| Word | Base word | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| aerie | aerie | any habitation at a high altitude |
| aery | aery | any habitation at a high altitude |
| airway | airway | a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers |
| airy | airy | characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms" |
| Ara | Ara | macaws |
| area | area | a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants" |
| array | array | an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics |
| arrow | arrow | a projectile with a straight thin shaft and an arrowhead on one end and stabilizing vanes on the other; intended to be shot from a bow |
| arui | arui | wild sheep of northern Africa |
| aura | aura | a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate's headquarters"; "the place had an aura of romance" |
| aurae | aura | a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate's headquarters"; "the place had an aura of romance" |
| awry | awry | not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine" |
| Bari | Bari | capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast |
| Barrie | Barrie | Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937) |
| barrow | barrow | a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels |
| beery | beery | smelling of beer |
| Beira | Beira | a port city in eastern Mozambique on the Mozambique Channel |
| beret | beret | a cap with no brim or bill; made of soft cloth |
| beroe | beroe | delicately iridescent thimble-shaped ctenophores |
| berry | berry | any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves |
| bewray | bewray | reveal unintentionally; "Her smile betrayed her true feelings" |
| biro | biro | a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper |
| bleary | bleary | indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes" |
| blurry | blurry | indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes" |
| borough | borough | an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament |
| borrow | borrow | get temporarily; "May I borrow your lawn mower?" |
| briery | briery | having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" |
| bura | bura | a Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad |
| bureau | bureau | furniture with drawers for keeping clothes |
| bureaux | bureau | furniture with drawers for keeping clothes |
| burro | burro | small donkey used as a pack animal |
| Burrow | Burrow | a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter |
| burry | burry | having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" |
| bury | bury | dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "I tried to bury these unpleasant memories" |
| cadre | cadre | a nucleus of military personnel capable of expansion |
| Cairo | Cairo | the capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa; a major port just to the south of the Nile delta; formerly the home of the Pharaohs |
| Cara | Carum | caraway |
| Carew | Carew | Englishman and Cavalier poet whose lyric poetry was favored by Charles I (1595-1639) |
| carry | carry | the act of carrying something |
| cero | cero | large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil |
| chara | chara | green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts |
| Chara | Charon | green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts |
| Chari | Chari | an African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad |
| chary | chary | characterized by great caution and wariness; "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks involved"; "a chary investor" |
| cheery | cheery | bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile" |
| cherry | cherry | a red the color of ripe cherries |
| chorea | chorea | any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs |
| cira | cira | a terrorist organization formed in Ireland in 1994 as a clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein |
| cirri | cirrus | a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile |
| claro | claro | a cigar made with light-colored tobacco |
| clary | clary | aromatic herb of southern Europe; cultivated in Great Britain as a potherb and widely as an ornamental |
| clearway | clearway | a road on which you are not allowed to stop (unless you have a breakdown) |
| Cora | Cora | (Greek mythology) daughter of Zeus and Demeter; made queen of the underworld by Pluto in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Proserpina |
| corrie | corrie | a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake |
| cowrie | cowrie | any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells |
| cowry | cowry | any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells |
| curie | curie | French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934) |
| curry | curry | (East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice |
| dairy | dairy | a farm where dairy products are produced |
| Dari | Dari | an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan |
| Darrow | Darrow | United States lawyer famous for his defense of lost causes (1857-1938) |
| dearie | dearie | a special loved one |
| deary | deary | a special loved one |
| doorway | doorway | the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close; "he stuck his head in the doorway" |
| Dory | Dory | marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters |
| doura | doura | sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa |
| dourah | dourah | sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa |
| dowry | dowry | money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage |
| dreary | dreary | causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" |
| dura | dura | the outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges |
| durra | durra | sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa |
| eerie | eerie | inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening; "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie midnight howl" |
| eery | eery | inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening; "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie midnight howl" |
| Eira | Eira | a genus of Mustelidae |
| era | era | (baseball) a measure of a pitcher's effectiveness; calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched |
| Erie | Erie | a port city on Lake Erie in northwestern Pennsylvania |
| Euro | Euro | the basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies |
| eyra | eyra | long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat |
| eyrie | eyrie | any habitation at a high altitude |
| eyry | eyry | any habitation at a high altitude |
| faerie | faerie | the enchanted realm of fairies |
| faery | faery | the enchanted realm of fairies |
| fairway | fairway | the area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut short |
| fairy | fairy | a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers |
| faro | faro | a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box |
| farrow | farrow | the production of a litter of pigs |
| ferry | ferry | transport by boat or aircraft |
| fiery | fiery | like or suggestive of fire; "a fiery desert wind"; "an igneous desert atmosphere" |
