| bailiff | (noun) an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc. | - |
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| biff | (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: clout, lick, poke, punch, slug |
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| (verb) strike, usually with the fist | Synonyms: pommel, pummel |
| blastoff | (noun) the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination | Synonyms: shot |
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| bluff | (adjective) very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front | Synonyms: bold, sheer |
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| (adjective) bluntly direct and outspoken but good-natured | - |
| (noun) the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards | Synonyms: four flush |
| (noun) pretense that your position is stronger than it really is | - |
| (noun) a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion) | - |
| (verb) frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is | - |
| (verb) deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand | Synonyms: bluff out |
| breadstuff | (noun) food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked | Synonyms: bread, staff of life |
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| (noun) flour or meal or grain used in baking bread | - |
| buff | (adjective) of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather | - |
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| (noun) an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring) | Synonyms: buffer |
| (noun) a medium to dark tan color | Synonyms: caramel, caramel brown, raw sienna, yellowish brown |
| (noun) bare skin | - |
| (noun) an ardent follower and admirer | Synonyms: devotee, fan, lover |
| (noun) a soft thick undyed leather from the skins of e.g. buffalo or oxen | - |
| (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: burnish, furbish |
| (verb) strike, beat repeatedly | Synonyms: buffet |
| caff | (noun) informal British term for a cafe | - |
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| caitiff | (adjective) despicably mean and cowardly | - |
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| (noun) a cowardly and despicable person | - |
| chaff | (noun) foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure | - |
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| (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble |
| (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, jolly, josh, kid |
| chuff | (verb) blow hard and loudly | Synonyms: huff, puff |
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| cliff | (noun) a steep high face of rock | Synonyms: drop-off, drop |
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| crossruff | (verb) trump alternately in two hands | - |
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| cuff | (noun) the lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg | Synonyms: turnup |
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| (noun) shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs | Synonyms: handcuff, handlock, manacle |
| (verb) hit with the hand | Synonyms: whomp |
| (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: handcuff, manacle |
| (verb) to get involved in a relationship with another person | - |
| cutoff | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: crosscut, shortcut |
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| (noun) a device that terminates the flow in a pipe | - |
| (noun) a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated | - |
| dandruff | (noun) loose scales shed from the scalp | - |
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| (noun) a condition in which white scales of dead skin are shed by the scalp | - |
| distaff | (adjective) characteristic of or peculiar to a woman | Synonyms: female |
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| (noun) the staff on which wool or flax is wound before spinning | - |
| (noun) the sphere of work by women | - |
| doff | (verb) to take off from the body or head | - |
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| draff | (noun) the residue of malt and grain which remains in the mash-kettle after the mashing and lautering process. | Synonyms: brewer's grain, spent grain |
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| duff | (noun) a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron | Synonyms: plum duff |
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| dyestuff | (noun) a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair | Synonyms: dye |
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| earcuff | (noun) a non-pierced earring of varying size (i.e. small wrap or hook big enough to hang over the whole ear and dangle) worn on the rim of the ear. | Synonyms: ear cuff, ear hook earring, ear wrap |
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| earmuff | (noun) either of a pair of ear coverings (usually connected by a headband) that are worn to keep the ears warm in cold weather | - |
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| eff | (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
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| enfeoff | (verb) put in possession of land in exchange for a pledge of service, in feudal society | - |
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| falloff | (noun) a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality | Synonyms: drop-off, falling off, slack, slump |
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| feoff | (noun) a piece of land held under the feudal system | Synonyms: fief |
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| flagstaff | (noun) a tall staff or pole on which a flag is raised | Synonyms: flagpole |
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| fluff | (noun) a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines) | - |
