| antepenult | (noun) the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end | Synonyms: antepenultima, antepenultimate |
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| antepenultima | (noun) the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end | Synonyms: antepenult, antepenultimate |
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| antepenultimate | (adjective) third from last | - |
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| (noun) the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end | Synonyms: antepenult, antepenultima |
| barkeeper | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, bartender, mixologist |
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| beekeeper | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, apiculturist |
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| beeper | (noun) an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged | Synonyms: pager |
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| bookkeeper | (noun) someone who records the transactions of a business | - |
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| chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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| creeper | (noun) any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet | Synonyms: tree creeper |
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| (noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: crawler |
| (noun) any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping | - |
| crepe | (noun) a soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface | Synonyms: crape |
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| (noun) small very thin pancake | Synonyms: crape, French pancake |
| (noun) paper with a crinkled texture; usually colored and used for decorations | Synonyms: crepe paper |
| (verb) cover or drape with crape | Synonyms: crape |
| deepen | (verb) become more intense | Synonyms: intensify |
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| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, heighten, intensify |
| (verb) become deeper in tone | Synonyms: change |
| (verb) make deeper | - |
| deepening | (adjective) accumulating and becoming more intense | Synonyms: thickening |
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| (noun) a process of becoming deeper and more profound | - |
| depend | (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, look, reckon, rely, swear |
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| (verb) be contingent upon (something that is elided) | - |
| dependability | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependableness, reliability, reliableness |
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| dependable | (adjective) worthy of reliance or trust | Synonyms: reliable |
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| (adjective) financially safe | Synonyms: good, safe, secure |
| (adjective) consistent in performance or behavior | Synonyms: rock-steady, steady-going |
| (adjective) worthy of being depended on | Synonyms: honest, reliable, true |
| dependableness | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependability, reliability, reliableness |
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| dependably | (adverb) in a faithful manner | Synonyms: faithfully, reliably |
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| dependance | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependence, dependency |
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| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependence, dependency, habituation |
| dependant | (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
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| (adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependent, qualified |
| (noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependent |
| dependence | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependance, dependency |
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| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependency, habituation |
| dependency | (noun) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country | Synonyms: colony |
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| (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependance, dependence |
| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependence, habituation |
| dependent | (adjective) relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed | - |
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| (adjective) (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence | Synonyms: subordinate |
| (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependant, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
| (adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependant, qualified |
| (adjective) being under the power or sovereignty of another or others | Synonyms: subject |
| (adjective) held from above and hanging down | Synonyms: pendant, pendent |
| (noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependant |
| depersonalisation | (noun) representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality | Synonyms: depersonalization, reification |
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| (noun) emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness | Synonyms: depersonalisation disorder, depersonalisation neurosis, depersonalization, depersonalization disorder, depersonalization neurosis |
| (noun) (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine | Synonyms: depersonalization |
| depersonalise | (verb) make impersonal or present as an object | Synonyms: depersonalize, objectify |
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| depersonalization | (noun) representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality | Synonyms: depersonalisation, reification |
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| (noun) emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness | Synonyms: depersonalisation, depersonalisation disorder, depersonalisation neurosis, depersonalization disorder, depersonalization neurosis |
| (noun) (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine | Synonyms: depersonalisation |
| depersonalize | (verb) make impersonal or present as an object | Synonyms: depersonalise, objectify |
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| doorkeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| (noun) an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber | Synonyms: usher |
| (noun) the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: ostiarius, ostiary |
| epee | (noun) a fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade | - |
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| ependyma | (noun) thin epithelial membrane lining the ventricles of the brain and the spinal cord canal | - |
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| epenthesis | (noun) the insertion of a vowel or consonant into a word to make its pronunciation easier | - |
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| epenthetic | (adjective) of or pertaining to epenthesis | Synonyms: parasitic |
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| epergne | (noun) a large table centerpiece with branching holders for fruit or sweets or flowers | - |
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| fivepence | (noun) a coin worth five cents | - |
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| foreperson | (noun) the presiding member of the jury and the one who speaks on their behalf | - |
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| freeperson | (noun) a person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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| gamekeeper | (noun) a person employed to take care of game and wildlife | Synonyms: game warden |
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| gatekeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| (noun) someone who controls access to something | - |
| goalkeeper | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper |
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| (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper, netminder |
| greenskeeper | (noun) someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course | - |
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| groundkeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundskeeper, groundsman |
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| groundskeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundkeeper, groundsman |
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| honeycreeper | (noun) small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar | - |
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| (noun) small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands | Synonyms: Hawaiian honeycreeper |
| hotelkeeper | (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hosteller, hotel manager, hotelier, hotelman |
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| housekeeper | (noun) a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household | - |
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| independence | (noun) the successful ending of the American Revolution | - |
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| (noun) freedom from control or influence of another or others | Synonyms: independency |
| independency | (noun) freedom from control or influence of another or others | Synonyms: independence |
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| independent | (adjective) free from external control and constraint | - |
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| (adjective) (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence | Synonyms: main |
| (adjective) (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: autonomous, self-governing, sovereign |
| (adjective) not controlled by a party or interest group | - |
| (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, freelancer, self-employed person |
| (noun) a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) | Synonyms: fencesitter, mugwump |
| independently | (adverb) on your own; without outside help | - |
