| jimsonweed | (noun) intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits | Synonyms: apple of Peru, common thorn apple, Datura stramonium, Jamestown weed, jimson weed |
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| knapweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Centaurea having purple thistlelike flowers | - |
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| knawe | (noun) widely distributed low-growing Eurasian herb having narrow leaves and inconspicuous green flowers | Synonyms: knawel, Scleranthus annuus |
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| knawel | (noun) widely distributed low-growing Eurasian herb having narrow leaves and inconspicuous green flowers | Synonyms: knawe, Scleranthus annuus |
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| knitwear | (noun) knitted clothing | - |
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| knower | (noun) a person who knows or apprehends | Synonyms: apprehender |
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| kweek | (noun) trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India | Synonyms: Bahama grass, Bermuda grass, Cynodon dactylon, devil grass, doob, scutch grass, star grass |
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| kwela | (noun) a kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans; includes a whistle among its instruments | - |
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| lechwe | (noun) tawny-colored African antelope inhabiting wet grassy plains; a threatened species | Synonyms: Kobus leche |
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| lightweight | (adjective) weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use | - |
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| (adjective) having no importance or influence | - |
| (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division. | - |
| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds | - |
| (noun) someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous | Synonyms: jackanapes, whippersnapper |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds | - |
| locoweed | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
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| (noun) any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock | Synonyms: crazy weed, crazyweed |
| loungewear | (noun) clothing suitable for relaxation | - |
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| lowbrowed | (adjective) characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes | Synonyms: lowbrow, uncultivated |
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| lower | (adjective) the bottom one of two | - |
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| (noun) the lower of two berths | Synonyms: lower berth |
| (verb) make lower or quieter | Synonyms: lour, turn down |
| (verb) set lower | Synonyms: lour |
| (verb) cause to drop or sink | Synonyms: depress |
| (verb) move something or somebody to a lower position | Synonyms: bring down, get down, let down, take down |
| (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, glower, lour |
| lowercase | (adjective) relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case | - |
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| (noun) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case | Synonyms: lower-case letter, minuscule, small letter |
| lowerclassman | (noun) an undergraduate who is not yet a senior | Synonyms: underclassman |
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| lowered | (adjective) below the surround or below the normal position | - |
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| lowering | (adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: heavy, sullen, threatening |
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| (noun) the act of causing to become less | - |
| (noun) the act of causing something to move to a lower level | Synonyms: letting down |
| loweringly | (adverb) in a menacing or scowling way | - |
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| lowermost | (adjective) farthest down | Synonyms: bottommost, nethermost |
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| lowest | (adjective) lowest in rank or importance | Synonyms: last-place, last |
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| (adverb) in the lowest position; nearest the ground | - |
| lwei | (noun) 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza in Angola until 1990 | - |
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| lyreflower | (noun) garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers | Synonyms: bleeding heart, Dicentra spectabilis, lyre-flower |
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| makeweight | (noun) a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight | - |
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| (noun) anything added to fill out a whole | Synonyms: filler |
| manpower | (noun) the force of workers available | Synonyms: hands, men, work force, workforce |
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| markweed | (noun) climbing plant common in eastern and central United States with ternate leaves and greenish flowers followed by white berries; yields an irritating oil that causes a rash on contact | Synonyms: poison ivy, poison mercury, poison oak, Rhus radicans, Toxicodendron radicans |
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| matchweed | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches | Synonyms: matchbush |
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| maxwell | (noun) a cgs unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicular to an area of 1 square centimeter in a magnetic field of 1 gauss | Synonyms: Mx |
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| mayflower | (noun) low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers | Synonyms: Epigaea repens, trailing arbutus |
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| mayweed | (noun) widespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower heads with yellow discs | Synonyms: Anthemis cotula, dog fennel, stinking chamomile, stinking mayweed |
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| mellowed | (adjective) having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging | Synonyms: mellow |
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| (adjective) softened through age or experience | Synonyms: mellow |
| microbrewery | (noun) a small brewery; consumption of the product is mainly elsewhere | - |
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| middleweight | (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 155 and 160 pounds | - |
