| eringo | (noun) any plant of the genus Eryngium | Synonyms: eryngo |
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| eryngo | (noun) any plant of the genus Eryngium | Synonyms: eringo |
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| escudo | (noun) the basic unit of money on Cape Verde; equal to 100 centavos | Synonyms: Cape Verde escudo |
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| (noun) formerly the basic monetary unit of Portugal; equal to 100 centavo | Synonyms: Portuguese escudo |
| espresso | (noun) strong black coffee brewed by forcing hot water under pressure through finely ground coffee beans | - |
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| euro | (noun) the basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies | - |
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| expo | (noun) a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display | Synonyms: exhibition, exposition |
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| fado | (noun) a sad Portuguese folksong | - |
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| falsetto | (adjective) artificially high; above the normal voice range | - |
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| (noun) a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register | - |
| fandango | (noun) a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets | - |
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| faro | (noun) a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box | - |
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| farrago | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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| fatso | (noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: butterball, fat person, fatty, roly-poly |
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| fellatio | (noun) oral stimulation of the penis | Synonyms: fellation |
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| fiasco | (noun) a sudden and violent collapse | Synonyms: debacle |
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| filago | (noun) any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads | Synonyms: cotton rose, cudweed |
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| finocchio | (noun) aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads | Synonyms: fennel, Florence fennel |
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| fitspo | (noun) an image of promoting proper exercise and diet | - |
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| flamenco | (noun) a style of dancing characteristic of the Andalusian Gypsies; vigorous and rhythmic with clapping and stamping of feet | Synonyms: gypsy dancing |
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| (noun) guitar music composed for dancing the flamenco | - |
| flamingo | (noun) large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes | - |
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| folio | (noun) a book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages | - |
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| (noun) a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book) | Synonyms: leaf |
| (noun) the system of numbering pages | Synonyms: page number, pagination, paging |
| forego | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, foreswear, forgo, relinquish, waive |
| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forgo, precede, predate |
| forgo | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forego, forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, relinquish, waive |
| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forego, precede, predate |
| fortissimo | (adjective) (chiefly a direction or description in music) very loud and strong | - |
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| (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed very loudly | - |
| (adverb) a direction in music; to be played very loudly | Synonyms: very loudly |
| fresco | (noun) a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster | - |
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| (noun) a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster | - |
| (verb) paint onto wet plaster on a wall | - |
| frijolillo | (noun) shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans | Synonyms: coral bean, frijolito, mescal bean, Sophora secundiflora |
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| frijolito | (noun) shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans | Synonyms: coral bean, frijolillo, mescal bean, Sophora secundiflora |
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| gabbro | (noun) one of a family of granular intrusive rocks | - |
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| galago | (noun) agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears | Synonyms: bush baby, bushbaby |
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| garbanzo | (noun) large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried | Synonyms: chickpea |
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| (noun) the seed of the chickpea plant | Synonyms: chickpea |
| gaucho | (noun) a cowboy of the South American Pampas | - |
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| gazebo | (noun) a small roofed building affording shade and rest | Synonyms: summerhouse |
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| gazpacho | (noun) a soup made with chopped tomatoes and onions and cucumbers and peppers and herbs; served cold | - |
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| gecko | (noun) any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless | - |
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| generalissimo | (noun) the officer who holds the supreme command | Synonyms: commander-in-chief, commander in chief |
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| gesso | (noun) gypsum or plaster of Paris spread on a surface to make it suitable for painting or gilding (or a surface so prepared) | - |
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| ghetto | (noun) formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live | - |
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| (noun) a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions | - |
| (noun) any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping | - |
| gigolo | (noun) a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman | - |
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| gingko | (noun) deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree | Synonyms: ginkgo, Ginkgo biloba, maidenhair tree |
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| ginkgo | (noun) deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree | Synonyms: gingko, Ginkgo biloba, maidenhair tree |
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| ginzo | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, greaseball, Guinea, wop |
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| giro | (noun) a British financial system in which a bank or a post office transfers money from one account to another when they receive authorization to do so | - |
