| doeskin | (noun) a fine smooth soft woolen fabric | - |
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| (noun) soft leather from deerskin or lambskin | - |
| dovekie | (noun) small short-billed auk abundant in Arctic regions | Synonyms: little auk, Plautus alle |
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| dressmaking | (noun) the craft of making dresses | - |
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| drinking | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: imbibing, imbibition |
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| (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drunkenness |
| dropkick | (noun) (football) kicking (as for a field goal) in which the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground | - |
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| (verb) make the point after a touchdown with a dropkick | Synonyms: drop-kick |
| (verb) drop and kick (a ball) as it touches the ground, as for a field goal | Synonyms: drop-kick |
| dropkicker | (noun) a football kicker who drops the ball and kicks it just as it reaches the ground | - |
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| ducking | (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: dousing, immersion, submersion |
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| (noun) hunting ducks | Synonyms: duck hunting |
| duskiness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: darkness, swarthiness |
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| (noun) the state of being poorly illuminated | Synonyms: dimness |
| dyskinesia | (noun) abnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements | - |
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| earthshaking | (adjective) loud enough to shake the very earth | - |
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| (adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world | Synonyms: world-shaking, world-shattering |
| enkindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
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| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, inflame, kindle |
| enkindled | (adjective) set afire | Synonyms: ignited, kindled |
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| enterokinase | (noun) enzyme in the intestinal juice that converts inactive trypsinogen into active trypsin | - |
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| epikeratophakia | (noun) using a piece of donated corneal tissue to repair the eye of someone who has had a cataract removed | - |
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| fakir | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakeer, faqir, faquir |
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| firkin | (noun) a small wooden keg | - |
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| (noun) a British unit of capacity equal to 9 imperial gallons | - |
| flakiness | (noun) having or breaking into thin crisp flakes | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for insanity | Synonyms: craziness, daftness |
| foreskin | (noun) a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis | Synonyms: prepuce |
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| (noun) a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris | Synonyms: prepuce |
| forking | (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: branching, fork, ramification |
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| (noun) the place where something divides into branches | Synonyms: furcation |
| forsaking | (noun) the act of giving something up | Synonyms: abandonment, desertion |
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| (noun) the act of forsaking | Synonyms: giving up |
| fracking | (noun) a well-stimulation technique in which rock is fractured by a pressurized liquid | - |
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| frankincense | (noun) an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation | Synonyms: gum olibanum, olibanum, thus |
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| franking | (noun) device or marking such as postage stamp, printed or stamped impressions, codings, labels, manuscript writings, or any other authorized form of markings affixed or applied to mails to qualify them to be postally serviced. | Synonyms: frank |
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| freakish | (adjective) characteristic of a freak | - |
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| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| (adjective) changeable | Synonyms: capricious |
| freakishly | (adverb) unpredictably | Synonyms: capriciously |
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| freakishness | (noun) marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal | Synonyms: abnormality |
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| freethinking | (noun) the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct | Synonyms: rationalism |
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| friskily | (adverb) in a playfully frisky manner | - |
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| friskiness | (noun) lively high-spirited playfulness | Synonyms: frolicsomeness, sportiveness |
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| frisking | (noun) the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs | Synonyms: frisk |
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| fucking | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming |
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| (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag, shtup |
| (adverb) intensifier, very colloquial | - |
| funkiness | (noun) (US, slang) The property of being original, offbeat, unconventional or eccentric. | - |
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| gaskin | (noun) lower part of a horse's thigh between the hock and the stifle | - |
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| gawkiness | (noun) the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant | Synonyms: ungainliness |
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| gherkin | (noun) small prickly cucumber | - |
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| (noun) any of various small cucumbers pickled whole | - |
| goatskin | (noun) the hide of a goat | - |
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| goldbricking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goofing off, shirking, slacking, soldiering |
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| greenockite | (noun) ore of cadmium; a rare yellowish mineral consisting of cadmium sulphide in crystalline form | Synonyms: cadmium sulphide |
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| groundbreaking | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: innovational, innovative |
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| (noun) the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project | Synonyms: groundbreaking ceremony |
| hakim | (noun) a Muslim physician | Synonyms: hakeem |
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| (noun) a Muslim ruler or governor or judge | - |
| handshaking | (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handclasp, handshake, shake |
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| hankie | (noun) a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | Synonyms: handkerchief, hankey, hanky |
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| harakiri | (noun) ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society | Synonyms: hara-kiri, harikari, seppuku |
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| hardworking | (adjective) characterized by hard work and perseverance | Synonyms: industrious, tireless, untiring |
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| hawking | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: peddling, vending, vendition |
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| hawkish | (adjective) disposed to warfare or hard-line policies | Synonyms: militant, warlike |
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| hawkishness | (noun) any political orientation favoring aggressive policies | - |
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| haymaking | (noun) cutting grass and curing it to make hay | - |
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| (noun) taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts | - |
| headshaking | (noun) the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement | Synonyms: headshake |
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| heartbreaking | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartrending |
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| highjacking | (noun) robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force | Synonyms: hijacking |
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| hijacking | (noun) robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force | Synonyms: highjacking |
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| hiking | (noun) a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure | Synonyms: hike, tramp |
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| homemaking | (noun) the management of a household | - |
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| honkie | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkey, honky, whitey |
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| hooking | (noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: draw, hook |
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| hoopskirt | (noun) a skirt stiffened with hoops | Synonyms: crinoline |
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| hopsacking | (noun) a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing | Synonyms: hopsack |
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| housebreaking | (noun) trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent | Synonyms: break-in, breaking and entering |
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| hulking | (adjective) of great size and bulk | Synonyms: hulky |
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| humankind | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humans, man, mankind, world |
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| huskily | (adverb) in a hoarse or husky voice | Synonyms: hoarsely |
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| huskiness | (noun) the property of being big and strong | Synonyms: ruggedness, toughness |
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| (noun) a throaty harshness | Synonyms: gruffness, hoarseness |
| husking | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, denudation, stripping, uncovering |
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| hydrocracking | (noun) the process whereby hydrocarbon molecules of petroleum are broken down into kerosene and gasolene by the addition of hydrogen under high pressure in the presence of a catalyst | - |
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| hydrokinetic | (adjective) relating to fluids in motion or the forces that produce or affect such motion | - |
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| hydrokinetics | (noun) study of fluids in motion | Synonyms: hydrodynamics |
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| inkiness | (noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) | Synonyms: black, blackness |
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| interleukin | (noun) any of several lymphokines that promote macrophages and killer T cells and B cells and other components of the immune system | - |
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| interlinking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlocking, interwoven |
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| interlocking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlinking, interwoven |
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| (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, mesh, meshing |
| (noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, mesh, meshing |
| jerkily | (adverb) with jerking motions | - |
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| (adverb) with spasms | Synonyms: spasmodically |
| jerkin | (noun) a tight sleeveless and collarless jacket (often made of leather) worn by men in former times | - |
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| jerkiness | (noun) the quality of being spasmodic and irregular | Synonyms: fitfulness |
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| jerking | (adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic, jerky |
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| (noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerk, jolt, saccade |
| jinrikisha | (noun) a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person | Synonyms: ricksha, rickshaw |
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| joking | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocose, jocular |
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| jokingly | (adverb) in jest | Synonyms: jestingly |
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| (adverb) not seriously | Synonyms: facetiously, tongue-in-cheek |
| junkie | (noun) a narcotics addict | Synonyms: drug addict, junky |
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| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, freak, junky, nut |
| kaki | (noun) blackish stilt of New Zealand sometimes considered a color phase of the white-headed stilt | Synonyms: Himantopus novae-zelandiae |
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| (noun) small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit | Synonyms: Diospyros kaki, Japanese persimmon |
| karyokinesis | (noun) organic process consisting of the division of the nucleus of a cell during mitosis or meiosis | - |
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| karyokinetic | (adjective) of or relating to the division of the nucleus of a cell during mitosis or meiosis | - |
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| khaki | (adjective) of a yellowish brown color | - |
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| (noun) a sturdy twilled cloth of a yellowish brown color used especially for military uniforms | - |
| khakis | (noun) a military uniform made of khaki fabric | - |
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| ki | (noun) the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health | Synonyms: ch'i, chi, qi |
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| kiaat | (noun) deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers; yields a red juice and heavy strong durable wood | Synonyms: bloodwood tree, Pterocarpus angolensis |
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| kiang | (noun) wild ass of Tibet and Mongolia | Synonyms: Equus kiang |
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| kibbitz | (verb) make unwanted and intrusive comments | Synonyms: kibitz |
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| kibble | (noun) an iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining | - |
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| (noun) coarsely ground grain in the form of pellets (as for pet food) | - |
| kibbutz | (noun) a collective farm or settlement owned by its members in modern Israel; children are reared collectively | - |
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| kibbutznik | (noun) a member of a kibbutz | - |
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| kibe | (noun) ulcerated chilblain on the heel | - |
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| kibibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 bits | Synonyms: kibit |
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| kibibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes | Synonyms: K, kB, KB, KiB, kilobyte |
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| kibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 bits | Synonyms: kibibit |
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| kibitz | (verb) make unwanted and intrusive comments | Synonyms: kibbitz |
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| kibitzer | (noun) (Yiddish) a meddler who offers unwanted advice to others | - |
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| kibosh | (verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: block, halt, stop |
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| kick | (noun) the act of delivering a blow with the foot | Synonyms: boot, kicking |
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| (noun) a rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or calisthenics | Synonyms: kicking |
| (noun) the sudden stimulation provided by strong drink (or certain drugs) | - |
| (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, gripe, squawk |
| (noun) the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired | Synonyms: recoil |
| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, flush, rush, thrill |
| (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off |
| (verb) make a goal | - |
| (verb) stop consuming | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) strike with the foot | - |
| (verb) drive or propel with the foot | - |
| (verb) spring back, as from a forceful thrust | Synonyms: kick back, recoil |
| (verb) thrash about or strike out with the feet | - |
| (verb) kick a leg up | - |
| kickback | (noun) a commercial bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into the transaction | - |
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