| about | (adjective) on the move | Synonyms: astir |
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| (adverb) (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct | Synonyms: approximately, around, close to, just about, more or less, or so, roughly, some |
| (adverb) in the area or vicinity | Synonyms: around |
| (adverb) in or to a reversed position or direction | Synonyms: around |
| (adverb) in rotation or succession | - |
| (adverb) used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction | Synonyms: around |
| (adverb) (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but | Synonyms: almost, most, near, nearly, nigh, virtually, well-nigh |
| (adverb) all around or on all sides | Synonyms: around |
| blackout | (noun) a momentary loss of consciousness | - |
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| (noun) partial or total loss of memory | Synonyms: amnesia, memory loss |
| (noun) the failure of electric power for a general region | - |
| (noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: brownout, dimout |
| (noun) a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting | - |
| blowout | (noun) a gay festivity | Synonyms: gala, gala affair, jamboree |
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| (noun) a sudden malfunction of a part or apparatus | - |
| (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: laugher, romp, runaway, shoo-in, walkaway |
| bout | (noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: binge, bust, tear |
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| (noun) a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers) | - |
| (noun) (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive | Synonyms: round, turn |
| (noun) a period of illness | - |
| breakout | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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| breechclout | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechcloth, loincloth |
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| brownout | (noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: blackout, dimout |
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| buyout | (noun) acquisition of a company by purchasing a controlling percentage of its stock | - |
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| checkout | (noun) the act of inspecting or verifying | Synonyms: check-out procedure, check |
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| (noun) a counter in a supermarket where you pay for your purchases | Synonyms: checkout counter |
| (noun) the latest time for vacating a hotel room | Synonyms: checkout time |
| closeout | (noun) a sale intended to dispose of all remaining stock | - |
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| clout | (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, lick, poke, punch, slug |
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| (noun) a short nail with a flat head; used to attach sheet metal to wood | Synonyms: clout nail |
| (noun) special advantage or influence | Synonyms: pull |
| (noun) a target used in archery | - |
| (verb) strike hard, especially with the fist | - |
| cookout | (noun) an informal meal cooked and eaten outdoors | - |
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| copout | (noun) a failure to face some difficulty squarely | - |
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| cutout | (noun) a part that is cut out or is intended to be cut out | - |
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| (noun) a photograph from which the background has been cut away | - |
| (noun) a switch that interrupts an electric circuit in the event of an overload | - |
| devout | (adjective) deeply religious | Synonyms: god-fearing |
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| (adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: dear, earnest, heartfelt |
| dimout | (noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: blackout, brownout |
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| dropout | (noun) someone who quits school before graduation | - |
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| (noun) someone who withdraws from a social group or environment | - |
| dugout | (noun) a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground | Synonyms: bunker |
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| (noun) either of two low shelters on either side of a baseball diamond where the players and coaches sit during the game | - |
| (noun) a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log | Synonyms: dugout canoe, pirogue |
| (noun) a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground; can be fully recessed into the earth, with a flat roof covered by ground, semi-recessed, with a constructed wood or sod roof standing out, or dug into a hillside. | Synonyms: dug-out, pit-house, pithouse |
| eelpout | (noun) marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas | Synonyms: pout |
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| (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, cusk, ling, Lota lota |
| fadeout | (noun) a slow or gradual disappearance | Synonyms: receding |
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| (noun) a gradual temporary loss of a transmitted signal due to electrical disturbances | - |
| fallout | (noun) any adverse and unwanted secondary effect | Synonyms: side effect |
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| (noun) the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion | Synonyms: radioactive dust |
| flout | (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, gibe, jeer, scoff |
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| (verb) treat with contemptuous disregard | Synonyms: scoff |
| foldout | (noun) an oversize page that is folded in to a book or magazine | Synonyms: gatefold |
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| gadabout | (noun) a restless seeker after amusement or social companionship | - |
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| gout | (noun) a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints | Synonyms: gouty arthritis, urarthritis |
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| grout | (noun) a thin mortar that can be poured and used to fill cracks in masonry or brickwork | - |
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| (verb) bind with grout | - |
| handout | (noun) giving money or food or clothing to a needy person | - |
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| (noun) an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation | Synonyms: press release, release |
| hangout | (noun) a frequently visited place | Synonyms: haunt, repair, resort, stamping ground |
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| hereabout | (adverb) in this general vicinity | Synonyms: hereabouts |
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| hideout | (noun) a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws | Synonyms: den, hideaway |
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| holdout | (noun) the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later | - |
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| (noun) a refusal by a negotiator to come to terms in the hope of obtaining a better deal | - |
| (noun) a negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by refusing to come to terms | - |
| hornpout | (noun) catfish common in eastern United States | Synonyms: Ameiurus Melas, horned pout, pout |
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| knockabout | (adjective) suitable for rough use | - |
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| (adjective) full of rough and exuberant animal spirits | Synonyms: boisterous |
| (noun) a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit | - |
| knockout | (adjective) very strong or vigorous | Synonyms: hard, severe |
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| (noun) a blow that renders the opponent unconscious | Synonyms: kayo, KO |
| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
| knout | (noun) a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners | - |
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| layabout | (noun) person who does no work | Synonyms: bum, do-nothing, idler, loafer |
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| layout | (noun) the act of laying out (as by making plans for something) | - |
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| (noun) a plan or design of something that is laid out | - |
| lockout | (noun) a management action resisting employee's demands; employees are barred from entering the workplace until they agree to terms | - |
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| lookout | (noun) the act of looking out | Synonyms: outlook |
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| (noun) a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings | Synonyms: lookout station, observation tower, observatory |
| (noun) an elevated post affording a wide view | Synonyms: observation post |
| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch |
| lout | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
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| mahout | (noun) the driver and keeper of an elephant | - |
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| marabout | (noun) large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments | Synonyms: Leptoptilus crumeniferus, marabou, marabou stork |
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| out | (adjective) not allowed to continue to bat or run | - |
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| (adjective) being out or having grown cold | Synonyms: extinct |
| (adjective) outside or external | - |
| (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten |
| (adjective) not worth considering as a possibility | - |
| (adjective) outer or outlying | - |
| (adjective) directed outward or serving to direct something outward | - |
| (adjective) knocked unconscious by a heavy blow | Synonyms: kayoed, knocked out, KO'd, stunned |
| (adjective) no longer fashionable | - |
| (adjective) out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election | - |
| (noun) (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball | - |
| (adverb) away from home | - |
| (adverb) from one's possession | Synonyms: away |
| (adverb) moving or appearing to move away from a place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden | - |
| (verb) be made known; be disclosed or revealed | Synonyms: come out |
| (verb) reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle | - |
| (verb) to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality | Synonyms: come out, come out of the closet |
| outshout | (verb) shout louder than | Synonyms: outcry |
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| pout | (noun) catfish common in eastern United States | Synonyms: Ameiurus Melas, horned pout, hornpout |
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| (noun) marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas | Synonyms: eelpout |
| (noun) a disdainful grimace | Synonyms: moue, wry face |
| (verb) make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip | Synonyms: mop, mow |
| (verb) be in a huff and display one's displeasure | Synonyms: brood, sulk |
| printout | (noun) the output of a computer in printed form | - |
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| pullout | (noun) to break off a military action with an enemy | Synonyms: disengagement, fallback |
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| putout | (noun) an out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout) | - |
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| raceabout | (noun) a small sloop having the keep of a knockabout but with finer lines and carrying more sail | - |
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| ragout | (noun) well-seasoned stew of meat and vegetables | - |
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| readout | (noun) an electronic device that displays information | Synonyms: read-out |
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| (noun) the information displayed or recorded on an electronic device | Synonyms: read-out |
| (noun) the output of a computer in readable form | Synonyms: read-out |
| rigout | (noun) a person's costume (especially if bizarre) | - |
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| roundabout | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: circuitous, devious |
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| (adjective) marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct | Synonyms: circuitous |
| (noun) a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island | Synonyms: circle, rotary, traffic circle |
| (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, whirligig |
| roustabout | (noun) a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor | Synonyms: deckhand |
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| rout | (noun) an overwhelming defeat | - |
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| (noun) a disorderly crowd of people | Synonyms: mob, rabble |
| (verb) cause to flee | Synonyms: expel, rout out |
| (verb) defeat disastrously | Synonyms: spread-eagle, spreadeagle |
| (verb) make a groove in | Synonyms: gouge |
| (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: root, rootle |
| runabout | (noun) an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | Synonyms: roadster, two-seater |
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| scout | (noun) someone who can find paths through unexplored territory | Synonyms: guide, pathfinder |
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| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch |
| (noun) someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports) | Synonyms: talent scout |
| (verb) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody | Synonyms: reconnoiter, reconnoitre |
| sellout | (noun) a betrayal of one's principles principles, country, cause, etc. | - |
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| (noun) the selling of an entire stock of something | - |
| (noun) an event for which all tickets are sold | - |
| (noun) someone who has sold out | - |
