| acanthopterygian | (noun) a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays | Synonyms: spiny-finned fish |
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| amethopterin | (noun) toxic antimetabolite that limits cellular reproduction by acting as an antagonist to folic acid; used to treat certain cancers and psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis | Synonyms: methotrexate, methotrexate sodium |
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| amorphophallus | (noun) any plant of the genus Amorphophallus | - |
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| anorthopia | (noun) distorted vision in which straight lines appear curved | - |
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| anthophagous | (adjective) feeding on flowers | Synonyms: anthophilous |
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| anthophilous | (adjective) feeding on flowers | Synonyms: anthophagous |
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| anthophyllite | (noun) a dark brown mineral of the amphibole group; magnesium iron silicate | - |
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| archbishop | (noun) a bishop of highest rank | - |
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| archbishopric | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of an archbishop | - |
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| bakeshop | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakehouse, bakery |
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| barbershop | (noun) a shop where men can get their hair cut | - |
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| bedhop | (verb) be sexually active with more than one partner | Synonyms: bed-hop, sleep around |
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| bellhop | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellboy, bellman |
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| bishop | (noun) (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color | - |
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| (noun) port wine mulled with oranges and cloves | - |
| (noun) a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ | - |
| bishopric | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop | Synonyms: diocese, episcopate |
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| bishopry | (noun) the office and dignity of a bishop | Synonyms: episcopate |
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| bookshop | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookstall, bookstore |
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| bronchopneumonia | (noun) pneumonia characterized by acute inflammation of the walls of the bronchioles | Synonyms: bronchial pneumonia |
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| carhop | (noun) a waiter at a drive-in restaurant | - |
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| chop | (noun) a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball | Synonyms: chop shot |
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| (noun) a grounder that bounces high in the air | Synonyms: chopper |
| (noun) a jaw | - |
| (noun) a small cut of meat including part of a rib | - |
| (noun) the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide) | - |
| (verb) hit sharply | - |
| (verb) cut with a hacking tool | Synonyms: hack |
| (verb) cut into pieces with repeated blows | Synonyms: chop up |
| (verb) strike sharply, as in some sports | - |
| (verb) form or shape by chopping | - |
| (verb) move suddenly | - |
| chopfallen | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chapfallen, crestfallen, deflated |
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| chophouse | (noun) a restaurant that specializes in steaks | Synonyms: steakhouse |
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| chopine | (noun) a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole | Synonyms: platform |
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| chopped | (adjective) prepared by cutting | Synonyms: shredded, sliced |
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| chopper | (noun) a grounder that bounces high in the air | Synonyms: chop |
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| (noun) a butcher's knife having a large square blade | Synonyms: cleaver, meat cleaver |
| (noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: eggbeater, helicopter, whirlybird |
| (noun) informal terms for a human `tooth' | Synonyms: pearly |
| choppiness | (noun) used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather | Synonyms: rough water, roughness |
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| choppy | (adjective) rough with small waves | - |
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| (adjective) marked by abrupt transitions | Synonyms: jerky |
| chopsteak | (noun) a patty of ground cooked beef | Synonyms: beef patty, chop steak, chopped steak, hamburger steak |
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| chopstick | (noun) one of a pair of slender sticks used as oriental tableware to eat food with | - |
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| clodhopper | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogan, brogue, work shoe |
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| euronithopod | (noun) widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon) | Synonyms: Euronithopoda, Ornithopoda, suborder Euronithopoda, suborder Ornithopoda |
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| froghopper | (noun) a variety of spittlebug | - |
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| gnathopod | (noun) One of a set of three paired appendages on the thorax of a decapod crustacean, located just posterior to the maxillae and used in feeding. | Synonyms: maxilliped |
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| grasshopper | (noun) terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: hopper |
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| (noun) a cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao) | - |
| hedgehop | (verb) fly very close to the ground | Synonyms: flat-hat |
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| hop | (noun) the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot) | - |
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| (noun) an informal dance where popular music is played | Synonyms: record hop |
| (noun) twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer | Synonyms: hops |
| (verb) jump lightly | Synonyms: hop-skip, skip |
| (verb) make a jump forward or upward | - |
| (verb) jump across | - |
| (verb) traverse as if by a short airplane trip | - |
| (verb) move quickly from one place to another | - |
| (verb) travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc. | - |
| hope | (noun) one of the three Christian virtues | - |
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| (noun) grounds for feeling hopeful about the future | Synonyms: promise |
| (noun) the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled | - |
| (noun) a specific instance of feeling hopeful | - |
| (noun) someone (or something) on which expectations are centered | - |
| (verb) intend with some possibility of fulfilment | Synonyms: go for |
| (verb) be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes | - |
| (verb) expect and wish | Synonyms: desire, trust |
| hopeful | (adjective) having or manifesting hope | - |
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| (adjective) likely to turn out well in the future | Synonyms: bright, promising |
| (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, aspirer, wannabe, wannabee |
| hopefully | (adverb) with hope; in a hopeful manner | - |
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| (adverb) it is hoped | - |
| hopefulness | (noun) the feeling you have when you have hope | - |
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| (noun) full of hope | - |
| hopeless | (adjective) without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success | - |
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| (adjective) (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform | - |
| (adjective) certain to fail | - |
| (adjective) of a person unable to do something skillfully | - |
| hopelessly | (adverb) without hope; desperate because there seems no possibility of comfort or success | - |
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| (adverb) in a hopeless manner | - |
| (adverb) in a dispirited manner without hope | Synonyms: dispiritedly |
| hopelessness | (noun) the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success | - |
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| hoper | (noun) a person who hopes | - |
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| hopper | (noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | Synonyms: ground ball, groundball, grounder |
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| (noun) terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: grasshopper |
| (noun) funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below | - |
| (noun) a machine used for picking hops | Synonyms: hop-picker |
| (noun) someone who hops | - |
| hopple | (verb) strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison | Synonyms: hobble |
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| hops | (noun) twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer | Synonyms: hop |
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| hopsack | (noun) a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing | Synonyms: hopsacking |
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| hopsacking | (noun) a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing | Synonyms: hopsack |
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| hopscotch | (noun) a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone | - |
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| lambchop | (noun) chop cut from a lamb | Synonyms: lamb-chop, lamb chop |
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| leafhopper | (noun) small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants | - |
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| lithophyte | (noun) plant that grows on rocks or stony soil and derives nourishment from the atmosphere | Synonyms: lithophytic plant |
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| lithophytic | (adjective) of or relating to lithophytes | - |
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| lithops | (noun) any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones | Synonyms: flowering stone, living stone, stone-face, stone life face, stone plant, stoneface |
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| lymphopenia | (noun) an abnormally small number of lymphocytes in the circulating blood | Synonyms: lymphocytopenia |
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| lymphopoiesis | (noun) the formation of lymphocytes in the bone marrow and lymph nodes and thymus and spleen | - |
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| metamorphopsia | (noun) a defect of vision in which objects appear to be distorted; usually due to a defect in the retina | - |
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| morphophoneme | (noun) (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme | - |
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| morphophonemic | (adjective) of or relating to morphophonemics | - |
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| morphophonemics | (noun) the study of the phonological realization of the allomorphs of the morphemes of a language | - |
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| morphophysiology | (noun) the study of anatomy in its relation to function | Synonyms: functional anatomy, physiological anatomy |
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| onychophoran | (noun) any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms | Synonyms: peripatus, velvet worm |
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| ornithopod | (noun) bipedal herbivorous dinosaur | Synonyms: ornithopod dinosaur |
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| ornithopter | (noun) heavier-than-air craft that is propelled by the flapping of wings | Synonyms: orthopter |
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| orthopaedic | (adjective) of or relating to orthopedics | Synonyms: orthopedic, orthopedical |
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| orthopaedics | (noun) the branch of medical science concerned with disorders or deformities of the spine and joints | Synonyms: orthopedics |
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| orthopaedist | (noun) a specialist in correcting deformities of the skeletal system (especially in children) | Synonyms: orthopedist |
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| orthopedic | (adjective) of or relating to orthopedics | Synonyms: orthopaedic, orthopedical |
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| orthopedical | (adjective) of or relating to orthopedics | Synonyms: orthopaedic, orthopedic |
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| orthopedics | (noun) the branch of medical science concerned with disorders or deformities of the spine and joints | Synonyms: orthopaedics |
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| orthopedist | (noun) a specialist in correcting deformities of the skeletal system (especially in children) | Synonyms: orthopaedist |
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| orthophosphate | (noun) a salt of phosphoric acid | Synonyms: inorganic phosphate, phosphate |
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| orthopnea | (noun) form of dyspnea in which the person can breathe comfortably only when standing or sitting erect; associated with asthma and emphysema and angina pectoris | - |
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| orthopter | (noun) heavier-than-air craft that is propelled by the flapping of wings | Synonyms: ornithopter |
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| orthopteran | (noun) any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts | Synonyms: orthopteron, orthopterous insect |
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| orthopteron | (noun) any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts | Synonyms: orthopteran, orthopterous insect |
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| orthoptic | (adjective) of or relating to normal binocular vision | - |
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| orthoptics | (noun) treatment of defects of binocular vision (such as strabismus and amblyopia) by nonsurgical measures (especially by exercises to strengthen the eye muscles) | - |
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| orthoptist | (noun) a specialist in orthoptics | - |
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| pawnshop | (noun) a shop where loans are made with personal property as security | Synonyms: loan office, pawnbroker's shop |
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| phosphoprotein | (noun) containing chemically bound phosphoric acid | - |
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| photoshop | (verb) To digitally alter a photo | - |
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| planthopper | (noun) related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants | Synonyms: plant hopper |
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| porkchop | (noun) chop cut from a hog | - |
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| psychopath | (noun) someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath') | Synonyms: sociopath |
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| psychopathic | (adjective) suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder | Synonyms: psychopathologic, psychopathological |
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| psychopathologic | (adjective) suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder | Synonyms: psychopathic, psychopathological |
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| psychopathological | (adjective) suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder | Synonyms: psychopathic, psychopathologic |
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| psychopathology | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders | Synonyms: psychiatry, psychological medicine |
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| (noun) the branch of psychology concerned with abnormal behavior | Synonyms: abnormal psychology |
| psychopathy | (noun) any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention | Synonyms: mental disease, mental illness |
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| psychopharmacological | (adjective) of or relating to psychopharmacology | - |
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| psychopharmacology | (noun) the study of drugs that affect the mind | - |
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| psychophysicist | (noun) a psychologist trained in psychophysics | - |
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| psychophysics | (noun) the branch of psychology concerned with quantitative relations between physical stimuli and their psychological effects | - |
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| psychophysiology | (noun) the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes | Synonyms: neuropsychology, physiological psychology |
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| psychopomp | (noun) a conductor of souls to the afterworld | - |
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| sandhopper | (noun) small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches | Synonyms: beach flea, sand flea, sand hopper |
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| scaphopod | (noun) burrowing marine mollusk | - |
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| shop | (noun) a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity) | Synonyms: shop class |
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| (noun) a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services | Synonyms: store |
| (noun) small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done | Synonyms: workshop |
| (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, snitch, stag, tell on |
| (verb) do one's shopping | - |
| (verb) shop around; not necessarily buying | Synonyms: browse |
| (verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, frequent, patronise, patronize, shop at, sponsor |