| bedridden | (adjective) confined to bed (by illness) | Synonyms: bedfast, bedrid, sick-abed |
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| beholden | (adjective) under a moral obligation to someone | - |
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| bounden | (adjective) morally obligatory | - |
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| broaden | (verb) become broader | - |
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| (verb) make broader | - |
| (verb) extend in scope or range or area | Synonyms: extend, widen |
| (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, diversify |
| burden | (noun) weight to be borne or conveyed | Synonyms: load, loading |
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| (noun) the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse | - |
| (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: encumbrance, incumbrance, load, onus |
| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: core, effect, essence, gist |
| (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: charge, saddle |
| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burthen, weight, weight down |
| churchwarden | (noun) an officer in the Episcopal church who helps a parish priest with secular matters | - |
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| deaden | (verb) become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor | - |
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| (verb) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation | Synonyms: blunt |
| (verb) lessen the momentum or velocity of | - |
| (verb) make vapid or deprive of spirit | - |
| (verb) convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil | - |
| (verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, dampen |
| (verb) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients | Synonyms: girdle |
| den | (noun) a room that is comfortable and secluded | - |
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| (noun) a unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts | - |
| (noun) the habitation of wild animals | Synonyms: lair |
| (noun) a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws | Synonyms: hideaway, hideout |
| disburden | (verb) take the burden off; remove the burden from | Synonyms: unburden |
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| downtrodden | (adjective) abused or oppressed by people in power | - |
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| embolden | (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, hearten, recreate |
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| forbidden | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: out, prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten |
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| garden | (adjective) the usual or familiar type | - |
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| (noun) a plot of ground where plants are cultivated | - |
| (noun) a yard or lawn adjoining a house | - |
| (noun) the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden | - |
| (verb) work in the garden | - |
| gladden | (verb) become glad or happy | - |
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| (verb) make glad or happy | Synonyms: joy |
| golden | (adjective) supremely favored | Synonyms: fortunate |
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| (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: aureate, gilded, gilt, gold |
| (adjective) marked by peace and prosperity | Synonyms: halcyon, prosperous |
| (adjective) made from or covered with gold | Synonyms: gilded, gold |
| (adjective) suggestive of gold | - |
| (adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favorable, favourable, lucky, prosperous |
| gulden | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Dutch florin, florin, guilder |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: florin, guilder |
| hagridden | (adjective) tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears | Synonyms: hag-ridden, tormented |
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| handmaiden | (noun) a personal maid or female attendant | Synonyms: handmaid |
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| (noun) in a subordinate position | Synonyms: handmaid, servant |
| harden | (verb) become hard or harder | Synonyms: indurate |
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| (verb) make hard or harder | Synonyms: indurate |
| (verb) make healthy | Synonyms: season |
| (verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate | Synonyms: indurate, inure |
| (verb) harden by reheating and cooling in oil | Synonyms: temper |
| hidden | (adjective) difficult to find | Synonyms: obscure |
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| (adjective) not accessible to view | Synonyms: concealed, out of sight |
| (adjective) designed to elude detection | Synonyms: secret |
| hoyden | (noun) a girl who behaves in a boyish manner | Synonyms: romp, tomboy |
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| laden | (adjective) burdened psychologically or mentally | Synonyms: oppressed |
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| (adjective) filled with a great quantity | Synonyms: ladened, loaded |
| (verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: lade, ladle |
| (verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: lade, load, load up |
| leaden | (adjective) made of lead | - |
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| (adjective) darkened with overcast | Synonyms: dull |
| (adjective) lacking lightness or liveliness | Synonyms: heavy |
| (adjective) (of movement) slow and laborious | Synonyms: plodding |
| (adjective) made heavy or weighted down with weariness | Synonyms: weighted |
| linden | (noun) any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber | Synonyms: basswood, lime, lime tree, linden tree |
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| (noun) soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork | Synonyms: basswood |
| louden | (verb) cause to become loud | - |
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| (verb) become louder | - |
| madden | (verb) make mad | - |
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| (verb) drive up the wall; go on someone's nerves | - |
| (verb) cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind | Synonyms: craze |
| maiden | (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: first, inaugural, initiative, initiatory |
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| (noun) an unmarried girl (especially a virgin) | Synonyms: maid |
| (noun) (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored | Synonyms: maiden over |
| menhaden | (noun) shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer | Synonyms: Brevoortia tyrannis |
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| midden | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: dunghill, muckheap, muckhill |
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| (noun) (archeology) a mound of domestic refuse containing shells and animal bones marking the site of a prehistoric settlement | Synonyms: eitchen midden, kitchen midden |
| olden | (adjective) relating to time long past | - |
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| overburden | (noun) an excessive burden | Synonyms: overload |
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| (noun) the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits | - |
| (verb) burden with too much work or responsibility | - |
| (verb) load with excessive weight | - |
| overladen | (adjective) loaded past capacity | Synonyms: overloaded |
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| redden | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, crimson, flush |
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| (verb) turn red or redder | - |
| (verb) make red | - |
| sadden | (verb) come to feel sad | - |
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| (verb) make unhappy | - |
| shodden | (adjective) wearing footgear | Synonyms: shod, shoed |
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| sodden | (adjective) wet through and through; thoroughly wet | Synonyms: soppy |
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| sudden | (adjective) happening without warning or in a short space of time | - |
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| unbeholden | (adjective) free of moral obligation | - |
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| unburden | (verb) take the burden off; remove the burden from | Synonyms: disburden |
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| (verb) free or relieve (someone) of a burden | - |
| untrodden | (adjective) lacking pathways | Synonyms: pathless, roadless, trackless, untracked, untrod |
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| warden | (noun) the chief official in charge of a prison | - |
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| widen | (verb) become broader or wider or more extensive | - |
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| (verb) extend in scope or range or area | Synonyms: broaden, extend |
| (verb) make wider | - |
| (verb) make (clothes) larger | Synonyms: let out |
| wiesenboden | (noun) a dark meadow soil rich in organic material; developed through poor drainage in humid grassy or sedge regions | - |
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| wooden | (adjective) lacking ease or grace | - |
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| (adjective) made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood | - |