| aepyornis | (noun) huge (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar | Synonyms: elephant bird |
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| archaeornis | (noun) extinct primitive toothed bird with a long feathered tail and three free clawed digits on each wing | - |
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| burnish | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: gloss, glossiness, polish |
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| (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, furbish |
| burnished | (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, lustrous, shining, shiny |
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| burnisher | (noun) a hand tool with polished agate tips (or other gemstone) for rubbing the gold leaf in order to obtain a highly polished surface, used in gilding. | Synonyms: burnishing tool |
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| eternise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| fraternisation | (noun) associating with others in a brotherly or friendly way; especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternization |
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| fraternise | (verb) be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternize |
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| furnish | (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: offer, provide, render, supply |
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| (verb) provide or equip with furniture | - |
| furnished | (adjective) provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority) | Synonyms: equipped |
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| furnishing | (noun) the act of providing a house or room with furniture and other removable items such as shelves, carpets, appliances, etc. | - |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel | Synonyms: trappings |
| garnish | (noun) any decoration added as a trimming or adornment | - |
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| (noun) something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration | - |
| (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: dress, trim |
| (verb) take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support | Synonyms: garnishee |
| garnishee | (noun) a wage earner who is served with a garnishment | - |
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| (verb) take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support | Synonyms: garnish |
| garnishment | (noun) a court order to an employer to withhold all or part of an employee's wages and to send the money to the court or to the person who won a lawsuit against the employee | - |
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| hornist | (noun) a musician who plays a horn (especially a French horn) | - |
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| internist | (noun) a specialist in internal medicine | - |
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| modernisation | (noun) making modern in appearance or behavior | Synonyms: modernization |
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| modernise | (verb) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to | Synonyms: modernize, overhaul |
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| (verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: develop, modernize |
| modernised | (adjective) brought up to date | Synonyms: modernized |
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| modernism | (noun) practices typical of contemporary life or thought | - |
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| (noun) genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres | - |
| (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernity, modernness |
| modernist | (noun) an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles | - |
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| modernistic | (adjective) relating to a recently developed fashion or style | Synonyms: mod, modern |
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| notornis | (noun) flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules | Synonyms: Notornis mantelli, takahe |
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| postmodernism | (noun) genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism | - |
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| postmodernist | (adjective) of or relating to postmodernism | Synonyms: postmodern |
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| refurnish | (verb) furnish with new or different furniture | - |
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| saturnism | (noun) toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system | Synonyms: lead poisoning, plumbism |
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| southernism | (noun) an attitude characteristic of Southerners (especially in the US) | - |
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| (noun) a locution or pronunciation peculiar to the southern United States | - |
| tarnish | (noun) discoloration of metal surface caused by oxidation | - |
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| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, maculate, stain, sully |
| unburnished | (adjective) of metals e.g.; not made shiny and smooth by friction | - |
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| unfurnished | (adjective) not equipped with what is needed especially furniture | - |
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| unmodernised | (adjective) not brought up to date | Synonyms: unmodernized |
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| untarnished | (adjective) (of reputation) free from blemishes | Synonyms: stainless, unstained, unsullied, untainted |
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| unvarnished | (adjective) free from any effort to soften to disguise | Synonyms: plain |
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| (adjective) not having a coating of stain or varnish | Synonyms: unstained |
| varnish | (noun) a coating that provides a hard, lustrous, transparent finish to a surface | - |
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| (verb) cover with varnish | Synonyms: seal |
| varnished | (adjective) having a coating of stain or varnish | Synonyms: stained |
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| varnisher | (noun) someone who applies a finishing coat of varnish | - |
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| westernise | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalise, occidentalize, westernize |
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