| deportation | (noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: exile, expatriation, transportation |
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| (noun) the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien | - |
| deportee | (noun) a person who is expelled from home or country by authority | Synonyms: exile |
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| deportment | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, demeanour |
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| discomfort | (noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: irritation, soreness |
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| (noun) the state of being tense and feeling pain | Synonyms: uncomfortableness |
| disport | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, divert |
| disproportion | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: dissymmetry, imbalance |
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| disproportional | (adjective) out of proportion | Synonyms: disproportionate |
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| disproportionate | (adjective) out of proportion | Synonyms: disproportional |
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| (adjective) not proportionate | - |
| disproportionately | (adverb) to a disproportionate degree | - |
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| (adverb) in a manner which is out of proportion | - |
| distort | (verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress | Synonyms: deform, strain |
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| (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: falsify, garble, warp |
| (verb) affect as in thought or feeling | Synonyms: color, colour, tinge |
| (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: contort, deform, wring |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: twine, twist |
| distortable | (adjective) capable of having the meaning altered or twisted | - |
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| distorted | (adjective) having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented | Synonyms: misrepresented, perverted, twisted |
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| (adjective) so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly | Synonyms: deformed, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen |
| distortion | (noun) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean | Synonyms: overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting |
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| (noun) the mistake of misrepresenting the facts | - |
| (noun) a change for the worse | Synonyms: deformation |
| (noun) an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image | Synonyms: aberration, optical aberration |
| (noun) a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal) | - |
| (noun) a shape resulting from distortion | Synonyms: distorted shape |
| distortionist | (noun) a painter who introduces distortions | - |
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| effort | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, endeavor, endeavour, try |
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| (noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work | Synonyms: elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail |
| (noun) a notable achievement | Synonyms: exploit, feat |
| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement |
| effortful | (adjective) requiring great physical effort | - |
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| effortfulness | (noun) the quality of requiring deliberate effort | - |
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| effortless | (adjective) requiring or apparently requiring no effort | - |
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| (adjective) not showing effort or strain | Synonyms: casual |
| effortlessly | (adverb) without effort or apparent effort | - |
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| effortlessness | (noun) the quality of requiring little effort | - |
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| epanorthosis | (noun) immediate rephrasing for intensification or justification | - |
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| escort | (noun) the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them | Synonyms: accompaniment |
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| (noun) a participant in a date | Synonyms: date |
| (noun) someone who escorts and protects a prominent person | Synonyms: bodyguard |
| (noun) an attendant who is employed to accompany someone | - |
| (verb) accompany as an escort | - |
| (verb) conduct someone someplace | Synonyms: see |
| esports | (noun) electronic sports | - |
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| exhort | (verb) force or impel in an indicated direction | Synonyms: press, urge, urge on |
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| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, cheer, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| exhortation | (noun) the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion | Synonyms: incitement |
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| (noun) a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action | - |
| exhortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortatory, hortative, hortatory |
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| exhortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, hortative, hortatory |
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| export | (noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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| (verb) cause to spread in another part of the world | - |
| (verb) sell or transfer abroad | - |
| (verb) transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs | - |
| exportable | (adjective) suitable for export | - |
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| exportation | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exporting |
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| (noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: export |
| exporter | (noun) a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale) | - |
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| exporting | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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| extort | (verb) get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner | Synonyms: wring from |
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| (verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: gouge, rack, squeeze, wring |
| (verb) obtain through intimidation | - |
| extortion | (noun) the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence) | - |
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| (noun) unjust exaction (as by the misuse of authority) | - |
