Much loved for its wit and wisdom since 1870, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable takes you on a captivating adventure through its trademark blend of language, culture, myth, and legend.

Table of Contents

• A
• A
• A or ab
• Aaron
• Aaru, Field of
• Aarvak
• Aback, To be taken
• Abacus
• Abaddon
• Abaris
• Abba
• Abbasids
• Abbey-lubber
• Abbot
• ABC
• Abd
• Abdera
• Abderus
• Abdication Crisis
• Abdiel
• Abdullah
• Abe, Old
• Abecedarian, An
• Abel
• Abelard and Héloïse
• Aberdonians of Ireland
• Aberdovey, The Bells of
• Abergele Martyrs
• Abernethy biscuit
• Abhidhamma
• Abhigit
• Abhorrers
• Abide with Me
• Abie Kabibble
• Abif
• Abigail
• Abimelech
• Abiogenesis
• Abner, Li'l
• Abolitionists
• Abominable Snowman
• Abracadabra
• Abraham
• Abraxas
• Abroad, The schoolmaster is
• Absalom
• Absent
• Absinthe
• Absolute zero
• Abstinence
• Abstract
• Abu Bakr
• Abu Hassan
• Abuna
• Abundant number
• Abu Simbel
• Abyla
• Abyssinian Christians
• Acacia Avenue
• Academy
• Acadia
• Acanthus
• Acapulco gold
• Accent
• Acceptable face, The
• Accessory after the fact
• Accident
• Accius Naevius
• According
• Account
• Ace
• Aceldama
• Acestes, Arrow of
• Achaean
• Achates
• Achemon
• Acheron
• Acherontian Books
• Acherusia
• Acheulean
• Achillea
• Achilles
• Achitophel
• Achor
• Acid
• Acis
• Ack Ack
• Acknowledge the corn
• Acme
• Acol
• Aconite
• Acquaintance
• Acrasia
• Acre
• Acrostic
• Act
• Actaeon
• Act and opponency
• Acte gratuit
• Actian games
• Action
• Actresses
• Acupuncture
• Ad
• Ada
• Adam
• Adamant
• Adamastor
• Adams, Jack
• Add
• Addams Family
• Adder, As deaf as an
• Addison
• Addled
• Address
• Adelphi, The
• Adieu
• Adi Granth
• Adirondack country
• Aditi
• Admass
• Administration, Letters of
• Admirable
• Admiral
• Adonai
• Adonais
• Adonia
• Adonis
• Adoption
• Adore
• Adrammelech
• Adrastus
• Adriatic
• Adullamites
• Adulterous Bible, The
• Advantage, To set off something to
• Advent
• Adversary, The
• Adverse, Anthony
• Adversity Hume
• Advice, Letter of
• Advocate
• Advowson
• Adytum
• Aegeon
• Aegeus
• Aeginetan sculptures
• Aegir
• Aegis
• Aegisthus
• Aegyptus
• AEIOU
• Aemilian law
• Aeneas
• Aeneid
• Aeolian
• Aeolus
• Aeon
• Aeschylus
• Aesculapius
• Aesir or Asir
• Aesop
• Aetherius
• Aetion
• Aetites
• Affair
• Affection, Starved of
• Affinity Bible, The
• Affirmative Action
• Affluent society, The
• Afraid
• Afreet or Afrit
• Africa
• Afrikaner Bond
• Aft
• After
• Aga
• Against the grain
• Aga Khan
• Agamemnon
• Aganippe
• Agape
• Agate
• Agatha
• Agave
• Age
• Age hoc
• Agenda, Hidden
• Agenor
• Agent
• Aggie Weston's or Aggies
• Aglaia
• Agnes
• Agnoetae
• Agnostic
• Agnus
• Agonistes
• Agonizing reappraisal
• Agony
• Agramant, The Ring of
• Agreement
• Agree to disagree
• Aguecheek
• Aguilar, Alonzo of
• Ahab
• Aha reaction
• Ahasuerus
• Ahaz, Dial of
• Ahead of one's time
• Ahithophel
• Ahmed
• Ahriman
• Ahura Mazda
• Aid
• Aïda
• Aidan
• Aide
• Air
• Aisha
• Aisle
• Aitchbone
• Ajax
• Aka
• Akbar
• Akela
• Akhenaten
• Akhoond or Akond
• Alabama claims
• Aladdin
• Alamo
• Alans
• Al Araf
• Alarm
• Alarums and excursions
• Alasnam
• Alastor
• Alauda
• Albadara
• Alban
• Albany
• Albatross
• Alberich
• Albert
• Albigenses
• Albino
• Albion
• Al Borak
• Album
• Alcaic verse or Alcaics
• Al Capone
• Alcatraz
• Alcestis
• Alchemilla
• Alchemy
• Alcina
• Alcmena
• Alcofribas Nasier
• Aldebaran
• Aldine editions
• Aldwych farce
• Ale
• Alec, Smart
• Alecto
• Alectorian stone
• Alectryomancy
• Alexander
• Alexandra
• Alexandria
• Alexandrine
• Alexis
• Alfadir
• Alfana
• Alfar
• Al Fatah
• Alf Garnett
• Alfie
• Alfred
• Algebra
• Algonquin Round Table
• Alhambra
• Ali
• Alias
• Alibi
• Aliboron
• Alice
• Alien priory
• Alifanfaron
• A-line
• A-list
• Alive
• Al Kadr
• Alkahest
• All
• Allah
• Allan-a-Dale
• Alleluiah
• Allen, Barbara
• Allendale, The Wolf of
• Alley or Ally
• Alleyn, Roderick
• Alliance
• Alliensis, Dies
• Alligator
• Alliteration
• Ally
• Alma
• Almack's
• Almagest
• Almanac
• Almanzor
• Almesbury
• Almighty, The
• Almond, Jordan
• Almonry
• Alms
• Alnaschar's dream
• ALOE
• Aloe
• Aloha
• Alone, Home
• Along for the ride
• Alonzo of Aguilar
• Alp
• Alph
• Alpha
• Alphabet
• Alpheus and Arethusa
• Alpine race
• Al-Qaida
• Alsatia
• Al-Sirat
• Also-ran, An
• Alsvid or Alswider
• Altar
• Alter ego
• Alternative
• Althaea
• Althea
• Altis
• Alt-left
• Alt-right
• Altmark, The
• Alto relievo
• Always behind, like a cow's tail
• Alzire
• Amadis
• Amaimon
• Amalfitan Code
• Amalthea
• Amaranth
• Amaryllis
• Amasis, Ring of
• Amaterasu
• Amati
• Amaurote
• Amazement, Not afraid with any
• Amazon
• Ambassador
• Amber
• Ambling Alp, The
• Ambree, Mary
• Ambrose
• Ambrosius Aurelianus
• Ambry
• Ambsace or amesace
• Ambulance chaser
• AMDG
• Ameer or amir
• Amelia
• Amen Corner
• Amende honorable
• Amenhotep
• Amen-Ra or Amon-Ra
• America
• American states 1
• American states 2
• Amerindian
• Amesace
• Amethyst
• Amicable numbers
• Amiel
• Am I my brother's keeper?
• Amis et Amiles
• Amish, The
• Amityville Horror
• Ammon or Hammon
• Ammonites
• Amnesty International
• Amon-Ra
• Amoret
• Amorous, The
• Amos
• Amour-propre
• Ampersand
• Amphialus
• Amphictyonic Council
• Amphigory
• Amphion
• Amphisbaena
• Amphitrite
• Amphitryon
• Amram
• Amrita
• Amritsar massacre
• Amulet
• Amun or Amon
• Amyclaean silence
• Amys and Amylion or Amis et Amiles
• Anabaptists
• Anacharsis
• Anachronism
• Anacoluthon
• Anacreon
• Anadiplosis
• Anadyomene
• Anaesthetic, General
• Anagram
• Anancy
• Ananias
• Anaphora
• Anastasia
• Anathema
• Anatomy
• Ancaeus
• Anchises
• Anchor
• Anchorite
• Ancien
• Ancient
• Ancile
• Ancren Riwle or Ancrene Wisse
• And
• Andaman marble
• Anderson
• Andiron
• Andrea Ferrara
• Andrew
• Andrews, Archie
• Andrews, Pamela
• Androcles and the lion
• Android
• Android
• Andromache
• Andromeda
• Andronicus, Titus
• Andy
• Angel
• Angelica
• Angelico, Fra
• Angelus, The
• Angevin kings
• Angle
• Angles
• Anglican
• Anglo
• Angoulaffre
• Angra Mainyu
• Angry
• Angurvadel
• Animal
• Anima mundi
• Animula, vagula
• Anjou, The Fair Maid of
• Ankh
• Ann, Mother
• Anna Karenina
• Annals of the Four Masters, The
• Annapurna
• Annates
• Anne
• Annie
• Anniversaries, Wedding
• Anno Domini
• Annunciation
• Annus
• Annwn or Annwfn
• Anodyne necklace, An
• Anon
• Anorak
• Another
• Anschluss, The
• Answer
• Ant
• Antaeus
• Antediluvian
• Antelucan
• Anthem, National
• Anthology
• Anthony
• Anthropophagi
• Anthroposophus
• Anthroposophy
• Antic hay
• Antichrist
• Anticlea
• Antifa
• Antigone
• Antimony
• Antinomian
• Antinous
• Antipathy
• Antipope
• Antisthenes
• Antithesis
• Antonine
• Antwerp, Giles of
• Anu
• Anubis
• Anyone for tennis?
• Any port in a storm
• Anzac
• A-OK
• Aonian
• À outrance
• Apache
• Apart, Poles
• Apartheid
• Ape
• Apelles
• Aphrodisiac
• Aphrodite
• Apicius
• Apis
• Apocalypse
• Apocrypha
• Apollinarians
• Apollo
• Apollonius of Tyana
• Apollyon
• Aposiopesis
• Apostate, Julian the
• Apostle
• Apostrophe
• App
• Apparel
• Apparent, Heir
• Appeal
• Appearances, Save
• Appeasement
• Appiades
• Appian Way
• Appin Murder, The
• Apple
• Appointment, By
• Après moi le déluge
• April
• Apron
• Aptronym or aptonym
• Aqua
• Aquarius
• Aquinas, St Thomas
• Aquinian Sage, The
• Arab
• Arabesque
• Arabia
• Arachne
• Aragon, Catherine of
• Aragorn
• Aram, Eugene
• Aramis
• Aranyaka
• Arawn
• Arbeit macht frei
• Arbor Day
• Arcades ambo
• Arcadia
• Arcas
• Arch
• Archangel
• Archbishop Parker's table
• Archers
• Archeus
• Archies
• Archilochian bitterness
• Archimago
• Archimedes
• Architecture
• Archon
• Arcite
• Arcos barbs
• Arctic
• Arden
• Ardennes, The wild boar of the
• Ard Ri
• Ardudwy, The Men of
• Area
• Areopagus
• Ares
• Arethusa
• Aretinian syllables
• Argan
• Argentina or Argentine, The
• Argo
• Argosy
• Argue
• Argus
• Argyle, God bless the Duke of
• Ariadne
• Arians
• Ariel
• Aries
• Arimanes
• Arimaspians
• Arimathea, St Joseph of
• Arioch
• Arion
• Ariosto, Ludovico
• Aristides
• Aristophanes
• Aristotle
• Ark
• Arlington Cemetery
• Arm or arms
• Armageddon
• Armalite
• Armchair critic
• Armenteers, Mademoiselle from
• Armida
• Arminians
• Armistice Day
• Armoises, Jehanne des
• Armory
• Armoury or armory
• Army
• Arndale Centre
• Arnhem, Mary of
• Arnold of Rugby
• Aroint thee
• Arondight
• Arras
• Arrière
• Arrow
• Arse
• Art
• Artaxerxes
• Artegal or Arthegal, Sir
• Artemis
• Artemus Ward
• Artesian State, The
• Artful Dodger
• Arthegal
• Arthur
• Artichoke, Jerusalem
• Article
• Arundel
• Arval brothers
• Aryans
• As
• Asaph
• ASBO
• Ascalaphus
• Ascendant
• Ascension Day
• Asclepiad or Asclepiadic metre
• Asclepius
• Ascot, Royal
• Asgard
• Ash
• Ashcan School
• Asherah
• Ashmolean Museum
• Ashtaroth or Astoreth
• Ashur
• Asia, The Light of
• Asir
• A6 murder
• Ask
• Askance at, To look
• Aslan
• Asleep at the switch, To be
• Asmodeus
• Asoka
• Aspasia
• Aspatia
• Aspen or trembling poplar
• Asphaltic Lake
• Asphodel
• Aspidistra
• Asriel
• Ass
• Assassins
• Assay or essay
• Assaye Regiment
• Assemblage, Nouns of
• Assembly
• Assent, Royal
• Asset
• Asshur or Assur
• Assisi, St Francis of
• Assizes, Bloody
• Association, Free
• Assumption, The
• Assur
• Assurance
• Assyria
• Asta
• Astarte
• Asterix
• Astley's
• Astolat
• Aston University
• Astoreth
• Astraea
• Astral
• Astray, To lead someone
• Astrea, The Divine
• Astrology
• Astronaut
• Astronomer Royal
• Astrophel
• Asur
• Asurbanipal
• Asymmetrical warfare
• Asynja
• At
• Atalanta
• Atargatis
• Atatürk
• Ate
• Atellane or Atellan farces
• Aten
• Athame
• Athanasian Creed
• Atharvaveda
• Atheists
• Atheling
• Athena
• Athenaeum
• Athene or Pallas Athene
• Athenian Bee, The
• Athens
• Atholl Brose
• Athos
• Atkins, Tommy
• Atlantean shoulders
• Atlantes
• Atlantic
• Atlantis
• Atlas
• Atli
• Atman
• Atmospheric Road, The
• Atomic theory
• Atomy
• Atonement
• Atossa
• Atreus
• Atropos
• Attaboy
• Attainder, Bill of
• Attendant, Care
• Attic
• Atticus
• Attila
• Attis
• Attitude, To strike an
• Attorney
• Attrition, War of
• Atys or Attis
• Au
• Aubry's dog or Dog of Montargis, The
• Auburn
• AUC
• Auction, Dutch
• Audit ale
• Audrey
• Auf Wiedersehen
• Augean stables
• Augmented reality
• Augsburg Confession
• Augury
• August
• Augusta
• Augustan age
• Augustine
• Augustus
• Auk, The
• Auld
• Aulis
• Aunt
• Aura
• Aureole
• Aurignacian
• Aurora
• Ausonia
• Auspices
• Aussie
• Auster
• Austin
• Australia
• Austrian
• Aut Caesar aut nullus
• Authentic Doctor
• Authorized Version, The
• Autocorrect
• Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The
• Auto-da-fé
• Autolycus
• Automatic writing
• Automaton
• Automedon
• Auto State, The
• Autumn
• Avalokiteshvara
• Avalon
• Avant-garde
• Avars
• Avatar
• Ave
• Avenger
• Avenue
• Averages, Law of
• Avernus
• Avesta
• Aveyron, The wild boy of
• Avianus
• Avicenna or Ibn Sina
• Avignon popes
• Avila, St Teresa of
• Avogadro's constant
• Avoid extremes
• Avon
• Awakening, The Great
• Awesome Welles
• Awkward
• Axe
• Axinomancy
• Axis
• Axle grease
• Ayatollah
• Ayers Rock
• Ayesha or Aisha
• Aylesbury case
• Aymon, The Four Sons of
• Ayrshire poet, The
• Ayurveda
• Azania
• Azazel
• Azaziel
• Azilian
• Azoth
• Azrael
• Azrafil
• Aztec
• Azure
• B
• B
• Ba
• Baal
• Baalbek
• Baba, Ali
• Babar
• Baba Yaga
• Babbitt
• Babe
• Babel
• Babieca
• Babrius
• Baby
• Babylon
• Baca, The Valley of
• Bacbuc
• Bacchanalia
• Bacchus
• Bachelor
• Bach flowers
• Back
• Backwards, To bend over
• Bacon
• Baconian philosophy
• Bactrian Sage, The
• Bad
• Badenoch, The Wolf of
• Badge, Rogue's
• Badger game
• Badinguet
• Badminton
• Badoura
• Baedeker
• Baffle
• Bafflegab
• Bag
• Baga de Secrētis
• Baggage
• Baggins, Bilbo
• Baghdad, The Butcher of
• Bail, To jump
• Bailey
• Bailiff
• Bailiwick
• Baillie Vass
• Baily's beads
• Bain-marie
• Bairam
• Bajadere
• Bajan or Bajanella
• Bajazet
• Bake
• Baker
• Baksheesh
• Balaam
• Balaclava
• Balafré, Le
• Balan
• Balance
• Balclutha
• Bald
• Balder
• Balderdash
• Baldric or Baldrick
• Baldwin
• Balfour
• Bali
• Balin
• Balios
• Balisarda
• Balk
• Balkis
• Ball
• Ballad
• Ballambangjan, Straits of
• Ballet
• Balliol College
• Balloon
• Ballot
• Ballyhoo
• Balm
• Balmoral bonnet or bluebonnet, A
• Balmung
• Balmy
• Balnibarbi
• Baloney
• Balrog
• Balthazar
• Baltic, The
• Bamberg Bible, The
• Bambi
• Bambocciades
• Bamboo
• Bamboozle
• Bamburgh Worm, The
• Bamian
• Bampton Lectures
• Ban
• Ban, King
• Banagher, That beats
• Banana
• Banat
• Banbury
• Banco
• Band
• Bandbox
• Bandicoot
• Bandit
• Bands
• Bandwagon, To climb on the
• Bandy words, To
• Bang
• Bangorian controversy
• Bank
• Banks's horse
• Bannatyne Club
• Banner
• Banneret
• Bannock
• Banns
• Banquet
• Banquo
• Banshee
• Bantam
• Banting
• Banyan
• Banzai
• Baobab
• Baptes
• Baptism
• Bar
• Barabbas
• Barataria
• Barathrum or Barathron
• Barb
• Barbara
• Barbarella
• Barbarian
• Barbarossa
• Barbary
• Barbason
• Barbecue
• Barbed steed
• Barber
• Barbican
• Barbie doll
• Barchester
• Bar Cochba or Bar Kokhba
• Bard
• Bardolph
• Bare
• Bargain
• Bargepole, To touch with a
• Barghest
• Barisal guns
• Bark
• Barkis is willin’
• Bar Kokhba
• Barlaam and Josaphat
• Barley
• Barlinnie drumstick
• Barm, Beggars’
• Barmecide
• Bar Mitzvah
• Barmy or balmy
• Barn
• Barnabas or Barnaby
• Barnacle
• Barnacles 1
• Barnacles 2
• Barnardo's
• Barnard's Inn
• Barney
• Barnwell, George
• Baron
• Baronet
• Baroque
• Barrack
• Barrel
• Barrell's Blues
• Barricade
• Barrier, Crush
• Barrister
• Barry, Cornwall
• Barsetshire
• Bartholomew
• Barton, Dick
• Bart's
• Baruch
• Bas
• BASE or Base jump
• Base
• Basement, Bargain
• Bash, To have a
• Bashan, To roar like a bull of
• Bashibazouk
• Basic
• Basil Brush
• Basilica
• Basilisk
• Basingstoke
• Basin Street
• Basket
• Basque, The Bounding
• Bass, Ground
• Basso continuo
• Bast
• Bastard
• Baste
• Bastille
• Bat
• Bated breath, With
• Bath
• Bathia
• Bathos
• Bathsheba
• Bathyllus
• Bat-Kol
• Bat Mitzvah
• Batrachomyomachia
• Battels
• Batten down the hatches, To
• Battersea
• Battle
• Battledore, Not to know B from a
• Baturlio marina
• Baubee
• Bauble
• Baucis
• Bauld Willie
• Baulk
• Baviad, The
• Bavieca
• Bavius
• Bawbee or baubee
• Bawbee
• Bawn, Colleen
• Bay
• Bayadere or bajadere
• Bayard
• Bayardo
• Bayeux Tapestry
• Bayonets
• Bayou State, The
• Bazooka
• BBC
• BC
• Be
• Beach
• Beachy Head
• Beacon
• Bead
• Beadle
• Beady eye
• Beak
• Beam
• Bean
• Beano
• Bear 1 (noun)
• Bear 2
• Beard
• Bearded women
• Bearings
• Béarnais, Le
• Beast
• Beastly drunk
• Beat
• Beatification
• Beatific vision
• Beatitude
• Beatles, The
• Beatnik
• Beatrice
• Beau
• Beaumontage or Beaumontague
• Beauty
• Beaux
• Beaver
• Because
• Beckingham Palace
• Becky Sharp
• Bed
• Beddgelert
• Bede
• Bede, Adam
• Bedel or Bedell
• Bedell's Bible
• Bedesman
• Bedford
• Bedivere, Sir
• Bedlam
• Bedouin
• Bedrock
• Bee
• Beeb, The
• Beecham's Pills
• Beef
• Beefalo
• Beefeaters
• Beelzebub
• Been there, done that
• Beer
• Beersheeba, From Dan to
• Beetle
• Beeton, Mrs
• Befana
• Before
• Beg
• Beggar
• Beghards
• Begin
• Beglerbeg
• Beguine
• Béguines
• Begum
• Behemoth
• Behind
• Behistun
• Behram
• Beijing
• Bejan or bajan
• Bel
• Belacqua, Lyra
• Belch, Sir Toby
• Belcher
• Beldam
• Bel esprit
• Belfast
• Belfry
• Belgravia
• Belial
• Believe
• Belisarius
• Belisha beacon
• Bell
• Belladonna
• Bellarmine
• Belle
• Bellerophon
• Bellerus
• Bellona
• Belly
• Belomancy
• Beloved
• Below
• Belphegor
• Belphoebe
• Belsen
• Belsen, The Beast of
• Belshazzar
• Belt
• Beltane
• Belus
• Belvedere
• Ben
• Benares
• Benbow, Admiral
• Bench
• Bend
• Bendis
• Benedicite
• Benedick or Benedict
• Benedict
• Benefice
• Benefit
• Benetton
• Benevolence
• Bengal Tigers, The
• Ben-Hur
• Benin
• Benjamin
• Bennet, Elizabeth
• Ben trovato
• Beowulf
• Bequest, The Chantrey
• Berchta
• Berchtesgaden
• Berenice
• Berets, Blue
• Bergomask
• Berlin
• Bermoothes
• Bermuda
• Bernadette, St
• Bernard
• Bernardo del Carpio
• Bernesque poetry
• Berry, As brown as a
• Berserk
• Berth
• Bertha, Big
• Berthe au Grand Pied
• Bertie
• Bertram
• Berwick
• Besant
• Beside
• Besom, To jump the
• Bess
• Best
• Bestiaries
• Best things, The eight
• Bet
• Betamax
• Bête noire
• Bethel
• Bethesda
• Bethlehem
• Betsy Ross
• Better
• Bettina
• Betty
• Between
• Betwixt and between
• Beulah
• Beverley, St John of
• Beverly Hills
• Bevin Boys
• Bevis
• Bevy
• Beware the Ides of March
• Bey
• Beyond
• Bezant or besant
• Bezoar
• Bhagavadgita
• Bhagwan
• Bianchi
• Bib
• Biberius Caldius Mero
• Bible
• Bible: principal English versions
• Bible: some specially named editions
• Biblia Pauperum
• Bibliomancy
• Bibliomania
• Bibliophilia
• Bickerstaff, Isaac
• Bicorn
• Bicycle
• Bid
• Biddy
• Bideford Postman, The
• Bier, Ordeal of the
• Bifrost
• Big
• Biggles
• Big Gooseberry Season, The
• Bike
• Bikini
• Bilbo
• Bile
• Bilge water
• Bilk
• Bill
• Billabong
• Billet
• Billet-doux
• Billingsgate
• Billjim
• Billy
• Bimetallism
• Bimini
• Bin
• Binary notation
• Bing Boys
• Bingham's Dandies
• Bingo
• Birch
• Bird
• Birds protected by superstitions
• Birmingham
• Birth, Virgin
• Birthday
• Birther
• Bis
• Biscuit
• Bishop
• Bissextile
• Bisto
• Bistro
• Bit
• Bitch
• Bitcoin
• Bite
• Bitter
• Black
• Blacksmith
• Bladder diplomacy
• Blade
• Bladud
• Blair
• Blaise, Modesty
• Blake, Sexton
• Blanch, To
• Blanchefleur
• Blanco White
• Blank
• Blanket
• Blarney
• Blasphemous Balfour
• Blast
• Blatant beast
• Blatherskite
• Blaue Reiter, Der
• Blayney's Bloodhounds
• Blaze
• Blazer
• Blazes, Go to
• Bleed
• Blefuscu
• Blenheim Palace
• Bless
• Bligh, Captain
• Blighty
• Blimp
• Blind
• Blind Department, The
• Bling
• Blitz, The
• Block
• Blodeuwedd
• Blog
• Bloggs, Joe
• Blonde
• Blondel
• Blondie
• Blondin
• Blood
• Bloody
• Bloom
• Bloomer
• Bloomers
• Blooming
• Bloomingdale's
• Bloomsbury
• Blossom
• Blot
• Blouzelinda
• Blow
• Blucher
• Blue
• Bluff
• Blunderbore
• Blu-ray®
• Blurb
• Blush
• Bluto
• Boa
• Boadicea
• Boanerges
• Boar
• Board
• Boast of England, The
• Boat
• Boaz
• Bob
• Bobadil, Captain
• Bobbery
• Bobbetty
• Bobby
• Bobs
• Boche
• Bocland or bookland
• Bodach
• Bodacious
• Bodhisattva
• Bodice, Liberty
• Bodkin
• Bodleian Library, The
• Bodmin, The Beast of
• Body
• Boeotia
• Boethius
• Boffin
• Bofors gun
• Bog, The Serbonian
• Bogey
• Boggard or boggart
• Bogie
• Bogomils
• Bog-standard
• Bogtrotter
• Bogy
• Bohemia
• Boil
• Bold
• Boldly go, To
• Boleyn, Anne
• Bolivar
• Bolivian marching powder
• Bollinger Bolshevism
• Bollocks, The dog's
• Bolly
• Bollywood
• Bolognese
• Boloney or baloney
• Bolshevik
• Bolsover, The Beast of
• Bolt
• Bomb
• Bombadil, Tom
• Bombast
• Bombay
• Bombiti
• Bon 1
• Bon 2
• Bona
• Bonanza
