| gravitative | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitational |
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| graviton | (noun) a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles | - |
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| gravity | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, soberness, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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| (noun) a solemn and dignified feeling | Synonyms: solemnity |
| (noun) (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface | Synonyms: gravitation, gravitational attraction, gravitational force |
| gravure | (noun) the act of intaglio printing | - |
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| (noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: heliogravure, photogravure |
| (noun) a printing plate used in the process of gravure | - |
| (noun) a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print | Synonyms: intaglio, intaglio printing |
| gravy | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, manna from heaven, windfall |
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| (noun) the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added | Synonyms: pan gravy |
| (noun) a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats | - |
| greave | (noun) armor plate that protects legs below the knee | Synonyms: jambeau |
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| greaves | (noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: crackling |
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| guava | (noun) tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp; eaten fresh or used for e.g. jellies | - |
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| (noun) small tropical American shrubby tree; widely cultivated in warm regions for its sweet globular yellow fruit | Synonyms: guava bush, Psidium guajava, true guava |
| (noun) small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit | Synonyms: Psidium littorale, strawberry guava, yellow cattley guava |
| hairweaving | (noun) the act of interweaving a hairpiece with your own hair | - |
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| have | (noun) a person who possesses great material wealth | Synonyms: rich person, wealthy person |
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| (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: bear, birth, deliver, give birth |
| (verb) suffer from; be ill with | - |
| (verb) undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) | Synonyms: get, suffer, sustain |
| (verb) cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition | Synonyms: get, let |
| (verb) undergo | Synonyms: experience |
| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, get, induce, make, stimulate |
| (verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly | Synonyms: consume, ingest, take, take in |
| (verb) have sex with; archaic use | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: give, hold, make, throw |
| (verb) go through (mental or physical states or experiences) | Synonyms: experience, get, receive |
| (verb) have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense | Synonyms: have got, hold |
| (verb) achieve a point or goal | Synonyms: get, make |
| (verb) get something; come into possession of | Synonyms: receive |
| (verb) have ownership or possession of | Synonyms: own, possess |
| (verb) receive willingly something given or offered | Synonyms: accept, take |
| (verb) have a personal or business relationship with someone | - |
| (verb) have as a feature | Synonyms: feature |
| (verb) be confronted with | - |
| havelock | (noun) a cloth covering for a service cap with a flap extending over the back of the neck to protect the neck from direct rays of the sun | - |
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| haven | (noun) a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary | Synonyms: oasis |
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| (noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbor, harbour, seaport |
| haversack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, knapsack, packsack, rucksack |
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| havoc | (noun) violent and needless disturbance | Synonyms: mayhem |
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| heave | (noun) throwing something heavy (with great effort) | Synonyms: heaving |
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| (noun) the act of lifting something with great effort | Synonyms: heaving |
| (noun) the act of raising something | Synonyms: lift, raise |
| (noun) an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting | Synonyms: retch |
| (noun) (geology) a horizontal dislocation | - |
| (noun) an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) | Synonyms: heaving |
| (verb) make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit | Synonyms: gag, retch |
| (verb) breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted | Synonyms: gasp, pant, puff |
| (verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: buckle, warp |
| (verb) utter a sound, as with obvious effort | - |
| (verb) lift or elevate | Synonyms: heave up, heft, heft up |
| (verb) throw with great effort | - |
| (verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: billow, surge |
| (verb) move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position | - |
| heaven | (noun) any place of complete bliss and delight and peace | Synonyms: Eden, nirvana, paradise, promised land, Shangri-la |
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| heavenly | (adjective) of or belonging to heaven or god | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven | Synonyms: celestial |
| (adjective) of or relating to the sky | Synonyms: celestial |
| heavens | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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| heavenward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: skyward |
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| (adverb) toward heaven | Synonyms: heavenwardly, heavenwards |
| heavenwardly | (adverb) toward heaven | Synonyms: heavenward, heavenwards |
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| heavenwards | (adverb) toward heaven | Synonyms: heavenward, heavenwardly |
