| absinth | (noun) strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise | Synonyms: absinthe |
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| absinthe | (noun) strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise | Synonyms: absinth |
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| (noun) aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe | Synonyms: Artemisia absinthium, common wormwood, lad's love, old man |
| acquaint | (verb) cause to come to know personally | Synonyms: introduce, present |
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| (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: familiarise, familiarize |
| (verb) inform | - |
| acquaintance | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: conversance, conversancy, familiarity |
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| (noun) a person with whom you are acquainted | Synonyms: friend |
| (noun) a relationship less intimate than friendship | Synonyms: acquaintanceship |
| acquaintanceship | (noun) a relationship less intimate than friendship | Synonyms: acquaintance |
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| acquainted | (adjective) having fair knowledge of | - |
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| anoint | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, embrocate, inunct, oil |
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| (verb) choose by or as if by divine intervention | - |
| anointer | (noun) one who anoints as a religious ceremony | - |
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| anointing | (noun) the act of applying oil or an oily liquid | Synonyms: anointment |
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| anointment | (noun) the act of applying oil or an oily liquid | Synonyms: anointing |
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| anthelminthic | (adjective) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms | Synonyms: anthelmintic, helminthic, parasiticidal |
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| (noun) a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms | Synonyms: anthelmintic, helminthic, vermifuge |
| anthelmintic | (adjective) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, helminthic, parasiticidal |
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| (noun) a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, helminthic, vermifuge |
| applemint | (noun) mint with apple-scented stems of southern and western Europe; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: apple mint, Mentha rotundifolia, Mentha suaveolens |
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| appoint | (verb) furnish | - |
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| (verb) assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to | Synonyms: charge |
| (verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: constitute, name, nominate |
| appointed | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointive |
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| (adjective) selected for a job | - |
| (adjective) provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind) | - |
| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: decreed, ordained, prescribed |
| appointee | (noun) an official who is appointed | - |
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| (noun) a person who is appointed to a job or position | Synonyms: appointment |
| appointive | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointed |
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| (adjective) relating to the act of appointing | - |
| appointment | (noun) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | Synonyms: assignment, designation, naming |
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| (noun) the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed | - |
| (noun) (law) the act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment | - |
| (noun) (usually in the plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel) | Synonyms: fitting |
| (noun) a meeting arranged in advance | Synonyms: date, engagement |
| (noun) a person who is appointed to a job or position | Synonyms: appointee |
| aquatint | (noun) a method of etching that imitates the broad washes of a water color | - |
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| (noun) an etching made by a process that makes it resemble a water color | - |
| (verb) etch in aquatint | - |
| asquint | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, askant, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| attaint | (verb) condemn by attainder | - |
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| (verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, shame |
| badminton | (noun) a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net | - |
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| ballpoint | (noun) a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper | Synonyms: ballpen, ballpoint pen, Biro |
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| binturong | (noun) arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair | Synonyms: Arctictis bintourong, bearcat |
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| blintz | (noun) (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked | Synonyms: blintze |
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| blintze | (noun) (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked | Synonyms: blintz |
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| bluepoint | (noun) small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island | Synonyms: blue point |
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| (noun) oysters originally from Long Island Sound but now from anywhere along the northeastern seacoast; usually eaten raw | Synonyms: blue point |
| blueprint | (noun) photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc. | - |
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| (noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: design, pattern |
| (verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: draft, draught |
| bodypaint | (verb) apply paint to a body | - |
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| calamint | (noun) perennial aromatic herbs growing in hedgerows or scrub or open woodlands from western Europe to central Asia and in North America | - |
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| catmint | (noun) hairy aromatic perennial herb having whorls of small white purple-spotted flowers in a terminal spike; used in the past as a domestic remedy; strongly attractive to cats | Synonyms: catnip, Nepeta cataria |