| flora | flora | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
| florae | flora | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
| Florey | Florey | British pathologist who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1898-1968) |
| Flory | Flory | United States chemist who developed methods for studying long-chain molecules (1910-1985) |
| floury | floury | resembling flour in fine powdery texture; "a floury clay" |
| flurry | flurry | a rapid active commotion |
| fora | forum | a public facility to meet for open discussion |
| foray | foray | an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence); "scientists' forays into politics" |
| furrow | furrow | a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow) |
| furry | furry | covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs; "furred animals"; "a furry teddy bear" |
| fury | fury | the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" |
| gari | gari | cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca |
| Gary | Gary | a city in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan; steel production |
| gauri | gauri | in Hinduism, goddess of purity and posterity and a benevolent aspect of Devi; the `brilliant' |
| gerea | gerea | small genus of hairy herbs with yellow flowers |
| gharry | gharry | a horse-drawn carriage in India |
| giro | giro | a British financial system in which a bank or a post office transfers money from one account to another when they receive authorization to do so |
| girru | girru | the Babylonian god of fire; often invoked in incantations against sorcery |
| glary | glary | shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" |
| glory | glory | brilliant radiant beauty; "the glory of the sunrise" |
| gory | gory | covered with blood; "a bloodstained shirt"; "a gory dagger" |
| Guaira | Guaira | a great waterfall on the border between Brazil and Paraguay |
| guru | guru | a Hindu or Buddhist religious leader and spiritual teacher |
| gyri | gyrus | a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain |
| gyro | gyro | rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction |
| hairy | hairy | hazardous and frightening; "hairy moments in the mountains" |
| Harrow | Harrow | a cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil |
| harry | harry | make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes |
| Hera | Hera | queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology; sister and wife of Zeus remembered for her jealously of the many mortal women Zeus fell in love with; identified with Roman Juno |
| hero | hero | the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem |
| hoary | hoary | covered with fine whitish hairs or down |
| hooray | hooray | a victory cheer; "let's give the team a big hurrah" |
| houri | houri | (Islam) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise |
| hurrah | hurrah | a victory cheer; "let's give the team a big hurrah" |
| hurry | hurry | the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner; "in his haste to leave he forgot his book" |
| Ira | Ira | belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) |
| jerry | jerry | offensive term for a person of German descent |
| Jewry | Jewry | Jews collectively |
| jury | jury | a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law |
| kauri | kauri | white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis |
| kaury | kaury | tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood |
| Kera | Kera | a Chadic language spoken in Chad |
| Korea | Korea | an Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean name is Dae-Han-Min-Gook or Han-Gook |
| Kura | Kura | a river in western Asia; rises in northeast Turkey and flows to the Caspian Sea |
| kuri | kurus | 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey |
| kuru | kuru | a progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned |
| lari | lari | gulls; terns; jaegers; skimmers |
| Lari | Larus | gulls; terns; jaegers; skimmers |
| Larrea | Larrea | xerophytic evergreen shrubs; South America to southwestern United States |
| leary | leary | United States psychologist who experimented with psychoactive drugs (including LSD) and became a well-known advocate of their use (1920-1996) |
| leery | leery | openly distrustful and unwilling to confide |
| lira | lira | formerly the basic unit of money in Italy; equal to 100 centesimi |
| lorry | lorry | a large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without sides |
| Lory | Lory | small brightly colored Australasian parrots having a brush-tipped tongue for feeding on nectar and soft fruits |
| Lowry | Lowry | English novelist (1909-1957) |
| Lyra | Lyra | a small constellation in the northern hemisphere near Cygnus and Draco; contains the star Vega |
| Maori | Maori | the Oceanic language spoken by the Maori in New Zealand |
| Mara | Mara | hare-like rodent of the pampas of Argentina |
| mara | marum | hare-like rodent of the pampas of Argentina |
| Mari | Mari | the Finnic language spoken by the Cheremis |
| marri | marri | very large red gum tree |
| marrow | marrow | the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones |
| marry | marry | take in marriage |
| Mary | Mary | the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics |
| Maurois | Maurois | French writer best known for his biographies (1885-1967) |
| Merry | Merry | quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze" |
| miri | miri | little known Kamarupan languages |
| miri | miro | little known Kamarupan languages |
| miro | miro | Spanish surrealist painter (1893-1983) |
| miry | miry | (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" |
| Moirae | Moira | any of the three Greek goddesses of fate or destiny; identified with the Roman Parcae and similar to the Norse Norns |
| moirae | moirae | any of the three Greek goddesses of fate or destiny; identified with the Roman Parcae and similar to the Norse Norns |
| Moirai | Moirai | any of the three Greek goddesses of fate or destiny; identified with the Roman Parcae and similar to the Norse Norns |
| moray | moray | family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked |
| Moro | Moro | a member of the predominantly Muslim people in the southern Philippines |
| morrow | morrow | the next day; "whenever he arrives she leaves on the morrow" |
| murray | murray | a southeast Australian river; flows westward and then south into the Indian Ocean at Adelaide |
| Murrow | Murrow | United States broadcast journalist remembered for his reports from London during World War II (1908-1965) |
| Mwera | Mwera | a Bantu language spoken in southern coastal Tanzania |
| naira | naira | the basic unit of money in Nigeria |
| Nara | Nara | the independent agency that oversees management of federal government records including presidential libraries and historic collections |
| narrow | narrow | a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water |
| nary | nary | (used with singular count nouns) colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'; "heard nary a sound" |
| Nauru | Nauru | a small island in the central Pacific Ocean 2,800 miles to the southwest of Hawaii; in Micronesia to the west of the Gilbert Islands |
