| anneal | (verb) bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling | Synonyms: normalize, temper |
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| annealing | (noun) hardening something by heat treatment | Synonyms: tempering |
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| annelid | (adjective) relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida | Synonyms: annelidan |
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| (noun) worms with cylindrical bodies segmented both internally and externally | Synonyms: annelid worm, segmented worm |
| annelidan | (adjective) relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida | Synonyms: annelid |
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| annex | (noun) an addition that extends a main building | Synonyms: annexe, extension, wing |
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| (verb) add an extra part to | - |
| (verb) take (territory) as if by conquest | - |
| annexa | (noun) accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages to an organ (especially of the embryo) | Synonyms: adnexa |
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| annexal | (adjective) of or pertaining to adnexa | Synonyms: adnexal |
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| annexation | (noun) the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation | - |
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| (noun) incorporation by joining or uniting | Synonyms: appropriation |
| annexational | (adjective) relating to annexation | - |
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| annexe | (noun) an addition that extends a main building | Synonyms: annex, extension, wing |
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| antipersonnel | (adjective) designed to inflict death or personal injury rather than material destruction | - |
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| archiannelid | (noun) small primitive marine worm lacking external segmentation and resembling polychaete larvae | - |
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| banned | (adjective) forbidden by law | Synonyms: prohibited |
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| banner | (adjective) unusually good; outstanding | - |
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| (noun) long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising | Synonyms: streamer |
| (noun) any distinctive flag | Synonyms: standard |
| (noun) a newspaper headline that runs across the full page | Synonyms: streamer |
| banneret | (noun) a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command | Synonyms: knight banneret, knight of the square flag |
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| bannerlike | (adverb) like a banner | - |
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| barrenness | (noun) the quality of yielding nothing of value | Synonyms: aridity, fruitlessness |
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| (noun) the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children | - |
| beginner | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: initiate, novice, tiro, tyro |
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| (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: father, founder, founding father |
| benne | (noun) East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil | Synonyms: benni, benny, sesame, Sesamum indicum |
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| bennet | (noun) North American white-flowered avens | Synonyms: Geum canadense, white avens |
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| (noun) avens of Virginia having pale or greenish yellow flowers | Synonyms: Geum virginianum, white avens |
| bluebonnet | (noun) a brimless dark blue Scottish cap with a flat top and a plume on one side | Synonyms: Balmoral |
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| (noun) low-growing annual herb of southwestern United States (Texas) having silky foliage and blue flowers; a leading cause of livestock poisoning in the southwestern United States | Synonyms: buffalo clover, Lupinus subcarnosus, Texas bluebonnet |
| bonnet | (noun) a hat tied under the chin | Synonyms: poke bonnet |
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| (noun) protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | Synonyms: cowl, cowling, hood |
| (verb) dress in a bonnet | - |
| bonnethead | (noun) small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries | Synonyms: bonnet shark, shovelhead, Sphyrna tiburo |
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| botonnee | (adjective) (of a heraldic cross) having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm | Synonyms: botonee |
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| brazenness | (noun) behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame | Synonyms: shamelessness |
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| breadwinner | (noun) one whose earnings are the primary source of support for their dependents | - |
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| brownness | (noun) an orange of low brightness and saturation | Synonyms: brown |
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| canned | (adjective) sealed in a can or jar | Synonyms: tinned |
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| (adjective) recorded for broadcast | Synonyms: transcribed |
| cannelloni | (noun) tubular pasta filled with meat or cheese | - |
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| cannery | (noun) a factory where food is canned | - |
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| carillonneur | (noun) a musician who plays a carillon | - |
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| cayenne | (noun) ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus Capsicum | Synonyms: cayenne pepper, red pepper |
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| (noun) a long and often twisted hot red pepper | Synonyms: cayenne pepper |
| (noun) plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red | Synonyms: Capsicum annuum longum, cayenne pepper, chili pepper, chilli pepper, jalapeno, long pepper |
| channel | (noun) a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors | Synonyms: distribution channel |
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| (noun) a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through | - |
| (noun) a television station and its programs | Synonyms: television channel, TV channel |
| (noun) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance | Synonyms: canal, duct, epithelial duct |
| (noun) a path over which electrical signals can pass | Synonyms: transmission channel |
| (noun) (often plural) a means of communication or access | Synonyms: communication channel, line |
| (noun) a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels | - |
| (noun) a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) | Synonyms: groove |
| (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
| (verb) direct the flow of | - |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, conduct, convey, impart, transmit |
| channelisation | (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalisation, canalization, channelization |
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| channelise | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
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| (verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
| (verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| channelization | (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalisation, canalization, channelisation |
