| lattice | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: fretwork, latticework |
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| (noun) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted | Synonyms: grille, wicket |
| (noun) an arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions | - |
| latticework | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: fretwork, lattice |
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| manhattan | (noun) a cocktail made with whiskey and sweet vermouth with a dash of bitters | - |
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| matt | (noun) the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss | Synonyms: flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness, mat, matte |
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| matte | (noun) the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss | Synonyms: flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness, mat, matt |
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| (noun) a mixture of sulfides that forms when sulfide metal ores are smelted | - |
| matter | (noun) that which has mass and occupies space | - |
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| (noun) (used with negation) having consequence | - |
| (noun) some situation or event that is thought about | Synonyms: issue, subject, topic |
| (noun) a vaguely specified concern | Synonyms: affair, thing |
| (noun) a problem | - |
| (noun) written works (especially in books or magazines) | - |
| matting | (noun) a covering of coarse fabric (usually of straw or hemp) | - |
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| (noun) mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture | Synonyms: mat |
| mattock | (noun) a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade set at right angles to the handle | - |
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| mattress | (noun) a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed | - |
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| megawatt | (noun) a unit of power equal to one million watts | - |
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| milliwatt | (noun) a unit of power equal to one thousandth of a watt | - |
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| mulatto | (noun) an offspring of a black and a white parent | - |
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| natterjack | (noun) common brownish-yellow short-legged toad of western Europe; runs rather than hops | Synonyms: Bufo calamita |
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| nattiness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: dapperness, jauntiness, rakishness |
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| nonattendance | (noun) the failure to attend | - |
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| nonattender | (noun) someone who shirks duty | Synonyms: no-show, truant |
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| patten | (noun) footwear usually with wooden soles | Synonyms: clog, geta, sabot |
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| patter | (noun) plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson) | Synonyms: line of gab, spiel |
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| (noun) a quick succession of light rapid sounds | - |
| pattern | (noun) a customary way of operation or behavior | Synonyms: practice |
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| (noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: design, figure |
| (noun) a perceptual structure | Synonyms: form, shape |
| (noun) a model considered worthy of imitation | - |
| (noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: blueprint, design |
| (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, formula, normal, rule |
| (noun) graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle | Synonyms: radiation diagram, radiation pattern |
| (noun) the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport | Synonyms: approach pattern, traffic pattern |
| patternmaker | (noun) someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking) | - |
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| patty | (noun) round flat candy | - |
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| (noun) small pie or pasty | - |
| (noun) small flat mass of chopped or ground food | Synonyms: cake |
| platter | (noun) a large shallow dish used for serving food | - |
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| (noun) sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove | Synonyms: disc, disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, record |
| prattle | (noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk | Synonyms: blether, chin music, idle talk, prate |
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| prattler | (noun) someone who speaks in a childish way | - |
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| quattrocento | (noun) the 15th century in Italian art and literature | - |
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| rattail | (noun) deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail | Synonyms: grenadier, rattail fish |
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| rattan | (noun) a switch made from the stems of the rattan palms | Synonyms: ratan |
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| (noun) climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes | Synonyms: Calamus rotang, rattan palm |
| (noun) the stem of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus and related genera used to make wickerwork and furniture and canes | Synonyms: rattan cane |
| ratter | (noun) any of several breeds of terrier developed to catch rats | Synonyms: rat terrier |
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| (noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: apostate, deserter, recreant, renegade, turncoat |
| ratting | (noun) to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors) | Synonyms: informing |
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| rattle | (noun) loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail | - |
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| (noun) a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken | - |
| (noun) a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders) | Synonyms: rale, rattling |
| rattlebox | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops | Synonyms: crotalaria |
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| rattler | (noun) pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken | Synonyms: rattlesnake |
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| (noun) a railroad train consisting of freight cars | Synonyms: freight train |
| rattlesnake | (noun) pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken | Synonyms: rattler |
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| rattling | (noun) a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders) | Synonyms: rale, rattle |
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| rattrap | (noun) a trap for catching rats | - |
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| (noun) filthy run-down dilapidated housing | - |
| (noun) a difficult entangling situation | - |
| regatta | (noun) a meeting for boat races | - |
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| scatter | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scattering, strewing |
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| (noun) a haphazard distribution in all directions | Synonyms: spread |
| scatterbrain | (noun) a flighty and disorganized person | Synonyms: forgetful person |
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| scattergood | (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: spend-all, spender, spendthrift |
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| scattergun | (noun) firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges | Synonyms: shotgun |
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| scattering | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scatter, strewing |
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| (noun) spreading widely or driving off | Synonyms: dispersion |
| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: sprinkle, sprinkling |
| (noun) the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions | - |
| (noun) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly | Synonyms: sprinkling |
| shattering | (noun) the act of breaking something into small pieces | Synonyms: smashing |
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| slattern | (noun) a dirty untidy woman | Synonyms: slovenly woman, slut, trollop |
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| (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, street girl, streetwalker |
| slatternliness | (noun) in the manner of a slattern | Synonyms: sluttishness |
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| smattering | (noun) a slight or superficial understanding of a subject | - |
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| (noun) a small number or amount | Synonyms: handful |
| spatter | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spattering, splash, splashing, splattering |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter, sputtering |
| spatterdock | (noun) common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water | Synonyms: cow lily, Nuphar advena, yellow pond lily |
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| spattering | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, splash, splashing, splattering |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter, sputtering |
| splatter | (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splattering, splutter, sputter, sputtering |
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| (noun) a small quantity of something moist or liquid | Synonyms: dab, splash |
| splattering | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splash, splashing |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splutter, sputter, sputtering |
| squatter | (noun) someone who settles on land without right or title | - |
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| (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: homesteader, nester |
| squattiness | (noun) a short and stout physique | Synonyms: dumpiness |
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| squatting | (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels | Synonyms: squat |
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| (noun) exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles | Synonyms: knee bend, squat |
| swatter | (noun) an implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a long handle; used to kill insects | Synonyms: flyswat, flyswatter |
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| tatter | (noun) a small piece of cloth | Synonyms: rag, shred, tag, tag end |
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| tatterdemalion | (noun) a dirty shabbily clothed urchin | Synonyms: ragamuffin |
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| tatting | (noun) the act or art of making handmade lace | Synonyms: lace making |
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| (noun) needlework consisting of handmade lace made by looping and knotting a single thread on a small shuttle | - |
| tattle | (noun) disclosing information or giving evidence about another | Synonyms: singing, telling |
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| tattler | (noun) any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry | - |
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| (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattletale, telltale |
| tattletale | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, telltale |
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| tattoo | (noun) the practice of making a design on the skin by pricking and staining | - |
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| (noun) a design on the skin made by tattooing | - |
| (noun) a drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters | - |
| unattainability | (noun) The fact of being unattainable, of not being able to be reached or acquired. | - |
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| unattainableness | (noun) the state of being unattainable | - |
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| unattractiveness | (noun) an ugliness of appearance that is not appealing to viewers | - |
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| watt | (noun) a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm | Synonyms: W |
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| wattage | (noun) the product of voltage and current | Synonyms: electric power, electrical power |
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| wattle | (noun) framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence | - |
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| (noun) a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards | Synonyms: lappet |
| (noun) any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle | - |
| wattmeter | (noun) an instrument for measuring in watts the flow of power in an electrical circuit | - |
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| wildcatter | (noun) an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field | - |
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