| acquire | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: develop, get, grow, produce |
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| (verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: adopt, assume, take, take on |
| (verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: develop, evolve |
| (verb) gain knowledge or skills | Synonyms: larn, learn |
| (verb) come into the possession of something concrete or abstract | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) win something through one's efforts | Synonyms: gain, win |
| (verb) locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar | - |
| acquired | (adjective) gotten through environmental forces | - |
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| acquirement | (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquisition, attainment, skill |
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| acquirer | (noun) a corporation gaining financial control over another corporation or financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stock | - |
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| (noun) the financial institution that dispenses cash in automated teller machines and collects a fee from the bank that issued the credit card | - |
| (noun) a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee | Synonyms: merchant bank |
| (noun) a person who acquires something (usually permanently) | - |
| admire | (verb) feel admiration for | Synonyms: look up to |
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| (verb) look at with admiration | - |
| admired | (adjective) regarded with admiration | - |
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| admirer | (noun) someone who admires a young woman | Synonyms: adorer |
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| (noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: booster, champion, friend, protagonist, supporter |
| (noun) a person who admires; someone who esteems or respects or approves | - |
| affaire | (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, amour, intimacy, involvement, liaison |
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| afire | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, aflame, aflare, alight, on fire |
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| aired | (adjective) open to or abounding in fresh air | Synonyms: airy |
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| antiredeposition | (noun) the process of preventing redeposition | - |
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| antireligiousness | (noun) The state or condition of being opposed to religion. | - |
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| armoire | (noun) a large wardrobe or cabinet; originally used for storing weapons | - |
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| aspire | (verb) have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal | Synonyms: aim, draw a bead on, shoot for |
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| aspirer | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, hopeful, wannabe, wannabee |
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| attire | (noun) clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion | Synonyms: dress, garb |
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| (verb) put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive | Synonyms: deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up |
| attired | (adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | Synonyms: appareled, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed |
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| backfire | (noun) a miscalculation that recoils on its maker | Synonyms: boomerang |
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| (noun) a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine | - |
| (noun) the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired | Synonyms: blowback |
| (noun) a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path | - |
| (verb) set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire | - |
| (verb) emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire | - |
| (verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backlash, recoil |
| balefire | (noun) a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration | Synonyms: bonfire |
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| barbwire | (noun) strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage | Synonyms: barbed wire |
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| bemire | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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| bidirectional | (adjective) reactive or functioning or allowing movement in two usually opposite directions | - |
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| billionaire | (noun) a very rich person whose material wealth is valued at more than a billion dollars | - |
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| birefringence | (noun) splitting a ray into two parallel rays polarized perpendicularly | Synonyms: double refraction |
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| birefringent | (adjective) relating to or characterized by double refraction | - |
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| biretta | (noun) a stiff cap with ridges across the crown; worn by Roman Catholic clergy | Synonyms: berretta, birretta |
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| bonfire | (noun) a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration | Synonyms: balefire |
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| campfire | (noun) a small outdoor fire for warmth or cooking (as at a camp) | - |
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| coconspire | (verb) conspire together | - |
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| commissionaire | (noun) a uniformed doorman | - |
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| concessionaire | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessioner |
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| conservatoire | (noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatory |
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| conspire | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, machinate |
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| (verb) act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: collude |
| cookfire | (noun) a fire for cooking | - |
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| counterfire | (noun) fire intended to neutralize or destroy enemy weapons | - |
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| crossfire | (noun) fire from two or more points so that the lines of fire cross | - |
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| (noun) a lively or heated interchange of ideas and opinions | - |
| debonaire | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: chipper, debonair, jaunty |
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| (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonair, debonnaire, suave |
| debonnaire | (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonair, debonaire, suave |
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| desire | (noun) an inclination to want things | - |
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| (noun) the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state | - |
| (noun) something that is desired | - |
| (verb) feel or have a desire for; want strongly | Synonyms: want |
| (verb) express a desire for | - |
| (verb) expect and wish | Synonyms: hope, trust |
| desired | (adjective) wanted intensely | Synonyms: craved |
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| dire | (adjective) fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless | Synonyms: desperate |
