| athlete | (noun) a person trained to compete in sports | Synonyms: jock |
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| athletic | (adjective) relating to or befitting athletics or athletes | - |
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| (adjective) vigorously active | Synonyms: acrobatic, gymnastic |
| (adjective) having a sturdy and well proportioned body | - |
| athleticism | (noun) intense energy | Synonyms: strenuosity |
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| athletics | (noun) an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition | Synonyms: sport |
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| (noun) participation in sports events as an extracurricular activity | - |
| (noun) a contest between athletes | Synonyms: athletic competition, athletic contest |
| boughless | (adjective) having no boughs (of trees) | - |
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| branchless | (adjective) having no branches | - |
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| branchlet | (noun) a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year | Synonyms: sprig, twig |
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| breathless | (adjective) not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty | Synonyms: dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic |
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| (adjective) appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse | Synonyms: inanimate, pulseless |
| (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathtaking |
| breathlessly | (adverb) in a breathless manner | - |
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| breathlessness | (noun) a dyspneic condition | Synonyms: shortness of breath, SOB |
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| cochlea | (noun) the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti | - |
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| cochlear | (adjective) of or relating to the cochlea of the ear | - |
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| deathless | (adjective) never dying | Synonyms: undying |
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| faithless | (adjective) having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor | Synonyms: traitorous, treasonable, treasonous, unfaithful |
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| faithlessly | (adverb) in a disloyal and faithless manner | Synonyms: false, traitorously, treacherously, treasonably |
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| faithlessness | (noun) unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous | Synonyms: falseness, fickleness, inconstancy |
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| kohleria | (noun) shrubby herb cultivated for their soft velvety foliage and showy scarlet flowers | - |
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| 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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| mirthless | (adjective) lacking mirth | - |
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| mouthless | (adjective) having no mouth or mouthlike opening | Synonyms: astomatous |
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| pamphlet | (noun) a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet | Synonyms: tract |
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| (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: booklet, brochure, folder, leaflet |
| pamphleteer | (noun) a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues) | - |
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| pathless | (adjective) lacking pathways | Synonyms: roadless, trackless, untracked, untrod, untrodden |
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| pentathlete | (noun) an athlete who competes in a pentathlon | - |
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| penuchle | (noun) a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist | Synonyms: bezique, pinochle, pinocle |
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| phlebectomy | (noun) surgical removal or all or part of a vein; sometimes done in cases of severe varicose veins | - |
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| phlebitis | (noun) inflammation of a vein (usually in the legs) | - |
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| phlebogram | (noun) an X ray of a vein injected with a radiopaque contrast medium | Synonyms: venogram |
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| phlebothrombosis | (noun) thrombosis of a vein without prior inflammation of the vein; associated with sluggish blood flow (as in prolonged bedrest or pregnancy or surgery) or with rapid coagulation of the blood | Synonyms: venous thrombosis |
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| phlebotomise | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomize |
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| phlebotomist | (noun) someone who practices phlebotomy | - |
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| phlebotomize | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomise |
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| phlebotomus | (noun) a mild viral disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasii | Synonyms: pappataci fever, sandfly fever |
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| phlebotomy | (noun) surgical incision into a vein; used to treat hemochromatosis | Synonyms: venesection |
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| phlegm | (noun) inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy | Synonyms: flatness, languor, lethargy, sluggishness |
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| (noun) expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness | Synonyms: sputum |
| (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality |
| phlegmatic | (adjective) showing little emotion | Synonyms: phlegmatical |
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| phlegmatical | (adjective) showing little emotion | Synonyms: phlegmatic |
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| phlegmatically | (adverb) in a phlegmatic manner | - |
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| phlegmatizer | (noun) a material added to an explosive to make it less susceptible to detonation and thus more stable and safer to handle and transport. | - |
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| phlegmy | (adjective) characterized by phlegm | - |
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| pinochle | (noun) a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist | Synonyms: bezique, penuchle, pinocle |
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| quenchless | (adjective) impossible to quench | Synonyms: unquenchable |
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| roughleg | (noun) large hawk of the Northern Hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers | Synonyms: Buteo lagopus, rough-legged hawk |
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| ruthless | (adjective) without mercy or pity | Synonyms: pitiless, remorseless, unpitying |
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| ruthlessly | (adverb) in a ruthless manner | - |
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| ruthlessness | (noun) mercilessness characterized by a lack of pity | Synonyms: pitilessness |
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| (noun) feelings of extreme heartlessness | Synonyms: cruelty, mercilessness, pitilessness |
| schlemiel | (noun) (Yiddish) a dolt who is a habitual bungler | Synonyms: shlemiel |
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| schlep | (noun) a tedious or difficult journey | Synonyms: shlep |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person | Synonyms: schlepper, shlep, shlepper |
| (verb) pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance | Synonyms: pull along, shlep |
| schlepper | (noun) (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person | Synonyms: schlep, shlep, shlepper |
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| shlemiel | (noun) (Yiddish) a dolt who is a habitual bungler | Synonyms: schlemiel |
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| shlep | (noun) a tedious or difficult journey | Synonyms: schlep |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person | Synonyms: schlep, schlepper, shlepper |
| (verb) pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance | Synonyms: pull along, schlep |
| (verb) walk or tramp about | Synonyms: traipse |
| shlepper | (noun) (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person | Synonyms: schlep, schlepper, shlep |
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| speechless | (adjective) temporarily incapable of speaking | Synonyms: dumb |
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| speechlessly | (adverb) in a manner indicating that one is deprived of speech by physical weakness or emotion | - |
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| speechlessness | (noun) the property of being speechless | - |
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| starchless | (adjective) lacking starch | - |
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| thrombophlebitis | (noun) phlebitis in conjunction with the formation of a blood clot (thrombus) | - |
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| toothless | (adjective) lacking teeth | - |
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| (adjective) lacking necessary force for effectiveness | - |
| toothlessness | (noun) The state or condition of being toothless; lack of teeth. | - |
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| trochlear | (noun) either of the two cranial nerves on either side that control the superior oblique muscles of the eyes | Synonyms: fourth cranial nerve, trochlear nerve, trochlearis |
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| trochlearis | (noun) either of the two cranial nerves on either side that control the superior oblique muscles of the eyes | Synonyms: fourth cranial nerve, trochlear, trochlear nerve |
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| worthless | (adjective) lacking in usefulness or value | - |
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| (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: despicable, slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, wretched |
| worthlessly | (adverb) in a worthless manner | - |
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| worthlessness | (noun) having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful | Synonyms: ineptitude |
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| (noun) the quality of being without practical use | - |