| dockyard | (noun) an establishment on the waterfront where vessels are built or fitted out or repaired | - |
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| dooryard | (noun) a yard outside the front or rear door of a house | - |
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| dotard | (noun) an oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect | - |
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| downward | (adjective) extending or moving from a higher to a lower place | Synonyms: down |
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| (adjective) on or toward a surface regarded as a base | - |
| (adverb) spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position | Synonyms: down, downwardly, downwards |
| drainboard | (noun) a board beside a kitchen sink and inclined to drain into the sink | Synonyms: draining board |
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| drunkard | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
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| duckboard | (noun) a boardwalk laid across muddy ground | - |
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| dullard | (noun) a person who evokes boredom | Synonyms: bore |
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| (noun) a person who is not very bright | Synonyms: dolt, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person |
| eastward | (adjective) moving toward the east | Synonyms: eastbound |
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| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees | Synonyms: due east, E, east |
| (adverb) toward the east | Synonyms: eastwards |
| fallboard | (noun) the hinged protective covering that protects the keyboard of a piano when it is not being played | Synonyms: fall-board |
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| farmyard | (noun) an area adjacent to farm buildings | - |
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| fiberboard | (noun) wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets | Synonyms: fibreboard, particle board |
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| fibreboard | (noun) wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets | Synonyms: fiberboard, particle board |
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| fingerboard | (noun) a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers | - |
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| (noun) a bank of keys on a musical instrument | Synonyms: clavier, piano keyboard |
| (noun) a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger | Synonyms: fingerpost |
| fiord | (noun) a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway | Synonyms: fjord |
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| firebird | (noun) eastern subspecies of northern oriole | Synonyms: Baltimore bird, Baltimore oriole, hangbird, Icterus galbula galbula |
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| (noun) the male is bright red with black wings and tail | Synonyms: Piranga olivacea, redbird, scarlet tanager |
| (noun) tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage | Synonyms: Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus, vermillion flycatcher |
| fireguard | (noun) a metal screen before an open fire for protection (especially against flying sparks) | Synonyms: fire screen |
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| (noun) a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire | Synonyms: firebreak |
| fjord | (noun) a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway | Synonyms: fiord |
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| flashboard | (noun) boarding place along the top of a dam to increase its height | Synonyms: flashboarding |
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| flashcard | (noun) a card with words or numbers or pictures that is flashed to a class by the teacher | Synonyms: flash card |
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| floorboard | (noun) a board in the floor | Synonyms: floor board |
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| (noun) the floor of an automobile | - |
| footboard | (noun) a vertical board or panel forming the foot of a bedstead | - |
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| (noun) a narrow platform on which to stand or brace the feet | - |
| ford | (noun) the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse | Synonyms: fording |
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| (noun) a shallow area in a stream that can be forded | Synonyms: crossing |
| (verb) cross a river where it's shallow | - |
| foreword | (noun) a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book | Synonyms: preface, prolusion |
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| foreyard | (noun) a yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail. | Synonyms: fore-yard |
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| forrard | (adverb) at or to or toward the front; forward | Synonyms: forrad, forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards |
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| forward | (adjective) at or near or directed toward the front | - |
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| (adjective) used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty | - |
| (adjective) of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle | - |
| (adjective) moving forward | Synonyms: advancing, forward-moving |
| (noun) a position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team | - |
| (noun) the person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey | - |
| (adverb) at or to or toward the front; forward | Synonyms: forrad, forrard, forwards, frontward, frontwards |
| (adverb) in a forward direction | Synonyms: ahead, forrader, forwards, onward, onwards |
| (adverb) toward the future; forward in time | Synonyms: ahead |
| (adverb) forward in time or order or degree | Synonyms: forth, onward |
| (adverb) near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane | Synonyms: fore |
| (verb) send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit | Synonyms: send on |
| foulard | (noun) a light plain-weave or twill-weave silk or silklike fabric (usually with a printed design) | - |
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| frontward | (adverb) at or to or toward the front; forward | Synonyms: forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontwards |
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| froward | (adjective) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition | Synonyms: headstrong, self-willed, wilful, willful |
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| gameboard | (noun) a flat portable surface (usually rectangular) designed for board games | Synonyms: board |
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| gangboard | (noun) a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside | Synonyms: gangplank, gangway |
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| gaolbird | (noun) a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly | Synonyms: jail bird, jailbird |
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| garboard | (noun) the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship | Synonyms: garboard plank, garboard strake |
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| gird | (verb) prepare oneself for a military confrontation | Synonyms: arm, build up, fortify |
