| activewear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: athletic wear, sportswear |
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| agateware | (noun) pottery that is veined and mottled to resemble agate | - |
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| agueweed | (noun) gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers | Synonyms: ague weed, five-flowered gentian, Gentiana quinquefolia, Gentianella quinquefolia, stiff gentian |
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| (noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum, thoroughwort |
| aircrew | (noun) the crew of an aircraft | Synonyms: air crew |
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| aircrewman | (noun) a member of an aircrew | - |
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| airscrew | (noun) a propeller that rotates to push against air | Synonyms: airplane propeller, prop |
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| alewife | (noun) shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus | Synonyms: Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus |
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| (noun) flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams | - |
| anglewing | (noun) nymphalid butterfly having angular notches on the outer edges of the forewings | - |
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| angleworm | (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: crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| applewood | (noun) wood of any of various apple trees of the genus Malus | - |
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| battlewagon | (noun) large and heavily armoured warship | Synonyms: battleship |
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| beetleweed | (noun) tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall | Synonyms: coltsfoot, galax, Galax urceolata, galaxy, wandflower |
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| bewilderment | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| bewitchery | (noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, beguilement |
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| bewitchment | (noun) a magical spell | Synonyms: enchantment |
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| bilgewater | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| bitewing | (noun) a dental X-ray film that can be held in place by the teeth during radiography | - |
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| blameworthiness | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: culpability, culpableness |
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| blewits | (noun) edible agaric that is pale lilac when young; has a smooth moist cap | Synonyms: Clitocybe nuda |
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| blueweed | (noun) a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: blue devil, blue thistle, Echium vulgare, viper's bugloss |
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| bluewing | (noun) American teal | Synonyms: Anas discors, blue-winged teal |
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| brew | (noun) drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling | Synonyms: brewage |
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| brewage | (noun) drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling | Synonyms: brew |
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| brewer | (noun) the owner or manager of a brewery | - |
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| (noun) someone who brews beer or ale from malt and hops and water | Synonyms: beer maker |
| brewery | (noun) a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation | - |
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| brewing | (noun) the production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast | - |
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| brewpub | (noun) a combination brewery and restaurant; beer is brewed for consumption on the premises and served along with food | - |
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| bridgework | (noun) a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth | Synonyms: bridge |
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| bugleweed | (noun) any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover | Synonyms: bugle |
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| (noun) a mildly narcotic and astringent aromatic herb having small whitish flowers; eastern United States | Synonyms: Lycopus virginicus |
| cabbageworm | (noun) toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly | Synonyms: Pieris rapae |
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| cakewalk | (noun) a strutting dance based on a march; was performed in minstrel shows; originated as a competition among Black dancers to win a cake | - |
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| (noun) an easy accomplishment | - |
| candlewick | (noun) the wick of a candle | - |
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| (noun) loops of soft yarn are cut to give a tufted pattern | - |
| candlewood | (noun) any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light | - |
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| capeweed | (noun) European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears | Synonyms: California dandelion, cat's-ear, gosmore, Hypochaeris radicata |
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| carriageway | (noun) one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanes | - |
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| casework | (noun) close sociological study of a maladjusted person or family for diagnosis and treatment | - |
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| caseworker | (noun) someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged) | Synonyms: social worker, welfare worker |
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| caseworm | (noun) insect larva that constructs a protective case around its body | - |
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| cashew | (noun) kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted | Synonyms: cashew nut |
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| (noun) tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts that are edible only when roasted | Synonyms: Anacardium occidentale, cashew tree |
| causeway | (noun) a road that is raised above water or marshland or sand | - |
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| chafeweed | (noun) weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike | Synonyms: Gnaphalium sylvaticum, wood cudweed |
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| cheewink | (noun) common towhee of eastern North America | Synonyms: chewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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| chew | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chewing, manduction, mastication |
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| (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chaw, cud, plug, quid, wad |
| chewer | (noun) someone who chews (especially someone who chews tobacco) | - |
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| chewing | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chew, manduction, mastication |
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| chewink | (noun) common towhee of eastern North America | Synonyms: cheewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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| clerihew | (noun) a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person | - |
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| clew | (noun) evidence that helps to solve a problem | Synonyms: clue, cue |
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| (noun) a ball of yarn or cord or thread | - |
| clews | (noun) the cords used to suspend a hammock | - |
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| colewort | (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, kail, kale |
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| committeewoman | (noun) a woman who is a member of a committee | - |
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| corkscrew | (noun) a bottle opener that pulls corks | Synonyms: bottle screw |
