| avalanche | (noun) a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain | - |
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| (noun) a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things | - |
| (verb) gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow | Synonyms: roll down |
| backbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who is not a party leader | - |
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| blanched | (adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: ashen, bloodless, livid, white |
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| (adjective) (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light | Synonyms: etiolate, etiolated |
| branched | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branching, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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| (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
| catananche | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Catananche having long-stalked heads of blue or yellow flowers | - |
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| chincherinchee | (noun) South African perennial with long-lasting spikes of white blossoms that are shipped in to Europe and America for use as winter cut flowers | Synonyms: Ornithogalum thyrsoides, wonder flower |
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| clenched | (adjective) closed or squeezed together tightly | Synonyms: clinched |
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| clinched | (adjective) closed or squeezed together tightly | Synonyms: clenched |
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| clincher | (noun) a tool used to clinch nails or bolts or rivets | - |
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| (noun) a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively | Synonyms: decisive factor |
| (noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: determiner, determining factor |
| cowpuncher | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpoke, puncher |
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| crossbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who does not vote regularly with either the government or the Opposition | - |
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| drenched | (adjective) abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination | Synonyms: drenched in |
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| entrenched | (adjective) established firmly and securely | - |
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| (adjective) dug in | - |
| frontbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who is a minister in the government or who holds an official position in an opposition party | - |
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| hauncher | (noun) a machine for making shaped cuts in the end or along the edge of a board. | Synonyms: haunching machine |
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| hunched | (adjective) having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect | Synonyms: crooked, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping |
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| launcher | (noun) armament in the form of a device capable of launching a rocket | Synonyms: rocket launcher |
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| (noun) a device that launches aircraft from a warship | Synonyms: catapult |
| luncheon | (noun) a midday meal | Synonyms: dejeuner, lunch, tiffin |
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| luncher | (noun) someone who is eating lunch | - |
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| muncher | (noun) a chewer who makes a munching noise | - |
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| pinche | (noun) South American tamarin with a tufted head | Synonyms: Leontocebus oedipus |
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| pinched | (adjective) as if squeezed uncomfortably tight | - |
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| (adjective) sounding as if the nose were pinched | Synonyms: adenoidal, nasal |
| (adjective) not having enough money to pay for necessities | Synonyms: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious |
| (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, skeletal, wasted |
| planchet | (noun) a flat metal disk ready for stamping as a coin | Synonyms: coin blank |
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| planchette | (noun) a triangular board supported on casters; when lightly touched with the fingertips it is supposed to spell out supernatural (or unconscious) messages | - |
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| puncher | (noun) a tool for making holes or indentations | Synonyms: punch |
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| (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpoke, cowpuncher |
| (noun) someone who delivers punches | - |
| quenched | (adjective) allayed | Synonyms: satisfied, slaked |
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| (adjective) subdued or overcome | Synonyms: quelled, squelched |
| rancher | (noun) a person who owns or operates a ranch | - |
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| squinched | (adjective) having eyes half closed in order to see better | Synonyms: squinting |
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| tranche | (noun) a portion of something (especially money) | - |
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| trencher | (noun) a wooden board or platter on which food is served or carved | - |
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| (noun) someone who digs trenches | - |
| trencherman | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer |
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| truncheon | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, billystick, nightstick |
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| unbranched | (adjective) without branches | Synonyms: unbranching |
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| uncheckable | (adjective) incapable of being checked or restrained | - |
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| unchecked | (adjective) not restrained or controlled | Synonyms: unbridled, uncurbed, ungoverned |
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| uncheerful | (adjective) causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | Synonyms: cheerless, depressing |
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| uncheerfulness | (noun) not conducive to cheer or good spirits | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness | Synonyms: cheerlessness |
| unchewable | (adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: fibrous, sinewy, stringy |
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| wencher | (noun) someone who patronizes prostitutes | - |
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