An ironwood tree (Xylia xylocarpa); the hard wood of this tree
acls
aclu
acol
acyl
acyl
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of class of organic radicals, RCO-, formed by the removal of a hydroxyl group from a carboxylic acid.
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
bcpl
bloc
bloc
noun
A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance: e.g., the eastern bloc, the western bloc, a trading bloc, the Eurozone, the European Union.
A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
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.
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.
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.
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”)
cbel
ccls
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.
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.
chal
chal
noun
A male gypsy.
chil
chlo
chol
chol
noun
(biochemistry, medicine) Abbreviation of cholesterol.
ciel
ciel
verb
Alternative form of ceil
cila
cill
cill
noun
Alternative form of sill
cilo
cirl
cirl
noun
The cirl bunting
clad
clad
adj
(figurative) Adorned, ornamented.
(of a person, preceded by a garment type) Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.
(of an object, often in compounds) Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of clothe
(archaic, literary or obsolete, past tense clad) To clothe, to dress.
(figurative, past tense clad) To imbue (with a specified quality); to envelop or surround.
(past tense clad or cladded) To cover with a cladding or another material (for example, insulation).
clag
clag
noun
(motor racing slang) Bits of rubber which are shed from tires during a race and collect off the racing line, especially on the outside of corners (cf. marbles).
(railway slang) Unburned carbon (smoke) from a steam or diesel locomotive, or multiple unit.
A glue or paste made from starch.
Low cloud, fog or smog.
verb
(obsolete) To encumber
To stick, like boots in mud
clam
clam
adj
(obsolete) clammy.
noun
(US, slang, chiefly in the plural) A dollar.
(dated, US, slang) mouth (Now found mostly in the expression shut one's clam)
(informal) One who clams up; a taciturn person, one who refuses to speak.
(rowing) Alternative form of CLAM
(slang) In musicians' parlance, a wrong or misplaced note.
(slang, derogatory) A Scientologist.
(slang, vulgar) A vagina.
A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example the soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria), the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
A kind of vise, usually of wood.
Alternative form of clem (“to starve”)
Strong pincers or forceps.
clamminess; moisture
verb
To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
To dig for clams.
To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
clan
clan
noun
(anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
(video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
A badger colony.
A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.
clap
clap
noun
(Yorkshire) A dropping of cow dung (presumably from the sound made as it hits the ground)
(falconry) The nether part of the beak of a hawk.
(slang, usually with "the") Gonorrhea.
A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.
A slap with the hand, usually in a jovial manner.
Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound.
The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.
The explosive sound of thunder.
verb
(obsolete) To slam (a door or window); formerly often construed with to.
(slang) To fornicate, copulate.
(slang) To have sex.
(slang, African-American Vernacular) To shoot (somebody) with a gun.
To applaud.
To bring two surfaces together forcefully, creating a sharp sound.
To create or assemble (something) hastily (usually followed by up or together).
To set or put, usually in haste.
To slap with the hand in a jovial manner.
To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound.
clar
clat
clat
noun
A clod of earth
verb
To dirty
claw
claw
noun
(botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
(colloquial) A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
(juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
A foot equipped with such.
A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
verb
(juggling) To perform a claw catch.
To do (something) quickly.
To move with one's fingertips.
To rail at, revile, or scold (someone or something).
To relieve an uneasy feeling, such as an itch, by scratching (someone or something); hence (figuratively), to flatter or humour (someone); to court, to fawn on.
To scratch or to tear at.
To use the claws to climb.
To use the claws to seize, to grip.
clay
clay
noun
(biblical) The material of the human body.
(firearms, informal) A clay pigeon.
(geology) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
(informal) Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims
(tennis) A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
An earth material with ductile qualities.
verb
(transitive) To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
(transitive, of sugar) To purify using clay.
cldn
clea
cled
clee
clef
clef
noun
A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff [from 16th c.]
cleg
cleg
noun
(Scotland, England dialect) A blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae; a gadfly, a horsefly.
(now dialectal) A light breeze.
clei
clem
clem
noun
(Tyneside, vulgar, slang) A testicle.
verb
(UK, dialect, transitive or intransitive) To be hungry; starve.
Alternative form of clam (“to adhere”)
cleo
clep
clew
clew
noun
(archaic) A ball of thread or yarn.
(in the plural) The sheets so attached to a sail.
(nautical) The lower corner(s) of a sail to which a sheet is attached for trimming the sail (adjusting its position relative to the wind); the metal loop or cringle in the corner of the sail, to which the sheet is attached. (on a triangular sail) The trailing corner relative to the wind direction.
(nautical, in the plural) The cords suspending a hammock.
(obsolete) A roughly spherical mass or body.
