| apopemptic | (adjective) addressed to one who is departing | - |
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| attemper | (verb) modify the temperature of | - |
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| attempt | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: effort, endeavor, endeavour, try |
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| (noun) the act of attacking | Synonyms: attack |
| (verb) enter upon an activity or enterprise | Synonyms: set about, undertake |
| (verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, essay, seek, try |
| attempted | (adjective) tried unsuccessfully | - |
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| attempter | (noun) one who tries | Synonyms: essayer, trier |
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| contemplate | (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: meditate, study |
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| (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
| (verb) consider as a possibility | - |
| (verb) look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought | - |
| contemplation | (noun) a long and thoughtful observation | - |
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| (noun) a calm, lengthy, intent consideration | Synonyms: musing, reflection, reflexion, rumination, thoughtfulness |
| contemplative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| (noun) a person devoted to the contemplative life | - |
| contemplativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: meditativeness, pensiveness |
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| contemporaneity | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneousness, modernism, modernity, modernness |
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| (noun) the quality of belonging to the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneousness |
| contemporaneous | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coetaneous, coeval |
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| (adjective) occurring in the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporary |
| contemporaneously | (adverb) during the same period of time | - |
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| contemporaneousness | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, modernism, modernity, modernness |
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| (noun) the quality of belonging to the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneity |
| contemporaries | (noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: coevals, generation |
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| contemporariness | (noun) The state or quality of being contemporary, modern, of the present age. | - |
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| contemporary | (adjective) belonging to the present time | Synonyms: present-day |
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| (adjective) characteristic of the present | Synonyms: modern-day |
| (adjective) occurring in the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneous |
| (noun) a person of nearly the same age as another | Synonyms: coeval |
| contemporise | (verb) arrange or represent events so that they co-occur | Synonyms: contemporize, synchronise, synchronize |
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| (verb) happen at the same time | Synonyms: contemporize, synchronise, synchronize |
| contemporize | (verb) arrange or represent events so that they co-occur | Synonyms: contemporise, synchronise, synchronize |
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| (verb) happen at the same time | Synonyms: contemporise, synchronise, synchronize |
| contempt | (noun) a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body | - |
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| (noun) a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous | Synonyms: disrespect |
| (noun) open disrespect for a person or thing | Synonyms: scorn |
| (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: despite, disdain, scorn |
| contemptibility | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, despicability, despicableness, sordidness |
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| contemptible | (adjective) deserving of contempt or scorn | - |
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| contemptibly | (adverb) in a manner deserving contempt | - |
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| contemptuous | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: disdainful, insulting, scornful |
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| contemptuously | (adverb) without respect; in a disdainful manner | Synonyms: contumeliously, disdainfully, scornfully |
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| contemptuousness | (noun) the manifestation of scorn and contempt | - |
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| contretemps | (noun) an awkward clash | - |
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| distemper | (noun) a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery | - |
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| (noun) a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
| (noun) paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
| (noun) an angry and disagreeable mood | Synonyms: ill humor, ill humour |
| (noun) any of various infectious viral diseases of animals | - |
| (verb) paint with distemper | - |
| empale | (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: impale, spike, transfix |
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| empanel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: impanel, panel |
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| (verb) enter into a list of prospective jurors | Synonyms: impanel |
| empathetic | (adjective) showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states | Synonyms: empathic |
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| empathetically | (adverb) in a sympathetic manner | Synonyms: sympathetically |
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| empathic | (adjective) showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states | Synonyms: empathetic |
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| empathise | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathize, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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| empathize | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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| empathy | (noun) understanding and entering into another's feelings | - |
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| empennage | (noun) the rear part of an aircraft | Synonyms: tail, tail assembly |
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| emperor | (noun) large richly colored butterfly | Synonyms: emperor butterfly |
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| (noun) large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings | Synonyms: emperor moth, Saturnia pavonia |
| (noun) red table grape of California | - |
| (noun) the male ruler of an empire | - |
| emphasis | (noun) intensity or forcefulness of expression | Synonyms: vehemence |
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| (noun) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | Synonyms: accent, stress |
| (noun) special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g. | - |
| (noun) special importance or significance | Synonyms: accent |
| emphasise | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasize, underline, underscore |
| emphasised | (adjective) spoken with emphasis | Synonyms: emphasized, emphatic |
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| emphasize | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasise, underline, underscore |
| emphasized | (adjective) spoken with emphasis | Synonyms: emphasised, emphatic |
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| emphasizing | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accenting, accentuation |
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| emphatic | (adjective) forceful and definite in expression or action | Synonyms: forceful |
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| (adjective) sudden and strong | Synonyms: exclamatory |
| (adjective) spoken with emphasis | Synonyms: emphasised, emphasized |
| emphatically | (adverb) without question and beyond doubt | Synonyms: by all odds, decidedly, definitely, in spades, unquestionably |
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| emphysema | (noun) an abnormal condition of the lungs marked by decreased respiratory function; associated with smoking or chronic bronchitis or old age | Synonyms: pulmonary emphysema |
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| emphysematous | (adjective) relating to or resembling or being emphysema | - |
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| empire | (noun) a monarchy with an emperor as head of state | - |
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| (noun) a group of countries under a single authority | - |
| (noun) a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization | Synonyms: conglomerate |
| (noun) the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised | Synonyms: imperium |
| empiric | (adjective) derived from experiment and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: empirical |
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| (adjective) relying on medical quackery | Synonyms: empirical |
| empirical | (adjective) derived from experiment and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: empiric |
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| (adjective) relying on medical quackery | Synonyms: empiric |
| empirically | (adverb) in an empirical manner | Synonyms: by trial and error, through empirical observation |
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| empiricism | (noun) the application of empirical methods in any art or science | - |
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| (noun) medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings | Synonyms: quackery |
| (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience | Synonyms: empiricist philosophy, sensationalism |
| empiricist | (noun) a philosopher who subscribes to empiricism | - |
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| emplace | (verb) put into place or position | - |
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| (verb) provide a new emplacement for guns | - |
| emplacement | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: locating, location, placement, position, positioning |
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| (noun) military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon | - |
| emplane | (verb) board a plane | Synonyms: enplane |
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| employ | (noun) the state of being employed or having a job | Synonyms: employment |
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| (verb) put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose | Synonyms: apply, use, utilise, utilize |
| (verb) engage or hire for work | Synonyms: engage, hire |
| employable | (adjective) physically and mentally capable of working at a regular job and available | - |
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| (noun) a person who is qualified and ready to work | - |
| employed | (adjective) having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary | - |
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| (adjective) made useful | Synonyms: utilised, utilized |
| employee | (noun) a worker who is hired to perform a job | - |
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| employer | (noun) a person or firm that employs workers | - |
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| employment | (noun) the occupation for which you are paid | Synonyms: work |
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| (noun) the act of using | Synonyms: exercise, usage, use, utilisation, utilization |
| (noun) the act of giving someone a job | Synonyms: engagement |
| (noun) the state of being employed or having a job | Synonyms: employ |
| emporium | (noun) a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain | Synonyms: department store |
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| empower | (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, authorize |
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| (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: endow, endue, gift, indue, invest |
| empowered | (adjective) invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter | Synonyms: sceptered, sceptred |
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| empowerment | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
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| empress | (noun) a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor | - |
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| emptiness | (noun) the quality of being valueless or futile | Synonyms: vanity |
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| (noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: vacancy, vacuum, void |
| (noun) the state of containing nothing | - |
| (noun) having an empty stomach | - |
| emptor | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: buyer, purchaser, vendee |
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| empty | (adjective) holding or containing nothing | - |
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| (adjective) emptied of emotion | - |
| (adjective) needing nourishment | Synonyms: empty-bellied |
| (adjective) devoid of significance or force | Synonyms: hollow, vacuous |
| (noun) a container that has been emptied | - |
| (verb) excrete or discharge from the body | Synonyms: evacuate, void |
| (verb) become empty or void of its content | Synonyms: discharge |
| (verb) make void or empty of contents | - |
| (verb) remove the contents of a container | - |
| (verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: abandon, vacate |
| emptying | (noun) the act of removing the contents of something | Synonyms: evacuation, voidance |
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| empurple | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: purple, purpurate |
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| empurpled | (adjective) excessively elaborate or showily expressed | Synonyms: over-embellished, purple |
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| empyema | (noun) a collection of pus in a body cavity (especially in the lung cavity) | - |
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| empyreal | (adjective) of or relating to the sky or heavens | Synonyms: empyrean |
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| (adjective) inspiring awe | Synonyms: empyrean, sublime |
| empyrean | (adjective) of or relating to the sky or heavens | Synonyms: empyreal |
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| (adjective) inspiring awe | Synonyms: empyreal, sublime |
| (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, firmament, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
| exemplar | (noun) something to be imitated | Synonyms: example, good example, model |
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| exemplariness | (noun) The state or condition of being exemplary, serving as a shining example. | - |
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| exemplary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) being or serving as an illustration of a type | Synonyms: emblematic, typic |
| (adjective) worthy of imitation | Synonyms: model |
| exemplification | (noun) a representational or typifying form or model | Synonyms: typification |
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| (noun) showing by example | Synonyms: illustration |
| exemplify | (verb) clarify by giving an example of | Synonyms: illustrate, instance |
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| (verb) be typical of | Synonyms: represent |
| exemplifying | (adjective) clarifying by use of examples | Synonyms: illustrative |
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| exempt | (adjective) (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject | - |
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| (adjective) (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation | Synonyms: nontaxable |
| (verb) grant exemption or release to | Synonyms: excuse, let off, relieve |
| (verb) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to | Synonyms: free, relieve |
| exemption | (noun) an act exempting someone | Synonyms: granting immunity, immunity |
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| (noun) a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of his status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.) | - |
| (noun) immunity from an obligation or duty | Synonyms: freedom |
| extemporaneous | (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, offhanded, unrehearsed |
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| extemporaneously | (adverb) without prior preparation | Synonyms: extemporarily, extempore |
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| extemporarily | (adverb) without prior preparation | Synonyms: extemporaneously, extempore |
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| extemporary | (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, offhanded, unrehearsed |
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| extempore | (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, offhanded, unrehearsed |
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| (adverb) without prior preparation | Synonyms: extemporaneously, extemporarily |
| extemporisation | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporization, improvisation |
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| extemporise | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporize, improvise, improvize |
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| extemporization | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporisation, improvisation |
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| extemporize | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, improvise, improvize |
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| (verb) manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand | Synonyms: improvise |
| gempylid | (noun) snake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found worldwide | - |
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| hemp | (noun) a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging | Synonyms: halter, hangman's halter, hangman's rope, hempen necktie |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs | Synonyms: cannabis |
| (noun) a plant fiber | - |
| hempen | (adjective) having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute | Synonyms: fibrous |
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| idempotent | (adjective) unchanged in value following multiplication by itself | - |
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| intemperance | (noun) excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence | Synonyms: intemperateness, self-indulgence |
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| (noun) consumption of alcoholic drinks | Synonyms: intemperateness |
| (noun) the quality of being intemperate | - |
| intemperate | (adjective) excessive in behavior | - |
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| (adjective) (of weather or climate) not mild; subject to extremes | - |
| (adjective) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors | Synonyms: hard, heavy |
| intemperately | (adverb) indulging excessively | Synonyms: hard, heavily |
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