| accurse | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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| adverse | (adjective) in an opposing direction | Synonyms: contrary |
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| (adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: inauspicious, untoward |
| ahorse | (adjective) traveling on horseback | Synonyms: ahorseback |
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| (adverb) on the back of a horse | Synonyms: ahorseback, horseback |
| antrorse | (adjective) bent or curved forward or upward | - |
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| arse | (noun) vulgar slang for anus | Synonyms: arsehole, asshole, bunghole |
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| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| asperse | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| averse | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical, indisposed, loath, loth |
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| carthorse | (noun) draft horse kept for pulling carts | Synonyms: cart horse, drayhorse |
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| clotheshorse | (noun) a framework on which to hang clothes (as for drying) | - |
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| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |
| coarse | (adjective) of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles | Synonyms: harsh |
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| (adjective) of low or inferior quality or value | Synonyms: common |
| (adjective) lacking refinement or cultivation or taste | Synonyms: common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar |
| cockhorse | (noun) anything used as a toy horse (such as a rocking horse or one knee of an adult) | - |
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| concourse | (noun) a coming together of people | Synonyms: confluence |
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| (noun) a wide hallway in a building where people can walk | - |
| (noun) a large gathering of people | Synonyms: multitude, throng |
| converse | (adjective) of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other | - |
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| (adjective) turned about in order or relation | Synonyms: reversed, transposed |
| (noun) a proposition obtained by conversion | - |
| (verb) carry on a conversation | Synonyms: discourse |
| course | (noun) a mode of action | Synonyms: course of action |
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| (noun) education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings | Synonyms: class, course of instruction, course of study |
| (noun) facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport | - |
| (noun) (construction) a layer of masonry | Synonyms: row |
| (noun) part of a meal served at one time | - |
| (noun) a connected series of events or actions or developments | Synonyms: line |
| (noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: class, form, grade |
| (noun) general line of orientation | Synonyms: trend |
| (noun) a line or route along which something travels or moves | Synonyms: path, track |
| (adverb) as might be expected | Synonyms: naturally, of course |
| (verb) hunt with hounds | - |
| (verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: feed, flow, run |
| (verb) move swiftly through or over | - |
| curse | (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse word, cuss, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword |
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| (noun) an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group | Synonyms: condemnation, execration |
| (noun) an evil spell | Synonyms: hex, jinx, whammy |
| (noun) a severe affliction | Synonyms: torment |
| (noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, nemesis, scourge |
| (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, cuss, imprecate, swear |
| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, damn, imprecate, maledict |
| (verb) heap obscenities upon | - |
| (verb) exclude from a church or a religious community | Synonyms: excommunicate, unchurch |
| cutpurse | (noun) a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places | Synonyms: dip, pickpocket |
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| dextrorse | (adjective) spiraling upward from left to right | Synonyms: dextrorsal |
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| disburse | (verb) expend, as from a fund | Synonyms: pay out |
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| discourse | (noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic | Synonyms: discussion, treatment |
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| (noun) extended verbal expression in speech or writing | - |
| (noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | Synonyms: preaching, sermon |
| (verb) talk at length and formally about a topic | Synonyms: dissertate, hold forth |
| (verb) carry on a conversation | Synonyms: converse |
| (verb) to consider or examine in speech or writing | Synonyms: discuss, talk about |
| disperse | (verb) cause to separate | Synonyms: break up, scatter |
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| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: dot, dust, scatter, sprinkle |
| (verb) separate (light) into spectral rays | - |
| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: dissipate, scatter, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, dissipate, scatter |
| diverse | (adjective) distinctly dissimilar or unlike | Synonyms: various |
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| (adjective) many and different | Synonyms: divers |
| drayhorse | (noun) draft horse kept for pulling carts | Synonyms: cart horse, carthorse |
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| endorse | (verb) sign as evidence of legal transfer | Synonyms: indorse |
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| (verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
| (verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: certify, indorse |
| (verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: back, indorse, second |
| gorse | (noun) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe | Synonyms: furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus, whin |
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| hearse | (noun) a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle | - |
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| hoarse | (adjective) deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion | Synonyms: gruff, husky |
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| hobbyhorse | (noun) a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride | Synonyms: hobby, rocking horse |
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| (noun) a topic to which one constantly reverts | - |
| horse | (noun) solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times | Synonyms: Equus caballus |
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| (noun) a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) | Synonyms: knight |
| (noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, sawbuck, sawhorse |
| (noun) a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs | Synonyms: gymnastic horse |
| (noun) troops trained to fight on horseback | Synonyms: cavalry, horse cavalry |
| (verb) provide with a horse or horses | - |
| immerse | (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, plunge, soak up, steep |
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| (verb) cause to be immersed | Synonyms: plunge |
| (verb) thrust or throw into | Synonyms: plunge |
| (verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: bury, eat up, swallow, swallow up |
| indorse | (verb) sign as evidence of legal transfer | Synonyms: endorse |
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| (verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, endorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
| (verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: certify, endorse |
| (verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: back, endorse, second |
| intercourse | (noun) sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur | Synonyms: carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, copulation, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation |
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| (noun) communication between individuals | Synonyms: social intercourse |
| intersperse | (verb) introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions | Synonyms: interlard |
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| (verb) place at intervals in or among | - |
| inverse | (adjective) opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity | - |
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| (adjective) reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect | Synonyms: reverse |
| (noun) something inverted in sequence or character or effect | Synonyms: opposite |
| nurse | (noun) one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician) | - |
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| (noun) a woman who is the custodian of children | Synonyms: nanny, nursemaid |
| (verb) try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury | - |
| (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
| (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, entertain, harbor, harbour, hold |
| (verb) serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people | - |
| (verb) treat carefully | - |
| obverse | (noun) the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design | - |
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| (noun) the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides | - |
| outercourse | (noun) sexual stimulation without vaginal penetration | - |
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| packhorse | (noun) a workhorse used as a pack animal | - |
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| parse | (verb) analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence) | - |
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| perverse | (adjective) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good | Synonyms: depraved, perverted, reprobate |
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| (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, obstinate, wayward |
| (adjective) marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict | - |
| purse | (noun) a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) | Synonyms: bag, handbag, pocketbook |
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| (noun) a small bag for carrying money | - |
| (noun) a sum of money offered as a prize | - |
| (noun) a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse | - |
| (verb) contract one's lips into a rounded shape | - |
| (verb) gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker | Synonyms: wrinkle |
| racecourse | (noun) a course over which races are run | Synonyms: racetrack, raceway, track |
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| racehorse | (noun) a horse bred for racing | Synonyms: bangtail, race horse |
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| recourse | (noun) act of turning to for assistance | Synonyms: refuge, resort |
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| (noun) something or someone turned to for assistance or security | Synonyms: refuge, resort |
| redhorse | (noun) North American sucker with reddish fins | Synonyms: redhorse sucker |
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| rehearse | (verb) engage in a rehearsal (of) | Synonyms: practice, practise |
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| reimburse | (verb) pay back for some expense incurred | - |
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| (verb) reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss | Synonyms: recoup |
| remorse | (noun) a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) | Synonyms: compunction, self-reproach |
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| retrorse | (adjective) bent or curved backward or downward | - |
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| reverse | (adjective) of the transmission gear causing backward movement in a motor vehicle | - |
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| (adjective) directed or moving toward the rear | Synonyms: rearward |
| (adjective) reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect | Synonyms: inverse |
| (noun) (American football) a running play in which a back running in one direction hands the ball to a back running in the opposite direction | - |
| (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reversion, turnabout, turnaround |
| (noun) the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed | Synonyms: reverse gear |
| (noun) the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design | Synonyms: verso |
| (noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, blow, reversal, setback |
| (noun) a relation of direct opposition | Synonyms: contrary, opposite |
| (verb) change to the contrary | Synonyms: change by reversal, turn |
| (verb) turn inside out or upside down | Synonyms: invert, turn back |
| (verb) reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of | Synonyms: invert |
| (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overthrow, overturn |
| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, revoke, vacate |
| sawhorse | (noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, horse, sawbuck |
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| seahorse | (noun) small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position | Synonyms: sea horse |
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| (noun) either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber | Synonyms: sea horse, walrus |
| sinistrorse | (adjective) spiraling upward from right to left | Synonyms: sinistrorsal |
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| sparse | (adjective) not dense | Synonyms: thin |
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| studhorse | (noun) adult male horse kept for breeding | Synonyms: stud |
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| submerse | (verb) put under water | Synonyms: submerge |
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| (verb) sink below the surface; go under or as if under water | Synonyms: submerge |
| terse | (adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short | Synonyms: crisp, curt, laconic |
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| thyrse | (noun) a dense flower cluster (as of the lilac or horse chestnut) in which the main axis is racemose and the branches are cymose | Synonyms: thyrsus |
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| transverse | (adjective) extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis | Synonyms: cross, thwartwise, transversal |
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| traverse | (noun) taking a zigzag path on skis | Synonyms: traversal |
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| (noun) travel across | Synonyms: traversal |
| (noun) a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it | Synonyms: transom |
| (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, crosspiece, trave |
| (verb) deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit | Synonyms: deny |
| (verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track |
| (verb) to cover or extend over an area or time period | Synonyms: cross, span, sweep |
| twitterverse | (noun) the social sphere of the Twitter service | - |
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| unhorse | (verb) alight from (a horse) | Synonyms: dismount, get down, get off, light |
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| universe | (noun) everything stated or assumed in a given discussion | Synonyms: universe of discourse |
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| (noun) (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn | Synonyms: population |
| (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, existence, macrocosm, world |
| verse | (noun) a piece of poetry | Synonyms: rhyme |
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| (noun) a line of metrical text | Synonyms: verse line |
| (noun) literature in metrical form | Synonyms: poesy, poetry |
| (verb) familiarize through thorough study or experience | - |
| (verb) compose verses or put into verse | Synonyms: poetise, poetize, versify |
| warhorse | (noun) horse used in war | - |
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| (noun) a work of art (composition or drama) that is part of the standard repertory but has become hackneyed from much repetition | - |
| (noun) an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service | Synonyms: old-timer, old hand, old stager, oldtimer, stager, veteran |
| watercourse | (noun) a conduit through which water flows | Synonyms: waterway |
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| (noun) a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth | Synonyms: stream |
| (noun) natural or artificial channel through which water flows | - |
| wetnurse | (noun) a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else | Synonyms: amah, wet-nurse, wet nurse |
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| workhorse | (noun) a horse used for plowing and hauling and other heavy labor | - |
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| (noun) machine that performs dependably under heavy use | - |
| worse | (adjective) (comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability | - |
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| (adjective) changed for the worse in health or fitness | Synonyms: worsened |
| (noun) something inferior in quality or condition or effect | - |
| (adverb) (comparative of `ill') in a less effective or successful or desirable manner | - |