| avenge | (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: retaliate, revenge |
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| avenged | (adjective) for which vengeance has been taken | - |
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| avenger | (noun) someone who takes vengeance | Synonyms: retaliator |
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| banteng | (noun) wild ox of the Malay Archipelago | Synonyms: banting, Bos banteng, tsine |
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| bioengineering | (noun) the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments | Synonyms: biotechnology, ergonomics |
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| challenge | (noun) a call to engage in a contest or fight | - |
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| (noun) questioning a statement and demanding an explanation | - |
| (noun) a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror | - |
| (noun) a demand by a sentry for a password or identification | - |
| (noun) a demanding or stimulating situation | - |
| (verb) issue a challenge to | - |
| (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: dispute, gainsay |
| (verb) raise a formal objection in a court of law | Synonyms: take exception |
| (verb) ask for identification | - |
| challengeable | (adjective) capable of being challenged | - |
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| challenger | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: competition, competitor, contender, rival |
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| challenging | (adjective) requiring full use of your abilities or resources | Synonyms: ambitious |
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| (adjective) disturbingly provocative | Synonyms: intriguing |
| (adjective) stimulating interest or thought | Synonyms: thought-provoking |
| counterchallenge | (verb) challenge in turn | - |
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| dengue | (noun) an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints | Synonyms: breakbone fever, dandy fever, dengue fever |
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| disengage | (verb) become free | - |
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| (verb) release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles | Synonyms: withdraw |
| (verb) free or remove obstruction from | Synonyms: free |
| disengagement | (noun) to break off a military action with an enemy | Synonyms: fallback, pullout |
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| (noun) the act of releasing from an attachment or connection | Synonyms: detachment |
| engage | (verb) get caught | - |
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| (verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: absorb, engross, occupy |
| (verb) give to in marriage | Synonyms: affiance, betroth, plight |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: lock, mesh, operate |
| (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, hire, lease, rent, take |
| (verb) hire for work or assistance | Synonyms: enlist |
| (verb) ask to represent; of legal counsel | - |
| (verb) engage or hire for work | Synonyms: employ, hire |
| (verb) carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | Synonyms: prosecute, pursue |
| (verb) carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns) | Synonyms: wage |
| engaged | (adjective) built against or attached to a wall | - |
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| (adjective) having services contracted for | - |
| (adjective) (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting | Synonyms: intermeshed, meshed |
| (adjective) involved in military hostilities | - |
| (adjective) (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line) | Synonyms: busy, in use |
| (adjective) reserved in advance | Synonyms: booked, set-aside |
| (adjective) having ones attention or mind or energy engaged | Synonyms: occupied |
| (adjective) pledged to be married | Synonyms: bespoken, betrothed |
| engagement | (noun) the act of sharing in the activities of a group | Synonyms: involution, involvement, participation |
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| (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, conflict, fight |
| (noun) the act of giving someone a job | Synonyms: employment |
| (noun) employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time | Synonyms: booking |
| (noun) a mutual promise to marry | Synonyms: betrothal, troth |
| (noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: interlocking, mesh, meshing |
| (noun) a meeting arranged in advance | Synonyms: appointment, date |
| engaging | (adjective) attracting or delighting | Synonyms: piquant |
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| engagingly | (adverb) in an engaging manner | Synonyms: winsomely |
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| engelmannia | (noun) common erect hairy perennial of plains and prairies of southern and central United States having flowers that resemble sunflowers | - |
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| engender | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, father, generate, get, mother, sire |
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| (verb) call forth | Synonyms: breed, spawn |
| engild | (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: begild, gild |
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| engine | (noun) motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work | - |
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| (noun) a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks | Synonyms: locomotive, locomotive engine, railway locomotive |
| (noun) an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc. | - |
| (noun) something used to achieve a purpose | - |
| engineer | (noun) a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems | Synonyms: applied scientist, technologist |
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| (noun) the operator of a railway locomotive | Synonyms: engine driver, locomotive engineer, railroad engineer |
| (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize |
| (verb) design as an engineer | - |
| engineering | (noun) the practical application of technical and scientific knowledge to commerce or industry | - |
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| (noun) a room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located | Synonyms: engine room |
| (noun) the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems | Synonyms: applied science, engineering science, technology |
| enginery | (noun) machinery consisting of engines collectively | - |
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| englut | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| engobe | (noun) a clay slip which is colored with metal oxides or stains, used for coating the surface of a pot either before or after bisque firing. | - |
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| engorge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| engorged | (adjective) overfull as with blood | Synonyms: congested |
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| engorgement | (noun) eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation | - |
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| (noun) congestion with blood | - |
| engraft | (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, imbed, implant, plant |
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| (verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants | Synonyms: graft, ingraft |
| engram | (noun) a postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory | Synonyms: memory trace |
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| engrave | (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: grave, inscribe, scratch |
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| (verb) carve or cut a design or letters into | Synonyms: etch |
| (verb) carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block | Synonyms: etch |
| (verb) impress or affect deeply | - |
| engraved | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: etched, graven, incised, inscribed |
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| engraver | (noun) a printmaker who prints from an engraved printing plate | - |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching | - |
| engraving | (noun) making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them | Synonyms: etching |
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| (noun) a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved | - |
| (noun) a print made from an engraving | - |
| engross | (verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: absorb, engage, occupy |
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| (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
| engrossed | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, captive, enwrapped, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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| (adjective) written formally in a large clear script, as a deed or other legal document | - |
| engrossing | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, fascinating, gripping, riveting |
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| engrossment | (noun) the quality of being intent and concentrated | Synonyms: intentness |
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| (noun) the mental state of being preoccupied by something | Synonyms: absorption, preoccupancy, preoccupation |
| (noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, concentration, immersion |
| engulf | (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
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| (verb) flow over or cover completely | - |
| ginseng | (noun) Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers | Synonyms: nin-sin, Panax ginseng, Panax pseudoginseng, Panax schinseng |
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| (noun) aromatic root of ginseng plants | - |
| greengage | (noun) sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum | Synonyms: greengage plum |
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| greengrocer | (noun) a grocer who sells fresh fruits and vegetables | - |
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| greengrocery | (noun) a greengrocer's grocery store | - |
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| (noun) groceries sold by a greengrocer | - |
| hiplength | (adjective) extending to or just over the hips | Synonyms: hip-length |
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| length | (noun) a section of something that is long and narrow | - |
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| (noun) the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place | - |
| (noun) continuance in time | Synonyms: duration |
| (noun) the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end | - |
| (noun) size of the gap between two places | Synonyms: distance |
| lengthen | (verb) become long or longer | - |
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| (verb) make longer | - |
| lengthened | (adjective) drawn out or made longer spatially | Synonyms: elongated, extended, prolonged |
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| lengthening | (noun) the act of prolonging something | Synonyms: perpetuation, prolongation, protraction |
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| lengthily | (adverb) in a lengthy or prolix manner | Synonyms: at length |
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| lengthiness | (noun) amount or degree or range to which something extends | Synonyms: extension, prolongation |
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| (noun) the consequence of being lengthened in duration | Synonyms: continuation, prolongation, protraction |
| lengthways | (adjective) running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing | Synonyms: lengthwise |
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| (adverb) in the direction of the length | Synonyms: lengthwise, longitudinally, longways, longwise |
| lengthwise | (adjective) running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing | Synonyms: lengthways |
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| (adverb) in the direction of the length | Synonyms: lengthways, longitudinally, longways, longwise |
| lengthy | (adjective) relatively long in duration; tediously protracted | Synonyms: drawn-out, extended, prolonged, protracted |
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| lozenge | (noun) a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet | Synonyms: pill, tab, tablet |
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| (noun) a small aromatic or medicated candy | - |
| mayeng | (noun) Indian tree having fragrant nocturnal white flowers and yielding a reddish wood used for planking; often grown as an ornamental or shade tree | Synonyms: maple-leaved bayur, Pterospermum acerifolium |
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| messenger | (noun) a person who carries a message | Synonyms: courier |
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| passenger | (noun) a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it | Synonyms: rider |
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| pengo | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Hungary until it was replaced by the forint in 1946 | - |
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| penguin | (noun) short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers | - |
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| photoengraving | (noun) an engraving used to reproduce an illustration | Synonyms: halftone, halftone engraving |
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| restrengthen | (verb) make strong again | - |
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| revenge | (noun) action taken in return for an injury or offense | Synonyms: retaliation |
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| (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: avenge, retaliate |
| revengeful | (adjective) disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge | Synonyms: vengeful, vindictive |
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| revengefully | (adverb) in a vindictive, revengeful manner | Synonyms: vengefully, vindictively |
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| scavenge | (verb) remove unwanted substances from | Synonyms: clean |
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| (verb) feed on carrion or refuse | - |
| (verb) clean refuse from | - |
| (verb) collect discarded material | Synonyms: salvage |
| scavenger | (noun) any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter | - |
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| (noun) someone who collects things that have been discarded by others | Synonyms: magpie, pack rat |
| (noun) a chemical agent that is added to a chemical mixture to counteract the effects of impurities | - |
| strength | (noun) the property of being physically or mentally strong | - |
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| (noun) an asset of special worth or utility | Synonyms: forte, long suit, metier, speciality, specialty, strong point, strong suit |
| (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: durability, enduringness, lastingness |
| (noun) the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation) | Synonyms: intensity, intensity level |
| (noun) capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war | Synonyms: military capability, military posture, military strength, posture |
| (noun) physical energy or intensity | Synonyms: force, forcefulness |
| (noun) capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects | Synonyms: effectiveness, potency |
| (noun) the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty | Synonyms: persuasiveness |
| (noun) the condition of financial success | - |
| strengthen | (verb) give a healthy elasticity to | Synonyms: tone, tone up |
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| (verb) gain strength | - |
| (verb) make strong or stronger | Synonyms: beef up, fortify |
| strengthened | (adjective) given added strength or support | Synonyms: reinforced |
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| strengthener | (noun) a device designed to provide additional strength | Synonyms: reinforcement |
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| strengthening | (noun) the act of increasing the strength of something | - |
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| (noun) becoming stronger | - |
| tenge | (noun) the basic unit of money in Kazakhstan | - |
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| (noun) 100 tenge equal 1 manat in Turkmenistan | - |
| unavenged | (adjective) for which vengeance has not been taken | - |
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| unchallengeable | (adjective) not open to challenge | - |
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| unchallenged | (adjective) generally agreed upon; not subject to dispute | Synonyms: undisputed, unquestioned |
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| unengaged | (adjective) not busy or occupied; free | - |
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| (adjective) not promised in marriage | Synonyms: unpledged, unpromised |
| vengeance | (noun) the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life | Synonyms: payback, retribution |
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| vengeful | (adjective) disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge | Synonyms: revengeful, vindictive |
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| vengefully | (adverb) in a vindictive, revengeful manner | Synonyms: revengefully, vindictively |
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| vengefulness | (noun) a malevolent desire for revenge | Synonyms: vindictiveness |
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| wavelength | (noun) the distance (measured in the direction of propagation) between two points in the same phase in consecutive cycles of a wave | - |
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| (noun) a shared orientation leading to mutual understanding | - |