| areaway | (noun) a passageway between buildings or giving access to a basement | - |
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| awakening | (noun) the act of waking | Synonyms: wakening, waking up |
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| award | (noun) a grant made by a law court | Synonyms: awarding |
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| (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: accolade, honor, honour, laurels |
| (noun) something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery | Synonyms: prize |
| awarding | (noun) a grant made by a law court | Synonyms: award |
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| awareness | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: cognisance, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| (noun) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | Synonyms: sentience |
| awayness | (noun) the state of being elsewhere than in particular place | - |
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| awe | (noun) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something | Synonyms: fear, reverence, veneration |
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| (noun) an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration | - |
| awfulness | (noun) a quality of extreme unpleasantness | Synonyms: dreadfulness, horridness, terribleness |
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| awkwardness | (noun) the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant | Synonyms: clumsiness |
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| (noun) the quality of an embarrassing situation | Synonyms: nuisance value |
| (noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: cumbersomeness, unwieldiness |
| (noun) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | Synonyms: clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness |
| (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness |
| awl | (noun) a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes | - |
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| awlwort | (noun) small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers; circumboreal | Synonyms: Subularia aquatica |
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| awn | (noun) slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses | - |
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| awning | (noun) a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun | Synonyms: sunblind, sunshade |
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| backsaw | (noun) a handsaw that is stiffened by metal reinforcement along the upper edge | Synonyms: back saw |
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| bandsaw | (noun) an endless saw consisting of a toothed metal band that is driven around two wheels | Synonyms: band saw |
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| bawbee | (noun) an old Scottish coin of little value | - |
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| bawd | (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
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| bawdiness | (noun) the trait of behaving in an obscene manner | Synonyms: lewdness, obscenity, salaciousness, salacity |
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| bawdry | (noun) lewd or obscene talk or writing | Synonyms: bawdy |
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| bawdy | (noun) lewd or obscene talk or writing | Synonyms: bawdry |
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| bawdyhouse | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bordello, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| bawler | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bellower, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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| (noun) a loud weeper | - |
| bawling | (noun) loud cries made while weeping | Synonyms: wailing |
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| bedstraw | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Galium | - |
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| bradawl | (noun) an awl for making small holes for brads or small screws | Synonyms: pricker |
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| brawl | (noun) a noisy fight in a crowd | Synonyms: free-for-all |
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| (noun) an uproarious party | Synonyms: bash, do |
| brawler | (noun) a fighter (especially one who participates in brawls) | - |
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| brawn | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawniness, heftiness, muscle, muscularity, sinew |
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| brawniness | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, heftiness, muscle, muscularity, sinew |
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| breakaway | (noun) the act of breaking away or withdrawing from | Synonyms: breaking away |
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| bucksaw | (noun) a saw that is set in a frame in the shape of an H; used with both hands to cut wood that is held in a sawbuck | - |
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| burrawong | (noun) large attractive palmlike evergreen cycad of New South Wales | Synonyms: Macrozamia communis, Macrozamia spiralis |
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| bylaw | (noun) a rule adopted by an organization in order to regulate its own affairs and the behavior of its members | - |
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| caraway | (noun) leaves used sparingly in soups and stews | - |
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| (noun) a Eurasian plant with small white flowers yielding caraway seed | Synonyms: Carum carvi |
| castaway | (noun) a shipwrecked person | Synonyms: shipwreck survivor |
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| (noun) a person who is rejected (from society or home) | Synonyms: Ishmael, outcast, pariah |
| catclaw | (noun) erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds; West Indies and Florida | Synonyms: black bead, cat's-claw, Pithecellobium unguis-cati |
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| caw | (noun) the sound made by corvine birds | - |
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| chainsaw | (noun) portable power saw; teeth linked to form an endless chain | Synonyms: chain saw |
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| chaw | (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chew, cud, plug, quid, wad |
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| chawbacon | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel |
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| chinaware | (noun) dishware made of high quality porcelain | Synonyms: china |
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| claw | (noun) sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles | - |
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| (noun) a bird's foot | - |
| (noun) a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods | Synonyms: chela, nipper, pincer |
| (noun) a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something | Synonyms: hook |
| clawback | (noun) finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way | - |
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| clawfoot | (noun) a deformity of the foot characterized by an abnormally high arch and hyperextension of the toes which gives the foot the appearance of a claw | Synonyms: pes cavus |
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| clawhammer | (noun) a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails | Synonyms: carpenter's hammer, claw hammer |
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| coleslaw | (noun) basically shredded cabbage | Synonyms: slaw |
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| craw | (noun) a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food | Synonyms: crop |
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| crawdad | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdaddy, crawfish, crayfish |
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| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawfish, crayfish, ecrevisse |
| crawdaddy | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
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| crawfish | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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| (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawdaddy, crayfish |
| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crayfish, ecrevisse |
| crawl | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawling, creep, creeping |
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| (noun) a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick | Synonyms: Australian crawl, front crawl |
| (noun) a very slow movement | - |
| crawler | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| (noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | Synonyms: ass-kisser, lackey, sycophant, toady |
| (noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: creeper |
| crawling | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, creep, creeping |
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| crawlspace | (noun) low space beneath a floor of a building; gives workers access to wiring or plumbing | Synonyms: crawl space |
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| currawong | (noun) bluish black fruit-eating bird with a bell-like call | Synonyms: bell magpie |
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| cushaw | (noun) globose or ovoid squash with striped grey and green warty rind | - |
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| (noun) plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds | Synonyms: Cucurbita argyrosperma, Cucurbita mixta |
| cutaway | (noun) a man's coat cut diagonally from the waist to the back of the knees | - |
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| (noun) a representation (drawing or model) of something in which the outside is omitted to reveal the inner parts | Synonyms: cutaway drawing, cutaway model |
| daw | (noun) common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery | Synonyms: Corvus monedula, jackdaw |
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| dawah | (noun) missionary work for Islam | Synonyms: da'wah |
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| dawdler | (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer |
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| dawdling | (noun) the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working | Synonyms: dalliance, trifling |
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| dawn | (noun) the earliest period | Synonyms: morning |
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| (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
| (noun) an opening time period | - |
| dawning | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| dhawa | (noun) an Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum | Synonyms: dhava |
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| draw | (noun) the act of drawing or hauling something | Synonyms: haul, haulage |
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| (noun) poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer | Synonyms: draw poker |
| (noun) (American football) the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage | Synonyms: draw play |
| (noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: hook, hooking |
| (noun) a playing card or cards dealt or taken from the pack | - |
| (noun) anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random | Synonyms: lot |
| (noun) the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided | Synonyms: standoff, tie |
| (noun) a gully that is shallower than a ravine | - |
| (noun) an entertainer who attracts large audiences | Synonyms: attracter, attraction, attractor, drawing card |
| drawback | (noun) the quality of being a hindrance | - |
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| drawbar | (noun) a strong metal bar bearing a hook to attach something to be pulled | - |
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| drawbridge | (noun) a bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it | Synonyms: lift bridge |
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| drawee | (noun) the person (or bank) who is expected to pay a check or draft when it is presented for payment | - |
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| drawer | (noun) a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out | - |
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| (noun) an artist skilled at drawing | Synonyms: draftsman |
| (noun) the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else | - |
| drawers | (noun) (used in the plural) underpants worn by women | Synonyms: bloomers, knickers, pants |
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| (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, boxershorts, shorts, underdrawers |
| drawing | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: drafting, draftsmanship |
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| (noun) act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source | Synonyms: drawing off |
| (noun) players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots | Synonyms: lottery |
| (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draft, draught |
| (noun) a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines | - |
| (noun) an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper | - |
| drawknife | (noun) a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces | Synonyms: drawshave |
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| drawl | (noun) a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels | - |
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| drawler | (noun) someone who speaks with a drawl | - |
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| drawnwork | (noun) ornamental needlework done by drawing threads to form lacelike patterns | - |
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| drawshave | (noun) a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces | Synonyms: drawknife |
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| drawstring | (noun) a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening | Synonyms: drawing string, string |
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| farawayness | (noun) the property of being remote | Synonyms: farness, remoteness |
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| fawn | (noun) a young deer | - |
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| (noun) a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color | Synonyms: dun, grayish brown, greyish brown |
| fawner | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, groveler, groveller, truckler |
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| flaw | (noun) an imperfection in an object or machine | Synonyms: defect, fault |
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| (noun) defect or weakness in a person's character | - |
| (noun) an imperfection in a plan or theory or legal document that causes it to fail or that reduces its effectiveness | - |
| flawlessness | (noun) the state of being without a flaw or defect | Synonyms: ne plus ultra, perfection |
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| fleawort | (noun) plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative | Synonyms: Plantago psyllium, psyllium, Spanish psyllium |
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| forepaw | (noun) front paw; analogous to the human hand | - |
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| fretsaw | (noun) fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines | Synonyms: jigsaw, scroll saw |
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| gangsaw | (noun) a power saw that has several parallel blades making simultaneous cuts | - |
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| gawk | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
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| gawker | (noun) a spectator who stares stupidly without intelligent awareness | - |
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| gawkiness | (noun) the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant | Synonyms: ungainliness |
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| getaway | (noun) a rapid escape (as by criminals) | Synonyms: lam |
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| (noun) the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration | Synonyms: pickup |
| gewgaw | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, fallal, gaud, novelty, trinket |
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| giveaway | (noun) an unintentional disclosure | - |
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| (noun) a television or radio program in which contestants compete for awards | Synonyms: game show |
| (noun) a gift of public land or resources for the private gain of a limited group | - |
| gnawer | (noun) relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing | Synonyms: rodent |
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| goshawk | (noun) large hawk of Eurasia and North America used in falconry | Synonyms: Accipiter gentilis |
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| guffaw | (noun) a burst of deep loud hearty laughter | Synonyms: belly laugh |
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| hacksaw | (noun) saw used with one hand for cutting metal | Synonyms: hack saw, metal saw |
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| handsaw | (noun) a saw used with one hand for cutting wood | Synonyms: carpenter's saw, hand saw |
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| haw | (noun) the nictitating membrane of a horse | - |
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| (noun) a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus | Synonyms: hawthorn |
| hawala | (noun) an underground banking system based on trust whereby money can be made available internationally without actually moving it or leaving a record of the transaction | - |
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