| fartlek | (noun) a method of athletic training (especially for runners) in which strenuous effort and normal effort alternate in a continuous exercise | - |
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| fatless | (adjective) without fat or fat solids | Synonyms: fat-free, nonfat |
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| faultless | (adjective) without fault or error | Synonyms: immaculate, impeccable, incorrupted |
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| faultlessly | (adverb) without a fault; in a faultless manner | - |
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| faultlessness | (noun) the quality of being without an error or fault | Synonyms: impeccability |
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| fettle | (noun) a state of fitness and good health | - |
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| (verb) remove mold marks or sand from (a casting) | - |
| flatlet | (noun) a tiny flat | - |
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| flightless | (adjective) incapable of flying | - |
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| flightlessness | (noun) The condition of being unable to fly, usually used with birds such as the penguin, ostrich, and emu. | - |
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| footle | (verb) act foolishly, as by talking nonsense | - |
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| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| footless | (adjective) having no feet or analogous appendages | - |
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| forecastle | (noun) living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed | Synonyms: fo'c'sle |
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| frontlet | (noun) an adornment worn on the forehead | Synonyms: frontal |
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| fruitless | (adjective) unproductive of success | Synonyms: bootless, futile, sleeveless, vain |
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| fruitlessly | (adverb) in an unproductive manner | Synonyms: unproductively, unprofitably |
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| fruitlessness | (noun) the quality of yielding nothing of value | Synonyms: aridity, barrenness |
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| (noun) a lack of creative imagination | - |
| fruitlet | (noun) a diminutive fruit, especially one that is part of a multiple fruit | - |
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| gantlet | (noun) a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim | Synonyms: gauntlet |
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| (noun) the convergence of two parallel railroad tracks in a narrow place; the inner rails cross and run parallel and then diverge so a train remains on its own tracks at all times | - |
| (noun) a glove of armored leather; protects the hand | Synonyms: gauntlet, metal glove |
| (noun) a glove with long sleeve | Synonyms: gauntlet |
| (noun) to offer or accept a challenge | Synonyms: gauntlet |
| garmentless | (adjective) possessing no clothing | Synonyms: clothesless, raimentless |
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| gauntlet | (noun) a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim | Synonyms: gantlet |
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| (noun) a glove of armored leather; protects the hand | Synonyms: gantlet, metal glove |
| (noun) a glove with long sleeve | Synonyms: gantlet |
| (noun) to offer or accept a challenge | Synonyms: gantlet |
| gauntleted | (adjective) wearing a protective glove | - |
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| gentle | (adjective) marked by moderate steepness | Synonyms: easy |
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| (adjective) having little impact | Synonyms: easy, soft |
| (adjective) soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe | Synonyms: soft |
| (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, patrician |
| (adjective) quiet and soothing | - |
| (adjective) easily handled or managed | Synonyms: docile |
| (adjective) having or showing a kindly or tender nature | - |
| (verb) stroke soothingly | - |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| (verb) give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility | Synonyms: ennoble, entitle |
| gentlefolk | (noun) people of good family and breeding and high social status | - |
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| gentleman | (noun) a man of refinement | - |
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| (noun) a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer | Synonyms: gentleman's gentleman, man, valet, valet de chambre |
| gentlemanlike | (adjective) befitting a man of good breeding | Synonyms: gentlemanly |
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| gentlemanliness | (noun) Gentlemanly behaviour, characteristics of or pertaining to being a gentleman. | - |
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| gentlemanly | (adjective) befitting a man of good breeding | Synonyms: gentlemanlike |
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| gentleness | (noun) acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered | Synonyms: mildness, softness |
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| (noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very gradual | Synonyms: gradualness |
| gentlewoman | (noun) a woman of refinement | Synonyms: dame, lady, ma'am, madam |
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| greenbottle | (noun) blowfly with brilliant coppery green body | Synonyms: greenbottle fly |
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| gristle | (noun) tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults | Synonyms: cartilage |
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| gruntle | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
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| guiltless | (adjective) free from evil or guilt | Synonyms: clean-handed, innocent |
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| guiltlessness | (noun) a state of innocence | Synonyms: blamelessness, inculpability, inculpableness |
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| gutless | (adjective) lacking courage or vitality | Synonyms: namby-pamby, spineless, wishy-washy |
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| gutlessness | (noun) the trait of lacking courage and determination; fearful of loss or injury | - |
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| guttle | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: devour, pig, raven |
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| hartley | (noun) a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. | Synonyms: ban, dit, Hart |
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| hatless | (adjective) not wearing a hat | - |
