| farthing | (noun) a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny | - |
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| farthingale | (noun) a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries | - |
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| fetching | (adjective) very attractive; capturing interest | Synonyms: taking, winning |
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| filthiness | (noun) moral corruption or pollution | - |
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| (noun) a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse | Synonyms: filth, foulness, nastiness |
| finishing | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finish |
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| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finish |
| fishing | (noun) the act of someone who fishes as a diversion | Synonyms: sportfishing |
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| (noun) the occupation of catching fish for a living | - |
| flashiness | (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
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| flashing | (noun) sheet metal shaped and attached to a roof for strength and weatherproofing | - |
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| (noun) a short vivid experience | Synonyms: flash |
| fleshiness | (noun) more than average fatness | Synonyms: corpulency, obesity |
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| flourishing | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
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| freethinker | (noun) a person who rejects religion | - |
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| freethinking | (noun) the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct | Synonyms: rationalism |
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| frothiness | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: bubbliness, effervescence |
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| frothing | (adjective) producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease | Synonyms: foaming, foamy |
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| furnishing | (noun) the act of providing a house or room with furniture and other removable items such as shelves, carpets, appliances, etc. | - |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel | Synonyms: trappings |
| gonadotrophin | (noun) hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity | Synonyms: gonadotrophic hormone, gonadotropic hormone, gonadotropin |
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| groupthink | (noun) decision making by a group (especially in a manner that discourages creativity or individual responsibility) | - |
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| gushing | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: effusive, gushy |
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| (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, burbly, effusive |
| (adjective) flowing profusely | Synonyms: pouring |
| gushingly | (adverb) in a gushing manner | - |
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| hatching | (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatch |
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| (noun) the production of young from an egg | Synonyms: hatch |
| healthiness | (noun) the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease | Synonyms: good health |
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| hemstitching | (noun) a stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups | Synonyms: hemstitch |
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| hin | (noun) ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons | - |
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| hind | (adjective) located at or near the back of an animal | Synonyms: back, hinder |
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| (noun) a female deer, especially an adult female red deer | - |
| (noun) any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers | - |
| hindbrain | (noun) the posterior portion of the brain including cerebellum and brainstem | Synonyms: rhombencephalon |
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| hinder | (adjective) located at or near the back of an animal | Synonyms: back, hind |
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| (verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: hamper, handicap |
| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| (verb) be a hindrance or obstacle to | Synonyms: impede |
| hinderance | (noun) the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding | Synonyms: hindrance, interference |
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| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hindrance, impediment |
| hindering | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: clogging, impeding, obstructive |
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| hinderingly | (adverb) in an obstructive manner | Synonyms: obstructively |
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| hindermost | (adjective) located farthest to the rear | Synonyms: backmost, hindmost, rearmost |
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| hindfoot | (noun) a rear foot of a quadruped | - |
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| hindgut | (noun) the caudal part of the alimentary canal in vertebrate embryos | - |
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| hindlimb | (noun) a posterior appendage such as a leg or the homologous structure in other animals | Synonyms: hind limb |
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| hindmost | (adjective) located farthest to the rear | Synonyms: backmost, hindermost, rearmost |
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| hindquarter | (noun) the back half of a side of meat | - |
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| hindquarters | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croup, croupe, rump |
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| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| hindrance | (noun) the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding | Synonyms: hinderance, interference |
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| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, impediment |
| hindshank | (noun) a cut of meat from the upper part of a rear leg | - |
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| hindsight | (noun) understanding the nature of an event after it has happened | - |
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| hinge | (noun) a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other | Synonyms: flexible joint |
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| (noun) a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend | - |
| (verb) attach with a hinge | - |
| hinny | (noun) hybrid offspring of a male horse and a female donkey or ass; usually sterile | - |
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| hint | (noun) an indirect suggestion | Synonyms: breath, intimation |
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| (noun) a slight indication | Synonyms: clue |
| (noun) an indication of potential opportunity | Synonyms: confidential information, lead, steer, tip, wind |
| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch |
| (noun) a just detectable amount | Synonyms: suggestion, tint, trace |
| (verb) drop a hint; intimate by a hint | Synonyms: suggest |
| hinterland | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, backwoods, boondocks |
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| hushing | (noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: fizzle, hiss, hissing, sibilation |
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| imperishingness | (noun) the property of being resistant to decay | Synonyms: imperishability, imperishableness |
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| itchiness | (noun) an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch | Synonyms: itch, itching |
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| itching | (noun) an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch | Synonyms: itch, itchiness |
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| kachina | (noun) a carved doll wearing the costume of a particular Pueblo spirit; usually presented to a child as a gift | - |
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| (noun) a deified spirit of the Pueblo people | - |
| (noun) a masked dancer during a Pueblo religious ceremony who is thought to embody some particular spirit | - |
| labyrinthine | (adjective) relating to or affecting or originating in the inner ear | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity | Synonyms: labyrinthian, mazy |
| (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous |
| lashing | (adjective) violently urging on by whipping or flogging | - |
