| aardwolf | (noun) striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects | Synonyms: Proteles cristata |
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| alfalfa | (noun) leguminous plant grown for hay or forage | - |
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| (noun) important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop | Synonyms: lucerne, Medicago sativa |
| alfilaria | (noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfileria, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, filaria, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
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| alfileria | (noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfilaria, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, filaria, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
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| alfresco | (adjective) in the open air | Synonyms: open-air |
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| (adverb) outside a building | Synonyms: out of doors, outdoors, outside |
| alkylbenzenesulfonate | (noun) sulfonate of alkyl benzene | - |
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| angelfish | (noun) sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do | Synonyms: angel shark, monkfish, Squatina squatina |
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| (noun) a butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus | - |
| (noun) deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Chaetodipterus faber, spadefish |
| barrelfish | (noun) blackish fish of New England waters | Synonyms: black rudderfish, Hyperglyphe perciformis |
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| barrelful | (noun) the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold | Synonyms: barrel |
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| behalf | (noun) as the agent of or on someone's part (usually expressed as `on behalf of' rather than `in behalf of') | - |
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| (noun) for someone's benefit (usually expressed as `in behalf' rather than `on behalf' and usually with a possessive) | - |
| belfry | (noun) a room (often at the top of a tower) where bells are hung | - |
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| (noun) a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building | Synonyms: campanile |
| bellflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: campanula |
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| billfish | (noun) giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw | - |
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| (noun) elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters | Synonyms: gar, needlefish |
| (noun) primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth | Synonyms: gar, garfish, garpike, Lepisosteus osseus |
| (noun) slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters | Synonyms: saury, Scomberesox saurus |
| billfold | (noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | Synonyms: notecase, pocketbook, wallet |
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| bisulfate | (noun) a salt or an ester of sulphuric acid with the chemical formula HSO4-. | Synonyms: hydrogen sulfate |
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| bookshelf | (noun) a shelf on which to keep books | - |
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| bowlful | (noun) the quantity contained in a bowl | Synonyms: bowl |
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| bullfight | (noun) a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | Synonyms: corrida |
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| bullfighter | (noun) someone who fights bulls | Synonyms: toreador |
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| bullfighting | (noun) the activity at a bullfight | Synonyms: tauromachy |
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| bullfinch | (noun) common European finch mostly black and white with red throat and breast | Synonyms: Pyrrhula pyrrhula |
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| bullfrog | (noun) largest North American frog; highly aquatic with a deep-pitched voice | Synonyms: Rana catesbeiana |
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| calf | (noun) young of domestic cattle | - |
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| (noun) young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo | - |
| (noun) the muscular back part of the shank | Synonyms: sura |
| (noun) fine leather from the skin of a calf | Synonyms: calfskin |
| calfskin | (noun) fine leather from the skin of a calf | Synonyms: calf |
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| cardinalfish | (noun) small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters | - |
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| coalface | (noun) the part of a coal seam that is being cut | - |
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| coalfield | (noun) a region where there is coal underground | - |
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| damselfish | (noun) small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs | Synonyms: demoiselle |
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| damselfly | (noun) slender non-stinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest | - |
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| dealfish | (noun) deep-sea ribbonfish | Synonyms: Trachipterus arcticus |
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| delf | (noun) an excavation; usually a quarry or mine | - |
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| delft | (noun) a style of glazed earthenware; usually white with blue decoration | - |
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| desulfurize | (verb) remove sulfur from | Synonyms: desulphurize |
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| devilfish | (noun) extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned | Synonyms: manta, manta ray |
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| (noun) bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles | Synonyms: octopus |
| (noun) medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific | Synonyms: Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus, gray whale, grey whale |
| disulfiram | (noun) a drug (trade name Antabuse) used in the treatment of alcoholism; causes nausea and vomiting if alcohol is ingested | Synonyms: Antabuse |
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| elf | (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: brownie, gremlin, hob, imp, pixie, pixy |
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| elfin | (adjective) relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf | - |
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| (adjective) usually good-naturedly mischievous | Synonyms: elfish, elvish |
| (adjective) small and delicate | Synonyms: elflike |
| (adjective) suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness | Synonyms: fey |
| elfish | (adjective) usually good-naturedly mischievous | Synonyms: elfin, elvish |
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| elflike | (adjective) small and delicate | Synonyms: elfin |
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| engulf | (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
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| (verb) flow over or cover completely | - |
| fulfil | (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fit, fulfill, meet, satisfy |
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| (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfill |
| (verb) meet the requirements or expectations of | Synonyms: fulfill, live up to, satisfy |
| fulfill | (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fit, fulfil, meet, satisfy |
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| (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil |
| (verb) meet the requirements or expectations of | Synonyms: fulfil, live up to, satisfy |
| fulfilled | (adjective) completed to perfection | - |
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| fulfillment | (noun) the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc) | Synonyms: fulfilment |
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| (noun) a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires | Synonyms: fulfilment |
| fulfilment | (noun) the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc) | Synonyms: fulfillment |
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| (noun) a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires | Synonyms: fulfillment |
| gallfly | (noun) any of various insects that deposit their eggs in plants causing galls in which the larvae feed | - |
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| (noun) small solitary wasp that produces galls on oaks and other plants | Synonyms: cynipid gall wasp, cynipid wasp, gall wasp |
| (noun) fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants | Synonyms: gall gnat, gall midge |
| girlfriend | (noun) a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved | Synonyms: girl, lady friend |
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| (noun) any female friend | - |
| golf | (noun) a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes | Synonyms: golf game |
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| (verb) play golf | - |
| golfcart | (noun) a small motor vehicle in which golfers can ride between shots | Synonyms: golf cart |
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| golfclub | (noun) golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball | Synonyms: club, golf-club, golf club |
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| golfer | (noun) someone who plays the game of golf | Synonyms: golf player, linksman |
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| golfing | (noun) playing golf | - |
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| gulf | (noun) an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding) | Synonyms: disconnect, disconnection |
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| (noun) a deep wide chasm | - |
| (noun) an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay | - |
| gulfweed | (noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | Synonyms: sargasso, sargassum, Sargassum bacciferum |
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| half | (adjective) (of siblings) related through one parent only | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity | - |
| (adjective) partial | - |
| (noun) one of two equal parts of a divisible whole | Synonyms: one-half |
| (noun) one of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval | - |
| (adverb) partially or to the extent of a half | - |
| halfback | (noun) (American football) the position of a back on a football team, generally smaller in size than a fullback | - |
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| (noun) (football) the running back who plays the offensive halfback position | - |
| halfbeak | (noun) tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw | - |
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| halfhearted | (adjective) feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm | Synonyms: half-hearted, lukewarm, tepid |
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| halfheartedness | (noun) the characteristic of being half-hearted; not sincere; lacking full energy, effort, commitment, or resolve. | - |
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| halfpenny | (noun) an English coin worth half a penny | Synonyms: ha'penny |
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| halfpennyworth | (noun) the amount that can be bought for a halfpenny | Synonyms: ha'p'orth |
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| halftime | (noun) an intermission between the first and second half of a game | - |
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| halftone | (noun) an engraving used to reproduce an illustration | Synonyms: halftone engraving, photoengraving |
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| (noun) a print obtained from photoengraving | - |
| halfway | (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: center, centre, middle, midway |
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| (adjective) including only half or a portion | - |
| (adjective) at a point midway between two extremes | - |
| (adverb) at half the distance; at the middle | Synonyms: midway |
| hellfire | (noun) a place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned | Synonyms: red region |
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| malfeasance | (noun) wrongful conduct by a public official | - |
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| malfeasant | (noun) one guilty of malfeasance | - |
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| malformation | (noun) something abnormal or anomalous | Synonyms: miscreation |
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| (noun) an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed | Synonyms: deformity, misshapenness |
| malformed | (adjective) so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly | Synonyms: deformed, distorted, ill-shapen, misshapen |
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| malfunction | (noun) a failure to function normally | - |
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| (verb) fail to function or function improperly | Synonyms: misfunction |
| malfunctioning | (adjective) not performing or able to perform its regular function | Synonyms: nonfunctional |
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| milfoil | (noun) ubiquitous strong-scented mat-forming Eurasian herb of wasteland, hedgerow or pasture having narrow serrate leaves and small usually white florets; widely naturalized in North America | Synonyms: Achillea millefolium, yarrow |
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| nailfile | (noun) a small flat file for shaping the nails | - |
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| nelfinavir | (noun) a protease inhibitor (trade name Viracept) used in treating HIV usually in combination with other drugs | Synonyms: Viracept |
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| oilfield | (noun) a region rich in petroleum deposits (especially one with producing oil wells) | - |
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| oilfish | (noun) very large deep-water snake mackerel | Synonyms: Ruvettus pretiosus |
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| olfaction | (noun) the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents | Synonyms: olfactory modality, sense of smell, smell |
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| olfactive | (adjective) of or relating to olfaction | Synonyms: olfactory |
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| olfactology | (noun) the scientific study of smells or of the sense of smell. | - |
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| olfactory | (adjective) of or relating to olfaction | Synonyms: olfactive |
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| pailful | (noun) the quantity contained in a pail | Synonyms: pail |
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| palfrey | (noun) especially a light saddle horse for a woman | - |
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| pearlfish | (noun) found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds | Synonyms: pearl-fish |
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| pelf | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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| pilfer | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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| pilferage | (noun) the act of stealing small amounts or small articles | - |
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| pilferer | (noun) a thief who steals without using violence | Synonyms: sneak thief, snitcher |
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| rauvolfia | (noun) any shrub or small tree of the genus Rauwolfia having leaves in whorls and cymose flowers; yield substances used medicinally especially as emetics or purgatives or antihypertensives | Synonyms: rauwolfia |
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| rauwolfia | (noun) any shrub or small tree of the genus Rauwolfia having leaves in whorls and cymose flowers; yield substances used medicinally especially as emetics or purgatives or antihypertensives | Synonyms: rauvolfia |
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| (noun) any of several alkaloids extracted from the shrub Rauwolfia serpentina | - |
| sailfish | (noun) large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | - |
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| (noun) a saltwater fish with lean flesh | - |
| schoolfellow | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolmate |
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| schoolfriend | (noun) a friend who attends the same school | - |
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| self | (adjective) (used as a combining form) relating to--of or by or to or from or for--the self | - |
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| (noun) your consciousness of your own identity | Synonyms: ego |
| (noun) a person considered as a unique individual | - |
| selfish | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving |
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| selfishly | (adverb) in an egotistical manner | Synonyms: egotistically |
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| selfishness | (noun) stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others | - |
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| selfless | (adjective) showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: altruistic |
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| selflessly | (adverb) in an altruistic manner | Synonyms: altruistically |
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| selflessness | (noun) acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity | Synonyms: self-sacrifice |
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| (noun) the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: altruism |
| selfsame | (adjective) being the exact same one; not any other: | Synonyms: identical, very |
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