| park | (noun) a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games) | Synonyms: ballpark |
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| (noun) a gear position that acts as a parking brake | - |
| (noun) a large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property | Synonyms: parkland |
| (noun) a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area | Synonyms: common, commons, green |
| (noun) a lot where cars are parked | Synonyms: car park, parking area, parking lot |
| (verb) place temporarily | - |
| (verb) maneuver a vehicle into a parking space | - |
| patchwork | (noun) sewing consisting of pieces of different materials sewn together in a pattern | - |
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| (noun) a quilt made by sewing patches of different materials together | Synonyms: patchwork quilt |
| (noun) a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas | Synonyms: hodgepodge, jumble |
| perk | (noun) an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right) | Synonyms: fringe benefit, perquisite |
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| (verb) gain or regain energy | Synonyms: gain vigor, percolate, perk up, pick up |
| piecework | (noun) work paid for according to the quantity produced | - |
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| pipework | (noun) the flues and stops on a pipe organ | Synonyms: organ pipe, pipe |
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| pitchfork | (noun) a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay | - |
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| (verb) lift with a pitchfork | Synonyms: fork |
| plasterwork | (noun) a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling) | Synonyms: plaster |
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| pockmark | (noun) a scar or pit on the skin that is left by a pustule of smallpox or acne or other eruptive disease | - |
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| (verb) mark with or as if with pockmarks | - |
| pork | (noun) meat from a domestic hog or pig | Synonyms: porc |
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| (noun) a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents | Synonyms: pork barrel |
| postmark | (noun) a cancellation mark stamped on mail by postal officials; indicates the post office and date of mailing | - |
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| (verb) stamp with a postmark to indicate date and time of mailing | Synonyms: frank |
| pressmark | (noun) a mark consisting of characters written on a book; used to indicate shelf location | Synonyms: call mark, call number |
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| quark | (noun) fresh unripened cheese of a smooth texture made from pasteurized milk, a starter, and rennet | Synonyms: quark cheese |
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| (noun) (physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons; there are supposed to be six flavors of quarks (and their antiquarks), which come in pairs; each has an electric charge of +2/3 or -1/3 | - |
| quirk | (noun) a narrow groove beside a beading | - |
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| (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, queerness, quirkiness |
| (verb) twist or curve abruptly | - |
| remark | (noun) explicit notice | - |
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| (noun) a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information | Synonyms: comment, input |
| (verb) make mention of | Synonyms: mention, note, observe |
| (verb) make or write a comment on | Synonyms: comment, notice, point out |
| rework | (verb) use again in altered form | Synonyms: make over, retread |
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| ropebark | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, moosewood, wicopy |
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| salesclerk | (noun) a salesperson in a store | Synonyms: clerk, shop assistant, shop clerk |
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| schoolwork | (noun) work, such as schoolwork or piecework, that is done at home | Synonyms: homework, school assignment |
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| semidark | (adjective) partially devoid of light or brightness | - |
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| shagbark | (noun) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts | Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark hickory, shellbark, shellbark hickory |
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| shark | (noun) any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales | - |
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| (noun) a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways | - |
| (noun) a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest | - |
| (verb) hunt shark | - |
| (verb) play the shark; act with trickery | - |
| shellbark | (noun) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts | Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark hickory |
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| shirk | (verb) avoid dealing with | - |
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| (verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: fiddle, goldbrick, shrink from |
| shitwork | (noun) trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores | Synonyms: scut work |
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| silverwork | (noun) decorative work made of silver | - |
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| skylark | (noun) brown-speckled European lark noted for singing while hovering at a great height | Synonyms: Alauda arvensis |
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| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, sport |
| smirk | (noun) a smile expressing smugness or scorn instead of pleasure | - |
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| (verb) smile affectedly or derisively | Synonyms: simper |
| smoothbark | (noun) any of several Australian eucalypts having the bark smooth except at or near the base of the trunk | - |
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| spadework | (noun) dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking | - |
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| spark | (noun) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance | Synonyms: light, sparkle, twinkle |
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| (noun) a momentary flash of light | Synonyms: flicker, glint |
| (noun) a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction | - |
| (noun) electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field | Synonyms: arc, discharge, electric arc, electric discharge |
| (noun) a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger | - |
| (verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: activate, actuate, set off, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip |
| (verb) emit or produce sparks | Synonyms: sparkle |
| squark | (noun) a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1 | Synonyms: strange quark |
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| stark | (adjective) complete or extreme | - |
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| (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, desolate |
| (adjective) severely simple | Synonyms: austere, severe, stern |
| (adjective) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment | Synonyms: blunt, crude |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| (adverb) to the fullest degree | - |
| stirk | (noun) yearling heifer or bullock | - |
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| stonework | (noun) masonry done with stone | - |
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| stork | (noun) large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage | - |
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| stringybark | (noun) any of several Australian eucalypts having fibrous inner bark | - |
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| stylemark | (noun) a distinctive characteristic or attribute of someone or something | Synonyms: earmark, hallmark, trademark |
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| tablefork | (noun) a fork for eating at a dining table | - |
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| tanbark | (noun) bark rich in tannin; bruised and cut in pieces to use for tanning; spent tanbark used as a ground covering | - |
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| teamwork | (noun) cooperative work done by a team (especially when it is effective) | - |
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| telemark | (noun) a turn made in skiing; the outside ski is placed ahead and turned gradually inwards | - |
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| tidemark | (noun) indicator consisting of a line at the highwater or low-water limits of the tides | - |
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| timework | (noun) work paid for at a rate per unit of time | - |
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| titlark | (noun) a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage | Synonyms: lark, pipit |
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| trademark | (noun) a distinctive characteristic or attribute of someone or something | Synonyms: earmark, hallmark, stylemark |
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| (noun) a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product | - |
| (verb) register the trademark of | - |
| (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, brandmark |
| trestlework | (noun) a supporting structure composed of a system of connected trestles; for a bridge or pier or scaffold e.g. | - |
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| twerk | (verb) to dance with thrusting hip movements and a low squatting stance | - |
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| uncork | (verb) draw the cork from (bottles) | - |
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| (verb) release | - |
| watermark | (noun) a distinguishing mark impressed on paper during manufacture; visible when paper is held up to the light | - |
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| (noun) a line marking the level reached by a body of water | Synonyms: water line |
| waxwork | (noun) an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax | Synonyms: wax figure |
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| (noun) twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds | Synonyms: American bittersweet, bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine |
| wheelwork | (noun) mechanical device including an arrangement of wheel in a machine (especially a train of gears) | - |
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| wickerwork | (noun) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) | Synonyms: caning, wicker |
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| wirework | (noun) mesh netting made of wires | Synonyms: grillwork |
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| woodwork | (noun) the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood | Synonyms: carpentry, woodworking |
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| (noun) work made of wood; especially moldings or stairways or furniture | - |
| work | (noun) activity directed toward making or doing something | - |
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| (noun) the occupation for which you are paid | Synonyms: employment |
| (noun) a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing | Synonyms: piece of work |
| (noun) a place where work is done | Synonyms: workplace |
| (noun) the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it) | Synonyms: body of work, oeuvre |
| (noun) applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading) | Synonyms: study |
| (noun) (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force | - |
| (verb) give a workout to | Synonyms: exercise, work out |
| (verb) arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion | - |
| (verb) go sour or spoil | Synonyms: ferment, sour, turn |
| (verb) cause to undergo fermentation | Synonyms: ferment |
| (verb) find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of | Synonyms: figure out, lick, puzzle out, solve, work out |
| (verb) use or manipulate to one's advantage | Synonyms: exploit |
| (verb) to mix into a homogeneous mass | Synonyms: knead |
| (verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: function, go, operate, run |
| (verb) move into or onto | - |
| (verb) shape, form, or improve a material | Synonyms: process, work on |
| (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: bring, make for, play, wreak |
| (verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: crop, cultivate |
| (verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: forge, form, mold, mould, shape |
| (verb) gratify and charm, usually in order to influence | - |
| (verb) proceed along a path | Synonyms: make |
| (verb) move in an agitated manner | - |
| (verb) provoke or excite | - |
| (verb) be employed | Synonyms: do work |
| (verb) cause to work | Synonyms: put to work |
| (verb) exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work | - |
| (verb) have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected | Synonyms: act |
| (verb) operate in a certain place, area, or specialty | - |
| (verb) proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity | - |
| (verb) have and exert influence or effect | Synonyms: act upon, influence |
| (verb) operate in or through | - |
| (verb) cause to operate or function | - |
| (verb) behave in a certain way when handled | - |