face card vs court card

face card and court card both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
face card	Yes	No	No	No
court card	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, face card and court card are synonyms defined as:

face card and court card: one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face

Other synonyms of face card include picture card.

face card (noun)	court card (noun)
one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face	one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face