| knighthood | (noun) aristocrats holding the rank of knight | - |
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| knightliness | (noun) the medieval principles governing knighthood and knightly conduct | Synonyms: chivalry |
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| lamplight | (noun) light from a lamp | - |
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| lamplighter | (noun) (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights | - |
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| laughter | (noun) the activity of laughing; the manifestation of joy or mirth or scorn | - |
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| (noun) the sound of laughing | Synonyms: laugh |
| light | (noun) any device serving as a source of illumination | Synonyms: light source |
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| (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, ignitor, lighter |
| (noun) the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures | Synonyms: lightness |
| (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness, brightness level, luminance, luminosity, luminousness |
| (noun) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance | Synonyms: spark, sparkle, twinkle |
| (noun) mental understanding as an enlightening experience | - |
| (noun) a particular perspective or aspect of a situation | - |
| (noun) public awareness | - |
| (noun) a visual warning signal | - |
| (noun) an illuminated area | - |
| (noun) a person regarded very fondly | - |
| (noun) (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation | Synonyms: visible light, visible radiation |
| (noun) having abundant light or illumination | Synonyms: lighting |
| (noun) a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination | Synonyms: illumination |
| lightbulb | (noun) electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity | Synonyms: bulb, electric-light bulb, electric light, incandescent lamp, light bulb |
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| lightener | (noun) any type of lightening agent that can be used to brighten the appearance of hair, skin, wood and other surfaces. | - |
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| lightening | (noun) changing to a lighter color | Synonyms: whitening |
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| (noun) descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped | - |
| lighter | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, ignitor, light |
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| (noun) a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | Synonyms: barge, flatboat, hoy |
| (noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: igniter, ignitor |
| lighterage | (noun) the transportation of goods on a lighter | - |
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| (noun) the fee charged for carrying goods in lighters | - |
| lighterman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, bargeman |
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| lightheadedness | (noun) a frivolous lack of prudence | - |
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| (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: dizziness, giddiness, vertigo |
| lightheartedness | (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, insouciance, lightsomeness |
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| lighthouse | (noun) a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships | Synonyms: beacon, beacon light, pharos |
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| lighting | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, ignition, inflammation, kindling |
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| (noun) the craft of providing artificial light | - |
| (noun) apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film | - |
| (noun) having abundant light or illumination | Synonyms: light |
| lightlessness | (noun) total absence of light | Synonyms: black, blackness, pitch blackness, total darkness |
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| lightness | (noun) the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous | Synonyms: lightsomeness |
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| (noun) the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures | Synonyms: light |
| (noun) the property of being comparatively small in weight | Synonyms: weightlessness |
| (noun) having a light color | - |
| (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, legerity, lightsomeness, nimbleness |
| (noun) a feeling of joy and pride | Synonyms: elation, high spirits |
| lightning | (noun) the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more | - |
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| (noun) abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light | - |
| lightship | (noun) a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable | - |
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| lightsomeness | (noun) the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous | Synonyms: lightness |
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| (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, legerity, lightness, nimbleness |
| (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, insouciance, lightheartedness |
| lightstick | (noun) A portable rod used for illumination. | - |
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| lightweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division. | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds | - |
| (noun) someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous | Synonyms: jackanapes, whippersnapper |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds | - |
| lightwood | (noun) tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber | Synonyms: Acacia melanoxylon |
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| limelight | (noun) a lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light; formerly used for stage lighting | Synonyms: calcium light |
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| (noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: glare, public eye, spotlight |
| longsightedness | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia |
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| makeweight | (noun) a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight | - |
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| (noun) anything added to fill out a whole | Synonyms: filler |
| manslaughter | (noun) homicide without malice aforethought | - |
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| middleweight | (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 155 and 160 pounds | - |
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| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 172-192 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds | - |
| midnight | (noun) 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night | - |
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| might | (noun) physical strength | Synonyms: mightiness, power |
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| mightiness | (noun) physical strength | Synonyms: might, power |
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| millwright | (noun) a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery | - |
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| moonlight | (noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonshine |
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| moonlighter | (noun) a person who holds a second job (usually after hours) | - |
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| mornight | (noun) both morning and night, used when greeting someone | - |
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| naught | (noun) complete failure | - |
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| (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
| naughtiness | (noun) an attribute of mischievous children | Synonyms: badness, mischievousness |
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| nearsightedness | (noun) (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | Synonyms: myopia, shortsightedness |
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| night | (noun) darkness | - |
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| (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: dark, nighttime |
| (noun) a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom | - |
| (noun) the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit | - |
| (noun) the time between sunset and midnight | - |
| (noun) the period spent sleeping | - |
| (noun) a shortening of nightfall | - |
| nightbird | (noun) a person who likes to be active late at night | Synonyms: night owl, nighthawk |
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| nightcap | (noun) the final game of a double header | - |
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| (noun) a cloth cap worn in bed | - |
| (noun) an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime; often alcoholic | - |
| nightclothes | (noun) garments designed to be worn in bed | Synonyms: nightwear, sleepwear |
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| nightclub | (noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: cabaret, club, night club, nightspot |
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| nightcrawler | (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, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| nightdress | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightgown, nightie |
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| nightfall | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, twilight |
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| nightgown | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightdress, nightie |
