(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.
A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
A movement or throw that overturns something.
A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
An outer or external angle.
Slope, the angle at which something is set.
verb
(intransitive) To speak in set phrases.
(intransitive) To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
(intransitive) To talk, beg, or preach in a singsong or whining fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
(intransitive, heraldry) Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
(obsolete) To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.
(transitive) To bevel an edge or corner.
(transitive) To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
(transitive) To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
(transitive) To set (something) at an angle.
(transitive, obsolete) To divide or parcel out.
cany
cany
adj
Abounding with canes.
Of or relating to cane (the plant) or canes.
caon
capa
capa
noun
(countable) A Spanish cloak.
(uncountable) Fine Cuban tobacco for the outsides of cigars.
cape
cape
noun
(geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
(slang) A superhero.
A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders.
verb
(US, slang, chiefly with "for") To defend or praise, especially that which is unworthy.
(nautical) To head or point; to keep a course.
(obsolete) To look for, search after.
(rare, dialectal or obsolete) To gaze or stare.
To incite or attract (a bull) to charge a certain direction, by waving a cape.
To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
caph
capo
capo
noun
A leader and organizer of supporters at a sporting event, particularly association football matches.
A leader in the Mafia; a caporegime.
A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar used to raise the pitch of all strings.
capp
capp
noun
Clipping of cappuccino.
caps
caps
noun
Capital letters; capitals.
plural of cap
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cap
capt
capt
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of cap
cara
carb
carb
noun
(drugs) The hole on a pipe which is covered and opened to control the inflow of air.
(informal) Clipping of carburettor / carburetor.
(informal, usually in the plural) Clipping of carbohydrate.
card
card
noun
(computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
(cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
(dated) A printed programme.
(dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
(dated, figurative, by extension) An attraction or inducement.
(dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
(dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
(in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
(informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
(obsolete) A map or chart.
(television) A title card or intertitle: a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
(textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
(uncountable, dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
(weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
A business card.
A greeting card.
A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
A playing card.
A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose.
A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
A test card.
Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).
An indicator card.
Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
Obsolete form of chard.
verb
(US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
(dated) To play cards.
(golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
(obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
(obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
(textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
(transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
care
care
noun
(obsolete) Grief, sorrow. [13th–19th c.]
Close attention; concern; responsibility.
Maintenance, upkeep.
The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
The state of being cared for by others.
The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
Worry.
verb
(intransitive) (with for) To look after or look out for.
(intransitive, Appalachia) To mind; to object.
(intransitive, informal, by extension) For it to matter to, or make any difference to.
(intransitive, polite, formal) To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards.
(transitive, intransitive) To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).
carf
carf
noun
Synonym of kerf
cari
cark
cark
noun
(obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.
(obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.
verb
(intransitive) To labor anxiously.
(obsolete, intransitive) To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
Pronunciation spelling of caulk.
See cark it.
carl
carl
noun
(Scotland, obsolete) A stingy person; a niggard.
A rude, rustic man; a churl.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To snarl; to talk grumpily or gruffly.
carn
carn
intj
(Australia, informal) An exclamation of support or approval, usually for a sporting (football) team.
(Australia, informal) Come on.
noun
Archaic form of cairn.
caro
carp
carp
noun
Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, especially the common carp, Cyprinus carpio.
verb
(obsolete) To say; to tell.
(obsolete, transitive) To find fault with; to censure.
To complain about a fault; to harp on.
carr
carr
noun
(Northumberland Dialect) rock
A bog or marsh; marshy ground, swampland.
A marsh or fen on which low trees or bushes grow; a marshy woodland.
Archaic form of car (“wheeled vehicle”).
cars
cars
noun
plural of car
cart
cart
noun
(Internet) A shopping cart.
(computing, video games, informal) A cartridge for a computer or video game system.
(radio, informal) A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements.
A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.
A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
verb
(transitive) To carry or convey in a cart.
(transitive) To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal.
(transitive, informal) To carry goods.
(transitive, obsolete) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
cary
casa
casa
noun
(slang) house
case
case
adj
(poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
noun
(UK, slang, obsolete) A counterfeit crown (five-shilling coin).
