| anticholinesterase | (noun) a medicine that inhibits cholinesterase by combining with it and so has a cholinergic effect | - |
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| arrester | (noun) a restraint that slows airplanes as they land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier | Synonyms: arrester hook |
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| attested | (adjective) established as genuine | Synonyms: authenticated, documented |
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| attester | (noun) someone who affirms or vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of something | Synonyms: attestant |
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| bimester | (noun) a period of 2 months | - |
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| bluestem | (noun) tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States | Synonyms: Andropogon furcatus, Andropogon gerardii, blue stem |
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| chesterfield | (noun) a fitted overcoat with a velvet collar | - |
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| (noun) an overstuffed davenport with upright armrests | - |
| cholesterin | (noun) an animal sterol that is normally synthesized by the liver; the most abundant steroid in animal tissues | Synonyms: cholesterol |
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| cholesterol | (noun) an animal sterol that is normally synthesized by the liver; the most abundant steroid in animal tissues | Synonyms: cholesterin |
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| cholinesterase | (noun) an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine (into choline and acetic acid) | - |
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| congested | (adjective) overfull as with blood | Synonyms: engorged |
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| contested | (adjective) disputed or made the object of contention or competition | - |
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| contestee | (noun) a winner (of a race or an election etc.) whose victory is contested | - |
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| contester | (noun) someone who contests an outcome (of a race or an election etc.) | - |
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| corbiestep | (noun) (architecture) a step on the top of a gable wall | Synonyms: corbel step, corbie-step, crow step |
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| crested | (adjective) (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume | Synonyms: plumed |
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| (adjective) (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination | Synonyms: topknotted, tufted |
| (adjective) bearing an heraldic device | - |
| detested | (adjective) treated with dislike or contempt | Synonyms: despised, hated, scorned |
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| diethylstilbesterol | (noun) synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy | Synonyms: DES, stilbesterol |
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| digester | (noun) autoclave consisting of a vessel in which plant or animal materials are digested | - |
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| disesteem | (noun) the state in which esteem has been lost | - |
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| (verb) have little or no respect for; hold in contempt | Synonyms: disrespect |
| disinterested | (adjective) unaffected by self-interest | - |
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| disinterestedly | (adverb) without bias; without selfish motives | - |
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| disinterestedness | (noun) freedom from bias or from selfish motives | - |
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| esteem | (noun) an attitude of admiration or esteem | Synonyms: regard, respect |
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| (noun) a feeling of delighted approval and liking | Synonyms: admiration |
| (noun) the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded) | Synonyms: regard, respect |
| (verb) look on as or consider | Synonyms: be known as, know as, look on, look upon, regard as, repute, take to be, think of |
| (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: prise, prize, respect, value |
| esteemed | (adjective) having an illustrious reputation; respected | Synonyms: honored, honoured, prestigious |
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| ester | (noun) organic compound formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water | - |
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| esterify | (verb) change (a compound) into an ester | - |
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| fenestella | (noun) oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault | Synonyms: lunette |
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| fester | (noun) a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus | Synonyms: suppurating sore |
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| (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: maturate, suppurate |
| festering | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: ichor, purulence, pus, sanies, suppuration |
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| (noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: maturation, suppuration |
| forested | (adjective) covered with forest | - |
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| forester | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: arboriculturist, tree farmer |
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| harvester | (noun) farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields | Synonyms: reaper |
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| (noun) someone who helps to gather the harvest | Synonyms: reaper |
| homestead | (noun) dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land | - |
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| (noun) the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family | - |
| (noun) land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law | - |
| (verb) settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead | - |
| homesteader | (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: nester, squatter |
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| hypercholesteremia | (noun) the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis | Synonyms: hypercholesterolemia |
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| hypercholesterolemia | (noun) the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis | Synonyms: hypercholesteremia |
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| interested | (adjective) having or showing interest; especially curiosity or fascination or concern | - |
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| (adjective) involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in | Synonyms: concerned |
| interestedness | (noun) the state of being interested | - |
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| jester | (noun) a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: fool, motley fool |
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| jokester | (noun) a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes | Synonyms: joker |
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| medroxyprogesterone | (noun) a progestin compound (trade name Provera) used to treat menstrual disorders | Synonyms: Provera |
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| midwestern | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and sometimes Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota | - |
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| molester | (noun) someone who subjects others to unwanted or improper sexual activities | - |
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| nester | (noun) a bird that has built (or is building) a nest | - |
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| (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: homesteader, squatter |
| northwester | (noun) a wind from the northwest | Synonyms: northwest wind |
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| northwesterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northwest | Synonyms: northwest, northwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the northwest | Synonyms: northwest |
| northwestern | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northwest | Synonyms: northwest, northwesterly |
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| (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and sometimes Montana, Wyoming | - |
