| landlord | (noun) a landowner who leases to others | - |
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| loanword | (noun) a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English | Synonyms: loan |
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| lord | (noun) a person who has general authority over others | Synonyms: master, overlord |
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| (verb) make a lord of someone | - |
| lordless | (adjective) having no lord or master | Synonyms: masterless |
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| lordliness | (noun) formality in bearing and appearance | Synonyms: dignity, gravitas |
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| (noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors | Synonyms: arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness |
| lordly | (adjective) of or befitting a lord | Synonyms: august, grand |
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| (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering |
| lordolatry | (noun) the worship of a lord because of his rank or title | - |
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| lordosis | (noun) an abnormal inward (forward) curvature of the vertebral column | Synonyms: hollow-back |
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| lordotic | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: dipped, swayback, swaybacked |
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| lordship | (noun) the authority of a lord | - |
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| milord | (noun) a term of address for an English lord | - |
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| mordacious | (adjective) biting or given to biting | - |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, biting, nipping, pungent |
| mordaciously | (adverb) in a mordacious manner | - |
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| mordacity | (noun) a disposition to biting | - |
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| mordant | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, erosive, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) harshly ironic or sinister | Synonyms: black, grim |
| (noun) a substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing; aids in dyeing process | - |
| nordic | (adjective) resembling peoples of Scandinavia | - |
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| notochord | (noun) a flexible rodlike structure that forms the supporting axis of the body in the lowest chordates and lowest vertebrates and in embryos of higher vertebrates | - |
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| ordain | (verb) issue an order | - |
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| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, order, ordinate |
| (verb) order by virtue of superior authority; decree | Synonyms: enact |
| (verb) invest with ministerial or priestly authority | - |
| ordained | (adjective) invested with ministerial or priestly functions | - |
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| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, decreed, prescribed |
| ordainer | (noun) a cleric who ordains; a cleric who admits someone to holy orders | - |
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| ordeal | (noun) a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence | Synonyms: trial by ordeal |
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| (noun) a severe or trying experience | - |
| order | (noun) the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement | Synonyms: ordering |
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| (noun) (architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans | - |
| (noun) a degree in a continuum of size or quantity | Synonyms: order of magnitude |
| (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, edict, fiat, rescript |
| (noun) a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities | Synonyms: purchase order |
| (noun) a body of rules followed by an assembly | Synonyms: parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure, rules of order |
| (noun) (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed | - |
| (noun) a request for something to be made, supplied, or served | - |
| (noun) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements | Synonyms: ordering, ordination |
| (noun) (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families | - |
| (noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, gild, guild, lodge, social club, society |
| (noun) a group of person living under a religious rule | Synonyms: monastic order |
| (noun) established customary state (especially of society) | - |
| (noun) a condition of regular or proper arrangement | Synonyms: orderliness |
| (verb) bring order to or into | - |
| (verb) place in a certain order | - |
| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, place, range, rank, rate |
| (verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events | Synonyms: arrange, put, set up |
| (verb) make a request for something | - |
| (verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: enjoin, say, tell |
| (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: dictate, prescribe |
| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, regularise, regularize, regulate |
| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, ordain, ordinate |
| ordered | (adjective) having a systematic arrangement; especially having elements succeeding in order according to rule | - |
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| (adjective) disposed or placed in a particular kind of order | Synonyms: arranged |
| (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherent, consistent, logical |
| orderer | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: systematiser, systematist, systematizer, systemiser, systemizer |
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| (noun) someone who places an order to buy | - |
| ordering | (noun) the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement | Synonyms: order |
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| (noun) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements | Synonyms: order, ordination |
| orderliness | (noun) the quality of appreciating method and system | Synonyms: methodicalness |
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| (noun) a condition of regular or proper arrangement | Synonyms: order |
| orderly | (adjective) devoid of violence or disruption | - |
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| (adjective) clean or organized | Synonyms: neat |
| (noun) a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients | Synonyms: hospital attendant |
| (noun) a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer | - |
| ordinal | (adjective) being or denoting a numerical order in a series | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a taxonomic order | - |
| (noun) the number designating place in an ordered sequence | Synonyms: no., ordinal number |
| ordinance | (noun) the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders | Synonyms: ordination |
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| (noun) an authoritative command | Synonyms: regulation |
| (noun) a statute enacted by a city government | - |
| ordinand | (noun) a person being ordained | - |
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| ordinarily | (adverb) under normal conditions | Synonyms: commonly, normally, unremarkably, usually |
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| ordinariness | (noun) the quality of being commonplace and ordinary | Synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity |
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| ordinary | (adjective) not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree | - |
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| (adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: average |
| (noun) (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields | - |
| (noun) an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel | Synonyms: ordinary bicycle |
| (noun) a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death | - |
| (noun) a judge of a probate court | - |
| (noun) the expected or commonplace condition or situation | - |
| ordinate | (noun) the value of a coordinate on the vertical axis | - |
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| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: align, coordinate |
| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, ordain, order |
| ordination | (noun) the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders | Synonyms: ordinance |
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| (noun) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements | Synonyms: order, ordering |
| (noun) the status of being ordained to a sacred office | - |
| ordnance | (noun) military supplies | Synonyms: munition, ordnance store |
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| (noun) large but transportable armament | Synonyms: artillery, gun, heavy weapon |
| ordure | (noun) solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | Synonyms: BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, stool |
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| overlord | (noun) a person who has general authority over others | Synonyms: lord, master |
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| overlordship | (noun) the position of overlord | - |
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| oxford | (noun) a low shoe laced over the instep | - |
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| password | (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, watchword, word |
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| patchcord | (noun) a length of wire that has a plug at each end; used to make connections at a patchboard | - |
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| precordial | (adjective) in front of the heart; involving the precordium | - |
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| precordium | (noun) the external surface of the body overlying the heart and stomach | - |
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| preordain | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: foreordain, predestine |
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| preordination | (noun) (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind) | Synonyms: foreordination, predestination, predetermination |
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| prerecord | (verb) record before presentation, as of a broadcast | - |
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| prerecorded | (adjective) recorded at one time for transmission later | - |
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| primordial | (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: aboriginal, primaeval, primal, primeval |
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| primordiality | (noun) The quality of being first, earliest or original. | - |
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| primordium | (noun) an organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development | Synonyms: anlage |
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| record | (noun) an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport) | - |
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| (noun) the sum of recognized accomplishments | Synonyms: track record |
| (noun) sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove | Synonyms: disc, disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter |
| (noun) a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted | Synonyms: criminal record |
| (noun) a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone | Synonyms: book, record book |
| (noun) anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events | - |
| (noun) a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction | - |
| (noun) the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had | - |
| (verb) make a record of; set down in permanent form | Synonyms: enter, put down |
| (verb) register electronically | Synonyms: tape |
| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, register, show |
| (verb) be aware of | Synonyms: register |
| recorded | (adjective) set down or registered in a permanent form especially on film or tape for reproduction | - |
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| (adjective) (of securities) having the owner's name entered in a register | - |
| recorder | (noun) a tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece | Synonyms: fipple flute, fipple pipe, vertical flute |
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| (noun) equipment for making records | Synonyms: recording equipment, recording machine |
| (noun) someone responsible for keeping records | Synonyms: record-keeper, registrar |
| (noun) a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs | - |
| recording | (noun) the act of making a record (especially an audio record) | Synonyms: transcription |
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| (noun) a signal that encodes something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded | - |
| (noun) a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded | - |
| reorder | (noun) a repeated order for the same merchandise | - |
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| (verb) assign a new order to | - |
| (verb) make a new request to be supplied with | - |
| reordering | (noun) a rearrangement in a different order | - |
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| reword | (verb) express the same message in different words | Synonyms: paraphrase, rephrase |
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| rewording | (noun) changing a particular word or phrase | Synonyms: recasting, rephrasing |
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| ripcord | (noun) a cord that is pulled to open a parachute from its pack during a descent | - |
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| (noun) a cord that is pulled to open the gasbag of a balloon wide enough to release gas and so causes the balloon to descend | - |
| rutherford | (noun) a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second | - |
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| rutherfordium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized | Synonyms: atomic number 104, element 104, Rf, unnilquadium, Unq |
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| silversword | (noun) low-growing plant found only in volcanic craters on Hawaii having rosettes of narrow pointed silver-green leaves and clusters of profuse red-purple flowers on a tall stem | Synonyms: Argyroxiphium sandwicense |
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| smorgasbord | (noun) an assortment of foods starting with herring or smoked eel or salmon etc with bread and butter; then cheeses and eggs and pickled vegetables and aspics; finally hot foods; served as a buffet meal | - |