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| (verb) bind with something round or circular | Synonyms: encircle |
| (verb) put a girdle on or around | Synonyms: girdle |
| gizzard | (noun) thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food | Synonyms: gastric mill, ventriculus |
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| goatherd | (noun) a person who tends a flock of goats | Synonyms: goat herder |
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| goatsbeard | (noun) weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensis |
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| goliard | (noun) a wandering scholar in medieval Europe; famed for intemperance and riotous behavior and the composition of satirical and ribald Latin songs | - |
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| gourd | (noun) bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd | Synonyms: calabash |
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| (noun) any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds | Synonyms: gourd vine |
| (noun) any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds | - |
| graveyard | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, cemetery, memorial park, necropolis |
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| graybeard | (noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: greybeard, Methuselah, old man |
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| greensward | (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: sod, sward, turf |
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| greybeard | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: bellarmine, long-beard, longbeard |
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| (noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: graybeard, Methuselah, old man |
| guard | (noun) a position on a basketball team | - |
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| (noun) the duty of serving as a sentry | Synonyms: guard duty, sentry duty, sentry go |
| (noun) (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage between the center and the tackles | - |
| (noun) a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc. | Synonyms: precaution, safeguard |
| (noun) a device designed to prevent injury or accidents | Synonyms: safety, safety device |
| (noun) a posture of defence in boxing or fencing | - |
| (noun) a military unit serving to protect some place or person | - |
| (noun) the person who lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team on the line of scrimmage | - |
| (noun) a person who keeps watch over something or someone | - |
| (noun) the person who plays the position of guard on a basketball team | - |
| (verb) watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect | Synonyms: ward |
| (verb) protect against a challenge or attack | Synonyms: defend, hold |
| (verb) to keep watch over | - |
| (verb) take precautions in order to avoid some unwanted consequence | - |
| guideword | (noun) a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page | Synonyms: catchword, guide word |
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| gurnard | (noun) bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom | - |
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| haggard | (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
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| (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: careworn, drawn, raddled, worn |
| halberd | (noun) a pike fitted with an ax head | - |
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| halliard | (noun) a rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag | Synonyms: halyard |
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| halyard | (noun) a rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag | Synonyms: halliard |
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| hangbird | (noun) eastern subspecies of northern oriole | Synonyms: Baltimore bird, Baltimore oriole, firebird, Icterus galbula galbula |
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| haphazard | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: slapdash, slipshod, sloppy |
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| (adjective) dependent upon or characterized by chance | Synonyms: hit-or-miss |
| (adverb) without care; in a slapdash manner | Synonyms: haphazardly |
| hard | (adjective) produced without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: surd, unvoiced, voiceless |
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| (adjective) resisting weight or pressure | - |
| (adjective) dispassionate | - |
| (adjective) (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum | - |
| (adjective) (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source | Synonyms: concentrated |
| (adjective) not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure | Synonyms: difficult |
| (adjective) being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content | Synonyms: strong |
| (adjective) unfortunate or hard to bear | Synonyms: tough |
| (adjective) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors | Synonyms: heavy, intemperate |
| (adjective) dried out | - |
| (adjective) very strong or vigorous | Synonyms: knockout, severe |
| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
| (adverb) with effort or force or vigor | - |
| (adverb) to the full extent possible; all the way | - |
| (adverb) slowly and with difficulty | Synonyms: hardly |
| (adverb) causing great damage or hardship | Synonyms: severely |
| (adverb) with firmness | Synonyms: firmly |
| (adverb) indulging excessively | Synonyms: heavily, intemperately |
| (adverb) earnestly or intently | - |
| (adverb) with pain or distress or bitterness | - |
| (adverb) very near or close in space or time | - |
| (adverb) into a solid condition | - |
| hardboard | (noun) a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin | Synonyms: chipboard |
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| harpsichord | (noun) a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots | Synonyms: cembalo |
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| hazard | (noun) an obstacle on a golf course | - |
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| (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, fortune, luck |
| (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: endangerment, jeopardy, peril, risk |
| (verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, pretend, venture |
| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, gamble, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, jeopardize, stake, venture |
| headboard | (noun) a vertical board or panel forming the head of a bedstead | - |
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| headword | (noun) a word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry) | - |
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| (noun) a content word that can be qualified by a modifier | Synonyms: head word |
| heard | (adjective) detected or perceived by the sense of hearing | - |
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| heavenward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: skyward |
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| (adverb) toward heaven | Synonyms: heavenwardly, heavenwards |
| henceforward | (adverb) from this time forth; from now on | Synonyms: henceforth |
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| herd | (noun) a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans | - |
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| (noun) a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra | - |
| (noun) a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things | Synonyms: ruck |
| (verb) move together, like a herd | - |
| (verb) cause to herd, drive, or crowd together | Synonyms: crowd |
| (verb) keep, move, or drive animals | - |
| highboard | (noun) a high diving board | - |
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| hoard | (noun) a secret store of valuables or money | Synonyms: cache, stash |
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| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, collect, compile, pile up, roll up |
| (verb) save up as for future use | Synonyms: cache, hive up, lay away, squirrel away, stash |
| homeward | (adjective) oriented toward home | Synonyms: homeward-bound |
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| (adverb) toward home | Synonyms: homewards |
| hoverboard | (noun) A device resembling a skateboard without wheels that can hover above the ground | - |
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| hummingbird | (noun) tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills; wings are specialized for vibrating flight | - |
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| inboard | (adjective) located within the hull or nearest the midline of a vessel or aircraft | - |
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| interlard | (verb) introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions | Synonyms: intersperse |
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| inward | (adjective) relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts | - |
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| (adjective) directed or moving inward or toward a center | Synonyms: inbound |
| (adverb) toward the center or interior | Synonyms: inwards |
| (adverb) to or toward the inside of | Synonyms: in, inwards |
| izzard | (noun) the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: ezed, Z, z, zed, zee |
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| jacquard | (noun) a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom | - |
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| jailbird | (noun) a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly | Synonyms: gaolbird, jail bird |
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| jaybird | (noun) common jay of eastern North America; bright blue with grey breast | Synonyms: blue jay, Cyanocitta cristata |
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| jird | (noun) gerbil of northern Africa | - |
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| junkyard | (noun) a field where junk is collected and stored for resale | - |
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| keyboard | (noun) holder consisting of an arrangement of hooks on which keys or locks can be hung | - |
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| (noun) device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like | - |
| keycard | (noun) a plastic card that has a magnetically coded strip that is scanned in order to operate a mechanism | - |
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| kingbird | (noun) large American flycatcher | Synonyms: Tyrannus tyrannus |
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| ladybird | (noun) small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests | Synonyms: lady beetle, ladybeetle, ladybird beetle, ladybug |
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| laggard | (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: dilatory, pokey, poky |
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| (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: dawdler, drone, lagger, poke, trailer |
| laird | (noun) a landowner | - |
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| landlord | (noun) a landowner who leases to others | - |
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| landward | (adverb) toward land | Synonyms: landwards |
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| laniard | (noun) (nautical) a line used for extending or fastening rigging on ships | Synonyms: lanyard |
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| (noun) a cord worn around the neck to hold a knife or whistle | Synonyms: lanyard |
| (noun) a cord with an attached hook that is used to fire certain types of cannon | Synonyms: lanyard |
| lanyard | (noun) (nautical) a line used for extending or fastening rigging on ships | Synonyms: laniard |
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| (noun) a cord worn around the neck to hold a knife or whistle | Synonyms: laniard |
| (noun) a cord with an attached hook that is used to fire certain types of cannon | Synonyms: laniard |
| lapboard | (noun) writing board used on the lap as a table or desk | - |
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| larboard | (adjective) located on the left side of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: port |
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| (noun) the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose | Synonyms: port |
| lard | (noun) soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog | - |
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| (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, pad |
| (verb) prepare or cook with lard | - |
| leeward | (adjective) on the side away from the wind | - |
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| (noun) the side of something that is sheltered from the wind | Synonyms: lee, lee side |
| (noun) the direction in which the wind is blowing | - |
| (adverb) away from the wind | Synonyms: upwind |
| leopard | (noun) large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots | Synonyms: Panthera pardus |
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| (noun) the pelt of a leopard | - |
| leotard | (noun) a tight-fitting garment of stretchy material that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles); worn by ballet dancers and acrobats for practice or performance | Synonyms: body suit, cat suit, unitard |
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| lettercard | (noun) a postcard that folds so the message is inside | - |
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| libtard | (noun) A pejorative term for a liberal | - |
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| lifeguard | (noun) an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents | Synonyms: lifesaver |
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| lizard | (noun) relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail | - |
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| (noun) a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him | Synonyms: lounge lizard |
| loanword | (noun) a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English | Synonyms: loan |
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| longbeard | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: bellarmine, greybeard, long-beard |
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| lord | (noun) a person who has general authority over others | Synonyms: master, overlord |
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| (verb) make a lord of someone | - |