• Bond
• Bonduca
• Bone
• Boney
• Bonfire
• Bongo Bongo Land
• Bonhomme
• Boniface
• Bonne bouche
• Bonnet
• Bonnie
• Bonzo
• Booboisie
• Booby
• Boodle's
• Boogie-woogie
• Boojum
• Book
• Boom, Baby
• Boomerang
• Boon companion
• Boondoggle
• Boone, Daniel
• Boop, Betty
• Boot
• Boot, To
• Boötes
• Bootsie and Snudge
• Bootylicious
• Booze
• Bor
• Borak or Al Borak
• Borden, Lizzie
• Border, The
• Boreas
• Boredom
• Borgias, A glass of wine with the
• Born
• Borobudur
• Borough or burgh
• Borrow
• Borsetshire
• Borstal
• Boru, Brian
• Bosh
• Bosman ruling
• Bosom
• Bosporus or Bosphorus
• BOSS
• Boss
• Boston
• Bot
• Botanomancy
• Botany
• Bothy
• Bo tree
• Bottle
• Bottled beer
• The Bottom and Breaking Wind
• Bottom
• Boudicca
• Bought it
• Bouillabaisse
• Boule or boulle
• Boulevard, Sunset
• Boulogne, Column at
• Bounce
• Bound
• Bountiful, Lady
• Bounty
• Bourbon
• Boustrapa
• Boustrophedon
• Bovary, Emma
• Bovril
• Bovver
• Bow 1
• Bow 2
• Bow 3
• Bowdlerize, To
• Bowels of mercy
• Bowery, The
• Bowie knife
• Bowl 1
• Bowl 2
• Bowler hat
• Bowles, Sally
• Bow-wow
• Box
• Boxer
• Boy
• Boyar
• Boycott
• Bøyg
• Boz
• Bozzy
• Brabançonne, La
• Braces, Belt and
• Bracknell, Lady
• Bradamante
• Bradbury
• Bradshaw
• Braggadocio
• Bragi
• Brahma
• Braid St Catherine's tresses, To
• Braille
• Brain
• Bran
• Branch, Root and
• Brandenburg Confession
• Brand-new or bran-new
• Brand X
• Brandy
• Brasenose College
• Brass
• Brat pack
• Brave
• Bray, The Vicar of
• Brazen
• Breach
• Breaches
• Bread
• Break
• Breakfast
• Breaking a stick
• Breast
• Breath
• Breathe
• Bred in the bone
• Breeches
• Breeze
• Brendan, St
• Bren gun
• Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit
• Brethren
• Bretwalda
• Breviary
• Brewer
• Brewer
• Brexit
• Brian Boru
• Briareus or Aegeon
• Bric-à-brac
• Brick
• Bride
• Bridewell
• Bridge
• Bridget
• Bridgewater Three, The
• Bridle
• Bridport dagger
• Brief
• Brigade
• Brigadoon
• Brigadore or Brigliadore
• Brigand
• Bright
• Brighton
• Brighton Belle
• Brilliant
• Brimstone
• Bring
• Brinkmanship
• Brinvilliers, Marquise de
• Briny, The
• Brioche
• Briseis
• Brisingamen
• Bristol
• Brit
• Britain
• Britannia
• British
• Britomart
• Briton, North
• Brittany
• Broach a subject, To
• Broad
• Brobdingnag
• Brock
• Brocken, Spectre of the
• Brodie, Miss Jean
• Broederbond
• Broken
• Broker
• Bromide
• Brontes
• Brontë sisters, The
• Bronx, The
• Brooklyn
• Brooks's
• Broom
• Brothel creepers
• Brother
• Brougham
• Brought
• Brouhaha
• Browbeat, To
• Brown
• Bruce, Robert
• Brücke, Die
• Bruderhof
• Bruges Group
• Bruin
• Brumaire
• Brumby
• Brummagem
• Brummell, George Bryan
• Brunhild or Brünnhilde
• Brunt, To bear the
• Brush
• Brut
• Brutum fulmen
• Brutus
• Bryanites
• Brylcreem
• Bubastis
• Bubble
• Bucca
• Buccaneer
• Bucentaur
• Bucephalus
• Buchan's weather periods
• Buchis
• Buchmanism
• Buck
• Bucket
• Buckler
• Bucklersbury
• Buckley's chance
• Buckmaster's Light Infantry
• Buckram
• Buck-rider
• Buckshee
• Buckskin
• Bud, To nip in the
• Buddha
• Budget
• Buff
• Buffalo Bill
• Buffer
• Buffet, Finger
• Buffoon Ape, The
• Bug
• Buggane
• Buggins’ turn
• Bugs Bunny
• Buhl
• Build
• Bulge, The Battle of the
• Bull
• Bullet
• Bulletin
• Bullions, St Martin of
• Bully
• Bum
• Bumble
• Bummaree
• Bump
• Bumppo, Natty
• Bun
• Bunbury
• Bunch of fives
• Bundle
• Bungalow
• Bungay, Friar
• Bunkum
• Bunny
• Bunraku
• Bunter, Billy
• Bunting, Baby
• Buntline special
• Bunyan, Paul
• Bunyip
• Buraq
• Burble
• Burden
• Bureaucracy
• Burgh
• Burglary
• Buridan's ass
• Burke
• Burlington Bertie
• Burma Road
• Burn
• Burns’ Night
• Burpee
• Burst
• Burton, Gone for a
• Bury
• Bus
• Busby
• Busby Babes
• Bush
• Bushel, To hide one's light under a
• Bushido
• Business
• Busiris
• Busker
• Buskin
• Bust
• Buster
• Busy bee, A
• Butcher
• Butlins
• Butskellism
• Butter
• Butterfly
• Buttermere, The Maid of
• Butt-head, Beavis and
• Button
• Buxom
• Buy
• Buzfuz
• By
• Bye
• Byerly Turk
• Byron
• Byzantine
• Byzantium
• C
• C
• Cab
• Cabal
• Cabbage
• Cabbala
• Cabin
• Cabinet, The
• Cabinet Ministers
• Cabiri
• Cable
• Caboched
• Caboodle, The whole
• Ca'canny
• Cache
• Cachet
• Cacique
• Cackle, To cut the
• Cacodaemon
• Cacoethes
• Cacus
• Cad
• Caddie
• Cade
• Cadency, Marks of
• Cader Idris
• Cadet
• Cadfael, Brother
• Cadger
• Cadmus
• Caduceus
• Caedmon
• Caerleon
• Caesar
• Café
• Cage
• Cagliostro
• Cagmag
• Cagoulards
• Cahoots, In
• Caiaphas
• Cain
• Ça ira
• Caius College
• Cake
• Calainos
• Calais
• Calamity Jane
• Calceolaria
• Calchas
• Calculate, To
• Calcutta
• Caleb
• Caledonia
• Calendar
• Calender
• Calends
• Calenture
• Calepin
• Calf
• Caliban
• Caliburn
• Calidore, Sir
• Calif
• Caligari, Doctor
• Caligorant
• Caligula
• Calipash and calipee
• Caliph or calif
• Call, A
• Caller herrings
• Calliope
• Callippic period
• Callipygous
• Callisto and Arcas
• Calomel
• Calpe
• Caltrop or caltrap
• Calumet
• Calvary
• Calves’ Head Club
• Calvinism
• Calydon
• Calypso
• Camacho
• Cam and Isis
• Camarina
• Cambalo's ring
• Camber
• Cambria
• Cambridge
• Cambuscan
• Cambyses
• Camden Society
• Camel
• Camelopard
• Camelot
• Camera
• Cameron Highlanders
• Cameronian
• Camford
• Camilla
• Camillo, Don
• Camillus
• Camisado or camisade
• Camisards
• Camlan, The Battle of
• Camlet
• Camorra
• Camp
• Campaign
• Campania
• Campaspe
• Campbell
• Campden Wonder, The
• Campeador
• Can
• Canaan
• Canard
• Canary
• Cancan
• Cancer
• Candace
• Candaules
• Candidate
• Candid camera
• Candide
• Candle
• Candour, Mrs
• Candy
• Canephorus
• Canicular
• Canker
• Canmore
• Cannae
• Canned
• Cannon
• Canny
• Canoe
• Canon
• Canopic jar
• Canopus
• Canopy
• Canossa
• Cant
• Cantate Sunday
• Canteen culture
• Canter
• Canterbury
• Canuck
• Canute or Cnut
• Canvas
• Caora
• Cap
• Capability Brown
• Cap-à-pie
• Cape
• Capel Court
• Caper, To cut a
• Capet
• Capital
• Capitalism, The unacceptable face of
• Capitol, The
• Capitulary
• Capon
• Capone, Al
• Capp, Andy
• Capricorn
• Captain
• Capuchin
• Capulet
• Caput mortuum
• Car
• Carabineer or carabinier
• Caracalla
• Caradoc
• Caran d'Ache
• Carat
• Caraway
• Carbineer, carabineer or carabinier
• Carbon
• Carbonado
• Carbonari
• Carbuncle of Ward Hill, The
• Card
• Cardboard City
• Cardi
• Cardigan
• Cardinal
• Cards
• Care
• Carey
• Carfax
• Cargo cult
• Carle or Carling Sunday
• Carlists
• Carlops, The Fairies o’
• Carlos the Jackal
• Carlovingians
• Carmagnole
• Carman
• Carmel, Mount
• Carmelites
• Carmen
• Carmen Sylva
• Carmina Burana
• Carnaby Street
• Carnegie
• Carnival
• Carol
• Carolingians or Carlovingians
• Carolus
• Carpathian Wizard, The
• Carpe diem
• Carpenter, Bush
• Carpet
• Carriage
• Carronade
• Carrot and stick
• Carry
• Carson, Kit
• Cart
• Carta, Magna
• Carte
• Cartesian philosophy
• Carthage of the North
• Carthusians
• Cartridge, Blank
• Carvilia
• Caryatides or caryatids
• Casabianca
• Casanova
• Case
• Casey
• Cash
• Casket
• Caspar
• Cassandra
• Cassation, Court of
• Cassibelan
• Cassidy, Hopalong
• Cassiopeia
• Cassiterides
• Cassius
• Cassivellaunus
• Cast
• Castaly
• Caste
• Castle
• Castor and Pollux
• Casus belli
• Cat
• Catachresis
• Catacomb
• Catalo
• Catalogue raisonné
• Catamaran
• Catastrophe
• Catch
• Catcher in the Rye, The
• Catechism, Shorter
• Catechumen
• Caterans
• Cater cap
• Cater-cornered
• Cater-cousin
• Caterpillar Club
• Catharine
• Cathars
• Cathay
• Cathedrals of the Old Foundation
• Catherine
• Catholic
• Catiline's Conspiracy
• Cato
• Cattle
• Caucasian
• Caucus
• Caudillo
• Caudine Forks
• Caudle
• Cauf
• Caught
• Caul
• Caulfield, Holden
• Cauliflower ear
• Caurus
• Cause
• Causeway, Giant's
• Caution
• Cavalier
• Cave or cavern
• Cave!
• Caveat
• Caviare
• Cavo relievo or cavo rilievo
• Caxton, William
• Cayuse
• Cazique or Cacique
• Cean Poet, The
• Cecilia
• Cecil's fast
• Cedar
• Ceiling
• Celer
• Celeste, Mary
• Celestial
• Celestines
• Cell, Sleeper
• Celt
• Celtic
• Cemetery
• Cenci
• Ce n'est que le premier pas qui coûte
• Cenimagni
• Cenobites
• Cenotaph
• Cent, Not a red
• Centaur
• Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles
• Cento
• Central
• Centre
• Centurion
• Century
• Cephalus and Procris
• Cepheus
• Cerberus
• Cerealia
• Ceremonious, The
• Ceremony
• Ceres
• Ceridwen
• Cerus
• Cess
• Cesspool, To have a mind like a
• C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre
• Cestus
• Ceteris paribus
• Chacun à son goût
• Chad
• Chaff
• Chagan
• Chain
• Chair, The
• Chalcedony
• Chaldea
• Chalice, Poisoned
• Chalk
• Challenge
• Cham
• Chamber
• Chambersisms
• Chambre
• Chambré
• Chameleon
• Champagne
• Champ de Mars
• Champion
• Chamuel
• Chan, Charlie
• Chance
• Chancel
• Chancellor
• Change
• Changeling
• Channel Islands
• Chansons de geste
• Chant, Gregorian
• Chantage
• Chant du départ
• Chanticleer
• Chantrey Bequest, The
• Chantry
• Chaos and old Night
• Chaos theory
• Chap
• Chapel
• Chaperon or chaperone
• Chappaquiddick
• Chapter
• Char
• Charades
• Charge
• Charge of the Light Brigade
• Charing Cross
• Chariot
• Charity
• Charivari
• Charlatan
• Charlemagne
• Charles
• Charleston
• Charlotte
• Charm
• Charon
• Charter, Atlantic
• Charterhouse
• Chartism
• Chartreuse
• Charybdis
• Chase
• Chasidim
• Chastity belt
• Chasuble
• Chat de Beaugency, Le
• Château
• Chatelaine
• Chats, Fireside
• Chattanooga
• Chattels, Goods and
• Chattering classes, The
• Chatterley, Lady
• Chaucerian
• Chautauqua
• Chauvinism
• Chav
• Chawbacon
• Cheap
• Cheater
• Cheat the Devil, To
• Check
• Cheek
• Cheer
• Cheese
• Cheka
• Chellean
• Chelsea
• Chemical Ali
• Chemistry, The Father of
• Chemosh
• Cheque
• Chequers
• Cherish
• Cheroots
• Cherry
• Chersonese
• Cherubims
• Cherubs
• Che sarà, sarà
• Cheshire cat
• Chess
• Chesterbelloc
• Chestnut
• Cheval
• Chevalier
• Chevy Chase
• Chew
• Chian Painter, The
• Chiantishire
• Chiasmus
• Chic
• Chicago
• Chicane
• Chichevache
• Chick
• Chicken
• Child
• Chiliasts
• Chillingham cattle
• Chillon, Prisoner of
• Chill out, To
• Chilminar and Baalbek
• Chilo
• Chiltern Hundreds
• Chime in, To
• Chimera
• Chimney, The Devil's
• Chin
• China
• Chin-chin
• Chindit
• Chinese
• Chinook
• Chintz
• Chios, The Man of
• Chip
• Chi-ro
• Chiromancy
• Chiron
• Chisel or chizzle, To
• Chisholm Trail
• Chivalry
• Chivy or Chivvy
• Chivy or chivvy, To
• Chizzle
• Chladni figures
• Chloe
• Chock-full or chock-a-block
• Chocolate
• Choice
• Choir
• Choke
• Choose
• Chop
• Choragus
• Choral, Vicar
• Chorasmian waste
• Chord, To strike a
• Choriambus or choriamb
• Chorus, Cat's
• Chosen People, The
• Chouans
• Choughs
• Chow mein
• Chrism or chrisom
• Christ
• Christadelphians
• Christendom
• Christian
• Christiana
• Christianity, Muscular
• Christmas
• Christopher
• Christy Minstrels
• Chronicle
• Chronogram
• Chrononhotonthologos
• Chrysanthemum throne
• Chrysaor
• Chryselephantine
• Chrysostom, St John
• Chum
• Chunnel
• Church
• Churlish, Reply
• Churn supper
• Churrigueresque
• CIA
• Ciao
• Cicero
• Cicisbeo
• Cicisbeo
• Cid
• Ci-devant
• Cigars, cigarettes and cheroots
• Cimmerian
• Cinch
• Cinchona
• Cincinnatus
• Cinderella
• Cinquecento
• Cinque Ports
• Circe
• Circle
• Circuit
• Circular, Court
• Circumlocution Office
• Circus
• Cisco Kid
• Cist
• Cistercians
• Citizen
• City
• Civil
• Civilization, The Cradle of
• Civis Romanus sum
• Civvies
• Clack dish
• Claddagh ring
• Claim
• Clak-ho-haryah
• Clam
• Clameur de haro
• Clan
• Clanger, To drop a
• Clang of shields, The
• Clapham
• Clapperdudgeon
• Clappy, Happy
• Claptrap
• Claque
• Clare, Order of St
• Clarenceux King of Arms
• Clarendon
• Claret
• Claribel
• Claridge's
• Clarissa
• Clark, Nobby
• Clary water
• Classes, Chattering
• Classic
• Claude Lorrain or Lorraine
• Claudia
• Claudius
• Claus, Santa
• Clause
• Clavie, The Burning of the
• Claw, The Devil's
• Clay, Feet of
• Clayton's
• Clean
• Cleansing, Ethnic
• Clear
• Clear out for Guam, To
• Cleave
• Cleft stick, In a
• Clement
• Cleopatra
• Clergy
• Clerihew
• Clerk
• Clerkenwell
• Clever
• Cliché
• Clickbait
• Clicquot
• Clifden nonpareil
• Cliff
• Climacteric
• Climate change
• Climb on the bandwagon, To
• Clink
• Clio
• Clip
• Clipper
• Cliveden set, The
• Cloacina
• Cloak and dagger plays
• Clock
• Clog
• Cloister
• Clootie, Auld
• Clootie well
• Cloots, Anacharsis
• Close
• Closet
• Closure
• Cloth
• Clotho
• Cloud
• Cloudeslie, William of
• Clough, Clym of the
• Clouseau, Inspector
• Clout
• Cloven hoof
• Clover
• Clovis
• Clown
• Club
• Clue
• Cluniacs
• Cluricaune
• Clutch or catch at straws, To
• Clyde, Bonnie and
• Clydesdale
• Clydesiders, The
• Clym of the Clough
• Clytemnestra
• Clytie
• Cnidian Venus, The
• Cnut
• Coach
• Coade stone
• Coal
• Coalition government
• Coast
• Coat
• Cob
• Cobalt
• Cobb & Co
• Cobber
• Cobbler
• Cobham's Plot
• Coburg loaf
• Cobwebs, To blow away the
• Coca-Cola
• Cock
• Cockade
• Cockade
• Cockaigne
• Cockamamie
• Cockatrice
• Cocker, According to
• Cockle
• Cockney
• Cocktail
• Coconut, Milk in the
• Cocytus
• Code
• Codex, Alexandrian
• Codger, Old
• Codswallop
• Cod war
• Coenobites or Cenobites
• Coeur de Lion
• Coffee
• Coffin
• Coggeshall job, A
• Cogito, ergo sum
• Cognoscenti
• Coin
• Coins
• Coke
• Coke's clippings
• Colcannon
• Colchis
• Cold
• Colditz
• Coldstream Guards
• Cole, Old King
• Colettines
• Colin Clout
• Coliseum
• Collar
• Collateral damage
• Collective nouns
• Collectors
• Colleen Bawn
• College
• College colours 1
• College colours 2
• Collegiate church
• Collins
• Colly bird
• Cologne
• Colombian necktie
• Colonel
• Colophon
• Colorado
• Colosseum
• Colossus
• Colour or colours
• Colporteur
• Colt
• Columbine
• Columbo
• Columbus
• Column
• Coma Berenices
• Comb
• Combe, Duke
• Combinations
• Come
• Comedy
• Comet wine
• Comfort
• Comic strip or cartoon
• Commander of the Faithful
• Commandment
• Commando
• Commedia dell'arte
• Comme il faut
• Commemoration
• Commentariat
• Commissioners, The Ecclesiastical
• Committee
• Commodore
• Common
• Commoner
• Commonplace book
• Commons
• Commonwealth, The
• Communards
• Communicator, The Great
• Communism
• Community, The Oneida
• Compact, Mayflower
• Companion
• Company
• Compare
• Compass
• Compassion fatigue
• Complementary colour
• Complex
• Complexion, That schoolgirl
• Compliment
• Compline
• Complutensian Polyglot, The
• Compos mentis
• Compostela
• Comprehensive school
• Comstockery
• Comus
• Comyn, Red
• Con
• Conan
• Concentration camp
• Conception
• Conceptionists
• Concert
• Conchie or conchy
• Conchobar
• Concierge
• Conclamatio
• Conclave
• Conclusion
• Concordat
• Concrete
• Condé, Le Grand
• Condottieri
• Conduct
• Conductor, Lightning
• Confederate States
• Confederation of the Rhine
• Conference
• Confession
• Confetti
• Confidence trick
• Confucianism
• Confusion
• Congé
• Congleton Bears
• Congregationalists
• Congreve
• Conjure
• Conk
• Conker
• Conn
• Connecticut
• Connemara
• Conqueror
• Conquistadors
• Conscience
• Consciousness, Stream of
• Conscript fathers
• Consecration, Nag's head
• Consent
• Consentes dii
• Consenting stars
• Conservative
• Conservator of the Peace
• Consistory
• Consolidated fund
• Consols
• Consort
• Conspiracy
• Constable
• Constant
• Constantine
• Constituent Assembly
• Constitution
• Contact, Eye
• Contango
• Contemplate, To
• Contempt
• Contention, Bone of
• Contest of Wartburg
• Continence
• Continent
• Contra
• Contretemps
• Control
• Controversy
• Convenience, Flag of
• Conventicle
• Convention
• Cooing and billing, like Philip and Mary on a shilling
• Cook or cooking
• Cooker, Captain
• Cookie
• Cooks
• Cook's tour
• Cool
• Coon
• Coot, As bald as a
• Cop
• Copacetic
• Cope, Johnnie
• Copenhagen
• Copernican system, Copernicanism
• Cophetua
• Copper
• Copperfield, David
• Copts
• Copy
• Corah
• Coral
• Coram
• Corbett
• Cordelia
• Cordelier
• Cordon
• Corduroy
• Core, Hard
• Corineus
• Corinth or Corinthian
• Coriolanus
• Cork, The Earl of
• Corked
• Corker
• Cormoran
• Corn
• Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi
• Corner, To
• Cornish
• Cornubian shore, The
• Cornucopia
• Cornwall
• Coronach
• Coronation
• Coronet
• Coronis
• Corporal
• Corporate, Body
• Corporation
• Corposant
• Corps
• Corpse
• Corpus
• Corpuscle
• Correct
• Corridor
• Corroboree
• Corrouge
• Corsican
• Corsned
• Corvinus
• Corvus, Marcus Valerius
• Corybantes
• Corycian cave
• Corydon
• Coryphaeus
• Cosa Nostra
• Cosmonaut
• Cost, To count the
• Costa
• Costard
• Costermonger
• Cost the earth, To
• Cot death
• Cotillion or Cotillon
• Cotset
• Cottage
• Cottingley fairies, The
• Cotton
• Cottonian Library
• Cottus
• Cotytto
• Couchant
• Couch potato
• Couéism
• Cough, Churchyard
• Council
• Counsel
• Count 1
• Count 2
• Countenance, To
• Counter
• Countess
• Country
• County
• Coup
• Couple
• Coupon
• Courage
• Course
• Court
• Courtain
• Courteous, The retort
• Courtesy
• Cousin
• Cove
• Coven
• Covenant
• Covent Garden
• Coventry
• Cover
• Coverdale's Bible
• Coverings, Day of
• Coverley, Sir Roger de
• Cow
• Coward
• Cowl or hood does not make the monk, The
• Cox, Box and
• Coxcomb
• Coxswain or cox
• Coystril, Coystrel, or Kestrel
• Cozen, To
• Crab
• Crack
• Cracker
• Cradle
• Craft
• Crag, Salisbury
• Crambo
• Crammer
• Cramp
• Crane, Ichabod
• Cranmer's Bible
• Crannog
• Crapaud
• Craps
• Cravat
• Craven
• Crazy
• Creaking doors hang the longest
• Cream
• Creation, The Lord of
• Creation
• Creature
• Crécy
• Credence
• Credibility gap
• Credit
• Credo
• Creed
• Creeping to the Cross
• Crème de la crème
• Cremona
• Cremorne Gardens
• Creole
• Creon
• Crescent
• Cresset
• Cressida or Cressid
• Cresswell, Madam
• Cresta Run
• Crestfallen
• Crete
• Cretinism
• Crew
• Creweian oration
• Crewel garters
• Crib
• Crichton, The Admirable
• Cricket
• Cries of animals
• Crim.con.
• Crime
• Crimson, Derry
• Cripplegate
• Crisis
• Crispin and Crispinian
• Criss-cross
• Critic
• Croak, To
• Crocker, Betty
• Crockett, Davy
• Crockford
• Crocodile
• Croesus, As rich as
• Croft, Lara
• Crofters
• Croglin, The Bat of
• Cro-Magnon man
• Cromlech
• Crompton's mule or spinning mule
• Cromwell
• Cronos or Cronus
• Crony
• Crook
• Crop
• Croque-mitaine
• Croque-monsieur
• Croquet
• Crosier or crozier
• Cross 1
• Cross 2
• Crotona's Sage
• Crouchback
• Crouchmas
• Croud
• Crow
• Crowd, Croud or Cruth
• Crown
• Crowns
• Crowquill, Alfred
• Crozier
• Crucial
• Cruel, The
• Cruella De Vil
• Cruft's
• Cruise, Booze
• Crumble
• Crummy
• Crumpets
• Crusades
• Cruse, Widow's
• Crush
• Crusoe, Robinson
• Crust
• Crutched Friars
• Crux
• Cry
• Crystal
• Cub
• Cuba
• Cube, Rubik's
• Cubism
• Cubit
• Cuchulain or Cú Chulainn
• Cucking stool
• Cuckold
• Cuckoo
• Cucullus non facit monachum
• Cucumber
• Cud, To chew the
• Cuddy
• Cudgel
• Cuff, Off the
• Cui bono?
