| appurtenance | (noun) a supplementary component that improves capability | Synonyms: accessory, add-on, supplement |
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| (noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. | Synonyms: gear, paraphernalia |
| appurtenant | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, auxiliary |
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| blurt | (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder, blunder out, blurt out, ejaculate |
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| bourtree | (noun) a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies | Synonyms: black elder, common elder, elderberry, European elder, Sambucus nigra |
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| burthen | (noun) a variant of `burden' | - |
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| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burden, weight, weight down |
| court | (noun) respectful deference | Synonyms: homage |
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| (noun) an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings | Synonyms: courtyard |
| (noun) a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played | - |
| (noun) a room in which a law court sits | Synonyms: courtroom |
| (noun) a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area | Synonyms: motor hotel, motor inn, motor lodge, tourist court |
| (noun) the residence of a sovereign or nobleman | - |
| (noun) an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business | Synonyms: judicature, tribunal |
| (noun) the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state | Synonyms: royal court |
| (noun) the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince | Synonyms: royal court |
| (verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: romance, solicit, woo |
| (verb) seek someone's favor | Synonyms: woo |
| (verb) engage in social activities leading to marriage | - |
| courteous | (adjective) characterized by courtesy and gracious good manners | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting courtesy and politeness | Synonyms: gracious, nice |
| courteously | (adverb) in a polite manner | Synonyms: politely |
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| courtesan | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: concubine, doxy, paramour |
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| courtesy | (noun) a courteous or respectful or considerate act | - |
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| (noun) a courteous manner | Synonyms: good manners |
| (noun) a courteous or respectful or considerate remark | - |
| courthouse | (noun) a building that houses judicial courts | - |
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| (noun) a government building that houses the offices of a county government | - |
| courtier | (noun) an attendant at the court of a sovereign | - |
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| courting | (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courtship, suit, wooing |
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| courtliness | (noun) elegance suggestive of a royal court | - |
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| courtly | (adjective) refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court | Synonyms: formal, stately |
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| courtroom | (noun) a room in which a law court sits | Synonyms: court |
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| courtship | (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courting, suit, wooing |
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| courtyard | (noun) an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings | Synonyms: court |
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| curt | (adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short | Synonyms: crisp, laconic, terse |
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| (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, brusque, short |
| curtail | (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curb, cut back, restrict |
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| (verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Synonyms: clip, cut short |
| curtailment | (noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation | Synonyms: suppression |
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| (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: downsizing, retrenchment |
| (noun) the temporal property of being cut short | - |
| curtain | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: drape, drapery, mantle, pall |
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| (noun) any barrier to communication or vision | - |
| (verb) provide with drapery | - |
| curtained | (adjective) furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies | - |
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| curtainless | (adjective) not provided with curtains | Synonyms: uncurtained |
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| curtal | (adjective) (archaic) docked | - |
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| curtilage | (noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: grounds, yard |
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| curtly | (adverb) in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner | Synonyms: short, shortly |
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| curtness | (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: abruptness, brusqueness, gruffness, shortness |
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| curtsey | (noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women | Synonyms: curtsy |
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| (verb) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting | Synonyms: curtsy |
| curtsy | (noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women | Synonyms: curtsey |
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| (verb) make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect | Synonyms: bob |
| (verb) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting | Synonyms: curtsey |
| discourteous | (adjective) showing no courtesy; rude | - |
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| (adjective) lacking social graces | Synonyms: ungracious |
| discourteously | (adverb) in an impolite manner | Synonyms: impolitely, rudely |
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| discourtesy | (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: offence, offense, offensive activity |
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| (noun) a manner that is rude and insulting | Synonyms: rudeness |
| (noun) an expression of lack of respect | Synonyms: disrespect |
| forecourt | (noun) the outer or front court of a building or of a group of buildings | - |
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| fourteen | (adjective) being one more than thirteen | Synonyms: 14, xiv |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one | Synonyms: 14, XIV |
| fourteenth | (adjective) coming next after the thirteenth in position | Synonyms: 14th |
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| (noun) position 14 in a countable series of things | - |
| fourth | (adjective) coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude | Synonyms: 4th, quaternary |
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| (noun) the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it | - |
| (noun) one of four equal parts | Synonyms: fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quarter, quartern, twenty-five percent |
| (noun) following the third position; number four in a countable series | - |
| (adverb) in the fourth place | Synonyms: fourthly |
| fourthly | (adverb) in the fourth place | Synonyms: fourth |
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| frankfurter | (noun) a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll | Synonyms: dog, frank, hot dog, hotdog, weenie, wiener, wienerwurst |
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| further | (adjective) more distant in especially degree | Synonyms: farther |
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| (adverb) to or at a greater distance in time or space (`farther' is used more frequently than `further' in this physical sense) | Synonyms: farther |
| (adverb) to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (`further' is used more often than `farther' in this abstract sense) | Synonyms: farther |
| (adverb) in addition or furthermore | - |