(US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
(academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
(grammar) A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
(grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
(law) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
(medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
(mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
(now rare) A given condition or state.
(printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).
(programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
(typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
A box, sheath, or covering generally.
A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
A suitcase.
A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
An actual event, situation, or fact.
An enclosing frame or casing.
The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
verb
(obsolete) to propose hypothetical cases
(transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
(transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
(transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
cash
cash
adj
(slang) Great; excellent; cool.
noun
(countable, Canada) Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
(countable, archaic) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
(countable, gambling) An instance of winning a cash prize.
(uncountable) Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.
(uncountable, finance) Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
(uncountable, informal) Money.
Any of several low-denomination coins of India, China, or Vietnam, especially the Chinese copper coin.
verb
(poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.
(transitive) To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
To disband. To do away with, kill
casi
cask
cask
noun
(obsolete) A casket; a small box for jewels.
A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks.
Obsolete form of casque (“visorless helmet”).
verb
To put into a cask.
cass
cass
noun
(computing, dated) Abbreviation of cassette.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To render useless or void; to annul; to reject; to send away.
cast
cast
adj
Of a horse: Having lain down in a position from which it cannot rise on its own, because its legs are too close to a wall, fence or other obstacle.
noun
(fishing) An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
(hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
A group of crabs.
A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
A squint.
A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
An act of throwing.
An object made in a mould.
Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
The casting procedure.
The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
The mould used to make cast objects.
Visual appearance.
verb
(Wicca) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
(archaic) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict.
(archaic) To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry.
(archaic) To impose; to bestow; to rest.
(archaic) To throw out or emit; to exhale.
(archaic) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
(astrology) To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.).
(computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
(dated) To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.
(hunting) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
(media) To broadcast (video) over the Internet or a local network, especially to one's television.
(medicine) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
(nautical) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round.
(nautical) To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
(now somewhat literary) To throw.
(obsolete except in set phrases) To remove, take off (clothes).
(obsolete) To plan, intend.
(obsolete) To vomit.
(of an animal) To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.
(printing, dated) To stereotype or electrotype.
(transitive) To assign (a role in a play or performance).
(transitive) To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).
To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.
To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
To throw down or aside.
To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.
To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.
To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
casu
cate
cate
noun
(in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.
cath
cath
noun
Clipping of catheter.
Clipping of cathode.
verb
(medicine, transitive) To catheterize; to fit (someone) with a catheter.
cati
cato
cats
cats
noun
plural of cat
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cat
catt
catv
catv
Noun
community antenna television, a precursor to cable television
cable television
caty
caty
Proper noun
A less common spelling of Katie, diminutive of the female given name Catherine and related names.
cauf
cauf
noun
A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.
Pronunciation spelling of calf.
cauk
cauk
noun
(mineralogy) An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar.
caul
caul
noun
(Britain, historical, often capitalized, used on maps) An entry to a mill lead taken from a burn or stream (a mill lead (or mill waterway) is generally smaller than a canal but moves a large volume of water).
(anatomy, obsolete except in specific senses) A membrane.
(cooking) Caul fat.
(historical) A style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen.
(woodworking) A strip or block of wood used to distribute or direct clamping force.
The amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth (traditionally considered to be good luck).
The surface of a press that makes contact with panel product, especially a removable plate or sheet.
The thin membrane which covers the lower intestines; the omentum.
caum
caup
caup
noun
(Scotland) Cup.
caus
cava
cava
noun
(anatomy) Ellipsis of vena cava..
Alternative letter-case form of Cava, a Catalan white sparkling wine.
plural of cavum
cave
cave
intj
(Britain, school slang) look out!; beware!
noun
(caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
(drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
(figuratively, also slang) The vagina.
(mining) A collapse or cave-in.
(nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
(obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
(programming) A code cave.
(slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
verb
(mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
(mining, obsolete) To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
(obsolete) To dwell in a cave.
To collapse.
To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
To hollow out or undermine.
To surrender.
cavu
cavy
cavy
noun
Any rodent in the Caviidae.
