| babytalk | (noun) the developing speech of a young child | Synonyms: baby talk |
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| (noun) an adult's imitation of the speech of a young child | Synonyms: baby talk, motherese |
| backtalk | (noun) an impudent or insolent rejoinder | Synonyms: back talk, lip, mouth, sass, sassing |
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| balk | (noun) an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base | - |
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| (noun) one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof | Synonyms: baulk, rafter |
| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
| (noun) the area on a billiard table behind the balkline | Synonyms: baulk |
| baulk | (noun) one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof | Synonyms: balk, rafter |
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| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
| (noun) the area on a billiard table behind the balkline | Synonyms: balk |
| beanstalk | (noun) stem of a bean plant | - |
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| boardwalk | (noun) a walkway made of wooden boards; usually at seaside | - |
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| bulk | (noun) the property of something that is great in magnitude | Synonyms: mass, volume |
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| (noun) the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part | Synonyms: majority |
| (noun) the property possessed by a large mass | - |
| buttermilk | (noun) residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture | - |
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| cakewalk | (noun) a strutting dance based on a march; was performed in minstrel shows; originated as a competition among Black dancers to win a cake | - |
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| (noun) an easy accomplishment | - |
| calk | (noun) a metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping | Synonyms: calkin |
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| catwalk | (noun) narrow pathway high in the air (as above a stage or between parts of a building or along a bridge) | - |
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| (noun) narrow platform extending out into an auditorium | - |
| caulk | (noun) a waterproof filler and sealant that is used in building and repair to make watertight | Synonyms: caulking |
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| chalk | (noun) a piece of calcite or a similar substance, usually in the shape of a crayon, that is used to write or draw on blackboards or other flat surfaces | - |
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| (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
| (noun) a pure flat white with little reflectance | - |
| (noun) a soft whitish calcite | - |
| cornsilk | (noun) each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn | Synonyms: corn silk |
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| cornstalk | (noun) the stalk of a corn plant | Synonyms: corn stalk |
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| countryfolk | (noun) people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics | Synonyms: country people |
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| (noun) people living in the same country; compatriots | Synonyms: country people |
| crosstalk | (noun) the presence of an unwanted signal via an accidental coupling | Synonyms: XT |
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| crosswalk | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crossover |
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| elk | (noun) large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America | Synonyms: Alces alces, moose |
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| (noun) common deer of temperate Europe and Asia | Synonyms: American elk, Cervus elaphus, red deer, wapiti |
| (noun) large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male | Synonyms: American elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis, wapiti |
| folk | (noun) the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community | Synonyms: ethnic music, folk music |
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| (noun) people in general (often used in the plural) | Synonyms: common people, folks |
| (noun) a social division of (usually preliterate) people | Synonyms: tribe |
| (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept |
| foremilk | (noun) milky fluid secreted for the first day or two after parturition | Synonyms: colostrum |
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| gentlefolk | (noun) people of good family and breeding and high social status | - |
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| homefolk | (noun) the people of your home locality (especially your own family) | - |
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| hulk | (noun) a ship that has been wrecked and abandoned | - |
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| (noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, heavyweight, whale |
| ilk | (noun) a kind of person | Synonyms: like |
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| kinfolk | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept |
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| kinsfolk | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, phratry, sept |
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| leafstalk | (noun) the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf | Synonyms: petiole |
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| milk | (noun) produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young | - |
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| (noun) a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings | - |
| (noun) any of several nutritive milklike liquids | - |
| moonwalk | (noun) an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon | - |
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| (noun) a kind of dance step in which the dancer seems to be sliding on the spot | - |
| rootstalk | (noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure | Synonyms: rhizome, rootstock |
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| ropewalk | (noun) workplace consisting of a long narrow path or shed where rope is made | Synonyms: rope yard |
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| sheepwalk | (noun) farm devoted to raising sheep | Synonyms: sheeprun |
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| sidewalk | (noun) walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway | Synonyms: pavement |
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| silk | (noun) a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae | - |
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| (noun) animal fibers produced by silkworms and other larvae that spin cocoons and by most spiders | - |
| skywalk | (noun) an elevated walkway between buildings (usually enclosed) | - |
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| soymilk | (noun) a milk substitute containing soybean flour and water; used in some infant formulas and in making tofu | Synonyms: soya milk, soybean milk |
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| stalk | (noun) a stiff or threatening gait | Synonyms: angry walk |
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| (noun) the act of following prey stealthily | Synonyms: stalking |
| (noun) a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush | Synonyms: stalking, still hunt |
| (noun) a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ | Synonyms: stem |
| (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, husk, shuck, straw, stubble |
| sulk | (noun) a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal | Synonyms: sulkiness |
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| talk | (noun) the act of giving a talk to an audience | - |
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| (noun) an exchange of ideas via conversation | Synonyms: talking |
| (noun) idle gossip or rumor | Synonyms: talk of the town |
| (noun) a speech that is open to the public | Synonyms: lecture, public lecture |
| (noun) discussion; (`talk about' is a less formal alternative for `discussion of') | - |
| townsfolk | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: town, townspeople |
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| walk | (noun) the act of traveling by foot | Synonyms: walking |
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| (noun) (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls | Synonyms: base on balls, pass |
| (noun) a slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground | - |
| (noun) the act of walking somewhere | - |
| (noun) careers in general | Synonyms: walk of life |
| (noun) a path set aside for walking | Synonyms: paseo, walkway |
| (noun) manner of walking | Synonyms: manner of walking |
| whelk | (noun) large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell | - |
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| (noun) large marine snail much used as food in Europe | - |
| yolk | (noun) nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg) | Synonyms: vitellus |
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| (noun) the yellow spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the albumen | Synonyms: egg yolk |