by way of an update...
Recently I've been parsing world English dictionaries to compile a list of nouns and their plurals - it's going well - around half a million word pairs so far.
Lately I've been concentrating on UK dictionaries, (they do seem to be under-represented on the web - which is a shame), and some words have been flagged up as problematic - this is a list of them here.
Every first word on each line is listed in the dictionaries as having a noun form, although its usage may well be by now obsolete,
sometimes the spelling is a variant and likewise the hypenation (eg. goose-flesh ~ goose flesh ~ gooseflesh, and second hand ~ second-hand ~ secondhand),
any succeding words on each line, following the tilde (~), are mostly nouns, derived from, or related to, one of the meanings of the first word.
It's a bit of a strange mix. Some words are so obvious you'd never need to Google them - others return no search results at all - but, if you like word lists, I hope you'll find this one of some interest.
(If you're looking for online definitions many libraries in the UK have an arrangement with the Oxford English Dictionary whereby you can use your library card number to log in to the OED website - contact your library for details)
All diachritics, grammatical 'foreign accents', have been replaced with their nearest manual-typewriter equivalent.
aandblom ~ avondbloem
abacost
abeng
about-turn
abzyme
aeviternity ~ eviternity
affamishment
agar-agar ~ agar ~ agarose
ale-hoof
alkalide
allective
am-dram
amino acid ~ aminoacid ~ amino-acid
anacronym
annate ~ annat
ante-room
ante-temple
anti-emetic ~ antemetic
apartotel ~ apart-hotel
apple-pie ~ apple-pie-plant ~ apple-pie bed ~ apple-pie order
apron-string ~ apron-string hold ~ apron-string tenure ~ tied to the apron-strings of
aqua fortis ~ aquafortis
aqua regia ~ aqua regis
aqua vitae ~ aqua-vitae
arboricide
armalcolite
art house ~ art-house
art nouveau
at-bat
at-home
at-oneness
atamasco lily
auto-eroticism
auto-erotism
auto-suggestion
avant-garde ~ avant-gardism ~ avant-gardist
axle-tree
aye-aye
b-ball
b-boy
baba ganoush ~ baba ghanouj
back seat ~ take a back seat ~ back-seat driver
back-down
back-sword
ballotin
balls-up
bandy-bandy
banjolin ~ banjoline
bar mitzvah ~ Bar mitzvah
bar-b-q
barley-corn ~ John Barleycorn
bas-relief ~ bass-relief ~ base relief
base-court
basset-horn
bat mitzvah ~ Bat mitzvah
bel canto
benday process ~ Ben Day process
bez-antler ~ bez tine
bi-amping
bib-cock
bibble-babble
bicky ~ bikky
bio-electricity
biotecture
bitter-sweet ~ bittersweet ~ climbing bitter-sweet ~ false bitter-sweet ~ American bitter-sweet ~ staff vine ~ bitter-sweeting
blast-off
bleu celeste
bling-bling
blooter
blueism ~ bluism
bo-peep
bo-tree ~ peepul ~ pipal
bob-wire
bobby-dazzler
bon-bon ~ bonbonniere
bona fides
bonny-clabber
boogie-woogie
bord-land
bossa nova
boulderstone
break-in
break-off
breitschwanz
brekker
bruvver
buer
bull-dike ~ bull-diker
bully-tree ~ bullet-tree
bumble-bee
bumble-puppy
bunk-up
bunny-hop
burrel-fly
butobarbitone
by-blow
by-election
by-end
by-form
by-lane
by-law ~ bye-law ~ bylawman
by-passer
by-place
by-product
by-room
by-street
by-talk
by-time
by-walk
by-work
bye-bye ~ bye-byes
ca-ca
cad-bait ~ cod-bait
can-hooks
cap'n
carrick bend
carry-on
castelry
cater-cousin
ceneme ~ keneme ~ cenematics
cereologist ~ cereology
cereopsis ~ cereopsis goose
cha-cha ~ cha-cha-cha
chance-medley
charley horse
charter-party
chess-apple
chess-tree
cheval-glass
chi-square ~ chi-square test
chick-pea ~ chick-pease
chikan ~ chicken
chit-chat
choo-choo
choola ~ chula
chow mein
chow-chow
chuck-a-luck
chuck-will's-widow
cirl bunting
clean-out
clean-up
clergess
clip-clop ~ clippety-clop
close-up
clot-bur
clout-nail
clove hitch
co-author ~ co-authorship
co-executor ~ co-executrix
co-latitude
co-op
co-optation ~ cooptation
co-precipitation
co-presence
co-prosperity ~ co-prosperity sphere
co-religionist ~ coreligionist
co-respondent ~ corespondent ~ co-respondent's shoes
co-rival ~ co-rivalry
co-signatory ~ cosignatory
co-star
co-trimoxazole
coal-tit ~ cole-tit ~ coalmouse ~ coal-titmouse
cocculus indicus ~ cocculus india
cock-a-leekie ~ cocky-leekie ~ cocky-leeky
cock-eye ~ cockeye pilot
cock-horse
cock-loft
cock-up
cockyolly ~ cockyolly bird
coco-plum
cocobay
cocus ~ cocus-wood
coenoby ~ cenoby
cognoscence
colombophile
come-on
come-uppance
common law ~ common-law husband ~ common-law lawyer ~ common-law marriage ~ common-law wife
common sense ~ common-sense ~ commonsense
con-rod
condensity
conning-tower
contra-bassoon
contra-indicant
contra-indication
contra-remonstrant ~ contra-remonstrance ~ contra-remonstrancer
contra-rotation
coon-can
cop-out
cophosis
coquilla nut
corcule ~ corcle ~ corculum
corn-ball
corn-cob ~ corn-cob pipe
corn-row
corrodiary
cotemporaneity
cotton wool
counter-approach ~ contre-approach
counter-order
counter-roll ~ counterrollment
counter-tenor
counter-turn
counterbass ~ counterbase
covess
crack-up
cramp-iron
criss-cross ~ crisscross
croque-monsieur
cross-bill
cross-check
cross-cut
cross-head ~ cross-heading
cross-jack ~ cro'jack ~ cross-jack yard
cross-section
crottels
cuckoo-pint ~ cuckoo-pintle
cure-all
curly-wurly ~ curlie-wurlie
curry-comb
cut-back
cut-in
cut-off
cut-over
cut-up
cutlings
cuttee
cypherpunk
daker-hen
dartos
dead-end ~ dead-end kid
deaf mute ~ deaf-mute ~ deaf-mutism
decoy-duck
deep-freeze ~ Deepfreeze ~ deep-frozen ~ deep-freezer
demi-glace ~ demi-glace sauce
demi-lance ~ demi-lancer
demi-rep
deoch an doris ~ doch an doris
derring-do ~ derring-doer
des res
dew-claw
dholak ~ dholuk
diaphoneme
diaphthoresis
diaporesis
diathermaneity
dichromasy
die-hard ~ diehard ~ the Die-hards ~ die-hardism
digyny
dilly-dally ~ dilly-dallier
dilophosaurus
ding-a-ling ~ dingaling
dioch ~ diock
diphosphopyridine nucleotide
distributress
disturbancy
ditty-bag
ditty-box
dive-dapper
divi-divi ~ divi-divi tree
dividuality
dividuity
do-gooder ~ do-goodery ~ do-gooding ~ do-goodism
do-it-yourself ~ do-it-yourselfer
do-nothing ~ donothingism ~ donothingness
docutainment
dodecahedrane
doner kebab
doo-doo
doo-wop ~ doowhop ~ doowop
doodly-squat
doojigger
double-bass
double-cross ~ doublecross ~ double-crosser
double-gee
down-and-out ~ down-and-outer
drag-net
draggle-tail ~ draggle-tailedness
dramatis personae
drawing-room
dream-hole
drop-in
drop-out ~ drop-out halftone
dry land ~ dry-land ~ drylander
dry-nurse ~ wet-nurse
dumb-bell ~ dumbell
dunniken ~ dunnakin
dura mater
dytiscus
eagle-wood
earth-board
ebullism
echo-virus ~ ECHO virus
educrat
ejaculatio praecox
electride
ell-wand
emacity
endophora
ephebiatrics ~ ephebiatrician
equipendency ~ equipendence
erl-king
erminites
escaline ~ escalin
esraj
ethisterone
eucomis ~ pineapple lily
eudemony ~ eudaemony
eunomia
euphenics
evenliness
ex-con
ex-convict
exhereditation
extropy ~ extropian
fade-in
fade-out
fag-end
fagmaster
fall-away
fall-off
fan-tan
fat hen
fata morgana
fava bean ~ faba bean
feather bed ~ feather-bed ~ feather-bedding
felix culpa
fellow-feeling
feng-shui
feretto
fermery ~ farmery
fiddle-faddle
fidus Achates
fieri facias
findrinny
fine art
fingle-fangle
finishment
fire-drake
fire-eater ~ fire-eating
fire-stone
first class ~ first-class ~ first-classman
first-rate ~ first rate ~ first-rater
fissibility
fit-out
fladge
flap-dragon
fleed ~ flead
flip-flap
flip-flop
flos ferri
flote-grass ~ float-grass
fly-blow
fly-boat
fly-trap ~ Venus fly-trap ~ Venus's fly-trap
foie gras ~ foie-gras
follow-on
follow-through
follow-up
foodaholic ~ foodoholic
foolometer
fore-edge ~ foredge ~ fore-edge painting
fore-topmast
fore-topsail
forget-me-not ~ Alpine forget-me-not ~ Cape forget-me-not ~ Chinese forget-me-not ~ forget-me-not blue
forgettory ~ forgettery
forlorn hope
foul-up
frank-fee
frank-pledge ~ view of frank-pledge
free will ~ free-will ~ Free Will Baptist ~ freewiller
frit-fly
fritiniency
frou-frou
fusel oil
gain-giving
gall bladder
gallimimus
gama grass ~ gamma grass
gandy dancer
gang-days
gape-seed ~ buy gape-seed ~ seek gape-seed ~ sow gape-seed
garam masala
gee-gee
gefilte fish ~ gefullte fish
generaless
get-go
get-out ~ as get-out ~ like get-out ~ as all get-out ~ like all get-out
