| alloy | (noun) the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something | Synonyms: admixture |
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| (noun) a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten | Synonyms: metal |
| amboyna | (noun) tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain | Synonyms: padauk, padouk, Pterocarpus indicus |
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| (noun) mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus | Synonyms: Andaman redwood |
| annoyance | (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoying, irritation, vexation |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: bother, botheration, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
| (noun) anger produced by some annoying irritation | Synonyms: chafe, vexation |
| (noun) an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating | Synonyms: aggravator |
| (noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: botheration, irritation, vexation |
| annoyer | (noun) someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) | Synonyms: tease, teaser, vexer |
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| annoying | (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoyance, irritation, vexation |
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| arroyo | (noun) a stream or brook | - |
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| bellboy | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellhop, bellman |
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| bootboys | (noun) a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism | Synonyms: skinheads |
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| booyong | (noun) large tree of Australasia | Synonyms: brown oak, crow's foot, Heritiera trifoliolata, red beech, silky elm, stave wood, Terrietia trifoliolata |
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| boy | (noun) a youthful male person | Synonyms: male child |
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| (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man | - |
| (noun) a friendly informal reference to a grown man | - |
| (noun) a male human offspring | Synonyms: son |
| boycott | (noun) a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies | - |
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| boyfriend | (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, fellow, swain |
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| boyhood | (noun) the childhood of a boy | - |
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| boyishness | (noun) being characteristic of a boy | - |
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| boysenberry | (noun) large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries | - |
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| (noun) cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries | Synonyms: boysenberry bush |
| bullyboy | (noun) a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction | - |
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| buoy | (noun) a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards; typically brightly-coloured | - |
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| buoyancy | (noun) the property of something weightless and insubstantial | Synonyms: airiness |
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| (noun) irrepressible liveliness and good spirit | Synonyms: irrepressibility |
| (noun) the tendency to float in water or other liquid | - |
| (noun) cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface | Synonyms: perkiness |
| busboy | (noun) a restaurant attendant who sets tables and assists waiters and clears away dirty dishes | Synonyms: waiter's assistant |
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| carboy | (noun) a large bottle for holding corrosive liquids; usually cushioned in a special container | - |
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| chanoyu | (noun) an ancient ritual for preparing and serving and drinking tea | Synonyms: tea ceremony |
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| cherimoya | (noun) large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples | Synonyms: cherimolla |
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| (noun) small tropical American tree bearing round or oblong fruit | Synonyms: Annona cherimola, cherimoya tree |
| choirboy | (noun) a boy who sings in a choir | - |
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| clairvoyance | (noun) apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses | Synonyms: E.S.P., ESP, extrasensory perception, second sight |
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| clairvoyant | (noun) someone who has the power of clairvoyance | - |
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| cocoyam | (noun) tropical starchy tuberous root | Synonyms: dasheen, edda, taro, taro root |
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| (noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants | Synonyms: dasheen, eddo, taro |
| convoy | (noun) the act of escorting while in transit | - |
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| (noun) a procession of land vehicles traveling together | - |
| (noun) a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships | - |
| corduroy | (noun) a cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton | Synonyms: cord |
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| (noun) a road made of logs laid crosswise | - |
| corduroys | (noun) cotton trousers made of corduroy cloth | Synonyms: cords |
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| cowboy | (noun) someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles) | - |
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| (noun) a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging | Synonyms: rodeo rider |
| (noun) a male hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cattleman, cowman |
| coydog | (noun) offspring of a coyote and a dog | - |
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| coyness | (noun) the affectation of being demure in a provocative way | Synonyms: demureness |
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| coyol | (noun) tropical American palm having edible nuts and yielding a useful fiber | Synonyms: Acrocomia vinifera, coyol palm |
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| coyote | (noun) small wolf native to western North America | Synonyms: brush wolf, Canis latrans, prairie wolf |
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| (noun) a forest fire fighter who is sent to battle remote and severe forest fires (often for days at a time) | - |
| (noun) someone who smuggles illegal immigrants into the United States (usually across the Mexican border) | - |
| coypu | (noun) aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur | Synonyms: Myocastor coypus, nutria |
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| dayboy | (noun) a day boarder who is a boy | - |
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| decoy | (noun) something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed | Synonyms: bait, lure |
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| (noun) a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot) | Synonyms: steerer |
| deployment | (noun) the distribution of forces in preparation for battle or work | - |
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| destroyer | (noun) a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship | Synonyms: guided missile destroyer |
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| (noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: ruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster |
| disloyalty | (noun) the quality of being disloyal | - |
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| doughboy | (noun) a rounded lump of dough that is deep-fried and served as hot bread | - |
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| (noun) an American infantryman in World War I | - |
| doyen | (noun) a man who is the senior member of a group | Synonyms: dean |
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| doyenne | (noun) a woman who is the senior member of a group | - |
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| doyley | (noun) a small round piece of linen placed under a dish or bowl | Synonyms: doily, doyly |
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| doyly | (noun) a small round piece of linen placed under a dish or bowl | Synonyms: doily, doyley |
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| employ | (noun) the state of being employed or having a job | Synonyms: employment |
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| employable | (noun) a person who is qualified and ready to work | - |
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| employee | (noun) a worker who is hired to perform a job | - |
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| employer | (noun) a person or firm that employs workers | - |
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| employment | (noun) the occupation for which you are paid | Synonyms: work |
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| (noun) the act of using | Synonyms: exercise, usage, use, utilisation, utilization |
| (noun) the act of giving someone a job | Synonyms: engagement |
| (noun) the state of being employed or having a job | Synonyms: employ |
| enjoyableness | (noun) pleasantness resulting from something that can be enjoyed | - |
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| enjoyer | (noun) a person who delights in having or using or experiencing something | - |
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| enjoyment | (noun) act of receiving pleasure from something | Synonyms: delectation |
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| (noun) (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property | Synonyms: use |
| (noun) the pleasure felt when having a good time | - |
| envoy | (noun) a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry | Synonyms: envoi |
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| (noun) a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador | Synonyms: envoy extraordinary, minister plenipotentiary |
| (noun) someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else | Synonyms: emissary |
| fanboy | (noun) A male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, someone or something in popular entertainment media | - |
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| flamboyance | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: floridity, floridness, showiness |
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| flamboyant | (noun) showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana | Synonyms: Delonix regia, flame tree, peacock flower, Poinciana regia, royal poinciana |
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| foyer | (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: antechamber, anteroom, entrance hall, hall, lobby, vestibule |
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| gargoyle | (noun) an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal | - |
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| (noun) a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal | - |
| gargoylism | (noun) hereditary disease (autosomal recessive) consisting of an error is mucopolysaccharide metabolism; characterized by severe abnormalities in development of skeletal cartilage and bone and mental retardation | Synonyms: dysostosis multiplex, Hurler's disease, Hurler's syndrome, lipochondrodystrophy |
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| goy | (noun) a Christian as contrasted with a Jew | Synonyms: gentile, non-Jew |
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| groyne | (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: breakwater, bulwark, groin, jetty, mole, seawall |
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| hautboy | (noun) a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece | Synonyms: hautbois, oboe |
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| highboy | (noun) a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs | Synonyms: tallboy |
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| hobbledehoy | (noun) an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy | - |
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| homeboy | (noun) a male friend from your neighborhood or hometown | - |
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| (noun) a fellow male member of a youth gang | - |
| hoy | (noun) a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | Synonyms: barge, flatboat, lighter |
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| hoya | (noun) any plant of the genus Hoya having fleshy leaves and usually nectariferous flowers | - |
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| hoyden | (noun) a girl who behaves in a boyish manner | Synonyms: romp, tomboy |
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| hoydenism | (noun) masculinity in women (especially in girls and young women) | Synonyms: tomboyishness |
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| joy | (noun) something or someone that provides a source of happiness | Synonyms: delight, pleasure |
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| (noun) the emotion of great happiness | Synonyms: joyfulness, joyousness |
| joyfulness | (noun) the emotion of great happiness | Synonyms: joy, joyousness |
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| joylessness | (noun) a feeling of dismal cheerlessness | - |
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| joyousness | (noun) the emotion of great happiness | Synonyms: joy, joyfulness |
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| joyride | (noun) a ride in a car taken solely for pleasure | - |
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| joystick | (noun) a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane | Synonyms: control stick, stick |
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| (noun) a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers | - |
| killjoy | (noun) someone who spoils the pleasure of others | Synonyms: party pooper, spoilsport, wet blanket |
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| linkboy | (noun) (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets | Synonyms: linkman |
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| lowboy | (noun) a low chest or table with drawers and supported on four legs | - |
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| loyalist | (noun) a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt) | Synonyms: stalwart |
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| loyalty | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: allegiance, commitment, dedication |
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| (noun) the quality of being loyal | Synonyms: trueness |
| (noun) feelings of allegiance | - |
| newsboy | (noun) a boy who delivers newspapers | Synonyms: carrier |
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| oyabun | (noun) a Japanese supervisor | - |
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| oyster | (noun) marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters | - |
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| (noun) edible body of any of numerous oysters | Synonyms: huitre |
| (noun) a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl | - |
| oystercatcher | (noun) black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill; feed on oysters etc. | Synonyms: oyster catcher |
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| oysterfish | (noun) a variety of toadfish | Synonyms: oyster-fish, oyster fish |
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| pageboy | (noun) a smooth hair style with the ends of the hair curled inward | - |
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| (noun) a boy who is employed to run errands | Synonyms: page |
| paperboy | (noun) a boy who sells or delivers newspapers | - |
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| pennyroyal | (noun) Eurasian perennial mint have small lilac-blue flowers and ovate leaves; yields an aromatic oil | Synonyms: Mentha pulegium |
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| (noun) erect hairy branching American herb having purple-blue flowers; yields an essential oil used as an insect repellent and sometimes in folk medicine | Synonyms: American pennyroyal, Hedeoma pulegioides |
| playboy | (noun) a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure | Synonyms: Corinthian, man-about-town |
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| ploughboy | (noun) a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow | Synonyms: plowboy |
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| plowboy | (noun) a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow | Synonyms: ploughboy |
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| ploy | (noun) a maneuver in a game or conversation | Synonyms: gambit, stratagem |
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| (noun) an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker | Synonyms: gambit |
| potboy | (noun) a worker in an inn or public house who serves customers and does various chores | Synonyms: potman |
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| poyou | (noun) Argentine armadillo with six movable bands and hairy underparts | Synonyms: Euphractus sexcinctus, peludo |
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| redeployment | (noun) the withdrawal and redistribution of forces in an attempt to use them more effectively | Synonyms: redisposition |
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| royal | (noun) stag with antlers of 12 or more branches | Synonyms: royal stag |
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| (noun) a sail set next above the topgallant on a royal mast | - |
| royalism | (noun) adherence or attachment to a monarchy or to the principle of monarchal government | - |
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| royalist | (noun) an advocate of the principles of monarchy | Synonyms: monarchist |
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| royalty | (noun) royal persons collectively | Synonyms: royal family, royal house, royal line |
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| (noun) payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property | - |