| barkeep | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeeper, bartender, mixologist |
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| beep | (noun) a short high tone produced as a signal or warning | Synonyms: bleep |
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| bleep | (noun) a short high tone produced as a signal or warning | Synonyms: beep |
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| bopeep | (noun) a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo! | Synonyms: peekaboo |
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| cassareep | (noun) a flavoring made by boiling down the juice of the bitter cassava; used in West Indian cooking | - |
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| cheep | (noun) the short weak cry of a young bird | Synonyms: peep |
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| chimneysweep | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweeper, sweep |
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| corbiestep | (noun) (architecture) a step on the top of a gable wall | Synonyms: corbel step, corbie-step, crow step |
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| creep | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, crawling, creeping |
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| (noun) a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot | - |
| (noun) a slow longitudinal movement or deformation | - |
| (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: spook, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy |
| deep | (noun) a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor | Synonyms: oceanic abyss, trench |
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| (noun) literary term for an ocean | - |
| (noun) the central and most intense or profound part | - |
| doorstep | (noun) the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway | Synonyms: doorsill, threshold |
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| dubstep | (noun) A genre of electronic music descended from 2-step garage, characterised by its dark mood, sparse, half-step and two-step rhythms, an average bpm of 140 and an emphasis on sub-bass. | - |
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| electrosleep | (noun) unconsciousness brought about by the passage of a low voltage electric current through the brain | - |
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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 |
| ginep | (noun) tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp | Synonyms: genip, honey berry, mamoncillo, Melicocca bijuga, Melicocca bijugatus, Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree |
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| instep | (noun) the part of a shoe or stocking that covers the arch of the foot | - |
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| (noun) the arch of the foot | - |
| jeep | (noun) a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain | Synonyms: landrover |
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| julep | (noun) bourbon and sugar and mint over crushed ice | Synonyms: mint julep |
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| keep | (noun) the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress | Synonyms: donjon, dungeon |
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| (noun) a cell in a jail or prison | Synonyms: hold |
| (noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, livelihood, living, support, sustenance |
| lockstep | (noun) a manner of marching in file in which each person's leg moves with and behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead | - |
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| (noun) a standard procedure that is followed mindlessly | - |
| madnep | (noun) biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root; the ancestor of cultivated parsnip | Synonyms: wild parsnip |
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| misstep | (noun) an unintentional but embarrassing blunder | Synonyms: stumble, trip-up, trip |
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| peep | (noun) a secret look | Synonyms: peek |
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| (noun) the short weak cry of a young bird | Synonyms: cheep |
| pep | (noun) liveliness and energy | Synonyms: ginger, peppiness |
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| prep | (noun) preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home) | Synonyms: preparation |
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| quickstep | (noun) a ballroom dance with both quick and slow steps | - |
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| (noun) military march accompanying quick time | - |
| rep | (noun) a fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs | Synonyms: repp |
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| (noun) informal abbreviation of `representative' | - |
| schlep | (noun) a tedious or difficult journey | Synonyms: shlep |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person | Synonyms: schlepper, shlep, shlepper |
| sheep | (noun) woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat | - |
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| (noun) a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision | - |
| (noun) a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon | - |
| shlep | (noun) a tedious or difficult journey | Synonyms: schlep |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person | Synonyms: schlep, schlepper, shlepper |
| sidestep | (noun) a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing) | - |
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| skep | (noun) a domed beehive made of twisted straw | - |
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| (noun) a large round wicker basket (used on farms) | - |
| sleep | (noun) a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended | Synonyms: slumber |
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| (noun) euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) | Synonyms: eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus, rest |
| (noun) a torpid state resembling deep sleep | Synonyms: sopor |
| (noun) a period of time spent sleeping | Synonyms: nap |
| steep | (noun) a steep place (as on a hill) | - |
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| step | (noun) the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down | - |
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| (noun) any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal | Synonyms: measure |
| (noun) a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance | Synonyms: dance step |
| (noun) support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway | Synonyms: stair |
| (noun) a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed | - |
| (noun) a musical interval of two semitones | Synonyms: tone, whole step, whole tone |
| (noun) a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface | Synonyms: footmark, footprint |
| (noun) the sound of a step of someone walking | Synonyms: footfall, footstep |
| (noun) the distance covered by a step | Synonyms: footstep, pace, stride |
| (noun) a short distance | Synonyms: stone's throw |
| (noun) relative position in a graded series | Synonyms: gradation |
| stoep | (noun) small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house | Synonyms: stoop |
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| strep | (noun) spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis | Synonyms: streptococci, streptococcus |
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| sweep | (noun) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line | Synonyms: end run |
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| (noun) a movement in an arc | - |
| (noun) a long oar used in an open boat | Synonyms: sweep oar |
| (noun) a wide scope | Synonyms: expanse |
| (noun) winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge | Synonyms: slam |
| (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, chimneysweeper |
| tweep | (noun) A person using Twitter | - |
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| upkeep | (noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order | Synonyms: care, maintenance |
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| (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: maintenance, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation |
| zep | (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge |
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