| freighter | (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: bottom, merchant ship, merchantman |
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| fright | (noun) an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) | Synonyms: fear, fearfulness |
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| (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, frighten, scare |
| frighten | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, fright, scare |
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| frightened | (adjective) made afraid | Synonyms: scared |
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| (adjective) thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation | Synonyms: panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicked, panicky, terrified |
| frightening | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| (noun) the act of inspiring with fear | Synonyms: terrorisation, terrorization |
| frighteningly | (adverb) in a terrifying manner | Synonyms: scarily |
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| frightful | (adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: atrocious, horrible, horrifying, ugly |
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| (adjective) extremely distressing | Synonyms: fearful |
| (adjective) extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact | Synonyms: awful, terrible, tremendous |
| frightfully | (adverb) used as intensifiers | Synonyms: awful, awfully, terribly |
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| frightfulness | (noun) the quality of being frightful | - |
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| gaslight | (noun) light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas | - |
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| greenlight | (verb) to allow a project (especially a TV show) to go ahead | - |
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| gunfight | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunplay, shootout |
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| gunsight | (noun) a sight used for aiming a gun | Synonyms: gun-sight |
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| headlight | (noun) a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive | Synonyms: headlamp |
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| heavyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the heaviest. | Synonyms: super heavyweight |
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| (noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, titan |
| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds | - |
| (noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, hulk, whale |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds | - |
| height | (noun) the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top | Synonyms: tallness |
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| (noun) (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot | Synonyms: stature |
| (noun) elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface | Synonyms: altitude |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| heighten | (verb) increase the level of | Synonyms: enhance, raise |
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| (verb) become more extreme | Synonyms: rise |
| (verb) make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity | - |
| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, deepen, intensify |
| (verb) make (one's senses) more acute | Synonyms: sharpen |
| (verb) increase the height of | - |
| heightening | (adjective) reaching a higher intensity | - |
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| heights | (noun) a high place | Synonyms: high |
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| highlight | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlighting |
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| (noun) the most interesting or memorable part | Synonyms: high spot |
| (verb) apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent | - |
| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: foreground, play up, spotlight |
| highlighter | (noun) a fluorescent marker used to mark important passages in a text | - |
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| (noun) a cosmetic used to highlight the eyes or cheekbones | - |
| highlighting | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlight |
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| hightail | (verb) retreat at full speed | Synonyms: high-tail |
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| hindsight | (noun) understanding the nature of an event after it has happened | - |
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| houselights | (noun) lights that illuminate the audience's part of a theater or other auditorium | - |
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| hundredweight | (noun) a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds | Synonyms: cwt, long hundredweight |
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| (noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds | Synonyms: cental, centner, cwt, quintal, short hundredweight |
| (noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, doppelzentner, metric hundredweight |
| infighting | (noun) boxing at close quarters | - |
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| (noun) conflict between members of the same organization (usually concealed from outsiders) | - |
| insight | (noun) grasping the inner nature of things intuitively | Synonyms: sixth sense |
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| (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainstorm, brainwave |
| (noun) clear or deep perception of a situation | Synonyms: penetration |
| (noun) a feeling of understanding | Synonyms: perceptiveness, perceptivity |
| insightful | (adjective) exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception | - |
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| insightfulness | (noun) shrewdness shown by keen insight | Synonyms: acumen |
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| jacklight | (noun) a light used as a lure in hunting or fishing at night | - |
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| (verb) hunt with a jacklight | Synonyms: jack |
| knight | (noun) a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) | Synonyms: horse |
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| (noun) originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit | - |
| (verb) raise (someone) to knighthood | Synonyms: dub |
| knighthood | (noun) aristocrats holding the rank of knight | - |
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| knightliness | (noun) the medieval principles governing knighthood and knightly conduct | Synonyms: chivalry |
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| knightly | (adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: chivalrous, gallant |
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| (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: chivalric, mediaeval, medieval |
| lamplight | (noun) light from a lamp | - |
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| lamplighter | (noun) (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights | - |
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| light | (adjective) of comparatively little physical weight or density | - |
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| (adjective) psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles | - |
| (adjective) not great in degree or quantity or number | - |
| (adjective) of the military or industry; using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment | - |
| (adjective) (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent | Synonyms: light-colored |
| (adjective) characterized by or emitting light | - |
| (adjective) (physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average | - |
| (adjective) of little intensity or power or force | - |
| (adjective) easily assimilated in the alimentary canal; not rich or heavily seasoned | - |
| (adjective) silly or trivial | Synonyms: idle |
| (adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness | Synonyms: faint, light-headed, lightheaded, swooning |
| (adjective) having little importance | - |
| (adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: scant, short |
| (adjective) designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight | - |
| (adjective) moving easily and quickly; nimble | Synonyms: lightsome, tripping |
| (adjective) (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency | - |
| (adjective) having relatively few calories | Synonyms: calorie-free, lite, low-cal |
| (adjective) (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims | Synonyms: clean, clear, unclouded |
| (adjective) (of sleep) easily disturbed | Synonyms: wakeful |
| (adjective) marked by temperance in indulgence | Synonyms: abstemious |
| (adjective) very thin and insubstantial | - |
| (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton |
| (adjective) demanding little effort; not burdensome | - |
| (adjective) (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress | Synonyms: unaccented, weak |
| (adjective) intended primarily as entertainment; not serious or profound | - |
| (noun) any device serving as a source of illumination | Synonyms: light source |
| (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, ignitor, lighter |
| (noun) the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures | Synonyms: lightness |
| (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness, brightness level, luminance, luminosity, luminousness |
| (noun) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance | Synonyms: spark, sparkle, twinkle |
| (noun) mental understanding as an enlightening experience | - |
| (noun) a particular perspective or aspect of a situation | - |
| (noun) public awareness | - |
| (noun) a visual warning signal | - |
| (noun) an illuminated area | - |
| (noun) a person regarded very fondly | - |
| (noun) (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation | Synonyms: visible light, visible radiation |
| (noun) having abundant light or illumination | Synonyms: lighting |
| (noun) a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination | Synonyms: illumination |
| (adverb) with few burdens | Synonyms: lightly |
| (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illuminate, illumine, light up |
| (verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: fire, ignite |
| (verb) begin to smoke | Synonyms: fire up, light up |
| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: alight, perch |
| (verb) alight from (a horse) | Synonyms: dismount, get down, get off, unhorse |
| (verb) fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed | Synonyms: fall |
| (verb) cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat | Synonyms: ignite |
| lightbulb | (noun) electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity | Synonyms: bulb, electric-light bulb, electric light, incandescent lamp, light bulb |
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| lighted | (adjective) set afire or burning | Synonyms: lit |
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| (adjective) provided with artificial light | Synonyms: illuminated, lit, well-lighted |
| lighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: brighten, lighten up |
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| (verb) become lighter | Synonyms: lighten up |
| (verb) alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive | Synonyms: relieve |
| (verb) become more cheerful | Synonyms: buoy up, lighten up |
| (verb) reduce the weight on; make lighter | - |
| (verb) make more cheerful | Synonyms: buoy up, lighten up |
| lightener | (noun) any type of lightening agent that can be used to brighten the appearance of hair, skin, wood and other surfaces. | - |
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| lightening | (noun) changing to a lighter color | Synonyms: whitening |
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| (noun) descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped | - |
| lighter | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, ignitor, light |
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| (noun) a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | Synonyms: barge, flatboat, hoy |
| (noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: igniter, ignitor |
| (verb) transport in a flatbottom boat | - |
| lighterage | (noun) the transportation of goods on a lighter | - |
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| (noun) the fee charged for carrying goods in lighters | - |
| lighterman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, bargeman |
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| lightheaded | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, silly |
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| (adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness | Synonyms: faint, light-headed, light, swooning |
| lightheadedness | (noun) a frivolous lack of prudence | - |
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| (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: dizziness, giddiness, vertigo |
| lighthearted | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, lightsome |
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| lightheartedness | (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, insouciance, lightsomeness |
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| lighthouse | (noun) a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships | Synonyms: beacon, beacon light, pharos |
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| lighting | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, ignition, inflammation, kindling |
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| (noun) the craft of providing artificial light | - |
| (noun) apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film | - |
| (noun) having abundant light or illumination | Synonyms: light |
| lightless | (adjective) without illumination | Synonyms: unilluminated, unlighted, unlit |
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| (adjective) giving no light | - |
| lightlessness | (noun) total absence of light | Synonyms: black, blackness, pitch blackness, total darkness |
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| lightly | (adverb) with little weight or force | Synonyms: gently, softly |
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| (adverb) indulging with temperance | - |
| (adverb) with few burdens | Synonyms: light |
| (adverb) in a small quantity or extent | Synonyms: thinly |
| (adverb) with indifference or without dejection | - |
| (adverb) to a slight degree | - |
| (adverb) without good reason | - |
| lightness | (noun) the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous | Synonyms: lightsomeness |
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| (noun) the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures | Synonyms: light |
| (noun) the property of being comparatively small in weight | Synonyms: weightlessness |
| (noun) having a light color | - |
| (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, legerity, lightsomeness, nimbleness |
| (noun) a feeling of joy and pride | Synonyms: elation, high spirits |
| lightning | (noun) the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more | - |
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| (noun) abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light | - |
| lightproof | (adjective) not penetrable by light | Synonyms: light-tight |
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| lightship | (noun) a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable | - |
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| lightsome | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted |
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| (adjective) moving easily and quickly; nimble | Synonyms: light, tripping |
| lightsomely | (adverb) in a light-hearted manner | Synonyms: light-heartedly |
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| (adverb) moving with quick light steps | Synonyms: trippingly |
| lightsomeness | (noun) the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous | Synonyms: lightness |
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| (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, legerity, lightness, nimbleness |
| (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, insouciance, lightheartedness |
| lightstick | (noun) A portable rod used for illumination. | - |
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| lightweight | (adjective) weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use | - |
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| (adjective) having no importance or influence | - |
| (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division. | - |
| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds | - |
| (noun) someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous | Synonyms: jackanapes, whippersnapper |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds | - |
| lightwood | (noun) tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber | Synonyms: Acacia melanoxylon |
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| limelight | (noun) a lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light; formerly used for stage lighting | Synonyms: calcium light |
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| (noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: glare, public eye, spotlight |
| longsighted | (adjective) capable of seeing to a great distance | Synonyms: eagle-eyed, farseeing, keen-sighted |
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| (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, prospicient |
| longsightedness | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia |
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| makeweight | (noun) a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight | - |
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| (noun) anything added to fill out a whole | Synonyms: filler |
| middleweight | (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 155 and 160 pounds | - |
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| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 172-192 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds | - |
| midnight | (noun) 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night | - |
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| might | (noun) physical strength | Synonyms: mightiness, power |
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| mightily | (adverb) (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree | Synonyms: mighty, powerful, right |
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| (adverb) powerfully or vigorously | - |
| mightiness | (noun) physical strength | Synonyms: might, power |
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| mighty | (adjective) having or showing great strength or force or intensity | - |
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| (adverb) (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree | Synonyms: mightily, powerful, right |
| millwright | (noun) a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery | - |
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| moonlight | (noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonshine |
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| (verb) work a second job, usually after hours | - |
| moonlighter | (noun) a person who holds a second job (usually after hours) | - |
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| mornight | (noun) both morning and night, used when greeting someone | - |
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| nearsighted | (adjective) unable to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: myopic, shortsighted |
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| nearsightedness | (noun) (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | Synonyms: myopia, shortsightedness |
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| night | (noun) darkness | - |
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| (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: dark, nighttime |
| (noun) a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom | - |
| (noun) the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit | - |
| (noun) the time between sunset and midnight | - |
| (noun) the period spent sleeping | - |
| (noun) a shortening of nightfall | - |
| nightbird | (noun) a person who likes to be active late at night | Synonyms: night owl, nighthawk |
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| nightcap | (noun) the final game of a double header | - |
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| (noun) a cloth cap worn in bed | - |
| (noun) an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime; often alcoholic | - |
| nightclothes | (noun) garments designed to be worn in bed | Synonyms: nightwear, sleepwear |
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| nightclub | (noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: cabaret, club, night club, nightspot |
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| nightcrawler | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| nightdress | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightgown, nightie |
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| nighted | (adjective) overtaken by night or darkness | Synonyms: benighted |
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| nightfall | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, twilight |
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| nightgown | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightdress, nightie |
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| nighthawk | (noun) mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker | Synonyms: bullbat, mosquito hawk |
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| (noun) a person who likes to be active late at night | Synonyms: night owl, nightbird |
| nightie | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightdress, nightgown |
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| nightingale | (noun) European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song | Synonyms: Luscinia megarhynchos |
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| nightjar | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: caprimulgid, goatsucker |
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| nightlife | (noun) the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion (as at the theater, a nightclub, etc.) | Synonyms: night life |
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| (noun) the entertainment available to people seeking nighttime diversion | Synonyms: night life |
| nightlong | (adjective) lasting, open, or operating through the whole night | Synonyms: all-night, overnight |
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| nightly | (adjective) happening every night | - |
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| (adverb) at the end of each day | Synonyms: every night |
| nightmare | (noun) a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream | - |
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| (noun) a situation resembling a terrifying dream | Synonyms: incubus |
| nightmarish | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: bloodcurdling, hair-raising |
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