get-together ~ get-togetherness
get-up ~ get-up-and-go ~ get-up-and-get
gill-flirt ~ jill-flirt
glarney
glory-hole
glycosamine
gnoscopine
go-around ~ give the go-around to
go-away ~ go-way ~ go-away bird
go-between
go-cart
go-down
go-getter
go-kart ~ go-karting
go-slow
goat's-beard ~ goatsbeard ~ Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon
gobdaw
godemiche
goggle-eye ~ goggle-eye Jack
gongoozler
good day ~ God give you good day ~ have a good day
good humour
good nature
goose-flesh
gourbi
gradeability
grand duchess
grand duchy
grand duke
grand mal
grand master ~ grandmaster ~ Grand Master ~ grandmastership
grass widow ~ grass widower ~ grass-widowhood
grindle stone
ground-line
grozing-iron
grubbery
guelder rose
guess work
guess-warp
guest-rope ~ guess-rope
guinea-pig
gunk-hole ~ gunkholing
guppie ~ guppy
gutkha
gutta-percha
guttus
gwely
ha-ha ~ haw-haw
habeas corpus ~ Habeas Corpus Act
haemanthus
haematosis ~ hematosis
haemerythrin ~ hemerythrin
half moon ~ half-moon
half-pace
hammer-cloth
hammochrysos
hand-off
hand-out
handglass
handie-talkie
handpass
handy-dandy
hang-nest
hangarage
hanky-panky
hara-kiri ~ hari-kiri
harvest home
has-been
hattery
hatti-sherif
have-not
head-rail
heart-burning
hedonometer
hee-haw
hell-fire ~ Hell-fire ~ Hell-fire club
hell-hound
herd-boy
herptile
herring-bone ~ herringbone ~ herring-bone banding ~ herring-bone coralline
hexon
hickery-pickery
hidey-hole ~ hidy-hole
hiera picra
high street
high-flyer ~ high-flier ~ high-flyer walnut
high-hat ~ hi-hat
high-hole
highstrikes
hip-hop ~ hip hop
hirdy-girdy
hirola ~ herola ~ Hunter's hartebeest
hob-nob
hobby-horse
hocus-pocus
hoddy-noddy
hoi polloi
hoity-toity ~ highty-tighty ~ hoity-toityness
hokey-cokey
hokey-pokey
holcus
hold-back
hold-down
hold-out
hold-over
hold-up
hollow-ware ~ holloware ~ flatware
holy day
holy water ~ holy-water sprinkle ~ holy-water sprinkler
home-coming
honey-bird
honey-pot ~ honey-pot ant
honky-tonk
hoo-ha ~ hoo-hah
hoop-la
hoppergrass
horridity
horse chestnut ~ conker
horse-marine ~ tell that to the horse-marines
horsiculture
hubble-bubble
hue and cry ~ hue-and-cry
huevos rancheros
hugger-mugger ~ hucker-mucker ~ in hugger-mugger
huggery
hully gully
hum-bird
humanation
humble-bee
hundredary
hurly-burly
hush-puppy
hyawa ~ hiawa
hydnocarpus ~ hydnocarpus tree ~ hydnocarpate ~ hydnocarpic acid
hypacusis ~ hypacousis ~ hypakusis ~ hypacusia
hyperacusis ~ hyperacousis ~ hyperakusis ~ hyperacusia
hypergelast
hypertonus
hypoacusis ~ hypoacousis ~ hypoakusis ~ hypoacusia
hypochromatosis
hypocrisis
hypotonus
hysteron proteron
ice-boat ~ ice-boating ~ ice-boater
ice-breaker
ice-cream ~ ice-cream parlour
idem sonans
ill humour ~ ill humor
imbalsamation
impatiency
in-being
in-betweener
in-circle
in-fighting ~ in-fighter
in-goal
in-group
in-law
in-line
in-migrant
in-migration
in-off
in-patient ~ out-patient
in-stroke
in-wale
inconfidence
indefinity
indigo blue
indochinite
infanteer
iniencephalus ~ iniencephaly
initialese
innascibility
inseity
insignis
insimplicity
inter-agent
intransparency
introductress
iodargyrite
ivoride
jack-up ~ jack-up rig
jackshit
jalfrezi
javaite
javanite
jaws harp ~ jaw's harp
jerkin-head
jiggery-pokery
jim-dandy
joe-pye weed
johnny-cake
jolly-boat
jolt-head
jolter-head ~ jolter-headedness
journey-work
ju-jitsu ~ jiu-jitsu ~ ju-jutsu
ju-ju
kala-azar
kalicine ~ kalicinite
kamagraphy ~ kamagraph
kankerbos ~ kankerbossie
karanteen ~ white karanteen ~ striped karanteen
kettle-stitch
kho-kho
kick-up
kickseys ~ kicksies
kipper-nut
kirby-grip ~ Kirbigrip
kit-fox
kittle-pins ~ kettle-pins
klaberjass ~ clobiosh
kleptolagnia
knallgas
knick-knack ~ nick-nack ~ knick-knackatory ~ knick-knackery ~ knick-knacket
know-all ~ know-it-all
know-how
know-nothing ~ Know-Nothing ~ know-nothingism
knuckle-bone
kok-saghyz
kombers ~ kombaars
kukumakranka
kung fu
kwedini
laissez-faire ~ laisser-faire ~ laissez-faireism ~ laissez-faireist ~ laissez-fairist
laissez-passer ~ laisser-passer
lallapaloosa ~ lalapaloosa ~ lollapaloosa ~ lallapalooza ~ lollapaloozer
lamburger
land-bank ~ federal land-bank
lapis lazuli
lapsang souchong ~ lapsang souchong tea
larbolins
lascivity
late-wake
latomy ~ latomia
lava-lava
lay figure
lay-day
lead-in ~ lead-in wire
lead-off
lead-out
lead-up
leap-frog
leather-jacket
left field ~ left-field ~ left-fielder
left wing ~ left-wing ~ left-winger ~ left-wingery ~ left-wingism
left-hander
lepospondyl
lerky
lese-majesty ~ lese-majeste
let-down
let-off
let-up
leukovirus
levancy ~ levancy and couchancy
lexotactics
lich-gate ~ lych-gate
lieutenant general
life-form
lign-aloes ~ lign-aloe
line-out
linography ~ linograph
linsey-woolsey
loadberry
lobby-gow
lock-in
lodge-pole ~ lodge-pole pine
log-in ~ login
log-jam
log-on ~ logon
logodaedalist ~ logodaedaly
lollo rosso
long-suffering
long-tail ~ long-tail pair
loogan
look-alike
look-down ~ horse-head
look-in
look-over
look-see
look-up
looking-glass ~ looking-glass carp ~ looking-glass land ~ looking-glass world
lotus-eater ~ lotos-eater ~ lotus-eating
low-country ~ the Low Countries
lute-string ~ lutestring
lyme-grass
m-commerce
maasbanker
machine-gun ~ Lewis machine-gun ~ Maxim machine-gun ~ sub-machine-gun ~ machine-gunner
macro-economics ~ macro-economist ~ macro-economy
magnesiochromite
mah-jong ~ mah-jongg
mahaila
mahorka
major-general ~ major-generalcy ~ major-generalship
make-belief
make-believe
make-game
make-hawk
make-over
make-peace
make-up
make-work
maki zushi ~ maki
mala fides
malpraxis
manavilins ~ manavlins
mangel-wurzel ~ mangold-wurzel ~ mangel-wurzel fly
manjee
manyogana ~ manyokana
mareogram ~ mareograph
marinescape
marlberry
marsupite
mataeology
match-maker
materia medica
matje ~ matjes ~ matje herring
matriculability
matrist
mayory
meclozine ~ meclizine
meeja ~ meejer
melianthus
melktert
melo-tragedy
membrification
menalty
menaphthone
merese
merispore
merops
mesite
mespilus ~ snowy mespilus
messagery
met-enkephalin
meta-metalanguage
metadyne
metasyncrisis
metatony
metrocracy
metrostaxis
mezza-majolica
miacid
micro-economics ~ micro-economist ~ micro-economy
micro-electronics
micro-element
micro-organism
mid-air ~ midair ~ in mid-air
mid-leg
mid-life ~ mid-life crisis
mid-off
mid-on
mid-range
mid-season
middle age ~ middle-age ~ the Middle Ages ~ the Middle Age ~ middle-age spread ~ middle-ager
middle class ~ middle-class ~ middle-classdom ~ middle-classness
might-be
mill-race
mineralography
minnerichi ~ minarichi ~ minnarichi
misch metal
miss-out
mistress-ship ~ your mistress-ship
mock-heroic
mock-up
mod con
moderacy
moletronics
molinology ~ molinologist
molly-dooker
molossid ~ molossine
monepiscopacy
monoideism
monte-jus
moo shu ~ moo shi
moochin
moon-eye
mooneas
mootah ~ mooter ~ mota
mormoopid
morning star
morphodite
morphopoiesis
moss-back
moss-trooper ~ moss-trooping
mother-of-pearl ~ mother-pearl ~ mother-of-pearl cloud ~ mother-of-pearl work
mucification
muck-a-muck
mucky-muck
mulgara
multimer
municipy
muscularis ~ muscularis mucosae
mushrat
mutton-bird ~ mutton-bird scrub ~ mutton-birder
muu-muu ~ mu-mu
mydas fly ~ midas fly
myrmecobius ~ Myrmecobius
myxy
naat
nabbie
nanberry
nanny-goat ~ get a person's nanny-goat
nanophanerophyte
nationalty
ne'er-do-well ~ ne'er-do-weel
necromance ~ nigromance
negrification ~ Negrification
negro-head ~ negro-head tobacco ~ negro-head beech
neifty ~ writ of neifty
neo-Nazi ~ neo-Nazism
neo-colonialism ~ neo-colonialist
neo-impressionism ~ Neo-Impressionism ~ neo-impressionist
neo-plasticism
nerts
nessberry
neurohumour ~ neurohumor
nevvy ~ nevy
niblet ~ Niblet
niddy-noddy
nigiri zushi ~ nigiri
ning-nong ~ ning-nang
ninny-hammer
niopo ~ yopo
nitty-gritty
nobbins ~ nobbings
nokes ~ noax
non assumpsit
non-claim
non-con ~ Non-Con
non-existence
non-naturalism
non-pros
non-residence ~ non-residentiary
non-resident
non-return ~ non-returnable
non-tenure
nongenary
nonny-nonny ~ hey nonny-nonny
nonose
noogenesis ~ noogenesis
nor'-wester ~ nor'-wester coat
norsteroid
notatin ~ penatin ~ penicillin A ~ penicillin B
nothofagus ~ southern beech
nulla-nulla ~ nullah-nullah
nully
num-num
nun-buoy
nunky
nuplex
o-o ~ oo
obertas
occursion
odditorium
off-brand
off-break
off-corn
off-drive
off-glide
off-licence ~ off-license ~ off-licensee
off-ramp
off-season
off-white
old maid ~ old-maidenhood ~ old-maidenism ~ old-maidishly
old rose
old school ~ in the old school ~ of the old school ~ old school tie
olfactronics
olisbos
olive branch
on-drive
on-glide
onomatopoesis
op-amp
ophrys
opilionid
opt-out
orang-utan ~ orang-outang
organ-pipe ~ organ-pipe cactus ~ organ-pipe coral
orgasmatron
oro-rotundity
orobus ~ bitter-vetch
orohydrography
orthohelium
orthopantomography ~ orthopantomogram ~ orthopantomograph
orthoroentgenography ~ orthoroentgenogram
oso-berry
ouklip
out-group
out-parish
out-patient ~ in-patient
out-relief
out-run
out-sentry
out-take
out-turn
outsetter
ouvrierism
overmastery
ox-eye ~ yellow ox-eye ~ ox-eye daisy ~ ox-eye arch
oxathiin
oxylith ~ oxylithe
oxytropis ~ oxytrope
pH ~ pH-stat
pachycaul ~ pachycauly
pad thai
pak-choi
palaeo-oceanography ~ palaeoceanography ~ paleo-oceanography ~ palaeo-oceanographer
palm oil
palone ~ polone
pan-Arabism ~ pan-Arab
pan-pipe
pani puri
panpot
pantomography ~ pantomogram ~ pantomograph
para-influenza ~ para-influenza virus
para-rhyme
para-state
parahelium
parasitopolis
pareschatology
parichnos
parietin
parisis
paristhmitis
parmacetty ~ parmacitty ~ parmacetty whale
partness
pasque-flower ~ passeflower
pass-out
passe-partout
past master ~ past-master
past mistress
patholopolis
pavvy ~ pavy
pavy
pay-day
pay-off ~ pay-off line ~ pay-off man ~ pay-off matrix ~ pay-off table
pea-chick
pea-coat
pea-jacket
pea-pod
pea-soup ~ pea-soup fog ~ pea-souper
peau-de-soie
peck horn
pedication ~ paedication
pee-pee
pegasse
pemphis
pempidine
pen-pusher ~ pen-pushing
pen-tail ~ pen-tail shrew ~ pen-tail tree shrew ~ pen-tailed shrew ~ pen-tailed tree shrew
pent-roof
pepper-pot ~ pepper-pot soup
peptidolysis
periergy
permutite ~ Permutit ~ permutite process
personology ~ personologist
perveance
pet-cock
petit mal
petite bourgeoisie
petits pois
phalangitis
phason
phonaestheme ~ phonestheme ~ phonaesthesia ~ phonaesthesis
phonematics
phonus-bolonus
photo-engraving ~ photo-engraver
photo-offset
photo-set
photoisomer ~ photoisomerism ~ photoisomerization
physic-nut ~ physic-nut bush ~ physic-nut tree
physico-theology ~ physico-theologian
pi-meson ~ meson
pia mater
pick-off
pick-up ~ pick-up reaction
pickle-herring
pier-head ~ pier-head jump
piet-my-vrou
pig-bel
pigeon-hole
piggy-wiggy ~ piggy-wig
pilentum
pillaloo
pin-money
pin-wheel
pinate
ping-pong ~ Ping-pong
pink-eye ~ pink-eye potato
pinlay
pinstriper
pipery
pitmatic
pitter-patter
planer-tree ~ water elm
plank sheer ~ planeshear ~ plank-sheering
plasmaphoresis
plasmatocyte
plasmodiophorid
plastician
platzel
play-down
play-off
pleophony
pleoptics
plereme ~ plerematics
plough-land ~ plow-land
plug-ugly
plumptitude
pluto-democracy
plutography
pluviculture ~ pluviculturist
pnicogen ~ pnictide
pock-mark ~ pock-marked
pogey bait ~ pogie bait
poitrinal
poll-evil
pollenin
polybase
polylithionite
polymenorrhoea ~ polymenorrhea
polyocracy
polyporus
polyrod ~ polyrod aerial ~ polyrod antenna
polyversity
pom-pom
pomeis ~ pomeys ~ pommes
pooper-scooper
poopnoddy
pop-out
pop-up
poplexy
poplolly
popocracy ~ Popocracy ~ popocrat
popskull
porkery
pornie
port-crayon ~ porte-crayon
port-sider
port-wine ~ port-wine birthmark ~ port-wine magnolia ~ port-wine mark ~ port-wine spot ~ port-wine stain ~ port-winer
portionary
posish
posnjakite
posse comitatus
post office ~ post-office ~ Post Office ~ post-office box ~ post-office bridge
post-entry
post-haste
post-house
post-impressionism ~ post-impressionist
post-obit ~ post-obit bond
post-structuralism ~ post-structuralist
pot-pourri ~ potpourri
pot-shot ~ pot-shotter
pouchong
pouncet-box
pour-point
powder blue
powder-monkey
powder-room
praeputium
pre-amp
pre-contract
pre-eclampsia
pre-election
pre-emption ~ pre-emptioner
pre-emptor
pre-head
pre-ignition
pre-ordination
pre-tension ~ pre-tensioned
precary
precellence
prefixoid
press-gang
prick-song
prima ballerina ~ prima ballerina assoluta
prime minister ~ Prime Minister ~ prime-ministership ~ prime ministry
prime mover