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| channelize | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, transfer, transmit, transport |
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| (verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelise |
| (verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelise |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| channels | (noun) official routes of communication | - |
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| chunnel | (noun) the railroad tunnel between France and England under the English Channel | Synonyms: Channel Tunnel |
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| cleanness | (noun) the state of being clean; without dirt or other impurities | - |
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| (noun) without moral defects | - |
| cloisonne | (adjective) (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired | Synonyms: champleve |
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| (noun) enamelware in which colored areas are separated by thin metal strips | - |
| comedienne | (noun) a female comedian | - |
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| (noun) a female actor in a comedy | - |
| commonness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonplaceness, everydayness |
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| (noun) sharing of common attributes | Synonyms: commonality |
| (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: coarseness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism, vulgarity |
| (noun) the state of being that is commonly observed | Synonyms: expectedness |
| connect | (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, link, link up, relate, tie in |
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| (verb) join for the purpose of communication | - |
| (verb) join by means of communication equipment | - |
| (verb) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces | Synonyms: link, link up, tie |
| (verb) land on or hit solidly | - |
| (verb) plug into an outlet | Synonyms: plug in, plug into |
| (verb) hit or play a ball successfully | - |
| (verb) establish communication with someone | Synonyms: get in touch, touch base |
| (verb) establish a rapport or relationship | - |
| (verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: join, link, link up, unite |
| (verb) be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation | - |
| connected | (adjective) joined or linked together | - |
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| (adjective) plugged in | - |
| (adjective) being joined in close association | Synonyms: affiliated, attached |
| (adjective) wired together to an alarm system | - |
| (adjective) stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer | Synonyms: machine-accessible |
| connectedness | (noun) a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it) | Synonyms: connection, connexion |
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| (noun) the state of being connected | Synonyms: connection, link |
| connecter | (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connection, connective, connector, connexion |
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| connection | (noun) the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication) | Synonyms: connexion, joining |
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| (noun) shifting from one form of transportation to another | Synonyms: connexion |
| (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connective, connector, connexion |
| (noun) the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: association, connexion |
| (noun) a supplier (especially of narcotics) | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship) | - |
| (noun) a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it) | Synonyms: connectedness, connexion |
| (noun) a connecting shape | Synonyms: connexion, link |
| (noun) the state of being connected | Synonyms: connectedness, link |
| connective | (adjective) connecting or tending to connect | - |
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| (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connection, connector, connexion |
| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, continuative |
| connectivity | (noun) the property of being connected or the degree to which something has connections | - |
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| connector | (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connection, connective, connexion |
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| connexion | (noun) the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication) | Synonyms: connection, joining |
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| (noun) shifting from one form of transportation to another | Synonyms: connection |
| (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connection, connective, connector |
| (noun) the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: association, connection |
| (noun) a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it) | Synonyms: connectedness, connection |
| (noun) a connecting shape | Synonyms: connection, link |
| cravenness | (noun) meanspirited cowardice | - |
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| cretonne | (noun) an unglazed heavy fabric; brightly printed; used for slipcovers and draperies | - |
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| cunner | (noun) common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States | Synonyms: bergall, Tautogolabrus adspersus |
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| dinner | (noun) the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday | - |
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| (noun) a party of people assembled to have dinner together | Synonyms: dinner party |
| dinnertime | (noun) the customary or habitual hour for the evening meal | Synonyms: suppertime |
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| dinnerware | (noun) the tableware (plates and platters and serving bowls etc.) used in serving a meal | - |
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| disconnect | (noun) an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding) | Synonyms: disconnection, gulf |
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| (verb) make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten | - |
| (verb) pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable | Synonyms: unplug |
| disconnected | (adjective) (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply | Synonyms: staccato |
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| (adjective) having been divided; having the unity destroyed | Synonyms: disunited, fragmented, split |
| (adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected |
| (adjective) not plugged in or connected to a power source | - |
| (adjective) marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions | Synonyms: abrupt |
| disconnectedness | (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnection, disjunction, disjuncture |
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| disconnection | (noun) the act of breaking a connection | Synonyms: disjunction |
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| (noun) an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding) | Synonyms: disconnect, gulf |
| (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disjunction, disjuncture |
| doyenne | (noun) a woman who is the senior member of a group | - |
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| drunkenness | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drinking |
