| firecracker | (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: banger, cracker |
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| firedrake | (noun) a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings | Synonyms: dragon, European dragon |
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| flake | (noun) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole | Synonyms: bit, chip, fleck, scrap |
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| (noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric, eccentric person, geek, oddball |
| (noun) a crystal of snow | Synonyms: snowflake |
| flanker | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a detachment assigned to guard the flanks of a military formation | - |
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| (noun) a back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass receiver | Synonyms: flanker back |
| flapcake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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| flicker | (noun) the act of moving back and forth | Synonyms: flutter, waver |
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| (noun) North American woodpecker | - |
| (noun) a momentary flash of light | Synonyms: glint, spark |
| flickertail | (noun) of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada | Synonyms: Citellus richardsoni, Richardson ground squirrel |
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| floorwalker | (noun) an employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems | Synonyms: shopwalker |
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| fluke | (noun) parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host | Synonyms: trematode, trematode worm |
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| (noun) either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean | - |
| (noun) flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor | Synonyms: flue |
| (noun) a barb on a harpoon or arrow | - |
| (noun) a stroke of luck | Synonyms: good fortune, good luck |
| flunkey | (noun) a person of unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: flunky, stooge, yes-man |
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| (noun) a male servant (especially a footman) | Synonyms: flunky, lackey |
| footlocker | (noun) a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks) | Synonyms: locker |
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| foretoken | (noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | Synonyms: augury, preindication, sign |
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| freethinker | (noun) a person who rejects religion | - |
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| friedcake | (noun) small cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat | - |
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| fruitcake | (noun) a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on | - |
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| (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, screwball |
| fucker | (noun) a stupid despised man | - |
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| furket | (noun) A forked pole, about four feet in length, used as a support for muskets. | Synonyms: musket rest |
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| gamekeeper | (noun) a person employed to take care of game and wildlife | Synonyms: game warden |
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| garmentmaker | (noun) a person who makes garments | Synonyms: dressmaker, garment-worker, garment worker |
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| garpike | (noun) primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth | Synonyms: billfish, gar, garfish, Lepisosteus osseus |
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| gasket | (noun) seal consisting of a ring for packing pistons or sealing a pipe joint | - |
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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 | - |
| gawker | (noun) a spectator who stares stupidly without intelligent awareness | - |
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| gimcrackery | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery |
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| glassmaker | (noun) someone who makes glass | - |
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| glassworker | (noun) someone who cuts flat glass to size | Synonyms: glass-cutter, glass cutter, glazer, glazier |
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| glockenspiel | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers | Synonyms: orchestral bells |
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| goalkeeper | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper |
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| (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper, netminder |
| goatsucker | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: caprimulgid, nightjar |
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| goldworker | (noun) an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold | Synonyms: gold-worker, goldsmith |
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| greenmarket | (noun) an open-air marketplace for farm products | Synonyms: farmer's market, green market |
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| greenskeeper | (noun) someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course | - |
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| griddlecake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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| (noun) a scone made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle | Synonyms: drop scone, Scotch pancake |
| groundbreaker | (noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: innovator, pioneer, trailblazer |
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| groundkeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundskeeper, groundsman |
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| groundskeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundkeeper, groundsman |
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| grubstake | (noun) funds advanced to a prospector or to someone starting a business in return for a share of the profits | - |
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| guestworker | (noun) a person with temporary permission to work in another country | Synonyms: guest worker |
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| hackee | (noun) small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches | Synonyms: eastern chipmunk, ground squirrel, striped squirrel, Tamias striatus |
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| hacker | (noun) one who works hard at boring tasks | Synonyms: drudge, hack |
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| (noun) a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm | - |
| (noun) someone who plays golf poorly | - |
| hake | (noun) any of several marine food fishes related to cod | - |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a fish similar to cod | - |
| hakeem | (noun) a Muslim physician | Synonyms: hakim |
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| handbasket | (noun) a container that is usually woven and has handles | Synonyms: basket |
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| handkerchief | (noun) a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | Synonyms: hankey, hankie, hanky |
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| handshake | (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handclasp, handshaking, shake |
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| handspike | (noun) a metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever | - |
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| hankering | (noun) a yearning for something or to do something | Synonyms: yen |
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| hankey | (noun) a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | Synonyms: handkerchief, hankie, hanky |
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| hardbake | (noun) a British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds | - |
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| hatmaker | (noun) someone who makes and sells hats | Synonyms: hatter, milliner, modiste |
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| hawker | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: packman, peddler, pedlar, pitchman |
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| (noun) a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry | Synonyms: falconer |
| haymaker | (noun) a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing | Synonyms: knockout punch, KO punch, Sunday punch |
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| (noun) a farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying | Synonyms: hay conditioner |
| headshake | (noun) the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement | Synonyms: headshaking |
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| heartbreaker | (noun) a narrow defeat or a defeat at the last minute | - |
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| (noun) a charming person who is irresponsible in emotional relationships | - |
| heatstroke | (noun) collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat | Synonyms: heat hyperpyrexia |
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| heckelphone | (noun) an oboe pitched an octave below the ordinary oboe | Synonyms: basset oboe |
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| hickey | (noun) a temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover | Synonyms: love bite |
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| (noun) a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne | Synonyms: pimple, zit |
| highjacker | (noun) a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it | Synonyms: highwayman, hijacker, road agent |
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| (noun) someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination | Synonyms: hijacker |
| hijacker | (noun) a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it | Synonyms: highjacker, highwayman, road agent |
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| (noun) someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination | Synonyms: highjacker |
| hike | (noun) a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure | Synonyms: hiking, tramp |
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| (noun) the amount a salary is increased | Synonyms: raise, rise, salary increase, wage hike, wage increase |
| (noun) an increase in cost | Synonyms: boost, cost increase, rise |
| hiker | (noun) a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure) | Synonyms: tramp, tramper |
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| hitchhiker | (noun) a person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehicles | - |
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| hockey | (noun) a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field; two opposing teams use curved hockey sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net | Synonyms: field hockey |
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| (noun) a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled hockey sticks | Synonyms: hockey game, ice hockey |
| hoecake | (noun) thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern) | - |
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| hogchoker | (noun) useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama | Synonyms: Trinectes maculatus |
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| holidaymaker | (noun) someone who travels for pleasure | Synonyms: tourer, tourist |
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| homemaker | (noun) a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income | Synonyms: housewife, lady of the house, woman of the house |
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| honeysucker | (noun) Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar | Synonyms: honey eater |
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| honker | (noun) common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call | Synonyms: Branta canadensis, Canada goose, Canadian goose |
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| (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
| (noun) a driver who causes his car's horn to make a loud honking sound | - |
| honkey | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkie, honky, whitey |
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| hooker | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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| (noun) (rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot | - |
| (noun) a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers) | - |
| hotcake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, pancake |
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| hotelkeeper | (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hosteller, hotel manager, hotelier, hotelman |
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| housebreaker | (noun) a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house | Synonyms: cat burglar |
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| (noun) a wrecker of houses | Synonyms: housewrecker |
| 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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| housewrecker | (noun) a wrecker of houses | Synonyms: housebreaker |
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| hypermarket | (noun) a huge supermarket (usually built on the outskirts of a town) | - |
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| icebreaker | (noun) a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere | - |
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| (noun) a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation | Synonyms: iceboat |
| innkeeper | (noun) the owner or manager of an inn | Synonyms: boniface, host |
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| instalike | (noun) something that is so good that it deserves to be instantly voted for on social media | - |
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| instroke | (noun) the stroke of an engine piston moving away from the crankshaft | - |
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| intake | (noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: consumption, ingestion, uptake |
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| (noun) the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing | Synonyms: aspiration, breathing in, inhalation, inspiration |
| (noun) an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container | Synonyms: inlet |
| iridokeratitis | (noun) inflammation of the iris and cornea of the eye | - |
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| ironworker | (noun) a person who makes articles of iron | - |
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| jacket | (noun) a short coat | - |
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| (noun) an outer wrapping or casing | - |
| (noun) (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth | Synonyms: cap, crown, crownwork, jacket crown |
| (noun) the tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition | - |
| (noun) the outer skin of a potato | - |
| jakes | (noun) a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate | Synonyms: earth-closet, outhouse, privy |
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| jawbreaker | (noun) a word that is hard to pronounce | - |
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| (noun) a large round hard candy | - |
| jaywalker | (noun) a reckless pedestrian who crosses a street illegally | - |
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| jerker | (noun) someone who gives a strong sudden pull | Synonyms: yanker |
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| jimhickey | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimdandy |
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| (noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimdandy |
| jockey | (noun) someone employed to ride horses in horse races | - |
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| (noun) an operator of some vehicle or machine or apparatus | - |
| johnnycake | (noun) cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England) | Synonyms: johnny cake, journey cake |
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| joke | (noun) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement | Synonyms: antic, caper, prank, put-on, trick |
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| (noun) activity characterized by good humor | Synonyms: jest, jocularity |
| (noun) a triviality not to be taken seriously | - |
| (noun) a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter | Synonyms: gag, jape, jest, laugh |
| joker | (noun) a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester | - |
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| (noun) an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent | - |
| (noun) a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes | Synonyms: jokester |
| (noun) a person who does something thoughtless or annoying | Synonyms: turkey |
| jokester | (noun) a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes | Synonyms: joker |
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| juke | (noun) (football) a deceptive move made by a football player | Synonyms: fake |
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| (noun) a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox | Synonyms: jook, jook house, jook joint, juke house, juke joint |
| jukebox | (noun) a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin | Synonyms: nickelodeon |
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| junket | (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, expedition, jaunt, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
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| (noun) a trip taken by an official at public expense | - |
| (noun) dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet | - |
| junketing | (noun) taking an excursion for pleasure | - |
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