| bilimbi | (noun) East Indian evergreen tree bearing very acid fruit | Synonyms: Averrhoa bilimbi |
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| bimbo | (noun) a young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men | - |
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| climb | (noun) the act of climbing something | Synonyms: mount |
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| (noun) an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) | Synonyms: climbing, mounting |
| (noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: acclivity, ascent, raise, rise, upgrade |
| climber | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climbing iron, crampon, crampoon |
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| (noun) someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains | - |
| (noun) someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior | Synonyms: social climber |
| (noun) someone who ascends on foot | Synonyms: mounter |
| (noun) a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants | - |
| climbing | (noun) an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) | Synonyms: climb, mounting |
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| cumulonimbus | (noun) a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms | Synonyms: cumulonimbus cloud, thundercloud |
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| delimber | (noun) a machine for removing limbs from trees with a saw or flailing chains. | Synonyms: stroke delimber |
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| fimbria | (noun) thin projections forming a fringe (especially around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube) | - |
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| forelimb | (noun) the front limb (or the homologous structure in other animals, such as a flipper or wing) | - |
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| gimbal | (noun) an appliance that allows an object (such as a ship's compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips | - |
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| hindlimb | (noun) a posterior appendage such as a leg or the homologous structure in other animals | Synonyms: hind limb |
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| imbalance | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: disproportion, dissymmetry |
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| (noun) a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium | Synonyms: instability, unbalance |
| imbauba | (noun) tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems | Synonyms: Cecropia peltata, snake wood, trumpet-wood, trumpet tree, trumpetwood |
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| imbecile | (noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: changeling, cretin, half-wit, idiot, moron, retard |
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| imbecility | (noun) a stupid mistake | Synonyms: betise, folly, foolishness, stupidity |
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| (noun) retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot | - |
| imbiber | (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: drinker, juicer, toper |
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| imbibing | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: drinking, imbibition |
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| imbibition | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: drinking, imbibing |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the absorption of a liquid by a solid or gel | - |
| imbrication | (noun) covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) | Synonyms: lapping, overlapping |
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| imbroglio | (noun) a very embarrassing misunderstanding | - |
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| (noun) an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation | Synonyms: embroilment |
| kimberlite | (noun) a rare type of peridotite that sometimes contains diamonds; found in South Africa and Siberia | - |
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| limb | (noun) any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm | Synonyms: arm, branch |
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| (noun) the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles | - |
| (noun) either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip | - |
| (noun) one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm, leg, wing, flipper | - |
| (noun) (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet | - |
| (noun) any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree | Synonyms: tree branch |
| limber | (noun) a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson | - |
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| limbers | (noun) a channel or gutter on either side of a ship's keelson; carries bilge water into the pump well | - |
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| limbo | (noun) (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals) | - |
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| (noun) an imaginary place for lost or neglected things | - |
| (noun) the state of being disregarded or forgotten | Synonyms: oblivion |
| limbus | (noun) a border or edge of any of various body parts distinguished by color or structure | - |
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| marimba | (noun) a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets | Synonyms: xylophone |
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| nimbleness | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, legerity, lightness, lightsomeness |
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| (noun) intelligence as revealed by quickness and alertness of mind | Synonyms: mental dexterity |
| nimblewill | (noun) slender branching American grass of some value for grazing in central United States | Synonyms: Muhlenbergia schreberi, nimble Will |
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| nimbus | (noun) an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint | Synonyms: aura, aureole, gloriole, glory, halo |
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| (noun) a dark grey cloud bearing rain | Synonyms: nimbus cloud, rain cloud |
| reimbursement | (noun) compensation paid (to someone) for damages or losses or money already spent etc. | - |
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| thimble | (noun) a small metal cap to protect the finger while sewing; can be used as a small container | - |
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| (noun) as much as a thimble will hold | Synonyms: thimbleful |
| thimbleberry | (noun) raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, Rubus occidentalis |
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| (noun) white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries | Synonyms: Rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, salmonberry |
| (noun) shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry, Rubus odoratus |
| thimbleful | (noun) as much as a thimble will hold | Synonyms: thimble |
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| thimblerig | (noun) a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under | Synonyms: shell game |
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| thimbleweed | (noun) a common North American anemone with cylindrical fruit clusters resembling thimbles | Synonyms: Anemone cylindrica |
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| timbale | (noun) individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell | - |
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| (noun) small pastry shell for creamy mixtures of minced foods | Synonyms: timbale case |
| timber | (noun) a beam made of wood | - |
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| (noun) a post made of wood | - |
| (noun) (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) | Synonyms: quality, timbre, tone |
| (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timberland, woodland |
| (noun) the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material | Synonyms: lumber |
| timberland | (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timber, woodland |
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| timberline | (noun) line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes | Synonyms: timber line, tree line |
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| timberman | (noun) an owner or manager of a company that is engaged in lumbering | - |
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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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| twimbos | (noun) a pair of twins, who are sexually promiscuous | - |
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| wimble | (noun) hand tool for boring holes | Synonyms: auger, gimlet, screw auger |
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