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| coursework | (noun) work assigned to and done by a student during a course of study; usually it is evaluated as part of the student's grade in the course | - |
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| crackleware | (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle, crackle china |
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| crew | (noun) an organized group of workmen | Synonyms: gang, work party |
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| (noun) the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.) | - |
| (noun) the team of men or women manning a racing shell | - |
| (noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: bunch, crowd, gang |
| crewelwork | (noun) embroidery done with loosely twisted worsted yarn | - |
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| crewet | (noun) bottle that holds wine or oil or vinegar for the table | Synonyms: cruet |
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| crewman | (noun) a member of a work crew | - |
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| (noun) a member of a flight crew | Synonyms: crew member |
| (noun) any member of a ship's crew | Synonyms: sailor |
| curfew | (noun) a signal (usually a bell) announcing the start of curfew restrictions | - |
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| (noun) an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited | - |
| (noun) the time that the curfew signal is sounded | - |
| curlew | (noun) large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill | - |
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| danewort | (noun) dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor | Synonyms: dwarf elder, Sambucus ebulus |
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| dew | (noun) water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air | - |
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| dewberry | (noun) blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes | - |
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| (noun) any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America | Synonyms: dewberry bush, running blackberry |
| dewdrop | (noun) a drop of dew | - |
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| dewiness | (noun) The state or property of being covered by dew, or bearing droplets of water. | - |
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| dewlap | (noun) a hanging fold of loose skin on an elderly person's neck | - |
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| driveway | (noun) a road leading up to a private house | Synonyms: drive, private road |
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| dyeweed | (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, woodwaxen |
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| dyewood | (noun) any wood from which dye is obtained | - |
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| entranceway | (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entree, entry, entryway |
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| ewe | (noun) female sheep | - |
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| ewer | (noun) an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring | Synonyms: pitcher |
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| eyewash | (noun) lotion consisting of a solution used as a cleanser for the eyes | Synonyms: collyrium, eye-lotion |
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| eyewitness | (noun) a spectator who can describe what happened | - |
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| farewell | (noun) the act of departing politely | Synonyms: leave-taking, leave, parting |
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| (noun) an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting | Synonyms: word of farewell |
| feverfew | (noun) bushy aromatic European perennial herb having clusters of buttonlike white-rayed flower heads; valued traditionally for medicinal uses; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum parthenium, Tanacetum parthenium |
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| few | (noun) a small elite group | - |
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| fewness | (noun) the quality of being small in number | - |
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| firewall | (noun) (colloquial) the application of maximum thrust | - |
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| (noun) a fireproof (or fire-resistant) wall designed to prevent the spread of fire through a building or a vehicle | - |
| (noun) (computing) a security system consisting of a combination of hardware and software that limits the exposure of a computer or computer network to attack from crackers; commonly used on local area networks that are connected to the internet | - |
| firewater | (noun) any strong spirits (such as strong whisky or rum) | - |
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| fireweed | (noun) tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant | Synonyms: Epilobium angustifolium, giant willowherb, rosebay willowherb, wickup |
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| (noun) an American weedy plant with small white or greenish flowers | Synonyms: Erechtites hieracifolia |
| firewood | (noun) wood used for fuel | - |
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| firework | (noun) (usually plural) a device with an explosive that burns at a low rate and with colored flames; can be used to illuminate areas or send signals etc. | Synonyms: pyrotechnic |
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| flews | (noun) The fleshy hanging upper lip of a bloodhound or similar dog. | - |
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| forewarning | (noun) an early warning about a future event | Synonyms: premonition |
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| forewing | (noun) either of the anterior pair of wings on an insect that has four wings | Synonyms: fore-wing, fore wing |
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| forewoman | (noun) a woman in charge of a group of workers | - |
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| (noun) a woman who is foreperson of a jury | Synonyms: forelady |
| foreword | (noun) a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book | Synonyms: preface, prolusion |
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| framework | (noun) a structure supporting or containing something | Synonyms: frame |
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| (noun) the underlying structure | Synonyms: fabric |
| (noun) a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process | Synonyms: model, theoretical account |
| freeware | (noun) software that is provided without charge | - |
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| freeway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
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| freewheel | (noun) a clutch (as on the rear wheel of a bicycle) that allows wheels to turn freely (as in coasting) | - |
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| freewheeler | (noun) someone acting freely or even irresponsibly | Synonyms: free agent, free spirit |
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| freewoman | (noun) a female person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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| fumewort | (noun) delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Fumaria officinalis, fumeroot, fumitory |
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| (noun) herb of northern Europe and Asia having erect racemes of red flowers | Synonyms: Corydalis solida, fumeroot |
| gateway | (noun) an entrance that can be closed by a gate | - |
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| gentlewoman | (noun) a woman of refinement | Synonyms: dame, lady, ma'am, madam |
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| gewgaw | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, fallal, gaud, novelty, trinket |
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| grandnephew | (noun) a son of your niece or nephew | Synonyms: great-nephew |
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| graniteware | (noun) a kind of stone-grey enamelware | - |
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