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| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 172-192 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds | - |
| midweek | (noun) the middle of a week | - |
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| (adverb) in the middle of the week | - |
| midweekly | (adjective) occurring during the middle of the week | - |
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| midwestern | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and sometimes Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota | - |
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| milkweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts | Synonyms: silkweed |
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| (noun) annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads | Synonyms: Sonchus oleraceus |
| minesweeper | (noun) ship equipped to detect and then destroy or neutralize or remove marine mines | - |
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| minesweeping | (noun) the activity of detecting and disposing of marine mines | - |
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| mistflower | (noun) rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern United States and West Indies having large showy heads of clear blue flowers; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium | Synonyms: ageratum, Conoclinium coelestinum, Eupatorium coelestinum, mist-flower |
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| moonflower | (noun) pantropical climber having white fragrant nocturnal flowers | Synonyms: belle de nuit, Ipomoea alba |
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| mower | (noun) garden tool for mowing grass on lawns | Synonyms: lawn mower |
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| narrowed | (adjective) made narrow; limited in breadth | - |
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| (adjective) reduced in size as by squeezing together | - |
| neckwear | (noun) articles of clothing worn about the neck | - |
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| newel | (noun) the central pillar of a circular staircase | - |
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| (noun) the post at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs; it supports the handrail | Synonyms: newel post |
| newlywed | (noun) someone recently married | Synonyms: honeymooner |
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| ngwee | (noun) 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha in Zambia | - |
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| nightwear | (noun) garments designed to be worn in bed | Synonyms: nightclothes, sleepwear |
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| nitweed | (noun) annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Hypericum gentianoides, orange grass, pine-weed, pineweed |
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| nonflowering | (adjective) without flower or bloom and not producing seeds | Synonyms: flowerless |
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| nonsweet | (adjective) not containing sugar | Synonyms: sugarless |
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| northwest | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northwest | Synonyms: northwesterly, northwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the northwest | Synonyms: northwesterly |
| (noun) a location in the northwestern part of a country, region, or city | - |
| (noun) the compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees | Synonyms: nor'-west, northwestward, NW |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the northwestward compass point | - |
| (adverb) to, toward, or in the northwest | Synonyms: nor'-west, north-west |
| northwester | (noun) a wind from the northwest | Synonyms: northwest wind |
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| northwesterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northwest | Synonyms: northwest, northwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the northwest | Synonyms: northwest |
| northwestern | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northwest | Synonyms: northwest, northwesterly |
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| (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and sometimes Montana, Wyoming | - |
| northwestward | (adjective) toward the northwest | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees | Synonyms: nor'-west, northwest, NW |
| (adverb) in a northwestward direction | Synonyms: northwestwardly |
| northwestwardly | (adverb) in a northwestward direction | Synonyms: northwestward |
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| oldwench | (noun) tropical Atlantic fish | Synonyms: Balistes vetula, Bessy cerca, oldwife, queen triggerfish |
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| outerwear | (noun) clothing for use outdoors | Synonyms: overclothes |
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| outlawed | (adjective) contrary to or forbidden by law | Synonyms: illegitimate, illicit, outlaw, unlawful |
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| outwear | (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
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| (verb) last longer than others | - |
| outweigh | (verb) be heavier than | - |
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| (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, overbalance, preponderate |
| overawe | (verb) subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats) | Synonyms: cow |
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| overawed | (adjective) overcome by a feeling of awe | - |
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| overpower | (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overmaster, overwhelm |
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| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
| overpowering | (adjective) so strong as to be irresistible | Synonyms: overwhelming |
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| overpoweringly | (adverb) incapable of being resisted | Synonyms: irresistibly, overwhelmingly |
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| overweary | (verb) tire excessively | Synonyms: overfatigue, overtire |
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| overweening | (adjective) presumptuously arrogant | Synonyms: uppity |
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| (adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: excessive, extravagant, exuberant |
| overweight | (adjective) usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it | Synonyms: fleshy, heavy |
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| (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, corpulence, stoutness |
