| eggbeater | (noun) a mixer for beating eggs or whipping cream | Synonyms: eggwhisk |
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| (noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: chopper, helicopter, whirlybird |
| entreat | (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, conjure, press |
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| entreatingly | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: beseechingly, imploringly, importunately, pleadingly |
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| entreaty | (noun) earnest or urgent request | Synonyms: appeal, prayer |
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| enucleate | (verb) remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover | - |
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| (verb) remove the nucleus from (a cell) | - |
| enucleation | (noun) surgical removal of something without cutting into it | - |
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| escheat | (noun) a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs | - |
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| (noun) the property that reverts to the state | - |
| feat | (noun) a notable achievement | Synonyms: effort, exploit |
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| feather | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feathering |
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| (noun) branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds | - |
| (verb) grow feathers | Synonyms: fledge |
| (verb) turn the oar, while rowing | Synonyms: square |
| (verb) turn the paddle; in canoeing | Synonyms: square |
| (verb) cover or fit with feathers | - |
| (verb) join tongue and groove, in carpentry | - |
| featherbed | (noun) a mattress stuffed with feathers | Synonyms: feather bed |
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| (verb) hire more workers than are necessary | - |
| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| featherbedding | (noun) the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required | - |
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| featherbrained | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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| feathered | (adjective) having or covered with feathers | - |
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| (adjective) adorned with feathers or plumes | Synonyms: feathery, plumy |
| featheredge | (noun) a thin tapering edge | - |
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| featheredged | (adjective) having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade | Synonyms: deckle-edged, deckled |
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| featherfoil | (noun) a plant of the genus Hottonia | Synonyms: feather-foil |
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| featheriness | (noun) a light softness | Synonyms: downiness, fluffiness |
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| feathering | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feather |
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| featherless | (adjective) having no feathers | Synonyms: unfeathered |
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| featherlike | (adjective) resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers | Synonyms: feathery |
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| feathertop | (noun) northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles | Synonyms: feathertop grass, Pennistum villosum |
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| (noun) a variety of reed grass | Synonyms: Calamagrostis acutiflora, feather reed grass |
| featherweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the bantamweight division and lighter than those in the lightweight division. | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs 126-139 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds | - |
| feathery | (adjective) adorned with feathers or plumes | Synonyms: feathered, plumy |
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| (adjective) characterized by a covering of feathers | - |
| (adjective) resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers | Synonyms: featherlike |
| feature | (noun) an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles | - |
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| (noun) the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin | Synonyms: lineament |
| (noun) a prominent attribute or aspect of something | Synonyms: characteristic |
| (noun) (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind | Synonyms: feature of speech |
| (noun) the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater | Synonyms: feature film |
| (noun) a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: feature article |
| (verb) have as a feature | Synonyms: have |
| (verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: boast, sport |
| featured | (adjective) made a feature or highlight; given prominence | - |
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| (adjective) having facial features as specified; usually used in combination | - |
| featureless | (adjective) lacking distinguishing characteristics or features | - |
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| featurelessness | (noun) The state or condition of being without distinguishing features. | - |
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| figeater | (noun) large greenish June beetle of southern United States | Synonyms: green June beetle |
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| forcemeat | (noun) mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs | Synonyms: farce |
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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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| goldbeater | (noun) an artisan who beats gold into gold leaf | Synonyms: gold-beater |
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| great | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, heavy, large, with child |
| (adjective) uppercase | Synonyms: capital, majuscule |
| (adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect | - |
| (adjective) of major significance or importance | Synonyms: outstanding |
| (adjective) relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind | - |
| (noun) a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field | - |
| greatcoat | (noun) a heavy coat worn over clothes in winter | Synonyms: overcoat, topcoat |
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| greater | (adjective) greater in size or importance or degree | - |
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| greatest | (adjective) highest in quality | Synonyms: sterling, superlative |
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| greathearted | (adjective) noble and generous in spirit | Synonyms: magnanimous |
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| greatly | (adverb) to an extraordinary extent or degree | - |
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| greatness | (noun) the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence | Synonyms: illustriousness |
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| (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
| 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 |
| heat | (noun) utility to warm a building | Synonyms: heating, heating plant, heating system |
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| (noun) the presence of heat | Synonyms: high temperature, hotness |
| (noun) the trait of being intensely emotional | Synonyms: passion, warmth |
| (noun) the sensation caused by heat energy | Synonyms: warmth |
| (noun) a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race | - |
| (noun) a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature | Synonyms: heat energy |
| (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity | Synonyms: estrus, oestrus, rut |
| (verb) gain heat or get hot | Synonyms: heat up, hot up |
| (verb) make hot or hotter | Synonyms: heat up |
| (verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, ignite, inflame, stir up, wake |
| (verb) provide with heat | - |
| heatable | (adjective) capable of becoming hot | - |
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| heated | (adjective) made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated') | Synonyms: heated up, het, het up |
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| (adjective) marked by emotional heat; vehement | - |
| heatedly | (adverb) in a heated manner | Synonyms: hotly |
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| heater | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: bullet, fastball, hummer, smoke |
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| (noun) device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room | Synonyms: warmer |
