| exarch | (noun) a viceroy who governed a large province in the Roman Empire | - |
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| (noun) a bishop in eastern Christendom who holds a place below a patriarch but above a metropolitan | - |
| (noun) a bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox Churches in North America | - |
| eyepatch | (noun) a protective cloth covering for an injured eye | Synonyms: patch |
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| fetch | (noun) the action of fetching | - |
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| (verb) go or come after and bring or take back | Synonyms: bring, convey, get |
| (verb) remove | - |
| (verb) be sold for a certain price | Synonyms: bring, bring in |
| fetich | (noun) excessive or irrational devotion to some activity | Synonyms: fetish |
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| (noun) a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers | Synonyms: fetish, hoodoo, juju, voodoo |
| filch | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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| finch | (noun) any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds | - |
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| fitch | (noun) dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened | Synonyms: foulmart, foumart, Mustela putorius, polecat |
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| flinch | (noun) a reflex response to sudden pain | Synonyms: wince |
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| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
| flitch | (noun) salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork | Synonyms: side of bacon |
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| (noun) fish steak usually cut from a halibut | - |
| frogmarch | (verb) carry someone against his will upside down such that each limb is held by one person | - |
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| (verb) march a person against his will by any method | - |
| glitch | (noun) a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine | Synonyms: bug |
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| (verb) To suffer a minor malfunction | - |
| goldfinch | (noun) small European finch having a crimson face and yellow-and-black wings | Synonyms: Carduelis carduelis |
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| (noun) American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer | Synonyms: New World goldfinch, Spinus tristis, yellowbird |
| grassfinch | (noun) usually brightly-colored Australian weaverbirds; often kept as cage birds | Synonyms: grass finch |
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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 |
| gulch | (noun) a narrow gorge with a stream running through it | Synonyms: flume |
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| haschisch | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: hash, hasheesh, hashish |
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| hatch | (noun) a movable barrier covering a hatchway | - |
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| (noun) a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open | Synonyms: hatchback, hatchback door, liftgate |
| (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatching |
| (noun) the production of young from an egg | Synonyms: hatching |
| (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: brood, cover, incubate |
| (verb) emerge from the eggs | - |
| (verb) draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper | - |
| (verb) devise or invent | Synonyms: concoct, dream up, think of, think up |
| (verb) inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating | - |
| haunch | (noun) the loin and leg of a quadruped | - |
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| (noun) the hip and buttock and upper thigh in human beings | - |
| hawfinch | (noun) a common large finch of Eurasia | Synonyms: Coccothraustes coccothraustes |
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| hemstitch | (noun) embroidery similar to drawnwork | - |
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| (noun) a stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups | Synonyms: hemstitching |
| (verb) sew with hemstitches | - |
| hierarch | (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: archpriest, high priest, prelate, primate |
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| (noun) a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy | - |
| hitch | (noun) the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg | Synonyms: hobble, limp |
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| (noun) a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot | - |
| (noun) a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls | - |
| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
| (noun) an unforeseen obstacle | Synonyms: hang-up, rub, snag |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, stay, stop, stoppage |
| (noun) a period of time spent in military service | Synonyms: duty tour, enlistment, term of enlistment, tour, tour of duty |
| (verb) to hook or entangle | Synonyms: catch |
| (verb) connect to a vehicle: | - |
| (verb) travel by getting free rides from motorists | Synonyms: hitchhike, thumb |
| (verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: gimp, hobble, limp |
| (verb) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched | Synonyms: buck, jerk |
| homestretch | (noun) the straight stretch of a racetrack leading to the finish line | - |
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| (noun) the end of an enterprise | - |
| hooch | (noun) an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor | Synonyms: hootch |
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| hootch | (noun) an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor | Synonyms: hooch |
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| hopscotch | (noun) a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone | - |
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| horseleech | (noun) any of several large freshwater leeches | - |
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| hotchpotch | (noun) a stew (or thick soup) made with meat and vegetables | - |
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| (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
| 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 |
| hutch | (noun) a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals | - |
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| (noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling | Synonyms: hovel, hut, shack, shanty |
| impeach | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, incriminate |
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| (verb) charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office | - |
| (verb) challenge the honesty or veracity of | - |
| inch | (noun) a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot | Synonyms: in |
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| (noun) a unit of measurement for advertising space | Synonyms: column inch |
| (verb) advance slowly, as if by inches | Synonyms: edge |
| insomuch | (adverb) to such an extent or degree; so | - |
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| interchurch | (adjective) occurring between or among or common to different churches or denominations | Synonyms: interdenominational |
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| intrench | (verb) fix firmly or securely | Synonyms: entrench |
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| isotach | (noun) a line joining points with constant wind speed. | - |
