| fume | (noun) a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas | Synonyms: smoke |
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| (verb) be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face | Synonyms: reek |
| (verb) be mad, angry, or furious | - |
| (verb) treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests | Synonyms: fumigate |
| (verb) emit a cloud of fine particles | Synonyms: smoke |
| game | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: gamey, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky |
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| (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: crippled, gimpy, halt, halting, lame |
| (noun) a contest with rules to determine a winner | - |
| (noun) an amusement or pastime | - |
| (noun) your occupation or line of work | Synonyms: biz |
| (noun) a single play of a sport or other contest | - |
| (noun) frivolous or trifling behavior | - |
| (noun) animal hunted for food or sport | - |
| (noun) the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game | - |
| (noun) a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal) | Synonyms: plot, secret plan |
| (noun) the flesh of wild animals that is used for food | - |
| (noun) (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win | - |
| (noun) (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves | - |
| (verb) place a bet on | Synonyms: back, bet on, gage, punt, stake |
| gastronome | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, epicurean, foodie, gourmet |
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| gendarme | (noun) a French policeman | - |
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| genome | (noun) the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism | - |
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| gladsome | (adjective) experiencing or expressing gladness or joy | - |
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| glume | (noun) small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae | - |
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| gnathostome | (noun) a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws | - |
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| gnome | (noun) a short pithy saying expressing a general truth | - |
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| (noun) a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure | Synonyms: dwarf |
| gramme | (noun) a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram | Synonyms: g, gm, gram |
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| grapheme | (noun) a written symbol that is used to represent speech | Synonyms: character, graph, graphic symbol |
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| grime | (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grunge, soil, stain |
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| (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, soil |
| gruesome | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grim, grisly, macabre, sick |
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| grume | (noun) a semisolid mass of coagulated red and white blood cells | Synonyms: blood clot |
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| (noun) a thick viscous liquid | - |
| halftime | (noun) an intermission between the first and second half of a game | - |
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| hame | (noun) stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces | - |
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| handsome | (adjective) pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion | Synonyms: better-looking, fine-looking, good-looking, on fleek, well-favored, well-favoured |
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| (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, liberal, openhanded |
| heaume | (noun) a large medieval helmet supported on the shoulders | - |
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| hematochrome | (noun) a reddish coloring material found in some algae | - |
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| heme | (noun) a complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds | Synonyms: haem, haemitin, hematin, protoheme |
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| hippodrome | (noun) a stadium for horse shows or horse races | - |
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| home | (adjective) used of your own ground | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are | - |
| (adjective) inside the country | Synonyms: interior, internal, national |
| (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation |
| (noun) an institution where people are cared for | Synonyms: nursing home, rest home |
| (noun) (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score | Synonyms: home base, home plate, plate |
| (noun) a social unit living together | Synonyms: family, house, household, menage |
| (noun) the country or state or city where you live | - |
| (noun) place where something began and flourished | - |
| (noun) where you live at a particular time | Synonyms: place |
| (noun) the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end | Synonyms: base |
| (noun) an environment offering affection and security | - |
| (adverb) at or to or in the direction of one's home or family | - |
| (adverb) to the fullest extent; to the heart | - |
| (adverb) on or to the point aimed at | - |
| (verb) return home accurately from a long distance | - |
| (verb) provide with, or send to, a home | - |
| illume | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illuminate, illumine, light, light up |
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| income | (noun) the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time | - |
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| inflame | (verb) become inflamed; get sore | - |
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| (verb) cause inflammation in | - |
| (verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, heat, ignite, stir up, wake |
| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, kindle |
| (verb) catch fire | Synonyms: kindle |
| inhume | (verb) place in a grave or tomb | Synonyms: bury, entomb, inter, lay to rest |
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| irksome | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| isocryme | (noun) a line connecting points on the earth's surface having the same mean temperature in the coldest month of the year. | - |
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| lame | (adjective) pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness | Synonyms: feeble |
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| (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: crippled, game, gimpy, halt, halting |
| (noun) a fabric interwoven with threads of metal | - |
| (noun) someone who doesn't understand what is going on | Synonyms: square |
| (verb) deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg | Synonyms: cripple |
| legume | (noun) the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils) | - |
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| (noun) an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae | Synonyms: leguminous plant |
| (noun) the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case | - |
| lexeme | (noun) a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go' | - |
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| lifetime | (noun) the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) | Synonyms: life-time, life, lifespan |
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| lightsome | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted |
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| (adjective) moving easily and quickly; nimble | Synonyms: light, tripping |
| lime | (noun) the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees | - |
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| (noun) any of various related trees bearing limes | Synonyms: Citrus aurantifolia, lime tree |
| (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 tree, linden, linden tree |
| (noun) a caustic substance produced by heating limestone | Synonyms: calcium hydrate, calcium hydroxide, caustic lime, hydrated lime, lime hydrate, slaked lime |
| (noun) a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide | Synonyms: burnt lime, calcined lime, calcium oxide, calx, fluxing lime, quicklime, unslaked lime |
| (noun) a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds | Synonyms: birdlime |
| (verb) cover with lime so as to induce growth | - |
| (verb) spread birdlime on branches to catch birds | Synonyms: birdlime |
| liposome | (noun) an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector | - |
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| lissome | (adjective) gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease | Synonyms: lissom, lithe, lithesome, sinuous, supple |
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| lithesome | (adjective) gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease | Synonyms: lissom, lissome, lithe, sinuous, supple |
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| loathsome | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile |
| lonesome | (adjective) marked by dejection from being alone | Synonyms: lonely |
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| (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lone, only, sole, solitary |
| longtime | (adjective) having existed or persisted or continued in a particular role or state for a long time | Synonyms: long-time |
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| lovesome | (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: affectionate, fond, tender |
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| loxodrome | (noun) a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction | Synonyms: rhumb, rhumb line |
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| lunchtime | (noun) the customary or habitual hour for eating lunch | Synonyms: lunch period |
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| lysosome | (noun) an organelle found in the cytoplasm of most cells (especially in leukocytes and liver and kidney cells) | - |
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| lysozyme | (noun) an enzyme found in saliva and sweat and tears that destroys the cell walls of certain bacteria | Synonyms: muramidase |
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| macrame | (noun) a relatively coarse lace; made by weaving and knotting cords | - |
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| (verb) make knotted patterns | - |
| madame | (noun) title used for a married Frenchwoman | - |
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| mainframe | (noun) (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing | Synonyms: C.P.U., central processing unit, central processor, CPU, processor |
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| (noun) a large digital computer serving 100-400 users and occupying a special air-conditioned room | Synonyms: mainframe computer |
| maritime | (adjective) relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen | Synonyms: marine, nautical |
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| (adjective) bordering on or living or characteristic of those near the sea | - |
| mealtime | (noun) the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten | - |
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| meantime | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meanwhile |
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| (adverb) during the intervening time | Synonyms: in the meantime, meanwhile |
| meddlesome | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddling, officious |
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| meme | (noun) a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation) | - |
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| mesenchyme | (noun) mesodermal tissue that forms connective tissue and blood and smooth muscles | - |
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| metronome | (noun) clicking pendulum indicates the exact tempo of a piece of music | - |
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| mettlesome | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, gritty, spirited, spunky |
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| (adjective) having a proud and unbroken spirit | - |
| microsome | (noun) a tiny granule in the cytoplasm that is where protein synthesis takes place under the direction of mRNA | - |
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| microtome | (noun) scientific instrument that cuts thin slices of something for microscopic examination | - |
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| millime | (noun) 1,000 millimes equal 1 dinar in Tunisia | - |
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| mime | (noun) a performance using gestures and body movements without words | Synonyms: dumb show, pantomime |
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| (noun) an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression | Synonyms: mimer, mummer, pantomimer, pantomimist |
| (verb) act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only | Synonyms: pantomime |
| (verb) imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect | Synonyms: mimic |
| misname | (verb) assign in incorrect name to | Synonyms: miscall |
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| mistime | (verb) time incorrectly | - |
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| monochrome | (adjective) having or appearing to have only one color | Synonyms: monochromatic, monochromic, monochromous |
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| (noun) a black-and-white photograph or slide | Synonyms: black and white |
| (noun) painting done in a range of tones of a single color | - |
| monoreme | (noun) a galley that has one bank of oars. | - |
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| monotreme | (noun) the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria | Synonyms: egg-laying mammal |
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| moorgame | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorbird, moorfowl, red grouse |
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| morpheme | (noun) minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units | - |
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| morphophoneme | (noun) (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme | - |
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| name | (noun) by the sanction or authority of | - |
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| (noun) a language unit by which a person or thing is known | - |
| (noun) a defamatory or abusive word or phrase | Synonyms: epithet |
| (noun) family based on male descent | Synonyms: gens |
| (noun) a well-known or notable person | Synonyms: figure, public figure |
| (noun) a person's reputation | - |
| (verb) determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis | Synonyms: diagnose |
| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out |
| (verb) give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property | Synonyms: identify |
| (verb) assign a specified (usually proper) name to | Synonyms: be known as, call, know as |
| (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: advert, bring up, cite, mention, refer |
| (verb) mention and identify by name | - |
| (verb) give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of | Synonyms: list |
| (verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: appoint, constitute, nominate |
| (verb) charge with a function; charge to be | Synonyms: make, nominate |
| nettlesome | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
