| equalizer | (noun) a score that makes the match even | - |
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| (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser |
| (noun) electronic equipment that reduces frequency distortion | Synonyms: equaliser |
| equilibrize | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrise |
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| eroticize | (verb) give erotic character to or make more interesting | Synonyms: sex up |
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| eternalize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| eternize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternise, immortalise, immortalize |
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| (verb) cause to continue indefinitely | - |
| etherealize | (verb) make ethereal | Synonyms: etherialise |
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| etherize | (verb) anesthetize with ether | Synonyms: etherise |
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| etymologize | (verb) construct the history of words | Synonyms: etymologise |
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| (verb) give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word) | Synonyms: etymologise |
| eulogize | (verb) praise formally and eloquently | Synonyms: eulogise |
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| euphemize | (verb) refer to something with a euphemism | Synonyms: euphemise |
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| euthanatize | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanise, euthanize, mercy kill |
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| euthanize | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanatize, euthanise, mercy kill |
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| evangelize | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelise |
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| (verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelise |
| exorcize | (verb) expel through adjuration or prayers | Synonyms: exorcise |
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| extemporize | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, improvise, improvize |
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| (verb) manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand | Synonyms: improvise |
| exteriorize | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, externalise, externalize, objectify |
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| (verb) bring outside the body for surgery, of organs | Synonyms: bring outside |
| externalize | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, objectify |
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| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalise, project |
| ezed | (noun) the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: izzard, Z, z, zed, zee |
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| factorize | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorise |
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| familiarize | (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: acquaint, familiarise |
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| familiarized | (adjective) having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment | Synonyms: adjusted, familiarised |
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| fantasize | (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasise, fantasy |
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| (verb) portray in the mind | Synonyms: fantasise |
| faze | (verb) disturb the composure of | Synonyms: enervate, unnerve, unsettle |
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| fazed | (adjective) caused to show discomposure | Synonyms: bothered, daunted |
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| federalize | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalise, federate |
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| (verb) put under the control and authority of a federal government | Synonyms: federalise |
| (verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalise, federate |
| feminize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, effeminize, feminise, womanize |
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| (verb) assume (more) feminine characteristics | Synonyms: feminise |
| fertilize | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise, inseminate |
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| (verb) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | Synonyms: feed, fertilise |
| (verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise |
| fertilizer | (noun) any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile | Synonyms: fertiliser, plant food |
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| fetishize | (verb) make a fetish of | - |
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| feudalize | (verb) bring (a country or people) under feudalism | - |
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| fictionalize | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalise, novelise, novelize |
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| (verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalise, retell |
| finalize | (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalise, nail down, settle |
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| flunitrazepam | (noun) a depressant and tranquilizer (trade name Rohypnol) often used in the commission of sexual assault; legally available in Europe and Mexico and Colombia | Synonyms: Rohypnol |
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| fluoridize | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridate, fluoridise |
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| flurazepam | (noun) tranquilizer (trade name Dalmane) used to treat insomnia | Synonyms: Dalmane, flurazepam hydrochloride |
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| focalize | (verb) become focussed or come into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focus |
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| (verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focus, sharpen |
| (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalise, focus |
| (verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, localise, localize |
| formalize | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalise |
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| (verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalise, validate |
| formalized | (adjective) concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art) | Synonyms: formalised, formalistic |
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| (adjective) given formal standing or endorsement; made official or legitimate by the observance of proper procedures | Synonyms: formalised |
