| baedeker | (noun) any of a series of travel guidebooks published by the German firm founded by Karl Baedeker | - |
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| beekeeper | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, apiculturist |
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| beekeeping | (noun) the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey | Synonyms: apiculture |
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| biweekly | (noun) a periodical that is published twice a week or every two weeks (either 104 or 26 issues per year) | - |
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| cheek | (noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: boldness, brass, face, nerve |
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| (noun) either side of the face below the eyes | - |
| (noun) either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump | Synonyms: buttock |
| (noun) an impudent statement | Synonyms: impertinence, impudence |
| cheekbone | (noun) the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek | Synonyms: jugal bone, malar, malar bone, os zygomaticum, zygomatic, zygomatic bone |
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| cheekiness | (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence |
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| cheekpiece | (noun) either of two straps of a bridle that connect the bit to the headpiece | - |
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| creek | (noun) a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) | Synonyms: brook |
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| dekagram | (noun) 10 grams | Synonyms: dag, decagram, dkg |
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| dekaliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decaliter, decalitre, dekalitre, dkl |
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| dekalitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decaliter, decalitre, dekaliter, dkl |
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| dekameter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decameter, decametre, dekametre, dkm |
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| dekametre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decameter, decametre, dekameter, dkm |
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| dekko | (noun) British slang for a look | - |
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| dovekie | (noun) small short-billed auk abundant in Arctic regions | Synonyms: little auk, Plautus alle |
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| drekkar | (noun) a Viking longship, described in historical sources as elegant and ornately decorated, and used by those who went raiding and plundering. | - |
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| fartlek | (noun) a method of athletic training (especially for runners) in which strenuous effort and normal effort alternate in a continuous exercise | - |
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| fenugreek | (noun) aromatic seeds used as seasoning especially in curry | Synonyms: fenugreek seed |
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| (noun) annual herb or southern Europe and eastern Asia having off-white flowers and aromatic seeds used medicinally and in curry | Synonyms: Greek clover, Trigonella foenumgraecum |
| foreknowledge | (noun) knowledge of an event before it occurs | Synonyms: precognition |
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| gamekeeper | (noun) a person employed to take care of game and wildlife | Synonyms: game warden |
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| gatekeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| (noun) someone who controls access to something | - |
| geek | (noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric, eccentric person, flake, oddball |
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| (noun) a carnival performer who does disgusting acts | - |
| hacek | (noun) a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: wedge |
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| hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia | (noun) fear of magic properties of the number 666 | - |
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| housekeeper | (noun) a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household | - |
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| housekeeping | (noun) the work of cleaning and running a house | Synonyms: housework |
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| kopek | (noun) 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | Synonyms: copeck, kopeck |
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| kweek | (noun) trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India | Synonyms: Bahama grass, Bermuda grass, Cynodon dactylon, devil grass, doob, scutch grass, star grass |
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| leek | (noun) related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves | - |
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| (noun) plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum | Synonyms: Allium porrum, scallion |
| lek | (noun) the basic unit of money in Albania | - |
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| lekvar | (noun) a sweet filling made of prunes or apricots | - |
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| limekiln | (noun) a kiln used to reduce naturally occurring forms of calcium carbonate to lime | - |
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| meekness | (noun) a disposition to be patient and long suffering | Synonyms: subduedness |
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| (noun) the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness | Synonyms: submission |
| midweek | (noun) the middle of a week | - |
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| nameko | (noun) one of the most important fungi cultivated in Japan | Synonyms: Pholiota nameko, viscid mushroom |
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| nekton | (noun) the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales | - |
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| peacekeeper | (noun) the pistol of a law officer in the old West | - |
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| (noun) someone who keeps peace | - |
| (noun) a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area | - |
| peacekeeping | (noun) the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations) | Synonyms: peacekeeping mission, peacekeeping operation |
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| peek | (noun) a secret look | Synonyms: peep |
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| peekaboo | (noun) a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo! | Synonyms: bopeep |
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| pekan | (noun) large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal | Synonyms: black cat, fisher, fisher cat, Martes pennanti |
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| pekoe | (noun) a superior grade of black tea; grown in India and Sri Lanka and Java | Synonyms: orange pekoe |
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| placekicker | (noun) (football) a kicker who makes a place kick for a goal | Synonyms: place-kicker |
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| placeseeker | (noun) a disparaging term for an appointee | Synonyms: placeman |
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| ramekin | (noun) a small fireproof dish used for baking and serving individual portions | Synonyms: ramequin |
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| (noun) a cheese dish made with egg and bread crumbs that is baked and served in individual fireproof dishes | Synonyms: ramequin |
| reek | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, stench, stink |
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| safekeeping | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: guardianship, keeping |
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| samekh | (noun) the 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| scorekeeper | (noun) an official who records the score during the progress of a game | Synonyms: scorer |
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| seek | (noun) the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk | - |
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| seeker | (noun) a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves) | - |
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| (noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: quester, searcher |
| seeking | (noun) the act of searching for something | Synonyms: quest |
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| (noun) an attempt to acquire or gain something | - |
| semiweekly | (noun) a periodical that is published twice each week (or 104 issues per year) | - |
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| shekel | (noun) the basic unit of money in Israel | - |
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| shekels | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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| shriek | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shrieking |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shrieking |
| shrieking | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
| sidekick | (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: brother, buddy, chum, crony, pal |
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| sleekness | (noun) the smooth feel of silk fabric | Synonyms: silkiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being well-groomed and neatly tailored | - |
| snoek | (noun) a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa | Synonyms: barracouta |
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| storekeeper | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, shopkeeper, tradesman |
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| taekwondo | (noun) a Korean martial art similar to karate | Synonyms: tae kwon do |
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| tanekaha | (noun) medium tall celery pine of New Zealand | Synonyms: Phyllocladus trichomanoides |
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| tekki | (noun) a technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing) | Synonyms: techie |
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| tektite | (noun) thought to derive from meteorites | - |
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| telekinesis | (noun) the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force | Synonyms: psychokinesis |
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| timekeeper | (noun) a measuring instrument or device for keeping time | Synonyms: horologe, timepiece |
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| (noun) a clerk who keeps track of the hours worked by employees | - |
| (noun) (sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed | Synonyms: timer |
| timekeeping | (noun) the act or process of determining the time | - |
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| trek | (noun) any long and difficult trip | - |
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| (noun) a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers) | - |
| trekker | (noun) a traveler who makes a long arduous journey (as hiking through mountainous country) | - |
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| triskaidekaphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of the number 13 | - |
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| tupek | (noun) tent that is an Eskimo summer dwelling | Synonyms: sealskin tent, tupik |
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| week | (noun) any period of seven consecutive days | Synonyms: hebdomad |
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| (noun) hours or days of work in a calendar week | Synonyms: workweek |
| (noun) a period of seven consecutive days (usually reckoned to be from Sunday to Saturday, or from Monday to Sunday) | Synonyms: calendar week |
| weekday | (noun) any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday) | - |
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| weekend | (noun) a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sunday | - |
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| weekender | (noun) a small suitcase to carry clothing and accessories for a weekend trip | - |
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| (noun) someone who vacations on a weekend | - |
| weekly | (noun) a periodical that is published every week (or 52 issues per year) | - |
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| weeknight | (noun) any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday | - |
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| weka | (noun) flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting | Synonyms: maori hen, wood hen |
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| workweek | (noun) hours or days of work in a calendar week | Synonyms: week |
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| zamburek | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamboorak, zamburak, zumbooruck, zumbooruk |
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