Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.
Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.
Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
Any corrosive substance.
acie
acis
acle
acle
noun
An ironwood tree (Xylia xylocarpa); the hard wood of this tree
acls
aclu
acme
acme
noun
(medicine) Synonym of crisis, the decisive moment in the course of an illness.
(rare) Full bloom or reproductive maturity.
A high point: the highest point of any range, the most developed stage of any process, or the culmination of any field or historical period.
A paragon: a person or thing representing such a high point.
Alternative letter-case form of Acme, particularly as a threading format.
acne
acne
noun
(pathology) A skin condition, usually of the face, that is common in adolescents. It is characterised by red pimples, and is caused by the inflammation of sebaceous glands through bacterial infection.
A pattern of blemishes in an area of skin resulting from the skin condition.
acof
acol
acop
acop
adv
(obsolete) atop
acor
acpt
acra
acra
noun
(anatomy, rare) The vascular areas of the body most removed from the heart.
acre
acre
noun
(Chester, historical) An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
(informal, usually in the plural) A large quantity.
(informal, usually in the plural) A wide expanse.
(obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
(obsolete) A field.
(obsolete) The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yds (≈20 m) by 220 yds (≈200 m).
An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.
Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
acrv
acse
acsu
acta
actg
acth
acts
acts
noun
plural of act
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of act
actu
acus
acwa
acwp
acyl
acyl
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of class of organic radicals, RCO-, formed by the removal of a hydroxyl group from a carboxylic acid.
adci
aesc
aesc
noun
Alternative form of æsc
afcc
afsc
agca
agct
agcy
aicc
alca
alce
alco
alco
noun
(slang, Australia) An alcoholic.
A small South American dog, domesticated by the natives. Apparently the species has since gone extinct.
alec
alec
noun
A sauce made from alecs; alec sauce.
An anchovy or herring, especially pickled or dried.
alic
amic
amic
adj
(chemistry) Of, relating to, or derived from an amine, amide or amic acid.
(obsolete, chemistry) Of, relating to, or derived from ammonia.
anac
anco
aocs
apoc
appc
arca
arce
arch
arch
adj
knowing, clever, mischievous
principal; primary
noun
(anatomy) Curved part of the bottom of a foot.
(archaic, geometry) An arc; a part of a curve.
(architecture) An architectural element having the shape of an arch
(obsolete) chief
A natural arch-shaped opening in a rock mass.
An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.
An inverted U shape.
Any place covered by an arch; an archway.
verb
To cover with an arch or arches.
To form into an arch shape.
arcm
arco
arco
adv
(music) A note in string instrument musical notation indicating that the bow is to be used in the usual way, usually following a passage that is played pizzicato.
arcs
arcs
noun
plural of arc
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arc
aric
ascc
asch
asci
asci
noun
plural of ascus
asco
ascq
asic
asoc
atco
attc
auca
auca
noun
A traditional form of art from Catalonia, consisting of a comic-like series of images with text captions, often rhyming couplets.
bacc
bach
bach
noun
(New Zealand, northern) A holiday home, usually small and near the beach, often with only one or two rooms and of simple construction.
verb
(US) To live apart from women, as during the period when a divorce is in progress. (Compare bachelor pad.)
back
back
adj
(comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
(predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
At or near the rear.
In arrears; overdue.
Moving or operating backward.
Not current.
Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
adv
(not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
(not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
(postpositive) Earlier, ago.
Away from someone or something; at a distance.
Away from the front or from an edge.
In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
In a manner that impedes.
So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
So as to reverse direction and return.
To a later point in time. See also put back.
Towards, into or in the past.
noun
(figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
(figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
(mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
(nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
(obsolete) That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.)
(printing) The inside margin of a page.
(slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
(slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
(sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
(swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
A ferryboat.
A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
A support or resource in reserve.
Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
That which is farthest away from the front.
The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
The edge of a book which is bound.
The part of something that goes last.
The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
The spine and associated tissues.
postp
Before now; ago.
verb
(MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
(Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one's back.
(UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
(intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
(law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
(nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
(nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
(nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
(transitive) To push or force backwards.
(transitive) To support.
(transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
(transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
To row backward with (oars).
To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
baco
bact
banc
banc
noun
(US, business) Used to associate a non-banking affiliate of a bank with the bank's brand name without using the word bank
A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment.
A tribunal or court.
basc
boac
boca
brca
caam
caba
caba
noun
(dated) A cabas, or lady's bag.
cabe
cabs
cabs
noun
plural of cab
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cab
caca
caca
noun
(childish) Excrement; faeces.
cace
caci
cack
cack
noun
A discordant note.
A squawk.
An act of defecation.
Excrement.
Rubbish.
verb
(Australian slang) To laugh.
(US, slang) To kill.
(brass instrument technique) To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.
(intransitive) To defecate.
(of a bird) To squawk.
(transitive) To defecate (on); to shit.
cacm
cadd
cade
cade
adj
(of an animal) abandoned by its mother and reared by hand
noun
(archaic) A cask or barrel.
An animal brought up or nourished by hand.
Juniperus oxycedrus (western prickly juniper), whose wood yields a tar.
verb
To make a pet of; to coddle, pamper, or spoil.
cadi
cadi
noun
Alternative form of qadi
cads
cads
noun
plural of cad
cadv
cady
cady
noun
Alternative spelling of kady
caen
cafe
cafe
noun
(South Africa) A convenience store, originally one that sold coffee and similar basic items.
