| amatungulu | (noun) very large closely branched South African shrub having forked bright green spines and shiny leaves | Synonyms: Carissa grandiflora, Carissa macrocarpa, natal plum |
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| attune | (verb) adjust or accustom to; bring into harmony with | - |
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| fortunate | (adjective) having unexpected good fortune | - |
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| (adjective) presaging good fortune | Synonyms: rosy |
| (adjective) supremely favored | Synonyms: golden |
| fortunately | (adverb) by good fortune | Synonyms: as luck would have it, fortuitously, luckily |
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| fortune | (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, hazard, luck |
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| (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome | Synonyms: luck |
| (noun) a large amount of wealth or prosperity | - |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, lot, luck, portion |
| fortuneteller | (noun) a person who foretells your personal future | Synonyms: fortune teller |
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| fortunetelling | (noun) the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment) | - |
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| importunate | (adjective) persistent to the point of annoying | - |
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| (adjective) expressing persistant and earnest entreaty | - |
| importunately | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: beseechingly, entreatingly, imploringly, pleadingly |
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| importunateness | (noun) Quality of a person who is given to making importunate demands, being greedily or thoughtlessly demanding. | Synonyms: importunity |
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| importune | (verb) beg persistently and urgently | Synonyms: insist |
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| importunity | (noun) Quality of a person who is given to making importunate demands, being greedily or thoughtlessly demanding. | Synonyms: importunateness |
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| (noun) insistent solicitation and entreaty | Synonyms: urgency, urging |
| inopportune | (adjective) not opportune | - |
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| inopportunely | (adverb) at an inconvenient time | Synonyms: malapropos |
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| inopportuneness | (noun) the quality of occurring at an inconvenient time | Synonyms: untimeliness |
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| misfortunate | (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
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| misfortune | (noun) unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event | Synonyms: bad luck |
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| (noun) an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes | Synonyms: bad luck, ill luck, tough luck |
| neptunium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic metallic element; found in trace amounts in uranium ores; a by-product of the production of plutonium | Synonyms: atomic number 93, Np |
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| obtund | (verb) reduce the edge or violence of | - |
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| opportune | (adjective) suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose | - |
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| opportunely | (adverb) conveniently | - |
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| opportuneness | (noun) timely convenience | Synonyms: patness, timeliness |
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| opportunism | (noun) taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others | Synonyms: expedience, self-interest, self-seeking |
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| opportunist | (adjective) taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit | Synonyms: opportunistic, timeserving |
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| (noun) a person who places expediency above principle | Synonyms: self-seeker |
| opportunistic | (adjective) taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit | Synonyms: opportunist, timeserving |
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| opportunity | (noun) a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances | Synonyms: chance |
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| orotund | (adjective) (of sounds) full and rich | Synonyms: pear-shaped, rotund, round |
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| (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, large, tumid, turgid |
| petunia | (noun) any of numerous tropical herbs having fluted funnel-shaped flowers | - |
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| rotund | (adjective) excessively fat | Synonyms: corpulent, obese, weighty |
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| (adjective) (of sounds) full and rich | Synonyms: orotund, pear-shaped, round |
| (adjective) spherical in shape | - |
| rotunda | (noun) a large circular room | - |
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| (noun) a building having a circular plan and a dome | - |
| rotundity | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globosity, globularness, rotundness, sphericalness, sphericity |
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| (noun) the fullness of a tone of voice | Synonyms: roundness |
| rotundly | (adverb) in a sonorous manner | Synonyms: sonorously |
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| rotundness | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globosity, globularness, rotundity, sphericalness, sphericity |
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| shantung | (noun) a heavy silk fabric with a rough surface (or a cotton imitation) | - |
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| stun | (verb) make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow | Synonyms: stupefy |
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| (verb) hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag | Synonyms: sandbag |
| (verb) overcome as with astonishment or disbelief | Synonyms: bedaze, daze |
| stung | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed |
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| stunned | (adjective) in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock | Synonyms: dazed, stupefied, stupid |
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| (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded |
| (adjective) knocked unconscious by a heavy blow | Synonyms: kayoed, knocked out, KO'd, out |
| stunner | (noun) an unexpected and amazing event | - |
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| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, sweetheart |
| stunning | (adjective) strikingly beautiful or attractive | - |
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| (adjective) causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility | - |
| (adjective) commanding attention | Synonyms: arresting, sensational |
| (adjective) causing great astonishment and consternation | - |
| stunningly | (adverb) in a spectacular manner | Synonyms: spectacularly |
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| stunt | (noun) a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention | - |
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| (noun) a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth | - |
| (verb) perform a stunt or stunts | - |
| (verb) to look good | - |
| (verb) check the growth or development of | - |
| stunted | (adjective) inferior in size or quality | Synonyms: scrawny, scrubby |
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| stuntedness | (noun) smallness of stature | Synonyms: puniness, runtiness |
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| stunting | (noun) the performance of stunts while in flight in an aircraft | Synonyms: acrobatics, aerobatics, stunt flying |
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| tun | (noun) a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals | - |
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| tuna | (noun) any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters | Synonyms: tunny |
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| (noun) New Zealand eel | Synonyms: Anguilla sucklandii |
| (noun) important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks | Synonyms: tuna fish, tunny |
| (noun) tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica | Synonyms: Opuntia tuna |
| tunaburger | (noun) a sandwich that resembles a hamburger but made with tuna instead of beef | - |
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| tundra | (noun) a vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen | - |
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| tune | (noun) the adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency | - |
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| (noun) the property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch | - |
| (noun) a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence | Synonyms: air, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, strain |
| (verb) adjust the pitches of (musical instruments) | Synonyms: tune up |
| (verb) adjust for (better) functioning | Synonyms: tune up |
| tuneful | (adjective) having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune | Synonyms: melodious |
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| tunefully | (adverb) in a melodious manner | Synonyms: melodiously |
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| tunefulness | (noun) the property of having a melody | Synonyms: melodiousness |
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| tuneless | (adjective) not having a musical sound or pleasing tune | Synonyms: unmelodious, untuneful |
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| tunelessly | (adverb) in a tuneless fashion | - |
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| tuner | (noun) an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals | Synonyms: radio, radio receiver, radio set, receiving set, wireless |
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| (noun) someone who tunes a musical instrument | - |
| tung | (noun) Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil | Synonyms: Aleurites fordii, tung-oil tree, tung tree |
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| tungstate | (noun) a salt of tungstic acid | - |
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| tungsten | (noun) a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite | Synonyms: atomic number 74, W, wolfram |
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| tunic | (noun) any of a variety of loose fitting cloaks extending to the hips or knees | - |
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| (noun) an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue | Synonyms: adventitia, tunica |
| tunica | (noun) an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue | Synonyms: adventitia, tunic |
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| tunicate | (noun) primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva | Synonyms: urochord, urochordate |
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| tuning | (noun) (music) calibrating something (an instrument or electronic circuit) to a standard frequency | - |
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| tunnage | (noun) a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship | Synonyms: tonnage, tonnage duty |
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| tunnel | (noun) a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars) | - |
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| (noun) a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter | Synonyms: burrow |
| (verb) force a way through | - |
| (verb) move through by or as by digging | Synonyms: burrow |
| tunny | (noun) any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters | Synonyms: tuna |
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| (noun) important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks | Synonyms: tuna, tuna fish |
| unfortunate | (adjective) not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune | - |
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| (adjective) not auspicious; boding ill | Synonyms: inauspicious |
| (adjective) unsuitable or regrettable | - |
| (noun) a person who suffers misfortune | Synonyms: unfortunate person |
| unfortunately | (adverb) by bad luck | Synonyms: alas, regrettably, unluckily |
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| untune | (verb) cause to be out of tune | - |
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| (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, discompose, disconcert, upset |
| untuneful | (adjective) not having a musical sound or pleasing tune | Synonyms: tuneless, unmelodious |
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