| apparatchik | (noun) a communist who was a member of the administrative system of a communist party | - |
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| (noun) a humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organization (especially a political organization) | - |
| backscratcher | (noun) a long-handled scratcher for scratching your back | - |
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| (noun) someone who is willing to trade favors or services for mutual advantage | - |
| batch | (noun) a collection of things or persons to be handled together | Synonyms: clutch |
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| (noun) all the loaves of bread baked at the same time | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (verb) batch together; assemble or process as a batch | - |
| birdwatch | (verb) watch and study birds in their natural habitat | Synonyms: bird |
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| brierpatch | (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier, brier patch |
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| bycatch | (noun) unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species | Synonyms: by-catch |
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| catch | (noun) the act of catching an object with the hands | Synonyms: grab, snap, snatch |
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| (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, collar, pinch, taking into custody |
| (noun) a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth | - |
| (noun) a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window | - |
| (noun) a restraint that checks the motion of something | Synonyms: stop |
| (noun) a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident | Synonyms: gimmick |
| (noun) a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion) | - |
| (noun) anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching) | - |
| (noun) a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect | Synonyms: match |
| (noun) the quantity that was caught | Synonyms: haul |
| (verb) come down with | - |
| (verb) be struck or affected by | - |
| (verb) delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned | - |
| (verb) detect a blunder or misstep | Synonyms: trip up |
| (verb) discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state | - |
| (verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) become aware of | - |
| (verb) be the catcher | - |
| (verb) catch up with and possibly overtake | Synonyms: catch up with, overtake |
| (verb) take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of | Synonyms: grab |
| (verb) succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase | Synonyms: capture, get |
| (verb) capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping | Synonyms: capture |
| (verb) to hook or entangle | Synonyms: hitch |
| (verb) attract and fix | Synonyms: arrest, get |
| (verb) cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled | - |
| (verb) spread or be communicated | - |
| (verb) take in and retain | - |
| (verb) reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) apprehend and reproduce accurately | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| (verb) reach in time | - |
| (verb) hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers | Synonyms: overhear, take in |
| (verb) perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily | Synonyms: pick up |
| (verb) see or watch | Synonyms: see, take in, view, watch |
| (verb) suffer from the receipt of | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) perceive by hearing | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly | - |
| (verb) check oneself during an action | - |
| (verb) start burning | - |
| catchall | (noun) an enclosure or receptacle for odds and ends | - |
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| catcher | (noun) the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws | - |
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| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher | Synonyms: backstop |
| catchfly | (noun) mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone | Synonyms: lychnis |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Silene | Synonyms: campion, silene |
| catching | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable |
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| (noun) (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team | - |
| (noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | Synonyms: detection, espial, spotting, spying |
| (noun) becoming infected | Synonyms: contracting |
| catchment | (noun) a structure in which water is collected (especially a natural drainage area) | - |
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| catchpenny | (adjective) designed to sell quickly without concern for quality | - |
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| catchphrase | (noun) a phrase that has become a catchword | Synonyms: catch phrase |
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| catchweed | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: cleavers, clivers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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| catchword | (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: motto, shibboleth, slogan |
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| (noun) a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page | Synonyms: guide word, guideword |
| catchy | (adjective) likely to attract attention | Synonyms: attention-getting |
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| (adjective) having concealed difficulty | Synonyms: tricky |
| cowcatcher | (noun) an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track | Synonyms: buffer, fender, pilot |
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| crosshatch | (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: hachure, hatch, hatching |
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| (verb) shade with multiple crossing lines | - |
| crosshatched | (adjective) shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines | Synonyms: hatched |
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| crosspatch | (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crank, grouch, grump |
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| deathwatch | (noun) bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death | Synonyms: deathwatch beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum |
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| (noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, booklouse, Liposcelis divinatorius |
| despatch | (noun) the act of sending off something | Synonyms: dispatch, shipment |
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| (noun) killing a person or animal | Synonyms: dispatch |
| (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness |
| (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: communique, dispatch |
| (verb) send away towards a designated goal | Synonyms: dispatch, send off |
| dispatch | (noun) the act of sending off something | Synonyms: despatch, shipment |
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| (noun) killing a person or animal | Synonyms: despatch |
| (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: despatch, expedition, expeditiousness |
| (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: communique, despatch |
| (verb) kill without delay | - |
| (verb) send away towards a designated goal | Synonyms: despatch, send off |
| (verb) complete or carry out | Synonyms: complete, discharge |
| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, hit, murder, off, polish off, remove, slay |
| (verb) dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently | - |
| dispatcher | (noun) the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition | Synonyms: starter |
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| (noun) employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service | - |
| dogwatch | (noun) either of two short watches: from 4-6 pm or 6-8 pm | - |
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| eyepatch | (noun) a protective cloth covering for an injured eye | Synonyms: patch |
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| flycatcher | (noun) any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing | Synonyms: Old World flycatcher, true flycatcher |
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| (noun) large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing | Synonyms: New World flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher |
| gnatcatcher | (noun) very small North American and South American warblers | - |
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| hatch | (noun) a movable barrier covering a hatchway | - |
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| (noun) a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open | Synonyms: hatchback, hatchback door, liftgate |
| (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatching |
| (noun) the production of young from an egg | Synonyms: hatching |
| (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: brood, cover, incubate |
| (verb) emerge from the eggs | - |
| (verb) draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper | - |
| (verb) devise or invent | Synonyms: concoct, dream up, think of, think up |
| (verb) inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating | - |
| hatchback | (noun) a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open | Synonyms: hatch, hatchback door, liftgate |
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| (noun) a car having a hatchback door | - |
| hatched | (adjective) emerged from an egg | - |
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| (adjective) shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines | Synonyms: crosshatched |
| hatchel | (noun) a comb for separating flax fibers | Synonyms: heckle |
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| (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hackle, heckle |
| hatchery | (noun) a place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs) | - |
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| hatchet | (noun) a small ax with a short handle used with one hand (usually to chop wood) | - |
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| (noun) weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians | Synonyms: tomahawk |
| hatching | (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatch |
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| (noun) the production of young from an egg | Synonyms: hatch |
| hatchling | (noun) any recently hatched animal (especially birds) | - |
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| hatchway | (noun) an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship | Synonyms: opening, scuttle |
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| latch | (noun) catch for fastening a door or gate; a bar that can be lowered or slid into a groove | - |
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| (noun) spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key | Synonyms: door latch |
| (verb) fasten with a latch | - |
| latchet | (noun) a leather strap or thong used to attach a sandal or shoe to the foot | - |
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| latchkey | (noun) key for raising or drawing back a latch or opening an outside door | - |
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| latchstring | (noun) opener consisting of a string that can be passed through a hole in a door for raising the latch from outside | - |
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| match | (noun) lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction | Synonyms: friction match, lucifer |
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| (noun) an exact duplicate | Synonyms: mate |
| (noun) a burning piece of wood or cardboard | - |
| (noun) something that resembles or harmonizes with | - |
| (noun) a formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete | - |
| (noun) a pair of people who live together | Synonyms: couple, mates |
| (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: compeer, equal, peer |
| (noun) a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect | Synonyms: catch |
| (noun) the score needed to win a match | - |
| (verb) be equal or harmonize | - |
| (verb) make correspond or harmonize | Synonyms: fit |
| (verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equal, equalise, equalize, equate |
| (verb) set into opposition or rivalry | Synonyms: oppose, pit, play off |
| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: couple, mate, pair, twin |
| (verb) give or join in marriage | - |
| (verb) provide funds complementary to | - |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, tally |
| (verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: equal, rival, touch |
| matchboard | (noun) a board that has a groove cut into one edge and a tongue cut into the other so they fit tightly together (as in a floor) | - |