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| heartleaf | (noun) evergreen low-growing perennial having mottled green and silvery-grey heart-shaped pungent leaves; Virginia to South Carolina | Synonyms: Asarum virginicum, heart-leaf |
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| (noun) wild ginger having persistent heart-shaped pungent leaves; West Virginia to Alabama | Synonyms: Asarum shuttleworthii, heart-leaf |
| heartless | (adjective) lacking in feeling or pity or warmth | Synonyms: hardhearted |
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| (adjective) devoid of courage or enthusiasm | - |
| heartlessly | (adverb) in a heartless manner | - |
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| heartlessness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: coldheartedness, hardheartedness |
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| heatless | (adjective) without generating heat | - |
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| hitless | (adjective) (of a batter) without a hit | - |
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| (adjective) having no points scores | Synonyms: goalless, pointless, scoreless |
| hostler | (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: groom, ostler, stableboy, stableman |
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| hurtle | (verb) throw forcefully | Synonyms: cast, hurl |
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| (verb) make a thrusting forward movement | Synonyms: hurl, lunge, thrust |
| (verb) move with or as if with a rushing sound | - |
| hustle | (noun) a rapid active commotion | Synonyms: ado, bustle, flurry, fuss, stir |
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| (noun) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, sting |
| (verb) pressure or urge someone into an action | - |
| (verb) move or cause to move energetically or busily | Synonyms: bustle, bustle about |
| (verb) cause to move furtively and hurriedly | - |
| (verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity | Synonyms: pluck, roll |
| (verb) get by trying hard | - |
| hustler | (noun) a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties | Synonyms: operator, wheeler dealer |
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| (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
| jostle | (noun) the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing) | Synonyms: jostling |
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| (verb) come into rough contact with while moving | Synonyms: shove |
| (verb) make one's way by jostling, pushing, or shoving | - |
| kettle | (noun) a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid | Synonyms: boiler |
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| (noun) a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it | Synonyms: kettledrum, timpani, tympani, tympanum |
| (noun) (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits | Synonyms: kettle hole |
| (noun) the quantity a kettle will hold | Synonyms: kettleful |
| kettledrum | (noun) a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it | Synonyms: kettle, timpani, tympani, tympanum |
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| kettleful | (noun) the quantity a kettle will hold | Synonyms: kettle |
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| kirtle | (noun) a long dress worn by women | - |
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| (noun) a garment resembling a tunic that was worn by men in the Middle Ages | - |
| ladybeetle | (noun) small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests | Synonyms: lady beetle, ladybird, ladybird beetle, ladybug |
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| lightless | (adjective) without illumination | Synonyms: unilluminated, unlighted, unlit |
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| (adjective) giving no light | - |
| lightlessness | (noun) total absence of light | Synonyms: black, blackness, pitch blackness, total darkness |
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| limitless | (adjective) having no limits in range or scope | Synonyms: unlimited |
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| (adjective) without limits in extent or size or quantity | Synonyms: illimitable, measureless, unmeasured |
| (adjective) seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent | Synonyms: boundless, unbounded |
| limitlessness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: boundlessness, infiniteness, infinitude, unboundedness |
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| listless | (adjective) lacking zest or vivacity | - |
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| (adjective) marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm | Synonyms: dispirited |
| listlessly | (adverb) in a listless manner | - |
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| listlessness | (noun) inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy | Synonyms: torpidity, torpidness, torpor |
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| (noun) a feeling of lack of interest or energy | Synonyms: languor, lassitude |
| little | (adjective) low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal | Synonyms: short |
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| (adjective) limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent | Synonyms: small |
| (adjective) (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some | Synonyms: slight |
| (adjective) small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context) | - |
| (adjective) lowercase | Synonyms: minuscule, small |
| (adjective) (of a voice) faint | Synonyms: small |
| (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
| (adjective) (of children and animals) young, immature | Synonyms: small |
| (noun) a small amount or duration | - |
| (adverb) not much | - |
| littleneck | (noun) a young quahog | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
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| (noun) a quahog when young and small; usually eaten raw; an important food popular in New York | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
| littleness | (noun) the property of having a relatively small size | Synonyms: smallness |
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| (noun) lack of generosity in trifling matters | Synonyms: pettiness, smallness |
| (noun) the property of having relatively little strength or vigor | Synonyms: smallness |
| littler | (adjective) small or little relative to something else | Synonyms: smaller |
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| mantle | (noun) a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter | Synonyms: cape |
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| (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: curtain, drape, drapery, pall |
| (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: chimneypiece, mantel, mantelpiece, mantlepiece |
