| exhausted | (adjective) depleted of energy, force, or strength | Synonyms: spent |
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| (adjective) drained physically | - |
| (adjective) drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted | Synonyms: dog-tired, fagged, fatigued, gone, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out, worn out |
| existence | (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, macrocosm, universe, world |
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| (noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, beingness, face of the earth |
| existent | (adjective) having existence or being or actuality | Synonyms: existing |
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| (adjective) being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory | Synonyms: real |
| (adjective) presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible | Synonyms: actual |
| existential | (adjective) relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence) | - |
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| (adjective) of or as conceived by existentialism | - |
| (adjective) derived from experience or the experience of existence | Synonyms: experiential |
| existentialism | (noun) (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves | Synonyms: existential philosophy, existentialist philosophy |
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| existentialist | (adjective) relating to or involving existentialism | - |
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| (noun) a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable | Synonyms: existential philosopher, existentialist philosopher |
| farmstead | (noun) a farm together with its buildings | Synonyms: farm-place, farmplace |
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| (noun) the buildings and adjacent grounds of a farm | - |
| fasten | (verb) make tight or tighter | Synonyms: tighten |
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| (verb) become fixed or fastened | - |
| (verb) cause to be firmly attached | Synonyms: fix, secure |
| (verb) attach to | - |
| fastened | (adjective) firmly closed or secured | - |
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| (adjective) furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike | Synonyms: buttoned |
| (adjective) fastened with strings or cords | Synonyms: tied |
| fastener | (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastening, fixing, holdfast |
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| (noun) a person who fastens or makes fast | - |
| fastening | (noun) the act of fastening things together | Synonyms: attachment |
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| (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastener, fixing, holdfast |
| faster | (adverb) more quickly | Synonyms: quicker |
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| fastest | (adverb) most quickly | Synonyms: quickest |
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| fenestella | (noun) oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault | Synonyms: lunette |
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| fester | (noun) a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus | Synonyms: suppurating sore |
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| (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: maturate, suppurate |
| festering | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: ichor, purulence, pus, sanies, suppuration |
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| (noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: maturation, suppuration |
| filibuster | (noun) (law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches | - |
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| (noun) a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes | Synonyms: filibusterer |
| (verb) obstruct deliberately by delaying | - |
| filibusterer | (noun) a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes | Synonyms: filibuster |
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| fishpaste | (noun) a paste of fish or shellfish | - |
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| flabbergasted | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dumfounded, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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| fluster | (noun) a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset | Synonyms: perturbation |
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| (verb) cause to be nervous or upset | - |
| (verb) be flustered; behave in a confused manner | - |
| flustered | (adjective) thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) | Synonyms: hot and bothered, perturbed, rattled |
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| footstep | (noun) the act of taking a step in walking | - |
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| (noun) the sound of a step of someone walking | Synonyms: footfall, step |
| (noun) the distance covered by a step | Synonyms: pace, step, stride |
| forecaster | (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: predictor, prognosticator, soothsayer |
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| forested | (adjective) covered with forest | - |
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| forester | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: arboriculturist, tree farmer |
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| foretaste | (noun) an early limited awareness of something yet to occur | - |
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| foster | (adjective) providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties | Synonyms: surrogate |
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| (verb) help develop, help grow | Synonyms: nurture |
| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: cultivate, further |
| (verb) bring up under fosterage; of children | - |
| fosterage | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
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| (noun) encouragement; aiding the development of something | Synonyms: fostering |
| fostering | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
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| (noun) encouragement; aiding the development of something | Synonyms: fosterage |
| fosterling | (noun) a child who is raised by foster parents | Synonyms: foster-child, foster child |
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| frosted | (adjective) (of glass) having a roughened coating resembling frost | - |
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| gagster | (noun) someone who writes comic material for public performers | Synonyms: gagman, gagwriter |
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| gangster | (noun) a criminal who is a member of gang | Synonyms: mobster |
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| gasteromycete | (noun) any fungus of the class Gasteromycetes | Synonyms: gastromycete |
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| glisten | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glister, glitter, scintillation, sparkle |
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| (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glitter, shine |
| glistening | (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining, shiny |
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| glister | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glitter, scintillation, sparkle |
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| glistering | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| grandmaster | (noun) a player of exceptional or world class skill in chess or bridge | - |
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| gynostegium | (noun) the crown of the stamen in plants of the genus Asclepias | - |
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| hamster | (noun) short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches | - |
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| hardfisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: closefisted, tightfisted |
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| harvester | (noun) farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields | Synonyms: reaper |
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| (noun) someone who helps to gather the harvest | Synonyms: reaper |
| haste | (noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: hurry, rush, rushing |
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| (noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: hastiness, hurriedness, hurry, precipitation |
| (noun) a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry | Synonyms: hurry |
| hasten | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: festinate, hurry, look sharp, rush |
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| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: induce, rush, stimulate |
| (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it |
| (verb) speed up the progress of; facilitate | Synonyms: expedite |
| headmaster | (noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: master, schoolmaster |
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| headmastership | (noun) the position of headmaster | - |
