| ablaut | (noun) a vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song) | - |
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| aeronaut | (noun) someone who operates an aircraft | Synonyms: aviator, flier, flyer |
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| aquanaut | (noun) an underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinder | Synonyms: skin-diver |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research | Synonyms: oceanaut |
| argonaut | (noun) someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure | - |
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| astronaut | (noun) a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | Synonyms: cosmonaut, spaceman |
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| beaut | (noun) an outstanding example of its kind | Synonyms: beauty |
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| beechnut | (noun) small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees | - |
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| bitternut | (noun) hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts | Synonyms: bitter hickory, bitter pignut, bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, swamp hickory |
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| blackout | (noun) a momentary loss of consciousness | - |
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| (noun) partial or total loss of memory | Synonyms: amnesia, memory loss |
| (noun) the failure of electric power for a general region | - |
| (noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: brownout, dimout |
| (noun) a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting | - |
| blowout | (noun) a gay festivity | Synonyms: gala, gala affair, jamboree |
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| (noun) a sudden malfunction of a part or apparatus | - |
| (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: laugher, romp, runaway, shoo-in, walkaway |
| bout | (noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: binge, bust, tear |
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| (noun) a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers) | - |
| (noun) (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive | Synonyms: round, turn |
| (noun) a period of illness | - |
| breakout | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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| breechclout | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechcloth, loincloth |
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| brownout | (noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: blackout, dimout |
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| butternut | (noun) oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family | - |
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| (noun) North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye | Synonyms: butternut tree, Juglans cinerea, white walnut |
| butut | (noun) 100 bututs equal 1 dalasi in Gambia | Synonyms: butat |
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| buyout | (noun) acquisition of a company by purchasing a controlling percentage of its stock | - |
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| candlenut | (noun) large tree native to southeastern Asia; the nuts yield oil used in varnishes; nut kernels strung together are used locally as candles | Synonyms: Aleurites moluccana, varnish tree |
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| (noun) seed of candlenut tree; source of oil used in varnishes | - |
| caput | (noun) the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains | Synonyms: head |
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| (noun) a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure | - |
| catgut | (noun) a strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery | Synonyms: gut |
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| (noun) perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone | Synonyms: goat's rue, Tephrosia virginiana, wild sweet pea |
| checkout | (noun) the act of inspecting or verifying | Synonyms: check-out procedure, check |
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| (noun) a counter in a supermarket where you pay for your purchases | Synonyms: checkout counter |
| (noun) the latest time for vacating a hotel room | Synonyms: checkout time |
| chestnut | (noun) a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse | - |
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| (noun) a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg | - |
| (noun) the brown color of chestnuts | - |
| (noun) edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea | - |
| (noun) any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur | Synonyms: chestnut tree |
| (noun) wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea | - |
| closeout | (noun) a sale intended to dispose of all remaining stock | - |
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| clout | (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, lick, poke, punch, slug |
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| (noun) a short nail with a flat head; used to attach sheet metal to wood | Synonyms: clout nail |
| (noun) special advantage or influence | Synonyms: pull |
| (noun) a target used in archery | - |
| cobnut | (noun) nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus | Synonyms: cob, filbert, hazelnut |
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| (noun) small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe | Synonyms: Corylus avellana, Corylus avellana grandis, filbert |
| cocoanut | (noun) large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk | Synonyms: coconut |
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| coconut | (noun) large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk | Synonyms: cocoanut |
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| (noun) the edible white meat of a coconut; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries | Synonyms: coconut meat |
| (noun) tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics | Synonyms: coco, coco palm, cocoa palm, coconut palm, coconut tree, Cocos nucifera |
| cookout | (noun) an informal meal cooked and eaten outdoors | - |
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| copout | (noun) a failure to face some difficulty squarely | - |
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| cornsmut | (noun) a smut fungus attacking Indian corn | Synonyms: corn smut |
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| cosmonaut | (noun) a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | Synonyms: astronaut, spaceman |
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| crosscut | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: cutoff, shortcut |
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| (noun) a diagonal path | - |
| cut | (noun) the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends | Synonyms: cutting, cutting off |
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| (noun) the act of cutting something into parts | Synonyms: cutting |
| (noun) the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge | Synonyms: cutting |
| (noun) a refusal to recognize someone you know | Synonyms: cold shoulder, snub |
| (noun) the act of reducing the amount or number | - |
| (noun) an unexcused absence from class | - |
| (noun) in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball | Synonyms: baseball swing, swing |
| (noun) (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball | Synonyms: undercut |
