| earner | (noun) someone who earn wages in return for their labor | Synonyms: wage earner |
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| earnest | (adjective) not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal | Synonyms: businesslike |
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| (adjective) characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions | Synonyms: sincere, solemn |
| (adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: dear, devout, heartfelt |
| (noun) something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract | - |
| earnestly | (adverb) in a serious manner | Synonyms: in earnest, seriously |
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| earnestness | (noun) the trait of being serious | Synonyms: serious-mindedness, seriousness, sincerity |
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| (noun) an earnest and sincere feeling | Synonyms: seriousness, sincerity |
| earnings | (noun) something that remunerates | Synonyms: pay, remuneration, salary, wage |
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| (noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits |
| earphone | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear | Synonyms: earpiece, headphone, phone |
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| earpiece | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear | Synonyms: earphone, headphone, phone |
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| earplug | (noun) a plug of cotton, wax, or rubber that is fitted into the ear canal for protection against the entry of water or loud noise | - |
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| (noun) an earphone that is inserted into the ear canal | - |
| earreach | (noun) the range within which a voice can be heard | Synonyms: earshot, hearing |
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| earring | (noun) jewelry to ornament the ear; usually clipped to the earlobe or fastened through a hole in the lobe | - |
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| earshot | (noun) the range within which a voice can be heard | Synonyms: earreach, hearing |
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| earsplitting | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: deafening, thunderous, thundery |
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| earth | (noun) a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) | Synonyms: ground |
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| (noun) the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife | Synonyms: earthly concern, world, worldly concern |
| (noun) the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell) | Synonyms: Earth |
| (noun) the solid part of the earth's surface | Synonyms: dry land, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma |
| (noun) the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on | Synonyms: Earth, globe, world |
| (noun) the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface | Synonyms: ground |
| (noun) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour black bile | - |
| (verb) connect to the earth | - |
| (verb) hide in the earth like a hunted animal | - |
| earthball | (noun) any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Synonyms: false truffle, hard-skinned puffball, puffball |
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| earthborn | (adjective) connected with earthly life; of earthly origin | - |
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| (adjective) springing from or born on the earth | - |
| (adjective) of earthly origin (as mortals are) | - |
| earthbound | (adjective) confined to the earth | - |
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| (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: pedestrian, prosaic, prosy |
| earthen | (adjective) made of earth (or baked clay) | - |
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| earthenware | (noun) ceramic ware made of porous clay fired at low heat | - |
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| earthing | (noun) fastening electrical equipment to earth | Synonyms: grounding |
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| earthlike | (adjective) earth colored; of something having a color of soil or earth | - |
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| (adjective) resembling or characteristic of earth | - |
| earthling | (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthman, tellurian, worldling |
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| earthly | (adjective) of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven | - |
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| earthman | (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, tellurian, worldling |
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| earthnut | (noun) edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber | Synonyms: truffle |
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| (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut, peanut |
| (noun) a common European plant having edible tubers with the flavor of roasted chestnuts | Synonyms: Conopodium denudatum |
| (noun) any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe | Synonyms: earth-ball, truffle |
| earthquake | (noun) shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity | Synonyms: quake, seism, temblor |
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| (noun) a disturbance that is extremely disruptive | - |
| earthshaking | (adjective) loud enough to shake the very earth | - |
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| (adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world | Synonyms: world-shaking, world-shattering |
| earthstar | (noun) any fungus of the family Geastraceae; in form suggesting a puffball whose outer peridium splits into the shape of a star | - |
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| earthtongue | (noun) any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum | Synonyms: earth-tongue |
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| earthwork | (noun) an earthen rampart | - |
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| earthworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| earthy | (adjective) of or consisting of or resembling earth | - |
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| (adjective) conspicuously and tastelessly indecent | Synonyms: crude, gross, vulgar |
| (adjective) not far removed from or suggestive of nature | - |
| (adjective) sensible and practical | Synonyms: down-to-earth |
| (adjective) hearty and lusty | - |
| earwax | (noun) a soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal | Synonyms: cerumen |
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| earwig | (noun) any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen | - |
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| endear | (verb) make attractive or lovable | - |
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| endearing | (adjective) lovable especially in a childlike or naive way | Synonyms: adorable, lovely |
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| endearingly | (adverb) in an adorable manner | Synonyms: adorably |
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| endearment | (noun) the act of showing affection | - |
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| eveningwear | (noun) attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening | Synonyms: evening clothes, evening dress, formalwear |
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| fainthearted | (adjective) lacking conviction or boldness or courage | Synonyms: faint-hearted, faint, timid |
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| faintheartedness | (noun) the trait of lacking boldness and courage | Synonyms: faintness |
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| fear | (noun) an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) | Synonyms: fearfulness, fright |
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| (noun) an anxious feeling | Synonyms: care, concern |
| (noun) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something | Synonyms: awe, reverence, veneration |
| (verb) be afraid or scared of; be frightened of | Synonyms: dread |
| (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: revere, reverence, venerate |
| (verb) be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement | - |
| (verb) be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event | - |
| (verb) be uneasy or apprehensive about | - |
| fearful | (adjective) lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted | Synonyms: cowardly |
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| (adjective) experiencing or showing fear | - |
| (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
| (adjective) extremely distressing | Synonyms: frightful |
| (adjective) timid by nature or revealing timidity | Synonyms: timorous, trepid |
| fearfully | (adverb) in fear | - |
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| (adverb) in an alarming manner | - |
| fearfulness | (noun) the trait of being afraid | - |
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| (noun) an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) | Synonyms: fear, fright |
| fearless | (adjective) oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them | Synonyms: unafraid |
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| (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, dauntless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
| fearlessly | (adverb) without fear | Synonyms: dauntlessly, intrepidly |
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| fearlessness | (noun) the trait of feeling no fear | - |
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| (noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: bravery |
| fearsome | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| fearsomely | (adverb) in a fearsome manner | - |
