earthlike | (adjective) earth colored; of something having a color of soil or earth | - |
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(adjective) resembling or characteristic of earth | - |
earthquake | (noun) shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity | Synonyms: quake, seism, temblor |
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(noun) a disturbance that is extremely disruptive | - |
echolike | (adjective) like or characteristic of an echo | Synonyms: echoic |
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eellike | (adjective) resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous | - |
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eggshake | (noun) a milkshake with egg in it | - |
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elflike | (adjective) small and delicate | Synonyms: elfin |
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endoskeleton | (noun) the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates) | - |
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enkephalin | (noun) an endorphin having opiate qualities that occurs in the brain and spinal cord and elsewhere | - |
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epikeratophakia | (noun) using a piece of donated corneal tissue to repair the eye of someone who has had a cataract removed | - |
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esker | (noun) (geology) a long winding ridge of post glacial gravel and other sediment; deposited by meltwater from glaciers or ice sheets | - |
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evoke | (verb) call to mind | Synonyms: paint a picture, suggest |
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(verb) evoke or provoke to appear or occur | Synonyms: call forth, kick up, provoke |
(verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, elicit, extract |
(verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
(verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
evoked | (adjective) called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation | Synonyms: elicited |
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exoskeleton | (noun) the exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially invertebrates) including bony or horny parts such as nails or scales or hoofs | - |
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eyelike | (adjective) suggesting an eye or eyes | - |
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fake | (adjective) not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article | Synonyms: false, faux, imitation, simulated |
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(adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bastard, bogus, phoney, phony |
(noun) (football) a deceptive move made by a football player | Synonyms: juke |
(noun) something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be | Synonyms: postiche, sham |
(noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
(verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, talk through one's hat |
(verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: counterfeit, forge |
(verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
fakeer | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakir, faqir, faquir |
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faker | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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fakery | (noun) the act of faking (or the product of faking) | - |
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fanlike | (adjective) resembling a fan | - |
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fatherlike | (adjective) like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective | Synonyms: fatherly |
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featherlike | (adjective) resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers | Synonyms: feathery |
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fencelike | (adjective) resembling a fence | - |
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fernlike | (adjective) resembling ferns especially in leaf shape | Synonyms: ferny |
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fieldworker | (noun) a researcher who works in the field | - |
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filamentlike | (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentous, filiform, threadlike, thready |
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filmmaker | (noun) a producer of motion pictures | Synonyms: film maker, film producer, movie maker |
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fingerlike | (adjective) resembling a finger | Synonyms: digitate |
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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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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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flake | (noun) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole | Synonyms: bit, chip, fleck, scrap |
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(noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric, eccentric person, geek, oddball |
(noun) a crystal of snow | Synonyms: snowflake |
(verb) come off in flakes or thin small pieces | Synonyms: flake off, peel, peel off |
(verb) cover with flakes or as if with flakes | - |
(verb) form into flakes | - |
flakey | (adjective) made of or resembling flakes | Synonyms: flaky |
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(adjective) made of or easily forming flakes | Synonyms: flaky |
(adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
flanker | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a detachment assigned to guard the flanks of a military formation | - |
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(noun) a back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass receiver | Synonyms: flanker back |
flapcake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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flecked | (adjective) having a pattern of dots | Synonyms: dotted, specked, speckled, stippled |
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flicker | (noun) the act of moving back and forth | Synonyms: flutter, waver |
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(noun) North American woodpecker | - |
(noun) a momentary flash of light | Synonyms: glint, spark |
(verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flitter, flutter, quiver, waver |
(verb) flash intermittently | Synonyms: flick |
(verb) shine unsteadily | Synonyms: flick |
flickering | (adjective) shining unsteadily | Synonyms: aflicker |
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flickertail | (noun) of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada | Synonyms: Citellus richardsoni, Richardson ground squirrel |
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floorwalker | (noun) an employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems | Synonyms: shopwalker |
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fluke | (noun) parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host | Synonyms: trematode, trematode worm |
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(noun) either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean | - |
(noun) flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor | Synonyms: flue |
(noun) a barb on a harpoon or arrow | - |
(noun) a stroke of luck | Synonyms: good fortune, good luck |
flukey | (adjective) subject to accident or chance or change | Synonyms: chancy, fluky, iffy |
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flunkey | (noun) a person of unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: flunky, stooge, yes-man |
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(noun) a male servant (especially a footman) | Synonyms: flunky, lackey |
footlocker | (noun) a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks) | Synonyms: locker |
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foretoken | (noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | Synonyms: augury, preindication, sign |
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forked | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, pronged, prongy |
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(adjective) having two meanings with intent to deceive | Synonyms: double |
