| alikeness | (noun) similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things | Synonyms: likeness, similitude |
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| alkene | (noun) any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon | Synonyms: olefin, olefine |
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| awakening | (noun) the act of waking | Synonyms: wakening, waking up |
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| blackening | (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: darkening |
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| bookend | (noun) a support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table) | - |
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| bracken | (noun) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: brake, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum |
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| (noun) fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions | Synonyms: Pteridium esculentum |
| brokenheartedness | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: grief, heartache, heartbreak |
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| chicken | (noun) a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl | Synonyms: Gallus gallus |
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| (noun) a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops | - |
| (noun) the flesh of a chicken used for food | Synonyms: poulet, volaille |
| (noun) a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy | Synonyms: crybaby, wimp |
| chickenfeed | (noun) a trifling sum of money | Synonyms: chump change, small change |
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| chickenpox | (noun) an acute contagious disease caused by herpes varicella zoster virus; causes a rash of vesicles on the face and body | Synonyms: varicella |
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| chickenshit | (noun) a false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear | - |
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| cycloalkene | (noun) alkene hydrocarbon which contains a closed ring of carbon atoms, but has no aromatic character. | Synonyms: cycloolefin |
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| darkening | (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: blackening |
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| dickens | (noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion | Synonyms: deuce, devil |
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| drunkenness | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drinking |
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| (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
| (noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, alcoholism, inebriation |
| foretoken | (noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | Synonyms: augury, preindication, sign |
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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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| ken | (noun) range of what one can know or understand | Synonyms: cognizance |
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| (noun) the range of vision | Synonyms: sight |
| kenaf | (noun) valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation | Synonyms: bimli, bimli hemp, Bombay hemp, deccan hemp, Hibiscus cannabinus, Indian hemp, kanaf |
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| (noun) fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus | Synonyms: deccan hemp |
| kencur | (noun) a dried rhizome or its powdered form of Kaempferia galanga, used in cooking in Indonesia. | - |
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| kennel | (noun) outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog | Synonyms: dog house, doghouse |
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| kenning | (noun) conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry | - |
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| keno | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: beano, bingo, lotto |
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| kenogenesis | (noun) introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) | Synonyms: caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis |
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| kenosis | (noun) the concept of emptying one's own will and receive God's will, in Catholicism | - |
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| kenotron | (noun) a type of vacuum tube formerly used as a high-voltage rectifier. | - |
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| kentan | (noun) east Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals | Synonyms: devil lily, Lilium lancifolium, tiger lily |
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| ladylikeness | (noun) behavior befitting a lady | - |
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| likeness | (noun) picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing | Synonyms: semblance |
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| (noun) similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things | Synonyms: alikeness, similitude |
| likening | (noun) the act of comparing similarities | - |
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| outspokenness | (noun) the trait of being blunt and outspoken | Synonyms: frankness |
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| quickener | (noun) an agent that gives or restores life or vigor | Synonyms: enlivener, invigorator |
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| quickening | (noun) the act of accelerating; increasing the speed | Synonyms: acceleration, speedup |
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| (noun) the process of showing signs of life | - |
| (noun) the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus | - |
| schnecken | (noun) rolled dough spread with sugar and nuts then sliced and baked in muffin tins with honey or sugar and butter in the bottom | Synonyms: caramel bun, honey bun, sticky bun |
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| sickeningness | (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: disgustingness, distastefulness, nauseatingness, unsavoriness |
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| slackening | (noun) an occurrence of control or strength weakening | Synonyms: loosening, relaxation |
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| spikenard | (noun) an aromatic ointment used in antiquity | Synonyms: nard |
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| thickener | (noun) any material used to thicken | Synonyms: thickening |
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| thickening | (noun) the act of thickening | Synonyms: inspissation |
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| (noun) any thickened enlargement | Synonyms: knob, node |
| (noun) any material used to thicken | Synonyms: thickener |
| token | (noun) a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in designated slot machines | - |
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| (noun) something of sentimental value | Synonyms: keepsake, relic, souvenir |
| (noun) an individual instance of a type of symbol | Synonyms: item |
| (noun) something serving as a sign of something else | - |
| unlikeness | (noun) dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness | Synonyms: dissimilitude |
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| wakening | (noun) the act of waking | Synonyms: awakening, waking up |
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| weakener | (noun) that which weakens or causes a loss of strength | - |
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| weakening | (noun) the act of reducing the strength of something | - |
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| (noun) becoming weaker | - |
| weekend | (noun) a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sunday | - |
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| weekender | (noun) a small suitcase to carry clothing and accessories for a weekend trip | - |
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| (noun) someone who vacations on a weekend | - |
| zinkenite | (noun) a steel grey metallic mineral (a sulphide of lead and antimony) | - |
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