| acquire | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: develop, get, grow, produce |
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| (verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: adopt, assume, take, take on |
| (verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: develop, evolve |
| (verb) gain knowledge or skills | Synonyms: larn, learn |
| (verb) come into the possession of something concrete or abstract | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) win something through one's efforts | Synonyms: gain, win |
| (verb) locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar | - |
| admire | (verb) feel admiration for | Synonyms: look up to |
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| (verb) look at with admiration | - |
| affaire | (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, amour, intimacy, involvement, liaison |
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| afire | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, aflame, aflare, alight, on fire |
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| armoire | (noun) a large wardrobe or cabinet; originally used for storing weapons | - |
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| aspire | (verb) have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal | Synonyms: aim, draw a bead on, shoot for |
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| attire | (noun) clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion | Synonyms: dress, garb |
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| (verb) put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive | Synonyms: deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up |
| backfire | (noun) a miscalculation that recoils on its maker | Synonyms: boomerang |
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| (noun) a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine | - |
| (noun) the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired | Synonyms: blowback |
| (noun) a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path | - |
| (verb) set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire | - |
| (verb) emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire | - |
| (verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backlash, recoil |
| balefire | (noun) a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration | Synonyms: bonfire |
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| barbwire | (noun) strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage | Synonyms: barbed wire |
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| bemire | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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| billionaire | (noun) a very rich person whose material wealth is valued at more than a billion dollars | - |
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| bonfire | (noun) a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration | Synonyms: balefire |
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| campfire | (noun) a small outdoor fire for warmth or cooking (as at a camp) | - |
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| coconspire | (verb) conspire together | - |
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| commissionaire | (noun) a uniformed doorman | - |
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| concessionaire | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessioner |
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| conservatoire | (noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatory |
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| conspire | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, machinate |
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| (verb) act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: collude |
| cookfire | (noun) a fire for cooking | - |
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| counterfire | (noun) fire intended to neutralize or destroy enemy weapons | - |
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| crossfire | (noun) fire from two or more points so that the lines of fire cross | - |
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| (noun) a lively or heated interchange of ideas and opinions | - |
| debonaire | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: chipper, debonair, jaunty |
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| (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonair, debonnaire, suave |
| debonnaire | (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonair, debonaire, suave |
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| desire | (noun) an inclination to want things | - |
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| (noun) the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state | - |
| (noun) something that is desired | - |
| (verb) feel or have a desire for; want strongly | Synonyms: want |
| (verb) express a desire for | - |
| (verb) expect and wish | Synonyms: hope, trust |
| dire | (adjective) fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless | Synonyms: desperate |
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| (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
| doctrinaire | (adjective) stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability | - |
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| (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: dogmatist |
| drumfire | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: cannonade |
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| empire | (noun) a monarchy with an emperor as head of state | - |
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| (noun) a group of countries under a single authority | - |
| (noun) a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization | Synonyms: conglomerate |
| (noun) the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised | Synonyms: imperium |
| enquire | (verb) have a wish or desire to know something | Synonyms: inquire, wonder |
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| (verb) address a question to and expect an answer from | Synonyms: ask, inquire |
| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: inquire, investigate |
| entire | (adjective) (of leaves or petals) having a smooth edge; not broken up into teeth or lobes | - |
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| (adjective) (used of domestic animals) sexually competent | Synonyms: intact |
| (adjective) constituting the full quantity or extent; complete | Synonyms: full, total |
| (adjective) constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged | Synonyms: intact, integral |
| (noun) uncastrated adult male horse | Synonyms: stallion |
| escritoire | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: secretaire, secretary, writing table |
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| esquire | (noun) (Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood | - |
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| expire | (verb) expel air | Synonyms: breathe out, exhale |
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| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) lose validity | Synonyms: run out |
| extraordinaire | (adjective) extraordinary in a particular capacity | - |
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| fire | (noun) the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy | Synonyms: firing |
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| (noun) a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning | - |
| (noun) intense adverse criticism | Synonyms: attack, blast, flack, flak |
| (noun) the event of something burning (often destructive) | - |
| (noun) a severe trial | - |
| (noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, ardour, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour |
| (noun) the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke | Synonyms: flame, flaming |
| (noun) fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking | - |
| (noun) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour bile | - |
| (verb) bake in a kiln so as to harden | - |
| (verb) destroy by fire | Synonyms: burn, burn down |
| (verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: ignite, light |
| (verb) become ignited | Synonyms: flame up |
| (verb) cause to go off | Synonyms: discharge |
| (verb) start firing a weapon | Synonyms: open fire |
| (verb) go off or discharge | Synonyms: discharge, go off |
| (verb) generate an electrical impulse | - |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, kindle, provoke, raise |
| (verb) drive out or away by or as if by fire | - |
| (verb) provide with fuel | Synonyms: fuel |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| grassfire | (noun) an uncontrolled fire in a grassy area | Synonyms: prairie fire |
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| grimoire | (noun) a manual of black magic (for invoking spirits and demons) | - |
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| gunfire | (noun) the act of shooting a gun | Synonyms: gunshot |
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| haywire | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) not functioning properly | Synonyms: amiss, awry, wrong |
| (noun) wire for tying up bales of hay | - |
| hellfire | (noun) a place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned | Synonyms: red region |
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| hire | (noun) the act of hiring something or someone | - |
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| (noun) a newly hired employee | - |
| (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, engage, lease, rent, take |
| (verb) engage or hire for work | Synonyms: employ, engage |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: charter, lease, rent |
| inquire | (verb) have a wish or desire to know something | Synonyms: enquire, wonder |
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| (verb) address a question to and expect an answer from | Synonyms: ask, enquire |
| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: enquire, investigate |
| inspire | (verb) draw in (air) | Synonyms: breathe in, inhale |
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| (verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: revolutionise, revolutionize |
| (verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: instigate, prompt |
| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, cheer, exhort, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| (verb) supply the inspiration for | - |
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, enliven, exalt, invigorate |
| ire | (noun) belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: anger, ira, wrath |
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| (noun) a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance | Synonyms: anger, choler |
| legionnaire | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionary |
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| luminaire | (noun) an electrical device used to create artificial light by use of an electric lamp; all light fixtures have a fixture body and a light socket to hold the lamp and allow for its replacement | Synonyms: light fitting, light fixture |
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| millionaire | (noun) a person whose material wealth is valued at more than a million dollars | - |
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| mire | (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: morass, quag, quagmire, slack |
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| (noun) a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from | - |
| (noun) deep soft mud in water or slush | Synonyms: slop |
| (verb) soil with mud, muck, or mire | Synonyms: muck, muck up, mud |
| (verb) be unable to move further | Synonyms: bog down, get stuck, grind to a halt |
| (verb) cause to get stuck as if in a mire | Synonyms: bog down |
| (verb) entrap | Synonyms: entangle |
| misfire | (noun) an explosion that fails to occur | Synonyms: dud |
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| (noun) a failure to hit (or meet or find etc) | Synonyms: miss |
| (verb) fail to fire or detonate | - |
| moire | (adjective) (of silk fabric) having a wavelike pattern | Synonyms: watered |
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| (noun) silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern | Synonyms: watered-silk |
| overtire | (verb) tire excessively | Synonyms: overfatigue, overweary |
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| perspire | (verb) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin | Synonyms: sudate, sweat |
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| pismire | (noun) social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers | Synonyms: ant, emmet |
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| pourboire | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshis, bakshish, gratuity, tip |
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| quagmire | (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: mire, morass, quag, slack |
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| questionnaire | (noun) a form containing a set of questions; submitted to people to gain statistical information | - |
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| quire | (noun) a quantity of paper; 24 or 25 sheets | - |
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| repertoire | (noun) a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule | Synonyms: repertory |
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| (noun) the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation | Synonyms: repertory |
