| backscatter | (verb) scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes | - |
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| batter | (verb) make a dent or impression in | Synonyms: dinge |
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| (verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: baste, clobber |
| (verb) strike against forcefully | Synonyms: buffet, knock about |
| bespatter | (verb) spot, splash, or soil | Synonyms: spatter |
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| better | (verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, improve, meliorate |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, improve, meliorate |
| (verb) surpass in excellence | Synonyms: break |
| bitter | (verb) make bitter | - |
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| butter | (verb) spread butter on | - |
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| butterfly | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
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| (verb) cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking | - |
| (verb) flutter like a butterfly | - |
| chatter | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
| (verb) make noise as if chattering away | - |
| (verb) cut unevenly with a chattering tool | - |
| (verb) click repeatedly or uncontrollably | Synonyms: click |
| chitter | (verb) make high-pitched sounds, as of birds | Synonyms: twitter |
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| clatter | (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: brattle, clack |
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| clitter | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: stridulate |
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| clutter | (verb) fill a space in a disorderly way | Synonyms: clutter up |
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| embitter | (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: acerbate, envenom |
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| fetter | (verb) restrain with fetters | Synonyms: shackle |
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| flatter | (verb) praise somewhat dishonestly | Synonyms: blandish |
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| flitter | (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flutter, quiver, waver |
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| flutter | (verb) wink briefly | Synonyms: bat |
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| (verb) beat rapidly | Synonyms: palpitate |
| (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, quiver, waver |
| (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: dart, fleet, flit |
| (verb) flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements | - |
| fritter | (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
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| glitter | (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, shine |
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| gutter | (verb) provide with gutters | - |
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| (verb) wear or cut gutters into | - |
| (verb) flow in small streams | - |
| (verb) burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker | - |
| jitterbug | (verb) do the jitterbug | - |
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| letter | (verb) mark letters on or mark with letters | - |
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| (verb) set down or print with letters | - |
| (verb) win an athletic letter | - |
| litter | (verb) give birth to a litter of animals | - |
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| (verb) make a place messy by strewing garbage around | - |
| (verb) strew | - |
| matter | (verb) have weight; have import, carry weight | Synonyms: count, weigh |
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| mutter | (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, grumble, murmur |
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| (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mumble, mussitate |
| natter | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| patter | (verb) make light, rapid and repeated sounds | Synonyms: pitter-patter |
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| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: pitter-patter, spatter, spit, sprinkle |
| pattern | (verb) plan or create according to a model or models | Synonyms: model |
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| (verb) form a pattern | - |
| potter | (verb) move around aimlessly | Synonyms: potter around, putter, putter around |
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| (verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, putter, tinker |
| (verb) work lightly | Synonyms: putter |
| putter | (verb) move around aimlessly | Synonyms: potter, potter around, putter around |
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| (verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, tinker |
| (verb) work lightly | Synonyms: potter |
| scatter | (verb) cause to separate | Synonyms: break up, disperse |
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| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, sprinkle |
| (verb) sow by scattering | - |
| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: disperse, dissipate, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, dissipate |
| (verb) strew or distribute over an area | Synonyms: spread, spread out |
| shatter | (verb) break into many pieces | - |
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| (verb) cause to break into many pieces | - |
| (verb) damage or destroy | - |
| shutter | (verb) close with shutters | - |
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| skitter | (verb) twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water | - |
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| (verb) cause to skip over a surface | Synonyms: skim, skip |
| (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scurry, scuttle |
| (verb) glide easily along a surface | - |
| smatter | (verb) speak with spotty or superficial knowledge | - |
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| (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blether, blither |
| (verb) work with in an amateurish manner | Synonyms: dabble, play around |
| spatter | (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, splash, splatter, splosh, swash |
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| (verb) spot, splash, or soil | Synonyms: bespatter |
| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: patter, pitter-patter, spit, sprinkle |
| splatter | (verb) cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container | Synonyms: slop, spill |
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| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splash, splosh, swash |
| splutter | (verb) spit up in an explosive manner | Synonyms: spit out, sputter |
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| (verb) utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage | Synonyms: sputter |
| sputter | (verb) spit up in an explosive manner | Synonyms: spit out, splutter |
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| (verb) cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed | - |
| (verb) utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage | Synonyms: splutter |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle |
| (verb) make an explosive sound | - |
| stutter | (verb) speak haltingly | Synonyms: bumble, falter, stammer |
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| swatter | (verb) splash and flutter about in or as if in water | - |
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| teetertotter | (verb) ride on a plank | Synonyms: seesaw, teeter-totter |
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| titter | (verb) laugh nervously | Synonyms: giggle |
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| totter | (verb) move unsteadily, with a rocking motion | Synonyms: seesaw, teeter |
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| (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, toddle, waddle |
| (verb) move without being stable, as if threatening to fall | - |
| twitter | (verb) make high-pitched sounds, as of birds | Synonyms: chitter |
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| unclutter | (verb) rid of obstructions | Synonyms: clear |
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| utter | (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize |
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| (verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: express, give tongue to, verbalise, verbalize |
| (verb) express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words) | Synonyms: emit, let loose, let out |
| (verb) put into circulation | - |