| achira | (noun) canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained | Synonyms: arrowroot, Canna edulis, Canna indica, indian shot |
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| athirst | (adjective) (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous | Synonyms: hungry, thirsty |
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| bloodthirstiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodiness |
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| bloodthirsty | (adjective) marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed | Synonyms: bloody-minded, sanguinary |
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| chiralgia | (noun) a pain in the hand that is not traumatic | - |
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| chirk | (verb) make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird | - |
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| chirography | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: calligraphy, penmanship |
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| chirology | (noun) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | Synonyms: chiromancy, palm reading, palmistry |
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| chiromance | (verb) divine by reading someone's palms | - |
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| chiromancer | (noun) fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms | Synonyms: palmist, palmister |
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| chiromancy | (noun) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | Synonyms: chirology, palm reading, palmistry |
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| chiromantic | (adjective) of or relating to palmistry | - |
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| chiropodist | (noun) a specialist in care for the feet | Synonyms: foot doctor, podiatrist |
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| chiropody | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the feet | Synonyms: podiatry |
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| chiropractic | (noun) a method of treatment that manipulates body structures (especially the spine) to relieve low back pain or even headache or high blood pressure | - |
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| chiropractor | (noun) a therapist who practices chiropractic | - |
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| chiropteran | (noun) nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate | Synonyms: bat |
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| chirp | (noun) a sharp sound made by small birds or insects | - |
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| (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirrup, peep |
| (verb) sing in modulation | Synonyms: tweedle |
| chirpily | (adverb) in a cheerfully buoyant manner | Synonyms: buoyantly |
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| chirpiness | (noun) cheerful and lively | - |
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| chirpy | (adjective) (birds or insects) characterized by or tending to chirp | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness | Synonyms: buoyant, perky |
| chirr | (verb) make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas | - |
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| chirrup | (noun) a series of chirps | Synonyms: twitter |
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| (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirp, peep |
| enchiridion | (noun) a concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location | Synonyms: handbook, vade mecum |
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| hircine | (adjective) of or pertaining to or suggestive of a goat (especially in strong odor) | - |
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| hire | (noun) the act of hiring something or someone | - |
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| (noun) a newly hired employee | - |
| (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, engage, lease, rent, take |
| (verb) engage or hire for work | Synonyms: employ, engage |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: charter, lease, rent |
| hired | (adjective) hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers | Synonyms: chartered, leased |
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| (adjective) having services engaged for a fee | - |
| hireling | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: pensionary |
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| hirer | (noun) a person responsible for hiring workers | Synonyms: boss |
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| hirsute | (adjective) having or covered with hair | Synonyms: haired, hairy |
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| hirsuteness | (noun) excessive hairiness | Synonyms: hirsutism |
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| hirsutism | (noun) excessive hairiness | Synonyms: hirsuteness |
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| hirudinean | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: bloodsucker, leech |
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| menhir | (noun) a tall upright megalith; found primarily in England and northern France | Synonyms: standing stone |
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| nightshirt | (noun) nightclothes worn by men | - |
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| samphire | (noun) fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass | Synonyms: glasswort, Salicornia europaea |
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| sapphire | (adjective) of something having the color of a blue sapphire | - |
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| (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, cerulean, lazuline, sky-blue |
| (noun) a transparent piece of sapphire that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
| (noun) a precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone | - |
| sapphirine | (adjective) made of or resembling sapphire | - |
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| (noun) a rare light blue or green mineral; consists of aluminum and magnesium silicate and occurs as small grains in some metamorphic rocks | - |
| shire | (noun) British breed of large heavy draft horse | Synonyms: shire horse |
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| (noun) a former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county | - |
| shirk | (verb) avoid dealing with | - |
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| (verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: fiddle, goldbrick, shrink from |
| shirker | (noun) a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) | Synonyms: slacker |
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| shirking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, slacking, soldiering |
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| shirr | (verb) bake (eggs) in their shells until they are set | - |
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| shirring | (noun) baking shelled eggs | - |
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| shirt | (noun) a garment worn on the upper half of the body | - |
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| (verb) put a shirt on | - |
| shirtdress | (noun) a dress that is tailored like a shirt and has buttons all the way down the front | - |
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| shirtfront | (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickey, dickie, dicky |
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| (noun) the front of a shirt (usually the part not covered by a jacket) | - |
| shirting | (noun) any of various fabrics used to make men's shirts | - |
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| shirtlifter | (noun) a homosexual man | Synonyms: gay man |
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| shirtmaker | (noun) a maker of shirts | - |
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| shirtsleeve | (noun) the sleeve of a shirt | - |
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| shirtsleeves | (noun) not wearing a jacket | - |
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| shirttail | (noun) fabric forming the tail of a shirt | - |
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| (noun) a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article | - |
| shirtwaist | (noun) a blouse with buttons down the front | Synonyms: shirtwaister |
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| shirtwaister | (noun) a blouse with buttons down the front | Synonyms: shirtwaist |
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| shirty | (adjective) (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed | Synonyms: snorty |
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| sweatshirt | (noun) cotton knit pullover with long sleeves worn during athletic activity | - |
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| third | (adjective) coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position | Synonyms: 3rd, tertiary |
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| (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate) | Synonyms: third base |
| (noun) the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle | Synonyms: third gear |
| (noun) the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball | Synonyms: third base |
| (noun) the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it | - |
| (noun) one of three equal parts of a divisible whole | Synonyms: one-third, tierce |
| (noun) following the second position in an ordering or series | - |
| (adverb) in the third place | Synonyms: thirdly |
| thirdhand | (adjective) derived from what is primary or original by two intermediate steps | - |
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| (adverb) by doubly indirect means | - |
| thirdly | (adverb) in the third place | Synonyms: third |
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| thirst | (noun) strong desire for something (not food or drink) | Synonyms: hunger, hungriness, thirstiness |
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| (noun) a physiological need to drink | Synonyms: thirstiness |
| (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, hunger, lust, starve |
| (verb) feel the need to drink | - |
| thirster | (noun) a person with a strong desire for something | Synonyms: longer, yearner |
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| thirstily | (adverb) in a thirsty manner | - |
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| (adverb) with eagerness; in an eager manner | Synonyms: eagerly |
| thirstiness | (noun) strong desire for something (not food or drink) | Synonyms: hunger, hungriness, thirst |
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| (noun) a physiological need to drink | Synonyms: thirst |
| (noun) a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall) | Synonyms: aridity, aridness |
| thirsty | (adjective) feeling a need or desire to drink | - |
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| (adjective) able to take in large quantities of moisture | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous | Synonyms: athirst, hungry |
| (adjective) needing moisture | - |
| thirteen | (adjective) being one more than twelve | Synonyms: 13, xiii |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of twelve and one | Synonyms: 13, baker's dozen, long dozen, XIII |
| thirteenth | (adjective) coming next after the twelfth in position | Synonyms: 13th |
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| (noun) position 13 in a countable series of things | - |
| thirties | (noun) the time of life between 30 and 40 | Synonyms: mid-thirties, thirty-something |
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| (noun) the decade from 1930 to 1939 | Synonyms: 1930s |
| thirtieth | (adjective) coming next after the twenty-ninth in position | Synonyms: 30th |
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| (noun) position 30 in a countable series of things | - |
| thirty | (adjective) being ten more than twenty | Synonyms: 30, xxx |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three | Synonyms: 30, XXX |
| undershirt | (noun) a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body | Synonyms: singlet, vest |
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| whir | (noun) sound of something in rapid motion | Synonyms: birr, whirr, whirring |
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| (verb) make a soft swishing sound | Synonyms: birr, purr, whirr, whiz, whizz |
| whirl | (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, fling, go, offer, pass |
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| (noun) the act of rotating rapidly | Synonyms: spin, twirl, twist, twisting |
| (noun) confused movement | Synonyms: commotion |
| (noun) the shape of something rotating rapidly | Synonyms: convolution, swirl, vortex |
| (verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: eddy, purl, swirl, whirlpool |
| (verb) turn in a twisting or spinning motion | Synonyms: swirl, twiddle, twirl |
| (verb) cause to spin | Synonyms: birl, spin, twirl |
| (verb) fly around | Synonyms: tumble, whirl around |
| (verb) revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis | Synonyms: gyrate, reel, spin, spin around |
| whirler | (noun) a revolving mechanism | - |
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| (noun) a dervish whose actions include ecstatic dancing and whirling | Synonyms: whirling dervish |
| whirligig | (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, roundabout |
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| (noun) a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin | Synonyms: spinning top, teetotum, top |
| (verb) whirl or spin like a whirligig | - |
| whirling | (noun) the act of rotating in a circle or spiral | Synonyms: gyration |
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| whirlpool | (noun) a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) | Synonyms: maelstrom, vortex |
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| (verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: eddy, purl, swirl, whirl |
| whirlwind | (noun) a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth | - |
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| whirlybird | (noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: chopper, eggbeater, helicopter |
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| whirr | (noun) sound of something in rapid motion | Synonyms: birr, whir, whirring |
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| (verb) make a vibrant sound, as of some birds | Synonyms: churr |
| (verb) make a soft swishing sound | Synonyms: birr, purr, whir, whiz, whizz |
| whirring | (adjective) like the sound of rapidly vibrating wings | - |
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| (noun) sound of something in rapid motion | Synonyms: birr, whir, whirr |