| admiralty | (noun) the office of admiral | - |
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| (noun) the department in charge of the navy (as in Great Britain) | - |
| altar | (noun) a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made | - |
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| (noun) the table in Christian churches where communion is given | Synonyms: communion table, Lord's table |
| altarpiece | (noun) a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table | Synonyms: reredos |
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| altazimuth | (noun) an instrument that measures the altitude and azimuth of celestial bodies; used in navigation | - |
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| altcoin | (noun) an alternative cryptocurrency | - |
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| alterability | (noun) the quality of being alterable | - |
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| alteration | (noun) the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification) | Synonyms: revision |
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| (noun) the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) | Synonyms: adjustment, modification |
| (noun) an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another | Synonyms: change, modification |
| altercation | (noun) noisy quarrel | Synonyms: affray, fracas |
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| altering | (noun) the sterilization of an animal | Synonyms: fixing, neutering |
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| alternate | (noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: replacement, surrogate |
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| alternation | (noun) successive change from one thing or state to another and back again | - |
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| alternative | (noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | Synonyms: choice, option |
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| alternator | (noun) an old term for an electric generator that produces alternating current (especially in automobiles) | - |
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| althaea | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea | Synonyms: althea, hollyhock |
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| althea | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea | Synonyms: althaea, hollyhock |
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| altimeter | (noun) an instrument that measures the height above ground; used in navigation | - |
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| altitude | (noun) elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface | Synonyms: height |
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| (noun) angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object) | Synonyms: ALT, EL, elevation |
| (noun) the perpendicular distance from the base of a geometric figure to the opposite vertex (or side if parallel) | - |
| alto | (noun) the pitch range of the lowest female voice | - |
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| (noun) (of a musical instrument) the second highest instrument in a family of musical instruments | - |
| (noun) the lowest female singing voice | Synonyms: contralto |
| (noun) the highest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: countertenor |
| (noun) a singer whose voice lies in the alto clef | - |
| altocumulus | (noun) a cumulus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles | Synonyms: altocumulus cloud |
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| altogether | (noun) informal terms for nakedness | Synonyms: birthday suit, raw |
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| altoist | (noun) a musician who plays the alto saxophone | Synonyms: alto saxophonist |
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| altostratus | (noun) a stratus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles | Synonyms: altostratus cloud |
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| altruism | (noun) the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: selflessness |
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| altruist | (noun) someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being | Synonyms: philanthropist |
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| asphalt | (noun) a dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as residue from petroleum distillation; consists mainly of hydrocarbons | Synonyms: mineral pitch |
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| (noun) mixed asphalt and crushed gravel or sand; used especially for paving but also for roofing | - |
| basalt | (noun) the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene | - |
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| caltrop | (noun) tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed | Synonyms: devil's weed, Tribulus terestris |
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| (noun) Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America | Synonyms: Centauria calcitrapa, star-thistle |
| (noun) a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits | Synonyms: water chestnut, water chestnut plant |
| casualty | (noun) a decrease of military personnel or equipment | - |
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| (noun) an accident that causes someone to die | Synonyms: fatal accident |
| (noun) someone injured or killed in an accident | Synonyms: injured party |
| (noun) someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement | - |
| cobalt | (noun) a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition | Synonyms: atomic number 27, Co |
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| cobaltite | (noun) a rare silvery-white mineral; important ore of cobalt | - |
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| commonalty | (noun) a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank | Synonyms: commonality, commons |
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| commonwealth | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, country, land, nation, res publica, state |
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| (noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: democracy, republic |
| (noun) a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another | - |
| (noun) the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) | - |
| contralto | (noun) the lowest female singing voice | Synonyms: alto |
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| (noun) a woman singer having a contralto voice | - |
| disloyalty | (noun) the quality of being disloyal | - |
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| exaltation | (noun) the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) | Synonyms: apotheosis, deification |
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| (noun) a flock of larks (especially a flock of larks in flight overhead) | - |
| (noun) the location of a planet in the zodiac at which it is believed to exert its maximum influence | - |
| (noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: ecstasy, rapture, raptus, transport |
| exaltolide | (noun) the macrocyclic lactone having fifteen carbon atoms; it has a musky scent, similar to exaltone. | - |
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| falter | (noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: faltering, hesitation, waver |
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| faltering | (noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: falter, hesitation, waver |
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| fealty | (noun) the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign) | Synonyms: allegiance |
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| gestalt | (noun) a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts | - |
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| goaltender | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, netkeeper |
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| (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, netkeeper, netminder |
| halt | (noun) an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement | Synonyms: freeze |
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| (noun) the event of something ending | Synonyms: stop |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage |
| halter | (noun) either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight | Synonyms: balancer, haltere |
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| (noun) a woman's top that fastens behind the back and neck leaving the back and arms uncovered | - |
| (noun) rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading | Synonyms: hackamore |
| (noun) a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging | Synonyms: hangman's halter, hangman's rope, hemp, hempen necktie |
| haltere | (noun) either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight | Synonyms: balancer, halter |
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| health | (noun) a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease | Synonyms: wellness |
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| (noun) the general condition of body and mind | - |
| healthcare | (noun) the preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession | Synonyms: health care |
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| healthfulness | (noun) the quality of promoting good health | - |
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| healthiness | (noun) the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease | Synonyms: good health |