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| hipster | (noun) someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle | Synonyms: flower child, hippie, hippy |
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| hipsters | (noun) a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music | Synonyms: flower people, hippies |
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| hoister | (noun) an operator of a hoist | - |
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| holster | (noun) a sheath (usually leather) for carrying a handgun | - |
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| (noun) a belt with loops or slots for carrying small hand tools | - |
| homestead | (noun) dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land | - |
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| (noun) the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family | - |
| (noun) land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law | - |
| (verb) settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead | - |
| homesteader | (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: nester, squatter |
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| hostel | (noun) inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips) | Synonyms: student lodging, youth hostel |
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| (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: auberge, hostelry, inn, lodge |
| hosteller | (noun) a traveler who lodges in hostels | - |
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| (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hotel manager, hotelier, hotelkeeper, hotelman |
| hostelry | (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: auberge, hostel, inn, lodge |
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| hostess | (noun) a woman innkeeper | - |
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| (noun) a woman steward on an airplane | Synonyms: air hostess, stewardess |
| (noun) a woman host | - |
| housemaster | (noun) teacher in charge of a school boardinghouse | - |
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| huckster | (noun) a seller of shoddy goods | Synonyms: cheap-jack |
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| (noun) a person who writes radio or tv advertisements | - |
| (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, monger, peddle, pitch, vend |
| (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, higgle |
| hyperaldosteronism | (noun) a condition caused by overproduction of aldosterone | Synonyms: aldosteronism |
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| hypercholesteremia | (noun) the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis | Synonyms: hypercholesterolemia |
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| hypercholesterolemia | (noun) the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis | Synonyms: hypercholesteremia |
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| hypercoaster | (noun) a roller coaster that goes up 200 feet or higher and can catapult riders from 0 to 70 mph in 4 seconds by motors originally designed to launch rockets | - |
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| hysterectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the uterus | - |
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| hysteresis | (noun) the lagging of an effect behind its cause; especially the phenomenon in which the magnetic induction of a ferromagnetic material lags behind the changing magnetic field | - |
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| hysteria | (noun) excessive or uncontrollable fear | - |
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| (noun) neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions | Synonyms: hysterical neurosis |
| (noun) state of violent mental agitation | Synonyms: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury |
| hysteric | (adjective) characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria | Synonyms: hysterical |
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| (noun) a person suffering from hysteria | - |
| hysterical | (adjective) marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria | Synonyms: hysteric |
| hysterically | (adverb) in a hysterical manner | - |
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| hysterics | (noun) an attack of hysteria | - |
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| hysterocatalepsy | (noun) hysteria with cataleptic symptoms | - |
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| hysterosalpingogram | (noun) X ray of the uterus and Fallopian tubes; usually done in diagnosing infertility (to see if there any blockages) | - |
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| hysteroscopy | (noun) visual examination of the uterus and uterine lining using an endoscope inserted through the vagina | - |
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| hysterotomy | (noun) surgical incision into the uterus (as in cesarean section) | - |
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| ichthyostega | (noun) early tetrapod amphibian found in Greenland | - |
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| imposter | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| inconsistency | (noun) the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts | - |
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| (noun) the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time | Synonyms: incompatibility, mutual exclusiveness, repugnance |
| inconsistent | (adjective) displaying a lack of consistency | - |
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| (adjective) not in agreement | Synonyms: discrepant |
| (adjective) not capable of being made consistent or harmonious | - |
| inconsistently | (adverb) without showing consistency | - |
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| insistence | (noun) the act of insisting on something | Synonyms: insistency |
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| (noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insisting |
| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistency, press, pressure |
| insistency | (noun) the act of insisting on something | Synonyms: insistence |
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| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistence, press, pressure |
| insistent | (adjective) repetitive and persistent | Synonyms: repetitive |
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| (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, crying, exigent, instant |
| insistently | (adverb) in an insistent manner | - |
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| instead | (adverb) in place of, or as an alternative to | Synonyms: alternatively, or else |
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| (adverb) on the contrary | Synonyms: rather |
| instep | (noun) the part of a shoe or stocking that covers the arch of the foot | - |
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| (noun) the arch of the foot | - |
| interested | (adjective) having or showing interest; especially curiosity or fascination or concern | - |
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| (adjective) involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in | Synonyms: concerned |
| interestedness | (noun) the state of being interested | - |
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| interstellar | (adjective) between or among stars | - |
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| jester | (noun) a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: fool, motley fool |
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| jokester | (noun) a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes | Synonyms: joker |
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| keister | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| ketosteroid | (noun) a steroid containing a ketone group | - |
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| lackluster | (adjective) lacking luster or shine | Synonyms: lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless |
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| (adjective) lacking brilliance or vitality | Synonyms: lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless |
| lambaste | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambast |
| langouste | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crawfish, crayfish, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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| (noun) warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California | Synonyms: crayfish, rock lobster, spiny lobster |
| laryngostenosis | (noun) abnormal narrowing of the larynx | - |
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| leister | (noun) a spear with three or more prongs; used for spearing fish (especially salmon) | - |
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| listed | (adjective) on a list | - |
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| listen | (verb) hear with intention | - |
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| (verb) listen and pay attention | Synonyms: hear, take heed |
| (verb) pay close attention to; give heed to | Synonyms: heed, mind |