CSW12 Complete Variants - wespa [PDF]

CSW12 Complete Variants David Sutton Introduction This document seeks to provide a comprehensive tabulation of variant spelling forms in CSW12, for words up to nine letters in length. It can be viewed as a big brother to 'CSW12 New Variants', which dealt only with new variants introduced in CSW12: that is to say, new words which were simply variant forms of words already existing in CSW7. Again, the idea is to ease at least marginally the task of word learning by grouping the words into 'variant spelling' sets. The following provisos should be noticed.   

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only root forms are listed. It can normally be taken for granted that inflections follow suit. I have not sought to include inflectional variants such as LABELED/LABELLED. only root forms with nine or fewer letters are included, though if these have variant spellings with more than nine letters, those are shown. the large number of –ISE/-IZE variants are omitted. Since CSW7 it can overhelmingly be assumed that any verb ending in –ISE has a corresponding –IZE form; there are exceptions like ADVISE, CHASTISE, DESPISE and FRANCHISE but few that are likely to seduce one into error. it must be remembered that some variants may possess part of speech properties not possessed by other variants of that form. For example, in the case of ALARM/ALARUM/LARUM ALARM and ALARUM are both noun and verb, but LARUM is noun only. Similarly, in the case of ALATE/ALATED, ALATE is both adjective and noun and so can take an –S, but ALATED is adjective only. I have assumed that Scrabble players serious enough to be interested in this document are likely to be aware of such nuances, or prepared to research the matter further on their own account. this document restricts itself to variant spellings. It is not about words unrelated by spelling which refer to the same thing. For example, KAAMA is another name for the HARTEBEEST, but you won't find that here. But I have erred somewhat on the side of generosity by including adjectival forms which are not strictly speaking variant spellings but which differ only by ending and have the same or virtually the same meaning e.g. LACTEAL LACTEAN LACTEOUS, which all mean, more or less, 'milky'. I also include words which are essentially the same word but which have acquired slightly different nuances of meaning e.g. CAPTIVE, CAITIFF and CAITIVE, which all derive from Latin captivus, but where the (obsolete) CAITIFF and CAITIVE carry a suggestion of baseness absent from the modern form CAPTIVE. I have not gone to great lengths to seek out ‘unnecessary’ variants based on less common and less productive meanings of words. For example, the flower wild mignonette has names WALD and WELD, but most Scrabble players will be content to know WELD as the verb meaning to join two pieces of metal by fusing, so I have not bothered to include WALD/WELD.

I shall be glad to know of any errors or omissions.

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aal al aargh aarrgh aarrghh argh aarti arti aba abaya abba abaca abaka abamp abampere aband abandon abashless bashless abater abator abatis abattis abaxial abaxile abbacy abbotcy abcee absey abdabs habdabs abduce abduct aberrance aberrancy abetment abettal abetter abettor abeyance abeyancy able hable ablings ablins aiblins yibbles abodement bodement aboideau aboiteau

an E. Indian shrub an exclamation indicating dismay

an Indian ceremony in which candles dipped in ghee are lighted and offered to various deities a Syrian cloth of goat's or camel's hair; an outer garment made of it the Manila-hemp plant, or its fiber a unit equivalent to 10 amperes to abandon unashamed one who abates eg a nuisance a rampart of felled trees or branches away from the axis or central line the office of abbot the alphabet terror, the frights, nerves, as in 'the screaming abdabs' to draw or conduct away erring, deviation the act of abetting one who abets a state of suspension or temporary inactivity competent; (verb, obs.) to enable perhaps

a foreboding, an omen a tide gate

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abomasum abomasus abondance abundance abundancy aboon abune aborigen aborigin aborigine aboulia abulia aboulic abulic abraid abray abram auburn abrasax abraxas abricock apricock apricot abscisin abscissin absciss abscissa abscisse absinth absinthe absorbant absorbent abutment butment aby abye abysm abyss academe academia acai assai acaleph acalephe acanth acanthus acaridan acaridean acaridian acater acatour

the fourth of the four stomachs of a ruminant abundance, esp in whist above an original or native inhabitant of a country abnormal lack of ability to act or to make decisions relating to aboulia, loss of willpower to awake, arouse auburn a gem engraved with a mystical word and bearing a human-animal figure an apricot a hormone which triggers the fall of autumn leaves in certain trees the distance of a point from the y-axis measured parallel to the x-axis the wormwood plant or other species of Artemisia; a liqueur made from this able to absorb; (noun) an absorbant substance a buttress of an arch to pay the penalty for an abyss the academic life or world a berry found in the Brazilian rainforest, aka palm berry a kind of jellyfish a genus of herbaceous prickly plants relating to the Acarida, mites and ticks; (noun) a mite or tick an officer who buys provisions; a chandler

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acates achates acathisia akathisia acaudal acaudate ecaudate acauline acaulose acaulous acca acker accepter acceptor accessary accessory accidia accidie acedia accompt account accorage accourage encourage accouter accoutre accrew accrue acerate acerated acerb acerbic acescence acescency acetamid acetamide acetose acetous ach och achaenium achene achenium akene ache ake achieve atchieve achoo ahchoo atishoo

things purchased; provisions not made in the house; dainties a psychological condition characterised by agitation and a frequent desire to alter the posture tailless having a very short stem an academic a person who accepts accompanying, as a subordinate sloth; physical torpor account; (verb) to account to encourage to dress or equip, esp a warrior to accrue of, like or resembling a needle bitter and sour the act of turning sour, acetous fermentation a white crystalline solid, derived from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl sour like vinegar an interjection expressing regret or impatience a small one-seeded fruit; a naked seed

a persistent dull pain; (verb) to be the site of this to carry out successfully an imitation of the sound of a sneeze

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achromic achromous aciclovir acyclovir acidulent acidulous acinar acinic acinose acinous ackee akee ackers akkas acmatic acmic acolyte acolyth acouchi acouchy acquest acquist acquight acquit acquite acrasia akrasia acridin acridine acronic acronical acronycal actinia actinian actinide actinoid acton hacqueton aculeate aculeated adamance adamancy adapter adaptor addable addible addeem addoom addresser addressor adhan

colourless a drug used in the treatment of herpes and HIV having an acid quality relating to an acinus, a berry which grows in clusters containing small seeds or drupes a small African sapindaceous tree; its edible fruit, often used in Caribbean cookery money relating to an acme, a peak a faithful follower a relative of the agouti a thing acquired; spec. property gained otherwise than by inheritance to acquit loss of self-control a compound found in coal-tar occurring at nightfall or sunset (esp of the rising or setting of stars) a sea anemone of the genus Actinia; loosely any sea anemone any element of a group from element no. 89 (actinium) upwards a stuffed jacket worn under the mail prickly; pointed; stinging; (noun) a stinging insect the state of being adamant something that adapts capable of being added to award; to adjudge one who addresses the Muslim call to prayer, made five times a day by a muezzin

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azan adipose adipous adjacence adjacency adjurer adjuror adjutage ajutage admiral ammiral adobe dobie doby adpress appress adrad adred adsuki aduki adzuki azuki adunc aduncate aduncated aduncous advance vaunce adventure aventure avisement vizament adviser advisor adward award adz adze ae yae aecidium aecium aedile edile aefald aefauld afald afawld aegirine aegirite aegis

of or pertaining to fatty substances the state of being adjacent or contiguous one who adjures a tube added to or inserted into an aperture to control the outflow of water, as a pipe at the mouth of an artificial fountain the chief commander of a navy; a naval officer of rank equivalent to a general in the army an unburned, sun-dried brick made of clay and straw to press against afraid a kind of bean, an Oriental food plant

hooked

to move or cause to move ahead to risk, to dare advisement one who advises to award a cutting tool with an arched blade set at right angles to the handle one a cup-shaped fructification in rust fungi in classical times, a magistrate in charge of games, markets or buildings onefold or singular; simple; honest

a silicate of iron and sodium occurring in many alkaline igneous rocks protection, patronage

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egis aeglogue eclogue aemule emulate emule aeneous aeneus aeolian eolian aeolipile aeolipyle eolipile eolopile aeon eon aeonian aeonic eonian aerie aery aiery ayrie eyrie eyry aerofoil airfoil aerolite aerolith aerugo erugo aesthesia aesthesis esthesia esthesis aesthete esthete aesthetic esthetic aestival estival aestivate estivate aether ether aethereal ethereal ethereous etherial aetheric etheric

a pastoral poem, often in the form of a dialogue between shepherds to emulate of a shining bronze colour relating to, acted on by, or due to the agency of, the wind the first steam engine, with a globe made to revolve by steam jets, described in 1st century AD the largest division of geological time, composed of several eras lasting for aeons, eternal a bird of prey's nest

a structure which gives rise to a lift force when moving through the air, eg a wing of an aircraft a meteorite a green film that forms on copper the ability to receive sense impressions

a lover of fine things keenly appreciative of the beautiful of or relating to summer to pass the summer in a state of torpor the upper air characterized by lightness and insubstantiality

relating to the aether

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etherical aetiology etiology afear affear affeare aff off affixal affixial affixment affixture affluence affluency afflux affluxion affoord afford affronte affrontee afeard affeard afraid effraide afreet afrit aga agha agacant agacante agama agamid agamic agamous agast aghast agee ajee ageism agism again agen agin agenesia agenesis aggadic hagadic haggadic aggrace aggrate aggri

the science of causes, especially of disease to frighten off relating to an affix, an appendage something affixed the state of being affluent a flowing towards or together to afford face to face, or front to front; facing afraid

in Arabian mythology, an evil spirit or giant monster a Turkish commander provoking, alluring a kind of tropical lizard non-sexual aghast off the straight; ajar discrimination on grounds of age once more absence or imperfect development of a bodily part relating to the haggadah, the Pesach guidebook, used during Seder to please, gratify ancient W. African variegated glass beads

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aggry agister agistor aglee agley agly aglet aiglet agloo aglu aglossal aglossate aglycon aglycone agnatic agnatical agouti agouty aguti agrafe agraffe agrestal agrestial aguna agunah ahent ahind ahint ahold aholds ahungered ahungry anhungred ahuru ahuruhuru aia ayah aiga ainga aigret aigrette ailanthus ailanto ainsell nainsell air ayre airn iron airt airth

an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted aside, askew the tag covering the ends of a lace a breathing hole made in ice by a seal relating to aglossia, the congenital lack of a tongue an organic compound, as a phenol or alcohol, combined with the sugar portion of a glycoside pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors a small S. American rodent related to the guinea-pig a hooked clasp used by masons to hold blocks together growing wild in cultivated ground (esp of weeds) a woman whose husband has abandoned her but fails to provide an official divorce behind near the wind; as, to lay a ship ahold oppressed with hunger a small pink cod of SW Pacific waters an Indian nurse-maid a large family, often spanning several generations a spray of jewels; an ornamental feather plume an oriental tree, the tree of heaven one's own self the mixture of gases breathed by people and animals; (verb) to make known publicly iron; (verb) to iron direction, quarter; (verb) to direct

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airward airwards ait eyot aitchbone edgebone aizle easle ajowan ajwan akinesia akinesis akvavit aquavit alaap alap alapa almandine almandite alackaday lackaday alan aland alant alang lalang alanin alanine alar alary alarm alarum larum alate alated alay aleye allay albacore albicore albe albee albeit albespine albespyne albinal albinic albinism albinoism albitic albitical

toward the air; upward a small island in a river the rump bone of cattle; the rump cut of beef hot ashes the fruit of an Egyptian plant of the caraway genus the loss of the power of voluntary movement a Scandinavian spirit made from potatoes or grain and flavoured with caraway seeds in Indian music, the introductory section of a raga a deep red garnet consisting of an iron aluminum silicate an expression of regret or deprecation a large hunting dog a coarse grass of the Malay peninsula an amino acid, a common constituent of proteins of or pertaining to the wing or shoulder a state of (esp sudden) fear; (verb) to frighten by a sudden revelation of danger having wings; (noun) a winged insect to allay a kind of fish, like the tunny albeit hawthorn like an albino the state or condition of being an albino pertaining to albite, a white silicate

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albizia albizzia alcade alcaide alcalde alcayde alcahest alkahest alchemy alchymy alco alko ale yill aleatoric aleatory alef aleph alegge allegge alembic limbec limbeck alerion allerion aleuron aleurone alexin alexine alfa halfa alfaki alfaqui alfaquin alfilaria alfileria algaecide algicide algaroba algarroba algarrobo algate algates algesic algetic alguacil alguazil algum almug alidad alidade

a tropical tree the governor of a fortress

the universal solvent sought by alchemists the infant stage of chemistry a heavy drinker or alcoholic a kind of beer dependent on chance, luck, or an uncertain outcome the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet to lighten, alleviate an ancient distilling apparatus an eagle displayed without feet or beak a protein found in flour a body present in the blood serum, which uniting with an anti-serum gives protection against disease a N. African esparto grass a Muslim expounder of the law a Californian weed, aka pin grass a substance for killing algae the carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; its edible beans or pods always; wholly; everywhere relating to algesia, sensitivity to pain an inferior officer of justice in Spain a wood imported into ancient Palestine, probably red sandalwood a revolving index on an astrolabe or other instrument for reading gradations

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aliener alienor aligarta alligarta align aline aligner aliner alignment alinement alike ylike alison alyssum aliya aliyah alizarin alizarine alkalic alkalin alkaliser alkalizer alkanet alkannin alkie alky allantoid allantois alledge allege allel allele alleluia alleluiah allergen allergin allice allis allod allodium alod alodium allodial alodial alluvion alluvium alma almah alme almeh almanac

a person who transfers property (obs.) alligator to arrange in a straight line one who aligns the action of aligning having close resemblance a plant of the Alyssum genus of low-growing, cruciferous plants the immigration of Jews to Israel a coloring principle found in madder, and now made artificially of a rock or mineral, containing large amounts of alkali an agent that alkalises a wild flower; a reddish plant-based dye obtained from this an alcoholic a sac-like fetal membrane developing into umbilical cord and forming part of the placenta to allege any one of the two or more possible forms of a gene a song of praise to God a substance causing an allergic reaction the European shad an estate held in absolute ownership, without acknowledgement to a superior

relating to allodium, property under absolute ownership land gradually gained from the sea by the washing up of sand and earth an Egyptian dancing-girl

an annual table, or book of tables, containing a calendar of months and days,

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almanack almery ambery ambry aumbry awmrie awmry almner almoner almous alms awmous almuce amice almud almude alnage aulnage alnager aulnager aloo alu alow alowe alpenhorn alphorn alsoon alsoone alteza altezza althaea althea altho although alumin alumina alumine aluminium aluminum alumium alveole alveolus alway always ama amah amadavat avadavat amarant amaranth amatorian

usually with astronomical data and other information a recess for church vessels, a cupboard

a giver of alms; a social worker in a hospital alms a furred hood with long ends hanging down in front, worn by certain religious orders a Spanish unit of capacity measure by the ell an inspector of cloth a potato ablaze a long powerful horn made of wood, used by Alpine cowherds as soon highness a genus of plants of the mallow family, that includes the garden hollyhock although an oxide of aluminium a light silvery malleable and ductile metallic element a cell in a honeycomb always a native maidservant or child's nurse, esp wet nurse the strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird, commonly caged and kept for fighting a reddish-purple flower that never fades amatory

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amatory amaut amowt amazement mazement ambach ambatch ambari ambary ambassage embassage amber lammer amberoid ambroid ambiance ambience amboina amboyna ambrosial ambrosian ambsace amesace ameba amoeba ameban amebean amebic amoebaean amoeban amoebic ameboid amoeboid ameer amir emeer emir ameerate amirate emeerate emirate amianthus amiantus amid amide amidin amidine amidship amidships amin amine

a hood on a woman's parka for carrying a child the state of being amazed a spongy wood, often used for rafts a fibre-yielding plant of E. Indies, aka kenaf an embassy a translucent, usually yellow, fossil resin, used for ornaments etc. and easily electrified by rubbing synthetic amber surroundings a reddish-brown, curly-grained Moluccan wood consisting of, or partaking of the nature of, ambrosia a double ace, the lowest possible throw at dice a single-celled aquatic protozoan, characterized by a constantly changing shape relating to an ameba

resembling an amoeba; changing in shape like an amoeba an Eastern ruler

the office of ameer, an Eastern ruler

asbestos with silky fibres in the middle of; (noun) a compound formed by the union of amidogen with an acid element or radical the soluble matter in starch midway between the bow and stern of a ship a compound derived from ammonia

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amman amtman ammocete ammocoete amok amuck among amongst emong emonges emongest emongst mongst amoove amove meve mieve moove move ampersand amperzand ampoule ampule ampul ampulla ampullar ampullary amreeta amrita amtrac amtrack amusable amuseable amygdale amygdule amylogen amylose anaemia anemia anaemic anemic anaglyph anaglyphy anagoge anagogy analcime analcite analecta analects analgesia analgia

in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Scandinavia, a district magistrate the larva of a lamprey in a murderous rage; frenzied; (noun) a murderous rage in the midst of

to stir up, to rouse

the and sign & a small sealed glass container for a hypodermic dose a vessel for holy oil or wine for coronations or rituals resembling an ampulla a drink which bestows immortality in Hindu mythology a military vehicle equipped to move on land and water capable of being amused a filled, commonly almond-shaped, vesicle in rock one of the starch group of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc lack of red blood cells deficient in red blood cells an ornament in low relief a spiritual, mystical, or allegorical interpretation of such works as the Bible a white or flesh-red mineral of the zeolite family a collection of writings; literary gleanings the inability to feel pain

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analgesic analgetic analog analogon analogue analyse analyze analyser analyzer anan anon anana ananas anapaest anapest anaphor anaphora anarchal anarchial anata anatman anatta anatto annatta annatto arnatto arnotto ance once yince anchoress ancress anchoret anchorite anchylose ankylose ancient antient ancle ankle ancon ancone anconal anconeal anconoid andesite andesyte andiron endiron andvile anvil

relieving pain; (noun) an anodyne that which is analogous to, or corresponds with, some other thing to inquire into one who analyses in a moment! coming the pineapple plant two short metrical syllables followed by one long one the repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences or verses especially for rhetorical effect lawless the belief that there is no such thing as a permanent self a bright orange colouring matter

once a female anchorite, one who lives in seclusion, usually for religious reasons one who lives in seclusion, usually for religious reasons of bones, to fuse or stiffen by ankylosis very old; (noun) an old person ankle the elbow of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow a volcanic rock found in the Andes an iron bar used to support the end of a log in a fire an anvil

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ane one yin aneath beneath neath unneath anelace anlace anlas anenst anent anergia anergy anerly only anestrum anestrus anoestrum anoestrus anethol anethole aneurism aneurysm angakok angekkok angekok angaria angary angelic angelical anginose anginous angklung anklong anklung anglicist anglist anguiped anguipede angulose angulous anicut annicut anilin aniline animalian animalic animater animator anime

one beneath

a short two-edged dagger about; concerning the failure of the immune system; loss of energy only a period of sexual inactivity between periods of oestrus

an aromatic ether which is the major constituent of certain oils, eg anise and fennel dilatation of an artery; any abnormal enlargement an Inuit sorcerer the legal right of a belligerent to seize, use, or destroy the property of a neutral, provided that full compensation is made of or like an angel pertaining to angina or angina pectoris a musical instrument of S. Asia, composed of bamboo tubes a person with a scholarly knowledge of the English language of mythical giants etc., having feet or legs in the form of snakes angular; having corners a dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation a product of coal-tar used in dyeing of or like an animal one who, or that which, animates a tree resin

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animi ankus ankush ann annat anomie anomy anoopsia anopia anopsia anorectic anoretic anorexic anorexia anorexy anosmatic anosmic anourous anural anurous anow enough enow enuf anoxaemia anoxemia ansate ansated antar antre antefix antefixa antetype antitype anthelix antihelix antic antick anticke antique antigen antigene antinuke antinuker antitypal antitypic any onie ony aortal aortic

a spiked elephant goad the half-year's stipend payable to a minister's wife on his death a condition of hopelessness caused or characterized by breakdown of rules of conduct and loss of belief and sense of purpose an upward squint pertaining to anorexia; (noun) one suffering from anorexia want of appetite, without a loathing of food relating to anosmia, lack or loss of sense of smell having no tail enough

a disorder of the blood having a handle or hand-like shape a cave an ornament at the end of a classical building, hiding the ends of roof tiles something which a type or symbol represents the curved elevation of the cartilage of the ear, within or in front of the helix quaint; (verb) to act in a clownish manner antique any substance that stimulates the production of an antibody opposed to the use of nuclear weapons or nuclear energy; (noun) a person opposed to the use of nuclear weapons or nuclear energy relating to an antitype, an object or person prefigured by the type or symbol some; whichever, no matter which relating to the aorta, the main artery into the heart

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aoudad audad apanage appanage apay appay apeak apeek apepsia apepsy aphoriser aphorizer aplite haplite apnea apnoea apneal apneic apnoeal apnoeic apod apode apogaeic apogeal apogean apogeic apolog apologue apostacy apostasy apostil apostille pothecary poticary pottingar appal appall apparitor paritor appendant appendent apperil apperill appetence appetency appetiser appetizer applecart applejack appriser apprizer

a N. African wild sheep a provision for maintenance, esp of a king's younger child to satisfy; to repay of an anchor, with the ship directly over it failure or absence of digestive function one who makes aphorisms a fine-grained, light-coloured igneous rock a cessation of breathing, esp in sleep relating to apnoea, suspension of breathing, esp in sleep

an animal without feet or ventral fins relating to an apogee, the outermost point in an orbit

a beast fable, a moral tale desertion from a religious or similar body a marginal note an apothecary to horrify an officer in court who attends to execute orders attached, annexed; (noun) an adjunct, an appendage peril strong craving or powerful desire something that whets the appetite apple brandy, distilled from fermented apple juice one who apprises

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apprising apprizing appui appuy apractic apraxic aquafer aquifer aquarial aquarian aquatint aquatinta araba arba aroba arabesk arabesque arak arrack araponga arapunga arbalest arbalist arbelest arblast arbor arbour arbute arbutus archaean archean archaeus archeus archaic archaical archaiser archaizer archetype architype archil orchel orchella orchil orchilla orseille archine arsheen arshin arshine arcsec arcsecond

the sheriff's sentence directing property to be apprized support; (verb) to support militarily relating to apraxia, impaired ability to execute complex muscular movements an underground reservoir of water which can be extracted for surface use of or pertaining to an aquarium a print made by a method of etching having the effect of water-color drawing ; (verb) to make an aquatint a heavy screened wagon used by Tatars and others a movement in dancing; a curve a strong alcoholic drink made from toddy, or the fermented juice of the coco and other palms the campanero or S. American bell-bird a cross-bow with a mechanism for drawing the string

a tree a bower or shady retreat, with sides and roof formed mainly by trees and climbing plants the strawberry-tree any member of the archaea, an order of prokaryootic microorganisms the vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings ancient one who archaises the original pattern or model from which copies are made a dye obtained from certain lichens

an old Russian measure of length

a unit of angle measurement, 1/3600 of a degree

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arcuate arcuated ardor ardour ardri ardrigh aread arede arreede arear arere arenose arenous areola areole areolar areolate areolated aret arett arew arow argal argol argyle argyll arhythmia arythmia arietta ariette aril arillus arillate arillated arish arrish eadish eddish armiger armigero armonica harmonica armor armour armorer armourer armory armoury armozeen armozine aroint

shaped like a bow warmth, fervour a title given to the High King of Ireland to counsel backward, behind sandy; containing much sand a small circular area; spec. the area of pigmented skin surrounding a nipple divided into small areas to entrust, commit in a row a hard crust (generally reddish) formed on the sides of wine-vessels a silver gravy dish absence or irregularity of rhythm, esp of the pulse a short aria an additional envelope, often fleshy, developed around the seed in certain plants (eg yew) having an aril, a protective seed-coat a stubble field

an armour-bearer; a person entitled to bear heraldic arms a mouth-organ; also, an instrument composed of a soundbox and hanging strips of glass or metal, struck by a hammer armour an armourer heraldry a thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical to drive or frighten away

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aroynt arpen arpent arquebus harquebus arrester arrestor arrivance arrivancy arrogance arrogancy arsehole asshole arsenate arseniate arsey arsy arsonist arsonite artefact artifact arugola arugula rucola rugola aruspex haruspex asbestic asbestine asbestous asbestos asbestus ascarid ascaris ascaunt asconce askance askant ascendant ascendent ascesis askesis ascetic ascetical ascitic ascitical ashlar ashler ashram asrama asp

an old French land measure, slightly smaller than an acre a portable long-barrelled gun one who makes an arrest company arriving the quality of being arrogant an unpleasant and/or stupid person a salt of arsenic acid aggressive, irritable one who commits arson something made a Mediterranean plant used in salads

a person who inspected the entrails of sacrificial victims in order to foretell the future of or like asbestos a fine fibrous form of certain minerals any nematode worm of the parasitic genus Ascaris, infesting the small intestines slantways across

rising; (noun) the part of the ecliptic just risen or about to rise above the horizon the practice of self-discipline practising severe abstinence or austerity, esp for religious or spiritual reasons; (noun) one who practises asceticism of, pertaining to, or affected by, ascites; dropsical a squared or dressed stone used in building or facing a wall; (verb) to face with ashlar the dwelling of a Hindu religious philosopher a venomous snake

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aspick aspen aspine asperser aspersor asphalt asphaltum asphyxia asphyxy aspic aspis assagai assegaai assegai assenter assentor asserter assertor assigner assignor assister assistor assuage asswage assurance surance assurer assuror astart astert asthenia astheny astone astony astun astonish stonish astrachan astrakhan astringer ostreger astrofell astrophel asynergia asynergy atabeg atabek atabrin atabrine atebrin ataghan

a species of poplar, noted for its tremulous leaves one who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another a mixture of bituminous pitch with sand etc. used for surfacing paths, roads, etc, aka asphaltum; (verb) to cover or lay (a road etc.) with asphalt the condition of defective aeration of the blood caused by failure of the oxygen supply a clear savoury meat or fish-jelly used as a glaze a slender spear of hard wood tipped with iron; (verb) to kill or stab with this one who assents one who asserts or avers a person who transfers a right or asset under an assignment an assistant; a helper to make less severe confidence, a feeling of certainty one who assures, takes out assurance to start up abnormal weakness, debility to stun; to astonish to fill with sudden wonder or surprise a closely-curled black or grey fur from the fleece of karakul lambs a falconer who keeps a goshawk an unidentified bitter starlike plant, possibly aster lack of co-ordination, especially of muscles a Turkish ruler or high official a bitter yellow powder, formerly used against malaria a Muslim long curved knife

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yatagan yataghan ataman hetman atap attap ataractic ataraxic ataraxia ataraxy ataxia ataxy athenaeum atheneum athetosic athetotic athleta athlete atma atman atmolyse atmolyze atoc atok atokal atokous atomic atomical atomiser atomizer atonable atoneable atonia atony atresic atretic atrophia atrophy atropia atropin atropine attar ottar otto attercop ethercap ettercap attester attestor attollens attollent

a chief of the Cossacks the nipa palm able to calm or tranquillize; (noun) a tranquillizing drug tranquility; freedom from anxiety the inability to co-ordinate muscles a literary or scientific association showing symptoms of athetosis, nervous twitching of digits and extremities an athlete the individual soul to separate mixed gases by their different rates of passage through a porous septum a species of skunk without offspring of or pertaining to atoms an instrument for discharging liquids in a fine spray capable of being atoned for muscular weakness, lack of muscle tone relating to atresia, absence of, or closure of, a body passage wasting away an alkaloid found in deadly nightshade a fragrant essential oil made from the damask rose a spider one who attests of a muscle, that raises

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attonce attone attones attracter attractor attrahens attrahent attrit attrite atweel aweel atween between betwixt twixt atypic atypical aubretia aubrieta aubrietia aught oucht owt augmenter augmentor auld old olde aunt naunt auntie aunty aureola aureole autacoid autocoid autecism autoecism autogiro autogyro autolyse autolyze autopsia autopsy auxiliar auxiliary ava kava kavakava availe avale

at one, at once, together one who attracts attracting; (noun) that which attracts to wear down esp enemy forces well, indeed between

not typical any of several dwarf trailing cruciferous plants of the genus Aubrieta, usually bearing violet or purple flowers anything one who, or that which, augments old a father's or mother's sister, or an uncle's wife a familiar name for an aunt a glorifying halo a hormone secreted into blood, lymph, or sap the development of the entire life cycle of a parasite on a single host a rotating wing aircraft to break down tissue by the action of its own enzymes a post-mortem examination of a corpse an auxiliary an aromatic plant of the pepper family; a narcotic drink prepared from its root and stem to descend

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avel ovel avellan avellane avenge venge avengeful vengeful avenger venger aventail aventaile ventail ventaile ventayle avertable avertible aviatress aviatrice aviatrix avisandum avizandum avocet avoset avouterer avoutrer awa away awayes awakening wakening awato aweto awhato awheto aweless awless awesome awsome awheel awheels ax axe axal axial axile axeman axman axilemma axolemma axon

a mourner esp during the first seven days after a death of a cross, having four arms shaped like filberts at the end to exact retribution for seeking to avenge one that avenges the movable front to a helmet

capable of being averted a female aviator a private consideration of a case by a judge a wading bird with a long bill bent upwards towards the tip an adulterer away the act of awakening the so-called vegetable caterpillar of New Zealand

wanting reverence; void of respectful fear inspiring awe on wheels an axe of the axis one who wields an axe the membrane that encloses the axons of a nerve cell a nerve fibre

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axone ay aye ayahuasca ayahuasco aygre eager eagre eger azotaemia azotemia azure azurn azym azyme baaskaap baaskap baasskap babalas babbelas babbitry babbittry babirusa babirussa bablah babool babul baboo babu baboosh babouche babuche pabouche baccara baccarat baccare backare baccate baccated bacchiac bacchian bacco baccy bacha bachcha bacillar bacillary bakhshish baksheesh bakshish buckshish

yes; (noun) an affirmative vote a S. American vine eager

a less common name for uraemia, the retention of waste materials normally excreted of a delicate blue; (noun) a delicate blue colour; the sky unleavened bread; Passover cake the condition in which one section of the population is treated as the master race, esp the policy of domination of white people in S. Africa drunk narrow-minded middle-class complacence a large hog-like quadruped of the East Indies a species of acacia from which gum arabic is obtained a native clerk who writes English; also, a Hindu title answering to Mr. or Esquire an Oriental heelless slipper

a French card game back! Stand back! give place having berries; berry-like relating to the bacchius, a type of metrical foot tobacco in India, a young child of the shape or nature of a bacillus, rodlike in Eastern countries, a gift or present of money, a tip; (verb) to give a tip

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backspeer backspeir backward backwards baclava baklava baklawa bacterial bacterian badass badassed baddie baddy badmash budmash bael bhel bagass bagasse bagel beigel baguet baguette bahada bajada baidarka bidarka bidarkee bailer bailor bailie baillie bainin bawneen baith both bajra bajree bajri baladin balladin baladine balladine baldachin baldaquin baudekin bawdkin baldie baldy baldric baldrick

to cross-question in a reverse direction a Middle Eastern dessert made of layers of filo pastry, honey, nuts, etc. of or like bacteria; (noun) a bacterial substance touchy, difficult, intimidating; (noun) a touchy person a bad person a bad character; a worthless person a thorny Indian tree dry residue, especially of sugar cane and beet after extraction of juice, and plants after removal of fibre a hard, leavened, ring-shaped roll a long French loaf a broad, sloping depositional deposit caused by the coalescing of alluvial fans an Alaskan Inuit kayak a person who bails goods to a bailee in Scotland, the title of a magistrate who presides in a burgh court a white, close-woven woollen material used for making jackets both in the Indian subcontinent, pearl millet or a similar grain a (male) theatrical dancer a (female) theatrical dancer a rich embroidered material, orig. woven with woof of silk and warp of gold thread

a bald-headed person an often ornamental belt worn over one shoulder to support a sword or bugle

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baudric baudrick bawdric balection bilection bolection balista ballista balk bauk baulk balky baulky ballad ballant ballat ballocks bolix bollix bollocks bollox baloney boloney baloo balu balthasar balthazar bampot barmpot banausian banausic bandana bandanna bandelier bandoleer bandolier banderol banderole bandrol bannerall bannerol bandh bundh bandobast bandobust bundobust bandoleon bandoneon bandonion bandook bundook

a moulding around a panel, projecting beyond the surface of the framing a Roman military engine in the form of a crossbow for projecting heavy missiles to stop short, refuse a jump apt to balk; as, a balky horse a slow, sentimental song; a simple narrative poem in short stanzas; (verb) to compose or sing ballads testicles; (verb) to screw up

deceptive talk, nonsense; Bologna sausage in India, a bear a large wine bottle containing 2.80 gallons an idiot, fool mechanical, utilitarian or routine, as opposed to inspiring or imaginative a coloured silk or cotton handkerchief or headscarf a shoulder belt for carrying ammunition a small banner or streamer

in India, a general strike an organisation a kind of button accordion popular in S. America indian army slang for a rifle, a shotgun

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bandora bandore pandora pandore pandura bangsring banxring bania banian banyan banister bannister bankit banquette bannock bonnock banoffee banoffi bansela bonsela bonsella pasela banshee banshie baptiser baptizer baracan barracan barbate barbated barbecue barbeque barbie barby barchan barchane barkan barkhan barefit barefoot baresark berserk berserker barful barrefull bargander bergander bargest barghest barguest barite

an ancient lute

a tree-shrew, an East Indian insectivorous mammal an Indian fig tree with vast spreading branches; a Hindu trader any of the upright pillars supporting the handrail of a staircase; the whole structure of rail and uprights a raised way or footway above a parapet a flat unleavened loaf of bread as in banoffee pie, a sweet pastry case filled with bananas and soft toffee or caramel and topped with cream a gratuity

in Irish folklore, a female spirit who wails and shrieks before the death of a member of a family one who baptises a coarsely woven fabric of wool, silk, and goat's hair barbed, bearded a framework for cooking food over an open fire; (verb) to cook on a barbecue a barbecue a crescent-shaped dune

barefoot a Norse warrior who fought without armour, or shirt of mail full of obstructions the shelduck a dog-like goblin portending death a native sulphate of barium

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baryte baritone baryton barytone barmbrack barnbrack barmie barmy barocco barock baroque baroness baronne barranca barranco barrater barrator barretor barratry barretry bartisan bartizan bascinet basinet basnet baseej basij basen basin bason bashlik bashlyk basilar basilary basilical basilican basophil basophile basset bassett bastardry bastardy basti bustee busti bastile bastille bate bayt bateau batteau

a male singing voice a currant bun foamy; dotty a bold, vigorous, exuberant artistic style the wife of a baron a ravine caused by heavy rains or a watercourse one that persistently instigates lawsuits the practice of stirring up groundless lawsuits a small overhanging turret projecting from an angle on the top of a tower a light, conical helmet in Iran, volunteer vigilantes who enforce strict Islamic behaviour and dress code, esp on women a basin a Russian hood with long ends relating to, or situated at, the base, esp of the skull of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica of white blood cells, having an affinity for basic stains; (noun) a basophil cell to outcrop the state of being a bastard in India, a flimsy hut, a squatter colony a tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place to abate, to lessen a boat; esp a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers

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bathe beath batholite batholith bathylite bathylith batik battik batler batlet baton batoon battill battle battleax battleaxe baubee bawbee bauble bawble baur bawr bausond bawsunt bauxite beauxite bawtie bawty bayadeer bayadere bazaar bazar bazazz bazzazz bezzazz pazazz pizazz pizzaz bazouki bousouki bouzouki buzuki beadhouse bedehouse beadle bederal bedral beadman beadsman bedeman bedesman

to wash a mass of igneous rock that has risen from a great depth

an Indonesian method of producing designs on cloth; (verb) to produce such designs a small bat used for beating clothes a short rod; (verb) to strike with a baton to make fertile a kind of axe once used in battle; a domineering, usually older woman a halfpenny a trinket a joke, amusing incident of animals, having white spots on the forehead a clay-like compound which is the main ore of aluminium a kind of dog a fabric with horizontal stripes in strongly contrasting colours an Eastern market-place panache, flamboyance

a Greek long-necked lute with 3 or 4 double courses of metal strings

a chapel a minor parish official whose duties include ushering and preserving order a monk or almoner who prays for a benefactor

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beak becke beanie beany beaufet beauffet beaufin biffin bedawin bedouin bedu beduin bedel bedell bedide bedyde bedrid bedridden bedright bedrite bedsit bedsitter bedward bedwards beedi beedie bidi beegah bigha beesome bisson beesting beestung beestings biestings befana beffana beghard beguin beglamor beglamour begorah begorra begorrah begrim begrime beguile guile guyle behavior behaviour

a bird's bill a small close-fitting hat a sideboard, cupboard a variety of red cooking apple a tent-dwelling nomadic Arab

a minor parish official whose duties include ushering and preserving order bedyed confined to bed the privilege or due of the marriage bed a basic form of rented accommodation towards bed a hand rolled cigarette a land measure in India supposedly for bisson, blind as in beesting lips, pouting or sensuous lips the first milk drawn from a cow after calving, aka colostrum or foremilk an Epiphany gift in Flanders, a man living a monastic life without vows and with power to return to the world to impress with glamour an interjection attributed to Irish speakers, by God to soil with grime to deceive behaviour

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behight behote behoove behove beigne beignet bein bien bejabbers bejabers bejeebers bejeezus bejesus belabor belabour beldam beldame belive blive bylive bellboy bellhop bellibone bonibell bonnibell bema bima bimah bemad bemadden bembex bembix benedick benedict beni benne benni benight benighten benj bhang benthal benthic benthoal benthonic benthon benthos bento obento benzidin benzidine

to vow, to promise to be fit, be right for a fritter, a deep-fried ball of choux pastry well off, comfortable an interjection attributed to Irish speakers a mild oath to buffet, beat an old woman, esp an ugly one; a hag with speed, immediately a page-boy in a hotel or club a woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid a synagogue platform to make mad a kind of sand-wasp a newly married husband, especially one formerly a confirmed bachelor the sesame plant to overtake with night cannabis, Indian hemp, used as a weak narcotic living on the sea bottom

the flora and fauna of the ocean floor a thin lightweight compartmented box containing a Japanese meal a base used in preparing azo-dyes

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benzin benzine benzol benzole berberin berberine berdache berdash beret berret beretta berretta biretta birretta bergamask bergomask berk burk berlin berline berm berme bertha berthe beslobber beslubber besonian bezonian bestad bestadde bestrew bestrow beteem beteeme beveler beveller bever bevor bevvy bevy beylic beylik bezant bezzant byzant bezazz bizazz pazzazz pizzazz pzazz bezel

a mixture of hydrocarbons obtained by the distillation of petroleum crude benzene, used as a motor-spirit an alkaloid obtained from barberry roots an American Indian transvestite, adopting the dress, status and role of the opposite sex a round close-fitting brimless cap of soft wool material or felt a square cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics

a rustic dance a fool a four-wheeled covered carriage a narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch; (verb) to create a berm a woman's deep lace collar to hide a low neckline to slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth a beggar set about with, beset by to strew, scatter to grant, vouchsafe one who bevels a beaver, face-armour an alcoholic drink; (verb) to engage in a drinking session the territory ruled by a bey a gold coin first struck at Byzantium or Constantinople; in heraldry, a charge like this, a gold roundel panache, flamboyance

the oblique side or face of a cut gem

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bezil bhagee bhajee bhaji bhakta bhakti bharal burhel burrel burrell burrhel bhavan bhawan bheestie bheesty bhishti bhistee bhisti bhistie bhikhu bhikkhuni bhoona bhuna bhoot bhut biacetyl diacetyl biach biatch bitch biali bialy biaxal biaxial bibasic dibasic biccy bickie bikkie bichir birchir bicolor bicolour bicorn bicorne bide byde biform biformed biftah bifter

in Indian cookery, an appetizer consisting of vegetables cooked in batter devotion to a god, as a path to salvation; a form of yoga a Himalayan blue sheep

in India, a large house or building an Indian water-carrier

a fully ordained Buddhist monk a dish sautéed in oil and a mix of spices a small whirlwind a chemical flavour enhancer a bitch an onion roll having two axes of acids, having two replaceable hydrogen atoms biscuit any of various primitive African freshwater fishes of the genus Polypterus having two colours; (noun) something having two colours two-horned, two-cornered; (noun) a hat with two points, eg as worn by Napoleon to wait, dwell having two forms a cannabis cigarette

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biggety biggity biggie biggy biggin bigging bijugate bijugous bijwoner bywoner bilander bylander bilberry blaeberry bilbo bilboa bilimbi bilimbing blimbing billie billy billycan billyo billyoh bilobar bilobate bilobated bilobed bimanal bimanous binnacle bittacle bio biog bioblast bioplast biophor biophore biopsic bioptic biotic biotical biphenyl diphenyl biramose biramous birch birk birchen birken

conceited a biggish thing a building having heads on both sides of a coin the sub-tenant of a farm; an agricultural labourer a two-masted cargo vessel used in Holland a whortleberry shrub; its dark-blue edible berry a rapier or sword an E. Indian tree of the wood-sorrel family; its sour green fruit, used in chutneys a metal camp pot as in 'like billyo' having two lobes

relating to Bimana, two-handed animals, an obsolete name for mankind a case in which a ship's compass is kept biography a tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle weismann's hypothetical unit of living matter relating to a biopsy relating to living organisms a hydrocarbon consisting of two phenyl groups, used as a fungicide and in dyemanufacture forked; with two branches a hardy forest-tree, with smooth white bark and very durable wood; (verb) to flog made of birch wood

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biriani biriyani biryani bird burd birl birle byrl biscacha bizcacha viscacha vizcacha bisk bisque bisnaga biznaga bister bistre bitable biteable bittern bittor bittour bittur bivalence bivalency bivalent divalent blamable blameable blatant blattant blather blether blither blaubok bloubok bluebuck blaw blow blawort blewart blay bley blesbok blesbuck blimey blimy blin blini blintz

a spicy rice dish a member of the Aves, a class of warm-blooded, egg-laying, feathered vertebrates with forelimbs modified into wings; (verb) to catch or snare birds to carouse a gregarious burrowing S. American rodent related to the chinchilla

a kind of rich thick soup a type of cactus a pigment with brownish colour derived from soot that can be bitten any of several marsh birds of the heron family

the state of being bivalent, having a valency of two having two units of combining power; (noun) a bivalent element deserving of blame obvious to talk loquacious nonsense the blue buck to blow the harebell; the corn bluebottle a small fish, aka bleak or ablet a S. African antelope, having a large white spot on the forehead an interjection expressing surprise and annoyance a small buckwheat pancake (verb, Spenser) to cease from, stop

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blintze blokeish blokish blood blude bluid bloody bludie bludy bluidy blooey blooie bloom bloosme blousy blowsy blowzy blowgun blowpipe blowtube blowse blowze blowsed blowzed blueing bluing blueish bluish boak bock boke board boord boorde bord borde boart bort bortz boatel botel boatman boatsman boatswain bosun boba buba bobac bobak bocce bocci

affecting a masculine style the oxygenating fluid (red in the higher animals) circulating in the body; (verb) to stain with blood (the fluid circulated by the heart) like blood; (verb) to make bloody

out of order a flower; (verb) to bear flowers coarse and ruddy-faced a long straight tube from which an arrow, pellet, etc is blown by the breath a ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench blowsy, red-faced the process of imparting blue colour to a metal somewhat blue to belch, vomit a long and wide, comparatively thin, strip of timber; (verb) to enter a ship, train etc

diamond dust or fragments a waterside hotel, catering esp for boat-owners one who operates a boat a ship's officer in charge of equipment and maintenance a contagious skin disease resembling syphilis, aka yaws a species of marmot an Italian bowling game

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boccia boccie boche a German, esp a German soldier bosche boddle a 17th century Scots copper coin bodle boerbul a crossbred mastiff used esp as a watchdog boerbull boffo a hearty laugh boffola bogey a goblin, a bugbear, an object of special dread; (verb) in golf, to complete a hole bogeyman in one above par bogy bogyman boogerman boogeyman boogieman boogyman bogeyism the creation of bugbears bogyism boggard a spectre or goblin boggart bogle bogong a noctuid moth eaten by Australian aborigines bugong boing the sound of a bouncing impact; (verb) to make a bouncing sound boink bola a S. American missile, consisting of two or more balls tied together bolas bolletrie a West Indian saponaceous tree bulletrie bolshie a left-wing person; an obstreperous person bolshy bolter a sieve, a machine for separating bran from flour boulter bombasine a twilled silk and worsted fabric bombazine bombilate to buzz, drone bombinate bonassus the aurochs or European bison bonasus bondman a male slave or serf bondsman boney like bone bony bonhomie good nature; pleasant and easy manner bonhommie bonie bonny bonnie bonny bonita a large fish of the mackerel family

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bonito bonspell bonspiel bonza bonzer booai booay boohai boocoo bookoo boogey boogie boogy book buik buke booksie booksy booky bool bowl boomkin bumkin bumpkin boorka bourkha burka burkha burqa boortree bountree bourtree boose booze bowse bootee bootie boozey boozy bebopper bopper bordel bordello borel borrel borrell borsch borscht borshch borsht bortsch

a curling match between clubs very good a remote rural place much or many to dance to rock music a collection of sheets of paper, etc, bound or otherwise fastened together > vb to reserve in advance by way of being literary a bowl; (verb) to play bowls a spar projecting from the stern of a ship an Arab woman's head-covering

the elder tree to drink immoderately a woman's short lined boot; an infant's boot of wool etc inclined to booze, drunken one who plays bebop, a kind of jazz music a brothel rustic, clownish cold beetroot soup

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borstal borstall bosbok boschbok boshbok boscage boskage boschvark boshvark boschveld bushveld boshta boshter bosker bosk bosket bosque bosquet busket bot bott botaniser botanizer botargo bottarga bothie bothy botone botonee botonnee bottony botulin botulinum botulinus boubou bubu bouge budge bouget budget boughpot bowpot boulle buhl buhlwork boun bowne bourgeon burgeon bourlaw byrlaw

an establishment for the detention of young adult delinquents a kind of antelope, the bush-buck thick foliage; woodland another name for the bushpig, an African wild pig veld made up largely of woodland very good a bush, a thicket

the maggot of a botfly; (verb) to cadge one who botanises a relish made of mullet or tunny roe a hut, cabin having knobs or buttons at the extremity, applied to a cross

a powerful bacterial toxin a long flowing garment worn by men and women in Mali to budge a budget, a sack a pot for boughs as an ornament a form of marquetry with eg gold and silver inlaid in tortoiseshell to prepare oneself to sprout; to put forth bud a local law dealing with local customs and civil disputes

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bowat bowet buat bowsey bowsie boyar boyard boychick boychik braata braatas broughta brabble prabble pribble brach brachet bratchet brachah brocho braciola braciole bracteole bractlet bradoon bridoon brahman brahmin braid brede brailler braillist braird breer branch braunch branle bransle brantle brasier brazier braziery brasilein brasilin brazilein brazilin brassard brassart brasset brattice brattish

a lantern a mean person a member of the old Russian aristocracy, abolished by Peter the Great boy, a term of endearment a small portion added to a purchase of food by a vendor to encourage the person to return a squabble; (verb) to squabble a female hunting hound a blessing a thin slice of meat a small leaf on the axis of a flower a light military bridle a member of the highest Hindu class broad; (noun) a plait, esp of hair; (verb) to form into a braid one who uses braille the first shoots of corn or other crops; (verb) of crops, to appear above the ground a shoot or arm-like limb of a tree; (verb) to form branches an old French dance or dance-tune a worker in brass a dyestuff obtained from brazil-wood

a piece of armour for the upper arm a wooden tower used in mediaeval siege operations; (verb) to provide with a brattice

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bretasche bretesse brettice brawl prawle brawlie brawly breare brere briar brier breaskit brisket breast breest breist brecham brechan bredren bredrin bree brie breeches breeks britches breem breme breenge breinge bregmate bregmatic brei brey bren brenne burn brevis brewis brewer brewster briared briered briarroot brierroot briarwood brierwood bribable bribeable bricht bright brideman

an unruly punch-up; (verb) to fight very well brier

the breast of an animal, viewed as meat the front of the human body between the neck and the belly; (verb) to confront boldly a horse-collar a close male friend the liquor in which anything has been boiled a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs fierce, keen a lunge forward; (verb) to lunge forward relating to the bregma, the point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull to speak with uvular r, especially in Afrikaans to burn broth one that brews full of briars the root of a briar the wood of a briar stem capable of being bribed bright a male equivalent of a bridesmaid

