| afterward | (adverb) happening at a time subsequent to a reference time | Synonyms: after, afterwards, later, later on, subsequently |
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| afterwards | (adverb) happening at a time subsequent to a reference time | Synonyms: after, afterward, later, later on, subsequently |
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| agateware | (noun) pottery that is veined and mottled to resemble agate | - |
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| athwart | (adverb) at an oblique angle | Synonyms: aslant, obliquely |
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| (adverb) at right angles to the center line of a ship | - |
| award | (noun) a grant made by a law court | Synonyms: awarding |
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| (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: accolade, honor, honour, laurels |
| (noun) something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery | Synonyms: prize |
| (verb) give, especially as an honor or reward | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) give as judged due or on the basis of merit | Synonyms: grant |
| awarding | (noun) a grant made by a law court | Synonyms: award |
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| aware | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: cognisant, cognizant |
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| (adjective) bearing in mind; attentive to | Synonyms: mindful |
| awareness | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: cognisance, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| (noun) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | Synonyms: sentience |
| awkward | (adjective) lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance | - |
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| (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: embarrassing, sticky, unenviable |
| (adjective) causing inconvenience | - |
| (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
| (adjective) socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner | Synonyms: ill at ease, uneasy |
| (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly |
| awkwardly | (adverb) in an awkward manner | - |
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| awkwardness | (noun) the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant | Synonyms: clumsiness |
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| (noun) the quality of an embarrassing situation | Synonyms: nuisance value |
| (noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: cumbersomeness, unwieldiness |
| (noun) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | Synonyms: clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness |
| (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness |
| backward | (adjective) directed or facing toward the back or rear | - |
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| (adjective) (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature | - |
| (adjective) retarded in intellectual development | Synonyms: feebleminded, half-witted, slow-witted |
| (adjective) having made less than normal progress | - |
| (adverb) in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal | Synonyms: backwards |
| (adverb) in or to or toward a past time | Synonyms: back |
| (adverb) at or to or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: back, backwards, rearward, rearwards |
| backwardation | (noun) the market condition wherein the price of a forward or futures contract is trading below the expected spot price at contract maturity. | - |
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| backwardness | (noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: mental retardation, retardation, slowness, subnormality |
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| backwards | (adverb) in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal | Synonyms: backward |
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| (adverb) at or to or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: back, backward, rearward, rearwards |
| beware | (verb) be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to | Synonyms: mind |
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| bulwark | (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: breakwater, groin, groyne, jetty, mole, seawall |
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| (noun) an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes | Synonyms: rampart, wall |
| (noun) a fencelike structure around a deck | - |
| (verb) defend with a bulwark | - |
| cassowary | (noun) large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest | - |
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| chinaware | (noun) dishware made of high quality porcelain | Synonyms: china |
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| churchwarden | (noun) an officer in the Episcopal church who helps a parish priest with secular matters | - |
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| clayware | (noun) ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln | Synonyms: pottery |
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| coastward | (adverb) in the direction of the coast | - |
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| cookware | (noun) a kitchen utensil made of material that does not melt easily; used for cooking | Synonyms: cooking utensil |
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| coolwart | (noun) stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant | Synonyms: false miterwort, false mitrewort, foamflower, Tiarella cordifolia |
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| copperware | (noun) utensils made with copper | - |
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| coward | (noun) a person who shows fear or timidity | - |
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| cowardice | (noun) the trait of lacking courage | Synonyms: cowardliness |
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| cowardliness | (noun) the trait of lacking courage | Synonyms: cowardice |
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| cowardly | (adjective) lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted | Synonyms: fearful |
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| crackleware | (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle, crackle china |
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| cyberwar | (noun) an assault on electronic communication networks | Synonyms: cyber-terrorism |
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| dinnerware | (noun) the tableware (plates and platters and serving bowls etc.) used in serving a meal | - |
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| dishware | (noun) tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively | Synonyms: crockery |
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| downward | (adjective) extending or moving from a higher to a lower place | Synonyms: down |
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| (adjective) on or toward a surface regarded as a base | - |
| (adverb) spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position | Synonyms: down, downwardly, downwards |
| downwardly | (adverb) spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position | Synonyms: down, downward, downwards |
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| downwards | (adverb) spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position | Synonyms: down, downward, downwardly |
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| dwarf | (noun) a plant or animal that is atypically small | - |
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| (noun) a person who is markedly small | Synonyms: midget, nanus |
| (noun) a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure | Synonyms: gnome |
| (verb) check the growth of | - |
| (verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: overshadow, shadow |
| dwarfish | (adjective) atypically small | - |
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| dwarfishness | (noun) the quality of being built like a dwarf | - |
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| dwarfism | (noun) a genetic abnormality resulting in short stature | Synonyms: nanism |
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| earthenware | (noun) ceramic ware made of porous clay fired at low heat | - |
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| eastward | (adjective) moving toward the east | Synonyms: eastbound |
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| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees | Synonyms: due east, E, east |
| (adverb) toward the east | Synonyms: eastwards |
| eastwards | (adverb) toward the east | Synonyms: eastward |
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| enamelware | (noun) cooking utensil of enameled iron | - |
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| firmware | (noun) (computer science) coded instructions that are stored permanently in read-only memory | Synonyms: microcode |
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| flatware | (noun) silverware eating utensils | Synonyms: silver |
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| (noun) tableware that is relatively flat and fashioned as a single piece | - |
| forewarn | (verb) warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning | Synonyms: previse |
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| forewarning | (noun) an early warning about a future event | Synonyms: premonition |
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| forward | (adjective) at or near or directed toward the front | - |
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| (adjective) used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty | - |
| (adjective) of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle | - |
| (adjective) moving forward | Synonyms: advancing, forward-moving |
| (noun) a position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team | - |
| (noun) the person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey | - |
| (adverb) at or to or toward the front; forward | Synonyms: forrad, forrard, forwards, frontward, frontwards |
| (adverb) in a forward direction | Synonyms: ahead, forrader, forwards, onward, onwards |
| (adverb) toward the future; forward in time | Synonyms: ahead |
| (adverb) forward in time or order or degree | Synonyms: forth, onward |
| (adverb) near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane | Synonyms: fore |
| (verb) send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit | Synonyms: send on |
| forwarding | (noun) the act of sending on to another destination | - |
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| (noun) the advancement of some enterprise | Synonyms: furtherance, promotion |
| forwardness | (noun) prompt willingness | Synonyms: eagerness, readiness, zeal |
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| (noun) an advanced stage | - |
| (noun) offensive boldness and assertiveness | Synonyms: bumptiousness, cockiness, pushiness |
| forwards | (adverb) in a forward direction | Synonyms: ahead, forrader, forward, onward, onwards |
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| (adverb) at or to or toward the front; forward | Synonyms: forrad, forrard, forward, frontward, frontwards |
| freeware | (noun) software that is provided without charge | - |
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| frontward | (adverb) at or to or toward the front; forward | Synonyms: forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontwards |
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| frontwards | (adverb) at or to or toward the front; forward | Synonyms: forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward |
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| froward | (adjective) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition | Synonyms: headstrong, self-willed, wilful, willful |
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| glassware | (noun) an article of tableware made of glass | Synonyms: glasswork |
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| graniteware | (noun) a kind of stone-grey enamelware | - |
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| greensward | (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: sod, sward, turf |
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| groupware | (noun) software that can be used by a group of people who are working on the same information but may be distributed in space | - |
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| hardware | (noun) (computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system | Synonyms: computer hardware |
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| (noun) major items of military weaponry (as tanks or missile) | - |
| (noun) instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal | Synonyms: ironware |
| hardwareman | (noun) someone who sells hardware | Synonyms: ironmonger |
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| heartwarming | (adjective) causing gladness and pleasure | - |
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| heavenward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: skyward |
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| (adverb) toward heaven | Synonyms: heavenwardly, heavenwards |
| heavenwardly | (adverb) toward heaven | Synonyms: heavenward, heavenwards |
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| heavenwards | (adverb) toward heaven | Synonyms: heavenward, heavenwardly |
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| henceforward | (adverb) from this time forth; from now on | Synonyms: henceforth |
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| holloware | (noun) silverware serving dishes | Synonyms: hollowware |
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| hollowware | (noun) silverware serving dishes | Synonyms: holloware |
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| homeward | (adjective) oriented toward home | Synonyms: homeward-bound |
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| (adverb) toward home | Synonyms: homewards |
| homewards | (adverb) toward home | Synonyms: homeward |
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| housewarming | (noun) a party of people assembled to celebrate moving into a new home | - |
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| inward | (adjective) relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts | - |
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| (adjective) directed or moving inward or toward a center | Synonyms: inbound |
| (adverb) toward the center or interior | Synonyms: inwards |
| (adverb) to or toward the inside of | Synonyms: in, inwards |
| inwardly | (adverb) with respect to private feelings | Synonyms: inside |
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| inwardness | (noun) the quality or state of being inward or internal | - |
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| (noun) preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values) | Synonyms: internality |
| (noun) preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values | - |
| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
| inwards | (adverb) toward the center or interior | Synonyms: inward |
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| (adverb) to or toward the inside of | Synonyms: in, inward |
| ironware | (noun) instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal | Synonyms: hardware |
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| kitchenware | (noun) hardware utensils for use in a kitchen | - |
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| lacquerware | (noun) a decorative work made of wood and covered with lacquer and often inlaid with ivory or precious metals | - |
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| landward | (adverb) toward land | Synonyms: landwards |
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| landwards | (adverb) toward land | Synonyms: landward |
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| leeward | (adjective) on the side away from the wind | - |
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| (noun) the side of something that is sheltered from the wind | Synonyms: lee, lee side |
| (noun) the direction in which the wind is blowing | - |
| (adverb) away from the wind | Synonyms: upwind |
| lukewarm | (adjective) feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm | Synonyms: half-hearted, halfhearted, tepid |
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| (adjective) moderately warm | Synonyms: tepid |
| lukewarmly | (adverb) in an unenthusiastically lukewarm manner | Synonyms: tepidly |
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| lukewarmness | (noun) a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin | Synonyms: tepidity, tepidness |
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| (noun) lack of passion, force or animation | Synonyms: tepidness |
| lusterware | (noun) pottery with a metallic sheen produced by adding metallic oxides to the glaze | - |
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| malware | (noun) malicious software, designed to break into a system | - |
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| metalware | (noun) household articles made of metal (especially for use at table) | - |
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| northeastward | (adjective) toward the northeast | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees | Synonyms: NE, nor'-east, northeast |
| (adverb) in a northeastward direction | Synonyms: northeastwardly |
| northeastwardly | (adverb) in a northeastward direction | Synonyms: northeastward |
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| northward | (adjective) moving toward the north | Synonyms: northbound |
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| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees | Synonyms: due north, N, north |
| (adverb) in a northern direction | Synonyms: north, northerly, northwards |
| northwards | (adverb) in a northern direction | Synonyms: north, northerly, northward |
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| northwestward | (adjective) toward the northwest | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees | Synonyms: nor'-west, northwest, NW |
| (adverb) in a northwestward direction | Synonyms: northwestwardly |
| northwestwardly | (adverb) in a northwestward direction | Synonyms: northwestward |
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| onward | (adverb) forward in time or order or degree | Synonyms: forth, forward |
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| (adverb) in a forward direction | Synonyms: ahead, forrader, forward, forwards, onwards |
| onwards | (adverb) in a forward direction | Synonyms: ahead, forrader, forward, forwards, onward |
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| outward | (adjective) relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind | - |
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| (adjective) that is going out or leaving | Synonyms: departing, outbound, outward-bound |
| (adverb) toward the outside | Synonyms: outwards |
| outwardly | (adverb) in outward appearance | - |
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| (adverb) with respect to the outside | Synonyms: externally |
| outwardness | (noun) the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior | Synonyms: externality |
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| (noun) a concern with or responsiveness to outward things (especially material objects as opposed to ideal concepts) | - |
| (noun) concern with outward things or material objects as opposed to the mind and spirit | - |
| outwards | (adverb) toward the outside | Synonyms: outward |
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