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| firearm | (noun) a portable gun | Synonyms: piece, small-arm |
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| footgear | (noun) covering for a person's feet | Synonyms: footwear |
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| footwear | (noun) covering for a person's feet | Synonyms: footgear |
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| (noun) clothing worn on a person's feet | - |
| forbear | (noun) a person from whom you are descended | Synonyms: forebear |
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| (verb) resist doing something | Synonyms: refrain |
| (verb) refrain from doing | Synonyms: hold back |
| forbearance | (noun) a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting | - |
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| (noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | Synonyms: longanimity, patience |
| forbearing | (adjective) showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment | Synonyms: longanimous |
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| forearm | (noun) the part of the superior limb between the elbow and the wrist | - |
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| (verb) arm in advance of a confrontation | - |
| forebear | (noun) a person from whom you are descended | Synonyms: forbear |
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| foreswear | (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: quit, relinquish, renounce |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, forgo, relinquish, waive |
| formalwear | (noun) attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening | Synonyms: evening clothes, evening dress, eveningwear |
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| forswear | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, recant, resile, retract |
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| forswearing | (noun) the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) | Synonyms: forgoing, renunciation |
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| freehearted | (adjective) generous in providing aid to others | Synonyms: benevolent |
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| gear | (noun) a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion | Synonyms: cogwheel, gear wheel, geared wheel |
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| (noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. | Synonyms: appurtenance, paraphernalia |
| (noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gearing, geartrain, power train, train |
| (noun) a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle) | Synonyms: gear mechanism |
| (verb) set the level or character of | Synonyms: pitch |
| gearbox | (noun) the shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed | Synonyms: gear box, gear case |
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| geared | (adjective) equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged | - |
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| gearing | (noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gear, geartrain, power train, train |
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| gearmotor | (noun) a motor combined with a set of speed-reducing gears. | - |
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| gearset | (noun) a set of gears | - |
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| gearshift | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearstick, shifter |
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| gearstick | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearshift, shifter |
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| geartrain | (noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gear, gearing, power train, train |
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| goatsbeard | (noun) weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensis |
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| graybeard | (noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: greybeard, Methuselah, old man |
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| greathearted | (adjective) noble and generous in spirit | Synonyms: magnanimous |
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| greybeard | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: bellarmine, long-beard, longbeard |
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| (noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: graybeard, Methuselah, old man |
| halfhearted | (adjective) feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm | Synonyms: half-hearted, lukewarm, tepid |
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| halfheartedness | (noun) the characteristic of being half-hearted; not sincere; lacking full energy, effort, commitment, or resolve. | - |
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| handwear | (noun) clothing for the hands | Synonyms: hand wear |
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| hardhearted | (adjective) lacking in feeling or pity or warmth | Synonyms: heartless |
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| (adjective) devoid of feeling for others | Synonyms: stonyhearted, unfeeling |
| hardheartedness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: coldheartedness, heartlessness |
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| headgear | (noun) clothing for the head | Synonyms: headdress |
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| (noun) stable gear consisting of any part of a harness that fits about the horse's head | - |
| (noun) the hoist at the pithead of a mine | - |
| hear | (verb) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally | Synonyms: discover, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, learn, pick up, see |
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| (verb) perceive (sound) via the auditory sense | - |
| (verb) receive a communication from someone | - |
| (verb) listen and pay attention | Synonyms: listen, take heed |
| (verb) examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process | Synonyms: try |
| hearable | (adjective) heard or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: audible |
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| heard | (adjective) detected or perceived by the sense of hearing | - |
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| hearer | (noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: attender, auditor, listener |
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| hearing | (adjective) able to perceive sound | - |
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| (noun) the act of hearing attentively | Synonyms: listening |
| (noun) (law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence | - |
| (noun) the ability to hear; the auditory faculty | Synonyms: audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, sense of hearing |
| (noun) a session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken | - |
| (noun) the range within which a voice can be heard | Synonyms: earreach, earshot |
| (noun) an opportunity to state your case and be heard | Synonyms: audience |
| hearken | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: hark, harken |
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| 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 |
| hearse | (noun) a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle | - |
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| heart | (noun) a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it | - |
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| (noun) the courage to carry on | Synonyms: mettle, nerve, spunk |
| (noun) an inclination or tendency of a certain kind | Synonyms: spirit |
| (noun) the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body | Synonyms: pump, ticker |
| (noun) the locus of feelings and intuitions | Synonyms: bosom |
| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
| (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
| (noun) a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal) | - |
| (noun) an area that is approximately central within some larger region | Synonyms: center, centre, eye, middle |
| (noun) a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines | - |
| heartache | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, grief, heartbreak |
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| heartbeat | (noun) an animating or vital unifying force | - |
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| (noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | Synonyms: beat, pulsation, pulse |
| (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling, wink |
| heartbreak | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, grief, heartache |
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| heartbreaker | (noun) a narrow defeat or a defeat at the last minute | - |
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| (noun) a charming person who is irresponsible in emotional relationships | - |
| heartbreaking | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartrending |
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| heartbroken | (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: brokenhearted, heartsick |
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| heartburn | (noun) a painful burning sensation in the chest caused by gastroesophageal reflux (backflow from the stomach irritating the esophagus); symptomatic of an ulcer or a diaphragmatic hernia or other disorder | Synonyms: pyrosis |
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| heartburning | (noun) intense resentment | - |
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| hearten | (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, embolden, recreate |
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| heartening | (adjective) cheerfully encouraging | Synonyms: inspiriting |
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