| aerofoil | (noun) a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight | Synonyms: airfoil, control surface, surface |
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| airfoil | (noun) a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight | Synonyms: aerofoil, control surface, surface |
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| assoil | (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, clear, discharge, exculpate, exonerate |
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| boil | (noun) the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level | Synonyms: boiling point |
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| (noun) a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus | Synonyms: furuncle |
| (verb) immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes | - |
| (verb) come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor | - |
| (verb) bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point | - |
| (verb) be in an agitated emotional state | Synonyms: seethe |
| (verb) be agitated | Synonyms: churn, moil, roil |
| broil | (noun) cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) | Synonyms: broiling, grilling |
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| (verb) cook under a broiler | Synonyms: oven broil |
| (verb) heat by a natural force | Synonyms: bake |
| (verb) be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun | Synonyms: bake |
| bromoil | (noun) a print made by the bromoil process having soft, paint-like qualities. | - |
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| cinquefoil | (noun) an ornamental carving consisting of five arcs arranged in a circle | - |
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| (noun) any of a numerous plants grown for their five-petaled flowers; abundant in temperate regions; alleged to have medicinal properties | Synonyms: five-finger |
| coil | (noun) a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops | Synonyms: helix, spiral, volute, whorl |
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| (noun) reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit | - |
| (noun) tubing that is wound in a spiral | - |
| (noun) a contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb | - |
| (noun) a transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine | - |
| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl |
| (verb) wind around something in coils or loops | Synonyms: curl, loop |
| (verb) make without a potter's wheel | Synonyms: hand-build, handbuild |
| (verb) to wind or move in a spiral course | Synonyms: gyrate, spiral |
| counterfoil | (noun) the part of a check that is retained as a record | Synonyms: check stub, stub |
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| despoil | (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: plunder, rape, spoil, violate |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| disembroil | (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disentangle, disinvolve |
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| embroil | (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag, drag in, sweep, sweep up, tangle |
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| featherfoil | (noun) a plant of the genus Hottonia | Synonyms: feather-foil |
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| foil | (noun) a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button | - |
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| (noun) a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal | - |
| (noun) picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector | Synonyms: transparency |
| (noun) a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through | Synonyms: hydrofoil |
| (noun) anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities | Synonyms: enhancer |
| (verb) cover or back with foil | - |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| (verb) enhance by contrast | - |
| garboil | (noun) a state of commotion and noise and confusion | Synonyms: tumult, tumultuousness, uproar |
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| gumboil | (noun) a boil or abscess on the gums | - |
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| hydrofoil | (noun) a speedboat that is equipped with winglike structures that lift it so that it skims the water at high speeds | Synonyms: hydroplane |
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| (noun) a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through | Synonyms: foil |
| milfoil | (noun) ubiquitous strong-scented mat-forming Eurasian herb of wasteland, hedgerow or pasture having narrow serrate leaves and small usually white florets; widely naturalized in North America | Synonyms: Achillea millefolium, yarrow |
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| moil | (verb) moisten or soil | - |
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| (verb) be agitated | Synonyms: boil, churn, roil |
| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, toil, travail |
| oil | (noun) oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist | Synonyms: oil color, oil colour |
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| (noun) any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants | Synonyms: vegetable oil |
| (noun) a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water | - |
| (noun) a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons | Synonyms: crude, crude oil, fossil oil, petroleum, rock oil |
| (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, anoint, embrocate, inunct |
| (verb) cover with oil, as if by rubbing | - |
| overboil | (verb) overflow or cause to overflow while boiling | Synonyms: boil over |
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| (verb) boil excessively | - |
| parboil | (verb) cook (vegetables) briefly | Synonyms: blanch |
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| recoil | (noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: backlash, rebound, repercussion |
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| (noun) the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired | Synonyms: kick |
| (verb) spring back, as from a forceful thrust | Synonyms: kick, kick back |
| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, shrink, squinch, wince |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backfire, backlash |
| rockfoil | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga | Synonyms: breakstone, saxifrage |
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| roil | (verb) make turbid by stirring up the sediments of | Synonyms: rile |
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| (verb) be agitated | Synonyms: boil, churn, moil |
| soil | (noun) the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state | Synonyms: territory |
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| (noun) material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use) | Synonyms: ground, land |
| (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grime, grunge, stain |
| (noun) the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock | Synonyms: dirt |
| (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime |
| spoil | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, spoilation, spoliation |
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| (noun) the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it | Synonyms: spoilage, spoiling |
| (noun) (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war) | - |
| (verb) become unfit for consumption or use | Synonyms: go bad |
| (verb) alter from the original | Synonyms: corrupt |
| (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: deflower, impair, mar, vitiate |
| (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, plunder, rape, violate |
| (verb) have a strong desire or urge to do something | Synonyms: itch |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, thwart |
| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up |
| subsoil | (noun) the layer of soil between the topsoil and bedrock | Synonyms: undersoil |
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| tinfoil | (noun) foil made of tin or an alloy of tin and lead | Synonyms: tin foil |
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| toil | (noun) productive work (especially physical work done for wages) | Synonyms: labor, labour |
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| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, travail |
| topsoil | (noun) the layer of soil on the surface | Synonyms: surface soil |
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| trefoil | (noun) an architectural ornament in the form of three arcs arranged in a circle | - |
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| (noun) a plant of the genus Trifolium | Synonyms: clover |
| (noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medic, medick |
| turmoil | (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, excitement, hullabaloo, upheaval |
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| (noun) violent agitation | Synonyms: tumult |
| (noun) a violent disturbance | Synonyms: convulsion, upheaval |
| uncoil | (verb) unwind or untwist | - |
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| undersoil | (noun) the layer of soil between the topsoil and bedrock | Synonyms: subsoil |
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