| require | (verb) make someone do something | Synonyms: command |
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| (verb) consider obligatory; request and expect | Synonyms: ask, expect |
| (verb) have need of | Synonyms: need, want |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, take |
| respire | (verb) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs | Synonyms: breathe, suspire, take a breath |
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| (verb) undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide | - |
| (verb) breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety | - |
| retire | (verb) prepare for sleep | Synonyms: bed, crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, sack out, turn in |
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| (verb) cause to get out | Synonyms: strike out |
| (verb) cause to be out on a fielding play | Synonyms: put out |
| (verb) lose interest | Synonyms: withdraw |
| (verb) pull back or move away or backward | Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retreat, withdraw |
| (verb) dispose of (something no longer useful or needed) | - |
| (verb) break from a meeting or gathering | Synonyms: adjourn, withdraw |
| (verb) go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position | - |
| (verb) withdraw from active participation | Synonyms: withdraw |
| (verb) make (someone) retire | - |
| (verb) withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds | - |
| rewire | (verb) provide with new wiring | - |
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| saltire | (noun) a cross resembling the letter x, with diagonal bars of equal length | Synonyms: St. Andrew's cross |
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| samphire | (noun) fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass | Synonyms: glasswort, Salicornia europaea |
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| sapphire | (adjective) of something having the color of a blue sapphire | - |
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| (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, cerulean, lazuline, sky-blue |
| (noun) a transparent piece of sapphire that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
| (noun) a precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone | - |
| satire | (noun) witty language used to convey insults or scorn | Synonyms: caustic remark, irony, sarcasm |
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| (noun) a genre of literature and performing arts, in which shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming others | - |
| secretaire | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: escritoire, secretary, writing table |
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| shellfire | (noun) shooting artillery shells | - |
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| shire | (noun) British breed of large heavy draft horse | Synonyms: shire horse |
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| (noun) a former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county | - |
| sire | (noun) male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse | - |
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| (noun) the founder of a family | Synonyms: father, forefather |
| (noun) a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority | - |
| (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, mother |
| solitaire | (noun) a card game played by one person | Synonyms: patience |
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| (noun) a dull grey North American thrush noted for its beautiful song | - |
| (noun) extinct flightless bird related to the dodo | Synonyms: Pezophaps solitaria |
| (noun) a gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself | - |
| spire | (noun) a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top | Synonyms: steeple |
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| spitfire | (noun) a highly emotional and quick-tempered person (especially a girl or woman) | - |
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| squire | (noun) an English country landowner | - |
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| (noun) young nobleman attendant on a knight | - |
| (noun) a man who attends or escorts a woman | Synonyms: gallant |
| (verb) attend upon as a squire; serve as a squire | - |
| suspire | (verb) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs | Synonyms: breathe, respire, take a breath |
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| (verb) heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily | Synonyms: sigh |
| tire | (noun) hoop that covers a wheel | Synonyms: tyre |
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| (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: fatigue, jade, pall, weary |
| (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
| (verb) cause to be bored | Synonyms: bore |
| (verb) deplete | Synonyms: exhaust, play out, run down, sap |
| transpire | (verb) give off (water) through the skin | - |
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| (verb) come to light; become known | - |
| (verb) exude water vapor | - |
| (verb) come about, happen, or occur | - |
| (verb) pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices, as of gas | Synonyms: transpirate |
| umpire | (noun) an official at a baseball game | Synonyms: ump |
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| (noun) someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue | Synonyms: arbiter, arbitrator |
| (verb) be a referee or umpire in a sports competition | Synonyms: referee |
| unwire | (verb) undo the wiring of | - |
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| vampire | (noun) (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living | Synonyms: lamia |
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| venire | (noun) (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen) | Synonyms: panel |
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| wildfire | (noun) a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration | - |
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| wire | (noun) ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc | - |
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| (noun) a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance | Synonyms: conducting wire |
| (noun) a message transmitted by telegraph | Synonyms: telegram |
| (noun) the finishing line on a racetrack | - |
| (verb) equip for use with electricity | Synonyms: electrify |
| (verb) send cables, wires, or telegrams | Synonyms: cable, telegraph |
| (verb) fasten with wire | - |
| (verb) string on a wire | - |
| (verb) provide with electrical circuits | - |
| zaire | (noun) the basic unit of money in Zaire | - |
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