| abamp | (noun) a unit of current equal to 10 amperes | Synonyms: abampere |
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| academicianship | (noun) the position of member of an honorary academy | - |
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| accountantship | (noun) the position of accountant | - |
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| acquaintanceship | (noun) a relationship less intimate than friendship | Synonyms: acquaintance |
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| acrocarp | (noun) a moss in which the main axis is terminated by the archegonium (and hence the capsule) | Synonyms: acrocarpous moss |
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| afterdamp | (noun) a toxic mixture of gases (including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and nitrogen) after an explosion of firedamp in a mine | - |
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| aggroup | (verb) form a group or group together | Synonyms: group |
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| agitprop | (noun) political propaganda (especially communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema | - |
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| airdrop | (noun) delivery of supplies or equipment or personnel by dropping them by parachute from an aircraft | - |
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| airmanship | (noun) the art of operating aircraft | Synonyms: aviation |
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| airship | (noun) a steerable self-propelled aircraft | Synonyms: dirigible |
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| airstrip | (noun) an airfield without normal airport facilities | Synonyms: flight strip, landing strip, strip |
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| alp | (noun) any high mountain | - |
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| ambassadorship | (noun) the post of ambassador | - |
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| amidship | (adjective) located in the middle part of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| (adverb) at or near or toward the center of a ship | Synonyms: amidships, midships |
| (adverb) at or near or toward the middle | - |
| amp | (noun) the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: A, ampere |
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| angiocarp | (noun) tree bearing fruit enclosed in a shell or involucre or husk | - |
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| apostleship | (noun) the position of apostle | - |
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| apprenticeship | (noun) the position of apprentice | - |
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| archbishop | (noun) a bishop of highest rank | - |
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| ascocarp | (noun) mature fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus | - |
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| asleep | (adjective) in a state of sleep | - |
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| (adjective) dead | Synonyms: at peace, at rest, deceased, departed, gone |
| (adjective) lacking sensation | Synonyms: benumbed, numb |
| (adverb) into a sleeping state | - |
| (adverb) in the sleep of death | - |
| asp | (noun) of southern Europe; similar to but smaller than the adder | Synonyms: asp viper, Vipera aspis |
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| (noun) cobra used by the Pharaohs as a symbol of their power over life and death | Synonyms: Egyptian cobra, Naja haje |
| associateship | (noun) the position of associate (as in an office or academy) | - |
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| atop | (adverb) on, to, or at the top | - |
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| atrip | (adjective) (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom | Synonyms: aweigh |
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| attorneyship | (noun) the position of attorney | - |
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| authorship | (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: composition, penning, writing |
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| (noun) the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing | Synonyms: paternity |
| backdrop | (noun) scenery hung at back of stage | Synonyms: backcloth, background |
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| backslap | (verb) display excessive cordiality (towards) | - |
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| backstop | (noun) a precaution in case of an emergency | - |
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| (noun) (baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field | - |
| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher | Synonyms: catcher |
| (verb) act as a backstop | - |
| backup | (noun) the act of providing approval and support | Synonyms: backing, championship, patronage |
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| (noun) (computer science) a copy of a file or directory on a separate storage device | Synonyms: computer backup |
| (noun) a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Synonyms: accompaniment, musical accompaniment, support |
| (noun) someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Synonyms: backup man, fill-in, relief, reliever, stand-in, substitute |
| (noun) an accumulation caused by clogging or a stoppage | - |
| bailiffship | (noun) the office of bailiff | - |
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| bakeshop | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakehouse, bakery |
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| ballup | (noun) something badly botched or muddled | Synonyms: balls-up, cockup, mess-up |
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| bap | (noun) a small loaf or roll of soft bread | - |
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| barbershop | (noun) a shop where men can get their hair cut | - |
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| barkeep | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeeper, bartender, mixologist |
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| basidiocarp | (noun) the fruiting body of a basidiomycete which bears its spores on special cells | - |
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| battleship | (noun) large and heavily armoured warship | Synonyms: battlewagon |
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| bebop | (noun) an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940) | Synonyms: bop |
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| (verb) dance the bebop | Synonyms: bop |
| bedhop | (verb) be sexually active with more than one partner | Synonyms: bed-hop, sleep around |
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| beep | (noun) a short high tone produced as a signal or warning | Synonyms: bleep |
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| (verb) call, summon, or alert with a beeper | - |
| (verb) make a strident noise | Synonyms: blare, claxon, honk, toot |
| bellhop | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellboy, bellman |
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| biochip | (noun) a microchip that uses tiny strands of DNA to latch onto and quickly recognize thousands of genes at a time; intended for use in a biological environment | - |
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| bishop | (noun) (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color | - |
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| (noun) port wine mulled with oranges and cloves | - |
| (noun) a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ | - |
| bitmap | (noun) an image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels | Synonyms: electronic image |
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| blackcap | (noun) small brownish-grey warbler with a black crown | Synonyms: Silvia atricapilla |
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| (noun) chickadee having a dark crown | Synonyms: black-capped chickadee, Parus atricapillus |
| (noun) small black-headed European gull | Synonyms: Larus ridibundus, laughing gull, pewit, pewit gull |
| (noun) raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: black raspberry, blackcap raspberry, Rubus occidentalis, thimbleberry |
| blackdamp | (noun) the atmosphere in a mine following an explosion; high in carbon dioxide and incapable of supporting life | Synonyms: chokedamp |
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| blacktop | (noun) a black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock | Synonyms: blacktopping |
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| (verb) coat with blacktop | - |
| bleep | (noun) a short high tone produced as a signal or warning | Synonyms: beep |
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| (verb) emit a single short high-pitched signal | - |
| blimp | (noun) a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon | Synonyms: sausage, sausage balloon |
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| blip | (noun) a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface | Synonyms: pip, radar target |
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| (noun) a sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption | - |
| blowlamp | (noun) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | Synonyms: blowtorch, torch |
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| blowup | (noun) a photographic print that has been enlarged | Synonyms: enlargement, magnification |
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| (noun) an unrestrained expression of emotion | Synonyms: ebullition, effusion, gush, outburst |
| (noun) a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction | Synonyms: detonation, explosion |
| boatmanship | (noun) skill in handling boats | - |
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| bookshop | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookstall, bookstore |
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| bootstrap | (noun) a strap that is looped and sewn to the top of a boot for pulling it on | - |
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| (verb) help oneself, often through improvised means | - |
| bop | (noun) an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940) | Synonyms: bebop |
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| (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bash, bonk, sock, whap, whop |
| (verb) dance the bebop | Synonyms: bebop |
| bopeep | (noun) a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo! | Synonyms: peekaboo |
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| bottlecap | (noun) a cap that seals a bottle | - |
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| brandysnap | (noun) a gingersnap flavored with brandy | - |
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| breakup | (noun) the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations) | Synonyms: dissolution |
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| (noun) coming apart | Synonyms: detachment, separation |
| brinkmanship | (noun) the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety) | - |
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| brushup | (noun) practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory | Synonyms: review |
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| buildup | (noun) the act of building up an accumulation | - |
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| (noun) highly favorable publicity and praise | - |
| (noun) the result of the process of accumulation | - |
| bump | (noun) an impact (as from a collision) | Synonyms: blow |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
| (noun) a lump on the body caused by a blow | - |
| (verb) knock against with force or violence | Synonyms: knock |
| (verb) remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied | Synonyms: dislodge |
| (verb) to play music at loud volume | Synonyms: slap |
| (verb) to enjoy some music greatly | - |
| (verb) dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward | - |
| (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: chance, encounter, find, happen |
| (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: break, demote, kick downstairs, relegate |
| burlap | (noun) coarse jute fabric | Synonyms: gunny |
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| burnup | (noun) the amount of fuel used up (as in a nuclear reactor) | - |
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| (noun) a high-speed motorcycle race on a public road | - |
| burp | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, belching, burping, eructation |
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| (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: belch, bubble, eruct |
| buttercup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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| cadetship | (noun) the position of cadet | - |
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| callathump | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callithump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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| (noun) a noisy boisterous parade | Synonyms: callithump, callithump parade |
| callithump | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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| (noun) a noisy boisterous parade | Synonyms: callathump, callithump parade |
| caltrop | (noun) tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed | Synonyms: devil's weed, Tribulus terestris |
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| (noun) Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America | Synonyms: Centauria calcitrapa, star-thistle |
| (noun) a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits | Synonyms: water chestnut, water chestnut plant |
| camp | (adjective) providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities | Synonyms: campy |
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| (noun) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers | Synonyms: bivouac, cantonment, encampment |
| (noun) temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers | - |
| (noun) a penal institution (often for forced labor) | - |
| (noun) a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months | Synonyms: summer camp |
| (noun) shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs | Synonyms: refugee camp |
| (noun) something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality | - |
| (noun) a group of people living together in a camp | - |
| (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack |
| (verb) give an artificially banal or sexual quality to | - |
| (verb) establish or set up a camp | Synonyms: camp down |
| (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp out, encamp, tent |
| cantaloup | (noun) the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh | Synonyms: cantaloupe |
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| (noun) a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh | Synonyms: cantaloup vine, cantaloupe, cantaloupe vine, Cucumis melo cantalupensis |
| cap | (noun) a tight-fitting headdress | - |
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| (noun) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature | Synonyms: capital, chapiter |
| (noun) a top (as for a bottle) | - |
| (noun) something serving as a cover or protection | - |
| (noun) (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth | Synonyms: crown, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown |
| (noun) a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive | Synonyms: detonating device, detonator |
| (noun) an upper limit on what is allowed | Synonyms: ceiling, roof |
| (noun) a protective covering that is part of a plant | Synonyms: hood |
| (noun) a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom | Synonyms: pileus |
| (verb) restrict the number or amount of | - |
| (verb) lie at the top of | Synonyms: crest |
| captainship | (noun) the post of captain | Synonyms: captaincy |
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| cardinalship | (noun) the office of cardinal | Synonyms: cardinalate |
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| cardsharp | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharper, sharper, sharpie, sharpy |
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| carhop | (noun) a waiter at a drive-in restaurant | - |
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| carp | (noun) any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae | - |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed; can be baked or braised | - |
| (verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: cavil, chicane |
| carrottop | (noun) someone who has red hair | Synonyms: red-header, redhead, redheader |
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| cassareep | (noun) a flavoring made by boiling down the juice of the bitter cassava; used in West Indian cooking | - |
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| catnap | (noun) sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed) | Synonyms: forty winks, light sleep, nap, short sleep, snooze |
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| (verb) take a siesta | Synonyms: catch a wink, nap |
| catnip | (noun) hairy aromatic perennial herb having whorls of small white purple-spotted flowers in a terminal spike; used in the past as a domestic remedy; strongly attractive to cats | Synonyms: catmint, Nepeta cataria |
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| catsup | (noun) thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes | Synonyms: cetchup, ketchup, tomato ketchup |
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| cattleship | (noun) a cargo ship for the transport of livestock | Synonyms: cattle boat |
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| censorship | (noun) deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances | Synonyms: censoring |
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| (noun) counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy | Synonyms: censoring, security review |
| cetchup | (noun) thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes | Synonyms: catsup, ketchup, tomato ketchup |
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| chairmanship | (noun) the position of chairman | - |
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| champ | (noun) someone who has won first place in a competition | Synonyms: champion, title-holder |
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| (verb) chew noisily or vigorously | Synonyms: chomp |
| (verb) chafe at the bit, like horses | - |
| championship | (noun) the act of providing approval and support | Synonyms: backing, backup, patronage |
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| (noun) a competition at which a champion is chosen | - |
| (noun) the status of being a champion | Synonyms: title |
| chancellorship | (noun) the office of chancellor | - |
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| chap | (noun) (usually in the plural) leather leggings without a seat; joined by a belt; often have flared outer flaps; worn over trousers by cowboys to protect their legs | - |
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| (noun) a crack in a lip caused usually by cold | - |
| (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: crack, cranny, crevice, fissure |
| (verb) crack due to dehydration | - |
| chaplainship | (noun) the position of chaplain | Synonyms: chaplaincy |
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| cheap | (adjective) relatively low in price or charging low prices | Synonyms: inexpensive |
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| (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
| (adjective) embarrassingly stingy | Synonyms: chinchy, chintzy |
| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| checkup | (noun) a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person | Synonyms: health check, medical, medical checkup, medical exam, medical examination |
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| cheep | (noun) the short weak cry of a young bird | Synonyms: peep |
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| (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: chirp, chirrup, peep |