euphoriant | (adjective) tending to produce euphoria | - |
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(noun) a psychoactive drug that tends to produce elation and euphoria | - |
evacuant | (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: cathartic, purgative |
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evanescent | (adjective) tending to vanish like vapor | - |
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event | (noun) something that happens at a given place and time | - |
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(noun) a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory | - |
(noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, issue, outcome, result, upshot |
(noun) a special set of circumstances | Synonyms: case |
evident | (adjective) capable of being seen or noticed | Synonyms: discernible, observable |
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(adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: apparent, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
excellent | (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: fantabulous, first-class, mean, ripping, splendid |
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excitant | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitative, excitatory |
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(noun) a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process | Synonyms: stimulant, stimulant drug |
excitement | (noun) something that agitates and arouses | Synonyms: excitation |
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(noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, hullabaloo, turmoil, upheaval |
(noun) the feeling of lively and cheerful joy | Synonyms: exhilaration |
(noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, fervor, fervour, inflammation |
excrement | (noun) waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body | Synonyms: body waste, excreta, excretion, excretory product |
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excrescent | (adjective) forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth) | - |
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executant | (noun) a performer (usually of musical works) | - |
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exigent | (adjective) requiring precise accuracy | Synonyms: exacting |
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(adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, crying, insistent, instant |
existent | (adjective) having existence or being or actuality | Synonyms: existing |
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(adjective) being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory | Synonyms: real |
(adjective) presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible | Synonyms: actual |
exorbitant | (adjective) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious |
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expectant | (adjective) marked by eager anticipation | Synonyms: anticipant, anticipative |
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(adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, gravid, great, heavy, large, with child |
expectorant | (noun) a medicine promoting expectoration | Synonyms: expectorator |
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expedient | (adjective) serving to promote your interest | - |
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(adjective) appropriate to a purpose; practical | - |
(noun) a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one | - |
experient | (adjective) having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation | Synonyms: experienced |
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experiment | (noun) the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation | Synonyms: experimentation |
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(noun) a venture at something new or different | - |
(noun) the testing of an idea | Synonyms: experimentation |
(verb) to conduct a test or investigation | - |
(verb) try something new, as in order to gain experience | Synonyms: try out |
exponent | (noun) a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself | Synonyms: index, power |
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(noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocate, advocator, proponent |
(noun) someone who expounds and interprets or explains | - |
extant | (adjective) still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost | - |
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extent | (noun) the distance or area or volume over which something extends | - |
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(noun) the point or degree to which something extends | - |
extolment | (noun) an expression of approval and commendation | Synonyms: congratulations, kudos, praise |
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extractant | (noun) an immiscible liquid used to extract a substance from another liquid. | - |
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extravagant | (adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: excessive, exuberant, overweening |
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(adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: prodigal, profligate, spendthrift |
exuberant | (adjective) produced or growing in extreme abundance | Synonyms: lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous |
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(adjective) joyously unrestrained | Synonyms: ebullient, high-spirited |
(adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: excessive, extravagant, overweening |
exultant | (adjective) joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success | Synonyms: exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant |
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faineant | (adjective) disinclined to work or exertion | Synonyms: indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy |
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faint | (adjective) lacking conviction or boldness or courage | Synonyms: faint-hearted, fainthearted, timid |
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(adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness | Synonyms: light-headed, light, lightheaded, swooning |
(adjective) lacking clarity or distinctness | Synonyms: dim, shadowy, vague, wispy |
(adjective) deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc | Synonyms: weak |
(adjective) lacking strength or vigor | Synonyms: feeble |
(adjective) indistinctly understood or felt or perceived | - |
(noun) a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain | Synonyms: deliquium, swoon, syncope |
(verb) pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain | Synonyms: conk, pass out, swoon |
famishment | (noun) a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period | Synonyms: starvation |
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feculent | (adjective) foul with waste matter | - |
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feint | (noun) any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack) | - |
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(verb) deceive by a mock action | - |
ferment | (noun) a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol | Synonyms: fermentation, fermenting, zymolysis, zymosis |
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(noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | Synonyms: agitation, fermentation, tempestuousness, unrest |
(noun) a substance capable of bringing about fermentation | - |
(verb) go sour or spoil | Synonyms: sour, turn, work |
(verb) cause to undergo fermentation | Synonyms: work |
(verb) work up into agitation or excitement | - |
(verb) be in an agitated or excited state | - |
fervent | (adjective) (archaic) extremely hot, burning, or glowing | Synonyms: fervid |
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(adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
figment | (noun) a contrived or fantastic idea | - |
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filament | (noun) a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current | - |
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(noun) a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) | Synonyms: filum |
(noun) the stalk of a stamen | - |
(noun) a very slender natural or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: fibril, strand |
fingerpaint | (noun) paint that has the consistency of jelly | Synonyms: finger paint |
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fingerprint | (noun) a smudge made by a (dirty) finger | Synonyms: fingermark |
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(noun) a generic term for any identifying characteristic | - |
(noun) a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations | - |
(verb) take an impression of a person's fingerprints | - |
firmament | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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fitment | (noun) any of the items furnishing or equipping a room (especially built-in furniture) | - |
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flagellant | (noun) a person who whips himself as a religious penance | - |
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(noun) a person who is whipped or whips himself for sexual gratification | - |
flagrant | (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, egregious, glaring, gross, rank |
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flamboyant | (adjective) elaborately or excessively ornamented | Synonyms: aureate, florid |
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(adjective) marked by ostentation but often tasteless | Synonyms: showy, splashy |
(noun) showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana | Synonyms: Delonix regia, flame tree, peacock flower, Poinciana regia, royal poinciana |
flashpoint | (noun) the lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid can be ignited in air | Synonyms: flash point |
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(noun) a place of political unrest and potential violence | Synonyms: hot spot, hotspot, trouble spot |
(noun) point at which something is ready to blow up | Synonyms: flash point |
flatulent | (adjective) generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal | - |
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(adjective) suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: colicky, gassy |
flaunt | (noun) the act of displaying something ostentatiously | - |
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(verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, ostentate, show off, swank |
flint | (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flinty, granitic, obdurate, stony |
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(noun) a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony | - |
flippant | (adjective) showing inappropriate levity | Synonyms: light-minded |
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flocculent | (adjective) having a fluffy character or appearance | Synonyms: woolly, wooly |
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fluent | (adjective) expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively | Synonyms: eloquent, facile, silver-tongued, silver, smooth-spoken |
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(adjective) smooth and unconstrained in movement | Synonyms: fluid, liquid, smooth |
fluorescent | (adjective) brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light | - |
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(adjective) emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source | - |
(noun) a lighting fixture that uses a fluorescent lamp | Synonyms: fluorescent fixture |
foment | (verb) bathe with warm water or medicated lotions | - |
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(verb) try to stir up public opinion | Synonyms: agitate, stir up |
fondant | (noun) candy made of a thick creamy sugar paste | - |
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font | (noun) bowl for baptismal water | Synonyms: baptismal font, baptistery, baptistry |
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(noun) a specific size and style of type within a type family | Synonyms: case, face, fount, typeface |
footprint | (noun) the area taken up by some object | - |
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(noun) a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface | Synonyms: footmark, step |
(noun) a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important | - |
forefront | (noun) the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field | Synonyms: cutting edge, vanguard |
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(noun) the part in the front or nearest the viewer | Synonyms: head |
forint | (noun) the basic unit of money in Hungary | - |
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fount | (noun) a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water | Synonyms: fountain |
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(noun) a specific size and style of type within a type family | Synonyms: case, face, font, typeface |
foxhunt | (noun) mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox | Synonyms: fox hunting |
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(verb) hunt foxes, on horseback and with dogs | - |
fragment | (noun) a broken piece of a brittle artifact | Synonyms: shard, sherd |
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(noun) an incomplete piece | - |
(noun) a piece broken off or cut off of something else | - |
(verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragmentise, fragmentize |
fragrant | (adjective) pleasant-smelling | - |
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fraudulent | (adjective) involving deception | Synonyms: deceitful, fallacious |
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frequent | (adjective) coming at short intervals or habitually | - |
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(adjective) frequently encountered | - |
(verb) be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place | Synonyms: haunt |
(verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, patronise, patronize, shop, shop at, sponsor |
front | (adjective) relating to or located in the front | - |
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(noun) the side that is seen or that goes first | - |
(noun) the outward appearance of a person | - |
(noun) a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals | Synonyms: movement, social movement |
(noun) the side that is forward or prominent | Synonyms: forepart, front end |
(noun) the line along which opposing armies face each other | Synonyms: battlefront, front line |
(noun) the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer | - |
(noun) the immediate proximity of someone or something | Synonyms: presence |
(noun) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity | Synonyms: figurehead, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman |
(noun) (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses | - |
(noun) a sphere of activity involving effort | - |
(verb) confront bodily | Synonyms: breast |
(verb) be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to | Synonyms: face, look |
fulfillment | (noun) the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc) | Synonyms: fulfilment |
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(noun) a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires | Synonyms: fulfilment |