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| nighthawk | (noun) mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker | Synonyms: bullbat, mosquito hawk |
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| (noun) a person who likes to be active late at night | Synonyms: night owl, nightbird |
| nightie | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightdress, nightgown |
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| nightingale | (noun) European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song | Synonyms: Luscinia megarhynchos |
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| nightjar | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: caprimulgid, goatsucker |
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| nightlife | (noun) the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion (as at the theater, a nightclub, etc.) | Synonyms: night life |
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| (noun) the entertainment available to people seeking nighttime diversion | Synonyms: night life |
| nightmare | (noun) a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream | - |
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| (noun) a situation resembling a terrifying dream | Synonyms: incubus |
| nightmarishness | (noun) The property of being extremely bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying; resembling a nightmare. | Synonyms: hellishness |
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| nightrider | (noun) member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge | Synonyms: night rider |
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| nightshade | (noun) any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit | - |
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| nightshirt | (noun) nightclothes worn by men | - |
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| nightspot | (noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: cabaret, club, night club, nightclub |
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| nightstick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, billystick, truncheon |
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| nighttime | (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: dark, night |
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| nightwalker | (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, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, red worm, wiggler |
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| nightwear | (noun) garments designed to be worn in bed | Synonyms: nightclothes, sleepwear |
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| nightwork | (noun) work to be done at night | - |
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| nought | (noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number | Synonyms: 0, cipher, cypher, zero |
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| onslaught | (noun) (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Synonyms: attack, onrush, onset |
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| (noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: barrage, bombardment, outpouring |
| (noun) a sudden and severe onset of trouble | - |
| overflight | (noun) a flight by an aircraft over a particular area (especially over an area in foreign territory) | - |
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| overnighter | (noun) a small traveling bag to carry clothing and accessories for staying overnight | Synonyms: overnight bag, overnight case |
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| (noun) a guest who stays overnight | - |
| oversight | (noun) a mistake resulting from inattention | Synonyms: lapse |
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| (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: superintendence, supervising, supervision |
| (noun) an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something | Synonyms: inadvertence |
| overweight | (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, corpulence, stoutness |
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| paperweight | (noun) a weight used to hold down a stack of papers | - |
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| penlight | (noun) a small flashlight resembling a fountain pen | - |
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| pennyweight | (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains | - |
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| playwright | (noun) someone who writes plays | Synonyms: dramatist |
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| plight | (noun) a solemn pledge of fidelity | Synonyms: troth |
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| (noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: predicament, quandary |
| ploughwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs plows | Synonyms: plowwright |
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| plowwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs plows | Synonyms: ploughwright |
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| prizefight | (noun) a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize | Synonyms: prize fight |
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| prizefighter | (noun) a professional boxer | Synonyms: gladiator |
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| quarterlight | (noun) car window consisting of a small pivoted glass vent in the door of a car | - |
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| right | (noun) a turn toward the side of the body that is on the south when the person is facing east | - |
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| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right | Synonyms: right field, rightfield |
| (noun) an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature | - |
| (noun) anything in accord with principles of justice | Synonyms: rightfulness |
| (noun) the hand that is on the right side of the body | Synonyms: right hand |
| (noun) those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged | Synonyms: right wing |
| (noun) location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east | - |
| (noun) (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing | - |
| righteousness | (noun) adhering to moral principles | - |
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| rightfield | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the right third of the outfield (looking from home plate) | Synonyms: right field |
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| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right | Synonyms: right, right field |
| rightfulness | (noun) anything in accord with principles of justice | Synonyms: right |
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| righthander | (noun) a person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left | Synonyms: right-hander, right hander |
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| rightism | (noun) the ideology of the political right; belief in or support of the tenets of the political right | - |
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| rightist | (noun) a member of a right wing political party | Synonyms: right-winger |
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| rightness | (noun) according with conscience or morality | - |
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| (noun) conformity to fact or truth | Synonyms: correctness |
| (noun) appropriate conduct; doing the right thing | Synonyms: appropriateness |
| (noun) conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety | Synonyms: justness, nicety |
| rushlight | (noun) a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick | Synonyms: rush candle |
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| searchlight | (noun) a light source with reflectors that projects a beam of light in a particular direction | - |
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| shipwright | (noun) a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels | Synonyms: ship builder, shipbuilder |
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| shortsightedness | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: improvidence |
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| (noun) (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | Synonyms: myopia, nearsightedness |
| sidelight | (noun) light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow | Synonyms: running light |
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| sight | (noun) the act of looking or seeing or observing | Synonyms: survey, view |
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| (noun) the ability to see; the visual faculty | Synonyms: vision, visual modality, visual sense |
| (noun) an instance of visual perception | - |
| (noun) the range of vision | Synonyms: ken |
| (noun) a range of mental vision | - |
| (noun) a place of interest, especially to visitors | - |
| (noun) anything that is seen | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| sightedness | (noun) normal use of the faculty of vision | Synonyms: eyesight, seeing |
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| sighting | (noun) the act of observing | - |
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| sightlessness | (noun) the state of being blind or lacking sight | Synonyms: blindness, cecity |
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| sightreader | (noun) a performer who reads without preparation or prior acquaintance (as in music) | - |
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| sights | (noun) an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument | - |
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| sightseeing | (noun) going about to look at places of interest | Synonyms: rubber-necking |
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