| footprint | (noun) the area taken up by some object | - |
|---|
| (noun) a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface | Synonyms: footmark, step |
| (noun) a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important | - |
| footrace | (noun) a race run on foot | Synonyms: foot race, run |
|---|
| footrest | (noun) a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | Synonyms: footstool, ottoman, tuffet |
|---|
| footslog | (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: pad, plod, slog, tramp, trudge |
|---|
| footslogger | (noun) fights on foot with small arms | Synonyms: foot soldier, infantryman, marcher |
|---|
| footsore | (adjective) having sore or tired feet | - |
|---|
| footstall | (noun) an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue) | Synonyms: pedestal, plinth |
|---|
| footstep | (noun) the act of taking a step in walking | - |
|---|
| (noun) the sound of a step of someone walking | Synonyms: footfall, step |
| (noun) the distance covered by a step | Synonyms: pace, step, stride |
| footstool | (noun) a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | Synonyms: footrest, ottoman, tuffet |
|---|
| footsure | (adjective) not liable to stumble or fall | Synonyms: sure-footed, surefooted |
|---|
| footwall | (noun) the lower wall of an inclined fault | - |
|---|
| footwear | (noun) covering for a person's feet | Synonyms: footgear |
|---|
| (noun) clothing worn on a person's feet | - |
| footwork | (noun) the manner of using the feet | - |
|---|
| (noun) skillful maneuvering or dealing | - |
| forefoot | (noun) a front foot of a quadruped | - |
|---|
| foremother | (noun) a female ancestor | - |
|---|
| forgotten | (adjective) not noticed inadvertently | Synonyms: disregarded |
|---|
| forsooth | (adverb) an archaic word originally meaning `in truth' but now usually used to express disbelief | - |
|---|
| fothergilla | (noun) any of several deciduous low-growing shrubs of the genus Fothergilla having showy brushlike spikes of white flowers in spring and fiery red and orange autumn color; grows from Alabama to the Allegheny Mountains | Synonyms: witch alder |
|---|
| foxtrot | (noun) a ballroom dance in quadruple time; combines short and long and fast and slow steps fixed sequences | Synonyms: fox-trot |
|---|
| (verb) dance the foxtrot | - |
| freebooter | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
|---|
| froth | (noun) a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid | Synonyms: foam |
|---|
| (verb) exude or expel foam | - |
| (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: effervesce, fizz, foam, form bubbles, sparkle |
| (verb) make froth or foam and become bubbly | Synonyms: spume, suds |
| frothily | (adverb) in a frothy manner | - |
|---|
| frothiness | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: bubbliness, effervescence |
|---|
| frothing | (adjective) producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease | Synonyms: foaming, foamy |
|---|
| frothy | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, spumy |
|---|
| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, effervescent, scintillating, sparkly |
| frottage | (noun) masturbation by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd) | - |
|---|
| frotteur | (noun) someone who masturbates by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd) | - |
|---|
| fumeroot | (noun) delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Fumaria officinalis, fumewort, fumitory |
|---|
| (noun) herb of northern Europe and Asia having erect racemes of red flowers | Synonyms: Corydalis solida, fumewort |
| fusspot | (noun) thinks about unfortunate things that might happen | Synonyms: fuss-budget, worrier, worrywart |
|---|
| galoot | (noun) a disreputable or clumsy man | - |
|---|
| garotte | (noun) an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation | Synonyms: garrote, garrotte, iron collar |
|---|
| (verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garrote, garrotte, scrag |
| garrote | (noun) an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation | Synonyms: garotte, garrotte, iron collar |
|---|
| (verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garotte, garrotte, scrag |
| garroter | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garrotter, strangler, throttler |
|---|
| garrotte | (noun) an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation | Synonyms: garotte, garrote, iron collar |
|---|
| (verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garotte, garrote, scrag |
| garrotter | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garroter, strangler, throttler |
|---|
| gavotte | (noun) an old formal French dance in quadruple time | - |
|---|
| (noun) music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte | - |
| gearmotor | (noun) a motor combined with a set of speed-reducing gears. | - |
|---|
| genotype | (noun) the particular alleles at specified loci present in an organism | Synonyms: genetic constitution |
|---|
| (noun) a group of organisms sharing a specific genetic constitution | - |
| genotypic | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a genotype | Synonyms: genotypical |
|---|
| genotypical | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a genotype | Synonyms: genotypic |
|---|
| geothermal | (adjective) of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth | Synonyms: geothermic |
|---|
| geothermally | (adverb) by means of heat from the interior of the earth | - |
|---|
| geothermic | (adjective) of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth | Synonyms: geothermal |
|---|
| geotropism | (noun) an orienting response to gravity | - |
|---|
| gigot | (noun) lamb leg suitable for roasting | Synonyms: leg of lamb |
|---|
| gingerroot | (noun) pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery | Synonyms: ginger |
|---|
| globetrotter | (noun) someone who travels widely and often | Synonyms: world traveler |
|---|
| glottal | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by the glottis | - |
|---|
| glottis | (noun) the vocal apparatus of the larynx; the true vocal folds and the space between them where the voice tone is generated | - |
|---|
| glottochronological | (adjective) pertaining to the study of the evolution of languages from a common source | - |
|---|
| glottochronology | (noun) the determination of how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language | - |
|---|
| glycoprotein | (noun) a conjugated protein having a carbohydrate component | - |
|---|
| goatsfoot | (noun) short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers | Synonyms: goat's foot, Oxalis caprina |
|---|
| godmother | (noun) any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
|---|
| gomphothere | (noun) extinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene | - |
|---|
| gonadotrophic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving gonadotropin | Synonyms: gonadotropic |
|---|
| gonadotrophin | (noun) hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity | Synonyms: gonadotrophic hormone, gonadotropic hormone, gonadotropin |
|---|
| gonadotropic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving gonadotropin | Synonyms: gonadotrophic |
|---|
| gonadotropin | (noun) hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity | Synonyms: gonadotrophic hormone, gonadotrophin, gonadotropic hormone |
|---|
| goosefoot | (noun) any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers | - |
|---|
| gothic | (adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened | Synonyms: mediaeval, medieval |
|---|
| (adjective) characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque | - |
| gothite | (noun) a red or yellow or brown mineral; an oxide of iron that is a common constituent of rust | Synonyms: goethite |
|---|
| grandmother | (noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: gran, grandma, grannie, granny, nan, nanna |
|---|
| grapeshot | (noun) a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot | Synonyms: grape |
|---|
| grassroots | (adjective) fundamental | - |
|---|
| (adjective) of or involving the common people as constituting a fundamental political and economic group | - |
| greenbottle | (noun) blowfly with brilliant coppery green body | Synonyms: greenbottle fly |
|---|
| griot | (noun) a storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village | - |
|---|
| grot | (noun) a small cave (usually with attractive features) | Synonyms: grotto |
|---|
| grotesque | (adjective) ludicrously odd | Synonyms: antic, fantastic, fantastical |
|---|
| (adjective) distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous | Synonyms: monstrous |
| (noun) art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants | - |
| grotesquely | (adverb) in a grotesque manner | Synonyms: monstrously |
|---|
| grotesqueness | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesquerie, grotesquery |
|---|
| grotesquerie | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesqueness, grotesquery |
|---|
| grotesquery | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesqueness, grotesquerie |
|---|
| grotto | (noun) a small cave (usually with attractive features) | Synonyms: grot |
|---|
| grotty | (adjective) very unpleasant or offensive | - |
|---|
| guillemot | (noun) small black or brown speckled auks of northern seas | - |
|---|
| guillotine | (noun) instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people | - |
|---|
| (noun) closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill | Synonyms: closure by compartment |
| (verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine | - |
| guncotton | (noun) a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives | Synonyms: cellulose nitrate, nitrocellulose, nitrocotton |
|---|
| gunshot | (noun) the act of shooting a gun | Synonyms: gunfire |
|---|
| guyot | (noun) a seamount of volcanic origin (especially in the Pacific Ocean) | - |
|---|
| haemoproteid | (noun) related to malaria parasite and having a phase in the viscera of various birds | - |
|---|
| haemoprotein | (noun) a conjugated protein linked to a compound of iron and porphyrin | Synonyms: hemoprotein |
|---|
| haemothorax | (noun) accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest) | Synonyms: hemothorax |
|---|
| haircloth | (noun) cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments | Synonyms: hair |
|---|
| halothane | (noun) a nonflammable inhalation anesthetic that produces general anesthesia; used along with analgesics and muscle relaxants for many types of surgical procedures | - |
|---|
| haplotype | (noun) (genetics) a combination of alleles (for different genes) that are located closely together on the same chromosome and that tend to be inherited together | - |
|---|
| haricot | (noun) a French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried | Synonyms: flageolet |
|---|
| (noun) a French variety of green bean plant bearing light-colored beans | - |
| harlot | (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
|---|
| harlotry | (noun) offering sexual intercourse for pay | Synonyms: prostitution, whoredom |
|---|
| hawkmoth | (noun) any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed | Synonyms: hawk moth, hummingbird moth, sphingid, sphinx moth |
|---|
| headshot | (noun) a shot aimed at a person's head | - |
|---|
| (noun) an attempt to put the soccer ball into the net by using the head | - |
| (noun) a photograph of a person's head | - |
| heartrot | (noun) any plant disease in which the central part of a plant rots (especially in trees) | - |
|---|
| heliotherapy | (noun) therapeutic exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: insolation |
|---|
| heliotrope | (noun) green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood | Synonyms: bloodstone |
|---|
| heliotropism | (noun) an orienting response to the sun | - |
|---|
| heliotype | (noun) duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy | Synonyms: hectograph |
|---|
| helot | (noun) (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord | Synonyms: serf, villein |
|---|
| hemoprotein | (noun) a conjugated protein linked to a compound of iron and porphyrin | Synonyms: haemoprotein |
|---|
| hemothorax | (noun) accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest) | Synonyms: haemothorax |
|---|
| hepatotoxic | (adjective) toxic to the liver | - |
|---|