| coalfield | (noun) a region where there is coal underground | - |
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| cold | (adjective) having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration | - |
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| (adjective) extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion | - |
| (adjective) (color) giving no sensation of warmth | - |
| (adjective) lacking the warmth of life | - |
| (adjective) of a seeker; far from the object sought | - |
| (adjective) without compunction or human feeling | Synonyms: cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate |
| (adjective) so intense as to be almost uncontrollable | - |
| (adjective) marked by errorless familiarity | - |
| (adjective) having lost freshness through passage of time | - |
| (adjective) unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication | - |
| (adjective) feeling or showing no enthusiasm | - |
| (adjective) sexually unresponsive | Synonyms: frigid |
| (adjective) lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new | Synonyms: dusty, moth-eaten, stale |
| (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature |
| (noun) the sensation produced by low temperatures | Synonyms: coldness |
| (noun) a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs) | Synonyms: common cold |
| coldcock | (verb) knock down with force | Synonyms: deck, dump, floor, knock down |
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| coldcream | (noun) a cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin | Synonyms: cold cream, face cream, vanishing cream |
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| coldhearted | (adjective) lacking in sympathy or feeling | - |
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| coldheartedness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: hardheartedness, heartlessness |
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| coldly | (adverb) lacking warmth of feeling; in a cold, unemotional manner | - |
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| coldness | (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: cold, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature |
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| (noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness |
| (noun) the sensation produced by low temperatures | Synonyms: cold |
| coldwork | (verb) shape (metal) without heat | Synonyms: cold work |
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| copyhold | (noun) a medieval form of land tenure in England; a copyhold was a parcel of land granted to a peasant by the lord of the manor in return for agricultural services | - |
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| copyholder | (noun) mechanical device used in printing; holds the copy for the compositor | - |
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| cornfield | (noun) a field planted with corn | Synonyms: corn field |
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| cuckold | (noun) a man whose wife committed adultery | - |
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| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat, cheat on, wander |
| cuckolding | (noun) A sexual act where a married person has sex with another person while their spouse watches | - |
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| cuckoldom | (noun) the state of a husband whose wife has committed adultery | - |
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| cuckoldry | (noun) the practice of making cuckolds; sexual conquests of married women | - |
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| culdoscope | (noun) a specialized endoscope for visually examining a woman's pelvic organs | - |
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| culdoscopy | (noun) endoscopic examination of a woman's pelvic organs by the insertion of a culdoscope through the vagina | - |
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| dildo | (noun) a vibrating device that substitutes for an erect penis to provide vaginal stimulation | - |
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| doldrums | (noun) a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific | - |
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| (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: stagnancy, stagnation |
| downfield | (adjective) located at, or relatively closer to, the defending team's end of the playing field | - |
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| (adverb) in the direction of the defending team's end of the playing field | - |
| dreamworld | (noun) a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | Synonyms: dreamland, never-never land |
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| earldom | (noun) the domain controlled by an earl or count or countess | - |
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| (noun) the dignity or rank or position of an earl or countess | - |
| eightfold | (adjective) having eight units or components | Synonyms: eight-fold, octuple |
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| eld | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, geezerhood, old age, years |
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| (noun) a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises | Synonyms: age |
| elder | (adjective) used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son | Synonyms: older, sr. |
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| (noun) a person who is older than you are | Synonyms: senior |
| (noun) any of various church officers | - |
| (noun) any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit | Synonyms: elderberry bush |
| elderberry | (noun) berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies | - |
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| (noun) a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies | Synonyms: black elder, bourtree, common elder, European elder, Sambucus nigra |
| elderly | (adjective) advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables) | Synonyms: aged, older, senior |
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| (noun) people who are old collectively | Synonyms: aged |
| eldership | (noun) the office of elder | - |
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| eldest | (adjective) first in order of birth | Synonyms: firstborn |
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| (noun) the offspring who came first in the order of birth | Synonyms: firstborn |
| eldorado | (noun) an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers | Synonyms: El Dorado |
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| eldritch | (adjective) suggesting the operation of supernatural influences | Synonyms: uncanny, unearthly, weird |
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| embolden | (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, hearten, recreate |
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| emboldened | (adjective) made bold or courageous | - |
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| emerald | (noun) the green color of an emerald | - |
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| (noun) a transparent piece of emerald that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
| (noun) a green transparent form of beryl; highly valued as a gemstone | - |
