| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| barley | (noun) a grain of barley | Synonyms: barleycorn |
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| (noun) cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain | - |
| diddley | (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat |
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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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| 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 | - |
| 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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| kiley | (noun) an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex | Synonyms: kylie |
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| langley | (noun) unit of solar radiation | - |
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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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| 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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| 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 |
| paisley | (noun) a soft wool fabric with a colorful swirled pattern of curved shapes | - |
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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 |
| 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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| 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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| ridley | (noun) a marine turtle | - |
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| smiley | (noun) an emoticon of a smiling face | - |
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| tomalley | (noun) edible greenish substance in boiled lobster | - |
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| trolley | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity | Synonyms: streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley car |
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| valley | (noun) a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river | Synonyms: vale |
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| volley | (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: burst, fusillade, salvo |
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| (noun) a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces | - |