| accountantship | (noun) the position of accountant | - |
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| aircraftsman | (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force | Synonyms: aircraftman |
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| analects | (noun) a collection of excerpts from a literary work | Synonyms: analecta |
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| ancients | (noun) people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe) | - |
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| anklets | (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklet, bobbysock, bobbysocks |
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| arts | (noun) studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills) | Synonyms: humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts |
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| assets | (noun) anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company | - |
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| batsman | (noun) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting | Synonyms: batter, hitter, slugger |
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| beats | (noun) a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | Synonyms: beat generation, beatniks |
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| bestseller | (noun) a book that has had a large and rapid sale | Synonyms: best seller |
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| bitstock | (noun) a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring | Synonyms: brace |
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| blewits | (noun) edible agaric that is pale lilac when young; has a smooth moist cap | Synonyms: Clitocybe nuda |
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| boatswain | (noun) a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen | Synonyms: bo's'n, bo'sun, bos'n, bosun |
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| bootstrap | (noun) a strap that is looped and sewn to the top of a boot for pulling it on | - |
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| bortsch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borshch, borsht |
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| boxershorts | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, drawers, shorts, underdrawers |
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| breaststroke | (noun) a swimming stroke; the arms are extended together in front of the head and swept back on either side accompanied by a frog kick | - |
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| breaststroker | (noun) someone who swims the breaststroke | - |
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| cadetship | (noun) the position of cadet | - |
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| castanets | (noun) (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | Synonyms: bones, clappers, finger cymbals |
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| catsup | (noun) thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes | Synonyms: cetchup, ketchup, tomato ketchup |
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| cleats | (noun) shoes with leather or metal projections on the soles | - |
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| coltsfoot | (noun) perennial herb with large rounded leaves resembling a colt's foot and yellow flowers appearing before the leaves do; native to Europe but now nearly cosmopolitan; used medicinally especially formerly | Synonyms: Tussilago farfara |
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| (noun) tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall | Synonyms: beetleweed, galax, Galax urceolata, galaxy, wandflower |
| comforts | (noun) things that make you comfortable and at ease | Synonyms: amenities, conveniences, creature comforts |
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| compliments | (noun) (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare | Synonyms: regard, wish |
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| contents | (noun) a list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start | Synonyms: table of contents |
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| (noun) (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something | Synonyms: content |
| costs | (noun) pecuniary reimbursement to the winning party for the expenses of litigation | - |
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| courtship | (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courting, suit, wooing |
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| craftsman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, journeyman |
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| (noun) a creator of great skill in the manual arts | Synonyms: crafter |
| (noun) a professional whose work is consistently of high quality | - |
| craftsmanship | (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craft, workmanship |
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| credits | (noun) a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film) | - |
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| curtsey | (noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women | Synonyms: curtsy |
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| curtsy | (noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women | Synonyms: curtsey |
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| darts | (noun) a game in which small pointed missiles are thrown at a dartboard | - |
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| descendants | (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: posterity |
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| dessertspoon | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoonful |
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| dessertspoonful | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoon |
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| draftsman | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsperson, draughtsman |
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| (noun) an artist skilled at drawing | Synonyms: drawer |
| draftsmanship | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: drafting, drawing |
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| draftsperson | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draughtsman |
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| draughts | (noun) a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces | Synonyms: checkers |
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| draughtsman | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draftsperson |
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| eats | (noun) informal terms for a meal | Synonyms: chow, chuck, grub |
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| effects | (noun) property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business | Synonyms: personal effects |
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| eightsome | (noun) a Scottish reel for eight dancers | - |
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| (noun) eight people considered as a unit | Synonyms: octet, octette |
| elements | (noun) violent or severe weather (viewed as caused by the action of the four elements) | - |
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| entremets | (noun) a dish that is served with, but is subordinate to, a main course | Synonyms: side dish, side order |
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| esports | (noun) electronic sports | - |
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| fatso | (noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: butterball, fat person, fatty, roly-poly |
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| festschrift | (noun) a collection of writings published in honor of a scholar | - |
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| fitspiration | (noun) something that inspires you to exercise | - |
