| abort | (noun) the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed | - |
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| (verb) terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion | - |
| (verb) cease development, die, and be aborted | - |
| (verb) terminate before completion | - |
| advert | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advertisement, advertising, advertizement, advertizing |
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| (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: allude, touch |
| (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: bring up, cite, mention, name, refer |
| (verb) give heed (to) | Synonyms: attend, give ear, hang, pay heed |
| airport | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: aerodrome, airdrome, drome |
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| airt | (verb) channel into a new direction | Synonyms: redirect |
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| alert | (adjective) engaged in or accustomed to close observation | Synonyms: watchful |
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| (adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive | Synonyms: alive, awake |
| (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
| (noun) a warning serves to make you more alert to danger | Synonyms: alerting |
| (noun) an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger | Synonyms: alarm, alarum, warning signal |
| (noun) condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action | Synonyms: qui vive |
| (verb) warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness | Synonyms: alarm |
| amort | (adjective) utterly cast down | - |
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| animadvert | (verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: opine, sound off, speak out, speak up |
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| (verb) express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark | - |
| apart | (adjective) having characteristics not shared by others | - |
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| (adjective) remote and separate physically or socially | Synonyms: isolated, obscure |
| (adverb) not taken into account or excluded from consideration | Synonyms: aside |
| (adverb) into parts or pieces | Synonyms: asunder |
| (adverb) separated or at a distance in place or position or time | - |
| (adverb) one from the other | - |
| (adverb) placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose | Synonyms: aside |
| (adverb) away from another or others | - |
| applecart | (noun) a handcart from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street | - |
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| (noun) the planning that is disrupted when someone `upsets the applecart' | - |
| art | (noun) the creation of beautiful or significant things | Synonyms: artistic creation, artistic production |
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| (noun) the products of human creativity; works of art collectively | Synonyms: fine art |
| (noun) a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation | Synonyms: artistry, prowess |
| (noun) photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication | Synonyms: artwork, graphics, nontextual matter |
| assert | (verb) postulate positively and assertively | Synonyms: insist |
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| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, aver, avow, swan, swear, verify |
| (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: asseverate, maintain |
| (verb) insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized | Synonyms: put forward |
| assort | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: class, classify, separate, sort, sort out |
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| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: affiliate, associate, consort |
| athwart | (adverb) at an oblique angle | Synonyms: aslant, obliquely |
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| (adverb) at right angles to the center line of a ship | - |
| avert | (verb) turn away or aside | Synonyms: turn away |
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| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| awlwort | (noun) small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers; circumboreal | Synonyms: Subularia aquatica |
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| barrenwort | (noun) slow-growing creeping plant with semi-evergreen leaves on erect wiry stems; used as ground cover | Synonyms: bishop's hat, Epimedium grandiflorum |
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| bellwort | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: merry bells, wild oats |
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| birthwort | (noun) creeping plant having curving flowers thought to resemble fetuses; native to Europe; naturalized Great Britain and eastern North America | Synonyms: Aristolochia clematitis |
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| blackheart | (noun) heart cherry with dark flesh and skin | Synonyms: blackheart cherry |
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| (noun) any of various diseases in which the central tissues blacken | - |
| bladderwort | (noun) any of numerous aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia some of whose leaves are modified as small urn-shaped bladders that trap minute aquatic animals | - |
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| bloodwort | (noun) any of various plants of the family Haemodoraceae; roots contain a deep red coloring matter | - |
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| blurt | (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder, blunder out, blurt out, ejaculate |
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| braggart | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
| butterwort | (noun) any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects | - |
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| carport | (noun) garage for one or two cars consisting of a flat roof supported on poles | Synonyms: car port |
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| cart | (noun) a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal | - |
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| (noun) wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels | Synonyms: go-cart, handcart, pushcart |
| (verb) draw slowly or heavily | Synonyms: drag, hale, haul |
| (verb) transport something in a cart | - |
| cavort | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| cert | (noun) an absolute certainty | - |
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| chart | (noun) a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea | - |
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| (noun) a visual display of information | Synonyms: graph |
| (noun) (usually plural) a listing of best-selling recorded music | - |
| (verb) plan in detail | - |
| (verb) make a chart of | - |
| (verb) represent by means of a graph | Synonyms: graph |
| chert | (noun) variety of silica containing microcrystalline quartz | - |
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| cohort | (noun) a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion) | - |
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| (noun) a company of companions or supporters | - |
| (noun) a group of people having approximately the same age | Synonyms: age bracket, age group |
| colewort | (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, kail, kale |
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| comfort | (noun) the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction | Synonyms: consolation, solace |
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| (noun) assistance, such as that provided to an enemy or to a known criminal | - |
| (noun) bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together | Synonyms: comforter, puff, quilt |
| (noun) a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment | - |
| (noun) a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain | Synonyms: comfortableness |
| (noun) a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state | Synonyms: ease |
| (noun) satisfaction or physical well-being provided by a person or thing | - |
| (verb) lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate | Synonyms: ease |
| (verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: console, solace, soothe |
| compart | (verb) lay out in parts according to a plan | - |
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| comport | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, conduct, deport, do |
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| (verb) behave well or properly | Synonyms: behave |
| concert | (noun) a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging | - |
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| (verb) settle by agreement | - |
| (verb) contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement | - |
| consort | (noun) a family of similar musical instrument playing together | Synonyms: choir |
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| (noun) the husband or wife of a reigning monarch | - |
| (verb) keep company | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: affiliate, associate, assort |
| (verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, concord, fit in, harmonise, harmonize |
| contort | (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: deform, distort, wring |
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| controvert | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: rebut, refute |
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| (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: contradict, oppose |
| convert | (noun) a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief | - |
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| (verb) change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy | Synonyms: change over |
| (verb) change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief | - |
| (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: change, commute, exchange |
| (verb) change the nature, purpose, or function of something | - |
| (verb) change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change | - |
| (verb) cause to adopt a new or different faith | - |
| (verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one | Synonyms: commute, exchange |
| (verb) make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: convince, win over |
| (verb) score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone | - |
| coolwart | (noun) stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant | Synonyms: false miterwort, false mitrewort, foamflower, Tiarella cordifolia |
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| coralwort | (noun) European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock | Synonyms: Cardamine bulbifera, coral-root bittercress, coralroot, Dentaria bulbifera |
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| counterpart | (noun) a duplicate copy | Synonyms: similitude, twin |
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| (noun) a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another | Synonyms: opposite number, vis-a-vis |
| court | (noun) respectful deference | Synonyms: homage |
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| (noun) an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings | Synonyms: courtyard |
| (noun) a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played | - |
| (noun) a room in which a law court sits | Synonyms: courtroom |
| (noun) a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area | Synonyms: motor hotel, motor inn, motor lodge, tourist court |
| (noun) the residence of a sovereign or nobleman | - |
| (noun) an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business | Synonyms: judicature, tribunal |
| (noun) the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state | Synonyms: royal court |
| (noun) the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince | Synonyms: royal court |
| (verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: romance, solicit, woo |
| (verb) seek someone's favor | Synonyms: woo |
| (verb) engage in social activities leading to marriage | - |
| covert | (adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed | - |
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| (adjective) (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband | - |
| (noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: concealment, cover, screen |
| (noun) a flock of coots | - |
| culvert | (noun) a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway | - |
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| curt | (adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short | Synonyms: crisp, laconic, terse |
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| (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, brusque, short |
| cyberart | (noun) art that is produced with the help of computer hardware and software | - |
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| danewort | (noun) dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor | Synonyms: dwarf elder, Sambucus ebulus |
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| dart | (noun) a sudden quick movement | Synonyms: flit |
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| (noun) a tapered tuck made in dressmaking | - |
| (noun) a small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot | - |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dash, flash, scoot, scud, shoot |
| (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: fleet, flit, flutter |
| (verb) move with sudden speed | - |
| davenport | (noun) a large sofa usually convertible into a bed | - |
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| (noun) a small decorative writing desk | - |
| depart | (verb) go away or leave | Synonyms: quit, take leave |
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| (verb) depart for someplace | Synonyms: part, set forth, set off, set out, start, start out, take off |
| (verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: digress, sidetrack, straggle |
| (verb) move away from a place into another direction | Synonyms: go, go away |
| (verb) remove oneself from an association with or participation in | Synonyms: leave, pull up stakes |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: deviate, diverge, vary |
| deport | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, do |
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| (verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: exile, expatriate |
| (verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deliver, extradite |
| desert | (noun) arid land with little or no vegetation | - |
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| (noun) (usually plural) a person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment | - |
| (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desolate, forsake |
| (verb) leave behind | - |
| (verb) desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army | Synonyms: defect |
| dessert | (noun) a dish served as the last course of a meal | Synonyms: afters, sweet |
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| dirt | (adjective) (of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel | Synonyms: ungraded |
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| (noun) disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people | Synonyms: malicious gossip, scandal |
| (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: filth, grease, grime, grunge, soil, stain |
| (noun) the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock | Synonyms: soil |
| (noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: crap, poop, shit, shite, turd |
| discomfort | (noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: irritation, soreness |
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| (noun) the state of being tense and feeling pain | Synonyms: uncomfortableness |
| disconcert | (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, discompose, untune, upset |
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| (verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: confuse, flurry, put off |
| disport | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, divert |
| distort | (verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress | Synonyms: deform, strain |
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| (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: falsify, garble, warp |
| (verb) affect as in thought or feeling | Synonyms: color, colour, tinge |
| (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: contort, deform, wring |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: twine, twist |
| divert | (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: deviate |
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| (verb) send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one | - |
| (verb) withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions | Synonyms: hive off |
| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, disport |
| dogcart | (noun) a cart drawn by a dog | - |
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| dumpcart | (noun) a cart that can be tilted to empty contents without handling | - |
