| aitchbone | (noun) a cut of beef including the H-shaped rump bone | - |
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| apparatchik | (noun) a communist who was a member of the administrative system of a communist party | - |
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| (noun) a humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organization (especially a political organization) | - |
| backscratcher | (noun) a long-handled scratcher for scratching your back | - |
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| (noun) someone who is willing to trade favors or services for mutual advantage | - |
| backstitch | (noun) an overlapping stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle of the preceding one | - |
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| batch | (noun) a collection of things or persons to be handled together | Synonyms: clutch |
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| (noun) all the loaves of bread baked at the same time | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| bewitchery | (noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, beguilement |
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| bewitchment | (noun) a magical spell | Synonyms: enchantment |
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| bitch | (noun) female of any member of the dog family | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, gripe, kick, squawk |
| (noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked | Synonyms: cunt |
| (noun) an unpleasant difficulty | - |
| bitchery | (noun) aggressive remarks and behavior like that of a spiteful malicious woman | - |
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| bitchiness | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: cattiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness |
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| blotch | (noun) an irregularly shaped spot | Synonyms: splodge, splotch |
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| botch | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| botcher | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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| brierpatch | (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier, brier patch |
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| britches | (noun) (used in the plural) informal term for breeches | - |
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| butch | (noun) a closely cropped haircut; usually for men or boys | Synonyms: crew cut, flattop |
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| (noun) (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine | Synonyms: dike, dyke |
| butcher | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: slaughterer |
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| (noun) a brutal indiscriminate murderer | - |
| (noun) a retailer of meat | Synonyms: meatman |
| (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
| butcherbird | (noun) shrikes that impale their prey on thorns | - |
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| (noun) large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns | - |
| butchering | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchery |
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| butchery | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchering |
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| (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
| (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse |
| butterscotch | (noun) a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar | - |
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| bycatch | (noun) unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species | Synonyms: by-catch |
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| caoutchouc | (noun) an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products | Synonyms: gum elastic, India rubber, natural rubber, rubber |
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| catch | (noun) the act of catching an object with the hands | Synonyms: grab, snap, snatch |
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| (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, collar, pinch, taking into custody |
| (noun) a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth | - |
| (noun) a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window | - |
| (noun) a restraint that checks the motion of something | Synonyms: stop |
| (noun) a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident | Synonyms: gimmick |
| (noun) a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion) | - |
| (noun) anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching) | - |
| (noun) a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect | Synonyms: match |
| (noun) the quantity that was caught | Synonyms: haul |
| catchall | (noun) an enclosure or receptacle for odds and ends | - |
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| catcher | (noun) the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws | - |
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| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher | Synonyms: backstop |
| catchfly | (noun) mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone | Synonyms: lychnis |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Silene | Synonyms: campion, silene |
| catching | (noun) (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team | - |
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| (noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | Synonyms: detection, espial, spotting, spying |
| (noun) becoming infected | Synonyms: contracting |
| catchment | (noun) a structure in which water is collected (especially a natural drainage area) | - |
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| catchphrase | (noun) a phrase that has become a catchword | Synonyms: catch phrase |
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| catchweed | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: cleavers, clivers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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| catchword | (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: motto, shibboleth, slogan |
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| (noun) a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page | Synonyms: guide word, guideword |
| cetchup | (noun) thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes | Synonyms: catsup, ketchup, tomato ketchup |
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| chitchat | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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| clutch | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutches, grasp, grip, hold |
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| (noun) a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism | - |
| (noun) a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism | Synonyms: clutch pedal |
| (noun) a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand | Synonyms: clutch bag |
| (noun) a collection of things or persons to be handled together | Synonyms: batch |
| (noun) a number of birds hatched at the same time | - |
| (noun) a tense critical situation | - |
| clutches | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutch, grasp, grip, hold |
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| cowcatcher | (noun) an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track | Synonyms: buffer, fender, pilot |
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| crosshatch | (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: hachure, hatch, hatching |
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| crosspatch | (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crank, grouch, grump |
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| crotch | (noun) the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk | Synonyms: fork |
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| (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: genital organ, genitalia, genitals, private parts, privates |
| (noun) the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches | Synonyms: fork |
| crotchet | (noun) a small tool or hooklike implement | - |
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| (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness |
| (noun) a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note | Synonyms: quarter note |
| (noun) a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook | Synonyms: hook |
| crotchetiness | (noun) a fussy and eccentric disposition | Synonyms: contrariness, crankiness, grumpiness |
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| crutch | (noun) anything that serves as an expedient | - |
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| (noun) a wooden or metal staff that fits under the armpit and reaches to the ground; used by disabled person while walking | - |
| cutch | (noun) tannin extract derived from any of several mangrove barks of Pacific areas | Synonyms: kutch |
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| deathwatch | (noun) bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death | Synonyms: deathwatch beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum |
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| (noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, booklouse, Liposcelis divinatorius |
| despatch | (noun) the act of sending off something | Synonyms: dispatch, shipment |
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| (noun) killing a person or animal | Synonyms: dispatch |
| (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness |
| (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: communique, dispatch |
| dispatch | (noun) the act of sending off something | Synonyms: despatch, shipment |
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| (noun) killing a person or animal | Synonyms: despatch |
| (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: despatch, expedition, expeditiousness |
| (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: communique, despatch |
| dispatcher | (noun) the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition | Synonyms: starter |
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| (noun) employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service | - |
| ditch | (noun) a long narrow excavation in the earth | - |
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| (noun) any small natural waterway | - |
| ditchmoss | (noun) submerged freshwater perennials | Synonyms: Elodea, genus Elodea, pondweed |
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| dogwatch | (noun) either of two short watches: from 4-6 pm or 6-8 pm | - |
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| dowitcher | (noun) shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe | - |
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| escutcheon | (noun) a shield; especially one displaying a coat of arms | Synonyms: scutcheon |
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| (noun) (nautical) a plate on a ship's stern on which the name is inscribed | - |
| (noun) a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers | Synonyms: finger plate, scutcheon |
| etcher | (noun) someone who etches | - |
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| etching | (noun) making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them | Synonyms: engraving |
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| (noun) an etched plate made with the use of acid | - |
| (noun) an impression made from an etched plate | - |
| eyepatch | (noun) a protective cloth covering for an injured eye | Synonyms: patch |
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| fetch | (noun) the action of fetching | - |
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| fitch | (noun) dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened | Synonyms: foulmart, foumart, Mustela putorius, polecat |
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| flitch | (noun) salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork | Synonyms: side of bacon |
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| (noun) fish steak usually cut from a halibut | - |
| flycatcher | (noun) any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing | Synonyms: Old World flycatcher, true flycatcher |
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| (noun) large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing | Synonyms: New World flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher |
| glitch | (noun) a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine | Synonyms: bug |
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| gnatcatcher | (noun) very small North American and South American warblers | - |
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| hatch | (noun) a movable barrier covering a hatchway | - |
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| (noun) a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open | Synonyms: hatchback, hatchback door, liftgate |
| (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatching |
| (noun) the production of young from an egg | Synonyms: hatching |
| hatchback | (noun) a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open | Synonyms: hatch, hatchback door, liftgate |
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| (noun) a car having a hatchback door | - |
| hatchel | (noun) a comb for separating flax fibers | Synonyms: heckle |
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| hatchery | (noun) a place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs) | - |
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| hatchet | (noun) a small ax with a short handle used with one hand (usually to chop wood) | - |
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| (noun) weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians | Synonyms: tomahawk |
| hatching | (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatch |
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| (noun) the production of young from an egg | Synonyms: hatch |
| hatchling | (noun) any recently hatched animal (especially birds) | - |
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| hatchway | (noun) an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship | Synonyms: opening, scuttle |
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| hemstitch | (noun) embroidery similar to drawnwork | - |
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| (noun) a stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups | Synonyms: hemstitching |
| hemstitching | (noun) a stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups | Synonyms: hemstitch |
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| hitch | (noun) the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg | Synonyms: hobble, limp |
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| (noun) a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot | - |
| (noun) a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls | - |
| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
| (noun) an unforeseen obstacle | Synonyms: hang-up, rub, snag |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, stay, stop, stoppage |
| (noun) a period of time spent in military service | Synonyms: duty tour, enlistment, term of enlistment, tour, tour of duty |
| hitchhiker | (noun) a person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehicles | - |
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| hitchrack | (noun) a fixed horizontal rail to which a horse can be hitched to prevent it from straying | Synonyms: hitching bar |
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| homestretch | (noun) the straight stretch of a racetrack leading to the finish line | - |
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| (noun) the end of an enterprise | - |
| hootch | (noun) an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor | Synonyms: hooch |
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| hopscotch | (noun) a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone | - |
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| hotchpotch | (noun) a stew (or thick soup) made with meat and vegetables | - |
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| (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
| hutch | (noun) a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals | - |
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| (noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling | Synonyms: hovel, hut, shack, shanty |
| itch | (noun) an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch | Synonyms: itchiness, itching |
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| (noun) a strong restless desire | Synonyms: urge |
| (noun) a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation | Synonyms: scabies |
| itchiness | (noun) an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch | Synonyms: itch, itching |
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| itching | (noun) an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch | Synonyms: itch, itchiness |
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| ketch | (noun) a sailing vessel with two masts; the mizzen is forward of the rudderpost | - |
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| ketchup | (noun) thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes | Synonyms: catsup, cetchup, tomato ketchup |
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| kitchen | (noun) a room equipped for preparing meals | - |
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| kitchenette | (noun) small kitchen | - |
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| kitchenware | (noun) hardware utensils for use in a kitchen | - |
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| kutch | (noun) tannin extract derived from any of several mangrove barks of Pacific areas | Synonyms: cutch |
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| kvetch | (noun) (Yiddish) a nagging complaint | - |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a constant complainer | - |
| latch | (noun) catch for fastening a door or gate; a bar that can be lowered or slid into a groove | - |
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| (noun) spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key | Synonyms: door latch |
| latchet | (noun) a leather strap or thong used to attach a sandal or shoe to the foot | - |
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| latchkey | (noun) key for raising or drawing back a latch or opening an outside door | - |
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| latchstring | (noun) opener consisting of a string that can be passed through a hole in a door for raising the latch from outside | - |
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| letch | (noun) man with strong sexual desires | Synonyms: lech, lecher, satyr |
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| litchee | (noun) Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried | Synonyms: leechee, lichee, lichi, litchi, litchi nut, lychee |
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| litchi | (noun) Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried | Synonyms: leechee, lichee, lichi, litchee, litchi nut, lychee |
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| (noun) Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Nephelium | Synonyms: lichee, Litchi chinensis, litchi tree, Nephelium litchi |
| lockstitch | (noun) machine stitch in which the top thread interlocks with the bobbin thread | - |
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| match | (noun) lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction | Synonyms: friction match, lucifer |
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| (noun) an exact duplicate | Synonyms: mate |
| (noun) a burning piece of wood or cardboard | - |
| (noun) something that resembles or harmonizes with | - |
| (noun) a formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete | - |
| (noun) a pair of people who live together | Synonyms: couple, mates |
| (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: compeer, equal, peer |
| (noun) a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect | Synonyms: catch |
| (noun) the score needed to win a match | - |
| matchboard | (noun) a board that has a groove cut into one edge and a tongue cut into the other so they fit tightly together (as in a floor) | - |
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