• Culdees
• Cullinan Diamond
• Culloden
• Culross girdles
• Cultivate one's garden, To
• Culture
• Culver
• Cumberland
• Cum grano salis
• Cumquat
• Cunctator
• Cuneiform
• Cunning
• Cunobelin
• Cup
• Cupboard
• Cupid
• Curate
• Curé de Meudon
• Curfew
• Curious
• Curious placenames
• Curl
• Curmudgeon
• Currant
• Currency
• Current
• Curry favour, To
• Curse
• Cursitors
• Cursor Mundi
• Curtain
• Curtal friar
• Curtana
• Curthose
• Curtmantle
• Curule
• Cushion
• Custer's Last Stand
• Custom-built or custom-made
• Customer
• Custos Rotulorum
• Cut
• Cut blocks with a razor, To
• Cuthbert
• Cutpurse
• Cutty
• Cwt
• Cyanean rocks, The
• Cybele
• Cyber
• Cyborg
• Cycle
• Cyclops
• Cygnus
• Cylinders, To fire on all
• Cyllaros
• Cylleneius
• Cymbeline
• Cymodoce
• Cynic
• Cynosure
• Cynthia
• Cypress
• Cyprian
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• Cyrene
• Cyrillic alphabet
• Cyrus the Great
• Cyst, Baker's
• Czar
• Czech, The Bouncing
• D
• D
• Dab
• Da capo
• Dactyls
• Dad or Daddy
• Dadaism
• Daedalus
• Daemon
• Daffodil
• Daft as a brush, As
• Dagger
• Dagobert, King
• Dagon
• Dagonet, Sir
• Dahlia, The Black
• Daikoku
• Daily dozen
• Daisy
• Dalai Lama
• Dalek
• Daley, Arthur
• Dalgliesh, Adam
• Daltonism
• Dalziel, Andy
• Dam, The Devil and his
• Damart
• Damascene, St John
• Damascus, The road to
• Dam Busters
• Dame
• Damiens’ ordeal
• Damn
• Damocles, The Sword of
• Damon
• Damp squib, A
• Damsel
• Dan
• Danace
• Danaë
• Danaides
• Dance
• Dander
• Dandie Dinmont
• Dandiprat
• Dando
• Dandy
• Dane
• Danebrog or Dannebrog
• Daniel
• Dansker
• Dante and Beatrice
• Danton, Georges Jacques
• Danvers, Mrs
• Daphne
• Daphnis
• Dapple
• Darbies
• Darby and Joan
• Darcy, Mr Fitzwilliam
• Dardanus
• Dare
• Daric
• Darius
• Dark
• Darley Arabian
• Darling
• Darnex
• Dart
• D'Artagnan
• Darth Vader
• Dartmoor
• Darwinian theory
• Dash
• Date
• Datum line
• Daughter
• Daulian bird
• Dauphin
• Davenport
• David
• Davidians, Davists
• Davis Cup
• Davy
• Dawn
• Dawson, Jemmy
• Day
• DC
• D-Day
• De
• Deacons, The Seven
• Dead
• Deaf
• Deal
• Dean
• Dear
• Death
• Debonair
• Deborah
• Debrett
• Debt
• Decabrists or Dekabrists
• Decalogue
• Decameron
• Decathlon
• Deceiver, A gay
• Decem, Scriptores
• December
• Decimal
• Decisive battles
• Deck
• Declare
• Deco, Art
• Decoration
• Decree nisi
• Decuman gate
• Dedalus, Stephen
• Dee, Dr
• Deed poll
• Deemster, Dempster or Doomster
• Deep
• Deer
• Default, Judgement by
• Defence, Dock
• Defender
• Defenestration of Prague
• Defiance
• Deficient number
• Déficit, Madame
• Degree
• Deianeira
• Deidamia
• Dei Gratia
• Deiphobus
• Deipnosophist
• Deirdre
• Deist
• Deities
• Dekko, To take or have a
• Del Boy
• Delectable Mountains
• Delenda est Carthago
• Deleted, Expletive
• Delhi Spearmen, The
• Delicious, Golden
• Delight
• Delilah, A
• Delinquents
• Delirium
• Deliver
• Della Cruscans or Della Cruscan school
• Delos
• Delphi
• Deluge
• Delusion, A snare and a
• Dementor
• Demesne
• Demeter
• Demi
• Demiurge
• Democratic Party
• Democritus
• Demogorgon
• Demon
• Demos, King
• Demosthenes
• Dempster
• Den, Dirty
• Den, The Devil's
• Denarius
• Dene hole
• Denial Bible, The
• Denim
• Denis
• Denmark
• Dennis the Menace
• Denver boot
• Denys, Denis or Dionysius
• Deo
• Deoch-an-dorius
• Deodand
• Depart
• Depression, The Great
• Derby
• Derrick
• Derringer
• Derry/Londonderry
• Dervish
• Description, To beggar
• Desdemona
• Deseret
• Desert
• Desert one's colours, To
• Designer
• Desire
• Desk, To clear one's
• Despair
• Desperate Dan
• Despond, Slough of
• Destiny
• Destruction
• Desultory
• Detector, Lie
• Deucalion and Pyrrha
• Deuce
• Deus
• Deuteronomy
• Deva 1
• Deva 2
• Development, Ribbon
• Devi
• De Vil, Cruella
• Devil
• Devil and Tom Walker, The
• Devonshire
• Dew
• Dewan
• Dewar flask
• Dewey decimal system
• Dewi
• Dexter
• Dey
• Dharma
• Diable, Le
• Diabolo
• Diadem
• Dial
• Dialect, Doric
• Dialectic or dialectics
• Diamond
• Diana
• Dianetics
• Diapason
• Diaries, The Hitler
• Diavolo
• Dice
• Dick
• Dickens, What the
• Dickensian
• Dickey
• Dicky or Dickey
• Dictionary, Walking
• Dictys Cretensis
• Didache
• Diddle, To
• Didicoi
• Dido
• Didymus
• Die1
• Die2
• Dies
• Dieu et mon droit
• Difference
• Dig
• Digambara
• Digest
• Digits
• Digital native
• Dii penates
• Dike
• Dilbert
• Dildo
• Dilemma, The horns of a
• Diligence
• Dilligrout
• Dillon, Matt
• Dilly-dally, To
• Dime
• Dimensions
• Diminishing Returns, The Law of
• Dimissory
• Dimity
• Dinah
• Dine
• Dingbat
• Ding-dong
• Dingle Dolphin, The
• Dinkum
• Dinky Toys
• Dinmont
• Dinna fash yersel’!
• Dinner, A dog's
• Dinos
• Dinosaur
• Dint
• Diogenes
• Diomedes or Diomed
• Dione
• Dionysia
• Dionysius
• Dionysus
• Diophantine analysis
• Dioscuri
• Dip
• Diphtheria
• Diplomat
• Dipper, The
• Dircaean Swan
• Direct
• Directory, The
• Dirleton
• Dirt
• Dis
• Disagree, To agree to
• Disastrous Peace, The
• Disc
• Discalced
• Discharge Bible, The
• Disciples
• Discipline
• Discombobulate
• Discontent, Winter of
• Discord
• Discretion, Age of
• Disease
• Disguise, A blessing in
• Disgusted, of Tunbridge Wells
• Dish
• Disjecta membra
• Dismal
• Dismal
• Dismal science, The
• Dismas
• Disney
• Disorderly house
• Dispatches, Hatches, matches and
• Dispensation
• Displaced persons
• Dissenters
• Distaff
• Distance
• Distrain
• Distress
• District
• Ditch
• Dithyramb
• Dittany
• Ditto
• Divan
• Dive, To duck and
• Dives
• Divide
• Divination
• Divine, The
• Divinity in odd numbers
• Division
• Divorcement, Bill of
• Divot
• Divus
• Diwali
• Diwan or Dewan
• Dix
• Dixie or Dixieland
• Dizzy
• Djinn
• Do
• Dobbin
• Dobby's walk
• Doberman pinscher
• Dobson, Zuleika
• Docetes
• Doch-an-doris
• Dock
• Docklands
• Doc Martens
• Doctor
• Dodge
• Dodgy dossier, The
• Dodo
• Dodona
• Doe
• Dog
• Dogberry
• Doge
• Doggett's Coat and Badge
• Dogie
• Doh or Do
• Doily, doyly or doyley
• Doister, Ralph Roister
• Dolby
• Dolce
• Doldrums, The
• Dole
• Dolittle, Dr
• Doll
• Dollar
• Dolly
• Dolly shop
• Dolmen
• Dolphin
• DOM
• Dom
• Domboc
• Domdaniel
• Dome
• Domesday Book
• Dominations
• Domine, quo vadis?
• Dominic
• Dominical letters or Sunday letters
• Dominions
• Domino
• Don
• Don, The
• Donald
• Donation
• Donatists
• Doncaster
• Done
• Done brown
• Donkey
• Donnybrook Fair
• Don't
• Donzel
• Doobrie
• Doodlebug
• Doolally
• Doolittle, Eliza
• Doom
• Doomster
• Doones, The
• Door
• Doosra
• Doppler effect
• Dora
• Dorado, El
• Dorcas Society
• Dorian and Doric
• Doris
• Dornick
• Dorothea
• Dorothy
• d'Orsay, Beau
• Dorset
• Dory, John
• Dose
• Dot
• Dotheboys Hall
• Douai Bible, The
• Douanier, Le
• Double
• Doubt
• Dough
• Douglas
• Douse or dowse, To
• Dove
• Dover
• Dovercourt
• Doves’ dung
• Dowager
• Dow–Jones index, The
• Dowlas, Mr
• Down
• Downing Street
• Downy bird, A
• Dowsabell
• Dowse, To
• Doxology
• Doyen
• Doyly or doyley
• Dozen
• Drac
• Drachenfels
• Draconian Code
• Draconites
• Dracula
• Drag
• Draggle-tail or daggle-tail
• Dragon
• Dragonnades
• Dragoon
• Drain
• Drake
• Drama
• Drapier's Letters
• Drappie, Wee
• Drat
• Draupnir
• Draw
• Drawcansir
• Drawer
• Drawing room
• Dreadnought
• Dream
• Dresden china
• Dress
• Dreyfusard
• Drift of the current, The
• Drink and drinking
• Drink
• Drive
• Droit
• Dromio, The Brothers
• Drone
• Drongo
• Droop, Brewer's
• Drop
• Drown
• Drown the miller, To
• Drows
• Drug
• Druids
• Drum
• Drummond
• Drunk
• Drury Lane
• Druzes or Druses
• Dry
• Dryad
• Dryasdust
• DTs
• Dual
• Dub
• Dubglas
• Dubois, Blanche
• Dubya
• Ducat
• Duce, Il
• Duchess
• Duck
• Dude
• Duergar
• Duff
• Duglas
• Duke
• Dukhobor
• Dulce
• Dulcinea
• Dull
• Dum
• Duma
• Dumb
• Dumbledore, Albus
• Dumdum
• Dummy, Sell the
• Dumps, Down in the
• Dun
• Dunce
• Dundas, Starvation
• Dundee, Bonnie
• Dundreary whiskers
• Dunedin
• Dung, Devil's
• Dungeons and Dragons
• Dunheved Castle
• Dunkers or Dunkards
• Dunkirk
• Dunmow
• Dunmow flitch
• Duns Scotus
• Dunstable
• Dunstan
• Duodecimo
• Dupes, Day of the
• Dupin, Auguste
• Durandal or Durindana
• Durbar
• Durbeyfield, Tess
• Durden, Dame
• Durex
• Durga
• Durham mustard
• Dust
• Dutch
• Duty
• Duvet day
• DV
• Dwarf
• Dwile flonking
• Dwt
• Dye
• Dying sayings
• Dyke or dike
• Dymoke
• Dymphna or Dympna
• Dynamite Saturday
• Dynasty, Merovingian
• E
• E
• Eager beaver
• Eagle
• Ealing comedies
• Ear
• Earl
• Early
• Earn the wages of sin, To
• Earp, Wyatt
• Earth
• Ease or easy
• East
• Easter
• Eat
• Eau
• Eavesdropper
• eBay
• Ebenezer
• Eblis
• E-boat
• Ebonics
• Ecce Homo
• Ecclesiastes
• Ecclesiastical
• Ecclesiasticus
• Echidna
• Echo
• Eckhardt
• Ecky Thump
• Eclectics
• Eclipse
• Eclogue
• Ecological footprint
• Economy
• Eco-village
• Ecstasy
• Ector, Sir
• Ecumenical
• Edda
• Eddystone lighthouse
• Eden
• Edge
• Edict
• Edinburgh
• Edition
• Edmund
• Edna
• Edom
• Edsel
• Education, Higher
• Edwardian
• Edward the Confessor
• Eel
• Eeyore
• Effect
• Effigy
• E.g.
• Égalité
• Egeria
• Egg
• Eggcorn
• Egg-trot
• Egil
• Ego
• Egremont
• Egypt
• Eheu fugaces
• Eight
• Eikon Basilike
• Eire
• Eirene
• Eisteddfod
• Elagabalus or Heliogabalus
• Elaine
• Elastoplast
• Elbow
• Elder
• El Dorado
• Eleanor crosses
• Elecampane
• Election
• Elector
• Electra
• Electricity
• Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The
• Electronic
• Electuary
• Elegant Extracts, The
• Elegiacs
• Element
• Elementary, my dear Watson
• Elephant
• Elephantine
• Eleusinian mysteries
• Elevation of the Host, The
• Eleven
• Elf
• Elgin Marbles, The
• Elia
• Elidor
• Elidure
• Eligibles and detrimentals
• Eligius
• Elijah
• Elijah's melons
• Eliot, George
• Eliott's Tailors
• Elisha
• Elissa
• Elixir of life, The
• Elizabeth
• Ell
• Elm
• Elmo's fire, St
• Elohim
• Eloi or Eligius
• Elysium
• Elzevir
• Em
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Embargo
• Embarras de richesse
• Ember
• Emblem
• Emerald
• Emerods
• Émigré
• EMILY's list
• Éminence grise
• Emir
• Emma
• Emmanuel or Immanuel
• Emmanuelle
• Emmets and grockles
• Emmy
• Emotion
• Empedocles
• Emperor
• Empire
• Empirics
• Empty
• Empty champagne bottles
• Empyrean
• Empyromancy
• En
• Encaenia
• Enceladus
• Enchanted castles
• Enchantment, The Land of
• Enchilada, The Big
• Encomium
• Encore
• Encounter, Close
• Encratites
• Encyclical
• Encyclopedia or encyclopaedia
• End
• Endor, The Witch of
• Endowed, Well-
• Endymion
• Enemy
• Enfant
• Engine
• England
• English
• Engraving, Line
• Enid
• Enigma
• Enjambement
• Enlightenment, The
• Enniskillens
• Ennius
• Enoch Arden
• Enola Gay
• Ensa
• Ensign
• Ensign
• Ent
• Entail
• Entente
• Enter
• Entertain angels unawares, To
• Enthusiasm
• Entrée
• Entre nous
• Envelope
• Envy, Green with
• Eolithic Age
• Eolus
• Eon
• Eos
• Epact
• Epaulette
• Epergne
• Ephebe
• Ephesus, Diana of
• Ephialtes
• Ephors
• Epic poetry
• Epicurus
• Epigoni
• Epigram
• Epimenides
• Epiphany
• Episcopacy
• Episcopal signatures
• Episode
• Epistle
• Epitaph
• Epithalamium
• E pluribus unum
• Epoch
• Epode
• Époque, Belle
• Eppur si muove
• Epsom
• Equal
• Equality
• Equinox
• Era
• Eraclius
• Erastianism
• Erato
• Erebus
• Erechtheum
• Erewhon
• Eric
• Erichthonius
• Erigone
• Erin
• Erinyes
• Erlking
• Ermine
• ERNIE
• Eros
• Errand
• Erse
• Erymanthian boar, The
• Esau
• Escorial or Escurial
• Escuage
• Esculapius
• Escutcheon
• Esoteric
• Esperanto
• Espiet
• Esprit
• Esquire
• Essays
• Essenes
• Essex
• Established Church
• Establishment, The
• Estate
• Esther
• Est-il possible
• Estotiland
• Estrangelo
• Estrich wool
• Estuary English
• E.T.
• État, c'est moi, L’
• Eternal, The
• Etesian wind
• Ethnic cleansing
• Ethon
• Et in Arcadia ego
• Etna, Mount
• Eton crop
• Etrenne
• Etruria
• Ettrick Shepherd, The
• Etzel
• Eucharist
• Euchre
• Euclid
• Eugene Aram
• Euhemerus
• Eulalia
• Eulenspiegel, Till
• Eumaeus
• Eumenides
• Eunuch
• Euphemism
• Euphuism
• Eureka
• Euro
• Europa
• Europe
• Eurus
• Euryalus
• Eurycleia
• Eurydice
• Eustace
• Euterpe
• Euxine Sea
• Evangelical
• Evangelists
• Evans, William
• Evans Music-and-Supper Rooms
• Eve
• Eve, St Mark's
• Eve, Sylvester's
• Even
• Evening or sunset gun
• Event
• Ever
• Everage, Edna
• Every
• Evidence
• Evil
• Evita
• Evolution
• Evolution 1
• Evolution 2
• Ewe lamb
• Ex
• Exaltation
• Exarch
• Excalibur
• Excelsior
• Exception
• Exchange
• Exchequer
• Excommunication
• Excursions
• Excuse
• Executioners
• Executive privilege
• Exercise, Five-finger
• Exeter
• Exhibition, The Great
• Existence, A hand-to-mouth
• Existentialism
• Exocet
• Exodus
• Exon
• Exorcism
• Exoteric
• Expect
• Expedition, Fishing
• Expletive deleted
• Explosion
• Exposure, Double
• Express
• Expression
• Extinct species
• Extispicy
• Extraordinary rendition
• Extreme
• Eye
• Eyre, Jane
• Ezekiel
• F
• F
• F is written on his face
• Fab Four, The
• Fabius
• Fables
• Fables
• Fabliaux
• Fabricius, Gaius Lusinus
• Fabulinus
• Face
• Facile princeps
• Facilis descensus Averno
• Façon de parler
• Fact
• Faction
• Factor
• Factory King, The
• Factotum
• Faculty, Dean of
• Fadda
• Faerie
• Fafnir
• Fag
• Faggot
• Fagin
• Fagot votes
• Fail
• Fainéants, Les rois
• Fains
• Faint heart never won fair lady
• Fair 1
• Fair 2
• Fairies 1
• Fairy ladies or Mage
• Fait accompli
• Faith
• Faithful
• Fakes
• Fake News
• Falange
• Falasha
• Falchion
• Falcon, Peregrine
• Faldstool
• Falernian
• Falkirk Triangle, The
• Falklands factor
• Fall
• Fallacy, Pathetic
• False
• Falstaff
• Falutin
• Fame, Temple of
• Familiar or familiar spirit
• Familists
• Family
• Famine
• Famous
• Fan, Queen Anne's
• Fancy
• Fanesii
• Fanfaron
• Fannie Mae
• Fanny
• Fan tan
• Fantastic, To trip the light
• Fantom
• Fantomas
• FAQ
• Far
• Farce
• Fare
• Farewell Address
• Fargo, Wells
• Farm
• Farmer
• Farnese
• Farrago of nonsense, A
• Farthing
• Farthingale
• Fasces
• Fash
• Fashion
• Fast 1
• Fast 2
• Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride
• Fast girl or young lady, A
• Fasti
• Fasting
• Fasting
• Fat
• Fat men
• Fata
• Fatah, Al
• Fatal
• Fate
• Father
• Fatima
• Fatted calf
• Fatwa
• Fault
• Fauna
• Fauntleroy, Little Lord
• Faust
• Faute de mieux
• Fauvism
• Faux pas
• Favonius
• Favour
• Fawkes, Guy
• Fay
• FDR
• Feal and divot
• Fear, No
• Feast or festival
• Feather
• February
• Fecit
• Federalists
• Fedora
• Fee
• Fee, fi, foh, fum
• Feed
• Feel
• Feet
• Feet, How are your poor?
• Feilding, Beau
• Felix the Cat
• Fell, Dr
• Fella, The Big
• Fellow
• Felo de se
• Female
• Feme
• Feminine ending
• Feminism
• Femme fatale
• Fen
• Fence
• Feng shui
• Fenians
• Fenice, La
• Fennel
• Fenny Poppers
• Fenrir
• Ferae Naturae
• Ferdia
• Ferdinand the Bull
• Fergie
• Fergus mac Roich
• Ferguson
• Fermat's last theorem
• Fern seed
• Ferrant d‘Espagne
• Ferrara
• Ferrex and Porrex
• Ferris wheel
• Ferry, Harpers
• FERT
• Fertile Crescent, The
• Fesse
• Festina lente
• Festival of the Popinjay, The
• Festschrift
• Fetch 1
• Fetch 2
• Fetish
• Fettle
• Feudalism
• Feu de joie
• Fever
• Feversham, Arden of
• Few
• FFI
• FFL
• Fiacre
• Fian, John
• Fianna Fáil
• Fiasco
• Fiat
• Fibonacci sequence
• Fico
• Fiction
• Fiddle
• Fidei Defensor
• Fidelity
• Fido
• Fiduciary issue
• Fidus Achates
• Field
• Fierabras, Sir
• Fieri facias
• Fiery cross, The
• Fifi
• Fifteen
• Fifth
• Fifty-four Forty or Fight
• Fig
• Figaro
• Fight
• Figo
• Figure
• Filch
• File
• Filibuster
• Filioque controversy
• Fill
• Fille de joie
• Film
• Final
• Financial year
• Finch, Atticus
• Find
• Findabair
• Fin de siècle
• Fine
• Fine Gael
• Fingal
• Finger
• Finn
• Fionnuala
• Firbolgs
• Fire
• Firm
• First
• Fish
• Fist
• Fit
• Fitz
• Fitzrovia
• Fitzwilliam Museum
• Five
• Fix, A
• Fixed air
• Fizz, Buck's
• Flaccus
• Flag
• Flagellants
• Flak-catcher
• Flamberge or Floberge
• Flamboyant architecture
• Flame
• Flaminian Way
• Flanders
• Flanders’ babies
• Flannel
• Flap
• Flapper
• Flash
• Flashman
• Flash men, Flash notes
• Flat
• Flavour of the month
• Flea
• Fleece, The Golden
• Fleet
• Flemensfirth
• Flemish school
• Flesh
• Fleur-de-lis, -lys or -luce
• Flibbertigibbet
• Flicks, The
• Flight, Asmodeus
• Flimsy
• Fling
• Flip
• Flitch, Dunmow
• Flivver
• Float
• Floccinaucinihilipilification
• Flog
• Flonking, Dwile
• Flood, The
• Flook
• Floor
• Flora
• Florentine Diamond
• Florida
• Florin
• Florizel
• Flotsam and jetsam
• Flourish
• Flowers and trees
• Fluellen
• Fluff, A bit of
• Flummadiddle
• Flush
• Flute, The Magic
• Flutter
• Fly 1
• Fly 2
• Foaflore
• FOB
• Fo‘c‘s'le
• Fodder, Cannon
• Fog-eater
• Fogey
• Foggy Bottom
• Foil
• Folio
• Folk, Hill
• Folklore
• Follow
• Folly
• Font or fount
• Fontarabia
• Food
• Foods and wines
• Fool
• Fools
• Foot or feet
• Forane, Vicar
• Forbid
• Force
• Fordism
• Fore!
• Foreign Legion
• Forelock
• Foreplay, redneck
• Forest
• Forgery
• Forget
• Fork
• For King and Country
• Forlorn hope
• Form
• Former Naval Person
• Fornicator
• Fort, To hold the
• Fortean
• Fort Knox
• Fortnum & Mason
• Fortunatus
• Fortune
• Fortunio
• Forty
• Forwards, Marshal
• Fosbury flop
• Fosse Way or Foss Way
• Foul
• Founding Fathers
• Fountain
• Four
• Fourierism
• Fourteen
• Fourth
• Fowl
• Fowler
• Fox
• Foyle's
• Fra
• Fracasse, Captain
• Frame
• France
• Francesca da Rimini
• Francis
• Franconi, King
• Francs-tireurs
• Frank, Anne
• Frankenstein
• Frankincense
• Frankpledge
• Franks
• Frater
• Fraticelli
• Frauenhofer lines
• Frazzle, Worn to a
• Freak
• Fred
• Frederick the Great
• Free
• Freeman, Mrs
• Freemasonry
• Freezing point
• Freischütz
• Fremantle doctor, The
• French
• Frenemy
• Frenzy, Feeding
• Frequently asked questions
• Fresh
• Freudian slip
• Freyja
• Freyr
• Friar
• Friar Gerund
• Friday
• Friend
• Frigate, Stone
• Frigg
• Frighten the horses, To
• Frills, To put on
• Fringe
• Frippery
• Frithiof
• Fritz
• Frock
• Frodo
• Froebel system
• Frog
• Fronde, The
• Front
• Frontier, The Northwest
• Frost
• Frozen words
• Fruit
• Frusberta
• Fry
• Fuchsia
• Fuck buddy
• Fudge
• Fuel to the fire or flames, To add
• Fugger
• Führer
• Fulhams or Fullams
• Fulham virgin
• Full
• Fum
• Fum or Fung-hwang
• Fu Manchu
• Fuming
• Fun
• Fund
• Fundamental
• Funeral
• Funk
• Funnel, Mersey
• Funny
• Fur
• Furies, The
• Furioso, Orlando
• Furious, Fast and
• Furnace, The burning fiery
• Furniture, Part of the
• Furphy
• Furry Dance
• Fusion food
• Fuss
• Fustian
• Futhorc or futhark
• Future
• Fylfot
• G
• G
• Gab, The gift of the
• Gabars
• Gabbara
• Gabriel
• Gabrielle, La Belle
• Gad, By
• Gadarene swine
• Gaekwar
• Gaelic
• Gaff
• Gaffer
• Gag
• Gaia or Ge
• Gaiety Girl
• Gain
• Gaius Lusinus Fabricius
• Gala
• Galahad, Sir
• Galatea
• Galathe
• Galaxy, The
• Gale, Dorothy
• Galen
• Galère
• Galilee
• Galimatias
• Gall
• Gallant
• Gallery
• Galley proof
• Gallia
• Galligantus
• Galligaskins
• Gallimaufry
• Gallio
• Gallivespians
• Galloglass or gallowglass
• Galloping Major, The
• Gallows and gibbet
• Gallup Poll
• Galosh
• Galvanized iron
• Game
• Gamelyn, The Tale of
• Gamesmanship
• Gammadion
• Gammer
• Gammon
• Gammy leg
• Gamp
• Gamut
• Gandalf
• Gandharva
• Gandy dancer
• Ganelon
• Ganesa or Ganesh
• Gang
• Ganges, The
• Gangway
• Ganymede or Ganymedes
• Gaora
• Gap
• Garamond
• Garbage in, garbage out
• Garden
• Gardy loo
• Gargamelle
• Gargantua
• Gargouille
• Garibaldi
• Garland
• Garlic
• Garnet, All Sir
• Garnett, Alf
• Garratt, The Mayor of
• Garrick
• Garter
• Gas
• Gasconade
• Gasp, Last
• Gat
• Gate
• Gateau, Black Forest
• Gath, Tell it not in
• Gather
• Gatling gun
• Gatsby, Jay
• Gaudeamus igitur
• Gaudy
• Gauge, Standard
• Gaul
• Gauleiter
• Gaunt, John of
• Gauntlet
• Gautama
• Gavelkind
• Gawain
• Gay
• Gay Girl
• Gayomart
• Gazelle Boy, The
• Gazette
• Gazing
• Gazumping
• GCB
• Ge
• Gear
• Gee
• Geep
• Geese
• Geezer
• Gehenna
• Geisha
• Gemara
• Gemini
• Gendarmes
• Gender
• General
• Generalissimo
• Generation
• Generic names
• Generous
• Genesis
• Genetic
• Genetrix, Venus
• Geneva
• Geneviève
• Genghis or Jingis Khan
• Genie
• Genius
• Genocide
• Genre painter
• Gens
• Gentiles
• Gentle
• Gentleman
• Gentoo
• Gentrification
• Geomancy
• Geordie
• George
• George Street
• Geraint
• Geranium
• Gerda or Gerd
• Germain-en-Laye, St
• German or germane
• Germany
• Geronimo
• Gerrymander
• Gert and Daisy
• Gertrude of Nivelles, St
• Geryon
• Gessler, Hermann
• Gesta
• Gestapo
• Gestas
• Geste, Beau
• Get
• Gethsemane
• Gettysburg Address
• Gherkin, The
• Ghettoblaster
• Ghibelline
• Ghost
• Ghoti
• Ghoul
• GI
• Giants
• Giaour
• Gib cat
• Gibeonite
• Gibraltar
• Gibson Girl
• Gideon
• Gidget
• Gift
• Gigi
• Gig-lamps
• Gigmanity
• GIGO
• Gilbertian
• Gilbertines
• Gild
• Gildas
• Gilderoy
• Gilead, Is there no balm in?
• Giles
• Gilgamesh epic
• Gilles de Rais
• Gillie
• Gills
• Gilpin, John
• Gilt
• Gimlet-eyed
• Gimli
• Gimmick
• Gin
• Ginger
• Ginnungagap
• Ginseng
• Gioconda smile
• Giotto's O
• Giovanni, Don
• Gipper
• Gipsy
• Giralda
• Gird, To
• Girdle
• Girl
• Giro
• Girondists or Gironde, The
• Giselle
• Give
• Gizzard
• Glad
• Gladiators
• Gladstone bag
• Glamorgan
• Glasgow
• Glasnost
• Glass
• Glass houses
• Glastonbury
• Glauber salts
• Glaucus
• Gleek
• Gleipnir
• Glencoe, Massacre of
• Glengarry bonnet
• Glesca glutton
• Glim
• Glitter
• Global
• Globe
• Gloomy Dean
• Gloria
• Gloriana
• Glorious
• Glory
• Gloucestershire, As sure as God's in
• Glove
• Glubbdubdrib
• Gluckists
• Glumdalclitch
• Glyndebourne
• G-man
• Gnat
• Gnome
• Gnomic verse
• Gnostics
• Go
• Goal
• Goat
• Gobbledygook
• Gobelin tapestry
• Goblin
• God
• Godfrey of Bouillon
• Godfrey's Cordial
• Godiva, Lady
• Godolphin Barb
• Godzilla
• Goel
• Goemagot or Goemot
• Gog and Magog
• Golconda
• Gold
• Golden
• Golden thigh
• Golders Green
• Goldfish Club
• Goldwynism
• Golem
• Golf
• Golgotha
• Goliards
• Goliath
• Golightly, Holly
• Gollum
• GOM
• Gomorrah
• Gondor
• Gondwana
• Gone
• Goneril
• Gonfalon
• Gong
• Gongorism
• Gonville and Caius
• Gonzales, Speedy
• Gonzo journalism
• Good
• Goodbye
• Goods
• Goodwin Sands
• Goodwood
• Goody
• Google
• Googly
• Googol
• Goons, The
• Goose or geese
• Gooseberry
• GOP
• Gopher
• Gorboduc
• Gorby
• Gordian knot
• Gordon
• Gordonstoun
• Gore
• Gorgeous
• Gorgon
• Gormenghast
• Gorpcore
• Gorsedd
• Gory details
• Goshen
• Gospel
• Gossamer
• Gossip
• Gotcha!
• Gotham
• Gothic
• Goths
• Götterdämmerung
• Götz von Berlichingen
• Gourd, Jonah's
• Gourmand and gourmet
• Gout
• Govan's Bell, St
• Government
• Gower, The Moral
• Gowk
• Gown
• GPS
• GPU
• Graal
• Gracchi
• Grace
• Grade
• Gradgrind
• Gradual
• Gradus ad Parnassum
• Graffiti
• Graham flour
• Graham's Dyke
• Grail, The Holy
• Grain
• Grainne
• Gram
• Grammar
• Grammaticus, Saxo
• Grammy
• Gramont
• Granby, The Marquis of
• Gran Capitán, El
• Grand, Le or Grande, La
• Grand
• Grandfather clock
• Grandison, Sir Charles
• Grandmontines
• Grandmother
• Grange
• Grangerize, To
• Grani
• Granite
• Granny
• Grantchester
• Granth, The
• Grant quarter, To
• Grape
• Grasp
• Grass
• Grasshopper
• Gratis
• Grattan's Parliament
• Grave
• Gravy
• Gray
• Gray, Dorian
• Grease
• Great
• Great men, Social status of
• Grecian
• Greco, El
• Greece
• Greek
• Green
• Greeneland
• Greenham Common
• Greenlander
• Greenwich
• Gregorian
• Gregory the Great or St Gregory
• Gremlin
• Grenadier
• Grendel
• Gresham, Sir Thomas
• Greta Hall, The Poet of
• Gretchen
• Gretel
• Gretna Green marriages
• Grève, Place de
• Grey
• Gricer
• Gridiron
• Grief, To come to
• Griffin
• Griffon
• Grig
• Grildrig
• Grille-peerer
• Grim
• Grimaldi, Joseph
• Grimalkin
• Grimes Graves
• Grimm's law
• Grimoire
• Grimpen Mire
• GrÍmr
• Grimsdyke
• Grin
• Grind
• Griselda
• Grist to the mill
• Grizzle
• Groan
• Groat
• Grocer
• Grocer's apostrophe
• Grockle
• Grog
• Grogram
• Grommet
• Groom of the Stole, The
• Groove
• Gross
• Grotesque
• Ground
• Group
• Grovely Wood
• Grow
• Growlers
• Grub
• Gruel
• Gruffalo
• Grumbo
• Grundy
• Grunge
• Gryffindor
• Gryphon
• G-spot
• G-string
• Guantánamo Bay
• Guard
• Guarneri or Guarnerius
• Gubbins
• Gudrun, Guthrun or Kudrun
• Gudule or Gudula or Gudila
• Guelphs and Ghibellines
• Guenevere
• Guernsey lily
• Guerrilla war
• Guest, Be my
• Gueux, Les or Beggars, The
• Gugnuncs
• Guides
• Guignol
• Guildford Four, The
• Guilds
• Guillotine
• Guinea
• Guineapig 1
• Guineapig 2
• Guineapig 3
• Guinevere or Guenevere or Guinever
• Guinness
• Guitar, Air
• Gules
• Gulf
• Gulistan
• Gull
• Gulliver
• Gum
• Gummidge, Worzel
• Gun
• Gun 1
• Gun 2
• Gunga Din
• Gung-ho
• Gunnar
• Gunner
• Gunpowder Plot
• Gunter
• Gunther or Gunnar
• Guomindang
• Gurdwara
• Gurkhas
• Guru
• Gutenberg Bible, The
• Guthlac, St
• Guthrun
• Guts
• Gutter
• Guy
• Gwrach y Rhibyn
• Gwyn, Nell
• Gyges
• Gymnosophists
• Gyp
• Gyppy tummy
• Gypsy or Gipsy
• Gyromancy
• Gytrash
• H
• H
• Habakkuk
• Habeas corpus
• Haberdasher
• Habit, creature of
• Habsburg or Hapsburg
• Hack
• Hackney
• Haddock
• Hades
• Hadith
• Hadrian's Wall
• Hafiz
• Hag
• Haganah
• Hagar
• Haggadah
• Haggai
• Haggis
• Hagrid
• Haha
• Haiku
• Hail
• Hair
• Hair, Hairs
• Haizum
• Hajj
• Haka
• HAL
• Halakhah
• Halal
• Hal-an-tow
• Halcyon days
• Half
• Halifax
• Hall
• Hall, Robert
• Hallel
• Hallelujah
• Hallé Orchestra
• Halliett, Goody
• Hallmark
• Halloo
• Halloween, Hallowe'en or All Hallows Eve
• Hallows
• Hallstatt
• Halo
• Halt, To grind to a
• Ham
• Hamadryads
• Hamartia
• Hambletonian
• Hamburger
• Hamelin, Pied Piper of
• Hamilton, Single-speech
• Hamlet
• Hammer
• Hammon
• Hampden clubs
• Hampshire hog
• Hampstead
• Hampton
• Hanaper
• Hancock
• Hand
• Handcuff
• Handel
• Handheld
• Handicap, The Waterloo
• Handiron
• Handle
• Handsel
• Handshake, Golden
• Handsome
• Handy, Para
• Hang
• Hanky-panky
• Hannah Snell
• Hannibal
• Hanoi Jane
• Hanover jack
• Hansard
• Hanseatic League
• Hänsel and Gretel
• Hansom
• Hanukkah
• Hanuman
• Happy
• Hapsburg
• Hara-kiri
• Haram
• Hard
• Hardraade, Harold
• Hardy
• Hare
• Hare, William
• Hare Krishna
• Hari, Mata
• Harijan
• Hari-kiri
• Harkaway, Jack
• Hark back, To
• Harleian
• Harlem
• Harlequin
• Harley
• Harlowe, Clarissa
• Harmonia's necklace
• Harmony
• Harness, To die in
• Harold
• Haroun al-Raschid
• Harp
• Harpagus
• Harper, The Blind
• Harpers Ferry
• Harpocrates
• Harpy
• Harris, Bomber
• Harrods
• Harrowing of hell, The
• Harry
• Hart
• Hartley, J.R
• Harum scarum
• Haruspex
• Harvard University
• Harvest
• Harvey
• Hash
• Hashtag
• Hasideans
• Hassan ben Sabah or Hasan ibn-al-Sabbah
• Hasta la vista
• Haste, Post
• Has your mother sold her mangle?
• Hat
• Hatch
• Hatchet
• Hate
• Hathor
• Hatim, As generous as
• Hatto
• Haul over the coals, To
• Hauser, Kaspar
• Haussmannization
• Hauteclaire
• Hautville's Quoit
• Have
• Havelock
• Haversack
• Havisham, Miss
• Havoc
• Hawcubites
• Haw-haw, Lord
• Hawk
• Hawthorn
• Haxey Hood game
• Hay
• Haze
• Head
• Headlines, To hit the
• Heal
• Health
• Heap
• Hear, hear!
• Hearing, Hard of
• Heart
• Heat
• Heathcliff
• Heath Robinson
• Heathrow
• Heaven
• Heavy
• Hebe
• He Bible, The
• Hecate
• Hecatomb
• Hector
• Hecuba
• Hedge
• Hedonism
• Heebie-jeebies
• Heel
• Heep, Uriah
• Heffalump
• Hegira
• Heidelberg man
• Heidi
• Heil Hitler
• Heimdall
• Heimlich manoeuvre
• Heimskringla
• Heir
• Hel
• Heldenbuch
• Helen
• Helena
• Helicon
• Heliogabalus
• Heliopolis
• Helios
• Heliotrope
• Helix, Double
• Hell
• Hellenes
• Hellespont
• Hello
• Helm, Ease the
• Helmet
• Héloïse
• Helot
• Help
• Helve
• Hemlock
• Hen
• Hendiadys
• Hengist and Horsa
• Henley, Orator
• Henman Hill
• Henry
• Hep or hip
• Hepatoscopy
• Hepeat
• Hephaestus
• Heptameron, The
• Heptarchy
• Heptateuch
• Heptathlon
• Hera
• Heracles
• Herald
• Heraldry
• Herb
• Hercule Poirot
• Hercules or Heracles
• Here
• Heresy, Antonine
• Heretic
• Hereward the Wake
• Hergest, The Red Book of
• Her Indoors
• Heriot
• Hermann Gessler
• Hermaphrodite
• Hermas, The Shepherd of
• Hermes
• Hermione
• Hermit
• Herne the Hunter
• Hero
• Herod, To out-herod
• Heroic
• Heroin
• Herrenvolk
• Herring
• Hershey bar
• Hertha
• Herts Guards, The
• Hesperia
• Hesperides
• Hesperus
• Hessian
• Hesychasts
• Hetaera
• Hex
• Hexameron
• Hexameter
• Hexateuch
• Hezekiah
• Hiawatha
• Hibernia
• Hiccius doccius
• Hic jacets
• Hickathrift, Tom
• Hickok, Wild Bill
• Hickory
• Hide 1
• Hide 2
• Hieroglyphics
• Higgledy-piggledy
• High
• Highgate, Sworn at
• Highlands, The
• Highness, Royal
• Highway
• Hijacker
• Hilary Term
• Hildabeest
• Hildebrand
• Hildegard
• Hildesheim
• Hill
• Hinayana
• Hind
• Hinduism
• Hindustan Regiment, The
• Hinny
• Hinzelmann
• Hip
• Hippie
• Hippocampus
• Hippocrates
• Hippocrene
• Hippodamia
• Hippogriff
• Hippolyta
• Hippolytus
• Hippomenes
• Hipsters
• Hiragana
• Hiram Abif
• Hiring fair
• Hiroshima
• Hissy fit
• History
• Hit
• Hitch
• Hitler
• Hittites
• Hoard
• Hoarstone
• Hob
• Hobbema
• Hobbism
• Hobbit
• Hobble skirt
• Hobby
• Hobgoblin
• Hobnob, To
• Hobo
• Hobson-jobson
• Hobson's choice
• Hock
• Hockey
• Hocus pocus
• Hodge
• Hodgepodge
• Hog
• Hogen Mogen
• Hogmanay
• Hogwarts
• Hoi polloi
• Hoist with one's own petard, To be
• Hoity-toity
• Hokey-cokey
• Hokey-pokey
• Holborn
• Hold
• Hole
• Holger Danske
• Holi
• Holiday
• Holland
• Hollow
• Holly
• Hollywood
• Holmes, Sherlock
• Holocaust
• Holofernes
• Holy
• Homburg
• Home
• Homer
• Homer a cure for the ague
• Homoeoteleuton
• Homoousion
• Homunculus
• Honest
• Honey
• Honi soit qui mal y pense
• Honkers
• Honky-tonk
• Honorificabilitudinitatibus
• Honour
• Honourable
• Honours
• Hooch
• Hood
• Hoodlum
• Hoof, Cloven
• Hook
• Hookey, To play
• Hooligan
• Hooray
• Hoosier
• Hoover
• Hop
• Hope
• Horace
• Horae
• Horatius
• Horde, Golden
• Horizon, The dip of the
• Horlicks
• Horn
• Horner, Little Jack
• Hornswoggle, To
• Horoscope
• Hors
• Horsa
• Horse
• Horst Wessel Song
• Horus
• Hose, Trunk
• Hosea
• Hospital
• Hospodar
• Host
• Hostler or ostler
• Hot
• Hotchpotch
• Hotel, Private
• Hôtel de Rambouillet
• Hotspur
• Houdini, Harry
• Hound
• Hour
• Houri
• Housain
• House
• Household
• House that Jack built, The
• Houssain or Housain
• Houston, we have a problem
• Houyhnhnms
• How
• Howard, The Female
• Howler
• Hoyle, According to
• HP Sauce
• Hrimfaxi
• Hrothgar
• HTML
• Hubbard, Old Mother
• Hubert
• Huckleberry Finn
• Hudson, Jeffrey
• Hue and cry
• Hufflepuff
• Hug
• Hugh of Lincoln
• Huguenots
• Hulda
• Hulk
• Hull, Hell and Halifax
• Hullaballoo
• Huma
• Human
• Humanism
• Humanitarians
• Humanity
• Humber
• Humbert Humbert
• Humble
• Humbug
• Humdinger
• Hume, Adversity
• Humour
• Hump
• Humphrey
• Humpty Dumpty
• Hun
• Hunchback of Notre Dame, The
• Hundred
• Hung
• Hungary, Elizabeth of
• Hunger
• Hungry Forties, The
• Hunky-dory
• Hunt
• Huntingdonians
• Huon of Bordeaux
• Hurdy-gurdy
• Hurlothrumbo
• Hurricane
• Hurry-scurry
• Husband
• Hush
• Hussites
• Hussy
• Hustings
• Hut
• Hutin, Louis le
• Hyacinth
• Hyades
• Hy Brasil
• Hyde
• Hydra
• Hydrophobia
• Hyena
• Hygeia
• Hygge
• Hyksos
• Hylas
• Hymen
• Hymn
• Hypallage
• Hype
• Hyperbole
• Hyperboreans
• Hyperion
• Hypermnestra
• Hypertext
• Hypnos
• Hypnotism
• Hypostatic union
• Hypothesis, Gaia
• Hyssop
• Hysteria
• Hysteron proteron
• I
• I
• Iago
• Iambic
• I am his Highness’ dog at Kew; Pray tell me sir, whose dog are you?
• Ianthe
• Iapetus
• Iberia
• Ibis
• Iblis
• Ibn Sina
• Ibraham
• Ibsenism
• Icaria
• Icarius
• Icarus
• Ice
• Iceni
• Ichabod
• Ich dien
• Ichneumon
• Ichor
• Ichthys
• Icknield Way
• Icon or ikon
• Id
• Ida, Mount
• Idaean dactyls
• Iddy-umpty
• Idea, Big
• Idéal, Beau
• Ideal commonwealths
• Idealism
• Identikit
• Ides
• Idiot
• Idle
• Idomeneus
• Idris
• IDS
• Iduna
• If
• Igerna
• Igglepiggle
• Ignatius
• Ignis fatuus
• Ignoramus
• Ignorantines
• Ignotum per ignotius
• Igraine or Igerna
• Ihram
• IHS
• II Milione
• Ike
• IKEA
• Ikon
• Iliad
• Iliad in a nutshell, The
• Ilium
• Ilk, Of that
• Ill
• Ill omens averted
• Illuminati
• Illustrious, The
• Illywhacker
• Image, Spitting
• Imagism
• Imam
• Imbolc
• Imbroccata or imbrocata
• Immaculate
• Immanuel
• Immemorial, From time
• Immolate
• Immortal
• Immunity, Diplomatic
• Imp, Lincoln
• Impanation
• Imperator
• Imperial
• Imposition
• Impossibilities
• Impressionism
• Imprimatur
• Impropriation
• In 1
• In 2
• Inaugurate, To
• Inca
• Incarnation
• Inch
• Inchcape Rock
• Incitatus
• Incognito
• Incorruptible, The
• Increase, Natural
• Incredible Hulk, The
• Incubus
• Incunabula
• Indenture
• Independence
• Independent
• Index, The
• India
• Indian
• Indirect taxation
• Indo-European
• Indolence, Castle of
• Indra
• Induction
• Indulgence
• Industry
• Indy 500, The
• Inexactitude, A terminological
• Inexpressibles
• Infallibility
• Infamy of Crete, The
• Infant
• Infantry
• Inferiority complex
• Infernal column
• Infinitive, To split an
• Influence, Backstairs
• Information
• Infra dig
• Infralapsarian
• Ingoldsby, Thomas
• Ink
• Inn
• Innamorato, Orlando
• Inner
• Innings
• Inniskillings
• Innocent, An
• Ino
• Inquisition, The
• INRI
• Insane root, The
• Inscription
• Inside
• Installation
• Insult
• Insurrection, Whiskey
• Intelligence
• Intent, Letter of
• Inter alia
• Intercalary
• Interdict
• Interest
• Interlard
• Interlingua
• International
• Internationale
• Internationals
• Internet
• Interregnum, The
• Into
• Intolerable Acts, The
• Introduction, Letter of
• Invalides, Les
• Invention of the Cross, The
• Inventors
• Investiture controversy
• Investment, Gilt-edged
• Invincible
• Invisibility
• Invisibility
• Invisible
• Invulnerability
• Io
• Ionia
• Ionic
• Iorek Byrnison
• Iota
• IOU
• iPad
• Iphigenia
• iPhone
• iPod
• Ipse dixit
• Ipso facto
• IRA
• IRB
• Ireland
• Irene
• Iris
• Irish
• Iron
• Iron mask
• Irony
• Iroquois
• Irredentism
• Irrefragable Doctor, The
• Irregulars, Baker Street
• Irresistible
• Irus
• Irvingites
• Isaac
• Isabel
• Isaiah
• I say
• Iscariot, Judas
• Isenbras
• Isengrym or Isegrin
• Iseult
• Ishmael
• Ishtar
• Isis
• Islam
• Island or Isle
• Islington
• Ismene
• Isms, The City of
• Isocrates
• Isolde
• Israel
• Israfel
• Issachar
• Issue
• Istar
• Isthmian games
• Isumbras or Isenbras, Sir
• It
• Italia irredenta
• Italic
• Italy
• Itch
• Ithaca
• ITMA
• Ivan
• Ivanhoe
• Ivory
• Ivy
• Ixion
• J
• J
• Jabberwocky
• Jachin and Boaz
• Jack
• Jackal
• Jackanapes
• Jackass
• Jackdaw
• Jackeroo
• Jacket
• Jacko
• Jackson, Stonewall
• Jackstones
• Jackstraws
• Jacob
• Jacobins
• Jacobites
• Jacobus
• Jacquard loom
• Jacques
• Jactitation of marriage
• Jacuzzi
• Jade
• Jaeger
• Jael
• Jaffa cake
• Jag, Gin and
• Jagannath
• Jahweh
• Jai alai
• Jains
• Jakes
• Jam
• Jamambuxes
• Jambres
• Jamdung
• James
• Jameson Raid
• Jamshid
• Jane
• Janet and John
• Janissaries or Janizaries
• Jannes and Jambres
• Jansenists
• Januarius
• January
• Janus
• Japanese vellum
• Japhetic
• Jarndyce v. Jarndyce
• Jason
• Jātaka tales
• Jaundiced eye, A
• Jaunty
• Java
• Javan
• Jaw
• Jay
• Jazz
• JCB
• Jealousy, The Water of
• Jean Crapaud
• Jeanne d'Arc
• Jedi, The
• Jeep
• Jeeves
• Jeffrey Hudson
• Jehad
• Jehennam, Bridge of
• Jehoshaphat
• Jehovah
• Jehu
• Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dr
• Jelly
• Jellyby, Mrs
• Jelly pardons
• Jemima
• Jemmy
• Je ne sais quoi
• Jenkins’ Ear
• Jennings
• Jephthah
• Jeremiah
• Jerez
• Jericho
• Jerk
• Jeroboam
• Jerome
• Jerry
• Jersey
• Jerusalem
• Jesse or Jesse tree
• Jesters
• Jesuits
• Jesus
• Jet
• Jetsam
• Jeu
• Jeune Cupidon, Le
• Jeunesse dorée
• Jew
• Jewels
• Jezebel
• Jezreelites
• JFK
• Jib, The cut of someone's
• Jiffy, In a
• Jig
• Jihad
• Jill
• Jilleroo
• Jim
• Jimmy
• Jingling Johnny
• Jingo
• Jinks, High
• Jinn
• Jitter
• Jive
• Jix
• Joab
• Joachim
• Joan
• Joanna Southcott
• Job1
• Job2
• Jocasta
• Jock
• Jockey
• Jodhpurs
• Joe
• Joel
• Jogger's nipple
• John
• Johnnie Cope or Hey, Johnnie Cope
• Johnny
• Johnson, Pussyfoot
• Join
• Joint
• Joke
• Jolly
• Joltin’ Joe
• Jonah
• Jonathan
• Jones
• Jongleur
• Jordan
• Jorum
• Josaphat
• Joseph
• Josephine
• Josephus
• Joshua
• Josiah
• Joss
• Jot
• Jotunheim
• Jourdain, Monsieur
• Journal
• Journalism, Chequebook
• Journey
• Jousts, The Diamond
• Jove
• Jovial
• Jowl, Cheek by
• Joy
• Juan
• Jubilate
• Jubilee
• Judah
• Judas
• Jude
• Judge
• Judgement
• Judica Sunday
• Judicial
• Judicium crucis
• Judith
• Judy
• Jug
• Juggernaut
• Juggins
• Juggler
• Jugular
• Juice
• Julian
• Juliet
• Julius Caesar
• July
• Jumbo
• Jump
• Junction
• June
• Jungle
• Junior, Democritus
• Junius
• Junk
• Junker
• Junket
• Juno
• Junta
• Jupiter
• Jury
• Jus
• Just, The
• Juste
• Justice
• Justify
• Justinian, Pandects of
• Just say no
• Juveniles
• K
• K
• Kaaba
• Kabbalah
• Kaddish
• Kaffir
• Kai Lung
• Kailyard School
• Kaiser
• Kalashnikov
• Kalevala
• Kali
• Kalki
• Kama
• Ka me, ka thee
• Kamerad
• Kami
• Kamikaze
• Kamsa
• Kane, Citizen
• Kangaroo
• Kangol
• Kantaka
• Karaites
• Karaoke
• Karenina, Anna
• Karma
• Karno
• Karttikeya
• Kashrut
• Kaswa, Al
• Katakana
• Katerfelto
• Kathay
• Kathleen
• Katmir
• Katzenjammer
• Kay, Sir
• KB
• KBO
• Keating, Tom, The pictures of
• Keblah
• Kedar's tents
• Keel
• Keen
• Keening
• Keep
• Kells, The Book of
• Kelly, As game as Ned
• Kelmscott Press
• Kelpie or kelpy
• Kelter
• Kemo sabe
• Kendal green
• Kenelm
• Kenno
• Kensal Green
• Kensington
• Kent
• Kentigern
• Kentucky
• Kenwood
• Kepler's laws
• Kerb crawler
• Kermis or Kirmess
• Kermit
• Kern
• Kern Baby
• Kersey
• Kestrel
• Ketch, Jack
• Kettle
• Kevin
• Kewpie doll
• Key
• Keyne
• Keystone
• KFC
• KGB
• Khaki
• Khaldi
• Khalifa
• Khalsa, The
• Khan
• Khayyám, Omar
• Khedive
• Khutbah
• Kibbutz
• Kiblah
• Kibosh
• Kick
• Kickapoo juice
• Kickshaws
• Kid
• Kidd, Captain
• Kiddush
• Kidnapping
• Kidney
• Kildare, Dr
• Kilkenny cats, To fight like
• Kill
• Killed by inches
• Kilroy
• Kilt
• Kilter or kelter
• Kim
• Kin
• Kindergarten
• Kindness
• King
• Kingdom
• Kinnockio
• Kiplingcotes Derby
• Kipper tie
• Kirin
• Kirk
• Kirke's Lambs
• Kirrin Island
• Kismet
• Kiss
• Kist of whistles
• Kiswa, The
• Kit Carson
• Kit-Cat Club
• Kitchen
• Kite
• Kith and kin
• Kit's Coty House
• Kitten
• Kiwanis
• Kiwi
• Kleenex
• Klingon
• Klondike
• Knave
• Knee
• Knell, Death
• Knickerbockers
• Knife
• Knight
• Knillian, The
• Knob
• Knobkerrie
• Knobstick wedding, A
• Knock
• Knoll, Grassy
• Knot
• Know
• Knowledge
• Knox Version, The
• Knuckle
• Knurr and spell
• Knut
• Kobold
• Köchel number
• Koh-i-Noor diamond
• Kojak, Theo
• Kol Nidre
• Kompromat
• Kong, King
• Kon-Tiki expedition
• Konx Ompax
• Koppa
• Koran or Al Koran
• Kosher
• Kow-tow
• Kraken
• Kralitz Bible, The
• Kratim
• Kremlin
• Kreutzer
• Kriegsspiel
• Kriemhild
• Krishna
• Kriss Kringle
• Kristallnacht
• Kronus
• Kruger
• Kryptonite
• Kublai Khan
• Kudrun
• Kufic
• Ku Klux Klan
• Kukri
• Kultur
• Kumbayah
• Kumbh Mela
• Kuomintang
• Kurgan
• Kwai-lo
• Kwan
• Kwanzaa
• Kyle
• Kylin
• Kyrie eleison
• L
• L
• Laban
• Labanotation
• Labarum
• Labour
• Labyrinth
• Lace, Lavender and old
• Lacedaemon
• Laches
• Lachesis
• Lackland
• Laconic
• Lad, Jack the
• Ladder
• La-di-da or Lah-di-dah
• Lading, Bill of
• Ladon
• Ladrones
• Lady
• Laertes
• Laestrygones
• Laetare Sunday
• La Fontaine, Jean de
• Lag, Time
• Lagado
• Lagan or ligan
• Lager lout
• Lagom
• Laid
• Laide
• Laika the dog
• Lais
• Laissez faire
• Laius
• Lake
• Lakshmi
• La-La Land
• Lallapaloosa
• Lamaism
• La Mancha, The Knight of
• Lamb
• Lamb, the vegetable or Tartarian lamb
• Lambert's Day, St
• Lambeth
• Lame duck
• Lamia
• Lamington
• Lammas Day
• Lamp
• Lampadion
• Lampon
• Lampoon
• Lampos
• Lamri
• Lancaster
• Lancasterian
• Lancastrian
• Lance
• Lancelot of the Lake or Lancelot du Lac
• Land
• Landau
• Landgrave
• Landscape
• Landsknecht
• Landsturm
• Landtag
• Landwehr
• Lane
• Lang syne
• Langtry, Lillie
• Language
• Langue d'oc and langue d'oïl
• Lansquenet
• Lantern
• Lanthorn, Friar's
• Laocoön
• Laodamia
• Laodicean
• Lao's mirror
• Lao Zi
• Lap
• Lapiths
• Lapsus linguae
• Laputa
• Lapwing
• Lar
• Larboard
• Larder
• Lares and penates
• Large
• Lark
• Larkin Family, The
• Larrikin
• Larry
• Larvae
• Lass, Hallelujah
• Lassie
• Last
• Las Vegas
• Late
• Lateral thinking
• Lateran
• Lathe
• Latin
• Latinus
• Latitudes, Horse
• Latitudinarians
• Latium
• Latona
• Latrine lawyer
• Latter-Day Saints
• Lauds
• Laugh
• Launcelot
• Launch
• Launfal, Sir
• Laura
• Laurasia
• Laureate, Poet
• Laurel
• Laurence, St
• Laurentian Library
• Laurie, Annie
• Laurin
• Lavender
• Lavengro
• Lavinia
• Lavolta
• Law
• Lawn
• Lawrence or Laurence, St
• Lawyer
• Lay 1
• Lay 2
• Lazarus
• Lazy
• LBJ
• LBW
• Lead 1
• Lead 2
• Leaf
• League
• Leah
• Leak
• Leal
• Leander
• Leaning tower
• Leap
• Lear, King
• Learn
• Learn, Live and
• Leash, To strain at the
• Leather
• Leave
• Lebensraum
• Lecter, Hannibal
• Lecture
• Leda
• Lee
• Leech
• Leeds, The Witch of
• Leek
• Leet
• Left 1
• Left 2
• Leg
• Legal
• Legend
• Legenda aurea
• Leger, St
• Legion
• Legislation, Jack Cade
• Legislator or Solon of Parnassus, The
• Lego
• Legolas
• Leif the Lucky
• Leitmotiv
• Lemnos
• Lemon
• Lemures
• Lemuria
• Lend
• Length, Cable's
• Lenin
• Lens
• Lent
• Leo
• Leonard, St
• Leonidas
• Leonine
• Leopard
• Leopolita Bible, The
• Leotard
• Leprechaun
• Lernaean Hydra
• Lesbian
• Lèse-majesté
• Less, St James the
• Lesser Prophets, The
• Lesson, To teach someone a
• Lestrigons or Laestrygones
• Let
• L’état, c'est moi
• Lethe
• Leto
• Letter
• Lettres de cachet
• Leucothea
• Levant
• Levee
• Level
• Levellers
• Lever
• Leviathan
• Levitation
• Levites
• Leviticus
• Levy, Capital
• Lewis, Monk
• Lex
• Ley lines
• LGBT
• Lia Fail
• Liar, Billy
• Libel
• Liber
• Liberal
• Liberator, The
• Libertine
• Liberty
• Libitina
• Libra
• Library
• Licence
• Lich
• Lichfield, The Swan of
• Lick
• Lictors
• Lid, To flip one's
• Lido
• Lie 1
• Lie 2
• Lieutenant
• Life
• Lift
• Lifting, The
• Ligan
• Liger
• Light
• Light
• Lighthouse
• Lightning
• Liguria
• Like
• Like it or lump it
• Likeness, Speaking
• Lil, Diamond
• Li'l Abner
• Lili Marlene
• Lilith
• Lilliburlero
• Lilliput
• Lily, The
• Limb
• Limbo
• Limbus
• Lime, Harry
• Limehouse
• Limelight
• Limerick
• Limey
• Limit
• Limp
• Lincoln
• Linden
• Lindor
• Line
• Linen
• Lingam
• Lingua Franca
• Link, The weakest
• Links
• Linnaean system
• Linne, The Heir of
• Lion
• Lip
• Lipstick
• Lir, King
• Lisbon
• Lisieux, St Teresa of
• List
• Listen
• Lists, To enter the
• Literary place-names
• Litotes
• Litterbug
• Little
• Live 1
• Live 2
• Lively!, Look
• Liver
• Liverpool
• Livery
• Lizard
• Lizzie, A tin
• Llama
• Llangollen, The Ladies of
• Llareggub
• LLD
• Lloyd's
• Load
• Loadstone
• Loaf
• Loamshire
• Loan, A call
• Lo and behold
• Loathly lady
• Lobby
• Lob lie-by-the-fire
• Lobsters
• Local
• Lochiel
• Lochinvar
• Loch Ness Monster
• Lock
• Lockerbie
• Lockhart
• Loco-foco
• Locrinus
• Locum tenens or locum
• Locus
• Locusta
• Locust years, The
• Lode
• Lodget, To tile a
• Lodona
• Loegria
• Log
• Logan stones
• Loggerheads, To be at
• Logic bomb
• Logres
• Lohengrin
• Loins, To gird up one's
• Loki
• Lolita
• Lollapalooza or lallapaloosa
• Lollards
• Loman, Willy
• Lombard
• London
• Londonderry
• Lone
• Lonely-heart
• Long words
• Long
• Longevity
• Longinus or Longius
• Longsword, William
• Longwood
• Lonsdale belt
• Look
• Loom, Jacquard
• Loom large
• Loony or looney
• Loop
• Loose
• Loosestrife
• Lord
• Lorelei
• Loreto, The House of
• Lorrain or Lorraine
• Lorraine, Cross of
• Lorry, It fell off the back of a
• Lose
• Loss, Dead
• Lost
• Lot 1
• Lot 2
• Lot and his wife
• Lothario, A gay
• Lothian
• Lotophagi
• Lots, To cast
• Lotus
• Loud, For crying out
• Louis
• Louisette
• Louisiana
• Louisville Lip, The
• Lounge lizard
• Lourdes
• Louts, Lager
• Louvre
• Love
• Lovelace
• Lovell, the Dog
• Lover
• Low
• Loyal
• Loyola, St Ignatius
• LS
• LSD
• Lucan, Lord
• Luce, Flower de
• Lucian
• Lucifer
• Lucina
• Lucius
• Luck
• Lucretia
• Lucullus sups with Lucullus
• Lucus a non lucendo
• Lucy
• Lud
• Luddites
• Ludo
• Lughnasa
• Lugholes, To pin back one's
• Luke
• Lumber
• Luminary of the English Church, The
• Lump it, Like it or
• Lunar
• Lunatics
• Lunch
• Lundi, St
• Lung, Iron
• Lunn, Sally
• Lupercal, The
• Lurch, To leave in the
• Lush
• Lusiads, The
• Lustral
• Lustrum
• Lusus
• Lute, A rift in the
• Lutetia
• Lutheranism
• Lutine bell
• Luvvy
• Luxury, To live in the lap of
• LXX
• Lycanthropy
• Lycaon
• Lyceum
• Lych gate
• Lycopodium
• Lycra
• Lycurgus
• Lyddite
• Lydford law
• Lydia
• Lyke-wake
• Lynceus
• Lynch law
• Lynx
• Lyon
• Lyonesse
• Lyons, The Butcher of
• Lyre
• Lysenkoism
• Lysistrata
• M
• M
• M’
• Maat
• Mab
• Mabinogion
• Mac, Uncle
• Macabre, Danse
• Macadamia
• Macadamization
• Macaire
• MacAlpin
• Macaroni
• Macbeth
• Maccabeus
• McCarthyism
• McCoy, The Real
• Macdonald, Flora
• Mace
• Macedonians
• MacFarlane's geese
• MacGregor
• MacGuffin
• Macheath, Captain
• Machiavelli, Niccolò
• Machine
• Machismo
• Mach number
• Macintosh
• McJob
• Mackerel
• Mackintosh or macintosh
• Mack the Knife
• Macmillanites
• McNaughten Rules
• MacPherson
• Macrocosm
• Macy's
• MAD
• Mad
• Madame
• Made
• Madeleine
• Mademoiselle
• Madge
• Madison Avenue
• Madoc or Madog
• Madonna
• Madras system
• Mae
• Maeander
• Maecenas
• Maelduin or Maeldune, The Voyage of
• Maenads
• Maeonides or Maeonian Poet, The
• Maeve or Medb
• Maeviad
• Mafficking
• Mafia
• Maga
• Magazine
• Magdalene
• Magdeburg Centuries
• Magellan, Strait of
• Magen David
• Magenta
• Maggie
• Maggot
• Magi
• Magic
• Magic garters
• Magimix
• Maginot line
• Magistrate
• Magna Carta or Magna Charta
• Magnanimous, The
• Magnet
• Magnificat
• Magnificent, The
• Magnolia
• Magnum
• Magog
• Magoo, Mr
• Magpie
• Magus
• Mahabharata
• Mahagonny
• Maharajah
• Maharishi
• Mahatma
• Mahayana
• Mahdi
• Mah-jongg
• Mahogany
• Mahomet
• Mahound
• Maia 1
• Maia 2
• Maid
• Maida
• Maiden
• Maigret, Inspector
• Mail
• Maillotins
• Main
• Mainbrace, To splice the
• Maintenance
• Maitland club
• Maize
• Majesty
• Major
• Majorette, Drum
• Majority
• Make
• Makyne, Robin and
• Malachi
• Malakoff
• Malaprop, Mrs
• Malbrouk or Marlborough
• Malebolge
• Maleficia
• Maleval, St William of
• Malfi, Duchess of
• Malice
• Malignants
• Malkin
• Mall, The
• Mallemaroking
• Malleus Maleficarum
• Malmesbury, William of
• Malmsey
• Malta
• Malthusian doctrine
• Malum
• Malvolio
• Mambrino
• Mamelukes
• Mammon
• Mammoth Cave
• Man or men
• Mana
• Mañana
• Manannán
• Manassa Mauler, The
• Manasseh
• Man Booker Prize
• Mancha, The Knight of La
• Manchester
• Manchu, Fu
• Mancus
• Mandaeans
• Mandala
• Mandamus
• Mandarin
• Mandate
• Mandelbrot set
• Manderley
• Mandeville, Sir John or Jehan de
• Mandrake
• Manes
• Manger, A dog in the
• Mangi
• Manhattan
• Mani 1
• Mani 2 or Manes or Manicheus
• Mania, Tulip
• Manifesto, Tamworth
• Manitou
• Manna
• Manner
• Manoa
• Manon
• Manor
• Mansard roof
• Mansfield, The King and the Miller of
• Mansion
• Mansplaining
• Manspreading
• Manticore
• Mantle
• Mantra
• Mantuan Swan or Bard
• Manu
• Manual
• Manumit
• Manure
• Manx cat
• Many
• Map, The Vinland
• Maple leaf
• Maquis
• Marabou
• Marabouts
• Marais, Le
• Maranatha
• Marathon
• Maravedi
• Marble
• March 1
• March 2
• Marches
• Marchington
• Marchpane
• Marcionite
• Marcle Hill
• Marco
• Marcus
• Mardi gras
• Marduk
• Mare 1
• Mare 2
• Marengo
• Mare's nest
• Marforio
• Margaret
• Margarita
• Margin
• Margrave
• Marguerite des Marguerites
• Maria
• Mariage de convenance
• Marian
• Marianne
• Marie
• Marigold
• Mari Lwyd
• Marine
• Mariner
• Mariolatry
• Maritimes
• Marivaudage
• Mark 1
• Mark 2
• Market
• Marks and Sparks
• Marlborough
• Marlene, Lili
• Marley's ghost
• Marlowe, Philip
• Marmalade, Oxford
• Marner, Silas
• Maro
• Marocco or Morocco
• Maronites
• Maroon
• Marple, Miss
• Marplot
• Marprelate controversy
• Marque, Letter of
• Marquess or marquis
• Marrano
• Marriage
• Marry!
• Mars
• Marseillaise
• Marshal
• Marshall Plan
• Marshalsea Prison
• Marshland, The Bailiff of the
• Marsyas
• Martel
• Martello towers
• Marten, Maria
• Mar-text
• Martha
• Martial, Court
• Martian laws
• Martians
• Martin
• Martinet
• Martini
• Martinus Scriblerus
• Martlet
• Martyr
• Marvel, Captain
• Marxism
• Mary
• Masada
• Mascot
• Masculine ending
• Masher
• Mashup
• Mask, The Man in the Iron
• Masochism
• Mason
• Mass
• Massacre
• Mass Observation
• Mast, Jury
• Ma State, The
• Master
• Matador
• Mata Hari
• Match
• Matchless Orinda, The
• Mate, Running
• Maté
• Mater
• Material
• Materia medica
• Mathematics, Higher
• Mathew, Father
• Matilda, Waltzing
• Matinée idol
• Matins or mattins
• Matriculate
• Matron
• Matter
• Matterhorn
• Matthew
• Matthias, St
• Mattins
• Maudlin
• Maul of Monks, The
• Mau Mau
• Maundy
• Mauretania
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Mausoleum
• Mauthe dog
• Mauvais or mauvaise
• Maverick
• Mavourneen
• Max Factor
• Maxim gun
• Maxims, Copybook
• Maxim's
• Maxwell's demon
• May
• Maya
• Mayflower
• Mayhem
• May meetings
• Maynooth pardon
• Mayonnaise
• Mayor
• Maypole, Dancing around the
• Mazarin
• Mazeppa
• Mazikeen or Shedeem
• M. B. waistcoat
• MC
• MCC
• Meal
• Mean
• Meander
• Means
• Meanwhile, back at the ranch
• Measles, German
• Measure
• Meat
• Meaux, The Eagle of
• Mebyon Kernow
• Mecca
• Meccano
• Mecklenburg Declaration
• Medal
• Medallion man
• Médard, St
• Medb
• Medea
• Medes and Persians
• Medical number
• Medici
• Medicine
• Medieval
• Medina
• Meditation, Transcendental
• Mediterranean
• Medium
• Medmenham, Monks of
• Medusa
• Meerschaum
• Meet
• Meg
• Megalith
• Me generation
• Megrims
• Meh
• Meinie or meiny
• Mein Kampf
• Meiosis
• Meistersinger
• Mekon, The
• Melampode
• Melancholy
• Melanchthon
• Melba
• Melchizedek
• Meleager
• Melford, Long
• Melicertes
• Mélisande
• Melissa
• Mellifluous Doctor, The
• Mellow yellow
• Mell supper
• Melmoth, Sebastian
• Melodrama
• Melon
• Melpomene
• Melting pot
• Melusine or Mélisande
• Members, The Five
• Meme
• Memento mori
• Memnon
• Memory
• Men
• Menace, Dennis the
• Menalcas
• Mencius or Meng-tzu
• Mend
• Mendelism
• Mendicant orders or Begging friars
• Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin
• Menechmians
• Menelaus
• Menevia
• Meng-tzu
• Menhir
• Menin Gate, The
• Menippus
• Mennonites
• Menorah
• Mensheviks
• Mens sana in corpore sano
• Mention in dispatches
• Mentor
• Menu
• Mephistopheles
• Mercantilism
• Mercator's projection
• Mercenary, Mayfair
• Merchant
• Merchant-Ivory film
• Mercia
• Mercury
• Mercy
• Meriden
• Merit, Order of
• Merlin
• Mermaid
• Merman
• Merope
• Merovingian dynasty
• Merrie England
• Merrilies, Meg
• Merrow
• Merry
• Mersey
• Merton
• Meru, Mount
• Merveilleuse
• Mesmerism
• Mesolithic Age
• Mesopotamia
• Mess
• Messalina
• Messenger, King's or Queen's
• Messiah
• Mestizo
• Metals
• Metaphor
• Metaphysics
• Metathesis
• Metempsychosis
• Method
• Methodists
• Methuselah
• Metonic cycle, The
• Metonymy
• Metroland
• Metropolitan
• Metrosexual
• Meum and tuum
• Mews
• Mexican wave
• Mezuzah
• Mezzotint
• MI
• Micah
• Micawber
• Mice
• Michael
• Michelangelo
• Michelin
• Micher from Munster, The
• Miching or mitching
• Michurinism
• Mickey
• Mickle
• Microcosm
• Micromegas
• Midas
• Middle
• Middlesex
• Midgard
• Midinettes
• Mid-Lent Sunday
• Midlife crisis
• Midlothian, Heart of
• Midnight
• Midrash
• Midshipman
• Midsummer
• Midwife
• Mighty
• Mignon
• Mihrab
• Mikado
• Mike
• Milan
• Milanion
• Mildenhall Treasure
• Mile
• Miles Gloriosus
• Milesians
• Milione, II or Marco Milione
• Militant, Church
• Militia
• Milk
• Mill
• Millbank
• Millenary Petition, The
• Millennial
• Millennium
• Miller
• Milliner
• Mills
• Milly-Molly-Mandy
• Milner's Kindergarten
• Milo
• Milton, John
• Mimir
• Mimosa
• Mimung
• Minas Morgul
• Mince
• Minch, The Blue Men of the
• Mincing Lane
• Mind
• Minden Boys, The
• Mine
• Minerva
• Ming
• Mini
• Miniature
• Minimalism
• Minims
• Minister
• Ministry of all the Talents, The
• Minnehaha
• Minnesinger
• Minnies, Aunt
• Minnows, A Triton among the
• Minoan
• Minor
• Minos
• Minotaur
• Minstrel
• Mint, The
• Mint
• Minute
• Miocene
• Miracle
• Miranda
• Miranda rights
• Mirkwood
• Mirror
• Mirth, Prime Minister of
• Mirza
• Miscreant
• Mise
• Misère
• Miserere
• Misers
• Misery memoir
• Mishnah
• Misnomers
• Misprision
• Misrule, King of
• Miss 1, Mistress, Mrs
• Miss 2
• Missal
• Mission
• Missionary
• Mississippi Bubble
• Missive, Letter
• Missouri
• Mist, Scotch
• Mister or Mr
• Mistletoe
• Mistpoeffers
• Mistress
• Mite, Widow's
• Mithra or Mithras
• Mithridate
• Mitre
• Mitten, The Pardoner's
• Mittimus
• Mitty, Walter
• Mitzvah, Bar
• Mix
• Mnemonic
• Mnemosyne
• Moab
• Moaning Minnie
• Mob
• Möbius strip
• Moby Dick
• Mock
• Mockney
• Mockumentary
• Moddey Dhoo
• Mode
• Model
• Modernism
• Modesty
• Mods
• Modus
• Moera or Maera
• Moffatt's Translation
• Mogul
• Mogwai
• Mohammed
• Mohawks
• Mohicans, The Last of the
• Mohocks
• Mohs’ scale
• Moira
• Mojo
• Moke
• Mole
• Molecular gastronomy
• Molech
• Molesworth, Nigel
• Molière
• Moll
• Molloch, May
• Molly
• Moloch or Molech
• Molotov
• Moly
• Moment
• Momus
• Mona Lisa
• Monarch or Monarchy
• Monasterevin, The Angels of
• Monday
• Monde, Beau
• Money
• Mongol
• Mongrel Parliament
• Monica
• Monism
• Monitor
• Monk
• Monkey
• Monmouth
• Monophysites
• Monopoly
• Monothelites
• Monroe Doctrine
• Mons
• Monsalvat
• Monseigneur
• Monsieur
• Monsignor
• Monster
• Monstre sacré
• Mont
• Montagnard
• Monte Carlo, The man who broke the bank at
• Monteer cap
• Monteith
• Montem
• Montero or monteer cap
• Montessori method
• Montevergine, St William of
• Montezuma
• Month
• Monticello, The Sage of
• Montjoie or Montjoie St Denis
• Montpelier
• Montserrat
• Monty
• Monument
• Moody & Sankey
• Moog synthesizer
• Moominland
• Moon
• Moor
• Moore, Anacreon
• Moors murders
• Moot
• Mop
• Mopp, Mrs
• Moral
• Morality play
• Moran's collar
• Moravians
• Mordecai
• Mordor
• Mordred
• More
• Morganatic marriage
• Morgan le Fay
• Morgante Maggiore
• Morgiana
• Morglay
• Moriarty
• Morley, Mrs
• Mormons
• Morning
• Mornington Crescent
• Morocco
• Moros
• Morph, To
• Morpheus
• Morrice, Gil or Childe
• Morris dance
• Morrison shelter
• Morse
• Mortal sin, A
• Mortarboard
• Morte d'Arthur, Le
• Mortgage, Welsh
• Mortmain
• Morton's fork
• Mortstone
• Mortuary
• Mosaic law
• Moses
• Moshoeshoe
• Moslem
• Mosque, The Pearl
• Moss Bros
• Moss-trooper
• Most
• Mote
• Moth, Death's-head
• Mother
• Motion
• Mot juste, Le
• Motley
• Moto, Mr
• Motown
• Mould, To break the
• Moulin Rouge
• Moulton bicycle
• Mount or Mountain
• Mountebank
• Mourning
• Mouse or mice
• Mousterian
• Mouth
• Moutons, Revenons à nos
• Movable
• Move
• Movie
• Mow
• Mowgli
• MP3
• Mpret
• Mr
• Mrs
• MS
• Ms
• Much
• Muck
• Muckle, Many a mickle makes a
• Muckraking
• Mud
• Muesli belt
• Muezzin
• Muff
• Muffins and crumpets
• Mufti
• Mug
• Muggle
• Muggletonian
• Mugwump
• Muhammad
• Mulatto
• Mulberry
• Mulciber
• Mule
• Mulefa
• Mulla
• Mullah
• Mulled ale
• Mulligan
• Mulligrubs
• Mulready envelope
• Multitude, Nouns of
• Multum in parvo
• Mum
• Mumbles Mile, The
• Mumbo jumbo
• Mummer
• Mummerset
• Mummy
• Mumping day
• Mumpsimus
• Münchhausen, Baron
• Munchkin
• Mundane egg, The
• Mundungus
• Mungo, St
• Munich
• Munro
• Munster, The Micher from
• Muppet
• Muratorian fragment
• Murder
• Murphy
• Muscovy
• Muscular Christianity
• Muse
• Museum
• Mushroom
• Music
• Musketeers
• Muslim or Moslem
• Muspelheim
• Mussulman
• Mustard
• Muster, To pass
• Mutantur
• Mutatis mutandis
• Mute, To stand
• Mutiny
• Mutt and Jeff
• Mutton
• Mutual friends
• My
• Mycenae
• Myrmidons
• Myron
• Myrrha
• Myrrophores
• Myrtle
• Mysterium
• Mystery
• Mystic
• Myton, The Chapter of
• N
• N
• NAAFI
• Nab
• Nabob
• Nabonassar, The Era of
• Naboth's vineyard
• Nabu
• Nadir
• Nægling
• Naevius
• Naff
• Nagelring
• Nag's Head consecration
• Nahum
• Naiad
• Nail
• Nain rouge
• Naked
• Namby-pamby
• Name
• Nan, Brandy
• Nana
• Nancy
• Nandi
• Nankeen
• Nanki-Poo
• Nanny
• Nantes, Edict of
• Naomi
• Nap
• Naphtha
• Napier's bones
• Naples
• Napoleon
• Napoo
• Nappy Valley
• Naraka
• Narcissa
• Narcissus
• Nark or copper's nark
• Narnia
• Narrow
• Nasbys
• Naseby
• Nash, Beau
• Nasier, Alcofribas
• Naso
• Nasrudin
• Nasty
• Nathan
• Nation
• National
• Native
• Nativity, The
• Natural
• Nature
• Naught, nought
• Naughty
• Nausicaa
• Nautical mile or geographical mile
• Navel-gazing
• Navigator, Henry the
• Navvy
• Navy
• Nawab
• Nazarene
• Nazarites
• Nazca lines
• Nazgûl, The
• Nazi
• NB
• Neaera
• Neanderthal man
• Neap tides
• Near
• Neat
• Nebo
• Nebuchadnezzar
• Necessary
• Necessity
• Neck
• Necklace
• Necromancy
• Nectar
• Neddy
• Need
• Needle
• Nefertiti
• Negative, Double
• Negus
• Nehemiah
• Nehru jacket
• Neiges d'antan, Les
• Neighbourhood Watch
• Neither
• Nell or Nellie
• Nelson
• Nemean
• Nemesis
• Nemine
• Nemo
• Neolithic Age
• Neophron
• Nepenthe or Nepenthes
• Nephew
• Ne plus ultra
• Nepman
• Nepomuk, St John of
• Nepotism
• Neptune
• Nerd
• Nereus
• Nergal
• Neri
• Nero
• Neroli
• Nerthus or Hertha
• Nerve
• Nessie
• Nessus, The shirt of
• Nest
• Nestor
• Nestorians
• Net, The
• Nettle, To grasp the
• Network, Old boy
• Neustria
• Never
• Nevsky, Alexander
• New
• Newbury, Jack of
• Newcastle, To carry coals to
• Newgate
• Newgrange
• News
• Newt
• Newton
• Next
• Nibelungenlied, The
• Niblick
• Nicaea, The Council of
• Niccolò Machiavelli
• Nice
• Nicene Creed
• Niche marketing
• Nicholas
• Nick, Old
• Nick
• Nickanan Night
• Nickel
• Nicker or nix
• Nicker
• Nickname
• Nicks, Harvey
• Nicodemus
• Nicotine
• Niece
• Niflheim
• Nigh, The end is
• Night
• Nightingale
• Nightmare
• Nihil
• Nihilists
• Nike
• Nil desperandum
• Nile
• Nimbus
• Nimby
• Niminy-piminy
• Nimrod
• Nincompoop
• Nine
• Ninus
• Niobe
• Niord, Niordhr or Njorthr
• Nip
• Nippies
• Nippon
• Nirvana
• Nisi
• Nisroch
• Nissen hut
• Nisus and Euryalus
• Nitty-gritty, The
• Nivelles, St Gertrude of
• Nivôse
• Nix
• Nixie
• Nixon
• Nizam
• Njorthr
• NKVD
• No
• Nō
• Noah
• Nobby
• Nobel prize
• Noble
• Noblesse oblige
• Nob of the first water
• Noctes ambrosianae
• Nod
• Noddy
• Noel
• Noir, Film
• Nolens volens
• Noli me tangere
• Noll, Old
• Nolle prosequi
• Nolo
• Nom
• Nominalism
• Nominated Parliament
• Non
• Nonce
• Nonconformists
• Nones
• Nonjurors
• Nonresistance
• Nonsense, Farrago of
• Norfolk
• Norma
• Normal for Norfolk
• Norman French
• Normcore
• Norns, The
• Norroy
• North
• Northamptonshire Poet, The
• Northumbria
• Norton, Hogs
• Norway, The Fair Maid of
• Norwich
• Nose
• Nose literature
• Nosferatu
• Nostradamus
• Nostrils, The Devil's
• Not
• Notable British Trials
• Notables, The Assembly of
• Notarikon
• Notation, Binary
• Note
• Nothing
• Notice
• Notre Dame, The Hunchback of
• Nought
• Nous
• Nous avons changé tout cela
• Nouveau
• Nova Scotia
• Novel
• Novella
• November
• Novena
• Nowell
• Noyades
• Nuclear winter
• Nudge, nudge, wink, wink
• Nugget, Welcome
• Nulla linea
• Null and void
• Nullarbor Plain
• Nulli secundus
• Numbers, numerals
• Nunawading Messiah
• Nunc dimittis
• Nuncheon
• Nurdle, To
• Nuremberg
• Nurr and spell
• Nurse
• Nurse an omnibus, To
• Nursery
• Nut
• Nutmeg State
• Nye
• Nylon
• Nymphs
• O
• O
• Oaf
• Oak
• Oakley, Annie
• Oakum, Picking
• Oannes
• Oar
• Oasis
• Oat
• Oath
• Obadiah
• Obeah or obi
• Obedience, Canonical
• Obelisk
• Oberammergau
• Oberon
• Obi
• Obiter dictum
• Obi-Wan Kenobi
• Objective correlative
• Objector, Conscientious
• Obligation, Feasts of
• Oblomov
• Obolus
• Observantins
• Obsolescence, Planned
• Obverse
• Occam's razor
• Occasion
• Occult sciences
• Occupy
• Ocean
• Oceanids or Oceanides
• Oceanus
• Ocker
• Ockham
• Octahedron, A regular
• Octavo
• October
• Octoroon
• Od
• Odd
• Odette
• Odin
• Odium theologicum
• Odor lucri
• Odour
• Ods
• Odyle
• Odysseus
• Odyssey
• Oedipus
• Oeil-de-boeuf
• Oenone
• Off
• Offa's Dyke
• Offender, First
• Offensive, Charm
• Office
• Officer
• Offing, In the
• Og
• Ogam or Ogham
• Ogier the Dane
• Ogopogo
• OGPU
• Ogres
• Ogygia
• O'Hara, Scarlett
• Oil
• Ointment
• Oisin
• OK
• Ol’ Blue Eyes
• Old
• Oldenburg Horn
• Olive
• Oliver
• Olivet or the Mount of Olives
• Olivetan
• Olla podrida
• Olney Hymns
• Olympia
• Olympus
• Om
• Omar Khayyám
• Ombre
• Ombudsman
• Omega
• Omelette
• Omens
• Omertà
• Omnibus
• Omnishambles
• Omnium
• Omoplatoscopy
• Omphale
• Omphalos
• On
• Onan
• Once
• On dit
• One
• Oneida Community, The
• Oneiromancy
• Onions, To know one's
• Only
• Onomatopoeia
• Onus
• Onyx
• Ooh-la-la or oh-la-la
• Oom Paul
• Oops-a-daisy
• Oozlum bird
• Opal
• Op. cit.
