| abamp | (noun) a unit of current equal to 10 amperes | Synonyms: abampere |
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| afterdamp | (noun) a toxic mixture of gases (including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and nitrogen) after an explosion of firedamp in a mine | - |
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| amp | (noun) the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: A, ampere |
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| blackdamp | (noun) the atmosphere in a mine following an explosion; high in carbon dioxide and incapable of supporting life | Synonyms: chokedamp |
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| blowlamp | (noun) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | Synonyms: blowtorch, torch |
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| camp | (adjective) providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities | Synonyms: campy |
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| (noun) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers | Synonyms: bivouac, cantonment, encampment |
| (noun) temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers | - |
| (noun) a penal institution (often for forced labor) | - |
| (noun) a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months | Synonyms: summer camp |
| (noun) shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs | Synonyms: refugee camp |
| (noun) something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality | - |
| (noun) a group of people living together in a camp | - |
| (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack |
| (verb) give an artificially banal or sexual quality to | - |
| (verb) establish or set up a camp | Synonyms: camp down |
| (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp out, encamp, tent |
| champ | (noun) someone who has won first place in a competition | Synonyms: champion, title-holder |
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| (verb) chew noisily or vigorously | Synonyms: chomp |
| (verb) chafe at the bit, like horses | - |
| chokedamp | (noun) the atmosphere in a mine following an explosion; high in carbon dioxide and incapable of supporting life | Synonyms: blackdamp |
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| clamp | (noun) a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together | Synonyms: clinch |
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| (verb) impose or inflict forcefully | - |
| (verb) fasten or fix with a clamp | - |
| cramp | (noun) a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together | Synonyms: cramp iron |
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| (noun) a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued | - |
| (noun) a painful and involuntary muscular contraction | Synonyms: muscle spasm, spasm |
| (verb) suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle | - |
| (verb) affect with or as if with a cramp | - |
| (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: halter, hamper, strangle |
| (verb) secure with a cramp | - |
| damp | (adjective) slightly wet | Synonyms: dampish, moist |
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| (noun) a slight wetness | Synonyms: dampness, moistness |
| (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, dampen, soften, weaken |
| (verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: dampen, deaden |
| (verb) restrain or discourage | - |
| (verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: dampen, dull, muffle, mute, tone down |
| decamp | (verb) leave suddenly | Synonyms: skip, vamoose |
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| (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, absquatulate, bolt, go off, make off, run off |
| (verb) leave a camp | Synonyms: break camp |
| encamp | (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, camp out, tent |
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| firedamp | (noun) a mixture of gases (mostly methane) that form in coal mines and become explosive when mixed with air | - |
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| foglamp | (noun) headlight that provides strong beam for use in foggy weather | - |
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| gamp | (noun) colloquial terms for an umbrella | Synonyms: brolly |
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| handstamp | (noun) a stamp (usually made of rubber) for imprinting a mark or design by hand | Synonyms: rubber stamp |
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| (verb) stamp with a rubber stamp, usually an indication of official approval on a document | Synonyms: rubberstamp |
| headlamp | (noun) a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive | Synonyms: headlight |
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| lamp | (noun) an artificial source of visible illumination | - |
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| (noun) a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs | - |
| ramp | (noun) an inclined surface connecting two levels | Synonyms: incline |
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| (noun) a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft | - |
| (noun) North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers | Synonyms: Allium tricoccum, wild leek |
| (verb) stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing | - |
| (verb) creep up -- used especially of plants | - |
| (verb) be rampant | - |
| (verb) furnish with a ramp | - |
| (verb) behave violently, as if in state of a great anger | Synonyms: rage, storm |
| revamp | (verb) to patch up or renovate; repair or restore | - |
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| (verb) provide (a shoe) with a new vamp | Synonyms: vamp |
| rubberstamp | (verb) approve automatically | - |
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| (verb) stamp with a rubber stamp, usually an indication of official approval on a document | Synonyms: handstamp |
| scamp | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag |
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| (verb) perform hastily and carelessly | - |
| stamp | (noun) a device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents | Synonyms: seal |
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| (noun) a block or die used to imprint a mark or design | - |
| (noun) machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores | Synonyms: pestle |
| (noun) a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving | Synonyms: impression |
| (noun) a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that postal fees have been paid | Synonyms: postage, postage stamp |
| (noun) a small piece of adhesive paper that is put on an object to show that a government tax has been paid | Synonyms: revenue stamp |
| (noun) a type or class | - |
| (noun) something that can be used as an official medium of payment | Synonyms: legal tender, tender |
| (noun) the distinctive form in which a thing is made | Synonyms: cast, mold, mould |
| (verb) destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot | - |
| (verb) treat or classify according to a mental stereotype | Synonyms: pigeonhole, stereotype |
| (verb) to mark, or produce an imprint in or on something | - |
| (verb) affix a stamp to | - |
| (verb) raise in a relief | Synonyms: boss, emboss |
| (verb) crush or grind with a heavy instrument | - |
| (verb) form or cut out with a mold, form, or die | - |
| (verb) walk heavily | Synonyms: stomp, stump |
| (verb) reveal clearly as having a certain character | - |
| sunlamp | (noun) a mercury-vapor lamp used in medical or cosmetic treatments | Synonyms: sun-ray lamp, sun lamp, sunray lamp |
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| swamp | (noun) low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog | Synonyms: swampland |
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| (noun) a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables | - |
| (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundate |
| (verb) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged | Synonyms: drench |
| tamp | (noun) a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) | Synonyms: tamper, tamping bar |
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| (verb) press down tightly | Synonyms: pack, tamp down |
| tramp | (noun) a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure | Synonyms: hike, hiking |
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| (noun) a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule | Synonyms: tramp steamer |
| (noun) a heavy footfall | - |
| (noun) a vagrant | Synonyms: bum, hobo |
| (noun) a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex | Synonyms: swinger |
| (noun) a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure) | Synonyms: hiker, tramper |
| (verb) travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition | - |
| (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: footslog, pad, plod, slog, trudge |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) cross on foot | - |
| vamp | (noun) piece of leather forming the front part of the upper of a shoe | - |
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| (noun) an improvised musical accompaniment | - |
| (noun) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men | Synonyms: coquette, flirt, minx, prickteaser, tease, vamper |
| (verb) provide (a shoe) with a new vamp | Synonyms: revamp |
| (verb) act seductively with (someone) | - |
| (verb) piece (something old) with a new part | Synonyms: vamp up |
| (verb) make up | Synonyms: vamp up |