| albatross | (noun) large web-footed birds of the Southern Hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight | Synonyms: mollymawk |
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| (noun) (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps | Synonyms: millstone |
| boss | (noun) a circular rounded projection or protuberance | Synonyms: knob |
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| (noun) a person responsible for hiring workers | Synonyms: hirer |
| (noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: chief, foreman, gaffer, honcho |
| (noun) a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments | Synonyms: party boss, political boss |
| (noun) a person who exercises control and makes decisions | - |
| bugloss | (noun) perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers | Synonyms: alkanet, Anchusa officinalis |
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| (noun) widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: bitterweed, bristly oxtongue, oxtongue, Picris echioides |
| candyfloss | (noun) a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature | Synonyms: cotton candy, spun sugar |
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| coss | (noun) (in India) a unit of length having different values in different localities | Synonyms: kos |
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| crisscross | (noun) a marking that consists of lines that cross each other | Synonyms: cross, mark |
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| cross | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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| (noun) (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species | Synonyms: crossbreed, hybrid |
| (noun) a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece | - |
| (noun) a marking that consists of lines that cross each other | Synonyms: crisscross, mark |
| (noun) any affliction that causes great suffering | Synonyms: crown of thorns |
| ditchmoss | (noun) submerged freshwater perennials | Synonyms: Elodea, genus Elodea, pondweed |
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| dross | (noun) the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals | Synonyms: scoria, slag |
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| (noun) worthless or dangerous material that should be removed | Synonyms: impurity |
| floss | (noun) a soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery | - |
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| (noun) a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth | Synonyms: dental floss |
| gloss | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: burnish, glossiness, polish |
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| (noun) an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading | Synonyms: color, colour, semblance |
| (noun) an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text | Synonyms: rubric |
| (noun) an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field | Synonyms: glossary |
| gross | (noun) the entire amount of income before any deductions are made | Synonyms: receipts, revenue |
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| (noun) twelve dozen | Synonyms: 144 |
| heterogloss | (noun) the locative boundary of a certain linguistic feature, such as the pronunciation of a vowel, the meaning of a word, or use of some syntactic feature. | Synonyms: isogloss |
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| isogloss | (noun) the locative boundary of a certain linguistic feature, such as the pronunciation of a vowel, the meaning of a word, or use of some syntactic feature. | Synonyms: heterogloss |
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| joss | (noun) a Chinese god worshipped in the form of an idol | - |
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| loss | (noun) the act of losing someone or something | - |
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| (noun) the disadvantage that results from losing something | Synonyms: deprivation |
| (noun) military personnel lost by death or capture | Synonyms: personnel casualty |
| (noun) the experience of losing a loved one | - |
| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, going, passing, release |
| (noun) the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue | Synonyms: red, red ink |
| (noun) something that is lost | - |
| (noun) gradual decline in amount or activity | - |
| mishegoss | (noun) (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity | Synonyms: meshugaas, mishegaas |
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| moss | (noun) tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants | - |
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| semigloss | (noun) a paint that dries with a finish between glossy and flat | - |
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| spikemoss | (noun) any of numerous fern allies of the genus Selaginella | Synonyms: little club moss, spike moss |
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| testcross | (noun) a cross between an organism whose genotype for a certain trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for that trait so the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspring | Synonyms: test-cross |
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| toss | (noun) (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team | Synonyms: flip, pass |
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| (noun) the act of flipping a coin | Synonyms: flip |
| (noun) an abrupt movement | - |
| underboss | (noun) an assistant or second-in-command to a chief (especially in a crime syndicate) | - |
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