| heath | (noun) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation | Synonyms: heathland |
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| (noun) a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers | - |
| heathen | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathenish, pagan |
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| (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: gentile, infidel, pagan |
| heathenish | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathen, pagan |
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| heathenism | (noun) any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism | Synonyms: pagan religion, paganism |
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| heather | (noun) interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color | Synonyms: heather mixture |
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| (noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, ling, Scots heather |
| heathfowl | (noun) large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail | Synonyms: European black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix |
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| heathland | (noun) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation | Synonyms: heath |
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| heathlike | (adjective) resembling heath | - |
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| heating | (noun) utility to warm a building | Synonyms: heat, heating plant, heating system |
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| (noun) the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature | Synonyms: warming |
| heatless | (adjective) without generating heat | - |
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| heatstroke | (noun) collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat | Synonyms: heat hyperpyrexia |
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| horsemeat | (noun) the flesh of horses as food | Synonyms: horseflesh |
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| ideate | (verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, envisage, imagine |
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| ideation | (noun) the process of forming and relating ideas | - |
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| ideational | (adjective) being of the nature of a notion or concept | Synonyms: conceptional, notional |
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| laureate | (adjective) worthy of the greatest honor or distinction | - |
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| (noun) someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath | - |
| leather | (noun) an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning | - |
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| (verb) whip with a leather strap | - |
| leatherback | (noun) wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle | Synonyms: Dermochelys coriacea, leatherback turtle, leathery turtle |
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| leathered | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leatherlike, leathery |
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| leatherette | (noun) fabric made to look like leather | Synonyms: imitation leather |
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| leatherfish | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherjack | (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherjacket | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherfish |
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| (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjack |
| (noun) tough-skinned larva of certain crane flies | - |
| leatherleaf | (noun) north temperate bog shrub with evergreen leathery leaves and small white cylindrical flowers | Synonyms: Chamaedaphne calyculata |
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| (noun) stiff leathery-leaved fern of western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib | Synonyms: coast polypody, leathery polypody, Polypodium scouleri |
| leatherlike | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leathered, leathery |
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| leatherneck | (noun) a member of the United States Marine Corps | Synonyms: devil dog, Marine, shipboard soldier |
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| leatherwood | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, moose-wood, moosewood, ropebark, wicopy |
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| (noun) shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage | Synonyms: cyrilla, Cyrilla racemiflora, white titi |
| leatherwork | (noun) work made of leather | - |
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| leathery | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike |
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| lineation | (noun) the act of marking or outlining with lines | - |
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| (noun) the line that appears to bound an object | Synonyms: outline |
| loveseat | (noun) small sofa that seats two people | Synonyms: love seat, tete-a-tete, vis-a-vis |
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| maleate | (noun) a salt or ester of maleic acid; used as a nontricyclic antidepressant drug for psychomotor activation | - |
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| maltreat | (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, mistreat, step |
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| maltreated | (adjective) subjected to cruel treatment | Synonyms: abused, ill-treated, mistreated |
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| maltreater | (noun) someone who abuses | Synonyms: abuser |
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| maltreatment | (noun) cruel or inhumane treatment | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treatment, ill-usage |
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| meat | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
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| (noun) the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food | - |
| (noun) the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone | Synonyms: kernel |
| meatball | (noun) ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth | - |
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| meatless | (adjective) lacking meat | - |
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| meatloaf | (noun) a baked loaf of ground meat | Synonyms: meat loaf |
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| meatman | (noun) a retailer of meat | Synonyms: butcher |
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| meatpacking | (noun) wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers) | Synonyms: meat-packing business, meat packing |
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| meatus | (noun) a natural body passageway | - |
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| meaty | (adjective) like or containing meat | - |
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| (adjective) being on topic and prompting thought | Synonyms: substantive |
| megadeath | (noun) the death of a million people | - |
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| mincemeat | (noun) spiced mixture of chopped raisins and apples and other ingredients with or without meat | - |
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| miscreate | (verb) shape or form or make badly | - |
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| miscreation | (noun) something abnormal or anomalous | Synonyms: malformation |
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| mistreat | (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, step |
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| mistreated | (adjective) subjected to cruel treatment | Synonyms: abused, ill-treated, maltreated |
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| mistreatment | (noun) the practice of treating (someone or something) badly | - |
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| mononucleate | (adjective) having only one nucleus | Synonyms: mononuclear |
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| multinucleate | (adjective) having two or more nuclei | - |
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| nauseate | (verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, disgust, revolt, sicken |
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| (verb) upset and make nauseated | Synonyms: sicken, turn one's stomach |
| nauseated | (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish |
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| nauseating | (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile |
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