| ankle | (noun) a gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus | Synonyms: ankle joint, articulatio talocruralis, mortise joint |
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| anklebone | (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: astragal, astragalus, talus |
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| anklet | (noun) an ornament worn around the ankle | Synonyms: ankle bracelet |
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| (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklets, bobbysock, bobbysocks |
| (noun) a shoe for a child or woman that has a strap around the ankle | - |
| anklets | (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklet, bobbysock, bobbysocks |
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| ankus | (noun) an elephant goad with a sharp spike and a hook | - |
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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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| bank | (noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning) | - |
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| (noun) a building in which the business of banking is transacted | Synonyms: bank building |
| (noun) a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home | Synonyms: coin bank, money box, savings bank |
| (noun) a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities | Synonyms: banking company, banking concern, depository financial institution |
| (noun) an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers | - |
| (noun) a long ridge or pile | - |
| (noun) sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water) | - |
| (noun) a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force | Synonyms: camber, cant |
| (noun) a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies) | - |
| (noun) the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games | - |
| bankbook | (noun) a record of deposits and withdrawals and interest held by depositors at certain banks | Synonyms: passbook |
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| banker | (noun) a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank | - |
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| (noun) the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game | - |
| banking | (noun) transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc. | - |
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| (noun) engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc. | - |
| banknote | (noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) | Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, bill, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback, note |
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| bankroll | (noun) a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.) | Synonyms: roll |
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| bankrupt | (noun) someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts | Synonyms: insolvent |
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| bankruptcy | (noun) a legal process intended to insure equality among the creditors of a corporation declared to be insolvent | - |
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| (noun) inability to discharge all your debts as they come due | Synonyms: failure |
| (noun) a state of complete lack of some abstract property | - |
| banksia | (noun) any shrub or tree of the genus Banksia having alternate leathery leaves apetalous yellow flowers often in showy heads and conelike fruit with winged seeds | - |
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| blank | (noun) a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet | Synonyms: blank shell, dummy |
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| (noun) a piece of material ready to be made into something | - |
| (noun) a blank gap or missing part | Synonyms: lacuna |
| (noun) a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing | Synonyms: space |
| blanket | (noun) bedding that keeps a person warm in bed | Synonyms: cover |
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| (noun) a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor | - |
| (noun) anything that covers | Synonyms: mantle |
| blankness | (noun) the state of being blank; void; emptiness | - |
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| blink | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blinking, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking |
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| blinker | (noun) a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages | Synonyms: flasher |
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| (noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinder, winker |
| (noun) a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn | Synonyms: trafficator, turn indicator, turn signal |
| blinking | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking |
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| blinks | (noun) small Indian lettuce of northern regions | Synonyms: blinking chickweed, Montia lamprosperma, water chickweed |
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| bobolink | (noun) migratory American songbird | Synonyms: Dolichonyx oryzivorus, reedbird, ricebird |
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| brink | (noun) the limit beyond which something happens or changes | Synonyms: verge |
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| (noun) the edge of a steep place | - |
| (noun) a region marking a boundary | Synonyms: threshold, verge |
| brinkmanship | (noun) the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety) | - |
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| bunk | (noun) a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers | Synonyms: berth, built in bed |
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| (noun) a rough bed (as at a campsite) | - |
| (noun) beds built one above the other | Synonyms: bunk bed |
| (noun) a long trough for feeding cattle | Synonyms: feed bunk |
| (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: buncombe, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot |
| (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality |
| bunker | (noun) a hazard on a golf course | Synonyms: sand trap, trap |
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| (noun) a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground | Synonyms: dugout |
| (noun) a large container for storing fuel | - |
| bunkmate | (noun) someone who occupies the same sleeping quarters as yourself | - |
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| bunko | (noun) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle, sting |
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| bunkum | (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: buncombe, bunk, guff, hogwash, rot |
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| canker | (noun) a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of | Synonyms: pestilence |
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| (noun) an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth) | Synonyms: canker sore |
| (noun) a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark | - |
| cankerweed | (noun) herb of northeastern North America having drooping clusters of yellowish-white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes | Synonyms: Nabalus alba, Prenanthes alba, white lettuce |
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| cankerworm | (noun) green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees | - |
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| cheewink | (noun) common towhee of eastern North America | Synonyms: chewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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| chewink | (noun) common towhee of eastern North America | Synonyms: cheewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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| chink | (noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: click, clink |
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| (noun) a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall | - |
| (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent | Synonyms: Chinaman |
| chinkapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chincapin, chinquapin |
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| chipmunk | (noun) a burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia; has cheek pouches and a light and dark stripe running down the body | - |
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| chunk | (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, clod, clump, glob, lump |
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| (noun) a substantial amount | - |
| chunking | (noun) (psychology) the configuration of smaller units of information into large coordinated units | Synonyms: unitisation, unitization |
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| clank | (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clangour, clash, crash |
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| clanker | (noun) something that makes a clanking noise. | - |
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| clink | (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: gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, poky, slammer |
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| (noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: chink, click |
| clinker | (noun) a hard brick used as a paving stone | Synonyms: clinker brick |
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| (noun) a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire | Synonyms: cinder |