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| (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: bagatelle, frippery, frivolity |
| (noun) any light downy material | - |
| (verb) ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect | Synonyms: tease |
| (verb) erect or fluff up | Synonyms: ruffle |
| (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, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| foodstuff | (noun) (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer | Synonyms: grocery |
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| (noun) a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food | Synonyms: food product |
| gaff | (noun) an iron hook with a handle; used for landing large fish | - |
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| (noun) a spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail | - |
| (noun) a sharp metal spike or spur that is fastened to the leg of a gamecock | - |
| goniff | (noun) (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse) | Synonyms: ganef, ganof, gonif |
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| gruff | (adjective) deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion | Synonyms: hoarse, husky |
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| (adjective) brusque and surly and forbidding | Synonyms: crusty, curmudgeonly, ill-humored, ill-humoured |
| guff | (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: buncombe, bunk, bunkum, hogwash, rot |
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| handcuff | (noun) shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs | Synonyms: cuff, handlock, manacle |
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| (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: cuff, manacle |
| handoff | (noun) (American football) a play in which one player hands the ball to a teammate | - |
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| huff | (noun) a state of irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: miff, seeing red |
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| (verb) blow hard and loudly | Synonyms: chuff, puff |
| (verb) inhale recreational drugs | Synonyms: snort |
| kickoff | (noun) (football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score | - |
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| (noun) a start given to contestants | Synonyms: send-off, start-off |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| knockoff | (noun) an unauthorized copy or imitation | Synonyms: clone |
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| layoff | (noun) the act of laying off an employee or a work force | - |
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| liftoff | (noun) the initial ascent of a rocket from its launching pad | - |
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| luff | (noun) the act of sailing close to the wind | - |
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| (noun) (nautical) the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is next to the mast | - |
| (verb) flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides | - |
| (verb) sail close to the wind | Synonyms: point |
| mastiff | (noun) an old breed of powerful deep-chested smooth-coated dog used chiefly as a watchdog and guard dog | - |
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| midriff | (noun) (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration | Synonyms: diaphragm |
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| (noun) the middle area of the human torso (usually in front) | Synonyms: middle, midsection |
| miff | (noun) a state of irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: huff, seeing red |
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| (verb) cause to be annoyed | - |
| muff | (noun) (sports) dropping the ball | Synonyms: fumble |
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| (noun) a warm tubular covering for the hands | - |
| (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, mishandle, muck up, screw up, spoil |
| (verb) fail to catch, as of a ball | - |
| niff | (noun) an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: pong |
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| off | (adjective) not in operation or operational | - |
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| (adjective) (of events) no longer planned or scheduled | Synonyms: cancelled |
| (adjective) not performing or scheduled for duties | - |
| (adjective) in an unpalatable state | Synonyms: sour, turned |
| (adjective) below a satisfactory level | - |
| (adverb) at a distance in space or time | Synonyms: away |
| (adverb) from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete) | Synonyms: away, forth |
| (adverb) no longer on or in contact or attached | - |
| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, polish off, remove, slay |
| overstuff | (verb) stuff too much | - |
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| payoff | (noun) a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing | Synonyms: reward, wages |
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| (noun) the final payment of a debt | Synonyms: final payment |
| (noun) payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment | Synonyms: bribe |
| (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, proceeds, return, take, takings, yield |
| pikestaff | (noun) the staff of a pike | - |
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| pilaff | (noun) rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes | Synonyms: pilaf, pilau, pilaw |
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| plaintiff | (noun) a person who brings an action in a court of law | Synonyms: complainant |
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| playoff | (noun) any final competition to determine a championship | - |
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| pontiff | (noun) the head of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: Bishop of Rome, Catholic Pope, Holy Father, pope, Roman Catholic Pope, Vicar of Christ |
