| addle | (verb) become rotten | - |
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| (verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: muddle, puddle |
| astraddle | (adverb) with one leg on each side | Synonyms: astride |
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| beadle | (noun) a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function | - |
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| befuddle | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) make stupid with alcohol | Synonyms: fuddle |
| boodle | (noun) a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card | Synonyms: Chicago, Michigan, Newmarket, stops |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| bridle | (noun) the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess | Synonyms: check, curb |
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| (noun) headgear for a horse; includes a headstall and bit and reins to give the rider or driver control | - |
| (verb) respond to the reins, as of horses | - |
| (verb) put a bridle on | - |
| (verb) anger or take offense | - |
| brindle | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindled, tabby |
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| bundle | (noun) a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing | Synonyms: sheaf |
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| (noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together | Synonyms: package, packet, parcel |
| (noun) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) | Synonyms: big bucks, big money, megabucks, pile |
| (verb) sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed | Synonyms: practice bundling |
| (verb) make into a bundle | Synonyms: bundle up, roll up |
| (verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: compact, pack, wad |
| (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, clump, cluster |
| caboodle | (noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: bunch, lot |
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| candle | (noun) stick of wax with a wick in the middle | Synonyms: taper, wax light |
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| (noun) the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin | Synonyms: candela, cd, standard candle |
| (verb) examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light | - |
| canoodle | (verb) fondle or pet affectionately | - |
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| coddle | (verb) cook in nearly boiling water | - |
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| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| cradle | (noun) a baby bed with sides and rockers | - |
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| (noun) a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold | Synonyms: rocker |
| (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, place of origin, provenance, provenience |
| (noun) birth of a person | - |
| (verb) run with the stick | - |
| (verb) hold gently and carefully | - |
| (verb) wash in a cradle | - |
| (verb) cut grain with a cradle scythe | - |
| (verb) hold or place in or as if in a cradle | - |
| (verb) bring up from infancy | - |
| cuddle | (noun) a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace | Synonyms: nestle, snuggle |
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| (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: draw close, nest, nestle, nuzzle, snuggle |
| (verb) hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth | - |
| curdle | (verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clabber, clot |
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| (verb) turn from a liquid to a solid mass | - |
| (verb) go bad or sour | - |
| dandle | (verb) pet | - |
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| (verb) move (a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knees | - |
| dawdle | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly | Synonyms: linger |
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| (verb) hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. | Synonyms: fall back, fall behind, lag |
| (verb) waste time | Synonyms: dally |
| diddle | (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: fiddle, play, toy |
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| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| doddle | (noun) an easy task | - |
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| doodle | (noun) an aimless drawing | Synonyms: scrabble, scribble |
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| (verb) make a doodle; draw aimlessly | - |
| doorhandle | (noun) a knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain) | Synonyms: doorknob |
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| dwindle | (verb) become smaller or lose substance | Synonyms: dwindle away, dwindle down |
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| enkindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
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| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, inflame, kindle |
| fiddle | (noun) bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow | Synonyms: violin |
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| (verb) try to fix or mend | Synonyms: tinker |
| (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, play, toy |
| (verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: monkey, tamper |
| (verb) play the violin or fiddle | - |
| (verb) play on a violin | - |
| (verb) commit fraud and steal from one's employer | - |
| (verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: goldbrick, shirk, shrink from |
| fondle | (verb) touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner | Synonyms: caress |
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| footcandle | (noun) a unit of illuminance on a surface that is everywhere 1 foot from a point source of 1 candle | - |
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| fuddle | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter |
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| (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, throw |
| (verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: booze, drink, hit the bottle |
| (verb) make stupid with alcohol | Synonyms: befuddle |
| girdle | (noun) a woman's close-fitting foundation garment | Synonyms: corset, stays |
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| (noun) a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers | Synonyms: cincture, sash, waistband, waistcloth |
| (noun) an encircling or ringlike structure | - |
| (verb) put a girdle on or around | Synonyms: gird |
| (verb) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients | Synonyms: deaden |
| griddle | (noun) cooking utensil consisting of a flat heated surface (as on top of a stove) on which food is cooked | - |
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| (verb) cook on a griddle | - |
