| defrayal | (noun) the act of paying money | Synonyms: defrayment, payment |
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| defrayment | (noun) the act of paying money | Synonyms: defrayal, payment |
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| delay | (noun) the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time | Synonyms: holdup |
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| (noun) time during which some action is awaited | Synonyms: hold, postponement, time lag, wait |
| (verb) cause to be slowed down or delayed | Synonyms: detain, hold up |
| (verb) stop or halt | Synonyms: detain, stay |
| (verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: check, retard |
| (verb) act later than planned, scheduled, or required | - |
| delayed | (adjective) not as far along as normal in development | - |
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| delayer | (noun) a person who delays; to put off until later or cause to be late | - |
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| disarray | (noun) untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance) | Synonyms: disorderliness |
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| (noun) a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior | Synonyms: confusedness, confusion, mental confusion, muddiness |
| (verb) bring disorder to | Synonyms: disorder |
| disarrayed | (adjective) in disarray | - |
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| dismay | (noun) fear resulting from the awareness of danger | Synonyms: alarm, consternation |
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| (noun) the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | Synonyms: discouragement, disheartenment |
| (verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appal, appall, horrify |
| (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dispirit, get down |
| dismayed | (adjective) struck with fear, dread, or consternation | Synonyms: aghast, appalled, shocked |
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| dismaying | (adjective) causing consternation | Synonyms: appalling |
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| display | (noun) something shown to the public | Synonyms: exhibit, showing |
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| (noun) a visual representation of something | Synonyms: presentation |
| (noun) an electronic device that represents information in visual form | Synonyms: video display |
| (noun) exhibiting openly in public view | - |
| (noun) something intended to communicate a particular impression | Synonyms: show |
| (noun) behavior that makes your feelings public | - |
| (verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: exhibit, expose |
| (verb) attract attention by displaying some body part or posing; of animals | - |
| doomsday | (noun) an unpleasant or disastrous destiny | Synonyms: day of reckoning, doom, end of the world |
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| (noun) (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives | Synonyms: crack of doom, Day of Judgement, Day of Judgment, day of reckoning, Doomsday, end of the world, eschaton, Judgement Day, Judgment Day, Last Day, Last Judgement, Last Judgment |
| doorway | (noun) the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close | Synonyms: door, room access, threshold |
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| downplay | (verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: background, play down |
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| (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: minimise, minimize, understate |
| dray | (noun) a low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage | Synonyms: camion |
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| drayhorse | (noun) draft horse kept for pulling carts | Synonyms: cart horse, carthorse |
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| driveway | (noun) a road leading up to a private house | Synonyms: drive, private road |
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| edgeways | (adverb) with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge | Synonyms: edgewise |
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| (adverb) as if by an edge; barely | Synonyms: edgewise |
| embayment | (noun) an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf | Synonyms: bay |
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| endways | (adverb) with the end forward or toward the observer | Synonyms: end on, endwise |
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| (adverb) in or toward the direction of the ends; lengthwise | Synonyms: endwise |
| (adverb) on end or upright | Synonyms: endwise |
| entranceway | (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entree, entry, entryway |
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| entryway | (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entranceway, entree, entry |
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| essay | (noun) a tentative attempt | - |
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| (noun) an analytic or interpretive literary composition | - |
| (verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, attempt, seek, try |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: examine, prove, test, try, try out |
| essayer | (noun) one who tries | Synonyms: attempter, trier |
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| essayist | (noun) a writer of literary works | Synonyms: litterateur |
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| everyday | (adjective) commonplace and ordinary | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: casual, daily |
| (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday |
| everydayness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonness, commonplaceness |
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| expressway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
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| fairway | (noun) the area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut short | - |
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| (noun) a tract of ground free of obstacles to movement | - |
| (noun) the usual course taken by vessels through a harbor or coastal waters | - |
| faraway | (adjective) far removed mentally | - |
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| (adjective) very far away in space or time | Synonyms: far-off |
| farawayness | (noun) the property of being remote | Synonyms: farness, remoteness |
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| fay | (noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faerie, faery, fairy, sprite |
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| fedayeen | (noun) (plural) Arab guerrillas who operate mainly against Israel | - |
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| fireclay | (noun) a heat-resistant clay | - |
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| flay | (verb) strip the skin off | - |
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| flyaway | (adjective) guided by whim and fancy | Synonyms: flighty, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained |
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| (adjective) (of hair or clothing) worn loose | - |
| flyway | (noun) the geographic route along which birds customarily migrate | Synonyms: migration route |
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| foldaway | (adjective) capable of being folded up and stored | Synonyms: foldable, folding |
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| foray | (noun) a sudden short attack | Synonyms: maraud, raid |
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| (noun) an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence) | - |
| (verb) briefly enter enemy territory | - |
| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| foreplay | (noun) mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse | Synonyms: arousal, stimulation |
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| forestay | (noun) an adjustable stay from the foremast to the deck or bowsprit; controls the bending of the mast | - |
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| fray | (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: affray, disturbance, ruffle |
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| (verb) wear away by rubbing | Synonyms: frazzle |
| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fret, rub, scratch |
| frayed | (adjective) worn away or tattered along the edges | - |
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| freeway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
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| funday | (noun) Sunday as a day for relaxing and having fun | - |
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| gainsay | (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: challenge, dispute |
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| gangway | (noun) a temporary passageway of planks (as over mud on a building site) | - |
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| (noun) a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside | Synonyms: gangboard, gangplank |
| (noun) passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores | Synonyms: aisle |
| gateway | (noun) an entrance that can be closed by a gate | - |
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| gay | (adjective) bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer | Synonyms: cheery, sunny |
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| (adjective) brightly colored and showy | Synonyms: brave, braw |
| (adjective) homosexual or arousing homosexual desires | Synonyms: homophile, queer |
| (adjective) given to social pleasures often including dissipation | - |
| (adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festal, festive, merry |
| (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful |
| (noun) someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex | Synonyms: homo, homophile, homosexual |
| gayal | (noun) ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur | Synonyms: Bibos frontalis, mithan |
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| 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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| gayly | (adverb) in a joyous manner | Synonyms: blithely, happily, jubilantly, merrily, mirthfully |
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| gayness | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex | Synonyms: homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality, queerness |
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| gaywings | (noun) common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals | Synonyms: bird-on-the-wing, flowering wintergreen, fringed polygala, Polygala paucifolia |
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| getaway | (noun) a rapid escape (as by criminals) | Synonyms: lam |
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| (noun) the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration | Synonyms: pickup |
| giveaway | (noun) an unintentional disclosure | - |
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| (noun) a television or radio program in which contestants compete for awards | Synonyms: game show |
| (noun) a gift of public land or resources for the private gain of a limited group | - |
| gray | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: grayish, grey, greyish |
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| (adjective) intermediate in character or position | Synonyms: grey |
| (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
| (adjective) used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) | Synonyms: grey |
| (noun) horse of a light gray or whitish color | Synonyms: grey |
| (noun) clothing that is a grey color | Synonyms: grey |
| (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: grayness, grey, greyness |
| (noun) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey | Synonyms: grey |
| (noun) the SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad | Synonyms: Gy |
| (verb) turn grey | Synonyms: grey |
| (verb) make grey | Synonyms: grey |
| grayback | (noun) a dowitcher with a grey back | Synonyms: greyback, Limnodromus griseus |
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| (noun) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere | Synonyms: Calidris canutus, greyback, knot |
| graybeard | (noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: greybeard, Methuselah, old man |
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| grayhen | (noun) female black grouse | Synonyms: gray hen, grey hen, greyhen, heath hen |
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| grayish | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grey, greyish |
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| graylag | (noun) common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds | Synonyms: Anser anser, graylag goose, greylag, greylag goose |
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| grayly | (adverb) having a grey appearance | Synonyms: greyly |
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| grayness | (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: gray, grey, greyness |
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| greenway | (noun) a belt of parks or rural land surrounding a town or city | Synonyms: greenbelt |
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| guayule | (noun) much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber | Synonyms: Parthenium argentatum |
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| gunplay | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunfight, shootout |
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| halfway | (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: center, centre, middle, midway |
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| (adjective) including only half or a portion | - |
| (adjective) at a point midway between two extremes | - |
| (adverb) at half the distance; at the middle | Synonyms: midway |
| hallway | (noun) an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open | Synonyms: hall |
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| hatchway | (noun) an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship | Synonyms: opening, scuttle |
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| hay | (noun) grass mowed and cured for use as fodder | - |
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| (verb) convert (plant material) into hay | - |
| haycock | (noun) a small cone-shaped pile of hay that has been left in the field until it is dry enough to carry to the hayrick | - |
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| hayfield | (noun) a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay | Synonyms: meadow |
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| hayfork | (noun) a long-handled fork for turning or lifting hay | - |
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| haying | (noun) the season for cutting and drying and storing grass as fodder | Synonyms: haying time |
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| (noun) the harvesting of hay | - |
| hayloft | (noun) a loft in a barn where hay is stored | Synonyms: haymow, mow |
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| haymaker | (noun) a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing | Synonyms: knockout punch, KO punch, Sunday punch |
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| (noun) a farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying | Synonyms: hay conditioner |
| haymaking | (noun) cutting grass and curing it to make hay | - |
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| (noun) taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts | - |
| haymow | (noun) a loft in a barn where hay is stored | Synonyms: hayloft, mow |
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| (noun) a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation | - |
| hayrack | (noun) a frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry | Synonyms: hayrig |
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| (noun) a rack that holds hay for feeding livestock | - |
| hayrick | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: haystack, rick |
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| hayrig | (noun) a frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry | Synonyms: hayrack |
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| hayseed | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel |
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| haystack | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: hayrick, rick |
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| haywire | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) not functioning properly | Synonyms: amiss, awry, wrong |
| (noun) wire for tying up bales of hay | - |
| headstay | (noun) the farthest forward forestay that runs from the bow or bowsprit to the top of the mast. | - |
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| headway | (noun) forward movement | Synonyms: head |
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| (noun) vertical space available to allow easy passage under something | Synonyms: clearance, headroom |
| hearsay | (adjective) heard through another rather than directly | - |
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| (noun) gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth | Synonyms: rumor, rumour |
| heyday | (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, peak, prime |
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| hideaway | (noun) an area where you can be alone | Synonyms: retreat |
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| (noun) a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws | Synonyms: den, hideout |
| highway | (noun) a major road for any form of motor transport | Synonyms: main road |
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| highwayman | (noun) a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it | Synonyms: highjacker, hijacker, road agent |
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| holiday | (noun) leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure | Synonyms: vacation |
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| (noun) a day on which work is suspended by law or custom | - |
| (verb) spend or take a vacation | Synonyms: vacation |
| holidaymaker | (noun) someone who travels for pleasure | Synonyms: tourer, tourist |
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| hooray | (noun) a victory cheer | Synonyms: hurrah |
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| horseplay | (noun) rowdy or boisterous play | - |
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| icetray | (noun) a tray for making cubes of ice in a refrigerator | - |
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| immunoassay | (noun) identification of a substance (especially a protein) by its action as an antigen | Synonyms: immunochemical assay |
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| inlay | (noun) a decoration made by fitting pieces of wood into prepared slots in a surface | - |
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| (noun) (dentistry) a filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place | - |
| (verb) decorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal | - |
| instagay | (noun) A photo on the Instagram website, which is related to homosexuality | - |
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