(anatomy, dentistry, relational) Of, relating to, near, involving, or supplying the cheek.
(pharmacology) Administered in the mouth, not by swallowing but by absorption through the skin of the cheek; often by placing between the top gum and the inside of the lip.
Of, relating to, or lying in the mouth.
buckle
buckle
noun
(Canada, heraldry) The brisure of an eighth daughter.
(US, baking) A cake baked with fresh fruit and a streusel topping.
(countable) A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap.
(roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane frequently occurring over insulation or deck joints. A buckle may be an indication of movement with the roof assembly.
A contorted expression, as of the face.
A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
A distortion, bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
verb
(Scotland) To unite in marriage.
(intransitive) To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.
(intransitive) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
(intransitive, figuratively) To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person).
(obsolete, intransitive) To enter upon some labour or contest; to join in close fight; to contend.
(transitive) To fasten using a buckle.
(transitive) To make bend; to cause to become distorted.
To buckle down; to apply oneself.
buncal
cabala
caball
cabals
cabals
noun
plural of cabal
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cabal
cabble
cabell
cabful
cabled
cabled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cable
cabler
cabler
noun
(entertainment) A cable television network or system operator.
Someone who cables, who puts together or fixes cables.
cables
cables
noun
plural of cable
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cable
cablet
cablet
noun
A slender cable.
cabool
cabral
cackle
cackle
noun
A group of hyenas.
A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.
Futile or excessively noisy talk.
The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg.
verb
(intransitive) To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.
(intransitive) To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
(intransitive) To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
(transitive, gambling, slang) To pretend to rattle (dice) in one's hand while gripping them so that they maintain their orientation.
cactal
caddle
cadell
cadwal
caecal
caecal
adj
Of or pertaining to the caecum.
caelum
caelus
caffle
cafila
cafila
noun
A caravan of travellers or supplies.
cagily
cagily
adv
In a cagy manner.
cahill
caille
cailly
cajole
cajole
noun
The act of cajoling
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, especially by flattery or promises; to coax.
cakile
calaba
calade
calade
noun
A slope or declivity in a manège ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to its haunches.
calais
calalu
calama
calami
calami
noun
plural of calamus
calash
calash
noun
(historical) Alternative form of calèche (“type of carriage with low wheels”)
(now historical) A silk and whalebone hood worn by ladies to shade the face.
calcar
calcar
noun
(botany, anatomy) A spur-like projection.
A small oven or furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.
calced
calced
adj
(rare) Wearing shoes; used especially of religious orders.
calces
calche
calcic
calcic
adj
of, pertaining to, or derived from calcium or lime
calden
calder
calean
calefy
calefy
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To become warm or hot
(transitive, obsolete) To make warm or hot
calera
calesa
calesa
noun
Alternative spelling of kalesa
calgon
calhan
calica
calico
calico
adj
Made of calico or resembling the color of calico cloth, having a pattern of red and contrasting areas; variegated.
noun
(countable, zoology) Ellipsis of calico cat.; a cat with fur of the colors black, white and orange.
(textiles) A kind of rough cloth made from unbleached and not fully processed cotton, often printed with a bright pattern.
(uncountable) The plant disease caused by Tobacco mosaic virus.
calida
califs
califs
noun
plural of calif
caliga
caligo
caligo
noun
(medicine, obsolete) dimness or obscurity of sight, caused by a speck on the cornea
A butterfly of the genus Caligo.
calili
calina
caline
calion
caliph
caliph
noun
The political leader of the Muslim world; the successor of the prophet Muhammad's political authority.
calisa
calise
calite
calked
calked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of calk
calker
calker
noun
A calk on a shoe.
One who calks.
calkin
calkin
noun
A calk (on a horseshoe).
callan
callao
callas
callas
noun
plural of calla
callat
callat
noun
Obsolete form of callet.
called
called
adj
Having the name of.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of call
caller
caller
noun
(bingo) The person who stands at the front of the hall and announces the numbers.
(dance) The person who directs dancers in certain dances, such as American line dances and square dances.
(programming) A function that calls another (the callee).
(telephony) The person who makes a telephone call.
A visitor.
A whistle or similar item used to call foxes.
calles
callet
callet
noun
(obsolete) A scold or gossip.
(obsolete) A trull or prostitute.
A disc-shaped piece of chocolate, the size of a chocolate chip, designed for melting when cooking.
verb
(obsolete) To rail or scold.
calley
callid
callid
adj
Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty.
callie
calloo
calloo
noun
(chiefly Scotland) The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis, an Arctic sea duck.
callop
callop
noun
an Australian freshwater fish, Macquaria ambigua; the golden perch or yellowbelly
callot
callot
noun
Obsolete spelling of calotte (“skullcap”)
callow
callow
adj
(by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.
(by extension, life-cycle developmental stage) Newly emerged or hatched, juvenile.
(of a brick) Unburnt.
Bald, hairless, bare.
Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.
Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.
Shallow or weak-willed.
Unfledged (of a young bird), featherless.
noun
A callow or teneral phase of an insect or other arthropod, typically shortly after ecdysis, while the skin still is hardening, the colours have not yet become stable, and as a rule, before the animal is able to move effectively.
A callow young bird.