| formularize | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularise |
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| fossilize | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilise |
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| (verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilise |
| fossilized | (adjective) set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs | Synonyms: fossilised, ossified |
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| fragmentize | (verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragment, fragmentise |
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| fraternize | (verb) be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternise |
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| freeze | (noun) an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement | Synonyms: halt |
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| (noun) fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level | - |
| (noun) weather cold enough to cause freezing | Synonyms: frost |
| (noun) the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid | Synonyms: freezing |
| (verb) be cold | - |
| (verb) anesthetize by cold | - |
| (verb) suddenly behave coldly and formally | - |
| (verb) change to ice | - |
| (verb) stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it | Synonyms: suspend |
| (verb) cause to freeze | - |
| (verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, immobilise, immobilize |
| (verb) change from a liquid to a solid when cold | Synonyms: freeze down, freeze out |
| (verb) stop moving or become immobilized | Synonyms: stop dead |
| (verb) be very cold, below the freezing point | - |
| freezer | (noun) electric refrigerator (trade name Deepfreeze) in which food is frozen and stored for long periods of time | Synonyms: deep-freeze, deep freezer, Deepfreeze |
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| frieze | (noun) a heavy woolen fabric with a long nap | - |
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| (noun) an architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice | - |
| frozen | (adjective) turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain | Synonyms: frigid, frosty, glacial, icy, wintry |
| (adjective) not convertible to cash | - |
| (adjective) absolutely still | Synonyms: rooted, stock-still |
| (adjective) (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value | Synonyms: flash-frozen, quick-frozen |
| (adjective) incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices" | Synonyms: fixed |
| (adjective) not thawed | - |
| furze | (noun) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe | Synonyms: gorse, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus, whin |
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| fuze | (noun) any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant | Synonyms: fuse, fusee, fuzee, primer, priming |
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| fuzee | (noun) any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant | Synonyms: fuse, fusee, fuze, primer, priming |
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| (noun) a friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind | Synonyms: fusee |
| (noun) a colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and trains | Synonyms: fusee |
| fuzzed | (adjective) covering with fine light hairs | Synonyms: fuzzy |
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| galvanize | (verb) stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock | Synonyms: galvanise |
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| (verb) cover with zinc | Synonyms: galvanise |
| (verb) to stimulate to action | Synonyms: galvanise, startle |
| galvanizer | (noun) a leader who stimulates and excites people to action | Synonyms: galvaniser, inspirer |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who coats iron or steel with zinc | Synonyms: galvaniser |
| gauze | (noun) a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave | Synonyms: netting, veiling |
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| (noun) (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings | Synonyms: gauze bandage |
| gaze | (noun) a long fixed look | Synonyms: regard |
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| (verb) look at with fixed eyes | Synonyms: stare |
| gazebo | (noun) a small roofed building affording shade and rest | Synonyms: summerhouse |
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| gazelle | (noun) small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes | - |
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| gazette | (noun) a newspaper or official journal | - |
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| (verb) publish in a gazette | - |
| gazetteer | (noun) a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas) | - |
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| (noun) a journalist who writes for a gazette | - |
| geezer | (noun) a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric | - |
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| geezerhood | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, eld, old age, years |
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| gelatinize | (verb) become gelatinous or change into a jelly | Synonyms: gelatinise |
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| (verb) convert into gelatinous form or jelly | Synonyms: gelatinise |
| (verb) coat with gelatin | - |
| generalize | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalise |
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| (verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalise |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalise, infer |
| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| generalized | (adjective) not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment | Synonyms: generalised |
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| ghettoize | (verb) put in a ghetto | Synonyms: ghettoise |
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| glamorize | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamourise, glamourize |
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| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamourise, romanticise, romanticize |
| glamourize | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamorize, glamourise |
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| glaze | (noun) a coating for ceramics, metal, etc. | - |
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| (noun) a glossy finish on a fabric | - |
| (noun) any of various thin shiny (savory or sweet) coatings applied to foods | - |
| (verb) become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance | Synonyms: glass, glass over, glaze over |
| (verb) coat with a glaze | - |
| (verb) coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze | Synonyms: candy, sugarcoat |
