| kayak | (noun) a small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight with animal skins; used by Eskimos | - |
|---|
| (verb) travel in a small canoe | - |
| keepsake | (noun) something of sentimental value | Synonyms: relic, souvenir, token |
|---|
| khaki | (adjective) of a yellowish brown color | - |
|---|
| (noun) a sturdy twilled cloth of a yellowish brown color used especially for military uniforms | - |
| khakis | (noun) a military uniform made of khaki fabric | - |
|---|
| kingmaker | (noun) an important person who can bring leaders to power through the exercise of political influence | - |
|---|
| kingsnake | (noun) any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals | Synonyms: king snake |
|---|
| kittiwake | (noun) small pearl-grey gull of northern regions; nests on cliffs and has a rudimentary hind toe | - |
|---|
| kurakkan | (noun) East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient | Synonyms: African millet, coracan, corakan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, ragee, ragi |
|---|
| lake | (noun) a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land | - |
|---|
| (noun) any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments | - |
| (noun) a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal | - |
| lakefront | (noun) land bordering a lake | - |
|---|
| lakeshore | (noun) the shore of a lake | Synonyms: lakeside |
|---|
| lakeside | (noun) the shore of a lake | Synonyms: lakeshore |
|---|
| lakh | (noun) the cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten | Synonyms: 100000, hundred thousand |
|---|
| latakia | (noun) aromatic Turkish tobacco | - |
|---|
| lawbreaker | (noun) someone who violates the law | Synonyms: law offender, violator |
|---|
| lawmaker | (noun) a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws | Synonyms: lawgiver |
|---|
| lawmaking | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: legislating, legislation |
|---|
| leak | (noun) unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information | Synonyms: news leak |
|---|
| (noun) the discharge of a fluid from some container | Synonyms: escape, leakage, outflow |
| (noun) an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape | - |
| (noun) a euphemism for urination | Synonyms: making water, passing water, wetting |
| (noun) soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi | - |
| (verb) have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out | - |
| (verb) enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure | - |
| (verb) tell anonymously | - |
| (verb) be leaked | Synonyms: leak out |
| leakage | (noun) the discharge of a fluid from some container | Synonyms: escape, leak, outflow |
|---|
| leaker | (noun) a surreptitious informant | - |
|---|
| leakiness | (noun) the condition of permitting leaks or leakage | - |
|---|
| leakproof | (adjective) not subject to leaks | - |
|---|
| leaky | (adjective) permitting the unwanted passage of fluids or gases | - |
|---|
| (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, talebearing, tattling |
| (adjective) used informally; unable to retain urine | - |
| loudspeaker | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance | Synonyms: loudspeaker system, speaker, speaker system, speaker unit |
|---|
| lovemaking | (noun) sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people | Synonyms: love, love life, making love, sexual love |
|---|
| madake | (noun) large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely grown elsewhere | Synonyms: giant timber bamboo, ku-chiku, Phyllostachys bambusoides |
|---|
| makagigi | (noun) cookies made with poppy seeds and honey; traditional Polish Christmas sweet treats. | - |
|---|
| make | (noun) the act of mixing cards haphazardly | Synonyms: shuffle, shuffling |
|---|
| (noun) a recognizable kind | Synonyms: brand |
| (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, defecate, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
| (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
| (verb) behave in a certain manner | - |
| (verb) act in a certain way so as to acquire | - |
| (verb) give certain properties to something | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) put in order or neaten | Synonyms: make up |
| (verb) cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable | - |
| (verb) develop into | - |
| (verb) favor the development of | - |
| (verb) change from one form into another | - |
| (verb) make, formulate, or derive in the mind | Synonyms: draw |
| (verb) consider as being | - |
| (verb) calculate as being | - |
| (verb) institute, enact, or establish | Synonyms: establish, lay down |
| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, get, have, induce, stimulate |
| (verb) represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like | Synonyms: make believe, pretend |
| (verb) assure the success of | - |
| (verb) induce to have sex | Synonyms: score, seduce |
| (verb) make or cause to be or to become | Synonyms: create |
| (verb) create or manufacture a man-made product | Synonyms: create, produce |
| (verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: give, have, hold, throw |
| (verb) create or design, often in a certain way | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: cook, fix, prepare, ready |
| (verb) give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally | Synonyms: cause, do |
| (verb) create by artistic means | Synonyms: create |
| (verb) gather and light the materials for | - |
| (verb) make by shaping or bringing together constituents | - |
| (verb) perform, produce, or carry out | - |
| (verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: build, construct |
| (verb) compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way | - |
| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, attain, gain, hit, reach |
| (verb) reach a goal | Synonyms: get to, progress to, reach |
| (verb) head into a specified direction | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) proceed along a path | Synonyms: work |
| (verb) reach in time | - |
| (verb) appear to begin an activity | - |
| (verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, clear, earn, gain, pull in, realise, realize, take in |
| (verb) achieve a point or goal | Synonyms: get, have |
| (verb) engage in | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) form by assembling individuals or constituents | - |
| (verb) charge with a function; charge to be | Synonyms: name, nominate |
| (verb) carry out or commit | - |
| (verb) be or be capable of being changed or made into | - |
| (verb) to compose or represent | Synonyms: constitute, form |
| (verb) undergo fabrication or creation | - |
| (verb) amount to | - |
| (verb) add up to | - |
| (verb) be suitable for | - |
| (verb) constitute the essence of | - |
| makeover | (noun) an overall beauty treatment (involving a person's hair style and cosmetics and clothing) intended to change or improve a person's appearance | - |
|---|
| (noun) a complete reconstruction and renovation of something | - |
| maker | (noun) a business engaged in manufacturing some product | Synonyms: manufacturer, manufacturing business |
|---|
| (noun) a person who makes things | Synonyms: shaper |
| makeready | (noun) final preparation and adjustments | - |
|---|
| makeshift | (adjective) done or made using whatever is available | Synonyms: improvised, jury-rigged |
|---|
| (noun) something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency | Synonyms: make-do, stopgap |
| makeup | (noun) cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance | Synonyms: make-up, war paint |
|---|
| (noun) the way in which someone or something is composed | Synonyms: composition, constitution, make-up, physical composition |
| (noun) an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event | Synonyms: make-up |
| makeweight | (noun) a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight | - |
|---|
| (noun) anything added to fill out a whole | Synonyms: filler |
| making | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: devising, fashioning |
|---|
| (noun) (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something | - |
| (noun) an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something | Synonyms: qualification |
| mako | (noun) powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific | Synonyms: mako shark |
|---|
| makomako | (noun) graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine | Synonyms: Aristotelia racemosa, Aristotelia serrata, New Zealand wine berry, wineberry |
|---|
| manakin | (noun) any of numerous small bright-colored birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behavior | - |
|---|
| (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: form, manikin, mannequin, mannikin |
| (noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manikin, mannequin, mannikin, model |
| mandrake | (noun) a plant of southern Europe and North Africa having purple flowers, yellow fruits and a forked root formerly thought to have magical powers | Synonyms: devil's apples, Mandragora officinarum |
|---|
| (noun) the root of the mandrake plant; used medicinally or as a narcotic | Synonyms: mandrake root |
| mapmaking | (noun) the making of maps and charts | Synonyms: cartography |
|---|
| matchmaker | (noun) someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others | Synonyms: marriage broker, matcher |
|---|
| matchmaking | (noun) mediation in order to bring about a marriage between others | - |
|---|
| megakaryocyte | (noun) a large bone marrow cell; regarded as the source of blood platelets | - |
|---|
| megakaryocytic | (adjective) of or pertaining to large bone marrow cells | - |
|---|
| merrymaker | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: reveler, reveller |
|---|
| merrymaking | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: conviviality, jollification |
|---|
| metaknowledge | (noun) knowledge about knowledge | - |
|---|
| middlebreaker | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister, lister plough, lister plow, middle buster |
|---|
| milkshake | (noun) frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream | Synonyms: milk shake, shake |
|---|
| misspeak | (verb) pronounce a word incorrectly | Synonyms: mispronounce |
|---|
| mistakable | (adjective) so similar as to be easily identified for another thing | Synonyms: confusable |
|---|
| mistake | (noun) a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention | Synonyms: error, fault |
|---|
| (noun) an understanding of something that is not correct | Synonyms: misapprehension, misunderstanding |
| (noun) part of a statement that is not correct | Synonyms: error |
| (verb) to make a mistake or be incorrect | Synonyms: err, slip |
| (verb) identify incorrectly | Synonyms: misidentify |
| mistaken | (adjective) arising from error | Synonyms: false |
|---|
| (adjective) wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment | Synonyms: misguided |
| mistakenly | (adverb) in a mistaken or erroneous manner | Synonyms: erroneously |
|---|
| mistaking | (noun) putting the wrong interpretation on | Synonyms: misinterpretation, misunderstanding |
|---|
| moneymaker | (noun) a project that generates a continuous flow of money | Synonyms: cash cow, money-spinner |
|---|
| (noun) someone who is successful in accumulating wealth | - |
| moneymaking | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, mercenary |
|---|
| (adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: lucrative, remunerative |
| (noun) the act of making money (and accumulating wealth) | - |
| moussaka | (noun) casserole of eggplant and ground lamb with onion and tomatoes bound with white sauce and beaten eggs | - |
|---|
| moviemaking | (noun) the production of movies | Synonyms: film making, movie making |
|---|
| muckrake | (verb) explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures | - |
|---|
| muckraker | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: mudslinger |
|---|
| muckraking | (noun) the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures) | - |
|---|
| naked | (adjective) lacking any cover | - |
|---|
| (adjective) devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure | Synonyms: raw |
| (adjective) (of the eye or ear e.g.) without the aid of an optical or acoustical device or instrument | - |
| (adjective) having no clothes on the body | Synonyms: au naturel, bare, nude |
| (adjective) having no protecting or concealing cover | Synonyms: defenseless |
| nakedly | (adverb) without clothing | - |
|---|
| (adverb) in an exposed manner; without protection or defense | - |
| nakedness | (noun) characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive | Synonyms: openness |
|---|
| (noun) the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind | Synonyms: nudeness, nudity |
| (noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere | Synonyms: bareness, bleakness, desolation |
| nakedwood | (noun) tree of extreme southern Florida and West Indies having thin scaly bark and aromatic fruits and seeds and yielding hard heavy close-grained zebrawood | Synonyms: Eugenia dicrana |
|---|
| (noun) any of several small to medium-sized trees of Florida and West Indies with thin scaly bark and heavy dark heartwood | - |
| namesake | (noun) a person with the same name as another | - |
|---|
| newsbreak | (noun) a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story | Synonyms: flash, news bulletin, newsflash |
|---|
| newspeak | (noun) deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public | - |
|---|
| noisemaker | (noun) a device (such as a clapper or bell or horn) used to make a loud noise at a celebration | - |
|---|
| nonspeaking | (adjective) not capable of or especially not involving speech or spoken lines | Synonyms: walk-on |
|---|
| oak | (noun) a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves | Synonyms: oak tree |
|---|
| (noun) the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring | - |
| oaken | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree | - |
|---|
| oakum | (noun) loose hemp or jute fiber obtained by unravelling old ropes; when impregnated with tar it was used to caulk seams and pack joints in wooden ships | - |
|---|
| oatcake | (noun) thin flat unleavened cake of baked oatmeal | - |
|---|
| outbreak | (noun) a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition) | Synonyms: eruption, irruption |
|---|
| outtake | (noun) a scene that is filmed but is not used in the final editing of the film | - |
|---|
| ovenbake | (verb) bake in an oven | - |
|---|
| overtake | (verb) catch up with and possibly overtake | Synonyms: catch, catch up with |
|---|
| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overpower, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
| (verb) travel past | Synonyms: overhaul, pass |
| overtaking | (noun) going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it | Synonyms: passing |
|---|
| pacemaker | (noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing | Synonyms: pacer, pacesetter |
|---|
| (noun) an implanted electronic device that takes over the function of the natural cardiac pacemaker | Synonyms: artificial pacemaker |
| (noun) a specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat | Synonyms: cardiac pacemaker, SA node, sinoatrial node |
| (noun) a leading instance in its field | Synonyms: pacesetter |
| painstaking | (adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: conscientious, scrupulous |
|---|
| painstakingly | (adverb) in a fastidious and painstaking manner | Synonyms: fastidiously |
|---|
| painstakingness | (noun) the trait of being painstaking and careful | Synonyms: conscientiousness |
|---|
| pakchoi | (noun) Asiatic plant grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves | Synonyms: bok choi, bok choy, Brassica rapa chinensis, Chinese white cabbage, pak choi |
|---|
| pancake | (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, hotcake |
|---|
| papermaking | (noun) the craft of making paper | - |
|---|
| parakeet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet |
|---|
| parrakeet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: parakeet, paraquet, paroquet, parroket, parroquet |
|---|
| partake | (verb) consume | Synonyms: touch |
|---|
| (verb) have, give, or receive a share of | Synonyms: partake in, share |
| (verb) have some of the qualities or attributes of something | - |
| partaker | (noun) someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share | Synonyms: sharer |
|---|
| patternmaker | (noun) someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking) | - |
|---|
| peacemaker | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, reconciler |
|---|
| peak | (noun) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes | Synonyms: bill, eyeshade, visor, vizor |
|---|
| (noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crest, crown, summit, tip, top |
| (noun) the highest point (of something) | Synonyms: acme, apex, vertex |
| (noun) the most extreme possible amount or value | Synonyms: extremum |
| (noun) a V shape | Synonyms: point, tip |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, prime |
| (verb) to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity | Synonyms: top out |
| peaked | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
|---|
| (adjective) having or rising to a peak | - |
| peaky | (adjective) having or as if having especially high-pitched spots | Synonyms: spiky |
|---|
| playmaker | (noun) a player in a team sport who leads attacks or maneuvers in such a way that a teammate can score | - |
|---|
| printmaker | (noun) an artist who designs and makes prints | Synonyms: graphic artist |
|---|
| printmaking | (noun) artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens | - |
|---|
| prisonbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking |
|---|