| abbey | (noun) a monastery ruled by an abbot | - |
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| (noun) a convent ruled by an abbess | - |
| (noun) a church associated with a monastery or convent | - |
| alley | (noun) a narrow street with walls on both sides | Synonyms: alleyway, back street |
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| (noun) a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins | Synonyms: bowling alley, skittle alley |
| attorney | (noun) a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice | Synonyms: lawyer |
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| bailey | (noun) the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle | - |
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| (noun) the outer courtyard of a castle | - |
| baloney | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| barley | (noun) a grain of barley | Synonyms: barleycorn |
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| (noun) cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain | - |
| bey | (noun) the governor of a district or province in the Ottoman Empire | - |
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| (noun) (formerly) a title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt | - |
| blarney | (noun) flattery designed to gain favor | Synonyms: coaxing, soft soap, sweet talk |
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| bogey | (noun) an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft | Synonyms: bogie, bogy |
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| (noun) a bogle or goblin; where used as a proper name, the Devil | Synonyms: bogie, bogy |
| (noun) (golf) a score of one stroke over par on a hole | - |
| boloney | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| chantey | (noun) a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors | Synonyms: chanty, sea chantey, shanty |
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| chimney | (noun) a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building | - |
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| (noun) a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp | Synonyms: lamp chimney |
| chokey | (noun) British slang (dated) for a prison | Synonyms: choky |
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| chutney | (noun) a spicy condiment made of chopped fruits or vegetables cooked in vinegar and sugar with ginger and spices | Synonyms: Indian relish |
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| cockney | (noun) the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London | - |
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| comfrey | (noun) leaves make a popular tisane; young leaves used in salads or cooked | Synonyms: healing herb |
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| (noun) perennial herbs of Europe and Iran; make rapidly growing groundcover for shaded areas | Synonyms: cumfrey |
| coney | (noun) black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins | Synonyms: Epinephelus fulvus |
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| (noun) any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food | Synonyms: cony, rabbit |
| (noun) small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America | Synonyms: cony, mouse hare, pika, rock rabbit |
| (noun) any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | Synonyms: cony, das, dassie, hyrax |
| covey | (noun) a small flock of grouse or partridge | - |
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| (noun) a small collection of people | - |
| cumfrey | (noun) perennial herbs of Europe and Iran; make rapidly growing groundcover for shaded areas | Synonyms: comfrey |
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| curtsey | (noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women | Synonyms: curtsy |
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| darkey | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkie, darky |
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| dickey | (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickie, dicky, shirtfront |
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| (noun) a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater | Synonyms: dickey-seat, dickie-seat, dickie, dicky-seat, dicky |
| diddley | (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat |
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| dinkey | (noun) a small locomotive | Synonyms: dinky |
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| donkey | (noun) domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn | Synonyms: domestic ass, Equus asinus |
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| (noun) the symbol of the Democratic Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874 | - |
| doohickey | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| doyley | (noun) a small round piece of linen placed under a dish or bowl | Synonyms: doily, doyly |
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| drey | (noun) the nest of a squirrel | - |
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| flunkey | (noun) a person of unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: flunky, stooge, yes-man |
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| (noun) a male servant (especially a footman) | Synonyms: flunky, lackey |
| fogey | (noun) someone whose style is out of fashion | Synonyms: dodo, fogy, fossil |
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| galley | (noun) the area for food preparation on a ship | Synonyms: caboose, cookhouse, ship's galley |
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| (noun) the kitchen area for food preparation on an airliner | - |
| (noun) (classical antiquity) a crescent-shaped seagoing vessel propelled by oars | - |
| (noun) a large medieval vessel with a single deck propelled by sails and oars with guns at stern and prow; a complement of 1,000 men; used mainly in the Mediterranean for war and trading | - |
| garganey | (noun) small Eurasian teal | Synonyms: Anas querquedula |
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| gooney | (noun) a variety of albatross with black feet | Synonyms: black-footed albatross, Diomedea nigripes, gooney bird, goonie, goony |
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| grey | (noun) horse of a light gray or whitish color | Synonyms: gray |
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| (noun) clothing that is a grey color | Synonyms: gray |
| (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayness, greyness |
| (noun) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey | Synonyms: gray |
| gurney | (noun) a metal stretcher with wheels | - |
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| hackney | (noun) a compact breed of harness horse | - |
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| (noun) a carriage for hire | Synonyms: hackney carriage, hackney coach |
| hankey | (noun) a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | Synonyms: handkerchief, hankie, hanky |
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| hartley | (noun) a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. | Synonyms: ban, dit, Hart |
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| hickey | (noun) a temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover | Synonyms: love bite |
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| (noun) a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne | Synonyms: pimple, zit |
| hockey | (noun) a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field; two opposing teams use curved hockey sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net | Synonyms: field hockey |
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| (noun) a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled hockey sticks | Synonyms: hockey game, ice hockey |
| honey | (noun) a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees | - |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| honkey | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkie, honky, whitey |
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| hooey | (noun) senseless talk | Synonyms: poppycock, stuff, stuff and nonsense |
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| jersey | (noun) a slightly elastic machine-knit fabric | - |
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| (noun) a close-fitting pullover shirt | Synonyms: T-shirt, tee shirt |
| jimhickey | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimdandy |
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| (noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimdandy |
| jitney | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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| jockey | (noun) someone employed to ride horses in horse races | - |
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| (noun) an operator of some vehicle or machine or apparatus | - |
| journey | (noun) the act of traveling from one place to another | Synonyms: journeying |
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| key | (noun) metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated | - |
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| (noun) a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed | - |
| (noun) mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock) | Synonyms: winder |
| (noun) the central building block at the top of an arch or vault | Synonyms: headstone, keystone |
| (noun) pitch of the voice | - |
| (noun) something crucial for explaining | - |
| (noun) any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music | Synonyms: tonality |
| (noun) a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access | - |
| (noun) a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations | - |
| (noun) a list of answers to a test | - |
| (noun) (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court | Synonyms: paint |
| (noun) a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida | Synonyms: cay, Florida key |
| (noun) a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple | Synonyms: key fruit, samara |
| (noun) a kilogram of a narcotic drug | - |
| kidney | (noun) either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine | - |
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| kiley | (noun) an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex | Synonyms: kylie |
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| lackey | (noun) a male servant (especially a footman) | Synonyms: flunkey, flunky |
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| (noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | Synonyms: ass-kisser, crawler, sycophant, toady |
| lamprey | (noun) primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue | Synonyms: lamper eel, lamprey eel |
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| langley | (noun) unit of solar radiation | - |
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| latchkey | (noun) key for raising or drawing back a latch or opening an outside door | - |
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| ley | (noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, lea, pasture, pasture land, pastureland |
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| limey | (noun) a man of English descent | Synonyms: John Bull |
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| looney | (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, loony, nutcase, weirdo |
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| maguey | (noun) Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine | Synonyms: Agave cantala, cantala |
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| (noun) Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal | Synonyms: Agave atrovirens |
| malarkey | (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarky, nothingness, wind |
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| malmsey | (noun) sweet Madeira wine | - |
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| mamey | (noun) globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh | Synonyms: mammee, mammee apple |
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| (noun) tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind | Synonyms: Mammea americana, mammee, mammee apple, mammee tree |
| mangabey | (noun) large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids | - |
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| medley | (noun) a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources | Synonyms: pastiche, potpourri |
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| money | (noun) the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender | - |
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| (noun) the official currency issued by a government or national bank | - |
| (noun) wealth reckoned in terms of money | - |
| monkey | (noun) any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) | - |
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| (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp |
| motley | (noun) a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England | - |
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| (noun) a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume) | - |
| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| odyssey | (noun) a long wandering and eventful journey | - |
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| okey | (noun) an endorsement | Synonyms: O.K., OK, okay, okeh |
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| orphrey | (noun) a richly embroidered edging on an ecclesiastical vestment | - |
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| osprey | (noun) large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years | Synonyms: fish eagle, fish hawk, Pandion haliaetus, sea eagle |
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| paisley | (noun) a soft wool fabric with a colorful swirled pattern of curved shapes | - |
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| palfrey | (noun) especially a light saddle horse for a woman | - |
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| parley | (noun) a negotiation between enemies | - |
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| parsley | (noun) aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food | - |
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| (noun) annual or perennial herb with aromatic leaves | Synonyms: Petroselinum crispum |
| passkey | (noun) key that secures entrance everywhere | Synonyms: master, master key, passe-partout |
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| peavey | (noun) a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs | Synonyms: cant dog, dog hook, peavy |
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| phoney | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phony, pretender |
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| pogey | (noun) money received from the state | Synonyms: dole, pogy |
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| pokey | (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: clink, gaol, jail, jailhouse, poky, slammer |
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| prey | (noun) animal hunted or caught for food | Synonyms: quarry |
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| (noun) a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence | Synonyms: fair game, quarry, target |
| pulley | (noun) a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope | Synonyms: block, pulley-block, pulley block |
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| punkey | (noun) minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects | Synonyms: biting midge, no-see-um, punkie, punky |
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| pussley | (noun) weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: common purslane, Portulaca oleracea, pussly, verdolagas |
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| resurvey | (noun) a new survey or study | - |
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| rickey | (noun) a mixed drink made of sweetened lime juice and soda water usually with liquor | - |
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| ridley | (noun) a marine turtle | - |
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| shinney | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinny |
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| slavey | (noun) a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work | Synonyms: skivvy |
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| smiley | (noun) an emoticon of a smiling face | - |
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| spinney | (noun) a copse that shelters game | - |
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| storey | (noun) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale | Synonyms: floor, level, story |
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| surrey | (noun) a light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; has two or four seats | - |
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| survey | (noun) the act of looking or seeing or observing | Synonyms: sight, view |
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| (noun) a detailed critical inspection | Synonyms: study |
| (noun) short descriptive summary (of events) | Synonyms: resume, sketch |
| tomalley | (noun) edible greenish substance in boiled lobster | - |
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| tourney | (noun) a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner | Synonyms: tournament |
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| trey | (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips | Synonyms: three |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| trolley | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity | Synonyms: streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley car |
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| turkey | (noun) large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food | Synonyms: Meleagris gallopavo |
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| (noun) an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual | Synonyms: bomb, dud |
| (noun) flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted | - |
| (noun) a person who does something thoughtless or annoying | Synonyms: joker |
| turnkey | (noun) someone who guards prisoners | Synonyms: gaoler, jailer, jailor, prison guard, screw |
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