| accouchement | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: childbearing, childbirth, vaginal birth |
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| accoucheur | (noun) a physician specializing in obstetrics | Synonyms: obstetrician |
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| accoucheuse | (noun) a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies | Synonyms: midwife |
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| archduchess | (noun) a wife or widow of an archduke or a princess of the former ruling house of Austria | - |
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| archduchy | (noun) the domain controlled by an archduke or archduchess | - |
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| avouch | (verb) admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about | Synonyms: avow |
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| avouchment | (noun) a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something | Synonyms: affirmation, avowal |
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| barouche | (noun) a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding top | - |
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| blucher | (noun) a high shoe with laces over the tongue | - |
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| bouchee | (noun) shell of puff paste | Synonyms: patty shell |
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| capuchin | (noun) monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl | Synonyms: Cebus capucinus, ringtail |
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| (noun) a hooded cloak for women | - |
| cartouch | (noun) a cartridge (usually with paper casing) | Synonyms: cartouche |
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| cartouche | (noun) a cartridge (usually with paper casing) | Synonyms: cartouch |
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| couch | (noun) an upholstered seat for more than one person | Synonyms: lounge, sofa |
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| (noun) a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment | - |
| (noun) a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer | - |
| (verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: cast, frame, put, redact |
| couchant | (adjective) lying on the stomach with head raised with legs pointed forward | - |
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| couchette | (noun) a compartment on a European passenger train; contains 4 to 6 berths for sleeping | - |
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| (noun) a sleeping berth in a couchette compartment. | - |
| crouch | (noun) the act of bending low with the limbs close to the body | - |
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| (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: hunker, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up, squat |
| (verb) bend one's back forward from the waist on down | Synonyms: bend, bow, stoop |
| debauch | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| debauched | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| debauchee | (noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | Synonyms: libertine, rounder |
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| debaucher | (noun) someone who assaults others sexually | Synonyms: ravisher, violator |
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| debauchery | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| debouch | (verb) pass out or emerge; especially of rivers | - |
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| (verb) march out (as from a defile) into open ground | Synonyms: march out |
| douche | (noun) irrigation with a jet of water or medicated solution into or around a body part (especially the vagina) to treat infections or cleanse from odorous contents | - |
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| (noun) a small syringe with detachable nozzles; used for vaginal lavage and enemas | Synonyms: douche bag |
| (verb) direct a spray of water into a bodily cavity, for cleaning | - |
| duchess | (noun) the wife of a duke or a woman holding ducal title in her own right | - |
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| duchy | (noun) the domain controlled by a duke or duchess | Synonyms: dukedom |
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| embouchure | (noun) the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly | Synonyms: mouthpiece |
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| euchre | (noun) a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand | Synonyms: five hundred |
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| eunuch | (noun) a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction | Synonyms: castrate |
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| eunuchoidism | (noun) the state of being a eunuch (either because of lacking testicles or because they failed to develop) | Synonyms: male hypogonadism |
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| fuchsia | (noun) a vivid purplish-red color | - |
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| (noun) any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers; Central and South America and New Zealand and Tahiti | - |
| gauche | (adjective) lacking social polish | Synonyms: graceless, unpolished |
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| gaucheness | (noun) an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity |
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| gaucherie | (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, slip, solecism |
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| (noun) the quality of being rustic or gauche | Synonyms: rusticity |
| gaucho | (noun) a cowboy of the South American Pampas | - |
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| grouch | (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crank, crosspatch, grump |
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| (verb) show one's unhappiness or critical attitude | Synonyms: grumble, scold |
| grouchily | (adverb) in an ill-natured manner | Synonyms: crossly, grumpily |
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| grouchy | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
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| insomuch | (adverb) to such an extent or degree; so | - |
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| louche | (adjective) disreputable and dissolute, somewhat agreeably | - |
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| much | (adjective) (quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent | - |
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| (noun) a great amount or extent | - |
| (adverb) to a great degree or extent | - |
| (adverb) (degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely | Synonyms: practically |
| (adverb) incredibly | - |
| (adverb) frequently or in great quantities | Synonyms: a great deal, often |
| muchness | (noun) greatness of quantity or measure or extent | - |
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| nauch | (noun) an intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls | Synonyms: nautch, nautch dance |
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| nebuchadnezzar | (noun) a very large wine bottle holding the equivalent of 20 normal bottles of wine; used especially for display | - |
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| nonesuch | (noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, ideal, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon, saint |
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| nonsuch | (noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, ideal, nonesuch, nonpareil, paragon, saint |
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| nucha | (noun) the back side of the neck | Synonyms: nape, scruff |
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| overmuch | (adjective) very great in quantity; overabundant | - |
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| (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overabundance, overmuchness, superabundance |
| (adverb) more than necessary | Synonyms: too much |
| overmuchness | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overabundance, overmuch, superabundance |
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| penuche | (noun) fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts | Synonyms: panocha, panoche, penoche |
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| penuchle | (noun) a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist | Synonyms: bezique, pinochle, pinocle |
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| pfannkuchen | (noun) puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce | Synonyms: german pancake |
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| pouch | (noun) a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things | - |
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| (noun) (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) | Synonyms: pocket |
| (noun) an enclosed space | Synonyms: pocket, sac, sack |
| (verb) swell or protrude outwards | Synonyms: bulge, protrude |
| (verb) put into a small bag | - |
| (verb) send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels | - |
| pouched | (adjective) having a pouch | - |
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| pouchlike | (adjective) shaped like a pouch | Synonyms: bursiform, pouch-shaped, saclike |
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| retouch | (verb) alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance | Synonyms: touch up |
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| (verb) give retouches to (hair) | - |
| slouch | (noun) a stooping carriage in standing and walking | - |
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| (noun) an incompetent person; usually used in negative constructions | - |
| (verb) walk slovenly | - |
| (verb) assume a drooping posture or carriage | Synonyms: slump |
| sloucher | (noun) a person who slouches; someone with a drooping carriage | - |
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| slouchily | (adverb) in a slouchy manner | - |
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| slouchingly | (adverb) with a slouching gait or posture | - |
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| slouchy | (adjective) lacking stiffness in form or posture | - |
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| souchong | (noun) a fine quality of black tea native to China | Synonyms: soochong |
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| such | (adjective) of so extreme a degree or extent; demonstrative, other pronoun; demonstrative determiner, kind | - |
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| (adverb) to so extreme a degree | - |
| suchlike | (adjective) of the same kind | - |
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| touch | (noun) the act of putting two things together with no space between them | Synonyms: touching |
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| (noun) the feel of mechanical action | - |
| (noun) a distinguishing style | Synonyms: signature |
| (noun) the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands) | Synonyms: cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality |
| (noun) the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin | Synonyms: feeling, tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch sensation |
| (noun) deftness in handling matters | - |
| (noun) the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan) | - |
| (noun) a suggestion of some quality | Synonyms: ghost, trace |
| (noun) a communicative interaction | Synonyms: contact |
| (noun) the event of something coming in contact with the body | Synonyms: touching |
| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge |
| (noun) a slight attack of illness | Synonyms: spot |
| (verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch on |
| (verb) color lightly | Synonyms: tinct, tinge, tint |
| (verb) comprehend | - |
| (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: advert, allude |
| (verb) consume | Synonyms: partake |
| (verb) make physical contact with, come in contact with | - |
| (verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact | Synonyms: adjoin, contact, meet |
| (verb) tamper with | Synonyms: disturb |
| (verb) cause to be in brief contact with | - |
| (verb) affect emotionally | Synonyms: stir |
| (verb) perceive via the tactile sense | - |
| (verb) deal with; usually used with a form of negation | - |
| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, pertain, refer, relate, touch on |
| (verb) to extend as far as | Synonyms: extend to, reach |
| (verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: equal, match, rival |
| touchable | (adjective) perceptible by the senses especially the sense of touch | Synonyms: tangible |
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| touchback | (noun) (American football) a play in which the opposing team has kicked the football into your end zone | - |
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| touchdown | (noun) a score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line | - |
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| (noun) a landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes | - |
| touched | (adjective) having come into contact | - |
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| (adjective) being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion | Synonyms: affected, moved, stirred |
| (adjective) slightly insane | Synonyms: fey |
| toucher | (noun) a person who causes or allows a part of the body to come in contact with someone or something | - |
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| touchily | (adverb) in a touchy manner | - |
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| touchiness | (noun) feeling easily irritated | Synonyms: testiness, tetchiness |
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| touching | (adjective) arousing affect | Synonyms: affecting, poignant |
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| (noun) the act of putting two things together with no space between them | Synonyms: touch |
| (noun) the event of something coming in contact with the body | Synonyms: touch |
| touchingly | (adverb) in a poignant or touching manner | Synonyms: affectingly, poignantly |
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| touchline | (noun) either of the sidelines in soccer or rugby | - |
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| touchscreen | (noun) a computer display that enables the user to interact with the computer by touching areas on the screen | Synonyms: touch screen |
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| touchstone | (noun) a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | Synonyms: criterion, measure, standard |
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| touchwood | (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, punk, spunk, tinder |
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| touchy | (adjective) difficult to handle; requiring great tact | Synonyms: delicate, ticklish |
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| (adjective) quick to take offense | Synonyms: feisty, huffy, thin-skinned |
| trebuchet | (noun) catapult that uses a swinging arm to throw a projectile | Synonyms: trebucket |
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| untouchable | (adjective) forbidden to the touch | - |
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| (adjective) impossible to assail | Synonyms: unassailable |
| (adjective) beyond the reach of criticism or attack or impeachment | - |
| (adjective) not capable of being obtained | Synonyms: inaccessible, unobtainable, unprocurable |
| (adjective) (especially used in traditional Hindu belief of the lowest caste or castes) defiling | - |
| (noun) belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India | Synonyms: Harijan |
| untouched | (adjective) not having come in contact | - |
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| (adjective) emotionally unmoved | Synonyms: unaffected, unmoved |
| (adjective) still full | Synonyms: untasted |
| (adjective) not influenced or affected | Synonyms: uninfluenced, unswayed |
| vouch | (verb) give supporting evidence | - |
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| (verb) summon (a vouchee) into court to warrant or defend a title | - |
| (verb) give personal assurance; guarantee | - |
| (verb) give surety or assume responsibility | Synonyms: guarantee |
| vouchee | (noun) (law) a person called into court to defend a title | - |
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| voucher | (noun) a negotiable certificate that can be detached and redeemed as needed | Synonyms: coupon |
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| (noun) a document that serves as evidence of some expenditure | - |
| (noun) someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement | Synonyms: verifier |
| vouchsafe | (verb) grant in a condescending manner | - |
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