Alternative form of café
caff
caff
noun
(Britain, Ireland, slang) café, cafeteria.
cafh
cage
cage
noun
(US, derogatory, slang) An automobile.
(athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
(baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
(engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
(field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.
(figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
(graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
(mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
In killer sudoku puzzles, an irregularly-shaped group of cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku.
The passenger compartment of a lift.
verb
(aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.
(figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
cagn
cagr
cagy
cagy
adj
Alternative form of cagey
cahn
caia
caic
caid
caid
noun
(Ireland) Modern Gaelic football.
(historical) A local governor or leader, especially in North Africa or Moorish Spain; an alcaide.
Any of various ancient and traditional Irish football games.
cain
cain
noun
Alternative form of kain
cair
cair
noun
Alternative form of caer (“Welsh fortress”)
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To go.
(transitive, dialectal) To toss backwards and forwards; mix up; overhandle; stir about.
(transitive, obsolete) To carry.
cais
cake
cake
noun
(pyrotechnics) A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
(slang) A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.
(slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
(slang) Money.
A block of any of various dense materials.
A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
verb
(UK, dialect, obsolete, intransitive) To cackle like a goose.
(intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
(transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
(transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.
caky
caky
adj
Resembling cake in texture.
calc
calc
noun
Abbreviation of calculation.
Abbreviation of calculator.
Abbreviation of calculus.
cale
cale
noun
(AUS) Any of a number of marine fish in the family Odacidae
calf
calf
noun
(anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.
(informal, dated) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
A cabless railroad engine.
A chunk of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
A small island, near a larger island.
A young cow or bull.
A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals).
Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.
cali
calk
calk
noun
A pointed projection on a horseshoe to prevent its slipping.
A spike on the sole of a boot to prevent slipping, particularly used in logging
verb
(possibly dated) Alternative spelling of caulk
To copy (a drawing) by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt stylus or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.
call
call
noun
(US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
(archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
(computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
(cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
(cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
(finance) Short for call option.
(in negative constructions) Need; necessity.
(informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
(law) A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
(nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
(nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
(poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
(uncountable) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
A beckoning or summoning.
A cry or shout.
A decision or judgement.
A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
A short visit, usually for social purposes.
A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
A telephone conversation; a phone call.
An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
verb
(Yorkshire) To scold.
(baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
(cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
(cue sports) To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
(ditransitive) To name or refer to.
(in passive) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
(intransitive) To cry or shout.
(intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
(intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
(intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
(obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.
(sports) To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
(transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
(transitive) To declare in advance.
(transitive) To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
(transitive) To predict.
(transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
(transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
(transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
(transitive, colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
(transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
(transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
(transitive, intransitive) To contact by telephone.
(transitive, jazz) To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
(transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
(transitive, with into) To cause to be verbally subjected to.
To come to pass; to afflict.
To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
To stop at a station or port.
calm
calm
adj
(of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
(of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.
(of water) with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.
Without wind or storm.
noun
(in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
(in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.
A period of time without wind.
verb
(intransitive) To become calm.
(transitive) To make calm.
calp
calp
noun
(geology) A dark shaly limestone occurring in the Carboniferous limestone of Ireland.
cals
cals
noun
plural of cal
calv
calx
calx
noun
(now chiefly historical) The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, once seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston, but now recognised as being the metallic oxide (or, in some cases, the metal in a state of sublimation).
In the Eton College wall game, an area at the end of the field where a shy can be scored by lifting the ball against the wall with one's foot.
cama
cama
noun
A hybrid animal produced by breeding a camel and a llama.
camb
came
came
noun
A grooved strip of lead used to hold panes of glass together.
prep
Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation
verb
(colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of come
simple past tense of come
simple past tense of cum
cami
cami
noun
(colloquial) A camisole.
camm
camp
camp
adj
(of a man) Ostentatiously effeminate.
Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.
Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
noun
(agriculture) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost
(informal) A summer camp.
(obsolete) An army.
(obsolete) Conflict; battle.
(prison slang) A prison.
(slang, Falkland Islands) The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.
(uncommon) Campus
A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
A single hut or shelter.
An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that composes of all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.
An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
The company or body of persons encamped.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.
(intransitive, obsolete) To wrangle; argue.
(intransitive, sports, video games) To stay in an advantageous location.
(transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
(transitive, video games) Short for corpse camp.
(transitive, video games) To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.
To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
To set up a camp.
cams
cams
noun
plural of cam
cana
canc
cand
cand
noun
Alternative form of kand
cane
cane
noun
(US, Southern) Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar
(countable) A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path
(countable) A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
(countable) A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick
(countable, glassblowing) A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking
(uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like
(uncountable) Sugar cane
(uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed
(uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae
(with "the") Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
A lance or dart made of cane
A local European measure of length; the canna.
verb
(Britain, New Zealand, slang) to destroy; to comprehensively defeat
(Britain, New Zealand, slang) to do something well, in a competent fashion
(UK, slang, intransitive) to produce extreme pain
(transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
to strike or beat with a cane or similar implement
canf
cank
cann
cans
cans
noun
(informal) headphones
(slang, vulgar) breasts
plural of can
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of can
cant
cant
adj
(Britain, dialect) Lively, lusty.
noun
(coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
(countable) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
(countable, heraldry) A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
(countable, uncountable) A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
(lumbering) An unfinished log after preliminary cutting.
(nautical) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
(obsolete) A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
(obsolete) Side, edge, corner, niche.
(regional, forestry) A parcel, a division.
(uncountable) Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.