| burnoose | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnous, burnouse |
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| caboose | (noun) a car on a freight train for use of the train crew; usually the last car on the train | Synonyms: cabin car |
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| (noun) the area for food preparation on a ship | Synonyms: cookhouse, galley, ship's galley |
| chooser | (noun) a person who chooses or selects out | Synonyms: picker, selector |
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| goose | (noun) web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a goose (domestic or wild) | - |
| (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, jackass, twat, zany |
| gooseberry | (noun) currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies | - |
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| (noun) spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries | Synonyms: gooseberry bush, Ribes grossularia, Ribes uva-crispa |
| goosebump | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, gooseflesh, horripilation, pilomotor reflex |
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| goosefish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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| gooseflesh | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, goosebump, horripilation, pilomotor reflex |
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| goosefoot | (noun) any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers | - |
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| gooseneck | (noun) something in a thin curved form (like the neck of a goose) | - |
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| hoosegow | (noun) slang for a jail | Synonyms: hoosgow |
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| looseness | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, profligacy |
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| (noun) movement or space for movement | Synonyms: play |
| (noun) a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice | - |
| (noun) freedom from restraint | - |
| (noun) the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints | - |
| (noun) frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor | Synonyms: diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels |
| loosening | (noun) the act of making something less tight | Synonyms: laxation |
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| (noun) an occurrence of control or strength weakening | Synonyms: relaxation, slackening |
| loosestrife | (noun) any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum | - |
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| (noun) any of various herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lysimachia | - |
| mongoose | (noun) agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents | - |
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| moose | (noun) large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America | Synonyms: Alces alces, elk |
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| moosewood | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, ropebark, wicopy |
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| (noun) maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn | Synonyms: Acer pennsylvanicum, goosefoot maple, moose-wood, striped dogwood, striped maple |
| noose | (noun) a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose | Synonyms: gin, snare |
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| (noun) a loop formed in a cord or rope by means of a slipknot; it binds tighter as the cord or rope is pulled | Synonyms: running noose, slip noose |
| papoose | (noun) an American Indian infant | Synonyms: pappoose |
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| papooseroot | (noun) tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, squaw root, squawroot |
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| pappoose | (noun) an American Indian infant | Synonyms: papoose |
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| schmoose | (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze |
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