| full | (adjective) containing as much or as many as is possible or normal | - |
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| (adjective) (of sound) having marked deepness and body | - |
| (adjective) having the normally expected amount | Synonyms: good |
| (adjective) complete in extent or degree and in every particular | Synonyms: total |
| (adjective) being at a peak or culminating point | Synonyms: broad |
| (adjective) filled to satisfaction with food or drink | Synonyms: replete |
| (adjective) constituting the full quantity or extent; complete | Synonyms: entire, total |
| (adjective) having ample fabric | Synonyms: wide-cut, wide |
| (noun) the time when the Moon is fully illuminated | Synonyms: full-of-the-moon, full moon, full phase of the moon |
| (adverb) to the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; (`full' in this sense is used as a combining form) | Synonyms: fully, to the full |
| (verb) increase in phase | Synonyms: wax |
| (verb) make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering | - |
| (verb) beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening | - |
| gall | (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, impertinence, impudence, insolence |
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| (noun) a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats | Synonyms: bile |
| (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: bitterness, rancor, rancour, resentment |
| (noun) abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury | - |
| (noun) a skin sore caused by chafing | - |
| (noun) an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle | Synonyms: saddle sore |
| (verb) irritate or vex | Synonyms: irk |
| (verb) become or make sore by or as if by rubbing | Synonyms: chafe, fret |
| gildhall | (noun) the meeting place of a medieval guild | - |
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| gill | (noun) respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water | Synonyms: branchia |
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| (noun) any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus | Synonyms: lamella |
| (noun) a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces | - |
| (noun) a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters | - |
| ginmill | (noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: bar, barroom, saloon, taproom |
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| goodwill | (noun) a disposition to kindness and compassion | Synonyms: good will, grace |
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| (noun) the friendly hope that something will succeed | Synonyms: good will |
| (noun) (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets) | Synonyms: good will |
| goofball | (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
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| (noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: buffoon, clown, goof, merry andrew |
| greaseball | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, ginzo, Guinea, wop |
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| grill | (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grille, grillwork |
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| (noun) a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill | Synonyms: grillroom |
| (verb) cook over or under a grill | - |
| (verb) examine thoroughly | - |
| gristmill | (noun) a mill for grinding grain (especially the customer's own grain) | - |
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| gromwell | (noun) European perennial branching plant; occurs in hedgerows and at the edge of woodlands | Synonyms: Lithospermum officinale |
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| groundball | (noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | Synonyms: ground ball, grounder, hopper |
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| guildhall | (noun) the hall of a guild or corporation | - |
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| gull | (noun) mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs | Synonyms: sea gull, seagull |
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| (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
| (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, cod, dupe, fool, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
| (verb) make a fool or dupe of | Synonyms: befool, fool |
| hairball | (noun) a compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur) | Synonyms: hair ball, trichobezoar |
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| hall | (noun) a large building for meetings or entertainment | - |
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| (noun) a large room for gatherings, receiving guests, or entertainment | - |
| (noun) an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open | Synonyms: hallway |
| (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dorm, dormitory, residence hall, student residence |
| (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: antechamber, anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule |
| (noun) the large room of a manor or castle | Synonyms: manor hall |
| (noun) a large and imposing house | Synonyms: manse, mansion, mansion house, residence |
| (noun) a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research | - |
| handball | (noun) a game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands | - |
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| (noun) a small rubber ball used in playing the game of handball | - |
| handbell | (noun) a bell that is held in the hand | - |
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| handbill | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, throwaway |
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| hardball | (noun) baseball as distinguished from softball | - |
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| (noun) a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics | - |
| harebell | (noun) perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: bluebell, Campanula rotundifolia |
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| (noun) sometimes placed in genus Scilla | Synonyms: bluebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
| hawkbill | (noun) pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell | Synonyms: Eretmochelys imbricata, hawksbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle |
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| hawksbill | (noun) pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell | Synonyms: Eretmochelys imbricata, hawkbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle |
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| headstall | (noun) the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head | Synonyms: headpiece |
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| hell | (noun) noisy and unrestrained mischief | Synonyms: blaze |
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| (noun) a cause of difficulty and suffering | Synonyms: blaze |
| (noun) any place of pain and turmoil | Synonyms: hell on earth, hellhole, inferno, snake pit, the pits |
| highball | (noun) a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass | - |
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| hill | (noun) (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands | Synonyms: mound, pitcher's mound |
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| (noun) structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones | Synonyms: mound |
| (noun) a local and well-defined elevation of the land | - |
| (verb) form into a hill | - |
| holdall | (noun) a capacious bag or basket | Synonyms: carryall, tote, tote bag |
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| hornbill | (noun) bird of tropical Africa and Asia having a very large bill surmounted by a bony protuberance; related to kingfishers | - |
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| hull | (noun) the frame or body of ship | - |
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| (noun) dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut | - |
| (noun) persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry | - |
| (verb) remove the hulls from | - |
| icefall | (noun) a steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall | - |
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| idyll | (noun) a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | Synonyms: bucolic, eclogue, idyl |
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| (noun) a musical composition that evokes rural life | Synonyms: idyl, pastoral, pastorale |
| (noun) an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll | - |
| ill | (adjective) affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function | Synonyms: sick |
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| (adjective) distressing | - |
| (adjective) resulting in suffering or adversity | - |
| (adjective) indicating hostility or enmity | - |
| (adjective) presaging ill fortune | Synonyms: inauspicious, ominous |
| (noun) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining | Synonyms: ailment, complaint |
| (adverb) (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well | Synonyms: badly, poorly |
| (adverb) with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly | - |
| (adverb) unfavorably or with disapproval | Synonyms: badly |
| indwell | (verb) to exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle | - |
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| inkwell | (noun) a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped | Synonyms: inkstand |
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| install | (verb) set up for use | Synonyms: instal, put in, set up |
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| (verb) place | Synonyms: establish, instal, set up |
| (verb) put into an office or a position | Synonyms: instal |
| instill | (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: impregnate, infuse, tincture |
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| (verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: impress, ingrain |
| (verb) teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions | Synonyms: inculcate, infuse |
| (verb) enter drop by drop | Synonyms: instil |
| (verb) impart gradually | Synonyms: transfuse |
| ivorybill | (noun) large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct | Synonyms: Campephilus principalis, ivory-billed woodpecker |
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| jell | (verb) become gelatinous | Synonyms: congeal, set |
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| jellyroll | (noun) thin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up to make a cylindrical cake | Synonyms: Swiss roll |
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| kill | (noun) the act of terminating a life | Synonyms: killing, putting to death |
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| (noun) the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile | - |
| (noun) the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal | - |
| (verb) mark for deletion, rub off, or erase | Synonyms: obliterate, wipe out |
| (verb) destroy a vitally essential quality of or in | - |
| (verb) cause to cease operating | - |
| (verb) tire out completely | - |
| (verb) end or extinguish by forceful means | Synonyms: stamp out |
| (verb) drink down entirely | Synonyms: belt down, bolt down, down, drink down, pop, pour down, toss off |
| (verb) cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly | - |
| (verb) cause the death of, without intention | - |
| (verb) deprive of life | - |
| (verb) hit with great force | - |
| (verb) hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games | - |
| (verb) overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration | - |
| (verb) be the source of great pain for | - |
| (verb) thwart the passage of | Synonyms: defeat, shoot down, vote down, vote out |
| (verb) be fatal | - |
| knell | (noun) the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something | - |
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| (verb) ring as in announcing death | - |
| (verb) make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification | Synonyms: ring |
| knoll | (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hillock, hummock, mound |
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| knuckleball | (noun) a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin | Synonyms: knuckler |
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| krill | (noun) shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales | - |
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| lambkill | (noun) North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock | Synonyms: Kalmia angustifolia, pig laurel, sheep laurel |
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| lampshell | (noun) marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide | Synonyms: brachiopod, lamp shell |
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| landfall | (noun) the first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water) | - |
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| (noun) the seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water) | - |
| landfill | (noun) a low area that has been filled in | - |
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| logroll | (verb) work toward the passage of some legislation by exchanging political favors such as trading votes | - |
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| loll | (verb) be lazy or idle | Synonyms: arse about, arse around, bum, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time |
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| (verb) hang loosely or laxly | Synonyms: droop |
| lowball | (verb) make a deliberately low estimate | Synonyms: underestimate |
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| lull | (noun) a period of calm weather | Synonyms: quiet |
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| (noun) a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished | Synonyms: letup |
| (verb) become quiet or less intensive | Synonyms: calm down |
| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) calm by deception | - |
| lumbermill | (noun) a mill for dressing logs and lumber | Synonyms: sawmill |
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| mall | (noun) a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk | Synonyms: promenade |
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| (noun) mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace | Synonyms: center, centre, plaza, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall |
| mandrill | (noun) baboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters | Synonyms: Mandrillus sphinx |
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| marshall | (noun) a law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law | Synonyms: marshal |
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| (noun) (in some countries) a military officer of highest rank | Synonyms: marshal |
| maxwell | (noun) a cgs unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicular to an area of 1 square centimeter in a magnetic field of 1 gauss | Synonyms: Mx |
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| meatball | (noun) ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth | - |
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| megasporophyll | (noun) in non-flowering plants, a sporophyll that bears only megasporangia | - |
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| microsporophyll | (noun) in non-flowering plants, a sporophyll that bears only microsporangia | - |
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| mill | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: grind, pulverisation, pulverization |
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| (noun) machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing | Synonyms: grinder, milling machinery |
| (noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing | Synonyms: factory, manufactory, manufacturing plant |
| (verb) grind with a mill | - |
| (verb) produce a ridge around the edge of | - |
| (verb) roll out (metal) with a rolling machine | - |
| (verb) move about in a confused manner | Synonyms: mill about, mill around |
| miscall | (verb) assign in incorrect name to | Synonyms: misname |
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| misspell | (verb) spell incorrectly | - |
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| molehill | (noun) a mound of earth made by moles while burrowing | - |
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| moll | (noun) the girlfriend of a gangster | Synonyms: gangster's moll, gun moll |
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| moonshell | (noun) marine gastropods having smooth rounded shells that form short spires | Synonyms: moon shell |
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| mothball | (noun) a small sphere of camphor or naphthalene used to keep moths away from stored clothing | Synonyms: camphor ball |
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| (verb) put into long-term storage | - |
| muckhill | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: dunghill, midden, muckheap |
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| mull | (noun) a term used in Scottish names of promontories | - |
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| (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
| (verb) heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink | - |
| netball | (noun) a team game that resembles basketball; a soccer ball is to be thrown so that it passes through a ring on the top of a post | - |
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| nightfall | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, twilight |
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| nimblewill | (noun) slender branching American grass of some value for grazing in central United States | Synonyms: Muhlenbergia schreberi, nimble Will |
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| null | (adjective) lacking any legal or binding force | Synonyms: void |
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| (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
| numskull | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, shithead |
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| nutshell | (noun) the shell around the kernel of a nut | - |
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| oddball | (noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric, eccentric person, flake, geek |
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| openbill | (noun) stork with a grooved bill whose upper and lower parts touch only at the base and tip | - |
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| outcall | (verb) make a higher bid than (the previous bid or player); in a card game | - |
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| outfall | (noun) the outlet of a river or drain or other source of water | - |
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| outsell | (verb) sell more than others | - |
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| (verb) be sold more often than other, similar products | - |
| overall | (adjective) involving only main features | - |
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| (adjective) including everything | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) work clothing consisting of denim trousers (usually with a bib and shoulder straps) | - |
| (noun) a loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work | Synonyms: boilers suit, boilersuit |
| overcall | (noun) (bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand) | Synonyms: overbid |
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| overfill | (verb) fill beyond capacity | - |
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| overfull | (adjective) exceeding demand | Synonyms: glutted |
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| overkill | (noun) any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal | - |
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| (noun) the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required | - |
| overspill | (noun) the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity | Synonyms: overflow, runoff |
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| (noun) the relocation of people from overcrowded cities; they are accommodated in new houses or apartments in smaller towns | - |
| paintball | (noun) a game that simulates military combat; players on one team try to eliminate players on the opposing team by shooting capsules of paint at them | - |
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| (noun) a capsule filled with water-soluble dye used as a projectile in playing the game of paintball | - |
| pall | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle |
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| (noun) burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped | Synonyms: cerement, shroud, winding-clothes, winding-sheet |
| (noun) a sudden numbing dread | Synonyms: chill |
| (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: fatigue, jade, tire, weary |
| (verb) lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to) | - |
| (verb) become less interesting or attractive | Synonyms: dull |
| (verb) lose sparkle or bouquet | Synonyms: become flat, die |
| (verb) cause to become flat | - |
| (verb) cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing | Synonyms: cloy |
| (verb) cover with a pall | - |
| (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, scare, scare away, scare off |
| payroll | (noun) the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee | Synonyms: payroll department |
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| (noun) a list of employees and their salaries | Synonyms: paysheet |
| (noun) the total amount of money paid in wages | Synonyms: paysheet |
| paywall | (noun) A mechanism used to limit access to only paying users | - |
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| photocell | (noun) a transducer used to detect and measure light and other radiations | Synonyms: electric eye, magic eye, photoconductive cell, photoelectric cell |
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| pigswill | (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigwash, slop, slops, swill |
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| pill | (noun) a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet | Synonyms: lozenge, tab, tablet |
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| (noun) something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size | - |
| (noun) a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception | Synonyms: anovulant, anovulatory drug, birth control pill, contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive, oral contraceptive pill |
| (noun) something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured | - |
| (noun) a unpleasant or tiresome person | - |
| pinball | (noun) a game played on a sloping board; the object is to propel marbles against pins or into pockets | Synonyms: pinball game |
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| pitfall | (noun) a trap in the form of a concealed hole | Synonyms: pit |
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| (noun) an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty | Synonyms: booby trap |
| playbill | (noun) a theatrical program | - |
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| plimsoll | (noun) a light gym shoe with a rubber sole and a canvas top | - |
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| poll | (noun) the counting of votes (as in an election) | - |
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| (noun) the top of the head | Synonyms: crown, pate |
| (noun) the part of the head between the ears | - |
| (noun) an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people | Synonyms: canvass, opinion poll, public opinion poll |
| (noun) a tame parrot | Synonyms: poll parrot |
| (verb) convert into a pollard | Synonyms: pollard |
| (verb) get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions | Synonyms: canvass |
| (verb) vote in an election at a polling station | - |
| (verb) get the votes of | - |
| poorwill | (noun) goatsucker of western North America | Synonyms: Phalaenoptilus nuttallii |
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