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| fitspo | (noun) an image of promoting proper exercise and diet | - |
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| flats | (noun) footwear (shoes or slippers) with no heel (or a very low heel) | - |
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| flintstone | (noun) pebbles of flint used in masonry construction | - |
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| flotsam | (noun) the floating wreckage of a ship | Synonyms: jetsam |
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| footlights | (noun) theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors | - |
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| footslogger | (noun) fights on foot with small arms | Synonyms: foot soldier, infantryman, marcher |
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| footstall | (noun) an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue) | Synonyms: pedestal, plinth |
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| footstep | (noun) the act of taking a step in walking | - |
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| (noun) the sound of a step of someone walking | Synonyms: footfall, step |
| (noun) the distance covered by a step | Synonyms: pace, step, stride |
| footstool | (noun) a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | Synonyms: footrest, ottoman, tuffet |
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| fretsaw | (noun) fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines | Synonyms: jigsaw, scroll saw |
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| frontstall | (noun) medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head | Synonyms: chamfron, chanfron, front-stall, testiere |
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| giblets | (noun) edible viscera of a fowl | Synonyms: giblet |
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| goatsbeard | (noun) weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensis |
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| goatsfoot | (noun) short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers | Synonyms: goat's foot, Oxalis caprina |
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| goatskin | (noun) the hide of a goat | - |
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| goatsucker | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: caprimulgid, nightjar |
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| grits | (noun) coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States | Synonyms: hominy grits |
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| gritstone | (noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: grit, gritrock |
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| groats | (noun) the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals | - |
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| guts | (noun) fortitude and determination | Synonyms: backbone, grit, gumption, moxie, sand |
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| gutsiness | (noun) the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury | Synonyms: pluck, pluckiness |
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| hearts | (noun) a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades | Synonyms: Black Maria |
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| heartsease | (noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: ataraxis, peace, peace of mind, peacefulness, repose, serenity |
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| (noun) common Old World viola with creamy often violet-tinged flowers | Synonyms: field pansy, Viola arvensis |
| (noun) violet of Pacific coast of North America having white petals tinged with yellow and deep violet | Synonyms: two-eyed violet, Viola ocellata |
| (noun) a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived | Synonyms: Johnny-jump-up, love-in-idleness, pink of my John, Viola tricolor, wild pansy |
| heartseed | (noun) herbaceous vine of tropical America and Africa | Synonyms: Cardiospermum grandiflorum |
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| heartsickness | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, despondency, disconsolateness |
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| heartstrings | (noun) your deepest feelings of love and compassion | - |
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| heatstroke | (noun) collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat | Synonyms: heat hyperpyrexia |
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| heights | (noun) a high place | Synonyms: high |
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| hotshot | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
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| hotspot | (noun) a lively entertainment spot | Synonyms: hot spot |
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| (noun) a point of relatively intense heat or radiation | Synonyms: hot spot |
| (noun) a place of political unrest and potential violence | Synonyms: flashpoint, hot spot, trouble spot |
| hotspur | (noun) a rash or impetuous person | - |
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| houselights | (noun) lights that illuminate the audience's part of a theater or other auditorium | - |
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| huntsman | (noun) someone who hunts game | Synonyms: hunter |
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| intelligentsia | (noun) an educated and intellectual elite | Synonyms: clerisy |
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| jetsam | (noun) the floating wreckage of a ship | Synonyms: flotsam |
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| (noun) the part of a ship's equipment or cargo that is thrown overboard to lighten the load in a storm | - |
| jiujitsu | (noun) a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker's own weight and strength | Synonyms: jujitsu, jujutsu |
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| jujitsu | (noun) a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker's own weight and strength | Synonyms: jiujitsu, jujutsu |
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| jujutsu | (noun) a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker's own weight and strength | Synonyms: jiujitsu, jujitsu |
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| kitsch | (noun) excessively garish or sentimental art; usually considered in bad taste | - |
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| lats | (noun) the basic unit of money in Latvia | - |
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| lightship | (noun) a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable | - |
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| lightsomeness | (noun) the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous | Synonyms: lightness |
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| (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, legerity, lightness, nimbleness |
| (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, insouciance, lightheartedness |
| lightstick | (noun) A portable rod used for illumination. | - |
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| lots | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| maltster | (noun) a maker of malt | Synonyms: maltman |
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| matsyendra | (noun) (Hinduism) a religious posture | - |
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| mitsvah | (noun) (Judaism) a good deed performed out of religious duty | Synonyms: mitzvah |
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| (noun) (Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law | Synonyms: mitzvah |
| muniments | (noun) deeds and other documentary evidence of title to land | - |
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| nightshade | (noun) any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit | - |
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