| acclaim | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclamation, eclat, plaudit, plaudits |
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| balalaika | (noun) a stringed instrument that has a triangular body and three strings | - |
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| blain | (noun) an inflammatory swelling or sore | - |
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| bordelaise | (noun) brown sauce with beef marrow and red wine | - |
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| chamberlain | (noun) the treasurer of a municipal corporation | - |
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| (noun) an officer who manages the household of a king or nobleman | - |
| chaplain | (noun) a clergyman ministering to some institution | - |
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| chaplaincy | (noun) the position of chaplain | Synonyms: chaplainship |
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| chaplainship | (noun) the position of chaplain | Synonyms: chaplaincy |
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| chatelaine | (noun) a chain formerly worn at the waist by women; for carrying a purse or bunch of keys etc. | - |
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| (noun) the mistress of a chateau or large country house | - |
| chilblain | (noun) inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture | Synonyms: chilblains, pernio |
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| chilblains | (noun) inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture | Synonyms: chilblain, pernio |
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| claim | (noun) demand for something as rightful or due | - |
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| (noun) an established or recognized right | Synonyms: title |
| (noun) an informal right to something | Synonyms: title |
| (noun) an assertion of a right (as to money or property) | - |
| (noun) a demand | Synonyms: call |
| (noun) an assertion that something is true or factual | - |
| claimant | (noun) someone who claims a benefit or right or title | - |
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| clairvoyance | (noun) apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses | Synonyms: E.S.P., ESP, extrasensory perception, second sight |
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| clairvoyant | (noun) someone who has the power of clairvoyance | - |
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| complainant | (noun) a person who brings an action in a court of law | Synonyms: plaintiff |
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| complainer | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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| complaint | (noun) an expression of grievance or resentment | - |
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| (noun) (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow | - |
| (noun) (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based | - |
| (noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense | Synonyms: charge |
| (noun) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining | Synonyms: ailment, ill |
| complaisance | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: compliance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
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| counterclaim | (noun) a claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal action | - |
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| disclaimer | (noun) (law) a voluntary repudiation of a person's legal claim to something | - |
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| (noun) denial of any connection with or knowledge of | Synonyms: disavowal |
| eclair | (noun) oblong cream puff | - |
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| exclaiming | (noun) an abrupt excited utterance | Synonyms: exclamation |
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| flail | (noun) an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing | - |
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| flair | (noun) distinctive and stylish elegance | Synonyms: dash, elan, panache, style |
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| (noun) a natural talent | Synonyms: genius |
| (noun) a shape that spreads outward | Synonyms: flare |
| floodplain | (noun) a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding | Synonyms: flood plain |
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| lair | (noun) the habitation of wild animals | Synonyms: den |
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| laird | (noun) a landowner | - |
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| laity | (noun) in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy | Synonyms: temporalty |
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| malaise | (noun) physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression) | Synonyms: unease, uneasiness |
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| peneplain | (noun) a more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements | Synonyms: peneplane |
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| plaice | (noun) large European food fish | Synonyms: Pleuronectes platessa |
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| (noun) flesh of large European flatfish | - |
| plaid | (noun) a cloth having a crisscross design | Synonyms: tartan |
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| plain | (noun) a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side | Synonyms: knit, knit stitch, plain stitch |
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| (noun) extensive tract of level open land | Synonyms: champaign, field |
| plainchant | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a liturgical chant consisting of a single, unaccompanied melodic line | Synonyms: plainsong |
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| plainclothesman | (noun) a detective who wears civilian clothes on duty | - |
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| plainness | (noun) the appearance of being plain and unpretentious | - |
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| (noun) an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful | Synonyms: homeliness |
| (noun) clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous | Synonyms: perspicuity, perspicuousness |
| (noun) the state of being unmixed with other material | - |
| plainsman | (noun) an inhabitant of a plains region (especially the Great Plains of North America) | - |
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| plainsong | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a liturgical chant consisting of a single, unaccompanied melodic line | Synonyms: plainchant |
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| plaint | (noun) a cry of sorrow and grief | Synonyms: lament, lamentation, wail |
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| (noun) (United Kingdom) a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court of law asking for the grievance to be redressed | - |
| plaintiff | (noun) a person who brings an action in a court of law | Synonyms: complainant |
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| plaintiveness | (noun) expressing sorrowfulness | - |
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| plait | (noun) any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape | Synonyms: pleat |
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| (noun) a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair | Synonyms: braid, tress, twist |
| plaiter | (noun) someone who plaits (hair or fabric etc.) | - |
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| porcelain | (noun) ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic | - |
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| quitclaim | (noun) act of transferring a title or right or claim to another | - |
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| (noun) document transferring title or right or claim to another | Synonyms: quitclaim deed |
| salai | (noun) East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense | Synonyms: Boswellia serrata |
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| slain | (noun) people who have been slain (as in battle) | - |
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| supervillain | (noun) a villain with superpowers | - |
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| villain | (noun) a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately | Synonyms: scoundrel |
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| (noun) the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction | Synonyms: baddie |
| villainage | (noun) the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf | Synonyms: villeinage |
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| villainess | (noun) a woman villain | - |
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| villainousness | (noun) the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior | Synonyms: villainy |
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| villainy | (noun) a criminal or vicious act | - |
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| (noun) the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior | Synonyms: villainousness |
| volaille | (noun) the flesh of a chicken used for food | Synonyms: chicken, poulet |
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