| nickname | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, sobriquet, soubriquet |
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| (noun) a descriptive name for a place or thing | - |
| (verb) give a nickname to | Synonyms: dub |
| nighttime | (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: dark, night |
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| noisome | (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, funky, ill-scented, smelly, stinking |
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| (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile |
| onetime | (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: erstwhile, former, old, one-time, quondam, sometime |
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| oriflamme | (noun) a red or orange-red flag used as a standard by early French kings | - |
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| (noun) an inspiring symbol or ideal that serves as a rallying point in a struggle | - |
| outcome | (noun) something that results | Synonyms: final result, result, resultant, termination |
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| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, event, issue, result, upshot |
| overcome | (verb) get on top of; deal with successfully | Synonyms: get over, master, subdue, surmount |
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| (verb) overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome | Synonyms: get the best, have the best |
| (verb) win a victory over | Synonyms: defeat, get the better of |
| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
| overtime | (noun) playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie | Synonyms: extra time |
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| (noun) work done in addition to regular working hours | - |
| (adverb) beyond the regular time | - |
| oxime | (noun) any compound containing the group -C=NOH | - |
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| palindrome | (noun) a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward | - |
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| pantomime | (noun) a performance using gestures and body movements without words | Synonyms: dumb show, mime |
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| (verb) act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only | Synonyms: mime |
| parttime | (adverb) for less than the standard number of hours | Synonyms: half-time, part-time |
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| pastime | (noun) a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly) | Synonyms: interest, pursuit |
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| peacetime | (noun) a period of time during which there is no war | - |
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| perfume | (noun) a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor | Synonyms: essence |
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| (noun) a distinctive odor that is pleasant | Synonyms: aroma, fragrance, scent |
| (verb) apply perfume to | Synonyms: scent |
| (verb) fill or impregnate with an odor | Synonyms: aromatise, aromatize |
| peristome | (noun) region around the mouth in various invertebrates | - |
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| (noun) (botany) fringe of toothlike appendages surrounding the mouth of a moss capsule | - |
| phoneme | (noun) (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language | - |
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| playtime | (noun) time for play or diversion | Synonyms: playday |
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| plume | (noun) the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds | Synonyms: plumage |
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| (noun) a feather or cluster of feathers worn as an ornament | - |
| (noun) anything that resembles a feather in shape or lightness | - |
| (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: dress, preen, primp |
| (verb) form a plume | - |
| (verb) clean with one's bill | Synonyms: preen |
| (verb) deck with a plume | - |
| (verb) be proud of | Synonyms: congratulate, pride |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, rob, soak, surcharge |
| polychrome | (adjective) having or exhibiting many colors | Synonyms: polychromatic, polychromic |
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| (noun) a piece of work composed of or decorated in many colors | - |
| (verb) color with many colors; make polychrome | Synonyms: polychromise, polychromize |
| pome | (noun) a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part | Synonyms: false fruit |
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| presume | (verb) take liberties or act with too much confidence | - |
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| (verb) take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof | Synonyms: assume, take for granted |
| (verb) constitute reasonable evidence for | - |
| (verb) take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission | Synonyms: dare, make bold |
| prime | (adjective) of or relating to or being an integer that cannot be factored into other integers | - |
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| (adjective) being at the best stage of development | Synonyms: meridian |
| (adjective) of superior grade | Synonyms: choice, prize, quality, select |
| (adjective) used of the first or originating agent | - |
| (adjective) first in rank or degree | Synonyms: premier |
| (noun) a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself | Synonyms: prime quantity |
| (noun) the time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest | Synonyms: prime of life |
| (noun) the second canonical hour; about 6 a.m. | - |
| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak |
| (verb) insert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing | - |
| (verb) fill with priming liquid | - |
| (verb) cover with a primer; apply a primer to | Synonyms: ground, undercoat |
| prodrome | (noun) an early symptom that a disease is developing or that an attack is about to occur | Synonyms: prodroma |
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| proenzyme | (noun) any of a group of compounds that are inactive precursors of enzymes and require some change (such as the hydrolysis of a fragment that masks an active enzyme) to become active | Synonyms: zymogen |
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| programme | (noun) a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation | Synonyms: program |
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| (noun) a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished | Synonyms: plan, program |
| (noun) a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need | Synonyms: program |
| (noun) an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event | Synonyms: program |
| (noun) a radio or television show | Synonyms: broadcast, program |
| (noun) (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute | Synonyms: computer program, computer programme, program |
| (noun) an integrated course of academic studies | Synonyms: course of study, curriculum, program, syllabus |
| (verb) arrange a program of or for | Synonyms: program |
| (verb) write a computer program | Synonyms: program |
| proteome | (noun) the full complement of proteins produced by a particular genome | - |
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| proteosome | (noun) a form of vaccine that can be administered by an inhaler | Synonyms: proteosome vaccine |
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| protoheme | (noun) a complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds | Synonyms: haem, haemitin, hematin, heme |
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| quarrelsome | (adjective) given to quarreling | - |
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