| backless | (adjective) lacking a back | - |
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| bespeckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: speckle |
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| blacklead | (verb) cover with graphite | - |
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| blackleg | (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: rat, scab, strikebreaker |
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| (verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: fink, rat, scab |
| brickle | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickly, brittle |
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| buckle | (noun) fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong | - |
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| (noun) a shape distorted by twisting or folding | Synonyms: warp |
| (verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: heave, warp |
| (verb) fasten with a buckle or buckles | Synonyms: clasp |
| (verb) fold or collapse | Synonyms: crumple |
| buckler | (noun) armor carried on the arm to intercept blows | Synonyms: shield |
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| buckleya | (noun) parasitic shrub of the eastern United States having opposite leaves and insignificant greenish flowers followed by oily dull green olivelike fruits | Synonyms: Buckleya distichophylla |
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| cackle | (noun) a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle | - |
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| (noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: chatter, yack, yak, yakety-yak |
| (noun) the sound made by a hen after laying an egg | - |
| (verb) emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing | - |
| (verb) squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens | - |
| (verb) talk or utter in a cackling manner | - |
| (verb) make a noise characteristic of a goose | Synonyms: gaggle |
| cackler | (noun) a hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk | - |
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| (noun) any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae | Synonyms: babbler |
| chuckle | (noun) a soft partly suppressed laugh | Synonyms: chortle |
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| (verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chortle, laugh softly |
| cockle | (noun) common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs | - |
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| (noun) common edible European bivalve | - |
| (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: crumple, knit, pucker, rumple |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: riffle, ripple, ruffle, undulate |
| cocklebur | (noun) any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs | Synonyms: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cockleburr |
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| (noun) burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use | Synonyms: Arctium lappa, great burdock, greater burdock |
| cockleburr | (noun) any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs | Synonyms: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cocklebur |
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| cockleshell | (noun) a small light flimsy boat | - |
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| crackle | (adjective) having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware | - |
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| (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle china, crackleware |
| (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackling, crepitation |
| (verb) to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks | - |
| (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crunch, scranch, scraunch |
| (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crepitate |
| crackleware | (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle, crackle china |
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| deckle | (noun) (paper making) a frame used to form paper pulp into sheets | - |
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| (noun) rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper | Synonyms: deckle edge |
| deckled | (adjective) having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade | Synonyms: deckle-edged, featheredged |
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| feckless | (adjective) generally incompetent and ineffectual | Synonyms: inept |
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| (adjective) not fit to assume responsibility | - |
| fecklessly | (adverb) with ineptitude; in an incompetent manner | Synonyms: ineptly |
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| (adverb) in a feckless manner; irresponsibly and incompetently | - |
| fecklessness | (noun) worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual | - |
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| fickle | (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, mercurial, quicksilver |
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| (adjective) marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments | Synonyms: volatile |
| fickleness | (noun) unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous | Synonyms: faithlessness, falseness, inconstancy |
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| freckle | (noun) a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin | Synonyms: lentigo |
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| (verb) mark with freckles | - |
| (verb) become freckled | - |
| freckled | (adjective) relating to or covered with or resembling freckles | Synonyms: lentiginose, lentiginous |
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| grackle | (noun) long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage | Synonyms: crow blackbird |
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| (noun) glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech | Synonyms: Gracula religiosa, hill myna, Indian grackle |
| hackle | (noun) long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants | - |
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| (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hatchel, heckle |
| hackles | (noun) a feeling of anger and animosity | Synonyms: dander |
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| heckle | (noun) a comb for separating flax fibers | Synonyms: hatchel |
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| (verb) challenge aggressively | - |
| (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hackle, hatchel |
| heckler | (noun) someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections | Synonyms: badgerer |
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| honeysuckle | (noun) shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera | - |
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| (noun) columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers | Synonyms: Aquilegia canadensis, meeting house |
| (noun) shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers | Synonyms: Australian honeysuckle, Banksia integrifolia, coast banksia |
| huckleberry | (noun) blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States | - |
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| (noun) any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberries | - |
| (noun) any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries | - |
| knuckle | (noun) a joint of a finger when the fist is closed | Synonyms: knuckle joint, metacarpophalangeal joint |
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| (verb) press or rub with the knuckles | - |
| (verb) shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground | - |
| knuckleball | (noun) a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin | Synonyms: knuckler |
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| knucklebones | (noun) a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball | Synonyms: jacks, jackstones |
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| knucklehead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| knuckler | (noun) a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin | Synonyms: knuckleball |
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| knuckles | (noun) (used in the plural) a small metal weapon; worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand | Synonyms: brass knuckles, brass knucks, knuckle duster, knucks |
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| luckless | (adjective) having or bringing misfortune | Synonyms: unlucky |
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| mackle | (noun) a printed impression that is blurred or doubled | - |
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| mickle | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
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| muckle | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
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| neckless | (adjective) lacking or apparently lacking a neck | - |
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| necklet | (noun) decoration worn about the neck (fur piece or tight necklace) as an ornament | - |
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| pickle | (noun) vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle |
| (verb) preserve in a pickling liquid | - |
| pickled | (adjective) (used of foods) preserved in a pickling liquid | - |
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| picklepuss | (noun) someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression | Synonyms: gloomy Gus, pouter, sourpuss |
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| prickle | (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, spikelet, spine, sticker, thorn |
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| (verb) make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn | Synonyms: prick |
| (verb) cause a stinging or tingling sensation | Synonyms: tingle |
| (verb) cause a prickling sensation | Synonyms: prick |
| prickleback | (noun) small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines | - |
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| (noun) small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research | Synonyms: stickleback |
| ramshackle | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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| reckless | (adjective) marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences | Synonyms: foolhardy, heady, rash |
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| (adjective) characterized by careless unconcern | Synonyms: heedless |
| recklessly | (adverb) in a reckless manner | - |
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| recklessness | (noun) the trait of giving little thought to danger | Synonyms: foolhardiness, rashness |
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| ruckle | (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
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| (verb) make a hoarse, rattling sound | - |
| shackle | (noun) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | Synonyms: bond, hamper, trammel |
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| (noun) a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar | - |
| (verb) restrain with fetters | Synonyms: fetter |
| (verb) bind the arms of | Synonyms: pinion |
| shackled | (adjective) bound by chains fastened around the ankles | Synonyms: fettered |
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| sickle | (noun) an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle | Synonyms: reap hook, reaping hook |
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| sicklepod | (noun) North American rock cress having very long curved pods | Synonyms: Arabis Canadensis |
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| (noun) cosmopolitan tropical herb or subshrub with yellow flowers and slender curved pods; a weed; sometimes placed in genus Cassia | Synonyms: Cassia tora, Senna obtusifolia |
| spackle | (noun) powder (containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste used to fill cracks and holes in plaster | Synonyms: spackling compound |
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| speckle | (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: dapple, fleck, maculation, patch, spot |
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| (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: bespeckle |
| (verb) produce a mottled effect | Synonyms: stipple |
| speckled | (adjective) having a pattern of dots | Synonyms: dotted, flecked, specked, stippled |
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| speckless | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: immaculate, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spick, spotless |
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| stickle | (verb) dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points) | - |
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| stickleback | (noun) small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research | Synonyms: prickleback |
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| stickler | (noun) someone who insists on something | - |
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| sticklerism | (noun) The behaviour of a stickler; inflexible adherence to rules. | - |
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| strickle | (noun) a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand | - |
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| (noun) a tool or rod used to level off grain or other granular material that is heaped in a measure | - |
| (noun) an implement for sharpening scythes | - |
| (verb) smooth with a strickle | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) level off with a strickle in a measuring container | - |
| suckle | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, wet-nurse |
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| (verb) suck milk from the mother's breasts | - |
| suckled | (adjective) (of an infant) breast-fed | Synonyms: nursed |
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| swashbuckler | (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: daredevil, harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, madcap |
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| tackle | (noun) (American football) grasping an opposing player with the intention of stopping by throwing to the ground | - |
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| (noun) (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, typically opposite one of the offensive guards | - |
| (noun) gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails | Synonyms: rigging |
| (noun) gear used in fishing | Synonyms: fishing gear, fishing rig, fishing tackle, rig |
| (noun) the person who plays offensive or defensive tackle on a football team | - |
| (verb) seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball | - |
| (verb) put a harness | Synonyms: harness |
| (verb) accept as a challenge | Synonyms: take on, undertake |
| tackler | (noun) a football player who tackles the ball carrier | - |
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| tickle | (noun) the act of tickling | Synonyms: tickling, titillation |
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| (noun) a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking | - |
| (verb) touch or stroke lightly | - |
| (verb) feel sudden intense sensation or emotion | Synonyms: thrill, vibrate |
| (verb) touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements | Synonyms: titillate, vellicate |
| tickler | (noun) a file of memoranda or notices that remind of things to be done | Synonyms: tickler file |
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| trackless | (adjective) having no tracks | - |
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| (adjective) lacking pathways | Synonyms: pathless, roadless, untracked, untrod, untrodden |
| trickle | (noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: dribble, drip |
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| (verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: dribble, filter |
| truckle | (noun) a low bed to be slid under a higher bed | Synonyms: truckle bed, trundle, trundle bed |
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| (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady |
| (verb) yield to out of weakness | - |
| truckler | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveler, groveller |
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| turnbuckle | (noun) an oblong metal coupling with a swivel at one end and an internal thread at the other into which a threaded rod can be screwed in order to form a unit that can be adjusted for length or tension | - |
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| unbuckle | (verb) undo the buckle of | - |
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| unshackled | (adjective) not bound by shackles and chains | Synonyms: unchained, unfettered, untied |
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