| chinoiserie | (noun) a style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned | - |
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| counterpoise | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer |
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| damoiselle | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damosel, damozel, damsel, demoiselle |
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| demoiselle | (noun) small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs | Synonyms: damselfish |
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| (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damozel, damsel |
| equipoise | (noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, equilibrium |
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| framboise | (noun) the common European raspberry; fruit red or orange | Synonyms: European raspberry, Rubus idaeus, wild raspberry |
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| genoise | (noun) rich and delicate Italian sponge cake | - |
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| mademoiselle | (noun) small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico | Synonyms: Bairdiella chrysoura, silver perch |
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| noise | (noun) the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan | Synonyms: haphazardness, randomness, stochasticity |
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| (noun) incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks | - |
| (noun) the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience | Synonyms: dissonance, racket |
| (noun) a loud outcry of protest or complaint | - |
| (noun) sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) | - |
| (noun) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | Synonyms: disturbance, interference |
| noiselessness | (noun) the property of making no noise | - |
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| noisemaker | (noun) a device (such as a clapper or bell or horn) used to make a loud noise at a celebration | - |
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| poise | (noun) great coolness and composure under strain | Synonyms: aplomb, assuredness, cool, sang-froid |
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| (noun) a cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter; the viscosity of a fluid in which a force of one dyne per square centimeter maintains a velocity of 1 centimeter per second | - |
| (noun) a state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium | - |
| porpoise | (noun) any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth | - |
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| taoiseach | (noun) the prime minister of the Irish Republic | - |
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| tortoise | (noun) usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid areas except Australia and Antarctica | - |
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| tortoiseshell | (noun) a cat having black and cream-colored and yellowish markings | Synonyms: calico cat, tortoiseshell-cat |
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| (noun) brilliantly colored; larvae feed on nettles | Synonyms: tortoiseshell butterfly |
| (noun) the mottled horny substance of the shell of some turtles | - |
| turquoise | (noun) a shade of blue tinged with green | Synonyms: aqua, aquamarine, cobalt blue, greenish blue, peacock blue |
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| (noun) a blue to grey green mineral consisting of copper aluminum phosphate | - |
| vichyssoise | (noun) a creamy potato soup flavored with leeks and onions; usually served cold | - |
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