| enfold | (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enclose, envelop, enwrap, wrap |
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| enfolding | (noun) the action of enfolding something | Synonyms: involution |
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| engild | (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: begild, gild |
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| evildoer | (noun) a person who sins (without repenting) | Synonyms: sinner |
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| evildoing | (noun) the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle | Synonyms: transgression |
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| falderol | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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| fauld | (noun) a piece of armor plate below the breastplate | - |
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| feldspar | (noun) any of a group of hard crystalline minerals that consist of aluminum silicates of potassium or sodium or calcium or barium | Synonyms: felspar |
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| field | (noun) a particular kind of commercial enterprise | Synonyms: field of operation, line of business |
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| (noun) a place where planes take off and land | Synonyms: airfield, flying field, landing field |
| (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: bailiwick, discipline, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
| (noun) the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument) | Synonyms: field of view |
| (noun) (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1 | - |
| (noun) all of the horses in a particular horse race | - |
| (noun) all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information | - |
| (noun) a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed | - |
| (noun) somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected | - |
| (noun) a piece of land prepared for playing a game | Synonyms: athletic field, playing area, playing field |
| (noun) a region in which active military operations are in progress | Synonyms: field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations |
| (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor |
| (noun) a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found | - |
| (noun) extensive tract of level open land | Synonyms: champaign, plain |
| (noun) the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it | Synonyms: field of force, force field |
| (noun) a particular environment or walk of life | Synonyms: area, arena, domain, orbit, sphere |
| (verb) select (a team or individual player) for a game | - |
| (verb) answer adequately or successfully | - |
| (verb) play as a fielder | - |
| (verb) catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket | - |
| fielder | (noun) a member of the baseball team that is in the field instead of at bat | - |
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| (noun) a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting | Synonyms: fieldsman |
| fieldfare | (noun) medium-sized Eurasian thrush seen chiefly in winter | Synonyms: snowbird, Turdus pilaris |
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| fieldhand | (noun) a hired hand on a farm | Synonyms: farm worker, farmhand, field hand |
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| fielding | (noun) (baseball) handling the ball while playing in the field | - |
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| fieldmouse | (noun) any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens | Synonyms: field mouse |
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| fieldsman | (noun) a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting | Synonyms: fielder |
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| fieldstone | (noun) stone that occurs naturally in fields; often used as building material | - |
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| fieldwork | (noun) a temporary fortification built by troops in the field | - |
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| fieldworker | (noun) a researcher who works in the field | - |
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| fivefold | (adjective) having five units or components | Synonyms: five-fold, quintuple |
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| fold | (noun) the act of folding | Synonyms: folding |
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| (noun) a pen for sheep | Synonyms: sheep pen, sheepcote, sheepfold |
| (noun) a folded part (as in skin or muscle) | Synonyms: plica |
| (noun) a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church | Synonyms: congregation, faithful |
| (noun) a group of sheep or goats | Synonyms: flock |
| (noun) a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock | Synonyms: folding |
| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crease, crimp, flexure, plication |
| (verb) incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating | - |
| (verb) become folded or folded up | Synonyms: fold up |
| (verb) bend or lay so that one part covers the other | Synonyms: fold up, turn up |
| (verb) confine in a fold, like sheep | Synonyms: pen up |
| (verb) cease to operate or cause to cease operating | Synonyms: close, close down, close up, shut down |
| foldable | (adjective) capable of being folded up and stored | Synonyms: foldaway, folding |
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| foldaway | (adjective) capable of being folded up and stored | Synonyms: foldable, folding |
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| folder | (noun) covering that is folded over to protect the contents | - |
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| (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: booklet, brochure, leaflet, pamphlet |
| folderal | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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| folderol | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| folding | (adjective) capable of being folded up and stored | Synonyms: foldable, foldaway |
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| (noun) the act of folding | Synonyms: fold |
| (noun) the process whereby a protein molecule assumes its intricate three-dimensional shape | Synonyms: protein folding |
| (noun) a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock | Synonyms: fold |
| foldout | (noun) an oversize page that is folded in to a book or magazine | Synonyms: gatefold |
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| foothold | (noun) an initial accomplishment that opens the way for further developments | Synonyms: beachhead |
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| (noun) a place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing | Synonyms: footing |
| (noun) an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies | Synonyms: bridgehead |
| formaldehyde | (noun) a colorless poisonous gas; made by the oxidation of methanol | Synonyms: methanal |
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| fourfold | (adjective) having four units or components | Synonyms: four-fold, quadruple, quadruplex, quadruplicate |
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| (adjective) four times as great or many | Synonyms: four-fold, quadruple |
