| hall | (noun) a large building for meetings or entertainment | - |
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| (noun) a large room for gatherings, receiving guests, or entertainment | - |
| (noun) an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open | Synonyms: hallway |
| (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dorm, dormitory, residence hall, student residence |
| (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: antechamber, anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule |
| (noun) the large room of a manor or castle | Synonyms: manor hall |
| (noun) a large and imposing house | Synonyms: manse, mansion, mansion house, residence |
| (noun) a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research | - |
| handball | (noun) a game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands | - |
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| (noun) a small rubber ball used in playing the game of handball | - |
| handbell | (noun) a bell that is held in the hand | - |
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| handbill | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, throwaway |
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| hardball | (noun) baseball as distinguished from softball | - |
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| (noun) a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics | - |
| harebell | (noun) perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: bluebell, Campanula rotundifolia |
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| (noun) sometimes placed in genus Scilla | Synonyms: bluebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
| hawkbill | (noun) pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell | Synonyms: Eretmochelys imbricata, hawksbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle |
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| hawksbill | (noun) pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell | Synonyms: Eretmochelys imbricata, hawkbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle |
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| headstall | (noun) the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head | Synonyms: headpiece |
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| hell | (noun) noisy and unrestrained mischief | Synonyms: blaze |
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| (noun) a cause of difficulty and suffering | Synonyms: blaze |
| (noun) any place of pain and turmoil | Synonyms: hell on earth, hellhole, inferno, snake pit, the pits |
| highball | (noun) a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass | - |
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| hill | (noun) (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands | Synonyms: mound, pitcher's mound |
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| (noun) structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones | Synonyms: mound |
| (noun) a local and well-defined elevation of the land | - |
| holdall | (noun) a capacious bag or basket | Synonyms: carryall, tote, tote bag |
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| hornbill | (noun) bird of tropical Africa and Asia having a very large bill surmounted by a bony protuberance; related to kingfishers | - |
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| hull | (noun) the frame or body of ship | - |
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| (noun) dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut | - |
| (noun) persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry | - |
| icefall | (noun) a steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall | - |
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| idyll | (noun) a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | Synonyms: bucolic, eclogue, idyl |
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| (noun) a musical composition that evokes rural life | Synonyms: idyl, pastoral, pastorale |
| (noun) an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll | - |
| ill | (noun) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining | Synonyms: ailment, complaint |
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| inkwell | (noun) a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped | Synonyms: inkstand |
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| ivorybill | (noun) large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct | Synonyms: Campephilus principalis, ivory-billed woodpecker |
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| jellyroll | (noun) thin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up to make a cylindrical cake | Synonyms: Swiss roll |
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| kill | (noun) the act of terminating a life | Synonyms: killing, putting to death |
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| (noun) the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile | - |
| (noun) the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal | - |
| knell | (noun) the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something | - |
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| knoll | (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hillock, hummock, mound |
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| knuckleball | (noun) a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin | Synonyms: knuckler |
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| krill | (noun) shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales | - |
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| lambkill | (noun) North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock | Synonyms: Kalmia angustifolia, pig laurel, sheep laurel |
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| lampshell | (noun) marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide | Synonyms: brachiopod, lamp shell |
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| landfall | (noun) the first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water) | - |
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| (noun) the seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water) | - |
| landfill | (noun) a low area that has been filled in | - |
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| lull | (noun) a period of calm weather | Synonyms: quiet |
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| (noun) a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished | Synonyms: letup |
| lumbermill | (noun) a mill for dressing logs and lumber | Synonyms: sawmill |
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| mall | (noun) a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk | Synonyms: promenade |
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| (noun) mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace | Synonyms: center, centre, plaza, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall |
| mandrill | (noun) baboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters | Synonyms: Mandrillus sphinx |
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| marshall | (noun) a law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law | Synonyms: marshal |
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| (noun) (in some countries) a military officer of highest rank | Synonyms: marshal |
| maxwell | (noun) a cgs unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicular to an area of 1 square centimeter in a magnetic field of 1 gauss | Synonyms: Mx |
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| meatball | (noun) ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth | - |
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| megasporophyll | (noun) in non-flowering plants, a sporophyll that bears only megasporangia | - |
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| microsporophyll | (noun) in non-flowering plants, a sporophyll that bears only microsporangia | - |
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| mill | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: grind, pulverisation, pulverization |
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| (noun) machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing | Synonyms: grinder, milling machinery |
| (noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing | Synonyms: factory, manufactory, manufacturing plant |
| molehill | (noun) a mound of earth made by moles while burrowing | - |
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| moll | (noun) the girlfriend of a gangster | Synonyms: gangster's moll, gun moll |
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| moonshell | (noun) marine gastropods having smooth rounded shells that form short spires | Synonyms: moon shell |
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| mothball | (noun) a small sphere of camphor or naphthalene used to keep moths away from stored clothing | Synonyms: camphor ball |
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| muckhill | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: dunghill, midden, muckheap |
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| mull | (noun) a term used in Scottish names of promontories | - |
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| netball | (noun) a team game that resembles basketball; a soccer ball is to be thrown so that it passes through a ring on the top of a post | - |
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| nightfall | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, twilight |
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| nimblewill | (noun) slender branching American grass of some value for grazing in central United States | Synonyms: Muhlenbergia schreberi, nimble Will |
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| null | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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| numskull | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, shithead |
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| nutshell | (noun) the shell around the kernel of a nut | - |
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| oddball | (noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric, eccentric person, flake, geek |
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| openbill | (noun) stork with a grooved bill whose upper and lower parts touch only at the base and tip | - |
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| outfall | (noun) the outlet of a river or drain or other source of water | - |
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| overall | (noun) (usually plural) work clothing consisting of denim trousers (usually with a bib and shoulder straps) | - |
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| (noun) a loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work | Synonyms: boilers suit, boilersuit |
| overcall | (noun) (bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand) | Synonyms: overbid |
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| overkill | (noun) any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal | - |
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| (noun) the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required | - |
| overspill | (noun) the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity | Synonyms: overflow, runoff |
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| (noun) the relocation of people from overcrowded cities; they are accommodated in new houses or apartments in smaller towns | - |
| paintball | (noun) a game that simulates military combat; players on one team try to eliminate players on the opposing team by shooting capsules of paint at them | - |
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| (noun) a capsule filled with water-soluble dye used as a projectile in playing the game of paintball | - |
| pall | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle |
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| (noun) burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped | Synonyms: cerement, shroud, winding-clothes, winding-sheet |
| (noun) a sudden numbing dread | Synonyms: chill |
| payroll | (noun) the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee | Synonyms: payroll department |
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| (noun) a list of employees and their salaries | Synonyms: paysheet |
| (noun) the total amount of money paid in wages | Synonyms: paysheet |
| paywall | (noun) A mechanism used to limit access to only paying users | - |
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| photocell | (noun) a transducer used to detect and measure light and other radiations | Synonyms: electric eye, magic eye, photoconductive cell, photoelectric cell |
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| pigswill | (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigwash, slop, slops, swill |
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| pill | (noun) a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet | Synonyms: lozenge, tab, tablet |
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| (noun) something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size | - |
| (noun) a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception | Synonyms: anovulant, anovulatory drug, birth control pill, contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive, oral contraceptive pill |
| (noun) something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured | - |
| (noun) a unpleasant or tiresome person | - |
| pinball | (noun) a game played on a sloping board; the object is to propel marbles against pins or into pockets | Synonyms: pinball game |
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| pitfall | (noun) a trap in the form of a concealed hole | Synonyms: pit |
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| (noun) an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty | Synonyms: booby trap |
| playbill | (noun) a theatrical program | - |
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| plimsoll | (noun) a light gym shoe with a rubber sole and a canvas top | - |
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| poll | (noun) the counting of votes (as in an election) | - |
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| (noun) the top of the head | Synonyms: crown, pate |
| (noun) the part of the head between the ears | - |
| (noun) an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people | Synonyms: canvass, opinion poll, public opinion poll |
| (noun) a tame parrot | Synonyms: poll parrot |
| poorwill | (noun) goatsucker of western North America | Synonyms: Phalaenoptilus nuttallii |
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| pratfall | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup |
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| (noun) a fall onto your buttocks | - |
| prophyll | (noun) a plant structure resembling a leaf | - |
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| puffball | (noun) any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature | Synonyms: true puffball |
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| (noun) any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Synonyms: earthball, false truffle, hard-skinned puffball |
| pull | (noun) the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you | Synonyms: pulling |
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| (noun) a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke) | Synonyms: drag, puff |
| (noun) a sustained effort | - |
| (noun) a device used for pulling something | - |
| (noun) special advantage or influence | Synonyms: clout |
| (noun) the force used in pulling | - |
| (noun) a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments | Synonyms: twist, wrench |
| punchball | (noun) an inflated ball or bag that is suspended and punched for training in boxing | Synonyms: punch bag, punching bag, punching ball |
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| pushball | (noun) a game using a leather ball six feet in diameter; the two side try to push it across the opponents' goal | - |
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| quill | (noun) a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog | - |
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| (noun) the hollow spine of a feather | Synonyms: calamus, shaft |
| (noun) any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird | Synonyms: flight feather, pinion, quill feather |
| (noun) pen made from a bird's feather | Synonyms: quill pen |
| racquetball | (noun) a game played on a handball court with short-handled rackets | - |
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| (noun) the ball used in playing the game of racquetball | - |
| rainfall | (noun) water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere | Synonyms: rain |
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| rakehell | (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, profligate, rake, rip, roue |
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| razorbill | (noun) black-and-white northern Atlantic auk having a compressed sharp-edged bill | Synonyms: Alca torda, razor-billed auk |
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| recall | (noun) the act of removing an official by petition | - |
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| (noun) the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort) | Synonyms: recollection, reminiscence |
| (noun) a call to return | - |
| (noun) a bugle call that signals troops to return | - |
| (noun) a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair) | Synonyms: callback |
| redpoll | (noun) small siskin-like finch with a red crown and a rosy breast and rump | Synonyms: Carduelis flammea |
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| (noun) small siskin-like finch with a red crown | Synonyms: Carduelis hornemanni |
| refill | (noun) a commercial product that refills a container with its appropriate contents | - |
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| (noun) a prescription drug that is provided again | - |
| rill | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rivulet, run, runnel, streamlet |
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| (noun) a small channel (as one formed by soil erosion) | - |
| roadkill | (noun) the dead body of an animal that has been killed on a road by a vehicle | - |
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| robocall | (noun) An phone call made by an automated service | - |
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| roll | (noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude | - |
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| (noun) the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling) | Synonyms: bowl |
| (noun) the act of throwing dice | Synonyms: cast |
| (noun) walking with a swaying gait | - |
| (noun) anything rolled up in cylindrical form | - |
| (noun) photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light | - |
| (noun) a list of names | Synonyms: roster |
| (noun) a document that can be rolled up (as for storage) | Synonyms: scroll |
| (noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) | Synonyms: peal, pealing, rolling |
| (noun) a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore | Synonyms: roller, rolling wave |
| (noun) rotary motion of an object around its own axis | Synonyms: axial motion, axial rotation |
| (noun) the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously | Synonyms: drum roll, paradiddle |
| (noun) small rounded bread either plain or sweet | Synonyms: bun |
| (noun) a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.) | Synonyms: bankroll |
| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, scroll, whorl |
| saddlebill | (noun) large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle | Synonyms: Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, jabiru |
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| sawbill | (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, merganser, sheldrake |
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| sawmill | (noun) a mill for dressing logs and lumber | Synonyms: lumbermill |
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| (noun) a large sawing machine | - |
| screwball | (noun) a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown | - |
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| (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crackpot, crank, fruitcake, nut, nut case |
| scroll | (noun) a document that can be rolled up (as for storage) | Synonyms: roll |
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| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, whorl |
| scull | (noun) a racing shell that is propelled by sculls | - |
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| (noun) each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman | - |
| (noun) a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward | - |
| seagull | (noun) mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs | Synonyms: gull, sea gull |
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| seashell | (noun) the shell of a marine organism | - |
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| seawall | (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: breakwater, bulwark, groin, groyne, jetty, mole |
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| sell | (noun) the activity of persuading someone to buy | - |
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