| loft | (noun) floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage | Synonyms: attic, garret |
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| (noun) a raised shelter in which pigeons are kept | Synonyms: pigeon loft |
| (noun) floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space | - |
| (noun) (golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air | - |
| (verb) lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull | - |
| (verb) propel through the air | - |
| (verb) kick or strike high in the air | - |
| (verb) store in a loft | - |
| loftily | (adverb) in a lofty manner | - |
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| loftiness | (noun) the quality of being high or lofty | Synonyms: highness |
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| (noun) impressiveness in scale or proportion | Synonyms: majesty, stateliness |
| lofty | (adjective) of imposing height; especially standing out above others | Synonyms: eminent, soaring, towering |
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| (adjective) having or displaying great dignity or nobility | Synonyms: gallant, majestic, proud |
| (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
| loofa | (noun) the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer | Synonyms: loofah, loufah sponge, luffa |
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| loofah | (noun) the loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit | Synonyms: Luffa cylindrica, vegetable sponge |
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| (noun) the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer | Synonyms: loofa, loufah sponge, luffa |
| mandibulofacial | (adjective) of or relating to the lower jaw and face | - |
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| maxillofacial | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw and face (particularly with reference to specialized surgery of the maxilla) | - |
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| meclofenamate | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Meclomen) used to treat arthritis | Synonyms: meclofenamate sodium, Meclomen |
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| microfarad | (noun) a unit of capacitance equal to one millionth of a farad | - |
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| microfiche | (noun) small sheet of microfilm on which many pages of material have been photographed; a magnification system is used to read the material | - |
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| microfilm | (noun) film on which materials are photographed at greatly reduced size; useful for storage; a magnification system is used to read the material | - |
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| (verb) record on microfilm | - |
| microflora | (noun) microscopic plants; bacteria are often considered to be microflora | - |
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| microfossil | (noun) a fossil that must be studied microscopically | - |
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| mosquitofish | (noun) silvery topminnow with rows of black spots of tropical North America and West Indies; important in mosquito control | Synonyms: Gambusia affinis |
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| mothproof | (adjective) resistant to damage by moths | Synonyms: moth-resistant |
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| (verb) protect from moths | - |
| myelofibrosis | (noun) fibrosis of the bone marrow | - |
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| myofibril | (noun) one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber | Synonyms: myofibrilla, sarcostyle |
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| myofibrilla | (noun) one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber | Synonyms: myofibril, sarcostyle |
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| neurofibril | (noun) Any of the long, thin, microscopic fibrils that run through the body of a neuron and extend into the axon and dendrites, giving the neuron support and shape. | - |
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| neurofibroma | (noun) tumor of the fibrous covering of a peripheral nerve | Synonyms: neurilemoma |
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| neurofibromatosis | (noun) autosomal dominant disease characterized by numerous neurofibromas and by spots on the skin and often by developmental abnormalities | Synonyms: von Recklinghausen's disease |
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| nitrochloroform | (noun) a heavy colorless insoluble liquid compound that causes tears and vomiting; used as a pesticide and as tear gas | Synonyms: chloropicrin |
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| nitrofuran | (noun) derivative of furan used to inhibit bacterial growth | - |
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| nitrofurantoin | (noun) derivative of nitrofuran used as an antibacterial medicine (trade name Macrodantin) effective against a broad range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria; used to treat infections of the urinary tract | Synonyms: Macrodantin |
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| nonprofessional | (adjective) not professional; not engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or for gain | - |
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| nonprofit | (adjective) not commercially motivated | Synonyms: non-profit-making |
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| (noun) an organization chartered for other than profit-making activities | Synonyms: nonprofit organization, not-for-profit |
| off | (adjective) not in operation or operational | - |
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| (adjective) (of events) no longer planned or scheduled | Synonyms: cancelled |
| (adjective) not performing or scheduled for duties | - |
| (adjective) in an unpalatable state | Synonyms: sour, turned |
| (adjective) below a satisfactory level | - |
| (adverb) at a distance in space or time | Synonyms: away |
| (adverb) from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete) | Synonyms: away, forth |
| (adverb) no longer on or in contact or attached | - |
| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, polish off, remove, slay |
| offal | (noun) viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans | - |
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| offbeat | (adjective) (informal) strikingly unconventional | Synonyms: far-out, kinky, quirky, way-out |
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| (noun) an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure) | Synonyms: upbeat |
| offence | (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offense, offensive |
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| (noun) a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right | Synonyms: offense |
| (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: discourtesy, offense, offensive activity |
| (noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offense, umbrage |
| (noun) the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score | Synonyms: offense |
| offenceless | (adjective) incapable of offending or attacking | Synonyms: offenseless |
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| offend | (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: bruise, hurt, injure, spite, wound |
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| (verb) cause to feel resentment or indignation | Synonyms: pique |
| (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, outrage, scandalise, scandalize, shock |
| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, infract, transgress, violate |
| offended | (adjective) emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed | Synonyms: injured, pained |
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| offender | (noun) a person who transgresses moral or civil law | Synonyms: wrongdoer |
