| creakily | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakingly, screakily |
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| creaking | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creak |
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| creakingly | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakily, screakily |
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| creaky | (adjective) having a rasping or grating sound | Synonyms: screaky |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to arthritis | Synonyms: arthritic, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy |
| (adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
| creashak | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, hog cranberry, mealberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry |
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| croak | (noun) a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) | Synonyms: croaking |
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| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: gnarl, grumble, murmur, mutter |
| (verb) utter a hoarse sound, like a raven | Synonyms: cronk |
| croaker | (noun) any of several fishes that make a croaking noise | - |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a saltwater fish caught along Atlantic coast of southern U.S. | - |
| croaking | (noun) a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) | Synonyms: croak |
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| croaky | (adjective) like the sounds of frogs and crows | Synonyms: guttural |
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| cupcake | (noun) small cake baked in a muffin tin | - |
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| czworniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using three units of water for each unit of honey. | - |
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| dak | (noun) East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye | Synonyms: Butea frondosa, Butea monosperma, dhak, palas |
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| dakoit | (noun) a member of an armed gang of robbers | Synonyms: dacoit |
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| dakoity | (noun) robbery by a gang of armed dacoits | Synonyms: dacoity |
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| daktylos | (noun) a Greek unit of length equal to one centimeter. | - |
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| daybreak | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| dhak | (noun) East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye | Synonyms: Butea frondosa, Butea monosperma, dak, palas |
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| diakinesis | (noun) the final stage of the prophase of meiosis | - |
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| diemaker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diesinker |
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| doctorspeak | (noun) medical jargon | - |
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| doublespeak | (noun) any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not | - |
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| drake | (noun) adult male of a wild or domestic duck | - |
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| dressmaker | (noun) a person who makes garments | Synonyms: garment-worker, garment worker, garmentmaker |
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| dressmaking | (noun) the craft of making dresses | - |
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| dwojniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using equal amounts of water and honey. | - |
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| earthquake | (noun) shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity | Synonyms: quake, seism, temblor |
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| (noun) a disturbance that is extremely disruptive | - |
| earthshaking | (adjective) loud enough to shake the very earth | - |
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| (adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world | Synonyms: world-shaking, world-shattering |
| eggshake | (noun) a milkshake with egg in it | - |
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| epikeratophakia | (noun) using a piece of donated corneal tissue to repair the eye of someone who has had a cataract removed | - |
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| fake | (adjective) not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article | Synonyms: false, faux, imitation, simulated |
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| (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bastard, bogus, phoney, phony |
| (noun) (football) a deceptive move made by a football player | Synonyms: juke |
| (noun) something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be | Synonyms: postiche, sham |
| (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
| (verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, talk through one's hat |
| (verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: counterfeit, forge |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
| fakeer | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakir, faqir, faquir |
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| faker | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| fakery | (noun) the act of faking (or the product of faking) | - |
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| fakir | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakeer, faqir, faquir |
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| filmmaker | (noun) a producer of motion pictures | Synonyms: film maker, film producer, movie maker |
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| firebreak | (noun) a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire | Synonyms: fireguard |
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| firedrake | (noun) a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings | Synonyms: dragon, European dragon |
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| flak | (noun) artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes | Synonyms: ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flack, pom-pom |
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| (noun) intense adverse criticism | Synonyms: attack, blast, fire, flack |
| (noun) a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer | Synonyms: flack, flack catcher, flak catcher |
| flake | (noun) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole | Synonyms: bit, chip, fleck, scrap |
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| (noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric, eccentric person, geek, oddball |
| (noun) a crystal of snow | Synonyms: snowflake |
| (verb) come off in flakes or thin small pieces | Synonyms: flake off, peel, peel off |
| (verb) cover with flakes or as if with flakes | - |
| (verb) form into flakes | - |
| flakey | (adjective) made of or resembling flakes | Synonyms: flaky |
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| (adjective) made of or easily forming flakes | Synonyms: flaky |
| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| flakiness | (noun) having or breaking into thin crisp flakes | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for insanity | Synonyms: craziness, daftness |
| flaky | (adjective) made of or resembling flakes | Synonyms: flakey |
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| (adjective) made of or easily forming flakes | Synonyms: flakey |
| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| flapcake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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| forsake | (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desert, desolate |
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| forsaking | (noun) the act of giving something up | Synonyms: abandonment, desertion |
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| (noun) the act of forsaking | Synonyms: giving up |
| freak | (noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: lusus naturae, monster, monstrosity |
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| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, junkie, junky, nut |
| (verb) lose one's nerve | Synonyms: freak out, gross out |
| freakish | (adjective) characteristic of a freak | - |
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| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| (adjective) changeable | Synonyms: capricious |
| freakishly | (adverb) unpredictably | Synonyms: capriciously |
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| freakishness | (noun) marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal | Synonyms: abnormality |
