| interbreed | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, hybridize |
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| interbreeding | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing |
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| (noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: crossbreeding, miscegenation |
| ironweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue | Synonyms: vernonia |
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| jewelweed | (noun) North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil | Synonyms: celandine, Impatiens capensis, lady's earrings, orange balsam, touch-me-not |
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| jimsonweed | (noun) intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits | Synonyms: apple of Peru, common thorn apple, Datura stramonium, Jamestown weed, jimson weed |
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| knapweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Centaurea having purple thistlelike flowers | - |
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| linseed | (noun) the seed of flax used as a source of oil | Synonyms: flaxseed |
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| locoweed | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
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| (noun) any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock | Synonyms: crazy weed, crazyweed |
| markweed | (noun) climbing plant common in eastern and central United States with ternate leaves and greenish flowers followed by white berries; yields an irritating oil that causes a rash on contact | Synonyms: poison ivy, poison mercury, poison oak, Rhus radicans, Toxicodendron radicans |
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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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| mayweed | (noun) widespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower heads with yellow discs | Synonyms: Anthemis cotula, dog fennel, stinking chamomile, stinking mayweed |
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| meed | (noun) a fitting reward | - |
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| milkweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts | Synonyms: silkweed |
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| (noun) annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads | Synonyms: Sonchus oleraceus |
| misdeed | (noun) improper or wicked or immoral behavior | Synonyms: misbehavior, misbehaviour |
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| moonseed | (noun) plant of the family Menispermaceae having red or black fruit with crescent- or ring-shaped seeds | - |
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| mouthbreeder | (noun) any of various fishes that carry their eggs and their young in their mouths | - |
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| need | (noun) the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior | Synonyms: motivation, motive |
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| (noun) anything that is necessary but lacking | Synonyms: want |
| (noun) a condition requiring relief | Synonyms: demand |
| (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: indigence, pauperism, pauperization, penury |
| (verb) have need of | Synonyms: require, want |
| (verb) have or feel a need for | - |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, postulate, require, take |
| needed | (adjective) necessary for relief or supply | Synonyms: needful, required, requisite |
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| needer | (noun) a person who wants or needs something | Synonyms: wanter |
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| needful | (adjective) necessary for relief or supply | Synonyms: needed, required, requisite |
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| needfully | (adverb) in an essential manner | Synonyms: necessarily |
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| neediness | (noun) the quality of needing attention and affection and reassurance to a marked degree | - |
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| (noun) a state of extreme poverty | Synonyms: deprivation, privation, want |
| needle | (noun) a sharp pointed implement (usually steel) | - |
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| (noun) a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument | - |
| (noun) a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record | Synonyms: phonograph needle |
| (noun) the leaf of a conifer | Synonyms: acerate leaf |
| (verb) annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism | Synonyms: goad |
| (verb) prick with a needle | - |
| needlebush | (noun) shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea lissosperma, needle-bush, needle bush |
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| needlecraft | (noun) work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle | Synonyms: needlework |
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| (noun) a creation created or assembled by needle and thread | Synonyms: needlework |
| needled | (adjective) of trees whose leaves are acerate | - |
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| needlefish | (noun) fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates | Synonyms: pipefish |
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| (noun) elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters | Synonyms: billfish, gar |
| needlelike | (adjective) ending in a sharp point | Synonyms: acuate, acute, sharp |
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| needlepoint | (noun) embroidery consisting of allover embroidered canvas resembling tapestry | Synonyms: needlepoint embroidery |
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| (noun) lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern | Synonyms: point lace |
| needless | (adjective) unnecessary and unwarranted | Synonyms: gratuitous, uncalled-for |
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| needlessly | (adverb) without need | - |
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| needlewoman | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, seamstress, sempstress |
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| needlewood | (noun) large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea leucoptera, needle-wood, needle wood |
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| needlework | (noun) work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle | Synonyms: needlecraft |
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| (noun) a creation created or assembled by needle and thread | Synonyms: needlecraft |
| needleworker | (noun) someone who does work (as sewing or embroidery) with a needle | - |
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| needs | (adverb) in such a manner as could not be otherwise | Synonyms: inevitably, necessarily, of necessity |
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| needy | (adjective) demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree | - |
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| (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, poverty-stricken |
| (noun) needy people collectively | - |
| nitweed | (noun) annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Hypericum gentianoides, orange grass, pine-weed, pineweed |
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| nosebleed | (noun) bleeding from the nose | Synonyms: epistaxis |
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| oilseed | (noun) any of several seeds that yield oil | Synonyms: oil-rich seed |
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| overfeed | (verb) feed excessively | - |
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| overfeeding | (noun) excessive feeding | - |
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| overgreedy | (adjective) excessively gluttonous | Synonyms: too-greedy |
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| pearlweed | (noun) any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls | Synonyms: pearl-weed, pearlwort |
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| pedigreed | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pureblood, pureblooded, thoroughbred |
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| pickerelweed | (noun) American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds | Synonyms: pickerel weed, Pontederia cordata, wampee |
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| pigweed | (noun) leaves collected from the wild | Synonyms: lamb's-quarter, wild spinach |
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| (noun) common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb | Synonyms: Chenopodium album, lamb's-quarters, wild spinach |
| (noun) leaves sometimes used as potherbs; seeds used as cereal; southern United States to Central America; India and China | Synonyms: Amaranthus hypochondriacus |
| pineweed | (noun) annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Hypericum gentianoides, nitweed, orange grass, pine-weed |
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| pokeweed | (noun) perennial of the genus Phytolacca | - |
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| pondweed | (noun) any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae | - |
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| (noun) submerged freshwater perennials | Synonyms: ditchmoss, Elodea, genus Elodea |
| proceed | (verb) follow a certain course | Synonyms: go |
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| (verb) continue talking | Synonyms: carry on, continue, go on |
| (verb) move ahead; travel onward in time or space | Synonyms: continue, go forward, move ahead |
| (verb) follow a procedure or take a course | Synonyms: go, move |
| (verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity | Synonyms: continue, go along, go on, keep |
| proceeding | (noun) (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Synonyms: legal proceeding, proceedings |
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| proceedings | (noun) (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Synonyms: legal proceeding, proceeding |
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| (noun) a written account of what transpired at a meeting | Synonyms: minutes, transactions |
| proceeds | (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, return, take, takings, yield |
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| pumpkinseed | (noun) small brilliantly colored North American sunfish | Synonyms: Lepomis gibbosus |
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| rabbitweed | (noun) low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads | Synonyms: broom snakeroot, broom snakeweed, Gutierrezia sarothrae, rabbit-weed, snakeweed, turpentine weed |
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| ragweed | (noun) any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma | Synonyms: ambrosia, bitterweed |
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| (noun) widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity | Synonyms: benweed, ragwort, Senecio jacobaea, tansy ragwort |
| rapeseed | (noun) seed of rape plants; source of an edible oil | - |
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| reed | (noun) a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed | Synonyms: beating-reed instrument, reed instrument |
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| (noun) a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it | Synonyms: vibrating reed |
| (noun) tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites | - |
| reedbird | (noun) migratory American songbird | Synonyms: bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, ricebird |
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| (noun) small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa | Synonyms: Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, sedge bird, sedge warbler, sedge wren |
| reedlike | (adjective) resembling a reed in being upright and slender | Synonyms: reedy |
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| reedmace | (noun) tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: bullrush, bulrush, cat's-tail, nailrod, reed mace, Typha latifolia |
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| reedy | (adjective) having a tone of a reed instrument | Synonyms: wheezy |
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| (adjective) resembling a reed in being upright and slender | Synonyms: reedlike |
| reseed | (verb) maintain by seeding without human intervention | - |
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| (verb) seed again or anew | - |
| richweed | (noun) a plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves | Synonyms: clearweed, dead nettle, Pilea pumilla |
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| (noun) erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: Collinsonia canadensis, horse balm, horseweed, stone-root, stone root, stoneroot |
| rockweed | (noun) coarse brown seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide | - |
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| rosinweed | (noun) North American perennial having a resinous odor and yellow flowers | Synonyms: Silphium laciniatum |
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| (noun) any of various western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: gum plant, gumweed, tarweed |
| sauteed | (adjective) fried quickly in a little fat | Synonyms: saute |
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| scorpionweed | (noun) any plant of the genus Phacelia | Synonyms: phacelia, scorpion weed |
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| screed | (noun) an accurately levelled strip of material placed on a wall or floor as guide for the even application of plaster or concrete | - |
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| (noun) a long piece of writing | - |
| (noun) a long monotonous harangue | - |
| seaweed | (noun) plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae | - |
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| seed | (noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract | Synonyms: come, cum, ejaculate, semen, seminal fluid |
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| (noun) anything that provides inspiration for later work | Synonyms: germ, source |
| (noun) one of the outstanding players in a tournament | Synonyms: seeded player |
| (noun) a small hard fruit | - |
| (noun) a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa | - |
| (verb) inoculate with microorganisms | - |
| (verb) remove the seeds from | - |
| (verb) sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain | - |
| (verb) distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds | - |
| (verb) go to seed; shed seeds | - |
| (verb) place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth | Synonyms: sow |
| (verb) bear seeds | - |
| (verb) help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money | - |
| seedbed | (noun) a bed where seedlings are grown before transplanting | - |
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| seedcake | (noun) a sweet cake flavored with sesame or caraway seeds and lemon | Synonyms: seed cake |
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| seedcase | (noun) the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) | Synonyms: cod, pod |
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| seeded | (adjective) (of the more skilled contestants) selectively arranged in the draw for position in a tournament so that they meet each other in later rounds | - |
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| (adjective) sprinkled with seed | Synonyms: sown |
| (adjective) having or supplied with seeds | - |
| (adjective) having seeds as specified | - |
| (adjective) having the seeds extracted | - |
| seeder | (noun) a kitchen utensil that removes seeds from fruit | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device that sows grass seed or grain evenly over the ground | - |
| (noun) a person who seeds clouds | Synonyms: cloud seeder |
| seediness | (noun) a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing | Synonyms: manginess, shabbiness, sleaziness |
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| seedless | (adjective) lacking seeds | - |
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| seedling | (noun) young plant or tree grown from a seed | - |
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| seedman | (noun) a dealer in seeds | Synonyms: seedsman |
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| seedpod | (noun) a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant | Synonyms: pod |
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| seedsman | (noun) a dealer in seeds | Synonyms: seedman |
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| seedtime | (noun) the time during which seeds should be planted | - |
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| (noun) any time of new development | - |
| seedy | (adjective) full of seeds | - |
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| (adjective) morally degraded | Synonyms: seamy, sleazy, sordid, squalid |
| (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
| (adjective) shabby and untidy | Synonyms: scruffy |
| shaheed | (noun) Arabic term for holy martyrs | - |
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| silkweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts | Synonyms: milkweed |
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| silverweed | (noun) any of various twining shrubs of the genus Argyreia having silvery leaves and showy purple flowers | - |
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| (noun) low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States, Europe, Asia | Synonyms: goose-tansy, goose grass, Potentilla anserina |
| skunkweed | (noun) tall herb of the Rocky Mountains having sticky leaves and an offensive smell | Synonyms: Polemonium viscosum, skunk-weed |
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| snakeweed | (noun) low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads | Synonyms: broom snakeroot, broom snakeweed, Gutierrezia sarothrae, rabbit-weed, rabbitweed, turpentine weed |
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| sneezeweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Helenium characteristically causing sneezing | - |
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| soapweed | (noun) tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States | Synonyms: soap-weed, soap tree, Yucca elata |
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| speed | (noun) changing location rapidly | Synonyms: hurrying, speeding |
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| (noun) a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression | Synonyms: amphetamine, pep pill, upper |
| (noun) a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens | Synonyms: fastness, swiftness |
| (noun) the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a (camera) lens system | Synonyms: f number, focal ratio, stop number |
| (noun) distance travelled per unit time | Synonyms: velocity |
| (verb) move faster | Synonyms: accelerate, quicken, speed up |
| (verb) cause to move faster | Synonyms: accelerate, speed up |
| (verb) move very fast | Synonyms: hurry, travel rapidly, zip |
| (verb) travel at an excessive or illegal velocity | - |
| (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, step on it |
| speedboat | (noun) a fast motorboat | - |
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| speeder | (noun) a driver who exceeds the safe speed limit | Synonyms: speed demon |
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| speedily | (adverb) with speed | Synonyms: apace, chop-chop, in short order, quickly, rapidly |
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| speediness | (noun) a rate that is rapid | Synonyms: celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness |
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| speeding | (noun) changing location rapidly | Synonyms: hurrying, speed |
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| speedometer | (noun) a meter fixed to a vehicle that measures and displays its speed | Synonyms: speed indicator |
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| speedpaint | (noun) Painting a picture in a very short amount of time | - |
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