A tree of the West Indies and northern South America, Malpighia glabra.
acritol
acronal
acronal
adj
Relating to an acron
airlock
airlock
noun
(architecture, informal) A vestibule, foyer or entranceway with doors to the exterior on one end and doors to the interior on the other, functioning to keep indoor and outdoor air, humidity, and air temperatures separate.
A sealed, airtight chamber, such as in a manned spacecraft or submarine, used to provide access to and from the sealed area without allowing air out or water in.
Alternative form of air lock
alarcon
albarco
alcoran
ancoral
archeol
argolic
argolic
Adjective
Relating to Argolis, a district in the Peloponnesus.
armlock
armlock
noun
(figuratively, by extension) Power to control or heavily influence something or someone.
A wrestling move in which the opponent's arm is held immobile.
Any of several distinct attacks against an opponent’s arm in martial arts.
verb
(transitive) To hold in an armlock.
barlock
becolor
becolor
verb
Alternative form of becolour
bicolor
bicolor
adj
(American spelling) Alternative form of bicolour
blocker
blocker
noun
(card games) A playing card, needed by one player, that is held by another.
(computing) A bug or issue that prevents software from being released.
(computing) An application that stops / impedes unauthorised access to a programme.
(computing) One who prevents another user from contacting them electronically.
(marketing) A gatekeeper who refuses the marketer access to the person they wish to contact.
(poker) A blocker bet.
(sports) One who blocks or impedes the movement of an opponent.
A close-fitting rectangular glove worn by a goalie in multiple forms of hockey.
A person who blocks (stretches or moulds) hats.
A puberty blocker.
bricole
bricole
noun
(billiards) A shot in which the cue ball is initially driven against the cushion.
(military) A kind of traces with hooks and rings, used to drag manoeuvre guns where horses cannot be used.
(military, historical) An ancient kind of military catapult.
In court tennis, the rebound of a ball from a wall of the court; also, the side stroke or play by which the ball is driven against the wall; hence, (figurative) an indirect action or stroke.
brockle
brockle
adj
Of animals: variegated, speckled, multicolored; usually used in the phrase brockle-faced.
Of food odors: malodorous, flatulent, pungent: smelling of sulfur, hydrogen sulfide, or hydrogen disulfide.
brocoli
brocoli
noun
Archaic form of broccoli (“vegetable”).
cajoler
cajoler
noun
(linguistics) A speech act intended to persuade or convince, such as the utterance "you know".
A person who cajoles; a flatterer.
caldron
caldron
noun
(archaic) Alternative spelling of cauldron
caletor
caloric
caloric
adj
Containing calories.
Relating to calories.
Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”).
Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).
noun
(historical) The hypothetical medium of heat.
calorie
calorie
noun
(nutrition) Kilogram calorie or large calorie. A unit of energy 1000 times larger than the gram calorie. It is equivalent to the gram kilocalorie, approximately 4.2 kilojoules.
(physics, chemistry, obsolete) The gram calorie or small calorie, a non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to approximately 4.2 joules. This unit was widely used in chemistry and physics, being the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C.
caloris
caloyer
caloyer
noun
A reclusive monk of the Greek Orthodox Church.
caltrop
caltrop
noun
(colloquial) The starthistle, Centaurea calcitrapa, a plant with sharp thorns.
(heraldry) The same object represented as a heraldic charge.
(weaponry) A small, metal object with spikes arranged so that, when thrown onto the ground, one always faces up as a threat to pedestrians, horses, and vehicles.
Any of a number of flowering plants in the family Zygophyllaceae, including several members of the genus Kallstroemia and the species Tribulus terrestris, native to warm temperate and tropical regions.
caporal
caporal
noun
(Latin America) A foreman or overseer.
A type of shag tobacco.
capreol
capreol
noun
(obsolete) A billy goat or small roebuck.
(obsolete) A high leap.
(obsolete) A side brace.
(obsolete) A tendril.
caproyl
caproyl
noun
(organic chemistry, especially in combination) The univalent radical derived from caproic acid by loss of the hydroxy group; hexanoyl
caracol
caracol
noun
Alternative spelling of caracole
cariole
cariole
noun
(Canada, historical) A sleigh drawn by horses, with seats for a driver and possibly passengers.
(Canada, historical) A toboggan drawn by dogs, with a passenger or cargo compartment enclosed by skins or fabric, and a small platform at the rear.
A covered cart.
A kind of calash.
A small, light, open one-horse carriage.
carlino
carload
carload
noun
(rail transport, US, Canada) The quantity of goods that can be carried in a freight car.
The contents of an automobile (passengers, supplies, etc.) for one trip.
carlock
carlock
noun
A sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon, and used in clarifying wine.
carlota
carlson
carlton
carlton
Proper noun
Any of several place names in England:
a village in the borough of Bedfordshire
a village in district, Cambridgeshire
a village in borough, County Durham
a village and parish in Leicestershire
a suburb of in the borough of Nottinghamshire
a village in district, Suffolk
a village in district, North Yorkshire
a village and parish in district, North Yorkshire
a village in the borough of South Yorkshire
a village in the borough of the City of West Yorkshire
from any of these places.
A southern suburb of New South Wales, Australia.
An inner suburb of Victoria, Australia.
A neighbourhood in Alberta, Canada.
A hamlet in Rural Municipality, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Various places in the United States of America:
an unincorporated community and CDP in Alabama.
a small city in Georgia.
a tiny city in Kansas.
a small city in Minnesota
a town in New York.
a city in Oregon.
an unincorporated community in Texas.
an unincorporated community in Washington.
a town in Wisconsin.
A settlement on United States Virgin Islands.
carmelo
carneol
carneol
noun
(now rare, historical) Carnelian.
carolan
caroled
caroled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of carol
carolee
caroler
caroler
noun
A carol singer.
carolin
carolin
noun
A former gold coin of Germany
A former gold coin of Sweden
carolle
carolus
carolus
Noun
An old English gold coin, worth 20 (or later 23) shillings.
carolyn
carolyn
Proper noun
name, a variant of Caroline used since the 19th century.
caromel
caromel
noun
Archaic form of caramel.
carotol
carotol
noun
(organic chemistry) The bicyclic sesquiterpenoid alcohol (3R,3aS,8aR)-6,8a-dimethyl-3-(1-methylethyl)-2,3,4,5,8,8a-hexahydroazulen-3a(1H)-ol present in the essential oil of carrots
carpool
carpool
noun
An arrangement whereby several people travel together in the same car in order to save costs, reduce pollution etc.
The group of people who participate in such a pool.
verb
To travel together in such a pool.
carroll
carroll
noun
(archaic) Alternative spelling of carol
celoron
cerfoil
cerillo
chabrol
charlot
chloral
chloral
noun
A colourless narcotic liquid, trichloroacetaldehyde, CCl₃CHO, obtained at first by the action of chlorine on alcohol and that, when treated with water, produces chloral hydrate.
chloras
chlored
chlores
chloric
chloric
adj
(chemistry) Of a compound, containing chlorine with a higher oxidation number than equivalent chlorous compounds; especially having an oxidation number of 5.
chlorid
chlorid
noun
Archaic form of chloride.
chlorin
chlorin
noun
(organic chemistry) A large heterocyclic aromatic ring consisting, at the core, of three pyrroles and one pyrroline coupled through four methine linkages.
Archaic form of chlorine.
chloris
chloryl
chloryl
noun
(inorganic chemistry) The univalent radical ClO₂- or cation ClO₂⁺
choiler
cholera
cholera
noun
(pathology) Any of several acute infectious diseases of humans and domestic animals, caused by certain strains of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium through ingestion of contaminated water or food, usually marked by severe gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, and dehydration.
cholers
cholers
noun
plural of choler
choller
choller
noun
Obsolete form of choler.
choltry
choltry
noun
(India, historical) A Hindu caravanserai.
chorale
chorale
noun
(Christianity) A form of Lutheran or Protestant hymn tune.
(music, religion) A chorus or choir.
chorals
chorals
noun
plural of choral
chordal
chordal
adj
(graph theory) For a graph, in which all cycles of four or more vertices have a chord.
(mathematics, music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of chords.
(music) Having an accompaniment of chords rather than a countermelody.