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bridesman briary briery brimful brimfull brinded brindled briony bryony briquet briquette bris briss brith brisk brisky brit britt britannia brittania britschka britska britzka britzska broadax broadaxe brocage brokage brokerage brokery broccoli brocoli broch brogh brough brocked brockit brodekin brodkin brogan brogue brogueish broguish broider embroider broke broker bromelain bromelin bromelia bromeliad

full of briars full to the brim marked with streaks or spots a wild climbing plant of the gourd family a brick-shaped block made of compressed coal-dust; (verb) to form into briquettes a Jewish circumcision rite quick of movement; (verb) to make or become brisk a young herring, sprat or other fish an alloy of tin and antimony with a low melting point an open four-wheeled carriage with a folding top

an ancient military weapon; a battle-ax the business or employment of a broker

a plant of the cabbage species, resembling the cauliflower a dry-built circular tower of the late Iron Age variegated, esp black and white a buskin or half-boot a strong and tough working shoe having a slight brogue to embroider to bargain, negotiate an enzyme obtained from the juice of the pineapple plant, used medically and in skin-care products any plant of the genus Bromelia, that includes pineapples

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bromid bromide bromin bromine brominism bromism brommer brummer bronc bronco broo buroo broose brouze brouhaha bruhaha brr brrr brucin brucine bruilzie brulyie brulzie brusk brusque brust burst buaze bwazi bubal bubale bubalis bubkes bubkis bupkes bupkis bupkus buccaneer buccanier buchu bucku buckaroo buckayro buckeroo bucksom buxom budgero budgerow budgeteer budgeter buftie

a salt of hydrobromic acid a non-metallic chlorine-like element found in seawater and mineral springs poisoning by an overdose of bromine a bluebottle a wild horse unemployment benefit; the office at which people receive it a race at a wedding a fuss, clamour an interjection expressing a feeling of cold an alkaloid obtained from nux vomica a broil, a noisy disturbance brusque to burst an African shrub a member of the Bubalis genus of antelopes, that includes the hartebeest a very small amount

a pirate, orig of the Spanish-American coasts; an unscrupulous adventurer; (verb) to act as a buccaneer a rutaceous shrub with leaves of medicinal value a cowboy buxom a heavy keelless barge one who prepares a budget a homosexual

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bufty buggan buggane buggin bugsha buqsha buhr buhrstone burrstone burstone bukshee bukshi bulbel bulbil bulghur bulgur burghul bulgine bullgine bulimia bulimus bulimy bulimiac bulimic bullate bullous bullrush bulrush bullwaddy bulwaddee bulwaddy bumalo bumaloti bummalo bummaloti bumf bumph bun bunn bunco bunko buncombe bunkum bungee bungey bungie bungy bunje bunjee bunjie bunjy

an evil spirit, a hobgoblin a monetary unit of Yemen a cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones

a paymaster a separable bulb formed on some flowering plants a form of cooked, broken wheat a steam locomotive an eating disorder in which binge eating is followed by depression and guilt, self-induced vomiting and purging, etc relating to bulimia blistered, puckered, bubble-like an aquatic plant, reed-mace a N. Australian tree a small marine Asiatic fish used in India as a relish; aka Bombay duck

toilet paper; also, worthless paperwork, literature, or junk mail a kind of sweet roll or cake a confidence trick; (verb) to practice such a trick insincere or foolish talk, nonsense a tension device using springs

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bunia bunnia bonnet bunnet buoyance buoyancy buppie buppy bur burr bura buran burden burthen buret burette burganet burgonet burgoo burgout burlesk burlesque burleycue burnoose burnous burnouse burnoosed burnoused busheler busheller bushelman bushie bushy bushwa bushwah busing bussing butene butylene butle buttle buttinski buttinsky butty buttyman byelaw bylaw byrlady byrlakin cabala cabbala

an (Indian) corn-merchant a woman's head-covering, tied on by ribbons, etc; (verb) to put a bonnet on the tendency to float a black urban professional a continual humming sound; (verb) to speak with a bur a violent blizzard blowing from the NE in Siberia and central Asia a heavy load; (verb) to load heavily an apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged a visored helmet that can be fitted or attached to the gorget or neck-piece a kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen a ludicrous imitation a cape with a hood worn by Arabs wearing a burnoose, a cape with a hood worn by Arabs one who bushels, mends or alters clothes someone who lives in the bush nonsense the transport of children by bus any one of three metameric hydrocarbons of the ethylene series to act as a butler a person given to butting in, a troublesome meddler a chum, comrade esp in a coalmine the law of a local authority or private corporation a mediaeval oath, by our Lady a mystical tradition of Jewish rabbis

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cabbalah kabala kabbala kabbalah qabala qabalah cabalism cabbalism kabalism kabbalism qabalism cabalist kabalist qabalist caballero cavalero cabbagey cabbagy cabbie cabby caber kabar kebar cabestro cabresta cabresto cabezon cabezone cabob kabab kabob kebab kebob caboc kebbock kebbuck caboched caboshed cabrie cabrit caca cack kack kak cacafogo cacafuego cachalot cacholot cachectic cachexic cachexia

the secret science of the cabalists

one who practises cabalism a Spanish gentleman; a horseman like a cabbage a cab-driver a heavy wooden heaving pole a lasso a California fish, allied to the sculpin small pieces of cooked meat on a skewer; (verb) to cook like this

a double cream cheese rolled in oatmeal full face with no neck showing a pronghorn antelope excrement

a spitfire, a blusterer a sperm whale relating to cachexy, severe wasting of the body a condition of weakness and wasting due to severe chronic illness

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cachexy cacique cazique cacodyl kakodyl cacomixl cacomixle cadaga cadagi cadaster cadastre caddice caddis caddyss caddie caddy cadee cadie cadgy kedge kedgy kidge kidgie cadi caid kadi kaid qadi qaid caecal cecal caecitis cecitis caecum cecum caerule cerule cerulean caerulean ceruleous caesarean caesarian cesarean cesarian caese ceas sese sesey sessa caesious cesious

a West Indian or American Indian chief a colourless, poisonous, foul-smelling liquid, composed of arsenic, carbon and hydrogen a N. American carnivore, about the size of a cat, related to the raccoons an Australian eucalyptus with smooth green bark an official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property worsted ribbon or braid a golfer's assistant for carrying clubs etc

brisk, cheerful

a civil judge in a Muslim country

pertaining to the caecum, a part of the intestine inflammation of the caecum any structure that ends in a bag or sac blue, cerulean sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green relating to a birth by caesarean section; (noun) an operation to deliver a baby by cutting through the walls of the abdomen enough said

bluish or greyish green

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caesium cesium caestus cestos cestus caesura cesura caesural caesuric cesural caffein caffeine caffila cafila kafila caftan kaftan cagey cagy cageyness caginess cagyness cagoul cagoule kagool kagoul kagoule caillach cailleach cailliach caimac caimacam kaimakam qaimaqam caiman cayman cain kain kane cairn carn karn caitiff caitive captive cajaput cajeput cajuput kajeput cakey caky

a metallic element a girdle in classical mythology, esp that of Aphrodite a pause in a poem or a song relating to a caesura, a pause in a poem or a song an alkaloid that occurs naturally in coffee and tea a caravan, caravan-train a kind of tunic cautious the quality of being cagey a lightweight, weatherproof anorak

an old woman a Turkish governor

the S. American alligator a tenanted farm rent paid in kind a mound of stone set up as a memorial mean, base; (noun) a mean, despicable person a volatile oil, distilled from the leaves of an E. Indian tree

with the consistency of cake

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calaloo calalu callaloo calamar calamari calamary calamata kalamata calash caleche calesa calathos calathus calavance caravance calcaneal calcanean calcaneum calcaneus calcimine kalsomine calctufa toph tophe tufa calctuff tuff calculary calculose calculous caldron caudron cauldron calendar kalendar calends kalends caliber calibre calibered calibred calicle calycle calycule calif caliph kalif kaliph khalif califate caliphate

a soup made with greens, onions and crabmeat any of various species of squid an aubergine-coloured Greek olive a light low-wheeled carriage with folding top a vase-shaped Ancient Greek basket, carried on the head a kind of pulse pertaining to the calcaneum, one of the bones of the tarsus one of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel a kind of whitewash or colour wash for walls; (verb) to whitewash with this a rock made of fine volcanic detritus

a general term for all consolidated pyroclastic rock of or pertaining to calculi, stone-like concretions that form in certain vessels of the body a large kettle for boiling or heating liquids an almanac or table of months, days, and seasons; (verb) to register or enter in a calendar the first day of the ancient Roman month from which days were counted backwards to the Ides the diameter of a bullet or shell having a given caliber a row of small bracts, at the base of the calyx, on the outside an Eastern ruler

the office of caliph

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khalifat khalifate khilafat calipee callipee calk calker calkin cawker callan callant calmstane calmstone camstane camstone caumstane caumstone calorie calory calotype kalotype calpa kalpa calpac calpack kalpac kalpak calthrop caltrap caltrop calvaria calvarium calvarial calvarian calycate calyceal calycinal calycine calypter calyptera calyptra camaron maron camas camash camass quamash cambism cambistry camboge cambogia

a part of a turtle which is attached to the lower shell, aka plastron a pointed piece on a horseshoe to prevent slipping; (verb) to provide with a calk

a boy; a fellow a white argillaceous stone used for whitening doorsteps

the amount of heat needed to raise one gram of water one degree Centigrade in temperature a method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver, aka talbotype one of the Brahmanic eons, a period of 4,320,000,000 years a triangular Turkish or Tatar felt cap

a device with four metal points so arranged so that one points upward as a hazard the upper part of the skull enclosing the brain in vertebrates relating to the calvarium, the upper skull of or pertaining to a cup or calyx

a hood or hoodlike structure, esp that covering the spore capsule of mosses and liverworts a kind of freshwater crustacean similar to a crayfish a blue-flowered liliaceous plant of northwestern America

the science of financial exchange a gum resin obtained from the sap of trees of the genus Garcinia, used as a yellow pigment and as a cathartic

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gamboge cambrel gambrel cameleon chameleon camelia camellia camelot camlet chamelot chamlet cameral camerated camese camisa camisia kamis camis camus camomile chamomile camphire camphor campong kampong camsho camshoch camstairy camsteary canakin canikin cannikin canceleer cancelier canceler canceller candie candy kandy candor candour caneh kaneh canephor canephora canephore cang cangue canister cannister cann

the joint in the upper part of a horse's hind leg, the hock a small African lizard with a prehensile tail and tongue a showy flower a strong waterproof silk or wool fabric

chambered, vaulted a loose shirt or tunic, as worn by Arabs

a light, loose dress or robe a creeping aromatic plant of the composite family, with yellow-centred white-rayed flowers, formerly much grown for its fragrance an old spelling of camphor a Malay village crooked or deformed perverse, unruly a small can or drinking vessel the turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop; (verb) to make such a turn one who cancels a S. Indian weight, approximately 500 lb Imperial whiteness; brightness; (fig.) unsullied purity; innocence a Hebrew measure of 6 cubits a sculpted figure carrying a basket on the head a wooden collar used to punish criminals in China a small container, usually of metal, used for tea, shot, etc; (verb) to put in a canister to direct the steering of

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conn cannie canny cannoneer cannonier cannula canula cannular canular cannulate canulate canonic canonical canoniser canonizer cant kant cantar kantar cantdog canthook cantharid cantharis cantico canticoy kantikoy cantraip cantrap cantrip cantred cantref canvaser canvasser canzona canzone capelan capelin caplin capeline capelline caph kaf kaph khaf khaph capitayn captain caple capul capocchia chipochia

shrewd, cunning a soldier who managed and fired a cannon a narrow tube, esp one for removing fluid from bodily cavities like a cannula, hollow or tube-shaped to insert a cannula into included in the scriptural canon; relating to any (sets of) sacred books regarded as authentic one who canonises affectedly moral or religious; (noun) the speech of a particular group; (verb) to tilt, slope a Turkish unit of weight equal to approximately 100 pounds a metal hook on a long handle a beetle with an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, aka Spanish fly to dance as an act of worship a charm; an incantation a district comprising a hundred villages, as in Wales one who goes from door to door raising votes a song resembling a madrigal but less strict a small marine fish of northern oceans a small iron skullcap worn by archers the eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet

a captain a horse a simpleton

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capoeira capuera caponier caponiere capouch capuccio capuche capric caproic caprylic caprifoil caprifole capsomer capsomere capsular capsulary captaincy captainry carabin carabine carbine carbineer carbinier carabiner karabiner carack carrack carract carrect caracol caracole caracul karakul carageen carrageen carambole carom carrom caramel caromel carangid carangoid caranna carauna carapace carapax carassow curassow carat carrat caravel

a martial art and dance combination a work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway a cloak hood applied to a type of fatty acid, having a goatlike smell honeysuckle a protein forming a capsid of or pertaining to a capsule the rank or condition of a captain a rifle with a relatively short barrel a soldier armed with a carbine a steel link with a clip on side used in mountaineering a large ship of burden

a half turn by a trained horse; a caper; (verb) to make such turn a sheep of Central Asia; the curled black fleece of its lambs a kind of dark red, branched seaweed, aka Irish moss a cannon in billiards; (verb) to make a cannon in billiards a dark brown substance produced by heating sugar; (verb) to coat with caramel any spiny-finned marine fish of the genus Caranx, that includes scads, jacks etc a resinous substance yielded by various S. American trees the shell of an animal such as a turtle or armadillo a quail-like bird of Curacao a unit of weight used for gems a small light fast ship, chiefly Spanish or Portuguese, of the 15th to the 17th

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caravelle carvel caraway carraway carbamate carbaryl carbamoyl carbamyl carbonade carbonado carburate carburet carcase carcass cardamom cardamon cardamum cardecu cardecue cardi cardie cardy career cariere carfax carfox carfuffle cuffuffle curfuffle gefuffle kefuffle kerfuffle kurfuffle cariacou carjacou cariama seriema carinate carinated cariole carriole cariose carious carl carle carlot carlin carline carnahuba carnauba carnelian

cents an umbelliferous plant with aromatic seeds used as a tonic and condiment a salt or ester of carbamic acid, esp as used as a pesticide a radical derived from carbamic acid flesh, fowl, etc, cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop to combine with carbon the framework of anything; (verb) to put a carcase or frame on a spice consisting of or made from the seed capsules of various Indo-Malayan plants an old French silver coin cardigan progress through life; (verb) to go at full speed a junction where four or more roads converge, esp in the middle of a town a commotion; (verb) to make a commotion

an American deer, aka white-tailed deer a large S. American bird related to the cranes shaped like the prow or keel of a ship a small open carriage of or pertaining to dental cavities; decayed a rude, rustic man; a churl an old woman, a witch a Brazilian palm tree yielding a fine yellowish wax a dull red or reddish-white kind of chalcedony

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cornelian carneous carnose caroach caroch caroche carroch caroler caroller carotene carotin carrotin carousel carrousel carrel carrell carsey karsey karsy karzy kazi khazi carta charta cartouch cartouche carve kerve caryotin karyotin casaba cassaba casava cassava casbah kasbah cascabel cascable casern caserne casette cassette cashmere kashmir cashoo catechu cutch kutch casimere casimire cassimere

fleshy; of or like flesh a stately carriage used on ceremonial occasions

one who sings carols any of a number of reddish-yellow pigments widely distributed in plants that are converted to vitamin A in the body a merry-go-round; a circular magazine for a slide projector a desk or alcove in a library for private study a lavatory

a charter in Egyptian inscriptions, a circle with a horizontal bar at the bottom, elongated into an oval within which king's names are written to form by cutting a readily stained substance in the nucleus of a cell made up of DNA, RNA and proteins, aka chromatin a kind of melon a tropical plant whose roots yield a valuable starch a castle or fortress in a N. African town the part behind the base-ring of a cannon a barrack or billet for soldiers a plastic case containing a reel of magnetic tape, often with pre-recorded material on it a soft twilled fabric made of fine goat's wool a dry, brown, astringent extract obtained from the Acacia catechu

a twilled cloth of the finest wool

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cassena cassene cassina cassine cast kest castellan chatelain castock custock castoff offcast castrater castrator catabolic katabolic catalo cattalo catalog catalogue catelog catalyse catalyze catalyser catalyzer catch catchen catched catcht catchpole catchpoll catchup catsup ketchup catface catfacing catharsis katharsis cathodal cathodic cathode kathode catholyte catolyte cation kation catlin catling catmint catnep catnip

an American evergreen tree

to throw with force the governor of castle or fortification a cabbage stock an item of clothing one no longer wishes to wear, and passes on to another a device used in castration relating to catabolism, destructive chemical processes in living creatures a cross between domestic cattle and N. American bison a systematic list of names, books, pictures, etc; (verb) to make a list to speed up a chemical reaction by use of a substance which itself remains unaltered an agent that catalyzes to capture after pursuit caught a sheriff's officer who made arrests for failure to pay a debt a smooth, thick sauce made from tomatoes, mushrooms etc a deformity of fruit a natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc relating to a cathode the positive terminal of a battery the part of the electrode that surrounds the cathode in an electrolytic cell an atom that has a positive electrical charge a type of surgical knife a mint-like plant attractive to cats

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catnaper catnapper cattie kati katti caudate caudated cauf corf cauk cawk cauker caulker cauld cold caulinary cauline cause causen causey corsey cavalla cavally cavass kavass cavel kevel kevil caviar caviare caviarie cavier cavie keavie caviler caviller caw kaw cebadilla cevadilla sabadilla cebid ceboid ceil ciel ceili ceilidh ceiling seeling celestine celestite

one that steals cats, usually to sell them for research a unit of measure used in S.E. Asia having a tail; (noun) a creature with a tail a coal-miner's basket an opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar a big lie cold; (noun) cold belonging to or growing from a stem to bring about a causeway an American fish of the scad family an armed attendant in Turkey a piece of wood used in casting lots salted roe of sturgeon

a hen-coop or cage one who cavils the cry of a crow; (verb) to cry as a crow a liliaceous plant, yielding the alkaloid veratrine one of a family of monkeys, the capuchins to provide with a ceiling an informal gathering with music, dancing etc the inner upper surface of a room native strontium sulphate, so named from its occasional delicate blue color

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celiac coeliac cellarer cellarist celom coelom coelome celomic coelomic cemitare scimetar scimitar scimiter semitar semitaur simitar symitar symitare cenacle coenacle cenobite coenobite censorial censorian centare centiare center centre centry centering centreing centring centinel centinell centonel centonell sentinel centoist centonist centric centrical ceorl churl cep cepe cephalic kephalic cephalin kephalin ceramal

relating to the abdomen; (noun) a person suffering from coeliac disease, a condition of the intestines in which a sensitivity to gluten prevents the proper absorption of nutrients a monastery official in charge of provisions a fluid-filled cavity within the body of an animal of or like a celom, a fluid-filled cavity within the body of an animal a kind oc curved sword

a supper or guest room a monk who lives in a community pertaining to a censor, or to the correction of public morals a measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter centre; (verb) to centre the framework on which an arch is supported during its construction a sentinel or sentry

one who composes centos, poems manufactured by putting together passages of other poems placed in the center or middle; central in Anglo-Saxon England, a freeman of the lowest rank a kind of edible mushroom of or pertaining to the head; (noun) a medicine for ailments of the head a compound of phosphorus found in the brain and nervous tissue a strong alloy of a metal with a heat-resisting compound, especially used for

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cermet ceramic keramic ceramics keramics ceratin keratin ceratitis keratitis ceratoid keratoid cerberean cerberian cercarial cercarian ceresin ceresine cerge cierge ceriph serif seriph ceroon seron seroon certie certy cerusite cerussite cervelas cervelat cess sess cesspool sesspool cete sett cetywall setuale setwall ceviche seviche ceylanite ceylonite chabouk chabuk chace chase chaco shacko shako

turbine blades and similar objects made of pottery; (noun) an article made of pottery pottery; the art of making pots a nitrogenous compound, the constituent of horny tissue inflammation of the cornea resembling horn or keratin of, pertaining to, or resembling, Cerberus, a watchdog relating to a cercaria, the larval form of a trematode worm a kind of hard, whitish wax prepared from ozokerite and used as a substitute for beeswax a large wax candle burned before the altar a decorative stroke at the foot of a letter a crate or hamper; a bale wrapped in hide as in by my certie, Scots for assuredly native lead carbonate a type of French sausage, seasoned with garlic a tax, a local rate; (verb) to impose a tax a pit or pool for collecting sewage or filthy water a group of badgers valerian, a plant formerly valued for its restorative qualities in Mexican cookery, raw fish marinated in lime juice and served as a hors d'oeuvre a mineral, pleonaste, a dark-green to black variety of spinel a horse-whip to chase the hat usually worn by members of a marching band

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chadar chaddar chaddor chador chuddah chuddar chudder chado chanoyo chanoyu sado chafe chaufe chauff chaffron chamfrain chamfron chanfron chagan cham khan chalah chaleh challa challah hallah chalan challan challie challis chally shalli chalutz halutz chametz chometz chamisa chamiso chammy shammy chamois shamois champac champaca champak chance chaunce chancey chancy change chaunge

the large veil worn by Muslim women

a tea ceremony

to warm by rubbing a piece of leather, or plate of steel, to protect the head of a horse in battle

an early form of khan a loaf of white leavened bread, often plaited in form, traditionally baked to celebrate the Jewish Sabbath

a way-bill; a pass a soft lightweight silk, wool or cotton fabric

an early immigrant to Israel, who worked the first kibbutzim leavened food not to be eaten during Passover a Californian shrub with white flowers, growing in dense thickets chamois, as in chammy leather; (verb) to rub with a chammy leather a goatlike antelope found in the Alps; (verb) to prepare leather like chamois an E. Indian tree of the magnolia family, sacred to Hindus that which happens or results without assignable cause; (verb) to risk risky, uncertain to make different

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chanter chantor chaunter chantey chantie chanty shantey shanty chantry chauntry chanukiah hanukiah chao hao chapati chapatti chappati chupati chupatti chupatty chaperon chaperone chapess chappess chapka czapka schapska chaprassi chuprassy characid characin charas churrus charet chariot charidee charity charism charisma charivari chivaree chivari charka charkha charlady charwoman charley charlie charoset charoseth

a singer; a precentor a song sung by sailors as they worked

a chapel or altar built for prayers for its benefactor's soul a candelabrum having nine branches that is lit during the festival of Hanukkah a monetary unit of Vietnam a thin flat piece of unleavened bread

a person who ensures propriety, esp a married or older woman accompanying a young unmarried woman on social occasions; (verb) to act as a chaperon facetious for a female chap a Polish military cap, adapted from the traditional peasant cap, worn by lancers an office messenger, a household attendant any carnivorous freshwater fish of the family Characidae, which includes the pirana the resinous exudation of hashish, a narcotic and intoxicant a chariot a jocular word for charity a personal quality or gift that enables an individual to impress and influence others a cacophonous mock-serenade performed for a wedding; (verb) to perform such a serenade a spinning wheel used in Indian households for spinning cotton a woman hired by the hour or day or week to clean rooms in offices or houses a credulous or inefficient person a condiment of chopped apples, walnuts, and wine

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haroset haroseth charpai charpoy chasmal chasmic chatchka chatchke tsatske chaufer chauffer chay chaya shaya chazan chazzan chazzen hazan hazzan khazen cheapie cheapo cheapy chechako chechaquo cheechako checker chequer checky chequy cheddite chedite cheder heder cheerio cheero cheetah chetah cheewink chewink chegoe chigger chigoe chigre cheloid keloid chemist chymic chymist chemistry chymistry

a string framed bed of or like a chasm a knickknack, a cheap trinket a metal box for holding fire an Indian plant of the madder family whose root chayroot yields a red dye a cantor in a synagogue

something cheap a tenderfoot to divide into or mark with squares, esp of alternate colours checkered a mixture of castor oil, ammonium perchlorate and a solvent, used as an explosive a religious lesson, or the place where it is held an interjection of greeting; (noun) a bright informal greeting a hunting cat of Africa an American bird of the finch family, so called from its note a small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans a hard growth of scar tissue one versed in chemistry the physical science of the properties of elementary and compound substances

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chenar chinar chenix choenix cherimoya chirimoya cheroot sheroot cherup chirrup cheth heth khet kheth cheven chevin cheverel cheveril cheverye chiefery chiefry chevre chevret chevy chivvy chivy chewie chuddy chi khi chiack chyack chiao jiao chiasm chiasma chiasmic chiastic chiaus chouse choush chowse chibol ciboule chibouk chibouque chica chicha chico chiccory chickory

the oriental plane tree in ancient Greece, a dry measure equivalent to rather more than a quart a Peruvian fruit resembling the custard apple a cigar cut square at either end to chirp the eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet

a chub soft, flexible, kidskin leather an Irish chieftaincy a cheese made from goat's milk to goad, harass chewing-gum the twenty-second letter of the Greek alphabet to tease, deride a Chinese monetary unit, one tenth of a yuan a commissure; especially, the optic commissure, or crucial union of the optic nerves relating to chiasmus, the inversion of order of corresponding elements of two parallel phrases a cheat, a swindler; (verb) to cheat

a variety of onion, aka spring onion a long straight-stemmed Turkish tobacco pipe an orange-red dye-stuff used by S. American Indians succory, a blue-flowered composite plant

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chicory chidlings chitlings chiel chield chigetai dziggetai chikara chinkara chikhor chikor chukar chukor childe chylde chile chili chilli chiliadal chiliadic chimaera chimera chimaeric chimeric chimar chimer chimere chimbley chimbly chimla chimley chimney chumley chin shinne cinchona kina kinakina quina quinquina chincapin chinkapin chinone kinone quinone chints chintz chipmuck chipmunk chirr chirre

part of the small intestine of swine a man, a lad a wild ass native to the Tibetan plateau, aka kiang or kyang a four-horned Indian antelope an Indian partridge

a youth of gentle birth, esp in ballads the (dried) red pod of a Capsicum pepper used in sauces, relishes, etc., and made into a hot cayenne relating to a chiliad a mythical or genetic hybrid of the nature of a chimaera; imaginary, fanciful, visionary a loose sleeveless robe worn by Anglican bishops a chimney

the jutting part of the face below the mouth, the front of the lower jaw; (verb) to hold with the chin a tree yielding cinchona bark, from which quinine is made

the dwarf chestnut of the US a golden-yellow crystalline compound usuallyprepared by oxidizing aniline a glazed printed cotton fabric a mainly terrestrial squirrel of N. America and parts of Asia, with dark stripes on the back and cheek pouches for storing and carrying food to chirp like a cricket or grasshopper

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chiseler chiseller chitinoid chitinous chitlin chitling chive cive chiz chizz chlordan chlordane chlorid chloride chlorin chlorine chocho choko chockful chockfull chocko choco chokidar chowkidar chokey choky cholaemia cholemia choltry choultry chon jeon chondre chondrule chook chookie chuckie chucky choose chuse choosey choosy chopin chopine choragus choregus choral chorale choralist chorist chorister

one who chisels; a swindler of or like chitin part of the small intestine of swine a herb of the onion family; (verb) to knife a cheat, a swizz; (verb) to swindle a highly poisonous liquid insecticide a compound of chlorine with another element or radical a yellowish-green halogen gaseous element the fruit of a tropical vine, similar to cucumber, aka chayote completely full in World War II, a conscript a watchman a prison an accumulation of bile pigments in the blood a caravanserai; a shed used as a place of assembly a Korean monetary unit a spheroidal mineral grain embedded in a meteorite a chicken; (verb) to make a noise like a chicken

to take by preference difficult to please, fastidious a high clog or patten introduced into England from Venice during the reign of Elizabeth I the leader of the chorus in ancient Greek drama; a person officiating at a festival relating to a choir; (noun) a simple harmonized composition with slow rhythm; a psalm or hymn tune a member of a choir

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quirister choree choreus choreoid chorioid choroid chorisis chorism chott shott chounter chunner chunter chowri chowry chrisom christom christie christy chronaxie chronaxy chrysalid chrysalis chthonian chthonic chukka chukkar chukker chuppa chuppah huppah chute shute chutnee chutney chutzpa chutzpah hutzpa hutzpah cibol sybo syboe sybow cicada cicala cicatrice cicatrix cicinnus cincinnus cicisbeo sigisbeo

a trochee relating to the chorion, the dark brown vascular coat of the eye multiplication of parts by branching or splitting a shallow saline lake of northern Africa; the dried bed of such a lake to mutter, grumble a whisk to keep off flies, used in the East Indies a white robe put on a newly baptised child a kind of turn in skiing a time constant in the excitation of a nerve or muscle a pupa, especially of a moth or butterfly, enclosed in a firm case or cocoon pertaining to the earth or the underworld a period of play in polo a wedding canopy a passage or sloping trough for sending down goods etc; (verb) to convey by chute a warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc sass, moxy

a variety of onion, aka spring onion

an insect like a grasshopper the scar of a healed wound, burn, etc.; a scar on the bark of a tree a type of inflorescence a professed gallant of a married woman

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ciclaton ciclatoun cide decide cider cyder cigar segar cigaret cigarette ciggie ciggy cill sill cimar cymar simar simarre symar cineast cineaste cineol cineole cion scion seyen sien sient syen cipher cypher cipolin cipollino circar sircar sirkar circussy circusy cirriped cirripede cissified sissified cissy sissy cistic cystic cistvaen kistvaen citable citeable cithara

a costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages to decide an alcoholic drink made from the fermented juice of apples a roll of tobacco leaf for smoking finely-cut tobacco rolled in thin paper cigarette a sill a loose coat, an undergarment formerly worn by women

one who takes an artistic interest in motion pictures a kind of disinfectant, aka eucalyptol a detached piece of a plant capable of propagating, esp by grafting; a young member of a family

a type of code; (verb) to encipher a kind of white marble streaked with green the state or government; the authorities of or like a circus a barnacle or other parasitic marine crustacean like a cissy effeminate; (noun) a weak, girlish male relating to a cyst a tomb covered with stone slabs able to be cited an ancient Greek musical instrument like a lyre

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kithara cither cithern cithren cittern citify cityfy citola citole citrussy citrusy civie civvy civiliser civilizer cizers scissors clach clachan clackdish clapdish clafouti clafoutis clamor clamour clamorer clamourer clangor clangour claquer claqueur clarinet clarionet classable classible clat claut claucht claught claustral cloistral clavate clavated clavulate clavicle clavicula clavier klavier claxon klaxon cleanskin

an instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum to adapt to the city an early form of the cither of or like citrus fruit civilian one who civilises scissors a small village a wooden dish carried by beggars, with a moveable lid which they clacked to attract attention a French baked pudding a loud continuous outcry; uproar; (verb) to make an uproar one who makes a clamor a loud ringing noise or clang; (verb) to make a loud ringing noise or clang one of the claque employed to applaud at a theater a wind instrument, blown by a single reed capable of being put into a class something scraped together, a lump; (verb) to scratch, scrape to snatch of, like, or characteristic of a cloister club-shaped; growing gradually thicker toward the top the collar-bone the keyboard of a musical instrument; a stringed keyboard instrument, esp the clavichord or the pianoforte a loud mechanical horn an unbranded animal

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clearskin cleek cleik cleep clepe cleeve cleve cleithral clithral cleruchia cleruchy cleuch cleugh clough cliched clicheed clifted clifty clinker klinker clipe clype cliquey cliquish cliquy clitoral clitoric cloacal cloacinal cloak cloke clodpole clodpoll clotpoll closable closeable clotbur cocklebur cloudland cloudtown clove clow clubable clubbable clupeid clupeoid coachee coachy coaeval coeval coala

a kind of golf club; a large hook; (verb) to seize, hook to call, name a cliff, a hillside completely roofed over an allotment of land in a foreign territory made to a citizen of Athens a ravine, a gully full of cliches broken into cliffs a hard brick; (verb) to form fused residue in burning to tell tales, tattle on relating to a clique, exclusive relating to the clitoris relating to the cloaca a loose outer garment; (verb) to clothe with a cloak a simpleton that can be closed the burdock an imaginary situation or land, esp as the result of wishful thinking the flower-bud of the clove-tree, dried as a spice sociable any fish of the family Clupeidae, that includes the herring genus a coachman belonging to the same period; (noun) a person of the same age an Australian marsupial

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koala coalbin coalbox coarb comarb coast coste coate quote coaxal coaxial cobaltine cobaltite cocain cocaine coccal coccic cocco coco coccolite coccolith coccygeal coccygian cochlear cochleare cockateel cockatiel cockneyfy cocknify cockshot cockshy cockswain coxswain cocksy cocky coxy cocoanut coconut cokernut cocobola cocobolo codeia codein codeina codeine codlin codling quodlin coehorn cohorn coenure

a box for keeping coal in the head of a family in an Irish sept; an ecclesiastical successor the border of land next to the sea; (verb) to cycle without pedalling to quote having the same axis a mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt an alkaloid obtained from coca leaves of or like a coccus, one of the separable carpels of a dry fruit the taro or other edible araceous tuber a small rounded body found in chalk formations, consisting of microscopic plates secreted by extinct algal plankton pertaining to the coccyx, the tailbone a spoon a small crested parrot of Australia to make (an accent) cockney an object of criticism or ridicule the steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew (verb) to take charge of a boat and crew bumptious, self-assured the large, hard-shelled nut of the cocoa palm a dark wood used in cabinetry an aspirin-related drug

a variety of elongated apple a small mortar for throwing grenades the larval stage of a tapeworm

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coenurus cogence cogency cogener congener coggie cogie cogue cognisant cognizant cogniser cognizer coheir coheritor cohen kohen coherence coherency coho cohoe cohog quahaug quahog quohog coif quoif coign coigne quoin coir kyar coistrel coistril coystrel coystril custrel coital coitional cojoin conjoin cola kola colander cullender colicin colicine colinear collinear coliseum colosseum colitis

the state of being cogent something of the same kind or nature a small wooden bowl aware, conscious of one who cognises a joint heir a member of the Jewish priestly class, descended from Aaron, having certain privileges and obligations in the synagogue a tendency to cohere; a sticking together a Pacific salmon a kind of clam

a covering for the head, esp the close-fitting cap of white lawn or silk originally worn by serjeants-at-law; (verb) to put the hair into a coif a wedge; a cornerstone; (verb) to secure or raise by wedging a material for cordage, matting, etc., consisting of the prepared fiber of the outer husk of the cocoanut an inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries

relating to coitus to conjoin a genus of W. African trees producing nuts used in drugs and for flavouring soft drinks a perforated vessel used as a strainer in cookery a protein lethal to other colonobacilli in the same straight line a large building or stadium used as a place of entertainment an inflammation of the large intestine, esp of its mucous membrane

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colonitis collodion collodium colon colone coloniser colonizer color colour colorant colourant colored coloured colorer colourer colorful colourful coloriser colorizer colorist colourist colorway colourway colory coloury colostral colostric colter coulter culter columnal columnar comatik komatik comatula comatulid combe coomb coombe comer commer cometary cometic comfit confit comfiture confiture comingle commingle comitadji komitaji

a solution of pyroxylin in ether, used to apply a thin gummy film in photography and surgery a monetary unit of Costa Rica one who colonises colour; (verb) to colour a substance used for colouring having a color; (noun) a colored person one who colors full of colour one who colorises a person who colours or paints; an artist who excels in the use of colour one of several combinations of colours in which eg a patterned fabric is available full of color relating to colostrum a knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard formed or arranged in columns a sled with wooden runners a type of crinoid, aka feather star a short deep valley; a hollow in a hillside one showing great promise pertaining to, or resembling, a comet a sweet; a sugar-coated seed or almond conserve, preserved fruit to mix together a member of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Committee in Macedonia; any Balkan guerilla

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commenter commentor commie commo commy commodo comodo commot commote comose comous compacter compactor compander compandor compleat complete complin compline compone compony compot compote compotier compt count comptable comptible countable compter counter comptroll control controul countrol con conne kon conacre cornacre concent concentus concenter concentre conchie conchy concocter concoctor concubine concupy condemner

one who comments a communist with ease, relaxed a subdivision of a cantred of seeds etc. hairy, downy one who compacts a system of transmitting or reproducing sound by compressing and then re-expanding the volume-range complete in the Christian liturgy, the seventh and last service of the day, at 9pm, completing the set hours for prayer consisting of a row of squares of alternate tinctures fruit stewed in sugar or syrup to count countable a counter to control, esp in a financial sense

a trick or swindle; (verb) to trick, or persuade by dishonest means (verb, obs.) to know, study the letting by a tenant of small portions of land prepared for crop or grazing (verb) to let in this manner a harmony or concord of sounds or voices to have a common center a conscientious objector one who concocts a woman who cohabits with a man without being married; a kept mistress one who condemns

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condemnor condie cundy conepate conepatl coney cony confidant confident confirmer confirmor congee conjee congo congou conia conicine coniine conin conine conidial conidian coniology koniology conjoint conjunct conjurer conjuror conk konk connecter connector conner cunner conoidal conoidic conquerer conqueror conquian cooncan consigner consignor consolate console conster construe contemner contemnor contrair contrary convener

a covered drain a skunk a rabbit a (male) person confided in or entrusted with secrets, esp in love affairs one who confirms water in which rice has been boiled; rice or millet gruel; (verb) to starch with congee a kind of black Chinese tea a liquid, highly poisonous alkaloid found in hemlock

relating to a conidium, a kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi the study of atmospheric pollutants and dust joined together, united one who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner to fail, break down something that connects a kind of wrasse, aka goldsinny nearly, but not exactly, conical one who conquers a card game resembling rummy the person named in the bill of lading as the one from whom the goods have been received for shipment to console to construe a person who contemns; a person who has been found guilty of contempt of court contrary a person who convenes a meeting

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convenor convent covent converter convertor conveyer conveyor cooee cooey coof cuif cookey cookie cooky coolabah coolibah coolibar coolie cooly coondog coonhound coontie coonty coorie courie coosen coosin cozen cooser cuisser cusser cootch cwtch cootikin cuitikin cutikin copacetic copasetic copesetic kopasetic copaiba copaiva copeck kopeck kopek copperah coppra copra coprah coppice copse

a place for nuns; (verb) (arch.) to be suitable something or someone that converts something or someone that conveys attracting attention; (noun) a call to attract attention; (verb) to call for attention a lout, a dolt a small sweet biscuit or cake a species of Australian eucalyptus tree a (non-European) hired labourer or burden-carrier in India, China, and elsewhere a dog trained to hunt raccoons an American plant related to the cycads to nestle to cheat a stallion to hide, to cuddle up a gaiter sound, adequate, excellent

a transparent resin obtained from certain S. American trees a Russian monetary unit, the hundredth part of a rouble the dried kernel of the coconut, yielding coconut oil

a thicket of small trees, bushes, shrubs, etc. especially one grown for periodical cutting; (verb) to cut such a thicket

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coprolite coprolith coquet coquette coranach coronach coranto courant courante couranto corbe corbel corbie corby corbina corvina cordovan cordwain corelate correlate corey cory corival corrival corkir korkir cornet cornett corocore corocoro corody corrody coroner crowner corporal corporale corporas corpse corse corrodant corrodent corrosive corsive corrupter corruptor corselet corslet corvet curvet coryphe coryphee

fossilized excrement to flirt, to dally a lamentation for the dead; a dirge an old dance with a gliding step

a projection of stone or wood from the face of a wall, used for supporting pillars or other weights a crow, a raven a bluish-grey whiting of the California coast goatskin leather to be related one to another the penis a rival; also, a companion; (verb) to rival a lichen used for dyeing red or purple a treble brass valve instrument, more tapering than the trumpet; also, an old woodwind instrument a kind of boat of various forms, used in the Indian Archipelago an allowance; a pension; originally the right of the lord to claim free lodging from the vassal an officer who investigates questionable deaths relating to the body; (noun) a white cloth on which Communion bread and wine are placed a dead, usually human body; (verb) of an actor, to forget one's lines a corrosive agent having the power to corrode; (noun) a corrosive substance someone or something that corrupts a cuirass, a protective body covering of leather to leap; to frisk the leader of the Greek chorus

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coseismal coseismic cosey cosie cosy cozey cozie cozy cosier cozier cosmic cosmical cosmin cosmine cosmogeny cosmogony cosmos kosmos coss kos koss costate costated costumer costumier cothurn cothurnus cotillion cotillon cottabus kottabos cottar cotter cottid cottus cotwal kotwal couche couchee cougar couguar couldest couldst coumarin cumarin coumarone cumarone coup cowp cour cover

connecting points simultaneously affected by an earthquake; (noun) a coseismal line a cover for a teapot

a cobbler of or pertaining to the universe as an ordered system or totality a substance resembling dentine forming the outer layer of cosmoid scales a theory or myth of the origin of the universe the world or universe a measure of distance having ribs, or the appearance of ribs one who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc a buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general an elaborate ballroom dance with frequent changes of partner an ancient Greek game of throwing wine into a vessel a medieval peasant inhabiting a cottage any fish of the genus Cottus, including the bullhead and father-lasher the chief constable of an Indian town an evening reception a puma 2nd pers. pt. sing. of can, to be able a crystalline compound obtained from Tonka beans, woodruff, melilot, etc, used medicinally to prevent coagulation of the blood a colourless aromatic liquid obtained from coaltar and used in the manufacture of resins a blow, stroke; (verb) (Scots) to overturn, turn up to cover

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coure cower courtesan courtezan couscous cuscus khuskhus kouskous couthie couthy coutil coutille covalence covalency covelline covellite covin covyne cowage cowhage cowitch coward cowheard cowardice cowardry cowflap cowflop cowplop cowrie cowry coxalgia coxalgy coypou coypu coz cuz craal kraal cracky crickey cricky crikey crag craig cramesy cramoisie cramoisy cremosin cremsin crimson crampet

to cower a prostitute, esp one whose clients are wealthy or upper-class the grain of the African millet

kind, friendly a strong cotton fabric used in mattresses etc the union of a pair of atoms by the sharing of a pair of electrons, one from each atom a native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color a conspiracy between two or more people to act to the injury of another a leguminous climbing plant with crooked pods covered with sharp stinging hairs one who lacks courage; (verb) to weaken the courage of, make afraid lack of courage a cowpat a kind of shell pain in the hip a large rodent cousin a S. African village of huts surrounded by a fence; (verb) to pen a mild oath

a rough steep rock crimson

a metal tip at the end of a scabbard

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crampit crampon crampoon cranch craunch crannog crannoge crape crepe craple graple grapple crappie croppie crapulent crapulous crapy crepey crepy crare crayer crathur cratur craythur crawdad crawdaddy creach creagh creak screak creaky screaky creasote creosote kreasote kreosote creatin creatine kreatine creatress creatrix credal creedal creese cris kreese kris cremona cromorna cromorne crumhorn

a boot-spike for rock and ice climbing; (verb) to climb using crampons to crunch a lake dwelling in Scotland and Ireland, typically a tiny island artificially enlarged and fortified a thin crinkled silk or other fabric formerly dyed black and used for mourning clothes; (verb) to cover or shroud with crape a grapple a kind of fish, a member of the sunfish family suffering from overindulgence in food or drink having the texture of crape, a light crinkled fabric a trading vessel a creature; whiskey a crayfish a foray, booty a sharp grating or squeaking sound; (verb) to squeak given to creaking a pitch-like substance used to coat fences etc; (verb) to coat with creasote

a nitrogenous compound found in striped muscle a female creator of or relating to a creed a dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade (verb) to stab with this an ancient double-reed wind instrument

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krumhorn krummhorn crenate having a notched edge or rounded teeth; finely scalloped crenated creutzer a small copper coin formerly used in South Germany kreutzer kreuzer crew a gang, a ship's company; (verb) to serve aboard a ship crue crewels scrofula, the King's Evil cruells cruels cribrate perforated like a sieve cribrose cribrous crimine an interjection expressing surprise or impatience crimini criminy crimmer tightly curled grey or black fur from a Crimean lamb krimmer crinate having hair crinated cripe a mild oath cripes crispate having a wavy edge crispated cristate with an appendage resembling a crest cristated critter a creature crittur crivens an interjection expressing dismay crivvens croceate saffron-coloured croceous crocein a red or orange azo dye croceine cromack a crook, a stick with a curved head crummack crummock cromb a hook or crook; (verb) to draw out with a cromb crome croove a pen or sty cruive cruve crosier a pastoral staff or crook held by bishop or abbot crozier crotal a golden-brown lichen used for dyeing crottle croup the rump of a horse, the place behind the saddle; (verb) to speak hoarsely croupon crouper a strap buckled to the back of a saddle and looped under the horse's tail, to

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crupper crowdie crowdy croze crozer crucian crusian cruddle curdle cruisie cruizie crusie crusy cruzie cruller kruller crummie crummy crumple scrumple crunk krunk crunked krunked crustate crustated cryolite kryolite kryolith cryometer kryometer cryptic cryptical crypton krypton csardas czardas cubist cubistic cubit cubitus cuboid cuboidal cudden cuddie cuddin cuddy cudgeler cudgeller cuirass curat

prevent the saddle from slipping forward a mixture of meal and water, aka brose a groove in the staves of a cask a colourful carp to curdle an open iron lamp with a rush wick

in N. America, a type of sweet cake fried in fat a cow with crooked horns to wrinkle a form of hip-hop music originating in the southern states of the US in a state of excitement or exhilaration covered with a crust, eg crustate lichens an aluminum ore an instrument for measuring low temperatures hidden, secret an element, an inert gas a Hungarian dance that increases in speed relating to cubism, a modern movement in painting; (noun) a practitioner of cubism an old measure of length cube-shaped; (noun) a cube-shaped bone a young coalfish

one who cudgels armour for breast and back; (verb) to equip with a cuirass

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armour for the thigh the flooring of an oyster-bed the soapbark tree, a rosaceous tree native to Chile

shaped like a knife blade; sharp-edged an umbelliferous plant of the Mediterranean region with seeds like caraway a woman, a girl any of several small yellow to orange citrus fruits with sweet spongy rind and somewhat acid pulp that are used chiefly for preserves wedge-shaped of script, wedge-shaped an fortifications, a trench sunk along the middle of a dry ditch or moat, serving as a drain one who assays in a cupel of or pertaining to a cup; cup-shaped a worthless mongrel dog a kind of liqueur a long-shaped boat similar to a coracle a paralysing poison extracted from the bark of certain S. American trees

tending to cure; (noun) something tending to cure the side of a pavement bordered by a curb a stone lining a curb a covering for the head, a kerchief the saffron-yellow colouring matter of turmeric, used esp in food colouring a surgical instrument used for scraping

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curette curf kerf curlicue curlycue curn curran curney curny currajong currejong currijong kurrajong currie quarry cursenary cursorary cursory curtalax curtalaxe curtaxe curtsey curtsy curvate curvated curvey curvy cushat cushie cuspate cuspated cuspidor cuspidore cusso kousso kusso custode custodian custodier customary custumary cutback cutdown cutcha kacha kachcha kuchcha kutcha cutcherry cutchery kachahri

an incision made by a cutting tool a fancy twist or curl, esp in handwriting; (verb) to adorn with curlicues a grain, a small quantity granular an Australian evergreen

the quarry, the parts of an animal killed in hunting that were given to the hounds cursory (probably a misreading) a short broad sword; a cutlass a female genuflection; (verb) to make a curtsy curved full of curves the wood-pigeon or ring-dove in the form of a cusp a spittoon an Ethiopian tree, the flowers of which are used as a vermifuge a person who has care such as of a public building according to custom; (noun) a body or book of the customs of a manor a reduction made of dried mud, makeshift

an Indian magistrate's office or courthouse

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kacheri cutesie cutesy cutey cutie cutlas cutlass cutto cuttoe cyanamid cyanamide cyanite kyanite cyclicism cyclicity cyclopean cyclopian cylix kylix cymagraph cymograph cymbal symbole cymbaleer cymbaler cymbalist cymbling cymlin cymling simlin cymene cymol cymose cymous cypress cyprus cyprid cypris cyprinid cyprinoid cystein cysteine cystid cystoid czar ksar tsar tzar czarevich tsarevich czarevna

affectedly cute a cute person a curved, one-edged sword formerly used by sailors a large knife the amide of cyanogen, a white crystalline substance a mineral, an aluminum silicate, usually sky-blue the state of being cyclic relating to a prehistoric Greek style of masonry with immense stones of irregular form a shallow two-handled drinking-cup an instrument for tracing the outline of mouldings a musical instrument one who plays the cymbals a variety of squash

a hydrocarbon of or like a cyme silk or cotton gauze fabric, usually black any member of the Cypris genus of freshwater ostracod crustaceans relating to the carp family; (noun) a member of the carp family of fish an amino acid that oxidizes to cystine a kind of extinct echinoderm a ruler, emperor

the wife of a czar the proper title for the daughter of a czar

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tsarevna tzarevna czarina czaritsa czaritza tsarina tsaritsa tsaritza tzarina tzaritza czarist tsarist tzarist da dah daal dahl dal dhal dholl dabchick dipchick dobchick dacha datcha dacker daiker daker dacoit dakoit dacoitage dacoity dakoiti dakoity daddle daidle dae do daedal daedalean daedalian daedalic dedal dedalian daemon daimon daemonic daimonic dagaba dagoba dagwood

the empress of Russia

a supporter of the czar a heavy Burmese knife the pigeon pea, a pea-like plant cultivated in India and the tropics

the little grebe a Russian country house to lounge, saunter an Indian bandit robbery by dacoits

to waddle, stagger to do ingenious and cunningly designed

an inward spirit; personality; genius having the qualities of a daemon a dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint any of various shrubs and trees of genus Cornus