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| certainty | (noun) something that is certain | Synonyms: foregone conclusion, sure thing |
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| (noun) the state of being certain | - |
| checkpoint | (noun) a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance | - |
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| chintz | (noun) a brightly printed and glazed cotton fabric | - |
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| chintzily | (adverb) in a stingy manner | Synonyms: cheaply, stingily |
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| chintzy | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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| (adjective) embarrassingly stingy | Synonyms: cheap, chinchy |
| chokepoint | (noun) a point of congestion or blockage | - |
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| (noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: bottleneck, constriction |
| clintonia | (noun) any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries | Synonyms: Clinton's lily |
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| complaint | (noun) an expression of grievance or resentment | - |
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| (noun) (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow | - |
| (noun) (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based | - |
| (noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense | Synonyms: charge |
| (noun) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining | Synonyms: ailment, ill |
| complaintive | (adjective) expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment | Synonyms: complaining |
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| conjoint | (adjective) consisting of two or more associated entities | Synonyms: conjoined |
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| conjointly | (adverb) in conjunction with; combined | Synonyms: collectively, jointly, together with |
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| constraint | (noun) the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others | - |
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| (noun) a device that retards something's motion | Synonyms: restraint |
| (noun) the state of being physically constrained | Synonyms: restraint |
| corinthian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Corinth or its inhabitants | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to the Corinthian style of architecture | - |
| counterintelligence | (noun) intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism | - |
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| counterintuitive | (adjective) contrary to what common sense would suggest | - |
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| counterintuitively | (adverb) in a counterintuitive manner | - |
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| counterpoint | (noun) a musical form involving the simultaneous sound of two or more melodies | - |
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| (verb) write in counterpoint | - |
| (verb) to show differences when compared; be different | Synonyms: contrast |
| cuckoopint | (noun) common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum | Synonyms: Arum maculatum, jack-in-the-pulpit, lords-and-ladies |
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| daintily | (adverb) in a dainty and fastidious manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a manner suggestive of delicate beauty or grace | - |
| daintiness | (noun) the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance | Synonyms: delicacy, fineness |
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| dainty | (adjective) delicately beautiful | Synonyms: exquisite |
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| (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish |
| (adjective) especially pleasing to the taste | - |
| (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat |
| dint | (noun) interchangeable with `means' in the expression `by means of' | - |
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| disappoint | (verb) fail to meet the hopes or expectations of | Synonyms: let down |
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| disappointed | (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: defeated, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwarted |
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| disappointedly | (adverb) in disappointment; in a disappointed manner | - |
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| disappointing | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: dissatisfactory, unsatisfying |
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| disappointingly | (adverb) in a disappointing manner | - |
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| disappointment | (noun) an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone | Synonyms: dashing hopes |
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| (noun) a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized | Synonyms: letdown |
| disintegrable | (adjective) capable of melting | Synonyms: meltable |
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| disintegrate | (verb) break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity | - |
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| (verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decay, decompose |
| (verb) cause to undergo fission or lose particles | - |
| disintegration | (noun) total destruction | Synonyms: annihilation |
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| (noun) separation into component parts | Synonyms: dissolution |
| (noun) the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation | Synonyms: decay, radioactive decay |
| (noun) in a decomposed state | Synonyms: decomposition |
| (noun) a loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system | - |
| disintegrative | (adjective) tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts | - |
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| disinter | (verb) dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies | Synonyms: exhume |
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| disinterest | (noun) tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement | Synonyms: neutrality |
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| (noun) lack of interest | - |
| 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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| disinterment | (noun) the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried | Synonyms: digging up, exhumation |
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| disjoint | (adjective) having no elements in common | - |