fulfilment | (noun) the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc) | Synonyms: fulfillment |
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(noun) a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires | Synonyms: fulfillment |
fulgent | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, dazzling, glaring, glary |
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fulgurant | (adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: dazzling, eye-popping, fulgurous |
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fulminant | (adjective) sudden and severe | - |
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fumigant | (noun) a chemical substance used in fumigation | - |
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fundament | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
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(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
(noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, groundwork |
gallant | (adjective) unflinching in battle or action | - |
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(adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: chivalrous, knightly |
(adjective) having or displaying great dignity or nobility | Synonyms: lofty, majestic, proud |
(adjective) lively and spirited | Synonyms: dashing |
(noun) a man who attends or escorts a woman | Synonyms: squire |
(noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, sheik, swell |
gallivant | (verb) wander aimlessly in search of pleasure | Synonyms: gad, jazz around |
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gardant | (adjective) looking forward | Synonyms: full-face, guardant |
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garment | (noun) an article of clothing | - |
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(verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, habilitate, raiment, tog |
garnishment | (noun) a court order to an employer to withhold all or part of an employee's wages and to send the money to the court or to the person who won a lawsuit against the employee | - |
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gaunt | (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
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gent | (noun) informal abbreviation of `gentleman' | - |
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(noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, lad |
giant | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: elephantine, gargantuan, jumbo |
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(noun) any creature of exceptional size | - |
(noun) an unusually large enterprise | - |
(noun) a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun) | Synonyms: giant star |
(noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, goliath, monster |
(noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, heavyweight, titan |
(noun) an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales | - |
(noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: heavyweight, hulk, whale |
glabrescent | (adjective) lacking hair or a similar growth or tending to become hairless | - |
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glint | (noun) a spatially localized brightness | - |
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(noun) a momentary flash of light | Synonyms: flicker, spark |
(verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glisten, glitter, shine |
(verb) throw a glance at; take a brief look at | Synonyms: glance, peek |
godparent | (noun) a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism | - |
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government | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, governing, government activity |
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(noun) (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed | - |
(noun) the study of government of states and other political units | Synonyms: political science, politics |
(noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: authorities, regime |
gradient | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal | Synonyms: slope |
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(noun) a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension | - |
grandaunt | (noun) an aunt of your father or mother | Synonyms: great-aunt |
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grandiloquent | (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous |
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(adjective) lofty in style | Synonyms: magniloquent, tall |
grandparent | (noun) a parent of your father or mother | - |
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grant | (noun) the act of providing a subsidy | Synonyms: subsidisation, subsidization |
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(noun) a right or privilege that has been granted | - |
(noun) a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business | Synonyms: concession |
(noun) any monetary aid | - |
(noun) (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance | Synonyms: assignment |
(verb) be willing to concede | Synonyms: concede, yield |
(verb) allow to have | Synonyms: accord, allot |
(verb) let have | Synonyms: allow |
(verb) transfer by deed | Synonyms: deed over |
(verb) give as judged due or on the basis of merit | Synonyms: award |
(verb) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | Synonyms: cede, concede, yield |
(verb) bestow, especially officially | Synonyms: give |
greasepaint | (noun) a greasy substance used as makeup by actors | - |
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grunt | (noun) medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught | - |
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(noun) the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs | Synonyms: oink |
(noun) an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker | - |
(verb) issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise | - |
guardant | (adjective) looking forward | Synonyms: full-face, gardant |
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gunflint | (noun) the piece of flint that provides the igniting spark in a flintlock weapon | - |
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gunpoint | (noun) the gun muzzle's direction | Synonyms: point |
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habiliment | (noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | Synonyms: article of clothing, clothing, vesture, wear, wearable |
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habitant | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, dweller, indweller, inhabitant |
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harassment | (noun) the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism | Synonyms: molestation |
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(noun) a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented | Synonyms: torment |
haunt | (noun) a frequently visited place | Synonyms: hangout, repair, resort, stamping ground |
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(verb) haunt like a ghost; pursue | Synonyms: ghost, obsess |
(verb) follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to | Synonyms: stalk |
(verb) be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place | Synonyms: frequent |
headcount | (noun) number of people in a particular group | Synonyms: head count |
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hereditament | (noun) any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited | - |
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hesitant | (adjective) lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly | Synonyms: hesitating |
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