| handicapper | (noun) someone who sets the betting odds based on calculations of the outcome of a contest (especially a horse race) | Synonyms: odds-maker |
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| happen | (verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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| (verb) come into being; become reality | Synonyms: materialise, materialize |
| (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: bechance, befall |
| (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, chance, encounter, find |
| (verb) chance to be or do something, without intention or causation | - |
| happening | (noun) an event that happens | Synonyms: natural event, occurrence, occurrent |
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| happenstance | (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: coincidence |
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| happily | (adverb) in an unexpectedly lucky way | - |
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| (adverb) in a joyous manner | Synonyms: blithely, gayly, jubilantly, merrily, mirthfully |
| happiness | (noun) emotions experienced when in a state of well-being | - |
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| (noun) state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy | Synonyms: felicity |
| happy | (adjective) enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure | - |
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| (adjective) well expressed and to the point | Synonyms: well-chosen |
| (adjective) marked by good fortune | Synonyms: felicitous |
| (adjective) eagerly disposed to act or to be of service | Synonyms: glad |
| inapplicability | (noun) irrelevance by virtue of being inapplicable to the matter at hand | - |
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| inapplicable | (adjective) not capable of being applied | Synonyms: unsuitable |
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| inapposite | (adjective) of an inappropriate or misapplied nature | Synonyms: out of place |
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| inappositeness | (noun) inappropriateness | Synonyms: inaptness |
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| inappreciable | (adjective) too small to make a significant difference | - |
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| inappropriate | (adjective) not suitable for a particular occasion etc | - |
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| (adjective) not in keeping with what is correct or proper | Synonyms: incompatible, out of keeping, unfitting |
| inappropriately | (adverb) in an inappropriate manner | Synonyms: unsuitably |
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| inappropriateness | (noun) the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting | Synonyms: unworthiness |
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| (noun) inappropriate conduct | Synonyms: wrongness |
| kappa | (noun) the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| kidnapper | (noun) someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) | Synonyms: abductor, kidnaper, snatcher |
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| kidnapping | (noun) (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment | Synonyms: snatch |
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| lagniappe | (noun) a small gift (especially one given by a merchant to a customer who makes a purchase) | - |
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| lappet | (noun) medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars | Synonyms: lappet moth |
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| (noun) a small lap on a garment or headdress | - |
| (noun) a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards | Synonyms: wattle |
| lapping | (noun) covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) | Synonyms: imbrication, overlapping |
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| mapper | (noun) a clerk who marks data on a chart | Synonyms: plotter |
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| mapping | (noun) (genetics) the process of locating genes on a chromosome | Synonyms: chromosome mapping |
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| (noun) the process of making maps | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function) | Synonyms: function, map, mathematical function, single-valued function |
| mayapple | (noun) North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit | Synonyms: May apple, Podophyllum peltatum, wild mandrake |
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| misapplication | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, embezzlement, misappropriation, peculation |
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| (noun) wrong use or application | - |
| misapply | (verb) apply to a wrong thing or person; apply badly or incorrectly | Synonyms: misuse |
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| misapprehend | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand |
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| misapprehension | (noun) an understanding of something that is not correct | Synonyms: mistake, misunderstanding |
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| misappropriate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, malversate, peculate |
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| misappropriated | (adjective) taken for your own use in violation of a trust | Synonyms: embezzled |
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| misappropriation | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, peculation |
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| (noun) wrongful borrowing | - |
| napped | (adjective) (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing | Synonyms: brushed, fleecy |
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| napping | (adjective) not prepared or vigilant | Synonyms: off-guard, off guard, off her guard, off his guard, off one's guard, off your guard |
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| nappy | (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzly, frizzy, kinky |
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| (noun) garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement | Synonyms: diaper, napkin |
| nonappearance | (noun) failure to appear (especially as at court) | - |
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| nonappointive | (adjective) filled by popular election rather than by appointment | - |
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| overappraisal | (noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overestimate, overestimation, overvaluation |
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| overlapping | (noun) covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) | Synonyms: imbrication, lapping |
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| pappa | (noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | Synonyms: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pop |
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| pappoose | (noun) an American Indian infant | Synonyms: papoose |
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| pappose | (adjective) (of plants such as dandelions and thistles) having pappi or tufts of featherlike hairs or delicate bristles | - |
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| pappus | (noun) calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions | - |
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| pineapple | (noun) large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated | Synonyms: ananas |
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| (noun) a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics | Synonyms: Ananas comosus, pineapple plant |
| rappee | (noun) strong snuff made from dark coarse tobacco | - |
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| rappel | (noun) (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body | Synonyms: abseil |
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| (verb) descend by means of a rappel | Synonyms: abseil, rope down |
| rappeller | (noun) a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point | Synonyms: abseiler |
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| rapper | (noun) a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door | Synonyms: doorknocker, knocker |
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| (noun) someone who performs rap music | - |
| rapport | (noun) a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people | Synonyms: resonance |
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| rapporteur | (noun) a recorder appointed by a committee to prepare reports of the meetings | - |
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| rapprochement | (noun) the reestablishing of cordial relations | Synonyms: reconciliation |
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| reappear | (verb) appear again | Synonyms: re-emerge |