Obsolete spelling of clue
Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.
verb
(nautical) (transitive and intransitive) to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail)
(transitive) to roll into a ball
clid
clie
clim
clin
clio
clip
clip
noun
(fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
(informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
(military) A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
(military, colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
(obsolete) An embrace.
(uncountable, Tyneside) The condition of something, its state.
A newspaper clipping.
A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
A season's crop of wool.
A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video
An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
The product of a single shearing of sheep.
verb
(American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
(archaic) To hug, embrace.
(computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
(computer graphics, video games, transitive, intransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
(dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
(signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
(slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
To curtail; to cut short.
To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
To fasten with a clip.
To grip tightly.
To hit or strike, especially in passing.
to grab or take stealthily
clit
clit
noun
(informal, vulgar) Short for clitoris..
(offensive, vulgar) A term of abuse.
(slang, often derogatory) A penis likened to a clitoris, especially in terms of smallness.
verb
(slang, vulgar, often with "off") To stimulate the clitoris.
cliv
clli
cllr
cllr
noun
Abbreviation of councillor.
clnp
clod
clod
noun
A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
A stupid person; a dolt.
Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.
The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
verb
(transitive) To pelt with clods.
(transitive, Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.
To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.
cloe
cloe
Proper noun
name, an spelling of
clof
clog
clog
noun
(UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
A blockage.
A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
verb
(intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
(law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
clon
clop
clop
noun
(onomatopoeia) The sound of a horse's shod hoof striking the ground.
(slang) My Little Pony-themed pornography.
verb
(slang) To masturbate to My Little Pony-themed pornography.
To make this sound; to walk so as to make this sound.
clos
clot
clot
noun
A silly person.
A solidified mass of any liquid.
A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
verb
(intransitive) To form a clot or mass.
(transitive) To cause to clot or form into a mass.
clou
clou
noun
Something which holds the greatest attention; the chief point of interest.
clow
cloy
cloy
verb
(transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
(transitive) To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
(transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
clrc
cltp
club
club
noun
(archaic) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
(humorous) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
A club sandwich.
A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
A playing card marked with such a symbol.
An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.
verb
(intransitive) To go to nightclubs.
(intransitive) To join together to form a group.
(intransitive) To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
(intransitive, transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
(military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
(nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
(transitive) To hit with a club.
(transitive) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
(transitive) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
(transitive, military) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
We went clubbing in Ibiza.
clue
clue
noun
(now rare) A strand of yarn etc. as used to guide one through a labyrinth; something which points the way, a guide.
An object or a kind of indication which may be used as evidence.
Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion.
Insight or understanding ("to have a clue [about]" or "to have clue". See have a clue, clue stick)
verb
To provide someone with information which he or she lacks (often used with "in" or "up").
To provide with a clue.
cluj
cluj
Proper noun
Cluj-Napoca
clum
clum
adj
(obsolete) Silent; glum.
intj
(obsolete) Silence; hush
noun
(obsolete) Silence.
clut
clyo
coal
coal
noun
(countable) A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.
(countable) A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)
(countable) A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof, as a fuel commodity ready to buy and burn.
(uncountable) A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
charcoal.
verb
(intransitive) To be converted to charcoal.
(intransitive) To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).
(transitive) To burn to charcoal; to char.
(transitive) To mark or delineate with charcoal.
(transitive) To supply with coal.
cohl
coil
coil
noun
(electronics) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
(figurative) Entanglement; perplexity.
(now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
A cylinder of clay.
Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
verb
(obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
To build a pot (etc) with clay coils.
To wind cylindrically or spirally.
To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
cola
cola
noun
(dated) plural of colon
A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.
A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant.
The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
colb
cold
cold
adj
(databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
(firearms) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
(informal) Not radioactive.
(informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
(obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.
(obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute.
(obsolete) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
(of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
(of a thing) Having a low temperature.
(of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
(painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
(usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
(usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.
Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
Completely unprepared; without introduction.
Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
Without electrical power being supplied.
adv
(slang, informal, dated) In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.
At a low temperature.
Without preparation.
noun
(medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
(slang) rheum, sleepy dust
(with 'the', figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
A condition of low temperature.
cole
cole
noun
(Scotland) A stack or stook of hay.
Brassica; a plant of the Brassica genus, especially those of Brassica oleracea (rape and coleseed).
Cabbage.
coli
coli
noun
(often attributive, bacteriology) Escherichia coli, a Gram-negative bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms.
colk
coll
coll
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To hug or embrace.
coln
colo
colo
noun
(computing) co-location
colp
colp
noun
(medicine, colloquial) Short for colposcopy.
Alternative form of collop
cols
cols
noun
plural of col
colt
colt
noun
(biblical) A young camel or donkey.
