| abampere | (noun) a unit of current equal to 10 amperes | Synonyms: abamp |
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| amperage | (noun) the strength of an electrical current measured in amperes | - |
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| ampere | (noun) the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: A, amp |
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| (noun) a former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere) | Synonyms: international ampere |
| ampersand | (noun) a punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and) | - |
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| bumper | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle to absorb shock and prevent serious damage | - |
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| (noun) a glass filled to the brim (especially as a toast) | - |
| camper | (noun) a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling | Synonyms: camping bus, motor home |
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| (noun) someone living temporarily in a tent or lodge for recreation | - |
| champerty | (noun) an unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for a portion of the damages awarded | - |
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| compere | (noun) British term for someone who introduces television acts or cabarets etc | - |
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| crimper | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: curler, hair curler, roller |
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| (noun) a hand tool used for joining two pieces of metal or other ductile material (usually a wire and a metal plate) by deforming one or both of them to hold the other. | Synonyms: crimping pliers |
| (noun) someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers | Synonyms: crimp |
| damper | (noun) a depressing restraint | - |
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| (noun) a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations | Synonyms: muffler |
| (noun) a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace | - |
| distemper | (noun) a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery | - |
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| (noun) a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
| (noun) paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
| (noun) an angry and disagreeable mood | Synonyms: ill humor, ill humour |
| (noun) any of various infectious viral diseases of animals | - |
| dumper | (noun) truck whose contents can be emptied without handling; the front end of the platform can be pneumatically raised so that the load is discharged by gravity | Synonyms: dump truck, tip truck, tipper, tipper lorry, tipper truck |
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| emperor | (noun) large richly colored butterfly | Synonyms: emperor butterfly |
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| (noun) large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings | Synonyms: emperor moth, Saturnia pavonia |
| (noun) red table grape of California | - |
| (noun) the male ruler of an empire | - |
| hamper | (noun) a basket usually with a cover | - |
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| (noun) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | Synonyms: bond, shackle, trammel |
| imperative | (noun) some duty that is essential and urgent | - |
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| (noun) a verb in the imperative mood. | Synonyms: imperative verb |
| (noun) a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior | Synonyms: imperative form, imperative mood, jussive mood |
| imperativeness | (noun) the quality of being insistent | Synonyms: instancy |
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| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: insistence, insistency, press, pressure |
| imperceptibility | (noun) the property of being imperceptible by the mind or the senses | - |
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| imperfect | (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going | Synonyms: continuous tense, imperfect tense, progressive, progressive tense |
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| imperfectibility | (noun) the capability of becoming imperfect | - |
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| imperfection | (noun) the state or an instance of being imperfect | Synonyms: imperfectness |
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| imperfective | (noun) aspect without regard to the beginning or completion of the action of the verb | Synonyms: imperfective aspect |
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| imperfectness | (noun) the state or an instance of being imperfect | Synonyms: imperfection |
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| imperial | (noun) a piece of luggage carried on top of a coach | - |
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| (noun) a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III | Synonyms: imperial beard |
| imperialism | (noun) any instance of aggressive extension of authority | - |
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| (noun) a political orientation that advocates imperial interests | - |
| (noun) a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries | - |
| imperialist | (noun) a believer in imperialism | - |
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| imperialness | (noun) The quality of being related to an empire, emperor, or empress. | - |
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| imperiousness | (noun) the trait of being imperious and overbearing | Synonyms: domineeringness, overbearingness |
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| imperishability | (noun) the property of being resistant to decay | Synonyms: imperishableness, imperishingness |
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| imperishableness | (noun) the property of being resistant to decay | Synonyms: imperishability, imperishingness |
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| imperishingness | (noun) the property of being resistant to decay | Synonyms: imperishability, imperishableness |
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| imperium | (noun) supreme authority; absolute dominion | - |
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| (noun) the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised | Synonyms: empire |
| impermanence | (noun) the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations | Synonyms: impermanency |
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| impermanency | (noun) the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations | Synonyms: impermanence |
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| impermeability | (noun) the property of something that cannot be pervaded by a liquid | Synonyms: impermeableness |
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| impermeableness | (noun) the property of something that cannot be pervaded by a liquid | Synonyms: impermeability |
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| impermissibility | (noun) inadmissibility as a consequence of not being permitted | - |
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| impersonation | (noun) imitating the mannerisms of another person | Synonyms: personation |
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| (noun) pretending to be another person | Synonyms: imposture |
| (noun) a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect | Synonyms: caricature, imitation |
| impersonator | (noun) someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another | Synonyms: imitator |
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| impertinence | (noun) inappropriate playfulness | Synonyms: archness, perkiness, pertness, sauciness |
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| (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impudence, insolence |
| (noun) an impudent statement | Synonyms: cheek, impudence |
| imperturbability | (noun) calm and unruffled self-assurance | Synonyms: coolness, imperturbableness |
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| imperturbableness | (noun) calm and unruffled self-assurance | Synonyms: coolness, imperturbability |
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| imperviousness | (noun) the quality of being impenetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.) | Synonyms: impenetrability |
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| intemperance | (noun) excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence | Synonyms: intemperateness, self-indulgence |
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| (noun) consumption of alcoholic drinks | Synonyms: intemperateness |
| (noun) the quality of being intemperate | - |
| intemperateness | (noun) excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence | Synonyms: intemperance, self-indulgence |
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| (noun) consumption of alcoholic drinks | Synonyms: intemperance |
| jumper | (noun) (basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump | Synonyms: jump shot |
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| (noun) a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing | Synonyms: pinafore, pinny |
| (noun) a loose jacket or blouse worn by workmen | - |
| (noun) a small connector used to make temporary electrical connections | - |
| (noun) a coverall worn by children | - |
| (noun) a crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body | Synonyms: sweater |
| (noun) an athlete who competes at jumping | - |
| (noun) a person who jumps | - |
| limper | (noun) someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait | Synonyms: hobbler |
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| lumper | (noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics | - |
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| (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, stevedore |
| milliampere | (noun) one thousandth of an ampere | Synonyms: mA |
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| pamperer | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: coddler, mollycoddler, spoiler |
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| pampering | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humoring, humouring, indulgence, indulging |
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| pimpernel | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Anagallis | - |
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| (noun) European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads | Synonyms: burnet bloodwort, Poterium sanguisorba, salad burnet |
| pumpernickel | (noun) bread made of coarse rye flour | Synonyms: black bread |
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| romper | (noun) a one-piece garment for children to wear at play; the lower part is shaped like bloomers | Synonyms: romper suit |
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| (noun) a person who romps or frolics | - |
| scamper | (noun) rushing about hastily in an undignified way | Synonyms: scramble, scurry |
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| shrimper | (noun) a vessel engaged in shrimping | - |
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| simper | (noun) a silly self-conscious smile | - |
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| simperer | (noun) a smiler whose smile is silly and self-conscious and sometimes coy | - |
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| stamper | (noun) a power tool that stamps | Synonyms: stamping machine |
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| (noun) someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground | Synonyms: stomper, tramper, trampler |
| (noun) a workman whose job is to form or cut out by applying a mold or die (either by hand or by operating a stamping machine) | - |
| stomper | (noun) someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground | Synonyms: stamper, tramper, trampler |
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| stumper | (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: poser, sticker, toughie |
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| tamper | (noun) a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) | Synonyms: tamp, tamping bar |
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| tampering | (noun) the act of altering something secretly or improperly | Synonyms: meddling |
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| temper | (noun) the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking | Synonyms: toughness |
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| (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness |
| (noun) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | Synonyms: humor, humour, mood |
| (noun) a sudden outburst of anger | Synonyms: irritation, pique |
| tempera | (noun) pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk | Synonyms: poster color, poster colour, poster paint |
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| temperament | (noun) an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys | - |
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| (noun) your usual mood | Synonyms: disposition |
| (noun) excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly) | - |
| temperance | (noun) abstaining from excess | Synonyms: sobriety |
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| (noun) the act of tempering | - |
| (noun) the trait of avoiding excesses | Synonyms: moderation |
| temperateness | (noun) exhibiting restraint imposed on the self | Synonyms: self-restraint |
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| (noun) moderate weather; suitable for outdoor activities | Synonyms: fair weather, sunshine |
| temperature | (noun) the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity) | - |
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| (noun) the somatic sensation of cold or heat | - |
| tempering | (noun) hardening something by heat treatment | Synonyms: annealing |
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| tramper | (noun) someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground | Synonyms: stamper, stomper, trampler |
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| (noun) a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure) | Synonyms: hiker, tramp |
| trumpery | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense |
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| (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, wish-wash |
| vamper | (noun) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men | Synonyms: coquette, flirt, minx, prickteaser, tease, vamp |
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| whimper | (noun) a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way | Synonyms: whine |
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