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| (noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | Synonyms: flagellation, flogging, tanning, whipping |
| (noun) rope that is used for fastening something to something else | - |
| lashings | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| laughing | (adjective) showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness | Synonyms: riant |
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| laughingly | (adverb) with laughter; while laughing | - |
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| laughingstock | (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: butt, goat, stooge |
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| launching | (noun) the act of propelling with force | Synonyms: launch |
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| (noun) the act of beginning something new | Synonyms: debut, entry, first appearance, introduction, unveiling |
| (noun) the act of moving a newly built vessel into the water for the first time | - |
| leaching | (noun) the process of leaching | Synonyms: leach |
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| lecithin | (noun) a yellow phospholipid essential for the metabolism of fats; found in egg yolk and in many plant and animal cells; used commercially as an emulsifier | - |
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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 |
| leptorhine | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorrhine, leptorrhinian, leptorrhinic |
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| leptorrhine | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhinian, leptorrhinic |
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| leptorrhinian | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinic |
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| leptorrhinic | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinian |
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| loathing | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, odium |
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| lunching | (noun) the act of eating lunch | - |
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| lynching | (noun) putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law | - |
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| machinate | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, conspire |
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| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: devise, get up, organise, organize, prepare |
| machination | (noun) a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends | Synonyms: intrigue |
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| machinator | (noun) a member of a conspiracy | Synonyms: coconspirator, conspirator, plotter |
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| machine | (noun) any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks | - |
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| (noun) a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine | Synonyms: auto, automobile, car, motorcar |
| (noun) a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point | Synonyms: simple machine |
| (noun) a group that controls the activities of a political party | Synonyms: political machine |
| (noun) an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently | - |
| (noun) an efficient person | - |
| (verb) make by machinery | - |
| (verb) turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery | - |
| machinelike | (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatic, automatonlike, robotic, robotlike |
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| machinery | (noun) machines or machine systems collectively | - |
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| (noun) a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions | - |
| machinist | (noun) a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools | Synonyms: mechanic, shop mechanic |
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| malahini | (noun) a newcomer to Hawaii | - |
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| maraschino | (noun) cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur | Synonyms: maraschino cherry |
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| (noun) distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries | Synonyms: maraschino liqueur |
| marching | (noun) the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind) | Synonyms: march |
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| matching | (adjective) intentionally matched | Synonyms: co-ordinated, coordinated |
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| (adjective) being two identical | Synonyms: duplicate, twin, twinned |
| meshing | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, interlocking, mesh |
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| (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshwork, net, network |
| (noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, interlocking, mesh |
| moonshine | (noun) whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash | Synonyms: bootleg, corn liquor |
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| (noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonlight |
| (verb) distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine | - |
| moonshiner | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: bootlegger |
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| morphine | (noun) an alkaloid narcotic drug extracted from opium; a powerful, habit-forming narcotic used to relieve pain | Synonyms: morphia |
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| muadhdhin | (noun) the Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day | Synonyms: muazzin, muezzin |
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| mushiness | (noun) a mushy pulpy softness | Synonyms: pulpiness |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
| nalorphine | (noun) a narcotic antagonist (trade name Nalline) that counteracts the effects of narcotics (especially the effects of poisoning by morphine) | Synonyms: Nalline |
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| nanomachine | (noun) a machine of the size of close to one nanometre | - |
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| newsworthiness | (noun) the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins | Synonyms: news |
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| norethindrone | (noun) a synthetic progestational hormone (trade name Norlutin) used in oral contraceptives and to treat endometriosis | Synonyms: norethandrolone, norethindrone acetate, Norlutin |
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| nothing | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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| (adverb) in no respect; to no degree | - |
| nothingness | (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarkey, malarky, wind |
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| (noun) the state of nonexistence | Synonyms: nihility, nullity, void |
| nothings | (noun) inconsequential conversation | - |
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| nourishing | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive |
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| ornithine | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is important in the formation of urea | - |
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| otorhinolaryngologist | (noun) a specialist in the disorders of the ear or nose or throat | Synonyms: ear-nose-and-throat doctor, ENT man, otolaryngologist, rhinolaryngologist |
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| otorhinolaryngology | (noun) the medical specialty that deals with diseases of the ear, nose and throat | Synonyms: otolaryngology, rhinolaryngology |
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| outshine | (verb) attract more attention and praise than others | - |
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| (verb) shine brighter than | - |
| overreaching | (adjective) revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights | Synonyms: vaulting |
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| overthink | (verb) to spend to much time considering something and thus reach the wrong conclusion | - |
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| pachinko | (noun) a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical board | - |
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| patchiness | (noun) unevenness in quality or performance | - |
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| patching | (noun) the act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it | - |
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| paunchiness | (noun) the bodily property of a protruding belly | Synonyms: abdominousness |
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