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| reappearance | (noun) the act of someone appearing again | Synonyms: return |
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| (noun) the event of something appearing again | - |
| reapportion | (verb) allocate, distribute, or apportion anew | Synonyms: reallocate |
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| reapportionment | (noun) a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) | Synonyms: reallocation, reallotment |
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| reappraisal | (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reassessment, revaluation, review |
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| reappraise | (verb) appraise anew | - |
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| sapper | (noun) a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications) | - |
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| sapphic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by homosexual relations between woman | Synonyms: lesbian |
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| sapphire | (adjective) of something having the color of a blue sapphire | - |
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| (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, cerulean, lazuline, sky-blue |
| (noun) a transparent piece of sapphire that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
| (noun) a precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone | - |
| sapphirine | (adjective) made of or resembling sapphire | - |
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| (noun) a rare light blue or green mineral; consists of aluminum and magnesium silicate and occurs as small grains in some metamorphic rocks | - |
| sapphism | (noun) female homosexuality | Synonyms: lesbianism |
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| sappy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| (adjective) abounding in sap | - |
| schnapps | (noun) any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes | Synonyms: schnaps |
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| scrapper | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, combatant, fighter |
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| scrappily | (adverb) in a bellicose contentious manner | Synonyms: combatively |
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| scrappiness | (noun) the trait of being scrappy and pugnacious | - |
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| (noun) The quality or state of being tenacious, energetic, spunky. | Synonyms: feistiness |
| scrapple | (noun) scraps of meat (usually pork) boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying | - |
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| scrappy | (adjective) full of fighting spirit | - |
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| slaphappy | (adjective) dazed from or as if from repeated blows | Synonyms: punch-drunk, silly |
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| (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: carefree, devil-may-care, freewheeling, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum |
| slapper | (noun) a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand | Synonyms: spanker |
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| snapper | (noun) large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite | Synonyms: Chelydra serpentina, common snapping turtle |
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| (noun) any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters | - |
| (noun) Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots | Synonyms: Chrysophrys auratus |
| (noun) a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends | Synonyms: cracker, cracker bonbon |
| (noun) flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas | - |
| (noun) (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback | Synonyms: center, centre |
| snappish | (adjective) apt to speak irritably | Synonyms: snappy |
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| snappishly | (adverb) in an ill-natured and snappish manner | - |
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| snappishness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, surliness, temper |
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| snappy | (adjective) pleasantly cold and invigorating | Synonyms: crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy |
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| (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, spanking, zippy |
| (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, spruce |
| (adjective) apt to speak irritably | Synonyms: snappish |
| (adjective) smart and fashionable | Synonyms: whipping |
| strappado | (noun) a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope | Synonyms: strapado |
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| strapper | (noun) a large and strong and heavyset man | Synonyms: bruiser, bull, Samson |
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| strapping | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, burly, husky |
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| tappa | (noun) a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark | Synonyms: tapa |
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| (noun) the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus | Synonyms: tapa, tapa bark, tappa bark |
| tapped | (adjective) in a condition for letting out liquid drawn out as by piercing or drawing a plug | - |
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| tapper | (noun) someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire | Synonyms: phone tapper, wiretapper |
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| (noun) a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks | Synonyms: tapster |
| (noun) a worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads | - |
| (noun) a dancer who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes | Synonyms: tap dancer |
| (noun) a person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly | - |
| tappet | (noun) a lever that is moved in order to tap something else | - |
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| tapping | (noun) the sound of light blow or knock | - |
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| trapped | (adjective) forced to turn and face attackers | Synonyms: at bay, cornered, treed |
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| trapper | (noun) someone who sets traps for animals (usually to obtain their furs) | - |
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| trapping | (noun) stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse | Synonyms: caparison, housing |
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| trappings | (noun) (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel | Synonyms: furnishing |
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| unappareled | (adjective) having removed clothing | Synonyms: unattired, unclad, undressed, ungarbed, ungarmented |
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| unapparent | (adjective) not readily apparent | - |
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| unappealable | (adjective) not subject to appeal | - |
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| unappealing | (adjective) not able to attract favorable attention | - |
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| (adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings | Synonyms: unlikable, unlikeable, unsympathetic |
| unappealingly | (adverb) in an unappealing manner | - |
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| unappeasable | (adjective) not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | Synonyms: grim, inexorable, relentless, stern, unforgiving, unrelenting |
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| unappendaged | (adjective) not having an appendage | - |
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| unappetising | (adjective) not appetizing in appearance, aroma, or taste | Synonyms: unappetizing |
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| unappetisingness | (noun) the property of spoiling the appetite | Synonyms: unappetizingness |
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| unappetizing | (adjective) not appetizing in appearance, aroma, or taste | Synonyms: unappetising |
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| unappetizingness | (noun) the property of spoiling the appetite | Synonyms: unappetisingness |
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| unappreciated | (adjective) having value that is not acknowledged | Synonyms: unsung, unvalued |
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| (adjective) not likely to be rewarded | Synonyms: thankless, ungratifying |
| unappreciative | (adjective) not feeling or expressing gratitude | - |
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