British to American Vocabulary

Aerial

Articulated lorry

Bonnet

Boot

Car park

Cats eyes

Central reservation

Demister

Dipped lights

Diversion

Drink-driving

Driving license

Dual carriageway

Dumper truck

Estate car

Flat battery

Flyover

Gear box

Gear lever

Give way

Glove box

Hire car

Indicators

Jump leads

Lorry

Main beams

Metalled road

Motorway

Number plate

Petrol

Propeller Shaft

Recovery

Ring road
Orbital

Roundabout

Saloon Car

Silencer

Slip road

Straight (section of road)

Top up

Transmission

Tyre

Unmade road

Verge

Windscreen

Window heater

Wing

Wing mirror

Zebra crossing

Aubergine

Biscuit

Candy floss

Chips

Conserves

Cornflour

Courgettes

Crisps

Fish fingers

Jacket potato

Jam

Jelly

Mince

Porridge

Pudding

Rocket

Sweet

Tinned

Aerial

Aluminium

Antenatal

Anticlockwise

At hand

Autumn

Baggage reclaim

Bicentenary

Bill

Bin liner

Bookings

Botanic garden

Braces

Cashback

Charity

Cheap

Chemists

Cinema

"Clued up"

Coach

Coach (railway)

"Come to that"

Cot

Cutlery

Cuttings

Despatch

DIY

Dodgy

Downmarket

Dummy

Dustbin

Engaged (telephone)

Fee (for schooling)

Fit (verb)

Fittings

Fix (verb - as in "fix" a date)

Flat

Football

Freephone

Freepost

Frock

Full stop (punctuation)

Gents (toilet)

Headmaster

Hide (birds)

Hire (hire a car)

Hob

Holiday

Homely

Hoover (noun and verb)

Ill

"In future"

In hospital

"Join the train"

Jumper

Licence

License

Lie in

Lift

Laundrette

Lorry

Marquee

Maths

Mobile (phone)

Momentarilly

Mum

Nappies

Nil

Note (currency)

On stream

Open day

Pitch (for playing sports)

Polo neck
Roll neck

Post

Pram

Push chair

Queue

Railway

Read

Redundancy

Removal (van)

Reserved to

Return (travel)

Reverse charge call

Rise (salary)

Rubber

Rubbish bin

Rucksack

Sack (from employment)

Secateurs

Shoddy

Shopping trolley

Sport

Solicitor

"Sorry"

Spanner

Stand (for election)

Starters

Straight away

Suspenders

Swear word

Subway

Tap

Tariffs

Tarmac

Tea towel

Telephone box

Tender (noun or verb)

To hand

To trade

Toilet

Torch

Trainers

Treble

Transport (noun)

Trousers

Trolley

Tube

Tucked up (bed)

Tuition for
(as in "tuition for the flute")

Underground (travel)

Upmarket

Valve

Vest

Walking frame

Washing up

Waistcoat