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| (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
| direct | (adjective) direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short | - |
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| (adjective) (of a current) flowing in one direction only | - |
| (adjective) straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action | - |
| (adjective) similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity | - |
| (adjective) in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child | Synonyms: lineal |
| (adjective) moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth | - |
| (adjective) lacking compromising or mitigating elements | Synonyms: exact |
| (adjective) in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker | Synonyms: verbatim |
| (adjective) having no intervening persons, agents, conditions | Synonyms: unmediated |
| (adjective) being an immediate result or consequence | - |
| (adverb) without deviation | Synonyms: directly, straight |
| (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize |
| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, calculate |
| (verb) command with authority | - |
| (verb) give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction | - |
| (verb) put an address on (an envelope) | Synonyms: address |
| (verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: aim, take, take aim, train |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, place, point, target |
| (verb) guide the actors in (plays and films) | - |
| (verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: conduct, lead |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, guide, lead, take |
| (verb) cause to go somewhere | Synonyms: send |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) govern or manage | - |
| directed | (adjective) manageable by a supervising agent | - |
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| (adjective) (often used in combination) having a specified direction | - |
| directing | (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directional, directive, guiding |
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| direction | (noun) the act of managing something | Synonyms: management |
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| (noun) the act of setting and holding a course | Synonyms: guidance, steering |
| (noun) a general course along which something has a tendency to develop | - |
| (noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centering, centring, focal point, focus, focusing, focussing |
| (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, counselling, guidance |
| (noun) a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something | Synonyms: charge, commission |
| (noun) a message describing how something is to be done | Synonyms: instruction |
| (noun) a line leading to a place or point | Synonyms: way |
| (noun) the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves | - |
| directional | (adjective) relating to or indicating directions in space | - |
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| (adjective) relating to direction toward a (nonspatial) goal | - |
| (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directive, guiding |
| directionality | (noun) the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive in one direction than in another | Synonyms: directivity |
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| (noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction | - |
| directioner | (noun) a fan on the band One Direction | - |
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| directionless | (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: adrift, afloat, aimless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
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| directive | (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directional, guiding |
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| (noun) a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity | - |
| directiveness | (noun) the quality of being directive | Synonyms: directivity |
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| directivity | (noun) the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive in one direction than in another | Synonyms: directionality |
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| (noun) the quality of being directive | Synonyms: directiveness |
| directly | (adverb) without deviation | Synonyms: direct, straight |
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| (adverb) in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly | Synonyms: flat, straight |
| (adverb) without anyone or anything intervening | - |
| (adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, forthwith, immediately, instantly, like a shot, now, right away, straight off, straightaway |
| directmate | (noun) A type of problem where White, moving first, is required to checkmate Black in a specified number of moves against any defence. | - |
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| directness | (noun) trueness of course toward a goal | Synonyms: straightness |
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| (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, candour, forthrightness, frankness |
| director | (noun) someone who controls resources and expenditures | Synonyms: manager, managing director |
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| (noun) the person who leads a musical group | Synonyms: conductor, music director |
| (noun) someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show | Synonyms: theater director, theatre director |
| (noun) member of a board of directors | - |
| (noun) the person who directs the making of a film | Synonyms: film director |
| directorate | (noun) a group of persons chosen to govern the affairs of a corporation or other large institution | Synonyms: board of directors |
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| directorship | (noun) the position of a director of a business concern | - |
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| directory | (noun) an alphabetical list of names and addresses | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk) | - |
| direful | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| direfully | (adverb) in a direful manner | - |
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| doctrinaire | (adjective) stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability | - |
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| (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: dogmatist |
| drumfire | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: cannonade |
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| empire | (noun) a monarchy with an emperor as head of state | - |
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| (noun) a group of countries under a single authority | - |
| (noun) a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization | Synonyms: conglomerate |
| (noun) the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised | Synonyms: imperium |
| enquire | (verb) have a wish or desire to know something | Synonyms: inquire, wonder |
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| (verb) address a question to and expect an answer from | Synonyms: ask, inquire |
| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: inquire, investigate |
| enquirer | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, inquirer, querier, questioner |
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| entire | (adjective) (of leaves or petals) having a smooth edge; not broken up into teeth or lobes | - |
