| bankbook | (noun) a record of deposits and withdrawals and interest held by depositors at certain banks | Synonyms: passbook |
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| bazooka | (noun) a portable rocket launcher used by infantrymen as an antitank weapon | - |
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| billhook | (noun) a cutting tool with a sharp edge | Synonyms: bill |
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| book | (noun) physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together | Synonyms: volume |
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| (noun) a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge | - |
| (noun) a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together) | - |
| (noun) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance | Synonyms: playscript, script |
| (noun) a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone | Synonyms: record, record book |
| (noun) a major division of a long written composition | - |
| (noun) a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made | Synonyms: rule book |
| (noun) a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game | - |
| (noun) a record in which commercial accounts are recorded | Synonyms: account book, book of account, ledger, leger |
| (verb) engage for a performance | - |
| (verb) record a charge in a police register | - |
| (verb) arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance | Synonyms: hold, reserve |
| (verb) register in a hotel booker | - |
| bookable | (adjective) subject to being reserved or booked | - |
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| bookbinder | (noun) a worker whose trade is binding books | - |
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| bookbindery | (noun) a bookbinder's workshop; a place for binding books | - |
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| bookbinding | (noun) the craft of binding books | - |
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| bookcase | (noun) a piece of furniture with shelves for storing books | - |
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| bookcloth | (noun) a woven fabric (usually cotton) used for book covers. | Synonyms: book cloth |
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| bookclub | (noun) a club that people join in order to buy selected books at reduced prices | - |
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| bookdealer | (noun) a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books | Synonyms: book seller |
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| booked | (adjective) reserved in advance | Synonyms: engaged, set-aside |
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| bookend | (noun) a support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table) | - |
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| booker | (noun) someone who engages a person or company for performances | Synonyms: booking agent |
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| bookfair | (noun) bazaar at which books are sold or auctioned off in order to raise funds for a worthy cause | Synonyms: book fair |
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| (noun) fair organized by publishers or booksellers to promote the sale of books | Synonyms: book fair |
| bookie | (noun) a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races) | Synonyms: bookmaker |
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| booking | (noun) the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group) | Synonyms: reservation |
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| (noun) employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time | Synonyms: engagement |
| bookish | (adjective) characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading | Synonyms: studious |
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| bookishness | (noun) exaggerated studiousness | - |
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| bookkeeper | (noun) someone who records the transactions of a business | - |
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| bookkeeping | (noun) the activity of recording business transactions | Synonyms: clerking |
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| booklet | (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: brochure, folder, leaflet, pamphlet |
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| booklouse | (noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, deathwatch, Liposcelis divinatorius |
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| booklover | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: bibliophile, book lover |
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| bookmaker | (noun) a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races) | Synonyms: bookie |
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| (noun) a maker of books; someone who edits or publishes or binds books | - |
| bookman | (noun) a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines | Synonyms: scholar, scholarly person |
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| bookmark | (noun) a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place | Synonyms: bookmarker |
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| bookmarker | (noun) a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place | Synonyms: bookmark |
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| bookmobile | (noun) a van with shelves of books; serves as a mobile library or bookstore | - |
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| bookplate | (noun) a label identifying the owner of a book in which it is pasted | Synonyms: ex libris |
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| bookseller | (noun) the proprietor of a bookstore | - |
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| bookshelf | (noun) a shelf on which to keep books | - |
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| bookshop | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookstall, bookstore |
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| bookstall | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookshop, bookstore |
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| bookstore | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookshop, bookstall |
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| bookworm | (noun) someone who spends a great deal of time reading | - |
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| (noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | Synonyms: pedant, scholastic |
| brook | (noun) a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) | Synonyms: creek |
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| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
| brooklet | (noun) a small brook | - |