prismane
prittle-prattle
pro-curator
pro-proctor
pro-rector
pro-vice-chancellor
proby ~ probie
prokinesis
prooestrus ~ prooestrum ~ proestrus
proselytess
prosiopesis
prosty ~ prostie
protalus ~ protalus rampart ~ protalus ridge
protoceratops
pryan ~ prian
psephocracy ~ psephocrat
pseudocide
pseudoperipteros ~ pseudoperipter
psy-ops ~ psy-opps ~ psy-op
psy-war
psychologese
psychostasy
psychostatics
public house
pucellas ~ procello
puff pastry
pull-back
pull-down ~ pulldown ~ pull-down menu
pull-off
pull-out
pull-up
pully-hauly
purse-string ~ hold the purse-strings ~ loosen the purse-strings ~ tighten the purse-strings
push-button ~ push-button war ~ push-button warfare
push-up
pushmi-pullyu ~ pushme-pullyou
pussums
pussy-cat ~ pussy-cat bow
pyjams
pyrothere
pyroxferroite
pyrus
qua-bird
quadrathlon
quadrominium ~ quadraminium
quagma
quantophrenia
quarrons ~ quarroms
quarter day
qui vive ~ on the qui vive
quid pro quo
quirley
quoddity
rack-rent ~ rack-renter
rackarock
racket-ball ~ racquetball
radio-gramophone
radio-telegraphy ~ radio-telegram ~ radio-telegraph
radio-telephony
radiole ~ radiole spine
ragman roll
rah-rah ~ rah-rah girl ~ rah-rah skirt
rain-out
ram line
ram-sammy
rank and file ~ rank-and-file ~ in rank and file ~ rank-and-filer
rannygazoo
raphanus
raree-show
rat-hole
rat-tail ~ rat-tail-file ~ rat-tail cactus ~ rat-tail-grass ~ rat-tail-spoon
rat-trap ~ rat-trap pedal ~ rat-trap bond
ratamacue
razor-back
razzle-dazzle
re-collection ~ recollection
re-edification
re-encounter
re-export
re-formation ~ reformation
re-fusion ~ refusion
re-let
re-presentation
re-solution
read-out
readathon
rear-horse
recipiendary
red dog
red herring ~ draw a red herring across the track
red rag ~ red-rag ~ red rag to a bull
red shirt ~ redshirt ~ red-shirting
red tape ~ red-tapery ~ red-tapism ~ red-tapist
red-back ~ red-back spider
red-eye ~ red-eye flight
red-tail ~ red-tail chub
regimentary
register-ship
renosterbos ~ rhenosterbosch ~ rhenosterbush ~ rhenosterbos ~ rhinoceros bush
rere-brace
rere-dorter
resistentialism ~ resistentialist
rest-harrow
retro-rocket
retrospectus
revivication
rhabditis ~ rhabditoid
rhenate ~ rhenic acid
rhesis
rhynchokinesis
rhynchosaur ~ rhynchosaurus ~ rhynchosaurian
ribophorin
riff-raff ~ riffraff
rifle bird ~ magnificent rifle bird ~ paradise rifle bird ~ Queen Victoria rifle bird ~ Queen Victoria's rifle bird ~ Victoria rifle bird ~ Victoria's rifle bird
right wing ~ right-wing ~ right-winger ~ right-wingery ~ right-wingism
right-hander
rigwiddy ~ rigwoodie
ripple-grass
rissaldar ~ ressaldar ~ rissaldar-major
risus sardonicus
rix-dollar
road-hog ~ road-hogging ~ road-hoggery
robin redbreast
rogan josh ~ roghan josh
roll-over
roll-up ~ roll-up fund
rom-com
rongo-rongo
rope-band
rope-yarn
ros solis
rose-a-ruby
rose-water ~ rose-water pipe ~ rose-water still
roto-tom
rough-and-tumble
rough-rider
round-up ~ roundup
rubbedy ~ rubberdy
rubby-dubby
ruffy ~ roughy
ruinosity
rum-tum
run-in ~ have a run-in (with) ~ run-in groove ~ run-in shed
run-off
run-out ~ run-out groove
run-up
runability ~ runnability
runcible spoon
rusbank
sachaline
sado-masochism ~ sado-masochist
safe-conduct
safety pin ~ safety-pin
sakabula
sal volatile
salt-cellar
saluresis
samolus
sanctanimity
sanctology ~ sanctilogy
sang-froid
sans serif ~ sanserif
sapples
saprobity
satyromania ~ satyromaniac
saucery
save-all
say-so
scald-berry
scale-up
scarlet fever ~ scarlatina
schmegegge ~ shmegegge ~ shmegeggy
school-marm ~ school-ma'am ~ school-ma'm ~ school-marming
sci-fi ~ sci-fic
science fiction ~ science-fictioneer ~ science-fictionist
scobberlotcher
scoparius
scoriation
scratch-brush ~ scratch-brush lathe ~ scratch-brusher
scutty
sea dog
sea lion ~ Californian sea lion ~ northern sea lion ~ Steller's sea lion ~ sea lioness
second hand ~ second-hand ~ secondhand ~ at second hand ~ at the second hand
second-rate ~ second rate ~ second-rateness ~ second-rater
seed-time
sei whale
seismocardiography ~ seismocardiogram
seismosaurus
selectron
self-abuse
self-colour ~ self-color
self-defence ~ self-defense
self-heal ~ selfheal
self-service
self-sufficiency ~ self-sufficience
self-will
selfmate
selky ~ silky
semi-metal
seminology
sennegrass
septanose ~ septanoside
set piece ~ set-piece
set-down
set-off
set-out
set-up
sexcapade
shabu-shabu
shaggery
shake-down
shake-out
shake-up
shangy
shape-up
she-oak ~ sheoak ~ drooping she-oak ~ black she-oak ~ she-oak net
sheet anchor ~ sheet-anchor
shey-shey ~ shay-shay
shime-waza
shimiyana ~ shimiyane
ship-money
shish kebab ~ sheesh kebab
shite-hawk
shooldarry
shopocracy ~ shopocrat
shoppy
short circuit
short cut ~ short-cut
shot-hole ~ shot-hole disease ~ shot-hole borer ~ shot-hole fungus
show-off
shuka
side-arms
side-car ~ side-carring ~ sidecarist
side-effect
side-light
side-saddle ~ side-saddle flower
side-slip
side-wall ~ side-wall tyre
siderurgy
signet-ring
silajit
silly-how
silumin
simuland
simulfix ~ simulfixation
siphonapteran
siphonein
sir-reverence ~ sir-reverence of
sirenin
sit-down ~ sit-downer
sit-fast ~ sitfast
situs inversus
sitz bath ~ sitz-bath
six-pack ~ Joe Six-pack
skaapsteker ~ spotted skaapsteker ~ striped skaapsteker
skew-back
ski-joring ~ ski-jorer
skirlie
sky-rocket ~ skyrocket
sleep-in
sleep-out
slip-slop
slopey
slung-shot
smaragdus
smart alec ~ smart aleck ~ smart alick ~ smart-aleckism ~ smart-aleckry
smart-arse ~ smart-ass
smash-up ~ smashup
smear-case
smell-feast
smock-frock
snap-back
snip-snap
snipocracy
snipper-snapper
snoff
snous
sodide
sody ~ sodie
softnomics
solicitancy
soliloquacity
solity
sonolysis
soogee-moogee
sorb-apple
sound-alike
south-southerly
spaggers
spaghettification
spanandry
spar-stone
spare-rib
sparrow-grass ~ sparrowgrass
spaug
spear-grass
speculatory
sperm whale ~ cachalot
spermalege
sphragistes
spin-off ~ spinoff
spokeslady
sprat-barley
spread eagle ~ spread-eagle
spurion
sputcheon
squirrel-tail ~ squirrel-tail grass ~ squirrel-tail fescue
stag-horn ~ staghorn ~ stag's horn ~ stag-horn sumac ~ stag-horn moss ~ stag's-horn moss ~ stag's-horn clubmoss ~ stag-horn fern
stalking-horse
stand-up ~ standup
starbolins ~ starbowlines
start-up ~ startup
stasigenesis
stasiology
stathmokinesis
statuomania
status quo ~ status quo ante
step-in
sterane
stereophonics
stericks
stern-chaser
stern-wheel ~ sternwheeler
stet processus
stillwellite
stink-pot ~ stinkpot ~ stink-pot terrapin ~ stink-pot turtle
stock dove
stoechas
stomochord
stompneus ~ red stompneus ~ white stompneus ~ stumpnose
storm petrel ~ British storm petrel ~ Leach's storm petrel ~ Wilson's storm petrel
stove-pipe ~ stove-pipe hat
strait-jacket
striges
strippeuse
stromatolith
strongers
struthonian
strychnos
studding-sail ~ stunsail
studmuffin
stumpie
styany
stylometrics
stylostatistics
sub-prefect ~ subprefecture
subfeudatory
subject-matter ~ subject matter ~ form ~ style
sudoresis
suffixoid
sugar loaf ~ sugar-loaf hat ~ sugar-loaf hill ~ sugar-loaf mountain
sugar-candy
sum-up
sun-up ~ from sun-up to sundown
swallow-hole
swarry
swatchel
sway-back ~ renguerra
sword-bearer
symbolatry
symmachy
symmetrodont
symmory
synenergy
synochus ~ synocha
syntaxeme
syntaxy
syrtos
tabnab
tabulary
tacenda
tactus
taddy
tae kwon do
tail-end ~ tail-end Charlie ~ tail-ender
take-off
take-up
takkie ~ tackie
tam-o'-shanter ~ tam-o'-shanter bonnet ~ tam-o'-shanter cap
tam-tam
tap root ~ tap-root
taphrogenesis
tar-brush ~ a dash of the tar-brush ~ a touch of the tar-brush
targetry ~ monetary targetry
tattle-tale ~ tattle-tale grey
tax-cart
taxflation
te-wit ~ te-whit
tea rose ~ tea-rose
tea-board
tea-table
tea-tree ~ white tea-tree ~ Duke of Argyll's tea-tree ~ tea-tree oil
teach-in
tectogenesis ~ tectogene
tectonization ~ tectonisation ~ tectonized
teddy bear ~ teddy bears' picnic
teeny
teeny-bopper
tegestology ~ tegestologist
teleiosis
tell-tale ~ tell-tale-tit
temporalis ~ temporalis muscle
tentability
teppan-yaki
terra firma
terre-tenant
terre-verte
terrenity
terza rima
test-tube ~ test-tube bull ~ test-tube pregnancy ~ test-tube baby ~ test-tube cultivation ~ test-tube culture
tetractys ~ tetraktys
teuthology ~ teuthologist
textology
thale cress
thank-you ~ thankyou ~ thank-you letter ~ thank-you note ~ thank-you-ma'am
thegosis
theosis
thermanaesthesia ~ thermanesthesia
thigmokinesis
third class ~ third-class
thorough bass ~ thorough-bass ~ figured bass ~ continuo ~ basso continuo
thoughtness
thrombolite
through-stone
throw-away ~ throwaway
thymallus
tic-polonga
tick-tack ~ tic-tac ~ tick-tack-toe
tick-tock
tiddy oggy
tiffy
tilt-hammer
tin foil ~ tin-foil ~ tinfoil ~ tin-foiled
tin hat
tin-type ~ not on your tin-type
tip-off
tipitiwitchet
tippy-toe
titter-totter
tittery
tittle-tattle ~ tittle-tattler
tjalk
to-fall ~ to-fall of the day ~ to-fall of the night
to-infinitive
to-name
toad-eater
toering
toggy ~ tuggy
token-money
tolerancy
tom-cat ~ tomcat
tom-tom
ton-up
tonka bean ~ tonquin bean
toothy-peg
topass
toposcope ~ toposcopy
topotaxy
tor-grass
tosheroon
totsy
touch-line
touch-me-not
tous-les-mois
trade mark ~ trademark ~ trademarked
trade union ~ trades union ~ trade union congress ~ trade-unionism ~ trade-unionist
trade wind
trageremics
train-oil ~ train oil
transfluence
trap-ball
tremorine
tri-jet
trias ~ Trias
tricast
trichinelliasis ~ trichinellosis
trichromasy
trickeration
trihemimeris
trillibubs
trip-wire ~ tripwire
tritonality
tromba marina
trombenik
tropary ~ tropery
troxidone
true-love ~ true love ~ true-love knot ~ true lover ~ true lover's knot
tsamma ~ tsama
tsuica ~ tuica
tu quoque
tuckamore
tuft-hunter ~ tuft-hunting
tuk-tuk
tummelberry
tump-line
turkey oak ~ Turkey oak
turn-up
turning-point
turtle-dove
tuss
tutti-frutti ~ tutti frutti ~ Tutti Frutti ~ Tutti-frutti
tvorog
twaa-grass ~ twa-grass ~ bushman grass
tween-ager ~ tween-age
twi-night ~ twi-nighter
twiffler
tyndallization ~ tyndallisation
tyromancy
ubicity
ubity
ultrasaurus
umpty ~ umpty-nine ~ umpty-seventh ~ umpty-ump
unconnection
uncovery
unda maris
under-secretary ~ under-secretaryship
undergraduacy
unkie ~ unky ~ Unkie
up Jenkins
up-country
ureilite
urgicenter
utopiate
vaaljapie
vacky ~ vaccy ~ vakky
vanette
varanus ~ varan
vaunt-courier
vectis
verd-antique ~ oriental verd-antique ~ verd-antique porphyry ~ verde antico
verdoy
versed sine ~ vers ~ versin
vestuary
vibraslap
vice admiral ~ vice-admiralty
vice-chancellor ~ vice-chancellorship
vice-county
vice-president ~ vice-presidency ~ vice-presidentship
vicenary
vicey-versey
videographics
vidiot
vigintivirate
vingty
vinylogue ~ vinylog ~ vinylogy
vitellary
vitry ~ vitry canvas
vodkatini
voir dire ~ voire dire
vol-au-vent
vortal
vox pop
vygie
wagel ~ wagel gull
wah-wah ~ wa-wa
wake-robin
wake-up ~ wake-up kittle ~ be a wake-up ~ wake-up call ~ wake-up pill ~ wake-up service
walk-on
walk-out
walk-through
walkie-talkie
walking-stick ~ walking-stick palm
wall-knot
wallis
wanchance
want-wit
warday
wareness
warm-up ~ warm-up suit
warming-pan
wash-house
wash-up
waspy
water-dog
water-glass
water-hammer
water-hole
water-horse
water-level
water-line ~ waterliner
water-rat ~ Water Rats ~ Grand Order of Water Rats
water-souchy
water-table ~ water-tabling
wei ch'i
well-head
well-spring
wely
whip-tom-kelly
whipperginny
whipsy-derry
whisky jack ~ whiskey jack
whistle-stop
white boy ~ Whiteboy ~ Whiteboyism
whore-house
wicket-keeper ~ wicket-keep ~ wicket-keeping
widdy-widdy-way
widow-bird
wigsby
will-o'-the-wisp ~ will with the wisp
wind-up
winny
wipe-out
wire-drawer
wire-drawing
wire-tapper ~ wire-tap ~ wire-tapping
wish-fulfilment ~ wish-fulfillment
wish-wash
wishmay
witch hazel ~ wych hazel
witch-grass
witch-hunt ~ witch-hunter ~ witch-hunting
womanthrope
wood-house
woofits
wool-pack ~ wool-packer ~ wool-packing
workalike
worky
woulder ~ wishers and woulders
wow-wow
wrap-over
wrap-rascal
wrap-up
wring-bolt ~ wrain-bolt
wry-mouth
wych elm ~ witch elm
xerocopy ~ xerocopying
xography ~ xograph
yandy
yard-arm ~ when the sun is over the yard-arm ~ yard-arm and yard-arm ~ yard-arm to yard-arm ~ yard-arm iron
yellow-belly ~ yellowbelly
yerba buena
yerba santa
yester-year
ylang-ylang ~ ilang-ilang
yoke-fellow ~ yoke-fellowship
yotization ~ yotisation
zocle
zograscope
zoite
zoot suit ~ zoot-suiter
zos-grass
zygology ~ zygologist
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