| murky | (adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | Synonyms: cloudy, mirky, muddy, turbid |
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| (adjective) dark or gloomy | Synonyms: mirky |
| nark | (noun) an informer or spy working for the police | Synonyms: copper's nark |
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| (noun) a lawman concerned with narcotics violations | Synonyms: narc, narcotics agent |
| (verb) inform or spy (for the police) | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| needlework | (noun) work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle | Synonyms: needlecraft |
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| (noun) a creation created or assembled by needle and thread | Synonyms: needlecraft |
| needleworker | (noun) someone who does work (as sewing or embroidery) with a needle | - |
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| network | (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshing, meshwork, net |
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| (noun) (broadcasting) a communication system consisting of a group of broadcasting stations that all transmit the same programs | - |
| (noun) (electronics) a system of interconnected electronic components or circuits | Synonyms: electronic network |
| (noun) a system of intersecting lines or channels | - |
| (noun) an interconnected system of things or people | Synonyms: web |
| (verb) communicate with and within a group | - |
| networklike | (adjective) having a network of veins or ribs | - |
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| neuromarketing | (noun) marketing based on studies of consumers' sensorimotor, cognitive, and affective responses | Synonyms: neuro-marketing |
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| newmarket | (noun) a long close-fitting coat worn for riding in the 19th century | - |
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| nightwork | (noun) work to be done at night | - |
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| nonworker | (noun) a person who does nothing | - |
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| openwork | (noun) ornamental work (such as embroidery or latticework) having a pattern of openings | - |
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| outwork | (noun) subsidiary defensive structure lying outside the main fortified area | - |
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| overkill | (noun) any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal | - |
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| (noun) the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required | - |
| overwork | (noun) the act of working too much or too long | Synonyms: overworking |
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| (verb) use too much | - |
| (verb) work excessively hard | Synonyms: exploit |
| overworking | (noun) the act of working too much or too long | Synonyms: overwork |
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| paperknife | (noun) dull knife used to cut open the envelopes in which letters are mailed or to slit uncut pages of books | Synonyms: letter opener, paper knife |
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| paperwork | (noun) work that involves handling papers: forms or letters or reports etc. | - |
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| park | (noun) a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games) | Synonyms: ballpark |
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| (noun) a gear position that acts as a parking brake | - |
| (noun) a large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property | Synonyms: parkland |
| (noun) a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area | Synonyms: common, commons, green |
| (noun) a lot where cars are parked | Synonyms: car park, parking area, parking lot |
| (verb) place temporarily | - |
| (verb) maneuver a vehicle into a parking space | - |
| parka | (noun) a kind of heavy jacket | Synonyms: anorak, windbreaker, windcheater |
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| parked | (adjective) that have been left | - |
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| parking | (noun) the act of maneuvering a vehicle into a location where it can be left temporarily | - |
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| (noun) space in which vehicles can be parked | - |
| parkland | (noun) a large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property | Synonyms: park |
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| parkour | (noun) An athletic discipline, in which practitioners traverse any environment in the most efficient way possible using their physical abilities, and which commonly involves running, jumping, vaulting, rolling, and other similar physical movements. | - |
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| parkway | (noun) a wide scenic road planted with trees | Synonyms: drive |
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| parky | (adjective) appreciably or disagreeably cold | Synonyms: chilly |
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| patchwork | (noun) sewing consisting of pieces of different materials sewn together in a pattern | - |
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| (noun) a quilt made by sewing patches of different materials together | Synonyms: patchwork quilt |
| (noun) a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas | Synonyms: hodgepodge, jumble |
| perk | (noun) an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right) | Synonyms: fringe benefit, perquisite |
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| (verb) gain or regain energy | Synonyms: gain vigor, percolate, perk up, pick up |
| perkily | (adverb) in a perky manner | - |
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| perkiness | (noun) inappropriate playfulness | Synonyms: archness, impertinence, pertness, sauciness |
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| (noun) cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface | Synonyms: buoyancy |
| perky | (adjective) characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness | Synonyms: buoyant, chirpy |
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| piecework | (noun) work paid for according to the quantity produced | - |
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| pipework | (noun) the flues and stops on a pipe organ | Synonyms: organ pipe, pipe |
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| pitchfork | (noun) a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay | - |
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| (verb) lift with a pitchfork | Synonyms: fork |
| plasterwork | (noun) a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling) | Synonyms: plaster |
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| pockmark | (noun) a scar or pit on the skin that is left by a pustule of smallpox or acne or other eruptive disease | - |
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| (verb) mark with or as if with pockmarks | - |
| pockmarked | (adjective) marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease | Synonyms: pocked |
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| (adjective) used of paved surfaces having holes or pits | Synonyms: pocked, potholed |
| pork | (noun) meat from a domestic hog or pig | Synonyms: porc |
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| (noun) a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents | Synonyms: pork barrel |
| porkchop | (noun) chop cut from a hog | - |
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| porker | (noun) a pig fattened to provide meat | - |
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| porkfish | (noun) black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil | Synonyms: Anisotremus virginicus, pork-fish |
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| porkholt | (noun) made of lamb or pork | - |
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| porkpie | (noun) man's hat with a low, flat crown and a snap brim | Synonyms: porkpie hat |
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| postmark | (noun) a cancellation mark stamped on mail by postal officials; indicates the post office and date of mailing | - |
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| (verb) stamp with a postmark to indicate date and time of mailing | Synonyms: frank |
| pressmark | (noun) a mark consisting of characters written on a book; used to indicate shelf location | Synonyms: call mark, call number |
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| qindarka | (noun) 100 qindarka equal 1 lek in Albania | Synonyms: qintar |
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| quark | (noun) fresh unripened cheese of a smooth texture made from pasteurized milk, a starter, and rennet | Synonyms: quark cheese |
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| (noun) (physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons; there are supposed to be six flavors of quarks (and their antiquarks), which come in pairs; each has an electric charge of +2/3 or -1/3 | - |
| quirk | (noun) a narrow groove beside a beading | - |
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| (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, queerness, quirkiness |
| (verb) twist or curve abruptly | - |
| quirkiness | (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, queerness, quirk |
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| quirky | (adjective) (informal) strikingly unconventional | Synonyms: far-out, kinky, offbeat, way-out |
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| remark | (noun) explicit notice | - |
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| (noun) a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information | Synonyms: comment, input |
| (verb) make mention of | Synonyms: mention, note, observe |
| (verb) make or write a comment on | Synonyms: comment, notice, point out |
| remarkable | (adjective) unusual or striking | Synonyms: singular |
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| (adjective) worthy of attention | Synonyms: notable, noteworthy |
| remarkably | (adverb) to a remarkable degree or extent | Synonyms: notably, unco, unusually |
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| (adverb) in a signal manner | Synonyms: signally, unmistakably |
| rework | (verb) use again in altered form | Synonyms: make over, retread |
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| ropebark | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, moosewood, wicopy |
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| salesclerk | (noun) a salesperson in a store | Synonyms: clerk, shop assistant, shop clerk |
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| saltworks | (noun) a plant where salt is produced commercially | - |
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| sauerkraut | (noun) shredded cabbage fermented in brine | - |
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| schipperke | (noun) breed of small stocky black dogs originally used as watchdogs on boats in the Netherlands and Belgium | - |
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| schnorkel | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: breather, schnorchel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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| schoolwork | (noun) work, such as schoolwork or piecework, that is done at home | Synonyms: homework, school assignment |
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| semidark | (adjective) partially devoid of light or brightness | - |
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| semidarkness | (noun) partial darkness | - |
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| shagbark | (noun) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts | Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark hickory, shellbark, shellbark hickory |
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| shark | (noun) any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales | - |
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| (noun) a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways | - |
| (noun) a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest | - |
| (verb) hunt shark | - |
| (verb) play the shark; act with trickery | - |
| sharkskin | (noun) a smooth crisp fabric | - |
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| sharksucker | (noun) remoras found attached to sharks | Synonyms: Echeneis naucrates |
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| shellbark | (noun) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts | Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark hickory |
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| shirk | (verb) avoid dealing with | - |
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| (verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: fiddle, goldbrick, shrink from |
| shirker | (noun) a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) | Synonyms: slacker |
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| shirking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, slacking, soldiering |
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| shitwork | (noun) trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores | Synonyms: scut work |
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| silverwork | (noun) decorative work made of silver | - |
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| silverworker | (noun) someone who makes or repairs articles of silver | Synonyms: silver-worker, silversmith |
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| skylark | (noun) brown-speckled European lark noted for singing while hovering at a great height | Synonyms: Alauda arvensis |
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| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, sport |
| smirk | (noun) a smile expressing smugness or scorn instead of pleasure | - |
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| (verb) smile affectedly or derisively | Synonyms: simper |
| smirker | (noun) a smiler whose smile is offensively self-satisfied | - |
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| smoothbark | (noun) any of several Australian eucalypts having the bark smooth except at or near the base of the trunk | - |
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| snarky | (adjective) disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking | Synonyms: sardonic |
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| snorkel | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: breather, schnorchel, schnorkel, snorkel breather |
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| (noun) breathing device consisting of a bent tube fitting into a swimmer's mouth and extending above the surface; allows swimmer to breathe while face down in the water | - |
| (verb) dive with a snorkel | - |
| snorkeling | (noun) skin diving with a snorkel | Synonyms: snorkel diving |
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| spadework | (noun) dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking | - |
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| spark | (noun) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance | Synonyms: light, sparkle, twinkle |
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| (noun) a momentary flash of light | Synonyms: flicker, glint |
| (noun) a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction | - |
| (noun) electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field | Synonyms: arc, discharge, electric arc, electric discharge |
| (noun) a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger | - |
| (verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: activate, actuate, set off, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip |
| (verb) emit or produce sparks | Synonyms: sparkle |
| sparker | (noun) a wire net to stop sparks from an open fireplace or smokestack | Synonyms: spark arrester |
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| sparkle | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glister, glitter, scintillation |
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| (noun) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance | Synonyms: light, spark, twinkle |
| (noun) the occurrence of a small flash or spark | Synonyms: coruscation, glitter |
| (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: effervesce, fizz, foam, form bubbles, froth |
| (verb) be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity | Synonyms: coruscate, scintillate |
| (verb) reflect brightly | Synonyms: coruscate, scintillate |
| (verb) emit or produce sparks | Synonyms: spark |
| sparkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: farkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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| sparkler | (noun) a firework that burns slowly and throws out a shower of sparks | - |
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| (noun) diamonds | Synonyms: ice |
| sparkling | (adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: effervescent |
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| (adjective) shining with brilliant points of light like stars | - |
| (noun) a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash | Synonyms: scintillation, twinkle |
| sparkly | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating |
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| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, effervescent, frothy, scintillating |
| spinnbarkeit | (noun) the capacity of a viscous liquid (especially the cervical mucus) to be drawn out into a strand or blown up into a bubble | - |
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| squark | (noun) a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1 | Synonyms: strange quark |
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| stark | (adjective) complete or extreme | - |
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| (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, desolate |
| (adjective) severely simple | Synonyms: austere, severe, stern |
| (adjective) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment | Synonyms: blunt, crude |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| (adverb) to the fullest degree | - |
| starkers | (adjective) (British informal) stark naked | - |
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| starkly | (adverb) in a blunt manner | - |
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| (adverb) in sharp outline or contrast | - |
| (adverb) in a stark manner | - |
| starkness | (noun) an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation | Synonyms: bareness |
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| (noun) the quality of being complete or utter or extreme | Synonyms: absoluteness, utterness |
| steelworker | (noun) a worker engaged in making steel | Synonyms: steelmaker, steelman |
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| steelworks | (noun) a factory where steel is made | Synonyms: steel factory, steel mill, steel plant |
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| stirk | (noun) yearling heifer or bullock | - |
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| stonework | (noun) masonry done with stone | - |
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| stork | (noun) large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage | - |
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| storksbill | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Erodium | Synonyms: heron's bill |
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