| dovish | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: pacifist, pacifistic |
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| dovishness | (noun) any political orientation favoring compromise to avoid conflict | - |
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| driftfish | (noun) small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide | - |
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| (noun) larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico | - |
| drumfish | (noun) small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise | Synonyms: drum |
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| duncish | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| dwarfish | (adjective) atypically small | - |
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| dwarfishness | (noun) the quality of being built like a dwarf | - |
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| earlyish | (adjective) being somewhat early | - |
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| elfish | (adjective) usually good-naturedly mischievous | Synonyms: elfin, elvish |
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| elvish | (adjective) usually good-naturedly mischievous | Synonyms: elfin, elfish |
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| embellish | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embroider, lard, pad |
| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, grace |
| embellishment | (noun) the act of adding extraneous decorations to something | Synonyms: ornamentation |
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| (noun) a superfluous ornament | - |
| (noun) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail | Synonyms: embroidery |
| establish | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, prove, shew, show |
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| (verb) institute, enact, or establish | Synonyms: lay down, make |
| (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, found, ground |
| (verb) place | Synonyms: instal, install, set up |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, found, institute, plant |
| (verb) bring about | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) build or establish something abstract | Synonyms: build |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: found, launch, set up |
| established | (adjective) brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established | Synonyms: constituted |
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| (adjective) introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation | Synonyms: naturalized |
| (adjective) conforming with accepted standards | Synonyms: conventional |
| (adjective) shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt | - |
| (adjective) settled securely and unconditionally | Synonyms: accomplished, effected |
| establishment | (noun) the act of forming or establishing something | Synonyms: constitution, formation, organisation, organization |
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| (noun) a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence | - |
| (noun) the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof | Synonyms: validation |
| (noun) an organization founded and united for a specific purpose | Synonyms: institution |
| (noun) any large organization | - |
| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
| (noun) (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat | Synonyms: ecesis |
| establishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentism |
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| establishmentism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentarianism |
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| extinguish | (verb) put an end to; kill | Synonyms: snuff out |
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| (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, wipe out |
| (verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, eliminate, get rid of |
| (verb) extinguish by crushing | Synonyms: crush out, press out, stub, stub out |
| (verb) put out, as of fires, flames, or lights | Synonyms: blow out, quench, snuff out |
| extinguishable | (adjective) capable of being extinguished or killed | - |
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| extinguished | (adjective) of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement | - |
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| extinguisher | (noun) a manually operated device for extinguishing small fires | Synonyms: asphyxiator, fire extinguisher |
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| extinguishing | (noun) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning | Synonyms: extinction, quenching |
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| extrovertish | (adjective) being somewhat extroverted | - |
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| faddish | (adjective) intensely fashionable for a short time | Synonyms: faddy |
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| faddishly | (adverb) in a faddish manner | Synonyms: faddily |
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| fairish | (adjective) (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored | Synonyms: fair |
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| (adjective) not excessive or extreme | Synonyms: fair, reasonable |
| famish | (verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: hunger, starve |
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| (verb) die of food deprivation | Synonyms: starve |
| (verb) deprive of food | Synonyms: starve |
| famished | (adjective) extremely hungry | Synonyms: esurient, ravenous, sharp-set, starved |
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| famishment | (noun) a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period | Synonyms: starvation |
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| fattish | (adjective) somewhat fat | - |
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| fetish | (noun) excessive or irrational devotion to some activity | Synonyms: fetich |
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| (noun) a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers | Synonyms: fetich, hoodoo, juju, voodoo |
| (noun) a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body | - |
| fetishism | (noun) sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs) | Synonyms: fetichism |
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| (noun) a belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish) | Synonyms: fetichism |
| fetishist | (noun) one who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature) | - |
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| fetishize | (verb) make a fetish of | - |
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| feverish | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by fever | Synonyms: febrile |
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| (adjective) marked by intense agitation or emotion | Synonyms: hectic |
| (adjective) having or affected by a fever | Synonyms: feverous |
| feverishly | (adverb) in a feverish manner | - |
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| feverishness | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, febrility, fever, pyrexia |
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| (noun) A state of wildly excited activity or emotion. | - |
| fiendish | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| fiendishly | (adverb) as a devil; in an evil manner | Synonyms: devilishly, diabolically |
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| filefish | (noun) narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine | - |
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| finish | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finishing |
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| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finishing |
| (noun) (wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed) | - |
| (noun) designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race) | - |
| (noun) the downfall of someone (as of persons on one side of a conflict) | - |
| (noun) event whose occurrence ends something | Synonyms: conclusion, ending |
| (noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: destination, goal |
| (noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: cultivation, culture, polish, refinement |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finale, finis, last, stopping point |
| (verb) finally be or do something | Synonyms: end up, fetch up, finish up, land up, wind up |
| (verb) come or bring to a finish or an end | Synonyms: complete |
| (verb) cause to finish a relationship with somebody | - |
| (verb) finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table | Synonyms: eat up, polish off |
| (verb) provide with a finish | - |
| (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, end, stop, terminate |
| finished | (adjective) ended or brought to an end | - |
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| (adjective) (of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state | - |
| (adjective) brought to ruin | Synonyms: ruined |
| (adjective) having a surface coating or finish applied | - |
| (adjective) (of skills or the products of skills) brought to or having the greatest excellence; perfected | - |
| finisher | (noun) an animal that wins in a contest of speed | - |
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| (noun) a race car that finishes a race | - |
| (noun) a worker who performs the last step in a manufacturing process | - |
| (noun) a painter who applies a finishing coat | - |
| (noun) (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game | Synonyms: closer |
| (noun) a racing driver who finishes a race | - |
