| biodefense | (noun) procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using biological agents | Synonyms: biodefence, biological defence, biological defense |
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| cense | (verb) perfume especially with a censer | Synonyms: incense, thurify |
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| censer | (noun) a container for burning incense (especially one that is swung on a chain in a religious ritual) | Synonyms: thurible |
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| commonsense | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsensible, commonsensical |
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| condense | (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: concentrate, digest |
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| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: distil, distill |
| (verb) cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid | - |
| (verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: concentrate, contract |
| (verb) remove water from | - |
| (verb) become more compact or concentrated | - |
| (verb) develop due to condensation | - |
| condenser | (noun) lens used to concentrate light on an object | Synonyms: optical condenser |
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| (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitance, capacitor, electrical condenser |
| (noun) a hollow coil that condenses by abstracting heat | - |
| (noun) an apparatus that converts vapor into liquid | - |
| defense | (noun) (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies | Synonyms: defence, defensive measure |
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| (noun) the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury | Synonyms: defence |
| (noun) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | Synonyms: defence, demurrer, denial |
| (noun) protection from harm | Synonyms: defence |
| (noun) a structure used to defend against attack | Synonyms: defence, defensive structure |
| (noun) the justification for some act or belief | Synonyms: defence, vindication |
| (noun) the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions | Synonyms: defence, refutation |
| (noun) the defendant and his legal advisors collectively | Synonyms: defence, defense lawyers, defense team |
| (noun) (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring | Synonyms: defence, defending team |
| (noun) an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack | Synonyms: defence, defence force, defense force |
| (noun) (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Synonyms: defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense mechanism, defense reaction |
| defenseless | (adjective) lacking weapons for self-defense | Synonyms: defenceless |
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| (adjective) having no protecting or concealing cover | Synonyms: naked |
| (adjective) lacking protection or support | Synonyms: defenceless |
| (adverb) without defense | Synonyms: defenceless, defencelessly, defenselessly |
| defenselessly | (adverb) without defense | Synonyms: defenceless, defencelessly, defenseless |
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| defenselessness | (noun) the property of being helpless in the face of attack | Synonyms: defencelessness, unprotectedness |
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| dense | (adjective) having high relative density or specific gravity | - |
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| (adjective) hard to pass through because of dense growth | Synonyms: thick |
| (adjective) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity | Synonyms: dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow |
| (adjective) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter | Synonyms: heavy, impenetrable |
| (adjective) having component parts closely crowded together | Synonyms: thick |
| densely | (adverb) in a concentrated manner | Synonyms: thickly |
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| (adverb) stupidly or insensitively | Synonyms: dumbly, obtusely |
| denseness | (noun) the amount per unit size | Synonyms: density |
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| (noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: compactness, concentration, density, tightness |
| (noun) the quality of being mentally slow and limited | Synonyms: dumbness, slow-wittedness |
| dispense | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: administer |
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| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) grant a dispensation; grant an exemption | - |
| dispensed | (adjective) distributed or weighted out in carefully determined portions | - |
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| dispenser | (noun) a container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts | - |
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| (noun) a person who dispenses | - |
| ensemble | (noun) a coordinated outfit (set of clothing) | - |
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| (noun) the chorus of a ballet company | Synonyms: corps de ballet |
| (noun) a group of musicians playing or singing together | - |
| (noun) an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole | Synonyms: tout ensemble |
| (noun) a cast other than the principals | Synonyms: supporting players |
| expense | (noun) a detriment or sacrifice | - |
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| (noun) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) | Synonyms: disbursal, disbursement |
| (noun) money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer | - |
| (verb) reduce the estimated value of something | Synonyms: write down, write off |
| flense | (verb) strip the blubber or skin from (a whale or seal) | - |
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| frankincense | (noun) an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation | Synonyms: gum olibanum, olibanum, thus |
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| goldenseal | (noun) perennial herb of northeastern United States having a thick knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves | Synonyms: golden seal, Hydrastis Canadensis, turmeric root, yellow root |
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| immense | (adjective) unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope | Synonyms: Brobdingnagian, huge, vast |
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| immensely | (adverb) to an exceedingly great extent or degree | Synonyms: vastly |
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| immenseness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
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| incense | (noun) the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned | - |
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| (noun) a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned | - |
| (verb) make furious | Synonyms: exasperate, infuriate |
| (verb) perfume especially with a censer | Synonyms: cense, thurify |
| incensed | (adjective) angered at something unjust or wrong | Synonyms: indignant, outraged, umbrageous |
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| innocense | (noun) white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda; California | Synonyms: Collinsia bicolor, Collinsia heterophylla, purple chinese houses |
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| intense | (adjective) possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree | - |
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| (adjective) (of color) having the highest saturation | Synonyms: vivid |
| (adjective) extremely sharp or severe | Synonyms: acute |
| intensely | (adverb) to a high degree; extremely; in high concentration or density | - |
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| (adverb) to a great depth psychologically or emotionally | Synonyms: deeply, profoundly |
| lense | (noun) a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images | Synonyms: lens, lens system |
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| license | (noun) the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Synonyms: permission, permit |
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| (noun) a legal document giving official permission to do something | Synonyms: licence, permit |
| (noun) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) | Synonyms: licence |
| (noun) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint | Synonyms: licence |
| (verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: certify, licence |
| licensed | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: accredited, commissioned, licenced |
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| licensee | (noun) someone to whom a license is granted | - |
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| licenser | (noun) an official who can issue a license or give authoritative permission (especially one who licenses publications) | - |
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| menses | (noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menstruation, menstruum, period |
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| nonsense | (adjective) having no intelligible meaning | Synonyms: nonsensical |
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| (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, trumpery |
| (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsensicality |
| offense | (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offence, offensive |
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| (noun) a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right | Synonyms: offence |
| (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: discourtesy, offence, offensive activity |
| (noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offence, umbrage |
| (noun) the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score | Synonyms: offence |
| offenseless | (adjective) incapable of offending or attacking | Synonyms: offenceless |
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| pretense | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretending, simulation |
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| (noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretence, pretension |
| (noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: guise, pretence, pretext |
| (noun) imaginative intellectual play | Synonyms: make-believe, pretence |
| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, feigning, pretence |
| recompense | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: compensation |
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| (noun) payment or reward (as for service rendered) | - |
| (verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: compensate, remunerate |
| (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, indemnify, repair |
| sense | (noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | Synonyms: sensation, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency |
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| (noun) sound practical judgment | Synonyms: common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, mother wit |
| (noun) a general conscious awareness | - |
| (noun) a natural appreciation or ability | - |
| (noun) the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted | Synonyms: signified |
| (verb) discern | - |
| (verb) become aware of not through the senses but instinctively | Synonyms: smell, smell out |
| (verb) perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles | Synonyms: feel |
| (verb) detect some circumstance or entity automatically | - |
| sensed | (adjective) detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues | Synonyms: perceived |
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| senseless | (adjective) (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment | Synonyms: nitwitted, soft-witted, witless |
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| (adjective) unresponsive to stimulation | Synonyms: insensible, out of it |
| (adjective) not marked by the use of reason | Synonyms: mindless, reasonless |
| (adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: otiose, pointless, purposeless, superfluous, wasted |
| senselessly | (adverb) in an unreasonably senseless manner | Synonyms: mindlessly |
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| (adverb) in a meaningless and purposeless manner | - |
| senselessness | (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, mindlessness, pointlessness, vacuity |
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| somatosense | (noun) any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain | - |
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| suspense | (noun) an uncertain cognitive state | - |
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| (noun) excited anticipation of an approaching climax | - |
| (noun) apprehension about what is going to happen | - |
| suspenseful | (adjective) (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense | Synonyms: cliff-hanging, nail-biting, suspensive |
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| tense | (adjective) taut or rigid; stretched tight | - |
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| (adjective) pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat') | - |
| (adjective) in or of a state of physical or nervous tension | - |
| (noun) a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time | - |
| (verb) cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious | Synonyms: strain, tense up |
| (verb) become tense, nervous, or uneasy | Synonyms: tense up |
| (verb) increase the tension on | - |
| (verb) become stretched or tense or taut | Synonyms: strain |
| tensed | (adjective) having inflections to indicate tense | - |
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| tensely | (adverb) in a tense manner | - |
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| tenseness | (noun) the physical condition of being stretched or strained | Synonyms: tautness, tension, tensity |
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| (noun) (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense | Synonyms: stress, tension |
| unlicensed | (adjective) lacking official approval | Synonyms: unaccredited, unlicenced |
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