| brunch | (noun) combination of breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning | - |
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| (verb) eat a meal in the late morning | - |
| bunch | (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: clump, cluster, clustering |
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| (noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: crew, crowd, gang |
| (noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: caboodle, lot |
| (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bundle, clump, cluster |
| (verb) form into a bunch | Synonyms: bunch together, bunch up |
| bunchberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: Cornus canadensis, crackerberry, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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| bunchgrass | (noun) any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of western United States | Synonyms: bunch grass |
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| bunchy | (adjective) occurring close together in bunches or clusters | - |
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| buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
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| clunch | (noun) stiff clay | - |
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| counterpunch | (noun) a return punch (especially by a boxer) | Synonyms: counter, parry |
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| cowpuncher | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpoke, puncher |
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| craunch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, crunch, grind |
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| crunch | (noun) the act of crushing | Synonyms: compaction, crush |
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| (noun) the sound of something crunching | - |
| (noun) a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources) | - |
| (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, grind, mash |
| (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, scranch, scraunch |
| (verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: munch |
| (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, craunch, grind |
| haunch | (noun) the loin and leg of a quadruped | - |
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| (noun) the hip and buttock and upper thigh in human beings | - |
| hauncher | (noun) a machine for making shaped cuts in the end or along the edge of a board. | Synonyms: haunching machine |
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| hunch | (noun) the act of bending yourself into a humped position | - |
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| (noun) an impression that something might be the case | Synonyms: intuition, suspicion |
| (verb) round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward | Synonyms: hump, hunch forward, hunch over |
| hunchback | (noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: crookback, humpback |
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| (noun) an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column | Synonyms: humpback, kyphosis |
| hunchbacked | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, kyphotic |
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| hunched | (adjective) having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect | Synonyms: crooked, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping |
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| launch | (noun) the act of propelling with force | Synonyms: launching |
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| (noun) a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck | - |
| (verb) begin with vigor | Synonyms: plunge |
| (verb) propel with force | - |
| (verb) launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage | - |
| (verb) get going; give impetus to | Synonyms: set in motion |
| (verb) smoothen the surface of | - |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: establish, found, set up |
| launcher | (noun) armament in the form of a device capable of launching a rocket | Synonyms: rocket launcher |
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| (noun) a device that launches aircraft from a warship | Synonyms: catapult |
| launching | (noun) the act of propelling with force | Synonyms: launch |
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| (noun) the act of beginning something new | Synonyms: debut, entry, first appearance, introduction, unveiling |
| (noun) the act of moving a newly built vessel into the water for the first time | - |
| launchpad | (noun) a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched | Synonyms: launch area, launch pad, launching pad, pad |
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| lunch | (noun) a midday meal | Synonyms: dejeuner, luncheon, tiffin |
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| (verb) take the midday meal | - |
| (verb) provide a midday meal for | - |
| luncheon | (noun) a midday meal | Synonyms: dejeuner, lunch, tiffin |
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| luncher | (noun) someone who is eating lunch | - |
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| lunching | (noun) the act of eating lunch | - |
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| lunchroom | (noun) a restaurant (in a facility) where lunch can be purchased | - |
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| lunchtime | (noun) the customary or habitual hour for eating lunch | Synonyms: lunch period |
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| munch | (noun) a large bite | - |
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| (verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: crunch |
| muncher | (noun) a chewer who makes a munching noise | - |
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| paunch | (noun) a protruding abdomen | Synonyms: belly |
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| paunchiness | (noun) the bodily property of a protruding belly | Synonyms: abdominousness |
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| paunchy | (adjective) having a large belly | Synonyms: abdominous, potbellied |
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| punch | (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, clout, lick, poke, slug |
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| (noun) a tool for making holes or indentations | Synonyms: puncher |
| (noun) an iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl | - |
| (verb) deliver a quick blow to | Synonyms: plug |
| (verb) make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation | Synonyms: perforate |
| (verb) drive forcibly as if by a punch | - |
| punchable | (adjective) deserving of being punched | - |
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| punchayet | (noun) a village council in India or southern Pakistan | Synonyms: panchayat, panchayet |