| owe | (verb) be in debt | - |
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| (verb) be obliged to pay or repay | - |
| (verb) be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense | - |
| paperweight | (noun) a weight used to hold down a stack of papers | - |
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| pasqueflower | (noun) any plant of the genus Pulsatilla; sometimes included in genus Anemone | Synonyms: pasque flower |
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| passionflower | (noun) any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit | Synonyms: passionflower vine |
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| pawer | (noun) a person who handles or caresses in a clumsy or overfamiliar manner | - |
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| pearlweed | (noun) any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls | Synonyms: pearl-weed, pearlwort |
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| peewee | (noun) small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America | Synonyms: Contopus virens, peewit, pewee, pewit, wood pewee |
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| (noun) disparaging terms for small people | Synonyms: half-pint, runt, shrimp |
| pennyweight | (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains | - |
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| pewee | (noun) small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America | Synonyms: Contopus virens, peewee, peewit, pewit, wood pewee |
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| pickerelweed | (noun) American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds | Synonyms: pickerel weed, Pontederia cordata, wampee |
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| pigweed | (noun) leaves collected from the wild | Synonyms: lamb's-quarter, wild spinach |
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| (noun) common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb | Synonyms: Chenopodium album, lamb's-quarters, wild spinach |
| (noun) leaves sometimes used as potherbs; seeds used as cereal; southern United States to Central America; India and China | Synonyms: Amaranthus hypochondriacus |
| pineweed | (noun) annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Hypericum gentianoides, nitweed, orange grass, pine-weed |
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| plowed | (adjective) (of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow | Synonyms: ploughed |
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| plower | (noun) a man who plows | Synonyms: ploughman, plowman |
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| pokeweed | (noun) perennial of the genus Phytolacca | - |
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| pondweed | (noun) any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae | - |
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| (noun) submerged freshwater perennials | Synonyms: ditchmoss, Elodea, genus Elodea |
| power | (noun) possession of controlling influence | Synonyms: powerfulness |
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| (noun) physical strength | Synonyms: might, mightiness |
| (noun) possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done | Synonyms: ability |
| (noun) a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself | Synonyms: exponent, index |
| (noun) a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world | Synonyms: great power, major power, superpower, world power |
| (noun) one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority | Synonyms: force |
| (noun) a very wealthy or powerful businessman | Synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, top executive, tycoon |
| (noun) (physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second) | - |
| (noun) energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor | Synonyms: electrical energy, electricity |
| (noun) (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power | Synonyms: office |
| (verb) supply the force or power for the functioning of | - |
| powerboat | (noun) a boat propelled by an internal-combustion engine | Synonyms: motorboat |
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| powerbroker | (noun) a person who is important by virtue of the people or votes they control | Synonyms: power broker |
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| powered | (adjective) (often used in combination) having or using or propelled by means of power or power of a specified kind | - |
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| powerful | (adjective) having great power or force or potency or effect | - |
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| (adjective) having great influence | Synonyms: potent |
| (adjective) displaying superhuman strength or power | Synonyms: herculean |
| (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: brawny, hefty, muscular, sinewy |
| (adjective) strong enough to knock down or overwhelm | Synonyms: knock-down |
| (adverb) (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree | Synonyms: mightily, mighty, right |
| powerfully | (adverb) in a manner having a powerful influence | Synonyms: potently |
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| (adverb) in a powerful manner | Synonyms: strongly |
| powerfulness | (noun) possession of controlling influence | Synonyms: power |
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| powerhouse | (noun) an electrical generating station | Synonyms: power plant, power station |
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| (noun) a team considered to be the best of its class | - |
| (noun) a highly energetic and indefatigable person | Synonyms: ball of fire, fireball, human dynamo |
| powerless | (adjective) lacking power | - |
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| powerlessly | (adverb) in a powerless manner | - |
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| powerlessness | (noun) the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble | Synonyms: impotence, impotency |
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| powerwash | (verb) wash before painting to remove old paint and mildew | Synonyms: pressure-wash |
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| prowess | (noun) a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation | Synonyms: art, artistry |
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| rabbitweed | (noun) low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads | Synonyms: broom snakeroot, broom snakeweed, Gutierrezia sarothrae, rabbit-weed, snakeweed, turpentine weed |
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