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| heaver | (noun) a bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope) | - |
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| (noun) a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard) | - |
| heaves | (noun) a chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks | Synonyms: broken wind |
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| heavily | (adverb) to a considerable degree | Synonyms: to a great extent |
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| (adverb) indulging excessively | Synonyms: hard, intemperately |
| (adverb) slowly as if burdened by much weight | Synonyms: heavy |
| (adverb) in a manner designed for heavy duty | - |
| (adverb) in a heavy-footed manner | - |
| (adverb) with great force | - |
| (adverb) in a labored manner | - |
| heaviness | (noun) the property of being comparatively great in weight | Synonyms: weightiness |
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| (noun) used of a line or mark | Synonyms: thickness |
| (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: burdensomeness, onerousness, oppressiveness |
| (noun) an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency | Synonyms: ponderousness |
| (noun) persisting sadness | - |
| heaving | (noun) throwing something heavy (with great effort) | Synonyms: heave |
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| (noun) breathing heavily (as after exertion) | Synonyms: panting |
| (noun) the act of lifting something with great effort | Synonyms: heave |
| (noun) an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) | Synonyms: heave |
| heavy | (adjective) of comparatively great physical weight or density | - |
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| (adjective) marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness | - |
| (adjective) unusually great in degree or quantity or number | - |
| (adjective) of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment | - |
| (adjective) (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight | - |
| (adjective) of great intensity or power or force | - |
| (adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: lowering, sullen, threatening |
| (adjective) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained | Synonyms: clayey, cloggy |
| (adjective) (of sleep) deep and complete | Synonyms: profound, sound, wakeless |
| (adjective) lacking lightness or liveliness | Synonyms: leaden |
| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
| (adjective) usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it | Synonyms: fleshy, overweight |
| (adjective) full of; bearing great weight | Synonyms: weighed down |
| (adjective) full and loud and deep | Synonyms: sonorous |
| (adjective) large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work | - |
| (adjective) slow and laborious because of weight | Synonyms: lumbering, ponderous |
| (adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, grievous, weighty |
| (adjective) dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal | - |
| (adjective) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors | Synonyms: hard, intemperate |
| (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large, with child |
| (adjective) sharply inclined | - |
| (adjective) made of fabric having considerable thickness | - |
| (adjective) (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain | - |
| (adjective) requiring or showing effort | Synonyms: labored, laboured |
| (adjective) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter | Synonyms: dense, impenetrable |
| (adjective) prodigious | Synonyms: big |
| (adjective) of relatively large extent and density | - |
| (noun) a serious (or tragic) role in a play | - |
| (noun) an actor who plays villainous roles | - |
| (adverb) slowly as if burdened by much weight | Synonyms: heavily |
| heavyhearted | (adjective) depressed | - |
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| heavyheartedness | (noun) a feeling of dispirited melancholy | - |
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| heavyset | (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: compact, stocky, thick, thickset |
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| heavyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the heaviest. | Synonyms: super heavyweight |
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| (noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, titan |
| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds | - |
| (noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, hulk, whale |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds | - |
| heliogravure | (noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: gravure, photogravure |
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| hemidemisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note | Synonyms: sixty-fourth note |
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| hepadnavirus | (noun) a group of animal DNA viruses including viruses of ducks and woodchucks and squirrels and others as well as the virus causing hepatitis B in humans | - |
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| hepatoflavin | (noun) a B vitamin that prevents skin lesions and weight loss | Synonyms: lactoflavin, ovoflavin, riboflavin, vitamin B2, vitamin G |
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| indinavir | (noun) a protease inhibitor (trade name Crixivan) used for treating HIV | Synonyms: Crixivan |
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| interleave | (verb) intersperse alternately, as of protective covers for book illustrations | - |
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| (verb) intersperse the sectors on the concentric magnetic circular patterns written on a computer disk surface to guide the storing and recording of data | - |
| (verb) provide (books) with blank leaves | - |
| interweave | (verb) interlace by or as if by weaving | Synonyms: weave |
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| intravasation | (noun) entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel | - |
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| intravenous | (adjective) within or by means of a vein | Synonyms: endovenous |
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| intravenously | (adverb) in an intravenous manner | - |
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| intraventricular | (adjective) within the system of ventricles in the brain | - |
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| inweave | (verb) weave together into a fabric or design | - |
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| java | (noun) a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans | Synonyms: coffee |
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| javelin | (noun) a spear thrown as a weapon or in competitive field events | - |
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| (noun) an athletic competition in which a javelin is thrown as far as possible | - |
| javelina | (noun) dark grey peccary with an indistinct white collar; of semi desert areas of Mexico and southwestern United States | Synonyms: collared peccary, Peccari angulatus, Tayassu angulatus, Tayassu tajacu |
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| kamilavka | (noun) A headdress worn among Orthodox Christian monastics and clergy. | - |
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| kava | (noun) an alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub | Synonyms: kavakava |
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| kavakava | (noun) an alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub | Synonyms: kava |
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| klavern | (noun) a local unit of the Ku Klux Klan | - |
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| knave | (noun) one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince | Synonyms: jack |
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| (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallywag, varlet |
| knavery | (noun) lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing | Synonyms: dishonesty |
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| knavish | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| knavishly | (adverb) in an subtle, cunning manner | Synonyms: artfully, craftily, cunningly, foxily, slyly, trickily |
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| laborsaving | (adjective) designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor | Synonyms: laboursaving |
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| laboursaving | (adjective) designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor | Synonyms: laborsaving |
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| lactoflavin | (noun) a B vitamin that prevents skin lesions and weight loss | Synonyms: hepatoflavin, ovoflavin, riboflavin, vitamin B2, vitamin G |
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| landgrave | (noun) a count who had jurisdiction over a large territory in medieval Germany | - |
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| lav | (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lavatory, privy, toilet |
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| lava | (noun) rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanoes; lava is what magma is called when it reaches the surface | - |
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| lavabo | (noun) a basin for washing the hands | Synonyms: handbasin, wash-hand basin, washbasin, washbowl |
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| lavage | (noun) washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water | - |
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| lavalava | (noun) a skirt consisting of a rectangle of calico or printed cotton; worn by Polynesians (especially Samoans) | - |
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| lavalier | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavaliere, lavalliere |
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| lavaliere | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavalier, lavalliere |
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| lavalliere | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavalier, lavaliere |
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| lavation | (noun) the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) | Synonyms: wash, washing |
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| lavatory | (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lav, privy, toilet |
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| (noun) a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face | Synonyms: basin, washbasin, washbowl, washstand |
| (noun) a toilet that is cleaned of waste by the flow of water through it | Synonyms: flush toilet |
| lave | (verb) cleanse (one's body) with soap and water | Synonyms: wash |
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| (verb) wash one's face and hands | Synonyms: wash up |
| (verb) wash or flow against | Synonyms: lap, wash |
| lavender | (adjective) of a pale purple color | Synonyms: lilac-colored, lilac |
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| (noun) a pale purple color | - |
| (noun) any of various Old World aromatic shrubs or subshrubs with usually mauve or blue flowers; widely cultivated | - |
| laver | (noun) (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions | - |
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| (noun) seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds | Synonyms: sea lettuce |
| (noun) edible red seaweeds | Synonyms: red laver |
| lavish | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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| (adjective) characterized by extravagance and profusion | Synonyms: lucullan, plush, plushy |
| (verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: shower |
| lavishly | (adverb) in a wasteful manner | Synonyms: extravagantly |
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| (adverb) in a rich and lavish manner | Synonyms: extravagantly, richly |
| lavishness | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: extravagance, high life, highlife, prodigality |
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| (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: luxury, sumptuosity, sumptuousness |
| leave | (noun) the act of departing politely | Synonyms: farewell, leave-taking, parting |