| grindle | (noun) primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America | Synonyms: Amia calva, bowfin, dogfish |
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| handle | (noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: grip, handgrip, hold |
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| (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, deal, plow, treat |
| (verb) touch, lift, or hold with the hands | Synonyms: palm |
| (verb) handle effectively | Synonyms: manage, wield |
| (verb) show and train | - |
| (verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, deal, manage |
| (verb) interact in a certain way | Synonyms: do by, treat |
| huddle | (noun) (informal) a quick private conference | Synonyms: powwow |
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| (noun) a disorganized and densely packed crowd | - |
| (verb) crouch or curl up | Synonyms: cower |
| (verb) crowd or draw together | Synonyms: huddle together |
| hurdle | (noun) the act of jumping over an obstacle | Synonyms: vault |
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| (noun) a light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races | - |
| (noun) an obstacle that you are expected to overcome | - |
| (verb) jump a hurdle | - |
| idle | (adjective) not in action or at work | - |
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| (adjective) silly or trivial | Synonyms: light |
| (adjective) not in active use | Synonyms: unused |
| (adjective) lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility | Synonyms: loose |
| (adjective) not having a job | Synonyms: jobless, out of work |
| (adjective) not yielding a return | Synonyms: dead |
| (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: baseless, groundless, unfounded, unwarranted, wild |
| (noun) the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling | - |
| (verb) run disconnected or idle | Synonyms: tick over |
| (verb) be idle; exist in a changeless situation | Synonyms: laze, slug, stagnate |
| kindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, provoke, raise |
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| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, inflame |
| (verb) catch fire | Synonyms: inflame |
| ladle | (noun) a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another | - |
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| (verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: lade, laden |
| (verb) put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle | - |
| manhandle | (verb) handle roughly | - |
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| meddle | (verb) intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly | Synonyms: tamper |
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| middle | (adjective) between an earlier and a later period of time | - |
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| (adjective) of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages | - |
| (adjective) being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series | Synonyms: in-between, mediate |
| (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: center, centre, halfway, midway |
| (noun) the middle area of the human torso (usually in front) | Synonyms: midriff, midsection |
| (noun) an intermediate part or section | - |
| (noun) an area that is approximately central within some larger region | Synonyms: center, centre, eye, heart |
| (noun) the point between the beginning and the end of a temporal period or process | - |
| (verb) put in the middle | - |
| mishandle | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: misconduct, mismanage |
| mollycoddle | (noun) a pampered darling; an effeminate man | - |
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| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, pamper, spoil |
| muddle | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, smother, welter |
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| (noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, pickle |
| (verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: addle, puddle |
| (verb) make into a puddle | Synonyms: puddle |
| needle | (noun) a sharp pointed implement (usually steel) | - |
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| (noun) a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument | - |
| (noun) a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record | Synonyms: phonograph needle |
| (noun) the leaf of a conifer | Synonyms: acerate leaf |
| (verb) annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism | Synonyms: goad |
| (verb) prick with a needle | - |
| noddle | (noun) an informal British expression for head or mind | - |
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| noodle | (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bean, bonce, dome, noggin |
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| (noun) a ribbonlike strip of pasta | - |
| offsaddle | (verb) remove the saddle from | Synonyms: unsaddle |
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| packsaddle | (noun) a saddle for pack animals to which loads can be attached | - |
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| paddle | (noun) a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat | Synonyms: boat paddle |
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| (noun) an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board | - |
| (noun) a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel | - |
| (noun) small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games | - |
| (verb) stir with a paddle | - |
| (verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: larrup, spank |
| (verb) propel with a paddle | - |
| (verb) swim like a dog in shallow water | - |
| (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, toddle, totter, waddle |
| (verb) play in or as if in water, as of small children | Synonyms: dabble, splash around |
| panhandle | (noun) the handle of a pan | - |
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| (noun) a relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area | - |
| (verb) beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money | - |
| paradiddle | (noun) the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously | Synonyms: drum roll, roll |
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| peddle | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, pitch, vend |
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| piddle | (noun) liquid excretory product | Synonyms: pee, piss, urine, water, weewee |
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| (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle away, trifle, wanton, wanton away |
| poodle | (noun) an intelligent dog with a heavy curly solid-colored coat that is usually clipped; an old breed sometimes trained as sporting dogs or as performing dogs | Synonyms: poodle dog |
