| basketweaver | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketmaker |
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| beaver | (noun) large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges | - |
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| (noun) a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material) | Synonyms: castor |
| (noun) a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face | - |
| (noun) a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur | Synonyms: dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat, topper |
| (noun) a full beard | - |
| (noun) the soft brown fur of the beaver | Synonyms: beaver fur |
| (verb) work hard on something | Synonyms: beaver away |
| bereave | (verb) deprive through death | - |
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| bereaved | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning, sorrowing |
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| (noun) a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved | Synonyms: bereaved person |
| bereavement | (noun) state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one | Synonyms: mourning |
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| cleavable | (adjective) capable of being cleaved | - |
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| cleavage | (noun) the act of cleaving or splitting | - |
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| (noun) the line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts) | - |
| (noun) (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum | Synonyms: segmentation |
| (noun) the breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules | - |
| (noun) the state of being split or cleft | - |
| cleave | (verb) separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument | Synonyms: rive, split |
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| (verb) make by cutting into | - |
| (verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: adhere, cling, cohere, stick |
| cleaver | (noun) a butcher's knife having a large square blade | Synonyms: chopper, meat cleaver |
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| cleavers | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: catchweed, clivers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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| eaves | (noun) the overhang at the lower edge of a roof | - |
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| eavesdrop | (verb) listen without the speaker's knowledge | Synonyms: listen in |
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| eavesdropper | (noun) a secret listener to private conversations | - |
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| endeavor | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, effort, endeavour, try |
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| (noun) a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness) | Synonyms: endeavour, enterprise |
| (verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavour, strive |
| endeavour | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, effort, endeavor, try |
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| (noun) a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness) | Synonyms: endeavor, enterprise |
| (verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavor, strive |
| greave | (noun) armor plate that protects legs below the knee | Synonyms: jambeau |
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| greaves | (noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: crackling |
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| hairweaving | (noun) the act of interweaving a hairpiece with your own hair | - |
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| 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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| heavily | (adverb) to a considerable degree | Synonyms: to a great extent |
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| (adverb) indulging excessively | Synonyms: hard, intemperately |
| (adverb) slowly as if burdened by much weight | Synonyms: heavy |
| (adverb) in a manner designed for heavy duty | - |
| (adverb) in a heavy-footed manner | - |
| (adverb) with great force | - |
| (adverb) in a labored manner | - |
| heaviness | (noun) the property of being comparatively great in weight | Synonyms: weightiness |
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| (noun) used of a line or mark | Synonyms: thickness |
| (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: burdensomeness, onerousness, oppressiveness |
| (noun) an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency | Synonyms: ponderousness |
| (noun) persisting sadness | - |
| heaving | (noun) throwing something heavy (with great effort) | Synonyms: heave |
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| (noun) breathing heavily (as after exertion) | Synonyms: panting |
| (noun) the act of lifting something with great effort | Synonyms: heave |
| (noun) an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) | Synonyms: heave |
| heavy | (adjective) of comparatively great physical weight or density | - |
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| (adjective) marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness | - |
| (adjective) unusually great in degree or quantity or number | - |
| (adjective) of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment | - |
| (adjective) (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight | - |
| (adjective) of great intensity or power or force | - |
| (adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: lowering, sullen, threatening |
| (adjective) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained | Synonyms: clayey, cloggy |
| (adjective) (of sleep) deep and complete | Synonyms: profound, sound, wakeless |
| (adjective) lacking lightness or liveliness | Synonyms: leaden |
| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
| (adjective) usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it | Synonyms: fleshy, overweight |
| (adjective) full of; bearing great weight | Synonyms: weighed down |
| (adjective) full and loud and deep | Synonyms: sonorous |
| (adjective) large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work | - |
| (adjective) slow and laborious because of weight | Synonyms: lumbering, ponderous |
| (adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, grievous, weighty |
| (adjective) dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal | - |
| (adjective) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors | Synonyms: hard, intemperate |
| (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large, with child |
| (adjective) sharply inclined | - |
| (adjective) made of fabric having considerable thickness | - |
| (adjective) (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain | - |
| (adjective) requiring or showing effort | Synonyms: labored, laboured |
| (adjective) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter | Synonyms: dense, impenetrable |
| (adjective) prodigious | Synonyms: big |
| (adjective) of relatively large extent and density | - |
| (noun) a serious (or tragic) role in a play | - |
| (noun) an actor who plays villainous roles | - |
| (adverb) slowly as if burdened by much weight | Synonyms: heavily |
| heavyhearted | (adjective) depressed | - |
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| heavyheartedness | (noun) a feeling of dispirited melancholy | - |
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| heavyset | (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: compact, stocky, thick, thickset |
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| heavyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the heaviest. | Synonyms: super heavyweight |
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| (noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, titan |
| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds | - |
| (noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, hulk, whale |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds | - |
| 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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| inweave | (verb) weave together into a fabric or design | - |
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| 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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| leaving | (noun) the act of departing | Synonyms: departure, going, going away |
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| peavey | (noun) a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs | Synonyms: cant dog, dog hook, peavy |
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| peavy | (noun) a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs | Synonyms: cant dog, dog hook, peavey |
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| reave | (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, rifle, strip |
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| unleavened | (adjective) made without leavening | Synonyms: unraised |
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| unweave | (verb) undo strands that have been woven together | - |
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| upheaval | (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, excitement, hullabaloo, turmoil |
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| (noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) | Synonyms: uplift, upthrow, upthrust |
| (noun) a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally) | Synonyms: Sturm und Drang, turbulence |
| (noun) a violent disturbance | Synonyms: convulsion, turmoil |
| upheave | (verb) lift forcefully from beneath | - |
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| weave | (noun) pattern of weaving or structure of a fabric | - |
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| (verb) interlace by or as if by weaving | Synonyms: interweave |
| (verb) create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton | Synonyms: tissue |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, thread, wander, wind |
| (verb) sway from side to side | Synonyms: waver |
| weaver | (noun) finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests | Synonyms: weaver finch, weaverbird |
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| (noun) a craftsman who weaves cloth | - |
| weaverbird | (noun) finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests | Synonyms: weaver, weaver finch |
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| weaving | (noun) creating fabric | - |
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