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| brooklime | (noun) plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers | Synonyms: American brooklime, Veronica americana |
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| (noun) European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America | Synonyms: European brooklime, Veronica beccabunga |
| brookweed | (noun) water pimpernel of Europe to China | Synonyms: Samolus valerandii |
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| (noun) American water pimpernel | Synonyms: Samolus floribundus, Samolus parviflorus |
| buttonhook | (noun) a hook for pulling a button through a buttonhole | - |
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| casebook | (adjective) according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical | Synonyms: textbook |
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| (noun) a book in which detailed written records of a case are kept and which are a source of information for subsequent work | - |
| checkbook | (noun) a book issued to holders of checking accounts | Synonyms: chequebook |
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| chequebook | (noun) a book issued to holders of checking accounts | Synonyms: checkbook |
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| chinook | (noun) large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning | Synonyms: chinook salmon, king salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, quinnat salmon |
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| (noun) pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon | Synonyms: chinook salmon, king salmon |
| (noun) a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies | Synonyms: chinook wind, snow eater |
| cook | (noun) someone who cooks food | - |
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| (verb) transform and make suitable for consumption by heating | - |
| (verb) transform by heating | - |
| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: fix, make, prepare, ready |
| (verb) prepare a hot meal | - |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
| cookbook | (noun) a book of recipes and cooking directions | Synonyms: cookery book |
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| cooked | (adjective) having been prepared for eating by the application of heat | - |
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| cooker | (noun) a utensil for cooking | - |
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| cookery | (noun) the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat | Synonyms: cooking, preparation |
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| cookfire | (noun) a fire for cooking | - |
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| cookhouse | (noun) the area for food preparation on a ship | Synonyms: caboose, galley, ship's galley |
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| (noun) a detached or outdoor shelter for cooking | - |
| cookie | (noun) a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site | - |
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| (noun) any of various small flat sweet cakes | Synonyms: biscuit, cooky |
| (noun) the cook on a ranch or at a camp | Synonyms: cooky |
| cooking | (noun) the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat | Synonyms: cookery, preparation |
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| cookout | (noun) an informal meal cooked and eaten outdoors | - |
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| cookstove | (noun) a stove for cooking (especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove) | - |
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| cookware | (noun) a kitchen utensil made of material that does not melt easily; used for cooking | Synonyms: cooking utensil |
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| cooky | (noun) any of various small flat sweet cakes | Synonyms: biscuit, cookie |
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| (noun) the cook on a ranch or at a camp | Synonyms: cookie |
| copybook | (noun) a book containing models of good penmanship; used in teaching penmanship | - |
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| crook | (noun) a long staff with one end being hook shaped | Synonyms: shepherd's crook |
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| (noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: criminal, felon, malefactor, outlaw |
| (noun) a circular segment of a curve | Synonyms: bend, turn, twist |
| (verb) bend or cause to bend | Synonyms: curve |
| crookback | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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| (noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: humpback, hunchback |
| crookbacked | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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| crooked | (adjective) having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned | - |
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| (adjective) not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive | Synonyms: corrupt |
| (adjective) irregular in shape or outline | Synonyms: asymmetrical |
| (adjective) having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect | Synonyms: hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping |
| crookedly | (adverb) in a crooked lopsided manner | Synonyms: lopsidedly |
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| crookedness | (noun) having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | Synonyms: deviousness |
| (noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: contortion, torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness |
| crookneck | (noun) yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin | Synonyms: crookneck squash, summer crookneck |
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| daybook | (noun) an accounting journal as a physical object | Synonyms: ledger |
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| (noun) a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred | Synonyms: journal |
| fishhook | (noun) a sharp barbed hook for catching fish | - |
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| gobbledygook | (noun) incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists | - |
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| gook | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
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| guidebook | (noun) something that offers basic information or instruction | Synonyms: guide |
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| handbook | (noun) a concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location | Synonyms: enchiridion, vade mecum |
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| hook | (noun) a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent | - |
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| (noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: draw, hooking |