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| (adjective) (used of domestic animals) sexually competent | Synonyms: intact |
| (adjective) constituting the full quantity or extent; complete | Synonyms: full, total |
| (adjective) constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged | Synonyms: intact, integral |
| (noun) uncastrated adult male horse | Synonyms: stallion |
| entirely | (adverb) to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely | Synonyms: all, altogether, completely, right, totally, whole, wholly |
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| (adverb) without any others being included or involved | Synonyms: alone, exclusively, only, solely |
| entireness | (noun) the state of being total and complete | Synonyms: entirety, integrality, totality |
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| entirety | (noun) the state of being total and complete | Synonyms: entireness, integrality, totality |
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| epicheirema | (noun) a syllogism in which some statement supporting one or both of the premises is introduced with the premises themselves. | - |
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| escritoire | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: secretaire, secretary, writing table |
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| esquire | (noun) (Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood | - |
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| expire | (verb) expel air | Synonyms: breathe out, exhale |
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| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) lose validity | Synonyms: run out |
| expired | (adjective) having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time | - |
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| extraordinaire | (adjective) extraordinary in a particular capacity | - |
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| fire | (noun) the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy | Synonyms: firing |
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| (noun) a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning | - |
| (noun) intense adverse criticism | Synonyms: attack, blast, flack, flak |
| (noun) the event of something burning (often destructive) | - |
| (noun) a severe trial | - |
| (noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, ardour, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour |
| (noun) the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke | Synonyms: flame, flaming |
| (noun) fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking | - |
| (noun) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour bile | - |
| (verb) bake in a kiln so as to harden | - |
| (verb) destroy by fire | Synonyms: burn, burn down |
| (verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: ignite, light |
| (verb) become ignited | Synonyms: flame up |
| (verb) cause to go off | Synonyms: discharge |
| (verb) start firing a weapon | Synonyms: open fire |
| (verb) go off or discharge | Synonyms: discharge, go off |
| (verb) generate an electrical impulse | - |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, kindle, provoke, raise |
| (verb) drive out or away by or as if by fire | - |
| (verb) provide with fuel | Synonyms: fuel |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| firearm | (noun) a portable gun | Synonyms: piece, small-arm |
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| fireball | (noun) the luminous center of a nuclear explosion | - |
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| (noun) a ball of fire (such as the sun or a ball-shaped discharge of lightning) | - |
| (noun) a highly energetic and indefatigable person | Synonyms: ball of fire, human dynamo, powerhouse |
| (noun) an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) | Synonyms: bolide |
| firebase | (noun) an artillery base to support advancing troops | - |
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| firebird | (noun) eastern subspecies of northern oriole | Synonyms: Baltimore bird, Baltimore oriole, hangbird, Icterus galbula galbula |
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| (noun) the male is bright red with black wings and tail | Synonyms: Piranga olivacea, redbird, scarlet tanager |
| (noun) tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage | Synonyms: Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus, vermillion flycatcher |
| fireboat | (noun) a boat equipped to fight fires on ships or along a waterfront | - |
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| firebomb | (noun) a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) | Synonyms: incendiary, incendiary bomb |
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| (verb) attack with incendiary bombs | - |
| firebox | (noun) a furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned | - |
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| firebrand | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: inciter, instigant, instigator, provoker |
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| (noun) a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning | Synonyms: brand |
| firebrat | (noun) lives in warm moist areas e.g. around furnaces | Synonyms: Thermobia domestica |
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| firebreak | (noun) a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire | Synonyms: fireguard |
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| firebrick | (noun) brick made of fire clay; used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys | - |
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| firebug | (noun) a true bug: brightly colored bug that can exude a stain | - |
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| (noun) a criminal who illegally sets fire to property | Synonyms: arsonist, incendiary |
| fireclay | (noun) a heat-resistant clay | - |
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| firecracker | (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: banger, cracker |
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| fired | (adjective) having lost your job | Synonyms: discharged, dismissed, laid-off, pink-slipped |
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| firedamp | (noun) a mixture of gases (mostly methane) that form in coal mines and become explosive when mixed with air | - |
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| firedog | (noun) metal supports for logs in a fireplace | Synonyms: andiron, dog-iron, dog |
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| firedrake | (noun) a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings | Synonyms: dragon, European dragon |
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| firefighter | (noun) a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires | Synonyms: fire-eater, fire fighter, fireman |
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| firefly | (noun) nocturnal beetle common in warm regions having luminescent abdominal organs | Synonyms: lightning bug |
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| (noun) tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots | Synonyms: fire beetle, Pyrophorus noctiluca |
| fireguard | (noun) a metal screen before an open fire for protection (especially against flying sparks) | Synonyms: fire screen |
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| (noun) a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire | Synonyms: firebreak |
| firehouse | (noun) a station housing fire apparatus and firemen | Synonyms: fire station |
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| firelight | (noun) the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace) | - |
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