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| puddle | (noun) something resembling a pool of liquid | Synonyms: pool |
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| (noun) a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid | Synonyms: pool |
| (noun) a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry | - |
| (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
| (verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: addle, muddle |
| (verb) mess around, as in a liquid or paste | - |
| (verb) make into a puddle | Synonyms: muddle |
| (verb) work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud | - |
| (verb) make a puddle by splashing water | - |
| (verb) dip into mud before planting | - |
| (verb) subject to puddling or form by puddling | - |
| (verb) wade or dabble in a puddle | - |
| raddle | (noun) a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking | Synonyms: reddle, ruddle |
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| (verb) mark or paint with raddle | - |
| (verb) twist or braid together, interlace | Synonyms: ruddle |
| reddle | (noun) a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking | Synonyms: raddle, ruddle |
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| rekindle | (verb) arouse again | - |
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| (verb) kindle anew, as of a fire | - |
| riddle | (noun) a coarse sieve (as for gravel) | - |
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| (noun) a difficult problem | Synonyms: brain-teaser, conundrum, enigma |
| (verb) explain a riddle | - |
| (verb) set a difficult problem or riddle | - |
| (verb) speak in riddles | - |
| (verb) pierce with many holes | - |
| (verb) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff | Synonyms: screen |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade |
| ruddle | (noun) a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking | Synonyms: raddle, reddle |
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| (verb) redden as if with a red ocher color | - |
| (verb) twist or braid together, interlace | Synonyms: raddle |
| rundle | (noun) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder | Synonyms: rung, spoke |
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| saddle | (noun) posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl | - |
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| (noun) a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal | - |
| (noun) a seat for the rider of a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle seat |
| (noun) a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe | - |
| (noun) cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins | - |
| (noun) a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) | Synonyms: saddleback |
| (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: burden, charge |
| (verb) put a saddle on | - |
| (verb) load or burden; encumber | - |
| sidesaddle | (noun) a saddle for a woman; rider sits with both feet on the same side of the horse | - |
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| (adverb) on or as if on a sidesaddle | - |
| sidle | (verb) move sideways | Synonyms: sashay |
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| (verb) move unobtrusively or furtively | - |
| skedaddle | (noun) a hasty flight | - |
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| (verb) run away, as if in a panic | - |
| spindle | (noun) a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning | - |
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| (noun) any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts | Synonyms: arbor, mandrel, mandril |
| (noun) a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc. | - |
| (noun) any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object | Synonyms: spike |
| (noun) (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle | - |
| staddle | (noun) a base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked | - |
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| straddle | (noun) the act of sitting or standing astride | Synonyms: span |
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| (noun) the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options | - |
| (noun) a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars | - |
| (noun) a noncommittal or equivocal position | - |
| (verb) be noncommittal | - |
| (verb) sit or stand astride of | - |
| (verb) range or extend over; occupy a certain area | Synonyms: range |
| swaddle | (verb) wrap in swaddling clothes | Synonyms: swathe |
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| swindle | (noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | Synonyms: cheat, fraud, rig |
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| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, victimize |
| taradiddle | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, tale, tarradiddle |
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| (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
| tarradiddle | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, tale, taradiddle |
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| (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
| toddle | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, totter, waddle |
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| treadle | (noun) a lever that is operated with the foot | Synonyms: foot lever, foot pedal, pedal |
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| (verb) operate (machinery) by a treadle | - |
| (verb) tread over | - |
| trundle | (noun) small wheel or roller | - |
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| (noun) a low bed to be slid under a higher bed | Synonyms: truckle, truckle bed, trundle bed |
| (verb) move heavily | - |
| twaddle | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle |
| tweedle | (verb) entice through the use of music | - |
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| (verb) play negligently on a musical instrument | - |
| (verb) sing in modulation | Synonyms: chirp |
| twiddle | (noun) a series of small (usually idle) twists or turns | - |
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| (verb) manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner | Synonyms: fiddle with |
| (verb) turn in a twisting or spinning motion | Synonyms: swirl, twirl, whirl |
| unbridle | (verb) remove the bridle from (a horse or mule) | - |
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| unsaddle | (verb) remove the saddle from | Synonyms: offsaddle |
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| waddle | (noun) walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other | - |
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| (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, toddle, totter |
| wheedle | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk |
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