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| (noun) permission to do something | - |
| (noun) the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty | Synonyms: leave of absence |
| (verb) leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking | Synonyms: leave alone, leave behind, let alone |
| (verb) be survived by after one's death | Synonyms: leave behind |
| (verb) leave behind unintentionally | Synonyms: forget |
| (verb) go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness | - |
| (verb) move out of or depart from | Synonyms: exit, get out, go out |
| (verb) go away from a place | Synonyms: go away, go forth |
| (verb) leave or give by will after one's death | Synonyms: bequeath, will |
| (verb) transmit (knowledge or skills) | Synonyms: give, impart, pass on |
| (verb) put into the care or protection of someone | Synonyms: entrust |
| (verb) remove oneself from an association with or participation in | Synonyms: depart, pull up stakes |
| (verb) produce as a result or residue | Synonyms: lead, result |
| (verb) make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain | Synonyms: allow, allow for, provide |
| (verb) act or be so as to become in a specified state | - |
| (verb) have left or have as a remainder | - |
| leaved | (adjective) having leaves or leaves as specified; often used in combination | Synonyms: leafed |
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| leaven | (noun) an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something | Synonyms: leavening |
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| (noun) a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid | Synonyms: leavening |
| (verb) cause to puff up with a leaven | Synonyms: prove, raise |
| leavened | (adjective) made light by aerating, as with yeast or baking powder; often used as a combining form | - |
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| leavening | (noun) an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something | Synonyms: leaven |
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| (noun) a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid | Synonyms: leaven |
| leaver | (noun) someone who leaves | Synonyms: departer, goer |
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| leaving | (noun) the act of departing | Synonyms: departure, going, going away |
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| lifesaver | (noun) a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material | Synonyms: life belt, life buoy, life ring |
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| (noun) an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents | Synonyms: lifeguard |
| lifesaving | (noun) saving the lives of drowning persons | - |
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| lyssavirus | (noun) a neurotropic non-arbovirus of the family Rhabdoviridae that causes rabies | - |
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| maravilla | (noun) leafy wildflower having fragrant slender white or pale pink trumpet-shaped flowers; southwestern United States and northern Mexico | Synonyms: Mirabilis longiflora, sweet four o'clock |
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| (noun) wildflower having vibrant deep pink tubular evening-blooming flowers; found in sandy and desert areas from southern California to southern Colorado and into Mexico | Synonyms: Colorado four o'clock, desert four o'clock, Mirabilis multiflora |
| margrave | (noun) a German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess) | - |
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| (noun) the military governor of a frontier province in medieval Germany | - |
| maven | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
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| maverick | (adjective) independent in behavior or thought | Synonyms: irregular, unorthodox |
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| (noun) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it | - |
| (noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: rebel |
| mavin | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
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| mavis | (noun) common Old World thrush noted for its song | Synonyms: song thrush, throstle, Turdus philomelos |
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| microwave | (noun) kitchen appliance that cooks food by passing an electromagnetic wave through it; heat results from the absorption of energy by the water molecules in the food | Synonyms: microwave oven |
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| (noun) a short electromagnetic wave (longer than infrared but shorter than radio waves); used for radar and microwave ovens and for transmitting telephone, facsimile, video and data | - |
| (verb) cook or heat in a microwave oven | Synonyms: micro-cook, nuke, zap |
| misbehave | (verb) behave badly | Synonyms: misconduct, misdemean |
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| misbehavior | (noun) improper or wicked or immoral behavior | Synonyms: misbehaviour, misdeed |
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| misbehaviour | (noun) improper or wicked or immoral behavior | Synonyms: misbehavior, misdeed |
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| moshav | (noun) a cooperative Israeli village or settlement comprised of small farms | - |
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| naval | (adjective) connected with or belonging to or used in a navy | - |
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| nave | (noun) the central area of a church | - |
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| navel | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, bellybutton, omphalos, omphalus, umbilicus |
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| (noun) the center point or middle of something | Synonyms: navel point |
| navicular | (adjective) shaped like a boat | Synonyms: scaphoid |
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| (noun) the largest wrist bone on the thumb side | Synonyms: os scaphoideum, scaphoid bone |
| navigability | (noun) the quality of being suitable for the passage of a ship or aircraft | - |
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