| dressmaker | (noun) a person who makes garments | Synonyms: garment-worker, garment worker, garmentmaker |
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| dressmaking | (noun) the craft of making dresses | - |
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| dwojniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using equal amounts of water and honey. | - |
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| earthquake | (noun) shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity | Synonyms: quake, seism, temblor |
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| (noun) a disturbance that is extremely disruptive | - |
| eggshake | (noun) a milkshake with egg in it | - |
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| epikeratophakia | (noun) using a piece of donated corneal tissue to repair the eye of someone who has had a cataract removed | - |
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| fake | (noun) (football) a deceptive move made by a football player | Synonyms: juke |
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| (noun) something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be | Synonyms: postiche, sham |
| (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
| fakeer | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakir, faqir, faquir |
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| faker | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| fakery | (noun) the act of faking (or the product of faking) | - |
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| fakir | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakeer, faqir, faquir |
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| filmmaker | (noun) a producer of motion pictures | Synonyms: film maker, film producer, movie maker |
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| firebreak | (noun) a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire | Synonyms: fireguard |
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| firedrake | (noun) a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings | Synonyms: dragon, European dragon |
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| flak | (noun) artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes | Synonyms: ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flack, pom-pom |
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| (noun) intense adverse criticism | Synonyms: attack, blast, fire, flack |
| (noun) a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer | Synonyms: flack, flack catcher, flak catcher |
| flake | (noun) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole | Synonyms: bit, chip, fleck, scrap |
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| (noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric, eccentric person, geek, oddball |
| (noun) a crystal of snow | Synonyms: snowflake |
| flakiness | (noun) having or breaking into thin crisp flakes | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for insanity | Synonyms: craziness, daftness |
| flapcake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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| forsaking | (noun) the act of giving something up | Synonyms: abandonment, desertion |
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| (noun) the act of forsaking | Synonyms: giving up |
| freak | (noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: lusus naturae, monster, monstrosity |
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| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, junkie, junky, nut |
| freakishness | (noun) marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal | Synonyms: abnormality |
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| friedcake | (noun) small cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat | - |
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| fruitcake | (noun) a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on | - |
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| (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, screwball |
| gaolbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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| garmentmaker | (noun) a person who makes garments | Synonyms: dressmaker, garment-worker, garment worker |
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| glassmaker | (noun) someone who makes glass | - |
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| griddlecake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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| (noun) a scone made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle | Synonyms: drop scone, Scotch pancake |
| grosbeak | (noun) any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill | Synonyms: grossbeak |
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| grossbeak | (noun) any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill | Synonyms: grosbeak |
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| groundbreaker | (noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: innovator, pioneer, trailblazer |
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| groundbreaking | (noun) the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project | Synonyms: groundbreaking ceremony |
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| grubstake | (noun) funds advanced to a prospector or to someone starting a business in return for a share of the profits | - |
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| hairstreak | (noun) small butterflies having striped markings under the wings | Synonyms: hairstreak butterfly |
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| hake | (noun) any of several marine food fishes related to cod | - |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a fish similar to cod | - |
| hakeem | (noun) a Muslim physician | Synonyms: hakim |
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| hakim | (noun) a Muslim physician | Synonyms: hakeem |
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| (noun) a Muslim ruler or governor or judge | - |
| halfbeak | (noun) tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw | - |
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| handshake | (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handclasp, handshaking, shake |
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| handshaking | (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handclasp, handshake, shake |
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| harakiri | (noun) ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society | Synonyms: hara-kiri, harikari, seppuku |
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| hardbake | (noun) a British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds | - |
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| hatmaker | (noun) someone who makes and sells hats | Synonyms: hatter, milliner, modiste |
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| haymaker | (noun) a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing | Synonyms: knockout punch, KO punch, Sunday punch |
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| (noun) a farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying | Synonyms: hay conditioner |
| haymaking | (noun) cutting grass and curing it to make hay | - |
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| (noun) taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts | - |
| headshake | (noun) the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement | Synonyms: headshaking |
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| headshaking | (noun) the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement | Synonyms: headshake |
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| heartbreak | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, grief, heartache |
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| heartbreaker | (noun) a narrow defeat or a defeat at the last minute | - |
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| (noun) a charming person who is irresponsible in emotional relationships | - |
| hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia | (noun) fear of magic properties of the number 666 | - |
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| hoecake | (noun) thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern) | - |
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| holidaymaker | (noun) someone who travels for pleasure | Synonyms: tourer, tourist |
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| homemaker | (noun) a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income | Synonyms: housewife, lady of the house, woman of the house |
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| homemaking | (noun) the management of a household | - |
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| hotcake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, pancake |
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| housebreaker | (noun) a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house | Synonyms: cat burglar |
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| (noun) a wrecker of houses | Synonyms: housewrecker |
| housebreaking | (noun) trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent | Synonyms: break-in, breaking and entering |
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| icebreaker | (noun) a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere | - |
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| (noun) a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation | Synonyms: iceboat |
| intake | (noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: consumption, ingestion, uptake |
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| (noun) the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing | Synonyms: aspiration, breathing in, inhalation, inspiration |
| (noun) an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container | Synonyms: inlet |
| jailbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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| (noun) the removal of security locks from an electronic device | - |
| jak | (noun) immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted | Synonyms: jack, jackfruit |
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| jakes | (noun) a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate | Synonyms: earth-closet, outhouse, privy |
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| jawbreaker | (noun) a word that is hard to pronounce | - |
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| (noun) a large round hard candy | - |
| johnnycake | (noun) cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England) | Synonyms: johnny cake, journey cake |
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| kaki | (noun) blackish stilt of New Zealand sometimes considered a color phase of the white-headed stilt | Synonyms: Himantopus novae-zelandiae |
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| (noun) small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit | Synonyms: Diospyros kaki, Japanese persimmon |
| karakul | (noun) hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur | Synonyms: broadtail, caracul |
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| kavakava | (noun) an alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub | Synonyms: kava |
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| kawaka | (noun) New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress | Synonyms: Libocedrus plumosa |
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| kayak | (noun) a small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight with animal skins; used by Eskimos | - |
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| keepsake | (noun) something of sentimental value | Synonyms: relic, souvenir, token |
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| khaki | (noun) a sturdy twilled cloth of a yellowish brown color used especially for military uniforms | - |
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| khakis | (noun) a military uniform made of khaki fabric | - |
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| kingmaker | (noun) an important person who can bring leaders to power through the exercise of political influence | - |
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| kingsnake | (noun) any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals | Synonyms: king snake |
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| kittiwake | (noun) small pearl-grey gull of northern regions; nests on cliffs and has a rudimentary hind toe | - |
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| kurakkan | (noun) East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient | Synonyms: African millet, coracan, corakan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, ragee, ragi |
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| lake | (noun) a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments | - |
| (noun) a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal | - |
| lakefront | (noun) land bordering a lake | - |
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| lakeshore | (noun) the shore of a lake | Synonyms: lakeside |
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| lakeside | (noun) the shore of a lake | Synonyms: lakeshore |
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| lakh | (noun) the cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten | Synonyms: 100000, hundred thousand |
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| latakia | (noun) aromatic Turkish tobacco | - |
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| lawbreaker | (noun) someone who violates the law | Synonyms: law offender, violator |
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| lawmaker | (noun) a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws | Synonyms: lawgiver |
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| lawmaking | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: legislating, legislation |
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| leak | (noun) unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information | Synonyms: news leak |
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| (noun) the discharge of a fluid from some container | Synonyms: escape, leakage, outflow |
| (noun) an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape | - |
| (noun) a euphemism for urination | Synonyms: making water, passing water, wetting |
| (noun) soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi | - |
| leakage | (noun) the discharge of a fluid from some container | Synonyms: escape, leak, outflow |
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| leaker | (noun) a surreptitious informant | - |
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| leakiness | (noun) the condition of permitting leaks or leakage | - |
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| loudspeaker | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance | Synonyms: loudspeaker system, speaker, speaker system, speaker unit |
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| lovemaking | (noun) sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people | Synonyms: love, love life, making love, sexual love |
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| madake | (noun) large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely grown elsewhere | Synonyms: giant timber bamboo, ku-chiku, Phyllostachys bambusoides |
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| makagigi | (noun) cookies made with poppy seeds and honey; traditional Polish Christmas sweet treats. | - |
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| make | (noun) the act of mixing cards haphazardly | Synonyms: shuffle, shuffling |
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| (noun) a recognizable kind | Synonyms: brand |
| makeover | (noun) an overall beauty treatment (involving a person's hair style and cosmetics and clothing) intended to change or improve a person's appearance | - |
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| (noun) a complete reconstruction and renovation of something | - |
| maker | (noun) a business engaged in manufacturing some product | Synonyms: manufacturer, manufacturing business |
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| (noun) a person who makes things | Synonyms: shaper |
| makeready | (noun) final preparation and adjustments | - |
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| makeshift | (noun) something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency | Synonyms: make-do, stopgap |
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| makeup | (noun) cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance | Synonyms: make-up, war paint |
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| (noun) the way in which someone or something is composed | Synonyms: composition, constitution, make-up, physical composition |
| (noun) an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event | Synonyms: make-up |
| makeweight | (noun) a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight | - |
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| (noun) anything added to fill out a whole | Synonyms: filler |
| making | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: devising, fashioning |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something | - |
| (noun) an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something | Synonyms: qualification |