| anchovy | (noun) small herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide | - |
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| (noun) tiny fishes usually canned or salted; used for hors d'oeuvres or as seasoning in sauces | - |
| bevy | (noun) a flock of birds (especially when gathered close together on the ground) | - |
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| (noun) a large gathering of people of a particular type | - |
| cavy | (noun) short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent | - |
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| chevvy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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| chevy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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| chivvy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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| chivy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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| curvy | (adjective) having curves | Synonyms: curvey |
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| (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
| divvy | (noun) short for dividend; especially one paid by a cooperative society | - |
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| envy | (noun) spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: invidia |
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| (noun) a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another | Synonyms: enviousness |
| (verb) be envious of; set one's heart on | Synonyms: begrudge |
| (verb) feel envious towards; admire enviously | - |
| gravy | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, manna from heaven, windfall |
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| (noun) the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added | Synonyms: pan gravy |
| (noun) a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats | - |
| groovy | (adjective) (British informal) very chic | Synonyms: swagger |
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| (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
| heavy | (adjective) of comparatively great physical weight or density | - |
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| (adjective) marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness | - |
| (adjective) unusually great in degree or quantity or number | - |
| (adjective) of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment | - |
| (adjective) (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight | - |
| (adjective) of great intensity or power or force | - |
| (adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: lowering, sullen, threatening |
| (adjective) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained | Synonyms: clayey, cloggy |
| (adjective) (of sleep) deep and complete | Synonyms: profound, sound, wakeless |
| (adjective) lacking lightness or liveliness | Synonyms: leaden |
| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
| (adjective) usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it | Synonyms: fleshy, overweight |
| (adjective) full of; bearing great weight | Synonyms: weighed down |
| (adjective) full and loud and deep | Synonyms: sonorous |
| (adjective) large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work | - |
| (adjective) slow and laborious because of weight | Synonyms: lumbering, ponderous |
| (adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, grievous, weighty |
| (adjective) dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal | - |
| (adjective) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors | Synonyms: hard, intemperate |
| (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large, with child |
| (adjective) sharply inclined | - |
| (adjective) made of fabric having considerable thickness | - |
| (adjective) (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain | - |
| (adjective) requiring or showing effort | Synonyms: labored, laboured |
| (adjective) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter | Synonyms: dense, impenetrable |
| (adjective) prodigious | Synonyms: big |
| (adjective) of relatively large extent and density | - |
| (noun) a serious (or tragic) role in a play | - |
| (noun) an actor who plays villainous roles | - |
| (adverb) slowly as if burdened by much weight | Synonyms: heavily |
| ivy | (noun) Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits | Synonyms: common ivy, English ivy, Hedera helix |
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| levy | (noun) the act of drafting into military service | Synonyms: levy en masse |
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| (noun) a charge imposed and collected | - |
| (verb) cause to assemble or enlist in military | Synonyms: raise, recruit |
| (verb) impose and collect | Synonyms: impose |
| navvy | (noun) a laborer who is obliged to do menial work | Synonyms: drudge, galley slave, peon |
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| navy | (noun) a dark shade of blue | Synonyms: dark blue, navy blue |
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| (noun) an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare | Synonyms: naval forces |
| nervy | (adjective) showing or requiring courage and contempt of danger | - |
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| (adjective) offensively bold | Synonyms: brash, cheeky |
| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, overstrung, restive, uptight |
| peavy | (noun) a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs | Synonyms: cant dog, dog hook, peavey |
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| privy | (adjective) (followed by `to') informed about something secret or not generally known | - |
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| (adjective) hidden from general view or use | Synonyms: secluded, secret |
| (noun) a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate | Synonyms: earth-closet, jakes, outhouse |
| (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lav, lavatory, toilet |
| savvy | (noun) the cognitive condition of someone who understands | Synonyms: apprehension, discernment, understanding |
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| (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok |
| scurvy | (adjective) of the most contemptible kind | Synonyms: abject, low-down, low, miserable, scummy |
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| (noun) a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) | Synonyms: scorbutus |
| shelvy | (adjective) full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals | Synonyms: reefy, shelfy, shoaly |
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| skivvy | (noun) a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work | Synonyms: slavey |
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| wavy | (adjective) (of hair) having waves | - |
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| (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkled, crinkly, rippled, wavelike |