| kickback | (noun) a commercial bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into the transaction | - |
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| klick | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) | Synonyms: kilometer, kilometre, km |
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| knack | (noun) a special way of doing something | Synonyms: bent, hang |
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| knapsack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, haversack, packsack, rucksack |
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| knickknack | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknackery, nicknack, whatnot |
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| (noun) a small inexpensive mass-produced article | Synonyms: novelty |
| knock | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, rap, whack, whang |
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| (noun) negative criticism | Synonyms: roast |
| (noun) a vigorous blow | Synonyms: bang, bash, belt, smash |
| (noun) the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing) | Synonyms: knocking |
| (noun) a bad experience | - |
| kopeck | (noun) 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | Synonyms: copeck, kopek |
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| lack | (noun) the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Synonyms: deficiency, want |
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| lampblack | (noun) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | Synonyms: carbon black, crock, smut, soot |
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| laughingstock | (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: butt, goat, stooge |
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| leatherback | (noun) wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle | Synonyms: Dermochelys coriacea, leatherback turtle, leathery turtle |
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| leatherjack | (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherneck | (noun) a member of the United States Marine Corps | Synonyms: devil dog, Marine, shipboard soldier |
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| lick | (noun) touching with the tongue | Synonyms: lap |
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| (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, clout, poke, punch, slug |
| (noun) a salt deposit that animals regularly lick | Synonyms: salt lick |
| lightstick | (noun) A portable rod used for illumination. | - |
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| limerick | (noun) a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba | - |
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| linstock | (noun) a stick about a meter long with a point on one end (to stick in the ground) and a forked head on the other end (to hold a lighted match); formerly used to fire cannons | - |
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| lipstick | (noun) makeup that is used to color the lips | Synonyms: lip rouge |
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| littleneck | (noun) a young quahog | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
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| (noun) a quahog when young and small; usually eaten raw; an important food popular in New York | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
| livestock | (noun) any animals kept for use or profit | Synonyms: farm animal, stock |
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| lobsterback | (noun) British soldier; so-called because of his red coat (especially during the American Revolution) | Synonyms: redcoat |
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| lock | (noun) any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured | - |
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| (noun) a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed | - |
| (noun) a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key | Synonyms: ignition lock |
| (noun) enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it | Synonyms: lock chamber |
| (noun) a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun | - |
| (noun) a strand or cluster of hair | - |
| luck | (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, fortune, hazard |
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| (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome | Synonyms: fortune |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, portion |
| lumberjack | (noun) a short warm outer jacket | Synonyms: lumber jacket |
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| (noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: faller, feller, logger, lumberman |
| mack | (noun) a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric | Synonyms: mac, macintosh, mackintosh |
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| mahlstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: maulstick |
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| matchlock | (noun) an early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge | - |
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| matchstick | (noun) a short thin stick of wood used in making matches | - |
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| mattock | (noun) a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade set at right angles to the handle | - |
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| maulstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: mahlstick |
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| maverick | (noun) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it | - |
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| (noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: rebel |
| medick | (noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medic, trefoil |
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| meterstick | (noun) a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) | Synonyms: metrestick |
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| metrestick | (noun) a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) | Synonyms: meterstick |
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| mindfuck | (noun) Something that intentionally destabilizes, confuses or manipulates the mind of another person | - |
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| mock | (noun) the act of mocking or ridiculing | - |
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| moorcock | (noun) male red grouse | - |
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| mossback | (noun) an extremely old-fashioned conservative | - |
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| motortruck | (noun) an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling | Synonyms: truck |
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| muck | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, ooze, slime, sludge |
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| (noun) fecal matter of animals | Synonyms: droppings, dung |
| natterjack | (noun) common brownish-yellow short-legged toad of western Europe; runs rather than hops | Synonyms: Bufo calamita |
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| neck | (noun) an opening in a garment for the neck of the wearer; a part of the garment near the wearer's neck | Synonyms: neck opening |
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| (noun) a narrow part of an artifact that resembles a neck in position or form | - |
| (noun) the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body | Synonyms: cervix |
| (noun) a cut of meat from the neck of an animal | - |
| (noun) a narrow elongated projecting strip of land | - |
| niblick | (noun) an iron with considerable loft | Synonyms: nine iron |
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| nick | (noun) a small cut | Synonyms: notch, snick |
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| (noun) (British slang) a prison | - |
| (noun) an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) | Synonyms: dent, ding, gouge |
| nicknack | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknack, knickknackery, whatnot |
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| nightstick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, billystick, truncheon |
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| nudnick | (noun) (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest | Synonyms: nudnik |
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| oarlock | (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: peg, pin, rowlock, thole, tholepin |
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| outback | (noun) the bush country of the interior of Australia | - |
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| pack | (noun) a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film) | - |
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| (noun) a bundle (especially one carried on the back) | - |
| (noun) a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect | - |
| (noun) a cream that cleanses and tones the skin | Synonyms: face pack |
| (noun) a group of hunting animals | - |
| (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: camp, clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle |
| (noun) an association of criminals | Synonyms: gang, mob, ring |
| (noun) a complete collection of similar things | - |
| (noun) a large indefinite quantity | Synonyms: battalion, large number, multitude, plurality |
| packsack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, haversack, knapsack, rucksack |
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| paddock | (noun) pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race | - |
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| padlock | (noun) a detachable lock; has a hinged shackle that can be passed through the staple of a hasp or the links in a chain and then snapped shut | - |
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| paperback | (noun) a book with paper covers | Synonyms: paper-back book, paperback book, soft-cover, soft-cover book, softback, softback book |
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| payback | (noun) the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life | Synonyms: retribution, vengeance |
