| ale | (noun) a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume | - |
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| bale | (noun) a large bundle bound for storage or transport | - |
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| chorale | (noun) a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune | Synonyms: choral |
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| dale | (noun) an open river valley (in a hilly area) | - |
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| fairytale | (noun) a story about fairies; told to amuse children | Synonyms: fairy story, fairy tale |
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| (noun) an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse | Synonyms: cock-and-bull story, fairy story, fairy tale, song and dance |
| farthingale | (noun) a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries | - |
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| female | (noun) an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa) | - |
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| (noun) a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies | Synonyms: female person |
| finale | (noun) the concluding part of any performance | Synonyms: close, closing curtain, finis |
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| (noun) the closing section of a musical composition | Synonyms: coda |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finis, finish, last, stopping point |
| folktale | (noun) a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk | Synonyms: folk tale |
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| gale | (noun) a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale | - |
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| galingale | (noun) European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots | Synonyms: Cyperus longus, galangal |
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| gunwale | (noun) wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel | Synonyms: gun rest, gunnel |
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| jugale | (noun) the craniometric point at the union of the frontal and temporal processes of the zygomatic bone | Synonyms: jugal point |
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| kale | (noun) coarse curly-leafed cabbage | Synonyms: cole, kail |
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| (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, colewort, kail |
| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| locale | (noun) the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting) | Synonyms: locus, venue |
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| male | (noun) an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova) | - |
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| (noun) a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies | Synonyms: male person |
| martingale | (noun) a harness strap that connects the nose piece to the girth; prevents the horse from throwing back its head | - |
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| (noun) spar under the bowsprit of a sailboat | Synonyms: dolphin striker |
| mastoidale | (noun) the craniometric point at the lowest point of the mastoid process | - |
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| morale | (noun) the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed | Synonyms: esprit de corps, team spirit |
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| (noun) a state of individual psychological well-being based upon a sense of confidence and usefulness and purpose | - |
| narwhale | (noun) small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk | Synonyms: Monodon monoceros, narwal, narwhal |
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| nightingale | (noun) European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song | Synonyms: Luscinia megarhynchos |
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| orbitale | (noun) the craniometric point at the lowest point on the lower edge of the orbit | Synonyms: orbital point |
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| pale | (noun) a wooden strip forming part of a fence | Synonyms: picket |
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| pastorale | (noun) a musical composition that evokes rural life | Synonyms: idyl, idyll, pastoral |
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| percale | (noun) a fine closely woven cotton fabric | - |
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| potamogale | (noun) amphibious African insectivorous mammal that resembles an otter | Synonyms: otter shrew, Potamogale velox |
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| rale | (noun) a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders) | Synonyms: rattle, rattling |
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| rationale | (noun) (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature) | Synonyms: principle |
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| resale | (noun) the selling of something purchased | - |
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| sale | (noun) a particular instance of selling | - |
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| (noun) an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices | Synonyms: cut-rate sale, sales event |
| (noun) the general activity of selling | - |
| (noun) an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer) | Synonyms: sales agreement |
| (noun) the state of being purchasable; offered or exhibited for selling | - |
| scale | (noun) a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals | - |
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| (noun) an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks | - |
| (noun) a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass | Synonyms: weighing machine |
| (noun) a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) | Synonyms: plate, shell |
| (noun) (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) | Synonyms: musical scale |
| (noun) a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin | Synonyms: exfoliation, scurf |
| (noun) a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin | Synonyms: scale leaf |
| (noun) relative magnitude | - |
| (noun) the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it | - |
| (noun) an ordered reference standard | Synonyms: graduated table, ordered series, scale of measurement |
| shale | (noun) a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay | - |
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| swale | (noun) a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges) | - |
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| tale | (noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narration, narrative, story |
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| (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, taradiddle, tarradiddle |
| tamale | (noun) dough stuffed with a meat mixture and sometimes wrapped in corn husks and steamed | Synonyms: tamal |
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| tattletale | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, telltale |
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| telltale | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale |
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| timbale | (noun) individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell | - |
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| (noun) small pastry shell for creamy mixtures of minced foods | Synonyms: timbale case |
| vale | (noun) a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river | Synonyms: valley |
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| wale | (noun) thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship | Synonyms: strake |
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| (noun) a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions | Synonyms: weal, welt, wheal |
| whale | (noun) any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head | - |
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| (noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, heavyweight, hulk |
| wholesale | (noun) the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers | - |
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