| airforce | (noun) the airborne branch of a country's armed forces | Synonyms: air force |
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| amerce | (verb) punish with an arbitrary penalty | - |
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| (verb) punish by a fine imposed arbitrarily by the discretion of the court | - |
| amercement | (noun) money extracted as a penalty | Synonyms: fine, mulct |
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| apperceive | (verb) perceive in terms of a past experience | - |
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| apperception | (noun) the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience | - |
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| apperceptive | (adjective) able to relate new percepts to past experience | - |
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| arced | (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arched, arching, arciform, arcuate, bowed |
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| arcella | (noun) an amoeba-like protozoan with a chitinous shell resembling an umbrella | - |
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| berceuse | (noun) a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: cradlesong, lullaby |
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| coerce | (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: force, hale, pressure, squeeze |
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| commerce | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commercialism, mercantilism |
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| (noun) social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc. | - |
| divorce | (noun) the legal dissolution of a marriage | Synonyms: divorcement |
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| (verb) get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage | Synonyms: split up |
| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite |
| divorced | (adjective) of someone whose marriage has been legally dissolved | - |
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| divorcee | (noun) a divorced woman or a woman who is separated from her husband | Synonyms: grass widow |
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| divorcement | (noun) the legal dissolution of a marriage | Synonyms: divorce |
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| enforce | (verb) ensure observance of laws and rules | Synonyms: apply, implement |
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| (verb) compel to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: constrain, impose |
| enforceable | (adjective) capable of being enforced | - |
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| enforced | (adjective) forced or compelled or put in force | Synonyms: implemented |
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| enforcement | (noun) the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to | - |
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| enforcer | (noun) one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior | Synonyms: hatchet man |
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| ensorcelled | (adjective) captured, as if under a spell | Synonyms: bewitched |
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| esparcet | (noun) Eurasian perennial herb having pale pink flowers and curved pods; naturalized in Britain and North America grasslands on calcareous soils; important forage crop and source of honey in Britain | Synonyms: holy clover, Onobrychis viciaefolia, Onobrychis viciifolia, sainfoin, sanfoin |
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| etanercept | (noun) a genetically engineered anti-TNF compound (trade name Enbrel) consisting of receptors that bind TNF; it is injected twice a week in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis | Synonyms: Enbrel |
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| farce | (noun) a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations | Synonyms: farce comedy, travesty |
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| (noun) mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs | Synonyms: forcemeat |
| (verb) fill with a stuffing while cooking | Synonyms: stuff |
| fierce | (adjective) marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid | Synonyms: tearing, trigger-happy, vehement, violent |
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| (adjective) ruthless in competition | Synonyms: bowelless, cutthroat |
| (adjective) violently agitated and turbulent | Synonyms: boisterous, rough |
| (adjective) marked by extreme and violent energy | Synonyms: ferocious, furious, savage |
| fiercely | (adverb) in a physically fierce manner | Synonyms: ferociously |
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| (adverb) in an emotionally fierce manner | - |
| fierceness | (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness |
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| force | (noun) a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base | Synonyms: force-out, force out, force play |
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| (noun) an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists) | Synonyms: violence |
| (noun) physical energy or intensity | Synonyms: forcefulness, strength |
| (noun) a powerful effect or influence | - |
| (noun) (of a law) having legal validity | Synonyms: effect |
| (noun) group of people willing to obey orders | Synonyms: personnel |
| (noun) a unit that is part of some military service | Synonyms: military force, military group, military unit |
| (noun) a group of people having the power of effective action | - |
| (noun) one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority | Synonyms: power |
| (noun) (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity | - |
| (verb) impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably | Synonyms: thrust |
| (verb) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space | Synonyms: squeeze, wedge |
| (verb) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically | Synonyms: drive, ram |
| (verb) take by force | Synonyms: storm |
| (verb) do forcibly; exert force | - |
| (verb) urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate | Synonyms: impel |
| (verb) move with force | Synonyms: push |
| (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, hale, pressure, squeeze |
| forced | (adjective) produced by or subjected to forcing | - |
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| (adjective) lacking spontaneity; not natural | Synonyms: constrained, strained |
| (adjective) forced or compelled | - |
| (adjective) made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency | - |
| forceful | (adjective) characterized by or full of force or strength (often but not necessarily physical) | - |
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| (adjective) forceful and definite in expression or action | Synonyms: emphatic |
| forcefully | (adverb) with full force | - |
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| forcefulness | (noun) physical energy or intensity | Synonyms: force, strength |
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| forceless | (adjective) lacking force; feeble | Synonyms: unforceful |
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| forcemeat | (noun) mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs | Synonyms: farce |
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| forceps | (noun) an extractor consisting of a pair of pincers used in medical treatment (especially for the delivery of babies) | - |
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| hypercellularity | (noun) the state of having abnormally many cells | - |
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| imperceptibility | (noun) the property of being imperceptible by the mind or the senses | - |
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| imperceptible | (adjective) impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses | Synonyms: unperceivable |
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| imperceptibly | (adverb) in an imperceptible manner or to an imperceptible degree | Synonyms: unnoticeably |
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| incarcerate | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| incarceration | (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: captivity, immurement, imprisonment |
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| intercede | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intermediate, liaise, mediate |
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| intercellular | (adjective) located between cells | - |
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| intercept | (noun) the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis | - |
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| (verb) seize on its way | Synonyms: stop |
| (verb) tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information | Synonyms: bug, tap, wiretap |
| interception | (noun) the act of intercepting; preventing something from proceeding or arriving | - |
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| (noun) (American football) the act of catching a football by a player on the opposing team | - |
| interceptor | (noun) a fast maneuverable fighter plane designed to intercept enemy aircraft | - |
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| intercessio | (noun) the right of veto possessed by Roman magistrates. | - |
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| intercession | (noun) the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.) | Synonyms: intervention |
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| (noun) a prayer to God on behalf of another person | - |