forsake | (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desert, desolate |
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freethinker | (noun) a person who rejects religion | - |
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friedcake | (noun) small cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat | - |
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fruitcake | (noun) a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on | - |
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(noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, screwball |
fucked | (adjective) Severly damaged, in disarray or incorrect | - |
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fucker | (noun) a stupid despised man | - |
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funguslike | (adjective) resembling fungi | Synonyms: fungoid |
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furket | (noun) A forked pole, about four feet in length, used as a support for muskets. | Synonyms: musket rest |
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furlike | (adjective) resembling fur | - |
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gamekeeper | (noun) a person employed to take care of game and wildlife | Synonyms: game warden |
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garmentmaker | (noun) a person who makes garments | Synonyms: dressmaker, garment-worker, garment worker |
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garpike | (noun) primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth | Synonyms: billfish, gar, garfish, Lepisosteus osseus |
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gasket | (noun) seal consisting of a ring for packing pistons or sealing a pipe joint | - |
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gatekeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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(noun) someone who controls access to something | - |
gawker | (noun) a spectator who stares stupidly without intelligent awareness | - |
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geeked | (adjective) High on a drug such as cocaine | - |
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gelatinlike | (adjective) thick like gelatin | Synonyms: gelatinous, jellylike |
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gentlemanlike | (adjective) befitting a man of good breeding | Synonyms: gentlemanly |
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ghostlike | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: apparitional, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual |
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gibelike | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, jeering, mocking, taunting |
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gimcrackery | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery |
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glassmaker | (noun) someone who makes glass | - |
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glassworker | (noun) someone who cuts flat glass to size | Synonyms: glass-cutter, glass cutter, glazer, glazier |
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glockenspiel | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers | Synonyms: orchestral bells |
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goalkeeper | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper |
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(noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper, netminder |
goatsucker | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: caprimulgid, nightjar |
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gobsmacked | (adjective) utterly astounded | - |
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godforsaken | (adjective) located in a dismal or remote area; desolate | Synonyms: waste, wild |
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godlike | (adjective) being or having the nature of a god | Synonyms: divine |
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(adjective) appropriate to or befitting a god | Synonyms: divine |
goldworker | (noun) an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold | Synonyms: gold-worker, goldsmith |
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gooselike | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, goosey, goosy, jerky |
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granitelike | (adjective) hard as granite | Synonyms: granitic, rocklike, stony |
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grapelike | (adjective) resembling the fruit of a grape vine | - |
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grasslike | (adjective) resembling grass | - |
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greenmarket | (noun) an open-air marketplace for farm products | Synonyms: farmer's market, green market |
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greenskeeper | (noun) someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course | - |
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griddlecake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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(noun) a scone made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle | Synonyms: drop scone, Scotch pancake |
groundbreaker | (noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: innovator, pioneer, trailblazer |
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groundkeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundskeeper, groundsman |
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groundskeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundkeeper, groundsman |
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grubstake | (noun) funds advanced to a prospector or to someone starting a business in return for a share of the profits | - |
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(verb) supply with funds in return for a promised share of profits | - |
guestworker | (noun) a person with temporary permission to work in another country | Synonyms: guest worker |
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hackee | (noun) small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches | Synonyms: eastern chipmunk, ground squirrel, striped squirrel, Tamias striatus |
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hacker | (noun) one who works hard at boring tasks | Synonyms: drudge, hack |
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(noun) a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm | - |
(noun) someone who plays golf poorly | - |
hairlike | (adjective) long and slender with a very small internal diameter | Synonyms: capillary |
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hake | (noun) any of several marine food fishes related to cod | - |
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(noun) the lean flesh of a fish similar to cod | - |
hakeem | (noun) a Muslim physician | Synonyms: hakim |
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handbasket | (noun) a container that is usually woven and has handles | Synonyms: basket |
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handkerchief | (noun) a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | Synonyms: hankey, hankie, hanky |
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handshake | (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handclasp, handshaking, shake |
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handspike | (noun) a metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever | - |
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hanker | (verb) desire strongly or persistently | Synonyms: long, yearn |
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hankering | (noun) a yearning for something or to do something | Synonyms: yen |
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hankey | (noun) a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | Synonyms: handkerchief, hankie, hanky |
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hardbacked | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbound, hardcover |
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hardbake | (noun) a British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds | - |
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