| backdown | (noun) a retraction of a previously held position | Synonyms: climb-down, withdrawal |
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| breakdown | (noun) the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue | Synonyms: dislocation |
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| (noun) an analysis into mutually exclusive categories | Synonyms: partitioning |
| (noun) a cessation of normal operation | Synonyms: equipment failure |
| (noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: decomposition, putrefaction, rot, rotting |
| (noun) (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance | Synonyms: chemical decomposition reaction, decomposition, decomposition reaction |
| (noun) a mental or physical breakdown | Synonyms: crack-up |
| brown | (noun) an orange of low brightness and saturation | Synonyms: brownness |
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| brownie | (noun) square or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts | - |
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| (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: elf, gremlin, hob, imp, pixie, pixy |
| browning | (noun) cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill | Synonyms: toasting |
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| brownness | (noun) an orange of low brightness and saturation | Synonyms: brown |
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| brownout | (noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: blackout, dimout |
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| brownstone | (noun) a row house built of brownstone; reddish brown in color | - |
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| (noun) a reddish brown sandstone; used in buildings | - |
| browntail | (noun) small brown and white European moth introduced into eastern United States; pest of various shade and fruit trees | Synonyms: brown-tail moth, Euproctis phaeorrhoea |
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| callowness | (noun) lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life | Synonyms: jejuneness, juvenility |
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| clampdown | (noun) sudden restriction on an activity | - |
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| closedown | (noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closing, closure, shutdown |
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| clown | (noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: buffoon, goof, goofball, merry andrew |
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| (noun) a rude or vulgar fool | Synonyms: buffoon |
| clowning | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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| (noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: comedy, drollery, funniness |
| comedown | (noun) decline to a lower status or level | - |
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| countdown | (noun) counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle) | - |
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| cowtown | (noun) a small town in a cattle-raising area of western North America | Synonyms: cow town |
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| crackdown | (noun) severely repressive actions | - |
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| crown | (noun) the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head | - |
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| (noun) an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty | Synonyms: diadem |
| (noun) a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory | - |
| (noun) the center of a cambered road | Synonyms: crest |
| (noun) (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth | Synonyms: cap, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown |
| (noun) the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel | - |
| (noun) the top of the head | Synonyms: pate, poll |
| (noun) the award given to the champion | Synonyms: pennant |
| (noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crest, peak, summit, tip, top |
| (noun) the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant | Synonyms: treetop |
| (noun) an English coin worth 5 shillings | - |
| crownbeard | (noun) any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads | Synonyms: crown-beard, crown beard |
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| crownwork | (noun) (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth | Synonyms: cap, crown, jacket, jacket crown |
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| (noun) a type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from which longer flank walls run back towards the main fortress. | - |
| disowning | (noun) refusal to acknowledge as one's own | Synonyms: disownment |
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| disownment | (noun) refusal to acknowledge as one's own | Synonyms: disowning |
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| down | (noun) (American football) a complete play to advance the football | - |
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| (noun) soft fine feathers | Synonyms: down feather |
| (noun) fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) | Synonyms: pile |
| (noun) (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil | - |
| downbeat | (noun) the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward) | - |
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| downcast | (noun) a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine | - |
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| downdraft | (noun) a strong downward air current | - |
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| downer | (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: depressant, sedative, sedative drug |
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| downfall | (noun) a sudden decline in strength or number or importance | Synonyms: fall |
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| (noun) failure that results in a loss of position or reputation | Synonyms: ruin, ruination |
| (noun) the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) | Synonyms: precipitation |
| downgrade | (noun) the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends | - |
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| downheartedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, dispiritedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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| downhill | (noun) a ski race down a trail | - |
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| (noun) the downward slope of a hill | - |
| downiness | (noun) a light softness | Synonyms: featheriness, fluffiness |
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| downpour | (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
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| downrightness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: straightforwardness |
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| downshift | (noun) a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle | - |
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| (noun) a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one | - |
| downside | (noun) a negative aspect of something that is generally positive | - |
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| downsizing | (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: curtailment, retrenchment |
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| downslope | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, fall |
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| downspin | (noun) a swift and dangerous downturn | - |
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| downstage | (noun) the front half of the stage (as seen from the audience) | - |
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| downstroke | (noun) a stroke normally made in a downward direction | - |
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| downswing | (noun) a swing downward of a golf club | - |
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| (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downturn |
| downtick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price below the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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| downtime | (noun) a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is not operating (especially as a result of malfunctions) | - |
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| downtown | (noun) the central area or commercial center of a town or city | Synonyms: business district |
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| downturn | (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downswing |
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| eiderdown | (noun) down of the eider duck | - |
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| (noun) a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider | Synonyms: continental quilt, duvet |
| frown | (noun) a facial expression of dislike or displeasure | Synonyms: scowl |
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| godown | (noun) (in India and Malaysia) a warehouse | - |
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| gown | (noun) a woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions | - |
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| (noun) outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: robe |
| (noun) protective garment worn by surgeons during operations | Synonyms: scrubs, surgical gown |
| (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: night-robe, nightdress, nightgown, nightie |
| (noun) the members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located | - |
| grownup | (noun) a fully developed person from maturity onward | Synonyms: adult |
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| hollowness | (noun) the property of having a sunken area | - |
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| (noun) the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical | Synonyms: falseness, insincerity |
| (noun) the state of being hollow: having an empty space within | - |
| homeowner | (noun) someone who owns a home | Synonyms: householder |
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| hometown | (noun) the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence | - |
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| knockdown | (noun) a blow that knocks the opponent off his feet | - |
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| landowner | (noun) a holder or proprietor of land | Synonyms: landholder, property owner |
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| letdown | (noun) a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized | Synonyms: disappointment |
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| lockdown | (noun) the act of confining prisoners to their cells (usually to regain control during a riot) | - |
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| lookdown | (noun) similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead | Synonyms: lookdown fish, Selene vomer |
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| lowness | (noun) the quality of being low; lacking height | - |
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| (noun) a low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or temperature etc.) | - |
| (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, dispiritedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness |
| (noun) a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation | Synonyms: low status, lowliness |
| mellowness | (noun) the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing | Synonyms: fullness, richness |
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| (noun) a soft shade of a color | - |
| (noun) geniality, as through the effects of alcohol or marijuana | - |
| (noun) a taste (especially of fruit) that is ripe and of full flavor | - |
| (noun) a feeling of good humor and sympathy through maturity or intoxication or a relaxed state | - |
| meltdown | (noun) a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown | - |
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| (noun) severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping | Synonyms: nuclear meltdown |
| narrowness | (noun) the property of being narrow; having little width | - |
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| (noun) a small margin | Synonyms: narrow margin, slimness |
| (noun) an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior | Synonyms: narrow-mindedness |
| (noun) a restriction of range or scope | - |
| nightgown | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightdress, nightie |
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| nowness | (noun) the quality of being the present | Synonyms: presentness |
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| owner | (noun) (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business | Synonyms: proprietor |
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| (noun) a person who owns something | Synonyms: possessor |
| ownership | (noun) the act of having and controlling property | Synonyms: possession |
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| (noun) the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others | - |
| (noun) the state or fact of being an owner | - |
| renown | (noun) the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed | Synonyms: celebrity, fame |
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| rubdown | (noun) the act of rubbing down, usually for relaxation or medicinal purposes | - |
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| rundown | (noun) a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) | Synonyms: summation, summing up |
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| sallowness | (noun) a sickly yellowish skin color | - |
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| shakedown | (noun) extortion of money (as by blackmail) | - |
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| (noun) a very thorough search of a person or a place | - |
| (noun) initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state | - |
| shallowness | (noun) the quality of lacking physical depth | - |
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| (noun) lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling | Synonyms: superficiality |
| shantytown | (noun) a city district inhabited by people living in huts and shanties | - |
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| shareowner | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareholder, stockholder |
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| shipowner | (noun) someone who owns a ship or a share in a ship | - |
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| showdown | (noun) a hostile disagreement face-to-face | Synonyms: confrontation, encounter, face-off |
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| shutdown | (noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closedown, closing, closure |
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| slowdown | (noun) the act of slowing down or falling behind | Synonyms: lag, retardation |
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| slowness | (noun) a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | Synonyms: deliberateness, deliberation, unhurriedness |
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| (noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: backwardness, mental retardation, retardation, subnormality |
| (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness |
| spelldown | (noun) a contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctly | Synonyms: spelling bee, spelling contest |
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| splashdown | (noun) a landing of a spacecraft in the sea at the end of a space flight | - |
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| standdown | (noun) (military) a temporary stop of offensive military action | Synonyms: stand-down |
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| (noun) a suspension and relaxation from an alert state or a state of readiness | Synonyms: stand-down |
| sundown | (noun) the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon | Synonyms: sunset |
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| sundowner | (noun) a drink taken at sundown | - |
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| (noun) a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown | - |
| takedown | (noun) a crushing remark | Synonyms: put-down, squelch, squelcher |
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| (noun) (amateur wrestling) being brought to the mat from a standing position | - |
| thistledown | (noun) pappus of a thistle consisting of silky featherlike hairs attached to the seed-like fruit of a thistle | - |
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| touchdown | (noun) a score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line | - |
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| (noun) a landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes | - |
| town | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: townsfolk, townspeople |
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| (noun) an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city | - |
| (noun) an administrative division of a county | Synonyms: township |
| townee | (noun) townsman unacquainted with country life especially a slick and flashy male city dweller | - |
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| towner | (noun) a resident of a town or city | Synonyms: townsman |
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| townie | (noun) resident of a college town not affiliated with the college | Synonyms: towny |
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| townsfolk | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: town, townspeople |
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| township | (noun) an administrative division of a county | Synonyms: town |
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| townsman | (noun) a person from the same town as yourself | - |
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| (noun) a resident of a town or city | Synonyms: towner |
| townspeople | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: town, townsfolk |
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| towny | (noun) resident of a college town not affiliated with the college | Synonyms: townie |
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| turndown | (noun) the act of refusing an offer | Synonyms: nonacceptance |
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| unknown | (noun) a variable whose values are solutions of an equation | Synonyms: unknown quantity |
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| (noun) an unknown and unexplored region | Synonyms: terra incognita, unknown region |
| (noun) anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found | Synonyms: alien, stranger |