| abattoir | (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse |
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| abettor | (noun) one who helps or encourages or incites another | Synonyms: abetter |
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| allegretto | (adjective) (of tempo) faster than allegro | - |
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| (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed at a somewhat quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro | - |
| (noun) a quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro | - |
| (adverb) in a moderately quick tempo | - |
| amaretto | (noun) an Italian almond liqueur | - |
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| attorn | (verb) acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord | - |
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| attorney | (noun) a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice | Synonyms: lawyer |
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| attorneyship | (noun) the position of attorney | - |
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| attosecond | (noun) one quintillionth (10^-18) of a second; one thousandth of a femtosecond | - |
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| bellbottom | (adjective) (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom | Synonyms: bell-bottom, bell-bottomed |
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| bellybutton | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, navel, omphalos, omphalus, umbilicus |
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| bettong | (noun) short-nosed rat kangaroo | - |
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| bettor | (noun) someone who bets | Synonyms: better, punter, wagerer |
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| blotto | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| bottom | (adjective) situated at the bottom or lowest position | - |
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| (adjective) the lowest rank | - |
| (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: freighter, merchant ship, merchantman |
| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) the lower side of anything | Synonyms: underside, undersurface |
| (noun) the lowest part of anything | - |
| (noun) a depression forming the ground under a body of water | Synonyms: bed |
| (noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottomland |
| (noun) the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat | Synonyms: bottom of the inning |
| (verb) come to understand | Synonyms: fathom, penetrate |
| (verb) strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom | - |
| (verb) provide with a bottom or a seat | - |
| bottomed | (adjective) having a bottom of a specified character | - |
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| bottomland | (noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottom |
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| bottomless | (adjective) having no bottom | - |
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| (adjective) extremely deep | - |
| (adjective) unclothed especially below the waist or featuring such nudeness | - |
| (adjective) having no apparent limits or bounds | - |
| bottomlessness | (noun) the property of being very deep; without limit | - |
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| bottommost | (adjective) farthest down | Synonyms: lowermost, nethermost |
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| buttock | (noun) either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump | Synonyms: cheek |
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| buttocks | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| button | (noun) a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes | - |
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| (noun) an electrical switch operated by pressing | Synonyms: push, push button |
| (noun) a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism | Synonyms: release |
| (noun) any artifact that resembles a button | - |
| (noun) a specific area or icon in graphical user interface systems that is clicked or pressed in order to select a command or perform an action | - |
| (noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: clit, clitoris |
| (noun) a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment | - |
| (noun) any of various plant parts that resemble buttons | - |
| (verb) fasten with buttons | - |
| (verb) provide with buttons | - |
| buttoned | (adjective) furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike | Synonyms: fastened |
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| buttonhole | (noun) a hole through which buttons are pushed | Synonyms: button hole |
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| (verb) detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors | Synonyms: lobby |
| buttonhook | (noun) a hook for pulling a button through a buttonhole | - |
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| buttonlike | (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beadlike, beady, buttony |
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| buttonwood | (noun) very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico | Synonyms: American plane, American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis |
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| buttony | (adjective) ornamented with many buttons | - |
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| (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beadlike, beady, buttonlike |
| carburettor | (noun) mixes air with gasoline vapor prior to explosion | Synonyms: carburetor |
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| carrottop | (noun) someone who has red hair | Synonyms: red-header, redhead, redheader |
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| cavetto | (noun) a concave molding shaped like a quarter circle in cross section | - |
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| contrafagotto | (noun) the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family | Synonyms: contrabassoon, double bassoon |
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| cotton | (noun) fabric woven from cotton fibers | - |
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| (noun) thread made of cotton fibers | - |
| (noun) erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers | Synonyms: cotton plant |
| (noun) soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state | Synonyms: cotton fiber, cotton wool |
| (verb) take a liking to | - |
| cottonmouth | (noun) venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States | Synonyms: Agkistrodon piscivorus, cottonmouth moccasin, water moccasin |
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| cottonseed | (noun) seed of cotton plants; source of cottonseed oil | - |
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| cottontail | (noun) common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) | Synonyms: cottontail rabbit, wood rabbit |
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| cottonweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers | - |
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| (noun) an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts | Synonyms: Anaphalis margaritacea, pearly everlasting |
| cottonwick | (noun) of warm Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Haemulon malanurum |
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| cottonwood | (noun) any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed | - |
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| (noun) American basswood of the Allegheny region | Synonyms: Tilia heterophylla, white basswood |
| cottony | (adjective) resembling cotton; as soft as cotton | - |
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| ditto | (noun) a mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated | Synonyms: ditto mark |
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| (verb) repeat an action or statement | - |
| falsetto | (adjective) artificially high; above the normal voice range | - |
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| (noun) a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register | - |
| flatbottom | (adjective) having a flat bottom | Synonyms: flat-bottom, flat-bottomed, flatbottomed |
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| flatbottomed | (adjective) having a flat bottom | Synonyms: flat-bottom, flat-bottomed, flatbottom |
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| flattop | (noun) a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings | Synonyms: aircraft carrier, attack aircraft carrier, carrier |
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| (noun) a closely cropped haircut; usually for men or boys | Synonyms: butch, crew cut |
| ghetto | (noun) formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live | - |
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| (noun) a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions | - |
| (noun) any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping | - |
| ghettoise | (verb) put in a ghetto | Synonyms: ghettoize |
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| ghettoize | (verb) put in a ghetto | Synonyms: ghettoise |
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| glottochronological | (adjective) pertaining to the study of the evolution of languages from a common source | - |
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| glottochronology | (noun) the determination of how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language | - |
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| glutton | (noun) musteline mammal of northern Eurasia | Synonyms: Gulo gulo, wolverine |
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| (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman |
| gluttonise | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: fress, gluttonize |
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| gluttonize | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: fress, gluttonise |
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| gluttonous | (adjective) given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink | - |
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| gluttonously | (adverb) in a gluttonous manner | - |
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| gluttony | (noun) eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: gula, overeating |
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| (noun) habitual eating to excess | - |
| grotto | (noun) a small cave (usually with attractive features) | Synonyms: grot |
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| guncotton | (noun) a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives | Synonyms: cellulose nitrate, nitrocellulose, nitrocotton |
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| larghetto | (adjective) (of tempo) less slow and broad than largo | - |
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| (noun) (music) a composition or passage played in a slow tempo slightly faster than largo but slower than adagio | - |
| lazaretto | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazaret, lazarette, pesthouse |
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| (noun) a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship | Synonyms: glory hole |
| libretto | (noun) the words of an opera or musical play | - |
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| littoral | (adjective) of or relating to a coastal or shore region | - |
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| (noun) the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean | Synonyms: litoral, littoral zone, sands |
| lotto | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: beano, bingo, keno |
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| mattock | (noun) a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade set at right angles to the handle | - |
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| motto | (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: catchword, shibboleth, slogan |
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| mulatto | (noun) an offspring of a black and a white parent | - |
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| mutton | (noun) meat from a mature domestic sheep | Synonyms: mouton |
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| muttonfish | (noun) similar to and often marketed as `red snapper' | Synonyms: Lutjanus analis, mutton snapper |
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| muttonhead | (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, numskull, shithead |
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| nitrocotton | (noun) a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives | Synonyms: cellulose nitrate, guncotton, nitrocellulose |
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| ottoman | (noun) thick cushion used as a seat | Synonyms: hassock, pouf, pouffe, puff |
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| (noun) a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | Synonyms: footrest, footstool, tuffet |
| palmetto | (noun) any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves | - |
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| potto | (noun) a kind of gray-brown lemur (Perodicticus potto) | Synonyms: kinkajou, Perodicticus potto |
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| (noun) arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail | Synonyms: honey bear, kinkajou, Potos caudivolvulus, Potos flavus |
| prosciutto | (noun) Italian salt-cured ham usually sliced paper thin | - |
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| risotto | (noun) rice cooked with broth and sprinkled with grated cheese | Synonyms: Italian rice |
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| spittoon | (noun) a receptacle for spit (usually in a public place) | Synonyms: cuspidor |
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| stiletto | (noun) a small dagger with a tapered blade | - |
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| sublittoral | (adjective) of or relating to the region of the continental shelf (between the seashore and the edge of the continental shelf) or the marine organisms situated there | - |
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| tattoo | (noun) the practice of making a design on the skin by pricking and staining | - |
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| (noun) a design on the skin made by tattooing | - |
| (noun) a drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters | - |
| (verb) stain (skin) with indelible color | - |
| terzetto | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
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| unbutton | (verb) undo the buttons of | - |
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| unbuttoned | (adjective) not buttoned | Synonyms: unfastened |
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| (adjective) not under constraint in action or expression | Synonyms: unlaced |
| wittol | (noun) an archaic term for a cuckold who knows about his wife's infidelity but tolerates it | - |
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