| biodefense | (noun) procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using biological agents | Synonyms: biodefence, biological defence, biological defense |
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| cense | (verb) perfume especially with a censer | Synonyms: incense, thurify |
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| cleanse | (verb) clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing | Synonyms: clean |
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| (verb) purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins | - |
| commonsense | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsensible, commonsensical |
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| condense | (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: concentrate, digest |
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| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: distil, distill |
| (verb) cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid | - |
| (verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: concentrate, contract |
| (verb) remove water from | - |
| (verb) become more compact or concentrated | - |
| (verb) develop due to condensation | - |
| contredanse | (noun) a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line | Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, country-dance, country dancing |
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| (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, country-dance |
| defense | (noun) (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies | Synonyms: defence, defensive measure |
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| (noun) the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury | Synonyms: defence |
| (noun) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | Synonyms: defence, demurrer, denial |
| (noun) protection from harm | Synonyms: defence |
| (noun) a structure used to defend against attack | Synonyms: defence, defensive structure |
| (noun) the justification for some act or belief | Synonyms: defence, vindication |
| (noun) the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions | Synonyms: defence, refutation |
| (noun) the defendant and his legal advisors collectively | Synonyms: defence, defense lawyers, defense team |
| (noun) (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring | Synonyms: defence, defending team |
| (noun) an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack | Synonyms: defence, defence force, defense force |
| (noun) (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Synonyms: defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense mechanism, defense reaction |
| dense | (adjective) having high relative density or specific gravity | - |
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| (adjective) hard to pass through because of dense growth | Synonyms: thick |
| (adjective) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity | Synonyms: dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow |
| (adjective) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter | Synonyms: heavy, impenetrable |
| (adjective) having component parts closely crowded together | Synonyms: thick |
| dispense | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: administer |
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| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) grant a dispensation; grant an exemption | - |
| expanse | (noun) the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary | Synonyms: area, surface area |
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| (noun) a wide scope | Synonyms: sweep |
| (noun) a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky | - |
| expense | (noun) a detriment or sacrifice | - |
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| (noun) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) | Synonyms: disbursal, disbursement |
| (noun) money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer | - |
| (verb) reduce the estimated value of something | Synonyms: write down, write off |
| flense | (verb) strip the blubber or skin from (a whale or seal) | - |
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| frankincense | (noun) an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation | Synonyms: gum olibanum, olibanum, thus |
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| immense | (adjective) unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope | Synonyms: Brobdingnagian, huge, vast |
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| incense | (noun) the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned | - |
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| (noun) a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned | - |
| (verb) make furious | Synonyms: exasperate, infuriate |
| (verb) perfume especially with a censer | Synonyms: cense, thurify |
| innocense | (noun) white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda; California | Synonyms: Collinsia bicolor, Collinsia heterophylla, purple chinese houses |
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| intense | (adjective) possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree | - |
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| (adjective) (of color) having the highest saturation | Synonyms: vivid |
| (adjective) extremely sharp or severe | Synonyms: acute |
| lense | (noun) a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images | Synonyms: lens, lens system |
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| license | (noun) the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Synonyms: permission, permit |
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| (noun) a legal document giving official permission to do something | Synonyms: licence, permit |
| (noun) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) | Synonyms: licence |
| (noun) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint | Synonyms: licence |
| (verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: certify, licence |
| manse | (noun) the residence of a clergyman (especially a Presbyterian clergyman) | - |
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| (noun) a large and imposing house | Synonyms: hall, mansion, mansion house, residence |
| nonsense | (adjective) having no intelligible meaning | Synonyms: nonsensical |
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| (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, trumpery |
| (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsensicality |
| offense | (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offence, offensive |
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| (noun) a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right | Synonyms: offence |
| (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: discourtesy, offence, offensive activity |
| (noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offence, umbrage |
| (noun) the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score | Synonyms: offence |
| pretense | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretending, simulation |
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| (noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretence, pretension |
| (noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: guise, pretence, pretext |
| (noun) imaginative intellectual play | Synonyms: make-believe, pretence |
| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, feigning, pretence |
| recompense | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: compensation |
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| (noun) payment or reward (as for service rendered) | - |
| (verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: compensate, remunerate |
| (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, indemnify, repair |
| response | (noun) a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent | Synonyms: reaction |
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| (noun) the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals | - |
| (noun) the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange | Synonyms: reply |
| (noun) a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation | Synonyms: answer, reply |
| (noun) the manner in which something is greeted | Synonyms: reception |
| (noun) a phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister | - |
| (noun) a result | - |
| rinse | (noun) washing lightly without soap | - |
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| (noun) the act of giving a light tint to the hair | - |
| (noun) the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing | Synonyms: rinsing |
| (noun) a liquid preparation used on wet hair to give it a tint | - |
| (verb) rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash | Synonyms: gargle |
| (verb) wash off soap or remaining dirt | Synonyms: rinse off |
| (verb) clean with some chemical process | Synonyms: wash |
| sense | (noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | Synonyms: sensation, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency |
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| (noun) sound practical judgment | Synonyms: common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, mother wit |
| (noun) a general conscious awareness | - |
| (noun) a natural appreciation or ability | - |
| (noun) the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted | Synonyms: signified |
| (verb) discern | - |
| (verb) become aware of not through the senses but instinctively | Synonyms: smell, smell out |
| (verb) perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles | Synonyms: feel |
| (verb) detect some circumstance or entity automatically | - |
| somatosense | (noun) any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain | - |
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| suspense | (noun) an uncertain cognitive state | - |
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| (noun) excited anticipation of an approaching climax | - |
| (noun) apprehension about what is going to happen | - |
| tense | (adjective) taut or rigid; stretched tight | - |
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| (adjective) pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat') | - |
| (adjective) in or of a state of physical or nervous tension | - |
| (noun) a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time | - |
| (verb) cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious | Synonyms: strain, tense up |
| (verb) become tense, nervous, or uneasy | Synonyms: tense up |
| (verb) increase the tension on | - |
| (verb) become stretched or tense or taut | Synonyms: strain |