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dogwood dahabeah dahabeeah dahabiah dahabieh dahabiya dahabiyah dahabiyeh daiko taiko dailiness dailyness daimio daimyo daine deign daint dainty daynt daiquiri daquiri daishiki dasheki dashiki daled daleth dalt dault damar dammar dammer damascene damaskeen damaskin damasquin damboard dambrod damndest damnedest damoisel damosel damozel damsel dancette dancettee dancetty dancey dancy dander daunder dauner

a Nile sailing boat

a large Japanese drum the quality of being daily a territorial noble under the old feudal system to deign dainty a cocktail containing rum and lime-juice an African tunic a Hebrew letter a foster-child a hard resin used in making varnish to decorate or engrave metal with wavy lines and patterns

a draught-board utmost effort, in phrase to do one's damndest a young girl or unmarried woman

deeply indented; (noun) a zigzag line across a shield relating to dance music to stroll, saunter

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dawner dandiprat dandyprat dandriff dandruff danegeld danegelt danelagh danelaw daneweed danewort danny donny dant daunt daunton daphnia daphnid dare darre daur darga dargah durgah dari dhoora dhourra dhurra doura dourah dura durr durra dark dirke darkey darkie darky darkling darklings darling dearling darraign darraigne darrain darraine darrayn deraign darzi durzi datable

a silver three-halfpenny piece flakes of scruff on the scalp a tax imposed in the 10th century to buy off the Danes or to defend the country against them the law that prevailed in the Danelaw an elder-like shrub, said to grow on sites where Danes had fallen the hand to daunt any member of the crustacean genus Daphnia, water-fleas to have the necessary courage a structure over a place where a holy person was buried or cremated indian millet

not light in colour; (noun) a state of darkness; (verb) to darken a Black or coloured person in the dark, taking place in the dark lovable; (noun) a much-loved person to vindicate; to put in battle array

a tailor that may be dated

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dateable datal daytale dataller daytaler dataria datary dato datto daubery daubry dawbry daud dawd dod daut dawt dautie dawtie daven doven davenport devonport daw dawn dak dawk daysailer daysailor deadboy deadman deaf deif dealate dealated deare dere dearie deary dearn dern dearnful dernful dearth derth deasil deasiul deasoil deiseal deisheal deave

reckoning by the day, esp of work or wages a day-labourer an officer of the papal court charged with registering and dating bulls etc. and with granting indults and graces a landowner or chief in northern Borneo, the Philippines, and some adjacent areas a crudely artful device, a pretence to knock, thump to pet a pet to utter Jewish prayers a small ornamental writing desk; a large sofa to dawn in India, the mail or post a dayboat powered by sail a metal plate driven into firm snow for use by mountaineers as a belaying point lacking the sense of hearing divested of its wings; (noun) an animal divested wings to injure a term of endearment secret; lonely; (noun) secrecy, hiding solitary; mournful scarcity a sunwise motion

to deafen, worry with noise

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deeve deaw dew deawie deawy dewy debauch debosh debitor debtor debonair debonaire debud disbud debur deburr decad decade decadence decadency decaf decaff decagram dekagram decaliter decalitre dekaliter dekalitre decalog decalogue decameter decametre dekameter dekametre decapodal decapodan decarb decoke decare dekare decenary decennary decenter decentre deciliter decilitre decimeter decimetre deckel deckle decko

dew dewy to corrupt a debtor of good appearance, elegant to remove the buds from to remove rough edges from (a metal object, piece of wood, etc) a group of ten, a decade a falling away; decay decaffeinated drink a weight of the metric system; ten grams a cubic volume of ten liters

the Ten Commandments ten meters

relating to decapods, an order of crustaceans with ten feet, that includes crabs and lobsters to decarbonize (an internal combustion engine) ten ares, or 1000 square metres a tithing to put out of centre one tenth of a liter one tenth of a metre a frame used in making paper by hand a look; (verb) to take a look

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dekko decolor decolour decrease decrew decretive decretory decuria decury deemster dempster doomster deen din deev div deewan dewan diwan defaecate defecate defence defense deffo defo deflater deflator defrock unfrock defuse defuze degame degami degrade disgrade degust degustate dehorn dishorn deific deifical deil devil deinosaur dinosaur deioniser deionizer deistic deistical dejeune dejeuner

to deprive of color to diminish relating to or having the force of a decree a company of ten or more Roman soldiers under a decurion a judge on the Isle of Man din in Iranian (esp Zoroastrian) mythology, a demonic power in India, a financial minister to void excrement something that defends; (verb) to make a defence definitely one who deflates to deprive of priestly frock or ecclesiastical rank to remove the fuse from eg a bomb a tropical tree, lemonwood to debase to taste, relish to deprive of horns making divine; producing a likeness to God devil any of a group of extinct reptiles an apparatus for removing ions relating to deism breakfast, lunch

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disjune deleble capable of being deleted deletable delible deletive serving to delete deletory delf pottery made at the city of Delft in Holland delft delftware delph deltaic relating to a delta deltic delusive tending to delude delusory demagog a person who appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the people to gain power demagogue (verb) to manipulate an issue, to speak, or to act in the manner of a demagogue demain a manor-house with lands adjacent to it not let out to tenants demesne demaine bearing, conduct demayne demeane demeanor demeanour demast to dismast dismast demilune a half-moon, a ravelin semilune demiss humble demissive demiurge an inferior god who created the world; a creative power or spirit demiurgus demivolt a half-turn of a horse, the forelegs being raised in the air demivolte democracy a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people collectively democraty demonic of or like a demon demonical denay to deny deny dentate toothed, notched dentated dentel a small square block in a moulding dentil dentin an ivory-like material making up teeth dentine denudate to strip of all covering denude deodar a kind of cedar deodara deoxy having less oxygen than the parent compound desoxy

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depaint depeinct dependant dependent depicter depictor depilate epilate depletive depletory derham dirham dirhem deringer derringer derm derma dermis dermal dermatic dermic dero derro descant discant describe descrive deshi desi design desine desyne desolater desolator despatch dispatch despotat despotate destemper distemper destroy stroy desulfur desulphur detecter detector dethrone unthrone detorsion detortion

to paint a person who depends on another for support one who depicts to remove hair from serving to deplete the monetary unit of Morocco a small pocket pistol the true skin, below the outer layer relating to the derm or skin a tramp or derelict an accompaniment above and harmonizing with the main melody; (verb) to comment on a theme to give a verbal account of local, authentic to conceive and plan out one who desolates, lays waste a sending away; something sent; (verb) to send off a territory governed by a despot to distemper, in the paint sense to damage beyond repair or renewal to remove sulfur from something or someone that detects to remove from a throne the act of detorting; a twisting or warping

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deuteron deuton dev deva devel devvel develop develope devest divest deviance deviancy devilry deviltry dewani dewanny dewfull dueful dewlapped dewlapt dexie dexy dexterous dextrous dextrin dextrine dhamma dharma dharna dhurna dhooly doolee doolie dooly dhooti dhootie dhoti dhuti dhurrie durrie diablerie diablery diachylon diachylum diacodion diacodium diact diactinal diactine diaeresis dieresis

the nucleus of heavy hydrogen, of mass 2, carrying unit positive charge a god; a good spirit a hard blow; (verb) to stun with a club to bring to a more advanced or effective state to undress being deviant devilish behaviour the office of a dewan, an Indian financial minister proper, fit having dewlaps a tablet of dex, a sulfate used as a stimulant skilful and active with the hands british gum, a gummy mixture obtained from starch custom or law regarded as duty; the basic principles of cosmic or individual existence a method of collecting a debt in which the person who is owed money sits on the debtor's doorstep until payment is made, or the debtor starves to death a litter or palanquin

a Hindu loincloth

a cotton rug made in India black magic; sorcery formerly a plaster of plant juices; now lead-plaster a syrup of poppies having two rays the separation or resolution of one syllable into two

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dialer dialler dialing dialling dialist diallist dialoger dialoguer dialysate dialyzate dialyse dialyze dialyser dialyzer diametral diametric diamin diamine diapase diapason diarchal diarchic diarchy dinarchy duarchy dyarchy diarial diarian diarrhea diarrhoea diarrheal diarrheic diastasic diastatic diazin diazine dibbs dibs dibbuk dybbuk dicast dikast dickey dickie dicky dickty dicty diclinism dicliny dicot dicotyl

one who dials the art of constructing sundials; the science of time measurement a maker of dials; one skilled in dialing one who makes things into dialogues the material subjected to dialysis, the separation of substances by diffusion through a membranous septum or partition to separate by dialysis a machine that carries out dialysis pertaining to a diameter a chemical compound containing two amino groups a loud, harmonious burst of music relating to a diarchy, rulership by two people rulership by two people

pertaining to a diary; daily a persistent purging or looseness of the bowels of or like diarrhoea of or like diastase any organic compound whose molecules contain a hexagonal ring of four carbon atoms and two nitrogen atoms money a dead person's soul inhabiting a living person one of the 6000 Athenians chosen annually to act as judges a false shirt front proud, snobbish the state of having two stamens and pistils dicotyledon, a plant having two cotyledons, seed-leaves

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dicrotal dicrotic dict dictate didakai didicoi didicoy didakei diddicoy didapper dopper diddley diddly didie didy didrachm didrachma diecious dioecious dioicous diedral dihedral diestrum diestrus dioestrus dietician dietist dietitian dif diff diffuser diffusor digester digestor digitate digitated digitiser digitizer digynian digynous dike dyke dikey dykey dilater dilator dildo dildoe diluter dilutor diluvial

of or pertaining to dicrotism, a condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart to dictate an itinerant tinker or scrap-dealer, not a true gypsy an itinerant tinker or scrap-dealer, not a true gypsy a small grebe the least amount a diaper a two-drachma piece; an ancient Greek silver coin having male and female sexual organs in different individuals bounded by two planes, or two plane faces; (noun) a diedral angle a period of sexual inactivity an expert on diet difference something or someone that diffuses one who digests of a leaf, divided into finger-like parts a device that converts analogue signals etc. to digital ones of or pertaining to the Digynia; having two styles a trench, a ditch; (verb) to make a dike lesbian something that dilates an object serving as an erect penis substitute someone who or something that dilutes of, relating to, or brought about by a flood

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diluvian diluvion diluvium dindle dinnle dinges dingus dingey dinghy dingy dinna dinnae diobol diobolon dionysiac dionysian diopter dioptre dioxan dioxane dioxid dioxide diphase diphasic dipteran dipteron diptyca diptych dirdam dirdum durdum dirge dirige dirigism dirigisme dirl thirl disable dishable disavouch disavow disburse dispurse disc disk discandie discandy discern scerne disclike disklike

a deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice to tingle, vibrate an indefinite name for any person or thing whose name one cannot remember a small open boat, prepared by oars, sails or an outboard motor do not a coin of ancient Greece orgiastic a unit of measurement of power of lens or eye a colourless, flammable, toxic liquid used as a solvent for waxes, resins etc an oxide with two atoms of oxygen in the molecule having two phases an insect of the order Diptera, a large order of two-winged insects including flies, gnats, mosquitoes, etc a pair of pictures on hinged panels an uproar a funeral song or hymn; a slow and mournful piece of music state control in economic and social spheres to (cause to) vibrate to render incapable or unable to disavow to pay out any flat thin circular body or structure; (verb) to work with a disc harrow to dissolve or melt from a state of being candied to perceive like a disc

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discolor discolour discoure discover discure disfavor disfavour dishdash dishdasha dishonor dishonour disinform misinform disjaskit forjaskit forjeskit disleaf disleave disleal disloyal dispathy dyspathy dispence dispense disponge dispunge dispread dispred disrupter disruptor disseisee disseizee disseisin disseizin disseisor disseizor distil distill distrait distraite distrust mistrust disulfid disulfide dite endite indite dithecal dithecous ditsy ditzy

to alter the natural hue or color of to discover want of favorable regard; (verb) to disesteem a long one-piece garment worn by men in some Arab countries to dishonour to inform incorrectly tired out to remove the leaves from disloyal antipathy, dislike to dispense to sprinkle or discharge as if from a sponge to spread out, expand in different directions one who disrupts one who is disseised, deprived of seisin the act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold one who deprives another of seisin to fall in drops distracted in mind; excessively perplexed or troubled lack of trust; (verb) to have no trust in a sulphide containing two atoms of sulphur to the molecule to compose having two thecae or sheaths amiably eccentric

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divalence divalency divi divvy dixie dixy djebel jebel djellaba djellabah galabea galabeah galabia galabiah galabieh galabiya galabiyah gallabea gallabeah gallabia gallabiah gallabieh gallabiya jelab jellaba jellabah djibbah jibbah jubbah jubhah djinn ginn jinn djin djinni djinny genie jin jinnee jinni doat dote dobbie dobby dobla doblon dobson dobsonfly docket docquet doctoral

the state of being divalent dividend; (verb) to divide up a military cooking-pot a hill, a range of mountains an Arab cloak with a hood and wide sleeves

a long loose outer garment worn by Muslims

a plural of one of a class of spirits in Muslim theology one of a class of spirits in Muslim theology

to dote a dotard; a brownie; an attachment to a loom for weaving small figures a former monetary unit of Spain, a gold coin the larva of a large neuropterous insect, used as fish bait a summary of the contents of a document; a bill or ticket affixed to anything indicating contents; (verb) to make a summary of the contents of a document of or pertaining to (the holder of) a doctorate

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doctorial doctoress a female doctor doctress doddipoll a blockhead doddypoll dodkin an old Dutch coin of small value doit doitkin duit dodman a snail; a snail shell hodmandod doeth old 3rd. pers. sing of do doth dogate the office of a doge, or chief magistrate of Venice dogeate dogey a motherless calf dogie dogy doggerel poor quality comic verse doggrel doggie a small dog doggy dognaper one who dognaps, abducts dogs dognapper doiled crazy, foolish doilt doily a lace mat for a cake-plate doyley doyly doited in one's dotage doitit dole pain, woe, trouble; (verb) to deal out dool doole dule dolina a typically funnel-shaped basin in a karstic region doline dolor grief, pain dolour domainal of or relating to a domain or to domains domanial domesday a day of judgment doomsday domic like a dome domical domicil a dwelling-place, abode domicile dominance the state of being dominant dominancy dominick one of an American breed of chickens dominique

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dona donah donatary donatory donnard donnart donnerd donnered donnert donnat donnot donne donnee donnicker donniker donsie donsy donut doughnut doobrey doobrie doocot dooket dovecot dovecote doodad doodah doodoo doody doofus dufus dook douk doon doun down doorman doorsman doozer doozie doozy dopatta dupatta dopey dopy dor dorr dorb dorba doree dory

feminine of don, the title a donee of the crown; one to whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over stupid, dull-witted

a good-for-nothing a datum, something given an outside lavatory unlucky; sickly to surround a speaker to give the impression of a packed house a thing whose name is unknown or temporarily forgotten, a what's-its-name a dove-cote

a whatsit excrement a fool to duck, bathe down a porter, a doorkeeper a thing of surpassing size or excellence a silk or muslin shawl foolish to mock a stupid or inept person a golden-yellow fish of the mackerel family

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dormie dormy dorneck dornick dornock dorsel dossal dossel dorser dosser dorter dortour dosemeter dosimeter dosiology dosology posology dottel dottle dotterel dottrel douar dowar duar doucepere douzeper doucet dowset douleia dulia douma duma doup dowp doupioni douppioni dupion dove dover doveish dovish dovekey dovekie doweling dowelling dowery dowry dowl dowle dowlney downy

in golf, as many holes ahead as there are holes to play a coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium a cloth hanging for the back of an altar a covering for the back of a throne a dormitory an instrument for measuring dose of radiation the branch of medicine that deals with dosages unburnt and partially burnt tobacco caked in the bowl of a pipe a kind of plover a circular Arab encampment one of the twelve peers of France, companions of Charlemagne in war a savory tart baked in sweet dough in Roman Catholicism, the inferior veneration accorded to saints and angels the Russian parliament the bottom of anything a kind of silk yarn a pigeon; (verb) (Scots) to doze like a dove a kind of guillemot; also, the little auk joining with dowels the property which a woman brings to her husband at marriage a portion of down in a feather; a piece of fluff downy

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downward downwards doxie doxy drabbet drabette drabbler drabler drac drack dracaena dracena drachm drachma draconian draconic dracontic draffish draffy draisene draisine dramady dramedy drammach drammock drummock drant draunt drap drop drapable drapeable drappie drappy drawknife drawshave dreare drere dreck drek dreich dreigh driegh dreidel dreidl dribblet driblet dricksie druxy drier dryer

from a higher place to a lower a woman of loose morals, prostitute; mistress a kind of coarse linen a piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop of a woman, unattractive a genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers a Greek monetary unit unusually harsh worthless a dandy-horse a play with both drama and comedy meal and water mixed raw to drawl, drone to drop that can be draped a little drop, esp of spirits a carpentry tool dreariness, gloom inferior merchandise, rubbish dreary a four-sided toy marked with Hebrew letters and spun like a top; a children's game of chance played with this especially at Hanukkah a drop, a trickle having decayed spots covered by healthy wood an apparatus for drying

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drivable driveable driveler driveller droger drogher dromedare dromedary dromic dromical dromon dromond drook drouk drookit droukit droome drum droshky drosky druidic druidical drupel drupelet dso dzho dzo zho zo dsobo zobo zobu dsomo jomo zhomo duad dyad duckie ducky duddie duddy dudeen dudheen dueler dueller duelist duellist duet duett duetto duffel

that can be driven one who drivels a W. Indian coasting vessel, with long masts and lateen sails a dromedary relating to a race-course a swift medieval ship of war to drench drowned a drum a low, four-wheeled, open carriage used in Russia pertaining to, or resembling, the Druids a little drupe, forming part of a fruit a Himalayan ox

a male zo a female zo a pair excellent ragged a clay pipe one who engages in a duel one who fights a duel a composition for two; (verb) to take part in playing a composition for two a blanket fabric with nap on both sides

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duffle dufferdom dufferism duhkha dukkha duiker duikerbok duyker dukka dukkah dulcimer dulcimore dulcite dulcitol dulcose dullness dulness dumbfound dumfound dumose dumous dunch dunsh duolog duologue duress duresse durian durion duvetine duvetyn duvetyne dwalm dwam dwaum dyable dyeable dyschroa dyschroia dyscrasic dyscratic dyslectic dyslexic dysodil dysodile dysodyle dyspepsia dyspepsy dyspnea dyspnoea dyspneal

being a duffer suffering due to the desire for permanence a small S. African antelope a mix of ground nuts and spices, of Egyptian origin, used as a dip for roast meat a musical instrument like a flat box, with sounding board and wires stretched across bridges a saccharine substance derived from various plants the state of being dull to strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment abounding with bushes and briers to jog, nudge, butt a dialogue between two actors hardship; constraint; restraint of liberty a tree of the bombax family, widely grown in tropical Asia; its spinous fruit a smooth lustrous velvety fabric a swoon, a sudden sickness; (verb) to swoon that can be dyed discoloration of the skin from disease relating to dyscrasia, a disordered condition of the body suffering from dyslexia, reading impairment; (noun) one suffering from dyslexia an impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning severe indigestion, especially chronic difficulty of breathing of or like dyspnea, laboured breathing

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dyspneic dyspnoeal dyspnoeic dyspnoic dysuria dysury eale evil ean yean eanling weanel weanling yeanling eard yeard yerd yird yirth earn ern earst erst eastlin eastling eastlings eastlins eastward eastwards eaterie eatery eath eathe ethe ebony heben ebriate ebriated eburnean eburneous ecce ecco ecdyson ecdysone ech eche eech eik eke ich echinate

difficult or painful discharge of urine evil to give birth to a young lamb

earth; (verb) to bury

to gain or deserve for one's labor or service formerly eastward

towards the east a dining establishment easy a dark heavy tropical wood intoxicated of or like ivory behold, here is an insect hormone to eke

prickly like a hedgehog, bristly

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echinated eclampsia eclampsy eclogite eklogite ecod egad egads igad ecologic oecologic ecology oecology ecphrasis ekphrasis ecstasy extasy ecstatic extatic ectoblast epiblast ectoderm exoderm ectopia ectopy ectoplasm exoplasm ectozoan ectozoon ectropion ectropium ecumenic oecumenic edema oedema edematose edematous edental edentate edh eth editress editrix eerie eery eeven eevn eevning eve evening effecter

a fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself a crystalline rock containing red garnet a mild oath

relating to ecology the study of the interrelationships between life forms and their environment a description of a work of art, possibly imaginary, produced as a rhetorical exercise a state of exalted pleasure or happiness; (verb) to send into a state of ecstasy very happy; (noun) an ecstatic person the outer layer of the blastoderm the outer basic layer of tissue in those animals with true tissues the displacement of internal organs in the body the outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum a parasite on the body of an animal an unnatural eversion of the eyelids general; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole church local or general swelling produced by the accumulation of fluid in the body tissues or cavities pertaining to, or of the nature of, edema without teeth, as of anteaters, armadillos, and sloths a letter used in old English a female editor uncanny evening

one who effects

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effector effeir effere effierce enfierce eft evet ewt eftsoon eftsoons egal equal egalite egality egally equally egence egency eggar egger eglantine eglatere egma enigma egoistic egotistic eidolon idolon idolum eightvo octavo eikon icon ikon eild eld eilding eldin elding yealdon eine eyen eyne eirenic eirenical irenic irenical eirenicon irenicon eisel eisell

to appertain, to suit to make fierce a newt soon after equal equality equally the state of needing, or of suffering a natural want any of several large brown moths sweetbriar an enigma relating to or displaying egoism an unsubstantial image, a phantom a printer's page size a religious carving of a saint etc old age fuel

eyes conducive to or working toward peace

a peace-making message, a proposition for peace sour wine resembling vinegar

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esile eiswein icewine ekistic ekistical ekpwele ekuele elchee elchi eltchi eldrich eldritch elegance elegancy elegiac elegiacal elench elenchus elenchtic elenctic elfish elvish eliad eyeliad eyliad illiad oeillade ellops elops eloge elogium elogy eloign eloin esloin esloyne elshin elsin elt gilt yelt eluant eluent elvan elvanite elytron elytrum embace embase imbase embalm

a sweet German wine made from grapes that have frozen on the vine relating to ekistics, the study of human settlements a former standard monetary unit of Equatorial Guinea an ambassador weird, eerie the state of being elegant relating to elegy; (noun) a verse line of five dactyls with a marked caesura that part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends relating to argument, cross-examination or refuting like an elf an ogle, a glance, a wink

a kind of sturgeon a commendation; an encomium to convey to a distance

an awl a young sow a liquid used for elution a granular crystalline dyke rock, composed of quartz and orthoclase each of the horny forewings of a coleopterous insect, which form protective sheaths for the hindwings to lower; to debase to impregnate with balm or perfume

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imbalm embar imbar embathe imbathe embed imbed ember yemmer embitter imbitter emblaze imblaze embody imbody embolden imbolden emborder imborder embosom imbosom emboss imboss embower imbower embraceor embracer embrasor embraid embread embrangle imbrangle embrasure embrazure embroglio imbroglio embrown imbrown embrue imbrue embrute imbrute embryonal embryonic embryotic emerald emeraude smaragd smaragde emerod emeroid

to shut in; to put under embargo to bathe to fix firmly into a surrounding mass a glowing fragment from a fire to make bitter to adorn with glittering embellishments to incorporate to give boldness or courage to to furnish or adorn with a border to hold in the bosom; to cherish in the heart or affection to decorate with raised designs to go into the depths of a wood to place in a bower; to shelter with trees a person who seeks to influence jurors by corrupt means to deliver a partial verdict to braid to embroil or entangle a loophole in fortifications; a window-opening with slanted sides a confusing or disturbing situation to give a brown color to to wet or moisten to degrade to the state of a brute of or like an embryo a green variety of beryl

a haemorrhoid

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emerse emersed emetic emetical emetin emetine eminence eminency emmesh enmesh immesh inmesh emmew enmew immew emmove emove enmove empaire empare empayre impair empale impale empanel impanel impannel emparl imparl empart impart empeach impeach emperce empierce empiric empirical emplane enplane empleach impleach emplecton emplectum emplonge implunge employe employee empolder impolder empower impower

of leaves, rising above the surface of water tending to cause vomiting; (noun) an emetic substance an emetic alkaloid found in ipecacuanha the state of being eminent to catch or entangle in or as in the meshes of a net

to confine, mew up, as a hawk in mews to affect with emotion to impair

to pierce with a pointed object to form a list of jurors to hold discourse, to parley to impart to impeach to pierce based on experience; (noun) one who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience to put or take on an aeroplane to intertwine ashlar masonry filled up with rubble to plunge a person employed to make a polder of to give power to

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emptings emptins empurple impurple empusa empuse emure immure emyd emyde emys enameler enamelist enameller enamor enamour encage incage encase incase encave incave enchase inchase enchorial enchoric enclasp inclasp enclose inclose enclosure inclosure encolpion encolpium encomion encomium encrease increase encrinal encrinic encrust incrust encumber incumber endameba endamoeba endart indart endeavor endeavour endew

the yeasty lees of beer or cider to color or tinge with purple a phantom or specter sent by Hecate; a genus of fungi parasitic on houseflies to immure a genus of freshwater terrapin one who enamels; a workman or artist who applies enamels in ornamental work to cause to fall in love with to confine in a cage to inclose in a case to hide to chase, engrave; to fix in a border or setting belonging to or used in a country; domestic to clasp within; to embrace or encircle to close in on all sides the act of enclosing a reliquary; a cross worn on the breast glowing and warmly enthusiastic praise to increase relating to encrinites; containing encrinites, as certain kinds of limestone to cover or line with a crust, or hard coat to burden a parasitic amoeba to dart in to try to endow

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endue indew indow indue endlang endlong endoblast entoblast endoderm entoderm endorse indorse endorsee indorsee endorser endorsor endozoic entozoal entozoic endozoon entozoan entozoon energiser energizer enfeoff infeoff enfix infix enflame inflame enforce inforce enfree enfreedom engineer enginer ingener englobe inglobe engraff engraft ingraft engrain ingrain engrainer ingrainer engram engramma engramme engroove ingroove

endlong, lengthwise the inner cell-layer of a gastrula the innermost basic layer of tissue in those animals with true tissues to write, esp one's signature, on the back of the person to whom a note or bill is indorsed, or assigned by indorsement one who endorses having seeds dispersed by animals that swallow them an internal parasite something that energises to give a feud, or right in land, to; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in to inflame to impose by force to set free someone who designs or makes, or puts to practical use, engines or machinery of any type; (verb) to carry through or manage by contrivance to enclose in or as in a globe to graft onto to dye in grain, or of a fast color one who engrains, dyes in a lasting colour a hypothetical change in neural tissue due to memory to cut a groove or furrow in

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engross ingross engulf engulph ingulf ingulph enhearse inhearse inherce enisle inisle enlace inlace enlarge enlargen largen enlock inlock enokidake enokitake enology oenology oinology enophile oenophil oenophile enorm enormous enquire inquere inquire enrange enraunge enrich richen enrol enroll ensate ensiform ensconce insconce enseam inseam inseem ensheath ensheathe insheath insheathe enshell inshell enshrine

to make gross, thick, or large to surround completely

to put in, or as in, a hearse or coffin to put on or make into an island to bind or encircle with lace to make or become larger to lock in; to inclose chinese hackberry the science dealing with wine and wine-making one who loves wine enormous to ask to range in order; to put in rank to add desirable elements to to enter in a list as pupil, member, etc sword-shaped to settle securely or comfortably to mark as with a seam to enclose as in a sheath

to enclose in a shell to enclose (as) in a shrine

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inshrine ensilage ensile ensnare insnare ensorcel ensorcell ensoul insoul ensphere insphere ensurer insurer enswathe inswathe entameba entamoeba entender intender enthral enthrall inthral inthrall enthrone inthrone entire intire entitle intitle entomb intomb entreat intreat entremes entremets entrench intrench entrism entryism entrist entryist entrold introld entropion entropium entrust intrust entwine intwine entwist intwist

to store green fodder in a silo to catch in a snare to enchant to indue or imbue (a body) with soul to place in a sphere one who insures to swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes an amoeba that causes amoebic dysentery to make tender or weaken to reduce to the condition of a thrall

to place on a throne whole; (noun) a whole to give a title to to place in a tomb; to bury to ask for earnestly edible pastry sculpture served between main courses to make trenches in or upon the doctrine of joining a group to change its policies one who indulges in entrism a past participle of obscure meaning, possibly enrolled the inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids to give over for safekeeping to twine around to twist into or together

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enure inure enurement inurement enurn inurn enwall inwall enwind inwind enwreath enwreathe inwreathe enzym enzyme enzymatic enzymic eosin eosine epacrid epacris eparchate eparchy epaulet epaulette epeira epeirid epha ephah ephebe ephebos ephebus ephedrin ephedrine epicedial epicedian epicenter epicentre epiderm epidermis epidermal epidermic epigaeal epigaean epigaeous epigeal epigean epigeic epigeous epigon epigone

to accustom or habituate to the act of enuring to put into an urn to inclose or fortify as with a wall to wind about; to encircle to encircle with a wreath a biological catalyst of or like an enzyme a red dye stuff a member of an Australian genus of heath-like plants the province or diocese of an eparch a shoulder ornament or badge worn by military and naval officers a genus of spiders, including the common garden spider a Hebrew dry measure of about 23 litres a young adult Greek an alkaloid obtained from the plant ephedra and used in treating hay fever, asthma etc of or relating to dirges or elegies the point on the Earth's surface that is directly above the focus of an earthquake the outermost layer of the skin of or pertaining to the epidermis growing or living close to the ground, with cotyledons above ground

an inferior imitator of a creative thinker or artist

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epigonus epinician epinikian epinicion epinikion episodal episodial episodic epispore exospore epitaxial epitaxic epithem epithema epithet epitheton epizoan epizoon epoch epocha eponymic eponymous equaliser equalizer equimolal equimolar equinal equine equivoke equivoque erecter erector erewhile erewhiles eriach eric erick eringo eryngium eryngo eristic eristical ermelin ermine erodable erodible erosible erotema eroteme erotesis erratic

celebrating a triumph an ode in honour of a victor or winner pertaining to or contained in an episode the outer layer of a spore wall relating to epitaxy, the growth of a thin layer of crystals on another crystal so that they have the same structure a group of water-secreting cells in some leaves an adjective or adjectival phrase; (verb) to apply an epithet to an animal that lives on the surface of another, esp as a parasite a division of geologic time shorter than a period of, relating to, or being the person for whom something is believed to be named a goal that equalises having an equal number of moles relating to horses an ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations one who erects some time ago, heretofore a blood-fine paid by a murderer in old Irish law a plant of the genus Eryngium, sea holly, reputed to be an aphrodisiac pertaining to dispute, argument or controversy; (noun) a disputant ermine that can be eroded a rhetorical question wandering; (noun) a boulder carried far from its origin by glacial action

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erratical eruct eructate ervalenta revalenta es ess escalade escalado scalade scalado escallop scallop scollop escape scape escar eskar esker eschalot shallot shalot escheat excheat escrol escroll escuage scutage scuchin scutcheon espousal spousal espouse spouse espresso expresso essoin essoyne essonite hessonite establish stablish esteem steem estoile etoile estover stover estral oestral stramacon

to belch lentil-meal the letter S to scale the walls of a fortress by ladders

a kind of shell; (verb) to indent like an escallop to get away a long narrow ridge of gravel deposited by a glacial stream an onion with garlic-flavoured bulbs the reversion of property to the state or crown in case of no legal heirs; property that has reverted to the crown; (verb) to make an escheat of a scroll the tax on a knight's fee a shield bearing a coat-of-arms a marriage ceremony to betroth, marry a form of coffee-making machine; coffee made with this the giving of an excuse for not appearing in court cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet to settle or fix to have a high opinion of a six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight like those of a mullet a common right to collect firewood relating to estrum a downward cut in fencing

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stramazon estrich estridge ostrich oystrige estrin estrone oestrin oestrone estriol oestriol estrogen oestrogen estrous estrual estrum estrus oestrum oestrus estuarial estuarian estuarine esurience esuriency etamin etamine etatism etatisme eten ettin eternal eterne ethene ethylene etheriser etherizer ethic ethical ethinyl ethynyl ethmoid ethmoidal ethoxy ethoxyl etourdi etourdie etui etwee etypic etypical eucain

an ostrich

an estrogen

an estrogen a female sex-hormone pertaining to estrus, a period of sexual excitement and ovulation in animals a period of sexual excitement and ovulation in animals

relating to estuaries greed, gluttony a loosely woven open-mesh cotton or worsted fabric extreme state control over the individual a giant everlasting; (noun) something lasting forever an oil-forming gas, hydrogen combined with carbon one who etherises relating to morals; (noun) a body of moral principles a univalent chemical radical of or like a sieve; (noun) a light spongy bone between superior nasal cavity orbits a univalent chemical radical foolish, thoughtless (of a male) a small ornamental case for holding eg needles unconformable to type a safer substitute for cocaine as a local anaesthetic

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eucaine eucaryon eukaryon eucaryot eucaryote eukaryot eukaryote euclidean euclidian eudaemon eudaimon eudemon eugenic eugenical eugh yew eughen ewghen yewen euglena euglenid euk ewk yeuk youk yuck yuke eulachan eulachon oolachan oolakan oulachon oulakan ulicon ulikon eumong eumung euoi evhoe evoe evohe euonymus evonymus euouae evovae eupepsia eupepsy euphonia euphony euphoria euphory

the highly organised cell nucleus, surrounded by a membrane an organism whose cells have a eukaryon, a highly organised nucleus

related to Euclid, or to the geometry of Euclid a benevolent spirit relating to genetic improvement of a race by judicious mating a yew made of yew-wood a photosynthesizing, motile protozoan an itch; (verb) to itch

the north Pacific candle-fish

an Australian acacia a cry expressing Bacchic frenzy

a plant of the spindle-tree and burning bush genus Euonymus a Gregorian cadence good digestion, absence of indigestion an agreeable sound; a pleasing, easy pronunciation an exaggerated feeling of wellbeing

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euphrasia eyebright, a plant once used to treat disorders of the eyes euphrasy euphroe the wooden block through which the lines of a crowfoot are rove uphroe eupnea normal breathing eupnoea eureka the exclamation attributed to Archimedes, meaning I have found it!; (noun) a brilliant heureka discovery eurhythmy rhythmical movement or order eurythmy eurokous of an organism, able to live under different conditions euryokous euroky the ability of an organism to live under various conditions euryoky eustacy a uniform global change in sea level eustasy eutaxia the property of being easily melted eutexia euthanase to subject to euthanasia euthanaze evacuate to remove from a dangerous area vacuate evadable that may be evaded evadible evasible evaluator one who evaluates valuator evangel good news; announcement of glad tidings; especially, the gospel, or a gospel evangely evanish to vanish, die away vanish ewe a female sheep yowe exacter one who exacts exactor examplar an exemplar exemplar exanthem a skin eruption, especially accompanied by fever exanthema excambion in Scots law, exchange of lands excambium excerpter one who makes excerpts excerptor exedra a semicircular bench beside an episcopal throne; an outdoor bench or recess exhedra exeem to release or exempt exeme exegete one versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation exegetist exhalant something which is exhaled exhalent

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exhibiter exhibitor exhumate exhume exigence exigency exile exul exilian exilic exine extine exogamic exogamous exomion exomis exopod exopodite exorciser exorcizer exosmose exosmosis expander expandor expediter expeditor expellant expellent extense extensive extern externe extol extoll extorsive extortive extravert extrovert extrorsal extrorse exultance exultancy eyas eyass nyas eyelet oillet factice factis faecal fecal

one who exhibits to dig out of the earth pressing necessity banishment; (verb) to banish from one's own country pertaining to exile or banishment, esp to that of the Jews in Babylon the tough outer wall of a pollen grain relating to exogamy an exomis, a one-sleeved or (in Rome) sleeveless garment the outer branch of a crustacean limb one who exorcises osmosis outwards, i.e. away from the solution a type of transducer, an electronic device transmitting received energy in a different form one who expedites tending to expel; (noun) something that expels extensive an officer in attendance upon a hospital, but not residing in it; esp, one who cares for the out-patients to praise relating to or practising extortion to turn outwards facing outward, away from the axis exultation a young hawk taken from the nest for training a small eye or hole to receive a lace or cord, as in garments, sails, etc; (verb) to make eyelets in vulcanized oil, used as substitute for rubber relating to faeces

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faeces feces faerie faery faggot fagot faggoting fagoting faggoty faggy fa fah fahlerz fahlore faible foible faience fayence fain faine fayne feign faineance faineancy fair fayre faither father faitor faitour fakeer fakir faqir faquir falafel felafel falcate falcated falchion fauchion fauchon faulchion falderal falderol folderol faltboat foldboat fanega fanegada fanga fang

excrement the world of fairies, fairyland a bundle of sticks; (verb) to tie together in a faggot a kind of embroidery in which some of the cross-threads are drawn together in the middle homosexual a musical note, as in sol-fa an ore of copper the part of a foil blade between the middle and the point glazed coloured earthenware happy; inclined; pleased; (verb, Spenser) to feign

doing nothing, being a mere puppet just; pleasant to look at; (verb) to make fair father an impostor a Hindu ascetic

a deep-fried ball of ground chick-peas resembling a sickle a broad curved sword

nonsense; a meaningless refrain of a song; (verb) to sing meanignless songs a collapsible boat of rubberized sailcloth a dry measure in Spain and Spanish America an animal's tooth; (verb) (Shakesp.) to seize in the teeth

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phang fannel fannell fano fanon fanum fantad fantod fantasia fantasie fantasm phantasm fantasmal fantasmic fantasy phantasy fanteeg fantigue far faur faradaic faradic faradiser faradizer farand farrand farrant farcemeat forcemeat farcer farceur farci farcie farcin farcy farden farding farfal farfel farina farinha farl farle farthel farm ferm fasciate fasciated fascicle fascicule fasciitis

a narrow strip of material worn on the left sleeve by a priest a liturgical cape worn by the Pope when celebrating a solemn pontifical mass a state of fidgetiness, uneasiness, or unreasonableness a musical or other composition not governed by the ordinary rules of form an airy or insubstantial figure, an apparition, a spectre like a fantasm fancy, imagination; (verb) to imagine anxiety, agitation distant; (adv.) a long way; (verb) to remove to a distance produced by or associated with electrical induction one who faradises, stimulates by induced currents having a certain manner or humour meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing a writer of farces stuffed, as with ground meat a disease of horses a farthing grains of dough used as a soup garnish a fine flour or meal made from cereal grains the quarter of a round cake of flour or oatmeal a tract of land devoted to agriculture; (verb) to manage and cultivate as a farm exhibiting a flattened ribbon-like structure a bundle; a division of book published in parts inflammation of the fascia of a muscle

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fascitis fasciola fasciole fatidic fatidical fatigate fatigue fatuitous fatuous fatwa fatwah fetwa fault faut faunula faunule favel favell favela favella favor favour favorer favourer favorite favourite fay fey faze fease feaze feese feeze pheese pheeze phese feare fere fiere pheer pheere feateous featous featuous febricula febricule fecht fight fecial fetial fetialis

a band of colour of or relating to prophesy to fatigue stupid, fatuous an Islamic religious decree; (verb) to issue a fatwa a failing or weakness of character; (verb) to criticize the fauna of a small single environment light-brown, chestnut in Brazil, a shanty-town a favour; (verb) to favour one who favors favourite whimsical; (noun) a fairy; (verb) to clean out esp a ditch to worry, perturb

a companion or mate

shapely, well-made a slight short fever to fight in ancient Rome, a member of a group of priests who acted as heralds and performed the rites connected with the declaration of war and conclusion of peace

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feckin fecking feculence feculency fedarie federarie federary foedarie feer furr feerin feering fegary vagary feh pe peh fehm vehm fehmic vehmic vehmique feist fice fyce feldschar feldscher feldsher feldspar feldspath felspar fellatio fellation felloe felly felsic felsitic felsite felstone femal female femetary femiter fenitar fumitory femineity feminity fenagle finagle feni fenny

fucking the state of being feculent a confederate

to draw the first furrow in ploughing a first guiding furrow vagary, wandering a Hebrew letter a mediaeval German court pertaining to a fehm, a mediaeval German court a small dog in Russia and Eastern Europe, a partly trained doctor, or one who assists a doctor on the battlefield a common rock-forming mineral oral stimulation of the penis the outer edge of a wheel, the rim of a tire consisting of a fine patchy mosaic of quartz and feldspar a fine-grained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz a female fumitory

womanliness, femininity to obtain by guile or swindling an alcoholic spirit produced in Goa from coconuts or cashew nuts

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feodal feudal feodary feudary feudatory feoffer feoffor feralised feralized fermenter fermentor ferninst foreanent fornenst fornent ferrel ferrule ferula ferule verrel fervor fervour fess fesse festilogy festology fet fetch fett feta fetta fetal foetal fetation foetation fetich fetiche fetish fetichism fetishism fetichist fetishist feticide foeticide fetid foetid fetor foetor fettucine fettucini fetus

relating to feuds or fiefs one holding lands or power by a feudal tenure one who enfeoffs or grants a fee run wild following domestication an agent that causes fermentation right opposite to in location

a band placed around the end of a stick (as a pool cue) for reinforcement; (verb) to strike with a ferrel

heat, vehemence, ardour a horizontal band over the middle of an escutcheon; (verb) to confess a treatise on ecclesiastical festivals to fetch a white sheep or goat cheese popular in Greece relating to a foetus the formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy an object believed to procure for its owner the services of a spirit lodged within it devotion to or reverence for a fetish or fetishes one who worships a fetish the killing of a fetus stinking, having a strong offensive smell an offensive odor, a stench a pasta made in long ribbons the young animal in the egg or in the womb, after its parts are distinctly formed

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foetus feuar fiar feutre fewter fewmet fumet fumette fiber fibre fibered fibred fiberfill fibrefill fiberless fibreless fico figo fie fy figurant figurante fike fyke fikish fiky filabeg filibeg fillibeg philabeg philibeg phillabeg phillibeg filacer filazer filagree filigrain filigrane filigree fillagree filaria filariid filarial filarian filberd filbert file fyle filemot philamot philomot

in law, the owner of a property in fee simple a spear-rest; (verb) to set a spear in a rest the dung of deer, hares etc a filament or thread-like cell of animal, vegetable or mineral origin having fibers synthetic fibres used as a filling material having no fibers a fig, a gesture of contempt an interjection denoting disapproval; (adj.) whimsical, fey a ballet-dancer, one of those who form a background for the solo dancer to fidget restlessly fidgety the kilt

formerly, an officer who filed writs a kind of ornamental metallic lacework; (verb) to execute this lacework

a parasitic worm relating to a filaria, a parasitic worm a kind of hazel-nut any contrivance for keeping papers in order; (verb) to arrange in order for future reference dead-leaf colour; dull brown

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filet fillet filfot fylfot fillester fillister fillipeen philopena fillo filo phyllo finable fineable finaliser finalizer finfish finner fingan finjan finical finickety finickin finicking finicky finikin finiking finnicky finmark finnmark finnac finnack finnock phinnock finnesko finnsko finsko finnochio finocchio finochio fiord fjord fippence fivepence firring furring fisc fisk fisgig fishgig fizgig fizzgig

undercut of beef, tenderloin; (verb) to cut into slices a form of cross like a swastika a rabbet plane used in making window sashes a game in which each of two players eats a twin kernel of a nut very thin pastry dough liable or subject to a fine; as, a finable person or offense one who finalises a finback whale the handleless coffee cup which fits within a zarf particular about unimportant matters

a monetary unit of Finland a young seatrout

a reindeer-skin boot with the hair on a dwarf variety of fennel a coastal valley which was sculpted by glacial action fivepence, a coin worth five pence strips of wood to provide a level surface or air space the state treasury; the public revenue a giddy girl, a firework of damp powder

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fisnomie phisnomy visnomie visnomy fissiped fissipede fistic fistical fistular fistulate fistulose fistulous fitche fitchee fitchy fitchet fitchew fitt fitte fytte fixatif fixative fiz fizz fizzen foison fushion fusion flacker flaffer flagpole flagstaff flagstick flagrance flagrancy flakey flaky flambe flambee flamm flan flaune flawn flanch flaunch flannie flanny flatling flatlings flatlong flatwash

physiognomy

with digits separate; (noun) a fissiped animal facetious for pugilistic hollow and cylindrical, like a pipe or reed

of a cross, having a pointed shaft a polecat; its fur a division of a poem a fixing agent to make a hissing or sputtering sound physical energy or strength

to flutter a pole for displaying a flag a burning; notoriety in flakes; crazy, eccentric to douse (eg a pancake) with a liqueur and ignite a custard

a kind of subordinary, formed by a curved line at the side of a shield; (verb) to spread out; slope outwards towards the top a shirt made of flannel or flannelette with a flat side or edge laundry that can be ironed mechanically

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flatwork flautist fluter flutist flavanol flavonol flavin flavine flavor flavour flavory flavoury flection flexion fleet flitt fleg fley fleishig fleishik flench flense flencher flenser fleuret fleurette flexible flexile flexitime flextime flexuose flexuous flite flyte floatage flotage floatel flotel floccule flocculus flooey flooie floosie floosy floozie floozy flossie floreated floriated florula florule

a performer on the flute a derivative of flavone a yellow dye made from the bark of the dyer's oak taste; (verb) to flavour full of flavor the act of bending, or state of being bent swift; (noun) an assemblage of ships; (verb) to move swiftly to frighten made of meat or meat products to strip a whale of its blubber one whose job it is to strip a whale of its blubber an ornament in the shape of a small flower capable of being bent a system that allows flexible working hours full of windings and turnings to quarrel, brawl buoyancy; anything which floats; flotsam a platform or boat containing the sleeping quarters for workers on an oil-rig a small tuft, flock or flake awry a young woman of doubtful sexual morals

decorated with a floral ornament the flora of a single small environment

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flouse floush fluellen fluellin fluence fluency fluerics fluidics flugelman fugleman fluidiser fluidizer flukey fluky flunkey flunkie flunky fluor fluorite fluorspar fluorid fluoride fluorin fluorine flutey fluty fob fub focimeter focometer foehn fohn foen fone fogey fogie fogy fogeydom fogydom fogeyish fogyish fogeyism fogyism fogger fogman foh phoh foil foyle foin foyne

to splash a weedy annual related to toadflax fluency the science or technology of using a flow of liquid gas for certain operations in place of a flow of electrons a leader (esp political); the lead soldier for a company an apparatus in which fluidisation is carried out successful by accident a contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman a mineral, calcium fluoride a compound of fluorine with another element or radical a chemical element, no. 9, a greenish-yellow gas like a flute in tone to put off an instrument for measuring the focal length of a lens a hot dry wind that blows down Alpine valleys old plural of foe, an enemy a very conservative person the state of being a fogey like a fogey, very conservative the ideas or conditions of a fogey a person who sets railway fog-signals an expression of disgust a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button and usually having a bell-shaped guard; (verb) to frustrate to thrust with a sword or spear

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foliolate foliolose foliose folious folkie folky folkmoot folkmot folkmote fomes fomite fondu fondue foobar fubar foodie foody foosball fusball fussball footboy footpage footra foutra footsie footsy foray forray forbidal forbiddal forbode forebode forby forbye foreby forebye fordo foredo forefend forfend forehent forhent foreign forren forejudge forjudge forelend forlend foreshew foreshow foreslack

composed of or relating to leaflets leafy, leaf-like a lover of folk music, a folk musician an assembly of the people among the Old English a substance capable of carrying infection, such as woolen clothes a snack of melted cheese fucked up beyond all repair one addicted to food table football a page, an attendant a worthless fellow flirtation involving the touching together of feet a raid, a venture; (verb) to make a raid the act of forbidding to prognosticate or foretell besides

to destroy, to utterly exhaust to fend off; to avert to overtake, to seize situated outside a place or country to deprive of a right etc. by judgment to grant or resign beforehand to show or exhibit beforehand to become slack or neglectful

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forslack foreslow forsloe forslow forespeak forspeak forespend forspend forestal foresteal forestial forhoo forhooie forhow forlana furlana forpet forpit forrad forrit forward foreswear forswear forswonck forswunk forzando forzato sforzando sforzato foss fosse fossa foussa fouat fouet fougade fougasse foulmart foumart fourplay quadplay fouter foutre fouth fowth foveate foveated foveola foveole foveolet fractur

to delay, put off to speak against to wear out physically of or pertaining to forests to desert or abandon a Venetian dance in 6-4 time a fourth part (now of a peck measure) forward to renounce overworked forced, with special emphasis or sudden loudness; (noun) a note played forzando

a ditch or moat a depression, such as that in which the nostril is located (Malagasy) a red-brown catlike viverrid mammal of Madagascar the house-leek a small mine, in the form of a well sunk from the surface of the ground, charged with explosive and projectiles a polecat the supply to a customer by one provider of television, internet, and both fixed-line and mobile telephony a worthless fellow; (verb) to mess around aimlessly abundance pitted a small depression a German style of black letter, the normal type used for printing German from