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| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, variety |
| sordid | (adjective) meanly avaricious and mercenary | - |
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| (adjective) unethical or dishonest | Synonyms: dirty, shoddy |
| (adjective) foul and run-down and repulsive | Synonyms: flyblown, squalid |
| (adjective) morally degraded | Synonyms: seamy, seedy, sleazy, squalid |
| sordidly | (adverb) in a sordid or squalid way | Synonyms: squalidly |
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| sordidness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicability, despicableness |
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| (noun) sordid dirtiness | Synonyms: squalidness, squalor |
| sordino | (noun) a mute for a violin | Synonyms: sourdine |
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| suborder | (noun) (biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order | - |
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| subordinate | (adjective) lower in rank or importance | Synonyms: low-level |
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| (adjective) subject or submissive to authority or the control of another | - |
| (adjective) (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence | Synonyms: dependent |
| (noun) a word that is more specific than a given word | Synonyms: hyponym, subordinate word |
| (noun) an assistant subject to the authority or control of another | Synonyms: foot soldier, subsidiary, underling |
| (verb) make subordinate, dependent, or subservient | Synonyms: subdue |
| (verb) rank or order as less important or consider of less value | - |
| subordinateness | (noun) secondary importance | Synonyms: subsidiarity |
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| subordinating | (adjective) serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause | Synonyms: subordinative |
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| subordination | (noun) the act of mastering or subordinating someone | Synonyms: mastery |
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| (noun) the quality of obedient submissiveness | - |
| (noun) the grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head | - |
| (noun) the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class | Synonyms: hyponymy |
| (noun) the state of being subordinate to something | - |
| subordinative | (adjective) serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause | Synonyms: subordinating |
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| superorder | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group ranking above an order and below a class or subclass | - |
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| superordinate | (adjective) of higher rank or status or value | - |
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| (noun) a word that is more generic than a given word | Synonyms: hypernym, superordinate word |
| (noun) one of greater rank or station or quality | Synonyms: higher-up, superior |
| (verb) place in a superior order or rank | - |
| superordination | (noun) the semantic relation of being superordinate or belonging to a higher rank or class | Synonyms: hypernymy |
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| swearword | (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, expletive, oath, swearing |
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| sword | (noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: blade, brand, steel |
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| swordfish | (noun) large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night | Synonyms: Xiphias gladius |
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| (noun) flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks | - |
| swordlike | (adjective) shaped like a sword blade | Synonyms: bladelike, ensiform, sword-shaped |
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| swordplay | (noun) the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully | Synonyms: play |
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| swordsman | (noun) someone skilled at fencing | Synonyms: fencer |
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| swordsmanship | (noun) skill in fencing | - |
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| swordtail | (noun) freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: helleri, topminnow, Xyphophorus helleri |
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| unbordered | (adjective) having no border | - |
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| uncoordinated | (adjective) lacking the skillful and effective interaction of muscle movements | - |
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| (adjective) lacking in cooperative planning and organization | - |
| uncordial | (adjective) lacking warmth or friendliness | - |
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| unordered | (adjective) not arranged in order | Synonyms: disordered |
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| (adjective) not arranged in order hierarchically | Synonyms: ungraded, unranked |
| unrecorded | (adjective) actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing | Synonyms: live |
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| urochord | (noun) a notochord of a larval tunicate typically confined to the caudal region | - |
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| (noun) primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva | Synonyms: tunicate, urochordate |
| urochordate | (noun) primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva | Synonyms: tunicate, urochord |
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| warlord | (noun) supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak | - |
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| watchword | (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, password, word |
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| (noun) a slogan used to rally support for a cause | Synonyms: battle cry, cry, rallying cry, war cry |
| whipcord | (noun) a strong worsted or cotton fabric with a diagonal rib | - |
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| (noun) closely twisted hard cord used for the lashes of whips | - |
| word | (noun) a unit of language that native speakers can identify | - |
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| (noun) a promise | Synonyms: parole, word of honor |
| (noun) information about recent and important events | Synonyms: intelligence, news, tidings |
| (noun) a brief statement | - |
| (noun) an exchange of views on some topic | Synonyms: discussion, give-and-take |
| (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, password, watchword |
| (noun) a verbal command for action | - |
| (noun) a string of bits stored in computer memory | - |
| (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: articulate, formulate, give voice, phrase |
| wordbook | (noun) a reference book containing words (usually with their meanings) | - |
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| wordfinder | (noun) a thesaurus organized to help you find the word you want but cannot think of | Synonyms: word finder |
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| wordily | (adverb) in a verbose manner | Synonyms: long-windedly, verbosely, windily |
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| wordiness | (noun) boring verbosity | Synonyms: long-windedness, prolixity, prolixness, windiness |
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