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| itch | (noun) an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch | Synonyms: itchiness, itching |
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| (noun) a strong restless desire | Synonyms: urge |
| (noun) a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation | Synonyms: scabies |
| (verb) have a strong desire or urge to do something | Synonyms: spoil |
| (verb) have or perceive an itch | - |
| (verb) scrape or rub as if to relieve itching | Synonyms: rub, scratch |
| (verb) cause to perceive an itch | - |
| ketch | (noun) a sailing vessel with two masts; the mizzen is forward of the rudderpost | - |
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| kirsch | (noun) from fermented juice of black morello cherries | - |
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| kitsch | (noun) excessively garish or sentimental art; usually considered in bad taste | - |
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| kutch | (noun) tannin extract derived from any of several mangrove barks of Pacific areas | Synonyms: cutch |
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| kvetch | (noun) (Yiddish) a nagging complaint | - |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a constant complainer | - |
| (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, plain, quetch, sound off |
| lamellibranch | (adjective) bivalve | Synonyms: pelecypod, pelecypodous |
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| (noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: bivalve, pelecypod |
| larch | (noun) any of numerous conifers of the genus Larix all having deciduous needlelike leaves | Synonyms: larch tree |
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| (noun) wood of a larch tree | - |
| latch | (noun) catch for fastening a door or gate; a bar that can be lowered or slid into a groove | - |
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| (noun) spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key | Synonyms: door latch |
| (verb) fasten with a latch | - |
| 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 |
| leach | (noun) the process of leaching | Synonyms: leaching |
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| (verb) remove substances from by a percolating liquid | Synonyms: strip |
| (verb) permeate or penetrate gradually | Synonyms: percolate |
| (verb) cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate | - |
| lech | (noun) man with strong sexual desires | Synonyms: lecher, letch, satyr |
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| leech | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: bloodsucker, hirudinean |
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| (noun) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage | Synonyms: parasite, sponge, sponger |
| (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, phlebotomise, phlebotomize |
| letch | (noun) man with strong sexual desires | Synonyms: lech, lecher, satyr |
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| liebfraumilch | (noun) a sweetened Rhenish wine (especially one from Hesse in western Germany) | - |
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| loach | (noun) slender freshwater fishes of Eurasia and Africa resembling catfishes | - |
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| loch | (noun) Scottish word for a lake | - |
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| (noun) a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked) | - |
| lockstitch | (noun) machine stitch in which the top thread interlocks with the bobbin thread | - |
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| logomach | (noun) someone given to disputes over words | Synonyms: logomachist |
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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 | - |
| lurch | (noun) an unsteady uneven gait | Synonyms: stagger, stumble |
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| (noun) the act of moving forward suddenly | Synonyms: lunge |
| (noun) abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance) | Synonyms: pitch, pitching |
| (noun) a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage) | - |
| (verb) defeat by a lurch | Synonyms: skunk |
| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: pitch, shift |
| (verb) move slowly and unsteadily | - |
| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, reel, stagger, swag |
| (verb) loiter about, with no apparent aim | Synonyms: prowl |
| lynch | (verb) kill without legal sanction | - |
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| march | (noun) the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind) | Synonyms: marching |
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| (noun) a steady advance | - |
| (noun) genre of music written for marching | Synonyms: marching music |
| (noun) a procession of people walking together | - |
| (noun) district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area | Synonyms: border district, borderland, marchland |
| (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge |
| (verb) walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride | - |
| (verb) march in a procession | Synonyms: process |
| (verb) walk ostentatiously | Synonyms: exhibit, parade |
| (verb) force to march | - |
| (verb) cause to march or go at a marching pace | - |
| (verb) march in protest; take part in a demonstration | Synonyms: demonstrate |
| match | (noun) lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction | Synonyms: friction match, lucifer |
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| (noun) an exact duplicate | Synonyms: mate |
| (noun) a burning piece of wood or cardboard | - |
| (noun) something that resembles or harmonizes with | - |
| (noun) a formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete | - |
| (noun) a pair of people who live together | Synonyms: couple, mates |
| (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: compeer, equal, peer |
| (noun) a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect | Synonyms: catch |
| (noun) the score needed to win a match | - |
| (verb) be equal or harmonize | - |
| (verb) make correspond or harmonize | Synonyms: fit |
| (verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equal, equalise, equalize, equate |
| (verb) set into opposition or rivalry | Synonyms: oppose, pit, play off |
| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: couple, mate, pair, twin |
| (verb) give or join in marriage | - |
| (verb) provide funds complementary to | - |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, tally |
| (verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: equal, rival, touch |
| matriarch | (noun) a female head of a family or tribe | Synonyms: materfamilias |
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| (noun) a feisty older woman with a big bosom (as drawn in cartoons) | - |
| mensch | (noun) a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics | Synonyms: mensh |
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| midwatch | (noun) a watch during the night (as from midnight to 8 a.m.) | Synonyms: graveyard watch, middle watch, night watch |
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| milch | (adjective) giving milk; bred or suitable primarily for milk production | - |
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| mismatch | (noun) a bad or unsuitable match | - |
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| (verb) match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together | - |
| moloch | (noun) any lizard of the genus Moloch | - |