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| loyalty | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: allegiance, commitment, dedication |
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| (noun) the quality of being loyal | Synonyms: trueness |
| (noun) feelings of allegiance | - |
| malt | (noun) a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling | - |
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| (noun) a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer | Synonyms: malt liquor |
| (noun) a milkshake made with malt powder | Synonyms: malted, malted milk |
| malted | (noun) a milkshake made with malt powder | Synonyms: malt, malted milk |
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| maltha | (noun) a thick black tar intermediate between petroleum and asphalt | Synonyms: mineral tar |
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| maltman | (noun) a maker of malt | Synonyms: maltster |
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| maltose | (noun) a white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches | Synonyms: malt sugar |
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| maltreater | (noun) someone who abuses | Synonyms: abuser |
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| maltreatment | (noun) cruel or inhumane treatment | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treatment, ill-usage |
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| maltster | (noun) a maker of malt | Synonyms: maltman |
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| mayoralty | (noun) the position of mayor | - |
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| mealtime | (noun) the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten | - |
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| naltrexone | (noun) an oral antagonist against the action of opiates | - |
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| paltering | (noun) a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear | Synonyms: fibbing |
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| paltriness | (noun) worthlessness due to insignificance | Synonyms: sorriness |
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| penalty | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalisation, penalization, punishment |
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| (noun) the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition | - |
| (noun) (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game | - |
| (noun) a payment required for not fulfilling a contract | - |
| personalty | (noun) movable property (as distinguished from real estate) | Synonyms: personal estate, personal property, private property |
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| psalterium | (noun) the third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant | Synonyms: omasum, third stomach |
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| psaltery | (noun) an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings | - |
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| realty | (noun) property consisting of houses and land | Synonyms: immovable, real estate, real property |
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| royalty | (noun) royal persons collectively | Synonyms: royal family, royal house, royal line |
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| (noun) payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property | - |
| salt | (noun) the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: salinity, saltiness |
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| (noun) white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food | Synonyms: common salt, table salt |
| (noun) a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) | - |
| saltation | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, bound, leap, leaping, spring |
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| (noun) taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | Synonyms: dance, dancing, terpsichore |
| (noun) (genetics) a mutation that drastically changes the phenotype of an organism or species | - |
| (noun) an abrupt transition | Synonyms: jump, leap |
| (noun) (geology) the leaping movement of sand or soil particles as they are transported in a fluid medium over an uneven surface | - |
| saltbox | (noun) a type of house built in New England; has two stories in front and one behind | - |
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| saltbush | (noun) any of various shrubby plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in dry alkaline soil | - |
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| saltcellar | (noun) a small container for holding salt at the dining table | - |
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| salter | (noun) someone who makes or deals in salt | Synonyms: salt merchant |
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| (noun) someone who uses salt to preserve meat or fish or other foods | - |
| saltine | (noun) a cracker sprinkled with salt before baking | - |
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| saltiness | (noun) the property of containing salt (as a compound or in solution) | - |
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| (noun) the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: salinity, salt |
| (noun) language or humor that is down-to-earth | Synonyms: coarseness |
| salting | (noun) the act of adding salt to food | - |
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| saltire | (noun) a cross resembling the letter x, with diagonal bars of equal length | Synonyms: St. Andrew's cross |
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| saltpan | (noun) a shallow basin in a desert region; contains salt and gypsum that was deposited by an evaporated salt lake | - |
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| saltpeter | (noun) (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive | Synonyms: niter, nitre, potassium nitrate, saltpetre |
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| saltpetre | (noun) (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive | Synonyms: niter, nitre, potassium nitrate, saltpeter |
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| saltshaker | (noun) a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt | Synonyms: salt shaker |
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| saltwater | (noun) water containing salts | Synonyms: brine, seawater |
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| saltworks | (noun) a plant where salt is produced commercially | - |
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| saltwort | (noun) low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves | Synonyms: Batis maritima |
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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, glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda |
| schmaltz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmalz, shmaltz |
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| severalty | (noun) exclusive individual ownership | - |
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| (noun) the state of being several and distinct | Synonyms: discreteness, distinctness, separateness |
| shmaltz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmaltz, schmalz |
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| smaltite | (noun) a grey mineral consisting of cobalt arsenide and nickel; an important source of cobalt and nickel | - |
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| specialty | (noun) the special line of work you have adopted as your career | Synonyms: specialisation, specialism, speciality, specialization |
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| (noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: distinctiveness, peculiarity, speciality, specialness |
| (noun) an asset of special worth or utility | Synonyms: forte, long suit, metier, speciality, strength, strong point, strong suit |
| spiritualty | (noun) property or income owned by a church | Synonyms: church property, spirituality |
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| stealth | (noun) avoiding detection by moving carefully | Synonyms: stealing |
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| stealthiness | (noun) a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously | Synonyms: furtiveness, sneakiness |
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| subaltern | (noun) a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain | - |
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| temporalty | (noun) in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy | Synonyms: laity |
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| (noun) the worldly possessions of a church | Synonyms: temporality |
| unalterability | (noun) the quality of not being alterable | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being fixed and unchangeable | Synonyms: fixedness |
| unhealthfulness | (noun) the quality of promoting poor health | - |
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| unhealthiness | (noun) a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain | Synonyms: health problem, ill health |
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| viceroyalty | (noun) a district or province governed by a viceroy | - |
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| waltz | (noun) a ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat | Synonyms: valse |
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| (noun) music composed in triple time for waltzing | - |
| (noun) an assured victory (especially in an election) | Synonyms: walk-in |