| abrocome | (noun) ratlike rodent with soft fur and large ears of the Andes | Synonyms: chinchilla rat, rat chinchilla |
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| academe | (noun) the academic world | Synonyms: academia |
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| acme | (noun) the highest point (of something) | Synonyms: apex, peak, vertex |
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| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: elevation, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| acrosome | (noun) a process at the anterior end of a sperm cell that produces enzymes to facilitate penetration of the egg | - |
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| adventuresome | (adjective) willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises | Synonyms: adventurous |
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| aerodrome | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: airdrome, airport, drome |
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| aerogramme | (noun) a letter sent by air mail | Synonyms: aerogram, air letter, airmail letter |
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| aflame | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, afire, aflare, alight, on fire |
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| (adjective) keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement | Synonyms: ablaze, aroused |
| airdrome | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: aerodrome, airport, drome |
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| airframe | (noun) the framework and covering of an airplane or rocket (excluding the engines) | - |
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| anime | (noun) a style of animation developed in Japan, characterized by stylized colorful art and often adult themes | - |
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| (noun) a hard copal derived from an African tree | Synonyms: Zanzibar copal |
| (noun) any of various resins or oleoresins | Synonyms: gum anime |
| apodeme | (noun) ridge-like ingrowth of the exoskeleton of an arthropod that supports internal organs and provides attachment points for muscles | - |
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| apoenzyme | (noun) a protein that combines with a coenzyme to form an active enzyme | - |
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| arame | (noun) an edible seaweed with a mild flavor | - |
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| aspartame | (noun) an artificial sweetener made from aspartic acid; used as a calorie-free sweetener | - |
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| assume | (verb) put clothing on one's body | Synonyms: don, get into, put on, wear |
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| (verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: acquire, adopt, take, take on |
| (verb) take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof | Synonyms: presume, take for granted |
| (verb) take up someone's soul into heaven | - |
| (verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: feign, sham, simulate |
| (verb) occupy or take on | Synonyms: strike, take, take up |
| (verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: arrogate, seize, take over, usurp |
| (verb) take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person | Synonyms: accept, bear, take over |
| (verb) take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities | Synonyms: adopt, take on, take over |
| astrodome | (noun) a transparent dome on top of an airplane where the navigator can make celestial observations | - |
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| autosome | (noun) any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; appear in pairs in body cells but as single chromosomes in spermatozoa | Synonyms: somatic chromosome |
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| awesome | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing |
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| ballgame | (noun) a field game played with a ball (especially baseball) | Synonyms: ball game |
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| (noun) a particular situation that is radically different from the preceding situation | Synonyms: new ballgame |
| become | (verb) enter or assume a certain state or condition | Synonyms: get, go |
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| (verb) come into existence | - |
| (verb) undergo a change or development | Synonyms: turn |
| (verb) enhance the appearance of | Synonyms: suit |
| bedframe | (noun) the framework of a bed | Synonyms: bedstead |
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| bedtime | (noun) the time you go to bed | - |
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| begrime | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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| beldame | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldam |
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| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, crone, hag, witch |
| bichrome | (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bicolor, bicolored, bicolour, bicoloured, dichromatic |
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| biome | (noun) a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate | - |
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| birdlime | (noun) a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds | Synonyms: lime |
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| (verb) spread birdlime on branches to catch birds | Synonyms: lime |
| blame | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| (noun) a reproach for some lapse or misdeed | Synonyms: rap |
| (noun) an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed | Synonyms: incrimination, inculpation |
| (verb) attribute responsibility to | Synonyms: charge |
| (verb) put or pin the blame on | Synonyms: fault |
| (verb) harass with constant criticism | Synonyms: find fault, pick |
| blaspheme | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: curse, cuss, imprecate, swear |
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| (verb) speak of in an irreverent or impious manner | - |
| blithesome | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome |
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| bothersome | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| brome | (noun) any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions | Synonyms: bromegrass |
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| brooklime | (noun) plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers | Synonyms: American brooklime, Veronica americana |
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| (noun) European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America | Synonyms: European brooklime, Veronica beccabunga |
| bunglesome | (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, ungainly |
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| burdensome | (adjective) not easily borne; wearing | Synonyms: onerous, taxing |
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| byname | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: cognomen, moniker, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet |
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| categoreme | (noun) a categorematic expression; a term capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition | Synonyms: categorem |
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| cefotaxime | (noun) a parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Claforan) used for severe infections of the lungs or throat or ears or urinary tract | Synonyms: Claforan |
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| ceftazidime | (noun) a parenteral cephalosporin (trade names Fortaz and Tazicef) used to treat moderate infections | Synonyms: Fortaz, Tazicef |
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| cefuroxime | (noun) a cephalosporin that can be given parenterally (trade name Zinacef) or orally by tablets (trade name Ceftin); indicated for infections of the lungs or throat or ears or urinary tract or meninges | Synonyms: Ceftin, Zinacef |
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| centime | (noun) a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit | Synonyms: cent, penny |
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| (noun) a fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg and Mali and Morocco and Niger and Rwanda and Senegal and Switzerland and Togo | - |
| centrosome | (noun) small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules | Synonyms: central body |
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| chime | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument | Synonyms: bell, gong |
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| (verb) emit a sound | - |
| chondriosome | (noun) an organelle containing enzymes responsible for producing energy | Synonyms: mitochondrion |
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| chrome | (noun) another word for chromium when it is used in dyes or pigments | - |
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| (verb) treat with a chromium compound | - |
| (verb) plate with chromium | Synonyms: chromium-plate |
| chromosome | (noun) a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order | - |
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| chyme | (noun) a semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum | - |
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| cleome | (noun) any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers | Synonyms: spiderflower |
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| clime | (noun) the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time | Synonyms: climate |
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| coenzyme | (noun) a small molecule (not a protein but sometimes a vitamin) essential for the activity of some enzymes | - |
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| come | (noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract | Synonyms: cum, ejaculate, seed, semen, seminal fluid |
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| (verb) come to pass; arrive, as in due course | - |
| (verb) be found or available | - |
| (verb) reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position | - |
| (verb) happen as a result | - |
| (verb) have a certain priority | - |
| (verb) come to one's mind; suggest itself | Synonyms: occur |
| (verb) move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody | Synonyms: come up |
| (verb) be received | Synonyms: come in |
| (verb) cover a certain distance | - |
| (verb) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress | Synonyms: arrive, get |
| (verb) experience orgasm | - |
| (verb) come under, be classified or included | Synonyms: fall |
| (verb) proceed or get along | Synonyms: do, fare, get along, make out |
| (verb) extend or reach | - |
| (verb) to be the product or result | Synonyms: follow |
| (verb) exist or occur in a certain point in a series | - |
| (verb) be a native of | Synonyms: hail |
| (verb) to measure up to in kind or quality | Synonyms: add up, amount |
| (verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, amount, number, total |
| (verb) come forth | Synonyms: issue forth |
| (verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: derive, descend |
| consomme | (noun) clear soup usually of beef or veal or chicken | - |
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| consume | (verb) engage fully | - |
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| (verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly | Synonyms: have, ingest, take, take in |
| (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
| (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: squander, ware, waste |
| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: demolish, devour, down, go through |
| (verb) destroy completely | - |
| costume | (noun) the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball | - |
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| (noun) the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class | - |
| (noun) unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place | - |
| (noun) the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments) | - |
| (verb) dress in a costume | Synonyms: dress up |
| (verb) furnish with costumes; as for a film or play | - |
| crime | (noun) (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act | Synonyms: criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking |
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| (noun) an evil act not necessarily punishable by law | - |
| cuddlesome | (adjective) inviting cuddling or hugging | Synonyms: cuddly |
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| cumbersome | (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
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| (adjective) difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight | Synonyms: cumbrous |
| cybercrime | (noun) crime committed using a computer and the internet to steal a person's identity or sell contraband or stalk victims or disrupt operations with malevolent programs | - |
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| cyclostome | (noun) primitive aquatic vertebrate | - |
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| cyme | (noun) more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first | - |
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| cytochrome | (noun) (biochemistry) a class of hemoprotein whose principal biological function is electron transfer (especially in cellular respiration) | - |
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| cytostome | (noun) mouth of a protozoan | - |
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| dagame | (noun) source of a tough elastic wood | Synonyms: Calycophyllum candidissimum, lemonwood tree |
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| dame | (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, chick, doll, skirt, wench |
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| (noun) a woman of refinement | Synonyms: gentlewoman, lady, ma'am, madam |
| daytime | (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daylight |
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| defame | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| deplume | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, displume, pluck, pull, tear |
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| (verb) strip of honors, possessions, or attributes | Synonyms: displume |
| dermatome | (noun) a surgical instrument used to cut very thin slices of skin | - |
