| greenshank | (noun) large European sandpiper with greenish legs | Synonyms: Tringa nebularia |
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| groupthink | (noun) decision making by a group (especially in a manner that discourages creativity or individual responsibility) | - |
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| gunk | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, guck, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
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| hank | (noun) a coil of rope or wool or yarn | - |
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| hankering | (noun) a yearning for something or to do something | Synonyms: yen |
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| hankey | (noun) a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | Synonyms: handkerchief, hankie, hanky |
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| hankie | (noun) a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | Synonyms: handkerchief, hankey, hanky |
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| 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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| hijinks | (noun) noisy and mischievous merrymaking | Synonyms: high jinks, high jinx, jinks |
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| hindshank | (noun) a cut of meat from the upper part of a rear leg | - |
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| honk | (noun) the cry of a goose (or any sound resembling this) | - |
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| honker | (noun) common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call | Synonyms: Branta canadensis, Canada goose, Canadian goose |
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| (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
| (noun) a driver who causes his car's horn to make a loud honking sound | - |
| honkey | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkie, honky, whitey |
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| honkie | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkey, honky, whitey |
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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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| humankind | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humans, man, mankind, world |
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| hunk | (noun) a large piece of something without definite shape | Synonyms: lump |
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| (noun) a well-built sexually attractive man | - |
| hyperlink | (noun) a link from a hypertext file to another location or file; typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or icon at a particular location on the screen | - |
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| ink | (noun) dark protective fluid ejected into the water by cuttlefish and other cephalopods | - |
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| (noun) a liquid used for printing or writing or drawing | - |
| inkberry | (noun) evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries | Synonyms: evergreen winterberry, gall-berry, gallberry, Ilex glabra |
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| inkblot | (noun) a blot made with ink | - |
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| inkiness | (noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) | Synonyms: black, blackness |
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| inkle | (noun) a linen tape used for trimming as a decoration | - |
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| inkling | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, glimmering, intimation |
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| inkpad | (noun) a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp | Synonyms: inking pad, pad, stamp pad |
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| inkpot | (noun) a bottle of ink | Synonyms: ink bottle |
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| inkstand | (noun) a tray or stand for writing implements and containers for ink | - |
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| (noun) a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped | Synonyms: inkwell |
| inkwell | (noun) a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped | Synonyms: inkstand |
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| innkeeper | (noun) the owner or manager of an inn | Synonyms: boniface, host |
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| jinks | (noun) noisy and mischievous merrymaking | Synonyms: high jinks, high jinx, hijinks |
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| junk | (noun) any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails | - |
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| (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: debris, detritus, dust, rubble |
| junket | (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, expedition, jaunt, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
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| (noun) a trip taken by an official at public expense | - |
| (noun) dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet | - |
| junketing | (noun) taking an excursion for pleasure | - |
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| junkie | (noun) a narcotics addict | Synonyms: drug addict, junky |
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| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, freak, junky, nut |
| 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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| kink | (noun) a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation | - |
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| (noun) an eccentric idea | - |
| (noun) a person with unusual sexual tastes | - |
| (noun) a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight | Synonyms: twirl, twist |
| (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, rick, wrick |
| kinkajou | (noun) a kind of gray-brown lemur (Perodicticus potto) | Synonyms: Perodicticus potto, potto |
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| (noun) arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail | Synonyms: honey bear, Potos caudivolvulus, Potos flavus, potto |
| lankiness | (noun) a tall and thin physique | - |
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| link | (noun) a fastener that serves to join or connect | Synonyms: linkup, tie-in, tie |
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| (noun) a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network | Synonyms: radio link |
| (noun) an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data | Synonyms: data link |
| (noun) a channel for communication between groups | Synonyms: contact, inter-group communication, liaison |
| (noun) (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list | - |
| (noun) a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain | - |
| (noun) the means of connection between things linked in series | Synonyms: nexus |
| (noun) a connecting shape | Synonyms: connection, connexion |
| (noun) the state of being connected | Synonyms: connectedness, connection |
| linkage | (noun) the act of linking things together | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical system of rods or springs or pivots that transmits power or motion | - |
| (noun) (genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they all go) | Synonyms: gene linkage |
| (noun) an associative relation | - |
| linkboy | (noun) (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets | Synonyms: linkman |
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| linkman | (noun) (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets | Synonyms: linkboy |
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| links | (noun) a golf course that is built on sandy ground near a shore | Synonyms: golf links |
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| linksman | (noun) someone who plays the game of golf | Synonyms: golf player, golfer |
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| linkup | (noun) a fastener that serves to join or connect | Synonyms: link, tie-in, tie |
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| lunkhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| mankind | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, world |
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| mink | (noun) slender-bodied semiaquatic mammal having partially webbed feet; valued for its fur | - |
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| (noun) fur coat made from the soft lustrous fur of minks | Synonyms: mink coat |
| (noun) the expensive fur of a mink | - |
| monk | (noun) a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work | Synonyms: monastic |
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| monkey | (noun) any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) | - |
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| (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp |
| monkeypod | (noun) large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle | Synonyms: Albizia saman, monkey pod, rain tree, saman, zaman, zamang |
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| monkfish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte |
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| (noun) sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do | Synonyms: angel shark, angelfish, Squatina squatina |
| (noun) flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America | - |
| monkhood | (noun) monks collectively, considered as a group. | - |
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| monkshood | (noun) a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite | Synonyms: Aconitum napellus, helmet flower, helmetflower |
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| mountebank | (noun) a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes | Synonyms: charlatan |
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| nankeen | (noun) a durable fabric formerly loomed by hand in China from natural cotton having a yellowish color | - |
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| nanoplankton | (noun) microscopic organisms found in plankton | - |
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| nomenklatura | (noun) the system of patronage in communist countries; controlled by committees in the Communist Party | - |
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| nondrinker | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstainer, abstinent |
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| oink | (noun) the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs | Synonyms: grunt |
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| onkos | (noun) A high ornate headdress worn by the performers of Greek tragedy. | - |
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| pachinko | (noun) a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical board | - |
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| painkiller | (noun) a medicine used to relieve pain | Synonyms: analgesic, anodyne, pain pill |
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| palankeen | (noun) a closed litter carried on the shoulders of four bearers | Synonyms: palanquin |
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| penknife | (noun) a small pocketknife; originally used to cut quill pens | - |
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| periwinkle | (noun) edible marine gastropod | Synonyms: winkle |
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| (noun) small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked | Synonyms: winkle |
| (noun) chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers | - |
| (noun) commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers | Synonyms: Cape periwinkle, Catharanthus roseus, cayenne jasmine, Madagascar periwinkle, old maid, red periwinkle, rose periwinkle, Vinca rosea |
| pfannkuchen | (noun) puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce | Synonyms: german pancake |
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| phytoplankton | (noun) photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algae | - |
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| pink | (noun) a light shade of red | - |
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| (noun) a person with mildly leftist political views | Synonyms: pinko |
| (noun) any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers | Synonyms: garden pink |
| pinkeye | (noun) inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye | Synonyms: conjunctivitis |
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| pinkie | (noun) the finger farthest from the thumb | Synonyms: little finger, pinky |
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| pinkness | (noun) the quality of being pink | - |
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| pinko | (noun) a person with mildly leftist political views | Synonyms: pink |
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| pinkroot | (noun) a fungal disease of onions | - |
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| pinky | (noun) the finger farthest from the thumb | Synonyms: little finger, pinkie |
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| plank | (noun) an endorsed policy in the platform of a political party | - |
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| (noun) a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes | Synonyms: board |
| planking | (noun) the work of covering an area with planks | - |
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| (noun) (nautical) a covering or flooring constructed of planks (as on a ship) | - |
| (noun) planks collectively; a quantity of planks | - |
| plankton | (noun) the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water | - |
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| plonk | (noun) the noise of something dropping (as into liquid) | - |
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| (noun) a cheap wine of inferior quality | - |
| plunk | (noun) (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly | Synonyms: plunker |
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| (noun) a hollow twanging sound | - |
| plunker | (noun) (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly | Synonyms: plunk |
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| potamoplankton | (noun) plankton that inhabit rivers | - |
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| prank | (noun) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement | Synonyms: antic, caper, joke, put-on, trick |
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| (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, harlequinade, japery |
| prankishness | (noun) the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks | Synonyms: rascality, roguishness |
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| prankster | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, tricker, trickster |
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| punk | (noun) rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock | Synonyms: punk rock |
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| (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie |
| (noun) a teenager or young adult who is a performer (or enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth subculture | Synonyms: punk rocker |
| (noun) substance that smolders when ignited; used to light fuses (especially fireworks) | - |
| (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, spunk, tinder, touchwood |
| punkah | (noun) a large fan consisting of a frame covered with canvas that is suspended from the ceiling; used in India for circulating air in a room | - |
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| punkey | (noun) minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects | Synonyms: biting midge, no-see-um, punkie, punky |
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| punkie | (noun) minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects | Synonyms: biting midge, no-see-um, punkey, punky |
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| punks | (noun) a youth subculture closely associated with punk rock music in the late 1970s; in part a reaction to the hippy subculture; dress was optional but intended to shock (plastic garbage bags or old school uniforms) and hair was dyed in bright colors (in Mohican haircuts or sometimes spiked in bright plumes) | - |
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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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| rank | (noun) a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another | - |
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| (noun) the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army) | Synonyms: rank and file |
| (noun) the body of members of an organization or group | Synonyms: membership |
| (noun) relative status | - |
| (noun) position in a social hierarchy | Synonyms: social rank, social station, social status |
| ranker | (noun) an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces | - |
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| (noun) a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status | - |
| ranking | (noun) position on a scale in relation to others in status or rank or achievement | - |
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| rankness | (noun) the attribute of having a strong offensive smell | Synonyms: fetidness, foulness, malodorousness, stinkiness |
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| (noun) the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth | Synonyms: fertility, prolificacy, richness |
| redshank | (noun) a common Old World wading bird with long red legs | Synonyms: Tringa totanus |
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| rethink | (noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: afterthought, reconsideration, second thought |
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| rink | (noun) building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating | Synonyms: skating rink |
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