| arles | (noun) money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract | Synonyms: earnest money |
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| barley | (noun) a grain of barley | Synonyms: barleycorn |
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| (noun) cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain | - |
| barleycorn | (noun) a grain of barley | Synonyms: barley |
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| (noun) a grain of barley | - |
| carload | (noun) a gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile | - |
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| (noun) the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | Synonyms: boatload, shipload |
| charlatan | (noun) a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes | Synonyms: mountebank |
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| charlatanism | (noun) the dishonesty of a charlatan | Synonyms: quackery |
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| charlock | (noun) weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields | Synonyms: Brassica kaber, chadlock, field mustard, Sinapis arvensis, wild mustard |
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| charlotte | (noun) a mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or whipped cream or custard | - |
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| darling | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| earl | (noun) a British peer ranking below a marquess and above a viscount | - |
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| earlap | (noun) one of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm | Synonyms: earflap |
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| earldom | (noun) the domain controlled by an earl or count or countess | - |
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| (noun) the dignity or rank or position of an earl or countess | - |
| earliness | (noun) quality of coming early or earlier in time | - |
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| earlobe | (noun) the fleshy pendulous part of the external human ear | Synonyms: ear lobe |
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| fearlessness | (noun) the trait of feeling no fear | - |
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| (noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: bravery |
| garland | (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes | Synonyms: chaplet, coronal, lei, wreath |
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| (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: florilegium, miscellany |
| garlic | (noun) aromatic bulb used as seasoning | Synonyms: ail |
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| (noun) bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong-flavored cloves | Synonyms: Allium sativum |
| gnarl | (noun) something twisted and tight and swollen | Synonyms: knot |
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| harlequin | (noun) a clown or buffoon (after the Harlequin character in the commedia dell'arte) | - |
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| harlequinade | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, japery, prank |
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| harlot | (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
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| harlotry | (noun) offering sexual intercourse for pay | Synonyms: prostitution, whoredom |
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| marl | (noun) a loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite; used as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime | - |
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| marlberry | (noun) tropical American shrub or small tree with brown wood and dark berries | Synonyms: Ardisia escallonoides, Ardisia paniculata |
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| marlin | (noun) large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes; related to sailfishes and spearfishes; not completely cold-blooded i.e. able to warm their brains and eyes | - |
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| marline | (noun) a small usually tarred line of 2 strands | - |
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| marlinespike | (noun) a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) | Synonyms: marlingspike, marlinspike |
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| marlingspike | (noun) a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) | Synonyms: marlinespike, marlinspike |
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| marlinspike | (noun) a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) | Synonyms: marlinespike, marlingspike |
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| marlite | (noun) metamorphic rock with approximately the same composition as marl | Synonyms: marlstone |
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| marlstone | (noun) metamorphic rock with approximately the same composition as marl | Synonyms: marlite |
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| oarlock | (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: peg, pin, rowlock, thole, tholepin |
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| parlance | (noun) a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language | Synonyms: idiom |
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| parlay | (noun) a series of wagers in which the winnings from one wager are used as a stake for the subsequent wagers | - |
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| parley | (noun) a negotiation between enemies | - |
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| parliament | (noun) a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards | Synonyms: fantan, sevens |
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| (noun) a legislative assembly in certain countries | - |
| parliamentarian | (noun) an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures | - |
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| parlor | (noun) reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received | Synonyms: parlour |
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| (noun) a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax | Synonyms: front room, living-room, living room, parlour, sitting room |
| parlormaid | (noun) a maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door | Synonyms: parlourmaid |
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| parlour | (noun) reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received | Synonyms: parlor |
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| (noun) a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax | Synonyms: front room, living-room, living room, parlor, sitting room |
| parlourmaid | (noun) a maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door | Synonyms: parlormaid |
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| pearl | (noun) a shade of white the color of bleached bones | Synonyms: bone, ivory, off-white |
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| (noun) a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel | - |
| (noun) a shape that is spherical and small | Synonyms: bead, drop |
| pearler | (noun) a diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls | Synonyms: pearl diver |
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| pearlfish | (noun) found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds | Synonyms: pearl-fish |
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| pearlite | (noun) a lamellar mixture of cementite and ferrite formed during the cooling of austenite; a constituent of steel and cast iron | - |
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| pearlweed | (noun) any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls | Synonyms: pearl-weed, pearlwort |
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| pearlwort | (noun) any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls | Synonyms: pearl-weed, pearlweed |
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| pearly | (noun) informal terms for a human `tooth' | Synonyms: chopper |
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| scarlatina | (noun) an acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash | Synonyms: scarlet fever |
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| scarlet | (noun) a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge | Synonyms: orange red, vermilion |
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| snarl | (noun) something jumbled or confused | Synonyms: maze, tangle |
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| (noun) a vicious angry growl | - |
| (noun) an angry vicious expression | - |
| sparling | (noun) the common smelt of Europe | Synonyms: European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus |
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| (noun) common smelt of Europe | Synonyms: European smelt |
| starlessness | (noun) The state of being without visible stars. | - |
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| starlet | (noun) a small star | - |
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| (noun) a young (film) actress who is publicized as a future star | - |
| starlight | (noun) the light of the stars | - |
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| starling | (noun) gregarious birds native to the Old World | - |
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| sugarloaf | (noun) a large conical loaf of concentrated refined sugar | Synonyms: loaf sugar, sugar loaf |
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| unsnarling | (noun) the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition | Synonyms: disentanglement, extrication, untangling |
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| varlet | (noun) in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood | Synonyms: page |
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| (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallywag |
| warlock | (noun) a male witch or demon | - |
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| warlord | (noun) supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak | - |
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| yearling | (noun) an animal in its second year | - |
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| (noun) a racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth | - |
| (noun) a young child who is just beginning to walk | Synonyms: bambino, toddler, tot |
| yearly | (noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year | Synonyms: annual, yearbook |
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