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| powderpuff | (noun) a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin | Synonyms: puff |
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| puff | (adjective) gathered for protruding fullness | Synonyms: puffed |
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| (noun) a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke) | Synonyms: drag, pull |
| (noun) forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth | Synonyms: blow |
| (noun) bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together | Synonyms: comfort, comforter, quilt |
| (noun) a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin | Synonyms: powderpuff |
| (noun) thick cushion used as a seat | Synonyms: hassock, ottoman, pouf, pouffe |
| (noun) exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes) | - |
| (noun) a light inflated pastry or puff shell | - |
| (noun) a short light gust of air | Synonyms: puff of air, whiff |
| (verb) breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted | Synonyms: gasp, heave, pant |
| (verb) blow hard and loudly | Synonyms: chuff, huff |
| (verb) to swell or cause to enlarge | Synonyms: blow up, puff out, puff up |
| (verb) speak in a blustering or scornful manner | - |
| (verb) praise extravagantly | Synonyms: puff up |
| (verb) suck in or take (air) | Synonyms: drag, draw |
| (verb) smoke and exhale strongly | Synonyms: whiff |
| (verb) make proud or conceited | - |
| putoff | (noun) a pretext for delay or inaction | - |
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| quaff | (noun) a hearty draft | - |
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| (verb) to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught | Synonyms: gulp, swig |
| quarterstaff | (noun) a long stout staff used as a weapon | - |
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| quiff | (noun) a prominent forelock (especially one brushed upward from the forehead) | - |
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| rebuff | (noun) a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) | Synonyms: slight |
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| (noun) an instance of driving away or warding off | Synonyms: repulse, snub |
| (verb) reject outright and bluntly | Synonyms: repel, snub |
| (verb) force or drive back | Synonyms: drive back, fight off, repel, repulse |
| riff | (noun) a jazz ostinato; usually provides a background for a solo improvisation | - |
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| (verb) play riffs | - |
| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, flip, leaf, riffle, thumb |
| riffraff | (noun) disparaging terms for the common people | Synonyms: rabble, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail |
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| ruff | (noun) (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit | Synonyms: trumping |
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| (noun) common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season | Synonyms: Philomachus pugnax |
| (noun) a high tight collar | Synonyms: choker, neck ruff, ruffle |
| (noun) an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal | Synonyms: frill |
| (verb) play a trump | Synonyms: trump |
| runoff | (noun) a final election to resolve an earlier election that did not produce a winner | - |
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| (noun) the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity | Synonyms: overflow, overspill |
| sclaff | (noun) a poor golf stroke in which the club head hits the ground before hitting the ball | - |
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| (verb) strike (a golf ball) such that the ground is scraped first | - |
| (verb) strike (the ground) in making a sclaff | - |
| scoff | (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, jeering, mockery, scoffing |
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| (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, flout, gibe, jeer |
| (verb) treat with contemptuous disregard | Synonyms: flout |
| scruff | (noun) the back side of the neck | Synonyms: nape, nucha |
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| scuff | (noun) the act of scuffing (scraping or dragging the feet) | - |
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| (noun) a slipper that has no fitting around the heel | Synonyms: mule |
| (verb) poke at with the foot or toe | - |
| (verb) mar by scuffing | - |
| (verb) get or become scuffed | - |
| (verb) walk without lifting the feet | Synonyms: drag |
| selloff | (noun) a sale of a relatively large number of assets (stocks or bonds or commodities) at a low price typically done to dispose of them rather than as normal trade | - |
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| setoff | (noun) structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly | Synonyms: offset, set-back |
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| shandygaff | (noun) a drink made of beer and lemonade | Synonyms: shandy |
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| sheriff | (noun) the principal law-enforcement officer in a county | - |
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| skiff | (noun) any of various small boats propelled by oars or by sails or by a motor | - |
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| sniff | (noun) sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose | Synonyms: snuff |
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| (verb) inhale audibly through the nose | Synonyms: sniffle |
| (verb) perceive by inhaling through the nose | Synonyms: whiff |
| snuff | (adjective) snuff colored; of a greyish to yellowish brown | Synonyms: chukker-brown, mummy-brown, snuff-brown |
