| aardvark | (noun) nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata | Synonyms: ant bear, anteater, Orycteropus afer |
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| antiquark | (noun) the antiparticle of a quark | - |
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| ark | (noun) a boat built by Noah to save his family and animals from the flood | - |
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| autarky | (noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarchy |
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| ballpark | (noun) a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games) | Synonyms: park |
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| (noun) near to the scope or range of something | Synonyms: approximate range |
| bark | (noun) a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts | Synonyms: barque |
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| (noun) the sound made by a dog | - |
| (noun) a noise resembling the bark of a dog | - |
| (noun) tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants | - |
| barkeep | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeeper, bartender, mixologist |
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| barkeeper | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, bartender, mixologist |
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| barker | (noun) informal terms for dogs | Synonyms: bow-wow, doggie, doggy, pooch |
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| (noun) someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers | - |
| benchmark | (noun) a standard by which something can be measured or judged | - |
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| (noun) a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point | Synonyms: bench mark |
| birchbark | (noun) a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree | Synonyms: birch bark, birchbark canoe |
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| birthmark | (noun) a blemish on the skin that is formed before birth | Synonyms: nevus |
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| bismark | (noun) a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam | Synonyms: Berlin doughnut, jelly doughnut |
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| bookmark | (noun) a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place | Synonyms: bookmarker |
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| bookmarker | (noun) a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place | Synonyms: bookmark |
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| bulwark | (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: breakwater, groin, groyne, jetty, mole, seawall |
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| (noun) an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes | Synonyms: rampart, wall |
| (noun) a fencelike structure around a deck | - |
| crampbark | (noun) deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries | Synonyms: cranberry tree, European cranberry bush, European cranberrybush, guelder rose, Viburnum opulus |
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| dark | (noun) an unenlightened state | Synonyms: darkness |
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| (noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: darkness, shadow |
| (noun) absence of light or illumination | Synonyms: darkness |
| (noun) absence of moral or spiritual values | Synonyms: darkness, wickedness |
| (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: night, nighttime |
| darkening | (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: blackening |
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| darkey | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkie, darky |
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| darkie | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkey, darky |
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| darkness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: duskiness, swarthiness |
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| (noun) having a dark or somber color | - |
| (noun) an unenlightened state | Synonyms: dark |
| (noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: dark, shadow |
| (noun) absence of light or illumination | Synonyms: dark |
| (noun) absence of moral or spiritual values | Synonyms: dark, wickedness |
| darkroom | (noun) a room in which photographs are developed | - |
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| darky | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkey, darkie |
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| debarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: disembarkation, disembarkment |
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| disembarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: debarkation, disembarkment |
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| disembarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: debarkation, disembarkation |
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| earmark | (noun) a distinctive characteristic or attribute of someone or something | Synonyms: hallmark, stylemark, trademark |
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| (noun) identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal | - |
| embarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkment |
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| embarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkation |
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| farkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: sparkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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| fingermark | (noun) a smudge made by a (dirty) finger | Synonyms: fingerprint |
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| footmark | (noun) a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface | Synonyms: footprint, step |
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| greenmarket | (noun) an open-air marketplace for farm products | Synonyms: farmer's market, green market |
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| hallmark | (noun) a distinctive characteristic or attribute of someone or something | Synonyms: earmark, stylemark, trademark |
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| (noun) a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity | Synonyms: assay-mark, authentication |
| hashmark | (noun) an insignia worn to indicate years of service | Synonyms: hash mark, service stripe |
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| hypermarket | (noun) a huge supermarket (usually built on the outskirts of a town) | - |
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| lacebark | (noun) small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage | Synonyms: Hoheria populnea, houhere, ribbonwood |
