| awheel | (adjective) traveling by wheeled vehicle such as bicycle or automobile e.g. | - |
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| beeline | (noun) the most direct route | - |
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| cartwheel | (noun) acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel | - |
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| (noun) a wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim | - |
| (noun) a dollar made of silver | Synonyms: silver dollar |
| (verb) do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet | - |
| cockateel | (noun) small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head | Synonyms: cockatiel, cockatoo parrot, Nymphicus hollandicus |
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| cogwheel | (noun) a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion | Synonyms: gear, gear wheel, geared wheel |
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| creel | (noun) a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish | - |
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| eel | (noun) voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins | - |
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| (noun) the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled | - |
| eelblenny | (noun) eellike fishes found in subarctic coastal waters | - |
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| eelgrass | (noun) submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts | Synonyms: grass wrack, sea wrack, Zostera marina |
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| (noun) submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia | Synonyms: tape grass, Vallisneria spiralis, wild celery |
| eellike | (adjective) resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous | - |
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| eelpout | (noun) marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas | Synonyms: pout |
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| (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, cusk, ling, Lota lota |
| eelworm | (noun) any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms | - |
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| feel | (noun) manual stimulation of the genital area for sexual pleasure | - |
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| (noun) a property perceived by touch | Synonyms: tactile property |
| (noun) an intuitive awareness | - |
| (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tone |
| (verb) be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state | - |
| (verb) come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds | Synonyms: find |
| (verb) have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude | - |
| (verb) examine by touch | Synonyms: finger |
| (verb) examine (a body part) by palpation | Synonyms: palpate |
| (verb) pass one's hands over the sexual organs of | - |
| (verb) undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind | Synonyms: experience |
| (verb) perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles | Synonyms: sense |
| (verb) undergo passive experience of | - |
| (verb) produce a certain impression | - |
| (verb) grope or feel in search of something | - |
| (verb) find by testing or cautious exploration | - |
| (verb) be felt or perceived in a certain way | - |
| feeler | (noun) one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste | Synonyms: antenna |
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| (noun) slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish | Synonyms: barbel |
| (noun) sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ | Synonyms: antenna |
| (noun) a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others | Synonyms: advance, approach, overture |
| feeling | (noun) the experiencing of affective and emotional states | - |
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| (noun) an intuitive understanding of something | Synonyms: intuitive feeling |
| (noun) a physical sensation that you experience | - |
| (noun) the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin | Synonyms: tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch, touch sensation |
| (noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: belief, impression, notion, opinion |
| (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tone |
| feelingly | (adverb) with great feeling | - |
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| feelings | (noun) emotional or moral sensitivity (especially in relation to personal principles or dignity) | - |
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| flywheel | (noun) regulator consisting of a heavy wheel that stores kinetic energy and smooths the operation of a reciprocating engine | - |
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| freelance | (adjective) working for yourself | Synonyms: free-lance, self-employed |
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| (adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, mercenary |
| (noun) a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them | Synonyms: free-lance, free lance, freelancer, independent, self-employed person |
| (verb) work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer | - |
| freelancer | (noun) a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them | Synonyms: free-lance, free lance, freelance, independent, self-employed person |
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| freeload | (verb) live off somebody's generosity | - |
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| freeloader | (noun) someone who takes advantage of the generosity of others | - |
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| freely | (adverb) in a free manner | - |
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| freewheel | (noun) a clutch (as on the rear wheel of a bicycle) that allows wheels to turn freely (as in coasting) | - |
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| (verb) coast in a vehicle using the freewheel | - |
| (verb) live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | Synonyms: drift |
| freewheeler | (noun) someone acting freely or even irresponsibly | Synonyms: free agent, free spirit |
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| freewheeling | (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: carefree, devil-may-care, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy |
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| (adjective) free of restraints or rules | - |
| genteel | (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultivated, cultured, polite |
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| genteelly | (adverb) in a genteel manner | - |
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| genteelness | (noun) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression | Synonyms: breeding, gentility |
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| handwheel | (noun) control consisting of a wheel whose rim serves as the handle by which a part is operated | - |
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| (noun) a wheel worked by hand | - |
| heel | (noun) the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation | - |
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| (noun) (golf) the part of the clubhead where it joins the shaft | - |
| (noun) the lower end of a ship's mast | - |
| (noun) the back part of the human foot | - |
| (noun) one of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread | - |
| (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, bounder, cad, dog, hound |
| (verb) put a new heel on | Synonyms: reheel |
| (verb) strike with the heel of the club | - |
| (verb) perform with the heels | - |
| (verb) follow at the heels of a person | - |
| (verb) tilt to one side | Synonyms: list |
| heelbone | (noun) the largest tarsal bone; forms the human heel | Synonyms: calcaneus, os tarsi fibulare |
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| heeltip | (noun) The bottom end of a heel, usually made of plastic or metal. | Synonyms: heel tip |
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| keel | (noun) one of the main longitudinal beams (or plates) of the hull of a vessel; can extend vertically into the water to provide lateral stability | - |
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| (noun) the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly | - |
| (noun) a projection or ridge that suggests a keel | - |
| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, lurch, reel, stagger, swag |
| keelboat | (noun) river boat with a shallow draught and a keel but no sails; used to carry freight; moved by rowing or punting or towing | - |
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| keeled | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinate, carinated, ridged |
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| keelson | (noun) a longitudinal beam connected to the keel of ship to strengthen it | - |
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| kneel | (noun) supporting yourself on your knees | Synonyms: kneeling |
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| (verb) rest one's weight on one's knees | - |
| kneeler | (noun) a board (sometimes cushioned) for someone to kneel on | - |
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| (noun) a person in a kneeling position | - |
| kneeling | (noun) supporting yourself on your knees | Synonyms: kneel |
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| millwheel | (noun) water wheel that is used to drive machinery in a mill | Synonyms: mill wheel |
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| newsreel | (noun) a short film and commentary about current events | - |
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| nosewheel | (noun) a wheel located under the nose of an airplane that is part of the plane's landing gear | - |
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| paddlewheel | (noun) a large wheel fitted with paddles and driven by an engine in order to propel a boat | Synonyms: paddle wheel |
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| peel | (noun) the rind of a fruit or vegetable | Synonyms: skin |
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| (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, disrobe, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
| (verb) remove the skin from | Synonyms: pare, skin |
| (verb) come off in flakes or thin small pieces | Synonyms: flake, flake off, peel off |
| peeled | (adjective) (used informally) completely unclothed | Synonyms: bare-ass, bare-assed, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, naked as a jaybird, raw, stark naked |
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| peeler | (noun) a device for peeling vegetables or fruits | - |
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| (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, stripper, striptease, striptease artist, stripteaser |
| (noun) a worker who peels the skins from fruits and vegetables | - |
| peeling | (noun) loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales | Synonyms: desquamation, shedding |
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| pinwheel | (noun) a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire | Synonyms: catherine wheel |
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| (noun) a toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic that is pinned to a stick and spins when it is pointed into the wind | Synonyms: pinwheel wind collector |
| (noun) a wheel that has numerous pins that are set at right angles to its rim | - |
| (noun) perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels | Synonyms: Aeonium haworthii |
| reel | (noun) a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps | Synonyms: Scottish reel |
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| (noun) an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines | Synonyms: Virginia reel |
| (noun) a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound | Synonyms: bobbin, spool |
| (noun) winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod | - |
| (noun) a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector | - |
| (noun) music composed for dancing a reel | - |
| (verb) wind onto or off a reel | - |
| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, stagger, swag |
| (verb) revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis | Synonyms: gyrate, spin, spin around, whirl |
| reelect | (verb) elect again | Synonyms: return |
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| reelection | (noun) election again | - |
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| reeler | (noun) a dancer of reels | - |
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| (noun) someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall | Synonyms: staggerer, totterer |
| reheel | (verb) put a new heel on | Synonyms: heel |
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| scheelite | (noun) a mineral used as an ore of tungsten | - |
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| seel | (verb) sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons | - |
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| steel | (noun) knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod | - |
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| (noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: blade, brand, sword |
| (noun) an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range | - |
| (verb) cover, plate, or edge with steel | - |
| (verb) get ready for something difficult or unpleasant | Synonyms: nerve |
| steelmaker | (noun) a worker engaged in making steel | Synonyms: steelman, steelworker |
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| steelman | (noun) a worker engaged in making steel | Synonyms: steelmaker, steelworker |
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| steelworker | (noun) a worker engaged in making steel | Synonyms: steelmaker, steelman |
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| steelworks | (noun) a factory where steel is made | Synonyms: steel factory, steel mill, steel plant |
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| steely | (adjective) resembling steel in hardness | - |
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| (adjective) resembling steel as in hardness | - |
| steelyard | (noun) a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length | Synonyms: beam scale, lever scale |
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| sternwheeler | (noun) a paddle steamer having the paddle wheel in the stern | - |
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| theelin | (noun) a naturally occurring weak estrogenic hormone secreted by the mammalian ovary; synthesized (trade name Estronol) and used to treat estrogen deficiency | Synonyms: estrone, Estronol, oestrone |
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| treadwheel | (noun) a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps | Synonyms: tread-wheel, treadmill |
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| treeless | (adjective) not wooded | Synonyms: unwooded |
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| treelet | (noun) a small tree | - |
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| treelike | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped |
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| unfeeling | (adjective) devoid of feeling or sensation | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of feeling for others | Synonyms: hardhearted, stonyhearted |
| unfeelingly | (adverb) without compassionate feelings | - |
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| (adverb) in a callous way | Synonyms: callously |
| unfeelingness | (noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callosity, callousness, hardness, insensibility |
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| unreel | (verb) unwind from or as if from a reel | Synonyms: reel off |
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| waterwheel | (noun) a wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbine | Synonyms: water wheel |
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| (noun) a wheel with buckets attached to its rim; raises water from a stream or pond | Synonyms: water wheel |
| wheel | (noun) a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines) | - |
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| (noun) a circular helm to control the rudder of a vessel | - |
| (noun) an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims | Synonyms: rack |
| (noun) game equipment consisting of a wheel with slots that is used for gambling; the wheel rotates horizontally and players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in | Synonyms: roulette wheel |
| (noun) a handwheel that is used for steering | Synonyms: steering wheel |
| (noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: bicycle, bike, cycle |
| (noun) forces that provide energy and direction | - |
| (verb) change directions as if revolving on a pivot | Synonyms: wheel around |
| (verb) move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle | Synonyms: roll |
| (verb) wheel somebody or something | Synonyms: wheel around |
| (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle, bike, cycle, pedal |
| wheelbarrow | (noun) a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels | Synonyms: barrow, garden cart, lawn cart |
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| (verb) transport in a wheelbarrow | - |
| wheelbase | (noun) the distance from the center of a car's front wheel to the rear axle | - |
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| wheelchair | (noun) a movable chair mounted on large wheels; for invalids or those who cannot walk; frequently propelled by the occupant | - |
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| wheeled | (adjective) having wheels; often used in combination | - |
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| wheeler | (noun) a draft horse harnessed behind others and nearest the wheels of a vehicle | Synonyms: wheel horse |
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| (noun) someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels | Synonyms: wheelwright |
| (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, bicyclist, biker, cyclist |
| (noun) the man at the outermost end of the rank in wheeling | - |
| wheelhouse | (noun) an enclosed compartment from which a vessel can be navigated | Synonyms: pilothouse |
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| (noun) one's area of interest or expertise | - |
| wheeling | (noun) propelling something on wheels | Synonyms: rolling |
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| wheelless | (adjective) having no wheels or having no wheeled vehicles | - |
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| wheelwork | (noun) mechanical device including an arrangement of wheel in a machine (especially a train of gears) | - |
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| wheelwright | (noun) someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels | Synonyms: wheeler |
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