| apple | (noun) fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh | - |
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| (noun) native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits | Synonyms: Malus pumila, orchard apple tree |
| bakeapple | (noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: baked-apple berry, cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus, salmonberry |
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| businesspeople | (noun) people who transact business (especially business executives) | Synonyms: business people |
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| counterexample | (noun) refutation by example | - |
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| couple | (noun) a pair who associate with one another | Synonyms: duet, duo, twosome |
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| (noun) a pair of people who live together | Synonyms: match, mates |
| (noun) (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines | - |
| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
| (noun) a small indefinite number | - |
| crabapple | (noun) small sour apple; suitable for preserving | Synonyms: crab apple |
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| (noun) any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acidic fruit | Synonyms: crab apple, wild apple |
| (noun) any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acidic (usually bright red) fruit used for preserves or as ornamentals for their blossoms | Synonyms: crab apple, cultivated crab apple |
| cripple | (noun) someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back | - |
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| dapple | (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: fleck, maculation, patch, speckle, spot |
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| dimple | (noun) a small natural hollow in the cheek or chin | - |
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| (noun) any slight depression in a surface | - |
| (noun) a chad that has been punched or dimpled but all four corners are still attached | Synonyms: dimpled chad, pregnant chad |
| disciple | (noun) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another | Synonyms: adherent |
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| example | (noun) a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding | Synonyms: exercise |
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| (noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: illustration, instance, representative |
| (noun) something to be imitated | Synonyms: exemplar, good example, model |
| (noun) a representative form or pattern | Synonyms: model |
| (noun) punishment intended as a warning to others | Synonyms: deterrent example, lesson, object lesson |
| (noun) an occurrence of something | Synonyms: case, instance |
| fipple | (noun) a wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder) | - |
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| grapple | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle, wrestling |
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| (noun) a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope | Synonyms: grapnel, grappler, grappling hook, grappling iron |
| (noun) a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam | Synonyms: clamshell |
| maple | (noun) any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone | - |
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| (noun) wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring | - |
| mayapple | (noun) North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit | Synonyms: May apple, Podophyllum peltatum, wild mandrake |
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| multiple | (noun) the product of a quantity by an integer | - |
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| nipple | (noun) a flexible cap on a baby's feeding bottle or pacifier | - |
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| (noun) the small projection of a mammary gland | Synonyms: mamilla, mammilla, pap, teat, tit |
| participle | (noun) a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses | Synonyms: participial |
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| people | (noun) (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively | - |
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| (noun) the body of citizens of a state or country | Synonyms: citizenry |
| (noun) members of a family line | - |
| (noun) the common people generally | Synonyms: hoi polloi, mass, masses, multitude, the great unwashed |
| pimple | (noun) a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne | Synonyms: hickey, zit |
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| pineapple | (noun) large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated | Synonyms: ananas |
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| (noun) a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics | Synonyms: Ananas comosus, pineapple plant |
| principle | (noun) a basic truth or law or assumption | - |
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| (noun) a rule or standard especially of good behavior | - |
| (noun) (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature) | Synonyms: rationale |
| (noun) a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) rule of personal conduct | Synonyms: precept |
| purple | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) official dress of a cardinal; so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes | Synonyms: the purple |
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| (noun) a color between red and blue | Synonyms: purpleness |
| (noun) (in ancient Rome) position of imperial status | Synonyms: the purple |
| quadruple | (noun) a quantity that is four times as great as another | - |
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| (noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruplet, quartet, quartette |
| quintuple | (noun) a set of five similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette, quintuplet |
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| ripple | (noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: riffle, rippling, wavelet |
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| (noun) (electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value | - |
| sample | (noun) a small part of something intended as representative of the whole | - |
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| (noun) items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population | Synonyms: sample distribution, sampling |
| (noun) all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class | - |
| scrapple | (noun) scraps of meat (usually pork) boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying | - |
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| scruple | (noun) an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action | - |
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| (noun) uneasiness about the fitness of an action (particularly for reasons of ethics, morals or propriety) | Synonyms: misgiving, qualm |
| (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains | - |
| simple | (noun) a person lacking intelligence or common sense | Synonyms: simpleton |
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| (noun) any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties | - |
| staple | (noun) (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant | Synonyms: basic |
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| (noun) paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together | - |
| (noun) a short U-shaped wire nail | - |
| (noun) material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing | Synonyms: raw material |
| (noun) a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn | Synonyms: staple fiber, staple fibre |
| steeple | (noun) a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top | Synonyms: spire |
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| stopple | (noun) blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly | Synonyms: plug, stopper |
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| temple | (noun) place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity | - |
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| (noun) an edifice devoted to special or exalted purposes | - |
| (noun) (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation | Synonyms: synagogue, tabernacle |
| (noun) the flat area on either side of the forehead | - |
| thermocouple | (noun) a kind of thermometer consisting of two wires of different metals that are joined at both ends; one junction is at the temperature to be measured and the other is held at a fixed lower temperature; the current generated in the circuit is proportional to the temperature difference | Synonyms: thermocouple junction |
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| tipple | (noun) a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg | Synonyms: draft, draught, potation |
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| townspeople | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: town, townsfolk |
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| tradespeople | (noun) people engaged in trade | - |
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| trample | (noun) the sound of heavy treading or stomping | Synonyms: trampling |
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| triple | (noun) a base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base | Synonyms: three-bagger, three-base hit |
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| (noun) a quantity that is three times as great as another | - |
| (noun) a set of three similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: triad, trio, triplet |
| wimple | (noun) headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women | - |
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