| blacktopping | (noun) a black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock | Synonyms: blacktop |
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| chopped | (adjective) prepared by cutting | Synonyms: shredded, sliced |
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| chopper | (noun) a grounder that bounces high in the air | Synonyms: chop |
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| (noun) a butcher's knife having a large square blade | Synonyms: cleaver, meat cleaver |
| (noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: eggbeater, helicopter, whirlybird |
| (noun) informal terms for a human `tooth' | Synonyms: pearly |
| choppiness | (noun) used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather | Synonyms: rough water, roughness |
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| choppy | (adjective) rough with small waves | - |
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| (adjective) marked by abrupt transitions | Synonyms: jerky |
| clodhopper | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogan, brogue, work shoe |
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| clopping | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clumping, clunking |
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| copper | (noun) any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae having coppery wings | - |
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| (noun) a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper | Synonyms: copper color |
| (noun) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman | Synonyms: bull, cop, fuzz, pig |
| (noun) a copper penny | - |
| (noun) a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor | Synonyms: atomic number 29, Cu |
| (verb) coat with a layer of copper | - |
| copperhead | (noun) common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States | Synonyms: Agkistrodon contortrix |
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| (noun) venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia | Synonyms: Denisonia superba |
| copperplate | (noun) an engraving consisting of a smooth plate of copper that has been etched or engraved | Synonyms: copperplate engraving |
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| (noun) a print made from an engraved copperplate | - |
| (noun) a graceful style of handwriting based on the writing used on copperplate engravings | - |
| coppersmith | (noun) someone who makes articles from copper | - |
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| copperware | (noun) utensils made with copper | - |
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| coppery | (adjective) of something having the color of copper | Synonyms: copper colored |
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| coppice | (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brush, brushwood, copse, thicket |
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| cropped | (adjective) (of land or soil) used for growing crops | - |
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| cropper | (noun) small farmers and tenants | Synonyms: sharecrop farmer, sharecropper |
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| doorstopper | (noun) a stop that keeps open doors from moving | Synonyms: doorstop |
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| doppelganger | (noun) a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart | - |
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| doppelzentner | (noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, hundredweight, metric hundredweight |
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| dropper | (noun) pipet consisting of a small tube with a vacuum bulb at one end for drawing liquid in and releasing it a drop at a time | Synonyms: eye dropper |
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| dropping | (adjective) coming down freely under the influence of gravity | Synonyms: falling |
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| droppings | (noun) fecal matter of animals | Synonyms: dung, muck |
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| eavesdropper | (noun) a secret listener to private conversations | - |
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| estoppel | (noun) a rule of evidence whereby a person is barred from denying the truth of a fact that has already been settled | - |
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| floppy | (adjective) hanging limply | - |
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| (noun) a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer | Synonyms: diskette, floppy disk |
| foppish | (adjective) affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner | Synonyms: dandified, dandyish |
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| foppishness | (noun) the manner and dress of a fop or dandy | Synonyms: dandyism |
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| froghopper | (noun) a variety of spittlebug | - |
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| grasshopper | (noun) terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: hopper |
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| (noun) a cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao) | - |
| hopper | (noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | Synonyms: ground ball, groundball, grounder |
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| (noun) terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: grasshopper |
| (noun) funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below | - |
| (noun) a machine used for picking hops | Synonyms: hop-picker |
| (noun) someone who hops | - |
| hopple | (verb) strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison | Synonyms: hobble |
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| inopportune | (adjective) not opportune | - |
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| inopportunely | (adverb) at an inconvenient time | Synonyms: malapropos |
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| inopportuneness | (noun) the quality of occurring at an inconvenient time | Synonyms: untimeliness |
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| koppie | (noun) a small hill rising up from the African veld | Synonyms: kopje |
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| leafhopper | (noun) small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants | - |
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| lopper | (noun) a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees | Synonyms: pruner, pruning hook |
