| ahorseback | (adjective) traveling on horseback | Synonyms: ahorse |
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| (adverb) on the back of a horse | Synonyms: ahorse, horseback |
| ameba | (noun) naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion | Synonyms: amoeba |
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| ameban | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: amebic, amebous, amoeban, amoebic, amoebous |
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| amoeba | (noun) naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion | Synonyms: ameba |
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| amoeban | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: ameban, amebic, amebous, amoebic, amoebous |
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| archaebacteria | (noun) considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae | Synonyms: archaebacterium, archaeobacteria, archeobacteria |
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| archaebacterium | (noun) considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae | Synonyms: archaebacteria, archaeobacteria, archeobacteria |
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| bareback | (adjective) riding without a saddle | Synonyms: barebacked |
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| (adverb) without a saddle | Synonyms: barebacked |
| barebacked | (adjective) riding without a saddle | Synonyms: bareback |
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| (adverb) without a saddle | Synonyms: bareback |
| baseball | (noun) a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs | Synonyms: ball, baseball game |
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| (noun) a ball used in playing baseball | - |
| beebalm | (noun) bushy perennial Old World mint having small white or yellowish flowers and fragrant lemon-flavored leaves; a garden escapee in northern Europe and North America | Synonyms: bee balm, garden balm, lemon balm, Melissa officinalis, sweet balm |
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| (noun) perennial aromatic herb of eastern North America having variously colored tubular flowers in dense showy heads | Synonyms: bee balm, bergamot mint, Monarda didyma, oswego tea |
| (noun) perennial herb of North America | Synonyms: bee balm, Monarda fistulosa |
| chebab | (noun) a Palestinian juvenile 10-15 years old who fights against the Israelis | - |
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| comeback | (noun) return by a celebrity to some previously successful activity | - |
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| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, return, riposte |
| corynebacterium | (noun) any species of the genus Corynebacterium | - |
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| debacle | (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
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| (noun) a sudden and violent collapse | Synonyms: fiasco |
| (noun) flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer | - |
| debar | (verb) prevent from entering; keep out | Synonyms: bar, exclude |
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| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| (verb) bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. | Synonyms: suspend |
| debark | (verb) go ashore | Synonyms: disembark, set down |
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| debarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: disembarkation, disembarkment |
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| debarment | (noun) the act of prevention by legal means | - |
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| (noun) the state of being debarred (excluded from enjoying certain possessions or rights or practices) | - |
| debase | (verb) lower in value by increasing the base-metal content | Synonyms: alloy |
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| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, dilute, load, stretch |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| debased | (adjective) ruined in character or quality | Synonyms: corrupted, vitiated |
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| (adjective) mixed with impurities | Synonyms: adulterate, adulterated |
| (adjective) lowered in value | Synonyms: degraded, devalued |
| debasement | (noun) changing to a lower state (a less respected state) | Synonyms: degradation |
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| (noun) being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating | Synonyms: adulteration |
| debaser | (noun) a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins) | Synonyms: degrader |
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| debasing | (adjective) used of conduct; characterized by dishonor | Synonyms: degrading |
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| debatable | (adjective) capable of being disproved | Synonyms: disputable |
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| (adjective) open to argument or debate | Synonyms: arguable, disputable, moot |
| (adjective) open to doubt or debate | Synonyms: problematic, problematical |
| debate | (noun) the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote) | Synonyms: disputation, public debate |
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| (noun) a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal | Synonyms: argument, argumentation |
| (verb) argue with one another | - |
| (verb) discuss the pros and cons of an issue | Synonyms: deliberate |
| (verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: argue, contend, fence |
| (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, deliberate, moot, turn over |
| debater | (noun) someone who engages in debate | Synonyms: arguer |
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| debauch | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| debauched | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| debauchee | (noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | Synonyms: libertine, rounder |
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| debaucher | (noun) someone who assaults others sexually | Synonyms: ravisher, violator |
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| debauchery | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| dieback | (noun) a disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches | - |
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| endameba | (noun) any ameba of the genus Endamoeba | - |
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| eyeball | (noun) the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye | Synonyms: orb |
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| (verb) look at | Synonyms: eye |