An alluvial flat.
callum
callus
callus
noun
(botany) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.
(entomology) A shining area on the frons of many species of Tabanomorpha (horse flies and relatives).
A hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.
The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistency, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
verb
(intransitive) To form such hardened tissue.
calmar
calmar
noun
A squid (the mollusk).
calmas
calmed
calmed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of calm
calmer
calmer
adj
comparative form of calm: more calm
noun
A person or thing that calms.
calmly
calmly
adv
In a calm manner.
calool
calore
calory
calory
noun
Dated spelling of calorie.
calpac
calpac
noun
Alternative spelling of calpack
calpul
calque
calque
noun
(linguistics, translation studies) A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
verb
(linguistics, translation studies) To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.
caltha
caltha
noun
(botany) A plant of the genus Caltha; a marsh marigold.
calusa
calusa
Noun
A Native American people who lived on Florida's southwest coast and along its inner waterways.
calved
calved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of calve
calver
calver
adj
Of salmon: freshly caught.
noun
A cow that produces young.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered.
(obsolete, transitive) To cut into slices and pickle.
calves
calves
noun
plural of calf
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calve
calvin
calvin
Proper noun
of French and Spanish origin, notably borne by John Calvin, French Protestant theologian
name derived from the surname; used especially by nonconformist families
calvus
calxes
calxes
noun
plural of calx
calyce
calyon
calyon
noun
flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc.
camail
camail
noun
(historical) A piece of chainmail worn to protect the neck and shoulders, replacing the whole-head coif.
(historical) An ecclesiastical ornament worn by bishops.
camala
camels
camels
noun
plural of camel
camila
camile
camilo
camlet
camlet
adj
Made of camlet.
noun
A fine fabric made from wool (originally camel, but later goat) and silk.
cammal
campal
cample
cample
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To contend; argue; talk noisily.
canale
canali
canals
canals
noun
plural of canal
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canal
cancel
cancel
noun
(obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
(printing) The page that replaces it.
(printing) The page thus suppressed.
(printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
verb
(obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
(printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
(transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
(transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
(transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
(transitive) To offset or equalize something.
(transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
(transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.
(transitive, neologism) To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture.
candil
candle
candle
noun
(forestry) A fast-growing, light-colored, upward-growing shoot on a pine tree in the spring. As growth slows in summer, the shoot darkens and is no longer conspicuous.
(obsolete) A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela.
A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.
The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.
verb
(embryology, transitive) To observe the growth of an embryo inside (an egg), using a bright light source.
(pottery, transitive) To dry (greenware) prior to the firing cycle, setting the kiln at 200° Celsius until all water is removed from the greenware.
(transitive) To check (an item, such as an envelope) by holding it between a light source and the eye.
canela
canell
canelo
canful
canful
noun
As much as a can will hold.
cangle
cannel
cannel
noun
A bituminous coal that burns brightly with much smoke.
cantal
cantal
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Cantal
cantel
cantel
noun
Alternative form of cantle
cantil
cantil
noun
Any of various snakes of the species Agkistrodon bilineatus.
cantle
cantle
noun
(Scotland) On many styles of sporran, a metal arc along the top of the pouch, usually fronting the clasp.
(Scotland) The top of the head.
(obsolete) A splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.
The raised back of a saddle.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To cut into pieces.
(obsolete, transitive) To cut out from.
canula
canula
noun
Alternative form of cannula
capels
capels
noun
plural of capel
capful
capful
noun
(nautical) A light puff of wind.
The amount that will fit into a cap.
caplan
caplet
caplet
noun
(finance) A component of an interest rate cap, a derivative instrument that effectively prevents the interest payments on an otherwise variable-rate loan from exceeding an agreed level (the "cap"). Each "caplet", analysable as a call option, covers one interest accrual period (such as three months); the whole interest rate cap is made up of a series of consecutive caplets.
A smooth-coated tablet (pill, as in medicine) shaped like a capsule, used as a tamper-resistant alternative to a capsule, or an easy-to-swallow alternative to regular tablets.
caplin
caplin
noun
Alternative form of capelin
The cap or coupling of a flail, through which the thongs pass that connect the handle and swingel.
capple
capryl
capryl
noun
(organic chemistry, especially in combination) Synonym of octyl
capuli
carbyl
carbyl
noun
(organic chemistry) A divalent carbon radical R₂C=
(organic chemistry, especially in combination) The divalent radical derived from ethane -CH₂CH₂-
carcel
carcel
noun
(historical) A former unit to measure the intensity of light, approximately 9.74 candelas.
cardel
cardel
noun
A hogshead (large barrel) once used by whalers
cardol
cardol
noun
(organic chemistry) An oily yellow liquid extracted from the shell of the cashew nut.
carful
carful
noun
As much as a car will hold.
carlee
carlen
carles
carles
noun
plural of carle
carlet
carley
carley
Proper noun
name, a less common spelling of Carly.
carlie
carlie
Proper noun
name, a less common spelling of Carly.
carlin
carlin
noun
Alternative form of carling
An old woman.
carlos
carlos
Proper noun
name of and origin. English equivalent: Charles.
carlot
carlot
noun
(US) car park
(obsolete) A churl; a boor; a peasant or countryman.