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| (noun) financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment) | - |
| paycheck | (noun) a check issued in payment of wages or salary | Synonyms: payroll check |
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| peachick | (noun) a young peafowl | Synonyms: pea-chick |
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| peacock | (noun) male peafowl; having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots | - |
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| (noun) European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot | Synonyms: Inachis io, peacock butterfly |
| peck | (noun) a light kiss | - |
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| (noun) bite by a bird | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (noun) a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches | - |
| (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons | - |
| penstock | (noun) conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate | Synonyms: sluice, sluiceway |
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| (noun) regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice | Synonyms: floodgate, head gate, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate |
| petcock | (noun) regulator consisting of a small cock or faucet or valve for letting out air or releasing compression or draining | - |
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| pick | (noun) the act of choosing or selecting | Synonyms: choice, option, selection |
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| (noun) a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body | - |
| (noun) a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends | Synonyms: pickax, pickaxe |
| (noun) a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material | - |
| (noun) the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | Synonyms: filling, weft, woof |
| (noun) a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument | Synonyms: plectron, plectrum |
| (noun) the person or thing chosen or selected | Synonyms: choice, selection |
| (noun) the best people or things in a group | Synonyms: cream |
| (noun) the quantity of a crop that is harvested | Synonyms: picking |
| piddock | (noun) marine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells | - |
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| piggyback | (noun) the act of carrying something piggyback | - |
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| pillock | (noun) a person who is not very bright | Synonyms: dolt, dullard, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person |
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| pinchbeck | (noun) an alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to imitate gold | - |
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| pinprick | (noun) small puncture (as if made by a pin) | - |
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| (noun) a minor annoyance | - |
| playback | (noun) the act of reproducing recorded sound | - |
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| (noun) electronic equipment comprising the part of a tape recorder that reproduces the recorded material | - |
| pluck | (noun) the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord | - |
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| (noun) the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury | Synonyms: gutsiness, pluckiness |
| pock | (noun) a pustule in an eruptive disease | - |
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| polack | (noun) a person of Polish descent | - |
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| pollack | (noun) important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod | Synonyms: Pollachius pollachius, pollock |
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| (noun) lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish | Synonyms: pollock |
| pollock | (noun) important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod | Synonyms: Pollachius pollachius, pollack |
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| (noun) lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish | Synonyms: pollack |
| poppycock | (noun) senseless talk | Synonyms: hooey, stuff, stuff and nonsense |
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| potluck | (noun) whatever happens to be available especially when offered to an unexpected guest or when brought by guests and shared by all | - |
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| prick | (noun) the act of puncturing with a small point | Synonyms: pricking |
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| (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, putz, shaft, tool |
| (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
| (noun) a depression scratched or carved into a surface | Synonyms: dent, incision, scratch, slit |
| prickleback | (noun) small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines | - |
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| (noun) small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research | Synonyms: stickleback |
| prongbuck | (noun) fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns | Synonyms: American antelope, Antilocapra americana, pronghorn, pronghorn antelope |
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| puck | (noun) a vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey | Synonyms: hockey puck |
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| pullback | (noun) (military) the act of pulling back (especially an orderly withdrawal of troops) | - |
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| (noun) a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back | Synonyms: tieback |
| quack | (noun) the harsh sound of a duck | - |
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| (noun) an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice | - |
| quarterback | (noun) (American football) the position of the football player in the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team | Synonyms: field general, signal caller |
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| (noun) (football) the person who plays quarterback | Synonyms: field general, signal caller |
| quarterdeck | (noun) the stern area of a ship's upper deck | - |
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| quick | (noun) any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail) | - |
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| racetrack | (noun) a course over which races are run | Synonyms: racecourse, raceway, track |
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| rack | (noun) a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately | Synonyms: single-foot |
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| (noun) a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body | - |
| (noun) a support for displaying ot holding various articles | Synonyms: stand |
| (noun) an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims | Synonyms: wheel |
| (noun) the destruction or collapse of something | Synonyms: wrack |
| (noun) rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton | - |
| razorback | (noun) a mongrel hog with a thin body and long legs and a ridged back; a wild or semi-wild descendant of improved breeds; found chiefly in the southeastern United States | Synonyms: razorback hog, razorbacked hog |
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| (noun) any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin | Synonyms: rorqual |
| redneck | (noun) a poor White person in the southern United States | Synonyms: cracker |
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| rick | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: hayrick, haystack |
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| (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, kink, wrick |
| rickrack | (noun) a narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming | Synonyms: ricrac |
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| roadblock | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: barricade |
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| (noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: barrier |
| rock | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: careen, sway, tilt |
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| (noun) a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western | Synonyms: rock-and-roll, rock'n'roll, rock 'n' roll, rock and roll, rock music |
| (noun) hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint) | Synonyms: rock candy |
| (noun) a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter | Synonyms: stone |
| (noun) (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable | - |
| (noun) material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust | Synonyms: stone |
| rockchuck | (noun) heavy-bodied yellowish-brown marmot of rocky areas of western North America | Synonyms: Marmota flaviventris, yellowbelly marmot |
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| roebuck | (noun) male roe deer | - |
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| rollback | (noun) the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw | Synonyms: push back |
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| (noun) reducing prices back to some earlier level | - |
| rootstock | (noun) root or part of a root used for plant propagation; especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots | - |
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| (noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure | Synonyms: rhizome, rootstalk |
| roughneck | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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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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| rubberneck | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubbernecker |
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| (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, sightseer, tripper |
| ruck | (noun) a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things | Synonyms: herd |
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| (noun) an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth) | Synonyms: pucker |