fairlead | (noun) a pulley-block used to guide a rope forming part of a ship's rigging to avoid chafing | - |
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fairly | (adverb) without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner | Synonyms: evenhandedly, fair |
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(adverb) to certain extent or degree | Synonyms: jolly, middling, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat |
(adverb) in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating | Synonyms: clean, fair |
familiarly | (adverb) in an intimately familiar manner | - |
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fangirl | (noun) A female fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, someone or something in popular entertainment media) | - |
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(verb) to be a extreme female fan of something | - |
fatherland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, homeland, mother country, motherland, native land |
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fatherless | (adjective) not having a known or legally responsible father | - |
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(adjective) having no living father | - |
fatherlike | (adjective) like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective | Synonyms: fatherly |
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fatherliness | (noun) the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father | Synonyms: paternal quality |
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fatherly | (adjective) like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective | Synonyms: fatherlike |
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fearless | (adjective) oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them | Synonyms: unafraid |
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(adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, dauntless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
fearlessly | (adverb) without fear | Synonyms: dauntlessly, intrepidly |
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fearlessness | (noun) the trait of feeling no fear | - |
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(noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: bravery |
featherless | (adjective) having no feathers | Synonyms: unfeathered |
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featherlike | (adjective) resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers | Synonyms: feathery |
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fingerless | (adjective) not having or having lost fingers | - |
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fingerlike | (adjective) resembling a finger | Synonyms: digitate |
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fingerling | (noun) a young or small fish | - |
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flavorless | (adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: bland, flat, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid |
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flavorlessness | (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavourlessness, savorlessness, savourlessness, tastelessness |
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flavourless | (adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: bland, flat, flavorless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid |
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flavourlessness | (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavorlessness, savorlessness, savourlessness, tastelessness |
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flowerless | (adjective) without flower or bloom and not producing seeds | Synonyms: nonflowering |
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forlorn | (adjective) marked by or showing hopelessness | - |
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forlornly | (adverb) in a forlorn manner | - |
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forlornness | (noun) sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned | Synonyms: desolation, loneliness |
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formerly | (adverb) at a previous time | Synonyms: at one time, erst, erstwhile, once |
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fosterling | (noun) a child who is raised by foster parents | Synonyms: foster-child, foster child |
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furl | (verb) form into a cylinder by rolling | Synonyms: roll up |
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furled | (adjective) rolled up and secured | Synonyms: rolled |
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furlike | (adjective) resembling fur | - |
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furlong | (noun) a unit of length equal to 220 yards | - |
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furlough | (noun) a temporary leave of absence from military duty | - |
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(verb) grant a leave to | - |
(verb) dismiss, usually for economic reasons | Synonyms: lay off |
garland | (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes | Synonyms: chaplet, coronal, lei, wreath |
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(noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: florilegium, miscellany |
(verb) adorn with bands of flowers or leaves | - |
garlic | (noun) aromatic bulb used as seasoning | Synonyms: ail |
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(noun) bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong-flavored cloves | Synonyms: Allium sativum |
garlicky | (adjective) relating to or tasting or smelling of garlic | - |
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gingerly | (adjective) with extreme care or delicacy | - |
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(adverb) in a gingerly manner | - |
girl | (noun) a young female | Synonyms: fille, miss, missy, young lady, young woman |
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(noun) a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved | Synonyms: girlfriend, lady friend |
(noun) a youthful female person | Synonyms: female child, little girl |
(noun) a friendly informal reference to a grown woman | - |
(noun) a female human offspring | Synonyms: daughter |
girlfriend | (noun) a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved | Synonyms: girl, lady friend |
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(noun) any female friend | - |
girlhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: maidenhood, maidhood |
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girlish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young girl | Synonyms: schoolgirlish |
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girlishly | (adverb) like a girl | - |
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girlishness | (noun) being characteristic of a girl | - |
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gnarl | (noun) something twisted and tight and swollen | Synonyms: knot |
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(verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, grumble, murmur, mutter |
(verb) twist into a state of deformity | - |
gnarled | (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarly, knobbed, knotted, knotty |
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gnarly | (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarled, knobbed, knotted, knotty |
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hairless | (adjective) having no hair or fur | - |
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hairlessness | (noun) the quality of not having hair | - |
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(noun) the condition of being void of hair | Synonyms: depilation |
hairlike | (adjective) long and slender with a very small internal diameter | Synonyms: capillary |
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hairline | (noun) the natural margin formed by hair on the head | - |
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(noun) a very thin line | - |
hammerlock | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back | - |
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harlequin | (noun) a clown or buffoon (after the Harlequin character in the commedia dell'arte) | - |
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(verb) variegate with spots or marks | - |
harlequinade | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, japery, prank |
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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 |
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harlotry | (noun) offering sexual intercourse for pay | Synonyms: prostitution, whoredom |
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heirloom | (noun) something that has been in a family for generations | - |
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(noun) (law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance | - |
hinterland | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, backwoods, boondocks |
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homegirl | (noun) a fellow female member of a youth gang | - |
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hourlong | (adjective) lasting for an hour | - |
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hourly | (adjective) occurring every hour or payable by the hour | - |
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(adverb) every hour; by the hour | - |
humorless | (adjective) lacking humor | Synonyms: humourless, unhumorous |
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humorlessly | (adverb) in a humorless manner | Synonyms: humourlessly |
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humourless | (adjective) lacking humor | Synonyms: humorless, unhumorous |
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humourlessly | (adverb) in a humorless manner | Synonyms: humorlessly |
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hurl | (noun) a violent throw | Synonyms: cast |
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(verb) utter with force; utter vehemently | Synonyms: throw |
(verb) throw forcefully | Synonyms: cast, hurtle |
(verb) make a thrusting forward movement | Synonyms: hurtle, lunge, thrust |
hurler | (noun) (baseball) the person who does the pitching | Synonyms: pitcher, twirler |
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hurling | (noun) a traditional Irish game resembling hockey; played by two teams of 15 players each | - |
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hyperlink | (noun) a link from a hypertext file to another location or file; typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or icon at a particular location on the screen | - |
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hyperlipaemia | (noun) presence of excess lipids in the blood | Synonyms: hyperlipemia, hyperlipidaemia, hyperlipidemia, hyperlipoidaemia, hyperlipoidemia, lipaemia, lipemia, lipidaemia, lipidemia, lipoidaemia, lipoidemia |
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hyperlipemia | (noun) presence of excess lipids in the blood | Synonyms: hyperlipaemia, hyperlipidaemia, hyperlipidemia, hyperlipoidaemia, hyperlipoidemia, lipaemia, lipemia, lipidaemia, lipidemia, lipoidaemia, lipoidemia |
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hyperlipidaemia | (noun) presence of excess lipids in the blood | Synonyms: hyperlipaemia, hyperlipemia, hyperlipidemia, hyperlipoidaemia, hyperlipoidemia, lipaemia, lipemia, lipidaemia, lipidemia, lipoidaemia, lipoidemia |
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hyperlipidemia | (noun) presence of excess lipids in the blood | Synonyms: hyperlipaemia, hyperlipemia, hyperlipidaemia, hyperlipoidaemia, hyperlipoidemia, lipaemia, lipemia, lipidaemia, lipidemia, lipoidaemia, lipoidemia |
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hyperlipoidaemia | (noun) presence of excess lipids in the blood | Synonyms: hyperlipaemia, hyperlipemia, hyperlipidaemia, hyperlipidemia, hyperlipoidemia, lipaemia, lipemia, lipidaemia, lipidemia, lipoidaemia, lipoidemia |
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hyperlipoidemia | (noun) presence of excess lipids in the blood | Synonyms: hyperlipaemia, hyperlipemia, hyperlipidaemia, hyperlipidemia, hyperlipoidaemia, lipaemia, lipemia, lipidaemia, lipidemia, lipoidaemia, lipoidemia |
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hyperlipoproteinemia | (noun) any of various disorders of lipoprotein and cholesterol metabolism that result in high levels of lipoprotein and cholesterol in the circulating blood | - |
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improperly | (adverb) in an improper way | - |
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interlace | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, intertwine, lace, twine |
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(verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlock, lock |
interlaced | (adjective) having a pattern of fretwork or latticework | Synonyms: fretted, latticed, latticelike |
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interlacing | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlinking, interlocking, interwoven |
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interlanguage | (noun) a common language used by speakers of different languages | Synonyms: koine, lingua franca |
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interlard | (verb) introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions | Synonyms: intersperse |
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interlayer | (noun) a layer placed between other layers | - |
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interleaf | (noun) a blank leaf inserted between the leaves of a book | - |
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interleave | (verb) intersperse alternately, as of protective covers for book illustrations | - |
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(verb) intersperse the sectors on the concentric magnetic circular patterns written on a computer disk surface to guide the storing and recording of data | - |
(verb) provide (books) with blank leaves | - |
interleukin | (noun) any of several lymphokines that promote macrophages and killer T cells and B cells and other components of the immune system | - |
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interlineal | (adjective) written between lines of text | Synonyms: interlinear |
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interlinear | (adjective) written between lines of text | Synonyms: interlineal |
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interlink | (verb) cause to be interconnected or interwoven | Synonyms: interconnect |
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(verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: complect, interconnect |
interlinking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlocking, interwoven |
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interlobular | (adjective) between lobes or lobules | - |
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interlock | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlocking, mesh, meshing |
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(noun) a device that prevents an automotive engine from starting | Synonyms: ignition interlock |
(verb) coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively | Synonyms: mesh |
(verb) become engaged or intermeshed with one another | Synonyms: lock |
(verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlace, lock |
interlocking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlinking, interwoven |
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(noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, mesh, meshing |
(noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, mesh, meshing |
interlocutor | (noun) a person who takes part in a conversation | Synonyms: conversational partner |
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(noun) the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk | Synonyms: middleman |
interlocutory | (adjective) consisting of dialogue | - |
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interlope | (verb) encroach on the rights of others, as in trading without a proper license | - |
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interloper | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: intruder, trespasser |
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interlude | (noun) a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance | Synonyms: entr'acte, intermezzo |
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(noun) an intervening period or episode | - |
(verb) perform an interlude | - |
intramuscularly | (adverb) in an intramuscular way | - |
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irregularly | (adverb) in an inconstant manner, not according to fixed rate or schedule | Synonyms: on an irregular basis |
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(adverb) at an uneven rate | - |
(adverb) having an irregular form | - |
kimberlite | (noun) a rare type of peridotite that sometimes contains diamonds; found in South Africa and Siberia | - |
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korlan | (noun) the fruit from the korlan tree. | - |
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