(cricket, slang) A professional cricketer during his first season.
(figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
(nautical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
A young crane (bird).
A young male horse.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To befool.
(obsolete, transitive) To horse; to get with young.
To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
coly
coly
noun
Any bird of either of the genera Colius or Urocolius, endemic to sub-Saharan Africa.
coml
cool
cool
adj
(informal) (followed by with) Able to tolerate; to be fine with.
(informal) (of a pair of people) holding no grudge against one another; having no beef.
(informal) In fashion and fancy, part of or befitting the most leading trends and habits of the in crowd; originally hipster slang.
(informal) Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.
(informal) Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.
(informal) Very interesting or exciting.
(sarcastic) (of an act or situation) annoying, irritating.
Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
Calmly audacious.
Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
Of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
noun
A calm temperament.
A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.
verb
(intransitive, figuratively) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
(intransitive, literally) To lose heat, to get colder.
(transitive) To kill.
(transitive, figuratively) To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
(transitive, literally) To make cooler, less warm.
coul
cowl
cowl
noun
(metonymically) A monk.
(nautical) A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below.
(nautical) A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge.
(obsolete, Britain) A vessel carried on a pole, a soe.
A caul (the amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth).
A mask that covers the majority of the head.
A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.
A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling.
A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow.
verb
(Yorkshire) To scrape together
(transitive) To make a monk of (a person).
To cover with, or as if with, a cowl (hood).
To wrap or form (something made of fabric) like a cowl.
crlf
csel
ctrl
ctrl
noun
Alternative form of ctrl. Abbreviation of control.
cull
cull
noun
(farming, agriculture) An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.
(seafood industry) A lobster having only one claw.
(slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
A selection.
An organised killing of selected animals.
verb
(nonstandard, euphemistic) To kill (animals etc).
To gather, collect.
To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
culm
culm
noun
(botany) the stem of a plant, especially of grass or sedge
anthracite, especially when found in small masses
waste coal, used as a poor quality fuel; slack.
culp
cult
cult
adj
(neologism, music) Alternative form of kvlt.
Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.
Of or relating to a cult.
noun
(chiefly derogatory) A group, sect or movement following an unorthodox religious or philosophical system of beliefs, especially one in which members remove and exclude themselves from greater society, including family members not part of the cult, and show extreme devotion to a charismatic leader.
(informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint.
curl
curl
noun
(American football) A pattern where the receiver appears to be running a fly pattern but after a set number of steps or yards quickly stops and turns around, looking for a pass.
(agriculture) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
(calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
(calculus, proper noun) The vector operator, denoted rm curl; or ⃑∇⨯⃑(·), that generates this field.
(curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
(music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
(weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
A curved stroke or shape.
A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.
A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
{{ux|en|The curl of the vector field ⃑F(x,y,z) is the vector field operatorname curl,⃑F≡⃑∇⨯⃑F=((∂F_z)/(∂y)-(∂F_y)/(∂z),(∂F_x)/(∂z)-(∂F_z)/(∂x),(∂F_y)/(∂x)-(∂F_x)/(∂y)).}}
verb
(hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.
(intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
(intransitive) To move in curves.
(intransitive, curling) To take part in the sport of curling.
(transitive) To cause to move in a curve.
(transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.
(transitive, weightlifting) To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
cycl
cyul
dclu
dcnl
decl
dlcu
dulc
eccl
ecla
ecol
elco
elec
encl
excl
excl
prep
Abbreviation of excluding.
flic
flic
noun
(computing) A data file containing computer animations.
(informal, slang) A French policeman.
floc
floc
noun
A floccule; a soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid, or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed.
glyc
hdlc
holc
icel
incl
kcal
kcal
noun
Abbreviation of kilocalorie.
kloc
kloc
Noun
thousand lines of code
Here n is an estimate of how many thousands of lines of code will be inspected. – Glen W. Russell, Experience with Inspection in Ultralarge-Scale Developments (Bell-Northern Research, 1991)
lace
lace
noun
(countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly. ᵂᵖ
(slang, obsolete) Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.
(uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. ᵂᵖ
A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
verb
(ergative) To fasten (something) with laces.
(transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
(transitive) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
(transitive) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
(transitive) To interweave items.
(transitive) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
lach
lack
lack
noun
(obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
Archaic form of lakh.
verb
(intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
(intransitive, obsolete) To be in want.
(obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
(transitive, stative) To be without, to need, to require.
lacs
lacs
noun
plural of lac
lacw
lacy
lacy
adj
Looking like lace.
Made of lace or decorated with it.
laic
laic
adj
Lay, relating to laypersons, as opposed to clerical.
noun
A layperson, as opposed to a member of the clergy.