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| (noun) a check given by the British government to someone who is unemployed; it can be cashed either at a bank or at the post office | Synonyms: giro cheque |
| gismo | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gizmo, widget |
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| (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
| gitano | (noun) a Spanish male Gypsy | - |
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| gizmo | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gismo, widget |
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| (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
| glissando | (noun) a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale | - |
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| (adverb) (musical direction) in the manner of a glissando (with a rapidly executed series of notes) | - |
| go | (adjective) functioning correctly and ready for action | - |
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| (noun) a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters | Synonyms: go game |
| (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, fling, offer, pass, whirl |
| (noun) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine | Synonyms: Adam, cristal, disco biscuit, ecstasy, hug drug, X, XTC |
| (noun) a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) | Synonyms: spell, tour, turn |
| (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, expire, give-up the ghost, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) follow a certain course | Synonyms: proceed |
| (verb) progress by being changed | Synonyms: move, run |
| (verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go bad |
| (verb) enter or assume a certain state or condition | Synonyms: become, get |
| (verb) be abolished or discarded | - |
| (verb) give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number | Synonyms: plump |
| (verb) have a turn; make one's move in a game | Synonyms: move |
| (verb) to be spent or finished | Synonyms: run low, run short |
| (verb) be spent | - |
| (verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: function, operate, run, work |
| (verb) go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way | Synonyms: rifle |
| (verb) change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically | Synonyms: locomote, move, travel |
| (verb) move away from a place into another direction | Synonyms: depart, go away |
| (verb) begin or set in motion | Synonyms: get going, start |
| (verb) make a certain noise or sound | Synonyms: sound |
| (verb) follow a procedure or take a course | Synonyms: move, proceed |
| (verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, lead, pass, run |
| (verb) have a particular form | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action | - |
| (verb) be in the right place or situation | Synonyms: belong |
| (verb) be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired | Synonyms: fit |
| (verb) be awarded; be allotted | - |
| (verb) be or continue to be in a certain condition | - |
| (verb) lead, extend, or afford access | Synonyms: lead |
| (verb) be ranked or compare | - |
| (verb) blend or harmonize | Synonyms: blend, blend in |
| (verb) be sounded, played, or expressed | - |
| (verb) be contained in | - |
| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: endure, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, survive |
| gonzo | (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freakish, freaky, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
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| goo | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
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| graffito | (noun) a rude decoration inscribed on rocks or walls | Synonyms: graffiti |
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| granadillo | (noun) West Indian tree yielding a fine grade of green ebony | Synonyms: Brya ebenus, granadilla tree |
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| gringo | (noun) a Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen) | - |
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| grissino | (noun) a long slender crusty breadstick | - |
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| grotto | (noun) a small cave (usually with attractive features) | Synonyms: grot |
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| guacharo | (noun) nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter | Synonyms: oilbird, Steatornis caripensis |
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| guanaco | (noun) wild llama | Synonyms: Lama guanicoe |
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| guano | (noun) the excrement of sea birds; used as fertilizer | - |
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| gumbo | (noun) a soup or stew thickened with okra pods | - |
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| (noun) long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews | Synonyms: okra |
| (noun) tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus | Synonyms: Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus, lady's-finger, okra, okra plant |
| (noun) any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water | Synonyms: gumbo soil |
| gusto | (noun) vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment | Synonyms: relish, zest, zestfulness |
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| gyro | (noun) rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction | Synonyms: gyroscope |
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| (noun) a Greek sandwich: sliced roast lamb with onion and tomato stuffed into pita bread | - |
| hairdo | (noun) the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) | Synonyms: coif, coiffure, hair style, hairstyle |
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| halloo | (noun) a shout to attract attention | - |
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| (verb) shout `halloo', as when greeting someone or attracting attention | - |
| (verb) urge on with shouts | - |
| halo | (noun) an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint | Synonyms: aura, aureole, gloriole, glory, nimbus |
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| (noun) a circle of light around the sun or moon | - |
| (noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, annulus, doughnut, ring |
| hao | (noun) 10 hao equal 1 dong in Vietnam | - |
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| hello | (noun) an expression of greeting | Synonyms: hi, how-do-you-do, howdy, hullo |
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| hereto | (adverb) to this writing or document | - |
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| hero | (noun) the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem | - |
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| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