Synonym of guinea pig (“rodent”)
cawk
cawk
noun
(slang) Pronunciation spelling of cock (in the sense of penis).
Alternative form of cauk
cawl
cawl
noun
A traditional Welsh soup, typically made with beef, lamb, or salted bacon with carrot, leeks, potatoes, swedes, and other seasonal vegetables.
Alternative spelling of caul (“a membrane or veil, especially over a baby's head”)
caws
caws
noun
plural of caw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caw
caye
cays
cays
noun
plural of cay
caza
caza
noun
(politics, chiefly historical) Alternative form of kaza
cbds
cbel
ccci
ccds
ccid
ccim
ccip
ccir
ccis
cckw
ccls
ccnc
ccny
ccrp
ccsa
ccta
cctv
ccws
cdar
cdcf
cdev
cdiz
cdpr
cdre
cdre
Noun
commodore
cdsf
cear
cebu
ceca
ceca
noun
plural of cecum
cece
cede
cede
verb
(intransitive) To give way.
(transitive) To give up; yield to another.
cedi
cedi
noun
The currency of Ghana, divided into 100 pesewas and represented by ₵.
cees
cees
noun
plural of cee, the name of the letter C.
cegb
ceil
ceil
noun
(mathematics) Abbreviation of ceiling.
(poetic) A ceiling.
verb
(mathematics) To set a higher bound.
(transitive) To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar.
ceja
cela
cele
cele
noun
(Myanmar) celebrity
cell
cell
noun
(US, informal) A cellular phone.
(architecture) A cella.
(architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
(biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
(biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
(card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
(communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
(communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
(computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
(entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
(entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
(geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
(meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
(now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
(obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
(obsolete, chiefly literary) Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.
(statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
A section or compartment of a larger structure.
A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
verb
(transitive) To place or enclose in a cell.
cels
cels
noun
plural of cel
celt
celt
noun
A prehistoric chisel-bladed tool.
cene
cene
noun
(genetics) A control gene.
cens
cent
cent
noun
(informal) A small sum of money.
(money) A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
(music) A hundredth of a semitone or half step.
(nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to one hundredth of a dollar.
(obsolete, except in per cent) Abbreviation of centum. One hundred.
Abbreviation of center.
Abbreviation of centigrade.
Abbreviation of century.
cepa
cepe
cepe
noun
Alternative form of cep
ceps
ceps
noun
plural of cep
cera
cere
cere
noun
(ornithology) A fleshy, waxy area at the base of the upper beak in certain birds.
verb
(transitive) To wax; to cover or close with wax.
cerf
cern
cero
cero
noun
A large scombroid food fish (Scomberomorus regalis) found chiefly in the West Indies.
cert
cert
adj
Alternative form of cert.
noun
(informal) A certainty; something guaranteed to happen.
(informal) Certificate.
cery
cess
cess
noun
(Britain, Ireland) An assessed tax, duty, or levy.
(Britain, Ireland, informal) Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success.
(obsolete) Bound; measure.
(obsolete, dialect) A bog, in particular a peat bog.
(obsolete, dialect) A piece of peat, or a turf, particularly when dried for use as fuel.
(rail transport) The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
verb
(Britain, Ireland) To levy a cess.
(obsolete, law) To cease; to neglect.
cest
cest
noun
(obsolete) A woman's girdle; a cestus.
ceta
cete
cete
noun
(obsolete) A company of badgers.
(rare) A cetacean.
ceti
ceto
cevi
ceyx
cfca
cfht
cgct
chaa
chab
chac
chad
chad
abbrev
(West Country, obsolete) I had
noun
(Internet slang, seduction community, incel slang) Alternative spelling of Chad (“alpha-male; a virile man”)
(countable) One of these pieces of paper.
(uncountable) Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, or from ballot papers, paper tape, punched cards, etc.
chae
chai
chai
noun
(Judaism) A Jewish symbol representing life, traditionally worn as an amulet.
(winemaking) A place above ground for storing wine casks.
A female gypsy.
Ellipsis of masala chai, a beverage made with black teas, steamed milk and sweet spices, based loosely on Indian recipes.