| Nehru | Nehru | Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule; was the first prime minister of the Republic of India from 1947 to 1964 (1889-1964) |
| Nero | Nero | Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Roman Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68) |
| Norway | Norway | a constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula; achieved independence from Sweden in 1905 |
| para | para | port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin |
| parry | parry | a return punch (especially by a boxer) |
| Peary | Peary | United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920) |
| peri | peri | (Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is done |
| perry | perry | a fermented and often effervescent beverage made from juice of pears; similar in taste to hard cider |
| Peru | Peru | a republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries |
| pharaoh | pharaoh | the title of the ancient Egyptian kings |
| pleura | pleura | the thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest |
| pleura | pleuron | the thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest |
| pleurae | pleura | the thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest |
| prairie | prairie | a treeless grassy plain |
| Pterois | Pterois | lionfishes |
| purau | purau | shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament |
| puree | puree | food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender |
| pyorrhea | pyorrhea | chronic periodontitis; purulent inflammation of the teeth sockets |
| quarry | quarry | animal hunted or caught for food |
| query | query | an instance of questioning; "there was a question about my training"; "we made inquiries of all those who were present" |
| quira | quira | any of several tropical American trees some yielding economically important timber |
| Sarah | Sarah | (Old Testament) the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac |
| Saree | Saree | a dress worn primarily by Hindu women; consists of several yards of light material that is draped around the body |
| Sari | Sari | a dress worn primarily by Hindu women; consists of several yards of light material that is draped around the body |
| saury | saury | slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters |
| scarey | scarey | provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge" |
| scary | scary | provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge" |
| sclera | sclera | the whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering and protection of the eyeball |
| scurry | scurry | rushing about hastily in an undignified way |
| sera | serum | an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates |
| serow | serow | short-horned dark-coated goat antelope of mountain areas of southern and southeastern Asia |
| serra | serra | Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784) |
| Shari | Shari | an African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad |
| sherry | sherry | dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif |
| shorea | shorea | genus of Indonesian and Malaysian timber trees rich in resin |
| sierra | sierra | a Spanish mackerel of western North America |
| sirrah | sirrah | formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy; often used in anger |
| slurry | slurry | a suspension of insoluble particles (as plaster of Paris or lime or clay etc.) usually in water |
| soiree | soiree | a party of people assembled in the evening (usually at a private house) |
| sori | sorus | cluster of sporangia usually on underside of a fern frond |
| sorrow | sorrow | something that causes great unhappiness; "her death was a great grief to John" |
| sorry | sorry | causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" |
| sparrow | sparrow | small brownish European songbird |
| Sperry | Sperry | United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930) |
| spirea | spirea | any rosaceous plant of the genus Spiraea; has sprays of small white or pink flowers |
| stairway | stairway | a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps |
| starry | starry | abounding with or resembling stars; "a starry night"; "starry illumination" |
| storey | storey | a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?" |
| Story | Story | a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?" |
| sura | sura | the muscular back part of the shank |
| surrey | surrey | a light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; has two or four seats |
| Taira | Taira | long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central America and South America |
| tara | tara | a village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin); seat of Irish kings until 6th century |
| taro | taro | tropical starchy tuberous root |
| tarot | tarot | any of a set of (usually 72) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used by fortunetellers |
| tarry | tarry | leave slowly and hesitantly |
| tayra | tayra | long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central America and South America |
| teary | teary | with eyes full of tears |
| Tera | Tera | a three-tone Chadic language |
| terry | terry | a pile fabric (usually cotton) with uncut loops on both sides; used to make bath towels and bath robes |
| Thoreau | Thoreau | United States writer and social critic (1817-1862) |
| thorough | thorough | painstakingly careful and accurate; "our accountant is thorough"; "thorough research" |
| tiara | tiara | a jeweled headdress worn by women on formal occasions |
| tiro | tiro | someone new to a field or activity |
| torah | torah | (Judaism) the scroll of parchment on which the first five books of the Hebrew Scripture is written; is used in a synagogue during services |
| tori | torus | commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column |
| tory | tory | an American who favored the British side during the American Revolution |
| tyro | tyro | someone new to a field or activity |
| urea | urea | the chief solid component of mammalian urine; synthesized from ammonia and carbon dioxide and used as fertilizer and in animal feed and in plastics |
| Urey | Urey | United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981) |
| vara | vara | a Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities |
| Varro | Varro | Roman scholar (116-27 BC) |
| vary | vary | become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season" |
| veery | veery | tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song |
| very | very | precisely as stated; "the very center of town" |
| wary | wary | marked by keen caution and watchful prudence; "they were wary in their movements"; "a wary glance at the black clouds"; "taught to be wary of strangers" |
| weary | weary | exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" |
| wherry | wherry | light rowboat for use in racing or for transporting goods and passengers in inland waters and harbors |
| wiry | wiry | of hair that resembles wire in stiffness; "wiry red hair" |
| worry | worry | something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness; "New York traffic is a constant concern"; "it's a major worry" |