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| landmark | (noun) an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken | - |
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| (noun) a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land | - |
| (noun) an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend | Synonyms: turning point, watershed |
| (noun) the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape | - |
| lark | (noun) any carefree episode | Synonyms: escapade |
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| (noun) any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing | - |
| (noun) a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage | Synonyms: pipit, titlark |
| (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: meadowlark |
| larkspur | (noun) any of numerous cultivated plants of the genus Delphinium | - |
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| malarkey | (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarky, nothingness, wind |
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| malarky | (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarkey, nothingness, wind |
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| mark | (noun) something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal | Synonyms: bell ringer, bull's eye, home run |
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| (noun) an indication of damage | Synonyms: scar, scrape, scratch |
| (noun) a marking that consists of lines that cross each other | Synonyms: crisscross, cross |
| (noun) the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember | - |
| (noun) a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance) | Synonyms: grade, score |
| (noun) a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation) | - |
| (noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: brand, stain, stigma |
| (noun) a distinguishing symbol | Synonyms: marker, marking |
| (noun) a visible indication made on a surface | Synonyms: print |
| (noun) a reference point to shoot at | Synonyms: target |
| (noun) a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened) | Synonyms: sign |
| (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
| (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Germany | Synonyms: Deutsche Mark, Deutschmark, German mark |
| marker | (noun) some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something | - |
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| (noun) a writing implement for making a mark | - |
| (noun) a distinguishing symbol | Synonyms: mark, marking |
| market | (noun) the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold | Synonyms: market place, marketplace |
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| (noun) a marketplace where groceries are sold | Synonyms: food market, grocery, grocery store |
| (noun) an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up | Synonyms: market place, marketplace, mart |
| (noun) the customers for a particular product or service | - |
| (noun) the securities markets in the aggregate | Synonyms: securities industry |
| marketer | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: seller, trafficker, vender, vendor |
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| marketing | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: merchandising, selling |
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| (noun) shopping at a market | - |
| (noun) the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service | - |
| marketplace | (noun) the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold | Synonyms: market, market place |
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| (noun) an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up | Synonyms: market, market place, mart |
| markhoor | (noun) large Himalayan goat with large spiraled horns | Synonyms: Capra falconeri, markhor |
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| markhor | (noun) large Himalayan goat with large spiraled horns | Synonyms: Capra falconeri, markhoor |
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| marking | (noun) evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score | Synonyms: grading, scoring |
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| (noun) the act of making a visible mark on a surface | - |
| (noun) a pattern of marks | - |
| (noun) a distinguishing symbol | Synonyms: mark, marker |
| markka | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Finland | Synonyms: Finnish mark |
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| marksman | (noun) someone skilled in shooting | Synonyms: crack shot, sharpshooter |
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| marksmanship | (noun) skill in shooting | - |
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| markup | (noun) detailed stylistic instructions for typesetting something that is to be printed; manual markup is usually written on the copy (e.g. underlining words that are to be set in italics) | - |
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| (noun) the amount added to the cost to determine the asking price | - |
| markweed | (noun) climbing plant common in eastern and central United States with ternate leaves and greenish flowers followed by white berries; yields an irritating oil that causes a rash on contact | Synonyms: poison ivy, poison mercury, poison oak, Rhus radicans, Toxicodendron radicans |
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| meadowlark | (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: lark |
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| mintmark | (noun) a mark on a coin that identifies the mint where it was produced | - |
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| nark | (noun) an informer or spy working for the police | Synonyms: copper's nark |
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| (noun) a lawman concerned with narcotics violations | Synonyms: narc, narcotics agent |
| neuromarketing | (noun) marketing based on studies of consumers' sensorimotor, cognitive, and affective responses | Synonyms: neuro-marketing |
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| newmarket | (noun) a long close-fitting coat worn for riding in the 19th century | - |
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| park | (noun) a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games) | Synonyms: ballpark |
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| (noun) a gear position that acts as a parking brake | - |
| (noun) a large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property | Synonyms: parkland |
| (noun) a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area | Synonyms: common, commons, green |
| (noun) a lot where cars are parked | Synonyms: car park, parking area, parking lot |
| parka | (noun) a kind of heavy jacket | Synonyms: anorak, windbreaker, windcheater |
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| parking | (noun) the act of maneuvering a vehicle into a location where it can be left temporarily | - |
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| (noun) space in which vehicles can be parked | - |
| parkland | (noun) a large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property | Synonyms: park |
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| parkour | (noun) An athletic discipline, in which practitioners traverse any environment in the most efficient way possible using their physical abilities, and which commonly involves running, jumping, vaulting, rolling, and other similar physical movements. | - |
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| parkway | (noun) a wide scenic road planted with trees | Synonyms: drive |
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| pockmark | (noun) a scar or pit on the skin that is left by a pustule of smallpox or acne or other eruptive disease | - |
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| postmark | (noun) a cancellation mark stamped on mail by postal officials; indicates the post office and date of mailing | - |
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| pressmark | (noun) a mark consisting of characters written on a book; used to indicate shelf location | Synonyms: call mark, call number |
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| qindarka | (noun) 100 qindarka equal 1 lek in Albania | Synonyms: qintar |
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| quark | (noun) fresh unripened cheese of a smooth texture made from pasteurized milk, a starter, and rennet | Synonyms: quark cheese |
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| (noun) (physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons; there are supposed to be six flavors of quarks (and their antiquarks), which come in pairs; each has an electric charge of +2/3 or -1/3 | - |
| remark | (noun) explicit notice | - |
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| (noun) a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information | Synonyms: comment, input |
| ropebark | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, moosewood, wicopy |
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| semidarkness | (noun) partial darkness | - |
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| shagbark | (noun) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts | Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark hickory, shellbark, shellbark hickory |
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| shark | (noun) any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales | - |
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| (noun) a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways | - |
| (noun) a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest | - |
| sharkskin | (noun) a smooth crisp fabric | - |
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| sharksucker | (noun) remoras found attached to sharks | Synonyms: Echeneis naucrates |
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| shellbark | (noun) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts | Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark hickory |
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| skylark | (noun) brown-speckled European lark noted for singing while hovering at a great height | Synonyms: Alauda arvensis |
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| smoothbark | (noun) any of several Australian eucalypts having the bark smooth except at or near the base of the trunk | - |
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| spark | (noun) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance | Synonyms: light, sparkle, twinkle |
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| (noun) a momentary flash of light | Synonyms: flicker, glint |
| (noun) a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction | - |
| (noun) electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field | Synonyms: arc, discharge, electric arc, electric discharge |
| (noun) a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger | - |
| sparker | (noun) a wire net to stop sparks from an open fireplace or smokestack | Synonyms: spark arrester |
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| sparkle | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glister, glitter, scintillation |
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| (noun) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance | Synonyms: light, spark, twinkle |
| (noun) the occurrence of a small flash or spark | Synonyms: coruscation, glitter |
| sparkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: farkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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| sparkler | (noun) a firework that burns slowly and throws out a shower of sparks | - |
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| (noun) diamonds | Synonyms: ice |
| sparkling | (noun) a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash | Synonyms: scintillation, twinkle |
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| spinnbarkeit | (noun) the capacity of a viscous liquid (especially the cervical mucus) to be drawn out into a strand or blown up into a bubble | - |
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| squark | (noun) a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1 | Synonyms: strange quark |
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| starkness | (noun) an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation | Synonyms: bareness |
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| (noun) the quality of being complete or utter or extreme | Synonyms: absoluteness, utterness |
| stringybark | (noun) any of several Australian eucalypts having fibrous inner bark | - |
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| stylemark | (noun) a distinctive characteristic or attribute of someone or something | Synonyms: earmark, hallmark, trademark |
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| supermarket | (noun) a large self-service grocery store selling groceries and dairy products and household goods | - |
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| supermarketeer | (noun) an operator of a supermarket | Synonyms: supermarketer |
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| supermarketer | (noun) an operator of a supermarket | Synonyms: supermarketeer |
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| tanbark | (noun) bark rich in tannin; bruised and cut in pieces to use for tanning; spent tanbark used as a ground covering | - |
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| telemark | (noun) a turn made in skiing; the outside ski is placed ahead and turned gradually inwards | - |
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| telemarketing | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telecommerce, teleselling |
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