| (verb) furnish with glass | Synonyms: glass |
| glazed | (adjective) having a shiny surface or coating | Synonyms: shiny |
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| (adjective) fitted or covered with glass | Synonyms: glassed |
| (adjective) (of foods) covered with a shiny coating by applying e.g. beaten egg or a sugar or gelatin mixture | - |
| (adjective) (used of eyes) lacking liveliness | Synonyms: glassy |
| glazer | (noun) someone who cuts flat glass to size | Synonyms: glass-cutter, glass cutter, glassworker, glazier |
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| globalize | (verb) make world-wide in scope or application | Synonyms: globalise |
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| gluttonize | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: fress, gluttonise |
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| glycerolize | (verb) place in glycerol | Synonyms: glycerolise |
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| gormandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| gourmandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| gourmandizer | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, trencherman |
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| graze | (noun) the act of grazing | Synonyms: grazing |
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| (noun) a superficial abrasion | - |
| (verb) eat lightly, try different dishes | Synonyms: browse |
| (verb) scrape gently | Synonyms: crease, rake |
| (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, crop, pasture, range |
| (verb) break the skin (of a body part) by scraping | - |
| (verb) let feed in a field or pasture or meadow | Synonyms: crop, pasture |
| grazed | (adjective) scraped or touched lightly in passing | - |
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| gyrostabilizer | (noun) a stabilizer consisting of a heavy gyroscope that spins on a vertical axis; reduces side-to-side rolling of a ship or plane | Synonyms: gyrostabiliser |
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| harmonize | (verb) bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing | Synonyms: chord, harmonise |
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| (verb) bring into consonance or accord | Synonyms: harmonise, reconcile |
| (verb) bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously | Synonyms: harmonise |
| (verb) sing or play in harmony | Synonyms: harmonise |
| (verb) write a harmony for | Synonyms: harmonise |
| (verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, concord, consort, fit in, harmonise |
| harmonized | (adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: consonant, harmonic, harmonical, harmonised |
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| harmonizer | (noun) a mediator who brings one thing into harmonious agreement with another | Synonyms: harmoniser |
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| (noun) a musician who sings or plays in harmony | Synonyms: harmoniser |
| haze | (noun) confusion characterized by lack of clarity | Synonyms: daze, fog |
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| (noun) atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility | - |
| (verb) harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions | - |
| (verb) become hazy, dull, or cloudy | - |
| hazel | (adjective) of a light brown or yellowish brown color | - |
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| (noun) a shade of brown that is yellowish or reddish; it is a greenish shade of brown when used to describe the color of someone's eyes | - |
| (noun) any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk | Synonyms: hazelnut, hazelnut tree |
| (noun) Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts | Synonyms: hazel tree, Pomaderris apetala |
| (noun) the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris) | - |
| hazelnut | (noun) nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus | Synonyms: cob, cobnut, filbert |
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| (noun) any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk | Synonyms: hazel, hazelnut tree |
| hazelwood | (noun) reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture | Synonyms: red gum, satin walnut, sweet gum |
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| hemodialyzer | (noun) a machine that uses dialysis to remove impurities and waste products from the bloodstream before returning the blood to the patient's body | Synonyms: artificial kidney |
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| homogenize | (verb) become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing | Synonyms: homogenise |
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| (verb) cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing | Synonyms: homogenise |
| (verb) break up the fat globules of | Synonyms: homogenise |
| homogenized | (adjective) formed by blending unlike elements especially by reducing one element to particles and dispersing them throughout another substance | Synonyms: homogenised |
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| (adjective) made homogeneous | Synonyms: homogenised |
| homologize | (verb) make homologous | Synonyms: homologise |
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| (verb) be homologous | - |
| hospitalize | (verb) admit into a hospital | Synonyms: hospitalise |
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| howitzer | (noun) a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range | Synonyms: mortar, trench mortar |
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| humanize | (verb) make more humane | Synonyms: humanise |
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| hybridize | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, interbreed |
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| hydroisopieze | (noun) a line on a map connecting points of identical pressures in the water bearing stratum. | - |
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| hydrolize | (verb) make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis | Synonyms: hydrolise |
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| hydrolyze | (verb) undergo hydrolysis; decompose by reacting with water | Synonyms: hydrolyse |
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| hydroxybenzene | (noun) a toxic white soluble crystalline acidic derivative of benzene; used in manufacturing and as a disinfectant and antiseptic; poisonous if taken internally | Synonyms: carbolic acid, oxybenzene, phenol, phenylic acid |
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| hygienize | (verb) make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing | Synonyms: hygienise, sanitise, sanitize |
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| hyperbolize | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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