| chantarelle | (noun) widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma | Synonyms: Cantharellus cibarius, chanterelle |
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| chanterelle | (noun) widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma | Synonyms: Cantharellus cibarius, chantarelle |
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| chiseller | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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| chlorella | (noun) any alga of the genus Chlorella | - |
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| christella | (noun) any of several tropical ferns of the genus Christella having thin brittle fronds | - |
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| clamshell | (noun) the shell of a clam | - |
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| (noun) a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam | Synonyms: grapple |
| cockleshell | (noun) a small light flimsy boat | - |
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| cocozelle | (noun) squash resembling zucchini | - |
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| (noun) squash plant having dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow | Synonyms: Italian vegetable marrow |
| columella | (noun) a small column (or structure resembling a column) that is a part of a plant or animal | - |
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| compelling | (adjective) tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument | - |
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| (adjective) driving or forcing | - |
| constellate | (verb) form a constellation or cluster | - |
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| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, cluster, flock |
| (verb) scatter or intersperse like dots or studs | Synonyms: dot, stud |
| constellation | (noun) an arrangement of parts or elements | Synonyms: configuration |
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| (noun) a configuration of stars as seen from the earth | - |
| coralbells | (noun) perennial plant of the western United States having bright red flowers in feathery spikes; used as an ornamental | Synonyms: Heuchera sanguinea |
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| corbelled | (adjective) having a corbel | - |
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| counselling | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, direction, guidance |
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| counsellor | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
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| (noun) someone who gives advice about problems | Synonyms: counselor |
| (noun) someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp | Synonyms: counselor |
| counsellorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counselorship |
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| counterintelligence | (noun) intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism | - |
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| cowbell | (noun) a bell hung around the neck of cow so that the cow can be easily located | - |
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| crenellate | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenel, crenelate |
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| crenellation | (noun) the action of constructing ramparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows | Synonyms: crenelation |
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| (noun) a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns | Synonyms: battlement, crenelation |
| crenelle | (noun) a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement | Synonyms: crenel |
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| (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenature, crenel, scallop |
| cruelly | (adverb) excessively | - |
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| (adverb) with cruelty | - |
| damoiselle | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damosel, damozel, damsel, demoiselle |
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| dell | (noun) a small wooded hollow | Synonyms: dingle |
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| demoiselle | (noun) small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs | Synonyms: damselfish |
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| (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damozel, damsel |
| dinoflagellate | (noun) chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton | - |
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| dishevelled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: disheveled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled |
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| doorbell | (noun) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed | Synonyms: bell, buzzer |
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| driveller | (noun) someone whose talk is trivial drivel | Synonyms: jabberer |
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| (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, drooler, slobberer |
| dueller | (noun) a person who fights duels | Synonyms: dueler, duelist, duellist |
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| duellist | (noun) a person who fights duels | Synonyms: dueler, duelist, dueller |
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| dumbbell | (noun) an exercising weight; two spheres connected by a short bar that serves as a handle | - |
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| (noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, booby, dope, dummy, pinhead |
| dwell | (verb) think moodily or anxiously about something | Synonyms: brood |
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| (verb) come back to | Synonyms: harp |
| (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: inhabit, live, populate |
| (verb) originate (in) | Synonyms: consist, lie, lie in |
| (verb) exist or be situated within | Synonyms: inhabit |
| dweller | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, habitant, indweller, inhabitant |
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| dwelling | (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling house, habitation, home |
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| eellike | (adjective) resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous | - |
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| eggshell | (noun) the exterior covering of a bird's egg | Synonyms: shell |
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| ell | (noun) an extension at the end and at right angles to the main building | - |
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| ellipse | (noun) a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it | Synonyms: oval |
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| ellipsis | (noun) omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences | Synonyms: eclipsis |
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| ellipsoid | (adjective) having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid | Synonyms: ellipsoidal, spheroidal |
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| (noun) a surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles | - |
| ellipsoidal | (adjective) having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid | Synonyms: ellipsoid, spheroidal |
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| elliptic | (adjective) characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements | Synonyms: elliptical |
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| (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse | - |
| elliptical | (adjective) characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements | Synonyms: elliptic |
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| (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
| ellipticity | (noun) the property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles | Synonyms: oblateness |
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| ellwand | (noun) a rod an ell long, used for official measurement. | Synonyms: ell-wand |
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| embellish | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embroider, lard, pad |
| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, grace |
| embellishment | (noun) the act of adding extraneous decorations to something | Synonyms: ornamentation |
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| (noun) a superfluous ornament | - |
| (noun) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail | Synonyms: embroidery |
| ensorcelled | (adjective) captured, as if under a spell | Synonyms: bewitched |
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| entellus | (noun) langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India | Synonyms: hanuman, Presbytes entellus, Semnopithecus entellus |
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| excellence | (noun) the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree | - |
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| (noun) an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels | Synonyms: excellency |
| excellency | (noun) an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels | Synonyms: excellence |
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| excellent | (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: fantabulous, first-class, mean, ripping, splendid |
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| excellently | (adverb) wonderfully | Synonyms: famously, magnificently, splendidly |
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| expelling | (noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: discharge, emission |
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| extracellular | (adjective) located or occurring outside a cell or cells | - |
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| farewell | (noun) the act of departing politely | Synonyms: leave-taking, leave, parting |
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| (noun) an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting | Synonyms: word of farewell |
| fedelline | (noun) extremely fine pasta thinner than vermicelli | - |
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| fell | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, roughshod, savage, vicious |
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| (noun) the act of felling something (as a tree) | - |
| (noun) seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges | Synonyms: felled seam |
| (noun) the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal) | Synonyms: hide |
| (verb) cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow | Synonyms: cut down, drop, strike down |
| (verb) sew a seam by folding the edges | - |
| (verb) pass away rapidly | Synonyms: fly, vanish |
| fella | (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, chap, cuss, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
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| fellah | (noun) an agricultural laborer in Arab countries | - |
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| fellate | (verb) provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation | Synonyms: blow, go down on, suck |
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| fellatio | (noun) oral stimulation of the penis | Synonyms: fellation |
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| fellation | (noun) oral stimulation of the penis | Synonyms: fellatio |
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| feller | (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, chap, cuss, fella, fellow, gent, lad |
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| (noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: faller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman |
| felloe | (noun) rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted | Synonyms: felly |
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| fellow | (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, gent, lad |
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| (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, boyfriend, swain |
| (noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: associate, companion, comrade, familiar |
| (noun) a person who is member of one's class or profession | Synonyms: colleague, confrere |
| (noun) an informal form of address for a man | Synonyms: buster, dude |
| (noun) a member of a learned society | - |
| (noun) one of a pair | Synonyms: mate |
| fellowship | (noun) an association of people who share common beliefs or activities | Synonyms: family |
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| (noun) money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research | - |
| (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: companionship, company, society |
| felly | (noun) rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted | Synonyms: felloe |
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| fenestella | (noun) oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault | Synonyms: lunette |
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| filoselle | (noun) a soft silk embroidery thread. | - |
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| fingerspell | (verb) communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to sign language | Synonyms: finger-spell |
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| fingerspelling | (noun) an alphabet of manual signs | Synonyms: finger spelling |
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| flagellant | (noun) a person who whips himself as a religious penance | - |
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| (noun) a person who is whipped or whips himself for sexual gratification | - |
| flagellate | (adjective) having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum) | Synonyms: flagellated, lash-like, whiplike |
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| (noun) a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals | Synonyms: flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore |
| (verb) whip | Synonyms: scourge |
| flagellated | (adjective) having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum) | Synonyms: flagellate, lash-like, whiplike |
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| flagellation | (noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | Synonyms: flogging, lashing, tanning, whipping |
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| (noun) beating as a source of erotic or religious stimulation | - |
| flagellum | (noun) a lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm cells and some bacteria and protozoa) | - |
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| (noun) a whip used to inflict punishment | Synonyms: scourge |
| fontanelle | (noun) any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus | Synonyms: fontanel, soft spot |
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| foretell | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, harbinger, herald |
| foretelling | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: divination, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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| (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, prediction, prognostication |
| fortuneteller | (noun) a person who foretells your personal future | Synonyms: fortune teller |
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| fortunetelling | (noun) the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment) | - |
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| fraxinella | (noun) Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather | Synonyms: burning bush, Dictamnus alba, dittany, gas plant |
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| fuelled | (adjective) heated, driven, or produced by burning fuel | Synonyms: fueled |
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| fuelling | (noun) the activity of supplying or taking on fuel | Synonyms: fueling, refueling |
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| gazelle | (noun) small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes | - |
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| gelly | (noun) a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate | Synonyms: gelignite |
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| genteelly | (adverb) in a genteel manner | - |
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| gentianella | (noun) low-growing alpine plant cultivated for its dark glossy green leaves in basal rosettes and showy solitary bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: Gentiana acaulis |
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| gibberellin | (noun) a plant hormone isolated from a fungus; used in promoting plant growth | - |
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| glabella | (noun) a smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges | Synonyms: mesophyron |
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| glabellar | (adjective) of or relating to the glabella | - |
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| gospeller | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeler, revivalist |
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| gravelly | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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| (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: pebbly, shingly |
| gromwell | (noun) European perennial branching plant; occurs in hedgerows and at the edge of woodlands | Synonyms: Lithospermum officinale |
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| groveller | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveler, truckler |
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| grovelling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, groveling, wormlike, wormy |
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| gruelling | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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