| giblet | (noun) edible viscera of a fowl | Synonyms: giblets |
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| giblets | (noun) edible viscera of a fowl | Synonyms: giblet |
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| gimlet | (noun) hand tool for boring holes | Synonyms: auger, screw auger, wimble |
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| (noun) a cocktail made of gin or vodka and lime juice | - |
| goblet | (noun) a drinking glass with a base and stem | - |
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| (noun) a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup | Synonyms: chalice |
| gullet | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: esophagus, gorge, oesophagus |
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| hamlet | (noun) a community of people smaller than a village | Synonyms: crossroads |
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| (noun) a settlement smaller than a town | Synonyms: village |
| haslet | (noun) heart and liver and other edible viscera especially of hogs; usually chopped and formed into a loaf and braised | - |
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| homiletic | (adjective) of or relating to homiletics | Synonyms: homiletical |
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| (adjective) of the nature of a homily or sermon | Synonyms: homiletical |
| homiletical | (adjective) of or relating to homiletics | Synonyms: homiletic |
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| (adjective) of the nature of a homily or sermon | Synonyms: homiletic |
| homiletics | (noun) the branch of theology that deals with sermons and homilies | - |
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| (noun) the art of preaching | - |
| incomplete | (adjective) not complete or total; not completed | Synonyms: uncomplete |
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| (adjective) not yet finished | Synonyms: uncompleted |
| incompletely | (adverb) not to a full degree or extent | - |
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| incompleteness | (noun) the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect | Synonyms: rawness |
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| inlet | (noun) an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container | Synonyms: intake |
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| (noun) an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) | Synonyms: recess |
| islet | (noun) a small island | Synonyms: isle |
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| isopleth | (noun) a line drawn on a map connecting points having the same numerical value of some variable | Synonyms: isarithm, isogram |
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| kinglet | (noun) small birds resembling warblers but having some of the habits of titmice | - |
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| lancelet | (noun) small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates | Synonyms: amphioxus |
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| leaflet | (noun) a thin triangular flap of a heart valve | Synonyms: cusp |
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| (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: booklet, brochure, folder, pamphlet |
| (noun) part of a compound leaf | - |
| let | (noun) a serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again | Synonyms: net ball |
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| (verb) leave unchanged | - |
| (verb) cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition | Synonyms: get, have |
| (verb) actively cause something to happen | - |
| (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: allow, countenance, permit |
| (verb) grant use or occupation of under a term of contract | Synonyms: lease, rent |
| (verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | Synonyms: allow, permit |
| letch | (noun) man with strong sexual desires | Synonyms: lech, lecher, satyr |
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| letdown | (noun) a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized | Synonyms: disappointment |
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| lethal | (adjective) of an instrument of certain death | Synonyms: deadly |
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| lethality | (noun) the quality of being deadly | Synonyms: deadliness |
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| lethargic | (adjective) deficient in alertness or activity | Synonyms: unenergetic |
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| lethargically | (adverb) without energy; in a lethargic manner | Synonyms: unenergetically |
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| lethargy | (noun) weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy | Synonyms: inanition, lassitude, slackness |
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| (noun) inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy | Synonyms: flatness, languor, phlegm, sluggishness |
| (noun) a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness) | Synonyms: lassitude, sluggishness |
| letter | (noun) a written message addressed to a person or organization | Synonyms: missive |
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| (noun) the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech | Synonyms: alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet |
| (noun) an award earned by participation in a school sport | Synonyms: varsity letter |
| (noun) a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention) | - |
| (noun) owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire | - |
| (verb) mark letters on or mark with letters | - |
| (verb) set down or print with letters | - |
| (verb) win an athletic letter | - |
| lettercard | (noun) a postcard that folds so the message is inside | - |
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| lettered | (adjective) highly educated; having extensive information or understanding | Synonyms: knowing, knowledgeable, learned, well-educated, well-read |
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| letterer | (noun) a painter of letters | - |
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| letterhead | (noun) a sheet of stationery with name and address of the organization printed at the top | - |
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| lettering | (noun) letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something | Synonyms: inscription |
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| letterman | (noun) an athlete who has earned a letter in a school sport | - |
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| letterpress | (noun) printing from a plate with raised characters | Synonyms: relief printing |
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| letters | (noun) the literary culture | - |
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| (noun) scholarly attainment | - |
| letting | (noun) property that is leased or rented out or let | Synonyms: lease, rental |
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| lettuce | (noun) leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Lactuca | - |
| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| letup | (noun) a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished | Synonyms: lull |
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| lumpenproletariat | (noun) (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement | - |
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| mallet | (noun) a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing | Synonyms: beetle |
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| (noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. | Synonyms: hammer |
| (noun) a sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer; used in sports (polo or croquet) to hit a ball | - |
| mantelet | (noun) short cape worn by women | Synonyms: mantilla |
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| (noun) portable bulletproof shelter | Synonyms: mantlet |
| mantlet | (noun) portable bulletproof shelter | Synonyms: mantelet |
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| mexiletine | (noun) antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Mexitil) used to treat ventricular arrhythmias | Synonyms: Mexitil |
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| millet | (noun) small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica | - |
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| (noun) any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine | - |
| millettia | (noun) any of several tropical trees or shrubs yielding showy streaked dark reddish or chocolate-colored wood | - |
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| mistletoe | (noun) Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas | Synonyms: Old World mistletoe, Viscum album |
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| (noun) American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe | Synonyms: false mistletoe |
| (noun) shrub of central and southeastern Europe; partially parasitic on beeches, chestnuts and oaks | Synonyms: Loranthus europaeus |
| muleteer | (noun) a worker who drives mules | Synonyms: mule driver, mule skinner, skinner |
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| mullet | (noun) bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin | - |
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| (noun) freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide | Synonyms: gray mullet, grey mullet |
| (noun) highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet | Synonyms: gray mullet, grey mullet |
| musculoskeletal | (adjective) relating to muscles and skeleton | - |
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| necklet | (noun) decoration worn about the neck (fur piece or tight necklace) as an ornament | - |
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| newsletter | (noun) report or open letter giving informal or confidential news of interest to a special group | Synonyms: newssheet |
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| nonlethal | (adjective) not capable of causing death | - |
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| novelette | (noun) a short novel | Synonyms: novella |
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| nutlet | (noun) a small nut | - |
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| obsolete | (adjective) no longer in use | Synonyms: disused |
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| (adjective) old; no longer valid or fashionable | Synonyms: out-of-date, outdated, superannuated |
| obsoleteness | (noun) the property of being out of date and not current | Synonyms: superannuation |
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| omelet | (noun) beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set; may be folded around e.g. ham or cheese or jelly | Synonyms: omelette |
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| omelette | (noun) beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set; may be folded around e.g. ham or cheese or jelly | Synonyms: omelet |
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| outlet | (noun) activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion | Synonyms: release, vent |
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| (noun) an opening that permits escape or release | Synonyms: exit, issue, way out |
| (noun) a place of business for retailing goods | Synonyms: mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet |
| (noun) receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices | Synonyms: electric outlet, electric receptacle, electrical outlet, wall plug, wall socket |
| owlet | (noun) young owl | - |
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| paletiology | (noun) the explanation of past events in terms of scientific causes (as geological causes) | Synonyms: palaetiology |
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| palette | (noun) board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used | Synonyms: pallet |
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| (noun) one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor | Synonyms: pallette |
| (noun) the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art | Synonyms: pallet |
| pallet | (noun) a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed | - |
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| (noun) board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used | Synonyms: palette |
| (noun) a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay | - |
| (noun) a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it | - |
| (noun) the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art | Synonyms: palette |
| pallette | (noun) one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor | Synonyms: palette |
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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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| pellet | (noun) a solid missile discharged from a firearm | Synonyms: shot |
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| (noun) a small rounded mass of a substance | - |
| pentathlete | (noun) an athlete who competes in a pentathlon | - |
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| phenylethylene | (noun) a colorless oily liquid; the monomer for polystyrene | Synonyms: cinnamene, styrene, vinylbenzene |
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| phyletic | (adjective) of or relating to the evolutionary development of organisms | Synonyms: phylogenetic |
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| piculet | (noun) small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers | - |
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| piglet | (noun) a young pig | Synonyms: piggy, shoat, shote |
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| piolet | (noun) an ax used by mountain climbers for cutting footholds in ice | Synonyms: ice ax, ice axe |
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| plantlet | (noun) a young plant or a small plant | - |
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| platelet | (noun) tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting | Synonyms: blood platelet, thrombocyte |
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| plateletpheresis | (noun) platelets are separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor | - |
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| playlet | (noun) a short play | - |
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| plethodont | (noun) mostly terrestrial salamanders that breathe through their thin moist skin; lay eggs in moist places on land; rarely enter water | Synonyms: lungless salamander |
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| plethora | (noun) extreme excess | Synonyms: embarrassment, overplus, superfluity |
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| plethoric | (adjective) excessively abundant | Synonyms: overabundant, rife |
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| plethysmograph | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring changes in volume of a part or organ or whole body (usually resulting from fluctuations in the amount of blood it contains) | - |
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| poulet | (noun) the flesh of a chicken used for food | Synonyms: chicken, volaille |
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| poulette | (noun) allemande sauce with chopped parsley | - |
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| proletarian | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat | - |
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| (noun) a member of the working class (not necessarily employed) | Synonyms: prole, worker |
| proletarianism | (noun) The condition or political position of a member of the working class. | - |
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| proletariat | (noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | Synonyms: labor, labour, working class |
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| pullet | (noun) young hen usually less than a year old | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying | Synonyms: frier, fryer |
| quadruplet | (noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruple, quartet, quartette |
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| (noun) one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quad |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
| quintuplet | (noun) a set of five similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette, quintuple |
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| (noun) one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quin, quint |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, V |
| replete | (adjective) (followed by `with') deeply filled or permeated | Synonyms: imbued, instinct |
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| (adjective) filled to satisfaction with food or drink | Synonyms: full |
| (verb) fill to satisfaction | Synonyms: fill, sate, satiate |
| repletion | (noun) eating until excessively full | Synonyms: surfeit |
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| (noun) the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more | Synonyms: satiation, satiety |
| ringlet | (noun) any of various butterflies belonging to the family Satyridae | Synonyms: ringlet butterfly |
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| (noun) a little ring | - |
| (noun) lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl | Synonyms: curl, whorl |
| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, roll, scroll, whorl |
| ringleted | (adjective) (of hair) shaped into ringlets | - |
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| rivulet | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, run, runnel, streamlet |
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| rondelet | (noun) a shorter form of rondeau | - |
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| rootlet | (noun) small root or division of a root | - |
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| roulette | (noun) a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in | - |
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| (noun) a wheel with teeth for making a row of perforations | Synonyms: toothed wheel |
| (noun) a line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure | Synonyms: line roulette |
| sallet | (noun) a light medieval helmet with a slit for vision | Synonyms: salade |
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| scarlet | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy |
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| (noun) a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge | Synonyms: orange red, vermilion |