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| (noun) sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose | Synonyms: sniff |
| (noun) finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose | - |
| (noun) a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time | - |
| (noun) the charred portion of a candlewick | - |
| (verb) inhale (something) through the nose | - |
| (verb) sniff or smell inquiringly | Synonyms: snuffle |
| spiff | (noun) attractiveness in appearance or dress or manner | - |
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| spliff | (noun) marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking | Synonyms: joint, marijuana cigarette, reefer, stick |
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| staff | (noun) a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose | - |
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| (noun) (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written | Synonyms: stave |
| (noun) a rod carried as a symbol | - |
| (noun) the body of teachers and administrators at a school | Synonyms: faculty |
| (noun) personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task | - |
| (noun) building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration | - |
| (verb) provide with staff | - |
| (verb) serve on the staff of | - |
| standoff | (noun) the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand | Synonyms: repulsion |
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| (noun) the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided | Synonyms: draw, tie |
| stiff | (adjective) having a strong physiological or chemical effect | Synonyms: potent, strong |
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| (adjective) rigidly formal | Synonyms: buckram, starchy |
| (adjective) not moving or operating freely | - |
| (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, tight, wet |
| (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steadfast, steady, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering |
| (adjective) strong, vigorous | - |
| (adjective) incapable of or resistant to bending | Synonyms: rigid |
| (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: cadaver, clay, corpse, remains |
| (noun) an ordinary man | - |
| (adverb) in a stiff manner | Synonyms: stiffly |
| (adverb) to a great degree | - |
| stuff | (noun) miscellaneous unspecified objects | - |
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| (noun) unspecified qualities required to do or be something | - |
| (noun) a critically important or characteristic component | - |
| (noun) senseless talk | Synonyms: hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense |
| (noun) information in some unspecified form | - |
| (noun) informal terms for personal possessions | Synonyms: clobber |
| (noun) the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object | Synonyms: material |
| (verb) fill with a stuffing while cooking | Synonyms: farce |
| (verb) fill tightly with a material | - |
| (verb) treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting | - |
| (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out |
| (verb) cram into a cavity | - |
| (verb) obstruct | Synonyms: block, choke up, lug |
| (verb) press or force | Synonyms: shove, squeeze, thrust |
| takeoff | (noun) a departure; especially of airplanes | - |
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| (noun) humorous or satirical mimicry | Synonyms: mockery, parody |
| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, travesty |
| (noun) the initial ascent of an airplane as it becomes airborne | - |
| tariff | (noun) a government tax on imports or exports | Synonyms: duty |
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| (verb) charge a tariff | - |
| teeoff | (noun) the act of hitting a golf ball from the teeing ground at the start of each hole | - |
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| teff | (noun) an African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flour of good quality) as well as for forage and hay | Synonyms: Eragrostic abyssinica, Eragrostis tef, teff grass |
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| tiff | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble |
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| tipstaff | (noun) staff with a metal tip carried as a sign of office by e.g. a bailiff or constable | - |
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| toff | (noun) informal term for an upper-class or wealthy person | Synonyms: nob |
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| tradeoff | (noun) an exchange that occurs as a compromise | Synonyms: trade-off |
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| tuff | (noun) hard volcanic rock composed of compacted volcanic ash | Synonyms: tufa |
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| turnoff | (noun) a side road where you can turn off | - |
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| (noun) something causing antagonism or loss of interest | Synonyms: negative stimulation |
| unstuff | (verb) cause to become unblocked | Synonyms: loosen up |
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| whiff | (noun) a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike | - |
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| (noun) a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil | - |
| (noun) a short light gust of air | Synonyms: puff, puff of air |
| (verb) utter with a puff of air | - |
| (verb) smoke and exhale strongly | Synonyms: puff |
| (verb) strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third | - |
| (verb) drive or carry as if by a puff of air | - |
| (verb) perceive by inhaling through the nose | Synonyms: sniff |
| woodruff | (noun) any plant of the genus Asperula | - |
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| (noun) Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula | Synonyms: Asperula odorata, fragrant bedstraw, Galium odoratum, sweet woodruff, waldmeister |