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| dustcart | (noun) a truck for collecting domestic refuse | Synonyms: garbage truck |
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| effort | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, endeavor, endeavour, try |
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| (noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work | Synonyms: elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail |
| (noun) a notable achievement | Synonyms: exploit, feat |
| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement |
| escort | (noun) the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them | Synonyms: accompaniment |
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| (noun) a participant in a date | Synonyms: date |
| (noun) someone who escorts and protects a prominent person | Synonyms: bodyguard |
| (noun) an attendant who is employed to accompany someone | - |
| (verb) accompany as an escort | - |
| (verb) conduct someone someplace | Synonyms: see |
| evert | (verb) turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward | - |
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| exert | (verb) put to use | Synonyms: exercise |
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| (verb) have and exercise | Synonyms: maintain, wield |
| (verb) make a great effort at a mental or physical task | - |
| exhort | (verb) force or impel in an indicated direction | Synonyms: press, urge, urge on |
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| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, cheer, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| expert | (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, good, practiced, proficient, skilful, skillful |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood | Synonyms: technical |
| (noun) a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully | - |
| export | (noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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| (verb) cause to spread in another part of the world | - |
| (verb) sell or transfer abroad | - |
| (verb) transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs | - |
| exsert | (verb) thrust or extend out | Synonyms: extend, hold out, put out, stretch forth, stretch out |
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| extort | (verb) get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner | Synonyms: wring from |
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| (verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: gouge, rack, squeeze, wring |
| (verb) obtain through intimidation | - |
| extravert | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extraverted, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extrovert |
| extrovert | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extravertive, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extravert |
| fanwort | (noun) common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers | Synonyms: Cabomba caroliniana, water-shield |
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| fart | (noun) a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus | Synonyms: breaking wind, farting, flatus, wind |
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| (verb) expel intestinal gases through the anus | Synonyms: break wind |
| felwort | (noun) gentian of Europe and China having creamy white flowers with fringed corollas | Synonyms: gentianella amarella |
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| figwort | (noun) any of numerous tall coarse woodland plants of the genus Scrophularia | - |
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| filbert | (noun) nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus | Synonyms: cob, cobnut, hazelnut |
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| (noun) small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe | Synonyms: cobnut, Corylus avellana, Corylus avellana grandis |
| fleawort | (noun) plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative | Synonyms: Plantago psyllium, psyllium, Spanish psyllium |
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| flirt | (noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | Synonyms: coquetry, dalliance, flirtation, flirting, toying |
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| (noun) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men | Synonyms: coquette, minx, prickteaser, tease, vamp, vamper |
| (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, mash, philander, romance |
| (verb) behave carelessly or indifferently | Synonyms: dally, play, toy |
| flowchart | (noun) a diagram of the sequence of operations in a computer program or an accounting system | Synonyms: flow chart, flow diagram, flow sheet |
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| forecourt | (noun) the outer or front court of a building or of a group of buildings | - |
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| forepart | (noun) the side that is forward or prominent | Synonyms: front, front end |
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| fort | (noun) a fortified defensive structure | Synonyms: fortress |
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| (noun) a fortified military post where troops are stationed | Synonyms: garrison |
| (verb) station (troops) in a fort | - |
| (verb) enclose by or as if by a fortification | Synonyms: fortify |
| (verb) gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense | Synonyms: fort up |
| foulmart | (noun) dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened | Synonyms: fitch, foumart, Mustela putorius, polecat |
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| foumart | (noun) dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened | Synonyms: fitch, foulmart, Mustela putorius, polecat |
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| frostwort | (noun) perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers; so-called because ice crystals form on it during first frosts | Synonyms: Crocanthemum canadense, frost-weed, frostweed, Helianthemum canadense |
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| fumewort | (noun) delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Fumaria officinalis, fumeroot, fumitory |
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| (noun) herb of northern Europe and Asia having erect racemes of red flowers | Synonyms: Corydalis solida, fumeroot |
| gilbert | (noun) a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns | Synonyms: Gb, Gi |
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| gipsywort | (noun) hairy Eurasian herb with two-lipped white flowers | Synonyms: gypsywort, Lycopus europaeus |
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| glasswort | (noun) fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass | Synonyms: Salicornia europaea, samphire |
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| (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: barilla, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort |
| golfcart | (noun) a small motor vehicle in which golfers can ride between shots | Synonyms: golf cart |
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| gypsywort | (noun) hairy Eurasian herb with two-lipped white flowers | Synonyms: gipsywort, Lycopus europaeus |
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| handcart | (noun) wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels | Synonyms: cart, go-cart, pushcart |
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| hart | (noun) a male deer, especially an adult male red deer | Synonyms: stag |
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| heart | (noun) a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it | - |
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| (noun) the courage to carry on | Synonyms: mettle, nerve, spunk |
| (noun) an inclination or tendency of a certain kind | Synonyms: spirit |
| (noun) the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body | Synonyms: pump, ticker |
| (noun) the locus of feelings and intuitions | Synonyms: bosom |
| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
| (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
| (noun) a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal) | - |
| (noun) an area that is approximately central within some larger region | Synonyms: center, centre, eye, middle |
| (noun) a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines | - |
| heliport | (noun) an airport for helicopters | - |
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| hoopskirt | (noun) a skirt stiffened with hoops | Synonyms: crinoline |
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