| afterdamp | (noun) a toxic mixture of gases (including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and nitrogen) after an explosion of firedamp in a mine | - |
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| afterdeck | (noun) a deck abaft of midships | - |
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| balderdash | (noun) trivial nonsense | Synonyms: fiddle-faddle, piffle |
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| cofferdam | (noun) large watertight chamber used for construction under water | Synonyms: caisson, pneumatic caisson |
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| counterdemonstration | (noun) a demonstration held in opposition to another demonstration | - |
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| counterdemonstrator | (noun) someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration | - |
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| cowherd | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher |
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| eiderdown | (noun) down of the eider duck | - |
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| (noun) a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider | Synonyms: continental quilt, duvet |
| gaberdine | (noun) a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles | Synonyms: dust coat, duster, gabardine, smock |
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| goatherd | (noun) a person who tends a flock of goats | Synonyms: goat herder |
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| guerdon | (noun) a reward or payment | - |
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| haberdasher | (noun) a merchant who sells men's clothing | Synonyms: clothier |
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| haberdashery | (noun) the drygoods sold by a haberdasher | Synonyms: men's furnishings |
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| (noun) a store where men's clothes are sold | Synonyms: clothing store, haberdashery store, mens store |
| halberd | (noun) a pike fitted with an ax head | - |
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| halberdier | (noun) a guard who carries a halberd (as a symbol of his duty) | - |
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| herd | (noun) a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans | - |
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| (noun) a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra | - |
| (noun) a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things | Synonyms: ruck |
| herder | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: drover, herdsman |
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| herdsman | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: drover, herder |
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| hyperdactyly | (noun) birth defect characterized by the presence of more than the normal number of fingers or toes | Synonyms: polydactyly |
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| interdependence | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependency, mutuality |
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| interdependency | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependence, mutuality |
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| interdict | (noun) an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district | - |
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| (noun) a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity | Synonyms: interdiction |
| interdiction | (noun) authoritative prohibition | - |
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| (noun) a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity | Synonyms: interdict |
| legerdemain | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
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| nerd | (noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: dweeb, grind, swot, wonk |
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| (noun) an intelligent but single-minded expert in a particular technical field or profession | - |
| overdraft | (noun) a draft in excess of the credit balance | - |
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| overdrive | (noun) a high gear used at high speeds to maintain the driving speed with less output power | - |
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| (noun) the state of high or excessive activity or productivity or concentration | - |
| paloverde | (noun) a thorny shrub of the genus Cercidium that grows in dry parts of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico; has smooth light green bark and racemes of yellow flowers and small leaves | - |
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| perdition | (noun) (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment | Synonyms: Hell, infernal region, Inferno, nether region, pit |
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| perdurability | (noun) the property of being extremely durable | - |
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| potsherd | (noun) a shard of pottery | - |
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| quarterdeck | (noun) the stern area of a ship's upper deck | - |
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| sacerdotalism | (noun) a belief that priests can act as mediators between human beings and God | - |
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| sheepherder | (noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | Synonyms: sheepman, shepherd |
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| shepherd | (noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | Synonyms: sheepherder, sheepman |
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| (noun) a clergyman who watches over a group of people | - |
| shepherdess | (noun) a woman shepherd | - |
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| sherd | (noun) a broken piece of a brittle artifact | Synonyms: fragment, shard |
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| 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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| superdad | (noun) an informal term for a father who can combine childcare and full-time employment | - |
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| swineherd | (noun) a herder or swine | Synonyms: pigman |
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| tatterdemalion | (noun) a dirty shabbily clothed urchin | Synonyms: ragamuffin |
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| underdevelopment | (noun) (photography) inadequate processing of film resulting in inadequate contrast | - |
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| (noun) state of inadequate development | - |
| underdog | (noun) one at a disadvantage and expected to lose | - |
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| underdrawers | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, boxershorts, drawers, shorts |
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| verdancy | (noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: greenness, verdure |
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| verdict | (noun) (law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision; can be used in formulating a judgment | Synonyms: finding of fact |
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| verdigris | (noun) a green patina that forms on copper or brass or bronze that has been exposed to the air or water for long periods of time | - |
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| (noun) a blue or green powder used as a paint pigment | Synonyms: cupric acetate |
| verdin | (noun) very small yellow-headed titmouse of western North America | Synonyms: Auriparus flaviceps |
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| verdolagas | (noun) weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: common purslane, Portulaca oleracea, pussley, pussly |
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| verdure | (noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: greenness, verdancy |
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| (noun) green foliage | Synonyms: greenery |
| waterdog | (noun) any of several large aquatic salamanders | - |
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| yesterday | (noun) the recent past | - |
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| (noun) the day immediately before today | - |
| zenerdiode | (noun) a semiconductor diode that exhibits a sharp increase in reverse current at a well-defined reverse voltage: used as a voltage regulator | Synonyms: stabilitron |
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