| accelerando | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in tempo | - |
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| (noun) a gradually increasing tempo of music | - |
| (adverb) with increasing speed | - |
| ado | (noun) a rapid active commotion | Synonyms: bustle, flurry, fuss, hustle, stir |
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| aficionado | (noun) a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer | - |
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| (noun) a fan of bull fighting | - |
| aikido | (noun) a Japanese martial art employing principles similar to judo | - |
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| albedo | (noun) the ratio of reflected to incident light | Synonyms: reflective power |
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| allargando | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo and broadening in manner | - |
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| avocado | (adjective) of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado | - |
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| (noun) a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed | Synonyms: aguacate, alligator pear, avocado pear |
| (noun) tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits | Synonyms: avocado tree, Persea Americana |
| azido | (adjective) relating to or containing the azido group N3 | - |
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| barricado | (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricade |
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| bastinado | (noun) a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels | Synonyms: falanga |
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| (noun) a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet | - |
| (verb) beat somebody on the soles of the feet | - |
| bravado | (noun) a swaggering show of courage | Synonyms: bluster |
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| calando | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo and volume | - |
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| carbonado | (noun) a piece of meat (or fish) that has been scored and broiled | - |
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| (noun) an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing | Synonyms: black diamond |
| comedo | (noun) a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin | Synonyms: blackhead |
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| commando | (noun) an amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory | - |
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| (noun) a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids | Synonyms: ranger |
| condo | (noun) one of the dwelling units in a condominium | Synonyms: condominium |
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| credo | (noun) any system of principles or beliefs | Synonyms: creed |
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| crescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in volume | - |
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| (noun) (music) a gradual increase in loudness | - |
| (verb) grow louder | - |
| dado | (noun) panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall | Synonyms: wainscot |
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| (noun) a rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece can fit into it | - |
| (noun) the section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase | - |
| (verb) cut a dado into or fit into a dado | - |
| (verb) provide with a dado | - |
| decrescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: diminuendo |
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| (noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: diminuendo |
| (verb) grow quieter | - |
| desperado | (noun) a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier) | Synonyms: desperate criminal |
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| dildo | (noun) a vibrating device that substitutes for an erect penis to provide vaginal stimulation | - |
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| diminuendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: decrescendo |
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| (noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: decrescendo |
| do | (noun) an uproarious party | Synonyms: bash, brawl |
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| (noun) the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization | Synonyms: doh, ut |
| (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffe, coiffure, dress, set |
| (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport |
| (verb) create or design, often in a certain way | Synonyms: make |
| (verb) carry out or perform an action | Synonyms: execute, perform |
| (verb) give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally | Synonyms: cause, make |
| (verb) travel or traverse (a distance) | - |
| (verb) engage in | Synonyms: make |
| (verb) carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions | Synonyms: exercise, practice, practise |
| (verb) carry on or function | Synonyms: manage |
| (verb) get (something) done | Synonyms: perform |
| (verb) proceed or get along | Synonyms: come, fare, get along, make out |
| (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: answer, serve, suffice |
| (verb) spend time in prison or in a labor camp | Synonyms: serve |
| dodo | (noun) extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons | Synonyms: Raphus cucullatus |
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| (noun) someone whose style is out of fashion | Synonyms: fogey, fogy, fossil |
| eddo | (noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants | Synonyms: cocoyam, dasheen, taro |
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| eldorado | (noun) an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers | Synonyms: El Dorado |
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| escudo | (noun) the basic unit of money on Cape Verde; equal to 100 centavos | Synonyms: Cape Verde escudo |
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| (noun) formerly the basic monetary unit of Portugal; equal to 100 centavo | Synonyms: Portuguese escudo |
| fado | (noun) a sad Portuguese folksong | - |
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| glissando | (noun) a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale | - |
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| (adverb) (musical direction) in the manner of a glissando (with a rapidly executed series of notes) | - |
| hairdo | (noun) the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) | Synonyms: coif, coiffure, hair style, hairstyle |