| clunk | (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clump, thud, thump, thumping |
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| clunking | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clopping, clumping |
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| conk | (noun) informal term for the nose | - |
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| conker | (noun) the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut | Synonyms: buckeye, horse chestnut |
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| countersink | (noun) a bit for enlarging the upper part of a hole | Synonyms: counterbore, countersink bit |
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| (noun) a hole (usually in wood) with the top part enlarged so that a screw or bolt will fit into it and lie below the surface | - |
| crank | (noun) a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle | Synonyms: starter |
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| (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
| (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crosspatch, grouch, grump |
| (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crackpot, fruitcake, nut, nut case, screwball |
| crankcase | (noun) housing for a crankshaft | - |
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| crankiness | (noun) a fussy and eccentric disposition | Synonyms: contrariness, crotchetiness, grumpiness |
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| crankshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft driven by (or driving) a crank | - |
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| crinkle | (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crease, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle |
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| crinkleroot | (noun) North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots | Synonyms: Cardamine diphylla, crinkle-root, crinkle root, Dentaria diphylla, pepper root, toothwort |
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| cufflink | (noun) jewelry consisting of one of a pair of linked buttons used to fasten the cuffs of a shirt | - |
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| cyberpunk | (noun) a genre of fast-paced science fiction involving oppressive futuristic computerized societies | - |
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| (noun) a writer of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology | - |
| (noun) a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism | Synonyms: cyber-terrorist |
| dankness | (noun) unpleasant wetness | Synonyms: clamminess |
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| debunking | (noun) the exposure of falseness or pretensions | Synonyms: repudiation |
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| diesinker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diemaker |
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| dink | (noun) a soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net | Synonyms: drop shot |
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| dinkey | (noun) a small locomotive | Synonyms: dinky |
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| dinky | (noun) a small locomotive | Synonyms: dinkey |
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| donkey | (noun) domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn | Synonyms: domestic ass, Equus asinus |
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| (noun) the symbol of the Democratic Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874 | - |
| donkeywork | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: drudgery, grind, plodding |
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| doublethink | (noun) believing two contradictory ideas at the same time | - |
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| drink | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drinking, drunkenness |
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| (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: deglutition, swallow |
| (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: beverage, drinkable, potable |
| (noun) a single serving of a beverage | - |
| (noun) any large deep body of water | - |
| drinkable | (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: beverage, drink, potable |
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| drinker | (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: imbiber, juicer, toper |
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| (noun) a person who drinks liquids | - |
| drinking | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: imbibing, imbibition |
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| (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drunkenness |
| drunk | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
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| (noun) someone who is intoxicated | - |
| drunkard | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
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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 |
| dunk | (noun) a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket | Synonyms: dunk shot, stuff shot |
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| dunker | (noun) a basketball player who is able to make dunk shots | - |
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| (noun) an eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it | - |
| embankment | (noun) a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection | - |
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| enkephalin | (noun) an endorphin having opiate qualities that occurs in the brain and spinal cord and elsewhere | - |
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| fink | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
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| flank | (noun) the side between ribs and hipbone | - |
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| (noun) a cut from the fleshy part of an animal's side between the ribs and the leg | - |
| (noun) the side of military or naval formation | Synonyms: wing |
| (noun) a subfigure consisting of a side of something | - |
| flanker | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a detachment assigned to guard the flanks of a military formation | - |
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| (noun) a back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass receiver | Synonyms: flanker back |
| flunk | (noun) failure to reach a minimum required performance | Synonyms: failing |
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| flunkey | (noun) a person of unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: flunky, stooge, yes-man |
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| (noun) a male servant (especially a footman) | Synonyms: flunky, lackey |
| 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 |
| fogbank | (noun) a large mass of fog on the sea (as seen from a distance) | - |
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| foreshank | (noun) a cut of meat from the upper part of a front leg | - |
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| frank | (noun) device or marking such as postage stamp, printed or stamped impressions, codings, labels, manuscript writings, or any other authorized form of markings affixed or applied to mails to qualify them to be postally serviced. | Synonyms: franking |
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| (noun) a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll | Synonyms: dog, frankfurter, hot dog, hotdog, weenie, wiener, wienerwurst |
| frankfurter | (noun) a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll | Synonyms: dog, frank, hot dog, hotdog, weenie, wiener, wienerwurst |
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| frankincense | (noun) an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation | Synonyms: gum olibanum, olibanum, thus |
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| franking | (noun) device or marking such as postage stamp, printed or stamped impressions, codings, labels, manuscript writings, or any other authorized form of markings affixed or applied to mails to qualify them to be postally serviced. | Synonyms: frank |
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| franklin | (noun) a landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of noble birth | - |
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| frankness | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, candour, directness, forthrightness |
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| (noun) the trait of being blunt and outspoken | Synonyms: outspokenness |
| freethinker | (noun) a person who rejects religion | - |
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| freethinking | (noun) the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct | Synonyms: rationalism |
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| funk | (noun) an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar | - |
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| (noun) a state of nervous depression | Synonyms: blue funk |
| funkiness | (noun) (US, slang) The property of being original, offbeat, unconventional or eccentric. | - |
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| gangplank | (noun) a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside | Synonyms: gangboard, gangway |
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| ginkgo | (noun) deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree | Synonyms: gingko, Ginkgo biloba, maidenhair tree |
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