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| (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
| (noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, alcoholism, inebriation |
| ennead | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one | Synonyms: 9, IX, Nina from Carolina, nine, niner |
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| evenness | (noun) a quality of uniformity and lack of variation | Synonyms: invariability |
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| (noun) the quality of being balanced | - |
| (noun) the parity of even numbers (divisible by two) | - |
| fanned | (adjective) especially spread in a fan shape | Synonyms: spread-out |
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| fennel | (noun) fennel seeds are ground and used as a spice or as an ingredient of a spice mixture | - |
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| (noun) leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: common fennel |
| (noun) aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads | Synonyms: finocchio, Florence fennel |
| (noun) any of several aromatic herbs having edible seeds and leaves and stems | - |
| flannel | (noun) a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing | - |
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| (noun) bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body | Synonyms: face cloth, washcloth, washrag |
| (noun) (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth | Synonyms: gabardine, tweed, white |
| flannelbush | (noun) any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers | Synonyms: California beauty, flannel bush |
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| flannelette | (noun) a cotton fabric imitating flannel | - |
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| foreignness | (noun) the quality of being alien or not native | Synonyms: curiousness, strangeness |
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| forerunner | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: harbinger, herald, precursor, predecessor |
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| (noun) a person who goes before or announces the coming of another | Synonyms: precursor |
| (noun) anything that precedes something similar in time | Synonyms: antecedent |
| forlornness | (noun) sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned | Synonyms: desolation, loneliness |
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| funnel | (noun) (nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship) | - |
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| (noun) a conically shaped utensil having a narrow tube at the small end; used to channel the flow of substances into a container with a small mouth | - |
| (noun) a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends | Synonyms: funnel shape |
| (verb) move or pour through a funnel | - |
| gannet | (noun) large heavily built seabird with a long stout bill noted for its plunging dives for fish | - |
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| gigatonne | (noun) a unit of weight equivalent to 1 billion tonnes. | Synonyms: Gt |
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| givenness | (noun) the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed | - |
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| greenness | (noun) green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass | Synonyms: green, viridity |
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| (noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: verdancy, verdure |
| (noun) the state of not being ripe | - |
| grinner | (noun) a person who grins | - |
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| gunnel | (noun) small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic | Synonyms: bracketed blenny |
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| (noun) wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel | Synonyms: gun rest, gunwale |
| gunner | (noun) a serviceman in the artillery | Synonyms: artilleryman, cannoneer, machine gunner |
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| gunnery | (noun) guns collectively | - |
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| gunrunner | (noun) a smuggler of guns | Synonyms: arms-runner |
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| hiddenness | (noun) the state of being covert and hidden | Synonyms: covertness |
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| humanness | (noun) the quality of being human | Synonyms: humanity, manhood |
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| inner | (adjective) located or occurring within or closer to a center | - |
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| (adjective) exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence | - |
| (adjective) inside or closer to the inside of the body | - |
| (adjective) innermost or essential | Synonyms: internal, intimate |
| (adjective) located inward | Synonyms: interior, internal |
| (adjective) confined to an exclusive group | Synonyms: inside, privileged |
| innermost | (adjective) situated or occurring farthest within | Synonyms: inmost |
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| (adjective) being deepest within the self | Synonyms: inmost |
| innersole | (noun) the inner sole of a shoe or boot where the foot rests | Synonyms: insole |
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| innervate | (verb) stimulate to action | - |
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| (verb) supply nerves to (some organ or body part) | - |
| innervation | (noun) the distribution of nerve fibers to an organ or body region | - |
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| (noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: excitation, irritation |
| interconnect | (verb) cause to be interconnected or interwoven | Synonyms: interlink |
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| (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: complect, interlink |
| interconnected | (adjective) operating as a unit | Synonyms: co-ordinated, coordinated, unified |
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| (adjective) reciprocally connected | Synonyms: interrelated |
| interconnectedness | (noun) a state of being connected reciprocally | Synonyms: interconnection |
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| interconnection | (noun) (computer science) the act of interconnecting (wires or computers or theories etc.) | - |
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| (noun) a state of being connected reciprocally | Synonyms: interconnectedness |
| jennet | (noun) female donkey | Synonyms: jenny, jenny ass |
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| jinnee | (noun) (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals | Synonyms: djinn, djinni, djinny, genie, jinni |
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| julienne | (noun) a vegetable cut into thin strips | Synonyms: julienne vegetable |
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| (noun) a clear soup garnished with julienne vegetables | - |
| (verb) cut into long thin strips | - |
| keenness | (noun) thinness of edge or fineness of point | Synonyms: sharpness |
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| (noun) a quick and penetrating intelligence | Synonyms: acuity, acuteness, sharpness |
| (noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidity, avidness, eagerness |
| kennel | (noun) outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog | Synonyms: dog house, doghouse |
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| (verb) put up in a kennel | - |