| ackee | (noun) red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe | Synonyms: akee |
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| akee | (noun) red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe | Synonyms: ackee |
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| (noun) widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits; introduced in Jamaica by William Bligh | Synonyms: akee tree, Blighia sapida |
| barkeep | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeeper, bartender, mixologist |
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| barkeeper | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, bartender, mixologist |
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| beekeeper | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, apiculturist |
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| beekeeping | (noun) the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey | Synonyms: apiculture |
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| bookkeeper | (noun) someone who records the transactions of a business | - |
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| bookkeeping | (noun) the activity of recording business transactions | Synonyms: clerking |
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| doorkeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| (noun) an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber | Synonyms: usher |
| (noun) the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: ostiarius, ostiary |
| fakeer | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakir, faqir, faquir |
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| gamekeeper | (noun) a person employed to take care of game and wildlife | Synonyms: game warden |
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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 | - |
| 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 |
| greenskeeper | (noun) someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course | - |
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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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| hackee | (noun) small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches | Synonyms: eastern chipmunk, ground squirrel, striped squirrel, Tamias striatus |
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| hakeem | (noun) a Muslim physician | Synonyms: hakim |
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| hotelkeeper | (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hosteller, hotel manager, hotelier, hotelman |
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| 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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| innkeeper | (noun) the owner or manager of an inn | Synonyms: boniface, host |
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| keel | (noun) one of the main longitudinal beams (or plates) of the hull of a vessel; can extend vertically into the water to provide lateral stability | - |
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| (noun) the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly | - |
| (noun) a projection or ridge that suggests a keel | - |
| keelboat | (noun) river boat with a shallow draught and a keel but no sails; used to carry freight; moved by rowing or punting or towing | - |
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| keelson | (noun) a longitudinal beam connected to the keel of ship to strengthen it | - |
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| keen | (noun) a funeral lament sung with loud wailing | - |
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| keenness | (noun) thinness of edge or fineness of point | Synonyms: sharpness |
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| (noun) a quick and penetrating intelligence | Synonyms: acuity, acuteness, sharpness |
| (noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidity, avidness, eagerness |
| keep | (noun) the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress | Synonyms: donjon, dungeon |
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| (noun) a cell in a jail or prison | Synonyms: hold |
| (noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, livelihood, living, support, sustenance |
| keeper | (noun) one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals | Synonyms: custodian, steward |
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| (noun) someone in charge of other people | - |
| keeping | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: guardianship, safekeeping |
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| (noun) conformity or harmony | - |
| (noun) the act of retaining something | Synonyms: holding, retention |
| keepsake | (noun) something of sentimental value | Synonyms: relic, souvenir, token |
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| keeshond | (noun) a spitz-like dog having a shaggy greyish coat and tightly curled tail originating in Holland | - |
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| lockkeeper | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockman, lockmaster |
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| lorikeet | (noun) any of various small lories | - |
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| nankeen | (noun) a durable fabric formerly loomed by hand in China from natural cotton having a yellowish color | - |
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| netkeeper | (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, goalkeeper, goaltender |
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| (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, netminder |
| palankeen | (noun) a closed litter carried on the shoulders of four bearers | Synonyms: palanquin |
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| parakeet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet |
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| parrakeet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: parakeet, paraquet, paroquet, parroket, parroquet |
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| peacekeeper | (noun) the pistol of a law officer in the old West | - |
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| (noun) someone who keeps peace | - |
| (noun) a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area | - |
| peacekeeping | (noun) the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations) | Synonyms: peacekeeping mission, peacekeeping operation |
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| safekeeping | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: guardianship, keeping |
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| scorekeeper | (noun) an official who records the score during the progress of a game | Synonyms: scorer |
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| shopkeeper | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, storekeeper, tradesman |
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| skeet | (noun) the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird | Synonyms: skeet shooting, trapshooting |
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| storekeeper | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, shopkeeper, tradesman |
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| timekeeper | (noun) a measuring instrument or device for keeping time | Synonyms: horologe, timepiece |
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| (noun) a clerk who keeps track of the hours worked by employees | - |
| (noun) (sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed | Synonyms: timer |
| timekeeping | (noun) the act or process of determining the time | - |
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| tollkeeper | (noun) someone employed to collect tolls | Synonyms: toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, toller, tollgatherer, tollman |
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| upkeep | (noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order | Synonyms: care, maintenance |
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| (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: maintenance, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation |