| afternoon | (noun) a conventional expression of greeting or farewell, used to wish someone a good afternoon | Synonyms: good afternoon |
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| (noun) the part of the day between noon and evening | - |
| baboon | (noun) large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles | - |
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| baboonish | (adjective) resembling a baboon | - |
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| balloon | (noun) large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air | - |
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| (noun) small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck | - |
| (verb) become inflated | Synonyms: billow, inflate |
| (verb) ride in a hot-air balloon | - |
| balloonfish | (noun) similar to but smaller than porcupinefish | Synonyms: Diodon holocanthus |
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| ballooning | (noun) flying in a balloon | - |
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| balloonist | (noun) someone who flies a balloon | - |
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| bassoon | (noun) a double-reed instrument; the tenor of the oboe family | - |
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| bassoonist | (noun) a musician who plays the bassoon | - |
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| boon | (adjective) very close and convivial | - |
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| (noun) a desirable state | Synonyms: blessing |
| boondocks | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, backwoods, hinterland |
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| boondoggle | (noun) work of little or no value done merely to look busy | - |
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| (verb) do useless, wasteful, or trivial work | - |
| bridoon | (noun) a bit resembling a snaffle bit; used with a separate curb | - |
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| buffoon | (noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: clown, goof, goofball, merry andrew |
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| (noun) a rude or vulgar fool | Synonyms: clown |
| buffoonery | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: clowning, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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| buffoonish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: clownish, clownlike, zany |
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| cardoon | (noun) only parts eaten are roots and especially stalks (blanched and used as celery); related to artichokes | - |
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| (noun) southern European plant having spiny leaves and purple flowers cultivated for its edible leafstalks and roots | Synonyms: Cynara cardunculus |
| cartoon | (noun) a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: sketch |
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| (noun) a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence | Synonyms: animated cartoon, toon |
| (verb) draw cartoons of | - |
| cartoonist | (noun) a person who draws cartoons | - |
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| cocoon | (noun) silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs | - |
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| (verb) wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection | - |
| (verb) retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environment | - |
| cocooning | (noun) retreating to the seclusion of your home (as for privacy or escape) | - |
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| contrabassoon | (noun) the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family | Synonyms: contrafagotto, double bassoon |
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| coon | (noun) North American raccoon | Synonyms: common raccoon, common racoon, Procyon lotor, ringtail |
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| (noun) an eccentric or undignified rustic | - |
| coondog | (noun) any dog trained to hunt raccoons | - |
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| coonhound | (noun) any of several breeds of hound developed for hunting raccoons | - |
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| coonskin | (noun) a raccoon cap with the tail hanging down the back | Synonyms: coonskin cap |
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| coontie | (noun) small tough woody zamia of Florida and West Indies and Cuba; roots and half-buried stems yield an arrowroot | Synonyms: Florida arrowroot, Seminole bread, Zamia pumila |
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| crampoon | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climber, climbing iron, crampon |
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| (noun) a hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects | Synonyms: crampon |
| croon | (verb) sing softly | - |
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| crooner | (noun) a singer of popular ballads | Synonyms: balladeer |
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| crooning | (noun) the act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner | - |
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| (noun) singing in a soft low tone | - |
| dessertspoon | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoonful |
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| dessertspoonful | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoon |
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| dioon | (noun) any cycad of the genus Dioon; handsome palmlike cycads with robust crowns of leaves and rugged trunks | - |
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| doubloon | (noun) a former Spanish gold coin | - |
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| dragoon | (noun) a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen | - |
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| (verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means | Synonyms: railroad, sandbag |
| (verb) subjugate by imposing troops | - |
| ectozoon | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, epizoan, epizoon |
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| entozoon | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, endozoan, entoparasite, entozoan |
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| epizoon | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan |
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| festoon | (noun) flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration | Synonyms: festoonery |
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| (noun) an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work | - |
| (noun) a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves | - |
| (verb) decorate with strings of flowers | - |
| festoonery | (noun) flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration | Synonyms: festoon |
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| forenoon | (noun) the time period between dawn and noon | Synonyms: morn, morning, morning time |
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| goon | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
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| (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie |
| gooney | (noun) a variety of albatross with black feet | Synonyms: black-footed albatross, Diomedea nigripes, gooney bird, goonie, goony |
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| goonie | (noun) a variety of albatross with black feet | Synonyms: black-footed albatross, Diomedea nigripes, gooney, gooney bird, goony |
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| goony | (noun) a variety of albatross with black feet | Synonyms: black-footed albatross, Diomedea nigripes, gooney, gooney bird, goonie |
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| harpoon | (noun) a spear with a shaft and barbed point for throwing; used for catching large fish or whales; a strong line is attached to it | - |
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| (verb) spear with a harpoon | - |
| harpooneer | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooner |
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| harpooner | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooneer |
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| honeymoon | (noun) a holiday taken by a newly married couple | - |
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| (noun) the early (usually calm and harmonious) period of a relationship; business or political | - |
| (verb) spend a holiday after one's marriage | - |
| honeymooner | (noun) someone recently married | Synonyms: newlywed |
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| jargoon | (noun) a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon | Synonyms: jargon |
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| kroon | (noun) the basic unit of money in Estonia | - |
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| lagoon | (noun) a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral | Synonyms: laguna, lagune |
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| lampoon | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
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| (verb) ridicule with satire | Synonyms: satirise, satirize |
| lampooner | (noun) mimics literary or musical style for comic effect | Synonyms: parodist |
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| leucocytozoon | (noun) parasitic in birds | Synonyms: leucocytozoan |
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| loon | (noun) large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes | Synonyms: diver |
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| (noun) a worthless lazy fellow | - |
| (noun) a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought | Synonyms: addle-head, addlehead, birdbrain |
| looney | (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, loony, nutcase, weirdo |
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| loonie | (noun) the basic unit of money in Canada | Synonyms: Canadian dollar |
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| loony | (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, kooky, loco, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, looney, nutcase, weirdo |
| macaroon | (noun) chewy cookie usually containing almond paste | - |
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| maroon | (adjective) of dark brownish to purplish red | Synonyms: brownish-red |
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| (noun) an exploding firework used as a warning signal | - |
| (noun) a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color | - |
| (noun) a person who is stranded (as on an island) | - |
| (verb) leave stranded on a desert island without resources | - |
| (verb) leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue | Synonyms: strand |
| marooned | (adjective) cut off or left behind | Synonyms: isolated, stranded |
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| midafternoon | (noun) the middle part of the afternoon | - |
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| monsoon | (noun) a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter | - |
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| (noun) any wind that changes direction with the seasons | - |
| (noun) rainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains | - |
| moon | (noun) any natural satellite of a planet | - |
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| (noun) any object resembling a moon | - |
| (noun) the natural satellite of the Earth | Synonyms: Moon |
| (noun) the period between successive new moons (29.531 days) | Synonyms: lunar month, lunation, synodic month |
| (verb) expose one's buttocks to | - |
| (verb) be idle in a listless or dreamy way | Synonyms: moon around, moon on |
| (verb) have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake | Synonyms: daydream |
| moonbeam | (noun) a ray of moonlight | Synonyms: moon-ray, moon ray |
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| mooneye | (noun) recurrent eye inflammation in horses; sometimes resulting in blindness | Synonyms: moon blindness |
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| moonfish | (noun) large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean | Synonyms: Lampris regius, opah |
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| (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsefish, horsehead, Selene setapinnis |
| moonflower | (noun) pantropical climber having white fragrant nocturnal flowers | Synonyms: belle de nuit, Ipomoea alba |
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| moong | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, mung, mung bean, munggo |
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| (noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, mung, mung bean, munggo |
| moonily | (adverb) in a dreamy manner | Synonyms: dreamfully, dreamily |
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| moonless | (adjective) without a moon or a visible moon | - |
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| moonlight | (noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonshine |
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| (verb) work a second job, usually after hours | - |
| moonlighter | (noun) a person who holds a second job (usually after hours) | - |
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| moonlike | (adjective) resembling the moon in shape | Synonyms: moon-round |
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| moonlit | (adjective) lighted by moonlight | Synonyms: moony |
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| moonseed | (noun) plant of the family Menispermaceae having red or black fruit with crescent- or ring-shaped seeds | - |
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| moonshell | (noun) marine gastropods having smooth rounded shells that form short spires | Synonyms: moon shell |
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| moonshine | (noun) whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash | Synonyms: bootleg, corn liquor |
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| (noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonlight |
| (verb) distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine | - |
| moonshiner | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: bootlegger |
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| moonshot | (noun) an ambitious project with a high chance of failure | - |
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| moonstone | (noun) a transparent or translucent gemstone with a pearly luster; some specimens are orthoclase feldspar and others are plagioclase feldspar | - |
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| moonstruck | (adjective) insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon | Synonyms: lunatic |
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| moonwalk | (noun) an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon | - |
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| (noun) a kind of dance step in which the dancer seems to be sliding on the spot | - |
| moonwort | (noun) of America and Eurasia and Australia | Synonyms: Botrychium lunaria, common moonwort |
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| moony | (adjective) lighted by moonlight | Synonyms: moonlit |
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| (adjective) dreamy in mood or nature | Synonyms: dreamy, woolgathering |
| noon | (noun) the middle of the day | Synonyms: high noon, midday, noonday, noontide, twelve noon |
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| noona | (noun) used by males to address an older female | Synonyms: nuna |
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| noonday | (noun) the middle of the day | Synonyms: high noon, midday, noon, noontide, twelve noon |
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| noontide | (noun) the middle of the day | Synonyms: high noon, midday, noon, noonday, twelve noon |
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| octoroon | (noun) an offspring of a quadroon and a white parent; a person who is one-eighth black | - |
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| pantaloon | (noun) trousers worn in former times | - |
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| pantalooned | (adjective) dressed in trousers | Synonyms: breeched, trousered |
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| platoon | (noun) a military unit that is a subdivision of a company; usually has a headquarters and two or more squads; usually commanded by a lieutenant | - |
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| (noun) a team of policemen working under the military platoon system | - |
| (noun) a group of persons who are engaged in a common activity | - |
| poltroon | (adjective) characterized by complete cowardliness | - |
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| (noun) an abject coward | Synonyms: craven, recreant |
| poltroonery | (noun) abject pusillanimity | - |
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| pontoon | (noun) a float supporting a seaplane | - |
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| (noun) (nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat) that serves as a dock or to support a bridge | - |
| poon | (noun) any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum having shiny leathery leaves and lightweight hard wood | - |
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| (noun) wood of any poon tree; used for masts and spars | - |