| pester | (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, tease |
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| pestered | (adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances | Synonyms: annoyed, harassed, harried, vexed |
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| pesterer | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: blighter, cuss, gadfly, pest |
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| pestering | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| polyester | (noun) any of a large class of synthetic fabrics | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous synthetic resins; they are light and strong and weather resistant | - |
| (noun) a complex ester used for making fibers or resins or plastics or as a plasticizer | - |
| predigested | (adjective) artificially partially digested as by enzymatic action | - |
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| priestess | (noun) a woman priest | - |
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| progesterone | (noun) a steroid hormone (trade name Lipo-Lutin) produced in the ovary; prepares and maintains the uterus for pregnancy | Synonyms: Lipo-Lutin |
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| protester | (noun) someone who participates in a public display of group feeling | Synonyms: demonstrator |
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| (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissenter, dissident, objector |
| quester | (noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: searcher, seeker |
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| requested | (adjective) asked for | - |
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| requester | (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: petitioner, suppliant, supplicant |
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| rested | (adjective) not tired; refreshed as by sleeping or relaxing | - |
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| rester | (noun) a person who rests | - |
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| rhymester | (noun) a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | Synonyms: poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, versifier |
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| semester | (noun) one of two divisions of an academic year | - |
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| (noun) half a year; a period of 6 months | - |
| sequester | (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequestrate, withdraw |
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| (verb) set apart from others | Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequestrate, set apart |
| (verb) undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion | - |
| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, impound, seize |
| (verb) requisition forcibly, as of enemy property | - |
| sequestered | (adjective) providing privacy or seclusion | Synonyms: cloistered, reclusive, secluded |
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| (adjective) kept separate and secluded | - |
| sestet | (noun) a musical composition written for six performers | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
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| (noun) a rhythmic group of six lines of verse | - |
| (noun) a set of six similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
| (noun) six performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sextet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
| sidestep | (noun) a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing) | - |
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| (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, skirt |
| southwester | (noun) a strong wind from the southwest | Synonyms: sou'wester |
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| southwesterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southwest | Synonyms: southwest |
| southwestern | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwesterly |
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| (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Nevada, Utah, Colorado | - |
| stilbesterol | (noun) synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilbesterol |
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| suggester | (noun) someone who advances a suggestion or proposal | Synonyms: proposer |
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| tested | (adjective) tested and proved useful or correct | Synonyms: tried, well-tried |
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| (adjective) tested and proved to be reliable | Synonyms: time-tested, tried, tried and true |
| testee | (noun) someone who is tested (as by an intelligence test or an academic examination) | Synonyms: examinee |
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| tester | (noun) a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed) | - |
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| (noun) someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications | Synonyms: examiner, quizzer |
| trimester | (noun) a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided | - |
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| (noun) one of three divisions of an academic year | - |
| uncontested | (adjective) not disputed and not made the object of contention or competition | - |
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| undigested | (adjective) not digested | - |
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| (adjective) not thought over and arranged systematically in the mind; not absorbed or assimilated mentally | - |
| unforested | (adjective) not covered with forest | - |
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| uninterested | (adjective) not having or showing interest | - |
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| (adjective) having no care or interest in knowing | - |
| unmolested | (adjective) not interfered with, disturbed, or harmed | - |
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| unrequested | (adjective) not requested | - |
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| unrested | (adjective) not rested or refreshed | Synonyms: unrefreshed |
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| untested | (adjective) not tried or tested by experience | Synonyms: unseasoned, untried, young |
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| (adjective) not yet proved or subjected to testing | Synonyms: untried |
| vested | (adjective) fixed and absolute and without contingency | - |
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| wester | (noun) wind that blows from west to east | Synonyms: west wind |
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| westerly | (adjective) of wind; from the west | Synonyms: western |
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| (adjective) moving toward the west | Synonyms: westbound, westward |
| (noun) the winds from the west that occur in the temperate zones of the Earth | Synonyms: prevailing westerly |
| (adverb) in a westward direction | - |
| (adverb) from the west | - |
| western | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the western parts of the world or the West as opposed to the eastern or oriental parts | - |
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| (adjective) of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River | - |
| (adjective) lying toward or situated in the west | - |
| (adjective) of wind; from the west | Synonyms: westerly |
| (noun) a sandwich made from a western omelet | Synonyms: western sandwich |
| westerner | (noun) an inhabitant of a western area; especially of the U.S. | - |
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| westernise | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalise, occidentalize, westernize |
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| westernize | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalise, occidentalize, westernise |
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| westernmost | (adjective) farthest to the west | Synonyms: westmost |
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| wrester | (noun) someone who obtains something by pulling it violently with twisting movements | - |
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| yesterday | (noun) the recent past | - |
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| (noun) the day immediately before today | - |
| (adverb) on the day preceding today | - |
| (adverb) in the recent past; only a short time ago | - |
| yesteryear | (noun) the time that has elapsed | Synonyms: past, past times |
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