| abvolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one-hundred-millionth of a volt | - |
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| adult | (noun) any mature animal | - |
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| (noun) a fully developed person from maturity onward | Synonyms: grownup |
| antepenult | (noun) the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end | Synonyms: antepenultima, antepenultimate |
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| asphalt | (noun) a dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as residue from petroleum distillation; consists mainly of hydrocarbons | Synonyms: mineral pitch |
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| (noun) mixed asphalt and crushed gravel or sand; used especially for paving but also for roofing | - |
| assault | (noun) close fighting during the culmination of a military attack | - |
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| (noun) a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped | - |
| (noun) the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will | Synonyms: rape, ravishment, violation |
| basalt | (noun) the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene | - |
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| belt | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: knock, rap, whack, whang |
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| (noun) a band to tie or buckle around the body (usually at the waist) | - |
| (noun) endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys | - |
| (noun) ammunition (usually of small caliber) loaded in flexible linked strips for use in a machine gun | Synonyms: belt ammunition, belted ammunition |
| (noun) a vigorous blow | Synonyms: bang, bash, knock, smash |
| (noun) an elongated region where a specific condition or characteristic is found | - |
| (noun) a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing) | Synonyms: swath |
| bloodguilt | (noun) the state of being guilty of bloodshed and murder | - |
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| bolt | (noun) a sudden abandonment (as from a political party) | - |
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| (noun) the act of moving with great haste | Synonyms: dash |
| (noun) a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener | - |
| (noun) the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key | Synonyms: deadbolt |
| (noun) a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech | - |
| (noun) a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length | - |
| (noun) a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder | Synonyms: bolt of lightning, thunderbolt |
| catapult | (noun) an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles | - |
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| (noun) a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones | Synonyms: sling, slingshot |
| (noun) a device that launches aircraft from a warship | Synonyms: launcher |
| cobalt | (noun) a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition | Synonyms: atomic number 27, Co |
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| colt | (noun) a young male horse under the age of four | - |
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| cult | (noun) a system of religious beliefs and rituals | Synonyms: cultus, religious cult |
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| (noun) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal | Synonyms: craze, fad, furor, furore, rage |
| (noun) a religion or sect that is generally considered to be unorthodox, extremist, or false | - |
| (noun) followers of an exclusive system of beliefs and practices | - |
| (noun) followers of an unorthodox, extremist, or false religion or sect who often live outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader | - |
| deadbolt | (noun) the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key | Synonyms: bolt |
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| default | (noun) loss due to not showing up | - |
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| (noun) an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified | Synonyms: default option |
| (noun) loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid | Synonyms: nonpayment, nonremittal |
| (noun) act of failing to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: nonpayment, nonremittal |
| dolt | (noun) a person who is not very bright | Synonyms: dullard, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person |
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| fault | (noun) a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention | Synonyms: error, mistake |
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| (noun) (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area) | - |
| (noun) the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection | Synonyms: demerit |
| (noun) responsibility for a bad situation or event | - |
| (noun) (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.) | - |
| (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift |
| (noun) an imperfection in an object or machine | Synonyms: defect, flaw |
| felt | (noun) a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers | - |
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| femtovolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one quadrillionth of a volt (or one thousandth of a picovolt) | - |
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| footfault | (noun) a fault that occurs when the server in tennis fails to keep both feet behind the baseline | - |
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| gelt | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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| gestalt | (noun) a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts | - |
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| gilt | (noun) a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold | Synonyms: gilding |
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| greenbelt | (noun) a belt of parks or rural land surrounding a town or city | Synonyms: greenway |
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| guilt | (noun) remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense | Synonyms: guilt feelings, guilt trip, guilty conscience |
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| (noun) the state of having committed an offense | Synonyms: guiltiness |
| halt | (noun) an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement | Synonyms: freeze |
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| (noun) the event of something ending | Synonyms: stop |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage |
| hilt | (noun) the handle of a sword or dagger | - |
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| insult | (noun) a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect | Synonyms: affront |
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| (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: abuse, contumely, revilement, vilification |
| jacksmelt | (noun) a relatively large silversides of the Pacific coast of North America (known to reach 18 inches in length) | Synonyms: Atherinopsis californiensis |
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| jilt | (noun) a woman who jilts a lover | - |
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| jolt | (noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerk, jerking, saccade |
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| (noun) a sudden jarring impact | Synonyms: jar, jounce, shock |
| kilovolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to a thousand volts | Synonyms: kV |
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| kilt | (noun) a knee-length pleated tartan skirt worn by men as part of the traditional dress in the Highlands of northern Scotland | - |
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| kingbolt | (noun) bolt that provides a steering joint in a motor vehicle | Synonyms: kingpin, swivel pin |
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| lilt | (noun) a jaunty rhythm in music | Synonyms: swing |
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| malt | (noun) a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling | - |
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| (noun) a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer | Synonyms: malt liquor |
| (noun) a milkshake made with malt powder | Synonyms: malted, malted milk |
| melt | (noun) the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid | Synonyms: melting, thaw, thawing |
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| microvolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one millionth of a volt | - |
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| millivolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one thousandth of a volt | Synonyms: mV |
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| milt | (noun) seminal fluid produced by male fish | - |
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| (noun) fish sperm or sperm-filled reproductive gland; having a creamy texture | Synonyms: soft roe |
| molt | (noun) periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles | Synonyms: ecdysis, molting, moult, moulting |
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| moult | (noun) periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles | Synonyms: ecdysis, molt, molting, moulting |
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| nanovolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one billionth of a volt | - |
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| occult | (noun) supernatural practices and techniques | Synonyms: occult arts |
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| (noun) supernatural forces and events and beings collectively | Synonyms: supernatural |
| pelt | (noun) body covering of a living animal | Synonyms: hide, skin |
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| (noun) the dressed hairy coat of a mammal | Synonyms: fur |
| penult | (noun) the next to last syllable in a word | Synonyms: penultima, penultimate |
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| picovolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one trillionth of a volt | - |
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| porkholt | (noun) made of lamb or pork | - |
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| quilt | (noun) bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together | Synonyms: comfort, comforter, puff |
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| result | (noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: answer, resolution, solution, solvent |
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| (noun) the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: resultant role |
| (noun) something that results | Synonyms: final result, outcome, resultant, termination |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, upshot |
| revolt | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion, rising, uprising |
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| salt | (noun) the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: salinity, saltiness |
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| (noun) white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food | Synonyms: common salt, table salt |
| (noun) a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) | - |
| seatbelt | (noun) a safety belt used in a car or plane to hold you in your seat in case of an accident | Synonyms: seat belt |
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| shelterbelt | (noun) hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion | Synonyms: windbreak |
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| silt | (noun) mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake | - |
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| smelt | (noun) small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters | - |
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| (noun) small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water | - |
| somersault | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersaulting, somerset, summersault, summerset |
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| spelt | (noun) hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed | Synonyms: Triticum aestivum spelta, Triticum spelta |
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| stilt | (noun) long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons | Synonyms: Himantopus stilt, long-legs, longlegs, stilt plover, stiltbird |
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| (noun) long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia | Synonyms: Australian stilt |
| (noun) one of two stout poles with foot rests in the middle; used for walking high above the ground | - |
| (noun) a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure | Synonyms: pile, piling, spile |
| summersault | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somersaulting, somerset, summerset |
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| thunderbolt | (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: bombshell, thunderclap |
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| (noun) a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder | Synonyms: bolt, bolt of lightning |
| tilt | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: careen, rock, sway |
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| (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, lean, leaning, list |
| (noun) a slight but noticeable partiality | - |
| (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation |
| (noun) a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances | Synonyms: joust |
| tumult | (noun) the act of making a noisy disturbance | Synonyms: commotion, din, ruckus, ruction, rumpus |
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| (noun) violent agitation | Synonyms: turmoil |
| (noun) a state of commotion and noise and confusion | Synonyms: garboil, tumultuousness, uproar |
| underfelt | (noun) a carpet pad of thick felt | - |
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| vault | (noun) the act of jumping over an obstacle | Synonyms: hurdle |
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| (noun) an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof | - |
| (noun) a burial chamber (usually underground) | Synonyms: burial vault |
| (noun) a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables | Synonyms: bank vault |
| volt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt; equivalent to the potential difference across a resistance of 1 ohm when 1 ampere of current flows through it | Synonyms: V |
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| welt | (noun) a raised or strengthened seam | - |
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| (noun) a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions | Synonyms: wale, weal, wheal |
| wilt | (noun) causing to become limp or drooping | Synonyms: wilting |
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| (noun) any plant disease characterized by drooping and shriveling; usually caused by parasites attacking the roots | Synonyms: wilt disease |