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| matchbook | (noun) a small folder of paper safety matches | - |
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| matchbox | (noun) a box for holding matches | - |
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| matchbush | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches | Synonyms: matchweed |
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| matched | (adjective) going well together; possessing harmonizing qualities | - |
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| (adjective) provided with a worthy adversary or competitor | - |
| matcher | (noun) someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others | Synonyms: marriage broker, matchmaker |
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| matchet | (noun) a large heavy knife used as a weapon or for cutting vegetation | Synonyms: machete, panga |
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| matching | (adjective) intentionally matched | Synonyms: co-ordinated, coordinated |
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| (adjective) being two identical | Synonyms: duplicate, twin, twinned |
| matchless | (adjective) eminent beyond or above comparison | Synonyms: nonpareil, one, one and only, peerless, unmatchable, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled |
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| matchlessness | (noun) The state or condition of being matchless, of having no equal. | Synonyms: peerlessness |
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| matchlock | (noun) an early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge | - |
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| matchmaker | (noun) someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others | Synonyms: marriage broker, matcher |
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| matchmaking | (noun) mediation in order to bring about a marriage between others | - |
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| matchstick | (noun) a short thin stick of wood used in making matches | - |
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| matchup | (noun) the pairing of people or things as for comparison or competition | Synonyms: match-up |
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| matchweed | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches | Synonyms: matchbush |
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| matchwood | (noun) fragments of wood | - |
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| (noun) wood suitable for making matchsticks | - |
| (noun) wood in small pieces or splinters | Synonyms: splinters |
| midwatch | (noun) a watch during the night (as from midnight to 8 a.m.) | Synonyms: graveyard watch, middle watch, night watch |
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| mismatch | (noun) a bad or unsuitable match | - |
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| (verb) match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together | - |
| mismatched | (adjective) either not matched or unsuitably matched | - |
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| (adjective) (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents | Synonyms: uneven |
| nuthatch | (noun) any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects | Synonyms: nutcracker |
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| outmatch | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpass |
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| overwatch | (noun) surveillence by a unit within a video game which would cause the unit to make an action in response to an enemy unit's action | - |
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| oystercatcher | (noun) black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill; feed on oysters etc. | Synonyms: oyster catcher |
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| patch | (noun) a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole | - |
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| (noun) sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment) | Synonyms: darn, mend |
| (noun) a protective cloth covering for an injured eye | Synonyms: eyepatch |
| (noun) a connection intended to be used for a limited time | Synonyms: temporary hookup |
| (noun) a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body | Synonyms: bandage |
| (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: dapple, fleck, maculation, speckle, spot |
| (noun) a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program | - |
| (noun) a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation | Synonyms: plot, plot of ground, plot of land |
| (noun) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition | Synonyms: piece, spell, while |
| (verb) mend by putting a patch on | Synonyms: patch up |
| (verb) repair by adding pieces | Synonyms: piece |
| (verb) to join or unite the pieces of | Synonyms: piece |
| (verb) provide with a patch; also used metaphorically | - |
| patchboard | (noun) telephone central where circuits are completed with patchcords | Synonyms: plugboard, switchboard |
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| patchcord | (noun) a length of wire that has a plug at each end; used to make connections at a patchboard | - |
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| patched | (adjective) mended usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch | - |
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| (adjective) having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture) | Synonyms: spotted, spotty |
| patchily | (adverb) in spots | - |
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| patchiness | (noun) unevenness in quality or performance | - |
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| patching | (noun) the act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it | - |
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| patchouli | (noun) a heavy perfume made from the patchouli plant | Synonyms: pachouli, patchouly |
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| (noun) small East Indian shrubby mint; fragrant oil from its leaves is used in perfumes | Synonyms: pachouli, patchouly, Pogostemon cablin |
| patchouly | (noun) a heavy perfume made from the patchouli plant | Synonyms: pachouli, patchouli |
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| (noun) small East Indian shrubby mint; fragrant oil from its leaves is used in perfumes | Synonyms: pachouli, patchouli, Pogostemon cablin |
| patchwork | (noun) sewing consisting of pieces of different materials sewn together in a pattern | - |
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| (noun) a quilt made by sewing patches of different materials together | Synonyms: patchwork quilt |
| (noun) a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas | Synonyms: hodgepodge, jumble |
| patchy | (adjective) irregular or uneven in quality, texture, etc. | - |
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| portwatcher | (noun) a watchman on a wharf | Synonyms: port watcher |
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| potlatch | (noun) a ceremonial feast held by some Indians of the northwestern coast of North America (as in celebrating a marriage or a new accession) in which the host gives gifts to tribesmen and others to display his superior wealth (sometimes, formerly, to his own impoverishment) | - |
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| ratch | (noun) mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction | Synonyms: rachet, ratchet |
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| ratchet | (noun) mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction | Synonyms: rachet, ratch |
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| (verb) move by degrees in one direction only | Synonyms: rachet up, ratchet down |
| rematch | (noun) something (especially a game) that is played again | Synonyms: replay |
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| rewatch | (noun) to watch a show or television one more time | - |
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| (verb) to watch a show or television one more time | - |
| satchel | (noun) luggage consisting of a small case with a flat bottom and (usually) a shoulder strap | - |
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| scratch | (noun) an indication of damage | Synonyms: mark, scar, scrape |
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| (noun) (golf) a handicap of zero strokes | - |
| (noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: cacography, scrawl, scribble |
| (noun) a harsh noise made by scraping | Synonyms: scrape, scraping, scratching |
| (noun) dry mash for poultry | Synonyms: chicken feed |
| (noun) a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game | Synonyms: scratch line, start, starting line |
| (noun) a competitor who has withdrawn from competition | - |
| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| (noun) a depression scratched or carved into a surface | Synonyms: dent, incision, prick, slit |
| (noun) an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off | Synonyms: abrasion, excoriation, scrape |
| (verb) cut the surface of; wear away the surface of | Synonyms: scrape, scratch up |
| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fray, fret, rub |
| (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, grave, inscribe |
| (verb) gather (money or other resources) together over time | Synonyms: come up, scrape, scrape up |
| (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: excise, expunge, strike |
| (verb) scrape or rub as if to relieve itching | Synonyms: itch, rub |
| (verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, cancel, scrub |
| scratcher | (noun) a device used for scratching | - |
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| (noun) a person who scratches to relieve an itch | - |
| (noun) a workman who uses a tool for scratching | - |
| scratchiness | (noun) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions | Synonyms: abrasiveness, harshness |
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| scratching | (noun) a harsh noise made by scraping | Synonyms: scrape, scraping, scratch |
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| scratchpad | (noun) (computer science) a high-speed internal memory used for temporary storage of preliminary information | - |
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| scratchy | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough |
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| (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, techy, testy, tetchy |
| (adjective) lacking consistency | Synonyms: spotty, uneven |
| (adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: abrasive |
| snatch | (noun) the act of catching an object with the hands | Synonyms: catch, grab, snap |
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| (noun) a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted overhead in one rapid motion | - |
| (noun) (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment | Synonyms: kidnapping |
| (noun) obscene terms for female genitals | Synonyms: cunt, puss, pussy, slit, twat |
| (noun) a small fragment | Synonyms: bit |
| (verb) to grasp hastily or eagerly | Synonyms: snap, snatch up |
| (verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: abduct, kidnap, nobble |
| (verb) to make grasping motions | - |
| snatcher | (noun) someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) | Synonyms: abductor, kidnaper, kidnapper |
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| (noun) a thief who grabs and runs | - |
| spatchcock | (noun) flesh of a chicken (or game bird) split down the back and grilled (usually immediately after being killed) | - |
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| (verb) interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story | - |
| (verb) prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock | - |
| stopwatch | (noun) a timepiece that can be started or stopped for exact timing (as of a race) | Synonyms: stop watch |
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| swatch | (noun) a sample piece of cloth | - |
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| thatch | (noun) a house roof made with a plant material (as straw) | Synonyms: thatched roof |
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| (noun) hair resembling thatched roofing material | - |
| (noun) plant stalks used as roofing material | - |
| (verb) cover with thatch | - |
| thatcher | (noun) someone skilled in making a roof from plant stalks or foliage | - |
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| unhatched | (adjective) not yet emerged from an egg | - |
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| unlatched | (adjective) not firmly fastened or secured | Synonyms: unbarred, unbolted, unlocked, unsecured |
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