| shakeout | (noun) an economic condition that results in the elimination of marginally financed participants in an industry | - |
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| shootout | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunfight, gunplay |
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| shout | (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: call, cry, outcry, vociferation, yell |
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| (verb) utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking) | - |
| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout out, squall, yell |
| (verb) utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy | Synonyms: call out, cry, cry out, exclaim, outcry |
| (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, clapperclaw |
| shutout | (noun) a defeat in a game where one side fails to score | Synonyms: skunk |
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| snout | (noun) a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose | Synonyms: neb |
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| (noun) beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils | Synonyms: rostrum |
| (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot |
| spout | (noun) an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain | - |
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| (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave |
| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: gush, spirt, spurt |
| sprout | (noun) a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed) | - |
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| (noun) any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud | - |
| (verb) put forth and grow sprouts or shoots | Synonyms: stock |
| (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, spud |
| stakeout | (noun) surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime) | - |
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| stout | (adjective) euphemisms for `fat' | Synonyms: portly |
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| (adjective) dependable | Synonyms: stalwart |
| (adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: hardy, stalwart, sturdy |
| (noun) a garment size for a large or heavy person | - |
| (noun) a strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops | - |
| strikeout | (noun) an out resulting from the batter getting three strikes | - |
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| surtout | (noun) a man's overcoat in the style of a frock coat | - |
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| takeout | (adjective) of or involving food to be taken and eaten off the premises | Synonyms: take-away |
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| (noun) (bridge) a bid that asks your partner to bid another suit | - |
| (noun) prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises | Synonyms: takeaway, takeout food |
| talmbout | (verb) to talk about | - |
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| thereabout | (adverb) near that place | Synonyms: thereabouts |
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| (adverb) near that time or date | Synonyms: thereabouts |
| throughout | (adverb) from first to last | Synonyms: end-to-end |
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| (adverb) used to refer to cited works | Synonyms: passim |
| tout | (noun) someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way | Synonyms: touter |
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| (noun) one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack) | Synonyms: tipster |
| (noun) someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit | Synonyms: ticket tout |
| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, vaunt |
| (verb) advertize in strongly positive terms | - |
| trout | (noun) any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons | - |
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| (noun) flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes | - |
| tryout | (noun) a test of the suitability of a performer | Synonyms: audition |
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| (noun) trying something to find out about it | Synonyms: test, trial, trial run |
| turnabout | (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reverse, reversion, turnaround |
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| (noun) a decision to reverse an earlier decision | Synonyms: change of mind, flip-flop, reversal, turnaround |
| turnout | (noun) attendance for a particular event or purpose (as to vote in an election) | - |
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| (noun) (ballet) the outward rotation of a dancer's leg from the hip | - |
| (noun) what is produced in a given time period | Synonyms: output, outturn |
| (noun) a part of a road that has been widened to allow cars to pass or park | Synonyms: widening |
| (noun) a set of clothing (with accessories) | Synonyms: getup, outfit, rig |
| (noun) a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass | Synonyms: railroad siding, sidetrack, siding |
| (noun) the group that gathers together for a particular occasion | - |
| walkabout | (noun) nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigine | - |
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| (noun) a public stroll by a celebrity to meet people informally | - |
| (noun) a walking trip or tour | - |
| walkout | (noun) a strike in which the workers walk out | - |
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| (noun) the act of walking out (of a meeting or organization) as a sign of protest | - |
| washout | (noun) someone who is unsuccessful | Synonyms: dud, flop |
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| (noun) the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway) | Synonyms: wash |
| (noun) the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water | - |
| waterspout | (noun) a channel through which water is discharged (especially one used for drainage from the gutters of a roof) | - |
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| (noun) a tornado passing over water and picking up a column of water and mist | - |
| (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent |
| whiteout | (noun) an arctic atmospheric condition with clouds over snow produce a uniform whiteness and objects are difficult to see; occurs when the light reflected off the snow equals the light coming through the clouds | - |
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| (verb) lose daylight visibility in heavy fog, snow, or rain | Synonyms: white-out |
| (verb) cover up with a liquid correction fluid | Synonyms: white out |
| wipeout | (noun) a spill in some sport (as a fall from a bicycle or while skiing or being capsized on a surfboard) | - |
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| (noun) an event that completely destroys something | Synonyms: demolition, destruction |
| workout | (noun) the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit | Synonyms: exercise, exercising, physical exercise, physical exertion |
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