| arch | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked |
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| (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: condescending, patronising, patronizing |
| (noun) (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it | - |
| (noun) a passageway under a curved masonry construction | Synonyms: archway |
| (noun) a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet) | - |
| (noun) a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening | - |
| (verb) form an arch or curve | Synonyms: arc, curve |
| besmirch | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| (verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained | Synonyms: smirch |
| birch | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree | Synonyms: birchen, birken |
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| (noun) a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment | Synonyms: birch rod |
| (noun) any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark | Synonyms: birch tree |
| (noun) hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood | - |
| (verb) whip with a birch twig | - |
| blowtorch | (noun) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | Synonyms: blowlamp, torch |
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| church | (noun) a service conducted in a house of worship | Synonyms: church service |
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| (noun) a place for public (especially Christian) worship | Synonyms: church building |
| (noun) one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship | Synonyms: Christian church |
| (noun) the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church | - |
| (verb) perform a special church rite or service for | - |
| cornstarch | (noun) starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener | Synonyms: cornflour |
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| countermarch | (noun) (military) a march in the reverse direction or back along the same route | - |
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| (verb) change the order of soldiers during a march | - |
| (verb) march back along the same way | - |
| eparch | (noun) the governor or prefect of an eparchy in ancient Greece | - |
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| (noun) a bishop or metropolitan in charge of an eparchy in the Eastern Church | - |
| ethnarch | (noun) the ruler of a province (as in the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire) or certain religious rulers with secular authority | - |
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| exarch | (noun) a viceroy who governed a large province in the Roman Empire | - |
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| (noun) a bishop in eastern Christendom who holds a place below a patriarch but above a metropolitan | - |
| (noun) a bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox Churches in North America | - |
| frogmarch | (verb) carry someone against his will upside down such that each limb is held by one person | - |
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| (verb) march a person against his will by any method | - |
| hierarch | (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: archpriest, high priest, prelate, primate |
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| (noun) a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy | - |
| interchurch | (adjective) occurring between or among or common to different churches or denominations | Synonyms: interdenominational |
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| larch | (noun) any of numerous conifers of the genus Larix all having deciduous needlelike leaves | Synonyms: larch tree |
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| (noun) wood of a larch tree | - |
| lurch | (noun) an unsteady uneven gait | Synonyms: stagger, stumble |
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| (noun) the act of moving forward suddenly | Synonyms: lunge |
| (noun) abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance) | Synonyms: pitch, pitching |
| (noun) a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage) | - |
| (verb) defeat by a lurch | Synonyms: skunk |
| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: pitch, shift |
| (verb) move slowly and unsteadily | - |
| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, reel, stagger, swag |
| (verb) loiter about, with no apparent aim | Synonyms: prowl |
| march | (noun) the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind) | Synonyms: marching |
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| (noun) a steady advance | - |
| (noun) genre of music written for marching | Synonyms: marching music |
| (noun) a procession of people walking together | - |
| (noun) district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area | Synonyms: border district, borderland, marchland |
| (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge |
| (verb) walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride | - |
| (verb) march in a procession | Synonyms: process |
| (verb) walk ostentatiously | Synonyms: exhibit, parade |
| (verb) force to march | - |
| (verb) cause to march or go at a marching pace | - |
| (verb) march in protest; take part in a demonstration | Synonyms: demonstrate |
| matriarch | (noun) a female head of a family or tribe | Synonyms: materfamilias |
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| (noun) a feisty older woman with a big bosom (as drawn in cartoons) | - |
| monarch | (noun) large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed | Synonyms: Danaus plexippus, milkweed butterfly, monarch butterfly |
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| (noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, sovereign |
| oligarch | (noun) one of the rulers in an oligarchy | - |
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| outmarch | (verb) march longer distances and for a longer time than | - |
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| overarch | (verb) form an arch over | Synonyms: arch over |
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| (verb) be central or dominant | - |
| parch | (verb) cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat | Synonyms: sear |
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| patriarch | (noun) the male head of family or tribe | Synonyms: paterfamilias |
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| (noun) any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race | - |
| (noun) title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem) | - |
| (noun) a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself | - |
| perch | (noun) spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes | - |
| (noun) support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird) | - |
| (noun) any of numerous fishes of America and Europe | - |
| (noun) an elevated place serving as a seat | - |
| (noun) a linear measure of 16.5 feet | Synonyms: pole, rod |
| (noun) a square rod of land | Synonyms: pole, rod |
| (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: rest, roost |
| (verb) cause to perch or sit | - |
| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: alight, light |
| porch | (noun) a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance | - |
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| research | (noun) systematic investigation to establish facts | - |
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| (noun) a search for knowledge | Synonyms: enquiry, inquiry |
| (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: explore, search |
| (verb) attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner | - |
| routemarch | (noun) a long training march for troops | - |
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| scorch | (noun) a discoloration caused by heat | - |
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| (noun) a surface burn | Synonyms: singe |
| (noun) a plant disease that produces a browning or scorched appearance of plant tissues | - |
| (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: blacken, char, sear |
| (verb) make very hot and dry | Synonyms: sear |
| (verb) become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions | - |
| (verb) destroy completely by or as if by fire | - |
| (verb) become superficially burned | Synonyms: sear, singe |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: blister, scald, whip |
| search | (noun) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | Synonyms: hunt, hunting |
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| (noun) boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas | - |
| (noun) an investigation seeking answers | - |
| (noun) the examination of alternative hypotheses | - |
| (noun) an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property | Synonyms: lookup |
| (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: explore, research |
| (verb) try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of | Synonyms: look for, seek |
| (verb) subject to a search | - |
| (verb) search or seek | Synonyms: look |
| smirch | (noun) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it | Synonyms: blot, smear, spot, stain |
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| (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, daub, slur, smear, smudge, spot |
| (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, sully |
| (verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained | Synonyms: besmirch |
| starch | (noun) a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles | Synonyms: amylum |
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| (noun) a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering | - |
| (verb) stiffen with starch | - |
| sunporch | (noun) a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun | Synonyms: solarium, sun lounge, sun parlor, sun parlour, sun porch, sunroom |
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| surfperch | (noun) small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America | Synonyms: surf fish, surffish |
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| symposiarch | (noun) the person who proposes toasts and introduces speakers at a banquet | Synonyms: toastmaster |
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| torch | (noun) a small portable battery-powered electric lamp | Synonyms: flashlight |
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| (noun) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | Synonyms: blowlamp, blowtorch |
| (noun) a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance | - |
| (noun) tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches | Synonyms: Aaron's rod, common mullein, flannel mullein, great mullein, Verbascum thapsus, woolly mullein |
| (verb) burn maliciously, as by arson | - |
| unchurch | (verb) exclude from a church or a religious community | Synonyms: curse, excommunicate |
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