| alky | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, souse |
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| alkyd | (noun) a durable synthetic resin widely used in adhesives and paints | Synonyms: alkyd resin |
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| alkyl | (noun) any of a series of univalent groups of the general formula CnH2n+1 derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons | Synonyms: alkyl group, alkyl radical |
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| alkylbenzene | (noun) organic compound that has an alkyl group bound to a benzene ring | - |
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| alkylbenzenesulfonate | (noun) sulfonate of alkyl benzene | - |
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| alkyne | (noun) a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis | Synonyms: acetylene, ethyne |
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| ankyloglossia | (noun) a congenital anomaly in which the mucous membrane under the tongue is too short limiting the mobility of the tongue | Synonyms: tongue tie |
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| ankylosaur | (noun) having the back covered with thick bony plates; thought to have walked with a sprawling gait resembling a lizard's | Synonyms: ankylosaurus |
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| ankylosaurus | (noun) having the back covered with thick bony plates; thought to have walked with a sprawling gait resembling a lizard's | Synonyms: ankylosaur |
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| ankylosis | (noun) abnormal adhesion and rigidity of the bones of a joint | Synonyms: anchylosis |
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| autarky | (noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarchy |
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| backyard | (noun) the grounds in back of a house | - |
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| brickyard | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickfield |
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| buckyball | (noun) a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | Synonyms: buckminsterfullerene |
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| buttinsky | (noun) a meddler who tends to butt in | - |
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| choky | (noun) British slang (dated) for a prison | Synonyms: chokey |
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| cooky | (noun) any of various small flat sweet cakes | Synonyms: biscuit, cookie |
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| (noun) the cook on a ranch or at a camp | Synonyms: cookie |
| darky | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkey, darkie |
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| dicky | (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickey, dickie, shirtfront |
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| (noun) a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater | Synonyms: dickey-seat, dickey, dickie-seat, dickie, dicky-seat |
| dickybird | (noun) small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds | Synonyms: dickey-bird, dickeybird, dicky-bird |
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| dinky | (noun) a small locomotive | Synonyms: dinkey |
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| dockyard | (noun) an establishment on the waterfront where vessels are built or fitted out or repaired | - |
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| droshky | (noun) an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; formerly used in Poland and Russia | Synonyms: drosky |
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| drosky | (noun) an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; formerly used in Poland and Russia | Synonyms: droshky |
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| ducky | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, favorite, favourite, pet |
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| flunky | (noun) a person of unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: flunkey, stooge, yes-man |
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| (noun) a male servant (especially a footman) | Synonyms: flunkey, lackey |
| hanky | (noun) a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | Synonyms: handkerchief, hankey, hankie |
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| honky | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkey, honkie, whitey |
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| honkytonk | (noun) a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall | Synonyms: dive |
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| hooky | (noun) failure to attend (especially school) | Synonyms: truancy |
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| husky | (noun) breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog | Synonyms: Eskimo dog |
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| jabberwocky | (noun) nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll) | - |
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| jerky | (noun) meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun | Synonyms: jerk, jerked meat |
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| junky | (noun) a narcotics addict | Synonyms: drug addict, junkie |
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| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, freak, junkie, nut |
| junkyard | (noun) a field where junk is collected and stored for resale | - |
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| kyanite | (noun) a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory | Synonyms: cyanite |
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| kyat | (noun) the basic unit of money in Myanmar | - |
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| kylie | (noun) an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex | Synonyms: kiley |
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| kylix | (noun) a shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece | Synonyms: cylix |
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| kymograph | (noun) scientific instrument consisting of a rotating drum holding paper on which a stylus traces a continuous record (as of breathing or blood pressure) | Synonyms: cymograph |
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| kyphosis | (noun) The property of having an abnormal convex curvature in the cervical or lumbar regions of the spine. | - |
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| (noun) an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column | Synonyms: humpback, hunchback |
| malarky | (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarkey, nothingness, wind |
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| nooky | (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag, shtup |
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| pinky | (noun) the finger farthest from the thumb | Synonyms: little finger, pinkie |
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| poky | (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: clink, gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, slammer |
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| punky | (noun) minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects | Synonyms: biting midge, no-see-um, punkey, punkie |
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| quicky | (noun) hurried repair | Synonyms: band aid, quick fix, quickie |
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| sky | (noun) the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth | - |
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| skybox | (noun) an elevated box for viewing events at a sports stadium | - |
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| skycap | (noun) a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at an airport | - |
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| skydiver | (noun) a person who jumps from a plane and performs various gymnastic maneuvers before pulling the parachute cord | - |
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| skydiving | (noun) performing acrobatics in free fall before pulling the ripcord of a parachute | - |
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| skyhook | (noun) a hook that is imagined to be suspended from the sky | - |
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| (noun) helicopter carrying a reel of steel cable that can be used to lift and transport heavy objects | - |
| skylark | (noun) brown-speckled European lark noted for singing while hovering at a great height | Synonyms: Alauda arvensis |
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| skylight | (noun) a window in a roof to admit daylight | Synonyms: fanlight |
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| skyline | (noun) the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet | Synonyms: apparent horizon, horizon, sensible horizon, visible horizon |
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| (noun) the outline of objects seen against the sky | - |
| skyrocket | (noun) sends a firework display high into the sky | Synonyms: rocket |
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| (noun) propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon | Synonyms: rocket |
| skysail | (noun) the sail above the royal on a square-rigger | - |
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| skyscraper | (noun) a very tall building with many stories | - |
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| skywalk | (noun) an elevated walkway between buildings (usually enclosed) | - |
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| skyway | (noun) a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another | Synonyms: air lane, airway, flight path |
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| skywriting | (noun) writing formed in the sky by smoke released from an airplane | - |
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| stockyard | (noun) enclosed yard where cattle, pigs, horses, or sheep are kept temporarily | - |
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| sulky | (noun) a light two-wheeled vehicle for one person; drawn by one horse | - |
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| whisky | (noun) a liquor made from fermented mash of grain | Synonyms: whiskey |
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