• Open
• Opera
• Ophelia
• Ophir
• Opinicus
• Opium
• Oppidan
• Opposition
• O. P. Riot
• Ops
• Optime
• Optimism
• Option
• Opus
• Or
• Oracle
• Orange
• Oration, Creweian
• Orator
• Oratorians
• Oratory, Soapbox
• Orc
• Orcades
• Orchestra, Hallé
• Orcus
• Ordeal
• Order
• Ordinal numbers
• Ordinance, The Self-denying
• Ordinary
• Ordnance Survey
• Oreads or Oreades
• Oregon Trail
• Orellana
• Orestes
• Organize a piss-up in a brewery, To
• Organ stops
• Orgies
• Orgoglio
• Orgone
• Oriana
• Orientation
• Orient Express, The
• Oriflamme
• Original sin
• Orinda, The Matchless
• Orion
• Orkneys
• Orlando
• Orleans, The Maid of
• Ormulum, The
• Ormuzd or Ahura Mazda
• Orosius
• Orphaned negative
• Orpheus
• Orrery
• Orson
• Orthodox
• Orthos or Orthrus
• Orwell, George
• Oscar
• Osiris
• Osmand
• Ossa, To pile Pelion on
• Os sacrum
• Ossian or Oisin
• Ostention
• Ostler
• Ostracism
• Ostrich
• Ostrich brains
• Ostrog Bible, The
• Othello
• Other
• Ottava rima
• Ottoman Empire
• Otus
• Oubliette
• Ouida
• Ouija
• Our
• Out
• Outremer
• Outsider, An
• Oval, The
• Ovaltine
• Ovation
• Oven, A bun in the
• Over
• Overture
• Overy or Overie
• Owain
• Owl
• Own goal
• Ox
• Oxbridge
• Oxford
• Oxus
• Oxymoron
• Oyer and terminer
• Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!
• Oyster
• Oz
• Ozark country
• Ozymandias
• P
• P
• Pace 1
• Pace 2
• Pace eggs
• Pacific, The
• Pacifico, Don
• Pack
• Packet
• Packstaff
• Pact, The Anzac
• Pactolus, The golden sands of the
• Pad, Launching
• Paddington
• Paddle
• Paddock, As cold as a
• Paddy or Paddywhack
• Padishah
• Padmasambhava
• Padre
• Padua
• Paean
• Pagan
• Page
• Paget's Irregular Horse
• Pagoda
• Paid
• Pain
• Paint
• Painter
• Pair
• Paisley
• Paix
• Pakeha
• Pakistan
• Pal
• Palace
• Paladin
• Palaemon
• Palaeolithic Age
• Palamedes
• Palamon and Arcite
• Palatinate
• Pale
• Pales
• Palfrey
• Palgrave
• Palimpsest
• Palindrome
• Palinode
• Palinurus or Palinure
• Palio
• Palissy ware
• Pall
• Palladian
• Palladium
• Pallas or Pallas Athene
• Pallium
• Pall Mall
• Pally, Ally
• Palm
• Palmerin d'Oliva
• Palmerston's follies
• Palmetto State
• Palsgrave
• Paludament
• Paly
• Pam
• Pamela
• Pamphlet
• Pan 1
• Pan 2
• Pan 3
• Panacea
• Panache
• Panama
• Pancake
• Panchaea
• Panchen Lama
• Pancras, St
• Panda car
• Pandarus
• Pandects of Justinian
• Pandemonium
• Pander
• Pandora
• Pandy, Andy
• Panegyric
• Pangaea
• Pangloss, Dr
• Panhandle
• Panic
• Panjandrum
• Panomphaean
• Panope
• Panopticon
• Pantagamy
• Pantagruel
• Pantaloons
• Pantechnicon
• Pantheism
• Pantheon
• Panther
• Pantile
• Pantisocracy
• Pantocrator
• Pantomime
• Pants
• Panurge
• Panza, Sancho
• Papa Doc
• Papal
• Paparazzi
• Paper
• Papier mâché
• Papyrus
• Par
• Paracelsus
• Parachute, Golden
• Parachute payment
• Paraclete
• Paradise
• Parallel, Forty-ninth
• Paraphernalia
• Parasite
• Parcae
• Parc aux Cerfs
• Parcel, Part and
• Parchment
• Pardon
• Pari
• Pariah
• Parian
• Paris
• Parish
• Park
• Parker
• Parkhurst
• Parkinson's Law
• Parlement
• Parliament
• Parlour
• Parmenio
• Parnassus
• Parody
• Parousia
• Parr
• Parricide, The Beautiful
• Parsees
• Parsifal, Parsival
• Parsnips, Fine or fair words butter no
• Parson
• Part
• Partant pour la Syrie
• Parthenon
• Parthenope
• Parthia
• Particular, London
• Partington
• Parti pris
• Partlet
• Partner, Sleeping
• Partridge
• Parturiunt montes
• Party
• Parvati
• Parvenu
• Parvis
• Pascal, Blaise
• Pasch
• Pas de problème
• Pasha
• Pasionaria, La
• Pasiphaë
• Pasque eggs
• Pasquinade
• Pass
• Passage
• Passepartout
• Passim
• Passion
• Passive smoking
• Passover
• Pasta
• Paste, Scissors and
• Pasteurization
• Past master
• Pastry, Mr
• Patch
• Patel, Mr
• Patent
• Paternoster
• Path
• Pathetic fallacy
• Pathfinder
• Patience
• Patient Grisel
• Patland
• Patmos
• Patois
• Patres conscripti
• Patriarch
• Patrician
• Patrick
• Patriots’ Day
• Patroclus
• Patron saints
• Patter
• Pattern
• Paul
• Paul's walkers
• Pavan or pavane
• Paving, Crazy
• Pavlovian response
• Paw
• Pawnbroker's sign, The
• Pawnee
• Pax
• Pay
• Paynim
• PC
• PC 49
• Peace
• Peacock
• Peak
• Peal, To ring a
• Peanuts
• Pear
• Pearl
• Peas, As like as two
• Peasant
• Peascod
• Pea-souper
• Peat-reek
• Peccavi, To cry
• Pecker
• Peckham, The Fat Boy of
• Pecking order
• Peckish
• Pecksniff
• Pecos Bill
• Pectoral cross
• Peculiar
• Pecuniary
• Pedagogue
• Pedestal, To set on a
• Pedlar
• Peekaboo
• Peel
• Peep
• Peer
• Peers of the realm
• Peg
• Pegasus
• Peine forte et dure
• Peking
• Pelagians
• Peleus
• Pelf
• Pelican
• Pelion on Ossa, To Pile
• Pelleas, Sir
• Pellucidar
• Pelmanism
• Pelops
• Pen
• Penalty envelopes
• Penang lawyer
• Penates
• Pence
• Pencil
• Pendant or pennantor or pennon
• Pendragon
• Penelope
• Penetralia
• Peneus, The daughter of
• Penguin
• Penitential psalms
• Pennant or pennon
• Pennsylvania Dutch
• Penny
• Pension
• Pentacle
• Pentagon
• Pentameron
• Pentameter
• Pentateuch
• Pentathlon
• Pentecost
• Penthesilea
• Peony
• People
• Peoria, To play in
• Pepin or Pippin the Short
• Pepper
• Per
• Perambulator
• Perceforest
• Perception, The Doors of
• Perceval, Sir
• Percheron
• Percy
• Perdita
• Peregrine falcon
• Père Lachaise
• Perestroika
• Perfect
• Perfidious Albion
• Perfume
• Peri
• Pericles
• Peril, Yellow
• Perillus and the brazen bull
• Perilous
• Peripatetic school
• Periphrasis
• Perish the thought!
• Periwinkle
• Perk
• Permissive society
• Perpetual
• Perry Mason
• Persecute
• Persephone
• Persepolis
• Perseus
• Person
• Personality
• Perth
• Peru
• Pesach
• Pet
• Petard, To be hoist with one's own
• Pete
• Peter
• Peterloo Massacre
• Petition
• Petitio principii
• Petrel, storm
• Petrushka
• Petticoat
• Petty treason
• Pfister's Bible, The
• Phaedra
• Phaedrus
• Phaeton
• Phalanx
• Phalaris
• Phallus
• Phantom
• Pharamond
• Pharaoh
• Pharisees
• Pharos
• Pharsalia
• Phasian bird
• Pheidippides
• Phigalian marbles
• Philadelphia
• Philandering
• Philanthropists, Spencean
• Philemon and Baucis
• Philip
• Philippan
• Philippe égalité
• Philippic
• Philistines
• Phillips screwdriver
• Philoctetes
• Philomela
• Philosopher
• Philosophy
• Philtre
• Phineus
• Phishing
• Phiz
• Phlegethon
• Phlogiston
• Phobias
• Phoebe
• Phoebus
• Phoenicians
• Phoenix
• Phoney or phony
• Phonograph
• Phony
• Phrase, To coin a
• Phrases from fables
• Phrenicos
• Phrygians
• Phryne
• Phubbing
• Phylactery
• Phyllis
• Physician
• Physiocrats
• Piano, Chicago
• Piazza
• Pica
• Picards
• Picaresque
• Picayune
• Piccadilly
• Piccinnists
• Pick
• Picket
• Pickle
• Pickwickian
• Picnic
• Pic-nic
• Picts
• Picture
• Pidgin English
• Pie
• Piece
• Pièce de résistance
• Pied
• Pied Piper of Hamelin, The
• Piepowder, Court of
• Piercing, Body
• Pierian spring, The
• Pierrot
• Piers Plowman
• Pietà
• Pietists
• Pig
• Pigeon
• Piggot forgeries, The
• Pigmy
• Pi-jaw
• Pike
• Pikestaff, As plain as a
• Pilate
• Pilates
• Pilatus, Mount
• Pile
• Pilgrim
• Pilgrimage
• Pill
• Pillar
• Pillory
• Pilot
• Piltdown skull or Piltdown Man, The
• Pimlico
• Pimm's
• Pimpernel, Scarlet
• Pin
• Pinch
• Pinchbeck
• Pindar
• Pine-bender, The
• Ping-pong
• Pink
• Pinkerton
• Pin money
• Pinocchio
• Pinscher, Doberman
• Pioneers, The Rochdale
• Pious
• Pip
• Pipe
• Pipeline, In the
• Pippa
• Pippin
• Piran, St
• Pis aller
• Pisces
• Pisgah sight
• Piso's justice
• Piss-up in a brewery, To organize
• Pistol
• Pit
• Pit-a-pat, My heart goes
• Pitch
• Pitcher
• Pitt
• Pius
• Pixie or pixy
• Place
• Place aux dames
• Placebo
• Placemen
• Place names
• Plagiarist
• Plagues
• Plaid Cymru
• Plain 1
• Plain 2
• Plan
• Planchette
• Planck's constant
• Planets
• Plank
• Plant, Divine
• Plantagenet
• Plaque, Blue
• Plaster
• Plasticine
• Plate
• Platform
• Platinum blonde
• Plato
• Plattdeutsch
• Play
• Plead
• Pleas, Common
• Please
• Pleasure, Parson's
• Plebeian
• Plebiscite
• Pledge
• Pleiades
• Plenty, Horn of
• Plight one's troth
• Plimsoll line or mark
• Plinge, Walter
• Plod
• Plonk
• Plonker
• Plon-plon
• Plot
• Plough
• Plowden
• Pluck
• Plug
• Plum
• Plumed serpent
• Plumstead Peculiars
• Plunger
• Plus
• Pluto
• Plutus
• Plymouth Brethren
• Pneumonia, Double
• Pocahontas
• Pocket
• Pococurante
• Pocomania
• Podarge
• Podcast
• Podsnap
• Podunk
• Poem
• Poet
• Poetry
• Pogrom
• Point
• Pointillism
• Poirot, Hercule
• Poison
• Poison detectors
• Poisson d'Avril
• Poke
• Pokémon
• Poker
• Poky
• Polack
• Poland
• Polari
• Polaroid
• Pole
• Policeman, Sleeping
• Policy wonk
• Polish, Spit and
• Politburo
• Politics or political
• Politiques
• Polka
• Poll
• Pollux
• Pollyanna
• Polo, Marco
• Polonius
• Poltergeist
• Poltroon
• Polycarp
• Polycrates
• Polydeuces
• Polyhymnia or Polymnia
• Polynices
• Polyphemus
• Pomander
• Pomegranate
• Pomfret cakes
• Pommard
• Pommel
• Pommy or Pommie
• Pomona
• Pompadour
• Pompey
• Pond
• Ponent
• Pongo 1
• Pongo 2
• Pons asinorum
• Pontefract or Pomfret cakes
• Pontiff
• Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard
• Pont Street Dutch
• Pony
• Poodle-faker
• Pooh-Bah
• Poohsticks
• Pooka
• Pooper, Party
• Poor
• Pooter
• Pop
• Pope
• Popeye
• Popinjay
• Poplar
• Popper, Party
• Poppers, Fenny
• Poppins, Mary
• Poppy
• Poppycock
• Popski's Private Army
• Popular Front
• Populist
• Porcelain
• Porch, The
• Pork
• Porlock, Person from
• Porphyrogenitus
• Porrex, Ferrex and
• Porridge
• Port
• Porte or Sublime Porte
• Porteous Riots
• Porter
• Porter, Jimmy
• Porthos
• Portia
• Portland
• Portmanteau word
• Portobello
• Portrait, swagger
• Portreeve
• Port-Royal
• Portsoken ward
• Portumnus
• Port wine
• Poseidon
• Poser
• Posh
• Position
• Positivism
• Posse
• Possession is nine points of the law
• Possum, To play
• Post 1
• Post 2
• Poste restante
• Posteriori
• Postman
• Posy
• Pot
• Potato
• Poteen
• Potent, Cross
• Potichomania
• Potiphar
• Potlatch
• Potomac
• Potpourri
• Potter
• POTUS
• Poult
• Pound
• Pour
• Poverty
• Powder
• Power
• Pow-wow
• Pox doctor's clerk, Dressed or done up like a
• PPC
• Practitioner, General
• Praemunire
• Praetorian guard or praetorians
• Pragmatic
• Prague
• Prairie
• Praise
• Prajapatis
• Pram, To throw one's toys out of the
• Prang
• Pratique
• Prawn
• Pray
• Pre-adamites
• Prebend
• Precarious
• Preceptor
• Précieuses, Les
• Precious stones
• Precocious
• Pre-emptive self-defense
• Pregnancy, Phantom
• Prelate, The Fighting
• Preliminary canter, A
• Premier
• Premillenarians
• Premonstratensian
• Prepared, Be
• Prepense, Malice
• Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, The
• Presbyterians
• Presence
• Presents, Know all men by these
• Preserver
• Presidium
• Press
• Press gang
• Prester John
• Prestige
• Presto
• Pretender
• Pretext
• Pretty
• Prevarication
• Previous question
• Priam
• Priapus
• Price
• Prick
• Pride
• Pride's Purge
• Priest
• Prig
• Prima
• Primary
• Primary colour
• Primate
• Prime
• Primer
• Primero
• Primordial soup
• Primrose
• Primum mobile
• Primus
• Prince
• Princess
• Principal boy
• Principalities
• Principle
• Prinny
• Print
• Printers’ marks
• Priori
• Priory, Alien
• Prisca, St
• Priscian's head, To break
• Priscilla
• Prisoner
• Private
• Privateer
• Privilege
• Privy
• Prize
• Pro
• Problem
• Procès-verbal
• Procne
• Proconsul
• Procris
• Procrustes’ bed
• Proctor
• Procyon
• Proddy dog
• Prodigal
• Prodigy
• Producer's goods
• Profane
• Profession, Adam's
• Professor
• Profile
• Profit
• Programme music
• Progress, The Pilgrim's
• Prohibition
• Projection, Powder of
• Prolepsis
• Proletariat
• Promenade
• Prometheus
• Promise
• Proms, Last Night of the
• Proof
• Prooshan blue
• Propaganda
• Propeller-head
• Properly speaking
• Property
• Prophet, The
• Proportional representation
• Props
• Prop up the bar
• Proscription
• Prose
• Proselyte
• Proserpina or Proserpine
• Prosit
• Prosperity Robinson
• Prospero
• Protean
• Protectionist
• Protector, The
• Protest
• Protestant
• Proteus
• Protevangelium
• Prothalamion
• Protocol
• Protomartyr
• Proud
• Prove one's point
• Provider, Lion's
• Province
• Provincial
• Provocateur, Agent
• Proxime accessit
• Prud'homme
• Prune
• Prunella
• Prussian blue
• Pry, Paul
• Przewalski's horse
• PS
• Psalmanazar, George
• Psalms
• Psammead, The
• Pschent
• Pseud
• Pseudepigrapha
• Pseudonyms
• Psion
• Psmith
• Psyche
• Psychobabble
• Psychogeography
• Psychological moment, The
• Ptah
• Ptolemy
• Puberty, Age of
• Public and pub
• Public house signs
• Pucelle, La
• Puck
• Pucka
• Pudding
• Pueblo
• Puff
• Pugwash
• Puisne judges
• Pukka sahib
• Pulitzer prizes
• Pull
• Pull bacon, To
• Pullman
• Pulse, Finger on the
• Pummel
• Pump
• Pumpernickel
• Punch
• Punctual
• Pundit
• Punic
• Punishment, Capital
• Punk
• Punter
• Pup
• Purchase, Louisiana, The
• Pure
• Purgatory
• Purge, Pride's
• Purification, Feast of
• Purim
• Puritans
• Purlieu
• Purple
• Purposes, At cross
• Purse
• Pursuivant
• Purveyance
• Puseyite
• Push
• Puss
• Put
• Putsch
• Putty
• Pygmalion
• Pygmy
• Pyjamas
• Pylades and Orestes
• Pylon
• Pyramid
• Pyramus
• Pyrex
• Pyrography
• Pyromancy
• Pyrrha
• Pyrrhic
• Pyrrhonism
• Pythagoras
• Pythia
• Pythias
• Python
• Pyx
• Q
• Q
• Qaida or Qaeda, Al
• QC
• QED
• QEF
• QP
• QS
• q.t., On the
• Quack or quack doctor
• Quad
• Quadragesima
• Quadrant, The
• Quadriga
• Quadrilateral
• Quadrille
• Quadrivium
• Quadroon
• Quai d'Orsay
• Quail
• Quaker
• Quality
• Quanquam or Cancan
• Quantitative easing
• Quantum leap
• Quarantine
• Quare impedit
• Quark
• Quarter
• Quarterly, The
• Quartermaster
• Quarto
• Quasi
• Quasimodo Sunday
• Quassia
• Quatermass
• Quattrocento
• Queen
• Queenhithe
• Queensberry Rules
• Queen's pipe, The
• Queer
• Quern-biter
• Querno
• Query
• Que sçais-je?
• Questing Beast, The
• Question
• Quetzalcoatl
• Queue
• Qui
• Quick
• Quid
• Quidditch
• Quién sabe?
• Quiet
• Quietus
• Quinapalus
• Quinine
• Quinquagesima Sunday
• Quins or Quints, The
• Quinsy
• Quintain, Tilting at the
• Quintero
• Quintessence
• Quintilians
• Quip modest, The
• Quipu
• Quirinal
• Quis
• Quisling
• Quit
• Quite
• Quixote, Don
• Quiz
• Quo
• Quod
• Quodlibet
• Quoit, Hautville's
• Quondam
• Quonset hut
• Quorn
• Quorum
• Quos ego
• Quot
• Quota quickie
• Quotient, Intelligence
• Qur'an
• QV
• qv
• QWERTY
• R
• R
• Ra or Re
• Rab
• Rabbit
• Rabelaisian
• Rab Haw
• Raboin
• Race or Races
• Rache
• Rachel
• Rachmanism
• Rack
• Racket
• Radar
• Radcliffe Library
• Radegund, St
• Radical
• Radiocarbon dating
• Rafferty's rules
• Raffles
• Rafter, Jack
• Rag
• Raglan
• Ragman rolls
• Ragnarok
• Rahu
• Raid
• Railroad or railway
• Railway Children, the
• Railways
• Rain
• Rainbow
• Raise
• Raison
• Raj, The
• Rajah
• Raleigh, Sir Walter
• Ralph
• Ram
• Rama
• Ramadan
• Rambo
• Rambouillet, Hôtel de
• Rameses
• Ramilie or Ramillies
• Raminagrobis
• Ramotswe, Precious
• Rampage, On the
• Rampant
• Ramsay Mac
• Ramses or Rameses
• Ran
• Ranch, Dude
• Randan, On the
• Randlord
• Ranee or Rani
• Ranelagh
• Ranger
• Rani
• Rank
• Ransom
• Rantan
• Ranz des vaches
• Rap
• Rape 1
• Rape 2
• Raphael
• Rapparee
• Rappee
• Rara avis
• Rare
• Raree show
• Rascal
• Raskolnikov, Rodion Romanovich
• Raspberry, To blow a
• Rasputin
• Rastafarians
• Rat
• Ratatouille
• Rate of knots, At a
• Ration
• Rats rhymed to death
• Rattle
• Raven
• Ravenclaw
• Raw
• Rays, Pencil of
• Razor
• Razzia
• Razzle-dazzle
• Re
• Reach
• Reaction
• Read
• Reader
• Readies
• Ready
• Reaganomics
• Real
• Realism
• Realm
• Realpolitik
• Reaper, The Grim
• Reappraisal, Agonizing
• Rearmouse or reremouse
• Reason
• Reb, Johnny
• Rebecca
• Rebellion, The Great
• Rebus
• Received pronunciation (RP)
• Recessional
• Rechabites
• Recipe or receipt
• Reckon
• Reck one's own rede
• Reclaim the night
• Recluses
• Recollects
• Reconquista
• Reconstruction
• Record
• Recorder
• Recreant
• Recruiting sergeant
• Rector
• Recusants
• Red
• Rede
• Redemptioner
• Redemptionists
• Redemptorists
• Red tape
• Red tapism
• Reductio ad absurdum
• Reduplicated or ricochet words
• Reed
• Reefer
• Reekie, Auld
• Reeve
• Reformation, The
• Refresher
• Refreshments of public men, etc.
• Refreshment Sunday
• Refuge, Cities of
• Refusal, First
• Regan
• Regatta
• Regency
• Regent
• Regicides
• Regimental and divisional nicknames
• Regimental colours
• Regius professor
• Regnal year
• Regnant, Queen
• Regular
• Regulations, King's or Queen's
• Regulus, St
• Rehearsal, Dress
• Rehoboam
• Reich, Third
• Reichenbach Falls
• Reign of Terror
• Reilly, To live the life of
• Rein
• Reindeer, Rudolph the Red-Nosed
• Reine s'avisera, La
• Reins
• Reinvent
• Reiter, Der Blaue
• Relation
• Release, Happy
• Relic
• Religion, South Bank
• Religious
• Reliquary
• Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
• Remember!
• Remembrance Day or Remembrance Sunday
• Remembrancer, The King's or Queen's
• Remigius or Remy, St
• Remonstrants
• Remus
• Remy
• Renaissance, The
• Renard, Une queue de
• Rent
• Repairs, Running
• Repentance, Stool of
• Repenter curls
• Repetitive strain injury
• Reply churlish
• Representatives, House of
• Reproof valiant
• Republic
• Requests, Court of
• Requiem
• Re-rat
• Reremouse
• Residence, Grace and favour
• Resolute Doctor, The
• Respects
• Response, Pavlovian
• Responsibility, To saddle with
• Responsions
• Rest
• Restaurant, Chinese
• Restoration, The
• Resurrectionists or Resurrection men
• Retaining fee or retainer
• Retiarius
• Retirement, Early
• Retort courteous, The
• Retreat, To beat
• Return
• Reuben
• Reuters
• Reveille
• Revels, Master of the
• Revenant
• Revenons à nos moutons
• Reverend
• Review, The Edinburgh
• Revise
• Revival of learning or letters
• Revolt, The Peasants’
• Revolution
• Rex
• Reyes Católicos, Los
• Reynard
• Reyne le veult, La
• Rhabdomancy
• Rhadamanthus
• Rhapsody
• Rhea
• Rhea Sylvia or Rea Silvia
• Rheims
• Rhesus
• Rhetorical question
• Rhiannon
• Rhine
• Rhino
• Rhoda
• Rhodesia
• Rhodian
• Rhopalic verse
• Rhyme
• Rialto
• Rib
• Riband, Blue
• Ribbon
• Ribston pippin
• Ricardian
• Rice
• Rich
• Richard
• Richmond
• Richter scale
• Rickshaw
• Ricochet
• Riddle
• Ride
• Ridiculous, From the sublime to the
• Ridotto
• Riff-raff
• Rifle, Winchester
• Rift in the lute, A
• Rig
• Rigadoon
• Right
• Rigmarie
• Rigmarole
• Rigoletto
• Rigveda
• Riley
• Rimini, Francesca da
• Rimmon
• Rinaldo
• Rincewind
• Ring
• Rin Tin Tin
• Rio Grande
• Riot
• RIP
• Rip
• Ripper, Jack the
• Rise
• Risk
• Risorgimento
• Rite
• Ritualism, The six points of
• Ritzy
• Rivals
• River
• Rivet
• Riviera
• Riwle, Ancren
• Rizieri of Risa
• R. M. T.
• Road
• Roan barbary
• Roar
• Roast
• Rob
• Robe
• Robert
• Robespierre
• Robin
• Robinson
• Robot
• Rob Roy
• Roc
• Rocambole
• Roch or Roque, St
• Rochdale Pioneers, The
• Rochelle salt
• Rochester, Mr (Edward)
• Rocinante
• Rock
• Rockefeller
• Rocket
• Rococo
• Rod
• Rodeo
• Roderick or Roderic or Rodrigo
• Rodomontade
• Rodrigo
• Roe, Richard
• Rogation Days
• Roger
• Rogero or Ruggiero or Rizieri of Risa
• Rogers
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Rogue
• Rois Fainéants, Les
• Roland or Orlando
• Role
• Rolfing
• Roll
• Rollercoaster ride
• Rollo
• Rollright Stones
• Rolls
• Rolls-Royce
• Roly-poly
• Romaic
• Roman
• Romana, Rota
• Romance
• Roman de la Rose
• Romanes lecture
• Romanesque architecture
• Romantic
• Romany
• Rom-com
• Rome
• Romeo and Juliet
• Romulus
• Roncesvalles
• Rood
• Roof
• Rooinek
• Rook
• Room
• Roosevelt
• Roost, To rule the
• Root
• Rope
• Rope-dancer, The
• Roque, St
• Roquelaure
• Rorschach test
• Rory O'More
• Rosabelle
• Rosalia or Rosalie, St
• Rosalind
• Rosamond, The Fair
• Rosary
• Rosciad, The
• Roscius
• Rose
• Rosemary
• Rosetta Stone, The
• Rosherville Gardens
• Rosh Hashana
• Rosicrucians
• Rosie the Riveter
• Rosinante or Rozinante or Rocinante
• Rosin Bible, The
• Ross
• Rosse
• Rostrum
• Roswell
• Rota Romana
• Rotary Club
• Rote, To learn by
• Rothschild
• Rotten
• Roué
• Rouge
• Rough
• Roulette
• Rouncival or rounceval
• Round
• Roundabout
• Roundel or roundle
• Roundheads
• Roup
• Rout
• Route 66
• Rove
• Row
• Rowan or mountain ash
• Rowena
• Rowley
• Rowton houses
• Roxana
• Roxburghe Club, The
• Roy 1
• Roy 2
• Royal
• Rozinante
• Rub
• Rubáiyát
• Rubber
• Rube Goldberg
• Rübezahl
• Rubicon, To cross the
• Rubik's Cube
• Rubric
• Ruby
• Ruddock
• Rudge, Barnaby
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Rue
• Ruff
• Rufus
• Rug
• Rugby
• Ruggiero of Risa
• Ruin, Rack and
• Rule
• Rule or Regulus, St
• Rulers
• Rum, Bay
• Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated
• Rump, The
• Rumpelstiltskin
• Rum-runners
• Run
• Runcible hat and spoon
• Rune
• Rupert
• Rural dean
• Ruritania
• Rush
• Rush, The bum's
• Russel
• Russell, Jack
• Russia
• Rust
• Rustam or Rustum
• Ruth
• Rutland
• Ryder Cup
• Rye
• Rymenhild
• S
• S
• ’S
• SA
• Sabaeans or Sabeans
• Sabaism
• Sabaoth
• Sabbataeans
• Sabbath
• Sabbatical year
• Sabean
• Sabians
• Sabines, The
• Sable
• Sabotage
• Sabra
• Sabre
• Sabreur, Le Beau
• Sabrina
• Sac and soc
• Saccharissa
• Sacco benedetto or saco bendito
• Sachem or Sagamore
• Sachertorte
• Sacheverell Affair, The
• Sack
• Sackerson
• Saco bendito
• Sacrament
• Sacra Via
• Sacred
• Sacring bell
• Sacy's Bible
• Sad
• Saddle
• Sadducees
• Sadie Hawkins Day
• Sadism
• Sadler's Wells
• Safari
• Safe
• Saga
• Sagamore
• Sage
• Sagittarius
• Sagittary
• Sahib
• Sail
• Sailor
• Saint
• Sainte ampoule, La
• Saint-Simonism
• Sake
• Saker
• Saki
• Sakti or Shakti
• Sakuntala or Shakuntala
• Sakya Muni
• Salad
• Saladin
• Salamander
• Salamander's wool
• Salary
• Sale
• Salem
• Salic
• Salii or Saliens
• Salisbury
• Sallee-man or Sallee rover
• Sally
• Salmacis
• Salmagundi
• Salome
• Salon des Refusés
• Saloon, Last chance
• Salop
• Salt
• Saltash luck
• Salteena, Mr
• Salutation or salute
• Salvation Army
• Salve
• Sam
• Samanids
• Samaritan
• Samarkand
• Samaveda
• Same
• Samhain
• Samian
• Samite
• Sampford ghost
• Sampo
• Samsara
• Samson
• Samuel
• Samurai
• Sancho Panza
• Sanchuniathon
• Sanction, Pragmatic
• Sanctity, The odour of
• Sanctuary, Right of
• Sanctum sanctorum
• Sanctus bell
• Sancy Diamond, The
• Sand
• Sand, George
• Sandabar or Sindibad
• Sandal
• Sandford and Merton
• Sandwich
• Sang
• Sanger's Circus
• Sanglamore
• Sangrado, Dr
• Sangrail or Sangreal
• Sanguinary James
• Sanguine
• Sanhedrin or Sanhedrim
• Sankey's Horse
• Sannyasi
• Sans
• Sansei
• Santa
• Sapho
• Sappho
• Saracen
• Saragossa, The Maid of
• Sarah
• Saratoga trunk
• Sarcenet
• Sarcophagus
• Sardanapalus
• Sardines
• Sardonic smile or laughter
• Sardonyx
• Sark, Cutty
• Sarong
• Sarsenet
• Sarsen stones
• Saruman
• Sash, Black
• Sasquatch
• Sassanides
• Sassenach
• Satan
• Satchmo
• Sati
• Satin, White
• Satire
• Satisfaction, Job
• Satnav
• Satrap
• Saturday
• Saturn
• Satyr
• Sauce
• Saucer
• Saudi Arabia
• Saul
• Sauron
• Sausage
• Sausage fest
• Sauvage, Belle
• Sauvagine
• Sauve qui peut
• Savage, The noble
• Save
• Savile Row
• Savoir
• Savoy
• Saw
• Sawbuck
• Sawyer, Tom
• Saxifrage
• Saxo Grammaticus
• Saxons
• Say
• ’Sblood, ’Sdeath, etc.
• Scaevola
• Scale
• Scallop shell
• Scalp lock
• Scammozzi's rule
• Scandal
• Scandalum magnatum
• Scapegoat
• Scaphism
• Scapulimancy
• Scarab
• Scaramouch
• Scarborough warning
• Scarce
• Scare the living daylights out of
• Scarface
• Scarlet
• Scat singing
• Scavenger's daughter
• Scene
• Scent, False
• Sceptic
• Sceptre
• Schadenfreude
• Scheherazade
• Schelhorn's Bible
• Scheme
• Schicklgruber, Herr
• Schism, The Great
• Schlemihl, Peter
• Schneider Trophy
• Scholar
• Scholasticism
• School
• Schooner
• Schrödinger's cat
• Sciapod
• Science
• Scientology
• Sciomancy
• Scipio, Continence of a
• Sciron
• Scissors
• Scold's bridle
• Sconce
• Scone
• Scopes Trial, The
• Scorched earth policy
• Score
• Scorn, To laugh to
• Scorpio or Scorpion
• Scot
• Scotch or Scots or Scottish
• Scotch breakfast
• Scotists
• Scotland
• Scotsman, Flying
• Scott, Great
• Scottish
• Scotty, Beam me up
• SCOTUS
• Scotus, Duns
• Scourge
• Scouse
• Scout
• Scrambled egg
• Scrap
• Scrape
• Scratch
• Scream or shout or yell blue murder
• Screen
• Screw
• Scribe
• Scriblerus, Martinus
• Scrimp and scrape
• Scrimshaw
• Scriptores Decem
• Scriptorium
• Scriptures or Holy Scripture, The
• Scrolls, The Dead Sea
• Scrooge
• Scrubs, Wormwood
• Scruple
• Scullabogue, The Barn of
• Sculls, The Diamond
• Sculptures, Aeginetan
• Scunner
• Scunthorpe
• Scurry
• Scutage or escuage
• Scuttle
• Scylla
• Scythian
• Sea
• Seal 1
• Seal 2
• Seamy side
• Search
• Season
• Seat
• Sebastian, St
• Second
• Secret
• Secretary, Home
• Sect, Clapham
• Section
• Secular
• Secundus, Hercules
• Security
• Sedan chair
• Seder
• Sedgwick, Doomsday
• Sedna
• Sedulous
• See 1
• See 2
• Seed
• Seekers
• Seian Horse, The
• Seignior, Grand
• Sekhmet
• Selah
• Select
• Selene
• Seleucidae
• Self
• Selfie
• Seljuks
• Selkie
• Sell
• Sellinger's round
• Sellotape
• Selsdon man
• Semele
• Semiramis
• Semitic
• Semper aliquid novi Africam adferre
• Send
• Senedd
• Senior
• Sennacherib
• Se'nnight
• Sense
• Sensitive plant
• Sentence
• Separate
• Sephardim
• Seppuku
• Sept
• September
• Septentrional signs
• Septuagesima Sunday
• Septuagint
• Sepulchre
• Seraglio
• Seraphic
• Seraphim
• Serapis
• Serat, Al
• Serbonian Bog, The
• Serendipity
• Serene
• Sergeanty or serjeanty
• Sergius
• Serial killer
• Sermon
• Serpent
• Sertorius, The hind of
• Servant
• Serve
• Server
• Service
• Servus servorum
• Sesame!, Open
• Sesquipedalian
• Session
• Sestina
• Set or Seth
• Set
• Setebos
• Settle
• Seuss, Dr
• Seven
• Severn
• Severus, The Wall of
• Seville, The Barber of
• Sèvres ware
• Sewer, To have a mind like a
• Sex
• Sexagesima Sunday
• Sextile
• Sexton Blake
• Sganarelle
• Shabbat
• Shades
• Shadow
• Shaggy dog story
• Shah
• Shaikh
• Shaka
• Shake
• Shakespeare, William
• Shakti
• Shakuntala
• Shallal
• Shalom
• Shalott, The Lady of
• Sham Abraham
• Shamanism
• Shamash or Sama
• Shambles
• Shame
• Shamrock
• Shamus
• Shandean
• Shandon, The Bells of
• Shanghai, To
• Shango
• Shangri La
• Shanks's mare or pony, To ride
• Shannon, To be dipped in the
• Shanties
• Shan Van Voght
• Shape
• Shapwick Hoard
• Share
• Sharecropper
• Sharia
• Sharif
• Shark
• Sharon
• Sharp
• Shave
• Shavian
• Shaving
• Shavuoth
• Shazam
• She
• Shears, Sieve and
• Sheathe the sword
• Sheba
• Shebang
• Shebeen
• Shechina
• Shedeem
• Shed light on
• Sheena
• Sheep
• Sheer or Shere Thursday
• Sheet
• Sheffield plate
• Sheikh or Shaikh
• Sheila
• Shekels
• Shekhinah or Shechina
• Sheldonian Theatre
• Shelf
• Shell
• Shelta
• Shelter
• Shem
• Shemozzle
• Shenandoah
• Sheol
• Shep
• Shepherd
• Sheppard, Jack
• Shere Thursday
• Shergar
• Sherif or Sharif
• Sheriff
• Sherlock
• Sherry
• Shewbread
• Shi'a
• Shiatsu
• Shibboleth
• Shibdiz
• Shield
• Shift
• Shillelagh
• Shilling
• Shilly-shally
• Shindig
• Shindy, To kick up a
• Shine
• Shingle, To hang out one's
• Shins, To break
• Shintoism
• Ship
• Shipton, Mother
• Shire
• Shirt
• Shit, Tough
• Shittah
• Shiva
• Shivaree
• Shiver
• Shoah
• Shoat
• Shock
• Shoe
• Shofar
• Shogun
• Shoo-in
• Shoot
• Shop
• Shore
• Shoreditch
• Shorne or Schorne, John
• Short
• Short stature, Noted men of
• Shot
• Shoulder
• Shout
• Shove, When push comes to
• Shovel hat
• Show
• Shreds and patches, King of
• Shrek
• Shrewmouse
• Shrift or shrive
• Shrimp, The
• Shrink
• Shropshire
• Shroud, The Turin
• Shrovetide
• Shut
• Shy
• Shylock, A
• Shyster
• Si
• Siamese twins
• Sibyl
• Sic
• Sicily
• Sick
• Sickle, Hammer and
• Side
• Siege
• Siegfried or Sigurd
• Siena, Catherine of
• Sierra
• Sieve and shears
• Sighs, Bridge of
• Sight
• Sigint
• Sigismonda
• Sign
• Signature tune
• Signet, A writer to the
• Significant other
• Sigurd
• Sikes, Bill
• Sikh
• Silence
• Silent
• Silenus
• Silhouette
• Silicon
• Silk
• Silly
• Silmarillion, The
• Siloam
• Silurian
• Silvanus
• Silver
• Silvia
• Simeon
• Similia similibus curantur
• Simnel cakes
• Simon
• Simonism
• Simple
• Simpson, O.J.
• Simpsons, The
• Sin
• Sinbad the Sailor
• Sindhia
• Sindibad
• Sine
• Sinecure
• Sing
• Singeing the king of Spain's beard
• Singing apple
• Single
• Sing Sing
• Sinis
• Sinister
• Sink
• Sinn Féin
• Sir
• Sirat, Al
• Sirdar
• Siren
• Sirius
• Sirloin
• Sirocco
• Sister
• Sistine
• Sisyphus
• Sit
• Site
• Sitzkrieg
• Siva or Shiva
• Six
• Sizar
• Size
• Sizings
• SJ
• Skald
• Skanda
• Skanderbeg
• Skate
• Skean dhu
• Skeleton
• Skevington's daughter
• Skid
• Skidbladnir
• Skidoo, Twenty-three
• Skiffle
• Skimmington
• Skin
• Skinfaxi
• Skirt, A bit of
• Skittles, Life is not all beer and
• Skull
• Sky
• Slam
• Slang
• Slap
• Slasher
• Slate
• Slave
• Sledgehammer
• Sleep
• Sleeve
• Sleipnir
• Sleuthhound
• Sliced bread, Best thing since
• Slick Willie
• Sliding scale
• Sling
• Slip
• Slipper
• Sloane Ranger
• Slogan
• Slope, Slippery
• Sloper, Ally
• Sloppy joe
• Slops
• Slot, God
• Slough of Despond
• Slow
• Slubberdegullion
• Slugabed
• Slughorn
• Slush fund
• Sly
• Slytherin
• Smack
• Small
• Smart
• Smaug
• Smear campaign
• Smectymnuus
• Smell, To
• Smersh
• Smile
• Smith
• Smithereens
• Smock, Lady's
• Smog
• Smoke
• Smooth
• Smurfs
• Snack, To take a
• Snail
• Snails
• Snake
• Snap
• Snare and a delusion, A
• Snark
• Snarling letter
• Snatch
• Sneeze
• Snell, Hannah
• Snettisham Treasure, The
• Snitch
• Snobs, Cotton
• Snollygoster
• Snood
• Snooks
• Snooks
• Snoopy
• Snotty
• Snow
• Snudge
• Snuff
• Snug
• So
• Soap
• Sob
• Sober
• Soc
• Socage
• Social
• Socialism
• Society
• Sock
• Sockdolager
• Socrates
• Sodom and Gomorrah
• Sod's law
• Soft
• Soho!
• Soi-disant
• Soil, A son of the
• Sol
• Sold
• Soldier
• Solecism
• Solemn League and Covenant, The
• Sol-fa
• Solheim Cup
• Solicitor
• Solid
• Solipsism
• Solomon
• Solomonids
• Solon
• Solstice
• Solution, Final
• Soma
• Somerset House
• Something
• Son
• Son et lumière
• Song
• Sonic screwdriver
• Sonnet
• Sooner
• Sooterkin
• Sop
• Soph
• Sophia, Santa
• Sophist, sophistry, sophism, sophisticated, etc.
• Sophy, The
• Sorbonne
• Sorcerer
• Sorites
• Sorrel
• Sorrow
• Sortes
• Sorts, Out of
• SOS
• Soter
• Sothic period or Sothic year
• Soul
• Sound
• Soup
• Sour grapes
• South
• Southcottians
• Southwark
• Sovereign
• Sow 1
• Sow 2
• SP, The
• Space
• Spade
• Spaghetti
• Spagyric
• Spahi
• Spain or Spanish
• Spam
• Span, Spick and
• Spaniel
• Spanish
• Spanker
• Spanner
• Spare
• Spark
• Spartacists
• Spartans
• Spasmodic school, The
• Speak
• Spear
• Special
• Specie or species
• Spectre at the feast
• Spectre of the Brocken
• Speculum Humanae Salvationis
• Speech
• Speed
• Speenhamland system
• Speewah, The
• Spell
• Spelvin, George
• Spencean philanthropists
• Spencer
• Spend a penny
• Spenserian stanza
• Sphairistike
• Spheres
• Sphinx
• Spice
• Spick and span
• Spider
• Spidireen or Spidereen
• Spike
• Spill
• Spin
• Spindle side
• Spinster
• Spires, The City of Dreaming
• Spirit
• Spit
• Spital or Spittle
• Splatter movie
• Spleen
• Splice
• Splice the mainbrace, To
• Split
• Spock, Mr
• Spoil
• Spoke
• Spondulicks
• Sponge
• Spoon
• Spoonerism
• Sport
• Spot
• Spouse
• Spout
• SPQR
• Sprat
• Spread
• Spree, On the
• Spring
• Spring-Heeled Jack
• Sprite
• Spruce
• Spur
• Sputnik
• Spy
• Squab
• Squad
• Squall
• Squanderbug
• Square
• Squarson
• Squeak
• Squeegee merchant
• Squeeze
• Squib
• Squire
• Sri
• SS
• Stabat Mater
• Stable
• Stableford
• Stadium
• Stadtholder
• Staff
• Stag
• Stage
• Stagirite or Stagyrite, The
• Stairs
• Stake
• Stakhanovism
• Stalemate
• Stalin
• Stalking-horse
• Stalks, Eyes out on
• Stalky
• Stammerer, The
• Stamping ground
• Stand
• Standard
• Stanhope
• Stannaries, The
• Stanza, Spenserian
• Star
• Starboard and larboard
• Starch
• Stare one in the face
• Start
• Starve
• State
• Stately home
• Station
• Statistics, Vital
• Stator
• Statue of Liberty, The
• Status
• Statute
• Stay
• Stead, To stand in good
• Steady
• Steaks, The Sublime Society of the
• Steal
• Steam
• Steed, Barbed
• Steel
• Steenie
• Steeple
• Steering committee
• Sten gun
• Stenness, The Standing Stones of
• Stentor
• Step-
• Step
• Stepford Wife
• Stephen
• Stepney wheel
• Sterling
• Stet
• Stetson
• Stevengraphs
• Stevens, Even
• Stew
• Steward, Shop
• Stewart, Walking
• Stick
• Stickit
• Stickler
• Stiff
• Stiffkey, Rector of
• Stigmata
• Stijl, De
• Still life
• Stil nuovo, Dolce
• Stilo novo
• Stimulants of great men
• Sting
• Stingo
• Stinkomalee
• Stinkpot, Devil's
• Stir
• Stirrup
• Stitch, To drop a
• Stiver, Not a
• Stock
• Stockade, The Eureka
• Stockholm syndrome
• Stocking
• Stockwell ghost
• Stoic
• Stole
• Stomach
• Stone
• Stonehenge
• Stooges, The Three
• Stool
• Stop
• Store
• Stork
• Storm
• Storting or Storthing
• Story
• Stout
• Stovepipe hat
• Strad
• Strafe
• Straight
• Strain
• Strait of Magellan
• Strand, The
• Stranger
• Strangler, Boston
• Strap
• Strappado
• Straw
• Strawberry
• Streak
• Stream
• Street
• Strenia
• Strephon
• Stretch
• Strictly
• Stride, To take in one's
• Strike
• String
• Strip
• Stripe
• Stroke
• Strong
• Struck
• Struldbrugs
• Strut one's stuff
• Struwwelpeter
• Strymon
• Stuart
• Stuck
• Study, Brown
• Stuff
• Stumbling block
• Stumer
• Stump
• Stupenda, La
• Stupid, Call me
• Stupor mundi
• Sturm und Drang
• Stygian
• Style
• Styles, Tom or John-A-Styles
• Stylites or Pillar saints
• Stymie
• Stymphalian Birds, The
• Styx
• Sub
• Subbuteo
• Subject
• Sublapsarian or Infralapsarian
• Sublime
• Subpoena
• Subsidy
• Subtle Doctor, The
• Subtopia
• Suburb
• Success, Runaway
• Succession, Apostolic
• Succotash
• Succoth or Sukkoth
• Succubus
• Suck
• Sudarium
• Sudden death
• Sudoku
• Suede
• Suffolk
• Suffragan
• Suffrage
• Sufi
• Sugar
• Sui
• Suicide
• Suit
• Sukkoth
• Sultan
• Summer
• Summit, Earth
• Summum bonum
• Sumptuary laws
• Sun
• Sundae
• Sunday
• Sundial, The Shepherd's
• Sunflower State, The
• Sunna
• Sunningdale
• Sunset
• Supererogation, Works of
• Superhighway, The Information
• Supermac
• Superman
• Supernaculum
• Supper
• Supply
• Supralapsarian
• Sure
• Surf
• Surface, To scratch the
• Surfeit water
• Surloin
• Surly dog
• Surname
• Surplice
• Surrealism
• Surrender-monkey
• Surrey, White
• Surrogate mother
• Survey, Ordnance
• Survival of the fittest
• Susan, Lazy
• Susanna and the Elders
• Sussex weeds
• Sutras
• Suttee
• Sutton Hoo Treasure, The
• Svengali
• Swaddlers
• Swag
• Swagger
• Swallow 1
• Swallow 2
• Swami
• Swan
• Swap or change horses in midstream
• Swashbuckler
• Swastika
• Swear
• Sweat
• Swedenborgians
• Swedish Nightingale, The
• Sweeney Todd
• Sweep
• Sweepstakes
• Sweet
• Swell
• Swiftian
• Swifties, Tom
• Swim
• Swindle
• Swine, Gadarene
• Swing
• Swiss
• Switch
• Swithin, St
• Swone-one
• Swoose
• Sword
• Sybarite
• Sybil
• Sycophant
• Sydney or the bush
• Syllable
• Syllepsis
• Syllogism
• Sylph
• Sylva, Carmen
• Sylvester Eve
• Sylvia, Rhea
• Symbol
• Symbolists
• Sympathy, Tea and
• Symphony, Unfinished
• Symposium
• Syn, Dr
• Synagogue
• Synchromism
• Syndicalism
• Syndrome
• Synecdoche
• Synod, General
• Synoptic
• Syntax, Dr
• Syphilis
• Syrinx
• Syrup, Golden
• System
• T
• T
• Tab
• Tabard
• Tabby
• Tabernacle
• Tabitha
• Table
• Tableaux vivants
• Tablet
• Tablets, Tel el Amarna
• Taboo or tabu
• Tabor, Mount
• Tabouret, Right of
• Tabula rasa
• Tace is Latin for candle
• Tachebrune
• Tack
• Tactics, Fabian
• Taffeta
• Taffy
• Tag
• Tages
• Taghairm
• Taig or tague or teig
• Tail
• Taillefer
• Tailor
• Taiping
• Taj Mahal
• Take
• Taking a sight
• Tale
• Taleban
• Talent
• Tales
• Taliban or Taleban
• Taliesin
• Talisman
• Talk
• Tall
• Tally, To
• Talmud, The
• Talus
• Tamar
• Tamberland or Tamerlane
• Tamla Motown
• Tammany Hall
• Tammuz
• Tam-o’-Shanter
• Tamworth
• Tancred
• Tandoori
• Tangerines, The
• Tangie
• Tango, It takes two to
• Tangram
• Tanist
• Tank
• Tanner
• Tannhäuser
• Tans, Black and
• Tantalus
• Tantony pig
• Tantras, The
• Taoism
• Tap
• Tape
• Tapestry
• Tapis, On the
• Tapley, Mark
• Tappit-hen
• Tap the Admiral
• Tar
• Tara, The Hill of
• Tarantella
• Tarantula
• Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay!