| (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, boost, encourage, promote |
| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: cultivate, foster |
| furtherance | (noun) the advancement of some enterprise | Synonyms: forwarding, promotion |
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| (noun) encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something | Synonyms: advancement, promotion |
| furthermore | (adverb) denoting additional information | Synonyms: in addition, moreover, what is more |
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| furthermost | (adjective) (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order | Synonyms: farthermost, farthest, furthest, utmost, uttermost |
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| furthest | (adjective) (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order | Synonyms: farthermost, farthest, furthermost, utmost, uttermost |
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| (adverb) to the greatest distance in space or time (`farthest' is used more often than `furthest' in this physical sense) | Synonyms: farthest |
| (adverb) to the greatest degree or extent or most advanced stage (`furthest' is used more often than `farthest' in this abstract sense) | Synonyms: farthest |
| furtive | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: sneak, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious |
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| (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstair, backstairs |
| furtively | (adverb) in a furtive manner | Synonyms: on the sly |
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| furtiveness | (noun) a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously | Synonyms: sneakiness, stealthiness |
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| hurt | (adjective) damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value | Synonyms: weakened |
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| (adjective) suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle | Synonyms: wounded |
| (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: damage, harm, scathe |
| (noun) a damage or loss | Synonyms: detriment |
| (noun) feelings of mental or physical pain | Synonyms: suffering |
| (noun) psychological suffering | Synonyms: distress, suffering |
| (noun) any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury | Synonyms: harm, injury, trauma |
| (verb) give trouble or pain to | - |
| (verb) be in pain | Synonyms: suffer |
| (verb) cause damage or affect negatively | Synonyms: injure |
| (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: bruise, injure, offend, spite, wound |
| (verb) cause emotional anguish or make miserable | Synonyms: anguish, pain |
| (verb) be the source of pain | Synonyms: ache, smart |
| (verb) feel physical pain | Synonyms: ache, suffer |
| hurtful | (adjective) harmful to living things | Synonyms: deleterious, injurious |
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| (adjective) causing hurt | - |
| hurting | (noun) a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder | Synonyms: pain |
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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 | - |
| kurta | (noun) a loose collarless shirt worn by many people on the Indian subcontinent (usually with a salwar or churidars or pyjama) | - |
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| lawcourt | (noun) a tribunal that is presided over by a magistrate or by one or more judges who administer justice according to the laws | Synonyms: court of justice, court of law, law court |
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| nasturtium | (noun) flowers and seeds and leaves all used as flavorings | - |
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| (noun) any tropical American plant of the genus Tropaeolum having pungent juice and long-spurred yellow to red flowers | - |
| nurtural | (adjective) resulting from nurture | - |
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| nurturance | (noun) physical and emotional care and nourishment | - |
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| nurturant | (adjective) providing physical and emotional care and nourishment | - |
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| nurture | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, raising, rearing, upbringing |
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| (noun) the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child | Synonyms: raising, rearing |
| (verb) help develop, help grow | Synonyms: foster |
| (verb) provide with nourishment | Synonyms: nourish, sustain |
| (verb) look after a child until it is an adult | Synonyms: bring up, parent, raise, rear |
| spurt | (noun) the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) | Synonyms: jet, spirt, squirt |
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| (verb) wet with a spurt of liquid | Synonyms: squirt |
| (verb) move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy | Synonyms: forge, spirt |
| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: gush, spirt, spout |
| spurting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: jetting, spouting, squirting |
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| surtax | (noun) an additional tax on certain kinds of income that has already been taxed | Synonyms: supertax |
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| (verb) levy an extra tax on | - |
| surtitle | (noun) translation of the words of a foreign opera (or choral work) projected on a screen above the stage | Synonyms: supertitle |
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| surtout | (noun) a man's overcoat in the style of a frock coat | - |
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| tourtiere | (noun) a meat pie that is usually eaten at Christmas in Quebec | - |
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| turtle | (noun) any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming | - |
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| (noun) a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar | Synonyms: polo-neck, turtleneck |
| (verb) hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation | - |
| (verb) overturn accidentally | Synonyms: capsize, turn turtle |
| turtledove | (noun) any of several Old World wild doves | - |
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| (noun) small Australian dove | Synonyms: Australian turtledove, Stictopelia cuneata |
| turtlehead | (noun) showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple | Synonyms: Chelone glabra, shell-flower, shellflower, snake-head, snakehead |
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| turtleneck | (noun) a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar | Synonyms: polo-neck, turtle |
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| turtler | (noun) someone whose occupation is hunting turtles | - |
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| uncurtained | (adjective) not provided with curtains | Synonyms: curtainless |
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| unhurt | (adjective) free from danger or injury | Synonyms: safe and sound |
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| (adjective) not injured or harmed | Synonyms: unharmed, unscathed, whole |
| urticaria | (noun) an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs | Synonyms: hives, nettle rash, urtication |
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| urticate | (verb) sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation | Synonyms: nettle |
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| (verb) whip with or as with nettles | - |
| urtication | (noun) a sensation of having been stung by nettles | - |
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| (noun) an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs | Synonyms: hives, nettle rash, urticaria |
| wurtzite | (noun) a brownish-black mineral consisting of zinc sulfide | - |
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| yoghourt | (noun) a custard-like food made from curdled milk | Synonyms: yoghurt, yogurt |
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| yoghurt | (noun) a custard-like food made from curdled milk | Synonyms: yoghourt, yogurt |
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| yogurt | (noun) a custard-like food made from curdled milk | Synonyms: yoghourt, yoghurt |
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| yurt | (noun) a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing | - |
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