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| monarch | (noun) large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed | Synonyms: Danaus plexippus, milkweed butterfly, monarch butterfly |
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| (noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, sovereign |
| mooch | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: cadger, moocher, scrounger |
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| (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, cadge, grub, sponge |
| motorcoach | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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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 |
| mulch | (noun) a protective covering of rotting vegetable matter spread to reduce evaporation and soil erosion | - |
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| (verb) cover with mulch | - |
| munch | (noun) a large bite | - |
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| (verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: crunch |
| nauch | (noun) an intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls | Synonyms: nautch, nautch dance |
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| nautch | (noun) an intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls | Synonyms: nauch, nautch dance |
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| nebbech | (noun) (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton | Synonyms: nebbish |
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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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| notch | (noun) a small cut | Synonyms: nick, snick |
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| (noun) a V-shaped or U-shaped indentation carved or scratched into a surface | - |
| (noun) the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks | Synonyms: mountain pass, pass |
| (noun) a V-shaped indentation | - |
| (verb) notch a surface to record something | - |
| (verb) cut or make a notch into | - |
| nudibranch | (noun) any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body | Synonyms: sea slug |
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| nuthatch | (noun) any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects | Synonyms: nutcracker |
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| oldwench | (noun) tropical Atlantic fish | Synonyms: Balistes vetula, Bessy cerca, oldwife, queen triggerfish |
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| oligarch | (noun) one of the rulers in an oligarchy | - |
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| orach | (noun) any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes | Synonyms: orache |
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| ostrich | (noun) fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird | Synonyms: Struthio camelus |
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| (noun) a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand) | - |
| outmarch | (verb) march longer distances and for a longer time than | - |
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| outmatch | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpass |
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| outreach | (noun) the act of reaching out | - |
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| overarch | (verb) form an arch over | Synonyms: arch over |
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| (verb) be central or dominant | - |
| 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 |
| overreach | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit |
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| (verb) fail by aiming too high or trying too hard | - |
| overstretch | (verb) strain abnormally | Synonyms: pull |
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| overwatch | (noun) surveillence by a unit within a video game which would cause the unit to make an action in response to an enemy unit's action | - |
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| parch | (verb) cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat | Synonyms: sear |
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| patch | (noun) a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole | - |
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| (noun) sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment) | Synonyms: darn, mend |
| (noun) a protective cloth covering for an injured eye | Synonyms: eyepatch |
| (noun) a connection intended to be used for a limited time | Synonyms: temporary hookup |
| (noun) a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body | Synonyms: bandage |
| (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: dapple, fleck, maculation, speckle, spot |
| (noun) a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program | - |
| (noun) a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation | Synonyms: plot, plot of ground, plot of land |
| (noun) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition | Synonyms: piece, spell, while |
| (verb) mend by putting a patch on | Synonyms: patch up |
| (verb) repair by adding pieces | Synonyms: piece |
| (verb) to join or unite the pieces of | Synonyms: piece |
| (verb) provide with a patch; also used metaphorically | - |
| patriarch | (noun) the male head of family or tribe | Synonyms: paterfamilias |
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| (noun) any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race | - |
| (noun) title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem) | - |
| (noun) a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself | - |
| paunch | (noun) a protruding abdomen | Synonyms: belly |
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| peach | (noun) a shade of pink tinged with yellow | Synonyms: apricot, salmon pink, yellowish pink |
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| (noun) downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh | - |
| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
| (noun) cultivated in temperate regions | Synonyms: peach tree, Prunus persica |
| (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
| perch | (noun) spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes | - |
| (noun) support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird) | - |
| (noun) any of numerous fishes of America and Europe | - |
| (noun) an elevated place serving as a seat | - |
| (noun) a linear measure of 16.5 feet | Synonyms: pole, rod |
| (noun) a square rod of land | Synonyms: pole, rod |
| (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: rest, roost |
| (verb) cause to perch or sit | - |
| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: alight, light |
| pibroch | (noun) martial music with variations; to be played by bagpipes | - |
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| pinch | (noun) a squeeze with the fingers | Synonyms: tweak |
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| (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, taking into custody |
| (noun) a small sharp bite or snip | Synonyms: nip |
| (noun) a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action | Synonyms: emergency, exigency |
| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch |
| (noun) an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed | - |
| (noun) a painful or straitened circumstance | - |
| (verb) irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear | Synonyms: vellicate |
| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch |
| (verb) make ridges into by pinching together | Synonyms: crimp |
| (verb) cut the top off | Synonyms: top |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |