(informal) Abbreviation of articulated lorry; A semi-trailer truck.
aruac
ascan
ascap
ascii
ascii
name
(computing) Alternative form of ASCII
noun
(obsolete) plural of ascian
ascon
ascon
noun
(biology) A cavity, in the form of a bag or tube, lined with choanocytes, that forms the structure of sponges
ascot
ascot
noun
ascot tie
ascry
ascus
ascus
noun
(mycology) A sac-shaped cell present in ascomycete fungi; it is a reproductive cell in which meiosis and an additional cell division produce eight spores.
asdic
aspac
aspca
aspic
aspic
adj
Aspish; relating to an asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
noun
(obsolete, poetic) An asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
A dish in which ingredients are set into a gelatine, jelly-like substance made from a meat stock or consommé.
A meat or fish jelly
A piece of ordnance carrying a 12-pound shot.
asroc
assoc
async
async
adj
(computing) Abbreviation of asynchronous.
atacc
atpco
attic
attic
noun
(slang) A person's head or brain.
The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.
aucan
aucht
aulic
aulic
adj
(architecture) Of, pertaining to, or resembling a palace.
(biology) Pertaining to the reproductive ducts of certain organisms.
Of or pertaining to a royal court; courtly.
Solemn.
noun
A ceremony at some European universities to confer a Doctor of Divinity degree.
auric
auric
adj
(inorganic chemistry) Of or pertaining to trivalent gold.
(obsolete) Of, or pertaining to the ear; aural
Pertaining to an aura.
avice
avick
avoca
awacs
azoch
azoic
azoic
adj
(dated) Anterior to the existence of animal life
(dated) Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life
(dated) Formed when there was no animal life on the globe
aztec
aztec
Noun
A Mexica.
A Nahua.
Proper noun
The Nahuatl language.
A city in New Mexico, USA
Adjective
Of or pertaining to the Mexica people.
Of or pertaining to the Nahuas.
Of or pertaining to the Nahuatl language.
bacao
bacau
bacca
baccy
baccy
noun
(slang) Tobacco.
bache
bache
noun
(obsolete) The dale of a stream or rivulet.
bacin
bacis
backs
backs
noun
(Cambridge University, with "the") The backyard of the University.
plural of back
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of back
backy
backy
noun
Alternative spelling of baccy
bacon
bacon
noun
(cycling, slang, uncountable) Road rash.
(slang, derogatory) The police or spies.
Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
Thin slices of the above in long strips.
bagsc
baioc
baioc
noun
Obsolete form of bajocco.
balac
balch
banca
banca
noun
(Philippines) a canoe; an outrigger canoe or dugout
banco
banco
adj
Being or relating to a type of court involving a bench of judges, often an appeals court.
noun
(attributive) A bank, especially that of Venice; formerly used to indicate bank money, as distinguished from the current money when it has become depreciated.
(gambling) In baccarat or chemin de fer, a bet on the banker hand.
bancs
bancs
noun
plural of banc
bapco
bapct
barac
barca
barce
barch
barco
baric
baric
adj
Of or pertaining to barium.
Of or pertaining to weight, especially to the weight or pressure of the atmosphere as measured by a barometer.
basco
basic
basic
adj
(chemistry) Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.
(slang) Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.
An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
batch
batch
adj
Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.
noun
(Philippines) A graduating class; school class.
(UK, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
(by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
(computing) A set of data to be processed at one time.
(obsolete) The process of baking.
A bank; a sandbank.
A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
verb
(informal) To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.
(transitive) To aggregate things together into a batch.
(transitive, computing) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
bauch
bchar
beach
beach
noun
(UK dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
(motorsports, euphemistic) Synonym of gravel trap
(sports) A dry, dusty pitch or situation, as though playing on sand.
A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
verb
(intransitive) To run aground on a beach.
(of a vehicle) To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction.
(transitive) To run (something) aground on a beach.
becap
becca
becka
beica
bilac
black
black
adj
(Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
(Ireland, now derogatory) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
(US) Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
(board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
(card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”)
(chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
(of a place, etc) Without light.
(of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
(of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
(of objects, markets, etc) Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
(politics) Anarchist; of or pertaining to anarchism.
(politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
(sometimes capitalized) Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
(typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a character or symbol outline, not filled with color”).
Bad; evil; ill-omened.
Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
Foul; dirty, soiled.
Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
noun
(Britain, countable) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
(US, slang) Marijuana.
(baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
(billiards, snooker, pool, countable) The black ball.
(countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
(countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
(countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
(countable) Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
(in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
(in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
(informal) Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
(informal, countable) Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
(obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
(sometimes capitalised, countable, often offensive) A member of descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes.)
A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
verb
(Britain, transitive) To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
(transitive) To apply blacking to (something).
(transitive) To make black; to blacken.
blanc
blanc
noun
A white cosmetic.
A white sauce of fat, broth, and vegetables, used especially for braised meat.
bobac
bobac
noun
(dated) The bobak marmot (Marmota bobak).
bocal
bocal
noun
A curved, tapered metal tube which connects the reed of several double reed woodwind instruments (such as the cor anglais, bassoon, and contrabassoon) to the rest of the instrument.
A cylindrical glass vessel with a short wide neck.
bocca
bocca
noun
The round hole in the furnace of a glassworks through which the fused glass is taken out.
braca
brace
brace
noun
(UK, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
(UK, chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
(nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
(obsolete) A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms.
(obsolete) Armor for the arm; vambrace.
(plural in North America, singular or plural in the UK) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
(soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
(typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (The plural in this sense is unchanged.) In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.
A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
Harness; warlike preparation.
That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
The state of being braced or tight; tension.
verb
(nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
(transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
To confront with questions, demands or requests.
To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
brach
brach
noun
(archaic) A hound; especially a female hound used for hunting, a bitch hound.
(archaic, derogatory) A despicable or disagreeable woman.
(paleontology, informal) brachiopod
brack
brack
noun
(obsolete) Salty or brackish water.
A flaw in cloth.
An opening caused by the parting of a solid body; a crack or breach.
Barmbrack.
bract
bract
noun
(botany) A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises.
broca
bucca
bucca
noun
(UK) A storm spirit in Cornish folklore, traditionally believed to inhabit mines and coastal communities.
(anatomy) Synonym of cheek.
caaba
caama
cabaa
cabal
cabal
noun
(derogatory) A putative, secret organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.
A secret plot.
A secret political clique or faction.
An identifiable group within the tradition of Discordianism.
verb
(intransitive) To engage in the activities of a cabal.
caban
caban
noun
(Philippines) A grain measure equal to 3.47 cubic feet, used in the Philippine Islands.
cabas
cabas
noun
A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.
A lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or handbag.
cabby
cabby
noun
(informal) A cabdriver; someone who drives a taxi.
cabda
caber
caber
noun
A long, thick log held upright at one end and tossed in the Highland games.
cabet
cabin
cabin
noun
(India) A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.
(US) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
(informal) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
(rail transport, informal) A signal box.
(travel, aviation) The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
A private room on a ship.
A small room; an enclosed place.
The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
The passenger area of an airplane.
verb
(by extension) To limit the scope of.
(intransitive, obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.
(transitive) To place in a cabin or other small space.
cabio
cable
cable
noun
(architecture) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
(communication) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
(finance) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
(knitting) A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
(nautical) A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
(nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
(television) Ellipsis of cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna.
(unit, chiefly nautical) 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
verb
(architecture, transitive) To ornament with cabling.
(intransitive) To communicate by cable
(knitting) To create cable stitches.
(transitive) To fasten (as if) with cable(s)
(transitive) To provide with cable(s)
(transitive) To send a telegram, news, etc., by cable
(transitive) To wrap wires to form a cable
cabob
cabob
noun
Obsolete form of kebab.
cabot
cabre
cabre
adj
Alternative spelling of cabré
noun
(obsolete or historical and generally offensive) A person of mixed black and mulatto descent.
cacak
cacam
cacan
cacao
cacao
noun
A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
This tree's seed, the cocoa bean.
cacas
cacas
noun
plural of caca
cacei
cache
cache
noun
(computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
(geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.
Misspelling of cachet.
verb
(transitive) To place in a cache.
(transitive, computing) To store data in a cache.
cacia
cacie
cacka
cacks
cacks
noun
(Bristol) Underpants
(Ireland) Trousers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cack
cacti
cacti
noun
plural of cactus
cacur
cacus
cadal
caddo
caddo
Noun
A member of one of the Caddo tribes.
Proper noun
A confederacy of several southeastern Native American tribes, who inhabited much of what is now East Texas, western Louisiana and portions of southern Arkansas and Oklahoma in the sixteenth century.
A Caddoan language of the Southern Plains of the United States, spoken by the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma.
A town in Oklahoma.
caddy
caddy
noun
(golf) One hired to assist another in playing the game of golf.
A lightweight wheeled cart, often used to bring home groceries.
A movable tray or other mechanism for holding, securing, and transporting a removable component within a piece of equipment or machinery.
A small box, can, or chest to keep things in.
verb
(intransitive, golf) To serve as a caddy, carrying golf clubs etc.
cadee
cadel
cadel
noun
An ornate capital letter used in calligraphy, consisting of interlaced pen strokes. See Commons:Cadel letters.
cader
cader
noun
Alternative form of cadre
cades
cades
noun
plural of cade
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cade
cadet
cadet
noun
(Australia) A participant in a cadetship.
(New Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
(archaic, US, slang) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
(in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
(largely historical) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
cadew
cadew
noun
(obsolete) A caddice.
cadge
cadge
noun
(falconry) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
verb
(Tyneside) To beg.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To carry, as a burden.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.
(US, Britain, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.
To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
cadgy
cadgy
adj
(UK, Scotland, dialect) cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking
(UK, Scotland, dialect) frolicsome; wanton
cadie
cadie
noun
(dated) A Scottish errand boy, porter, or messenger.
cadis
cadis
noun
A kind of coarse serge.
plural of cadi
cadiz
cados
cadre
cadre
noun
(chiefly in communism) The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.
(military) The framework or skeleton upon which a new regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
A frame or framework.
A small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession.
cadua
cadus
caeca
caeca
noun
plural of caecum
caeli
cafes
cafes
noun
plural of cafe
caffa
cafiz
cafiz
noun
(historical) Alternative form of qafiz, particularly in Tunisian contexts
cafoy
caged
caged
adj
(of eggs) Produced by birds confined in cages; not free-range.
Confined in a cage.
Resembling a cage.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cage
cager
cager
noun
(cycling, derogatory) A person who drives an automobile, particularly for commuting.
(dated) A basketball player.
(mining) A person or machine responsible for managing a mineshaft cage.
cages
cages
noun
plural of cage
cagey
cagey
adj
Uncommunicative; unwilling or hesitant to give information.
Wary, careful, shrewd.
caggy
cagit
cagle
cagot
cagot
noun
Alternative form of Cagot
cagui
cahan
cahiz
cahiz
noun
(historical) A traditional measure of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a cahiz of seed.
(historical) A traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 665.8 L.
cahot
cahow
cahow
noun
An endangered nocturnal burrowing bird, Pterodroma cahow, from Bermuda; the Bermuda petrel.
cahra
cahuy
caids
caids
noun
plural of caid
caine
cains
cains
noun
plural of cain
caird
caird
noun
(UK, dialect) A travelling tinker; a tramp, or sturdy beggar.
cairn
cairn
noun
A cairn terrier.
A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.