| adnoun | (noun) an adjective used as a noun | - |
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| airgun | (noun) a gun that propels a projectile by compressed air | Synonyms: air gun, air rifle |
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| blowgun | (noun) a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing | Synonyms: blow tube, blowpipe, blowtube |
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| bosun | (noun) a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen | Synonyms: bo's'n, bo'sun, boatswain, bos'n |
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| bun | (noun) small rounded bread either plain or sweet | Synonyms: roll |
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| dun | (adjective) of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color | - |
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| (noun) horse of a dull brownish grey color | - |
| (noun) a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color | Synonyms: fawn, grayish brown, greyish brown |
| (verb) make a dun color | - |
| (verb) cure by salting | - |
| (verb) persistently ask for overdue payment | - |
| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, frustrate, rag, torment |
| faun | (noun) ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail; equivalent to Greek satyr | - |
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| finespun | (adjective) developed in excessively fine detail | Synonyms: hairsplitting |
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| (adjective) developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety | Synonyms: delicate |
| flashgun | (noun) a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph | Synonyms: flash, flash bulb, flash lamp, flashbulb, photoflash |
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| fun | (noun) activities that are enjoyable or amusing | Synonyms: merriment, playfulness |
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| (noun) violent and excited activity | - |
| (noun) a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement | Synonyms: playfulness |
| (noun) verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously) | Synonyms: play, sport |
| funrun | (noun) a footrace run for fun (often including runners who are sponsored for a charity) | Synonyms: fun run |
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| gun | (noun) the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies | - |
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| (noun) a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel) | - |
| (noun) large but transportable armament | Synonyms: artillery, heavy weapon, ordnance |
| (noun) a hand-operated pump that resembles a pistol; forces grease into parts of a machine | Synonyms: grease gun |
| (noun) a pedal that controls the throttle valve | Synonyms: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas, gas pedal, throttle |
| (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
| (noun) a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) | Synonyms: gunman |
| (verb) shoot with a gun | - |
| handgun | (noun) a firearm that is held and fired with one hand | Synonyms: pistol, shooting iron, side arm |
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| homespun | (adjective) made of cloth spun or woven in the home | - |
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| (adjective) of textiles; having a rough surface | Synonyms: nubbly, nubby, slubbed, tweedy |
| (adjective) characteristic of country life | Synonyms: cracker-barrel |
| (noun) a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home | - |
| leprechaun | (noun) a mischievous elf in Irish folklore | - |
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| millrun | (noun) a channel for the water current that turns a millwheel | Synonyms: millrace |
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| noun | (noun) a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action | - |
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| (noun) the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition | - |
| nun | (noun) a buoy resembling a cone | Synonyms: conical buoy, nun buoy |
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| (noun) a woman religious | - |
| (noun) the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
| outrun | (verb) run faster than | - |
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| overrun | (noun) too much production or more than expected | Synonyms: overproduction |
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| (verb) run beyond or past | - |
| (verb) seize the position of and defeat | - |
| (verb) flow or run over (a limit or brim) | Synonyms: brim over, overflow, run over, well over |
| (verb) invade in great numbers | Synonyms: infest |
| (verb) occupy in large numbers or live on a host | Synonyms: infest, invade |
| oyabun | (noun) a Japanese supervisor | - |
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| popgun | (noun) plaything consisting of a toy gun that makes a popping sound | - |
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| pronoun | (noun) a function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase | - |
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| pun | (noun) a humorous play on words | Synonyms: paronomasia, punning, wordplay |
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| (verb) make a play on words | - |
| rerun | (noun) a program that is broadcast again | - |
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| (verb) cause to perform again | - |
| (verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rebroadcast |
| (verb) run again for office | - |
| (verb) rerun a performance of a play, for example | - |
| run | (noun) the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace | Synonyms: running |
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| (noun) a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely | Synonyms: tally |
| (noun) (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team | Synonyms: running, running game, running play |
| (noun) a regular trip | - |
| (noun) a short trip | - |
| (noun) the act of testing something | Synonyms: test, trial |
| (noun) an unbroken chronological sequence | - |
| (noun) the pouring forth of a fluid | Synonyms: discharge, outpouring |
| (noun) a row of unravelled stitches | Synonyms: ladder, ravel |
| (noun) a race run on foot | Synonyms: foot race, footrace |
| (noun) a race between candidates for elective office | Synonyms: campaign, political campaign |
| (noun) an unbroken series of events | Synonyms: streak |
| (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, rivulet, runnel, streamlet |
| (noun) the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.) | - |
| (noun) unrestricted freedom to use | - |
| (noun) the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation | - |
| (verb) reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating | Synonyms: melt, melt down |
| (verb) come unraveled or undone as if by snagging | Synonyms: ladder |
| (verb) progress by being changed | Synonyms: go, move |
| (verb) change from one state to another | - |
| (verb) become undone | Synonyms: unravel |
| (verb) cause to perform | - |
| (verb) compete in a race | Synonyms: race |
| (verb) pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) | Synonyms: hunt, hunt down, track down |
| (verb) run, stand, or compete for an office or a position | Synonyms: campaign |
| (verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: function, go, operate, work |
| (verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: draw, guide, pass |
| (verb) be operating, running or functioning | - |
| (verb) conduct to completion | - |
| (verb) cause to emit recorded audio or video | Synonyms: play |
| (verb) include as the content; broadcast or publicize | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time | - |
| (verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: course, feed, flow |
| (verb) keep company | Synonyms: consort |
| (verb) sail before the wind | - |
| (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
| (verb) cover by running; run a certain distance | - |
| (verb) run with the ball; in such sports as football | - |
| (verb) be diffused | Synonyms: bleed |
| (verb) travel a route regularly | Synonyms: ply |
| (verb) cause an animal to move fast | - |
| (verb) move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way | - |
| (verb) travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means | - |
| (verb) deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor | Synonyms: black market |
| (verb) carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine | Synonyms: execute |
| (verb) make without a miss | - |
| (verb) direct or control; projects, businesses, etc. | Synonyms: operate |
| (verb) set animals loose to graze | - |
| (verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, lead, pass |
| (verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, incline, lean, tend |
| (verb) be affected by; be subjected to | - |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, persist, prevail |
| (verb) have a particular form | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) extend or continue for a certain period of time | Synonyms: run for |
| (verb) occur persistently | - |
| (verb) change or be different within limits | Synonyms: range |
| (verb) cause something to pass or lead somewhere | Synonyms: lead |
| scattergun | (noun) firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges | Synonyms: shotgun |
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| sheeprun | (noun) farm devoted to raising sheep | Synonyms: sheepwalk |
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| shogun | (noun) a hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68 | - |
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| shotgun | (noun) firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges | Synonyms: scattergun |
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| shun | (verb) avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of | Synonyms: eschew |
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| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize |
| staplegun | (noun) a hand-held machine for driving staples home | Synonyms: staple gun, tacker |
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| stun | (verb) make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow | Synonyms: stupefy |
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| (verb) hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag | Synonyms: sandbag |
| (verb) overcome as with astonishment or disbelief | Synonyms: bedaze, daze |
| sun | (noun) any star around which a planetary system revolves | - |
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| (noun) the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system | Synonyms: Sun |
| (noun) a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc | - |
| (noun) the rays of the sun | Synonyms: sunlight, sunshine |
| (verb) expose one's body to the sun | Synonyms: sunbathe |
| (verb) expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun | Synonyms: insolate, solarise, solarize |
| tabun | (noun) the first known nerve agent, synthesized by German chemists in 1936; a highly toxic combustible liquid that is soluble in organic solvents and is used as a nerve gas in chemical warfare | Synonyms: GA |
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| tun | (noun) a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals | - |
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| underrun | (verb) haul onto a boat | - |
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| (verb) run or pass below | - |
| vodoun | (noun) a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities | Synonyms: hoodooism, voodoo, voodooism |
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