| housebreaking | (noun) trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent | Synonyms: break-in, breaking and entering |
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| icebreaker | (noun) a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere | - |
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| (noun) a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation | Synonyms: iceboat |
| inbreeding | (noun) the act of mating closely related individuals | - |
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| interbreeding | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing |
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| (noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: crossbreeding, miscegenation |
| jailbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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| (noun) the removal of security locks from an electronic device | - |
| jawbreaker | (noun) a word that is hard to pronounce | - |
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| (noun) a large round hard candy | - |
| lambrequin | (noun) short and decorative hanging for a shelf edge or top of a window casing | - |
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| (noun) a scarf that covers a knight's helmet | - |
| lawbreaker | (noun) someone who violates the law | Synonyms: law offender, violator |
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| librettist | (noun) author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta | - |
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| libretto | (noun) the words of an opera or musical play | - |
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| microbrewery | (noun) a small brewery; consumption of the product is mainly elsewhere | - |
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| middlebreaker | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister, lister plough, lister plow, middle buster |
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| mouthbreeder | (noun) any of various fishes that carry their eggs and their young in their mouths | - |
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| newsbreak | (noun) a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story | Synonyms: flash, news bulletin, newsflash |
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| outbreak | (noun) a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition) | Synonyms: eruption, irruption |
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| prisonbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking |
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| purebred | (noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: pureblood, thoroughbred |
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| redbreast | (noun) small Old World songbird with a reddish breast | Synonyms: Erithacus rubecola, Old World robin, robin, robin redbreast |
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| sabre | (noun) a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back | Synonyms: cavalry sword, saber |
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| (noun) a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle | Synonyms: saber |
| safebreaker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safecracker |
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| semibreve | (noun) a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time) | Synonyms: whole note |
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| shortbread | (noun) very rich thick butter cookie | Synonyms: shortbread cookie |
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| sombreness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, gravity, soberness, sobriety, somberness |
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| (noun) a feeling of melancholy apprehension | Synonyms: gloom, gloominess, somberness |
| (noun) a state of partial or total darkness | Synonyms: gloom, somberness |
| sombrero | (noun) a straw hat with a tall crown and broad brim; worn in American southwest and in Mexico | - |
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| soubrette | (noun) a minor female role as a pert flirtatious lady's maid in a comedy | - |
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| (noun) a pert or flirtatious young girl | - |
| sowbread | (noun) common wild European cyclamen with pink flowers | Synonyms: Cyclamen hederifolium, Cyclamen neopolitanum |
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| strikebreaker | (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: blackleg, rat, scab |
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| strikebreaking | (noun) confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers | - |
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| sweetbread | (noun) edible glands of an animal | Synonyms: sweetbreads |
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| sweetbreads | (noun) edible glands of an animal | Synonyms: sweetbread |
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| thoroughbred | (noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: pureblood, purebred |
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| (noun) a racehorse belonging to a breed that originated from a cross between Arabian stallions and English mares | - |
| (noun) a well-bred person | - |
| tiebreaker | (noun) overtime play in order to break a tie; e.g. tennis and soccer | - |
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| timbre | (noun) (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) | Synonyms: quality, timber, tone |
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| timbrel | (noun) small hand drum similar to a tambourine; formerly carried by itinerant jugglers | - |
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| tumbrel | (noun) a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution | Synonyms: tumbril |
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| umbrella | (noun) a formation of military planes maintained over ground operations or targets | - |
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| (noun) having the function of uniting a group of similar things | - |
| (noun) a lightweight handheld collapsible canopy | - |
| umbrellawort | (noun) a plant of the genus Mirabilis | - |
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| unbreakableness | (noun) a consistency of something that does not break under pressure | - |
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| windbreak | (noun) hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion | Synonyms: shelterbelt |
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| windbreaker | (noun) a kind of heavy jacket | Synonyms: anorak, parka, windcheater |
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