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| (adverb) individually or separately | Synonyms: severally |
| innkeeper | (noun) the owner or manager of an inn | Synonyms: boniface, host |
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| interdepend | (verb) be connected | Synonyms: hang together |
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| interdependence | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependency, mutuality |
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| interdependency | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependence, mutuality |
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| interdependent | (adjective) mutually dependent | Synonyms: mutualist, mutually beneficial |
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| keeper | (noun) one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals | Synonyms: custodian, steward |
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| (noun) someone in charge of other people | - |
| leper | (noun) a pariah who is avoided by others | - |
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| (noun) a person afflicted with leprosy | Synonyms: lazar |
| lockkeeper | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockman, lockmaster |
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| meperidine | (noun) a synthetic narcotic drug (trade name Demerol) used to treat pain | Synonyms: Demerol, meperidine hydrochloride |
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| millepede | (noun) any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs | Synonyms: milliped, millipede |
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| minesweeper | (noun) ship equipped to detect and then destroy or neutralize or remove marine mines | - |
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| netkeeper | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender |
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| (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, netminder |
| ninepence | (noun) a coin worth nine pennies | - |
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| ninepenny | (adjective) used of nail size; 2 3/4 in or 7 cm long | - |
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| nonrepetitive | (adjective) marked by the absence of repetition | - |
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| obstreperous | (adjective) boisterously and noisily aggressive | - |
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| (adjective) noisily and stubbornly defiant | - |
| obstreperously | (adverb) in manner that attracts attention | Synonyms: clamorously, loudly |
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| obstreperousness | (noun) noisy defiance | - |
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| opepe | (noun) large African forest tree yielding a strong hard yellow to golden brown lumber; sometimes placed in genus Sarcocephalus | Synonyms: Nauclea diderrichii, Sarcocephalus diderrichii |
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| peacekeeper | (noun) the pistol of a law officer in the old West | - |
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| (noun) someone who keeps peace | - |
| (noun) a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area | - |
| peeper | (noun) an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds | - |
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| (noun) an informal term referring to the eye | - |
| (noun) a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others | Synonyms: Peeping Tom, voyeur |
| peperomia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Peperomia; grown primarily for their often succulent foliage | - |
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| repeal | (noun) the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation | Synonyms: abrogation, annulment |
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| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
| repeat | (noun) an event that repeats | Synonyms: repetition |
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| (verb) happen or occur again | Synonyms: recur |
| (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, restate, retell |
| (verb) to say again or imitate | Synonyms: echo |
| (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, duplicate, reduplicate, replicate |
| (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: recapitulate, reprise, reprize |
| (verb) do over | Synonyms: take over |
| repeatable | (adjective) able or fit to be repeated or quoted | Synonyms: quotable |
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| repeated | (adjective) recurring again and again | Synonyms: perennial, recurrent |
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| repeatedly | (adverb) repeatedly | Synonyms: again and again, over and over, over and over again, time and again, time and time again |
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| repeater | (noun) a firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading | Synonyms: repeating firearm |
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| (noun) (electronics) electronic device that amplifies a signal before transmitting it again | - |
| (noun) a person who repeats | - |
| (noun) someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) | Synonyms: habitual criminal, recidivist |
| repeating | (noun) the act of doing or performing again | Synonyms: repetition |
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| repechage | (noun) a race (especially in rowing) in which runners-up in the eliminating heats compete for a place in the final race | - |
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| repel | (verb) reject outright and bluntly | Synonyms: rebuff, snub |
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| (verb) force or drive back | Synonyms: drive back, fight off, rebuff, repulse |
| (verb) cause to move back by force or influence | Synonyms: beat back, drive, force back, push back, repulse |
| (verb) be repellent to; cause aversion in | Synonyms: repulse |
| (verb) fill with distaste | Synonyms: disgust, gross out, revolt |
| repellant | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: rebarbative, repellent |
| (noun) the power to repel | Synonyms: repellent |
| (noun) a chemical substance that repels animals | Synonyms: repellent |
| (noun) a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water | Synonyms: repellent |
| repellent | (adjective) incapable of absorbing or mixing with | Synonyms: resistant |
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| (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
| (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: rebarbative, repellant |
| (noun) the power to repel | Synonyms: repellant |
| (noun) a chemical substance that repels animals | Synonyms: repellant |
| (noun) a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water | Synonyms: repellant |
| repellently | (adverb) in a repellent manner | Synonyms: repellingly |
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| repelling | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| repellingly | (adverb) in a repellent manner | Synonyms: repellently |
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| repent | (verb) feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about | Synonyms: regret, rue |
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| (verb) turn away from sin or do penitence | Synonyms: atone |
| repentance | (noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penance, penitence |
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| repentant | (adjective) feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds | Synonyms: penitent |
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| repentantly | (adverb) showing remorse | Synonyms: penitentially, penitently |
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| repercuss | (verb) cause repercussions; have an unwanted effect | - |
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| repercussion | (noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: backlash, rebound, recoil |
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| (noun) a remote or indirect consequence of some action | Synonyms: reverberation |
| repertoire | (noun) a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule | Synonyms: repertory |
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| (noun) the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation | Synonyms: repertory |
| repertory | (noun) a storehouse where a stock of things is kept | - |
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| (noun) the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation | Synonyms: repertoire |
| (noun) a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule | Synonyms: repertoire |
| (noun) a theatrical company that performs plays from a repertoire | Synonyms: repertory company, stock company |
| repetition | (noun) the act of doing or performing again | Synonyms: repeating |
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| (noun) the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device | - |
| (noun) an event that repeats | Synonyms: repeat |
| repetitious | (adjective) characterized by repetition | Synonyms: repetitive |
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| repetitiousness | (noun) verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions | Synonyms: repetitiveness |
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| repetitive | (adjective) characterized by repetition | Synonyms: repetitious |
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| (adjective) repetitive and persistent | Synonyms: insistent |
| repetitively | (adverb) in a repetitive manner | - |
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| repetitiveness | (noun) verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions | Synonyms: repetitiousness |
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| scorekeeper | (noun) an official who records the score during the progress of a game | Synonyms: scorer |
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| shopkeeper | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, storekeeper, tradesman |
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