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| mopper | (noun) a worker who uses a mop to clean a surface | - |
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| moppet | (noun) a little girl (usually one you are fond of) | - |
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| mopping | (noun) cleaning with a mop | Synonyms: swabbing |
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| oppa | (noun) a male who is older than the speaker, especially used by Korean female | - |
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| opponent | (adjective) characterized by active hostility | Synonyms: opposing |
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| (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, opposer, resister |
| (noun) a contestant that you are matched against | Synonyms: opposite, opposition |
| opportune | (adjective) suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose | - |
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| opportunely | (adverb) conveniently | - |
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| opportuneness | (noun) timely convenience | Synonyms: patness, timeliness |
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| opportunism | (noun) taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others | Synonyms: expedience, self-interest, self-seeking |
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| opportunist | (adjective) taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit | Synonyms: opportunistic, timeserving |
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| (noun) a person who places expediency above principle | Synonyms: self-seeker |
| opportunistic | (adjective) taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit | Synonyms: opportunist, timeserving |
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| opportunity | (noun) a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances | Synonyms: chance |
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| opposable | (adjective) capable of being placed opposite to something | Synonyms: apposable |
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| oppose | (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: contradict, controvert |
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| (verb) be against; express opposition to | - |
| (verb) set into opposition or rivalry | Synonyms: match, pit, play off |
| (verb) fight against or resist strongly | Synonyms: defend, fight, fight back, fight down |
| (verb) act against or in opposition to | Synonyms: react |
| (verb) contrast with equal weight or force | Synonyms: counterbalance |
| opposed | (adjective) being in opposition or having an opponent | - |
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| opposer | (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, opponent, resister |
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| opposing | (adjective) characterized by active hostility | Synonyms: opponent |
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| opposite | (adjective) of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem | Synonyms: paired |
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| (adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametric, diametrical, polar |
| (adjective) the other one of a complementary pair | - |
| (adjective) being directly across from each other; facing | - |
| (adjective) altogether different in nature or quality or significance | - |
| (adjective) moving or facing away from each other | - |
| (noun) a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other | Synonyms: antonym, opposite word |
| (noun) a contestant that you are matched against | Synonyms: opponent, opposition |
| (noun) a relation of direct opposition | Synonyms: contrary, reverse |
| (noun) something inverted in sequence or character or effect | Synonyms: inverse |
| (adverb) directly facing each other | Synonyms: face-to-face, face to face |
| oppositely | (adverb) in an opposite position | - |
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| oppositeness | (noun) the relation between opposed entities | Synonyms: opposition |
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| opposition | (noun) the act of hostile groups opposing each other | Synonyms: confrontation |
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| (noun) the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with | Synonyms: resistance |
| (noun) a body of people united in opposing something | - |
| (noun) an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force) | Synonyms: enemy, foe, foeman |
| (noun) a contestant that you are matched against | Synonyms: opponent, opposite |
| (noun) a direction opposite to another | - |
| (noun) the relation between opposed entities | Synonyms: oppositeness |
| oppositionality | (noun) The quality of opposing or of being in conflict. | - |
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| oppositive | (adjective) expressing antithesis or opposition | Synonyms: adversative |
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| oppress | (verb) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority | Synonyms: crush, suppress |
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| (verb) cause to suffer | Synonyms: persecute |
| oppressed | (adjective) burdened psychologically or mentally | Synonyms: laden |
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| oppression | (noun) the act of subjugating by cruelty | Synonyms: subjugation |
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| (noun) a feeling of being oppressed | Synonyms: oppressiveness |
| (noun) the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority: | - |
| oppressive | (adjective) marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior | Synonyms: tyrannical, tyrannous |
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| (adjective) weighing heavily on the senses or spirit | - |
| oppressively | (adverb) in a heavy and oppressive way | - |
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| oppressiveness | (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness |
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| (noun) a feeling of being oppressed | Synonyms: oppression |
| oppressor | (noun) a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures | - |
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| opprobrious | (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, shameful |
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| (adjective) expressing offensive reproach | Synonyms: abusive, scurrilous |
| opprobrium | (noun) a state of extreme dishonor | Synonyms: infamy |
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| (noun) state of disgrace resulting from public abuse | Synonyms: obloquy |
| oppugn | (verb) challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of | Synonyms: call into question, question |
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| outcropping | (noun) the part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land | Synonyms: outcrop, rock outcrop |
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| planthopper | (noun) related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants | Synonyms: plant hopper |
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| popper | (noun) a container for cooking popcorn | - |
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| (noun) a container of stimulant drug (amyl nitrate or butyl nitrite) | - |
| poppet | (noun) a mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat; commonly used in internal-combustion engines | Synonyms: poppet valve |
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| poppin | (adjective) Of an event that is taking place and is lively | - |
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| popping | (noun) a sharp explosive sound as from a gunshot or drawing a cork | Synonyms: pop |
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| poppy | (noun) annual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers | - |
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| poppycock | (noun) senseless talk | Synonyms: hooey, stuff, stuff and nonsense |
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| sandhopper | (noun) small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches | Synonyms: beach flea, sand flea, sand hopper |
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| sharecropper | (noun) small farmers and tenants | Synonyms: cropper, sharecrop farmer |
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| shopper | (noun) someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy | - |
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| (noun) a commercial agent who shops at the competitor's store in order to compare their prices and merchandise with those of the store that employs her | - |
| shopping | (noun) searching for or buying goods or services | - |
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| (noun) the commodities purchased from stores | - |
| showstopper | (noun) something that is strikingly attractive or has great popular appeal | Synonyms: show-stopper |
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| (noun) an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down | Synonyms: show-stopper, stopper |
| slopped | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| sloppily | (adverb) in a sloppy manner | - |
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| sloppiness | (noun) the quality of not being careful or taking pains | Synonyms: carelessness |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, soupiness |
| (noun) a lack of order and tidiness; not cared for | Synonyms: slovenliness, unkemptness |
| (noun) the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water | Synonyms: muddiness, wateriness |
| sloppy | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: haphazard, slapdash, slipshod |
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| (adjective) excessively or abnormally emotional | Synonyms: overemotional |
| (adjective) not fitting closely; hanging loosely | Synonyms: baggy, loose-fitting |
| (adjective) lacking neatness or order | - |
| (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
| (adjective) wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material | - |
| sopping | (adverb) extremely wet | Synonyms: dripping, soaking |
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| soppy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soupy |
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| (adjective) wet through and through; thoroughly wet | Synonyms: sodden |
| stoppable | (adjective) capable of being stopped | - |
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| stoppage | (noun) the act of stopping something | Synonyms: stop |
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| (noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, blockage, closure, occlusion, stop |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop |
| stopped | (adjective) (of a nose) blocked | Synonyms: stopped-up, stopped up |
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| stopper | (noun) blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly | Synonyms: plug, stopple |
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| (noun) (bridge) a playing card with a value sufficiently high to insure taking a trick in a particular suit | - |
| (noun) an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down | Synonyms: show-stopper, showstopper |
| (noun) a remark to which there is no polite conversational reply | Synonyms: conversation stopper |
| (verb) close or secure with or as if with a stopper | Synonyms: stopple |
| stoppered | (adjective) (of a container) having a stopper in the opening | - |
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| stopping | (noun) the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch | - |
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| (noun) fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members | Synonyms: fillet |
| stopple | (noun) blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly | Synonyms: plug, stopper |
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| (verb) close or secure with or as if with a stopper | Synonyms: stopper |
| stroppy | (adjective) obstreperous | Synonyms: bolshy |
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| topped | (adjective) having a top of a specified character | - |
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| topper | (noun) a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur | Synonyms: beaver, dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat |
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| (noun) a woman's short coat | - |
| (noun) an exceedingly good witticism that surpasses all that have gone before | - |
| (noun) a worker who cuts tops off (of trees or vegetables etc.) | - |
| (noun) a worker who makes or adds the top to something | - |
| (noun) the person who is most outstanding or excellent; someone who tops all others | Synonyms: best |
| topping | (adjective) excellent; best possible | Synonyms: top-flight, top-hole |
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| (noun) a flavorful addition on top of a dish | - |