| beak | (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: bill, neb, nib, pecker |
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| (noun) beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles) | - |
| (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
| (noun) a beaklike, tapering tip on certain plant structures | - |
| beefsteak | (noun) a beef steak usually cooked by broiling | - |
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| break | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: breakage, breaking |
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| (noun) an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Synonyms: disruption, gap, interruption |
| (noun) a sudden dash | - |
| (noun) the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool | - |
| (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
| (noun) a pause from doing something (as work) | Synonyms: recess, respite, time out |
| (noun) any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare | Synonyms: open frame |
| (noun) (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving | Synonyms: break of serve |
| (noun) some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity | Synonyms: interruption |
| (noun) an unexpected piece of good luck | Synonyms: good luck, happy chance |
| (noun) the occurrence of breaking | - |
| (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, falling out, rift, rupture, severance |
| (noun) an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion) | - |
| (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift |
| (noun) breaking of hard tissue such as bone | Synonyms: fracture |
| (noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: intermission, interruption, pause, suspension |
| chopsteak | (noun) a patty of ground cooked beef | Synonyms: beef patty, chop steak, chopped steak, hamburger steak |
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| creak | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creaking |
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| daybreak | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| doctorspeak | (noun) medical jargon | - |
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| doublespeak | (noun) any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not | - |
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| firebreak | (noun) a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire | Synonyms: fireguard |
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| freak | (noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: lusus naturae, monster, monstrosity |
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| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, junkie, junky, nut |
| gaolbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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| grosbeak | (noun) any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill | Synonyms: grossbeak |
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| grossbeak | (noun) any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill | Synonyms: grosbeak |
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| hairstreak | (noun) small butterflies having striped markings under the wings | Synonyms: hairstreak butterfly |
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| halfbeak | (noun) tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw | - |
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| heartbreak | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, grief, heartache |
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| jailbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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| (noun) the removal of security locks from an electronic device | - |
| leak | (noun) unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information | Synonyms: news leak |
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| (noun) the discharge of a fluid from some container | Synonyms: escape, leakage, outflow |
| (noun) an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape | - |
| (noun) a euphemism for urination | Synonyms: making water, passing water, wetting |
| (noun) soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi | - |
| newsbreak | (noun) a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story | Synonyms: flash, news bulletin, newsflash |
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| newspeak | (noun) deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public | - |
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| outbreak | (noun) a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition) | Synonyms: eruption, irruption |
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| peak | (noun) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes | Synonyms: bill, eyeshade, visor, vizor |
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| (noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crest, crown, summit, tip, top |
| (noun) the highest point (of something) | Synonyms: acme, apex, vertex |
| (noun) the most extreme possible amount or value | Synonyms: extremum |
| (noun) a V shape | Synonyms: point, tip |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, prime |
| prisonbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking |
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| sneak | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
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| (noun) someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions | Synonyms: prowler, stalker |
| (noun) a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible | - |
| squeak | (noun) something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin | Synonyms: close call, close shave, narrow escape, squeaker |
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| (noun) a short high-pitched noise | - |
| steak | (noun) a slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish | - |
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| streak | (noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | Synonyms: bar, stripe |
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| (noun) a distinctive characteristic | - |
| (noun) a sudden flash (as of lightning) | - |
| (noun) an unbroken series of events | Synonyms: run |
| teak | (noun) tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood | Synonyms: Tectona grandis |
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| (noun) hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding | Synonyms: teakwood |
| tweak | (noun) a squeeze with the fingers | Synonyms: pinch |
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| windbreak | (noun) hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion | Synonyms: shelterbelt |
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