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fraktur frae thrae fraenum frenum fragrance fragrancy frailtee frailty fraim fremd fremit framable frameable frampal frampold frankfort frankfurt frappe frappee fratchety fratching fratchy fratery fratry freebee freebie freet freit freety freity frenetic phrenetic phrentick frenzy phrensy frescoer frescoist fricadel frikkadel fricht fright frier fryer frigate frigot frijol frijole fripper fripperer fris

the 16th to the mid 20th cent from a connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the frenum of the tongue pleasantness of smell; (verb) to perfume with a fragrance frailty foreign, strange; (noun) a stranger that can be framed peevish, intractable a small smoked sausage of coffee etc., iced, artificially cooled; (noun) an iced drink quarrelsome a fraternity; a convent of friars a free gift, something supplied free of charge an omen superstitious frantic; (noun, arch.) a madman a frantic state; (verb) to make frantic one who paints frescos a fried ball of mincemeat fright; (verb) to frighten a pan or container for frying a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line the kidney bean one who deals in frippery or in old clothes the quick dance movement of a Hungarian csardas

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friska frisette frizette frit fritt frivoler frivoller friz frizz frizer frizzer froglet frogling fromenty frumenty furmenty furmety furmity fronton frontoon frore froren frorn frorne frory froughy frowie frowy frouzy frowsty frowsy frowzy frow vrou vrouw vrow fruict fruit fubby fubsy fuchsin fuchsine fucoid fucoidal fuehrer fuhrer fueler fueller fulfil fulfill fulgor

a fringe of curls on the forehead mixed materials for making glass; (verb) to fuse into a vitreous substance one who frivols to fry with a sizzling noise one who frizzes a little frog food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc

a pediment frozen

musty, rancid fusty, stuffy

a woman, goodwife

fruit chubby and somewhat squat an aniline dye relating to seaweed; (noun) a seaweed of the genus Fucus a leader one who fuels to bring to completion dazzling brightness; splendor

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fulgour fulgorous fulgurous fulham fullam fullan fullness fulness fulvid fulvous fum fung fumarole fumerole funckia funkia fundie fundy funebral funebrial fungoid fungoidal fungous fural furfural furfurol furfurole furol furole furan furane furfuran furcula furculum furder further furor furore fusarol fusarole fusc fuscous fusee fuzee fusil fuzil fusileer fusilier fustet fustic fustoc

flashing like lightning a loaded dice the state of being full dull yellow; tawny a fabulous bird a hole in a volcanic region from which hot gases and vapors issue any plant of an E. Asiatic genus allied to the day lilies now called Hosta a member of the radical wing of the German Green party of or pertaining to a funeral of or like fungus; (noun) a fungus a liquid obtained by heating bran with dilute sulphuric acid

a colourless liquid obtained from wood-tar and used in tanning the jointed clavicles of a bird, aka wishbone further an outburst of public indignation an astragal moulding, a semicircular moulding round a column, etc of a brownish-gray color; dusky a match with a long oval head for outdoor use a type of flintlock musket formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil, now simply a historical title borne by a few regiments the wood of a tree growing in the West Indies, used in dyeing yellow

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futharc futhark futhorc futhork gabardine gaberdine gabbard gabbart gabnash nashgab gaddi gadi gade gaid gadgie gadje gaudgie gauje gadid gadoid gadjo gajo gorgio gadroon godroon gadso godso odso gadzooks odzooks zooks gae go gager gauger gaiety gayety gaillard gaillarde gair gore gairfowl garefowl gaitt geit gyte galage galoche galosh galoshe golosh

the runic alphabet

a closely woven twill fabric; a coat of this material a kind of barge chatter, prattle the cushioned throne of an Indian ruler a miner's wedge a fellow

a member of the cod family a non-gypsy an embossed bead-like decoration used on silverware etc an interjection of surprise a mild oath to go one who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks festive activity brisk, lively a gore (in cloth or land) the great auk; also, the razorbill a child an overshoe

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goloshe galanga galangal galengale galingale galavant galivant gallivant galeate galeated galena galenite galiot galliot galleass galliass gallnut nutgall galloot galoot gallopade galopade gallumph galumph galravage gilravage galut galuth galyac galyak gamahuche gamaruche gamash gramash gramoche gamb gambe gambade gambado gambet gambetta gambia gambier gambir gambogian gambogic gametal gametic gamey gamy gaminess

the aromatic rootstock of certain E. Indian plants of the ginger family

to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan helmet-shaped an ore of lead a small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean a large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns a round gall produced on the leaves and shoots of various species of the oak tree a noisy fellow, a rowdy a lively ballroom dance in 2/4 time; a piece of music for this dance; (verb) to dance a gallopade to move with a clumsy heavy tread a noisy frolic; (verb) to behave riotously the forced exile of Jews, the diaspora a soft glossy fur from a stillborn lamb or kid to practise cunnilingus or fellatio a kind of legging a beast's whole leg a bound or spring of a horse the redshank the inspissated juice of a plant growing in Malacca, used for tanning and dyeing pertaining to, resembling, or containing, gamboge of or like a gamete tasting like game the condition of being gamy

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gamyness gammadion gammation ganch gaunch ganef ganev ganof gonef gonif goniff gonof gonoph ganglial gangliar gangling gangly ganister gannister ganja ganjah ganoin ganoine gantelope gantlet gantlope gauntlet gantry gauntree gauntry gaol jail gaolbird jailbird gaolbreak jailbreak gaoler jailer jailor gaoleress jaileress jailoress gaolless jailless gapo igapo gar garre garagist garagiste garbagey

a figure comprised of capital gammas; a swastika impaling apparatus; (verb, obs.) to execute by impaling on stakes or hooks a thief

of or like a ganglion loose-built, lanky a flint-like rock used for lining Bessemer converters and for surfacing roads a resinous form of marijuana the hard shiny substance resembling enamel which forms the outer layer of ganoid fish-scales an armoured glove

a frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere prison; (verb) to imprison an inveterate convict an escape from gaol a jailer a female gaoler without a gaol in Peru, a riverside forest periodically flooded to compel a garage proprietor or owner like garbage

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garbagy garbe gerbe gardant guardant gardyloo jordeloo garfish garpike gargoyle gurgoyle garial gavial gharial garigue garrigue garish guarish garjan gurjun garland girlond garote garotte garrote garrotte garran garron garvie garvock gasahol gasohol gasalier gaselier gasolier gasogene gazogene gasolene gasoline gastfull ghastful gastness gastnesse ghastness gastraea gastrea gate yate yett gater gator

a (heraldic) sheaf of wheat having the face turned towards the viewer; (noun) a protector a warning cry given when throwing slops from the window into the street; (noun) the slops so thrown any of various fishes with slender bodies and long spearlike snouts, aka needlefish a carved face on a church to keep away evil spirits an Indian crocodile with a long snout an uncultivated open scrubland of the Mediterranean region glaring; (verb, obs.) to heal a thin balsam or wood oil derived from an East Indian tree a wreath of flowers or leaves; (verb) to crown with a garland a device for strangulation; (verb) to strangle

a small type of horse a sprat a mixture of 8 or 9 parts petrol and 1 or 2 parts alcohol, used as a fuel a chandelier arranged to burn gas an apparatus for carbonating water orig., a petroleum distillate used for heating and lighting; now usually petrol terrifying; full of fear dread a hypothetical ancestor of the Metazoa, sponges etc a movable barrier; (verb) to supply with a gate an alligator

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gaucie gaucy gawcy gawsie gawsy gaud gawd gaufer gaufre gofer gauffer goffer gaum gorm gaumless gormless gaup gawk gawp gorp gaupus gawpus gavot gavotte gayal gyal gazal ghazal ghazel gazillion kazillion gazon gazoon gazoo gazooka kazoo gealous jealous gealousy gelosy jealousy gear gere geare jeer gedact gedeckt gee jee geegaw gewgaw

portly, jolly

a trick or practical joke; (verb, obs.) to make merry a waffle with a pattern of crossed lines an iron for making pleats or ripples in material; (verb) to make pleats with such an iron to smear, daub stupid; witless; vacant to stare and gape

a silly person a kind of French country dance an Indian domesticated ox a Persian verse-form an indefinitely large number one of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks a musical instrument consisting of a tube that makes a humming sound when breathed into jealous jealousy any moving part or system of parts for transmitting motion; (verb) to provide with gears to jeer a flutelike organ stop of horses, to urge on a toy; a bauble

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geez jeez gefilte gefullte gelant gellant gelatin gelatine gelidity gelidness gemini gemony jiminy jimminy gemman gentleman gemmology gemology gemot gemote gemsbok gemsbuck generic generical genet genette gennet jennet genetic genetical genetrix genitrix genip genipap gennel ginnel genny genoa genom genome genseng ginseng geo gio goe geoduck gweduc gweduck geogeny geogony geologer

an interjection expressing consternation as in gefilte fish, a dish of fish stuffed with various ingredients a substance used to produce gelling a colourless, odourless and tasteless glue prepared from albuminous matter eg bones and hides the state of being gelid an interjection expressing surprise

a gentleman the study of gems an Anglo-Saxon legislative assembly a S. African antelope, having long, sharp, nearly straight horns general; applicable to any of a group or class; (noun) a generic drug a small Spanish horse, a jenny donkey; an animal allied to the civet

relating to origins; relating to genes a mother; a female ancestor a tropical American tree; its orange-like fruit a narrow alley between high buildings a large jib which overlaps the mainsail the complete set of chromosomes of a particular organism a plant of the genus Aralia, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese a gully or creek a large edible clam the science of the formation of the earth's crust a geologist

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geologian geomancer geomant geophagia geophagy geranial geraniol gerbil gerbille jerbil gerfalcon gyrfalcon jerfalcon gerle girl germain germaine germen germin gerne girn gurn geropiga jerepigo gesneria gesneriad gessamine jasmin jasmine jessamine jessamy gesse ghesse guess gest geste gestic gestical gestural getable gettable gharri gharry ghat ghaut ghee ghi gherkin girkin ghibli gibli

one who practises geomancy the practice of feeding on soil an alcohol forming a constituent of many of the esters used in perfumery a desert rodent a heavy, powerful falcon of cold northerly regions a girl a germ, shoot

to grin or gape a sweet fortified wine similar to port a plant of a tropical American genus Gesneria jasmine

to guess an exploit; a tale of adventure of or relating to gesture that can be got in India, a wheeled vehicle for hire in India, a mountain pass; a landing stage; a place for cremation clarified butter a kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles the name in Libya of the scirocco, a hot, dry, dusty wind

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a saucer-shaped depression forming a natural reservoir a Highland chief's attendant; (verb) to act as a ghillie in Arabic mythology, a desert demon preying on travellers as in ghubar numeral, any of a set of numerals forming the stage between ancient Hindu numerals and present-day Arabic numerals a tendency to abnormally large size to utter senseless or inarticulate sounds hump-backed, humped; (of a moon) between half and full one who gibes gee up

a small acacia tree whose foliage gives off an unpleasant odour if a lively Italian dance like a giant a giddy girl, a wanton

a leg of lamb a buttercup golden, gilded a town hall a small freshwater crayfish, aka yabby a wanton girl a boisterous girl a contrivance with self-aligning bearings for keeping eg ship's instruments horizontal (verb) to support on a set of rings cheap and showy; (noun) something cheap and showy, of little use

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a ring that can be divided into two or three rings jointed, hinged, like a gimmal an easy golf putt conceded to an opponent a yarn with a hard core; (verb) to make or furnish with this a large Chinese or Indian swivel-musket

the sesame seed or its oil

a kind of tree to swindle a sleeveless jacket worn beneath a hauberk a gypsy

a gypsy the world of gypsies of or like a giraffe a branched chandelier or similar structure a fire-opal a magazine showing scantily clad females two lines drawn from the edge of the escutcheon meeting at right angles in the fesse-point of or like a giron, two lines drawn from the edge of the escutcheon meeting at

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gyronic gironny gyronny girsh gursh qursh qurush girthline girtline gism jism jissom gismo gizmo gismology gizmology giust joust just givable giveable gizz jiz gju gu gue glabrate glabrous gladiola gladiole gladiolus glaiket glaikit glair glaire glaive gleave glamor glamour glebous gleby gled glede glee gley glenoid glenoidal glent glint glia neuroglia

right angles in the fesse-point of a field, divided in a triangle pattern a monetary unit of Saudi Arabia

a gantline, a rope used in single-block hoist energy, force; semen a device, a gadget gadgetry, technology involving strange, baffling devices to tilt with lances that can be given a wig a type of violin formerly used in Shetland smooth, esp, having a surface without hairs or projections a lilylike plant, of the genus Gladiolus; aka corn flag giddy, foolish egg white used as medium for binding paint; (verb) to coat with this a broadsword allure, magnetism; (verb) to affect with a glamour, enchant cloddy, turfy the common kite to squint slightly cupped; socket-shaped; (noun) a cup-shaped socket a glint; (verb) to glint the supporting tissue of the brain and spinal cord

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gliadin gliadine glid gliddery gliff glift gloam gloaming globate globated globose globous glottal glottic glucinium glucinum glucose glycose glueyness gluiness glutaeal gluteal glute gluteus glycaemia glycemia glycaemic glycemic glycerin glycerine glycerol glycin glycine glycolic glycollic gnamma namma gnar gnarr knar knaur knur knurr nur nurr gnarl knarl gnarly knarly gnathal gnathic

one of a group of proteins found in wheat and rye, aka prolamine slippery an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear twilight, dusk having the form of a globe; spherical having a rounded form resembling that of a globe of or pertaining to, or produced by, the glottis a former name for beryllium a hexose sugar, found eg in ripe fruit the state of being gluey relating to the glutaeus, any of the three large muscles of the buttock any of the three large muscles of the buttocks excessive sugar in the blood of or like glycaemia, excessive sugar in the blood a non-technical name for glycerol the simplest amino acid, present in proteins, a sweetish colourless crystalline solid first prepared from glue, formerly known as glycocoll pertaining to, or derived from, glycol; as glycolic acid as in gnamma hole, an Australian term for a natural well in rock to snarl or growl

to contort, twist, make knotted and rugged like an old tree gnarled of or relating to the jaws

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gnomic gnomical goadsman goadster goal gole goalward goalwards goary gory goatweed goutweed goutwort gobbeline goblin gobiid gobioid gobonee gobony goddam goddamn godhead godhood godward godwards goethite gothite goglet guglet gurglet goiter goitre goldarn goldurn goldfinny goldsinny goldspink gowdspink gollan golland gowlan gowland gollar goller golliwog golliwogg gollywog goloshes goloshoes golp golpe

signifying general truth; relating to aphorisms or proverbs a man who uses a goad a pair of posts with a crossbar through or over which the ball is driven in some games; (verb) in Rugby, to convert a try into a goal toward a goal gory an umbelliferous weed, long supposed to be good for gout a goblin a fish of the goby family denoting a pattern of heraldic line, the same as compony damned, accursed; (verb) to damn divine nature or essence toward God a hydrous oxide of iron, occurring in prismatic crystals a porous earthen jar for cooling water by evaporation an abnormal enlargement of the thyroid gland goddamned one of two or more species of European labroid fishes the goldfinch a name for various yellow flowers including marigold

a loud inarticulate gurgling sound; (verb) to make this sound a grotesque black male doll; a grotesque person overshoes a purple roundel

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gombo gombro gumbo gomeral gomerel gomeril gomuti gomuto gonadal gonadial gonadic gondelay gondola gonfalon gonfanon good gude guid goodby goodbye goodman gudeman goodsire gudesire gutcher goodwife gudewife goodyear goodyears gool gule gooley goolie gooly gooney goonie goony goor gur gooral goral goorie goory kuri gooroo guru goosegob goosegog goosey goosy gopura

a soup thickened with okra a simpleton a Malayan palm tree, yielding a black fibre relating to the gonads a gondola a small flag or pennant immediately below the head of a knight's lance having suitable qualities; (noun) that which is morally or ethically right a form of address at parting master of the house, head of the home a grandfather the mistress of a household the devil, the plague, or the like (a meaningless imprecation) a marigold a small stone; (pl.) testicles the albatross an unrefined cane sugar an Indian goat antelope resembling the chamois a mongrel, an extinct native dog in Hinduism, a spiritual teacher a gooseberry a goose, a blockhead in S. India, a pyramidal tower over the gateway of a temple

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gopuram goramy gourami gurami gorblimey gorblimy gorillian gorilline gorilloid gormand gourmand gaumy gormy gorse gosse gorsoon gossoon gospeler gospeller gospoda gospodin gospodar hospodar gossan gozzan gossib gossip gossiper gossipper gouk gowk gov guv gownman gownsman goyisch goyish graal grail grayle grabble grubble grackle grakle gradely graithly gradin gradine graile gravel gram

a large freshwater food fish of Asia an interjection expressing surprise; (noun) a kind of army flat cap of or like a gorilla a greedy or ravenous eater; a luxurious feeder dauby, smeary any prickly papilionaceous shrub of the genus Ulex, with yellow flowers a boy or boy-servant one of the four evangelists a Russian title of address, equivalent to Mr a prince or governor, especially of Moldavia or Wallachia decomposed rock, largely quartz impregnated with iron compounds, at the outcrop of a vein especially of metallic sulphides a familiar friend, a gossip one who gossips a cuckoo; a fool, an April fool governor one whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer like a goy, non-Jew, Gentile a dish, a platter to grope one of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridae decent; orderly anything like a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like gravel a unit of mass in the metric system, formerly that of a cubic centimetre of water

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gramme grama gramma gramary gramarye grandad granddad grandam grandame grannam grandsir grandsire grannie granny granter grantor granular granulary granulose granulous grapey grapy graphic graphical graplin grapline gratine gratinee gravadlax gravlaks gravlax grayback greyback graybeard greybeard grayhound greyhound graylag greylag graywacke greywacke grazable grazeable greave greve grebo greebo grece grees greese greesing

at 4°C, now a thousandth part of the International Prototype Kilogram a kind of pasture grass found in the Western United States magic, enchantment grandfather a grandmother a grandfather a grandmother; (verb) to inflict a heavy sporting defeat on, to whitewash the person by whom a grant or conveyance is made consisting of or like grains or granules consisting of or like grains or granules made of or like grapes of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing a grapnel cooked or served au gratin a Scandinavian dish of salmon with spices and salad any of various animals having a grey back, such as the grey whale an old man a tall slender fast-moving dog of an ancient breed originally used for coursing a species of wild goose any coarse-grained, usually dark sandstone containing angular mineral and rock fragments in a fine-grained clayey matrix that can be grazed armour covering the lower leg; (verb) to grieve a devotee of heavy metal or grunge music, with unkempt hair and clothes a flight of steps

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grese gressing griece gris grecian greece greegree grigri grisgris greet greete grege greige greisly griesly grisely grisly grysely gremmie gremmy gren grin grew grue gride gryde griesie gryesy griesy grysie griff griffe griffin gryfon gryphon grike gryke grill grille grimalkin malkin mawkin gripey gripy griple gripple groan grone groanful gronefull gromet

a flight of steps an African talisman or spell to address in a friendly and courteous way to weep of a grey-beige colour grisly

an inexperienced surfer to grin a greyhound; (verb) to shudder, to make the flesh creep to pierce, cut; to grate grey grisly a claw-shaped decoration at the base of a column an imaginary animal with a lion's body and an eagle's head a crevice in a limestone pavement a grating, a gridiron; (verb) to broil on a gridiron a cat; esp an old female cat like or having gripe grasping to utter a low, mournful sound full of groans a ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope; also,

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grommet grummet groof grouf grufe groser grosert groset grossart groupie groupy groveler groveller grrl grrrl grudge grutch grueler grueller grumose grumous grumphie grumphy grungey grungy guaiac guaiacum guaiocum guanaco huanaco guanidin guanidine guanin guanine gub gubbah guck gunk guerilla guerrilla guild gyeld guilder gulden guiler guyler guisard guiser guizer gullable gullible

a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag the front of one's body, one's face a gooseberry

a follower of a pop group one who grovels as in riot grrl, a young woman who plays or enjoys an aggressively feminist style of punk rock music an old cause of quarrel or resentment; (verb) to be unwilling to give or admit one that gruels clustered in grains at intervals a pig dirty, messy; unattractive a S. American tree; the resin from this a S. American mammal, allied to the llama a strongly basic compound used in organic synthesis a yellowish-white, amorphous substance, found in guano, liver, pancreas, and other organs of animals, and germ cells of plants, forming a constituent of nucleic acids a white man; (verb) to strike on the mouth slimy, gooey muck a member of an irregular force engaging in warfare or in the harassment of an army an association of people of the same trade a Dutch monetary unit, a silver coin worth about forty cents a deceiver a person in disguise; a masker; a mummer easily deceived

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a big knife; (verb) to wear a gully in gumlike, or composed of gum a kind of Chinese zither with silken strings a fish with a large, bony-plated angular head and three finger-like walking rays in front of the pectoral fin a one-stringed Balkan musical instrument to put one's best clothes on one's fill, more than enough rough, cheap alcohol a greedy person a fish of N. Wales and northern Europe, aka powan, allied to the lake whitefish in sailing, to shift from side to side relating to a gymnasium gynaecology the women's apartments in a household; any room or building set aside for women esp in ancient Greece or Rome of or like a woman the female organs (pistils) of a flower, taken collectively a guinea hen a kind of grape a Jewish ceremony or prayer marking the close of a Sabbath a French native of Louisiana or Carolina a genus of trees related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp the greater shearwater

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hagdown hackbut a harquebus; a matchlock gun invented in the 15th century hagbut hagbuteer one who uses a hagbut hagbutter hackle a comb for flax or hemp; (verb) to comb with a hackle hatchel heckle hacklet the kittiwake or shearwater haglet haddie the haddock haddock hadj a Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca haj hajj hadjee a Muslim pilgrim to Mecca hadji haji hajji haem the pigment combined with protein in haemoglobin heme hemagog a drug that promotes the flow of blood hemagogue haemal pertaining to the blood haematal haemic hemal hematal hemic haematein a dark purple crystalline substance obtained from logwood and used as an indicator hematein and biological stain haematic relating to blood; (noun) a medicine for a blood disease hematic haematite an ore of iron hematite haematoid resembling blood hematoid haematoma a swelling composed of blood effused into tissues hematoma haemin the red, crystalline salt of haematin with hydrochloric acid hemin haemocoel the central body cavity of many invertebrates hemocoel haemocyte a blood cell, esp a red cell hemocyte haemoid pertaining to the blood hemoid haemostat an instrument for stopping bleeding hemostat haeres an heir heres

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haet whit haffet haffit hafflin halflin halfling haftara haftarah haftorah haphtara haphtarah hagadist haggadist haggada haggadah haick haik haique hyke haiduk heyduck haimish heimish hair heare hairbell harebell hairdrier hairdryer hairst harvest hairy hearie hakeem hakim halacha halakah halakha halakhah halachic halakhic halachist halakhist halal hallal halala halalah halavah halva halvah

a small amount, a whit the side of the head, the temple a halfling a Biblical selection

a scholar versed in the haggadah, the Pesach guidebook, used during Seder the homiletic part of the Jewish scripture an oblong cloth worn by Arabs on head or body

a brigand, a guerilla warrior homelike a filament growing from the skin of an animal; (verb) to provide hair for; to free from hair a slender-stemmed plant with a hanging blue bell-shaped flower, the Scottish bluebell a device for drying hair harvest; (verb) to harvest covered with hair a wise man; a physician, esp a Muslim the legal component of the Jewish oral tradition

relating to halacha, the legal component of the Jewish oral tradition a practioner of Jewish religious law to slaughter according to Muslim law a Saudi Arabian monetary unit a sweetmeat, orig. Turkish, containing sesame seeds, honey, nuts and saffron

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a pike with an axe-head a monetary unit of the Czech republic one of two equal parts a large flatfish a compound of a halogen with a metal or radical holiness, a holy place, esp in an oath

an erroneous form of hall-moot, the court of a lord of the manor or of a guild a lout or lazy rascal a rope or tackle for hoisting and lowering sails a cry to urge on a chase or to call attention; (verb) to greet a Greek meal of goat's cheese a strawy stem to hail, greet a large rope for mooring or towing a ship a desert plateau of bedrock in eastern countries, a porter a patty of ground beef home; (verb) to home homewards an Oriental bathing establishment

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hooked a small Eurasian rodent bearing a small hook at the end in Arabic, the sign used to represent the glottal stop the end of the forearm; (verb) to present with the hand work done by the hands or by direct personal agency a Persian dagger a gift made as a token of good wishes or luck especially at the beginning of a new year; (verb) to give a handsel to handkerchief a guild of merchants an incomplete antigen that cannot stimulate antibodies in vivo but can in vitro relating to the sense of touch the groper a women's quarters in a Muslim house; a set of wives and concubines

an illegitimate male an illegitimate female a refuge or shelter; (verb) to shelter one who, or that which, harbors hardihood, boldness an unidentified plant, perhaps burdock viscera to listen

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harkener hearkener harmala harmel harmalin harmaline harmin harmine harper harpist harpin harping harrumph harumph harslet haslet hartbees hartbeest hartely heartily harten hearten hartlesse heartless hasheesh hashish hassel hassle hastate hastated hatable hateable haterent hatred haubois hautbois haud hold haught hault haut hauriant haurient haveour havior haviour hawkbill hawksbill hawkey horkey head

one who harkens the so-called African or Syrian rue, of the bean caper family an alkaloid derived from Harmala seeds

one who plays the harp a short rope to make a noise as of clearing the throat a pressed meat made from pig offal a large S. African antelope heartily to hearten heartless the leaves, shoots and resin of hemp, smoked as an intoxicant an argument spear-shaped capable of being, or deserving to be, hated hatred a large kind of strawberry to hold haughty, exalted with head up, as rising to the surface to breathe behaviour, demeanour a kind of sea turtle harvest-home, the harvest supper the uppermost part of the body; (verb) to be chief of

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heid headachey headachy headpeace headpiece headward headwards healsome holesom holesome wholesome heartpea heartseed heast heaste hest hebenon hebona hectare hektare hectogram hektogram hederal hederated heeze hoist hegira hejira hejra hijra hijrah hegumen hegumenos height heighth highth hejab hijab heliac heliacal heliozoan heliozoic hellcat hellicat hellova helluva hellward hellwards helpmate helpmeet haematin

afflicted with a headache a headpiece, helmet backwards beyond the original source wholesome

the balloon vine behest, command anything eg a plant or fruit with a poisonous juice a measure of area, 100 ares or 10000 square metres a measure of weight, containing a hundred grams crowned with a wreath of ivy to lift, raise the flight of Mohammed from Mecca

the head of a monastery the highest point a covering for a Muslim woman's head and face solar; coincident with that of the sun, or as nearly as could be observed related to the Heliozoa, sun-animalcules, an order of Protozoa; (noun) a member of the Heliozoa a spiteful or furious (esp female) person hell of a in the direction of hell friend, companion a brown substance containing ferric iron obtained from dried blood

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hematin hematine hemiopia hemiopsia hemiola hemiolia hemione hemionus hemipod hemipode hemolyse hemolyze hempie hempy hend hent henequen henequin heniquen heniquin hepatic hepatical hepster hipster herbalist herbist herbelet herblet herbose herbous hercogamy herkogamy herden hurden herdman herdsman hereaway hereaways heretrix heritrix herling hirling herm herma hernshaw heronsew heronshaw herriment herryment herry hery

a defect of vision in consequence of which a person sees only half of an object looked at in mediaeval music, a perfect fifth an Asiatic wild ass, the kiang or dziggetai the button quail to break down red blood cells a rogue, a romp, a tomboy to seize, grasp mexican agave, its leaf-fibre, used for cordage

pertaining to or acting upon the liver; (noun) a medicine for the liver one who is hep, streetwise a person who practises herbalism a small herb abounding with herbs the prevention of self-pollination in plants a coarse fabric made from hards, the refuse of hemp one who looks after a herd hereabout a heiress a young seatrout, a finnock a head of Hermes on a square stone post a heron spoliation, plunder to praise, regard as holy

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herye hesitance hesitancy hesitater hesitator hetaera hetaira hetaerism hetairism hetaerist hetairist hether hither heuch heugh hexad hexade hexene hexylene heyday heydey hicatee hiccatee hiccough hiccup hickey hickie hidling hidlings hidlins hie hye highflier highflyer hilding hylding hillfolk hillmen hilum hilus hind hynde hippen hippin hipping hippie hippy hippiedom hippydom hirable hireable

wavering, doubt one who hesitates a paramour; prostitute; concubine concubinage; a system of communal marriage an advocate of hetaerism, concubinage hither a crag, a steep-sided valley a group of six a colorless, liquid hydrocarbon of the ethylene series a time when vigour is at its climax a West Indian freshwater tortoise the involuntary contraction of the diaphragm while the glottis is spasmodically closed; (verb) to produce a hiccup a gadget, a doo-dah in secret to hurry along a bird that flies high; a high achiever a mean cowardly person people living among the hills the scar on a seed where it joined its stalk the female of the red deer in or after its third year a baby's nappy wrapped around the hips a nonconformist the world of the hippie that can be hired

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hirage hireage hirstie histie hiss hizz histamin histamine histidin histidine histioid histoid histrio histrion hithe hythe hiveward hivewards hm hmm ho hoa hoh hoactzin hoatzin hoagie hoagy hoar hore hoard hoord hoarhound horehound hobodom hoboism hodad hodaddy hodden hoddin hodja khodja khoja hodometer odograph odometer hodometry odometry hoe hogh hogan hogen

the fee for hiring something dry, barren to make a sibilant sound a base used in medicine obtained from ergot and present in all the tissues of the body an amino acid found in proteins resembling the normal tissues; as, histioid tumors an actor a port or small haven in the direction of a hive an interjection expressing thoughtful consideration an interjection calling attention; (noun) cessation; (verb) to stop a S. American bird; the young have clawed wings a long sandwich grey, esp with age; (noun) hoariness, age; (verb, obs.) to cover with hoar to gather and store away a kind of wild flower the state of being a hobo a non-surfer a coarse undyed homespun woollen cloth an Eastern term of respect, a Muslim teacher or professor an instrument for measuring distance travelled the measurement of distance by use of a hodometer a tool for loosening the earth; (verb) to use a hoe strong liquor

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hogback an eroded, steeply tilted ridge of resistant rocks with equal slopes on the sides sowback hogg a yearling sheep hoggerel hogget hoggin sifted gravel hogging hogmanay new Year's Eve hogmane hogmenay hoick to hitch up, to jerk upwards hoik hoiden a hoyden; (verb) to act like a hoyden hoyden hokeyness being hokey, overdone, contrived, bogus hokiness holism the philosophical theory that a complex system is more than the sum of its parts wholism holist a believer in holism wholist holk to dig, burrow howk holler a yell to attract attention etc; (verb) to call out or yell to attract attention hollo hom a sacred plant of the ancient Persians homa homeobox of genes, that regulate the development of multicellular animals and plants homoeobox homeotic showing, depending on, or characterized by homeosis homoeotic homey home-loving; (noun) one who is home-loving homy homeyness being homey hominess hominian a man-like animal hominoid hommock a ridge in an ice field hummock hommos a Middle Eastern hors d'oeuvre of pureed chickpea and sesame oil hoummos houmous houmus hummus homuncle a little man; a manikin homuncule honeyed sweetened with or as with honey honied honkey a white man honkie honky honor honour; (verb) to honour

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honour honoree honouree honorer honourer hooch hootch hooka hookah hoolachan hoolican hooley hoolie hooly hoopoe hoopoo hoor whore hoorah hooray hurra hurrah hurray hoosegow hoosgow hoot hout whoot hooven hoven hopbind hopbine hopper hoppercar hobble hopple hora horah hormonal hormonic horsey horsy horson whoreson horst horste hortative hortatory hosanna hosannah hosteler

one that receives an honour one who honors whisky or any strong liquor, esp if illicitly acquired a pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water a Highland reel, esp the reel of Tulloch a boisterous party a medium-sized, short-legged perching bird of Africa and Eurasia, having a prominent crest a Scots and Irish form of whore; a difficult or unpleasant thing an exclamation of approbation or joy; (noun) a shout of hoorah; (verb) to shout hooray

a prison, jail the note of an owl; (verb) to make a sound like an owl having hoove, a disease of cattle and sheep the stalk of the hop a container for grain to limp an Israeli dance relating to hormones like a horse a whoreson a mass of the earth's crust that lies between two faults and is higher than the surrounding land giving exhortation; advisory a shout of praise or adoration; (verb) to shout with praise and adoration a person who lives in or uses a hostel, esp a youth hostel

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an ostler, one who tends horses at an inn very warm; (verb) to heat a sexually attractive person a seat or covered pavilion on the back of an elephant or camel a place where one is often found, a haunt; (verb) to haunt, frequent

a voodoo priest sixty minutes a married woman who looks after the house and family and does not have a paid job be it how it may a condition resulting in a howling noise when recording from a mike a young owl in what way soever the standard monetary unit of the Ukraine, divided into 100 kopiykas a flat-heeled sandal a confused sound of many voices overbearing pride having hubris, overwhelming pride a durable fabric used for toweling; (verb) to force roughly very large a Central American rubber tree something or someone that humanises to moisten to moisten

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humongous jocular for huge humungous humor humour; (verb) to humour humour hump a rounded protuberance; (verb) to arch into a hump humph hundreder an inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred hundredor hunkey a person of Hungarian descent hunkie hurlbat an ancient Roman boxing glove loaded with metal, aka cestus whirlbat whorlbat hurley a ball game similar to hockey hurling hurricane a violent tropical storm hurricano huzza a word used as a shout of joy or encouragement; (verb) to give a shout of huzza huzzah hyaena a carrion-feeding carnivore of the family Hyaenidae hyen hyena hyaenic of or like a hyaena hyenic hyenine hyenoid hybridism the state of being hybrid hybridity hydraemia an abnormally watery state of the blood hydremia hydrid any compound of hydrogen with another element hydride hydrolyse to subject to hydrolysis hydrolyze hydroma a swelling in the soft tissue that occurs over a joint, usually caused by repeating hygroma injury hydropic dropsical; thirsty hydroptic hydrops hydropsy hydropsy hydrosoma all the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and hydrosome reproductive zooids, and often other kinds hydrozoan any coelenterate of the class Hydrozoa, comprising organisms that are mostly hydrozoon marine and colonial with polyp and medusoid stages in the life cycle hygeist one skilled in hygiene; a hygienist hygieist hylicist one who holds the doctrine of hylism, materialism hylist hyloist hymenaeal of or relating to marriage hymenaean

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hymeneal hymenean hymnist hymnodist hyoidal hyoidean hypethral upaithric hypnoid hypnoidal hypogaeal hypogaean hypogeal hypogean hypogeous hypogaeum hypogeum hypogene hypogenic hyponea hyponoia hypopnea hypopnoea hypoxemia hypoxia iamb iambic iambus iatric iatrical ichnite ichnolite ichthic ichthyic iconic iconical ictal ictic icteric icterical id ide idealogue ideologue idealogy ideology identic identical idiocy idiotcy idiotic

a person who composes hymns pertaining to the hyoid, a U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue roofless; open to the sky (usu. intentionally, so as to see the stars) like sleep or hypnosis germinating with cotyledons underground

the underground part of building formed or occurring beneath the surface of the earth, as opposed to epigene dulled mental activity abnormally shallow breathing deficiency of oxygenation of the blood a poetic foot consisting of a short then a long syllable relating to medicine or a physician a fossil footprint resembling or relating to a fish like an icon relating to an ictus, a rhythmical or metrical stress relating to or suffering from jaundice; (noun) a remedy for jaundice the mind's instinctive unconscious energies; a fish of the carp family a doctrinaire adherent of an ideology a belief system identical; spec. relating to a diplomatic action in which two or more governments agree to follow the same course in relations with another government the state of being an idiot relating to or like an idiot

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idiotical idolater one who worships idols idolator idoliser one who idolizes idolizer idyl a short description in verse or prose of a picturesque scene or incident, esp idyll in rustic life idylist one who writes idyls idyllist igloo a snow house iglu ignitable that can be ignited ignitible igniter someone who or something that ignites, eg an apparatus for firing an explosive ignitor or explosive mixture ignominy deep personal humiliation and disgrace ignomy ileac pertaining to the ileum, the anterior or superior bone of the pelvis ileal iliac ilial ileum the anterior or superior bone of the pelvis ilium ilk a type or kind ylke ilkaday every day, every day but Sunday ilkadays illipe the mahwa tree, producing illipe nuts and illipe oil illupi illogical not logical unlogical imam the officer who leads the devotions in a mosque imaum embalmer one that embalms imbalmer embosk to conceal with foliage imbosk imid a class of organic compounds formed from ammonia imide immanence the state of being immanent immanency immerge to immerse; to dip into water immerse immigrant a person who immigrates inmigrant imminence the quality of being imminent imminency immuniser something or someone that immunises immunizer imp a small devil; (verb) to engraft (a hawk) with new feathers ympe

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impacter impactor impeller impellor imperfect unperfect impolitic unpolitic imposter impostor impotence impotency impresa imprese impresse impudence impudency impure unpure imshi imshy inactive unactive inaidable unaidable inapt inept unapt inasmuch insomuch inby inbye incenser incensor incenter incentre incertain uncertain incessant uncessant incivil uncivil incle inkle inconie incony incorrupt uncorrupt incurable uncurable incurious

something that impacts eg an asteroid one who, or that which, impels not perfect; (noun) a verb tense expressing ongoing action in the past not politic someone who assumes a false character or impersonates another lack of power a device with a motto shameless boldness not pure in old military slang, go away not active that cannot be aided unfit or unqualified in view of the fact that; to such a degree towards the interior, by the house a burner or offerer of incense the centre of an inscribed circle or sphere uncertain; doubtful unceasing discourteous a broad linen tape fine, delicate not corrupt that cannot be cured; (noun) one who cannot be cured not curious

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uncurious incurvate incurve indamin indamine indecent undecent indenter indentor indevout undevout indicter indictor indigen indigene indigence indigency indocile undocile indol indole indolence indolency indorser indorsor indraft indraught indri indris indulin induline inedible unedible inedited unedited inequable unequable inerm inermous inexpert unexpert infantile infantine infecter infector inferable inferible infertile unfertile inflater inflator

curved inward; (verb) to curve in any unstable organic base whose salts are blue or green dyes not decent one who indents not devout one who indicts one born in a country; an aboriginal animal or plant poverty; the state of being needy not docile a crystalline chemical compound, forming the basis of the indigo molecule laziness one who indorses a drawing in; an inward flow of air a short-tailed lemur of Madagascar any one of a large series of aniline dyes, colored blue or violet, and represented by aniline violet not fit to be eaten not edited not equable without thorns not expert; (noun) an unskilled person; a person who is not an expert like an infant, childish one who infects that can be inferred not fertile something or someone that inflates

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inflicter inflictor influx influxion ingleneuk inglenook ingram ingrum inhabiter inhabitor inhaul inhauler inherence inherency inhibiter inhibitor inhumate inhume inkhosi inkosi innervate innerve innocence innocency inoculant inoculum inornate unornate inosite inositol inrush inrushing insanie insanity insectan insectean instal install insurant insured intarsia tarsia intenable untenable interess interesse interest intifada intifadah intifadeh intimacy

one who inflicts a flowing in an alcove by a large open fire ignorant one who inhabits a rope or line for hauling in something the state of inhering something or someone that inhibits to bury in earth; to inter a traditional leader of a Zulu clan to supply with nerves or a nervous stimulus the quality of being innocent any material used in inoculation not ornate a member of the vitamin B complex, occurring in plant and animal tissue the act of rushing in insanity pertaining to insects to set up and put into use one who is insured a form of decorative wood inlay work, developed in Italy not tenable an interest; (verb) to interest the uprising in 1987 and continued resistance by Palestinians to Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank of Jordan the state of being closely associated

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intimity intimist intimiste intorsion intortion intricate intrince inveagle inveigle invecked invected inventer inventor inverter invertor inviable unviable invital unvital invocate invoke inward inwards enwrap inwrap inyala nyala iodid iodide iodin iodine iodiser iodizer ionisable ionizable ioniser ionizer iridal iridial iridian iridic ironbark ironwood irredenta irridenta isabel isabella isatin isatine ischaemia ischemia

a painter of the school of intimism, a genre of French impressionist painting of the early 20th century a twist, a twine involved, complex to entice; to wheedle having or consisting of a borderline of small convex curves, like reverse engrailed one who invents one who inverts not viable not vital to call on, or for, in supplication placed within; (adv.) moving towards the inside to envelop a kind of antelope a salt of hydriodic acid a chemical element one that iodises, treats with iodine that can be ionised a device for ionising relating to the iris of the eye

a species of Australian eucalyptus a region containing people ethnically related to the inhabitants of one State but politically subject to another a dingy yellowish-grey or drab a substance obtained by oxidising indigo an inadequate flow of blood to part of the body

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ischiadic ischial ischiatic isleman islesman ismatic ismatical isna isnae isobar isobare isocheim isochime isochor isochore isochron isochrone isoclinal isoclinic isocrymal isocryme isodomon isodomum isodont isodontal isoenzyme isozyme isogamic isogamous isogeneic isogenic isogonal isogone isogonic isohyet isohyetal isolog isologue isomer isomere isonomic isonomous isopod isopodan isopycnal isopycnic isostacy isostasy isotheral isothere isthmic

of or pertaining to the ischium or hip an islander, esp an inhabitant of the Hebrides addicted to isms or faddish theories is not a line connecting points of same atmospheric pressure a line connecting points of same average winter temperature a curve representing the variation of some quantity under conditions of constant volume a line connecting points of equal time difference a line connecting points of same magnetic dip a line connecting points of equal temperature during the coldest time masonry of uniform blocks in course of equal heights, the vertical joints placed in the middle of the blocks below having all the teeth similar in size and form; (noun) an isodont creature one of several variants of the same enzyme occurring within a single species relating to isogamy, the conjugation of two gametes of equal size and form genetically similar or identical, eg in respect of grafts a line on a map connecting points of equal magnetic declination a line drawn on a map connecting points that receive equal amounts of rainfall an organic compound with similar molecular structure to another but containing different atoms of the same valency a body or compound which is isomeric with another body or compound; a member of an isomeric series having equal rights or privileges any crustacean of the order Isopoda, that includes woodlice etc a line on a map consisting points of equal atmospheric density a condition of equilibrium in the earth's crust a line connecting points of the same average summer temperature of or like an isthmus

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isthmoid istle ixtle itemiser itemizer iterance iteration iterant iterative iure jure iwis ywis izvestia izvestiya jackaroo jackeroo jackfruit jak jakfruit jacksie jacksy jaxie jaxy jaeger jager yager jag jagg jaggary jagger jaggery jagghery jagra jaghir jaghire jagir jalap jalop jaloppy jalopy jalouse jealouse jamadar jemadar jemidar jamb jambe jambeau jamber jambier

a fibre obtained from the agave one who itemises repetition repeating; iterating by right or law certainly news, information a newcomer gaining experience at a sheep-station; (verb) to work as a newcomer at a sheep farm an East Indian tree of the breadfruit family the posterior, the anus

a huntsman a sharp projection; (verb) to cut unevenly a coarse dark sugar made from palm sap

the government revenues of a tract of land assigned with power to administer the purgative root of a Mexican plant an old motor-car or aeroplane to suspect or surmise in the native army of India, an officer of a rank corresponding to that of lieutenant in the English army a piece of leg armour, a greave; (verb) to jam

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jambiya jambiyah jambok sjambok jambolan jambolana jambool jambu jambul jampanee jampani janisary janissary janizar janizary janitress janitrix jannock jonnock jantee janty jauntee jauntie jaunty jonty jap jaup jararaca jararaka jargoneer jargonist jarool jarul jarta yarta yarto jarvey jarvie jasey jasy jazy jasp jasper jaspis jasperous jaspery jass jazz jaunce jaunse jawari

a Middle Eastern curved dagger with two edges a rhinoceros-hide whip; (verb) to beat with this the rose-apple tree of Malaysia

an Indian sedan chair bearer a soldier of the old Turkish footguards

a female janitor straightforward, honest; (noun) oaten bread jaunty, sprightly

to splash or spatter a venomous serpent of Brazil a person who uses jargon a deciduous tree of the purple loosestrife family heart, used as term of endearment in the Shetlands a hackney coach driver a wig, orig. of worsted jasper of or like jasper jazz a prance; a wearisome journey; (verb) to prance indian millet, aka durra

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jowar jowari jawbation jobation jay jaybird jazerant jesserant jeat jet jeel jeelie jeely jehad jihad jehadeen jihadeen jehadi jihadi jehadism jihadism jehadist jihadist jenneting juneating jequerity jequirity jereed jerid jerreed jerrid jerrican jerrycan jess jesse jesuitism jesuitry jeton jetton jetsam jetsom jetson jetty jutty jeweler jeweller jewellery jewelry jickajog jigajig jigajog

a long, tedious rebuke or harangue a bird of the crow family a coat of mail made of small plates of metal sewed upon linen or the like jet, the mineral extreme cold; jelly; (verb) to set, jell in Islam, a holy war islamic freedom fighters a person who takes part in a jehad, a holy war an Islamic fundamentalist movement that favours the pursuit of jehads in defence of the Islamic faith a believer in jehadism an early type of apple the tropical shrub Indian liquorice a wooden Oriental javelin

a kind of petrol-can a strap of leather attached to the talons of a hawk, by which it is held on the fist; (verb) to fasten such straps subtle argument a piece of stamped metal used as a counter in card-playing stuff thrown overboard to lighten the load in time of distress which sinks or is washed ashore like jet, black; (noun) a pier, a projecting part of a wall; (verb) to project, jut out one who makes, or deals in, jewels, precious stones, and similar ornaments jewels in general to move with a rolling motion

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jigjig jiff jiffy jimmie jimmy jimpson jimson jinne jirre jinriksha ricksha rickshaw rikisha rikshaw jipijapa jipyapa jiujitsu jiujutsu jujitsu jujutsu jivey jivy jo joe joannes johannes jodel yodel yodle johnnie johnny jokey joky jokol yokul jole joll joule jowl jolleyer jollyer joncanoe junkanoo jook jouk jookery joukery joram jorum jostle justle

an instant a short crowbar used by burglars as in jimpson weed, a type of poisonous plant with white flowers and shiny fruits an exclamation expressive of surprise, admiration, shock, etc a small, two-wheeled hooded carriage drawn by a man or men

a palm-like tree of tropical America a combat art

jazzy, lively a loved one an obsolete Portuguese gold coin, named from the figure of King John which it bears to sing or shout changing rapidly from normal to falsetto a condom full of jokes yes carl to bump, knock

one who uses a jolley, a guide for fixing a pottery mould for plates a boisterous West Indian dance to duck or dodge trickery, roguery a large drinking-bowl to run or strike against

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jotun jotunn joviality jovialty jubilance jubilancy jubile jubilee judgement judgment jumbie jumby juncate junket junketeer junketer junketter junkie junky junta junto juridic juridical justicer justiciar jynx yunx ka kae cabbalist kabbalist kabele kebele kabeljou kabeljouw kaccha kuccha kachina katchina katcina kade ked kaffir kafir kaffiyah kaffiyeh keffiyah keffiyeh kufiyah kahikatea kahikatoa

a giant (in Norse myth) the state of being jovial jubilation a celebration an act of judging a ghost or evil spirit a junket one who junkets, feasts; (verb) to engage in junketeering a narcotics addict a group, especially one made of military officers, ruling a country after a coup relating to the administration of justice; pertaining to a judge a judge, magistrate the wryneck in ancient Egypt, an attendant spirit supposedly dwelling as a vital force in a man or statue; (verb) to serve, help one who practices cabbalism a self-governing association found in towns in Ethiopia a large S. African fish short trousers worn by Sikhs a doll representing rain-bringing Hopi ancestors a wingless fly that infests sheep a kind of cereal grass, sorghum the cloth headgear worn by many Palestinians

a tall New Zealand coniferous tree

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kaiak kayak kyak kaie key kaif keef kef kief kif kaik kaika kail kayle kailyaird kailyard kaleyard kaim kame kainit kainite kaiser keasar kesar kalamdan qalamdan kalooki kalookie kaluki kam kamme kamala kamela kamila kamees kameez kamokamo kumikumi kamseen kamsin khamseen khamsin kanga khanga kantela kantele kaolin kaoline kapa tapa tappa

a type of canoe; (verb) to travel by kaiak a key a state of dreamy intoxication induced by eg cannabis

the South Island dialect word for kainga, a Maori village a ninepin a cabbage patch, a kitchen garden a comb; a ridge or mound of sand and gravel deposited on or near a glacier hydrous magnesium sulphate with potassium chloride, found in salt deposits, used as a fertilizer an emperor a Persian writing-case a card game similar to rummy, using two packs of cards and two jokers crooked, awry the red dusty hairs of the capsules of an East Indian tree used for dyeing silk in S. Asia, a loose tunic, worn by women a kind of marrow found in New Zealand the sirocco in Egypt, a hot southerly wind that usually blows from about March to May a piece of cotton cloth wound round the body as a dress a kind of zither a very pure white clay used to form the paste of porcelain; aka China clay a kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry

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kaput kaputt karait krait karoo karroo kasher kosher kashrus kashrut kashruth kat khat qat kathodal kathodic kaugh kiaugh kauri kaury kazachoc kazachok kazatski kazatsky kazatzka keblah kibla kiblah qibla kecks kecksy keksye kex keddah kheda khedah keeler keelman keelhale keelhaul keelivine keelyvine keelson kelson keeno keno quino keester keister keyster kiester

finished, done for a venomous snake of India a high inland pastoral tableland permissible to eat under Jewish law; (verb) to make kasher the laws of kosher-ness a shrub of E. Africa, Arabia, etc, or specif its leaves, chewed or taken as tea for their stimulant effect relating to a kathode, the positive terminal of a battery care, trouble a gum- and timber-yielding tree of New Zealand a Russian folk dance in which high kicks are performed from a squatting position

the direction of the place to which Muslims must turn for prayer, now the Kaaba at Mecca the hollow stalk of an umbelliferous plant, such as the cow parsnip or the hemlock

an enclosure used for the capture of wild elephants one employed in managing a Newcastle keel to punish by dragging under the keel of a ship a lead pencil a wooden or steel structure lengthwise within ship's frame to bear and distribute stress a gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with numbered balls or knobs backside, bottom

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keeve kieve kefir kephir kegeler kegler keir kier keiren keirin kelim khilim kilim kellaut khalat khilat killut kelp kilp kelpie kelpy keltie kelty kembo kimbo kentledge kintledge kermess kermis kirmess kern kerne kerosene kerosine kgotla lekgotla khaddar khadi khalifa khalifah khansama khansamah khedival khedivial khotbah khotbeh khutbah khurta kurta kiang

a large tub fermented cow's milk a bowler a bleaching-vat an 8-lap track cycling event in which the riders follow a motorcycle pacer for the first 5 1/2 laps, sprinting the remaining 2 1/2 laps after the motorcycle has pulled off the track a pileless woven rug traditionally made in the Middle East a robe of honour

a type of seaweed; (verb) to burn this a water-horse, a fabulous beast a bumper or glass filled to the brim, esp one imposed as a forfeit to set akimbo pig-iron used as ballast in ship's hold in Europe, particularly in Belgium and Holland, an outdoor festival and fair; in the United States, generally an indoor entertainment and fair combined an Irish foot-soldier; (verb) to granulate a fuel oil, aka paraffin a Botswanan assembly homespun cotton cloth a caliph; a Senussi leader; the Mahdi's successor a house-steward or butler in India relating to a khedive, the title of the Viceroy of Egypt an address or public prayer read from the steps of the pulpit in Mohammedan mosques a loose-fitting Indian tunic a wild ass native to the Tibetan plateau, aka dziggetai

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kyang kibbe kibbeh kibbi kibbitz kibitz kibbitzer kibitzer kibosh kybosh kickshaw kickshaws kiddle kidel kidnapee kidnappee kidnaper kidnapper kielbasa kolbasi kolbassi kulbasa kierie kirri kight kite kiley kylie killdee killdeer killick killock killie killifish kilometer kilometre kiloton kilotonne kiltie kilty kimchee kimchi kind kynd kynde kindie kindy kindred kinred kine kyne

a Syrian dish of ground meat and cracked wheat to offer unwanted advice one who offers unwanted advice to finish off, ruin the chances of a fancy dish, a delicacy; a trinket a stake-fence set in a stream for catching fish one who is kidnapped one who kidnaps a smoked sausage

a stick, club a kite a boomerang a bird of the plover family a small stone anchor in a wooden frame a small freshwater fish, used as bait a thousand metres one thousand tons a wearer of a kilt a very spicy Korean dish made with a variety of raw vegetables disposed to do good to others; (noun) a sort or type; (verb, obs.) to beget kindergarten, a nursery school a natural grouping cattle a type of television tube

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kinetic kinetical kinfolk kinsfolk kirkyaird kirkyard kishka kishke kismat kismet kissagram kissogram kithe kythe kittul kitul klatch klatsch klick klik klondike klondyke klondiker klondyker klooch kloochman klootch kludge kluge kludgey kludgy knackish knacky knaidel kneidel knawe knawel knevell nevel knicker nickar knobble knubble nubble knurl nurl knurling nulling koban kobang obang

relating to movement people related to one a churchyard seasoned mashed potatoes in a casing fate, destiny a service whereby a kiss is delivered eg on someone's birthday by a kissagram girl to make known the jaggery palm; a fibre obtained from the leaf-stalks of this, used for making ropes, brushes, etc in N. America, a coffee party or other social function a kilometre a very rich source of wealth; a card game, a kind of patience; (verb) to export (fish, esp mackerel or herring) while fresh, freq. to a foreign factory ship a factory-ship a Native American woman, wife or squaw a botched or makeshift device; (verb) to botch cobbled together having a knack; cunning in Jewish cooking, a dumpling a cornfield weed of the chickweed family to pound with the nieves, the fists a clay marble; the round seed of a tree, used for playing marbles to pound with the fists a small excrescence or protuberance; (verb) to make knurls on knurled work in wood-carving an obsolete Japanese gold coin

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kolhoz kolkhos kolkhoz kolkoz kolinski kolinsky kombu konbu konaki koneke konimeter koniscope koodoo kudu kookie kooky koph qoph kopje koppie korma qorma kotow kowtow kotower kowtower koulan kulan koumis koumiss koumys koumyss kumiss kumys kourbash kurbash krang kreng krans krantz kranz kreplach kreplech kumara kumera kunkar kunkur kvas kvass quass ky

a collective or co-operative farm in the former USSR

a kind of northern Eurasian mink a kind of Japanese seaweed a farm vehicle with runners at the front and wheels at the rear an instrument for measuring the amount of dust in the air a kind of antelope with long spiral horns with the qualities of a kook the nineteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet a low hill an Indian dish, a mild curry the prostration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground; (verb) to perform a kotow one who kotows a wild ass inhabiting the plains of Central Asia, aka onager an intoxicating fermented or distilled liquor originally made by the Tartars from mare's or camel's milk

a whip of hide; (verb) to flog with a kourbash the carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed a crown of rock on a mountain-top small dough dumplings usually served in soup the sweet potato a concretionary limestone in India an alcoholic drink of low strength made in Russia and E. Europe from cereals and stale bread cattle

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kye laager laer laari laree lari labda lambda labdanum ladanum labeler labeller labialism labiality labiate labiated labor labour laborer labourer laborism labourism laborite labourist labrid labroid laccolite laccolith lacertian lacertine lacey lacy lachrymal lacrimal lacrymal lacker lacquer lackey lacquey lacmus litmus laconic laconical lacrimoso lagrimoso lacteal lactean lacteous lacuna lacune lacunal

a defensive ring of ox-wagons; (verb) to arrange wagons in such a ring a monetary unit of the Maldives, 1/100th of a rufiyaa the Greek letter L a gum resin gathered from certain Oriental species of Cistus one who labels the quality of being labial of a corolla or calyx, two-lipped; (noun) a member of the Labiatae family of plants toil, hard work; (verb) to work, toil one who labors support for workers' rights one who supports workers' rights related to the wrasse genus of fish, of the family Labridae; (noun) a member of the wrasse family a mass of igneous rock intruded between two sedimentary beds related to the lizard family; (noun) a member of the lizard family of or like lace relating to tears; (noun) a gland that produces tears a solution of film-forming substances in a volatile solvent; (verb) to coat with lacker a footman or valet; a servile follower; (verb) to serve or attend as a lackey litmus of a person's speech, using few words, terse plaintive pertaining to milk; (noun) a vessel conveying chyle from the intestines to the thoracic ducts a gap, a hiatus relating to a lacuna, a gap

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lacunary lacunate lacunar lequear lade laden laid load loaden ladify ladyfy ladron ladrone latron ladykin lakin laesie lazy laevigate levigate laevo levo laevulin levulin laevulose levulose lagan lagend ligan laggen laggin lagnappe lagniappe lagoon laguna lagune la lah laich laigh laidly laithly loathly laik lake laith loath loth laldie laldy lallan

a sunken panel or coffer in a ceiling to load

to make like a lady a robber; a pirate; hence, loosely, a rogue or rascal a little lady lazy to smooth, polish turning towards the left a polysaccharide occurring in the tubers of certain helianthus plants the laevorotatory (and predominant naturally occurring) form of fructose cargo jettisoned from ship but marked by buoys for recovery the angle between the side and bottom of a wooden dish a small gift given a customer by a merchant at the time of purchase; broadly, something given or obtained gratuitously the stretch of water within an atoll or inside a barrier reef a musical note low; a piece of low-lying ground; a hollow loathly to sport or play loth a beating or thrashing lowland

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lalland lawland lowland lallygag lollygag lamaserai lamasery lambast lambaste lamed lamedh lameter lamiger lamiter lammiger laminar laminary laminose laminous lamister lamster lammie lammy lampas lampasse lampers lampuka lampuki lanate lanated lanose landdros landdrost landskip lantskip landward landwards lanely lonely lang long langrage langrel langridge langspel langspiel langsyne langsynes languet languette laniard

to spend time idly, aimlessly, or foolishly; to dawdle a monastery or convent of lamas, in Tibet, Mongolia, etc to beat severely a Hebrew letter a cripple

in layers or thin plates relating to lamina, a thin plate or layer a fugitive esp from the law a thick quilted jumper worn by sailors an inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the roof of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the horse an edible Mediterranean fish having or consisting of a woolly covering of hairs in S. Africa, a district magistrate or sheriff landscape; (verb) to landscape in the direction of land lonely long a shot consisting of canister containing irregular pieces of iron, formerly used to damage sails and rigging an old Shetland cithern long since; long ago a tongue-like appendage or outgrowth a rope or line for fastening something in a ship

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lanyard lanolin lanoline lantern lanthorn lapel lappel lapeled lapelled lapje lappie lapper lopper lapsable lapsible lapstrake lapstreak larcener larcenist lardon lardoon largess largesse larine laroid larkish larksome larky larn learn larvate larvated laryngal laryngeal lasagna lasagne laserdisc laserdisk lashings lashins lass lassie lassock latence latency latewake lichwake likewake likewalk lykewake lykewalk

a fat from wool, a mixture of palmitate, oleate and stearate a lamp or light in a case; (verb) to provide or light with lanterns part of a coat, jacket etc. folded back as a continuation of the collar having lapels a rag or piece of cloth to curdle, clot liable to lapse a clinker-built boat one who commits larceny a strip of bacon used for larding a bestowal or distribution of gifts of or pertaining to the gull family given to larking to learn masked, covered as with a mask of or pertaining to the larynx; (noun) a sound articulated at the larynx flat sheets of pasta; a dish made with this a disc similar to a long-playing record on which data is stored by the use of a laser an abundance a girl the state of being latent an erroneous form of lykewake, a watch over a corpse

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lathee lathi latten lattin lauch laugh laura lavra lauwine lawine lavalier lavaliere laverock lavrock lavolt lavolta volta lawk lawks laylock lilac lazaret lazarette lazaretto lea ley leachour lecher leafy leavy leal loyal lealty loyalty leam leme leaperous leaporous leaprous leprous lear leare leir lere leary leery leasow leasowe leaze leasure leisure

an India, a heavy stick metal in thin plates a laugh; (verb) to laugh a group of huts or cells inhabited by reclusive monks in Egypt and the Middle East an avalanche a loosely-tied bow; a jewelled pendant a skylark; (verb) to catch larks a lively dance for couples in 3/4 time; (verb) to dance the lavolt interjection expressing surprise lilac a hospital treating infectious diseases a meadow or pasture a lecher full of leaves loyal loyalty a gleam of light, a glow; (verb) to gleam, glow leprous

to teach

cunning, wary a pasture; (verb) to pasture leisure

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lechaim lechayim lehaim lehayim lectern lecturn lettern lecythus lekythos lekythus ledger leidger leiger lidger lieger leear liar leechee lichee lichi litchi lychee leeward leewards leftie lefty leftward leftwards legaliser legalizer legatary legatee leglan leglen leglin leguaan leguan leister lister leitmotif leitmotiv lemel limail lemurian lemurine lemuroid lenger longer lenience leniency lentisc

a traditional Jewish toast

a reading desk or support in a church a narrow-necked Greek flask an ambassador; (verb) to fix (tackle or bait) for fishing on the bottom without a float

a liar a tropical fruit

on the lee side > adv towards the lee side; (noun) the leeward side or quarter someone who is politically left-wing on the left; (adv.) towards the left; (noun) the left side one who legalises one to whom a legacy is bequeathed a milking-pail a large monitor lizard of the genus Varanus a three-pronged spear or trident used for fishing; (verb) to spear with a leister a leading motif, a recurring theme in a novel, musical signature for something the dust and filings of metal like a lemur; (noun) a member of the lemur family longer the quality of being lenient the mastic tree

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lentisk les lez lezz lezza lezzie lezzy leucaemia leucemia leukaemia leukemia leucaemic leucemic leukemic leuchen leughen leucin leucine leucocyte leukocyte leucoma leukoma leucotomy leukotomy lev lew leve lief lieve leveler leveller levitic levitical lewdsby lewdster lewis lewisson leylandi leylandii liana liane liard liart lyard lyart libecchio libeccio libelant libellant libelee libellee

lesbian

a type of cancer

of or like leucemia, a type of cancer old past of lauch, to laugh an essential amino-acid, a product of protein hydrolysis a colorless corpuscle, as one of the white blood corpuscles, or those found in lymph, marrow of bone, connective tissue, etc a white opacity in the cornea of the eye, aka albugo a surgical scission of the fibres between the frontal lobes of the brain and the thalamus to relieve cases of severe schizophrenia a unit of Bulgarian currency gladly; (noun) a beloved one who levels of or like a levite or clergyman someone addicted to lewdness a dovetailed iron tenon made to fit into a stone so that it can be hoisted the Leyland cypress any climbing plant, esp a twisted woody kind festooning tropical forests grey; dapple-grey; (noun) an old French coin of low value

a strong westerly (or southwesterly) wind that blows on to Corsica's western coast one who brings a charge of libel one who is libeled

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libeler libelist libeller libellous libelous licence license licencee licensee licencer licenser licensor licente lisente lich lych lichenose lichenous lichgate lychgate licht light lichtly lightly lickerish liquorish licorice liquorice lifeful lifull lyfull lig ligge lignage lineage lynage ligroin ligroine ligulate ligulated likable likeable limiter lymiter limnetic limnic limpsey limpsy lin linn linable

one who libels relating to libel being allowed; (verb) to grant leave to one who is licensed, eg to run a pub one who licenses plural of sente, a monetary unit of Lesotho a corpse of, pertaining to, or resembling, lichens; abounding in lichens a roofed churchyard gate light; (noun) light; (verb) to light to slight, make light of dainty, tempting to the taste; lecherous a confectionery made with an extract from the root of the liquorice plant full of vitality to lie lineage a trade name applied to some of the volatile products obtained in refining crude petroleum resembling or shaped like a strap capable of being liked a friar who had a license to beg within certain areas living in fresh water; pertaining to fresh water lacking strength or vigor a waterfall; (verb, obs.) to cease that can be lined

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lineable linalol linalool linch linchet lynchet linchpin lynchpin lincture linctus lind linden lineate lineated linen lyne liney liny linga lingam lingel lingle lingster linkster linguica linguisa linguine linguini linhay linney linny linnet lintie lintwhite linseed lintseed linstock lintstock lintel lintol lioncel lioncelle lionel lioniser lionizer lipaemia lipemia lipid lipide lipin lipolitic

a fragrant liquid alcohol, used to make perfume, obtained from oil of rosewood an unploughed strip as a boundary between two fields a pin passed through an axle-end to keep a wheel in position a medicated syrup for throat a lime-tree marked with lines a fabric woven from the fibers of flax like a line the phallic symbol under which Siva is principally worshipped in his character of the creative and reproductive power a shoemaker's thread an interpreter a kind of Portuguese sausage a kind of pasta made in narrow strips a shed with an open front a common finch, feeding on flaxseed lint or flax seed a pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon a horizontal beam supporting the load above a door a small lion used as a bearing one who lionises an abnormal level of fat in the blood a group of chemicals found in tissues, a constituent of fat of or like lipolysis, the disintegration of fat

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lipolytic lippie lippy liquefy liquify liripipe liripoop lispound lispund lissom lissome lithesome lit litas lite lyte liter litre lithoid lithoidal litoral littoral littlin littling livable liveable livelod livelood liveyer liveyere livier livyer loadstar lodestar loadstone lodestone loathful lothefull lothfull lobate lobated lobola lobolo lobstick lopstick lobulate lobulated lobulose lobworm lugworm localiser

an old Scottish dry measure, the fourth part of a peck to make liquid a long tail of a hood, esp in old academic or clerical dress a varying weight, 12 to 34 pounds, used in Orkney and Shetland easily flexed, lithe a former monetary unit of Lithuania of food and drink, low in calories, alcoholic content, etc; (verb) (Spenser) to alight, dismount a measure of capacity in the metric system, a cubic decimeter like stone pertaining to or on the seashore a child able to be lived livelihood a permanent resident of Newfoundland

the pole-star; one that serves as an inspiration, model or guide magnetite that is naturally magnetized; a piece of this used as a magnet full of loathing having a lobe or lobes an African custom whereby the bridegroom's family makes a payment in cattle or cash to the bride's family before marriage a tree with its lower branches trimmed having lobules a polychaete worm of the genus Arenicola, which burrows in sandy beaches and is much used as fishing bait one who localises

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localizer locater locator lockpick picklock locoplant locoweed locular loculate loculated locule loculus lodgement lodgment lodicula lodicule loerie lourie loessal loessial loessic loggy logy login logon loglog lolog logoff logout logogram logograph lollipop lollypop lulibub loment lomentum lompish lumpish longaeval longeval longan lungan longboat longship loo lou looey looie louie loofa

one who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim an instrument for picking locks astragalus or other related plant, that drives cattle mad of eg an ovary, divided into compartments by septa any of a number of small cavities or cells separated from one another by septa; esp a cavity of an ovary or anther the act of lodging, or the state of being lodged a green or white scale forming the lowest part of a grass flower a type of African bird with crimson or grey plumage relating to loess, a fine-grained wind deposit of clay, sand, and silt heavy or dull in motion or thought access to a mainframe or server system the logarithm of a logarithm exit from a mainframe or server system a written symbol representing an entire spoken word without expressing its pronunciation a large sweet (esp a boiled sweet), water-ice, or similar confection, on a stick a pod that breaks in pieces at constrictions between the seeds lumpish long-lived a pulpy fruit related to the litchi, and produced by an evergreen East Indian tree a Viking ship to love lieutenant a kind of vine, whose fibrous gourd-like fruit is used as sponge

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loofah luffa lookism looksism looney loony loose lowse loral loreal lording lordkin lordling lorel lorrell losel lozell loric lorica lorimer loriner lory lowrie lowry lota lotah lote lotos lotus loto lotto loun lound lown lownd lowne loungey loungy loup lowp lour lower loury lowery louver louvre louvered louvred lovable loveable lox

discrimination on grounds of appearance crazy (noun, coll.) a lunatic not firm, taut, or rigid; (verb) to set free pertaining to the lore, the side of a bird's head a petty lord a good for nothing fellow; a vagabond

a leather corslet; the case of a rotifer etc a maker of bits, spurs and other small metal accessories for horses a kind of small parrot in India, a small brass or copper pot a lotus a game played by covering on a card each number drawn till a line of numbers is completed sheltered, calm, quiet; (verb) to calm

relating to or reminiscent of a cocktail lounge or lounge music to leap to look sullen or threatening gloomy, louring a sloping slat placed across an opening having louvers, sloping slats placed across an opening able to be loved liquid oxygen; (verb) to supply with lox

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loxygen lubbard lubber lubric lubrical lucence lucency lucern lucerne luzern lucidity lucidness luckie lucky lud ludship luke lukewarm lumberer lumberman lumenal luminal lunanaut lunarnaut lunate lunated lunatic lunatical lungee lungi lungyi lungie lunyie lunulate lunulated lupin lupine lupuline lupulinic lurdan lurdane lurden lurgi lurgy luster lustre lustick lustique lusty lustihead lustihood

a clumsy fellow lubricious the quality of being lucent, shining a fodder plant, aka alfalfa the quality of being lucid an elderly woman who keeps an ale-house lord, used when addressing a judge moderately warm; tepid someone employed in the felling, sawing etc. of timber of a lumen, a unit of luminous flux one who travels to the moon crescent-shaped; (noun) a crescent-shaped bone of the wrist affected with lunacy; (noun) an insane person in India, a long cloth used as a loin cloth, turban etc the guillemot crescent-shaped; having crescent-shaped markings any papilionaceous plant of the genus Lupinus of or like lupulin, a yellow powder on hop cones, used as sedative a dull or sluggish person facetious for a fictitious disease the appearance of a surface in reflected light; (verb) to impart a lustre to lusty, healthy lustiness

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lustrine lustring lutanist lutenist luter lutist lutecium lutetium lutefisk lutfisk luvvie luvvy lyam lym lyme lyophil lyophile lyophilic lyophobe lyophobic lyrate lyrated maatjes matjes macaber macabre macahuba macoya macaroni maccaroni maccabaw maccaboy maccoboy machete matchet machismo machoism machzor mahzor macrame macrami macrural macrurous maddock mattock madrasa madrasah madrassa madrassah medresa medrese

a glossy silk cloth a lute-player

a rare earth element dried codfish a member of the entertainment industry a kind of bloodhound of a colloid, readily dispersed in a suitable medium of a colloid, not readily dispersed lyre-shaped a young herring before it has spawned, cured in brine grim, gruesome an American palm, whose nuts yield a violet-scented oil a form of pasta a kind of snuff a broad heavy knife used for cutting or as a weapon, esp in parts of Central and S. America the quality of being macho a Hebrew holiday-ritual prayer book a fringe or trimming of knotted thread long-tailed a pickaxe for loosening soil an Islamic college, or school attached to mosque

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medresseh madrona madrone madrono madzoon matzoon maenad menad maffia mafia mafflin maffling mag magg magalog magalogue magdalen magdalene mage magus magilp megilp megilph magnesial magnesian magnesic maharaja maharajah maharanee maharani mahjong mahjongg mahlstick malstick maulstick mahseer mahsir mahua mahwa mowa mowra maiasaur maiasaura maigre meager meagre maihem mayhem maik meck meg

a Californian tree of the Arbutus genus a food similar to yoghurt made from fermented milk a woman participant in orgiastic Dionysian rites a criminal society a simpleton to tease; to steal a large mail-order catalog in the form of a magazine a reformed prostitute a magician; a person of exceptional wisdom and learning a medium used in oil-painting, consisting of linseed-oil and mastic varnish relating to magnesia or magnesium a king or prince in India ranking above a rajah, especially the sovereign of one of the former native states the wife of a maharajah an old Chinese table game a stick used by painters to steady the hand a large freshwater fish a kind of butter-tree with edible flowers

a species of dinosaur a large Mediterranean food-fish maiming, malicious damage a mate or consort; a halfpenny

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mailcar mailcoach mainor mainour maiolica majolica mair more maist most maister master mayster maistring mastering maistry mastery majlis mejlis mak make makable makeable makar maker malam mallam malamute malemiut malemute malander mallander mallender malarial malarian malarious malarkey malarky mullarky malate maleate malax malaxate malgrado malgre mauger maugre maulgre malicho mallecho malik

a railway coach specially constructed for the transport of mail an act or fact of theft; that which is stolen an elaborate, highly-colored, glazed Italian pottery more most; (noun) the most part master; (verb) to master mastering mastery an assembly or council in various N. African and Middle Eastern countries to make capable of being made a maker, a poet a man learned in Koranic studies, used as title an Alaskan sled dog an eruption of the skin behind a horse's knee relating to malaria absurd talk, nonsense a salt of malic acid to soften by kneading in spite of

mischief in India, the head of a village, an employer

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melik mall a mallet; (verb) to beat, batter maul mallemuck the albatross mollymawk malmsey a strong sweet wine malvesie malvoisie malodor a bad smell malodour malt barley or other grain prepared for brewing or distilling or vinegar-making, esp maut by steeping, germinating, and drying; (verb) to treat or combine with malt mama a child's name for mother mamma mammie mammy mamakau a tall edible New Zealand tree fern mamako mamaku mamee a tropical plant having an edible fruit with bright yellow pulp mamey mamie mammee mammey mameluke one of former Turkish slaves that held the Egyptian throne from 1250 to 1517 mamluk mamilla the nipple of the mammary gland mammilla mamillar relating to the nipple mamillary mammet a puppet; a doll maumet mawmet mommet mammetry the religion of Mohammed; idolatry maumetry mawmetry mammock broken piece; (verb) (Shakesp.) to tear something to shreds mummock mammonist one devoted to the acquisition of wealth or the service of Mammon mammonite mamzer an illegitimate child; a despicable person momser momzer manatee a large aquatic herbivorous mammal manati mandarin a member of one of nine ranks of public officials in the Chinese Empire; a small mandarine orange of Chinese origin mandatary the holder of a mandate mandatory mandilion a loose outer garment worn over armour

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mandylion mandioc mandioca mandiocca manihoc manihot manioc manioca mandir mandira mandola mandora mandolin mandoline mandrel mandril maneuver manoeuvre mangabey mangaby mangel mangold mangey mangy maungy manifold manyfold manikin mannequin mannikin maniplies manyplies moniplies monyplies manito manitou manitu mannite mannitol manoao monoao manred manrent manteau manto mantua manty mantelet mantlet manticora manticore

a plant of the manioc genus; cassava

a Hindu or Jain temple an early type of mandolin a musical instrument of the lute kind a bar of iron fitted to a turning-lathe on which articles to be turned are fixed a contrived, complicated, and possibly deceptive plan or action; (verb) to conduct manoeuvres an Equatorial African monkey with a long tail and muzzle a variety of beet scabby many in number; (verb) to make many copies of an anatomical model of the human body used for teaching purposes the third stomach of a ruminant, aka omasum or psalterium

a name given by tribes of American Indians to a great spirit, whether good or evil, or to any object of worship a sweet alcohol obtained from manna a shrub of the heath group homage or service rendered to a superior, as to a lord; vassalage a woman's loose gown

a small cloak for women a mythical monster with head of man, body of lion, tail of dragon or scorpion

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mantid mantis mantra mantram manward manwards many monie mony manyata manyatta maormor mormaor mapstick mopstick mareschal marischal marshal marg marge margent margin marihuana marijuana marinade marinate marish marsh marketeer marketer markhoor markhor markman marksman marmoreal marmorean marocain maroquin marquess marquis marram marrum marrels merells merels merils marsupial marsupian mashgiach mashgiah mashlam

an insect of the cockroach family a sacred word or syllable towards man consisting of or amounting to a large number; (noun) a large number a small Masai settlement or encampment a high-ranking or chief steward the long handle of a mop a marshal margarine an edge, a border; (verb) to provide with a margin indian hemp; its dried flowers or leaves smoked as an intoxicant a solution used to soak meat, fowl or fish before cooking; (verb) to soak in a marinade a marsh one who markets a wild goat of the mountains of Asia an expert shot of or like marble a dress material finished with a grain surface like morocco leather a British or Irish hereditary nobleman of the second rank of the peerage, below a duke and above an earl a seaside grass a rustic game, aka fivepenny morris

relating to a pouch or to the Marsupialia; (noun) a pouched mammal a person who ensures adherence to kosher rules a mixed grain, esp rye and wheat

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mashlim mashlin mashloch mashlum maslin masjid musjid maskeg muskeg masoolah massoola masula massicot masticot massymore mattamore mastaba mastabah mastic mastich mastiche mastix mastodon mastodont mastoid mastoidal matador matadore matelot matlo matlow matelote matelotte matey maty mateyness matiness matfellon matfelon matin mattin matoke matooke matrass mattrass matrice matrix matsah matza matzah matzo

a mosque a swamp, bog or marsh a tall, many-oared Indian surf-boat yellow lead monoxide a subterranean prison an Egyptian tomb with rectangular base, sloping sides and a flat roof a pale yellow gum resin from certain Mediterranean trees, used for varnish

a large extinct mammal resembling the elephant like a nipple or teat; (noun) a prominence on the temporal bone behind the ear the bullfighter who kills the bull in a bullfight a seaman a kind of rich fish stew mate the state of being matey the greater knapweed a morning prayer service in Uganda, plantain used as a staple food a long-necked round-bodied chemical flask, used for distilling the womb; that in which anything is embedded unleavened bread, esp as eaten on Pesach

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matzoh matutinal relating to or occurring in the morning matutine mauby a frothy beverage made from boiled tree-bark mobbie mobby maulvi a teacher in Islam moolvi moolvie mauther a girl; esp a great, awkward girl mawr mawther mauvein a mauve dye mauveine mauvin mauvine maven an expert, a pundit mavin mayvin mavie the European throstle or song thrush mavis mawpus a small coin mopus maximiser one who maximises maximizer mayest old 2nd pers. sing. of may mayst mayhap perhaps mayhappen mazard a kind of small black cherry mazzard mazey winding or convoluted as a maze; confused, dizzy mazy mazourka a Polish folk dance in moderate triple measure mazurka mazout petroleum residue after distillation mazut mead an alcoholic liquor produced by fermenting a mixture of honey and water meath meathe mealie an ear of maize mielie meandrian meandering meandrous meane to lament, moan mein mene moan meanie a mean person meany meare to divide, mark off

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meer mere meazel mesel mecca mekka medacca medaka medalist medallist medcinal medicinal meddle medle medevac medivac mediaeval medieval medic medico medullar medullary meercat meerkat megapod megapode megass megasse megilla megillah megrim migraine meiney meinie meiny menyie meint meynt melanotic melanous melee mellay melic melick melodeon melodion melodiser melodizer melodrama melodrame memoriser

a leper, spoken in contempt of a mean person a place visited by many people a small freshwater fish one who wins a medal medicinal, curative to interfere unnecessarily and ill-advisedly medical evacuation; (verb) to evacuate the wounded from the battlefield by helicopter belonging to the Middle Ages; (noun) a person who lived in the Middle Ages a doctor, a medical student consisting of or resembling marrow or pith a S. African carnivore, the suricate, related to the ichneumon one of a family of birds of Australasia, including jungle fowl, brush turkey, etc refuse in sugar-making, aka bagass or bagasse a scroll containing a book of the Old Testament migraine; depression or unhappiness a family, including servants, etc.; a household

old past of meng, to mix dark-complexioned a confused struggle a type of perennial grass a small reed organ one who melodises a kind of romantic and sensational drama one who memorises

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memorizer meneer the Dutch equivalent of Mr. or Sir; hence, a Dutchman mijnheer mynheer meng to mix; to unite, couple menge ming menominee a small whitefish found in the northern US and Canada menomini mensal monthly mensual meou to make a sound like a cat meow miaou miaow miaul merciable merciful merciful merel a counter used in the game of merils merell meril merl a blackbird merle mermaid a mythical creature with a woman's upper body and a fish's tail mermaiden merome one of the serial segments, or metameres, of which the bodies of vertebrate and merosome articulate animals are composed mesail a visor, esp one made in two parts mezail mesal in or towards the median plane mesial mesian mescal a distilled liquor prepared in Mexico from a species of agave mezcal mescalin the principal alkaloid in mescal, used as a hallucinogen mescaline mezcaline mesclum a mixed salad of young leaves and shoots, eg of rocket, chicory, fennel etc mesclun meshuga mad, crazy; (noun) a mad person meshugah meshugga meshuggah meshugge meshugaas madness, foolishness mishegaas mishegoss mesoglea a gelatinous layer between the endoderm and ectoderm of a coelenterate mesogloea mesophyl the photosynthetic tissue of a green plant borne beneath the epidermis mesophyll

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mesquin mesquine mesquit mesquite mezquit mezquite muskit messiah messias mestee mustee mesteso mestino mestizo mestom mestome metalist metallist metazoan metazoon metestick metewand meteyard methadon methadone methink methinks metricist metrist meuse mews muset musit smeuse meze mezze mezereon mezereum mezuza mezuzah mhorr mohr miasm miasma miasmal miasmatic miasmic miasmous mib mig

mean, sordid, shabby a name for two trees of the southwestern part of N. America, the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite

a hoped-for deliverer in the West Indies, the offspring of a white person and a quadroon, aka octoroon a person of mixed, esp Spanish and American-Indian parentage conductive tissue associated with parenchyma a worker in metals, or one skilled in metals relating to to the Metazoa; (noun) any animal more complex than a unicellular protozoan a measuring rod a synthetic drug similar to morphine archaic for I think a person skilled in metres; one who writes in metres a small hole or gap through which a wild animal passes; (verb) to pass through a meuse

a type of appetizer served in Greece an early-flowering woodland shrub with fragrant purplish or rose-coloured flowers a small rolled parchment affixed to the doorposts in Jewish houses in fulfilment of the Torah's command to inscribe God's words upon the doorposts of one's house a West African gazelle foul vapours from rotting matter; unwholesome air of or like a miasma

a type of playing marble

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migg miggle micell micella micelle mich miche mitch mooch mouch micher moocher moucher micht might mick micky meikle mickle mochell muchel muchell microbial microbian microbic micron mikron middie middy midwife midwive miffy mifty mightest mightst mikvah mikveh miladi milady milage mileage milchig milchik militance militancy militar military milleped millepede milliped millipede

a group of molecular chains, a structural unit of colloids to play truant

a truant might an Irishman great, much

of or like a microbe a micrometre a 285ml beer glass a woman who delivers babies; (verb) to act as a midwife quick to take offence old 2nd pers. sing. of might a place for ritual bathing by Orthodox Jews a term of address for a rich or aristocratic English lady distance in miles made of or derived from milk or dairy products the condition or fact of being militant, esp in pursuing a political or social end military a myriapod with many legs

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millrace millrun milor milord mim mimsey mimsy mimbar minbar mimetic mimetical mimmick minnick minnock mina mna myna mynah minable mineable mineola minneola minever miniver minidisc minidisk miniment muniment minimiser minimizer miniscule minuscule minutial minutiose miosis myosis miotic myotic mirbane myrbane mirific mirifical mirk murk mirkiness murkiness mirky murky misaunter mishanter miscegen

the current of water that turns a millwheel a term of address for a rich or aristocratic Englishman prim, demure, prudish a mosque pulpit imitative; of or relating to mimicry an affected person; (verb) to be over-dainty a Greek unit of weight or money an Asiatic bird of the starling family

able to be mined a variety of citrus fruit developed from a tangerine and a grapefruit the ermine in winter coat a small recordable compact disk a means of defence; a record fortifying or proving a claim one who minimises small, insignificant; (noun) a small cursive script of or like a minutia, a minute particular or detail excessive contraction of the pupil of the eye relating to miosis, excessive contraction of the pupil of the eye; (noun) a substance producing miosis an apparently meaningless word used in perfumery, as in oil of mirbane, a name of nitrobenzene working wonders; marvellous dark, gloomy; (noun) darkness, gloom the state of being mirky, dark, gloomy dark, gloomy; obscured by fog, dense vapour, etc an unlucky chance, a misfortune a person of mixed racial heritage

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miscegene miscegine miscible mixable mixible miscolor miscolour misenrol misenroll mishapt misshaped misshapen mishmash mishmosh mishmee mishmi misleeke mislike misletoe mistletoe missilery missilry missis missus mistle mizzle miter mitre miterwort mitrewort mither moider moither mitsvah mitzvah mitt mitten miz mizz mizen mizzen mobble moble mobe mobey mobie moby mobiliser mobilizer mocassin moccasin

capable of being mixed to give a wrong color to; fig. to set forth erroneously or unfairly; as, to miscolor facts to enrol wrongly misshaped an eclectic collection or arrangement the bitter root of an Assamese gold-thread plant, with tonic properties to dislike mistletoe missiles collectively wife to rain in very fine drops a high, pointed headdress, cleft crosswise on top and with two ribbons hanging from the back, worn by archbishops and bishops; (verb) to join with a miter joint a slender, perennial herb with a pod slightly resembling a bishop's miter to confuse, stupefy a precept; a duty, an obligation, a good deed any of various glovelike hand coverings, such as one that does not cover the fingers misery in a three-masted vessel, the hindmost of the fore-and-aft sails to muffle a mobile phone

something that serves to mobilise a heelless shoe of deerskin or other soft leather

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mochie mochy mocock mocuck mocuddum mokaddam muqaddam modeler modeller modiwort moldwarp moudiwart moudiwort mouldwarp mowdie mofette moffette moggie moggy moghul mogul mughal moil moyl moyle mule mold mould molder moulder molecast molehill molla moolah mulla mullah muller mollusc mollusk molluscan molluskan molt moult molter moulter monacid monoacid monact monactine monad monas

mouldy, damp a N. American birch-bark box or basket a leader, headman one who models; hence, a worker in plastic art a mole

a volcanic opening in the earth emitting carbon dioxide a cat an influential person, a magnate to drudge

to shape to become mouldy a little elevation of earth made by a mole a Muslim learned in theology and law

any animal of the phylum Mollusca, members of which (as limpets, snails, cuttlefish, oysters, mussels, etc.) have soft bodies and (usu.) hard shells related to the mollusc family; (noun) a member of the mollusc family to shed feathers or another coating a moulting bird a compound having one hydrogen atom replaceable by a negative or acid atom or radical of a sponge, having single-rayed spicules the number one; a unit; a single-celled organism

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a kind of pheasant, native to the Himalayas pertaining to a monarch, ruling alone having only one axis; developing along a single line having separate male and female flowers on the same plant a hypothetical simplest protozoan, the organism on which Hackel's version of the evolution theory is based a month having money a mixed grain, esp rye and wheat, aka maslin trading in a particular line of goods the waste produced in a woollen mill; low quality wool an offensive term meaning affected by Down's syndrome an Indian animal of the civet family, a great slayer of snakes and rats a name; an alias, nickname monocotyledon, a plant having a single cotyledon a cycle with only one wheel of or like a monody, a mournful ode or poem performed by a single mourner a dramatic piece for a single performer; (verb) to perform a monolog a one-footed person of fabulous Ethiopian race, with foot large enough to be a sunshade the separation of parts usually fused a single stele an upward blow in fencing an Indian lawyer; a Turkish local government official a hornless cow

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moonshee a secretary, interpreter munshi moonward in the direction of the moon moonwards moop to nibble, munch moup moor a wide expanse of uncultivated ground, esp upland, often covered with heath, muir and having a poor, peaty soil; (verb) to secure a vessel by means of cables moorburn the seasonal burning of heather on moorland to promote new growth muirburn moorva bowstring hemp murva mopane a small S. African tree with racemes of greenish flowers mopani mopehawk an owl of Australia and New Zealand mopoke morepork mopey moping mopy mora a unit of metrical time in prosody a game of guessing how many fingers are held morra up morainal of or pertaining to a moraine morainic moraliser one who moralises moralizer moray a kind of eel murray murrey murry moreish such that one wants more morish morion a crested metal helmet worn by soldiers in the 1500's and 1600's morrion morling a sheep that has died from disease mortling moronism the condition of being a moron moronity morphean relating to Morpheus, the god of sleep morphetic morphin the principal alkaloid in opium morphine morrice a morris dance morris mortgager one who gives a mortgage mortgagor morticer one who makes mortice joints mortiser mosk an Islamic temple mosque mossie mosquito mozzie

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motet motett motser motza motuca mutuca mou mouth moufflon mouflon muflon musimon musmon moujik mujik muzhik muzjik mousaka moussaka mousey mousie mousy mousme mousmee moust muist must moustache mustache mouter multure mouterer multurer movable moveable movieola moviola moz mozz mozetta mozzetta mridamgam mridang mridanga mridangam mucigen mucinogen mucinoid mucinous muckluck

a kind of unaccompanied part-song or anthem a large amount of money, esp a gambling win a large Brazilian biting fly a mouth a Corsican wild sheep

a Russian peasant

a dish traditionally eaten in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans, consisting of alternate layers of minced lamb, aubergines and tomatoes, usually covered with béchamel sauce and cheese like a mouse, timid; grey a Japanese girl, esp a waitress a musk, hair-powder; (verb) to powder the unshaved hair on a man's upper lip a miller's fee for grinding corn; (verb) to take mouter for a person who pays or receives mouter, a miller's fee for grinding corn capable of being moved; (noun) something that can be moved a brand of film-editing machine bad luck a short cape with an ornamental hood worn by Catholic prelates a two-headed Indian drum, one head being larger than the other

a substance forming mucus of or like mucin, a substance produced by mucous membranes a type of sealskin boot

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mucluc mukluk mucoid lIke mucus; (noun) a substance like mucus, found in connective tissue mucoidal mucose of or like mucus mucous mudiria the province or office of a mudir, a local governor mudirieh mueddin the Muslim official who calls the faithful to prayer muezzin muenster a semi-soft cow's milk cheese from Munster in France munster muggar a broad-snouted Indian crocodile mugger muggur mujahedin islamic fundamentalist freedom fighters mujahidin mulch to provide with a protective coating for the soil mulsh mullein a tall, stiff, yellow-flowered woolly plant of the Verbascum genus mullen mullion an upright division between window panes; (verb) to divide a window with mullions munnion mulmul a fine, soft muslin mulmull multipara a mother of two or more children pluripara multiped an insect having many feet, as a myriapod multipede mum silent; (noun) mother; (verb) to act in a mime mumm mummify to turn into mummy mummy mumu a long loose dress muumuu mundungo a foul-smelling tobacco mundungus munt an offensive word for a black African muntu muntin the vertical framing piece between door panels munting muntjac a kind of small deer muntjak muraena a genus of large eels of the family Muraenidae murena muraled decorated with murals muralled muricate rough or warty with short sharp points muricated murid belonging to the rat and mouse family of rodents; (noun) a member of the rat and murine mouse family

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murlain murlan murlin murr murre murra murrha murrain murren murrin murrion murree murri murrhine myrrhine muscadel muscatel muscavado muscovado muscoid muscose muscone muskone music musick muskle mussel muskrat musquash muss musse mut mutt mutative mutatory muticate muticous mutine mutiny myasis myiasis mycele mycelium mycelial mycelian myelin myeline myiophily myophily mylodon mylodont

a narrow-mouthed basket a guillemot, an auk an unidentified precious material for vases, conjectured to be agate a cattle disease

a native Australian a kind of clear glassware used to make ancient Roman vases a rich spicy wine derived from muscat grapes raw or unrefined sugar obtained from the juice of the sugar cane by evaporation and draining off the molasses mosslike a macrocyclic ketone that gives musk its distinctive smell and is used in perfumes the art of expression in sound, in melody, and harmony; (verb) to make music a mussel a large semi-aquatic N. American rodent, resembling a beaver a mess; a scramble; (verb) to disarrange, to mess a mongrel, a blockhead changing, mutable having no point or awn mutiny; a mutineer; (verb) to mutiny a disease due to flies' larvae in the body the white threads or filamentous growth from which a mushroom or fungus is developed relating to mycelium, the white threads or filamentous growth from which a mushroom or fungus is developed the substance forming the medullary sheath of nerve-fibres pollination of plants by flies an extinct genus of large slothlike American edentates

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myope a person having myopy myops myopia short-sightedness myopy myosote a genus of flower, forget-me-not myosotis myriapod a millepede or centipede myriopod mythic relating to myth mythical mythicism a theory that explains miraculous stories as myths mythism mythos myth, mythology mythus myxameba a cell produced by a spore myxamoeba myxedema a skin disease, marked by swelling and dryness, due to insufficient thyroid secretion myxoedema naam the action of taking another's goods by distraint; goods so taken nam naan a kind of slightly leavened Indian bread nan naartje a small sweet orange like the mandarin naartjie nartjie nabk a tree, the Christ's-thorn nebbuk nebeck nebek nach an entertainment in India consisting chiefly of dancing by professional dancing nauch girls nautch nache the rump of beef; esp the lower and back part of the rump natch nachtmaal a Dutch Reformed Church Sacrament, the Lord's Supper nagmaal nacket a snack, a light lunch nocket nacreous of or resembling mother-of-pearl nacrous nae no no naebody nobody nobody naething nothing nothing naeve a naevus, a birthmark naevus nevus nagana a tropical disease of cattle transmitted by tsetse fly ngana

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naif naive naivete naivety nala nalla nallah nulla nullah namable nameable namaskar namaste nandin nandina nandoo nandu nhandu nane none nankeen nankin nannie nanny nannygai nennigai nanometer nanometre napa nappa naphthol naphtol nappie nappy naras narras narc narco narceen narcein narceine narghile narghilly narghily nargile nargileh nargily narguileh narial naric narine

ingenuous; (noun) a naive person the state of being naive a ravine, a watercourse

capable of being named a traditional Indian salutation, a slight bow with the palms pressed together an evergreen Asiatic shrub of the barberry family the rhea, or S. American ostrich none a durable buff-coloured cotton a children's nurse; a grandmother a large edible marine fish a billionth of a metre a kind of soft leather prepared from sheep- or goat-skin by a special tawing process any one of a series of hydroxyl derivatives of naphthalene, analogous to phenol an infant's diaper an edible melonlike fruit of a S. African shrub a narcotics agent a narcotic alkaloid found in opium a hookah, an Oriental tobacco pipe in which smoke is drawn through water by a long tube

of or relating to the nostrils

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narrater narrator narwal narwhal narwhale nascence nascency naseberry neesberry nisberry natheless nathless naythles netheless nathemo nathemore nevermore naumachia naumachy neafe neaffe neif neive nief nieve nebbich nebbish nebbishe nebbisher nebish nebule nebuly nebuliser nebulizer nebulose nebulous nectareal nectarean nectarous needle neeld neele neem neemb nimb neese neeze negater negator negaton negatron

one who narrates a kind of whale with a large projecting spiral tusk the state of being nascent an edible fruit, the sapodilla nevertheless

nevermore a mock sea battle, performed as a spectacle among the ancient Romans a fist

a colourless, insignificant person

wavy; (noun) a wavy moulding a spraying apparatus, an atomiser like a nebula, cloudy of or like nectar a slender, pointed instrument for sewing; (verb) to irritate an East Indian tree to sneeze one who negates a hypothetical atomic particle with mass equal to that of a proton, but with a negative charge equal to that of an electron

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neglecter neglector neglige negligee negritude nigritude negroid negroidal neighbor neighbour neist next nelies nelis nelumbium nelumbo nemertean nemertian nemertine neologian neologist neologism neology neoteinia neoteny neotenic neotenous nepheline nephelite nerd nurd nerdish nerdy nurdish nurdy nereid nereis nerts nertz nerval neural nervation nervature neuration neuk nook neum neume neumatic neumic neuron

one who neglects a woman's loose decorative dressing-gown of flimsy material the essential quality of the Negro genius typical of black or African peoples; (noun) a negroid person a person who lives near or next door to another; (verb) to border on next, nearest a winter pear a plant of the Nelumbium genus of waterlilies that includes the sacred lotus any of a phylum of wormlike animals, mostly marine, ciliated, often brightly coloured one who introduces new words or new senses of old words into a language a new word, phrase or doctrine; a new use of an established word prolonged retention of larval or immature characteristics or features in the adult form exhibiting neoteny, retention of infantile or juvenile characteristics into adulthood a rock-forming mineral, silicate of sodium, potassium and aluminium, colourless, usually crystallizing in hexagonal prisms a person obsessed with computers at the expense of human interaction clumsy, socially inept

a sea nymph, one of the daughters of Nereus, attendant upon Neptune an interjection expressing disgust of the nerves the arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves a nook a succession of notes sung to one syllable relating to a neume, a sign used in musical notation a nerve cell

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neurone neuronal neuronic neustic neustonic newsie newsy niceish nicish nicher nicker nicht night nickel nickle nicotin nicotine nid nide niddering nidering niderling niding nithing nie nigh ny niger nigger nightie nighty nighttide nighttime nigrosin nigrosine nikab niqab nilgai nilgau nilghai nilghau nylghai nylghau nimbyism nimbyness nincom nincum ninjitsu ninjutsu nirled nirlie

of or like a neuron of or like neuston, minute organisms floating or swimming on water's surface full of news; abounding in information as to current events somewhat nice to neigh night a white magnetic very malleable and ductile metallic element; (verb) to plate with nickel a toxic colourless or yellowish oily liquid alkaloid which is the chief constituent of tobacco a pheasant's nest or brood an infamous person; an abject coward

to nigh, approach a negro a nightgown the time during which it is night a blackish coal-tar colour dye a veil covering the face, worn by Muslim women a kind of antelope

adherence to the doctrine of 'not in my back-yard' nincompoop a martial art, teaching stealth and camouflage knotty, stunted

