyms: catheterization |
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| catheterise | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterize |
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| catheterization | (noun) the operation of introducing a catheter into the body | Synonyms: catheterisation |
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| catheterize | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterise |
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| cathexis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object | Synonyms: charge |
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| diathermy | (noun) a method of physical therapy that involves generating local heat in body tissues by high-frequency electromagnetic currents | - |
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| diathesis | (noun) constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality | - |
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| empathetic | (adjective) showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states | Synonyms: empathic |
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| empathetically | (adverb) in a sympathetic manner | Synonyms: sympathetically |
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| fathead | (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
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| fatheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| father | (noun) a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) | Synonyms: begetter, male parent |
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| (noun) the founder of a family | Synonyms: forefather, sire |
| (noun) a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization | - |
| (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: beginner, founder, founding father |
| (noun) the head of an organized crime family | Synonyms: don |
| (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, generate, get, mother, sire |
| fatherhood | (noun) the status of a father | - |
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| (noun) the status of a religious leader | - |
| (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the father | Synonyms: paternity |
| fatherland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, homeland, mother country, motherland, native land |
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| fatherless | (adjective) not having a known or legally responsible father | - |
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| (adjective) having no living father | - |
| fatherlike | (adjective) like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective | Synonyms: fatherly |
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| fatherliness | (noun) the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father | Synonyms: paternal quality |
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| fatherly | (adjective) like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective | Synonyms: fatherlike |
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| feather | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feathering |
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| (noun) branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds | - |
| (verb) grow feathers | Synonyms: fledge |
| (verb) turn the oar, while rowing | Synonyms: square |
| (verb) turn the paddle; in canoeing | Synonyms: square |
| (verb) cover or fit with feathers | - |
| (verb) join tongue and groove, in carpentry | - |
| featherbed | (noun) a mattress stuffed with feathers | Synonyms: feather bed |
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| (verb) hire more workers than are necessary | - |
| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| featherbedding | (noun) the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required | - |
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| featherbrained | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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| feathered | (adjective) having or covered with feathers | - |
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| (adjective) adorned with feathers or plumes | Synonyms: feathery, plumy |
| featheredge | (noun) a thin tapering edge | - |
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| featheredged | (adjective) having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade | Synonyms: deckle-edged, deckled |
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| featherfoil | (noun) a plant of the genus Hottonia | Synonyms: feather-foil |
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| featheriness | (noun) a light softness | Synonyms: downiness, fluffiness |
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| feathering | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feather |
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| featherless | (adjective) having no feathers | Synonyms: unfeathered |
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| featherlike | (adjective) resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers | Synonyms: feathery |
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| feathertop | (noun) northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles | Synonyms: feathertop grass, Pennistum villosum |
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| (noun) a variety of reed grass | Synonyms: Calamagrostis acutiflora, feather reed grass |
| featherweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the bantamweight division and lighter than those in the lightweight division. | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs 126-139 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds | - |
| feathery | (adjective) adorned with feathers or plumes | Synonyms: feathered, plumy |
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| (adjective) characterized by a covering of feathers | - |
| (adjective) resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers | Synonyms: featherlike |
| flathead | (noun) food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards | - |
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| (noun) pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout | - |
| forefather | (noun) the founder of a family | Synonyms: father, sire |
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| (noun) person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group | - |
| foregather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, forgather, gather, meet |
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| forgather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, gather, meet |
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| gather | (noun) the act of gathering something | Synonyms: gathering |
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| (noun) sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching | Synonyms: gathering |
| (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, pile up |
| (verb) increase or develop | Synonyms: gain |
| (verb) conclude from evidence | - |
| (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: collect, garner, pull together |
| (verb) draw together into folds or puckers | Synonyms: pucker, tuck |
| (verb) look for (food) in nature | - |
| (verb) draw and bring closer | - |
| (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, forgather, meet |
| (verb) get people together | Synonyms: assemble, get together |
| gathered | (adjective) brought together in one place | Synonyms: collected |
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| gatherer | (noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | Synonyms: accumulator, collector |
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| (noun) a person who gathers | - |
| gathering | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assemblage, assembly |
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| (noun) the act of gathering something | Synonyms: gather |
| (noun) sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching | Synonyms: gather |
| (noun) a group of persons together in one place | Synonyms: assemblage |
| gayfeather | (noun) any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads | Synonyms: blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, snakeroot |
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| goatherd | (noun) a person who tends a flock of goats | Synonyms: goat herder |
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| godfather | (noun) any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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| (noun) someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild | - |
| grandfather | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, grandad, granddad, granddaddy, grandpa |
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| greathearted | (adjective) noble and generous in spirit | Synonyms: magnanimous |
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| heathen | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathenish, pagan |
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| (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: gentile, infidel, pagan |
| heathenish | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathen, pagan |
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| heathenism | (noun) any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism | Synonyms: pagan religion, paganism |
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| heather | (noun) interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color | Synonyms: heather mixture |
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| (noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, ling, Scots heather |
| housefather | (noun) a man in charge of children in an institution | - |
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| ingathering | (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, collection, solicitation |
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| lathe | (noun) machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool | - |
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| lathee | (noun) club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron; used by police in India | Synonyms: lathi |
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| lather | (noun) the froth produced by soaps or detergents | Synonyms: soapsuds, suds |
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| (noun) the foam resulting from excessive sweating (as on a horse) | - |
| (noun) a workman who puts up laths | - |
| (noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: fret, stew, sweat, swither |
| (verb) rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning | Synonyms: soap |
| (verb) exude sweat or lather | - |
| (verb) form a lather | - |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| lathery | (adjective) resembling lather or covered with lather | Synonyms: sudsy |
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| leather | (noun) an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning | - |
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| (verb) whip with a leather strap | - |
| leatherback | (noun) wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle | Synonyms: Dermochelys coriacea, leatherback turtle, leathery turtle |
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