| (noun) a person distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength | - |
| (noun) someone who fights for a cause | Synonyms: champion, fighter, paladin |
| (noun) (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god | - |
| hippo | (noun) massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa | Synonyms: hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius, river horse |
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| hitherto | (adverb) used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time | Synonyms: as yet, heretofore, so far, thus far, til now, until now, up to now, yet |
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| ho | (noun) A sexually loose woman | Synonyms: hoe, hussy, slut, trollop |
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| hobo | (noun) a vagrant | Synonyms: bum, tramp |
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| (noun) a worker who moves around and works temporarily in different places | Synonyms: migrant worker |
| hollo | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
| (verb) cry hollo | - |
| (verb) encourage somebody by crying hollo | - |
| homo | (noun) any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage | Synonyms: human, human being, man |
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| (noun) someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gay, homophile, homosexual |
| honcho | (noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: boss, chief, foreman, gaffer |
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| hoodoo | (noun) a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers | Synonyms: fetich, fetish, juju, voodoo |
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| (noun) something believed to bring bad luck | - |
| (noun) a practitioner of voodoo | - |
| (noun) (geology) a column of weathered and unusually shaped rock | - |
| (verb) bring bad luck; be a source of misfortune | - |
| hoopoo | (noun) any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill | Synonyms: hoopoe |
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| hullabaloo | (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, excitement, turmoil, upheaval |
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| hullo | (noun) an expression of greeting | Synonyms: hello, hi, how-do-you-do, howdy |
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| hypo | (noun) a piston syringe that is fitted with a hypodermic needle for giving injections | Synonyms: hypodermic, hypodermic syringe |
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| (noun) a compound used as a fixing agent in photographic developing | Synonyms: sodium thiosulfate, sodium thiosulphate |
| icaco | (noun) plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves; tropical American | Synonyms: coco plum, cocoa plum |
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| (noun) small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit | Synonyms: Chrysobalanus icaco, coco plum, coco plum tree, cocoa plum |
| igloo | (noun) an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome | Synonyms: iglu |
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| imago | (noun) an adult insect produced after metamorphosis | - |
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| (noun) (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood | - |
| imbroglio | (noun) a very embarrassing misunderstanding | - |
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| (noun) an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation | Synonyms: embroilment |
| impasto | (noun) painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible | - |
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| impetigo | (noun) a very contagious infection of the skin; common in children; localized redness develops into small blisters that gradually crust and erode | - |
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| impresario | (noun) a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments | Synonyms: promoter, showman |
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| inamorato | (noun) a man with whom you are in love or have an intimate relationship | - |
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| incienso | (noun) fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine | Synonyms: brittle bush, brittlebush, Encelia farinosa |
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| incognito | (adjective) with your identity concealed | - |
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| (adverb) without revealing one's identity | - |
| incommunicado | (adjective) without the means or right to communicate | - |
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| indigo | (adjective) having a color between blue and violet | - |
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| (noun) a blue-violet color | - |
| (noun) deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye | Synonyms: indigo plant, Indigofera tinctoria |
| (noun) a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically | Synonyms: anil, indigotin |
| inferno | (noun) a very intense and uncontrolled fire | Synonyms: conflagration |
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| (noun) any place of pain and turmoil | Synonyms: hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits |
| info | (noun) a message received and understood | Synonyms: information |
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| innuendo | (noun) an indirect (and usually malicious) implication | Synonyms: insinuation |
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| intaglio | (noun) glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo) | Synonyms: diaglyph |
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| (noun) a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print | Synonyms: gravure, intaglio printing |
| intercessio | (noun) the right of veto possessed by Roman magistrates. | - |
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| intermezzo | (noun) a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance | Synonyms: entr'acte, interlude |
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| (noun) a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera | - |
| (noun) a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony | - |
| internuncio | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope ranking below a nuncio | - |
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| intertrigo | (noun) chafing between two skin surfaces that are in contact (as in the armpit or under the breasts or between the thighs) | - |
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| intro | (noun) formally making a person known to another or to the public | Synonyms: introduction, presentation |
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| (noun) a brief introductory passage to a piece of popular music | - |
| jaboncillo | (noun) evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans | Synonyms: China tree, chinaberry, false dogwood, Sapindus saponaria |
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