| yarrow | yarrow | ubiquitous strong-scented mat-forming Eurasian herb of wasteland, hedgerow or pasture having narrow serrate leaves and small usually white florets; widely naturalized in North America |
| zero | zero | the sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing |
| zori | zori | a sandal attached to the foot by a thong over the toes |
| Word | Base word | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| acari | acarus | any of several mites of the order Acarina |
| achira | achira | canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained |
| acorea | acorea | absence of the pupil in an eye |
| agora | agora | a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece |
| ahura | ahura | (Zoroastrianism) title for benevolent deities |
| alary | alary | having or resembling wings |
| algerie | algerie | a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim; colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s |
| Amhara | Amhara | a member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia |
| Amora | Amora | one of a group of rabbis (active AD 250-500) who discussed the Mishnaic law in the law schools of Palestine and Mesopotamia where they explained and applied earlier teachings and whose discussions are recorded in the Talmud; they emphasized the study of Torah and the importance of personal action and the fulfillment of the commandments |
| amphora | amphora | an ancient jar with two handles and a narrow neck; used to hold oil or wine |
| amphorae | amphora | an ancient jar with two handles and a narrow neck; used to hold oil or wine |
| andira | andira | small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa |
| Andorra | Andorra | a small republic in the eastern Pyrenees between Spain and France |
| Andvari | Andvari | (Norse mythology) a dwarf who possessed a treasure that was stolen by Loki |
| Angara | Angara | a river in southeastern Siberia that flows northwest from Lake Baikal to become a tributary of the Yenisei River |
| Angora | Angora | a long-haired breed of cat similar to the Persian cat |
| Ankara | Ankara | the capital of Turkey; located in west-central Turkey; it was formerly known as Angora and is the home of Angora goats |
| Anura | Anura | frogs, toads, tree toads |
| aperea | aperea | South American cavy; possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig |
| apery | apery | the act of mimicking; imitative behavior |
| archery | archery | the sport of shooting arrows with a bow |
| areaway | areaway | a passageway between buildings or giving access to a basement |
| Aria | Aria | an elaborate song for solo voice |
| armory | armory | a place where arms are manufactured |
| armoury | armoury | a place where arms are manufactured |
| arroyo | arroyo | a stream or brook |
| artery | artery | a major thoroughfare that bears important traffic |
| Aruru | Aruru | mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic; identified with Sumerian Ki and Ninkhursag |
| Asmara | Asmara | the capital of Eritrea |
| asura | asura | earlier a god; later a demon; counterpart of Zoroastrian Ahura |
| augury | augury | an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from God" |
| aurora | aurora | (Roman mythology) goddess of the dawn; counterpart of Greek Eos |
| aurorae | aurora | (Roman mythology) goddess of the dawn; counterpart of Greek Eos |
| aweary | aweary | physically and mentally fatigued; "`aweary' is archaic" |
| Azeri | Azeri | an ethnic group living in Azerbaijan |
| bain-marie | bain-marie | a large pan that is filled with hot water; smaller pans containing food can be set in the larger pan to keep food warm or to cook food slowly |
| bakery | bakery | a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold |
| baneberry | baneberry | a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries |
| Barbarea | Barbarea | biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate regions: winter cress |
| Barbary | Barbary | a region of northern Africa on the Mediterranean coast between Egypt and Gibraltar; was used as a base for pirates from the 16th to 19th centuries |
| barberry | barberry | any of numerous plants of the genus Berberis having prickly stems and yellow flowers followed by small red berries |
| barilla | barilla | Algerian plant formerly burned to obtain calcium carbonate |
| barrio | barrio | an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country |
| barye | barye | the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter |
| battery | battery | an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact |
| bayberry | bayberry | deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries |
| bearberry | bearberry | chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas |
| beggary | beggary | a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) |
| Beria | Beria | Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin; was executed by his associates in the power struggle following Stalin's death (1899-1953) |
| Bessera | Bessera | small genus of cormous perennials of Mexico; sometimes placed in family Alliaceae |
| bestiary | bestiary | a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals |
| Bihari | Bihari | the Indic language spoken in Bihar (and by some people in Pakistan and Bangladesh) |
| bilberry | bilberry | blue-black berries similar to American blueberries |
| binary | binary | a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system; "the same source code can be compiled to produce different binaries for different operating systems" |
| bindery | bindery | a workshop where books are bound |
| bitchery | bitchery | aggressive remarks and behavior like that of a spiteful malicious woman |
| blackberry | blackberry | large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus |
| bladdery | bladdery | resembling a bladder |
| blaeberry | blaeberry | erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries |
| blistery | blistery | covered with small blisters |
| bloodberry | bloodberry | bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas |
| Bloomsbury | Bloomsbury | a city district of central London laid out in garden squares |
| blubbery | blubbery | swollen with fat; "blubber cheeks"; "blubber lips"; "a coarse blubbery individual" |
| blueberry | blueberry | sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants |
| blustery | blustery | blowing in violent and abrupt bursts; "blustering (or blusterous) winds of Patagonia"; "a cold blustery day"; "a gusty storm with strong sudden rushes of wind" |
| bolero | bolero | a Spanish dance in triple time accompanied by guitar and castanets |
| Bomarea | Bomarea | large genus of tropical American vines having showy often spotted umbellate flowers; sometimes placed in family Liliaceae especially subfamily Alstroemeriaceae |
| bouldery | bouldery | abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches" |
| boundary | boundary | the greatest possible degree of something; "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability" |
| bowery | bowery | a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts |
| boxberry | boxberry | spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil |
| bracero | bracero | a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II |
| Brachyura | Brachyura | an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface |
| Bradbury | Bradbury | United States writer of science fiction (born 1920) |
| brasserie | brasserie | a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap |
| bravery | bravery | a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear |
| bravura | bravura | brilliant and showy technical skill; "in a final bravura the ballerina appeared to be floating in water"; "the music ends with a display of bravura" |
| brewery | brewery | a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation |
| briary | briary | having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" |
| bribery | bribery | the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage |
| buckaroo | buckaroo | local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) |
| buckeroo | buckeroo | local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) |
| buggery | buggery | intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman |
| bunchberry | bunchberry | creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska |
| Burberry | Burberry | a lightweight belted raincoat typically made of tan gabardine with a distinctive tartan lining; named for the original manufacturer |
| burglary | burglary | entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property |
| bursary | bursary | the treasury of a public institution or religious order |
| bursera | bursera | type genus of Burseraceae; tropical and subtropical American shrubs and trees some yielding timber and gum elemi |
| butchery | butchery | the savage and excessive killing of many people |
| buttery | buttery | a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals |
| cabaret | cabaret | a series of acts at a night club |
| Caesarea | Caesarea | an ancient seaport in northwestern Israel; an important Roman city in ancient Palestine |
| caesura | caesura | a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line |
| caesurae | caesura | a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line |
| Caldera | Caldera | a large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression |
| Calgary | Calgary | the largest city in southern Alberta; an oil and gas center and a technology center for Alberta and most of western Canada |
| callirhoe | callirhoe | small genus of North American herbs having usually red or purple flowers |
| calorie | calorie | unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure |
| calvary | calvary | any experience that causes intense suffering |
| camera | camera | equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other) |
| camerae | camera | equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other) |
| camorra | camorra | a secret society in Naples notorious for violence and blackmail |
| Canara | Canara | a historical region of southwestern India on the west coast |
| canary | canary | any of several small Old World finches |
| Canberra | Canberra | the capital of Australia; located in southeastern Australia |
| cannery | cannery | a factory where food is canned |
| caraway | caraway | leaves used sparingly in soups and stews |
| car-ferry | car-ferry | a ferry that transports motor vehicles |
| Carya | Carya | genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and China |
| cascara | cascara | dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative |
| cassiri | cassiri | a drink resembling beer; made from fermented cassava juice |
| Cathari | Cathari | a Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; believers in Albigensianism |
| causerie | causerie | light informal conversation for social occasions |
| cautery | cautery | the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing |
| celery | celery | stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning |
| centaurea | centaurea | knapweed; star thistle |
| centaury | centaury | any plant of the genus Centaurea |
| century | century | ten 10s |
| chancery | chancery | an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records |
| chandlery | chandlery | a storeroom where candles are kept |
| Charleroi | Charleroi | city in southwestern Belgium; center of an industrial region |
| chateura | chateura | a genus of Apodidae |
| cheerio | cheerio | a farewell remark; "they said their good-byes" |
| chickeree | chickeree | far western United States counterpart of the red squirrel |
| chicory | chicory | crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste |
| Chimaera | Chimaera | a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail |
| Chimera | Chimera | a grotesque product of the imagination |
| chimera | chimera | a grotesque product of the imagination |
| chivaree | chivaree | a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple |
| chlorura | chlorura | towhees |
| cholera | cholera | an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food |
| chrysaora | chrysaora | a genus of Scyphozoa |
| cicero | cicero | a Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC) |
| cirio | cirio | candlewood of Mexico and southwestern California having tall columnar stems and bearing honey-scented creamy yellow flowers |
| clattery | clattery | a rattling sound as of hard things striking together; "a clattery typewriter"; "the clattery sound of dishes" |
| clearstory | clearstory | part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light |
| cloudberry | cloudberry | creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries |
| colliery | colliery | a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it |
| conferee | conferee | a member of a conference |
| conjury | conjury | calling up a spirit or devil |
| contrary | contrary | a logical relation such that two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false |
| cookery | cookery | the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" |
| coppery | coppery | of something having the color of copper |
| corduroy | corduroy | a cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton |
| coria | corium | the deep vascular inner layer of the skin |
| corpora | corpus | the main part of an organ or other bodily structure |
| costmary | costmary | leaves used sparingly (because of bitter overtones) in sauces and soups and stuffings |
| coterie | coterie | an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose |
| cowberry | cowberry | tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller |
| cranberry | cranberry | very tart red berry used for sauce or juice |
| creamery | creamery | a workplace where dairy products (butter and cheese etc.) are produced or sold |
| crockery | crockery | tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively |
| crowberry | crowberry | a low evergreen shrub with small purple flowers and black berrylike fruit |
| curia | curia | (Roman Catholic Church) the central administration governing the Roman Catholic Church |
| curio | curio | something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting |
| cursory | cursory | hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy" |
| cutlery | cutlery | tableware implements for cutting and eating food |