• TARDIS
• Targums
• Tarnhelm
• Tarnkappe
• Tarot
• Tarpeian rock
• Tarquin
• Tarroo-Ushtey
• Tart
• Tartan army, The
• Tartar or Tatar
• Tartarus
• Tartuffe
• Tarzan
• Task
• Tassel-gentle
• Tassies
• Tasso, Torquato
• Taste
• Tatar
• Tattersall's
• Tattoo
• Tau
• Tauchnitz
• Taurus
• Taverner's Bible
• Tawdry
• Tax
• Taxi
• Te
• Tea
• Teach
• Teague
• Team, Dream
• Teapoy
• Tear 1
• Tear 2
• Teasie Weasie, Mr
• Teazle, The Ram and
• Technique, Alexander
• Technogamia
• Ted or Teddy
• Teenager
• Teenybopper
• Teeth
• Teetotal
• Teflon
• Teian muse, The
• Teig
• Telamones
• Telegonus
• Telegram
• Telegraph, Bush
• Tel el Amarna tablets
• Telemachus
• Telenyms
• Telepathy
• Telephus
• Telescope, Gregorian
• Teletubbies
• Television, Reality
• Television catchphrases
• Tell
• Tell, William
• Teller
• Tellus
• Telstar
• Temper, To lose one's
• Temperance, The Apostle of
• Templars or Knights Templar
• Temple
• Tempora
• Temporal, Lords
• Temporary gentleman
• Tempus fugit
• Ten
• Tenant
• Tender
• Tendon of Achilles
• Tène, La
• Tenebrae
• Ténébreux, Le Beau
• Tennis
• Tenson
• Tenterden steeple was the cause of Goodwin Sands
• Tenterhooks, To be on
• Tenth
• Tenure, Base
• Teocalli
• Tepee
• Terabil, Castle
• Teraphim
• Teresa or Theresa
• Term
• Termagant
• Terminate
• Terminer
• Terminological inexactitude
• Terpsichore
• Terra
• Terrapin War
• Terrible, The
• Terrier
• Terror
• Terry Alts
• Ter-sanctus
• Tertiaries
• Tertium quid
• Terza rima
• Tessie, Two-ton
• Test
• Testament
• Tester
• Testudo
• Tête
• Tether, At the end of one's
• Tethys
• Tetragrammaton
• Tetra Pak
• Tetrarch
• Teucer
• Teutons
• Texas Rangers
• Text, Coffin
• Thais
• Thalestris
• Thalia
• Thames
• Thammuz or Tammuz
• Thamyris
• Thanatos
• Thane
• Thanksgiving Day
• That
• Thatcherism
• Thaumaturgus
• Theatre
• Thebes
• Thecla
• Thé dansant
• Theist, deist, atheist and agnostic
• Thellusson Act
• Theme
• Themis
• Themistocles, The Famous Sorites of
• Theocritus
• Theodora
• Theodoric
• Theophany
• Theorem
• Theosophy
• Théot, Catherine
• Theramenes
• Therapeutae
• Therapy
• Theravada
• Thereby hangs a tale
• Theremin
• Thermidor
• Thermopylae
• Thersites
• Thesaurus, Roget's
• Theseus
• Thespians
• Thestylis
• Thetis
• They think it's all over
• Thick
• Thief
• Thimble
• Thin
• Thing
• Think
• Third
• Thirteen
• Thirty
• Thisbe
• Thistle
• Thomas
• Thomasina, Aunt
• Thone or Thonis
• Thopas, Tale of Sir
• Thor
• Thorn
• Thorough
• Thoth
• Thought
• Thousand
• Thrash out
• Thread
• Threadneedle Street
• Three
• Thrills and spills
• Throat
• Throgmorton Street
• Throne, The
• Through
• Throw
• Thrummy Cap
• Thrums
• Thrust, Cut and
• Thug
• Thule
• Thumb
• Thummin, Urim and
• Thump, Ecky
• Thunder
• Thursday
• Thyestes
• Thyrsus
• Ti
• Tiara
• Tib
• Tiberius
• Tich or Titch
• Tichborne
• Tick
• Ticker tape
• Ticket
• Tickety-boo
• Tickle
• Tiddy-oggie
• Tide
• Tidy
• Tie
• Tiercel
• Tiffany
• Tiffin
• Tiger
• Tigger
• Tight
• Tike or tyke
• Tilbury
• Tile
• Till
• Till Eulenspiegel
• Tilt
• Tim, Tiger
• Timber
• Timbuctoo or Timbuktu
• Time
• Timeo Danaos
• Times Square
• Timoleon
• Timon of Athens
• Timothy
• Timur
• Tin
• Tina
• Tincture
• Tinderbox, The Pig and the
• Tinker
• Tinseltown
• Tintagel
• Tintin
• Tiny feet, The patter of
• Tip
• Tiphys
• Tipperary
• Tipperary rifle
• Tippling house
• Tipstaff
• Tipton Three
• Tirant lo Blanch
• Tired
• Tiresias
• Tirl
• Tironian
• Tisiphone
• Titania
• Titans
• Tit for tat
• Tit Hall
• Tithes
• Tithing
• Tithonus
• Titi, Prince
• Titivil
• Title
• Titmouse
• Tittle, Jot or
• Titular bishops
• Titus
• Tityre-tus
• Tityrus
• Tityus
• Tiu or Tiw or Tyr
• Tizona
• Tizzy
• TLC
• Tmesis
• Toad
• Toad-eater
• Toast
• Tobacco baron
• Tobias
• Tobit
• Toblerone
• Toby
• Toc H
• Tod, To be on one's
• Today a man, tomorrow a mouse
• Toddy
• Toe
• Tofana
• Toff, The
• Toffee-nosed
• Toga
• Together, To get it
• Togs
• Toil
• Token payment
• Tokoloshe
• Tokyo Rose
• Tolbooth or tollbooth
• Toledo
• Toll, Charon's
• Tolpuddle Martyrs
• Tom or Tommy
• Tomahawk
• Tombola
• Tommy
• Tomorrow
• Tongs
• Tongue
• Tongues
• Tonic sol-fa
• Tonnage or tunnage
• Tonsure
• Tontine
• Tonton Macoutes
• Tony
• Too
• Tools, To down
• Toon, The
• Tooth or teeth
• Top
• Tophet
• Topkapi
• Toplady ring
• Topsy
• Topsy-turvy
• Torah
• Torch
• Torn
• Torpids
• Torquemada, Tomás de
• Torricelli, Evangelista
• Torso
• Tortoise
• Torture
• Tory
• Tosca
• Toss
• Totem
• Totentanz
• Tottenham
• Touch
• Touché
• Touchstone
• Tough
• Toulouse, The Sappho of
• Tour
• Tournament
• Tours
• Tout ensemble
• Towel, To throw in the
• Tower
• Town
• Toy
• Trace
• Trachtenberg system
• Track
• Tractarians
• Tractor, Chelsea
• Tracy
• Trade
• Traditional nicknames
• Tragedy
• Trahison des clercs
• Trail
• Train
• Trainbands
• Traitors’ Gate
• Trajan
• Tram
• Tramontana
• Transcendental Meditation
• Transept
• Transfiguration
• Translator-General
• Transmigration of souls
• Transubstantiation
• Transylvania
• Trap
• Trappists
• Traps
• Trash
• Traveller
• Travelogue
• Tre, Pol, Pen
• Treacle
• Tread
• Treason
• Treasure
• Treasury
• Treat
• Treaty
• Trebizond
• Tree
• Tregeagle
• Trek
• Trembling poplar
• Trench
• Trencher
• Trend, To buck the
• Trente-et-quarante
• Tressure
• Triads
• Tria juncta in uno
• Trial
• Triangle
• Tribe
• Tribune
• Trice, In a
• Trick
• Tricolour
• Tricoteuses
• Trident
• Triffid
• Trigger
• Trigon
• Trilby
• Trilogy
• Trim
• Trimalchio
• Trimurti
• Trine
• Trinian's, St
• Trinitarians
• Trinity, The
• Trinity
• Trinovantes
• Trip
• Tripitaka
• Triple
• Tripos
• Triptolemus
• Trisagion
• Triskaidekaphobia
• Triskelion
• Trismegistus
• Tristram, Sir
• Triton
• Triumph
• Triumvir
• Trivet, As right as a
• Trivia
• Trivium
• Trochilus
• Troglodytes
• Troilus
• Trojan
• Trolls
• Trompe l'oeil
• Troop
• Trophonius
• Trophy
• Trot, Turkey
• Troth, To plight one's
• Troubadours
• Trouble
• Trousers
• Trouvères
• Trove, Treasure
• Trowel, To lay it on with a
• Troy
• Troynovant
• Truce of God
• Trucking, To keep on
• True
• Trump
• Trumpet
• Trunk
• Trust
• Truth
• Truthiness
• Try
• Trygon
• Tsar or czar
• Tu
• Tuatha Dé Danann
• Tub
• Tuba
• Tube
• Tuck
• Tuckahoe
• Tucker
• Tudor
• Tuesday
• Tuffet
• Tug
• Tuileries
• Tulchan bishops
• Tulip mania
• Tumbledown Dick
• Tumbler
• Tun, Bolt in
• Tunbridge Wells
• Tune
• Tunkers or Dunkers or Dunkards
• Tunnage
• Tuonela, The Swan of
• Tupperware
• Turandot
• Turf
• Turing
• Turin Shroud, The
• Turk
• Turkey
• Turn
• Turnip
• Turpin
• Turret-ship
• Turtle
• Tuscan order
• Tusitala
• Tussaud's, Madame
• Tutankhamun
• Tutivillus or Titivil
• Tutors, Achilles’
• Tuxedo
• Twain, Mark
• Twankey, Widow
• Tweed
• Tweedledum and Tweedledee
• Tweet
• Twelve and twelfth
• Twenty
• Twice, To think
• Twickenham or Twickers
• Twiddle one's thumbs, To
• Twig
• Twilight
• Twin
• Twinkling of an eye, In the
• Twirl
• Twist
• Twitcher
• Twitter
• Twm Shon Catti
• Two
• Tyana, Apollonius of
• Tybalt
• Tyburn
• Tycoon
• Tyke
• Tylwyth Teg
• Tyndale's Bible
• Tynwald
• Type
• Typhoeus or Typhon
• Typhoid Mary
• Typhon
• Typhoo
• Typhoon
• Tyr
• Tyranny, The Eleven Years’
• Tyrant
• Tyre, spare
• Tyrian purple
• Tyrtaeus
• U
• U
• Übermensch
• Uberrimae fidei
• U-boat
• Udolpho, The Mysteries of
• UFO
• Ugly
• Uisnech
• Uitlander
• Ulema
• Ullage
• Ulloa, Circle of
• Ulster
• Ultima Thule
• Ultimus Romanorum
• Ultor
• Ultra
• Ultramontane party
• Uluru
• Ulysses or Odysseus
• Umble pie
• Umbrage, To take
• Umbrella
• Umlaut
• Umpire
• Unabomber
• Unacceptable face of capitalism, The
• Unam sanctam
• Uncials
• Uncle
• Unclubable or unclubbable
• Unco
• Unction, Extreme
• Uncumber, St
• Undecimilla
• Under
• Undine
• Unfinished Symphony
• Unguent, Promethean
• Unhinged
• Uniat or Uniate Churches
• Unicorn
• Unigenitus
• Union, The
• Unitarians
• Unite
• United
• Unities, The dramatic
• Universal
• University
• Unkindest cut of all, Most
• Unknown
• Unlearned Parliament, The
• Unlucky
• Unmentionables
• Unmerciful Parliament, The
• Unready, The
• Unrighteous Bible, The
• Unrighteousness, The Mammon of
• Untouchables
• Unwashed, The Great
• Unwritten law
• Up
• Upanishads
• Upas tree
• Up-Helly-Aa
• Upper
• Upset
• Upstairs, Kicked
• Ur
• Urania
• Uranus
• Urban
• Urbi et orbi
• Urdu
• Uriah
• Uriel
• Urim and Thummim
• Uroboros
• Ursa
• Ursula
• Use
• Useless Parliament, The
• Usher
• Usk, The Swan of
• Usnech or Uisnech, The Sons of
• Usquebaugh
• Utgard
• Uther
• Utility
• Uti possidetis
• Utnapishtim
• Utopia
• Utter
• Uzi
• Uzziah
• Uzziel
• V
• V
• Vacuum
• Vade mecum
• Vae victis!
• Vagina dentata
• Vagitanus
• Vain
• Vaivode
• Vale
• Vale!
• Valentine
• Valerian
• Vali
• Valiant, Reproof
• Valkyries
• Valley
• Valois
• Value, Face
• Vamana
• Vamp
• Vampire
• Van, Turkish
• Van Allen belt
• Vandals
• Van de Graaff generator
• Van Diemen's Land
• Vandyke beard
• Vanessa
• Vanguard
• Van Helsing, Abraham
• Vanir
• Vanish into thin air
• Vanity
• Vantage loaf
• Varaha
• Varden, Dolly
• Variety is the spice of life
• Variorum edition
• Varsity
• Varuna
• Vase
• Vashti
• Vassal
• VAT
• Vathek
• Vatican
• Vaudeville
• Vaudois
• Vauxhall
• VDMIAE
• Vedanta
• Vedas
• VE Day
• Veep
• Veer cable
• Vegetarianism
• Vegliantino
• Vehicle, Sport-utility
• Vehmgerichte
• Veil
• Vein-openers, The
• Velvet
• Velveteens
• Vendémiaire
• Vendôme, The Column of the Place
• Vendue
• Venerable
• Veni
• Venial sin
• Venice
• Venire facias
• Venison
• Venite
• Venn diagram
• Venner's rising
• Venom is in the tail, The
• Ventôse
• Ventre-saint-Gris
• Ventriloquism
• Venture
• Venus
• Vera causa
• Verb, Strong
• Verbatim et literatim
• Verbena
• Verb sap or Verb sat
• Vercingetorix
• Verdant Green
• Verderer
• Verdict, Open
• Vere adeptus
• Verger
• Vergil
• Verlan
• Vermeer forgeries, The
• Veronica
• Vers
• Versailles
• Verse
• Versi Berneschi
• Version
• Vert
• Verticordia, Venus
• Vertumnus
• Vervain
• Vesica piscis
• Vespers
• Vessel, To burst a blood
• Vesta
• Vestiarian controversy
• Vestments, Clerical
• Vestry
• Veteran
• Veto
• Vexillum
• Via
• Vials of wrath
• Viaticum
• Vic, Old
• Vicar
• Vice
• Vice anglais, Le
• Vice versa
• Vichy
• Vicious circle
• Vicisti, Galilaee
• Vick
• Victim, Fashion
• Victoria Cross
• Victory
• Victrix, Venus
• Vidar
• Videlicet
• View
• Vigilance committee
• Vigiliae
• Village
• Villain or villein
• Vim
• Vin
• Vinalia
• Vinayapitaka
• Vincent
• Vincentian
• Vincula, St Peter ad
• Vinculo matrimonii, A
• Vindaloo
• Vine
• Vinegar
• Vingt-et-un
• Vinland
• Vintage
• Vintry ward
• Vinum theologicum
• Viola
• Violet
• Violin
• Violin
• VIP
• Viper
• Virago
• Viraj
• Virgate
• Virgil
• Virgin
• Virginal
• Virginia
• Virgo
• Virtue
• Virtuoso
• Vis à vis
• Viscount
• Vishnu
• Visible, Church
• Vis inertiae
• Vision
• Visit
• Vital statistics
• Vitamin
• Vitex
• Vitus
• Viva!
• Vivandière
• Vivat rex or regina!
• Vivien
• Vixen
• Viz
• Vizier
• VJ Day
• Vlad the Impaler
• Vobis, Pax
• Vogue
• Voice
• Void, Null and
• Voivode or Vaivode
• Volapük
• Vol-au-vent
• Voldemort
• Volpone
• Volsungs
• Voltaire
• Volte-face
• Volume
• Volund
• Voluntary schools
• Voodoo or voodooism
• Vorticism
• Vortigern
• Vote
• Votive offerings
• Vow
• Vox
• Voyage of Maelduin or Maeldune, The
• Voyageur
• VP
• Vril
• Vulcan 1
• Vulcan 2
• Vulgar errors
• Vulgar Latin
• Vulgate, The
• Vulture, culture
• VXL
• W
• W
• Waac
• Waaf
• WAC
• Wade
• Wafer
• WAG
• Wag
• Wage
• Wager
• Waggoner
• Wagon
• Wahabis or Wahabites
• Wailing Wall
• Wain, Charles's
• Wait
• Waitangi Day
• Waits
• Wake
• Waldensians or Waldenses
• Wales
• Walhalla
• Walk
• Wall
• Wallace
• Wallah
• Wallbanger, Harvey
• Walnut
• Walpurgis
• Walstan, St
• Walter
• Waltons, the
• Waltzing Matilda
• Wampum
• Wandering Jew, The
• Wannabe
• Wansdyke
• Wantley, The Dragon of
• Want of a nail, For
• Wapentake
• Wappenshaw
• War
• Ward
• Warden pear
• Wardour Street English
• Ware
• Warkworth, The Hermit of
• Warlock
• Warm
• Warning
• Warrant
• Warrington Bomb
• Warrior
• Wart
• Wartburg, Contest of
• Warwick
• Wash
• Washington, The Bird of
• Wasp
• Wassail
• Waste
• Wat
• Watch
• Water
• Waterloo
• Waters, Sanitary
• Watford
• Watling Street
• Watson
• Wattle
• Wave
• Waverley Novels
• Wax
• Way
• Wayland Smith
• Wayzgoose
• We
• Weak
• Wealth, The gospel of
• Weapon
• Wear
• Weary Willie and Tired Tim
• Weasel
• Weather
• Weave
• Web
• Wed or wedding
• Wedge
• Wednesday
• Wee
• Weed
• Week
• Weep
• Weigh
• Weimar Republic, The
• Weird sisters, The
• Welch
• Welcome
• Welfare State, The
• Welkin
• Well 1
• Well 2
• Wellerism
• Welles, Awesome
• Wellies, Green
• Wellington
• Wells Fargo
• Welsh
• Welterweight
• Weltpolitik
• Wen or Great Wen, The
• Wenceslas, St
• Wendy
• Werewolf
• Wergild
• Werther
• Werwolf
• Wesleyan
• Wessex
• West
• Westminster
• Wet
• Wexford, Chief Inspector
• W.H., Mr
• Whale
• Wham, bam, thank you ma'am!
• Whammy, Double
• What
• What do you call…?
• Wheat
• Wheatear
• Wheel
• When
• Where
• Wherwell cockatrice
• Whetstone
• Whiffenpoofs
• Whig
• Whip
• Whirl
• Whisker
• Whisky
• Whisper
• Whist
• Whistle
• White
• Whitebait dinner
• White Widow
• Whitsun
• Whittington, Dick
• Whizz or whiz kid
• Who
• Whole
• Whoopee
• Whore
• Why
• Wicca
• Wick, To get on someone's
• Wicked
• Wicket
• Widdershins
• Wide
• Widecombe Fair
• Widenostrils
• Widow, The
• Widow's port
• Wife
• Wig
• Wiggentree
• Wiggle on, To get a
• Wight
• Wightman Cup
• Wigwam
• Wilco
• Wild
• Wild Boy of Hamelin or Man of Nature
• Wilde, Oscar
• Wilderness
• Wilfrid
• Wilgefortis
• Wilhelmstrasse
• Wili
• Will
• William
• Willie
• Willis's rooms
• Will-o’-the-wisp
• Willow
• Will's Coffee House
• Willy-nilly
• Willy-willy
• Wilshire Boulevard
• Wimbledon
• Wimp
• Wimpy
• Wimsey, Lord Peter
• Win
• Winchester
• Wind
• Windmill
• Window
• Windsor
• Wine
• Wing
• Winifred or Winefride
• Wink
• Winkle
• Winnie
• Winter
• Wipe
• Wire
• Wisden
• Wisdom
• Wise
• Wish
• Wit
• Witch
• Witenagemot
• Withershins or widdershins
• With it, To be
• Witnesses, Jehovah's
• Witte, The Whetstone of
• Wivern
• Wizard
• Wobbly
• Woden
• Woebegone
• Woke
• Wolf
• Wolfe's Own
• Woman or women
• Wombles
• Wonder
• Wonka, Willy
• Wood or wooden
• Woodbine
• Woodcock, Scotch
• Wooden mare, The
• Woodfall, Memory
• Woodhouse, Emma
• Woodstock
• Woodwose
• Wookey Hole
• Wool
• Woolton pie
• Woolworth Building
• Woomera
• Woop Woop
• Wooster, Bertie
• Word
• Work
• Worker
• World
• Worm
• Worn
• Worry beads
• Worse
• Worship
• Worst
• Worsted
• Worth
• Worthies
• Wotan
• Wounded
• Wounds, To lick one's
• Wove
• Wraith
• Wrangle
• Wrath, Vials of
• Wrath's hole
• Wreck of the Hesperus, The
• Wren
• Wright of Norwich
• Writ
• Write
• Wrong
• Wulfstan or Wulstan
• Wuthering Heights
• Wuyck's Bible
• WVS
• Wycliffite
• Wykehamist
• Wysiwyg
• Wyvern or wivern
• X
• X
• Xanadu
• Xanthian marbles, The
• Xanthippe or Xantippe
• Xanthus or Xanthos
• Xavier
• Xena
• Xennial
• Xenocratic
• Xerxes
• Ximena
• Xiphias
• XML
• Xylomancy
• XYZ Affair
• Y
• Y
• Yachtsman, The Noble
• Yaga, Baba
• Yahoo
• Yahweh
• Yajurveda
• Yale
• Yama
• Yan, tan, tethera, etc.
• Yang
• Yank or Yankee
• Yarborough
• Yard
• Yardarm, The sun is over the
• Yarg
• Yarmouth capon, A
• Yarmulke
• Yarn
• Yclept
• Ye
• Year
• Yell Hounds
• Yellow
• Yellow Dwarf
• Yen
• Yeoman
• Yes-man
• Yesterday's men
• Yeth-hounds
• Yeti
• Yeux, Beaux
• Yew
• Yggdrasil
• Yiddish
• Yield the palm
• Yimby
• Yin, The Big
• Yin and yang
• Ymir
• Yob
• Yodel
• Yoga
• Yogi Bear
• Yoke, To pass under the
• Yom Kippur
• Yonder, Wild blue
• Yoni
• Yonks
• Yorick
• York
• Yosser
• Young
• Your
• Youth
• Youthquake
• YouTube
• Yowie
• Ysolde, Yseult, Iseult or Isolde
• Yuga
• Yule or Yuletide
• Yumboes
• Yuppie
• Yusupov
• Yves or Yvo
• Yvetot, The King of
• Z
• Z
• Zacchaeus
• Zacharias
• Zadig
• Zadkiel
• Zadok
• Zany
• Zapata moustache
• Zaphod Beeblebrox
• Zarathustra
• Zealots
• Zebi
• Zechariah
• Zeitgeist
• Zemindar
• Zemstvo
• Zem Zem
• Zen
• Zenana
• Zend-Avesta
• Zenith
• Zeno
• Zephaniah
• Zephyr or Zephyrus
• Zero
• Zeugma
• Zeus
• Zhivago, Doctor
• Zig
• Ziggurat
• Zimmer frame
• Zimmerman telegram
• Zimri
• Zingari
• Zinoviev Letter, The
• Zion
• Zip code
• Zodiac
• Zohar
• Zoilus
• Zollverein
• Zombie
• Zone
• Zoot suit
• Zoroastrians
• Zorro
• Zouave
• Zounds!
• Zucchetto
• Zuleika
• Zürich
• Zwickau Prophets, The
• Zwinglian