| (noun) a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket | Synonyms: hook shot |
| (noun) a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something | - |
| (noun) a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something | Synonyms: claw |
| (noun) a catch for locking a door | - |
| (noun) anything that serves as an enticement | Synonyms: bait, come-on, lure, sweetener |
| (noun) a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook | Synonyms: crotchet |
| (verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors | Synonyms: accost, solicit |
| (verb) entice and trap | Synonyms: snare |
| (verb) secure with the foot | - |
| (verb) to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) | Synonyms: addict |
| (verb) fasten with a hook | - |
| (verb) catch with a hook | - |
| (verb) hit with a hook | - |
| (verb) hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left | - |
| (verb) make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle | Synonyms: crochet |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| (verb) take by theft | Synonyms: cop, glom, knock off, snitch, thieve |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
| hookah | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| hooked | (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependant, dependent, drug-addicted, strung-out |
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| (adjective) curved down like an eagle's beak | Synonyms: aquiline |
| (adjective) having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold) | Synonyms: hooklike |
| hooker | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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| (noun) (rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot | - |
| (noun) a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers) | - |
| hooking | (noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: draw, hook |
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| hooklike | (adjective) having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold) | Synonyms: hooked |
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| hooknose | (noun) a nose with a prominent slightly aquiline bridge | Synonyms: Roman nose |
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| hooks | (noun) large strong hand (as of a fighter) | Synonyms: maulers, meat hooks |
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| hookup | (noun) a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose | Synonyms: assemblage |
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| (noun) a device providing a connection between a power source and a user | - |
| hookworm | (noun) parasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts | - |
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| (noun) infestation of the intestines by hookworms which enter the body (usually) through the skin | Synonyms: hookworm disease |
| hooky | (noun) failure to attend (especially school) | Synonyms: truancy |
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| hornbook | (noun) a primer that provides instruction in the rudiments or basic skills of a branch of knowledge | - |
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| hymnbook | (noun) a songbook containing a collection of hymns | Synonyms: hymnal, hymnary |
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| inglenook | (noun) a corner by a fireplace | Synonyms: chimney corner |
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| jook | (noun) a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox | Synonyms: jook house, jook joint, juke, juke house, juke joint |
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| (noun) a Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast | Synonyms: congee |
| kook | (noun) someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group | Synonyms: odd fellow, odd fish, odd man out, queer bird, queer duck |
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| kookaburra | (noun) Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry | Synonyms: Dacelo gigas, laughing jackass |
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| kookie | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| kooky | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| logbook | (noun) a book in which the log is written | - |
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| look | (noun) the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; look | Synonyms: looking, looking at |
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| (noun) physical appearance | - |
| (noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face | Synonyms: aspect, expression, face, facial expression |
| (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, smell, spirit, tone |
| (verb) to physically appear a certain way to another individual or group | - |
| (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: await, expect, wait |
| (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, depend, reckon, rely, swear |
| (verb) convey by one's expression | - |
| (verb) perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; look | - |
| (verb) give a certain impression of being something or having a certain aspect | Synonyms: appear, seem |
| (verb) search or seek | Synonyms: search |
| (verb) take charge of or deal with | Synonyms: attend, see, take care |
| (verb) be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to | Synonyms: face, front |
| (verb) accord in appearance with | - |
| lookdown | (noun) similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead | Synonyms: lookdown fish, Selene vomer |
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| looker | (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
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| (noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: spectator, viewer, watcher, witness |
| looking | (adjective) appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms | Synonyms: sounding |
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| (noun) the act of searching visually | Synonyms: looking for |
| (noun) the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; look | Synonyms: look, looking at |
| lookout | (noun) the act of looking out | Synonyms: outlook |
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| (noun) a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings | Synonyms: lookout station, observation tower, observatory |
| (noun) an elevated post affording a wide view | Synonyms: observation post |
| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch |
| lookup | (noun) an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property | Synonyms: search |
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| matchbook | (noun) a small folder of paper safety matches | - |
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