| (noun) the division of a deck of cards before dealing | Synonyms: cutting |
| (noun) a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation | Synonyms: gash |
| (noun) a canal made by erosion or excavation | - |
| (noun) the style in which a garment is cut | - |
| (noun) (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next | - |
| (noun) the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage | Synonyms: deletion, excision |
| (noun) a remark capable of wounding mentally | Synonyms: stinger |
| (noun) a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc | Synonyms: track |
| (noun) a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass | Synonyms: cut of meat |
| (noun) a share of the profits | - |
| (noun) a wound made by cutting | Synonyms: gash, slash, slice |
| (noun) a step on some scale | - |
| cutout | (noun) a part that is cut out or is intended to be cut out | - |
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| (noun) a photograph from which the background has been cut away | - |
| (noun) a switch that interrupts an electric circuit in the event of an overload | - |
| cybernaut | (noun) a computer user who uses the internet; someone who explores cyberspace | - |
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| debut | (noun) the act of beginning something new | Synonyms: entry, first appearance, introduction, launching, unveiling |
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| (noun) the presentation of a debutante in society | - |
| dimout | (noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: blackout, brownout |
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| donut | (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: doughnut, sinker |
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| doughnut | (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: donut, sinker |
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| (noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, annulus, halo, ring |
| dropout | (noun) someone who quits school before graduation | - |
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| (noun) someone who withdraws from a social group or environment | - |
| dugout | (noun) a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground | Synonyms: bunker |
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| (noun) either of two low shelters on either side of a baseball diamond where the players and coaches sit during the game | - |
| (noun) a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log | Synonyms: dugout canoe, pirogue |
| (noun) a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground; can be fully recessed into the earth, with a flat roof covered by ground, semi-recessed, with a constructed wood or sod roof standing out, or dug into a hillside. | Synonyms: dug-out, pit-house, pithouse |
| earthnut | (noun) edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber | Synonyms: truffle |
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| (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut, peanut |
| (noun) a common European plant having edible tubers with the flavor of roasted chestnuts | Synonyms: Conopodium denudatum |
| (noun) any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe | Synonyms: earth-ball, truffle |
| eelpout | (noun) marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas | Synonyms: pout |
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| (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, cusk, ling, Lota lota |
| fadeout | (noun) a slow or gradual disappearance | Synonyms: receding |
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| (noun) a gradual temporary loss of a transmitted signal due to electrical disturbances | - |
| fallout | (noun) any adverse and unwanted secondary effect | Synonyms: side effect |
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| (noun) the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion | Synonyms: radioactive dust |
| foldout | (noun) an oversize page that is folded in to a book or magazine | Synonyms: gatefold |
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| gadabout | (noun) a restless seeker after amusement or social companionship | - |
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| gamut | (noun) a complete extent or range: | - |
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| (noun) the entire scale of musical notes | - |
| glut | (noun) the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall | Synonyms: oversupply, surfeit |
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| gout | (noun) a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints | Synonyms: gouty arthritis, urarthritis |
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| groundnut | (noun) nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans | Synonyms: potato bean, wild bean |
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| (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: earthnut, goober, goober pea, monkey nut, peanut |
| (noun) a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans | Synonyms: Apios americana, Apios tuberosa, groundnut vine, Indian potato, potato bean, wild bean |
| grout | (noun) a thin mortar that can be poured and used to fill cracks in masonry or brickwork | - |
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| gut | (noun) a strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery | Synonyms: catgut |
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| (noun) the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus | Synonyms: bowel, intestine |
| (noun) a narrow channel or strait | - |
| hackbut | (noun) an obsolete firearm with a long barrel | Synonyms: arquebus, hagbut, harquebus |
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| hagbut | (noun) an obsolete firearm with a long barrel | Synonyms: arquebus, hackbut, harquebus |
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| haircut | (noun) the act of cutting the hair | - |
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| (noun) the style in which hair has been cut | - |
| halibut | (noun) marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes | Synonyms: holibut |
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| (noun) lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific | - |
| handout | (noun) giving money or food or clothing to a needy person | - |
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| (noun) an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation | Synonyms: press release, release |
| hangout | (noun) a frequently visited place | Synonyms: haunt, repair, resort, stamping ground |
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| hazelnut | (noun) nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus | Synonyms: cob, cobnut, filbert |
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| (noun) any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk | Synonyms: hazel, hazelnut tree |
| hideout | (noun) a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws | Synonyms: den, hideaway |
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| hindgut | (noun) the caudal part of the alimentary canal in vertebrate embryos | - |
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| holdout | (noun) the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later | - |
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| (noun) a refusal by a negotiator to come to terms in the hope of obtaining a better deal | - |
| (noun) a negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by refusing to come to terms | - |
| holibut | (noun) marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes | Synonyms: halibut |
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| hornpout | (noun) catfish common in eastern United States | Synonyms: Ameiurus Melas, horned pout, pout |
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| hut | (noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling | Synonyms: hovel, hutch, shack, shanty |
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| (noun) temporary military shelter | Synonyms: army hut, field hut |
| input | (noun) a component of production; something that goes into the production of output | - |
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| (noun) any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action | Synonyms: stimulant, stimulation, stimulus |
| (noun) signal going into an electronic system | Synonyms: input signal |
| (noun) a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information | Synonyms: comment, remark |
| juggernaut | (noun) a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way | Synonyms: steamroller |
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| jut | (noun) the act of projecting out from something | Synonyms: jutting, projection, protrusion |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
| knockabout | (noun) a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit | - |
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| knockout | (noun) a blow that renders the opponent unconscious | Synonyms: kayo, KO |
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| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
| knout | (noun) a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners | - |
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| layabout | (noun) person who does no work | Synonyms: bum, do-nothing, idler, loafer |
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| layout | (noun) the act of laying out (as by making plans for something) | - |
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| (noun) a plan or design of something that is laid out | - |
| linecut | (noun) engraving consisting of a block that has been etched or engraved | Synonyms: line block, line engraving |
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| (noun) a print obtained from a line drawing | Synonyms: line engraving |
| linocut | (noun) a design carved in relief into a block of linoleum | - |
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| (noun) a print that is made from a design carved in relief into a block of linoleum | - |
| locknut | (noun) supplementary nut that is screwed down on a primary nut to prevent it from loosening | Synonyms: safety nut |
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| lockout | (noun) a management action resisting employee's demands; employees are barred from entering the workplace until they agree to terms | - |
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| lookout | (noun) the act of looking out | Synonyms: outlook |
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| (noun) a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings | Synonyms: lookout station, observation tower, observatory |
| (noun) an elevated post affording a wide view | Synonyms: observation post |
| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch |
| lout | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
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| mahout | (noun) the driver and keeper of an elephant | - |
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| marabout | (noun) large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments | Synonyms: Leptoptilus crumeniferus, marabou, marabou stork |
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| mockernut | (noun) smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut | Synonyms: big-bud hickory, black hickory, Carya tomentosa, mockernut hickory, white-heart hickory |
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| nut | (noun) a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt | - |
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| (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, egg, orchis, testicle, testis |
| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, freak, junkie, junky |
| (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crackpot, crank, fruitcake, nut case, screwball |
| (noun) usually large hard-shelled seed | - |
| (noun) half the width of an em | Synonyms: en |
| occiput | (noun) back part of the head or skull | - |
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| oceanaut | (noun) a skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research | Synonyms: aquanaut |
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| out | (noun) (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball | - |
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| output | (noun) production of a certain amount | Synonyms: yield |
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| (noun) final product; the things produced | Synonyms: end product |
| (noun) what is produced in a given time period | Synonyms: outturn, turnout |
| (noun) signal that comes out of an electronic system | Synonyms: output signal |
| (noun) the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time) | Synonyms: production, yield |
| peanut | (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut |
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| (noun) a young child who is small for his age | - |
| (noun) widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground | Synonyms: Arachis hypogaea, peanut vine |
| (noun) underground pod of the peanut vine | - |
| pignut | (noun) an American hickory tree having bitter nuts | Synonyms: black hickory, brown hickory, Carya glabra, pignut hickory |
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| pinchgut | (noun) a niggardly person who starves himself (and others) | - |
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| pout | (noun) catfish common in eastern United States | Synonyms: Ameiurus Melas, horned pout, hornpout |
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| (noun) marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas | Synonyms: eelpout |
| (noun) a disdainful grimace | Synonyms: moue, wry face |
| printout | (noun) the output of a computer in printed form | - |
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| pullout | (noun) to break off a military action with an enemy | Synonyms: disengagement, fallback |
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| put | (noun) the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date | Synonyms: put option |
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| putout | (noun) an out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout) | - |
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| raceabout | (noun) a small sloop having the keep of a knockabout but with finer lines and carrying more sail | - |
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| ragout | (noun) well-seasoned stew of meat and vegetables | - |
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| readout | (noun) an electronic device that displays information | Synonyms: read-out |
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| (noun) the information displayed or recorded on an electronic device | Synonyms: read-out |
| (noun) the output of a computer in readable form | Synonyms: read-out |
| rigout | (noun) a person's costume (especially if bizarre) | - |
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