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| freaky | (adjective) strange and somewhat frightening | - |
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| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freakish, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| friedcake | (noun) small cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat | - |
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| fruitcake | (noun) a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on | - |
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| (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, screwball |
| gaolbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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| garmentmaker | (noun) a person who makes garments | Synonyms: dressmaker, garment-worker, garment worker |
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| glassmaker | (noun) someone who makes glass | - |
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| godforsaken | (adjective) located in a dismal or remote area; desolate | Synonyms: waste, wild |
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| griddlecake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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| (noun) a scone made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle | Synonyms: drop scone, Scotch pancake |
| groak | (verb) look or stare at longingly | - |
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| grosbeak | (noun) any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill | Synonyms: grossbeak |
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| grossbeak | (noun) any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill | Synonyms: grosbeak |
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| groundbreaker | (noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: innovator, pioneer, trailblazer |
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| groundbreaking | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: innovational, innovative |
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| (noun) the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project | Synonyms: groundbreaking ceremony |
| grubstake | (noun) funds advanced to a prospector or to someone starting a business in return for a share of the profits | - |
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| (verb) supply with funds in return for a promised share of profits | - |
| hairstreak | (noun) small butterflies having striped markings under the wings | Synonyms: hairstreak butterfly |
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| hake | (noun) any of several marine food fishes related to cod | - |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a fish similar to cod | - |
| hakeem | (noun) a Muslim physician | Synonyms: hakim |
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| hakim | (noun) a Muslim physician | Synonyms: hakeem |
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| (noun) a Muslim ruler or governor or judge | - |
| halfbeak | (noun) tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw | - |
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| handshake | (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handclasp, handshaking, shake |
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| handshaking | (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handclasp, handshake, shake |
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| harakiri | (noun) ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society | Synonyms: hara-kiri, harikari, seppuku |
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| hardbake | (noun) a British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds | - |
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| hatmaker | (noun) someone who makes and sells hats | Synonyms: hatter, milliner, modiste |
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| haymaker | (noun) a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing | Synonyms: knockout punch, KO punch, Sunday punch |
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| (noun) a farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying | Synonyms: hay conditioner |
| haymaking | (noun) cutting grass and curing it to make hay | - |
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| (noun) taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts | - |
| headshake | (noun) the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement | Synonyms: headshaking |
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| headshaking | (noun) the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement | Synonyms: headshake |
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| heartbreak | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, grief, heartache |
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| heartbreaker | (noun) a narrow defeat or a defeat at the last minute | - |
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| (noun) a charming person who is irresponsible in emotional relationships | - |
| heartbreaking | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartrending |
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| hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia | (noun) fear of magic properties of the number 666 | - |
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| hoecake | (noun) thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern) | - |
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| holidaymaker | (noun) someone who travels for pleasure | Synonyms: tourer, tourist |
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| homemaker | (noun) a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income | Synonyms: housewife, lady of the house, woman of the house |
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| homemaking | (noun) the management of a household | - |
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| hotcake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, pancake |
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| housebreak | (verb) train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house | Synonyms: house-train |
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| housebreaker | (noun) a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house | Synonyms: cat burglar |
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| (noun) a wrecker of houses | Synonyms: housewrecker |
| housebreaking | (noun) trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent | Synonyms: break-in, breaking and entering |
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| icebreaker | (noun) a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere | - |
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| (noun) a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation | Synonyms: iceboat |
| intake | (noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: consumption, ingestion, uptake |
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| (noun) the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing | Synonyms: aspiration, breathing in, inhalation, inspiration |
| (noun) an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container | Synonyms: inlet |
| jailbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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| (noun) the removal of security locks from an electronic device | - |
| jak | (noun) immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted | Synonyms: jack, jackfruit |
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| jakes | (noun) a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate | Synonyms: earth-closet, outhouse, privy |
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| jawbreaker | (noun) a word that is hard to pronounce | - |
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| (noun) a large round hard candy | - |
| johnnycake | (noun) cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England) | Synonyms: johnny cake, journey cake |
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| kaki | (noun) blackish stilt of New Zealand sometimes considered a color phase of the white-headed stilt | Synonyms: Himantopus novae-zelandiae |
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| (noun) small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit | Synonyms: Diospyros kaki, Japanese persimmon |
| karakul | (noun) hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur | Synonyms: broadtail, caracul |
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| kavakava | (noun) an alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub | Synonyms: kava |
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| kawaka | (noun) New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress | Synonyms: Libocedrus plumosa |
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