| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| landgrave | (noun) a count who had jurisdiction over a large territory in medieval Germany | - |
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| 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 |
| 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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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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| 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 |
| octave | (noun) a musical interval of eight tones | Synonyms: musical octave |
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| (noun) a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse | - |
| (noun) a feast day and the seven days following it | - |
| outbrave | (verb) be braver than | - |
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| (verb) resist bravely | - |
| palaver | (noun) loud and confused and empty talk | Synonyms: empty talk, empty words, hot air, rhetoric |
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| (noun) flattery intended to persuade | Synonyms: blandishment, cajolery |
| (verb) have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds | - |
| (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, sweet-talk, wheedle |
| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| palsgrave | (noun) (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands | Synonyms: palatine |
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| papaverine | (noun) an alkaloid medicine (trade name Kavrin) obtained from opium; used to relax smooth muscles; it is nonaddictive | Synonyms: Kavrin |
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| pave | (noun) a setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows | - |
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| (verb) cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic | - |
| paved | (adjective) covered with a firm surface | - |
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| pavement | (noun) the paved surface of a thoroughfare | Synonyms: paving |
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| (noun) walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway | Synonyms: sidewalk |
| (noun) material used to pave an area | Synonyms: paving, paving material |
| peavey | (noun) a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs | Synonyms: cant dog, dog hook, peavy |
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| planoconcave | (adjective) flat on one side and concave on the other | - |
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| quaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note | Synonyms: eighth note |
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| (noun) a tremulous sound | - |
| (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: trill, warble |
| (verb) give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency | Synonyms: waver |
| quavering | (adjective) (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear | Synonyms: tremulous |
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| quaveringly | (adverb) in an unsteady quavering manner | - |
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| rave | (noun) an extravagantly enthusiastic review | - |
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| (noun) a dance party that lasts all night and electronically synthesized music is played | - |
| (verb) praise enthusiastically | Synonyms: gush |
| (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rant, spout |
| (verb) participate in an all-night techno dance party | - |
| ravehook | (noun) a hooked hand tool used to prepare the seams of a boat for oakum | - |
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| ravel | (noun) a row of unravelled stitches | Synonyms: ladder, run |
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| (verb) tangle or complicate | Synonyms: knot, tangle |
| (verb) disentangle | Synonyms: ravel out, unravel |
| raveling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: ravelling |
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| ravelling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: raveling |
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| raven | (noun) large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail | Synonyms: Corvus corax |
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| (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: devour, guttle, pig |
| (verb) feed greedily | - |
| (verb) prey on or hunt for | Synonyms: predate, prey |
| (verb) obtain or seize by violence | - |
| ravenala | (noun) giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap; reputedly an emergency source of water for travelers | Synonyms: Ravenala madagascariensis, traveler's tree, traveller's tree |
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| ravening | (adjective) excessively greedy and grasping | Synonyms: rapacious, voracious |
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| (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous |
| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
| ravenous | (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, voracious, wolfish |
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| (adjective) extremely hungry | Synonyms: esurient, famished, sharp-set, starved |
| ravenously | (adverb) in the manner of someone who is very hungry | Synonyms: hungrily |
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| ravenousness | (noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: edacity, esurience, voraciousness, voracity |
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| raver | (noun) someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner | Synonyms: ranter |
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| (noun) a participant in a rave dancing party | - |
| reave | (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, rifle, strip |
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| save | (noun) (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring | - |
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| (verb) make unnecessary an expenditure or effort | Synonyms: make unnecessary |
| (verb) record data on a computer | Synonyms: write |
| (verb) to keep up and reserve for personal or special use | Synonyms: preserve |
| (verb) accumulate money for future use | Synonyms: lay aside, save up |
| (verb) spend less; buy at a reduced price | - |
| (verb) retain rights to | Synonyms: hold open, keep, keep open |
| (verb) spend sparingly, avoid the waste of | Synonyms: economise, economize |
| (verb) bring into safety | Synonyms: bring through, carry through, pull through |
| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salvage, salve |
| (verb) save from sins | Synonyms: deliver, redeem |
| (verb) refrain from harming | Synonyms: spare |
| saved | (adjective) rescued; especially from the power and consequences of sin | - |
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| (adjective) guarded from injury or destruction | Synonyms: protected |
| saveloy | (noun) a ready-cooked and highly seasoned pork sausage | - |
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| saver | (noun) someone who saves (especially money) | - |
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| (noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: recoverer, rescuer |
| scavenge | (verb) remove unwanted substances from | Synonyms: clean |
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| (verb) feed on carrion or refuse | - |
| (verb) clean refuse from | - |
| (verb) collect discarded material | Synonyms: salvage |
| scavenger | (noun) any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter | - |
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| (noun) someone who collects things that have been discarded by others | Synonyms: magpie, pack rat |
| (noun) a chemical agent that is added to a chemical mixture to counteract the effects of impurities | - |
| semiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note | Synonyms: sixteenth note |
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| shave | (noun) the act of removing hair with a razor | Synonyms: shaving |
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| (verb) remove body hair with a razor | - |
| (verb) touch the surface of lightly | - |
| (verb) cut closely | Synonyms: trim |
| (verb) cut or remove with or as if with a plane | Synonyms: plane |
| (verb) make shavings of or reduce to shavings | - |
| (verb) cut the price of | Synonyms: knock off |
| shaved | (adjective) having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin | Synonyms: shaven |
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| shaven | (adjective) having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin | Synonyms: shaved |
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| shaver | (noun) a razor powered by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric razor, electric shaver |
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| (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
| (noun) an adult male who shaves | - |
| slave | (noun) a person who is owned by someone | - |
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| (noun) someone who works as hard as a slave | Synonyms: hard worker, striver |
| (noun) someone entirely dominated by some influence or person | - |
| (verb) work very hard, like a slave | Synonyms: break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down |
| slaveholder | (noun) someone who holds slaves | Synonyms: slave owner, slaver |
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| slaveholding | (adjective) allowing slavery | - |
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| (noun) the practice of owning slaves | Synonyms: slavery |
| slaveless | (adjective) where slavery was prohibited | Synonyms: free-soil, non-slave |
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| slavelike | (adjective) suitable for a slave or servant | - |
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| slaver | (noun) a person engaged in slave trade | Synonyms: slave dealer, slave trader |
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| (noun) someone who holds slaves | Synonyms: slave owner, slaveholder |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool, slabber, slobber |
| slavery | (noun) work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay | - |
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| (noun) the practice of owning slaves | Synonyms: slaveholding |
| (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, thraldom, thrall, thralldom |
| slavey | (noun) a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work | Synonyms: skivvy |
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| spokeshave | (noun) a small plane that has a handle on each side of its blade; used for shaping or smoothing cylindrical wooden surfaces (originally wheel spokes) | - |
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| stave | (noun) one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket | Synonyms: lag |
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| (noun) a crosspiece between the legs of a chair | Synonyms: round, rung |
| (noun) (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written | Synonyms: staff |
| (verb) burst or force (a hole) into something | Synonyms: stave in |
| (verb) furnish with staves | - |
| suave | (adjective) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication | Synonyms: bland, politic, smooth |
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| (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonair, debonaire, debonnaire |
| suavely | (adverb) with suavity; in a suave manner | - |
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| suaveness | (noun) the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner | Synonyms: blandness, smoothness, suavity |
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| tavern | (noun) a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks | Synonyms: tap house |
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| trave | (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, crosspiece, traverse |
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| travel | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: traveling, travelling |
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| (noun) self-propelled movement | Synonyms: locomotion |
| (noun) a movement through space that changes the location of something | Synonyms: change of location |
| (verb) change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically | Synonyms: go, locomote, move |
| (verb) make a trip for pleasure | Synonyms: jaunt, trip |
| (verb) travel upon or across | Synonyms: journey |
| (verb) undergo transportation as in a vehicle | - |
| (verb) undertake a journey or trip | Synonyms: journey |
| (verb) travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge | Synonyms: move around |
| travelable | (adjective) capable of being traversed | Synonyms: traversable |
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| traveled | (adjective) traveled over or through; sometimes used as a combining term | - |
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| (adjective) familiar with many parts of the world | Synonyms: travelled |
| traveler | (noun) a person who changes location | Synonyms: traveller |
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| traveling | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: travel, travelling |
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| travelled | (adjective) familiar with many parts of the world | Synonyms: traveled |
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| traveller | (noun) a person who changes location | Synonyms: traveler |
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| travelling | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: travel, traveling |
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| travelog | (noun) a film or illustrated lecture on traveling | Synonyms: travelogue |
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