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| punchball | (noun) an inflated ball or bag that is suspended and punched for training in boxing | Synonyms: punch bag, punching bag, punching ball |
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| punchboard | (noun) a small board full of holes; each hole contains a slip of paper with symbols printed on it; a gambler pays a small sum for the privilege of pushing out a slip in the hope of obtaining one that entitles him to a prize | - |
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| puncher | (noun) a tool for making holes or indentations | Synonyms: punch |
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| (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpoke, cowpuncher |
| (noun) someone who delivers punches | - |
| raunch | (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarism, vulgarity |
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| raunchy | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy |
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| (adjective) suggestive of or tending to moral looseness | Synonyms: lewd, obscene, salacious |
| (adjective) earthy and sexually explicit | - |
| runch | (noun) Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits | Synonyms: jointed charlock, Raphanus raphanistrum, wild radish, wild rape |
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| scraunch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scranch |
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| scrunch | (noun) a crunching noise | - |
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| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch up, wrinkle |
| (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch up, squat |
| (verb) make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants | Synonyms: crump, thud |
| staunch | (adjective) firm and dependable especially in loyalty | Synonyms: steadfast, unswerving |
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| (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: halt, stanch, stem |
| staunchly | (adverb) in a staunch manner | Synonyms: stanchly |
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| staunchness | (noun) loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty | Synonyms: steadfastness |
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| sunchoke | (noun) sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips | Synonyms: Jerusalem artichoke |
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| truncheon | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, billystick, nightstick |
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| unchain | (verb) remove the chains from | - |
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| (verb) make free | - |
| unchained | (adjective) not bound by shackles and chains | Synonyms: unfettered, unshackled, untied |
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| unchallengeable | (adjective) not open to challenge | - |
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| unchallenged | (adjective) generally agreed upon; not subject to dispute | Synonyms: undisputed, unquestioned |
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| unchangeability | (noun) the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged | Synonyms: changelessness, unchangeableness, unchangingness |
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| unchangeable | (adjective) not changeable or subject to change | - |
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| unchangeableness | (noun) the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged | Synonyms: changelessness, unchangeability, unchangingness |
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| unchangeably | (adverb) in an unalterable and unchangeable manner | Synonyms: immutably, unalterably, unassailably |
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| unchanged | (adjective) not made or become different | - |
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| (adjective) remaining in an original state | Synonyms: unaltered |
| unchanging | (adjective) conforming to the same principles or course of action over time | - |
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| (adjective) showing little if any change | Synonyms: stable, static |
| unchangingness | (noun) the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged | Synonyms: changelessness, unchangeability, unchangeableness |
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| uncharacteristic | (adjective) distinctive and not typical | - |
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| uncharacteristically | (adverb) in uncharacteristic manner | - |
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| uncharged | (adjective) of a particle or body or system; having no charge | - |
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| uncharitable | (adjective) lacking love and generosity | - |
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| uncharted | (adjective) (of unknown regions) not yet surveyed or investigated | Synonyms: chartless, unmapped |
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| unchartered | (adjective) not chartered | - |
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| unchaste | (adjective) not chaste | - |
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| uncheckable | (adjective) incapable of being checked or restrained | - |
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| unchecked | (adjective) not restrained or controlled | Synonyms: unbridled, uncurbed, ungoverned |
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| uncheerful | (adjective) causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | Synonyms: cheerless, depressing |
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| uncheerfulness | (noun) not conducive to cheer or good spirits | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness | Synonyms: cheerlessness |
| unchewable | (adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: fibrous, sinewy, stringy |
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| unchivalrous | (adjective) offensively discourteous | Synonyms: caddish, ungallant |
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| unchivalrously | (adverb) in an unchivalrous and ungallant manner | - |
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| unchristian | (adjective) not of a Christian faith | - |
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| unchristianly | (adjective) not becoming to or like a Christian | Synonyms: unchristlike |
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| unchristlike | (adjective) not becoming to or like a Christian | Synonyms: unchristianly |
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| unchurch | (verb) exclude from a church or a religious community | Synonyms: curse, excommunicate |
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