| befool | (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: cod, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
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| (verb) make a fool or dupe of | Synonyms: fool, gull |
| befooling | (noun) derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent | Synonyms: stultification |
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| campstool | (noun) a folding stool | - |
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| cesspool | (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspit, sink, sump |
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| cool | (adjective) neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat | - |
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| (adjective) psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike | - |
| (adjective) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets when referring to color | - |
| (adjective) marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional | Synonyms: coolheaded, nerveless |
| (adjective) fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept | - |
| (adjective) being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition | Synonyms: all right, fine, hunky-dory, o.k., ok, okay |
| (adjective) used of a quantity or amount (especially of money) for emphasis | - |
| (noun) the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature | - |
| (noun) great coolness and composure under strain | Synonyms: aplomb, assuredness, poise, sang-froid |
| (verb) loose heat | Synonyms: chill, cool down |
| (verb) make cool or cooler | Synonyms: chill, cool down |
| (verb) lose intensity | Synonyms: cool down, cool off |
| coolant | (noun) a fluid agent (gas or liquid) that produces cooling; especially one used to cool a system by transferring heat away from one part to another | - |
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| cooler | (noun) a refrigerator for cooling liquids | Synonyms: ice chest |
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| (noun) a cell for violent prisoners | Synonyms: tank |
| (noun) an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice | - |
| coolheaded | (adjective) marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional | Synonyms: cool, nerveless |
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| coolie | (noun) (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer | Synonyms: cooly |
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| cooling | (noun) a mechanism for keeping something cool | Synonyms: cooling system |
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| (noun) the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature | Synonyms: chilling, temperature reduction |
| coolly | (adverb) in a composed and unconcerned manner | Synonyms: nervelessly, nonchalantly |
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| coolness | (noun) the property of being moderately cold | Synonyms: chilliness, nip |
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| (noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coldness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness |
| (noun) fearless self-possession in the face of danger | Synonyms: nervelessness |
| (noun) calm and unruffled self-assurance | Synonyms: imperturbability, imperturbableness |
| coolwart | (noun) stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant | Synonyms: false miterwort, false mitrewort, foamflower, Tiarella cordifolia |
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| cooly | (noun) (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer | Synonyms: coolie |
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| cycloolefin | (noun) alkene hydrocarbon which contains a closed ring of carbon atoms, but has no aromatic character. | Synonyms: cycloalkene |
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| drool | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, slobber |
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| (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, slabber, slaver, slobber |
| (verb) be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something | Synonyms: salivate |
| drooler | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, driveller, slobberer |
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| fool | (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: muggins, sap, saphead, tomfool |
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| (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
| (noun) a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: jester, motley fool |
| (verb) indulge in horseplay | Synonyms: arse around, fool around, horse around |
| (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, cod, dupe, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
| (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
| (verb) make a fool or dupe of | Synonyms: befool, gull |
| foolery | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, indulgence, lunacy, tomfoolery |
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| foolhardiness | (noun) the trait of giving little thought to danger | Synonyms: rashness, recklessness |
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| foolhardy | (adjective) marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences | Synonyms: heady, rash, reckless |
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| fooling | (adjective) characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility | Synonyms: casual |
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| foolish | (adjective) devoid of good sense or judgment | - |
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| (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
| foolishly | (adverb) without good sense or judgment | Synonyms: unwisely |
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| foolishness | (noun) a stupid mistake | Synonyms: betise, folly, imbecility, stupidity |
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| (noun) the trait of acting stupidly or rashly | Synonyms: folly, unwiseness |
| (noun) the quality of being rash and foolish | Synonyms: craziness, folly, madness |
| foolproof | (adjective) not liable to failure | Synonyms: unfailing |
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| (verb) proof against human misuse or error | Synonyms: goof-proof, goofproof |
| foolscap | (noun) a size of paper used especially in Britain | - |
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| footstool | (noun) a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | Synonyms: footrest, ottoman, tuffet |
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| highschool | (noun) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 | Synonyms: high, high school, senior high, senior high school |
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| hooligan | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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| hooliganism | (noun) willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others | Synonyms: malicious mischief, vandalism |
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| interschool | (adjective) used of competition or cooperation between secondary schools | Synonyms: interscholastic |
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| linalool | (noun) a colorless fragrant liquid found in many essential oils | - |
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| longwool | (noun) a domestic long-wool sheep | - |
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| moolah | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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| oology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies eggs (especially birds' eggs and their size, shape, coloration, and number) | - |
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| oolong | (noun) Chinese tea leaves that have been partially fermented before being dried | - |
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| palaeozoology | (noun) the study of fossil animals | Synonyms: paleozoology |
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| paleozoology | (noun) the study of fossil animals | Synonyms: palaeozoology |
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| playschool | (noun) a small informal nursery group meeting for half-day sessions | Synonyms: play group |
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| pool | (noun) any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets | Synonyms: pocket billiards |
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| (noun) an excavation that is (usually) filled with water | - |
| (noun) an association of companies for some definite purpose | Synonyms: consortium, syndicate |
| (noun) an organization of people or resources that can be shared | - |
| (noun) something resembling a pool of liquid | Synonyms: puddle |
| (noun) a small lake | Synonyms: pond |
| (noun) a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid | Synonyms: puddle |
| (noun) any communal combination of funds | - |
| (noun) the combined stakes of the betters | Synonyms: kitty |
| (verb) join or form a pool of people | - |
| (verb) combine into a common fund | - |
| pooler | (noun) someone who shares in and contributes to a general fund for use by all | - |
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| poolroom | (noun) a room with pool tables where pool is played | - |
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| precooled | (adjective) cooled in advance | - |
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| preschool | (noun) an educational institution for children too young for elementary school | - |
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| preschooler | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartener, kindergartner |
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| protozoological | (adjective) concerning the branch of zoology that studies protozoans | - |
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| protozoologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies protozoans | - |
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| protozoology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies protozoans | - |
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| retool | (verb) provide (a workshop or factory) with new tools | - |
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| (verb) revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving | Synonyms: revise |
| school | (noun) a building where young people receive education | Synonyms: schoolhouse |
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| (noun) the process of being formally educated at a school | Synonyms: schooling |
| (noun) an educational institution | - |
| (noun) a large group of fish | Synonyms: shoal |
| (noun) a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers | - |
| (noun) an educational institution's faculty and students | - |
| (noun) the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session | Synonyms: school day, schooltime |
| (verb) swim in or form a large group of fish | - |
| (verb) educate in or as if in a school | - |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, train |
| schoolbag | (noun) a bag for carrying school books and supplies | - |
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| schoolbook | (noun) a book prepared for use in schools or colleges | Synonyms: school text, text, text edition, textbook |
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| schoolboy | (noun) a boy attending school | - |
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| schoolboyish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young boy | Synonyms: boyish, boylike |
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| schoolchild | (noun) a young person attending school (up through senior high school) | Synonyms: pupil, school-age child |
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| schooldays | (noun) the time of life when you are going to school | Synonyms: schooltime |
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| 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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| schoolgirl | (noun) a girl attending school | - |
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| schoolgirlish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young girl | Synonyms: girlish |
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| schoolhouse | (noun) a building where young people receive education | Synonyms: school |
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| schooling | (noun) the act of teaching at school | - |
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| (noun) the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage) | - |
| (noun) the process of being formally educated at a school | Synonyms: school |
| schoolman | (noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: academician |
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| schoolmarm | (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmistress |
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| schoolmaster | (noun) food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Lutjanus apodus |
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| (noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: headmaster, master |
| (noun) any person (or institution) who acts as an educator | - |
| schoolmate | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolfellow |
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| schoolmistress | (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmarm |
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| schoolroom | (noun) a room in a school where lessons take place | Synonyms: classroom |
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| schoolteacher | (noun) a teacher in a school below the college level | Synonyms: school teacher |
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| schooltime | (noun) the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session | Synonyms: school, school day |
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| (noun) the time of life when you are going to school | Synonyms: schooldays |
| schoolwide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a school | - |
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| schoolwork | (noun) work, such as schoolwork or piecework, that is done at home | Synonyms: homework, school assignment |
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| schoolyard | (noun) the yard associated with a school | - |
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| spool | (noun) a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound | Synonyms: bobbin, reel |
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| (verb) wind onto a spool or a reel | - |
| (verb) transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage | - |
| stool | (noun) a simple seat without a back or arms | - |
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| (noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, throne, toilet |
| (noun) (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings | - |
| (noun) solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | Synonyms: BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure |
| (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, defecate, make, shit, take a crap, take a shit |
| (verb) grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers | Synonyms: tiller |
| (verb) react to a decoy, of wildfowl | - |
| (verb) lure with a stool, as of wild fowl | - |
| stoolie | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolpigeon |
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| stoolpigeon | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie |
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| tabooli | (noun) a finely chopped salad with tomatoes and parsley and mint and scallions and bulgur wheat | Synonyms: tabbouleh |
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| toadstool | (noun) common name for an inedible or poisonous agaric (contrasting with the edible mushroom) | - |
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| tomfool | (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: fool, muggins, sap, saphead |
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| tomfoolery | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolery, indulgence, lunacy |
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| tool | (noun) the means whereby some act is accomplished | Synonyms: instrument |
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| (noun) an implement used in the practice of a vocation | - |
| (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, prick, putz, shaft |
| (noun) a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else | Synonyms: creature, puppet |
| (verb) work with a tool | - |
| (verb) ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it | Synonyms: joyride, tool around |
| (verb) drive | - |
| (verb) furnish with tools | - |
| toolbox | (noun) a box or chest or cabinet for holding hand tools | Synonyms: tool cabinet, tool case, tool chest |
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| toolhouse | (noun) a shed for storing tools | Synonyms: toolshed |
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| toolmaker | (noun) someone skilled in making or repairing tools | - |
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| toolshed | (noun) a shed for storing tools | Synonyms: toolhouse |
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| uncool | (adjective) (spoken slang) unfashionable and boring | - |
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| unschooled | (adjective) lacking in schooling | Synonyms: untaught, untutored |
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| whirlpool | (noun) a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) | Synonyms: maelstrom, vortex |
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| (verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: eddy, purl, swirl, whirl |
| wool | (noun) outer coat of especially sheep and yaks | Synonyms: fleece |
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| (noun) a fabric made from the hair of sheep | Synonyms: woolen, woollen |
| (noun) fiber sheared from animals (such as sheep) and twisted into yarn for weaving | - |
| woolen | (adjective) of or related to or made of wool | Synonyms: woollen |
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| (noun) a fabric made from the hair of sheep | Synonyms: wool, woollen |
| woolgather | (verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: daydream, dream, stargaze |
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| woolgatherer | (noun) someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming | Synonyms: daydreamer |
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| woolgathering | (adjective) dreamy in mood or nature | Synonyms: dreamy, moony |
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| (noun) an idle indulgence in fantasy | - |
| woollen | (adjective) of or related to or made of wool | Synonyms: woolen |
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| (noun) a fabric made from the hair of sheep | Synonyms: wool, woolen |
| woolliness | (noun) The state of resembling wool, in texture or shape. | - |
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| (noun) The state of being made of or bearing wool. | - |
| woolly | (adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking | Synonyms: addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly-headed, wooly-minded, wooly |
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| (adjective) covered with dense often matted or curly hairs | Synonyms: woolly-haired, wooly-haired, wooly |
| (adjective) having a fluffy character or appearance | Synonyms: flocculent, wooly |
| (adjective) covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments | Synonyms: lanate |
| woolsorter | (noun) a person who sorts wool into different grades | Synonyms: wool stapler |
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| wooly | (adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking | Synonyms: addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly-headed, woolly, wooly-minded |
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| (adjective) covered with dense often matted or curly hairs | Synonyms: woolly-haired, woolly, wooly-haired |
| (adjective) having a fluffy character or appearance | Synonyms: flocculent, woolly |