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| dictyosome | (noun) a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions) | Synonyms: Golgi apparatus, Golgi body, Golgi complex |
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| dime | (noun) street name for a packet of illegal drugs that is sold for ten dollars | Synonyms: dime bag |
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| (noun) a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar | - |
| dimethylglyoxime | (noun) a compound used in analysis as a precipitant for palladium or nickel | - |
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| dinnertime | (noun) the customary or habitual hour for the evening meal | Synonyms: suppertime |
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| displume | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, pluck, pull, tear |
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| (verb) strip of honors, possessions, or attributes | Synonyms: deplume |
| dome | (noun) a hemispherical roof | - |
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| (noun) a stadium that has a roof | Synonyms: covered stadium, domed stadium |
| (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bean, bonce, noggin, noodle |
| (noun) a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward | - |
| doorframe | (noun) the frame that supports a door | Synonyms: doorcase |
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| downtime | (noun) a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is not operating (especially as a result of malfunctions) | - |
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| drome | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: aerodrome, airdrome, airport |
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| eightsome | (noun) a Scottish reel for eight dancers | - |
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| (noun) eight people considered as a unit | Synonyms: octet, octette |
| endgame | (noun) the final stages of a chess game after most of the pieces have been removed from the board | Synonyms: end game |
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| (noun) the final stages of an extended process of negotiation | Synonyms: end game |
| enzyme | (noun) any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions | - |
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| episome | (noun) DNA that is not incorporated into the genome but is replicated together with the genome (especially in bacterial cells) | - |
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| episteme | (noun) the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time | - |
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| epitome | (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: image, paradigm, prototype |
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| (noun) a brief abstract (as of an article or book) | - |
| exhume | (verb) dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies | Synonyms: disinter |
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| extreme | (adjective) most distant in any direction | - |
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| (adjective) far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree | - |
| (adjective) of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity | Synonyms: utmost, uttermost |
| (adjective) beyond a norm in views or actions | - |
| (noun) the furthest or highest degree of something | - |
| (noun) the point located farthest from the middle of something | Synonyms: extreme point, extremum |
| fame | (noun) the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed | Synonyms: celebrity, renown |
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| (noun) favorable public reputation | - |
| fearsome | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| filename | (noun) (computer science) the name given to a computer file in order to distinguish it from other files; may contain an extension that indicates the type of file | Synonyms: computer file name, computer filename, file name |
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| fivesome | (noun) five people considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V |
| flame | (noun) the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke | Synonyms: fire, flaming |
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| (verb) criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium | - |
| (verb) be in flames or aflame | - |
| (verb) shine with a sudden light | Synonyms: flare |
| flavorsome | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavourful, flavourous, flavoursome, sapid, saporous |
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| flavoursome | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavourful, flavourous, sapid, saporous |
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| flume | (noun) watercourse that consists of an open artificial chute filled with water for power or for carrying logs | - |
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| (noun) a narrow gorge with a stream running through it | Synonyms: gulch |
| fluorochrome | (noun) any of various fluorescent substances used in fluorescence microscopy to stain specimens | - |
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| forename | (noun) the name that precedes the surname | Synonyms: first name, given name |
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| foursome | (noun) four people considered as a unit | Synonyms: quartet, quartette |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
| frame | (noun) one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided | - |
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| (noun) a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror | Synonyms: framing |
| (noun) the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape | Synonyms: skeletal frame, skeleton, underframe |
| (noun) the framework for a pair of eyeglasses | - |
| (noun) a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film | - |
| (noun) a structure supporting or containing something | Synonyms: framework |
| (noun) the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal | Synonyms: skeletal system, skeleton, systema skeletale |
| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (noun) a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning | Synonyms: frame of reference |
| (noun) a single drawing in a comic strip | - |
| (noun) an application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently | - |
| (noun) (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat | Synonyms: inning |
| (verb) make up plans or basic details for | Synonyms: compose, draw up |
| (verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: cast, couch, put, redact |
| (verb) enclose in or as if in a frame | Synonyms: border, frame in |
| (verb) construct by fitting or uniting parts together | Synonyms: frame up |
| (verb) take or catch as if in a snare or trap | Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, set up |
| (verb) enclose in a frame, as of a picture | - |
| frolicsome | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, rollicking, sportive |
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| fulsome | (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: buttery, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
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