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nirlit nirly nis nisse niter nitre niterie nitery nitrid nitride nitril nitrile nitroxyl nitryl nix nixie nixy nobilesse noblesse nochel notchel nodose nodous nodulose nodulous noisome noysome nole noll noul noule nowl nomad nomade nomadism nomady nombles numbles umbles nome nomos nomogram nomograph nonesuch nonsuch nonet nonette noo now noodge nudzh

in Scandinavian folklore, a brownie or goblin potassium nitrate or saltpetre a nightclub a compound of nitrogen with a more metallic element or radical any organic cyanide compound in which an alkyl group is directly attached to the carbon of a cyanide group the group NO2, usually called the nitro group a water-sprite; (verb) to veto or cancel nobility, nobleness notice that will not be responsible for another's debts; (verb) to give such notice having knots or nodules having small nodes or knots noxious, unwholesome; offensive to the senses, esp, smell the top of the head; the noddle

a member of a wandering pastoral community the state of being a nomad a deer's entrails a province or department esp in ancient Greece a chart or diagram of scaled lines or curves used to assist in mathematical calculations a person or thing without an equal a composition for nine performers now to nag

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nookie nooky norward norwards nosean noselite nosey nosy nosherie noshery nould noulde nourice nurse noursle nousell nousle noveliser novelizer noviciate novitiate noway noways nown own nubbly nubby nubilose nubilous nucha nuchal nucleide nuclide nucleole nucleolus nudnick nudnik numchuck nunchaku numeric numerical nummary nummulary nuncle uncle nuraghe nurhag nurseling nursling nutgrass nutsedge

sexual intercourse in a northerly direction a cubic mineral, aluminum sodium silicate and sulphur inquisitive; (noun) an inquisitive person a cafe or restaurant old past of nill, not to will, to refuse a nurse to bring up, foster one who makes a novel of something the state of being a (religious) novice in no manner or degree own having small protuberances cloudy; vague the nape of the neck an atom of specified atomic number and mass number a minute rounded body within the nucleus of a cell, associated with RNA synthesis a dense, boring, or bothersome person a martial arts weapon consisting of two sticks joined by a length of chain, used as a flail or garotte relating to number; (noun) a numeral relating to coins or money an uncle a broch-like Sardinian round tower, probably of the Bronze Age an infant that is being suckled any of various American sedges

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nyaff yaff nymphal nymphean nymphet nymphette nymphic nymphical oaker ocher ochre oarweed oreweed obbligato obligato obconic obconical obe obeah obi obia obeahism obeism obiism obital obitual oblique obliquid obol obolus obsequie obsequy obsign obsignate obtect obtected obvolute obvoluted occupance occupancy ocellate ocellated ocherous ochery ochreous ochrey ochroid ochrous ochry ochone ohone

a small or worthless person or thing; (verb) to yelp, yap; to talk frivolously of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs a sexually desirable pubescent girl of or pertaining to nymphs ochre a kind of seaweed a musical accompaniment of independent importance, esp that of a single instrument to a vocal piece conical, but having the apex downward; inversely conical a form of West Indian witchcraft

a form of West Indian witchcraft relating to an obit, a religious office for a dead person slanting (verb, obs.) to deviate from a direct line a Greek coin a funeral rite to seal or confirm of an insect, having wings and legs immovably pressed against the body in a hard chitinous case of a leaf etc., having a margin that alternately overlaps and is overlapped by that of an opposing leaf the act or fact of occupying eyelike and ringed; having an eyelike spot or spots containing or resembling ochre

an Irish interjection of lamentation

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ochrea ocrea ochreate ocreate octa okta octaploid octoploid octaroon octoroon octastyle octostyle octet octett octette octopod octopodan oculate oculated oda odah odal udal odalique odalisk odalisque odaller udaller odeon odeum odor odour odored odoured odorful odourful odorless odourless odyl odyle oe oy oye oecist oikist oedipal oedipean oenomel oinomel offence offense

a sheath of stipules enclosing the leafstalks of certain plants having an ochrea, a scarious sheath round a stem a unit of cloud-cover, one-eighth sky eightfold; (noun) a cell, organism or form with eight sets of chromosomes a person having one-eighth Black blood; the offspring of a quadroon and a White having eight columns at the end; (noun) an octastyle building a composition for eight voices; a group of eight lines of verse an octopus or other eight-armed creature having eyes a room in a harem of land in Orkney or Shetland, held by the old native form of freehold tenure; (noun) an estate so held a female slave; a concubine in a harem in the Orkneys and Shetlands, one who holds a udal estate a building for the performance of vocal and instrumental music, esp among the ancient Greeks and Romans any smell, whether fragrant or offensive having an odor full of odours without odor the vital force a grandchild the founder of a colony pertaining to the libidinous feelings of a son towards his mother a beverage of ancient Greece consisting of wine and honey something that causes upset

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offerer offeror offhand offhanded offie offy ogam ogham ogamic oghamic ogmic ogreish ogrish ogreism ogrism oka oke okeydoke okeydokey oldie oldy oldsquaw oldwife olefin olefine olein oleine olicook olycook olykoek oligaemia oligemia oligaemic oligemic ollamh ollav omber ombre ombrella umbrella umbrello omelet omelette omicron omikron omneity omniety omphalic omphaloid oncet onst

the maker of an offer ungraciously curt an off-licence a 6th C. Irish writing alphabet of or like ogam like an ogre the character or manners of an ogre a Turkish unit of weight OK an old person or thing a kind of duck, aka hareld a hydrocarbon of the ethylene series a glycerine ester of oleic acid a kind of American doughnut abnormal deficiency of blood relating to oligaemia, abnormal deficiency of blood an Irish master poet a card game an umbrella a savoury dish made of eggs beaten and fried in a pan a Greek letter allness, the condition of being all of or pertaining to the omphalos, the umbilicus, or navel once

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oncogen oncogene oncome onding oncus onkus ondine undine oneiric oniric oner wunner onery ornery oneyer oneyre onward onwardly onwards oobit oubit woobut woubit oodles oodlins oof ooftish oogenesis oogeny oologic oological oolong oulong oomiac oomiack oomiak umiac umiack umiak umiaq oop oup oor our oorali ourali ourari urali urari woorali woorara

an agent producing cancerous tumours a coming on, a sudden onset, eg of rain disordered, bad a female water spirit pertaining to dreams something that is one of its kind cantankerous a (great) one going on a hairy caterpillar, esp of the tiger moth

lots of money the enlargement and meiosis of an oogonium that produces an ovum relating to oology, the collection and study of birds' eggs a kind of tea an Eskimo canoe

to bind with thread, join our the plant yielding curare

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woorari wourali oorial urial oorie ourie owrie oosporic oosporous oot out opacous opaque opalised opalized opercele opercule operculum ophiura ophiuran ophiurid ophiuroid optimiser optimizer opulence opulency opuscle opuscule opusculum orach orache oracular oraculous orang orangutan ourang orangerie orangery orangey orangy orarion orarium oratress oratrix orc orca orchard orchat orcin orcine orcinol

a wild sheep of central Asia, that has a reddish coat and long curved horns dingy, shabby of or pertaining to an oospore, a special kind of spore resulting from the fertilization of an oosphere by antherozoids out; (noun) an out opaque made smooth, like opal an anatomical part that serves as a lid or cover a member of the Ophiura genus of brittle-stars or sand-stars

one who optimises conspicuous wealth a short work a genus of the goosefoot family of the nature of an oracle a reddish-brown, tree-dwelling anthropoid ape, found only in the forests of Sumatra and Borneo a building for growing orange trees in a cool climate somewhat orange in the Orthodox Church, a deacon's stole a female orator, a woman who makes public addresses a killer whale an area for the cultivation of fruit trees a dihydric phenol obtained from archil and other lichens

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orectic orective oregano origan origane origanum oreide oroide oreology orology orepearch overperch orfray orphrey organdie organdy organic organical organiser organizer organon organum orgasmic orgastic orgiastic orgic orgillous orgulous oribi ourebi oricalche orichalc orient orientate orinasal oronasal orisha orixa orphic orphical orrice orris oscine oscinine oscitance oscitancy osetra ossetra osmate osmiate

pertaining to desires and their satisfaction wild marjoram

an alloy used in imitation-gold jewelry the study of mountains to fly up and perch on gold or other rich embroidery on clerical robes a fine translucent cotton relating to living matter; (noun) an organic substance one who organises a method of philosophical or scientific investigation relating to orgasm relating to orgies proud a small S. African antelope a gold-coloured alloy; brass eastern; (noun) the part where the sun rises; (verb) to determine the position of, relatively to fixed or known directions of or relating to the mouth and nose; (noun) a sound pronounced through both the mouth and nose any of the minor gods or spirits of traditional Yoruba religion mystical, oracular the Florentine or other iris; its dried rootstock smelling of violets, used in perfumery belonging to the sub-order of birds including singing birds; (noun) a singing bird yawning, sleepiness a type of caviar a salt of the hypothetical osmic acid

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osmious osmous osmol osmole osmolar osmotic osmund osmunda ostracod ostracode ostracon ostrakon otalgia otalgy ouabain wabain ouakari uakari ouch owche oughly ouglie ouistiti wistiti ouk oulk ounce unce oundy unde undee undy ouph ouphe ouroboros uroboros ourology urinology urology ouroscopy uroscopy ousel ouzel woosel woosell outby outbye outermost outmost outhaul outhauler

containing osmium in lower valency a unit of osmotic pressure pertaining to, or having the property of, osmosis; as, osmolar force any fern of the genus Osmunda, that includes royal fern a minute freshwater crustacean with a bivalve carapace a chip or shard of limestone or pottery used as a writing tablet pain in the ear a poisonous alkaloid a short-tailed, long-haired monkey an interjection expressing pain; (noun) a socket in which a precious stone is set (verb) to set a precious stone in a socket ugly; (verb) to make ugly a marmoset a week a measurement of weight, 1/16th of a pound wavy

an oaf, a changeling a snake eating its own tail, symbolizing totality or completion the study of urine or the urinary tract the diagnosis of diseases by inspection of urine a European bird of the thrush family

out of doors; a little way off farthest from the middle or interior a rope used to haul a sail taut along a spar

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outhire outhyre outjet outjut outlander uitlander outlaunce outlaunch outred outredden outroop outrope outrooper outroper outward outwards ouvert ouverte ouvrier ouvriere ovarial ovarian over ower owre overby owerby overcast overkest overcraw overcrow overhaile overhale overlade overload overleap owerloup overword owreword oviducal oviductal oviferous ovigerous oviform ovoid ovoidal ovular ovulary owse ox oxgang

to hire out a projection a foreigner to launch forth to surpass in redness an auction sale an auctioneer; the Common Crier of the City toward the outside open a (male) manual or industrial worker of or pertaining to the ovaries above; (noun) a delivery of six balls in cricket; (verb) to go, leap or vault over a little way over to sew stitches over a raw edge; to cover with stitches to crow or triumph over to overtake to load to excess to leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore the refrain of a song relating to the oviduct, a passage conveying eggs their place of fertilization egg-carrying egg-shaped relating or belonging to an ovule an ox a bovate or one-eighth of a carucate of ploughland, the share attributed to each

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oxgate oxland oxid oxide oxidiser oxidizer oxim oxime oxlip oxslip oxo oxy oxyphil oxyphile oyes oyez ozocerite ozokerite ozoniser ozonizer pa pah pablum pabulum pabular pabulous pacey pacy pacha pasha pachadom pashadom pachak putchock putchuk pachalic pashalic pashalik pachisi parcheesi parchesi parchisi pachouli patchouli patchouly packfong pakfong pakthong paktong packwax

ox in a team of eight a compound containing oxygen an oxidizing agent any of a number of compounds obtained by the action of hydroxylamine on aldehydes or ketones that contain a bivalent group attached to a carbon atom a flower like the cowslip containing oxygen an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment the call of a public crier for attention before making a proclamation; (noun) a proclamation a waxy natural paraffin an apparatus or agent for the production or application of ozone a hill fort food, especially a suspension or solution of nutrients in a state suitable for absorption; something (as writing or speech) that is insipid, simplistic, or bland of or relating to nourishment fast, lively, smart an honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc the office of pacha costus-root the jurisdiction of a pasha a game, somewhat resembling backgammon, originating in India

an Asiatic tree with a fragrant perfume oil; the resulting perfume a Chinese alloy of nickel, zinc, and copper, resembling German silver

the strong tendon in an animal's neck

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paxwax padauk padouk paddock puddock paddy padi pademelon padymelon paderero paterero pederero pedrero padishah padshah padle paidle pedagog pedagogue paederast pederast paedology pedology paeon paeonic paeony peony paesan paesano paisan paganiser paganizer pagle paigle pagod pagoda pagri pugaree puggaree puggery puggree puggry pugree pagurian pagurid paillasse palliasse painch paunch painim panim

a Burmese timber-tree an enclosed field under pasture; (verb) to enclose as in a paddock a rice field any of several small wallabies a term formerly applied to a short piece of chambered ordnance

a chief ruler; monarch; sovereign a fish, aka lumpsucker one who teaches; by extension, a pedant one who has anal sex with a boy the study of the growth and development of children a foot of four syllables, one long and three short any of various stout perennial herbaceous plants and shrubs constituting the genus Paeonia a fellow countryman one who converts others to paganism a species of Primula, either the cowslip or the primrose an Eastern temple, esp in the form of a many-storeyed tapering tower a turban, a light scarf worn round a hat to keep out the sun

belonging to hermit crab family; (noun) a member of the hermit crab family a hard straw mattress the paunch a pagan

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paynim paint peinct paiock paiocke pajock pajocke pairial parial prial paitrick partridge pakahi pakihi pakka pucka pukka palaestra palestra palamino palomino palampore palempore palankeen palanquin palea palet paleocene paleogene palinode palinody palisade palisado palkee palki palmarian palmary palmate palmated palmie palmy palmiped palmipede palmist palmister palp palpus palstaff palstave paludal paludic

a colouring substance; (verb) to make a representation of with paints an obscure word conjectured to be a misprint for peacock

a pair-royal, a throw of three dice all the same a partridge acid land unfit for cultivation genuine; first-class a wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general a horse of largely Arab blood, pale tan, yellow, or gold, with a white or silver mane and tail a flowered chintz bedcover common in Asia a light litter for one passenger the membranous inner bract of a grass flower belonging to a certain geological time period an ode or song recanting or retracting something in an earlier poem a fence of stakes used for defensive purposes; (verb) to equip with a palisade a palanquin worthy of the ceremonial palm; pre-eminent hand-shaped a stroke of the tawse on the palm a web-footed bird a person who tells fortunes by reading palms a sense organ attached to mouth-parts of certain insects and crustacea; (verb) to sense by touch a peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the Bronze Age of marshes

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paludinal paludine paludose paludous pampa pampas pomelo pompelo pumelo pummelo panacea panachaea panatela panatella panetela panetella pance pansy paunce pawnce pancheon panchion pandar pander pandit pundit pandoor pandour paneling panelling panelised panelized panelist panellist pangen pangene panick panicum pannick panier pannier panisc panisk panmixia panmixis pannicle pannikel panocha panoche penoche penuche

marshy; living in marshes a vast treeless plain in S. America the shaddock or grapefruit

a remedy for all diseases; a thing for solving all difficulties or adopted in every case of difficulty a long thin cigar

the pansy

a wide-brimmed, shallow vessel into which milk was poured and left to settle, so that the cream could separate one who procures sexual favours; (verb) to procure sexual favours a Hindu learned in Sanskrit one of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army panel-work made in sections for quick assembly one who serves on a panel a hypothetical unit of living matter any grass of the genus Panicum a provision-basket; a basket carried over one's back an inferior god, attendant upon Pan random mating within a population, esp of a model system a thin, sheet-like garment a type of fudge

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penuchi pantable pantoffle pantofle pantoufle pantalet pantalets pantalon pantalone panter pantler pantie panty pantihose pantyhose pantoum pantun paolo paul papadam papadom papadum pappadam pappadom popadum poppadom poppadum puppodum papaw papaya pawpaw papillar papillary papillose papillous papish papisher papist papoose pappoose pappose pappous paprica paprika papula papule papulose papulous papyrian papyrine paradisal

a slipper, an overshoe

long drawers, usually trimmed with ruffles, extending below the skirts a movement in a quadrille the officer in a great family who had charge of the bread and other provisions a woman's or child's undergarment tights worn by women or children with ordinary dress a verse form in quatrains, in which the second and fourth lines appear as first and third line of next quatrain, and the last line repeats the first line an obsolete papal silver coin a thin circle of dough fried in oil until crisp

a tree of the custard-apple family; its fruit like, of the nature of, or having, papillae covered with papules or papillae a supporter of the Pope a native American infant furnished with a pappus; downy a hot spice derived from Hungarian red pepper a pimple covered with papules or papillae like papyrus, a parchment made from reeds relating to paradise

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paradisic paraffin paraffine paraffle parafle paragoge paragogue parakeet paraquet paraquito paroquet parrakeet parroket parroquet paralyse paralyze paralyser paralyzer paranoea paranoia paranoeic paranoiac paranoic paravant paravaunt parazoan parazoon parcimony parsimony pard pardal pardale pardalis pardah purda purdah pardee pardi pardie pardy perdie perdy parecious paroicous parella parelle pareo pareu parev pareve parve

any saturated hydrocarbon of the methane series; (verb) to treat with paraffin a pretentious display, a fuss the addition of a sound to the end of a word eg heighth for height a small long-tailed parrot

to afflict with paralysis a paralysing agent a form of mental derangement; insanity suffering from paranoia; (noun) someone suffering from paranoia before, in front any member of the Parazoa, a sponge sparingness or reluctance in the spending of money a leopard

seclusion of women from public observation among Muslims and some Hindus assuredly, by God

of certain mosses, having the male and female reproductive organs near one another a crustaceous lichen yielding archil a Polynesian wraparound skirt of food, containing neither dairy nor meat ingredients

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parfleche parflesh pargana pergunnah pargeter pargetter parischan parishen parochin parochine parka parkee parki parkin perkin parkward parkwards parlando parlante parlor parlour parlous perilous perlous parodic parodical parotic parotid parotis parpane parpen parpend parpent parpoint perpent parral parrel parridge parritch porridge parsec secpar parsleyed parslied parsnep parsnip partake pertake partier partyer partisan

rawhide soaked in lye and water, then dried on a stretcher for shields a division of an administrative district in zillah in India one who pargets, plasters a parish

a fur shirt or coat with a hood a north of England ginger cake made with treacle and oatmeal towards a park to be sung in a style suggestive of speech (eg Gilbert and Sullivan) a private room set apart for conversation perilous having the character of parody situated near the ear a stone passing through a wall from face to face

a band by which a yard is fastened to a mast porridge a unit of astronomical distance adorned with parsley an umbelliferous plant or its edible carrot-like root to participate one who parties biased; (noun) an adherent, esp a blind or unreasoning adherent, of a party or

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partizan parura parure pashim pashm paspy passepied passament passement passment passe passee passible patible pastance pastime pastie pasty pastil pastille pastitsio pastitso pastrami pastromi patamar pattamar paten patin patercove patrico pathogen pathogene pattee paty pattie patty pattle pettle patulent patulous patzer potzer paua pawa pauldron pouldron puldron pavan pavane paven pavin

a faction a set of ornaments or jewels the fine underfleece of the goats of N. India, used for making rugs, shawls etc a Breton dance resembling a quick minuet a decorative trimming of beads or braid; (verb) to trim with braid out of date, or nearly so capable of suffering or being acted on a pastime a meat pie a small, often medicated, sweet a dish of mincemeat and macaroni topped with bechamel sauce highly seasoned smoked beef a vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon a plate; a metal disk used to hold Communion bread a hedge-priest an agent that causes disease, esp a micro-organism of a cross, having limbs which are nearly triangular, being very narrow where they meet and widening out towards the extremities a little pie; a flat cake a small long-handled spade for cleaning a plough spreading; wide-spreading; open an inept chess player a name for the abalone shell a shoulder-plate of a suit of armour a stately English Renaissance court dance

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paver pavior paviour pavis pavisse pavonian pavonine pawaw powwow pawner pawnor payer payor payfone payphone peacod peapod peascod peasecod peag peage pean peen pein pene pearce perce percen perse pierce peare peer pearlin pearling pearlised pearlized pearst perst pierst peart piert peasant pesant pesaunt pezant pease peaze peyse poyse peatary peatery

a person who lays paving-stones; a machine for tamping down paving-stones a shield for the entire body of or relating to peacocks a conference between American Indians; (verb) to hold such a conference one who pawns or pledges one who pays a coin-operated public telephone the pod of the pea

wampum; beads used as money a heraldic fur resembling ermine but having gold markings on a black field; (verb) to beat thin with a hammer to pierce

a peer, equal a lace of silk or thread, used as edging treated so as to give a pearly or lustry surface pierced active, lively, brisk; smart a person of inferior social rank

a pea; (verb, obs.) to balance, poise

a region, bog or moor covered with peat

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petary peavey peavy pech pegh pedaler pedaller pedder pedlar pedler pether peddlery pedlary pedlery pedicel pedicle peece piece peekabo peekaboo peekapoo pekepoo peeoy pioy pioye peepe pip peepul pipal pipul peerie peery peewee peewit pewit peishwa peishwah peshwa pelagial pelagian pellach pellack pellock peloria pelorism pelory pelorian peloric pelorised pelorized pemican

a lumberman's spiked lever to pant one who pedals a pedlar

the trade of peddler a short stalk a piece a child's peeping game a dog which is a cross between a Pekinese and a poodle a home-made firework a pip the bo tree small; (noun, Scots) a cone-shaped wooden toy a bird, the lapwing or plover the chief minister of the Mahrattas of or pertaining to the sea a porpoise abnormal symmetry of structure in flowers normally zygomorphic (eg toadflax) showing peloria, an abnormal regularity in flowers affected with peloria dried meat pounded with berries

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pemmican pemphigus pemphix pencel pensel pensil penciler penciller pendant pendent peneplain peneplane penfold pinfold penguin pinguin peni penie penny penial penile penill pennill penitence penitency penlight penlite pennate pennated penneech penneeck pennine penninite pennoncel penoncel penology poenology pentene pentylene pentosan pentosane penuchle penuckle pinochle pinocle penult penultima peonage peonism peperoni pepperoni

a somewhat rare skin disease, characterized by the development of blebs upon different part of the body a small pennon one who pencils anything hanging, esp for ornament a low gently, rolling landscape produced by long-continued erosion a place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined a flightless, aquatic bird penny relating to the penis a verse or stanza in Welsh poetry the state of being penitent a small torch winged; feathered an old card-game with a new trump for every trick a mineral of the chlorite group a small flag like a pennon the study of crime and punishment an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the olefine series a complex carbohydrate found in cellulose a card game played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs the last but one syllable the state of being a peon a hard, spicy pork and beef sausage

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peplos peplum peplus pepo peponida peponium pepsin pepsine peptid peptide peptiser peptizer peraeon pereion pereon peraeopod pereiopod pereopod perai pirai pirana piranha piraya perceant persant persaunt percine percoid perdu perdue peregrin peregrine perentie perenty perfect perfet perfumer perfumier periagua piragua pirogue piroque peribolos peribolus pericopal pericopic peridot peridote perigeal perigean perinaeum

a draped outer robe worn usually by women in ancient Greece any fleshy fruit with a firm rind, as a pumpkin, melon, or gourd any of group of digestive enzymes in the gastric juice of invertebrates any of a number of substances formed from amino acids in which the amino group of one is joined to the carboxyl group of another an agent that peptises the thorax of some crustaceans a crustacean's thoracic walking-leg a voracious S. American fish

piercing of or like a perch lost to view; in concealment or ambush; (noun) (Shakesp.) one lying in ambush a kind of falcon a large monitor lizard of Australia without flaw; (verb) to make perfect a person engaged in making or selling perfumes a dugout canoe

precinct; enclosing wall of a precinct relating to a pericope, an excerpt or passage read during religious services a gemstone, a pale green variety of olivine relating to a perigee, the point of the moon's orbit at which it is nearest the earth the lower part of the body between the genital organs and the anus

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perineum periodid periodide peripetia peripety perjink prejink permutate permute perogi pierogi pirogi peroxid peroxide peroxo peroxy perruque peruke perseline purslain purslane persico persicot persuade perswade pertuse pertused perv perve petaled petalled petaline petaloid petar petard petara pitara pitarah petasos petasus petiolate petioled petit petite petnaper petnapper petulance petulancy petuntse petuntze peyote

an iodid, a salt of hydriodic acid a sudden and violent change in circumstances, especially in drama prim, finical to alter the order, sequence, or arrangement of a traditional Polish dish, a semicircular filled dumpling an oxide with the highest proportion of oxygen containing the bivalent group O2 a kind of wig purslane a cordial made of the kernels of apricots, nectarines, etc., with refined spirit to cause to do something by means of argument, reasoning, or entreaty punched; pierced; slit pervert; (verb) to behave as a sexual pervert having petals of or like a petal a petard in India, a travelling box for clothes the winged cap of Mercury; also, a broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat worn by Greeks and Romans having a petiole, a leafstalk small, esp of build one who kidnaps pets peevish impatience a feldspathic rock used in making Chinese porcelain a Mexican intoxicant made from cactus tops

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peyotl peytral peytrel poitrel pfennig pfenning pfui phooey phacoid phacoidal phaenogam phenogam phantom phantosme phare pharos pheazar vezir visier vizier vizir wazir wizier phenacite phenakite phenate phenolate phenazin phenazine phenetol phenetole phenix phoenix phial vial philomel philomela philter philtre phiz phizog phobia phobism phobic phobist phonetics phonics phoney phony phosphid phosphide

a piece of armour for the breast of a horse a small copper coin of Germany, the hundredth part of a mark an exclamation of contempt, scorn etc lens-shaped, lentil-shaped any plant of the class Phaenogamia, flowering plants an immaterial form, a spectre a lighthouse or beacon perhaps for vizier

a mineral, beryllium silicate, sometimes deceptively like quartz a compound of phenol analogous to a salt a chemical compound the ethyl ether of phenol, obtained as an aromatic liquid a bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes a container for liquids, esp now a small bottle; (verb) to put or keep in a phial a nightingale a love potion; magic potion; (verb) to put under the spell of a love potion physiognomy, the face an irrational fear relating to phobias; (noun) one suffering from a phobia the branch of linguistics that deals with pronunciation and speech production counterfeit, fake; (verb) to fake, counterfeit a binary compound of phosphorus

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phosphin phosphine phosphor phosphore photogen photogene photolyse photolyze photopsia photopsy phpht pht phratral phratric phthisic phthisis phwoah phwoar phylar phylic phylon phylum piasaba piasava piassaba piassava piaster piastre picaninny piccanin picaroon pickaroon piccadill pickadil pickadill pickaback pickapack pickback piggyback pickax pickaxe picket picquet piquet picolin picoline picometer picometre picul pikul pidgeon

a colorless gas analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic phosphorus; a phosphorescent or fluorescent substance generally a light-producing organ in animals to cause photolysis in the appearance of light flashes due to retinal irritation an expression of mild irritation or annoyance relating to a phratry, a clan or tribe phthisis; also, vaguely, any lung or throat disease an expression of appreciation of the attractiveness of another person related to a phylum, a main division of the animal and vegetable kingdom a main division of the animal and vegetable kingdom a type of palm yielding a coarse stiff fibre for making brooms

a N. African monetary unit a little child, esp black a pirate ship; (verb) to act as a pirate a cut or vandyked edging, esp to a woman's collar a carry on one's back; (verb) to carry somone on one's back

a tool with a blade and a pointed end, used for digging; (verb) to dig with a pickaxe a person or group stationed to watch and dissuade those who go to work during a strike; (verb) to act as a picket a compound related to pyridine a trillionth of a metre a unit of weight used in China and SE. Asia, equal to about 100 catties a simplified speech used for communication between people with different languages

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pidgin pie pye piebald pyebald pied pioted piedfort piefort piet pyat pyet pyot piggie piggy piglet pigling pigmaean pigmean pygmaean pygmean pigmoid pygmoid pignerate pignorate pignoli pignolia pigsney pigsnie pigsny pigswill pigwash pilaf pilaff pilao pilau pilaw pillau pilow pulao pileate pileated pilgrim pilgrimer pilose pilous pilsener pilsner pilula pilule pinacoid

a quantity of meat, fruit, or other food baked within or under a crust of prepared pastry; (verb) to reduce to confusion of different colors esp spotted or blotched with black and white; (noun) a piebald horse old past of pie, to reduce to confusion an unusually thick coin a magpie

a little pig a little pig pygmy-like

of pygmy form to pledge or pawn the edible kernels of pine cones darling, sweetheart kitchen etc waste fed to pigs a dish of rice

of a mushroom, having a pileus, an umbrella-shaped portion someone who goes on a pilgrimage having scattered soft or moderately stiff hairs a light-coloured flavoursome variety of lager a small pill a crystal face, or a crystallographic form consisting of a pair of faces, parallel

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pinakoid pindaree pindari pinder pinner pine pyne piney piny pioney piony pinkie pinky pinnate pinnated pinnie pinny pinniped pinnipede pinnula pinnule pinon pinyon pintada pintado pioneer pioner pyoner pipage pipeage pipet pipette piquance piquancy piratic piratical piriform pyriform pirlicue purlicue pirojki piroshki pirozhki pisheog pishoge pishogue pisky pixie pixy pistoleer pistolero

to two axes a mercenary freebooter troublesome in India one who impounds cattle any tree of the north temperate coniferous genus Pinus; (verb) to yearn intensely having eg the fragrance of pine

small; (noun) the little finger like a feather; with leaflets on either side of a leafstalk pinafore a member of the Pinnipeda, seals, walruses, and other such sea mammals one of the small divisions of a decompound frond or leaf an edible pine seed; the tree bearing it a kind of petrel; the Cape guinea fowl someone who is among the first in new fields of enterprise, exploration etc. (verb) to take part in the beginnings of transportation, as of petroleum oil, by means of a pipe conduit; also, the charge for such transportation a tube for transferring and measuring fluids pungency of or pertaining to a pirate shaped like a pear a peroration; a resume in conclusion; (verb) to give a peroration a small Russian pastry made with meat or cabbage filling sorcery a small fairy one who uses a pistol

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pistolier pitahaya pitaya pituita pituite pixieish pixyish placative placatory placcat placcate placket placet placit placitum plaguey plaguy plainful plaintful plaister plaster plait plat planaria planarian planch planche plantlet plantling planuria planury plasmatic plasmic plast plaste yplast plastron plastrum platan platane platy platyfish plebean plebeian plectre plectron plectrum pledgeor pledger pledgor pleiocene

a giant cactus of Central America phlegm, mucus like a pixie tending to placate a leather doublet with strips of steel a decision of a court or assembly vexatious complaining plaster; (verb) to plaster a braid in which strands are passed over one another in turn; (verb) to form a braid in this fashion a kind of aquatic flatworm a plank, a board; (verb, obs.) to floor, board a small plant the discharge of urine through an abnormal passage of or like a plasma, an ionized gas containing electrons and free positive ions old form of place, to set in a particular position a fencer's padded breast-shield; a steel breastplate worn under a hauberk the plane tree like a plate; consisting of plates; (noun) a small tropical fish plebeian a pick for stringed instruments a person who deposits something as a pledge or pawn of the Pliocene geological time period

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pliocene pleonal pleonic plessor plexor pleuch pleugh pleurisy pleuritis plew plu plue plication plicature plimsol plimsole plimsoll pliskie plisky plong plonge plunge plonker plunker plook plouk plookie plooky ploukie plouky plotter plouter plowter plottie plotty ploughboy plowboy plougher plower ploughman plowman plumate plumose plumous plump plumpie plumpy plumula plumule plusage plussage

relating to the pleon, the abdomen of crustaceans a small, rubber-headed hammer that physicians use to test reflexes a plough; (verb) to plough inflammation of the pleurae a beaver pelt the act of folding a rubber-soled canvas shoe a practical joke; a trick to plunge a large marble a small spot, a pimple pimply

one who plots; (verb) (Scots) to dabble in liquid; to potter a spiced hot drink, such as mulled wine a boy who drives or guides horses in ploughing one who ploughs a man who drives or guides horses in ploughing having feathers or plumes well-rounded and full in form; (verb) to make plump a little feather or plume an extra amount

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pluvial pluvian pluviose pluvious pochard pockard pocosen pocosin pocoson podagral podagric podagrous podal podalic podge pudge podgy pudgy podsol podzol poetess poetresse poetiser poetizer pohiri powhiri poignado poinado poniard poignance poignancy poignant poynant point poynt poison poyson poitin poteen potheen potteen pokeroot pokeweed pokey poky polacca polacre polariser polarizer poleax poleaxe

rainy; (noun) a floor-length open-fronted ecclesiastical garment

a kind of European duck with a red head an upland swamp of the coastal plain of the southeastern U.S gouty of the feet a short, thickset person corpulent a leached soil formed in cool, humid climates a female poet one who poetises a ceremony of welcome, esp to a marae a small dagger the state of being poignant emotionally distressing a sharp end; (verb) to indicate direction with the finger a harmful substance; (verb) to administer a harmful substance to illicitly distilled Irish whisky

an aromatic perennial herb of the United States confined; (noun) jail a vessel with two or three masts, used in the Mediterranean a device for polarising light a battle-axe consisting of an axe-head on a long handle

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pollaxe policy pollicie pollicy polk polka pollack pollock pollan powan pollenate pollinate poller pollist polliwig polliwog pollywig pollywog porwiggle polverine pulverine polyglot polyglott polynia polynya polyp polype poulp poulpe polyped polypod polyphon polyphone polypide polypite pomade pomatum pomeroy pomroy pommel pummel pommele pommelled pommetty pommie pommy pompion pumpion pumpkin punkin pompom

an action or a procedure considered with reference to prudence or expediency to dance a polka a marine gadoid fish, aka coalfish or sillock a whitefish, plentiful in Irish loughs to fertilise with pollen one who polls eg trees or hair a tadpole

barilla ash, used in glass-making one who speaks many languages an area of open water amidst sea ice, as in the Arctic an octopus or cuttlefish, later extended to various other marine animals

a many-legged animal a character or vocal sign representing more than one sound, as read, which is pronounced red a polyp of a colonial animal ointment for the hair; (verb) to apply pomade to an old variety of apple a knob, esp on a sword-hilt; (verb) to beat with the fists in heraldry, having a pommel an Englishman a pumpkin

any trifling ornament for a woman's dress or bonnet

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pompon pompoon poncey poncy pondok pondokkie poney pony powney pownie powny pong ponk ponga punga pontal pontic pontianac pontianak pontie pontil pontile ponty puntee punty pontifex pontiff ponton pontoon pontoneer pontonier pontooner poof pooftah poofter poove pouf pouff pouffe pouftah poufter poofy poovy pooja poojah puja pujah pook pouk poop poupe

effeminate; snobby, ostentatious in S. Africa, a small hut, a shack a small horse

a bad smell; (verb) to stink a tall tree-fern of New Zealand, with soft thick leaves relating to the pons of the brain a naturally occurring rubber-like substance, aka jelutong an iron rod used in holding and manipulating glassware during manufacture

a chief priest a float, a bridge of boats; the floating gate of a dock a builder of pontoon bridges an effeminate person, a homosexual

effeminate a Hindu act of worship or prayer

to pluck, pinch the after part of a ship; (verb) to fool, cozen

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poori puri poortith puirtith poperin poppering poprin popliteal poplitic popsie popsy porgie porgy poriferal poriferan porose porous porpess porpesse porrenger porringer pottinger portague portigue portapack portapak portas porteous portess portesse porthors porthos porthouse portous porteress portress portolan portolano portulan portray pourtray pos poz pozz posable poseable posey posy poshteen posteen postin

in India, a small cake of unleavened bread fried in vegetable oil poverty a variety of pear of or relating to the back of the knee a term of endearment a species of saltwater fish, a sea-bream relating to the Porifera, sponges full of pores a porpoise a small dish for soup or porridge a former Portuguese gold coin a small portable combined videotape and camera a portable breviary

a female porter in the Middle Ages, a navigation manual to paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback positive that can be posed given to posing an Afghan greatcoat

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positon positron posole pozole possie pozzy postiche postique posturer posturist potage pottage potash potass potch potche potence potency pother pudder potlach potlache potlatch potshard potshare potsherd potsie potsy pouder poudre poulder pouldre pouther powder pouke puck poulard poularde poulter poulterer pound pownd pour powre poursew poursue pursew pursue poursuit pursuit pousowdie

a particle differing from the electron in having a positive charge maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water, aka hominy a position a wig, false hair; an ornament added, especially inappropriately, to finished thing one who postures a thick soup or stew of vegetables and sometimes, meat a powerful alkali, potassium carbonate; (verb) to treat with potash to push violently, thrust the quality of being potent a commotion or fuss; (verb) to make a pother a social event or celebration which features reciprocal gift-giving a fragment of pottery a child's game powder

a mischievous sprite a fattened or spayed hen a dealer in dead fowls and game a unit of money or weight; (verb) to strike heavily and repeatedly to cause to flow to pursue

pursuit any mixture of heterogeneous kinds of food

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powsowdy poussie pussy powin pown pozzolan pozzolana puzzolana praam pram practic practice practick practique practicer practiser praeamble preamble praecipe precipe praedial predial praefect prefect praelect prelect praenomen prenomen praeses preses praetor pretor prahu prao prau proa praline prawlin prance praunce pranck prancke pratie praty preace prease preasse press precepit precipice precurrer

pussy, a familiar name for a cat a peacock volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water a flat-bottomed boat or lighter, used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war practice

one who practices a preamble a writ commanding something to be done, or requiring a reason for neglecting it relating to or connected with the land or farming; (noun) a praedial slave a prefect to lecture the first name of an ancient Roman a president or chairman a magistrate of ancient Rome a swift Malayan sailboat with triangular sail and one outrigger

a kind of chocolate to spring forward on the hind legs to fold, pleat a potato to press

a precipice a precursor

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precursor predicant predikant predicter predictor preemie prem premature premie premy preeve preve prieve prove prefard preferred pregnance pregnancy preif preife prief priefe proof prelacy prelaty prelatial prelatic prelusive prelusory premed premedic presbyte presbyter prescient prescious pressie prezzie pretence pretense preterit preterite preview prevue prewyn pruine prune prex prexy priapean priapic price

a preacher; spec. a member of a predicant religious order one who predicts a premature baby

to prove

preferred pregnancy proof

the office of a prelate; church government relating to a prelate, a bishop or abbot of superior rank introductory a student preparing for the study of medicine an elder in the early Christian church having foresight or knowledge of what will happen a present the act of pretending signifying past time or a completed action an advance viewing; (verb) to view or exhibit in advance a prune the president of a college pertaining to male reproductive power the amount for which a thing is sold; (verb) to set a value on

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prys pricey pricy prier pryer priggery priggism primaeval primeval primatial primatic primer primmer primitiae primitias princekin princelet princock princox priorate priorship priser prizer prithee prythee probative probatory procaryon prokaryon processer processor prochain prochein prodromal prodromic prodrome prodromus proem prooemion prooemium profiler profilist profuse profusive proign proin proine proyn proyne prolamin prolamine

expensive PRICILY one who pries the state of being priggish belonging to the earth's beginnings of or pertaining to ecclesiastical primacy; (noun) a primate a book that covers the basics of a subject the first year's revenue of a benefice a petty prince an arrogant effeminate fellow; a coxcomb the state or office of a prior a prize-fighter an expression of wish or request testing, affording proof the nucleus of a blue-green alga, bacterium etc something that processes next, as in prochain ami, a legal term of or pertaining to prodromes; as, the prodromal stage of a disease a prefatory work; an initial symptom of a disease an introduction, a prelude one who profiles pouring forth generously to preen, prune

one of a group of proteins found in wheat and rye

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prole proll proul prowl proler proller prouler prowler promiser promisor promissor proo pruh propanoic propionic propeller propellor propene propylene propodeon propodeum prorogate prorogue prosaic prosaical proseucha proseuche prosit prost prosodian prosodist pross prossie prostie protamin protamine protecter protector proteid proteide protein protester protestor prothyl protyl protyle protist protistan protoxid protoxide protozoan

a proletarian; (verb, obs.) to prowl

a prowler

one who makes a promise a call to a cow to come near as in propanoic acid, a colourless carboxylic acid someone who, or something which, propels a colorless gaseous hydrocarbon of the ethylene series, having a garlic odor in some Hymenoptera, the first abdominal segment to end a session (of Parliament); to postpone (a meeting) relating to prose; dull, banal a place of prayer, an oratory a toast to good health one skilled in prosody a prostitute any of a class of simple basic proteins which occur combined with nucleic acids (esp in fish sperm) one who protects an archaic name for protein one who protests a hypothetical primitive substance from which the chemical elements were thought to have been formed one of the Protista, protozoans, algae, bacteria, and other forms not readily classified as plant or animal that one of a series of oxides having the lowest proportion of oxygen any member of the Protozoa

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protozoon provable proveable provand provend proviant provedor provedore providor provisor prunella prunelle prurience pruriency pruta prutah psaltery psaltry pseud pseudo psst pst psychic psychical ptisan tisane ptomain ptomaine ptooey ptui puberal pubertal pucelle pussel puzel puzzel pudden pudding pudsey pudsy puggie puggy pugh puh puisne puisny puny puissant puissaunt pukey puky

that can be proved an allowance of food; provender a purveyor

a strong silk or woollen material, formerly used for academic and clerical gowns and women's shoes the state of being prurient an Israeli monetary unit an ancient stringed musical instrument a pretentious, false person an interjection used to attract attention relating to the psyche; (noun) one sensitive to extrasensory phenomena a wholesome or medicinal drink or infusion, orig. spec. made with barley; now (esp), a herbal tea a poisonous alkaloid found in decaying matter an imitation of the sound of someone spitting of or pertaining to puberty a slut; a maid or virgin

a pudding pudgy, podgy a monkey an expression of contempt puny; surviving as a term applied to certain junior judges; (noun) a puisne judge powerful reminiscent of or resembling vomit

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pulk pulka pulkha pulmonary pulmonic pulpiteer pulpiter pulsatile pulsative pulsejet pulsojet pultan pulton pultoon pultun pulture puture pulvil pulvilio pulville pulvillio pumie pumy punaani punaany punani punany punctate punctated puncto punto pungence pungency punitive punitory punka punkah punkey punkie pupilage pupillage pupilar pupilary pupillar pupillary pur purr purin purine purlin purline

a Laplander's boat-shaped sledge of or pertaining to the lungs someone who speaks from a pulpit, a preacher of musical instruments, played by percussion in jet propulsion, an intermittent jet an Indian infantry regiment

a foresters' claim of subsistence within bounds of forest perfumed powder; snuff; (verb) to powder

a pebble the female genitalia; women collectively, regarded as sexual objects

marked with points or dots a nice point of form or ceremony the state of being pungent relating to punishment a large palm-leaf fan suspended from the ceiling used esp in India a biting gnat the state of being a pupil or under age relating to a pupil or ward

to make a sound like a cat a white crystalline substance which with oxygen forms uric acid a supporting timber stretching across rafters

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purpie purpy purple purpure purpureal purtraid purtrayd purulence purulency pusle puzzle pusley pussley pussly pustular pustulous putcheon putcher putlock putlog puttee puttie pyaemia pyemia pycnic pyknic pycnosis pyknosis pyengadu pyinkado pyorrhea pyorrhoea pyorrheal pyorrheic pyralid pyralidid pyralis pyramid pyramis pyrite pyrites pyritic pyritical pyritous pyrolyse pyrolyze pyrope pyropus pyroxyle pyroxylin

purslane, or perhaps brooklime of a colour intermediate between red and blue; (noun) the colour purple; (verb) to make purple portrayed the state of being purulent a puzzle purslane of or pertaining to pustules a wire trap for catching salmon a cross-piece in a scaffolding a long strip of cloth wound round lower leg, especially as part of army uniform blood-poisoning accompanied by widespread abscesses characterized by shortness of stature, broadness of girth, and powerful muscularity the shrinkage of the stainable material of a nucleus into a deeply staining knot, usually a feature of cell degeneration the ironwood tree suppuration in the sockets of the teeth relating to pyorrhea, suppuration in the sockets of the teeth a kind of moth a solid figure with triangular sides meeting at a point; (verb) to set up (a company) as part of a pyramid aiming at financial growth from a small initial investment a brassy yellow mineral, iron disulphide consisting of, or resembling, pyrites to decompose by pyrolysis, the application of heat a fiery red gemstone, a variety of garnet any of the nitrocelluloses

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pyrrol pyrrole qindar qintar quintar quackery quackism quad quod quaestor questor quagmire wagmoire quaich quaigh quaint queint quair quire quandang quandong quantong quantiser quantizer quarenden quarender quarrian quarrion quartet quartett quartette quartetto quartzose quartzous quashee quashie quatch quetch quich quinche quitch quazzy queasy queazy queachy queechy quean queyn quine queest quist

a colourless toxic liquid found in many naturally occurring compounds, eg chlorophyll a monetary unit of Albania, equal to one-hundredth of a lek charlatanism prison; (verb) to imprison an ancient Roman public treasurer or assistant military commander a bog; (verb) to be sunk or stuck in a quagmire a drinking-cup pleasantly odd a quire; a book a small Australian tree of the sandalwood family one who quantises, expresses in terms of quanta a kind of early red apple a kind of cockatiel a set of four; a composition for four voices or instruments

of or containing quartz a black person, esp in the West Indies to stir, move

unwell forming a thicket; boggy a young woman the ring-dove or wood-pigeon

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quoist quelch squelch quercetin quercitin questant quester quetzal quezal queynie quinie quibble quiblin quillet quickie quicky quiddit quiddity quinela quinella quiniela quinin quinina quinine quinolin quinoline quintet quintett quintette quipo quippu quipu quipper quipster quight quit quite quyte quixotism quixotry rabat rabatte rabato rebato rabbi rabbin rabbinist rabbinite rabbito rabbitoh racahout

to squelch a yellow crystalline compound obtained from the inner bark of the quercitron oak one who quests a gold and green bird of Central America with long tail feathers diminutive of queyn, a girl an evasive turning away from the point in question to something irrelevant; (verb) to argue over trivialities a hurried act of sexual intercourse the inherent nature or essence of anything; any trifling nicety; a quibble a bet whereby the bettor must pick first two winners of a race but not necessarily in order a colourless, bitter alkaloid obtained from cinchona bark, used as an antipyretic or analgesic a pungent, colourless, oily liquid, first obtained from quinine and used eg as a food preservative a composition for five voices or instruments a device of knotted cords, used by Incas of Peru to calculate or order information a person given to making clever remarks to quit, depart from

quixotic principles, character, or practice; a quixotic action, statement, or idea to rotate into coincidence with another plane a stiff collar or support for a ruff a Jewish expounder or doctor of the law a person who adheres to the Talmud and traditions of the rabbis an itinerant seller of rabbits for eating acorn meal, used by the Arabs as a substitute for chocolate, and also as a beverage

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raccahout raccoon racoon racemose racemous rach rache rachet ratchet rachidial rachidian rachilla rhachilla rachis rhachis rachitis rhachitis racialism racism racketeer racketer raddle reddle raddleman reddleman ruddleman raddocke ruddock radiance radiancy radicel radicle radicule raffia raphia raftman raftsman ragde ragged ragee raggee raggy ragi ragg ragstone ragman ragment raguled raguly raia raya

for invalids a small American animal related to the bears growing in the form of a raceme as racemose berries or flowers a dog that hunts by scent a pawl and/or ratchet-wheel; (verb) to move by use of a rachet of or like a rachis, the spine or axis of a feather the axis of a grass spikelet the spine or axis of a feather inflammation of the spine; rickets a doctrine of racial superiority a criminal who runs a protection racket; (verb) to run a protection racket red ochre; (verb) to redden with this one who marks eg sheep with raddle a robin the quality of being radiant a rootlike organ or part a genus of handsome pinnately-leaved palms one who works on the rafts ragged a kind of millet

a rough hard stone a man who collects, or deals in, rags (obs.) a document with pendent seals of a line, with oblique projections like stubs a non-Muslim subject of Turkey

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rayah rail rayle raine rayne reign raird reird raisable raiseable rait ret raiyat ryot raja rajah rakee raki rakia rakija rakshas rakshasa rally reallie ramakin ramekin ramequin ramal rameal rameous ramate ramose ramous ramee rami ramie ramilie ramillie rampage rampauge rampart rampire rampick rampike rampole ranpike ramtil ramtilla ramulose ramulous rancel

a bar forming a support, a fence, a guard, a track for wheels, etc; (verb) to scold in abusive or insolent language to reign an uproar capable of being raised to soak flax an Indian peasant an Indian ruler a strong spirit distilled in Turkey, Yugoslavia, etc., from grain, usually flavoured with aniseed or other aromatics a kind of fruit brandy produced by distillation of fermented fruit, popular throughout the Balkans in Hindu mythology, an evil spirit a gathering for a common purpose; (verb) to call together for a common purpose a small casserole dish in which cheese souffle, eggs etc. are served of or pertaining to a ramus or branch branched, as the stem or root of a plant rhea or China grass, a plant of the nettle family a type of wig aggressively excited behaviour or rushing about; (verb) to storm, rush about wildly a flat-topped defensive mound; that which defends; (verb) to fortify or surround with ramparts a dead tree or tree decayed at top

a plant of the Indian subcontinent, cultivated for the oil pressed from the seeds having many small branches, or ramuli a search for stolen goods

