| alastrim | (noun) a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus | Synonyms: Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milk pox, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, variola minor, West Indian smallpox, white pox |
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| brim | (noun) a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat | - |
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| (noun) the top edge of a vessel or other container | Synonyms: lip, rim |
| (verb) fill as much as possible | - |
| (verb) be completely full | - |
| grim | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick |
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| (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, low-spirited, low |
| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry |
| (adjective) not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | Synonyms: inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting |
| (adjective) harshly ironic or sinister | Synonyms: black, mordant |
| (adjective) harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | Synonyms: dour, forbidding |
| interim | (adjective) serving during an intermediate interval of time | - |
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| (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: lag, meantime, meanwhile |
| megrim | (noun) a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men | Synonyms: hemicrania, migraine, sick headache |
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| pilgrim | (noun) someone who journeys in foreign lands | - |
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| (noun) someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion | - |
| prim | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| (adjective) affectedly dainty or refined | Synonyms: mincing, niminy-piminy, twee |
| (verb) dress primly | Synonyms: prim out, prim up |
| (verb) contract one's lips | - |
| (verb) assume a prim appearance | - |
| rim | (noun) the top edge of a vessel or other container | Synonyms: brim, lip |
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| (noun) a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object | Synonyms: flange |
| (noun) the outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached | - |
| (noun) (basketball) the hoop from which the net is suspended | - |
| (noun) the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object | - |
| (verb) roll around the rim of | - |
| (verb) furnish with a rim | - |
| (verb) run around the rim of | - |
| scrim | (noun) a firm open-weave fabric used for a curtain in the theater | - |
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| trim | (adjective) severely simple in line or design | Synonyms: tailored |
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| (adjective) thin and fit | Synonyms: spare |
| (adjective) characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder | Synonyms: shipshape, well-kept |
| (adjective) neat and smart in appearance | Synonyms: clean-cut, trig |
| (noun) cutting down to the desired size or shape | Synonyms: clipping, trimming |
| (noun) a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment | Synonyms: passementerie, trimming |
| (noun) attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation | - |
| (noun) a state of arrangement or appearance | Synonyms: trimness |
| (verb) cut down on; make a reduction in | Synonyms: bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim back, trim down |
| (verb) adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used | - |
| (verb) cut closely | Synonyms: shave |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip |
| (verb) remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size | Synonyms: pare |
| (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: dress, garnish |
| (verb) decorate, as with ornaments | - |
| (verb) be in equilibrium during a flight | - |
| (verb) balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces | - |