| adscititious | (adjective) added or derived from something outside; not inherent | - |
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| (adjective) supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a thing | - |
| adscript | (adjective) written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it | - |
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| (adjective) (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner | Synonyms: adscripted |
| adscripted | (adjective) (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner | Synonyms: adscript |
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| adsorb | (verb) accumulate (liquids or gases) on the surface | - |
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| adsorbable | (adjective) capable of being adsorbed or accumulated on a surface of a solid | Synonyms: adsorbate |
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| adsorbate | (adjective) capable of being adsorbed or accumulated on a surface of a solid | Synonyms: adsorbable |
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| (noun) a material that has been or is capable of being adsorbed | - |
| adsorbent | (adjective) having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: adsorptive, surface-assimilative |
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| (noun) a material having capacity or tendency to adsorb another substance | Synonyms: adsorbent material |
| adsorber | (noun) an apparatus used in the adhesion of atoms, ions, or molecules from a gas, liquid, or dissolved solid to a surface. | - |
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| adsorption | (noun) the accumulation of molecules of a gas to form a thin film on the surface of a solid | Synonyms: surface assimilation |
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| adsorptive | (adjective) having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: adsorbent, surface-assimilative |
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| afterwards | (adverb) happening at a time subsequent to a reference time | Synonyms: after, afterward, later, later on, subsequently |
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| amends | (noun) something done or paid in expiation of a wrong | Synonyms: reparation |
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| (noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: damages, indemnification, indemnity, redress, restitution |
| amidship | (adjective) located in the middle part of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| (adverb) at or near or toward the center of a ship | Synonyms: amidships, midships |
| (adverb) at or near or toward the middle | - |
| amidships | (adverb) at or near or toward the center of a ship | Synonyms: amidship, midships |
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| backwards | (adverb) in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal | Synonyms: backward |
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| (adverb) at or to or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: back, backward, rearward, rearwards |
| backwoods | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, boondocks, hinterland |
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| backwoodsman | (noun) a man who lives on the frontier | Synonyms: frontiersman, mountain man |
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| badlands | (noun) deeply eroded barren land | - |
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| bandsaw | (noun) an endless saw consisting of a toothed metal band that is driven around two wheels | Synonyms: band saw |
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| bandsman | (noun) a player in a band (especially a military band) | - |
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| bandstand | (noun) a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air | Synonyms: outdoor stage, stand |
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| beads | (noun) several beads threaded together on a string | Synonyms: string of beads |
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| beadsman | (noun) a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another | Synonyms: bedesman |
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| bedside | (noun) space by the side of a bed (especially the bed of a sick or dying person) | - |
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| bedsit | (noun) a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) | Synonyms: bedsitter, bedsitting room |
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| bedsitter | (noun) a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) | Synonyms: bedsit, bedsitting room |
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| bedsore | (noun) a chronic ulcer of the skin caused by prolonged pressure on it (as in bedridden patients) | Synonyms: decubitus ulcer, pressure sore |
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| bedspread | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, counterpane, spread |
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| bedspring | (noun) (usually in the plural) one of the springs holding up the mattress of a bed | - |
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| bedstead | (noun) the framework of a bed | Synonyms: bedframe |
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| bedstraw | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Galium | - |
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| bends | (noun) pain resulting from rapid change in pressure | Synonyms: aeroembolism, air embolism, caisson disease, decompression sickness, gas embolism |
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| billiards | (noun) any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls | - |
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| birdseed | (noun) food given to birds; usually mixed seeds | Synonyms: bird feed, bird food |
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| birdsong | (noun) the characteristic sound produced by a bird | Synonyms: birdcall, call, song |
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| blindside | (verb) attack or hit on or from the side where the attacked person's view is obstructed | - |
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| (verb) catch unawares, especially with harmful consequences | - |
| bloodshed | (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodbath, bloodletting |
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| (noun) the shedding of blood resulting in murder | Synonyms: gore |
| bloodshot | (adjective) (of an eye) reddened as a result of locally congested blood vessels; inflamed | - |
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| bloodstain | (noun) a discoloration caused by blood | - |
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| bloodstained | (adjective) covered with blood | Synonyms: gory |
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| bloodstock | (noun) thoroughbred horses (collectively) | - |
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| bloodstone | (noun) green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood | Synonyms: heliotrope |
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| bloodstream | (noun) the blood flowing through the circulatory system | Synonyms: blood stream |
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| bloodsucker | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: hirudinean, leech |
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| bloodsucking | (adjective) drawing blood from the body of another | - |
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| (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: leechlike, parasitic, parasitical |
| boards | (noun) (used in the plural) the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink | - |
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| (noun) (used in the plural) the stage of a theater | - |
| bondsman | (noun) a male slave | Synonyms: bondman |
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| (noun) a male bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondman |
| (noun) a male who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
| bondsperson | (noun) someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
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| bondswoman | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondwoman |
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| (noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondwoman |
| (noun) a female who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
| bounds | (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
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| breadstick | (noun) a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup | Synonyms: bread-stick |
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| breadstuff | (noun) food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked | Synonyms: bread, staff of life |
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| (noun) flour or meal or grain used in baking bread | - |
| broadsheet | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
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| broadside | (adjective) toward a full side | - |
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| (noun) the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship | - |
| (noun) the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern | - |
| (noun) all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship | - |
| (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
| (noun) a speech of violent denunciation | Synonyms: philippic, tirade |
| (adverb) with a side facing an object | - |
| (verb) collide with the broad side of | - |
| broadsword | (noun) a sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges; used to cut rather than stab | - |
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| cards | (noun) a game played with playing cards | Synonyms: card game |
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| cardsharp | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharper, sharper, sharpie, sharpy |
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| cardsharper | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, sharper, sharpie, sharpy |
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| coastguardsman | (noun) a member of a coastguard | - |
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| codswallop | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| collards | (noun) kale that has smooth leaves | Synonyms: collard greens |
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| cords | (noun) cotton trousers made of corduroy cloth | Synonyms: corduroys |
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| crossroads | (noun) a point where a choice must be made | - |
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| (noun) a community of people smaller than a village | Synonyms: hamlet |
| (noun) a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made | Synonyms: critical point, juncture |
| crowdsourcing | (noun) Work done by a large group of anonymous users | - |
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| deeds | (noun) performance of moral or religious acts | Synonyms: works |
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| downwards | (adverb) spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position | Synonyms: down, downward, downwardly |
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| drygoods | (noun) textiles or clothing and related merchandise | Synonyms: soft goods |
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| duds | (noun) informal terms for clothing | Synonyms: threads, togs |
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| eastwards | (adverb) toward the east | Synonyms: eastward |
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| fantods | (noun) an ill-defined state of irritability and distress | - |
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| feedstock | (noun) the raw material that is required for some industrial process | - |
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| feldspar | (noun) any of a group of hard crystalline minerals that consist of aluminum silicates of potassium or sodium or calcium or barium | Synonyms: felspar |
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| fieldsman | (noun) a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting | Synonyms: fielder |
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| fieldstone | (noun) stone that occurs naturally in fields; often used as building material | - |
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| foodstuff | (noun) (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer | Synonyms: grocery |
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| (noun) a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food | Synonyms: food product |
| forwards | (adverb) in a forward direction | Synonyms: ahead, forrader, forward, onward, onwards |
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| (adverb) at or to or toward the front; forward | Synonyms: forrad, forrard, forward, frontward, frontwards |
| friendship | (noun) the state of being friends (or friendly) | Synonyms: friendly relationship |
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| frontwards | (adverb) at or to or toward the front; forward | Synonyms: forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward |
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| funds | (noun) assets in the form of money | Synonyms: cash in hand, finances, monetary resource, pecuniary resource |
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| gladsome | (adjective) experiencing or expressing gladness or joy | - |
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| gladsomeness | (noun) experiencing joy and pleasure | Synonyms: gladfulness, gladness |
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| godsend | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall |
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| godson | (noun) a male godchild | - |
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| goldfields | (noun) small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivated | Synonyms: Lasthenia chrysostoma |
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| goldsmith | (noun) an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold | Synonyms: gold-worker, goldworker |
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| goldsmithery | (noun) the work, art, or trade of a one who makes or deals in articles of gold. | - |
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| goldstone | (noun) aventurine spangled densely with fine gold-colored particles | - |
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| grandson | (noun) a male grandchild | - |
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| grandstand | (noun) a stand at a racecourse or stadium consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats that are under a protective roof | Synonyms: covered stand |
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| (noun) the audience at a stadium or racetrack | - |
| (verb) perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an eye to the applause | - |
| grandstander | (noun) someone who performs with an eye to the applause from spectators in the grandstand | - |
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| grindstone | (noun) a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools | - |
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| grounds | (noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: curtilage, yard |
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| (noun) your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief | Synonyms: evidence |
| (noun) a justification for something existing or happening | Synonyms: cause, reason |
| (noun) a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.) | - |
| (noun) dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue | - |
| groundsel | (noun) Eurasian weed with heads of small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Senecio vulgaris |
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| groundsheet | (noun) a waterproofed piece of cloth spread on the ground (as under a tent) to protect from moisture | Synonyms: ground cloth |
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| groundskeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundkeeper, groundsman |
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| groundsman | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundkeeper, groundskeeper |
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| groundspeed | (noun) the speed of an aircraft relative to the ground | - |
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| guardsman | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a unit called `the guard' or `guards' | - |
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| hands | (noun) (with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child | Synonyms: custody |
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| (noun) the force of workers available | Synonyms: manpower, men, work force, workforce |
| handsaw | (noun) a saw used with one hand for cutting wood | Synonyms: carpenter's saw, hand saw |
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