| lutfisk | (noun) dried cod soaked in a lye solution before boiling to give it a gelatinous consistency | Synonyms: lutefisk |
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| mask | (noun) activity that tries to conceal something | - |
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| (noun) a covering to disguise or conceal the face | - |
| (noun) a protective covering worn over the face | - |
| (noun) a party of guests wearing costumes and masks | Synonyms: masque, masquerade, masquerade party |
| (verb) put a mask on or cover with a mask | - |
| (verb) shield from light | Synonyms: block out |
| (verb) cover with a sauce | - |
| (verb) hide under a false appearance | Synonyms: cloak, dissemble |
| (verb) make unrecognizable | Synonyms: disguise |
| masked | (adjective) having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading | Synonyms: cloaked, disguised |
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| (adjective) having markings suggestive of a mask | - |
| masker | (noun) a participant in a masquerade | Synonyms: masquer, masquerader |
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| masking | (noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it | Synonyms: cover, covering, screening |
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| (noun) scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen | Synonyms: masking piece |
| (noun) the blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of another sensation | - |
| miniskirt | (noun) a very short skirt | Synonyms: mini |
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| moleskin | (noun) a durable cotton fabric with a velvety nap | - |
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| mollusk | (noun) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | Synonyms: mollusc, shellfish |
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| morangoska | (noun) a Portuguese variation of Caipirinha made using strawberries instead of lime. | - |
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| mudskipper | (noun) found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins | Synonyms: mudspringer |
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| musculoskeletal | (adjective) relating to muscles and skeleton | - |
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| musk | (noun) the scent of a greasy glandular secretion from the male musk deer | - |
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| (noun) an odorous glandular secretion from the male musk deer; used as a perfume fixative | - |
| muskat | (noun) any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes | Synonyms: muscat |
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| muskellunge | (noun) large (60 to 80 pounds) sport fish of North America | Synonyms: Esox masquinongy |
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| (noun) flesh of very large North American pike; a game fish | - |
| musket | (noun) a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen | - |
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| musketeer | (noun) a foot soldier armed with a musket | - |
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| musketry | (noun) the technique of using small arms (especially in battle) | - |
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| (noun) musketeers and their muskets collectively | - |
| muskiness | (noun) having the olfactory properties of musk | - |
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| muskmelon | (noun) the fruit of a muskmelon vine; any of several sweet melons related to cucumbers | Synonyms: sweet melon |
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| (noun) any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell | Synonyms: Cucumis melo, sweet melon, sweet melon vine |
| muskrat | (noun) beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur | Synonyms: musquash, Ondatra zibethica |
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| (noun) the brown fur of a muskrat | Synonyms: muskrat fur |
| muskwood | (noun) musk-scented shrub or tree of southern and southeastern Australia having creamy-yellow flower heads | Synonyms: Olearia argophylla |
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| musky | (adjective) resembling the smell of musk | - |
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| nonskid | (adjective) designed to reduce or prevent skidding | - |
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| numskull | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, shithead |
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| obelisk | (noun) a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top | - |
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| (noun) a character used in printing to indicate a second cross reference or footnote when the asterisk has already been used | Synonyms: dagger |
| oilskin | (noun) a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof | Synonyms: slicker |
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| omphaloskepsis | (noun) literally, the contemplation of one's navel, which is an idiom usually meaning complacent self-absorption | Synonyms: navel-gazing |
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| onionskin | (noun) a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies | Synonyms: flimsy |
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| outskirt | (noun) a part of the city far removed from the center | Synonyms: fringe |
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| outskirts | (noun) outlying areas (as of a city or town) | - |
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| overskirt | (noun) an outer skirt worn over another skirt | - |
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| passkey | (noun) key that secures entrance everywhere | Synonyms: master, master key, passe-partout |
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| pesky | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| pigskin | (noun) leather from the skin of swine | - |
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| rathskeller | (noun) a tavern below street level featuring beer; originally a German restaurant in the basement of city hall | - |
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| risk | (noun) a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury | Synonyms: danger, peril |
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| (noun) the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent | Synonyms: risk of exposure |
| (noun) the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred | Synonyms: risk of infection |
| (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: endangerment, hazard, jeopardy, peril |
| (verb) expose to a chance of loss or damage | Synonyms: lay on the line, put on the line |
| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, gamble, hazard, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| riskily | (adverb) in a dangerously risky manner | - |
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| riskiness | (noun) a state of danger involving risk | Synonyms: peril |
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| riskless | (adjective) thought to be devoid of risk | Synonyms: risk-free, unhazardous |
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| risklessness | (noun) safety as a consequence of entailing no risk | - |
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| risky | (adjective) involving risk or danger | Synonyms: hazardous, wild |
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| (adjective) not financially safe or secure | Synonyms: bad, high-risk, speculative |
| rusk | (noun) slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp | Synonyms: Brussels biscuit, twice-baked bread, zwieback |
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| samarskite | (noun) a complex black mineral occurring in pegmatites | - |
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| saskatoon | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, serviceberry, shadberry |
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| sealskin | (noun) a garment (as a jacket or coat or robe) made of sealskin | - |
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| (noun) the pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal | Synonyms: seal |
| semiskilled | (adjective) possessing or requiring limited skills | - |
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| sharkskin | (noun) a smooth crisp fabric | - |
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| sheepskin | (noun) a document certifying the successful completion of a course of study | Synonyms: diploma |
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| (noun) tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing | Synonyms: fleece |
| (noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: lambskin, parchment |
| siskin | (noun) small yellow-and-black Eurasian finch with a sharp beak | Synonyms: Carduelis spinus |
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| skag | (noun) street names for heroin | Synonyms: big H, hell dust, nose drops, scag, smack, thunder |
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| skank | (noun) a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees | - |
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| (noun) any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant | Synonyms: crud, filth |
| (verb) dance the skank | - |
| skanky | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, wicked, yucky |
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| skate | (noun) large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins | - |
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| (noun) sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs | - |
| (verb) move along on skates | - |
| skateboard | (noun) a board with wheels that is ridden in a standing or crouching position and propelled by foot | - |
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| (verb) ride on a flat board with rollers attached to the bottom | - |
| skateboarder | (noun) someone who skates on a skateboard | - |
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| skateboarding | (noun) the sport of skating on a skateboard | - |
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| skater | (noun) someone who skates | - |
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| skating | (noun) the sport of gliding on skates | - |
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| skedaddle | (noun) a hasty flight | - |
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| (verb) run away, as if in a panic | - |
| skeet | (noun) the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird | Synonyms: skeet shooting, trapshooting |
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| skeg | (noun) a brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost | - |
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| skein | (noun) coils of worsted yarn | - |
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| skeletal | (adjective) of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton | - |
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| (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, wasted |
| skeleton | (noun) the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape | Synonyms: frame, skeletal frame, underframe |
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| (noun) the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal | Synonyms: frame, skeletal system, systema skeletale |
| (noun) a scandal that is kept secret | Synonyms: skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard |
| (noun) something reduced to its minimal form | - |
| skep | (noun) a domed beehive made of twisted straw | - |
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| (noun) a large round wicker basket (used on farms) | - |
| skepful | (noun) the quantity a skep can hold | - |
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| skeptic | (noun) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs | Synonyms: doubter, sceptic |
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| skeptical | (adjective) marked by or given to doubt | Synonyms: doubting, questioning, sceptical |
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| (adjective) denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion | Synonyms: disbelieving, sceptical, unbelieving |
| skeptically | (adverb) with scepticism; in a sceptical manner | Synonyms: sceptically |
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| skepticism | (noun) doubt about the truth of something | Synonyms: disbelief, incredulity, mental rejection, scepticism |
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| (noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge | Synonyms: agnosticism, scepticism |
| sketch | (noun) preliminary drawing for later elaboration | Synonyms: study |
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| (noun) short descriptive summary (of events) | Synonyms: resume, survey |
| (noun) a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: cartoon |
| (noun) a brief literary description | Synonyms: vignette |
| (verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of | Synonyms: adumbrate, outline |
| (verb) make a sketch of | Synonyms: chalk out |
| sketchbook | (noun) a book containing sheets of paper on which sketches can be drawn | Synonyms: sketch block, sketch pad |
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| sketcher | (noun) an implement for sketching | - |
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| (noun) someone who draws sketches | - |
| sketchily | (adverb) in a sketchy incomplete manner | - |
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| sketchiness | (noun) incompleteness of details | - |
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| sketchy | (adjective) giving only major points; lacking completeness | Synonyms: unelaborated |
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| skew | (adjective) having an oblique or slanting direction or position | Synonyms: skewed |
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| (verb) turn or place at an angle | - |
| skewed | (adjective) having an oblique or slanting direction or position | Synonyms: skew |
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| skewer | (noun) a long pin for holding meat in position while it is being roasted | - |
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| (verb) drive a skewer through | Synonyms: spit |
| skewness | (noun) an oblique or slanting asymmetry | Synonyms: lopsidedness |
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| ski | (noun) narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow | - |
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| (verb) move along on skis | - |
| skiagram | (noun) a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays) | Synonyms: radiogram, radiograph, shadowgraph, skiagraph |
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| skiagraph | (noun) a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays) | Synonyms: radiogram, radiograph, shadowgraph, skiagram |
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| skiagraphy | (noun) the process of making a radiograph; producing an image on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light | Synonyms: radiography |
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| skibob | (noun) a vehicle resembling a bicycle but having skis instead of wheels; the rider wears short skis for balancing | - |
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| skid | (noun) an unexpected slide | Synonyms: sideslip, slip |
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| (noun) one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects | - |
| (noun) a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation | Synonyms: brake shoe, shoe |
| (verb) move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: slew, slide, slip, slue |
| (verb) apply a brake or skid to | - |
| (verb) elevate onto skids | - |
| (verb) slide without control | - |
| skidder | (noun) a tractor used to haul logs over rough terrain | - |
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| (noun) a worker who uses a skid to move logs | - |
| (noun) a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction | Synonyms: slider, slipper |
| skidpan | (noun) a paved surface on which cars can be made to skid so that drivers can practice controlling them | - |
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| skier | (noun) someone who skis | - |
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| skiff | (noun) any of various small boats propelled by oars or by sails or by a motor | - |
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| skiffle | (noun) a style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments | - |
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| skiing | (noun) a sport in which participants must travel on skis | - |
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| skilful | (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skillful |
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| skilfully | (adverb) with skill | Synonyms: skillfully |
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| skill | (noun) ability to produce solutions in some problem domain | Synonyms: science |
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| (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, attainment |
| skilled | (adjective) having or showing or requiring special skill | - |
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| skillessness | (noun) Lack of skill; ineptness. | - |
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| skillet | (noun) a pan used for frying foods | Synonyms: frying pan, frypan |
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| skilletfish | (noun) clingfish with typical skillet shape | Synonyms: Gobiesox strumosus, skillet fish |
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| skillful | (adjective) done with delicacy and skill | Synonyms: nice |
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| (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skilful |