| Cynara | Cynara | artichoke; cardoon |
| cyrilla | cyrilla | shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage |
| Cytherea | Cytherea | goddess of love and beauty and daughter of Zeus in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Venus |
| daiquiri | daiquiri | a cocktail made with rum and lime or lemon juice |
| darmera | darmera | one species |
| datura | datura | thorn apple |
| deanery | deanery | the position or office of a dean |
| deerberry | deerberry | small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer |
| Delairea | Delairea | one species: German ivy |
| denary | denary | numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten; "the decimal system" |
| dewberry | dewberry | blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes |
| diarrhea | diarrhea | frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor |
| diary | diary | a personal journal (as a physical object) |
| Diderot | Diderot | French philosopher who was a leading figure of the Enlightenment in France; principal editor of an encyclopedia that disseminated the scientific and philosophical knowledge of the time (1713-1784) |
| dietary | dietary | a regulated daily food allowance |
| dinero | dinero | informal terms for money |
| Diptera | Diptera | a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies |
| diptera | dipteron | a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies |
| disarray | disarray | untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance) |
| doddery | doddery | mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail" |
| dowery | dowery | money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage |
| drapery | drapery | hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) |
| drollery | drollery | a quaint and amusing jest |
| drosera | drosera | the type genus of Droseraceae including many low bog-inhabiting insectivorous plants |
| drudgery | drudgery | hard monotonous routine work |
| dungaree | dungaree | a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric |
| dupery | dupery | something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage |
| durio | durio | a genus of tall Asian trees of the family Bombacaceae |
| eatery | eatery | a building where people go to eat |
| Emery | Emery | a hard grey-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite; used as an abrasive (especially as a coating on paper) |
| enquiry | enquiry | a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest |
| equerry | equerry | a personal attendant of the British royal family |
| euphory | euphory | a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation |
| every | every | (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception; "every person is mortal"; "every party is welcome"; "had every hope of success"; "every chance of winning" |
| expiry | expiry | the event of dying or departure from life; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren" |
| factory | factory | a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing |
| fakery | fakery | the act of faking (or the product of faking) |
| faraway | faraway | very far away in space or time; "faraway mountains"; "the faraway future"; "troops landing on far-off shores"; "far-off happier times" |
| fauntleroy | fauntleroy | an excessively polite and well-dressed boy |
| feathery | feathery | adorned with feathers or plumes |
| fedora | fedora | a hat made of felt with a creased crown |
| femora | femur | the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee |
| feria | feria | (in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint |
| Ferrara | Ferrara | a city in northern Italy; "in the 13th century Ferrara was a center of Renaissance learning and the arts" |
| filaree | filaree | European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage |
| finery | finery | elaborate or showy attire and accessories |
| fishery | fishery | a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold |
| flattery | flattery | excessive or insincere praise |
| Florio | Florio | English lexicographer remembered for his Italian and English dictionary (1553-1625) |
| flowery | flowery | marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton |
| flummery | flummery | meaningless ceremonies and flattery |
| foolery | foolery | foolish or senseless behavior |
| forestiera | forestiera | any plant of the genus Forestiera |
| forgery | forgery | criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud |
| Fourier | Fourier | French sociologist and reformer who hoped to achieve universal harmony by reorganizing society (1772-1837) |
| foxberry | foxberry | low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries |
| frasera | frasera | genus of North American herbs: columbo; includes some species sometimes placed in genus Swertia |
| friary | friary | a monastery of friars |
| frippery | frippery | something of little value or significance |
| Gainsborough | Gainsborough | English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788) |
| gallberry | gallberry | evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries |
| gallery | gallery | a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein" |
| gaucherie | gaucherie | a socially awkward or tactless act |
| gaudery | gaudery | cheap or pretentious or vain display |
| Gemara | Gemara | the second part of the Talmud consisting primarily of commentary on the Mishna |
| genera | genus | a general kind of something; "ignore the genus communism" |
| gerbera | gerbera | genus of South African or Asiatic herbs: African daisies |
| gingery | gingery | (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color; "a man with gingery hair and bright blue eyes"; "a ginger kitten" |
| glengarry | glengarry | a Scottish cap with straight sides and a crease along the top from front to back; worn by Highlanders as part of military dress |
| glimmery | glimmery | shining softly and intermittently; "glimmery candlelight" |
| glittery | glittery | having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term" |
| glossary | glossary | an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field |
| Goldsboro | Goldsboro | a town that is a major tobacco center in eastern North Carolina |
| Gomorrah | Gomorrah | (Old Testament) an ancient city near the Dead Sea that (along with Sodom) was destroyed by God for the vice and depravity of its inhabitants |
| Gomorrha | Gomorrha | (Old Testament) an ancient city near the Dead Sea that (along with Sodom) was destroyed by God for the vice and depravity of its inhabitants |
| gonorrhea | gonorrhea | a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra |
| gooseberry | gooseberry | currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies |
| gorilla | gorilla | largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa |
| granary | granary | a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed |
| greenery | greenery | green foliage |
| Greensboro | Greensboro | a city of north central North Carolina |
| gregory | gregory | (Roman Catholic Church) an Italian pope distinguished for his spiritual and temporal leadership; a saint and Doctor of the Church (540?-604) |
| grocery | grocery | (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer |
| groundberry | groundberry | creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil |
| grouseberry | grouseberry | shrub of northwestern North America bearing red berries |
| guacharo | guacharo | nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter |
| Guarneri | Guarneri | founder of a family of Italian violin makers (1626?-1698) |
| Guarnieri | Guarnieri | founder of a family of Italian violin makers (1626?-1698) |
| guerilla | guerilla | a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment |
| guerrilla | guerrilla | a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment |
| Guevara | Guevara | an Argentine revolutionary leader who was Fidel Castro's chief lieutenant in the Cuban revolution; active in other Latin American countries; was captured and executed by the Bolivian army (1928-1967) |
| gunnery | gunnery | guns collectively |
| gymnura | gymnura | butterfly rays |
| gynura | gynura | genus of Old World tropical herbs: velvet plants |
| hackberry | hackberry | small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States |
| haftarah | haftarah | a short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah |
| haftorah | haftorah | a short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah |
| hagberry | hagberry | small cherry much liked by birds |
| handbarrow | handbarrow | a rectangular frame with handles at both ends; carried by two people |
| haphtarah | haphtarah | a short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah |
| hatchery | hatchery | a place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs); "the park authorities operated a trout hatchery" |
| hedera | hedera | Old World woody vines |
| hegari | hegari | Sudanese sorghums having white seeds; one variety grown in southwestern United States |
| hegira | hegira | a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment |
| Hejira | Hejira | a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment |
| helleri | helleri | freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish |
| Herero | Herero | a Banto language spoken by the Herero in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola |
| heuchera | heuchera | genus of North American herbs with basal cordate or orbicular leaves and small panicled flowers |
| hickory | hickory | American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts |
| Hillary | Hillary | New Zealand mountaineer who in 1953 first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919) |
| history | history | the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view" |
| honoree | honoree | a recipient of honors in recognition of noteworthy accomplishments |
| horary | horary | relating to the hours; "the horary cycle" |
| hosiery | hosiery | socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear) |
| humeri | humerus | bone extending from the shoulder to the elbow |
| Hungary | Hungary | a republic in central Europe |
| hymnary | hymnary | a songbook containing a collection of hymns |
| injury | injury | wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted |
| inkberry | inkberry | evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries |
| inquiry | inquiry | a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest |
| ivory | ivory | a shade of white the color of bleached bones |
| jabiru | jabiru | large white stork of warm regions of the world especially America |
| jaggary | jaggary | unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap |
| jaggery | jaggery | unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap |
| jagghery | jagghery | unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap |
| jamberry | jamberry | annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes |
| jamboree | jamboree | a gay festivity |
| japery | japery | acting like a clown or buffoon |
| jittery | jittery | being in a tense state |
| jobbery | jobbery | corruptness among public officials |
| joinery | joinery | the craft of a joiner |
| jugglery | jugglery | the performance of a juggler |
| juneberry | juneberry | edible purple or red berries |
| kafiri | kafiri | a Dardic language spoken by the Kafir in northeastern Afghanistan |
| Kanara | Kanara | a historical region of southwestern India on the west coast |
| kangaroo | kangaroo | any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail |
| Kashmiri | Kashmiri | the official state language of Kashmir |
| Katari | Katari | a native or inhabitant of Qatar |
| kedgeree | kedgeree | a dish of rice and hard-boiled eggs and cooked flaked fish |
| Khepera | Khepera | Egyptian god of the morning sun; creator |
| khesari | khesari | European annual grown for forage; seeds used for food in India and for stock elsewhere |
| knavery | knavery | lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing |
| knobkerrie | knobkerrie | a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa |
| knobkerry | knobkerry | a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa |
| lathery | lathery | resembling lather or covered with lather |
| leathery | leathery | resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable |
| lechery | lechery | unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity |
| lempira | lempira | the basic unit of money in Honduras; equal to 100 centavos |
| leucorrhea | leucorrhea | discharge of white mucous material from the vagina; often an indication of infection |
| leukorrhea | leukorrhea | discharge of white mucous material from the vagina; often an indication of infection |
| library | library | a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study |
| Lindera | Lindera | aromatic evergreen or deciduous dioecious shrubs or trees of eastern Asia and North America |
| lingberry | lingberry | low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries |
| lingerie | lingerie | women's underwear and nightclothes |
| listera | listera | genus of terrestrial orchids having usually a single pair of broad shining leaves near the middle of the stem; found in temperate Asia and North America and Europe |
| logorrhea | logorrhea | pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking |
| lottery | lottery | players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots |
| loup-garou | loup-garou | a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again |
| luxury | luxury | something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity |
| Maclura | Maclura | yellowwood trees or shrubs |
| madeira | madeira | an amber dessert wine from the Madeira Islands |
| makaira | makaira | marlins |
| maleberry | maleberry | deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers |
| Malory | Malory | English writer who published a translation of romances about King Arthur taken from French and other sources (died in 1471) |
| mammary | mammary | of or relating to the milk-giving gland of the female |
| mandara | mandara | a Chadic language spoken in the Mandara mountains in Cameroon; has only two vowels |
| maria | mare | a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon |
| maria | maria | a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon |
| Maria | Marion | a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon |
| marlberry | marlberry | tropical American shrub or small tree with brown wood and dark berries |
| Marmara | Marmara | an inland sea in northwestern Turkey; linked to the Black Sea by the Bosporus and linked to the Aegean by the Dardanelles |
| Marmora | Marmora | an inland sea in northwestern Turkey; linked to the Black Sea by the Bosporus and linked to the Aegean by the Dardanelles |
| mascara | mascara | makeup that is used to darken and thicken the eye lashes |
| Maseru | Maseru | the capital of Lesotho; located in northwestern Lesotho |
| Masora | Masora | a vast body of textual criticism of the Hebrew Scriptures including notes on features of writing and on the occurrence of certain words and on variant sources and instructions for pronunciation and other comments that were written between AD 600 and 900 by Jewish scribes in the margins or at the end of texts |
| Masorah | Masorah | a vast body of textual criticism of the Hebrew Scriptures including notes on features of writing and on the occurrence of certain words and on variant sources and instructions for pronunciation and other comments that were written between AD 600 and 900 by Jewish scribes in the margins or at the end of texts |
| mastery | mastery | the act of mastering or subordinating someone |
| mealberry | mealberry | evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn |
| memory | memory | an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached" |
| menorah | menorah | (Judaism) a candelabrum with nine branches; used during the Hanukkah festival |
| menorrhea | menorrhea | flow of blood from the uterus; occurs at roughly monthly intervals during a woman's reproductive years |
| Menura | Menura | type and sole genus of the family Menuridae |
| Menurae | Menura | lyrebirds and scrubbirds |
| menurae | menurae | lyrebirds and scrubbirds |
| Mercouri | Mercouri | Greek film actress (1925-1994) |
| mercury | mercury | temperature measured by a mercury thermometer; "the mercury was falling rapidly" |
| Mindoro | Mindoro | a mountainous island in the central Philippines |
| miscarry | miscarry | suffer a miscarriage |
| misery | misery | a feeling of intense unhappiness; "she was exhausted by her misery and grief" |
| mismarry | mismarry | marry an unsuitable partner |
| Missouri | Missouri | a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri |
| mockery | mockery | humorous or satirical mimicry |
| Mohria | Mohria | African terrestrial ferns |
| mojarra | mojarra | small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters |
| Monera | Monera | prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens; because of lack of consensus on how to divide the organisms into phyla informal names are used for the major divisions |
| monstera | monstera | tropical cylindrical fruit resembling a pinecone with pineapple-banana flavor |
| Monterey | Monterey | a town in western California to the south of San Francisco on a peninsula at the southern end of Monterey Bay |
| Monterrey | Monterrey | an industrial city in northeastern Mexico |
| motorway | motorway | a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic |
| mulberry | mulberry | sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus |
| mummery | mummery | meaningless ceremonies and flattery |
| murderee | murderee | a victim who is murdered |
| Murillo | Murillo | Spanish painter (1617-1682) |
| muscari | muscari | sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae |
| Mystery | Mystery | something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets" |
| Nagari | Nagari | a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi |
| Nakuru | Nakuru | a city in western Kenya; commercial center of an agricultural region |
| namtaru | namtaru | a demon personifying death; messenger of the underworld goddess Ereshkigal bringing death to mankind |
| napery | napery | linens for the dining table |
| nectary | nectary | a gland (often a protuberance or depression) that secretes nectar |
| newari | newari | Himalayish language spoken in the Kathmandu valley of Nepal |
| nonhairy | nonhairy | without hair; "tinea corporis is a fungal infection of the nonhairy parts of the skin" |
| noria | noria | a water wheel with buckets attached to the rim; used to raise water for transfer to an irrigation channel |
| notary | notary | someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions |
| nunnery | nunnery | the convent of a community of nuns |
| nursery | nursery | a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions |
| O'Hara | O'Hara | United States writer (1905-1970) |
| ollari | ollari | a Dravidian language spoken in south central India |
| opera | opera | a building where musical dramas are performed |
| opera | opus | a building where musical dramas are performed |
| Oreo | Oreo | chocolate cookie with white cream filling |
| Oriya | Oriya | a Magadhan language that is spoken by the Oriya and is the official language of the Indian state of Orissa |
| ornery | ornery | having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers |
| orrery | orrery | planetarium consisting of an apparatus that illustrates the relative positions and motions of bodies in the solar system by rotation and revolution of balls moved by wheelwork; sometimes incorporated in a clock |
| ostiary | ostiary | someone who guards an entrance |
| outlawry | outlawry | illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law |
| ovary | ovary | (vertebrates) one of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone |
| oxyura | oxyura | ruddy duck |
| packera | packera | genus of American of east Asian perennial herbs with yellow to orange or red flower rays; sometimes included in genus Senecio |
| palmyra | palmyra | tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving |
| Pandora | Pandora | (Greek mythology) the first woman; created by Hephaestus on orders from Zeus who presented her to Epimetheus along with a box filled with evils |
| panthera | panthera | lions; leopards; snow leopards; jaguars; tigers; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers |
| papery | papery | thin and paperlike; "papery leaves"; "wasps that make nests of papery material" |
| papyri | papyrus | a document written on papyrus |
| pariah | pariah | a person who is rejected (from society or home) |
| passero | passero | a naval battle in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Passero in which the Spanish navy was destroyed by France and England while attempting to recover Sicily and Sardinia from Italy (1719) |
| peccary | peccary | nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America |
| penury | penury | a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" |
| peppery | peppery | having the piquant burning taste of peppers; "corn chips with peppery salsa" |
| perilla | perilla | small genus of Asiatic herbs |
| perjury | perjury | criminal offense of making false statements under oath |
| pessary | pessary | a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix |
| petchary | petchary | a kingbird that breeds in the southeastern United States and winters in tropical America; similar to but larger than the eastern kingbird |
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