| (noun) (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell | Synonyms: pallium |
| (noun) the cloak as a symbol of authority | - |
| (noun) the layer of the earth between the crust and the core | - |
| (noun) anything that covers | Synonyms: blanket |
| (verb) cover like a mantle | - |
| (verb) spread over a surface, like a mantle | - |
| mantled | (adjective) covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak | Synonyms: cloaked, clothed, draped, wrapped |
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| mantlepiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: chimneypiece, mantel, mantelpiece, mantle |
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| mantlet | (noun) portable bulletproof shelter | Synonyms: mantelet |
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| meatless | (adjective) lacking meat | - |
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| meritless | (adjective) without merit; of little or no value or use | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry |
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| mettle | (noun) the courage to carry on | Synonyms: heart, nerve, spunk |
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| mettlesome | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, gritty, spirited, spunky |
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| (adjective) having a proud and unbroken spirit | - |
| mettlesomeness | (noun) courageous high-spiritedness | - |
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| mistletoe | (noun) Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas | Synonyms: Old World mistletoe, Viscum album |
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| (noun) American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe | Synonyms: false mistletoe |
| (noun) shrub of central and southeastern Europe; partially parasitic on beeches, chestnuts and oaks | Synonyms: Loranthus europaeus |
| motley | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
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| (adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds | Synonyms: assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, sundry |
| (noun) a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England | - |
| (noun) a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume) | - |
| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| (verb) make motley; color with different colors | Synonyms: parti-color |
| (verb) make something more diverse and varied | Synonyms: variegate, vary |
| mottle | (noun) an irregular arrangement of patches of color | - |
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| (verb) colour with streaks or blotches of different shades | Synonyms: cloud, dapple |
| (verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: blotch, streak |
| mottled | (adjective) having spots or patches of color | Synonyms: dappled |
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| mudwrestle | (verb) wrestle in mud | Synonyms: mud-wrestle |
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| myrtle | (noun) any evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Myrtus | - |
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| (noun) widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers | Synonyms: Vinca minor |
| nestle | (noun) a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace | Synonyms: cuddle, snuggle |
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| (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nest, nuzzle, snuggle |
| (verb) position comfortably | Synonyms: snuggle |
| (verb) lie in a sheltered position | - |
| nestled | (adjective) drawn or pressed close to someone or something for or as if for affection or protection | Synonyms: snuggled |
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| nettle | (noun) any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae) | - |
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| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, rag, rile, vex |
| (verb) sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation | Synonyms: urticate |
| nettled | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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| nettlesome | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
| nutlet | (noun) a small nut | - |
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| ostler | (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: groom, hostler, stableboy, stableman |
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| outlet | (noun) activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion | Synonyms: release, vent |
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| (noun) an opening that permits escape or release | Synonyms: exit, issue, way out |
| (noun) a place of business for retailing goods | Synonyms: mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet |
| (noun) receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices | Synonyms: electric outlet, electric receptacle, electrical outlet, wall plug, wall socket |
| parentless | (adjective) having no parent or parents or not cared for by parent surrogates | Synonyms: unparented |
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| pennywhistle | (noun) an inexpensive fipple flute | Synonyms: tin whistle, whistle |
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| pestle | (noun) a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar | - |
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| (noun) a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone | Synonyms: muller, pounder |
| (noun) machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores | Synonyms: stamp |
| (verb) grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar | - |
| pilotless | (adjective) lacking a pilot | - |
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| pintle | (noun) a pin or bolt forming the pivot of a hinge | - |
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| plantlet | (noun) a young plant or a small plant | - |
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| pointless | (adjective) not having a point especially a sharp point | Synonyms: unpointed |
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| (adjective) having no points scores | Synonyms: goalless, hitless, scoreless |
| (adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: otiose, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted |
| pointlessly | (adverb) in a pointless manner | - |
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| pointlessness | (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, mindlessness, senselessness, vacuity |
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| pottle | (noun) a pot that holds 2 quarts | - |
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| prattle | (noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk | Synonyms: blether, chin music, idle talk, prate |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |