| acorn | (noun) fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base | - |
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| bairn | (noun) a child: son or daughter | - |
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| barleycorn | (noun) a grain of barley | Synonyms: barley |
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| (noun) a grain of barley | - |
| barn | (noun) an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter | Synonyms: b |
| bicorn | (noun) a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points | Synonyms: bicorne |
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| bighorn | (noun) wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns | Synonyms: bighorn sheep, cimarron, Ovis canadensis, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep |
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| bittern | (noun) relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes | - |
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| blackthorn | (noun) erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries | Synonyms: Crataegus calpodendron, Crataegus tomentosa, pear haw, pear hawthorn |
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| (noun) a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits | Synonyms: Prunus spinosa, sloe |
| bourn | (noun) an archaic term for a goal or destination | Synonyms: bourne |
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| (noun) an archaic term for a boundary | Synonyms: bourne |
| boxthorn | (noun) any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries | Synonyms: matrimony vine |
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| broomcorn | (noun) tall grasses grown for the elongated stiff-branched panicle used for brooms and brushes | Synonyms: Sorghum vulgare technicum |
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| buckthorn | (noun) any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia | - |
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| (noun) a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments | - |
| (noun) an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions | Synonyms: English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass |
| bullhorn | (noun) a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier | Synonyms: loud-hailer, loud hailer |
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| burn | (noun) damage inflicted by fire | - |
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| (noun) a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: burn mark |
| (noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | Synonyms: burning |
| (noun) an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation | - |
| cairn | (noun) small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland | Synonyms: cairn terrier |
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| (noun) a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path | - |
| casern | (noun) military barracks in a garrison town | - |
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| cavern | (noun) a large cave or a large chamber in a cave | - |
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| (noun) any large dark enclosed space | - |
| churn | (noun) a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk | Synonyms: butter churn |
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| cistern | (noun) an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater | - |
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| (noun) a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet | Synonyms: water tank |
| (noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cisterna |
| cithern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, citole, cittern, gittern |
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| cittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, gittern |
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| concern | (noun) something that interests you because it is important or affects you | - |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: headache, vexation, worry |
| (noun) a feeling of sympathy for someone or something | - |
| (noun) an anxious feeling | Synonyms: care, fear |
| (noun) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | Synonyms: business, business concern, business organisation, business organization |
| corn | (noun) something sentimental or trite | - |
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| (noun) ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food | Synonyms: edible corn |
| (noun) whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn | Synonyms: corn whiskey, corn whisky |
| (noun) tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times | Synonyms: Indian corn, maize, Zea mays |
| (noun) (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland) | - |
| (noun) the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal | - |
| (noun) a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes | Synonyms: clavus |
| cowbarn | (noun) a barn for cows | Synonyms: byre, cow barn, cowhouse, cowshed |
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| crumhorn | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: cromorne, krummhorn |
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| darn | (noun) sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment) | Synonyms: mend, patch |
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| (noun) something of little value | Synonyms: damn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
| downturn | (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downswing |
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| ern | (noun) bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland | Synonyms: erne, European sea eagle, gray sea eagle, grey sea eagle, Haliatus albicilla, white-tailed sea eagle |
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| extern | (noun) a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there | Synonyms: medical extern |
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| fern | (noun) any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | - |
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| firethorn | (noun) any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries | Synonyms: fire thorn, pyracanth, Pyracantha |
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| firstborn | (noun) the offspring who came first in the order of birth | Synonyms: eldest |
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| fluegelhorn | (noun) a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore | Synonyms: flugelhorn |
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| flugelhorn | (noun) a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore | Synonyms: fluegelhorn |
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| foghorn | (noun) a warning device consisting of a horn that generates a loud low tone | - |
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| (noun) a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships | Synonyms: fogsignal |
| gittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, cittern |
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| greenhorn | (noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: cub, rookie |
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| hawthorn | (noun) a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus | Synonyms: haw |
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| heartburn | (noun) a painful burning sensation in the chest caused by gastroesophageal reflux (backflow from the stomach irritating the esophagus); symptomatic of an ulcer or a diaphragmatic hernia or other disorder | Synonyms: pyrosis |
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| horn | (noun) one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates | - |
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| (noun) any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn | - |
| (noun) a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves | Synonyms: French horn |
| (noun) a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves | Synonyms: cornet, trump, trumpet |
| (noun) an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound | - |
| (noun) a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather) | Synonyms: saddle horn |
| (noun) a device on an automobile for making a warning noise | Synonyms: automobile horn, car horn, hooter, motor horn |
| (noun) a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it | - |
| (noun) a device having the shape of a horn | - |
| (noun) a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning | - |
| (noun) the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails | - |
| intern | (noun) an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience | Synonyms: houseman, interne, medical intern |
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| japorn | (noun) Japanese pornography | - |
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| kern | (noun) the part of a metal type that projects beyond its body | - |
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| klavern | (noun) a local unit of the Ku Klux Klan | - |
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| krummhorn | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: cromorne, crumhorn |
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| lantern | (noun) light in a transparent protective case | - |
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| lectern | (noun) desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer | Synonyms: reading desk |
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| leghorn | (noun) a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown | Synonyms: boater, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat |
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| lipfern | (noun) any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions | Synonyms: lip fern |
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| longhorn | (noun) long-horned beef cattle formerly common in southwestern United States | Synonyms: Texas longhorn |
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| longicorn | (noun) long-bodied beetle having very long antennae | Synonyms: long-horned beetle, longicorn beetle |
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| modern | (noun) a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes | Synonyms: Bodoni, Bodoni font, modern font |
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| (noun) a contemporary person | - |
| morn | (noun) the time period between dawn and noon | Synonyms: forenoon, morning, morning time |
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| newborn | (noun) a baby from birth to four weeks | Synonyms: neonate |
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| outturn | (noun) what is produced in a given time period | Synonyms: output, turnout |
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| overturn | (noun) the act of upsetting something | Synonyms: turnover, upset |
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| (noun) an improbable and unexpected victory | Synonyms: upset |
| pastern | (noun) the part between the fetlock and the hoof | Synonyms: fetter bone |
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| pattern | (noun) a customary way of operation or behavior | Synonyms: practice |
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| (noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: design, figure |
| (noun) a perceptual structure | Synonyms: form, shape |
| (noun) a model considered worthy of imitation | - |
| (noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: blueprint, design |
| (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, formula, normal, rule |
| (noun) graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle | Synonyms: radiation diagram, radiation pattern |
| (noun) the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport | Synonyms: approach pattern, traffic pattern |
| peppercorn | (noun) pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground | Synonyms: pepper |
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| pibgorn | (noun) an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone | Synonyms: hornpipe, stockhorn |
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| popcorn | (noun) small kernels of corn exploded by heat | - |
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| (noun) corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat | Synonyms: Zea mays everta |
| porn | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porno, pornography, smut |
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| postern | (noun) a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle | - |
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| pronghorn | (noun) fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns | Synonyms: American antelope, Antilocapra americana, prongbuck, pronghorn antelope |
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| quartern | (noun) one of four equal parts | Synonyms: fourth, fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quarter, twenty-five percent |
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| quatern | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
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| quern | (noun) a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand | - |
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| return | (noun) the act of going back to a prior location | - |
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| (noun) a coming to or returning home | Synonyms: homecoming |
| (noun) getting something back again | Synonyms: regaining, restitution, restoration |
| (noun) a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player | - |
| (noun) (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble | - |
| (noun) a reciprocal group action | Synonyms: getting even, paying back |
| (noun) the act of someone appearing again | Synonyms: reappearance |
| (noun) the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed | Synonyms: return key |
| (noun) document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability | Synonyms: income tax return, tax return |
| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, riposte |
| (noun) happening again (especially at regular intervals) | Synonyms: recurrence |
| (noun) the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction | Synonyms: coming back |
| (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, take, takings, yield |
| saxhorn | (noun) any of a family of brass wind instruments that resemble a bugle with valves | - |
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| scorn | (noun) open disrespect for a person or thing | Synonyms: contempt |
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| (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: contempt, despite, disdain |
| shoehorn | (noun) a device used for easing the foot into a shoe | - |
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| shorthorn | (noun) English breed of short-horned cattle | Synonyms: Durham |
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| sideburn | (noun) facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off) | Synonyms: burnside, mutton chop, side-whiskers |
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| slattern | (noun) a dirty untidy woman | Synonyms: slovenly woman, slut, trollop |
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| (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, street girl, streetwalker |
| sojourn | (noun) a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest) | Synonyms: visit |
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| stern | (noun) the rear part of a ship | Synonyms: after part, poop, quarter, tail |
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| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| stinkhorn | (noun) any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales | Synonyms: carrion fungus |
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| stockhorn | (noun) an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone | Synonyms: hornpipe, pibgorn |
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| subaltern | (noun) a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain | - |
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| sunburn | (noun) redness of the skin caused by exposure to the rays of the sun | Synonyms: erythema solare |
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| tarn | (noun) a mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers) | - |
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| tavern | (noun) a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks | Synonyms: tap house |
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| tern | (noun) small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail | - |
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| thorn | (noun) something that causes irritation and annoyance | Synonyms: irritant |
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| (noun) a Germanic character of runic origin | - |
| (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spikelet, spine, sticker |
| tricorn | (noun) cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points | Synonyms: tricorne |
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| turn | (noun) the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course | Synonyms: turning |
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| (noun) the act of turning away or in the opposite direction | - |
| (noun) taking a short walk out and back | - |
| (noun) a favor for someone | Synonyms: good turn |
| (noun) (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession | Synonyms: play |
| (noun) turning or twisting around (in place) | Synonyms: twist |
| (noun) a short performance that is part of a longer program | Synonyms: act, bit, number, routine |
| (noun) a movement in a new direction | Synonyms: turning |
| (noun) an unforeseen development | Synonyms: turn of events, twist |
| (noun) a circular segment of a curve | Synonyms: bend, crook, twist |
| (noun) (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive | Synonyms: bout, round |
| (noun) a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) | Synonyms: go, spell, tour |
| unconcern | (noun) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern | Synonyms: indifference, nonchalance |
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| (noun) a feeling of lack of concern | - |
| unicorn | (noun) an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead | - |
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| upturn | (noun) an upward movement or trend as in business activity | - |
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| urn | (noun) a large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet | - |
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| (noun) a large pot for making coffee or tea | - |
| western | (noun) a sandwich made from a western omelet | Synonyms: western sandwich |
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| whitethorn | (noun) thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America | Synonyms: Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus oxycantha, English hawthorn, may |
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| windburn | (noun) redness and irritation of the skin caused by exposure to high-velocity wind | - |
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| wivern | (noun) a fire-breathing dragon used in medieval heraldry; had the head of a dragon and the tail of a snake and a body with wings and two legs | Synonyms: wyvern |
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| woodfern | (noun) any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris | Synonyms: wood-fern, wood fern |
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| wyvern | (noun) a fire-breathing dragon used in medieval heraldry; had the head of a dragon and the tail of a snake and a body with wings and two legs | Synonyms: wivern |
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| yarn | (noun) a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving | Synonyms: thread |
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| (noun) the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events | Synonyms: narration, recital |
| zithern | (noun) a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers | Synonyms: cither, zither |
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