| footloose | (adjective) free to go or do as one pleases | - |
|---|
| foreclose | (verb) subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage | - |
|---|
| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, forestall, preclude, prevent |
| fructose | (noun) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits | Synonyms: fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose |
|---|
| fruticose | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a shrub | Synonyms: fruticulose, shrubby |
|---|
| fruticulose | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a shrub | Synonyms: fruticose, shrubby |
|---|
| furosemide | (noun) commonly used diuretic (trade name Lasix) used to treat hypertension and edema | Synonyms: Lasix |
|---|
| galactose | (noun) a simple sugar found in lactose | Synonyms: brain sugar |
|---|
| galactosemia | (noun) a genetic disease (autosomal recessive) in which an enzyme needed to metabolize galactose is deficient or absent; typically develops shortly after birth | - |
|---|
| gibbose | (adjective) (used of the moon) more than half full | Synonyms: gibbous |
|---|
| globose | (adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, global, globular, orbicular, spheric, spherical |
|---|
| glucose | (noun) a monosaccharide sugar that has several forms; an important source of physiological energy | - |
|---|
| goose | (noun) web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks | - |
|---|
| (noun) flesh of a goose (domestic or wild) | - |
| (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, jackass, twat, zany |
| (verb) pinch in the buttocks | - |
| (verb) give a spurt of fuel to | - |
| (verb) prod into action | - |
| gooseberry | (noun) currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies | - |
|---|
| (noun) spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries | Synonyms: gooseberry bush, Ribes grossularia, Ribes uva-crispa |
| goosebump | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, gooseflesh, horripilation, pilomotor reflex |
|---|
| goosefish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
|---|
| gooseflesh | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, goosebump, horripilation, pilomotor reflex |
|---|
| goosefoot | (noun) any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers | - |
|---|
| gooselike | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, goosey, goosy, jerky |
|---|
| gooseneck | (noun) something in a thin curved form (like the neck of a goose) | - |
|---|
| goosey | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosy, jerky |
|---|
| grandiose | (adjective) impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval | - |
|---|
| (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
| grandiosely | (adverb) in a grandiose manner | Synonyms: bombastically |
|---|
| granulose | (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, gritty, mealy |
|---|
| grumose | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulate, coagulated, curdled, grumous |
|---|
| heptose | (noun) a monosaccharide with seven carbon atoms. | - |
|---|
| heterosexism | (noun) discrimination in favor of heterosexual and against homosexual people | - |
|---|
| heterosexual | (adjective) sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex | - |
|---|
| (noun) a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexual person, straight, straight person |
| heterosexualism | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexuality, straightness |
|---|
| heterosexuality | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexualism, straightness |
|---|
| hexose | (noun) a monosaccharide that contains six carbon atoms per molecule | - |
|---|
| homosexual | (adjective) sexually attracted to members of your own sex | - |
|---|
| (noun) someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gay, homo, homophile |
| homosexualism | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gayness, homoeroticism, homosexuality, queerness |
|---|
| homosexuality | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gayness, homoeroticism, homosexualism, queerness |
|---|
| hooknose | (noun) a nose with a prominent slightly aquiline bridge | Synonyms: Roman nose |
|---|
| hoosegow | (noun) slang for a jail | Synonyms: hoosgow |
|---|
| hose | (noun) socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear) | Synonyms: hosiery |
|---|
| (noun) a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas | Synonyms: hosepipe |
| (noun) man's close-fitting garment of the 16th and 17th centuries covering the legs and reaching up to the waist; worn with a doublet | - |
| (verb) water with a hose | Synonyms: hose down |
| hosepipe | (noun) a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas | Synonyms: hose |
|---|
| impose | (verb) impose something unpleasant | Synonyms: bring down, inflict, visit |
|---|
| (verb) impose and collect | Synonyms: levy |
| (verb) compel to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: constrain, enforce |
| imposed | (adjective) set forth authoritatively as obligatory | - |
|---|
| inclose | (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: enclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in |
|---|
| (verb) surround completely | Synonyms: close in, enclose, shut in |
| indispose | (verb) cause to feel unwell | - |
|---|
| (verb) make unfit or unsuitable | Synonyms: disqualify, unfit |
| (verb) make unwilling | Synonyms: disincline |
| indisposed | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical, averse, loath, loth |
|---|
| (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
| interpose | (verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, inject, interject, put in, throw in |
|---|
| (verb) to put forth by way of intervention | - |
| (verb) be or come between | - |
| (verb) get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force | Synonyms: interfere, intervene, step in |
| isoseismal | (noun) a line on a map connecting points at which earthquake shocks are of equal intensity. | - |
|---|
| jocose | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocular, joking |
|---|
| jocosely | (adverb) with humor | Synonyms: jocular |
|---|
| jocoseness | (noun) the trait of merry joking | Synonyms: humorousness, jocosity, merriness |
|---|
| juxtapose | (verb) place side by side | - |
|---|
| juxtaposed | (adjective) placed side by side often for comparison | - |
|---|
| kerosene | (noun) a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters | Synonyms: coal oil, kerosine, lamp oil |
|---|
| ketoheptose | (noun) A seven-carbon sugar possessing a ketone group. | - |
|---|
| ketohexose | (noun) a monosaccharide having six carbon atoms and a ketone group | - |
|---|
| ketose | (noun) any monosaccharide sugar that contains a ketone group or its hemiacetal | - |
|---|
| ketotetrose | (noun) A monosaccharide that has both a ketone and four carbons. | - |
|---|
| ketotriose | (noun) Any ketose having three carbon atoms; in reality, only dihydroxyacetone. | - |
|---|
| lachrymose | (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolorous, dolourous, tearful, weeping |
|---|
| lactose | (noun) a sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule; occurs only in milk | Synonyms: milk sugar |
|---|
| laevulose | (noun) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits | Synonyms: fructose, fruit sugar, levulose |
|---|
| lederhosen | (noun) leather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially by men and boys in Bavaria | - |
|---|
| lentiginose | (adjective) relating to or covered with or resembling freckles | Synonyms: freckled, lentiginous |
|---|
| leprose | (adjective) rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf | Synonyms: lepidote, scabrous, scaly, scurfy |
|---|
| levulose | (noun) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits | Synonyms: fructose, fruit sugar, laevulose |
|---|
| loose | (adjective) not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting | - |
|---|
| (adjective) not compact or dense in structure or arrangement | - |
| (adjective) not affixed | Synonyms: unaffixed |
| (adjective) (of textures) full of small openings or gaps | Synonyms: open |
| (adjective) not literal | Synonyms: free, liberal |
| (adjective) lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility | Synonyms: idle |
| (adjective) not tense or taut | Synonyms: slack |
| (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, light, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton |
| (adjective) emptying easily or excessively | Synonyms: lax |
| (adjective) (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player | - |
| (adjective) not officially recognized or controlled | Synonyms: informal |
| (adjective) not carefully arranged in a package | - |
| (adjective) having escaped, especially from confinement | Synonyms: at large, escaped, on the loose |
| (adverb) without restraint | Synonyms: free |
| (verb) become loose or looser or less tight | Synonyms: loosen, relax |
| (verb) make loose or looser | Synonyms: loosen |
| (verb) turn loose or free from restraint | Synonyms: let loose, unleash |
| (verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen |
| looseleaf | (adjective) being or having leaves that can be easily removed or rearranged | - |
|---|
| loosely | (adverb) in a relaxed manner; not rigid | Synonyms: slackly |
|---|
| (adverb) structurally open and not compact or close | - |
| (adverb) without regard to specific details or exceptions | Synonyms: broadly, broadly speaking, generally |
| (adverb) in a loose manner | - |
| loosen | (verb) become loose or looser or less tight | Synonyms: loose, relax |
|---|
| (verb) make loose or looser | Synonyms: loose |
| (verb) make less dense | - |
| (verb) disentangle and raise the fibers of | Synonyms: tease, tease apart |
| (verb) cause to become loose | Synonyms: undo, untie |
| (verb) become less severe or strict | Synonyms: relax |
| (verb) make less severe or strict | Synonyms: relax |
| loosened | (adjective) straightened out | Synonyms: disentangled, unsnarled |
|---|
| looseness | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, profligacy |
|---|
| (noun) movement or space for movement | Synonyms: play |
| (noun) a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice | - |
| (noun) freedom from restraint | - |
| (noun) the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints | - |
| (noun) frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor | Synonyms: diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels |
| loosening | (noun) the act of making something less tight | Synonyms: laxation |
|---|
| (noun) an occurrence of control or strength weakening | Synonyms: relaxation, slackening |
| loosestrife | (noun) any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum | - |
|---|
| (noun) any of various herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lysimachia | - |
| lose | (verb) be set at a disadvantage | Synonyms: suffer |
|---|
| (verb) withdraw, as from reality | - |
| (verb) fail to win | - |
| (verb) suffer the loss of a person through death or removal | - |
| (verb) allow to go out of sight or mind | - |
| (verb) fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind | Synonyms: miss |
| (verb) fail to get or obtain | - |
| (verb) miss from one's possessions; lose sight of | - |
| (verb) fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense | - |
| (verb) fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit | Synonyms: turn a loss |
| loser | (noun) a gambler who loses a bet | - |
|---|
| (noun) a contestant who loses the contest | Synonyms: also-ran |
| (noun) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently | Synonyms: failure, nonstarter, unsuccessful person |
| malposed | (adjective) characterized by malposition | - |
|---|
| maltose | (noun) a white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches | Synonyms: malt sugar |
|---|
| marmoset | (noun) small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails | - |
|---|
| megadose | (noun) an exceptionally large dose, as of a drug or vitamin. | - |
|---|
| metamorphose | (verb) change completely the nature or appearance of | Synonyms: transfigure, transmogrify |
|---|
| (verb) change in outward structure or looks | Synonyms: transform, transmute |
| metrosexual | (adjective) a heterosexual man that is particularly interested in his appearance, being well-groomed and fashion | - |
|---|
| microsecond | (noun) one millionth (10^-6) of a second; one thousandth of a millisecond | - |
|---|
| microseism | (noun) a small earthquake | Synonyms: earth tremor, tremor |
|---|
| microsensor | (noun) A submicrometer- to millimeter-size device that converts a nonelectrical physical or chemical quantity, such as pressure, acceleration, temperature, or gas concentration, into an electrical signal; it is generally able to offer better sensitivity, accuracy, dynamic range, and reliability, as well as lower power consumption, compared to larger counterparts. | - |
|---|
| mongoose | (noun) agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents | - |
|---|
| monosaccharose | (noun) a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates | Synonyms: monosaccharide, simple sugar |
|---|
| monosemous | (adjective) having only one meaning | - |
|---|
| monosemy | (noun) having a single meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrases | - |
|---|
| moose | (noun) large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America | Synonyms: Alces alces, elk |
|---|
| moosewood | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, ropebark, wicopy |
|---|
| (noun) maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn | Synonyms: Acer pennsylvanicum, goosefoot maple, moose-wood, striped dogwood, striped maple |
| morose | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, saturnine, sour, sullen |
|---|
| morosely | (adverb) in a morose manner | - |
|---|
| moroseness | (noun) a sullen moody resentful disposition | Synonyms: sourness, sulkiness, sullenness |
|---|
| (noun) a gloomy ill-tempered feeling | Synonyms: glumness, sullenness |
| mosey | (verb) walk leisurely | Synonyms: amble |
|---|
| mucose | (adjective) of or secreting or covered with or resembling mucus | Synonyms: mucous |
|---|
| multipurpose | (adjective) having multiple uses | - |
|---|
| nanosecond | (noun) one billionth (10^-9) of a second; one thousandth of a microsecond | - |
|---|
| nebulose | (adjective) lacking definite form or limits | Synonyms: cloudy, nebulous |
|---|
| necrose | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: gangrene, mortify, sphacelate |
|---|
| nitrocellulose | (noun) a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives | Synonyms: cellulose nitrate, guncotton, nitrocotton |
|---|
| nodulose | (adjective) having minute nodules | - |
|---|
| noose | (noun) a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose | Synonyms: gin, snare |
|---|
| (noun) a loop formed in a cord or rope by means of a slipknot; it binds tighter as the cord or rope is pulled | Synonyms: running noose, slip noose |
| (verb) secure with a noose | - |
| (verb) make a noose in or of | - |
| nose | (noun) a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft) | - |
|---|
| (noun) a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged | Synonyms: nozzle |
| (noun) the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon | - |
| (noun) the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals | Synonyms: olfactory organ |
| (noun) the sense of smell (especially in animals) | - |
| (noun) a natural skill | - |
| (noun) a symbol of inquisitiveness | - |
| (noun) a small distance | - |
| (verb) defeat by a narrow margin | - |
| (verb) rub noses | Synonyms: nuzzle |
| (verb) push or move with the nose | - |
| (verb) advance the forward part of with caution | - |
| (verb) search or inquire in a meddlesome way | Synonyms: horn in, intrude, poke, pry |
| (verb) catch the scent of; get wind of | Synonyms: scent, wind |