| (noun) an exorbitant charge | - |
| extortionate | (adjective) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: exorbitant, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious |
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| extortionately | (adverb) to an exorbitant degree | Synonyms: exorbitantly, usuriously |
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| extortioner | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: blackmailer, extortionist |
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| extortionist | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: blackmailer, extortioner |
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| fanwort | (noun) common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers | Synonyms: Cabomba caroliniana, water-shield |
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| felwort | (noun) gentian of Europe and China having creamy white flowers with fringed corollas | Synonyms: gentianella amarella |
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| figwort | (noun) any of numerous tall coarse woodland plants of the genus Scrophularia | - |
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| fleawort | (noun) plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative | Synonyms: Plantago psyllium, psyllium, Spanish psyllium |
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| foreshorten | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten |
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| (verb) shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth | - |
| fort | (noun) a fortified defensive structure | Synonyms: fortress |
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| (noun) a fortified military post where troops are stationed | Synonyms: garrison |
| (verb) station (troops) in a fort | - |
| (verb) enclose by or as if by a fortification | Synonyms: fortify |
| (verb) gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense | Synonyms: fort up |
| forte | (adjective) (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) indicating that said piece or segment should be played loudly | Synonyms: loud |
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| (noun) the stronger part of a sword blade between the hilt and the foible | - |
| (noun) an asset of special worth or utility | Synonyms: long suit, metier, speciality, specialty, strength, strong point, strong suit |
| (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed loudly | - |
| (adverb) used as a direction in music; to be played relatively loudly | Synonyms: loudly |
| fortemente | (adjective) (chiefly a direction or description in music) loud and strong | - |
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| forth | (adverb) from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete) | Synonyms: away, off |
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| (adverb) forward in time or order or degree | Synonyms: forward, onward |
| (adverb) out into view | - |
| forthcoming | (adjective) available when required or as promised | - |
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| (adjective) of the relatively near future | Synonyms: approaching, coming, upcoming |
| (adjective) at ease in talking to others | Synonyms: extroverted, outgoing |
| forthcomingness | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency |
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| forthright | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: blunt, candid, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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| (adverb) directly and without evasion; not roundabout | Synonyms: forthrightly, squarely |
| forthrightly | (adverb) directly and without evasion; not roundabout | Synonyms: forthright, squarely |
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| forthrightness | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, candour, directness, frankness |
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| forthwith | (adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, directly, immediately, instantly, like a shot, now, right away, straight off, straightaway |
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| forties | (noun) the time of life between 40 and 50 | Synonyms: mid-forties |
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| (noun) the decade from 1940 to 1949 | Synonyms: 1940s |
| fortieth | (adjective) the ordinal number of forty in counting order | Synonyms: 40th |
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| (noun) position 40 in a countable series of things | - |
| fortification | (noun) the addition of an ingredient for the purpose of enrichment (as the addition of alcohol to wine or the addition of vitamins to food) | - |
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| (noun) defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it | Synonyms: munition |
| (noun) the art or science of strengthening defenses | - |
| fortified | (adjective) secured with bastions or fortifications | Synonyms: bastioned |
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| (adjective) having something added to increase the strength | - |
| fortify | (verb) add alcohol to (beverages) | Synonyms: lace, spike |
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| (verb) make strong or stronger | Synonyms: beef up, strengthen |
| (verb) add nutrients to | - |
| (verb) prepare oneself for a military confrontation | Synonyms: arm, build up, gird |
| (verb) enclose by or as if by a fortification | Synonyms: fort |
| fortissimo | (adjective) (chiefly a direction or description in music) very loud and strong | - |
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| (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed very loudly | - |
| (adverb) a direction in music; to be played very loudly | Synonyms: very loudly |
| fortitude | (noun) strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage | - |
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| fortnight | (noun) a period of fourteen consecutive days | Synonyms: two weeks |
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| fortnightly | (adjective) occurring every two weeks | Synonyms: biweekly |
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| (adverb) every two weeks | Synonyms: biweekly |
| fortress | (noun) a fortified defensive structure | Synonyms: fort |
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| fortuitous | (adjective) occurring by happy chance | - |
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| (adjective) having no cause or apparent cause | Synonyms: causeless, uncaused |
| fortuitously | (adverb) by good fortune | Synonyms: as luck would have it, fortunately, luckily |
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| fortuitousness | (noun) the quality of happening accidentally and by lucky chance | - |
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| fortuity | (noun) anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause | Synonyms: accident, chance event, stroke |
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| fortunate | (adjective) having unexpected good fortune | - |
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| (adjective) presaging good fortune | Synonyms: rosy |
| (adjective) supremely favored | Synonyms: golden |
| fortunately | (adverb) by good fortune | Synonyms: as luck would have it, fortuitously, luckily |
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| fortune | (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, hazard, luck |
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| (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome | Synonyms: luck |
| (noun) a large amount of wealth or prosperity | - |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, lot, luck, portion |
| fortuneteller | (noun) a person who foretells your personal future | Synonyms: fortune teller |
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| fortunetelling | (noun) the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment) | - |
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| forty | (adjective) being ten more than thirty | Synonyms: 40, twoscore, xl |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four | Synonyms: 40, XL |
| frostwort | (noun) perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers; so-called because ice crystals form on it during first frosts | Synonyms: Crocanthemum canadense, frost-weed, frostweed, Helianthemum canadense |
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| fumewort | (noun) delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Fumaria officinalis, fumeroot, fumitory |
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| (noun) herb of northern Europe and Asia having erect racemes of red flowers | Synonyms: Corydalis solida, fumeroot |
| gipsywort | (noun) hairy Eurasian herb with two-lipped white flowers | Synonyms: gypsywort, Lycopus europaeus |
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| glasswort | (noun) fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass | Synonyms: Salicornia europaea, samphire |
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| (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: barilla, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort |
| glucocorticoid | (noun) a steroid hormone that is produced by the adrenal cortex of animals; affects functioning of gonads and has anti-inflammatory activity | - |
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| gypsywort | (noun) hairy Eurasian herb with two-lipped white flowers | Synonyms: gipsywort, Lycopus europaeus |
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| halfpennyworth | (noun) the amount that can be bought for a halfpenny | Synonyms: ha'p'orth |
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| heliport | (noun) an airport for helicopters | - |
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| henceforth | (adverb) from this time forth; from now on | Synonyms: henceforward |
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| hornwort | (noun) liverworts with slender hornlike capsules | - |
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| (noun) any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum; forms submerged masses in ponds and slow-flowing streams | - |
| hortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortatory |
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| hortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative |
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| hortensia | (noun) deciduous shrub bearing roundheaded flower clusters opening green and aging to pink or blue | Synonyms: Hydrangea macrophylla hortensis |
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| (noun) very tall branching herb with showy much-doubled yellow flower heads | Synonyms: double gold, golden glow, Rudbeckia laciniata hortensia |
| horticultural | (adjective) of or relating to the cultivation of plants | - |
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| horticulturally | (adverb) by means of horticulture | - |
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| horticulture | (noun) the cultivation of plants | Synonyms: gardening |
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| horticulturist | (noun) an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants) | Synonyms: plantsman |
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| hydrocortisone | (noun) an adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism | Synonyms: Cortef, cortisol, Hydrocortone |
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| hyperadrenocorticism | (noun) a glandular disorder caused by excessive cortisol | Synonyms: Cushing's syndrome |
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| hypoadrenocorticism | (noun) a glandular disorder caused by failure of function of the cortex of the adrenal gland and marked by anemia and prostration with brownish skin | Synonyms: Addison's disease, Addison's syndrome, hypoadrenalism |
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| immortal | (adjective) not subject to death | - |
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| (noun) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | Synonyms: deity, divinity, god |
| (noun) a person (such as an author) of enduring fame | - |
| immortalise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalize |
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| (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize |
| immortality | (noun) the quality or state of being immortal | - |
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| (noun) perpetual life after death | - |
| immortalize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise |
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| (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, memorialise, memorialize |
| immortelle | (noun) mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere | Synonyms: Xeranthemum annuum |
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| import | (noun) commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country | Synonyms: importation |
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| (noun) having important effects or influence | Synonyms: consequence, moment |
| (noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: implication, significance |
| (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: meaning, significance, signification |
| (noun) an imported person brought from a foreign country | Synonyms: importee |
| (verb) indicate or signify | Synonyms: spell |
| (verb) bring in from abroad | - |
| (verb) transfer (electronic data) into a database or document | - |
| importance | (noun) the quality of being important and worthy of note | - |
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| (noun) a prominent status | Synonyms: grandness |