| finishing | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finish |
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| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finish |
| fish | (noun) any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills | - |
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| (noun) the flesh of fish used as food | - |
| (verb) catch or try to catch fish or shellfish | - |
| (verb) seek indirectly | Synonyms: angle |
| fishbone | (noun) a bone of a fish | - |
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| fishbowl | (noun) a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept | Synonyms: fish bowl, goldfish bowl |
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| (noun) a state of affairs in which you have no privacy | Synonyms: fish bowl, goldfish bowl |
| fisher | (noun) large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal | Synonyms: black cat, fisher cat, Martes pennanti, pekan |
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| (noun) someone whose occupation is catching fish | Synonyms: fisherman |
| fisherman | (noun) someone whose occupation is catching fish | Synonyms: fisher |
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| fishery | (noun) a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold | Synonyms: piscary |
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| fisheye | (adjective) of or relating to a fisheye lens | Synonyms: wide-angle |
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| fishgig | (noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fizgig, gig, lance, spear |
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| fishhook | (noun) a sharp barbed hook for catching fish | - |
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| fishily | (adverb) in a questionably unusual manner | Synonyms: queerly |
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| fishing | (noun) the act of someone who fishes as a diversion | Synonyms: sportfishing |
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| (noun) the occupation of catching fish for a living | - |
| fishmonger | (noun) someone who sells fish | Synonyms: fishwife |
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| fishnet | (noun) a net that will enclose fish when it is pulled in | Synonyms: fishing net |
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| fishpaste | (noun) a paste of fish or shellfish | - |
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| fishplate | (noun) metal plate bolted along sides of two rails or beams | - |
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| fishpond | (noun) a freshwater pond with fish | - |
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| fishtail | (verb) slow down by moving the tail sideways | - |
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| fishwife | (noun) someone who sells fish | Synonyms: fishmonger |
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| fishworm | (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, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| fishy | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling fish | - |
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| (adjective) not as expected | Synonyms: funny, shady, suspect, suspicious |
| flagfish | (noun) a fish with a dark-blue back and whitish sides with red stripes; found in swamps and streams of Florida | Synonyms: American flagfish, Jordanella floridae |
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| flamefish | (noun) a cardinalfish found in tropical Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Apogon maculatus, flame fish |
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| flatfish | (noun) any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side | - |
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| (noun) sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets | - |
| flourish | (noun) the act of waving | Synonyms: brandish |
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| (noun) a display of ornamental speech or language | - |
| (noun) a showy gesture | - |
| (noun) (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments | Synonyms: fanfare, tucket |
| (noun) an ornamental embellishment in writing | - |
| (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, expand, thrive |
| (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: brandish, wave |
| (verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: fly high, prosper, thrive |
| flourishing | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
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| flyfish | (verb) fish with flies as lures | Synonyms: fly-fish |
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| fogyish | (adjective) (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned | Synonyms: moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud, stodgy |
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| foolish | (adjective) devoid of good sense or judgment | - |
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| (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
| foolishly | (adverb) without good sense or judgment | Synonyms: unwisely |
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| foolishness | (noun) a stupid mistake | Synonyms: betise, folly, imbecility, stupidity |
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| (noun) the trait of acting stupidly or rashly | Synonyms: folly, unwiseness |
| (noun) the quality of being rash and foolish | Synonyms: craziness, folly, madness |
| foppish | (adjective) affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner | Synonyms: dandified, dandyish |
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| foppishness | (noun) the manner and dress of a fop or dandy | Synonyms: dandyism |
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| freakish | (adjective) characteristic of a freak | - |
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| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| (adjective) changeable | Synonyms: capricious |
| freakishly | (adverb) unpredictably | Synonyms: capriciously |
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| freakishness | (noun) marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal | Synonyms: abnormality |
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| frogfish | (noun) fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout | - |
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| frumpish | (adjective) primly out of date | Synonyms: dowdy, frumpy |
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| frumpishly | (adverb) in a dowdy unfashionable manner | Synonyms: dowdily, frumpily |
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| furbish | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, burnish |
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| furnish | (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: offer, provide, render, supply |
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| (verb) provide or equip with furniture | - |
| furnished | (adjective) provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority) | Synonyms: equipped |
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| furnishing | (noun) the act of providing a house or room with furniture and other removable items such as shelves, carpets, appliances, etc. | - |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel | Synonyms: trappings |
| garfish | (noun) primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth | Synonyms: billfish, gar, garpike, Lepisosteus osseus |
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| garish | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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| garishly | (adverb) in a tastelessly garish manner | Synonyms: gaudily, tawdrily |
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| garishness | (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
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| (noun) strident color or excessive ornamentation | Synonyms: gaudiness |
| garnish | (noun) any decoration added as a trimming or adornment | - |
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| (noun) something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration | - |
| (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: dress, trim |
| (verb) take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support | Synonyms: garnishee |
| garnishee | (noun) a wage earner who is served with a garnishment | - |
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| (verb) take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support | Synonyms: garnish |
| garnishment | (noun) a court order to an employer to withhold all or part of an employee's wages and to send the money to the court or to the person who won a lawsuit against the employee | - |
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| geisha | (noun) a Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing | Synonyms: geisha girl |
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| ghostfish | (noun) eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth | Synonyms: Cryptacanthodes maculatus, wrymouth |
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| ghoulish | (adjective) suggesting the horror of death and decay | Synonyms: morbid |
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| gibberish | (noun) unintelligible talking | Synonyms: gibber |
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| girlish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young girl | Synonyms: schoolgirlish |
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| girlishly | (adverb) like a girl | - |
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| girlishness | (noun) being characteristic of a girl | - |
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