(zoology) Having a notochord; chordate
choreal
choreal
Adjective
Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting chorea
chorial
chorial
adj
Relating to a chorion
chorley
chorley
Proper noun
a market town and borough in Lancashire, England.
chortle
chortle
noun
A joyful, somewhat muffled laugh, rather like a snorting chuckle.
A similar sounding vocalisation of various birds.
verb
(intransitive) To laugh with a chortle or chortles.
chromel
chromyl
chromyl
noun
(inorganic chemistry) The divalent radical CrO₂: or cation CrO₂²⁺
chronal
chronal
adj
Of or pertaining to time.
chronol
cilurzo
cirillo
citoler
citoler
noun
A musician who plays the citole
clamors
clamors
noun
plural of clamor
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clamor
clamour
clamour
noun
British spelling and Canadian spelling spelling of clamor
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To repeat the strokes quickly on (bells) so as to produce a loud clang.
(transitive, obsolete) To salute loudly.
(transitive, obsolete) To stun with noise.
Britain and Canada spelling of clamor
clangor
clangor
noun
Canada, US standard spelling of clangour.
clarino
clarino
noun
(music) A reed stop in an organ.
clarion
clarion
adj
Of a sound, a voice, a message, etc.: brilliantly clear.
noun
(heraldry) A charge thought to represent a type of wind instrument, a keyboard instrument like a spinet, or perhaps a rest used by a knight to support a lance during jousting.
(music) An organ stop consisting of pipes with reeds giving a high-pitched note like that of a clarion (sense 1).
(music, historical or poetic) A medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal; related to the trumpet, it had a narrow, straight pipe and a high-pitched, piercing sound.
(poetic) The sound of a clarion (sense 1), or any sound resembling the loud, high-pitched note of a clarion.
verb
(also figuratively) Of a thing: to cause (a place) to echo with a sound like that of a clarion.
(figuratively) To announce or herald (something) clearly, especially so as to stir or unite people.
(intransitive) To sound a clarion; also, to make a high-pitched, piercing sound like that of a clarion.
To announce or herald (something) using a clarion (noun sense 1).
claroes
cloamer
clobber
clobber
intj
to beat (someone) severely
noun
(Australia, Britain, slang) Clothing; clothes.
(Britain, slang) Equipment.
(slang) A thumping or beating.
A bash on say the head, typically with a tool or object rather than with fists.
A paste used by shoemakers to hide the cracks in leather.
verb
(transitive, computing, slang) To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally or unexpectedly.
(transitive, slang) To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.
clocher
clocker
clocker
noun
(Scotland, dated) A clucking hen.
(slang) A low-level drug dealer who operates on the streets.
A person who clocks (illegally winds back the milometer of) a motor car
clodder
clogger
clogger
noun
(soccer, slang) A physically aggressive player.
A maker of the shoes called clogs.
One who, or that which, clogs.
cloners
cloners
noun
plural of cloner
closers
closers
noun
plural of closer
closter
closure
closure
noun
(mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
(obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
(politics) A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
(programming) An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.
(sociology) The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. ᵂᵖ
(topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
The act of shutting; a closing.
The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
clotbur
clotbur
noun
(UK, dialect) The burdock.
The cocklebur.
clotter
clotter
verb
(obsolete) To concrete into lumps; to clot.
cloture
cloture
noun
(law, politics, chiefly US) In legislative assemblies that permit unlimited debate (that is, a filibuster): a motion, procedure or rule by which debate is ended so that a vote may be taken on the matter. For example, in the United States Senate, a three-fifths majority vote of the body is required to invoke cloture and terminate debate.
verb
To end legislative debate by this means.
cloured
cloured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clour
clouter
clouter
noun
(obsolete) One who patches clothes.
One who clouts or strikes.
clovers
clovers
noun
(informal) the suit of clubs; primarily childish.
plural of clover
clovery
clovery
adj
Resembling or containing clover.
clowder
clowder
noun
A group of cats or other small felines.
coalers
coalers
noun
plural of coaler
coalier
coalier
adj
comparative form of coaly: more coaly
cobbler
cobbler
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, agriculture, slang) A sheep left to the end to be sheared (for example, because its wool is filthy, or because it is difficult to catch).
(US) Condica sutor, an owlet moth native to North America.