| intercessor | (noun) a negotiator who acts as a link between parties | Synonyms: go-between, intermediary, intermediator, mediator |
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| larcener | (noun) a person who commits larceny | Synonyms: larcenist |
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| larcenist | (noun) a person who commits larceny | Synonyms: larcener |
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| larcenous | (noun) having a disposition to steal | Synonyms: thievishness |
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| larceny | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: stealing, theft, thievery, thieving |
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| marcel | (noun) a hairdo characterized by deep regular waves that are made by a heated curling iron | - |
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| (verb) make a marcel in a woman's hair | - |
| mercenariness | (noun) The state or condition of being motivated by private gain. | - |
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| mercenary | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, moneymaking |
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| (adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, freelance |
| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: materialistic, worldly-minded |
| (noun) a person hired to fight for another country than their own | Synonyms: soldier of fortune |
| mercer | (noun) a dealer in textiles (especially silks) | - |
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| mercerise | (verb) treat to strengthen and improve the luster | Synonyms: mercerize |
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| mercerised | (adjective) of cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink it and increase its luster and affinity for dye | Synonyms: mercerized |
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| mercerize | (verb) treat to strengthen and improve the luster | Synonyms: mercerise |
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| mercerized | (adjective) of cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink it and increase its luster and affinity for dye | Synonyms: mercerised |
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| misperceive | (verb) perceive incorrectly | - |
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| morceau | (noun) a short literary or musical composition | - |
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| outsource | (verb) obtain goods or services from an outside supplier; to contract work out | - |
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| parcel | (noun) the allotment of some amount by dividing something | Synonyms: portion, share |
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| (noun) a wrapped container | Synonyms: package |
| (noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together | Synonyms: bundle, package, packet |
| (noun) an extended area of land | Synonyms: parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract |
| (verb) make into a wrapped container | - |
| (verb) cover with strips of canvas | - |
| (verb) divide into parts | - |
| parceling | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parcelling |
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| parcellation | (noun) the division into parcels | - |
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| parcelling | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling |
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| perceivable | (adjective) capable of being apprehended or understood | Synonyms: apprehensible, graspable, intelligible, understandable |
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| (adjective) capable of being perceived especially by sight or hearing | - |
| perceive | (verb) become conscious of | - |
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| (verb) to become aware of through the senses | Synonyms: comprehend |
| perceived | (adjective) detected by means of the senses | - |
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| (adjective) detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues | Synonyms: sensed |
| perceiver | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, observer, percipient |
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| percent | (noun) a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred); ten percent | Synonyms: pct, per centum, percentage |
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| percentage | (noun) assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group | Synonyms: part, portion, share |
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| (noun) a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred); ten percent | Synonyms: pct, per centum, percent |
| percentile | (noun) (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total | Synonyms: centile |
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| percept | (noun) the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept | Synonyms: perception, perceptual experience |
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| perceptibility | (noun) the property of being perceptible by the mind or the senses | - |
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| perceptible | (adjective) capable of being perceived by the mind or senses | - |
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| (adjective) easily seen or detected | Synonyms: detectable |
| perceptibly | (adverb) in a noticeable manner | Synonyms: noticeably, observably |
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| perception | (noun) becoming aware of something via the senses | Synonyms: sensing |
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| (noun) the process of perceiving | - |
| (noun) the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept | Synonyms: percept, perceptual experience |
| (noun) a way of conceiving something | - |
| (noun) knowledge gained by perceiving | - |
| perceptive | (adjective) having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to perception | - |
| perceptively | (adverb) in a perceptive manner | - |
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| perceptiveness | (noun) the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding | - |
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| (noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: appreciation, discernment, taste |
| (noun) perception of that which is obscure | Synonyms: discernment |
| (noun) a feeling of understanding | Synonyms: insight, perceptivity |
| perceptivity | (noun) a feeling of understanding | Synonyms: insight, perceptiveness |
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| perceptual | (adjective) of or relating to the act of perceiving | - |
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| perceptuality | (noun) The quality of being related to the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information. | - |
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| perceptually | (adverb) with regard to perception | - |
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| perforce | (adverb) by necessity; by force of circumstance | - |
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| pierce | (verb) make a hole into | - |
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| (verb) penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: thrust |
| (verb) cut or make a way through | - |
| (verb) move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply | - |
| (verb) sound sharply or shrilly | - |
| pierced | (adjective) having a hole cut through | Synonyms: perforate, perforated, punctured |
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| porcelain | (noun) ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic | - |
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| porcelainize | (verb) coat with porcelain or a porcelain-like surface | - |
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| quatercentenary | (noun) the 400th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: quatercentennial |
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| quatercentennial | (noun) the 400th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: quatercentenary |
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| reenforce | (verb) make stronger | Synonyms: reinforce |
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| reenforcement | (noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reinforcement, support |
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| (noun) information that makes more forcible or convincing | Synonyms: reinforcement |
| reinforce | (verb) make stronger | Synonyms: reenforce |
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| (verb) strengthen and support with rewards | Synonyms: reward |
| reinforced | (adjective) (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness | Synonyms: built |
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| (adjective) given added strength or support | Synonyms: strengthened |
| reinforcement | (noun) an act performed to strengthen approved behavior | Synonyms: reward |
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| (noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reenforcement, support |
| (noun) a device designed to provide additional strength | Synonyms: strengthener |
| (noun) (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it | Synonyms: reinforcer, reinforcing stimulus |
| (noun) information that makes more forcible or convincing | Synonyms: reenforcement |
| reinforcer | (noun) (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it | Synonyms: reinforcement, reinforcing stimulus |
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