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| offending | (adjective) offending against or breaking a law or rule | - |
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| offense | (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offence, offensive |
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| (noun) a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right | Synonyms: offence |
| (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: discourtesy, offence, offensive activity |
| (noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offence, umbrage |
| (noun) the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score | Synonyms: offence |
| offenseless | (adjective) incapable of offending or attacking | Synonyms: offenceless |
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| offensive | (adjective) unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses | - |
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| (adjective) causing anger or annoyance | - |
| (adjective) for the purpose of attack rather than defense | - |
| (adjective) morally offensive | Synonyms: unsavory, unsavoury |
| (adjective) violating or tending to violate or offend against | Synonyms: violative |
| (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, sickening, vile |
| (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offence, offense |
| offensively | (adverb) aggressively | - |
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| (adverb) in an obnoxious manner | Synonyms: objectionably, obnoxiously |
| (adverb) in an unpleasantly offensive manner | - |
| offensiveness | (noun) the quality of being offensive | Synonyms: distastefulness, odiousness |
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| offer | (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, fling, go, pass, whirl |
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| (noun) something offered (as a proposal or bid) | Synonyms: offering |
| (noun) the verbal act of offering | Synonyms: offering |
| (verb) put forward for consideration | - |
| (verb) threaten to do something | - |
| (verb) ask (someone) to marry you | Synonyms: declare oneself, pop the question, propose |
| (verb) produce or introduce on the stage | - |
| (verb) present for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proffer |
| (verb) propose a payment | Synonyms: bid, tender |
| (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, provide, render, supply |
| (verb) make available for sale | - |
| (verb) offer verbally | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) make available; provide | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) agree freely | Synonyms: volunteer |
| (verb) mount or put up | Synonyms: provide, put up |
| (verb) present as an act of worship | Synonyms: offer up |
| offerer | (noun) someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: offeror |
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| offering | (noun) the act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity | Synonyms: oblation |
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| (noun) something offered (as a proposal or bid) | Synonyms: offer |
| (noun) the verbal act of offering | Synonyms: offer |
| (noun) money contributed to a religious organization; item or items contributed to a religious organization for religious purposes | - |
| offeror | (noun) someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: offerer |
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| offertory | (noun) the offerings of the congregation at a religious service | - |
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| offhand | (adjective) casually thoughtless or inconsiderate | Synonyms: offhanded |
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| (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhanded, unrehearsed |
| (adverb) in a casually inconsiderate manner | Synonyms: offhanded, offhandedly |
| (adverb) without previous thought or preparation | Synonyms: offhanded, offhandedly |
| offhanded | (adjective) casually thoughtless or inconsiderate | Synonyms: offhand |
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| (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, unrehearsed |
| (adverb) in a casually inconsiderate manner | Synonyms: offhand, offhandedly |
| (adverb) without previous thought or preparation | Synonyms: offhand, offhandedly |
| offhandedly | (adverb) in a casually inconsiderate manner | Synonyms: offhand, offhanded |
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| (adverb) without previous thought or preparation | Synonyms: offhand, offhanded |
| office | (noun) a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities | - |
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| (noun) the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group | Synonyms: function, part, role |
| (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, place, position, post, situation |
| (noun) place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed | Synonyms: business office |
| (noun) professional or clerical workers in an office | Synonyms: office staff |
| (noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency |
| (noun) (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power | Synonyms: power |
| officeholder | (noun) the official who holds an office | Synonyms: incumbent |
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| (noun) someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust | Synonyms: officer |
| officer | (noun) a member of a police force | Synonyms: police officer |
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| (noun) someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust | Synonyms: officeholder |
| (noun) any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command | Synonyms: military officer |
| (noun) a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel | Synonyms: ship's officer |
| (verb) direct or command as an officer | - |
| official | (adjective) having official authority or sanction | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to an office | - |
| (adjective) verified officially | - |
| (adjective) (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution | - |
| (adjective) conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline | Synonyms: prescribed |
| (noun) someone who administers the rules of a game or sport | - |
| (noun) a worker who holds or is invested with an office | Synonyms: functionary |
| officialdom | (noun) people elected or appointed to administer a government | Synonyms: government officials |
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| officialese | (noun) the style of writing characteristic of some government officials: formal and obscure | - |
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| officialise | (verb) make official | Synonyms: officialize |
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| officialize | (verb) make official | Synonyms: officialise |
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| officially | (adverb) in an official role | - |
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| (adverb) with official authorization | Synonyms: formally |
| officiant | (noun) a clergyman who officiates at a religious ceremony or service | - |
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| officiate | (verb) perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function | Synonyms: function |
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| (verb) act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious ritual, such as a wedding | - |
| officiating | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiation, refereeing, umpirage |
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| officiation | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiating, refereeing, umpirage |
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| (noun) the performance of a religious or ceremonial or public duty | - |
| officious | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling |
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| officiously | (adverb) in an officious manner | - |
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| officiousness | (noun) aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation | Synonyms: intrusiveness, meddlesomeness |
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| offing | (noun) the part of the sea that can be seen from the shore and is beyond the anchoring area | - |
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| (noun) the near or foreseeable future | - |
| offish | (adjective) lacking cordiality; unfriendly | Synonyms: standoffish |
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| offload | (verb) remove the load from (a container or vehicle) | Synonyms: unlade, unload |
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| (verb) transfer to a peripheral device, of computer data | - |
| offprint | (noun) a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication | Synonyms: reprint, separate |
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| offsaddle | (verb) remove the saddle from | Synonyms: unsaddle |
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| offset | (noun) structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly | Synonyms: set-back, setoff |
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| (noun) a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper | Synonyms: offset printing |
| (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: branch, offshoot, outgrowth |
| (noun) a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips | Synonyms: runner, stolon |
| (noun) a compensating equivalent | Synonyms: counterbalance |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| (verb) produce by offset printing | - |
| (verb) create an offset in | - |
| (verb) cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface | - |
| (verb) make up for | Synonyms: cancel, set off |
| (verb) compensate for or counterbalance | Synonyms: countervail |
| offshoot | (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: branch, offset, outgrowth |
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| offshore | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the land | Synonyms: seaward |
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| (adjective) at some distance from the shore | - |
| (adverb) away from shore; away from land | - |
| offside | (adjective) illegally beyond a prescribed line or area or ahead of the ball or puck | Synonyms: offsides |
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| (noun) (sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.) | - |
| (adverb) illegally in advance of the ball or puck | - |
| offsides | (adjective) illegally beyond a prescribed line or area or ahead of the ball or puck | Synonyms: offside |
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| offspring | (noun) any immature animal | Synonyms: young |
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| (noun) something that comes into existence as a result | Synonyms: materialisation, materialization |
| (noun) the immediate descendants of a person | Synonyms: issue, progeny |
| offstage | (adjective) situated or taking place in the area of a stage not visible to the audience | - |
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| (adjective) concealed from public view or attention | Synonyms: backstage |
| (noun) a stage area out of sight of the audience | Synonyms: backstage, wing |
| (adverb) behind the scenes; not on stage | - |
| (adverb) not in public | - |
| oft | (adverb) many times at short intervals | Synonyms: frequently, often, oftentimes, ofttimes |
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| often | (adverb) many times at short intervals | Synonyms: frequently, oft, oftentimes, ofttimes |
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| (adverb) frequently or in great quantities | Synonyms: a great deal, much |
| (adverb) in many cases or instances | - |
| oftener | (adverb) more often or more frequently | - |
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| oftenness | (noun) the number of occurrences within a given time period | Synonyms: frequence, frequency |
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| oftentimes | (adverb) many times at short intervals | Synonyms: frequently, oft, often, ofttimes |
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| ofttimes | (adverb) many times at short intervals | Synonyms: frequently, oft, often, oftentimes |
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| ovoflavin | (noun) a B vitamin that prevents skin lesions and weight loss | Synonyms: hepatoflavin, lactoflavin, riboflavin, vitamin B2, vitamin G |
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| paraprofessional | (noun) a trained worker who is not a member of a profession but who assists a professional | - |
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| payoff | (noun) a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing | Synonyms: reward, wages |
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| (noun) the final payment of a debt | Synonyms: final payment |
| (noun) payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment | Synonyms: bribe |
| (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, proceeds, return, take, takings, yield |
| photoflash | (noun) a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph | Synonyms: flash, flash bulb, flash lamp, flashbulb, flashgun |
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| photoflood | (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood, flood lamp, floodlight |
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| pianoforte | (noun) a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds | Synonyms: forte-piano, piano |
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| picofarad | (noun) a unit of capacitance equal to one trillionth of a farad | - |
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| playoff | (noun) any final competition to determine a championship | - |
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| poof | (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
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| prof | (noun) someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university | Synonyms: professor |
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| profanation | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege |
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| (noun) degradation of something worthy of respect; cheapening | - |
| profanatory | (adjective) profaning or tending to desecrate | - |
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| profane | (adjective) not concerned with or devoted to religion | Synonyms: secular |
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| (adjective) characterized by profanity or cursing | Synonyms: blasphemous, blue |
| (adjective) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | Synonyms: blasphemous, sacrilegious |
| (adjective) not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled | Synonyms: unconsecrated, unsanctified |
| (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: desecrate, outrage, violate |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, subvert, vitiate |
| profaned | (adjective) treated irreverently or sacrilegiously | Synonyms: violated |
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| profanely | (adverb) in an irreverent or profane manner | - |
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| (adverb) with curses | - |
| profaneness | (noun) unholiness by virtue of being profane | Synonyms: unsanctification |
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| (noun) an attitude of irreverence or contempt for a divinity | - |
| profanity | (noun) vulgar or irreverent speech or action | - |
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