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| (verb) become separated, disconnected or disjoint | Synonyms: disjoin |
| (verb) make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of | Synonyms: disjoin |
| (verb) separate at the joints | Synonyms: disarticulate |
| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, dissociate, disunite, divorce |
| disjointed | (adjective) taken apart at the joints | - |
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| (adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disconnected, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected |
| (adjective) separated at the joint | Synonyms: dislocated, separated |
| disjointedly | (adverb) in a disjointed manner | - |
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| disjointedness | (noun) lacking order or coherence | - |
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| distraint | (noun) the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim | Synonyms: distress |
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| embonpoint | (adjective) sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure | Synonyms: chubby, plump |
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| (noun) the bodily property of being well rounded | Synonyms: plumpness, roundness |
| enceinte | (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, large, with child |
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| endpoint | (noun) a place where something ends or is complete | Synonyms: end point, termination, terminus |
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| faint | (adjective) lacking conviction or boldness or courage | Synonyms: faint-hearted, fainthearted, timid |
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| (adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness | Synonyms: light-headed, light, lightheaded, swooning |
| (adjective) lacking clarity or distinctness | Synonyms: dim, shadowy, vague, wispy |
| (adjective) deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc | Synonyms: weak |
| (adjective) lacking strength or vigor | Synonyms: feeble |
| (adjective) indistinctly understood or felt or perceived | - |
| (noun) a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain | Synonyms: deliquium, swoon, syncope |
| (verb) pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain | Synonyms: conk, pass out, swoon |
| fainthearted | (adjective) lacking conviction or boldness or courage | Synonyms: faint-hearted, faint, timid |
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| faintheartedness | (noun) the trait of lacking boldness and courage | Synonyms: faintness |
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| faintly | (adverb) to a faint degree or weakly perceived | - |
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| faintness | (noun) the quality of being dim or lacking contrast | Synonyms: dimness |
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| (noun) barely audible | - |
| (noun) the property of being without strength | - |
| (noun) the trait of lacking boldness and courage | Synonyms: faintheartedness |
| (noun) a feeling of faintness and of being ready to swoon | - |
| feint | (noun) any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack) | - |
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| (verb) deceive by a mock action | - |
| fingerpaint | (noun) paint that has the consistency of jelly | Synonyms: finger paint |
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| fingerpointing | (noun) the imputation of blame | Synonyms: finger-pointing |
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| fingerprint | (noun) a smudge made by a (dirty) finger | Synonyms: fingermark |
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| (noun) a generic term for any identifying characteristic | - |
| (noun) a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations | - |
| (verb) take an impression of a person's fingerprints | - |
| fingerprinting | (noun) the procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification | - |
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| flashpoint | (noun) the lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid can be ignited in air | Synonyms: flash point |
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| (noun) a place of political unrest and potential violence | Synonyms: hot spot, hotspot, trouble spot |
| (noun) point at which something is ready to blow up | Synonyms: flash point |
| flint | (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flinty, granitic, obdurate, stony |
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| (noun) a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony | - |
| flinthead | (noun) an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics | Synonyms: Mycteria americana, wood ibis, wood stork |
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| flintlock | (noun) an obsolete gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer; the flint makes a spark that ignites the charge | - |
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| (noun) a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock | Synonyms: firelock |
| flintstone | (noun) pebbles of flint used in masonry construction | - |
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| flinty | (adjective) containing flint | - |
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| (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, granitic, obdurate, stony |
| footprint | (noun) the area taken up by some object | - |
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| (noun) a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface | Synonyms: footmark, step |
| (noun) a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important | - |
| forint | (noun) the basic unit of money in Hungary | - |
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| gastrointestinal | (adjective) of or relating to the stomach and intestines | Synonyms: GI |
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| glint | (noun) a spatially localized brightness | - |
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| (noun) a momentary flash of light | Synonyms: flicker, spark |
| (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glisten, glitter, shine |
| (verb) throw a glance at; take a brief look at | Synonyms: glance, peek |
| glinting | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| greasepaint | (noun) a greasy substance used as makeup by actors | - |
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| gunflint | (noun) the piece of flint that provides the igniting spark in a flintlock weapon | - |
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