| eyebath | (noun) a small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye; use to apply medicated or cleansing solution to the eyeball | Synonyms: eye cup, eyecup |
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| fireball | (noun) the luminous center of a nuclear explosion | - |
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| (noun) a ball of fire (such as the sun or a ball-shaped discharge of lightning) | - |
| (noun) a highly energetic and indefatigable person | Synonyms: ball of fire, human dynamo, powerhouse |
| (noun) an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) | Synonyms: bolide |
| firebase | (noun) an artillery base to support advancing troops | - |
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| gamebag | (noun) a canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter | - |
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| gleba | (noun) fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn | - |
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| greaseball | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, ginzo, Guinea, wop |
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| handlebar | (noun) the shaped bar used to steer a bicycle | - |
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| horseback | (noun) the back of a horse | - |
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| (noun) a narrow ridge of hills | Synonyms: hogback |
| (adverb) on the back of a horse | Synonyms: ahorse, ahorseback |
| kebab | (noun) cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables | Synonyms: kabob, shish kebab |
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| knuckleball | (noun) a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin | Synonyms: knuckler |
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| lacebark | (noun) small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage | Synonyms: Hoheria populnea, houhere, ribbonwood |
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| linebacker | (noun) (American football) the position of a defensive football player who plays close behind the line of scrimmage | Synonyms: line backer |
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| (noun) a defensive football player who takes a position close behind the linemen | Synonyms: line backer |
| mountebank | (noun) a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes | Synonyms: charlatan |
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| nosebag | (noun) a canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse); covers the muzzle and fastens at the top of the head | Synonyms: feedbag |
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| noseband | (noun) a strap that is the part of a bridle that goes over the animal's nose | Synonyms: nosepiece |
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| peba | (noun) having nine hinged bands of bony plates; ranges from Texas to Paraguay | Synonyms: Dasypus novemcinctus, nine-banded armadillo, Texas armadillo |
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| piebald | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
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| pilosebaceous | (adjective) of or relating to a hair follicle and its sebaceous gland | - |
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| 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 |
| rebarbative | (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: repellant, repellent |
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| rebate | (noun) a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together | Synonyms: rabbet |
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| (noun) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid | Synonyms: discount |
| (verb) cut a rebate in (timber or stone) | - |
| (verb) join with a rebate | - |
| (verb) give a reduction in the price during a sale | - |
| rebato | (noun) a wired or starched collar of intricate lace; worn in 17th century | Synonyms: rabato |
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| ropebark | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, moosewood, wicopy |
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| rosebay | (noun) late-spring-blooming rhododendron of eastern North America having rosy to pink-purple flowers | Synonyms: Rhododendron maxima |
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| saddleback | (noun) a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end | Synonyms: gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback roof |
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| (noun) a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) | Synonyms: saddle |
| saddlebag | (noun) a large bag (or pair of bags) hung over a saddle | - |
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| sebaceous | (adjective) containing an unusual amount of grease or oil | Synonyms: greasy, oily, oleaginous |
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| shebang | (noun) an entire system; used in the phrase `the whole shebang' | - |
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| sidebar | (noun) (law) a courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge that is held out of the jury's hearing | - |
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| (noun) a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story | - |
| solebar | (noun) one of the longitudinal beams running along either side of a railway vehicle, onto which the bodywork is mounted, in passenger-carrying vehicles usually forming the side or the base of the floor. | Synonyms: side sill |
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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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| tieback | (noun) a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back | Synonyms: pullback |
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| wastebasket | (noun) a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish | Synonyms: circular file, waste-paper basket, waste basket, wastepaper basket |
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| waveband | (noun) a band of adjacent radio frequencies (e.g., assigned for transmitting radio or television signals) | Synonyms: frequency band |
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| whitebait | (noun) the edible young of especially herrings and sprats and smelts | - |
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| (noun) minnows or other small fresh- or saltwater fish (especially herring); usually cooked whole | - |
| wideband | (adjective) responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies | Synonyms: broadband |
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| zwieback | (noun) slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp | Synonyms: Brussels biscuit, rusk, twice-baked bread |
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