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| incommunicado | (adjective) without the means or right to communicate | - |
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| innuendo | (noun) an indirect (and usually malicious) implication | Synonyms: insinuation |
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| judo | (noun) a sport adapted from jujitsu (using principles of not resisting) and similar to wrestling; developed in Japan | - |
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| libido | (noun) (psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire | - |
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| lido | (noun) a recreational facility including a swimming pool for water sports | - |
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| livedo | (noun) skin disorder characterized by patchy bluish discolorations on the skin | - |
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| ludo | (noun) a simple board game in which players move counters according to the throw of dice | - |
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| mikado | (noun) the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader the emperor is called tenno | Synonyms: tenno |
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| misdo | (verb) do wrongly or improperly | - |
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| nardo | (noun) Australian clover fern | Synonyms: common nardoo, Marsilea drummondii, nardoo |
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| outdo | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpass |
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| (verb) get the better of | Synonyms: best, outflank, scoop, trump |
| overdo | (verb) do something to an excessive degree | Synonyms: exaggerate |
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| passado | (noun) (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward | Synonyms: lunge, straight thrust |
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| peludo | (noun) Argentine armadillo with six movable bands and hairy underparts | Synonyms: Euphractus sexcinctus, poyou |
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| pintado | (noun) large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters | Synonyms: cero, kingfish, Scomberomorus regalis |
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| pseudo | (adjective) (often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of | - |
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| (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, role player, sham, shammer |
| rallentando | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo | Synonyms: rit., ritardando, ritenuto |
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| (adverb) slowing down | - |
| redo | (verb) do over, as of (part of) a house | Synonyms: reconstruct, remodel |
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| (verb) make new | Synonyms: make over, refashion, remake |
| ritardando | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo | Synonyms: rallentando, rit., ritenuto |
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| rondo | (noun) a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata | Synonyms: rondeau |
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| secondo | (noun) the second or lower part of a duet (especially a piano duet) | - |
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| sforzando | (noun) (music) a notation written above a note and indicating that it is to be played with a strong initial attack | - |
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| (noun) an accented chord | - |
| strapado | (noun) a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope | Synonyms: strappado |
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| strappado | (noun) a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope | Synonyms: strapado |
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| taekwondo | (noun) a Korean martial art similar to karate | Synonyms: tae kwon do |
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| tamarindo | (noun) large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys | Synonyms: tamarind |
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| (noun) long-lived tropical evergreen tree with a spreading crown and feathery evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers yielding hard yellowish wood and long pods with edible chocolate-colored acidic pulp | Synonyms: tamarind, tamarind tree, Tamarindus indica |
| teredo | (noun) typical shipworm | - |
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| testudo | (noun) a movable protective covering that provided protection from above; used by Roman troops when approaching the walls of a besieged fortification | - |
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| tornado | (noun) a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive | Synonyms: crack, crack cocaine |
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| (noun) a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground | Synonyms: twister |
| torpedo | (noun) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | Synonyms: crampfish, electric ray, numbfish |
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| (noun) armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target | - |
| (noun) a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track and fires when a train runs over it; the sound of the explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead | - |
| (noun) a small firework that consists of a percussion cap and some gravel wrapped in paper; explodes when thrown forcefully against a hard surface | - |
| (noun) an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas) | - |
| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, wedge, zep |
| (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, triggerman |
| (verb) attack or hit with torpedoes | - |
| tuxedo | (noun) semiformal evening dress for men | Synonyms: black tie, dinner jacket, tux |
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| undo | (verb) cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect | - |
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| (verb) cause to become loose | Synonyms: loosen, untie |
| (verb) remove the outer cover or wrapping of | Synonyms: unwrap |
| (verb) deprive of certain characteristics | Synonyms: unmake |
| (verb) cause the ruin or downfall of | - |
| weirdo | (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: creep, spook, weirdie, weirdy |
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| (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, looney, loony, nutcase |