| affright | (noun) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety | Synonyms: panic, terror |
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| (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: fright, frighten, scare |
| airfreight | (verb) transport (cargo) by air | Synonyms: air-freight, air-ship |
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| airtight | (adjective) having no weak points | Synonyms: air-tight |
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| (adjective) not allowing air or gas to pass in or out | Synonyms: air-tight, gas-tight |
| alight | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare, on fire |
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| (verb) come down | Synonyms: climb down |
| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: light, perch |
| almighty | (adjective) having unlimited power | Synonyms: all-powerful, omnipotent |
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| alright | (adjective) nonstandard usage | - |
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| (adverb) an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence | Synonyms: all right, fine, OK, very well |
| (adverb) without doubt (used to reinforce an assertion) | Synonyms: all right |
| (adverb) in a satisfactory or adequate manner | Synonyms: all right, O.K., okay |
| aright | (adverb) in an accurate manner | Synonyms: correctly, right |
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| backlighting | (noun) lighting from behind | - |
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| bantamweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the flyweight division and lighter than those in the featherweight division. | - |
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| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs 115-126 pounds | - |
| battlesight | (noun) an arrangement of sights that makes possible the rapid aiming of a firearm at short ranges | Synonyms: battle sight |
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| bedight | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedeck, deck |
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| benight | (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | Synonyms: bedim |
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| (verb) envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness | - |
| (verb) overtake with darkness or night | - |
| benighted | (adjective) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture | Synonyms: dark |
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| (adjective) overtaken by night or darkness | Synonyms: nighted |
| bight | (noun) the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends) | - |
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| (noun) a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline | - |
| (noun) a bend or curve (especially in a coastline) | - |
| (noun) a loop in a rope | - |
| (verb) fasten with a bight | - |
| birthright | (noun) a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth | - |
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| (noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) | Synonyms: patrimony |
| blight | (noun) a state or condition being blighted | - |
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| (noun) any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting | - |
| (verb) cause to suffer a blight | Synonyms: plague |
| blighted | (adjective) affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity | Synonyms: spoilt |
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| blighter | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: cuss, gadfly, pest, pesterer |
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| (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
| bombsight | (noun) a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs | - |
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| bright | (adjective) emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts | - |
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| (adjective) not made dim or less bright | Synonyms: undimmed |
| (adjective) likely to turn out well in the future | Synonyms: hopeful, promising |
| (adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: brilliant, vivid |
| (adjective) splendid | - |
| (adjective) characterized by happiness or gladness | - |
| (adjective) characterized by quickness and ease in learning | Synonyms: smart |
| (adjective) having lots of light either natural or artificial | - |
| (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny |
| (adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: brilliant |
| (adverb) with brightness | Synonyms: brightly, brilliantly |
| brighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: lighten, lighten up |
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| (verb) become clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, light up |
| brightly | (adverb) with brightness | Synonyms: bright, brilliantly |
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| brightness | (noun) the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness level, light, luminance, luminosity, luminousness |
| (noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: cleverness, smartness |
| bullfight | (noun) a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | Synonyms: corrida |
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| bullfighter | (noun) someone who fights bulls | Synonyms: toreador |
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| bullfighting | (noun) the activity at a bullfight | Synonyms: tauromachy |
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| bunfight | (noun) (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion | Synonyms: bun-fight |
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| candlelight | (noun) the light provided by a burning candle | Synonyms: candle flame |
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| cartwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons | - |
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| chickenfight | (verb) fight while sitting on somebody's shoulders | Synonyms: chicken-fight |
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| cockfight | (noun) a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs | - |
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| cockfighting | (noun) participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight | - |
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| copyright | (noun) a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work | Synonyms: right of first publication |
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| (verb) secure a copyright on a written work | - |
| copyrighted | (adjective) (of literary or musical or dramatic or artistic work) protected by copyright | - |
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| counterweight | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, equaliser, equalizer |
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| (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterpose |
| cruiserweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the middleweight division and lighter than those in the super heavyweight division. | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
| daylight | (noun) light during the daytime | - |
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| (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daytime |
| deadlight | (noun) a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather | - |
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| delight | (noun) something or someone that provides a source of happiness | Synonyms: joy, pleasure |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction | Synonyms: delectation |
| (verb) take delight in | Synonyms: enjoy, revel |
| (verb) give pleasure to or be pleasing to | Synonyms: please |
| (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
| delighted | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, charmed, enthralled, entranced |
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| (adjective) greatly pleased | - |
| delightedly | (adverb) with delight | - |
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| delightful | (adjective) greatly pleasing or entertaining | Synonyms: delicious |
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| delightfully | (adverb) in a delightful manner | - |
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| dighted | (adjective) dressed or adorned (as for battle) | - |
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| dogfight | (noun) a violent fight between dogs (sometimes organized illegally for entertainment and gambling) | - |
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| (noun) an aerial engagement between fighter planes | - |
| (noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: hassle, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle |
| (noun) a fiercely disputed contest | - |
| (verb) engage in an aerial battle with another fighter plane | - |
| (verb) arrange for an illegal dogfight | - |
| dogfighter | (noun) a fighter pilot who engages in an aerial dogfights | - |
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| downright | (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolute, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer |
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| (adjective) characterized by plain blunt honesty | - |
| (adverb) thoroughgoing | Synonyms: outright |
| downrightness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: straightforwardness |
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| eight | (adjective) being one more than seven | Synonyms: 8, viii |
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| (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face | Synonyms: eight-spot |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
| eighteen | (adjective) being one more than seventeen | Synonyms: 18, xviii |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one | Synonyms: 18, XVIII |
| eighteenth | (adjective) coming next after the seventeenth in position | Synonyms: 18th |
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| (noun) position 18 in a countable series of things | - |
| eighter | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
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| eightfold | (adjective) having eight units or components | Synonyms: eight-fold, octuple |
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| eighth | (adjective) coming next after the seventh and just before the ninth in position | Synonyms: 8th |
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| (noun) one part in eight equal parts | Synonyms: one-eighth |
| (noun) position eight in a countable series of things | - |
| eighties | (noun) the time of life between 80 and 90 | Synonyms: mid-eighties |
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| (noun) the decade from 1980 to 1989 | Synonyms: 1980s |
| (noun) the decade from 1880 to 1889 | Synonyms: 1880s |
| eightieth | (adjective) the ordinal number of eighty in counting order | Synonyms: 80th |
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| (noun) position 80 in a countable series of things | - |
| eightpence | (noun) a coin worth eight pennies | - |
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| eightpenny | (adjective) used of nail size; 2 1/2 in or 6.4 cm long | - |
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| eightsome | (noun) a Scottish reel for eight dancers | - |
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| (noun) eight people considered as a unit | Synonyms: octet, octette |
| eightvo | (noun) the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves | Synonyms: 8vo, octavo |
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| eighty | (adjective) being ten more than seventy | Synonyms: 80, fourscore, lxxx |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight | Synonyms: 80, fourscore, LXXX |
| enlighten | (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
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| (verb) make understand | Synonyms: edify |
| (verb) give spiritual insight to; in religion | Synonyms: irradiate |
| enlightened | (adjective) having knowledge and spiritual insight | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved | Synonyms: educated |
| (noun) people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity | Synonyms: initiate |
| enlightening | (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: illuminating, informative |
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| (adjective) enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement | Synonyms: edifying |
| enlightenment | (noun) education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge | - |
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| (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness | Synonyms: nirvana |
| eyesight | (noun) normal use of the faculty of vision | Synonyms: seeing, sightedness |
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| fanlight | (noun) a semicircular window over a door or window; usually has sash bars like the ribs of a fan | - |
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| (noun) a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door | Synonyms: transom, transom window |
| (noun) a window in a roof to admit daylight | Synonyms: skylight |
| farsighted | (adjective) able to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: presbyopic |
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| (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted, prospicient |
| farsightedness | (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: foresight, prevision, prospicience |
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| (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness |
| (noun) a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45 | Synonyms: presbyopia |
| featherweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the bantamweight division and lighter than those in the lightweight division. | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs 126-139 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds | - |
| fight | (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, conflict, engagement |
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| (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: combat, fighting, scrap |
| (noun) a boxing or wrestling match | - |
| (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: competitiveness |
| (noun) an intense verbal dispute | - |
| (verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: contend, struggle |
| (verb) fight against or resist strongly | Synonyms: defend, fight back, fight down, oppose |
| (verb) make a strenuous or labored effort | Synonyms: struggle |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, crusade, press, push |
| fighter | (noun) a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air | Synonyms: attack aircraft, fighter aircraft |
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| (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, combatant, scrapper |
| (noun) someone who fights for a cause | Synonyms: champion, hero, paladin |
| fighting | (adjective) engaged in or ready for military or naval operations | Synonyms: active, combat-ready |
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| (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: combat, fight, scrap |
| firefighter | (noun) a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires | Synonyms: fire-eater, fire fighter, fireman |
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| firelight | (noun) the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace) | - |
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| firelighter | (noun) (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire | - |
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| fistfight | (noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fisticuffs, slugfest |
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| (verb) fight with the fists | - |
| flashlight | (noun) a small portable battery-powered electric lamp | Synonyms: torch |
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| flight | (noun) an instance of traveling by air | Synonyms: flying |
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| (noun) the act of escaping physically | Synonyms: escape |
| (noun) a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports | - |
| (noun) a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next | Synonyms: flight of stairs, flight of steps |
| (noun) passing above and beyond ordinary bounds | - |
| (noun) an air force unit smaller than a squadron | - |
| (noun) a formation of aircraft in flight | - |
| (noun) a flock of flying birds | - |
| (noun) the path followed by an object moving through space | Synonyms: trajectory |
| (verb) decorate with feathers | Synonyms: fledge |
| (verb) fly in a flock | - |
| (verb) shoot a bird in flight | - |
| flighted | (adjective) having feathers | - |
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| flightiness | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy |
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| flightless | (adjective) incapable of flying | - |
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| flightlessness | (noun) The condition of being unable to fly, usually used with birds such as the penguin, ostrich, and emu. | - |
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| flighty | (adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: nervous, skittish, spooky |
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| (adjective) guided by whim and fancy | Synonyms: flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained |
| floodlight | (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood, flood lamp, photoflood |
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| (verb) illuminate with floodlights | - |
| floodlighted | (adjective) illuminated by means of floodlights | Synonyms: floodlit |
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| flyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the lightest. | - |
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| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 112 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs no more than 115 pounds | - |
| footlights | (noun) theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors | - |
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| foresight | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresightedness, foresightfulness |
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| (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, prevision, prospicience |
| foresighted | (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresightful, long, longsighted, prospicient |
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| foresightedness | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresight, foresightfulness |
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| foresightful | (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, long, longsighted, prospicient |
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| foresightfulness | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresight, foresightedness |
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| forthright | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: blunt, candid, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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| (adverb) directly and without evasion; not roundabout | Synonyms: forthrightly, squarely |
| forthrightly | (adverb) directly and without evasion; not roundabout | Synonyms: forthright, squarely |
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| forthrightness | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, candour, directness, frankness |
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| fortnight | (noun) a period of fourteen consecutive days | Synonyms: two weeks |
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| fortnightly | (adjective) occurring every two weeks | Synonyms: biweekly |
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| (adverb) every two weeks | Synonyms: biweekly |
| freight | (noun) transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates | Synonyms: freightage |
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| (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
| (noun) the charge for transporting something by common carrier | Synonyms: freight rate, freightage |
| (verb) load with goods for transportation | - |
| (verb) transport commercially as cargo | - |
| freightage | (noun) transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates | Synonyms: freight |
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| (noun) the charge for transporting something by common carrier | Synonyms: freight, freight rate |