(US) Often preceded by a descriptive word as in apple cobbler, peach cobbler, etc.: a kind of pie, usually filled with fruit, originally having a crust at the base but nowadays generally lacking this and instead topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer.
(US, alcoholic beverages) An (iced) alcoholic drink containing spirit or wine, with lemon juice and sugar.
(games) Synonym of conkers (“a game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a cobbler (sense 1.1) or conker) suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed”)
(obsolete) A person who cobbles (“to assemble or mend in an improvised or rough way”); a clumsy workman.
(usually in the plural, slang) A police officer.
A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.
A roadworker who lays cobbles.
Also river cobbler: the basa (Pangasius bocourti), an edible species of shark catfish native to the Chao Phraya and Mekong river basins in Southeast Asia.
The Pangas catfish (Pangasius pangasius), an edible species of shark catfish native to Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, and Pakistan.
The South Australian catfish (Cnidoglanis macrocephalus), a species of catfish native to Australia which has dorsal and pectoral fins bearing sharp, venomous spines.
The shiny, hard seed of the horse chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum), especially when used in the game of the same name (sense 1.2); a conker, a horse chestnut.
The soldier or South Australian cobbler (Gymnapistes marmoratus), a brown fish native to southern Australian estuaries which is unrelated to Cnidoglanis macrocephalus but also has venemous spines on its dorsal and pectoral fins.
cockler
cockler
noun
One who finds and sells cockles.
coddler
coddler
noun
(cooking) A device used to make coddled eggs by cooking them gently.
One who coddles (treats with excess care).
coelder
cograil
cograil
noun
One of the rails of a cog railway, which engages the cog; the rack of a rack railway.
cohlier
coilers
coilers
noun
plural of coiler
colares
colarin
colbert
colburn
colcord
colibri
collard
collard
noun
A Mediterranean variety of kale, Brassica oleracea var. acephala.
collare
collars
collars
noun
plural of collar
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collar
colleri
collery
collier
collier
noun
(nautical) A sailor on such a vessel.
(nautical) A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.
(slang, used by the traveller community) A non-traveller.
A person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining) coal or making charcoal or in its transporting or commerce.
collyer
collyer
Proper noun
variant of Collier.
colmars
coloner
coloner
noun
(obsolete) A colonist.
colored
colored
adj
(American spelling) Having a color.
(South Africa, sometimes capitalized) Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of southern Africa (black, white, and Asian). (Under apartheid, used as a metadescription for mixed-race people and peoples such as the Cape Coloureds.)
(US, now dated and usually offensive) Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
(chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
Having a particular color or kind of color.
Having prominent colors; colorful.
noun
(American spelling, US, now dated and offensive) A colored (nonwhite) person.
(South Africa) A colored person; a person descended from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black white, Asian, Austronesian).
(laundry) A colored article of clothing.
verb
(American spelling) simple past tense and past participle of color
colorer
colorer
noun
One who colors.
colorin
colorum
colorum
noun
(Philippines) A public transport vehicle operating without a franchise.
(Philippines) A rebel organization characterized by religious fanaticism or a member thereof.
colours
colours
noun
(nautical) Flag denoting the nationality of a vessel, flown from the stern.
plural of colour
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of colour
coloury
coloury
adj
Having plenty of colour; colorful.
colport
colport
verb
To work as a colporteur
colrain
colters
colters
noun
plural of colter
coluber
colunar
colures
colures
noun
plural of colure
colvert
conrail
control
control
noun
(climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
(countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
(cycling, countable) A checkpoint along an audax route.
(graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
(linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
(project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
(spiritualism, parapsychology) A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
A control group or control experiment.
A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
verb
(transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
(transitive) to hold in check, to curb, to restrain
(transitive, archaic) to verify the accuracy of (something or someone, especially a financial account) by comparison with another account
(transitive, obsolete) to call to account, to take to task, to challenge
(transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
coolers
coolers
noun
plural of cooler
copolar
copolar
adj
At the same pole.
copular
copular
adj
(grammar) Being or relating to a copula.
corabel
coracle
coracle
noun
(nautical) A small circular or oblong boat made of wickerwork and made watertight with hides or pitch, propelled and steered with a single paddle and light enough to be carried on a person's back.