| (adverb) by a factor of four | Synonyms: four times |
| freehold | (noun) tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life | - |
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| (noun) an estate held in fee simple or for life | - |
| freeholder | (noun) the owner of a freehold | - |
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| furfuraldehyde | (noun) a liquid aldehyde with a penetrating odor; made from plant hulls and corncobs; used in making furan and as a solvent | Synonyms: furfural |
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| garibaldi | (noun) a loose high-necked blouse with long sleeves; styled after the red flannel shirts worn by Garibaldi's soldiers | - |
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| gasfield | (noun) a region where there is natural gas underground | - |
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| gatefold | (noun) an oversize page that is folded in to a book or magazine | Synonyms: foldout |
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| geld | (verb) cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses) | Synonyms: cut |
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| gelded | (adjective) (of a male animal) having the testicles removed | Synonyms: cut, emasculated |
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| gelding | (noun) castrated male horse | - |
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| gild | (noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, guild, lodge, order, social club, society |
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| (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: begild, engild |
| gilded | (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: aureate, gilt, gold, golden |
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| (adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: glossy, meretricious, specious |
| (adjective) made from or covered with gold | Synonyms: gold, golden |
| (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, grand, lush, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous |
| gilder | (noun) someone whose occupation is to apply an overlay of gold or gilt | - |
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| gildhall | (noun) the meeting place of a medieval guild | - |
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| gilding | (noun) a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold | Synonyms: gilt |
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| glyceraldehyde | (noun) a sweet crystalline aldehyde formed by the breakdown of sugars | Synonyms: glyceric aldehyde |
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| godchild | (noun) an infant who is sponsored by an adult (the godparent) at baptism | - |
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| gold | (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: aureate, gilded, gilt, golden |
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| (adjective) made from or covered with gold | Synonyms: gilded, golden |
| (noun) a deep yellow color | Synonyms: amber |
| (noun) something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc. | - |
| (noun) coins made of gold | - |
| (noun) great wealth | - |
| (noun) a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia | Synonyms: atomic number 79, Au |
| goldbeater | (noun) an artisan who beats gold into gold leaf | Synonyms: gold-beater |
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| goldbrick | (noun) anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless | - |
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| (noun) a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not | - |
| (noun) an idle worthless person | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account |
| (noun) a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort | - |
| (verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: fiddle, shirk, shrink from |
| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| goldbricking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goofing off, shirking, slacking, soldiering |
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| goldcrest | (noun) European kinglet with a black-bordered yellow crown patch | Synonyms: golden-crested kinglet, Regulus regulus |
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| goldcup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, crowfoot, kingcup |
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| golden | (adjective) supremely favored | Synonyms: fortunate |
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| (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: aureate, gilded, gilt, gold |
| (adjective) marked by peace and prosperity | Synonyms: halcyon, prosperous |
| (adjective) made from or covered with gold | Synonyms: gilded, gold |
| (adjective) suggestive of gold | - |
| (adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favorable, favourable, lucky, prosperous |
| goldenbush | (noun) a plant of the genus Haplopappus | - |
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| (noun) any of various much-branched yellow-flowered shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus; western North America | - |
| goldeneye | (noun) large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions | Synonyms: Bucephela clangula, whistler |
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| (noun) a variety of green lacewing | Synonyms: golden-eyed fly |
| goldenrod | (noun) any of numerous chiefly summer-blooming and fall-blooming North American plants especially of the genus Solidago | - |
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| goldenseal | (noun) perennial herb of northeastern United States having a thick knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves | Synonyms: golden seal, Hydrastis Canadensis, turmeric root, yellow root |
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| goldfield | (noun) a district where gold is mined | - |
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| goldfields | (noun) small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivated | Synonyms: Lasthenia chrysostoma |
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| goldfinch | (noun) small European finch having a crimson face and yellow-and-black wings | Synonyms: Carduelis carduelis |
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| (noun) American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer | Synonyms: New World goldfinch, Spinus tristis, yellowbird |
| goldfish | (noun) small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes | Synonyms: Carassius auratus |
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| goldilocks | (noun) early-flowering perennial of southern and southeastern Europe with flower heads resembling those of goldenrod | Synonyms: Aster linosyris, goldilocks aster, Linosyris vulgaris |
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| goldmine | (noun) a mine where gold ore is found | Synonyms: gold mine |
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| (noun) a good source of something that is desired | Synonyms: gold mine |
| goldplate | (verb) plate with gold | Synonyms: gold-plate, gold plate |
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| goldsmith | (noun) an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold | Synonyms: gold-worker, goldworker |
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