| pignut | (noun) an American hickory tree having bitter nuts | Synonyms: black hickory, brown hickory, Carya glabra, pignut hickory |
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| pinchgut | (noun) a niggardly person who starves himself (and others) | - |
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| pout | (noun) catfish common in eastern United States | Synonyms: Ameiurus Melas, horned pout, hornpout |
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| (noun) marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas | Synonyms: eelpout |
| (noun) a disdainful grimace | Synonyms: moue, wry face |
| (verb) make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip | Synonyms: mop, mow |
| (verb) be in a huff and display one's displeasure | Synonyms: brood, sulk |
| printout | (noun) the output of a computer in printed form | - |
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| pullout | (noun) to break off a military action with an enemy | Synonyms: disengagement, fallback |
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| put | (noun) the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date | Synonyms: put option |
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| (verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events | Synonyms: arrange, order, set up |
| (verb) estimate | Synonyms: place, set |
| (verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: cast, couch, frame, redact |
| (verb) attribute or give | Synonyms: assign |
| (verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, place, pose, position, set |
| (verb) cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation | - |
| (verb) adapt | - |
| (verb) cause (someone) to undergo something | - |
| (verb) make an investment | Synonyms: commit, invest, place |
| putout | (noun) an out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout) | - |
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| raceabout | (noun) a small sloop having the keep of a knockabout but with finer lines and carrying more sail | - |
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| ragout | (noun) well-seasoned stew of meat and vegetables | - |
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| readout | (noun) an electronic device that displays information | Synonyms: read-out |
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| (noun) the information displayed or recorded on an electronic device | Synonyms: read-out |
| (noun) the output of a computer in readable form | Synonyms: read-out |
| rebut | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: controvert, refute |
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| (verb) overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof | Synonyms: refute |
| rigout | (noun) a person's costume (especially if bizarre) | - |
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| rotgut | (noun) any alcoholic beverage of inferior quality | - |
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| roundabout | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: circuitous, devious |
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| (adjective) marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct | Synonyms: circuitous |
| (noun) a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island | Synonyms: circle, rotary, traffic circle |
| (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, whirligig |
| roustabout | (noun) a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor | Synonyms: deckhand |
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| rout | (noun) an overwhelming defeat | - |
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| (noun) a disorderly crowd of people | Synonyms: mob, rabble |
| (verb) cause to flee | Synonyms: expel, rout out |
| (verb) defeat disastrously | Synonyms: spread-eagle, spreadeagle |
| (verb) make a groove in | Synonyms: gouge |
| (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: root, rootle |
| runabout | (noun) an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | Synonyms: roadster, two-seater |
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| rut | (noun) a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape | Synonyms: groove |
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| (noun) a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels) | - |
| (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity | Synonyms: estrus, heat, oestrus |
| (verb) hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove | Synonyms: furrow, groove |
| (verb) be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals | - |
| sackbut | (noun) a medieval musical instrument resembling a trombone | - |
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| sauerkraut | (noun) shredded cabbage fermented in brine | - |
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| scout | (noun) someone who can find paths through unexplored territory | Synonyms: guide, pathfinder |
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| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch |
| (noun) someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports) | Synonyms: talent scout |
| (verb) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody | Synonyms: reconnoiter, reconnoitre |
| scut | (noun) a short erect tail | - |
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| sellout | (noun) a betrayal of one's principles principles, country, cause, etc. | - |
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| (noun) the selling of an entire stock of something | - |
| (noun) an event for which all tickets are sold | - |
| (noun) someone who has sold out | - |
| shakeout | (noun) an economic condition that results in the elimination of marginally financed participants in an industry | - |
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| shootout | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunfight, gunplay |
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| shortcut | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: crosscut, cutoff |
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| shout | (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: call, cry, outcry, vociferation, yell |
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| (verb) utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking) | - |
| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout out, squall, yell |
| (verb) utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy | Synonyms: call out, cry, cry out, exclaim, outcry |
| (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, clapperclaw |
| shut | (adjective) not open | Synonyms: closed, unopen |
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| (adjective) used especially of mouth or eyes | Synonyms: closed |
| (verb) move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut | Synonyms: close |
| (verb) become closed | Synonyms: close |
| (verb) prevent from entering; shut out | Synonyms: exclude, keep out, shut out |
| shutout | (noun) a defeat in a game where one side fails to score | Synonyms: skunk |
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| sinciput | (noun) the front part of the head or skull (including the forehead) | - |
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| slut | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, strumpet, trollop |
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| (noun) a dirty untidy woman | Synonyms: slattern, slovenly woman, trollop |
| (noun) A sexually loose woman | Synonyms: ho, hoe, hussy, trollop |
| smut | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porn, porno, pornography |
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| (noun) an offensive or indecent word or phrase | Synonyms: dirty word, filth, obscenity, vulgarism |
| (noun) any fungus of the order Ustilaginales | Synonyms: smut fungus |
| (noun) destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores | - |
| (noun) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | Synonyms: carbon black, crock, lampblack, soot |
| (verb) affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn | - |
| (verb) stain with a dirty substance, such as soot | - |
| (verb) become affected with smut | - |
| (verb) make obscene | - |
| snout | (noun) a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose | Synonyms: neb |
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| (noun) beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils | Synonyms: rostrum |
| (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot |
| spout | (noun) an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain | - |
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| (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave |
| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: gush, spirt, spurt |
| sprout | (noun) a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed) | - |
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| (noun) any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud | - |
| (verb) put forth and grow sprouts or shoots | Synonyms: stock |
| (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, spud |
| stakeout | (noun) surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime) | - |
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| stout | (adjective) euphemisms for `fat' | Synonyms: portly |
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| (adjective) dependable | Synonyms: stalwart |
| (adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: hardy, stalwart, sturdy |
| (noun) a garment size for a large or heavy person | - |
| (noun) a strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops | - |
| strikeout | (noun) an out resulting from the batter getting three strikes | - |
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| strut | (noun) a proud stiff pompous gait | Synonyms: prance, swagger |
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| (noun) brace consisting of a bar or rod used to resist longitudinal compression | - |
| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, sashay, swagger, tittup |
| surtout | (noun) a man's overcoat in the style of a frock coat | - |
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| takeout | (adjective) of or involving food to be taken and eaten off the premises | Synonyms: take-away |
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| (noun) (bridge) a bid that asks your partner to bid another suit | - |
| (noun) prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises | Synonyms: takeaway, takeout food |
| talmbout | (verb) to talk about | - |
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| taut | (adjective) pulled or drawn tight | Synonyms: tight |
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| (adjective) subjected to great tension; stretched tight | - |
| thereabout | (adverb) near that place | Synonyms: thereabouts |
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| (adverb) near that time or date | Synonyms: thereabouts |
| throughout | (adverb) from first to last | Synonyms: end-to-end |
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| (adverb) used to refer to cited works | Synonyms: passim |
| throughput | (noun) output relative to input; the amount passing through a system from input to output (especially of a computer program over a period of time) | - |
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| thumbnut | (noun) a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning | Synonyms: butterfly nut, wing-nut, wing nut, wing screw |
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| tout | (noun) someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way | Synonyms: touter |
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| (noun) one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack) | Synonyms: tipster |
| (noun) someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit | Synonyms: ticket tout |
| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, vaunt |
| (verb) advertize in strongly positive terms | - |
| trout | (noun) any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons | - |
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| (noun) flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes | - |
| tryout | (noun) a test of the suitability of a performer | Synonyms: audition |
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| (noun) trying something to find out about it | Synonyms: test, trial, trial run |
| turnabout | (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reverse, reversion, turnaround |
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| (noun) a decision to reverse an earlier decision | Synonyms: change of mind, flip-flop, reversal, turnaround |
| turnout | (noun) attendance for a particular event or purpose (as to vote in an election) | - |
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| (noun) (ballet) the outward rotation of a dancer's leg from the hip | - |
| (noun) what is produced in a given time period | Synonyms: output, outturn |
| (noun) a part of a road that has been widened to allow cars to pass or park | Synonyms: widening |
| (noun) a set of clothing (with accessories) | Synonyms: getup, outfit, rig |
| (noun) a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass | Synonyms: railroad siding, sidetrack, siding |
| (noun) the group that gathers together for a particular occasion | - |
| tut | (verb) utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval | Synonyms: tsk, tut-tut |
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| umlaut | (noun) a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate a change in sound in some languages | - |
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| uncut | (adjective) not cut | - |
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| (adjective) (of pages of a book) having adjacent leaves still joined at the fore edge | - |
| (adjective) not shaped by cutting or trimming | Synonyms: rough |
| (adjective) (used of grass or vegetation) not cut down with a hand implement or machine | Synonyms: unmown |
| (adjective) not trimmed | Synonyms: untrimmed |
| (adjective) complete | Synonyms: full-length |
| (adjective) not injured by cutting | - |
| undercut | (noun) (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball | Synonyms: cut |
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| (noun) a cut made underneath to remove material | - |
| (noun) a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall | - |
| (noun) the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column | Synonyms: tenderloin |
| (noun) the material removed by a cut made underneath | - |
| (verb) strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot | - |
| (verb) cut away the underpart of | - |
| (verb) cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief | - |
| (verb) cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall | - |
| (verb) sell cheaper than one's competition | Synonyms: undersell |
| uppercut | (noun) a swinging blow directed upward (especially at an opponent's chin) | - |
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| ut | (noun) the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization | Synonyms: do, doh |
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| walkabout | (noun) nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigine | - |
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| (noun) a public stroll by a celebrity to meet people informally | - |
| (noun) a walking trip or tour | - |
| walkout | (noun) a strike in which the workers walk out | - |
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| (noun) the act of walking out (of a meeting or organization) as a sign of protest | - |
| walnut | (noun) nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell | - |
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| (noun) any of various trees of the genus Juglans | Synonyms: walnut tree |
| (noun) hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling | - |
| washout | (noun) someone who is unsuccessful | Synonyms: dud, flop |
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| (noun) the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway) | Synonyms: wash |
| (noun) the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water | - |
| waterspout | (noun) a channel through which water is discharged (especially one used for drainage from the gutters of a roof) | - |
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| (noun) a tornado passing over water and picking up a column of water and mist | - |
| (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent |
| whiteout | (noun) an arctic atmospheric condition with clouds over snow produce a uniform whiteness and objects are difficult to see; occurs when the light reflected off the snow equals the light coming through the clouds | - |
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| (verb) lose daylight visibility in heavy fog, snow, or rain | Synonyms: white-out |
| (verb) cover up with a liquid correction fluid | Synonyms: white out |
| wipeout | (noun) a spill in some sport (as a fall from a bicycle or while skiing or being capsized on a surfboard) | - |
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| (noun) an event that completely destroys something | Synonyms: demolition, destruction |
| woodcut | (noun) engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints | Synonyms: wood block, wood engraving |
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| (noun) a print made from a woodcut | Synonyms: wood engraving |
| workout | (noun) the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit | Synonyms: exercise, exercising, physical exercise, physical exertion |
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