| angel | (noun) spiritual being attendant upon God | - |
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| (noun) someone who provides financial support for some venture | Synonyms: backer |
| (noun) person of exceptional holiness | Synonyms: holy man, holy person, saint |
| antiparallel | (adjective) (especially of vectors) parallel but oppositely directed | - |
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| antipersonnel | (adjective) designed to inflict death or personal injury rather than material destruction | - |
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| apparel | (noun) clothing in general | Synonyms: clothes, dress, wearing apparel |
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| (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
| archangel | (noun) an angel ranked above the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy | - |
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| (noun) a biennial cultivated herb; its stems are candied and eaten and its roots are used medicinally | Synonyms: Angelica Archangelica, garden angelica |
| asphodel | (noun) any of various chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus having linear leaves and racemes of white or pink or yellow flowers | - |
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| awheel | (adjective) traveling by wheeled vehicle such as bicycle or automobile e.g. | - |
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| babel | (noun) a confusion of voices and other sounds | - |
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| bagel | (noun) (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust | Synonyms: beigel |
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| barbel | (noun) slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish | Synonyms: feeler |
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| barrel | (noun) a cylindrical container that holds liquids | Synonyms: cask |
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| (noun) a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired | Synonyms: gun barrel |
| (noun) any of various units of capacity | Synonyms: bbl |
| (noun) the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold | Synonyms: barrelful |
| (noun) a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends | Synonyms: drum |
| (verb) put in barrels | - |
| bechamel | (noun) milk thickened with a butter and flour roux | Synonyms: bechamel sauce, white sauce |
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| beigel | (noun) (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust | Synonyms: bagel |
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| bejewel | (verb) adorn or decorate with precious stones | Synonyms: jewel |
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| betel | (noun) Asian pepper plant whose leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians | Synonyms: betel pepper, Piper betel |
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| (noun) a leaf of a vine from the betel pepper | Synonyms: betel leaf |
| bethel | (noun) a house of worship (especially one for sailors) | - |
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| bevel | (noun) a hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size | Synonyms: bevel square |
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| (noun) two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees | Synonyms: cant, chamfer |
| (verb) cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel | Synonyms: chamfer |
| bezel | (noun) a sloping edge on a cutting tool | - |
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| blastocoel | (noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula | Synonyms: blastocele, blastocoele, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity |
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| bowel | (noun) the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus | Synonyms: gut, intestine |
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| brothel | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bawdyhouse, bordello, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| bushel | (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks | - |
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| (noun) a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches | - |
| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on |
| cackel | (verb) make a cackling sound | - |
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| calomel | (noun) a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic | Synonyms: mercurous chloride |
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| camel | (noun) cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions | - |
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| cancel | (noun) a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat | Synonyms: natural |
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| (verb) make invalid for use | Synonyms: invalidate |
| (verb) remove or make invisible | Synonyms: delete |
| (verb) declare null and void; make ineffective | Synonyms: strike down |
| (verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, scratch, scrub |
| (verb) make up for | Synonyms: offset, set off |
| canistel | (noun) ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies | Synonyms: eggfruit |
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| (noun) tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit | Synonyms: canistel tree, Pouteria campechiana nervosa |
| caramel | (adjective) having the color of caramel; of a moderate yellow-brown | Synonyms: caramel brown |
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| (noun) a medium to dark tan color | Synonyms: buff, caramel brown, raw sienna, yellowish brown |
| (noun) firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk | - |
| (noun) burnt sugar; used to color and flavor food | Synonyms: caramelized sugar |
| carousel | (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carrousel, merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig |
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| (noun) a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers | Synonyms: carrousel, luggage carousel, luggage carrousel |
| carpel | (noun) a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil | - |
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| carrel | (noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrell, cubicle, stall |
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| carrousel | (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig |
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| (noun) a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers | Synonyms: carousel, luggage carousel, luggage carrousel |
| cartel | (noun) a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service | Synonyms: combine, corporate trust, trust |
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| cartwheel | (noun) acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel | - |
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| (noun) a wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim | - |
| (noun) a dollar made of silver | Synonyms: silver dollar |
| (verb) do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet | - |
| cascabel | (noun) a bell attached to a sleigh, or to the harness of a horse that is pulling a sleigh | Synonyms: sleigh bell |
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| casquetel | (noun) a light open casque without a visor or beaver | Synonyms: casquet |
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| chancel | (noun) area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing | Synonyms: bema, sanctuary |
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| channel | (noun) a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors | Synonyms: distribution channel |
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| (noun) a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through | - |
| (noun) a television station and its programs | Synonyms: television channel, TV channel |
| (noun) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance | Synonyms: canal, duct, epithelial duct |
| (noun) a path over which electrical signals can pass | Synonyms: transmission channel |
| (noun) (often plural) a means of communication or access | Synonyms: communication channel, line |
| (noun) a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels | - |
| (noun) a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) | Synonyms: groove |
| (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
| (verb) direct the flow of | - |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, conduct, convey, impart, transmit |
| chapel | (noun) a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar | Synonyms: chapel service |
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| (noun) a place of worship that has its own altar | - |
| charnel | (adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | Synonyms: ghastly, sepulchral |
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| (noun) a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited | Synonyms: charnel house |
| chattel | (noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) | Synonyms: movable, personal chattel |
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| chisel | (noun) an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge | - |
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| (verb) carve with a chisel | - |
| (verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud | Synonyms: cheat |
| (verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit | Synonyms: cheat, rip off |
| chunnel | (noun) the railroad tunnel between France and England under the English Channel | Synonyms: Channel Tunnel |
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| citadel | (noun) a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle | Synonyms: bastion |
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| cockateel | (noun) small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head | Synonyms: cockatiel, cockatoo parrot, Nymphicus hollandicus |
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| cockatiel | (noun) small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head | Synonyms: cockateel, cockatoo parrot, Nymphicus hollandicus |
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| cockerel | (noun) a young domestic cock; not older than one year | - |
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| cogwheel | (noun) a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion | Synonyms: gear, gear wheel, geared wheel |
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| colonel | (noun) a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general | - |
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| compel | (verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: obligate, oblige |
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| (verb) necessitate or exact | - |
| corbel | (noun) (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent) | Synonyms: truss |
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| (verb) furnish with a corbel | - |
| cornel | (noun) a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers | Synonyms: dogwood, dogwood tree |
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| counsel | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counseling, counselling, direction, guidance |
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| (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
| (verb) give advice to | Synonyms: advise, rede |
| creel | (noun) a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish | - |
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| crenel | (noun) a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement | Synonyms: crenelle |
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| (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenature, crenelle, scallop |
| (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenelate, crenellate |
| cruel | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
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| cudgel | (noun) a club that is used as a weapon | - |
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| (verb) strike with a cudgel | Synonyms: fustigate |
| cupel | (noun) a small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead | Synonyms: bone-ash cup, refractory pot |
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| cupronickel | (noun) a 60/40 alloy of copper and nickel | - |
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| damosel | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damozel, damsel, demoiselle |
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| damozel | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damsel, demoiselle |
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| damsel | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damozel, demoiselle |
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| darnel | (noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum, tare |
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| decibel | (noun) a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity | Synonyms: dB |
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| diesel | (noun) an internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil | Synonyms: diesel engine, diesel motor |
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| disembowel | (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: draw, eviscerate |
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| dishevel | (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: tangle, tousle |
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| dishtowel | (noun) a towel for drying dishes | Synonyms: dish towel, tea towel |
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| dispel | (verb) force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings | Synonyms: chase away, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off, turn back |
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| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, disperse, dissipate, scatter |
| doggerel | (noun) a comic verse of irregular measure | Synonyms: doggerel verse, jingle |
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| dossel | (noun) an ornamental hanging of rich fabric hung behind the altar of a church or at the sides of a chancel | Synonyms: dossal |
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| dotrel | (noun) rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia | Synonyms: Charadrius morinellus, dotterel, Eudromias morinellus |
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| dotterel | (noun) rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia | Synonyms: Charadrius morinellus, dotrel, Eudromias morinellus |
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| dowel | (noun) a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together | Synonyms: dowel pin, joggle |
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| drivel | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drool, slobber |
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| (noun) a worthless message | Synonyms: garbage |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
| duel | (noun) a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor | Synonyms: affaire d'honneur |
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| (noun) any struggle between two skillful opponents (individuals or groups) | - |
| (verb) fight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman | - |
| duffel | (noun) a coarse heavy woolen fabric | Synonyms: duffle |
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| (noun) a large cylindrical bag of heavy cloth; for carrying personal belongings | Synonyms: duffel bag, duffle, duffle bag |
| easel | (noun) an upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas) | - |
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| eel | (noun) voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins | - |
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| (noun) the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled | - |
| el | (noun) a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level | Synonyms: elevated, elevated railroad, elevated railway, overhead railway |
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| empanel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: impanel, panel |
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| (verb) enter into a list of prospective jurors | Synonyms: impanel |
| enamel | (noun) any smooth glossy coating that resembles ceramic glaze | - |
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| (noun) a paint that dries to a hard glossy finish | - |
| (noun) hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth | Synonyms: tooth enamel |
| (noun) a colored glassy compound (opaque or partially opaque) that is fused to the surface of metal or glass or pottery for decoration or protection | - |
| (verb) coat, inlay, or surface with enamel | - |
| estoppel | (noun) a rule of evidence whereby a person is barred from denying the truth of a fact that has already been settled | - |
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| evangel | (noun) the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings | Synonyms: Gospel, Gospels |
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| excel | (verb) distinguish oneself | Synonyms: stand out, surpass |
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| expel | (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, eject, exhaust, release |
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| (verb) cause to flee | Synonyms: rout, rout out |
| (verb) force to leave or move out | Synonyms: kick out, throw out |
| (verb) remove from a position or office | Synonyms: boot out, drum out, kick out, oust, throw out |
| falafel | (noun) small croquette of mashed chick peas or fava beans seasoned with sesame seeds | Synonyms: felafel |
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| fardel | (noun) a burden (figuratively in the form of a bundle) | - |
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| feel | (noun) manual stimulation of the genital area for sexual pleasure | - |
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| (noun) a property perceived by touch | Synonyms: tactile property |
| (noun) an intuitive awareness | - |
| (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tone |
| (verb) be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state | - |
| (verb) come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds | Synonyms: find |
| (verb) have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude | - |
| (verb) examine by touch | Synonyms: finger |
| (verb) examine (a body part) by palpation | Synonyms: palpate |
| (verb) pass one's hands over the sexual organs of | - |
| (verb) undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind | Synonyms: experience |
| (verb) perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles | Synonyms: sense |
| (verb) undergo passive experience of | - |
| (verb) produce a certain impression | - |
| (verb) grope or feel in search of something | - |
| (verb) find by testing or cautious exploration | - |
| (verb) be felt or perceived in a certain way | - |
| felafel | (noun) small croquette of mashed chick peas or fava beans seasoned with sesame seeds | Synonyms: falafel |
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| fennel | (noun) fennel seeds are ground and used as a spice or as an ingredient of a spice mixture | - |
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| (noun) leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: common fennel |
| (noun) aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads | Synonyms: finocchio, Florence fennel |
| (noun) any of several aromatic herbs having edible seeds and leaves and stems | - |
| flannel | (noun) a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing | - |
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| (noun) bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body | Synonyms: face cloth, washcloth, washrag |
| (noun) (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth | Synonyms: gabardine, tweed, white |
| flywheel | (noun) regulator consisting of a heavy wheel that stores kinetic energy and smooths the operation of a reciprocating engine | - |
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| fontanel | (noun) any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus | Synonyms: fontanelle, soft spot |
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| freewheel | (noun) a clutch (as on the rear wheel of a bicycle) that allows wheels to turn freely (as in coasting) | - |
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| (verb) coast in a vehicle using the freewheel | - |
| (verb) live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | Synonyms: drift |
| fuel | (noun) a substance that can be consumed to produce energy | - |
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| (verb) stimulate | - |
| (verb) provide with a combustible substance that provides energy | - |
| (verb) provide with fuel | Synonyms: fire |
| (verb) take in fuel, as of a ship | - |
| funnel | (noun) (nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship) | - |
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| (noun) a conically shaped utensil having a narrow tube at the small end; used to channel the flow of substances into a container with a small mouth | - |
| (noun) a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends | Synonyms: funnel shape |
| (verb) move or pour through a funnel | - |
| gambrel | (noun) a gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower slope being steeper | Synonyms: gambrel roof |
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| gavel | (noun) a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge | - |
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| gel | (noun) a thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects | Synonyms: gelatin |
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| (noun) jellylike substance used in hair styling | Synonyms: hair gel |
| (noun) a colloid in a more solid form than a sol | Synonyms: colloidal gel |
| (verb) apply a styling gel to | Synonyms: mousse |
| (verb) become a gel | - |