| abutter | (noun) the owner of contiguous property | - |
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| bellybutton | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, navel, omphalos, omphalus, umbilicus |
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| butt | (noun) thick end of the handle | Synonyms: butt end |
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| (noun) the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking) | Synonyms: stub |
| (noun) a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons) | - |
| (noun) sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at | Synonyms: target |
| (noun) finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking | Synonyms: cigaret, cigarette, coffin nail, fag |
| (noun) a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping | Synonyms: butt joint |
| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: goat, laughingstock, stooge |
| (noun) the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots | - |
| butte | (noun) a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides | - |
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| butter | (noun) an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use | - |
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| (noun) a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head | - |
| butterball | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, dipper |
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| (noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: fat person, fatso, fatty, roly-poly |
| butterbean | (noun) small flat green bean similar to lima beans | Synonyms: butter bean, civet bean, sieva bean |
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| butterbur | (noun) small Eurasian herb having broad leaves and lilac-pink rayless flowers; found in moist areas | Synonyms: bog rhubarb, Petasites hybridus, Petasites vulgaris |
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| buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
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| buttercup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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| butterfat | (noun) the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made | - |
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| butterfingers | (noun) someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball) | - |
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| butterfish | (noun) small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines | Synonyms: stromateid, stromateid fish |
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| (noun) slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel |
| (noun) any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin | - |
| butterflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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| butterfly | (noun) a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down | Synonyms: butterfly stroke |
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| (noun) diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings | - |
| butterflyfish | (noun) tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins | Synonyms: flying gurnard, flying robin |
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| buttermilk | (noun) residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture | - |
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| butternut | (noun) oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family | - |
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| (noun) North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye | Synonyms: butternut tree, Juglans cinerea, white walnut |
| butterscotch | (noun) a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar | - |
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| butterweed | (noun) any of several yellow-flowered plants of the genus Packera; often placed in genus Senecio | - |
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| (noun) American ragwort with yellow flowers | Synonyms: ragwort, Senecio glabellus |
| butterwort | (noun) any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects | - |
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| buttery | (noun) a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals | - |
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| (noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: larder, pantry |
| buttinsky | (noun) a meddler who tends to butt in | - |
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| buttock | (noun) either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump | Synonyms: cheek |
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| buttocks | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| button | (noun) a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes | - |
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| (noun) an electrical switch operated by pressing | Synonyms: push, push button |
| (noun) a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism | Synonyms: release |
| (noun) any artifact that resembles a button | - |
| (noun) a specific area or icon in graphical user interface systems that is clicked or pressed in order to select a command or perform an action | - |
| (noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: clit, clitoris |
| (noun) a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment | - |
| (noun) any of various plant parts that resemble buttons | - |
| buttonhole | (noun) a hole through which buttons are pushed | Synonyms: button hole |
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| buttonhook | (noun) a hook for pulling a button through a buttonhole | - |
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| buttonwood | (noun) very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico | Synonyms: American plane, American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis |
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| buttress | (noun) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | Synonyms: buttressing |
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| buttressing | (noun) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | Synonyms: buttress |
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| butty | (noun) a sandwich | - |
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| canecutter | (noun) a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands | Synonyms: swamp hare, swamp rabbit, Sylvilagus aquaticus |
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| clutter | (noun) unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen | - |
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| (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter |
| cutter | (noun) a cutting implement; a tool for cutting | Synonyms: cutlery, cutting tool |
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| (noun) a boat for communication between ship and shore | Synonyms: pinnace, ship's boat, tender |
| (noun) a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop | - |
| (noun) someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments) | - |
| (noun) someone who carves the meat | Synonyms: carver |
| (noun) someone who cuts or carves stone | Synonyms: stonecutter |
| cutthroat | (noun) someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat | - |
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| cutting | (noun) the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends | Synonyms: cut, cutting off |
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| (noun) the act of cutting something into parts | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film | Synonyms: film editing |
| (noun) the act of diluting something | Synonyms: thinning |
| (noun) removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape | Synonyms: carving |
| (noun) the division of a deck of cards before dealing | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: clipping, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting |
| (noun) a piece cut off from the main part of something | - |
| (noun) a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting | Synonyms: slip |
| cuttle | (noun) ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell | Synonyms: cuttlefish |
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| cuttlefish | (noun) ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell | Synonyms: cuttle |
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| flutter | (noun) the act of moving back and forth | Synonyms: flicker, waver |
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| (noun) the motion made by flapping up and down | Synonyms: flap, flapping, fluttering |
| (noun) abnormally rapid beating of the auricles of the heart (especially in a regular rhythm); can result in heart block | - |
| (noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: commotion, disruption, disturbance, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do |
| fluttering | (noun) the motion made by flapping up and down | Synonyms: flap, flapping, flutter |
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| glutton | (noun) musteline mammal of northern Eurasia | Synonyms: Gulo gulo, wolverine |
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| (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman |
| gluttony | (noun) eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: gula, overeating |
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| (noun) habitual eating to excess | - |
| gutter | (noun) a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater | Synonyms: trough |
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| (noun) a tool for gutting fish | - |
| (noun) a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.) | - |
| (noun) misfortune resulting in lost effort or money | Synonyms: sewer, toilet |
| guttersnipe | (noun) a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas | Synonyms: street urchin |
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| guttural | (noun) a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat | Synonyms: guttural consonant, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonant |
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| jutting | (noun) the act of projecting out from something | Synonyms: jut, projection, protrusion |
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| mutt | (noun) an inferior dog or one of mixed breed | Synonyms: cur, mongrel |
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| mutter | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, muttering |
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| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, muttering |
| mutterer | (noun) a person who speaks softly and indistinctly | Synonyms: mumbler, murmurer |
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| muttering | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, mutter |
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| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, mutter |
| mutton | (noun) meat from a mature domestic sheep | Synonyms: mouton |
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| muttonfish | (noun) similar to and often marketed as `red snapper' | Synonyms: Lutjanus analis, mutton snapper |
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| muttonhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, numskull, shithead |
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| nutter | (noun) a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad | Synonyms: wacko, whacko |
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| outtake | (noun) a scene that is filmed but is not used in the final editing of the film | - |
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| outthrust | (noun) an outcropping of rock that extends outward | - |
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| outturn | (noun) what is produced in a given time period | Synonyms: output, turnout |
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| prosciutto | (noun) Italian salt-cured ham usually sliced paper thin | - |
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| putt | (noun) hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter | Synonyms: putting |
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| puttee | (noun) a strip of cloth wound around the leg to form legging; used by soldiers in World War I | - |
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| putter | (noun) the iron normally used on the putting green | Synonyms: putting iron |
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| (noun) a golfer who is putting | - |
| putterer | (noun) a person who putters about | Synonyms: potterer |
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| putting | (noun) hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter | Synonyms: putt |
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| putty | (noun) a dough-like mixture of whiting and boiled linseed oil; used especially to patch woodwork or secure panes of glass | - |
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| puttyroot | (noun) North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers | Synonyms: adam-and-eve, Aplectrum hyemale |
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| rebuttal | (noun) the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument | - |
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| (noun) (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder | Synonyms: rebutter |
| rebutter | (noun) (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder | Synonyms: rebuttal |
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| (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, disprover, refuter |
| scuttle | (noun) container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire | Synonyms: coal scuttle |
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| (noun) an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship | Synonyms: hatchway, opening |
| scuttlebutt | (noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: comment, gossip |
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| shutter | (noun) a hinged blind for a window | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure | - |
| shutterbug | (noun) a photography enthusiast | - |
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| shutting | (noun) the act of closing something | Synonyms: closing |
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| shuttle | (noun) bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads | - |
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| (noun) public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that flies back and forth between two points | - |
| (noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: bird, birdie, shuttlecock |
| shuttlecock | (noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: bird, birdie, shuttle |
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| sluttishness | (noun) in the manner of a slattern | Synonyms: slatternliness |
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| smuttiness | (noun) obscenity in speech or writing | Synonyms: dirtiness |
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| (noun) the state of being dirty with soot | Synonyms: sootiness |
| splutter | (noun) an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage) | Synonyms: sputter |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, sputter, sputtering |
| sputter | (noun) an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage) | Synonyms: splutter |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputtering |
| sputtering | (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter |
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| stonecutter | (noun) someone who cuts or carves stone | Synonyms: cutter |
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| stutter | (noun) a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds | Synonyms: stammer |
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| stutterer | (noun) someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions | Synonyms: stammerer |
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| surrebuttal | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter | Synonyms: surrebutter |
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| surrebutter | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter | Synonyms: surrebuttal |
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| suttee | (noun) the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband | - |
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| utterance | (noun) the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication | Synonyms: vocalization |
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| utterer | (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: speaker, talker, verbaliser, verbalizer |
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| (noun) someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins | - |
| (noun) an organism that can utter vocal sounds | Synonyms: vocaliser, vocalizer |
| uttermost | (noun) the greatest possible degree | Synonyms: level best, maximum, utmost |
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| utterness | (noun) the quality of being complete or utter or extreme | Synonyms: absoluteness, starkness |
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| woodcutter | (noun) cuts down trees and chops wood as a job | - |
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