| arrow | (noun) a projectile with a straight thin shaft and an arrowhead on one end and stabilizing vanes on the other; intended to be shot from a bow | - |
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| (noun) a mark to indicate a direction or relation | Synonyms: pointer |
| arrowhead | (noun) the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow | - |
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| arrowroot | (noun) white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch | Synonyms: American arrowroot, Maranta arundinaceae, obedience plant |
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| (noun) canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained | Synonyms: achira, Canna edulis, Canna indica, indian shot |
| (noun) a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant | - |
| arrowsmith | (noun) a maker of arrows | - |
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| arrowworm | (noun) any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth | Synonyms: chaetognath |
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| barrow | (noun) a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels | Synonyms: garden cart, lawn cart, wheelbarrow |
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| (noun) (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs | Synonyms: burial mound, grave mound, tumulus |
| (noun) the quantity that a barrow will hold | Synonyms: barrowful |
| barrowful | (noun) the quantity that a barrow will hold | Synonyms: barrow |
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| borrower | (noun) someone who receives something on the promise to return it or its equivalent | - |
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| borrowing | (noun) obtaining funds from a lender | - |
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| (noun) the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source | Synonyms: adoption |
| brow | (noun) the part of the face above the eyes | Synonyms: forehead |
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| (noun) the arch of hair above each eye | Synonyms: eyebrow, supercilium |
| (noun) the peak of a hill | Synonyms: hilltop |
| browallia | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Browallia cultivated for their blue or violet or white flowers | Synonyms: bush violet |
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| 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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| browse | (noun) the act of feeding by continual nibbling | Synonyms: browsing |
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| (noun) reading superficially or at random | Synonyms: browsing |
| (noun) vegetation (such as young shoots, twigs, and leaves) that is suitable for animals to eat | - |
| browser | (noun) a program used to view HTML documents | Synonyms: web browser |
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| (noun) a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular | - |
| browsing | (noun) the act of feeding by continual nibbling | Synonyms: browse |
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| (noun) reading superficially or at random | Synonyms: browse |
| burrow | (noun) a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter | Synonyms: tunnel |
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| cockcrow | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| crow | (noun) black birds having a raucous call | - |
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| (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, bragging, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
| (noun) the cry of a cock (or an imitation of it) | - |
| crowbait | (noun) an emaciated horse likely soon to become carrion and so attractive to crows | Synonyms: crow-bait |
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| crowbar | (noun) a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge | Synonyms: pry, pry bar, wrecking bar |
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| crowberry | (noun) a low evergreen shrub with small purple flowers and black berrylike fruit | - |
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| crowd | (noun) a large number of things or people considered together | - |
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| (noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: bunch, crew, gang |
| crowdfunding | (noun) Funding from a large number of small backers | - |
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| crowding | (noun) a situation in which people or things are crowded together | - |
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| crowdsourcing | (noun) Work done by a large group of anonymous users | - |
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| crowfoot | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, goldcup, kingcup |
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| crowing | (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, bragging, crow, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
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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. | - |
| drowse | (noun) a light fitful sleep | Synonyms: doze |
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| drowsiness | (noun) a very sleepy state | Synonyms: sleepiness, somnolence |
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| escrow | (noun) a written agreement (or property or money) delivered to a third party or put in trust by one party to a contract to be returned after fulfillment of some condition | - |
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| eyebrow | (noun) the arch of hair above each eye | Synonyms: brow, supercilium |
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| farrow | (noun) the production of a litter of pigs | Synonyms: farrowing |
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| farrowing | (noun) the production of a litter of pigs | Synonyms: farrow |
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| flamethrower | (noun) a weapon that squirts ignited fuel for several yards | - |
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| frown | (noun) a facial expression of dislike or displeasure | Synonyms: scowl |
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| furrow | (noun) a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow) | - |
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| (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, line, seam, wrinkle |
| grower | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, agriculturist, cultivator, raiser |
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| growing | (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: development, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
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| (noun) (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state | - |
| growl | (noun) the sound of growling (as made by animals) | Synonyms: growling |
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| growler | (noun) a small iceberg or ice floe just large enough to be hazardous for shipping | - |
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| (noun) a speaker whose voice sounds like a growl | - |
| growling | (noun) a gruff or angry utterance (suggestive of the growling of an animal) | - |
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| (noun) the sound of growling (as made by animals) | Synonyms: growl |
| grownup | (noun) a fully developed person from maturity onward | Synonyms: adult |
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| growth | (noun) the gradual beginning or coming forth | Synonyms: emergence, outgrowth |
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| (noun) vegetation that has grown | - |
| (noun) something grown or growing | - |
| (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: development, growing, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
| (noun) a progression from simpler to more complex forms | - |
| (noun) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important | Synonyms: increase, increment |
| (noun) (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) | - |
| handbarrow | (noun) a rectangular frame with handles at both ends; carried by two people | - |
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| harrow | (noun) a cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil | - |
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| hedgerow | (noun) a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes | Synonyms: hedge |
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| highbrow | (noun) a person of intellectual or erudite tastes | - |
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| ingrowth | (noun) something that grows inward | - |
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| lowbrow | (noun) a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits | Synonyms: anti-intellectual, philistine |
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| marrow | (noun) the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones | Synonyms: bone marrow |
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| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
| (noun) large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins | Synonyms: vegetable marrow |
| (noun) very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones | Synonyms: bone marrow |
| (noun) any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh | Synonyms: marrow squash, vegetable marrow |
| marrowbone | (noun) a bone containing edible marrow; used especially in flavoring soup | - |
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| microwave | (noun) kitchen appliance that cooks food by passing an electromagnetic wave through it; heat results from the absorption of energy by the water molecules in the food | Synonyms: microwave oven |
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| (noun) a short electromagnetic wave (longer than infrared but shorter than radio waves); used for radar and microwave ovens and for transmitting telephone, facsimile, video and data | - |
| middlebrow | (noun) someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow | - |
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| morrow | (noun) the next day | - |
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| narrow | (noun) a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water | - |
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| narrowboat | (noun) a long boat that carries freight and is narrow enough to be used in canals | Synonyms: canal boat, narrow boat |
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| narrowing | (noun) the act of making something narrower | - |
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| (noun) an instance of becoming narrow | - |
| (noun) a decrease in width | - |
| 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 | - |
| outgrowth | (noun) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant | Synonyms: appendage, process |
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| (noun) the gradual beginning or coming forth | Synonyms: emergence, growth |
| (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: branch, offset, offshoot |
| overgrowth | (noun) a profusion of growth on or over something else | - |
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| (noun) excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland | Synonyms: giantism, gigantism |
| overthrow | (noun) the termination of a ruler or institution (especially by force) | - |
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| (noun) the act of disturbing the mind or body | Synonyms: derangement, upset |
| prow | (noun) front part of a vessel or aircraft | Synonyms: bow, fore, stem |
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| prowess | (noun) a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation | Synonyms: art, artistry |
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| prowl | (noun) the act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner) | - |
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| prowler | (noun) someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions | Synonyms: sneak, stalker |
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| restharrow | (noun) European woody plant having pink flowers and unifoliate leaves and long tough roots; spreads by underground runners | Synonyms: Ononis repens, rest-harrow |
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| (noun) Eurasian plant having loose racemes of pink or purple flowers and spiny stems and tough roots | Synonyms: Ononis spinosa, rest-harrow |
| row | (noun) the act of rowing as a sport | Synonyms: rowing |
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| (noun) (construction) a layer of masonry | Synonyms: course |
| (noun) a continuous chronological succession without an interruption | - |
| (noun) an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line | - |
| (noun) a linear array of numbers, letters, or symbols side by side | - |
| (noun) a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally) | - |
| (noun) an angry dispute | Synonyms: dustup, quarrel, run-in, words, wrangle |
| rowan | (noun) Eurasian tree with orange-red berrylike fruits | Synonyms: European mountain ash, rowan tree, Sorbus aucuparia |
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| rowanberry | (noun) decorative red berrylike fruit of a rowan tree | - |
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| rowboat | (noun) a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled | Synonyms: dinghy, dory |
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| rowdiness | (noun) rowdy behavior | Synonyms: disorderliness, roughness, rowdyism |
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| rowdy | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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| rowdyism | (noun) rowdy behavior | Synonyms: disorderliness, roughness, rowdiness |
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| rowel | (noun) a small spiked wheel at the end of a spur | - |
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| rower | (noun) someone who rows a boat | - |
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| rowing | (noun) the act of rowing as a sport | Synonyms: row |
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| rowlock | (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: oarlock, peg, pin, thole, tholepin |
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| scarecrow | (noun) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds | Synonyms: bird-scarer, scarer, straw man, strawman |
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| serow | (noun) short-horned dark-coated goat antelope of mountain areas of southern and southeastern Asia | - |
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| sorrow | (noun) something that causes great unhappiness | Synonyms: grief |
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| (noun) an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement | - |
| (noun) sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment | Synonyms: regret, rue, ruefulness |
| (noun) the state of being sad | Synonyms: sadness, sorrowfulness |
| sorrower | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, lamenter, mourner |
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| sorrowfulness | (noun) a state of gloomy sorrow | Synonyms: mournfulness, ruthfulness |
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| (noun) the state of being sad | Synonyms: sadness, sorrow |
| sparrow | (noun) any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects | Synonyms: true sparrow |
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| (noun) small brownish European songbird | Synonyms: dunnock, hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis |
| throw | (noun) the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist) | - |
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| (noun) casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomly | - |
| (noun) bedclothes consisting of a lightweight cloth covering (an afghan or bedspread) that is casually thrown over something | - |
| (noun) the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam | Synonyms: cam stroke, stroke |
| (noun) a single chance or instance | - |
| throwaway | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill |
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| (noun) words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis | - |
| (noun) (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets | Synonyms: gamin, street arab |
| throwback | (noun) a reappearance of an earlier characteristic | Synonyms: atavism, reversion |
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| (noun) an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism | Synonyms: atavist |
| thrower | (noun) someone who projects something (especially by a rapid motion of the arm) | - |
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| (noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramicist, ceramist, potter |
| (noun) a person who twists silk or rayon filaments into a thread or yarn | Synonyms: throwster |
| throwster | (noun) a person who twists silk or rayon filaments into a thread or yarn | Synonyms: thrower |
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| tomorrow | (noun) the near future | - |
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| (noun) the day after today | - |
| trowel | (noun) a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials | - |
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| undergrowth | (noun) the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest | Synonyms: underbrush, underwood |
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