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ransel ranzel rancor rancour rancored rancoured randie randy random randon ranee rani range raunge raphe rhaphe raphide raphis rhaphide rhaphis rapini rappini rarefy rarify rareripe ratheripe rathripe rascalism rascality rase raze raser razer rassle warsle warstle wrassle wrastle wraxle wrestle rasure razure ratable rateable ratafee ratafia ratan rattan rotan ratany rhatany

inveterate and bitter ill feeling; malignant hatred or spitefulness full of rancor a violent beggar, esp a woman haphazard; (noun) a rush, full speed an Indian queen to place in a particular order a seam-like junction a needle-like crystal, usually of calcium oxalate, occurring in plant cells

immature turnip plants to make less dense a fruit that ripens early rascally conduct to level to the ground one that rases to wrestle

the act of scraping; erasure capable of being rated; (noun) property that is liable to rates any liqueur made from fruit or from brandy with added fruit; a flavouring essence made from almonds any of various esp Malaysian climbing plants with long thin stems a type of S. American shrub with astringent (styptic, contracting) roots

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rateen ratine ratteen ratlin ratline ratling rattlin rattline rattling ratoo ratu ratoon rattoon ratton rottan rotten raun rawn raveler raveller raveling ravelling ravigote ravigotte rawbone rawboned rawing rowen raygrass ryegrass razorclam razorfish reaedify reaedifye reedify reak reck reke realgar resalgar realiser realizer realm reame reamer rimmer rean reen rhine rhyne reanalyse

a rough dress fabric any of the small lines forming the steps of the rigging of ships

a local chief or ruler in Indonesia a new shoot from the ground after cutting, esp of sugar-cane or cotton; (verb) to send up ratoons a rat fish-roe; female fish one who ravels a ravelled out thread vinegar sauce, minced onion, capers, and herbs having little flesh a second mowing of grass in the same season, an aftermath a pasture and fodder type of grass a lamellibranch mollusc with a shell like an old-fashioned razor handle to rebuild to reckon, care for, heed a bright-red monoclinic mineral one who realises a kingdom an instrument with cutting or scraping edges, used for enlarging a round hole, as the bore of a cannon, etc a drainage channel

to analyse again

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reanalyze rearmouse reremouse rearward rearwards reast reest reist reata riata reave reive rieve reaver reiver riever reawake rewake rewaken rebec rebeck recal recall recce recco reccy rechate recheat rechie reechie reechy reekie reeky rechlesse reckless retchless recoil recoyle recuile recule requoyle recoure recover recower recreance recreancy rectoress rectress recusance recusancy recycler

a bat towards the rear to become rancid a lariat to rob, plunder a raider, plunderer to awake again a medieval musical instrument like a mandolin or viol to call back reconnaissance; (verb) to reconnoitre a strain given on the horn to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game smoky, grimy

reckless to draw back in fear or disgust

to recover mean-spiritedness; apostasy; treachery a female rector, a rector's wife the state of being recusant, one who refuses to attend Catholic church services one who recycles

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recyclist red redd rede reede redistil redistill redolence redolency redresser redressor redsear redshare redshire redshort reebok rhebok reech reek reedbuck reitbok reenforce reinforce renforce refluence reflux reformade reformado refusenik refusnik regality regalness regar regur reggo rego regional regionary regrater regrator reillume relume relumine reinette rennet runnet reistafel rijstafel rejecter rejector rejig

of a colour like blood; (noun) the colour of blood; (verb) to put in order advice, counsel; (verb) to advise or counsel to distil again fragrance, the state of being redolent one who redresses brittle at red-heat

a S. African antelope to emit fumes, smoke etc a kind of African antelope to strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support a flowing back, ebb a monk of a reformed order a Soviet Jew wishing to emigrate; a dissident the quality of being regal the rich black cotton soil of the Indian subcontinent a (motor vehicle) registration relating to a region; (noun) something that serves as a region one who regrates, buys and sells in the same market to light again a name given to many different kinds of apples, mostly of French origin an Indonesian rice dish one who rejects to fix something up in a different fashion

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rejigger relater relator releaser releasor relevance relevancy relievo rilievo reluct reluctate remanence remanency remanent remnant remead remede remedy remeid remedial remediat remediate remitment remittal remitter remittor remolade remoulade remold remould ren renne rin ronne run renague renege renegue renig renay reney reny renegade renegado renegate runagate renitence renitency rennase rennin renverse

one who relates something or someone that releases the state of being relevant a relief, a work in relief to be unwilling the property of staying magnetic a remainder; a remnant to remedy

affording a remedy the act of remitting one who makes a remittance a piquant sauce to remould to run

to refuse, deny

to renounce, abjure a person who abandons a party or belief; (verb) to turn renegade

the state of being renitent, resistent an enzyme found in gastric juice, which causes coagulation of milk to reverse, to upset

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reverse rep repp repellant repellent replevin replevy reposal reposall repose reposure repreeve reprieval reprieve reprive repryve represser repressor repriefe reproof reproval repure repurify requere require requester requestor requight requit requite reredos reredosse res rez rescue reskew reskue resentful resentive resiance residence residency resiant resident residual residuous resistant resistent responder responser responsor

to work as a representative serving to repel; (noun) something that repels to recover, or restore to the owner (goods distrained) upon pledge to try the right in legal proceedings the act or state of reposing; as, the reposal of trust rest; (verb) to lie at rest to reprieve

one who represses reproach, insult to purify again to require one who requests to requite a screen or panelling behind an altar or seat reservation to free from danger full of resentment residence; abode resident, dwelling; (noun) a resident remaining; (noun) that which remains as a residue making resistance; (noun) a person who or thing which resists; spec. a member of a resistance movement one who responds

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ressaldar risaldar restiff restive retama retem reticence reticency retinal retinene retorsion retortion retraict retrait retraite retrate retreat reveler reveller revenge vengement revere reverence reverie revery reviser revisor revocable revokable rew row rewth ruth rhabdom rhabdome rheochord rheocord rheophil rheophile rheum rume rhime rhyme rhizoma rhizome rhodamin rhodamine rhodie rhody rhomb rhombus

an Indian troop commander restive a name for various desert plants, eg Spanish broom the quality of being reticent relating to the retina; (noun) a pigment in the retina the act of retorting or throwing back retreat

one who revels malicious injury in return for injury received; (verb) to inflict injury in return for to regard with great respect a dream-like state one who revises that can be revoked a row ruth, pity a fourfold rod in the compound eye of an arthropod a wire rheostat, a metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit living in flowing water watery discharge from eyes and nose a rhyme a rootstock, an underground stem producing roots and leafy shoots a synthetic dyestuff, usually red a rhododendron an equilateral parallelogram

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rhombic rhombical rhonchal rhonchial rhone roan roanpipe rone ronepipe rhumba rumba rhy rye rhymer rimer rhymester rimester rial ryal ribald ribaud ribaldry ribaudry rybaudrye riband ribband ribibe ribible ribston ribstone ricercar ricercare ricercata ricey ricy ricketty rickety rickrack ricrac ridable rideable ridgel ridgeling ridgil ridgling riggald riglin rigling ridgepole ridgetree rife

of or like a rhombus, an equilateral parallelogram of or relating to snoring a roof-gutter

a kind of dance; (verb) to dance the rhumba rye one who composes rhymes a poetaster, a would-be poet the unit of currency in Iran, Oman and Saudi Arabia, aka riyal; also, an old English gold coin, aka ryal earthily sexy (noun, obs.) a menial of the lowest grade; a loose, low character ribald language, behaviour, etc.; coarseness, lewdness a ribbon a small three-stringed viol; a rebec a variety of winter apple brought from Normandy to Ribston Hall in Yorkshire any of various contrapuntal instrumental forms esp of the 16th and 17th centuries containing rice shaky, ramshackle a decorative braid in even zigzag form suitable for riding a male animal with only one testicle

the timber forming the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are secured abundant, prevalent

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ryfe rigadoon rigaudon rigidity rigidness rigol rigoll rigwiddie rigwoodie riley roily rim rymme rimose rimous rind rine ringhals rinkhals rinsable rinseable rinsible riparial riparian ripeck ryepeck rypeck ripost riposte ripper rippier rit ritt ritornel ritornell riveret rivulet rizard rizzar rizzart rizzer rizzor roading roding roadman roadsman roadway rodeway roarie roary rorie

a lively Baroque period dance the state of being rigid a gutter or water-channel lean and tough; (noun) a cart-horse's back-band turbid an edge, border, brim; (verb) to provide with a rim full of chinks; covered with cracks bark, peel; (verb) to bark, encrust an African snake that spits its venom that can be rinsed of or inhabiting a river bank a pole used for mooring a punt in fencing, a return thrust after a parry a person who carries fish inland to sell a scratch, a slit; (verb) to score or scratch a short instrumental passage in a vocal work a small river a redcurrant

the woodcock's evening flight one who works making or repairing roads a road noisy, garish, too bright

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rory roast rost roate rote roc rok ruc rukh roch rotch rotche rotchie rochet rocquet roquet rockaby rockabye rocker rockier rocket roquette rocklay rokelay roemer rummer roentgen rontgen roesti rosti roin royne roinish roynish roist roister royst royster roisterer roysterer rollock rowlock rullock romal rumal rondel rondelle rondure roundure ronion

a joint of meat for the oven; (verb) to cook with dry heat to fix by rote an enormous bird of Arabian legend

the little auk

a close-fitting surplice-like vestment worn by bishops and abbots a song used to lull a child to sleep the rock dove a cruciferous salad plant of Mediterranean origin; (verb) to travel very fast a short cloak a large drinking-glass the international unit of dose of X-rays a cheese-topped fried Swiss dish consisting of grated potato and onion to growl, roar mangy; scurvy to revel noisily, carouse

one who roisters, carouses a contrivance serving as a fulcrum for an oar a handkerchief or headcloth a verse form of thirteen or fourteen lines on two rhymes, the seventh and thirteenth being identical with the first, and the eighth and (if present) the fourteenth with the second roundure, a gracefully rounded curvature a mangy or scabby creature

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ronyon runnion ront ronte runt room roum rowme roon rund roopit roupet roupit roupy roorbach roorback roosa rusa ropable ropeable ropey ropy roral roric rorid roselle rozelle roset rosit rozet rozit rosetty rosety rosier rosiere rosoglio rosolio rosser rozzer rostrate rostrated rotary rotative rotatory rotavate rotovate rotavator rotovator rouble ruble rouche

a runt a walled space within a building; (verb) to occupy a room a strip of cloth, a selvage hoarse

a defamatory falsehood published for political effect a kind of East Indian grass from which an aromatic oil is distilled that can be roped stringy, glutinous; poor in quality; unwell dewy an E. Indian hibiscus rosin; (verb) to rosin

like rosin a rose-bush a sweet cordial made with raisins a policeman beak-shaped turning like a wheel; (noun) a rotary apparatus to break up (soil) with a Rotavator a tool for breaking up the soil a Russian monetary unit a frill of lace or other material

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ruche roughie roughy roul roule round rownd roundel roundle routh rowth rowdedow rowdydow rubaboo rubbaboo rubace rubasse rubbidy rubbity rubbishly rubbishy rubefy rubify rubin rubine ruby ruckle runkle rude rudesby rudie ruffe ruffin rugalach rugelach ruggelach rugate rugose rugous rugged ruggy ruleless rulesse rumor rumour runabout runaround rundale runrig runlet runnel

a dry bough used as a torch; a rough or rowdy person a roll shaped like a sphere or circle; (noun) a round thing; a series of calls made by a tradesman etc.; (verb) to make round anything circular; a ring-dance abundance hubbub; uproar a type of soup a kind of ruby-red quartz a pub like rubbish to redden a ruby a rattle in the throat, a gurgle; (verb) to rattle in the throat boorish; (noun) a rude boy a small freshwater fish of the perch family, aka pope in Jewish cooking, small crescent-shaped pastries filled with fruit, nuts etc wrinkled; covered with sunken lines having an uneven surface unruly, without rules a flying or popular report; the common talk; (verb) to circulate by rumour a small light boat, car or aeroplane a system of holding land in single detached pieces a little brook

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ruralist ruralite rustic rustical rusticial sabe savey savvey savvy saber sabre sabkha sabkhah sabkhat sabulose sabulous sacaton zacaton sacbut sackbut sagbut saccos sakkos saccule sacculus sackless sacless saikless sacrifice sacrify sacrist sacristan saddhu sadhu saddie saddo sade sadhe sadi tsade tsadi tzaddi sae so saeculum seculum safari suffari safeguard saufgard savegard

a proponent of country life of or like the country; (noun) one who lives in the country to know, to understand

a stout cavalry sword, having a single edge; (verb) to strike with a saber a broad, salt-encrusted coastal plain above the level of normal tides sandy; gritty; growing in sandy places a type of coarse perennial grass growing in alkaline regions of the southern US a mediaeval music instrument an Eastern bishop's vestment a little sac; esp a part of the membranous labyrinth of the ear quiet; peaceable; harmless; innocent the slaughter of an animal, person, etc on an altar as an offering to a god > vb to offer up in sacrifice a Church official in charge of vessels and the sacristy an ascetic Indian holy man a dull unsociable person a Hebrew letter

so an astronomical or geological age a hunter's or traveller's party or caravan, esp in E. Africa; (verb) to go on safari a device, condition, or arrangement ensuring safety; (verb) to keep safe

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safranin safranine safrol safrole saft soft sage saulge saggar saggard sagger seggar sagittal sagittate sagoin sagouin saguin saguaro sahuaro saheb sahib sahiba sahibah saic saick saique saice sice syce said saiyid sayed sayid sayyid sed saidest saidst sailer sailor saim seam saine sayne sainfoin saintfoin saint saunt saist sayest sayst saith

the yellow colouring matter in saffron; a coal tar derivative which dyes yellowish red a colourless oily liquid obtained from sassafras and used in perfumes, soaps etc soft wise; (noun) a garden labiate plant whose grey-green leaves are used as a flavouring a clay box in which pottery is packed for baking; (verb) to pack in a saggar

shaped like an arrowhead a kind of monkey, aka titi a giant cactus, that bears white flowers and a scaly reddish edible fruit an Englishman or other European as addressed or spoken of by Indians a lady sahib a Levantine vessel like a ketch a stableman or groom, esp in India a descendant of Mohammed's daughter Fatima

2nd pers. pt. sing. of say a sailor a seam 3rd pers. pl. of say a leguminous plant, used as fodder a person of exceptional holiness; (verb) to declare to be a saint 2nd pers. sing. of say a kind of fish, the coalfish or pollock

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saithe sajou sapajou sakia sakieh sakiyeh saksaul saxaul salable saleable sellable salad sallad saladang seladang sladang salade sallet salal sallal saleroom salesroom salicin salicine salience saliency salimeter salometer salival salivary sallowish sallowy salmi salmis salmonet samlet salmonid salmonoid saloop salop salp salpa salpian salpid salt saut saltando saltato saltier saltire saltpeter

a capuchin or spider monkey an Eastern water-wheel a low, thick, grotesquely contorted tree of the saltbush family found on the steppes of Asia able to be sold a dish of green, raw vegetables a kind of buffalo a helmet a N.W. American ericaceous shrub a room where goods for sale, esp at auction, are displayed a bitter crystalline glucoside obtained from willow-bark, etc and used medicinally as an analgesic, etc the state of being salient an instrument for measuring the amount of salt present in any given solution relating to saliva somewhat sallow a ragout of roast game a salmon of small size a member of the salmon family a hot drink made from an infusion of salep, later from sassafras, formerly used as a tonic any member of a genus of oceanic tunicates

sodium chloride (adj.) tasting of salt; (verb) to put salt on with leaping bow an X-shaped cross, a St. Andrew's Cross potassium nitrate, the chief constituent of gunpowder

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saltpetre salue salute samaan saman zaman zamang sambar sambhar sambhur sambur sambuca sambuke same samen samech samek samekh samfoo samfu samisen shamisen samithi samiti sampan sanpan samphire sampire samshoo samshu sancho sanko sandarac sandarach sandbur sandburr sandspur sanga sangar sungar sanger sango sanitiser sanitizer sannop sannup sannyasi sannyasin sanyasi sansa zanza

to salute the rain-tree, a member of the mimosa family

a large deer

an ancient triangular stringed instrument resembling in every relevant respect (pron.) the aforesaid; (noun) the same thing the 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet an outfit worn by Chinese women a banjo-like 3-stringed instrument in India, an organisation or committee of workers a flat-bottomed Chinese skiff usually propelled by two short oars a fleshy sea-coast plant; glasswort a spirituous liquor distilled by the Chinese from the yeasty liquor in which boiled rice has fermented under pressure a West African guitar the resin of a tropical tree, powdered to form pounce and used in making varnish an annual herb a temporary fortification a sandwich one who sanitises a married male in N. American Indian societies a Hindu ascetic or hermit who lives by begging an African musical instrument, aka mbira

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zanze sansar sarsar santims santimu santir santoor santour santur saouari souari sapan sapanwood sappan sapego serpigo suppeago sapidity sapidness sapience sapiency sapodilla sapota sapote zapotilla saponin saponine sapor sapour saporific saporous sapraemia sapremia sapraemic sapremic saprobial saprobic saraband sarabande sarape serape zarape sarcenet sarconet sarsenet sarsnet sard sardius sardar sirdar sardel

a cold whistling wind a former coin of Latvia an Eastern dulcimer

a tree of Guiana, yielding butternuts the wood of a leguminous tree, formerly used to provide a red dye a dry, scaly eruption on the skin; especially, a ringworm the state of being sapid, pleasantly flavoured discernment, judgement the edible fruit of a Mexican tree

a glucoside derived from various plants such as soapwort, that gives a soapy froth taste, flavour flavourful a kind of blood-poisoning relating to sapraemia, a kind of blood-poisoning of or like a saprobe, an organism living in foul water a stately court dance of the 17th and 18th centuries, resembling the minuet a blanket or shawl worn as an outer garment by the Spanish Americans, as in Mexico a thin tissue of fine silk

a deep-red or brownish variety of chalcedonic silica a native chief in Hindostan; a headman a small fish related to the sardine

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sardelle sardonian sardonic saree sari sargasso sargassum sargo sargos sargus sark serk sarment sarmentum sarmie sarney sarnie sarod sarode sarrasin sarrazin sarsden sarsen sartorial sartorian sasarara sassarara siserary sash shash sassaby tsessebe sassolin sassolite sasswood sassywood sastra shaster shastra sastruga zastruga satai satay satanic satanical satelles satellite sati suttee satiation satiety

sardonic a Hindu woman's chief garment, a long cloth wrapped round the waist and passed over the shoulder and head a genus of algae including the gulfweed a fish, sea-bream a shirt, a chemise a long whiplike runner, leafless except at the tip a sandwich an Indian instrument like a cello buckwheat a sandstone boulder of S. England; such a stone used in a prehistoric monument of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes a scolding; a blow a band or scarf worn round the waist or over the shoulder; (verb) to dress or adorn with a sash a kind of African antelope a native boric acid the bark of a West African leguminous tree, used by the natives as an ordeal poison any of the sacred writings of Hinduism long parallel ridges of snow that form on windy plains a Malaysian dish of marinated meat barbecued on skewers devilish a satellite the act of a Hindu widow willingly being cremated on the funeral pyre of her husband the state of being satiated

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a thin satin of or like satire one who satirises one who, or that which, saturates a female satyr of satyrs; having a chorus of satyrs a Vietnamese monetary unit a sallow a long canvas tube filled with powder for use as a fuse, eg when firing a mine a soul a long necklace, or pendant on a long chain saveloy, a highly seasoned sausage that can be saved the state of being savage; savages collectively tropical grassland a species of juniper a saviour taste, flavor; (verb) to relish the taste of one who savors having a savor to flatter one who saws a chopper for trimming slate rock-dwelling

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to work stone smoothly, without smoothing to a finish any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa scabrous heroin; (verb) to make a tear in cloth to scatter, disperse injury, harm; (verb) to injure

that can be scaled an undersized animal of little value; a good-for-nothing, a rascal; in US history, a white Southerner who acted in support of the Reconstruction after the Civil War to burn (a body surface) by direct exposure to very hot liquid or steam relating to a scald, a Norse poet the office of scald, an ancient Scandinavian bard the outer covering of the skull; (verb) to remove an upper part from a semicircular gouging chisel one who perpetrates scams to run away, leave without notice a loose sleeveless vestment falling in front and behind, worn by certain religious orders any scarabaeid beetle, esp Scarabaeus sacer, regarded by the ancient Egyptians as divine to frighten frightening a light, usually decorative piece of material thrown loosely on the shoulders about the neck; (verb) to join with a scarf end thin and tough a skirmish

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a cormorant; (verb) to scratch, scrape

to scare away a crystalline compound found in faeces and coal tar in the Orkneys, a young gull a low cape or headland a choliamb a small silver or gold coin of Anglo-Saxon times a schedule; (verb) to schedule a villain scenery of or pertaining to scenery; (noun) something scenic philosophic doubt a staff or baton carried as an emblem of monarchic authority; (verb) to provide with a sceptre disbelieving; (noun) a person who doubts prevailing doctrines inclined to questoning and disbelief a heap of stones used as protection against rifle-fire a matchmaker the slaughtering of animals in accordance with rabbinical law

a scoundrel, rascal

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a mess, a scrape; (verb) to make off a type of metamorphic rock consisting of a significant percentage of one or more platy minerals such as one of the micas and/or chlorites of or pertaining to schist; having the structure of a schist suffering from schizophrenia an unlucky or incompetent person who is often duped

to drag one's feet; travel a great distance an incompetent or nonentity something of inferior quality a stupid or unattractive person to flop fat, grease, oil; maudlin sentimentality sickly sentimental clothing, rags an aggregate of related things; (verb) to spread or smear a taste or sniff; heroin a kind of glass of a red or ruby color, made in Bohemia a stupid or boring person a stupid or boring person to chat in a friendly way

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one who schmoozes gossipy a pitiful, stupid or obnoxious person an Australian food-fish a kind of brandy

to swim underwater using a breathing-tube a beggar; esp one who wheedles others into supplying his wants nose a marginal annotation; specifically, an explanatory comment on the text of a classic author by an early grammarian a institution of learning; (verb) to educate in an institution of learning

a shoal black tourmaline a young cod or haddock a familiar line of chat adapted by a particular comedian

trouble, bother

silent, dumb, quiet

a Dutch flat-bottomed boat, used along canals and round the coast a synagogue a black person

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a vowel sound, like "a" in alone or "e" in linen, that in English often appears unstressed a member of the family Sciaenidae of tropical and temperate percoid fishes fighting with a shadow or an imaginary opponent of or relating to the hip; (noun) the sciatic nerve a hot, dry, dusty wind blowing from N. Africa to the North Mediterranean coastline

resembling a scirrhus, a hard swelling metal clippings; scrap metal a member of the squirrel family slate slander a slave a thick-walled cell of tissue, hard, hardened a small segment or piece to climb to express rude doubt or derision shadow, shelter; (verb) to shelter

the inner part of a door jamb or window frame

a worm of the Scolecida, the class of tapeworms

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a short drinking song of ancient Greece, taken up by the guests in irregular succession any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera a fish of the Scombridae, the mackerel genus to suffocate or stifle; to smother to compress one's body into a smaller space to squirt, spurt a member of the Scopelidae, a genus of deepwater fish like slag to exchange dizziness with dimness of sight to bound, caper a member of a roistering band that roamed the streets maltreating watchmen etc free range, plenty a scorch, burn; (verb) to scorch, singe to scratch

a screech; (verb) to screech, shriek

to scratch with claws or nails food, provision thin; scrawny a raucous squawk; (verb) to make a raucous squawk

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scraugh scrawp to scratch the skin to relieve itching scrorp scray a tern; the sea swallow scraye screech a harsh shrill cry; (verb) to utter a harsh, shrill cry scritch screen a device to divide, conceal or protect; (verb) to provide or protect with a screen scriene skreen scrike a shriek; (verb) to shriek shreek shreik shriech shriek shrike shritch skrike scrimmage a noisy dispute or tussle; a rough or confused struggle; (verb) to take part in scrummage a scrimmage skrimmage scrimp scanty; (verb) to scratch and save skrimp scrine a chest for records scryne scroggie abounding in scrogs, stunted bushes or undergrowth scroggy scroll a roll of paper, parchment etc.; (verb) to move text across a display screen scrowl scrowle scrooch to crouch scrootch scrooge to crowd; to squeeze scrouge scrowdge scruze scrump to steal fruit (esp apples) from trees skrump scrunchie a piece of elastic, loosely covered with fabric, for tying back the hair scrunchy scry to see the future eg via a crystal ball skry scryer one who scries in a crystal ball skryer scuddaler in Shetland, the leader of a band of guisers scudler skudler scuddle to run hastily; to scuttle scuttle skuttle sculch rubbish

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to hide, evade, move stealthily to sculpt; to carve a kind of fish, aka scorpion fish to void excrement a common Atlantic fish, the northern porgy to scour, search; to send skimming

a scout like or worthy of a vulgar buffoon; indecently opprobrious or jocular to move in a quick scuttling fashion a hard exoskeletal plate a dirty, disreputable person a drinking vessel used in ancient Greece a single-bladed cutting implement; (verb) to cut with a scythe to disdain

a seal (the animal)

a person whose occupation is sewing, esp the making and mending of garments a kind of fishing-net; (verb) to fish with a seine a Highland or Irish genealogist and transmitter of family lore scorched, withered; (noun) the catch that holds a gun at cock or half-cock; (verb) to burn to seize

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seasure seisure seizure seysure seawan seawant sewan seaward seawards sebacic sebasic secesh secesher seckel seckle sedile sedilium seducive seductive seedman seedsman seeld seld seemlihed seemlyhed seghol segol segholate segolate sehri sohur suhur seigneur seignior signieur seigniory seignory signiory signory seik sick seil sile seisable seizable seiser seisor seizer seizor seisin seizin

a seizure

shell beads used by Algonquin Indians as money towards the sea of or like sebum, as in sebacic acid a secessionist a small reddish brown sweet and juicy pear a kind of seat in a church, usually in pl tending to seduce a dealer in seeds; a sower rare, unusual seemliness a vowel-point in Hebrew in Hebrew, a disyllabic noun form with a tone-long vowel in the first and a short seghol in the second syllable a meal eaten before sunrise by those fasting during Ramadan a lord, especially of a manor feudal lordship

sick to strain that can be seised one who seizes (property), takes possession

freehold of estate or possessions

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relating to earthquakes wheat gluten, widely used in Far Eastern and vegetarian cookery sitting (upright) of selenium in lower valency towards oneself a border, an edge, esp one woven so as not to fray; (verb) to border in heraldry, strewn or scattered with small bearings; (noun) a type of ornamental pattern relating to signs or symbols, esp spoken or written signs having a slight lustre of or pertaining to a semitone always simple, meaning not of gentle birth a N. American milkwort, or its root, used medicinally a mode of address for a man a mode of address for a woman a mode of address for an unmarried woman a person who is older than another the state of being senior plaited straw or rope since

a teacher in insects, a small sense organ on the integument the state of being sentient

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having one or more sepals of the form of sepals cuttlebone a set of seven persons or objects; as, a septet of singers producing sepsis; (noun) an agent producing sepsis a receptacle in an altar for holding religious relics; (verb) to place in a sepulcher consecutive order; (verb) to arrange in consecutive order a file of officers or men appointed to ride at the rear rank of a squadron a former silver coin of Goa

a harem; a palace of a sultan a piece of vocal music, especially one on an amorous subject; (verb) to address a serenade to the state of being a serf

the office or rank of a sergeant a condition of tenure by service in person to the king with a serif, a decorative stroke at the foot of a letter a preacher; a sermonizer to press close, close the ranks of a group of fish, sea basses and groupers to surview capable of being served a piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments

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an old verse-form of six six-lined stanzas thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs having small bristles or setules a scarecrow, a device to scare away deer the Welsh or Irish name for the seatrout grilse a paper size atmospherics, noises interfering with radio reception, due to electric disturbances in the ether an interjection requesting silence an American rosaceous bush flowering at shad spawning time a machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation a martyr for the Islamic faith the soft wool of the protected Tibetan antelope an Arab chief a fragment cow-dung an evil spirit that can be shaken clay rock splitting readily into thin layers along the bedding planes; (verb, Shakesp.) to shell or husk of or like shale an ancient oboe-like musical instrument

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shawm shalom sholom shamable shameable shamal shimaal shamiana shamianah shammas shammash shammes shammos shamos shan shand shanti shantih shapable shapeable sharable shareable shareman sharesman sharia shariah shariat sheria sheriat sharif shereef sherif sharifian sherifian sharpie sharpy shashlick shashlik shaslik shavable shaveable shaw shew show shawley shawlie shchi shtchi shealing sheiling shieling

in Jewish society, a salutation at meeting or parting that can be shamed in the Middle East, a hot dry north wind that carries sand in desert places in India, a large tent, awning or canopy the sexton in a synagogue; the candle used to light the other 8 candles of a Chanukah menorah

in criminal slang, a base or counterfeit coin peace that may be shaped that can be shared a fisherman who shares profits with the owner the body of Islamic law

a descendant of Mohammed through his daughter Fatima relating to a sharif, a descendant of Mohammed through his daugher Fatima a flat-bottomed, two-masted vessel a type of lamb kebab capable of being shaved to show in Ireland, a working woman, esp a fisherwoman, who wears a shawl a kind of cabbage soup a rough hut near summer pasture used as shelter by shepherds

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one of the spars of sheers a holder for eg a knife; (verb) to place in a sheath the wheel of a pulley; a bundle of corn; (verb) to bind in sheaves an illicit liquor shop capable of being cast off a Jew, a pawnbroker a small enclosure for sheep utter; (verb) to swerve, to deviate a kind of water-pipe for smoking, aka hookah the domain of a sheik the standard unit of currency of Israel, worth 100 agorot a large duck of genus Tadorna abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows purified lac (a resinous substance secreted by the female of the lac insect) in the form of thin sheets; (verb) to cover with a thin varnish; to defeat decisively a Shetland pony or sheepdog to put to shame, chide a cooling drink made of sweetened and diluted fruit juice, drunk esp in Arab countries a law-enforcement officer of a county to shut a ditch or drain; (verb) to plant temporarily twelve loaves placed every Sabbath beside the altar in the Jewish Temple and eaten by the priests at the end of the week a massage technique using finger pressure at acupuncture centers a period of seven days' mourning observed after a family member's funeral strong liquor; a drunk

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a non-Jewish girl or young woman

a horse which shies a large dark brown mushroom used in Japanese cookery a hunter, esp of big game an accomplice to a tradesman etc. who acts as a stooge; (verb) to be a shill an Irish cudgel shyness an Irish game resembling hockey; (verb) to climb eg to shinny up a tree a stable; a cowhouse to pucker, gather; to bake eggs a swagman's bundle to defecate a young pig, especially one that has just been weaned a waterproof boot a ram's horn trumpet used in Jewish ceremonies to joggle shaky, rocking an Indian plant with a pith used in making tropical hats, aka spongewood to saunter, skulk the Islamic principle of (rule by) consultation; an Islamic consultative council a building or room in which goods are sold or services provided; (verb) to examine goods with intent to buy one who dwells on or by the shore

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a short person a shaggy dog the part of a human or other vertebrate animal's body around the junction with the arm or forelimb; (verb) to carry on the shoulder 2nd pers. sing. of should a kind of duck with a broad shovel-shaped bill an offering to the manes of an ancestor a small insectivore; (verb, Shakesp.) to curse, beshrew crafty in India, a title of great respect given to a man to shrive formerly, a Jewish community in an Eastern European town or village a look, a dekko a Chinese abacus an alderfly to join pipes in a way suggestive of Siamese twins a blood relation, a kinsman pronunciation with a hissing sound hissing; (noun) a hissing sound any of various women in classical antiquity supposed to utter the oracles and prophecies of a god of or like a sibyl sure, certain such a Sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale an emotionally sick person

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sickie sicko siclike suchlike siddha sidha sideling sidelong sideward sidewards sideway sideways sidh sidhe sienite syenite sigmate sigmated sigmoid sigmoidal signaler signaller signior signor sike syke silen silenus siliceous silicious silicle silicula silicule siliqua silique siliquose siliquous silkalene silkaline silkoline sillabub sillibub syllabub siller silver silurid siluroid silva sylva silvan sylvan

suchlike one who has attained occult power or siddhi sideway, oblique in a sideways direction from the side fairy people a coarse-grained igneous rock, allied to granite s-shaped; (verb) to add a Greek s to

one who signals sir, Mr - the English form and pronunciation for the Italian Signor and the Spanish Señor a rill or small ditch a woodland god or elderly satyr consisting in a noteworthy part of silica, typically quartz a seed vessel resembling a silique, but about as broad as it is long a type of dry fruit consisting of a long pod of two carpels divided by a partition relating to a siliqua, a type of dry fruit consisting of a long pod of two carpels divided by a partition a soft light cotton fabric resembling silk a drink or gelatin dessert consisting of wine and sweetened milk silver any member of a family of fishes including catfishes the trees of a region; a treatise on trees relating to woodland; (noun) one that lives in a forest

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silvatic sylvatic simarouba simaruba simial simian simioid simious simkin simpkin simoniac simonist simoom simoon simorg simurg simurgh simpatico sympatico simplex simplicia sind sine synd syne singult singultus sinopia sinopis sinuitis sinusitis sinuose sinuous sipe sype siphon syphon siphonal siphonic siree sirra sirrah sirree siren syren siri sirih sirloin surloin sirname surname

relating to woodland a tropical American tree apelike

an Urdu corruption of champagne one who practices simony, the buying or selling of a church office or ecclesiastical preferment a hot desert wind in Arabia a monstrous bird of Persian fable of like mind, compatible a geometrical term, a figure with a minimum number of vertices to rinse, wash out

a sob a reddish-brown pigment used for one of the preparatory drawings of a fresco, obtained from sinopite, an iron ore inflammation of a sinus wavy; bending in a supple manner to soak through, seep a bent tube or channel by which a liquid may be drawn off over a higher point to a lower level; (verb) to draw off or convey (liquid etc.) by means of a siphon of or pertaining to a siphon a mode of address, sir

a device that produces a penetrating warning sound the betel pepper a loin of beef, or the upper part of the loin a surname; (verb) to surname

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a saturated solution of sugar boiled to prevent fermentation; (verb) to make into a syrup of or like sirup sister the state of being sissy an Indian musical instrument a species of African antelope a type of generally small black-and-white bird the science of diet a drain; a grating over a drain a stanza of six lines quite large a student at Cambridge and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, is exempted from paying college fees and charges prejudice against people on account of their size one who pays undue attention to size a hissing sound, as of frying food; (verb) to burn or fry with a hissing sound a double-edged dagger used in Ireland and Scotland a length of yarn wound in a loose coil a scare; (verb) to scare scary to ski a length of keel projecting aft to protect the rudder to squint a hut, a shed a long pin of wood or metal, esp for holding pieces of meat together for cooking (verb) to pierce with a long pin, as meat a motorized sledge, fitted with tracks at the rear and steerable skis at the front; (verb) to ride a skiddoo

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skiey skyey skijoring skioring skilful skillful skimo skimobile skoal skol skollie skolly skyward skywards slae sloe slanter slenter slinter slatey slaty sleazy sleezy sleded sleided sleepery sleepry sleepy slew slue slimpsy slimsy slivovic slivovica slivovitz slivowitz slocken sloken sloebush sloethorn sloetree slogan slughorn slughorne slogger slugger sloid slojd sloyd slommock slummock

like the sky; ethereal the sport of being drawn on skis over snow by horse or motor full of skill skimobile, a motorized vehicle on skis a drinking toast; good health; (verb) to down a drink in one go as a toast a coloured hooligan towards the sky a sloe a dodge, a trick like or containing slate sordid apparently, an irregular form of sleaved sleepy a large number or amount; (verb) to swerve violently flimsy; frail a dry plum brandy

to quench, moisten the blackthorn a motto adopted by a group a person who hits hard in boxing, baseball, etc a Swedish system of manual training by woodwork to walk with a hip-rolling gait

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in S. Africa, a narrow water-channel to twist fibre after carding to prepare it for spinning one who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard a structure with a gate for stopping or regulating flow of water; (verb) to wash with a sudden flow of water full of slumber small smarminess; (verb) to smear, gush, make oily oily, ingratiating a gray mineral of metallic luster, an arsenide of cobalt, nickel, and iron a showily clever person an irritatingly clever person cottage cheese a name for various ducks including smew and pochard to smoke smoke; (verb) to smoke to smirk a smithy; (verb) to smithy a tiny bit

to smite the expression of the face when smiling; (verb) to upturn the corners of the mouth in pleasure fine misty rain; (verb) to drizzle that can be smoked

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in the Falkland Isles, an 11 a.m meal consisting of sausage rolls, cream cakes and strong sweet tea full of smoke to burn slowly to kiss closely; (noun) an act of smooching

to smother, extinguish a compositor who does odd jobs in various printing houses; (verb) to work in this way a suave and elegant person with a gradual fading away, growing slower and softer a flake or spot of dirt; (verb) to soil, make smutty like a snake to snarl the curved handle of a scythe

snow; (verb) to snow to reprimand a pinch of snuff

an act of smelling; (verb) to inhale audibly through the nose a slight cold; (verb) to sniff repeatedly one who snivels to snuff or smell about naval slang for a midshipman the snow bunting a check, a rebuke; (verb) to treat with contempt or neglect

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snubbe snuggerie snuggery sny snye soaper soapie soca sokah socage soccage sockman socman sokeman socle zocco zoccolo sodain sodaine sudden sodger soger soldier souldier sodomist sodomite softie softy soh sol soigne soignee soja soya soke soken sucken solan soland solanin solanine solar soler sollar soller sold solde soldan soudan souldan suldan

a snug cozy place; especially a small room in a pub a side channel of a river a soap opera a variety of Caribbean calypso music a feudal tenure of land involving payment of rent or other non-military services to a superior one who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager a plain face or plinth at the foot of a wall, column etc sudden soldier; (verb) to soldier

one who practises sodomy a weak or sentimental person a musical note well cared for, well groomed a dark, salty sauce made from fermented soy beans and wheat flour a district under a particular jurisdiction the common gannet a poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of common nightshade (Solanum nigrum) an upper room, a garret

pay, remuneration the monarch or chief ruler of a Muslim country, esp that of Turkey

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alone; (noun) the bottom of the foot; (verb) to pull by the ears

sullen a metallic pointy toed shoe worn by knights, aka sabaton a singing exercise using the syllable do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti the state of being solid an alkaline soil-type having a hard dark subsoil under a thin friable topsoil somewhat a leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet (verb) to somersault in some way, somehow relating to a somite, the body segment of a vertebrate embryo a sounding of a sound, uttered with vibration of the vocal chords good luck, abundance the state of being a son having pleasing curves; buxom, comely a kind of black tea of a fine quality a solution of soap, soda etc. for cleaning the deck of a ship; (verb) to clean, wash with this solution an Arab market-place; (verb) to suck

carbon residue; (verb) to besmear with soot true, real; (noun) the truth to foretell, to divine a person who uses deceptive reasoning to win debates

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causing sleep; sleepy a N. American rail a mute or damper a buck in its third year indian millet and its varieties shrewlike relating to sorites, a string of statements where the end of one is the subject of the next pertaining to sisters divination by drawing lots a Hindu banker to pickle; to marinade

like a souffle, made puffy by beating and baking to sigh, hum, as of the wind the proportion of sheep or cattle suitable for any pasture; (verb) to reckon this being in good health or condition; (noun) something that stimulates the auditory receptors; (verb) to make a sound the part of a flail that strikes the grain; (verb) to make supple

an origin; (verb) to originate a ground squirrel a shoemaker; a cobbler

in the south; (noun) a southerner derogatory for an English-speaking S. African

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a Greek dish of lamb, similar to a shish kebab supreme; (noun) in pre-decimal coinage, a coin worth one pound sterling a kind of oat porridge, a traditional dish for Hallowe'en a mounted retinue, a cavalcade to whistle or hum softly a type of protein a resort with a mineral spring; (verb) to stay at a spa dreamy, behaving as if spaced out relating to space the ace of spades in the game of ombre in Jewish cooking, a small dumpling alchemical formerly, a Turkish or French Algerian cavalryman a splinter or chip

to wean to sprinkle (with moisture) a flood, a surge the shoulder, esp of an animal used as food

the triangular space between the curve of arch and the right angle enclosing it; a design in a corner of a postage stamp any marine fish of the family Sparidae, including the sea breams, porgies, dentex, etc

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an electrician a kind of fish, the smelt sparsely a long battle-axe in spasms relating to spar a broad, blunt, flexible blade or flattened spoon shaped like a spatula, broad and blunt spavin a male deer in its third year an apparition to climb to ask news cave-dwelling to spread open, sprawl a haddock or other small fish split open and dried in the sun

a small slip of wood, ivory, etc, to be picked out from a heap without disturbing the others in the game of spillikins a hardy wheat, aka emmer a place where provisions are kept; a buttery pertaining to sperm; (noun) a spermatic vessel to spit; to throw out

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a select military unit in the former Soviet Union a sparrow

vomit; (verb) to vomit one who spews a sphere

relating to a sphere; perfectly round a spy, a scout a person from a Spanish-speaking American country spiked; spikelike tasting of spice an umbelliferous herb having finely divided leaves, common in Europe; aka baldmoney, meu a spike or splinter a spy to spite having spikes any mineral of a group of aluminates, ferrates, and chromates of magnesium, iron, zinc, etc crystallizing in octahedra a musical instrument like a small harpsichord a small thicket or grove with undergrowth; a clump of trees full of spines; thorny a small spine covered with small spines a group of plants, including hardhack, and meadowsweet

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a tapering or conical body; (verb) to wind, mount in spirals in mitosis, the coiled thread formed by nuclear chromatin to spurt a wooden stick for stirring porridge a hospital the effect of an impact into a liquid; (verb) to scatter a liquid about

a splash, a splotch; (verb) to splotch affected with spleen, fretful splendour a contrivance for holding a broken bone, etc in position fussy, officious a mass of absorbent material; (verb) to wipe with a sponge somewhat spongy; spongelike a platform jutting from ship's deck for gun or wheel spooky a lure on a swivel, used in trolling for fish foolishly fond; (noun) one who is spooney related to sporozoa any parasitic protozoan of the class Sporozoa, including the causal organisms of malaria and pebrine to clamber a cloud of small flying drops; (verb) to disperse in fine particles to chap, roughen

extent, compass; (verb) to open or expand over a larger area

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lively an active young man; a youth a snare with noose and spring; (verb) to snare in a springe a sprinkling; (verb) to scatter drops or particles on spoliation; (verb) to plunder

a rich Italian dessert consisting of layered ice-cream with candied fruits, nuts, and sometimes brandy a goading instrument on a horse rider's heel; (verb) to apply the spur to one who spurs an annual herb with whorled filiform leaves, sometimes grown for fodder fat, clumsy, unfledged; (noun) a young pigeon; (verb) to stuff, upholster a soldier a scale like, having or covered with scales; (noun) a creature covered with scales a little scale having four equal sides and four right angles; rigidly conventional; (noun) a shape with four equal sides and four right angles; (verb) to make square to press into pulp

yielding to splash water about a scraping implement consisting of a rubber-edged blade attached to the end of a handle; (verb) to clean with a squeegee tipsy, drunk

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a mantis shrimp of genus Scilla squinting; (verb) to squint, look askance squires collectively someone who works at a stable a stockade a single period of colder climate or advancing ice, as a subdivision of a longer glacial period savouring of the stage, acted, assumed the male red deer when four years old a colt the state of being stagnant a dye or colouring matter; discoloration; (verb) to discolor or dirty a rest for the foot used in going from one level to another a wharf for the transfer of coal or ore staunch; (noun) a sturdy, persistent person a sudden panic-stricken rush; (verb) to rush in panic firm, steadfast; (verb) to stop the flowing of, as blood an upright beam, bar or support; (verb) to support by a stanchel a structure for standing or sitting; (verb) to assume or maintain an upright position a corrupt form of staniel, the kestrel

stone; (verb) to stone a sting; (verb) to sting a division of a poem the tarragon plant

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an Eastern Orthodox spiritual advisor to row backwards of a horse, apt to start

to die from lack of food fuss, ado, disturbance

that can be stated not moving; (noun) random noise produced in a radio or television receiver a statue the place, function, role or position of another; (verb) to avail, help, serve

firm, unwavering well-balanced; (verb) to make steady a handle water in the form of vapor; (verb) to expose to steam to line eg a well with stone

a stone lining of a well to steer the act or practice of steering a hard fat a steersman

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a small S. African antelope

a neckcloth or cravat with long lace ends precipitous or perilous stiff, firm; (noun) a long spar with a pulley used to stow cargo in ship's hold (verb) to stow (cargo) an extinct mammal with ridged teeth an upright stone slab relating to a stele, an upright stone slab star-shaped; starry a cross-timber in a shaft to stride vigorously relating to the organization of atoms in a molecule stubble an instrument like a xylophone a blacksmith's forge or anvil; (verb) to stithy an erect penis a step, or set of steps, built into a wall or fence; (verb) to style a small poniard, a stiletto a cask stand to peer to thwart, stump, or obstruct

a ray with a formidable barbed dorsal spine on its tail the weever fish

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a stalk, esp of the fruiting body of a fungus of or pertaining to stipules bustle, activity; (verb) to pass an implement through in circular motions a branch of a family; pedigree a respectful mode of address a Dutch coin worth a penny or two; something of little value a stab; a straight thrust with a rapier irish slang for drunk, intoxicated a long inexpensive cigar to stagger

pertaining to a stoma, one of the minute apertures between the cells in many serous membranes carrying the penalty of being stoned, i.e. pelted with stones of stone a kind of lichen of or like stone to stun

a vessel for holy water great, formidable; stubborn, surly; (noun) an affray, a battle

a break in a journey any of several fragrant resinous exudations from certain trees such as the styrax and liquidambar

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a short tale a bullock, a steer; (verb) to bound with a stiff gait a wedge of bread cut from a round loaf and stuffed with meat or cheese to ache, throb dusty by stealth to bestride; to set (the legs) far apart

to rake with machine-gun fire from low-flying aeroplanes uncurved; (noun) a straight stretch; (verb) to lay out a corpse a line of planking or plating in a ship; (verb) to stroke a violent effort; (verb) to exert to the utmost confined, rigorous; (noun) a narrow place; (verb) to confine a straw; hence, hair a beach; (verb) to leave in an unfavorable situation strong unusual or unfamiliar; (noun) an unfamiliar thing stratified; arranged in distinct layers to wander about idly the stalk of corn; (verb) to scatter, spread the crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a fugue one who strews the quality of being strident having strigae, bristles

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patterned with stripes a scaly spike of female flowers, as in the hop a very large gastropod related to the whelk a blunt rhabdus; a parasitic threadworm an oxide of the metal strontium trousers a drink of tea scrofulous; having strumae alcoholic liquor; (verb) (Scots) to strut a small squat beer bottle pertaining to starlings one who stylises astringent; (noun) a substance that stops bleeding of minor cuts that may be sued the state of being suave a province of the Mogul empire a native officer in an Indian regiment corresponding to a captain a subcontractor, esp in the construction industry to subdue to withdraw pertaining to cork a feu granted to a vassal; (verb) to make a subinfeudation of duskish; moderately dark; (noun) dark, formal clothes worn in combination with the academic gown, esp at Oxford University

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sublunar sublunary submerge submerse subniveal subnivean subpena subpoena substract subtract subtil subtile subtle subtility subtilty subtlety suttletie subverse subvert succah sukkah succor succour succorer succourer succos sukkos succose succous sucket sunket sudarium sudary suetty suety suid suidian sulcate sulcated sulfa sulpha sulfate sulphate sulfatic sulphatic sulfid sulfide sulphid sulphide sulfinyl

under the moon; earthly; terrestrial to place below the surface of a liquid under snow a writ commanding attendance (eg of a witness); (verb) to compel appearance in court by subpoena to subtract; to withdraw subtle, delicate subtlety

to subvert a hut or shelter roofed with branches, used by Jews as a temporary living accommodation during Sukkoth, the Festival of the Tabernacles help, comfort; (verb) to aid in distress one who succors a Jewish religious festival of thanksgiving of or like succus, juicy a dainty or delicacy a cloth for wiping away sweat resembling suet, solid fatty tissue around the kidneys any member of the pig family Suidae, including wild pigs, warthogs and the domestic pig with grooves or furrows any of a class of antibacterial drugs, the sulphonamides a salt of sulphuric acid; (verb) to treat with sulphuric acid pertaining to a sulfate, a salt of sulphuric acid a compound of an element or radical with sulphur

the bivalent chemical group, SO

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a salt of sulphurous acid relating to a chemical salt, a sulphite any chemical compound containing the group SO2 joined to two hydrocarbon radicals relating to a sulfone, any of a class of substances consisting of two organic radicals combined with SO2 a bivalent sulphone group

sulphur; (verb) to treat with sulfur to form a sulphide; as, a sulphuret of potassium containing sulphur in higher valency resembling, or partaking of the nature of, sulphur any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Rhus summary of or like summer a Malay blow-pipe made from a hollow cane continually exposed to the sun an E. Indian tree a collection of traditions received by orthodox Muslims as of equal authority with the Koran towards the sun a kind of maize porridge to take the place of a chapter of the Koran arrogance; haughty pride the act of giving up, yielding; (verb) to yield, give up to observe, keep under surveillance one who survives

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a suspect; (verb) to arrest for suspicious behaviour suspended, held back relating to cobbling or sewing a precept; an aphorism; a brief rule self-government, home rule a Greek cross with arms bent at a right angle a bit of cotton wool or the like for mopping up blood or discharges; (verb) to absorb or mop with a swab a sweeper of the deck of a ship a seaman, esp a new recruit a soldier, esp a militiaman a man who seeks work while travelling about carrying his swag a marshy hollow or depression

a Hindu mystic an active, smart, vigorous person an exchange; (verb) to barter, give in exchange dark-complexioned, blackish the quantity of grass cut down by one sweep of the scythe to swerve given to hard study a swinging or sweeping motion; rule; (verb) to move slowly back and forth an instrument consisting of two convex pieces of metal, placed in the mouth to make the voice of Mr Punch

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a sword an atrophy of the muscles of the shoulder in horses slothful; grievous, heavy; (verb) to swear

an attractive person, a poppet a trick, deception to swinge quickly, at once a swindle; (verb) to deceive a faint; (verb) to faint

one who wields a sword a young sylph a native potassium chloride, a source of potash a symbiotic organism

pertaining to a symposium, a conference; (noun) a symposium a Jewish church metrical continuity between two verses in a system to synchronise of or showing syncope, the shortening a word by the omission of a sound, letter, or syllable from the middle of the word an ancient rabbinical council of 70 sages, the highest court of ancient Jerusalem combined or co-ordinated action

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syngeneic syngenic synodic synodical synoecete synoekete synonym synonyme syntagm syntagma syntonic syntonous syzygal syzygetic syzygial tabard taberd tabasheer tabashir tabbinet tabinet tabbouleh tabbouli tabooley tabouleh tabouli tabuli taber tabor tabour taboggan tarboggin toboggan toboggin taboo tabu tapu taboret tabouret taborin taborine tabourin tacamahac tacmahack takamaka tace taslet tasse tasset tach tache

genetically similar or identical, eg in respect of grafts enacted or made by or at a synod a guest tolerated with indifference in an ants' or termites' nest a word having the same meaning as another a syntactic unit comprising one or more (esp linguistic) signs or elements pertaining to syntony; in harmony with one's surroundings related to a syzygy a herald's or knight's cape over his armor blazoned with his coat of arms; an embroidered pennant attached to a trumpet a siliceous substance sometimes found in crude form in hollows of bamboos, used in Eastern medicine a fabric like poplin, with a watered surface a kind of Lebanese salad

a light medieval drum buckled onto the player's chest; (verb) to play on this a kind of sledge; (verb) to sledge on a taboggan

a prohibition, interdict; (verb) to forbid as eg unclean a low stool without a back or arms; a low stand or cabinet; an embroidery frame a small drum longer in body than the tabor a gum resin yielded by various tropical trees in plate armour, one of a series of overlapping pieces forming a kind of skirt

a fastening or clasp

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painting by smearing or splattering one who paints by smearing and splattering a vitreous form of basalt slightly sticky boredom a narrow band or hair-ribbon worn in Greece ribbonlike; shaped like a ribbon or tapeworm the rail round the stern of a ship a thin glossy silk (adj.) made of taffeta a liquor resembling rum distilled from the lower grades of molasses, refuse brown sugar, etc a hard-baked chewy sweet, made of sugar and butter a conical clay pot used in N. African cooking a paste made of crushed sesame seeds a Himalayan wild goat in India, a division of a district for revenue and certain other purposes small, fruit- or nut-filled pastries, dipped in honey an entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted a large S. American member of the weasel family an apparition of someone about to die a small portion, a pinch to wander, to rave muddled, fuddled that can be taken

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a rare wild horse in Islamic law, divorce, esp by the husband's verbal repudiation of his wife in the presence of witnesses talon like talc of or pertaining to talc an obsolete German silver coin a very tall southern Indian fan palm with enormous leaves which are used as sunshades etc an object supposed to have occult or magic powers, esp an inscribed stone or ring worn as an amulet to avert evil or bring good luck, health, etc in the West of England, a loft the traditional prayer shawl worn by Jewish men of or like tallow a large estate, a revenue district a line following the lowest point of a valley; the middle of a navigable waterway used as boundary line capable of being tamed cornmeal dough rolled with ground meat or beans seasoned usually with chili, wrapped usually in corn husks, and steamed a tropical American arboreal anteater having a dense furry coat a small wild buffalo of the Philippines an alloy of copper and zinc

the distinctive quality of a sound an Eastern stringed instrument, used to produce a drone a thin worsted stuff, highly glazed

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a Tam o' Shanter a protective plug placed in the mouth of a gun or cannon a plug in a wound to staunch flow of blood; (verb) to plug with a tampon the surgical use of a tampon an Indian police station

an officer in charge of a tana, a police station of timber, treated with Tanalith, a proprietary preservative a type of Indian cooking in which meat, vegetables etc. are baked over charcoal in a clay oven the state of being tangent the boat dwelling population of China a small insectivore, native to Madagascar a trumpet fanfare; a hunting cry a small S. American passerine bird with a tilted tail the leather guard in front of a Mexican stirrup a wall hanging; (verb) to cover with tapestry an Australasian food fish a low four-wheeled carriage used in Russia a fez, a hat worn by Muslim men

a male hawk

a thin, stiffly-starched, open-weave muslin

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a pack of cards used in fortune-telling an earthy volcanic tuff used as a hydraulic cement a plaid cloth a small, single-masted Mediterranean ship with a lateen sail a hypocrite, esp one who affects religious piety a fawn-coloured silk made from wild Indian silkworms

a potato an indiscreet talker, a gossip a design marked on the skin by pricking in indelible dyes; (verb) to mark the skin in this way one who tattooes a foolish or awkward young person of or relating to a bull stretched tight (verb, Scots) to mat, tangle a labroid fish of the N. American coast a griddle in Indian cookery any of various species of Nothofagus, New Zealand beech a port of a rich orange-brown colour an instrument for measuring fee for hired vehicle one who imposes taxes tetchy a torch

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a group of persons associated in a joint action; (verb) to form a team an ornamental stand, usually with three legs, having caddies for holding tea to make fun of; to draw out

a plant with thistle-like flowers surrounded by prickly bracts; (verb) to raise the nap of cloth with teasel one who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth crazy an expert in or enthusiast for technology; a technician a type of small glassy stone, thought to be a product of meteorite impact a one-piece under-garment for a woman causing weariness the sesame plant injury, pain; (verb) to injure a person between the ages of thirteen and nineteen to kindle; to burn very small

a Native American tent a child's toy, somewhat resembling a top, and twirled by the fingers; orig used as a die in a game of chance an Ethiopian cereal grass a Jewish phylactery, a small cubic leather box that contains a piece of parchment upon which are inscribed passages from the Torah a sheep in its second year the inner covering of a seed

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a large black and yellow S. American lizard television a contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity ; (verb) to transport by telfer relating to a telfer, a contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity a sapling, a shoot from a tree-stump; (verb) to produce such a shoot a kind of marine shell of or pertaining to the earth an apparatus representing earth and sun, showing day and night, the seasons etc a sieve, strainer; (verb) to sift intoxication an outwork in a main fortification ditch tendency (esp in composition, tendentious) a tender feeling, a fondness gloomy, obscure a substance, esp a drug, that kills a tapeworm an orange-brown colour the adult male voice intermediate between baritone and alto a competition in verse between two troubadours wary, attentive thin, slender, insubstantial an Aztec pyramid temple a Mexican alcoholic drink made from the agave plant the male of various falcons, esp of the peregrine a triplet of lines that rhyme together or are connected with adjacent rhymes

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an infantry regiment, originally Spanish not ritually clean, not kosher

turf a person who holds an estate for a term of years or for life a terpene alcohol used as a perfume base a dark earthy deposit formed under prehistoric pile-dwellings in Italy a large vessel for holding eg soup a metal ring on a harness through which the reins pass; a ring on an animal's (e. g. dog's) collar for a leash a sixpence a Hebrew letter related to tetanus; (noun) an agent causing tetanus an oxide having four atoms of oxygen in the molecule; as, osmium tetroxide tough the lapwing a strong-timbered eucalyptus to thatch

murder and robbery by thugs an intestine, catgut the state or dignity of a thane

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thenage thane a freeman granted land in return for military service; a Scottish feudal lord thegn theater theatre theatre theatral of or pertaining to a theatre theatric thegither together together thein an alkaloid found in tea, identical to caffeine theine theolog a theologian theologue theoric theory, speculation theorique theoriser one who theorises theorizer theriac an antidote to venomous bites, originally made of various ingredients including theriaca viper flesh mixed with honey therm a unit of quantity of heat equal to 100,000 British thermal units therme thermic of or by heat thermical thermit an incendiary explosive thermite thether thither thither thetic positively asserting, bearing the thesis thetical thewless without thews thowless thiamin vitamin B1, found in seeds, grains, beans etc thiamine thiazin any of a group of organic compounds containing four carbon atoms, one sulphur thiazine and one nitrogen atom thiazol a chemical compound thiazole thible a porridge-stick thivel thickie a stupid person thicko thicky thingamy a whatsit thingummy thionin a sulphur compound thionine thiophen a five-membered heterocyclic compound with sulphur thiophene thirst the desire to drink; (verb) to feel a desire or need to drink thrist thirsty suffering from thirst

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thristy thirty thretty thistle thrissel thristle thole thowel thowl tholos tholus thon thonder yon yond yonder yont thoro thorough thorp thorpe thraldom thralldom thrang throng thrapple thropple thrasher thresher thrave threave thraward thrawart thread thrid threap threep threne threnode threnody threnos threnetic threnodic thrimsa thrymsa thro through thru throe throwe thruster

a number, three times ten (adj.) of the number thirty a prickly composite plant with pink, white, yellow but usuallypurple flower-heads to endure, bear a round building, dome, cupola yon

thorough a group of houses in the country; a small village servitude to throng throat, windpipe; (verb) to throttle, strangle any of several American birds of the mockingbird family a collective noun for a number of sheaves of corn, two stooks of twelves sheaves each froward, obstinate a very thin line of any substance; (verb) to pass a thread through to rebuke, to insist a dirge; a funeral song

of or like a threnody, an ode of lamentation an Anglo-Saxon gold coin through extreme pain; (verb) to subject to pangs one that thrusts

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thrustor thuja thuya thylose thylosis tylosis thymey thymy thyroxin thyroxine thyrse thyrsus tiar tiara tich titch tichy titchy ticken ticking tickey ticky ticktack ticktock tictac tictoc tidbit titbit tiddley tiddly tidivate titivate tittivate tied tyde tietac tietack tiff tift tiffin tiffing tigerish tigrish tiglon tigon tika tilak tike tyke tikoloshe tokoloshe

a genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, with scalelike leaves an ingrowth from a neighbouring cell through a pit into a vessel full of or smelling of thyme an iodine compound, a hormone forming the active principle of the thyroid gland a type of inflorescence a three-tiered crown a small person very small a strong linen or cotton fabric used for mattress and pillow cases a former S. African coin, a threepenny bit to make a sound like a clock

a small portion, a delicacy slightly drunk; (noun) an alcoholic drink to spruce up or adorn past tense of tie, to fasten a tieclip a slight quarrel; (verb) to be in a huff lunch; a light meal; (verb) to have lunch resembling a tiger a cross between a tiger and a lioness a red mark or pendant on the forehead of Hindu women, originally of religious significance but now also worn for ornament a dog, a cur in Bantu folklore, a hairy malevolent dwarflike creature with supernatural powers

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a maker or layer of tiles a kind of kettledrum timely; seasonable one who plays the timpani a kettledrum the space between an arch and the lintel of a portal the prong of a fork; (verb, Scots) to lose, be lost a mug made of tin-plate; a can of beer a glittery ornament; (verb) to adorn with tinsel to walk on tiptoe an ancestor a novice like a tyro a tantrum, a commotion a tizzy, a state of confusion promptly, at once orig. the fineness of gold or silver; now the concentration of a solution as determined by titration; the minimum volume of a solution needed to reach the endpoint in a titration a tenth part; a tax payable to the church; (verb) to impose this as a tax a titmouse a sister a light springy step; (verb) to prance, skip about gaily gay, lively, unsteady a monetary unit of Kyrgyzstan a state of agitation

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tizzy toadeater toady toadgrass toadrush toastie toasty toco toko tocology tokology toerag toeragger toetoe toitoi toga toge togaed togate togated toged toilsome toylesome toylsom toiseach toisech toshach tokamak tokomak tolan tolane tolbooth tollbooth tolidin tolidine tollie tolly tolsel tolsey tolzey toluene toluol toluole toluid toluide toluidin toluidine tombal tombic tomentose tomentous

a sycophant a kind of low rush a toasted sandwich punishment obstetrics; midwifery a beggar, a tramp; a despicable person a tall reedlike grass of New Zealand a Roman garment wearing a toga

demanding much exertion a Celtic nobleman a toroidal device used in fusion a white crystalline derivative of acetylene a town hall, a prison a chemical compound a castrated calf a tollbooth; a merchants' meeting place, or exchange a hydrocarbon of the aromatic series, homologous with benzene a complex double tolyl and toluidine derivative of glycocoll, obtained as a white crystalline substance any one of three metameric amido derivatives of toluene analogous to aniline pertaining to a tomb bearing thickly matted hair or fur

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toney tony tongman tongster tonicity tonus tonish tonnish tonnell tunnel tonsilar tonsillar toonie twonie twoonie toorie tourie tootsie tootsy topee topi topek tupek tupik topful topfull toponymal toponymic toque toquet tora torah toran torana torchier torchiere tordion turdion tormenter tormentor tornade tornado torose torous torquate torquated torrefy torrify toss tossen tostada

high-toned, fashionable a member of a Chinese tong the normal elasticity of a healthy muscle at rest modish; fashionable a tunnel relating to the tonsils a Canadian two-dollar coin a small heap, a knob of hair sweetheart a tropical pith helmet an Inuit animal-skin tent full to the top relating to toponymy, the study of place-names a kind of cap worn in the 16th century the body of Jewish law and learning, including sacred literature and oral tradition in the Indian subcontinent, a sacred Buddhist gateway a floor lamp with bowl for reflecting light upwards a Renaissance dance similar to but slower than a galliard one who torments a tornado swelling; bulging with a distinctive ring (eg of feathers or a different colour) round the neck to scorch or parch; to dry or roast with heat an act of throwing upwards; (verb) to throw lightly a tortilla fried until crisp with a savoury topping

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tostado totable toteable totaliser totalizer totemist totemite tottie totty touchpad trackpad toughie toughy toun town toupee toupet touraco turaco turacou touse tousle touze touzle towse towze tousy touzy towsy towzy tovarich tovarisch tovarish toward towards toweling towelling towmon towmond towmont townee townie townfolk townsfolk townlet townling toxaemia toxemia toxic toxical toxin

capable of being toted a system of betting in which the total amount staked is divided among the winners in proportion to the size of their stake one belonging to a clan or tribe having a totem a woman or small child part of a laptop computer functioning like a mouse a tough person; a difficult problem a town a little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair any one of several species of bird of the genus Turacus, native to Africa, remarkable for the peculiar green and red pigments found in their feathers to dishevel, rumple

shaggy, unkempt

friend, comrade in the direction of; (adj.) approaching material for towels a twelvemonth a town-dweller the people of a town a small town blood poisoning due to toxins in blood of or pertaining to poison a poisonous product formed by pathogenic bacteria, as a toxic proteid or poisonous

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ptomaine sportive; trifling; wanton built of horizontal beams, not arches and vaults a long tubelike but closed cell in xylem to draggle, to trail along that can be traded a procession; a string of railway carriages or wagons; (verb) to instruct systematically to walk wearily to trammel a small trampoline tranquilliser a trinket transistor to transfer from one ship to another to transmute; to transform an instrument for boring holes in the skull; (verb) to bore holes in the skull of or pertaining to trap, a kind of rock trattoria, an Italian restaurant one who travels a stall partition; a stall the three in cards or dice a threepenny bit a traitor; a deceiver the part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the

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treddle trebuchet trebucket treck trek tredille tredrille treen treenware treenail trenail trunnel trematode trematoid tremolant tremolo trenchand trenchant treponema treponeme tressel trest trestle tressour tressure trevet trivet trew true trews trooz trouse triact triactine trialist triallist triazin triazine tribadism tribady tricep triceps trickie tricky tricolor tricolour tricorn tricorne tridental tridented trie

foot; (verb) to work a treadle a medieval siege engine for launching stones to go on a journey a card game for three made of wood; (noun) cups, dishes etc made of wood a wooden peg that swells when wet, used for fastening timbers, especially in shipbuilding a kind of parasitic flatworm a vibrating, quavering musical effect trenchant a kind of bacterium, a spirochaete, that causes syphilis a support consisting of a horizontal beam and sloping legs a kind of subordinary, like plaited lilies a stool or other thing supported by three legs true full-length trousers worn by Scot regiments; close-cut tartan drawers sometimes worn under the kilt in Highland dress three-rayed a person taking part in a trial or test a nitrogen compound used in herbicides lesbianism a muscle of the arm full of tricks a flag of three colours; esp the French national flag of blue, white, and red vertical stripes a hat with three points such as was worn by American revolutionaries having three prongs to try

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try trier trior tryer triff triffic triform triformed trigonal trigonic trigynian trigynous trijugate trijugous trike tryke trilith trilithon trill trillo trilobal trilobed trioxid trioxide tripey tripy tripodal tripodic triptyca triptych triscele triskele trist triste tristful trisul trisula troad troade trod trode troak trock troke trocar trochar troche trochisk troelie troely troolie

one who tries terrific, excellent having a triple form pertaining to or having three angles having three pistils or styles in three pairs a tricycle a stone monument of two upright and one transverse slab a rapid alternation of two notes a tone or semitone apart, commonly ending with a turn; (verb) to perform a trill having three lobes an oxide containing three atoms of oxygen; as, sulphur trioxide of or like tripe relating to a tripod a painting in three parts, especially altar piece with one central and two hinged side panels a figure consisting of three radiating curves or legs sad the trident of Siva a track, path

to barter a stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy a medicinal tablet or lozenge; strictly, one of circular form an Amazonian palm tree, aka bussu; its immense leaf, used for thatching

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trolley trolly tron trone troopial troupial tropin tropine troth trowth trousers trowsers troutlet troutling trouvere trouveur troweler troweller trucage truquage trudgen trudgeon tsaddik tsaddiq tzaddik tzaddiq zaddick zaddik tsardom tzardom tsetse tzetse tzetze tsigane tzigane tzigany zigan tsimmes tzimmes tsitsith tzitzis tzitzit tzitzith zizit zizith tsooris tsores tsoris tsorriss tsouris tsuris

a form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like; (verb) to convey by trolley a public weighing-machine for weighing produce in the market-place of a city or burgh; the post of this used as a pillory any of various American orioles of the family Icteridae a white crystalline alkaloid, produced by decomposing atropine faith, fidelity; (verb; Shakesp.) to betroth a garment worn on the lower part of the body with a loose tubular branch for each leg a little trout one of a school of poets who flourished in northern France from the eleventh to the fourteenth century one who trowels the faking of works of art a swimming stroke in Judaism, a Hasidic leader, or person of extraordinary piety

the realm of a tsar a small fly that transmits trypanosome parasites a gypsy

a sweetened stew of vegetables, fruit and meat the tassels on the four corners of a Jewish prayer shawl

grief, woe

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tzuris tuatara tuatera tubaist tubist tubal tubar tubate tubular tubbish tubby tubercle tubercule tubulose tubulous tucotuco tucutuco tucutucu tuffe tuft tughra tugra tughrik tugrik tuilyie tuilzie tuktoo tuktu tulban tulipant turban turband turbant turbond turribant tum tummy tumbrel tumbril tumor tumour tumular tumulary tumulose tumulous tuna tunny tunable tuneable tundun turndun

a primitive reptile found in New Zealand, of the genus Hatteria one who plays the tuba in the form of a tube

round and fat a small tuber, protuberance or swelling resembling, or in the form of, a tube; longitudinally hollow an American rodent of mole-like habits a tuft an ornamental monogram incorporating the name and title of the Sultan a Mongolian monetary unit a fight, a brawl; (verb) to struggle a caribou a turban

the stomach a farm tipcart; a vehicle carrying condemned persons to a place of execution an abnormal swelling or enlargement, now esp a new growth of cells in the body without inflammation of or like a tumulus full of small hills or mounds; hilly any of several large marine food and game-fishes of the family Scombridae capable of being tuned an Australian bull-roarer

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one who tunnels two pennies wearing a turban the root of Ipomea turpethum, a plant of Ceylon, used as a purgative scroll-like; (noun) a scroll-like bone of the nose a balance of osmotic pressure and cell-wall elasticity turgid turquoise a troop the bottom, the buttocks a turf-spade

relating to a cough a compact tuft of grass or sedge an exclamation of rebuke; (verb) to say tut a female tutor a nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge

two

idle talk; (verb) to prate; to talk much and idly twelve

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twankay twanky twasome twosome tweenager tweener tweenie tweeny twerp twirp twerpy twirpy twibil twibill twifold twofold twyfold twoccer twocker twoccing twocking tympanal tympanic tynd tynde typable typeable typey typy typhose typhous tyran tyranne tyrant uhlan ulan uillean uilleann uintahite uintaite ukelele ukulele ulama ulema uliginose uliginous ulyie ulzie um umm umbeled

a variety of green tea a twosome a child of approximately eight to fourteen years of age a between-maid a foolish person like a twerp, a foolish person a double-headed axe twofold a person who takes (a car) without the owner's consent the offence of taking (a car) without the owner's consent like a tympanum or drum; acting like a drumhead; as, a tympanal membrane old past of tind, to kindle that can be typed characterised by conformity to a group of or pertaining to typhus a tyrant; (verb) to tyrannize a light cavalryman in semi-oriental uniform; a Prussian lancer as in uillean pipes, a kind of bagpipes developed in Ireland and operated by squeezing bellows under the arm a tar-like asphalt found in the Uinta valley, Utah a small four-stringed guitar originating in Hawaii but developed from an earlier Portuguese instrument the body of professional theologians, expounders of the law, in a Muslim country slimy; oozy; growing in swampy places oil an interjection expressing doubt or hesitation; (verb) to express doubt or hesitation having umbels

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umbelled umbre umbrette umbrel umbrere umbriere umbril umbrose umbrous umma ummah umpie umpy umpteen umpty umpteenth umptieth umteenth umquhile umwhile umra umrah unable unhable unaching unaking unageing unaging unai unau unaneled unnaneld unawares unware unwares unbid unbidden unblended unblent unblowed unblown unbraced unbraste unbrizzed unbruised unbrused unbroke unbroken unburden unburthen unburned

the hammerhead, a brown bird related to the storks the visor of a helmet

shade-giving; dusky the body of Muslim believers considered as one community an umpire denoting an indefinitely large number the ordinal of umpteen; (noun) an indefinitely large number in a sequence some time ago; formerly a lesser pilgrimage to Mecca made separately or at the same time as the hajj, and consisting of a number of devotional rituals performed within the city not able not aching not ageing a two-toed sloth without extreme unction without warning not bid or commanded not blended not blown, still in the bud not braced; with clothing unfastened unbruised unbroken to free from a burden not burned

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unburnt uncinate uncinated unclench unclinch uncoined uncoyned undefide undefied undersea underseas undreamed undreamt undulance undulancy undulant undular undulose undulous uneath uneathes uneth unnethes unfilde unfiled ungain ungainly ungord ungored unheal unhele unicolor unicolour unilobar unilobed unioniser unionizer uniramose uniramous unisonal unisonant unisonous unitiser unitizer unked unket unkid unkend unkenned unkent unlet

hooked at the end to open from a clenched position not coined not defied below the sea not dreamed of the state of being undulant rising and falling in waves undulating, wavy with difficulty, hardly

not rubbed with a file awkward, uncouth unwounded to discover, disclose having one colour having a single lobe one who unionises esp. of the appendages of crustaceans, consisting of a single branch being in unison one who unitises odd; strange; uncouth unknown; strange not letted (of a property)

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unletted unlich unlike unloose unloosen unmard unmarred unmiter unmitre unmold unmould unmoneyed unmonied unpanel unpannel unpinked unpinkt unproved unproven unready unredy unrhymed unrimed unrid unridden unrough unruffe unsavory unsavoury unsawed unsawn unshaked unshaken unshale unshell unshaved unshaven unshewn unshown unshoot unshout unshrived unshriven unsmitten unsmote unsod unsodden unsoncy unsonsie unsonsy unsoote

unlike to loosen unmarred to deprive of a miter; to depose or degrade from the rank of a bishop to change the form of; to reduce from any form without money to unsaddle not pinked, i.e. not ornamented with punched holes not proved not ready not rhymed unridden not rough, beardless not savory not sawed unshaken to strip the shale, or husk, from not shaved not shown to revoke the shouting of by a contrary shout not shriven not smitten not boiled, not sodden unlucky unsweet

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unsweet unsowed unsown unspide unspied unspilled unspilt unspoiled unspoilt unstuffed unstuft untride untried unvail unvaile unveil unvexed unvext unvisor unvizard unwaked unwakened unwarely unwarily unwarie unwary unwed unwedded unweeting unwitting unweldy unwieldly unwieldy unwhipped unwhipt unwont unwonted upadaisy upsadaisy upbound upbounden upbraid upbray upby upbye updraft updraught uphoard uphoord upmost uppermost

not sowed, eg of a field unobserved not spilled not spoiled not stuffed not tried to unveil not vexed to remove or open the vizor of not waked unwarily unwary not wed unwitting unwieldy not whipped unwonted; unaccustomed an expression of reassurance to someone who has fallen over past of upbind, to bind up to reproach a little farther on an upwards movement of air to hoard up highest

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a rising a carousal a Greek letter of poor quality toward a higher place or position the retention of waste materials normally excreted relating to uraemia, retention of waste materials normally excreted pointed, with a pattern of points relating to urea a uredosorus, a sorus or pustule in which urediniospores are formed relating to the ureter, a tube from kidney to bladder a crystalline ether, used as an anaesthetic and pesticide urgency of or pertaining to urine, or partaking of its qualities that can be used the time allowed by custom for payment of a bill of exchange in foreign commerce a female usher whiskey practising usury towards us, in our direction one who utilises in the greatest degree, extreme; (noun) one's greatest effort one who believes in utopia

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vacancy cowpox in Orkney or Shetland, a bay or creek invested with, or as if with, a sheath a little sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses wandering; (noun) a wanderer with no apparent means of support charged or variegated with vair, squirrel fur

originally, the title of a military commander in various Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns or provinces

a native lawyer in India an element's power to combine, measured by number of atomic weights of other elements with which the atomic weight of the element will combine a kind of dance like valgus, club-foot a governor, esp of a vilayet valour in Norse mythology, a chooser of the slain applied to an honorific garland bestowed in ancient Rome on the first to mount an enemy's rampart a tanning material, made from the acorns of a Levantine oak valour relating to a valve a knight, noble etc. with vassals under him who is himself the vassal of a greater noble a little valve

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a piece of armour designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist to go, depart esp hurriedly like a vamp, sultry, seductive a salt of vanadic acid a butterfly of the red admiral genus Vanessa advantage; (verb, Spenser) to benefit, profit matter in the form of a tenuous fluid, either as a gas or as a suspension of minute droplets; (verb) to change into vapour a day-flying moth of the genus Orgyia something that vaporises resembling or suggestive of vapours full of vapors; vaporous a Spanish American linear measure a kind of seaweed, aka kelp a pest, vermin a noise imitative of speed; (verb) to make a varoom noise a ring for a hawk's jess vessel vastness; immense extent prophetic, oracular West Indian black magic

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voudoun vault vaut vaute vawte vauntie vaunty vawntie vav vaw veale veil vele vedette vidette veena vina veep veepee veggie vegie vehemence vehemency veinlet veinule veinulet venule veinous veiny venose veinstone veinstuff velate velated veld veldt veldskoen velskoen vellenage villanage villenage vellet velvet velour velours velure venatic venatical vendable vendible vendace

an arched roof or ceiling; (verb) to leap over

boastful, vain a Hebrew letter to veil a mounted sentry stationed to watch for enemy an Indian stringed instrument a vice-president a vegetarian urgency, forcefulness a small vein

full of veins gangue having a velum, a veil or integument open grassland a shoe made of rawhide the state of being a villein velvet a woollen stuff with velvet-like pile related to hunting that can be vended; (noun) something that can be vended a whitefish, found in Scottish lochs

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the grape harvest one who sells acting by poison or potions or by sorcery relating to sexual desire or intercourse a venue any of various toxic substances in venom a finger-hole, as in a flute to venture adventurous full of venules, or small veins very a roofed gallery, terrace, or open portico along the front or side of a building

an alkaloid or mixture of alkaloids obtained from white hellebore rhizomes, sabadilla, etc an officer in charge of royal forests the decision of a jury at the end of a legal proceeding a green or bluish deposit especially of copper carbonates formed on copper, brass, or bronze surfaces; (verb) to coat with verdigris a church usher and attendant truthful; corresponding to reality politically liberal bright red; vermilion; (noun) a bright red colour; (verb) to make crimson

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a drink with a white wine base, flavoured with wormwood and other herbs a cloth with image of Christ's face impressed upon it an obsolete form of backgammon covered with warty elevations a versed sine a unit of distance equal to approximately 2/3 of a mile virtue, power possessing virtue or power a wild verbena, believed to have magical powers a small blister; a bladder-like or rounded cavity of wasps; wasp-like vestment, garb the vane of a feather of or like a vexillum, the vane of a feather pertaining to roads or travel the state of being vibrant capable of vibratory motion a genus of motile bacteria characterized by short, slightly sinuous filaments and an undulatory motion the office or authority of a vicar based on the number twenty to impair the quality of, spoil the state or character of being guilty of or devoted to vice or immorality a female victor

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provision; in plural, food; (verb) to provide with food a wild wool-bearing llama-like animal of the Andes a compact disk on which video is stored a system used to display information on a television screen in Shetland, meat hung and dried without salt active strength vile vileness a coward

villages; a district of villages a violent, malevolent or unscrupulous evil-doer the state of being a villain abounding in, or covered with, fine hairs, or a woolly substance one who violates the presence of viral particles in the blood an old French lyric form in two-rhymed stanzas of short lines the killing of viruses poisonous; foul the state of being virulent an expert in facial make-up a mask or visor

somewhat viscid viscous; (noun) the sodium salt of cellulose xanthate, used in the manufacture of

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viscous visie vizy vizzie visionary visioner visionist visiter visitor visorless vizorless vista visto vitaliser vitalizer vitamin vitamine vitular vituline viverra viverrid viverrine vivers vivres vizierial vizirial vlei vly vocal vocular vocaliser vocalizer voertsak voertsek voetsak voetsek volcanian vulcanian volcanic vulcanic volcanism vulcanism volcanist vulcanist volubil voluble volumiser volumizer vortical vorticose votable

viscose rayon a close or careful look; (verb) to take a close look a person of imagination or foresight a visitor without a visor a view, prospect; (verb) to make into, or see into, vistas something that vitalises, a tonic any of various organic substances essential to proper nutrition pertaining to calves or to veal a member of the ferret or civet family food; eatables of or like a vizier, a minister in various Muslim states low-lying ground where a shallow lake forms in the wet season uttered by the voice; (noun) a sound uttered by the voice one who vocalises an offensive expression of rejection

relating to a volcanic eruption, esp one that discharges gases and ash but little or no lava of or like a volcano; (noun) a volcanic rock volcanic power or action one versed in the history and phenomena of volcanoes flowing smoothly an agent used to give extra body to hair like a vortex, whirling that can be voted

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voteable votaress a female votary votress votarist one who has taken a vow, esp religious votary vouchsafe to grant as a privilege or special favor voutsafe vouge a weapon carried by foot-soldiers in the 14th century, consisting of a blade voulge on a staff vug a small unfilled cavity in a lode or in rock vugg vugh vuggy like a vug or vugg, a cavity lined with crystals vughy vulsella a forceps with toothed or clawed blades vulsellum vulturine like a vulture; rapacious vulturish vulturous vulval relating to the vulva vulvar wab a web web wabble to wobble wobble wabbler one who wabbles wobbler wabbly wobbly wobbly waboom a S. African proteaceous tree; also, its tough wood, used for making wagon wheels wagenboom wabster a weaver webster wacko mad, eccentric; (noun) a mad or eccentric person whacko wacky eccentric whacky wadable that can be waded wadeable wadd an earthy ore of manganese wadt waddie a kind of war-club used by Australian aborigines waddy wadi the dry bed of a torrent; a river valley wady wadmaal a coarse, hairy, woollen cloth, formerly used for garments by the poor wadmal wadmel wadmol wadmoll wadset a kind of pledge or mortgage; (verb) to pawn or mortgage

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wadsett wae wo woe waeful waesome woeful woesome woful waeness woeness waesuck waesucks waff waugh waggon wagon waggoner wagoner wahconda wakanda waid waide waif waift wefte wairsh wersh waistcoat weskit wait waite wakerife waukrife wakf waqf waldgrave wildgrave wale weal wheal walkmill waukmill waulkmill walla wallah walleye watcheye wallie wally waly

woe woeful

sadness interjection used to express pity, alas to bark a four-wheeled vehicle, esp one for carrying heavy goods; (verb) to transport by waggon one who drives a wagon a supernatural force in Sioux belief weighed a neglected, abandoned or orphaned child; (verb) to cast up as a waif tasteless, insipid, unsalted a garment, plain or ornamental, reaching to or below the waist and now sleeveless, worn by men at different periods under doublet, coat, jacket etc to stay in expectation of wakeful, vigilant the donation of land, property or money for charitable or pious purposes a former German title of count; a head forest ranger a ridge raised on the flesh by the stroke of a whip; (verb) to mark with wales a fulling-mill a person who is associated with a particular work or who performs a particular duty or service - usually used in combination an eye in which the iris is pale or whitish an idiot or imbecile

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wame weamb wem wemb womb wamefou wameful wammus wampus wamus wandle wanle wannel waney wany wangan wangun wanigan wannigan wanion wannion wannabe wannabee wapenshaw wapinshaw wardrobe wardrop wariment wariness wark work warragal warragle warragul warrigal warran warrand warrant warranter warrantor warray warrey warre waur worse warsler warstler wrestler warst waurst

a womb

a bellyful a kind of cardigan or strong jacket buttoned at the neck or wrists supple, pliant, nimble waning in a lumber camp, a chest for supplies, or the pay office

a word of uncertain signification, used only in the phrase with a wanion, apparently equivalent to with a vengeance, with a plague, or with misfortune someone who tries to be associated with an admired person or set of people a periodical gathering of the people within an area for the purpose of seeing that each man was armed according to his rank, and ready to take the field when required a large cupboard for clothes; (verb) to keep in a wardrobe wariness to work the Australian wild dog, the dingo

to warrant one who warrants to make war on worse a wrestler worst

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worst wast west wasteful wastfull wasteness wastness wasterie wastery wastrie wastry watap watape wattape waucht waught wauff wave wauk waulk wauker waulker waul wawl wrawl wavey wavy waw wawe wax wex wexe waygoose wayzgoose weariful wearisome weasand weason weazand wesand wessand wezand wizzen weaseler weaseller weaselly weasely weather wedder weazen wizen

west tending to waste the state of being waste prodigality

a fibre or thread made by some N. American Indian peoples from the split roots of conifers, esp white spruce a large draught; (verb) to drink in large draughts to wave to full (cloth) a fuller to cry like a cat the snow-goose a wave a fatty substance; (verb) to treat with wax; to grow larger an annual employees' dinner or outing wearisome the windpipe

one who weasels like a weasel, shifty atmospheric conditions; (verb) to expose to atmospheric conditions thin; sharp; wizened; (verb) to wizen

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wedel wedeln weeke wick weel weil wiel weenie weeny weiner wiener wienie weepie weepy weet weete weeviled weevilled weevilly weevily weigela weigelia weird weyard weyward weirdie weirdy welaway welladay welladays wellaway wellaways welch welsh welcher welsher welder weldor wellie welly wendigo windigo weregild wergeld wergelt wergild werewolf werwolf westlin westlins westward

to ski in a swiveling motion with skis close together a wick a whirlpool; a fish-trap a frankfurter, a small smoked beef or pork sausage

a sentimental film or book wet (verb, arch.) to know infested by weevils full of weevils a hardy garden shrub belonging to the honeysuckle family, with white or red flowers eeerily strange; (noun) doom, destiny; (verb) (Scots) to destine, to doom a very strange person alas

to default on a debt one who defaults on a debt one who welds a wellington boot a mythical monster among some N. American Indian tribes, that eats human flesh money paid by a killer's family to the family of the victim to prevent a blood feud; the cash value of a man's life a mythical being able to change at times from a person to a wolf towards the west in a westerly direction

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westwards wha whae who whaisle whaizle wheeze wheezle whammo whamo whap whop wop whapper whopper wharenui wharepuni wharve wherve whaten whatna whatten whatsis whatsit whaur whear wheare where wheelman wheelsman wheep wheeple wheesht whisht wisht whemmle whomble whommle whummle wherefor wherefore whereso wherever wherret whirret wheugh whew wheyey wheyish which whilk

who to wheeze

an interjection expressive of violent impact to beat anythting very large a tall carved building used as a guesthouse a disc on the lower part of a spindle serving as a flywheel what kind of something whose name is unknown where

a steersman to give a prolonged whistle an interjection calling for silence; (verb) to keep silent to overturn; to throw into a state of disorder

for which, for which reason wherever a blow; (verb) to give a sharp blow to an interjection expressing wonder, relief or dismay; (verb) to say wheugh of the nature of, or containing, whey what particular one or ones

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whid whidder whidah whydah while whilst whimberry whinberry whimbrel wimbrel whimple wimple whimsey whimsy whiney whiny whingding wingding whinge winge whiniard whinyard whinstone whunstane whir whirr whirtle wortle whisket wisket whiskey whisky whitey whity whither wuther whitrack whitret whitrick whittret whittaw whittawer whitter witter whiz whizz whizbang whizzbang whizzo whizzy whodunit

to move quickly, whiz a group of African birds related to the finch during the time that; (noun) an indefinite period of time; (verb) to pass the time the bilberry or whortleberry, so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze a bird like a curlew a cloth covering for head and neck worn by nuns; (verb) to wrap in a whimple delicately fanciful behaviour; gentle fantasy given to whining a lively party to complain fretfully, to whine a short sword or dirk a hard and compact rock to make a continuous rapid buzzing or softly clicking sound a perforated plate through which wire or tubing is drawn a basket; esp a straw provender basket a spirit made by distilling fermented cereals, which is matured and often blended a white person to blow strongly with a roaring sound a weasel

a saddler or harness-maker; a maker of white leather to talk or mutter peevishly or ineffectually a person remarkably talented or skilful at something; (verb) to fly through the air with or as if with a whistling noise a light shell of high velocity which is heard arriving before the gun's report; a firework resembling this excellent, impressive a murder mystery

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to strike heavily, thump to make a deep snorting sound an exclamation of delight to move making the sound whoosh a whortleberry a novel or film concerned with the motives rather than the identity of the criminal a tree with pliant branches, as in wych elm an American tree, aka leatherwood the rowan tree a N. American Indian hut constructed with an oval frame and covered with grass or mats a widow a rope, esp one made of osiers; a hangman's noose a kind of fresh-water duck with a light crown across the width, as distinct from lengthways the state of being a wife a diminutive of wife a white youth who adopts Black youth culture swift, nimble; (noun) a creature or a person; (verb) (Scots) to blame, lay the blame on that which grows wild, without cultivation a trick, device; (verb) to beguile, inveigle self-willed, obstinate an Aboriginal shelter or hut a willow-basket; a willowing machine; (verb) to clean in a willowing machine a strong gust of cold wind blowing seawards from a mountainous coast, as in the Straits of Magellan

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willywaw willyard wilful willyart wimmin women women womyn wincey plain or twilled cotton winsey windac a windlass; an instrument for bending a crossbow windas winding changing direction, sinuous; (noun) the act of winding windring windle an appliance for winding yarn; (verb) to wind yarn on this winnle windock a window windore window winnock winds a small ventilating shaft between two levels of a mine winze windward in the direction of the wind windwards winey like or tasting of wine winish winy winterly like winter, cheerless wintery wintry wirricow the devil, a hobgoblin, anything frightening worricow worrycow wis to know wist wit wot wish to feel an impulse toward attainment or possession of something wiss wispish like a wisp wisplike wispy wistaria an ornamental climbing plant wisteria without lacking; outside; (noun) an exterior place or area withouten withwind bindweed or other climbing plant withywind wiver a dragon wivern wyvern woadwax dyer's greenweed woadwaxen

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woodwax woodwaxen wobegone sad, dejected woebegone wock a pan used in Chinese cookery wok wolfer a hunter of wolves wolver wolfing the hunting of wolves for their skins wolving wolfish like a wolf wolvish wolverene a ferocious mustelid of Arctic regions, aka glutton wolverine womaniser one who engages in casual sexual encounters with women womanizer womankind women generally, the female sex womenkind womera a stick for launching a spear with greater force wommera woomera woomerang won to dwell woon wonder to have a feeling of curiosity or doubt wonner wonderous strange, wonderful wondrous woning a state of dwelling; a dwelling-place wonning wood the hard substance composing the trunks and branches of trees and shrubs; (verb) wud to cover with woods or trees woodbind the honeysuckle, applied also to other creepers woodbine woodhouse a wild man of the woods, used in heraldry as a supporter woodwose woodie a wood-panelled station-wagon woody woodroof woodruff woodruff wooled having (such) wool; as, a fine-wooled sheep woolled woolen made of wool; (noun) a woolen garment woollen woolie a garment made of wool woolly wooly woose a wimp wuss worral an Egyptian fork-tongued lizard, about four feet long when full grown worrel

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worrit worry worset worsted wotcha wotcher wouldest wouldst wrack wreck wrackful wreckful wrast wrest wrathful wrothful wreathe wrethe writable writeable writhen wrythen wurley wurlie wyn wynn xantham xanthan xanthin xanthine xanthoxyl zanthoxyl xebec zebec zebeck xerosis xerotes xiphoid xiphoidal xylene xylol xylidin xylidine xyloidin xyloidine xylonite zylonite xyst xystos xystus yabbie

to worry; to annoy a woollen fabric made from closely twisted yarn spun of combed long-staple wool a greeting, developed from what cheer? how are you 2nd pers. pt. sing. of would seaweed or wreckage cast up on shore; (verb) to torture, torment destructive to wrest extremely angry to shape into a wreath that can be written twisted, convoluted a nest; an aboriginal hut a rune, having the value of modern English W a gum produced by culture fermentation of glucose, used as a stabilizer a white substance, structurally related to uric acid, found in muscle tissue, the liver and other organs a plant of a genus of the rue family found in Brazil, in particular the prickly-ash or Hercules club a small, three-masted Mediterranean vessel with both square and triangular sails abnormal dryness of body parts sword-like; (noun) the xiphoid process or xiphisternum any of a group of three metameric hydrocarbons of the aromatic series, found in coal and wood tar any one of six metameric hydrocarbons, resembling aniline and related to xylene a substance resembling pyroxylin, obtained by the action of nitric acid on starch a non-thermosetting plastic of the nitrocellulose type a long covered portico or court used by ancient Greek athletes for exercises a small freshwater crayfish

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yabby yachter yachtman yachtsman yack yak yacker yakka yakker yaird yard yald yauld yamalka yamulka yarmelke yarmulka yarmulke yamen yamun yaourt yoghourt yoghurt yogurt yapock yapok yapon yaupon youpon yupon yappie yappy yar yare yardstick yardwand yarfa yarpha yashmac yashmak yasmak yaup yawp yauper yawper yawey yawy yead yede yeed yeah

one who sails a yacht persistent or idle talk; (verb) to talk persistently hard work, toil a garden active, nimble a religious skullcap

the offices and residence of a mandarin a semi-solid, somewhat sour foodstuff, made from milk curdled by the addition of certain bacteria an amphibious opossum of S. America, the only aquatic marsupial a bushy evergreen shrub of the holly genus

a young aspiring professional; a young affluent parent nimble a stick three feet long; any standard of measurement in Shetland, peaty soil; clayey, sandy or fibrous peat a double Muslim veil leaving only eyes uncovered to yelp or bark one who yaups, yelps or barks pertaining to the disease yaws to go, proceed yes

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yeh yealing yeelin yealm yelm yeast yest yeasty yesty yecch yech yucch yuch yegg yeggman yeldring yeldrock yoldring yorling yowley yelk yolk yell yelloch yenta yente yep yup yerk yirk yeshiva yeshivah yesk yex yester yestern yestereve yestreen yeuky yucky yukky yuky yicker yikker yipe yipes yippie yippy yite yitie yobbery

a person of the same age a bundle of straw for thatching; (verb) to straighten straw for thatching one of a group of simple unicellular fungi, used in brewing, baking etc; (verb) to ferment; to be covered with froth of, relating to, or resembling yeast; (fig.) full of restless energy or creativity; insubstantial an interjection expressing disgust; (noun) something disgusting

a burglar esp of safes the yellowhammer

yolk to cry out loudly a gossipy woman, esp one who pries yes to tie with a jerk a school for the study of the Jewish scripture, the Talmud to hiccup or belch relating to yesterday yesterday evening itchy

of an animal, to utter sharp cries an interjection expressing fear or surprise a member of a radical political group founded in 1967 with ideals based on those of the hippies the yellowhammer being a yob

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yobbism yock yok yuk yod yodh yodeler yodeller yodler yogee yogi yogin yoick yoicks yojan yojana yonker younker youngth youth youthhead youthhood youngthly youthful youthly youthsome youthy yourn yours yourt yurt yurta yous youse yow yowl yuca yucca yug yuga eugarie yugarie yuppie yuppy zabaione zabajone zabtieh zaptiah zaptieh zaffar zaffer

to laugh a Hebrew letter one who yodels one who practises yoga a hunting cry to urge the hounds after the fox; (verb) to utter this cry in the Indian subcontinent, a measure of distance a young person youth

youthful

yours a Mongolian tent made of felt you when addressing more than one person to yowl, howl any plant of the genus Yucca of plants of the family Liliaceae, native to Mexico one of the four Hindu ages of the world another name for pipi, any of various shellfishes a young urban professional a rich Italian custard a Turkish policeman an impure oxide of cobalt

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having a full rounded figure, pleasingly plump a hors d'oeuvre; a snack a shepherd's sheepskin coat a small swivel-gun, esp one mounted on the back of a camel a member of the St John's ambulance brigade, esp one on duty at a sporting event in India, a type of landowner the jurisdiction of a zamindar

in the Indian subcontinent, the part of a house in which high-caste women are or were secluded an improvised stockade, esp one made of thorn bushes, etc

an ornamental metal holder for a handleless coffee cup a native sulphide of arsenic a zealot, a religious fanatic the character or conduct of a zealot the hybrid offspring of a male zebra and a female horse an Ethiopian dipterous insect a former Italian gold coin

the letter 'Z' a nun whose duty is to keep watch on the behaviour of younger nuns in the convent the fur of the sable; a soft woollen material with a lustrous pile a civet cat

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ziggurat zikkurat zikurat zila zilla zillah zincify zinckify zincky zincy zinky zircalloy zircaloy zite ziti zither zithern ziz zizz zoaea zoea zooea zoetrope zootrope zombi zombie zonate zonated zonula zonule zonulet zoogeny zoogony zooglea zoogloea zoogloeal zoogloeic zoolatria zoolatry zoolite zoolith zoonomia zoonomy zoophilia zoophily zoppa zoppo zoril zorilla zorille zucchetto

an ancient Mesopotamian temple tower consisting of a lofty pyramidal structure built in successive stages with outside staircases and a shrine at the top an administrative district in India to coat or impregnate with zinc of or like zinc an alloy of zirconium containing small amounts of tin, chromium, and nickel, used in pressurized-water reactors a type of pasta like large macaroni a musical instrument of strings stretched over a horizontal sounding board and plucked with a plectrum a nap or sleep; (verb) to take a nap a larval stage in certain crustaceans a slotted rotating cylinder producing primitive animation in West Indian magic, a reanimated corpse divided into zones a small zone the doctrine of the formation of living beings a mucilaginous mass of bacteria embedded in slimy material derived from swollen cell walls of or like a zoogloea, a mucilaginous mass of bacteria worship of animals a fossil animal animal physiology the love of animals; erotic fondness for animals having a syncopated or temporarily changing accent of a beat a striped carnivorous mammal of the weasel family found in sub-Saharan Africa a round skullcap worn by Catholic clergy to indicate rank

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a small flute used to train songbirds a spore formed by union of two similar cells an inactive enzyme precursor, which is converted into an enzyme when activated by another enzyme

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