(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.
boucl
cauld
cauli
cauli
noun
(informal) Clipping of cauliflower.
caulk
caulk
noun
A composition of vehicle and pigment used at ambient temperatures for filling/sealing joints or junctures, that remains elastic for an extended period of time after application.
Alternative form of calk (“pointed projection on a horseshoe”)
Caulking.
verb
(nautical) To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight.
(slang) To copulate.
To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials.
cauls
cauls
noun
plural of caul
chula
chula
noun
(Bangladesh, India) hearth, fireplace
churl
churl
noun
(Theodism) A freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall.
(archaic) A countryman, a peasant, a rustic.
(archaic) A person who is stingy, especially with money; a selfish miser, a niggard.
(derogatory) A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.
A bondman or serf.
A free peasant (as opposed to a serf) of the lowest rank, below an earl and a thane; a freeman; also (more generally), a person without royal or noble status; a commoner.
claud
claus
claut
claut
noun
A kind of rake.
The material raked up; a rakeful.
verb
To scratch or claw.
cleuk
cloud
cloud
noun
(computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
(figurative) Anything unsubstantial.
(figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
(obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
(slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings)
A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
verb
(intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
(intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
(transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
(transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
(transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.
(transitive) To make obscure.
(transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
(transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
clour
clour
noun
(Scotland) A blow or impingement.
verb
(Scotland, transitive) To inflict a blow on; punch.
(Scotland, transitive) To make a dent or bump on; ding.
clout
clout
noun
(archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
(archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
(archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
(baseball, informal) A home run.
(obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
(regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.
(regional, informal) A blow with the hand.
A clout nail.
Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
verb
Dated form of clot.
To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
To hit, especially with the fist.
To join or patch clumsily.
To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
clubb
clubs
clubs
noun
Alternative form of clumps (“game of asking questions”)
One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♣.
plural of club
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of club
cluck
cluck
noun
A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
Any sound similar to this.
The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
verb
(Britain, drug slang) to suffer withdrawal from heroin.
(transitive) To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
clued
clued
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clue
clues
clues
noun
plural of clue
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clue
cluff
clump
clump
noun
(historical) A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.
A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
A dull thud.
A small group of trees or plants.
A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
The compressed clay of coal strata.
verb
(intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.
(transitive, UK, regional) To strike; to beat.
(transitive, intransitive) To form clusters or lumps.
(transitive, intransitive) To gather in dense groups.
clune
clung
clung
adj
(obsolete) wasted away; shrunken
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cling
clunk
clunk
noun
(dated) The sound of liquid coming out of a bottle, etc.; a glucking sound.
A dull, metallic sound, especially one made by two bodies coming into contact.
verb
to make such a sound
cluny
clute
clute
Proper noun
A city in Texas.
colum
could
could
noun
Something that could happen, or could be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
verb
(obsolete except Tyneside) past participle of can
Used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact).
Used to politely ask for permission to do something.
Used to politely ask for someone else to do something.
Used to show the possibility that something might happen.
Used to suggest something.
simple past tense of can
cruel
cruel
adj
(slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
Harsh; severe.
Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.
adv
(nonstandard) To a great degree; terribly.
noun
Alternative form of crewel
verb
(Australia, transitive, intransitive) To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive.
(chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
crull
crull
adj
(obsolete) curly; curled
cubla
culch
culch
adj
(US, New England, Maine) Location where potentially useful junk items are collected: culch corner, culch drawer, culch pile.
noun
(US, New England, Maine) An accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use.
(US, New England, Maine) Junk or debris.
The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds.
verb
To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments; to sort shellfish or fish catch by size -- most often oysters -- so as to throw back the smallest to grow bigger and breed.
culet
culet
noun
(historical) A component of armor, consisting of overlapping plates designed to protect the buttocks.
A small, flat face often cut at the base of a brilliant-cut gemstone.
culex
culex
noun
Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Culex, some of which carry disease.
culla
culls
culls
noun
Any refuse material.
plural of cull
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cull
cully
cully
noun
(archaic) A person who is easily tricked or imposed on; a dupe, a gullible person.
(historical, archaic) A male client of a prostitute; a john, a gonk.
(slang) A companion.
verb
To trick, to impose on, to dupe.
culms
culms
noun
plural of culm
culmy
culot
culpa
culpa
noun
(law) Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart.
culti
cults
cults
noun
plural of cult
cumal
cumly
cumol
cumyl
cumyl
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of several univalent radicals derived from cumene
cupel
cupel
noun
A small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead.
verb
To refine by means of a cupel.
curls
curls
noun
Specifically, a body of curly hair on someone's head.
plural of curl
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of curl
curly
curly
adj
(typography) Curling in a direction, as opposed to straight (quotation marks or apostrophes)
Complicated and difficult; knotty.
Having curls.
noun
a person or animal with curly hair.
deluc
ducal
ducal
adj
Of or pertaining to a duke, a duchess, or the duchy or dukedom they hold.
dulac
dulce
dulce
adj
(obsolete) sweet
noun
(obsolete) sweetness
Alternative form of dulse
seaweed; kelp
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To make sweet; to soothe.
dulci
dulcy
gluck
gluck
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To flow or cause to flow in a noisy series of spurts, as when liquid is emptied through the narrow neck of a bottle.
gulch
gulch
noun
(obsolete) A glutton.
(obsolete) An act of gulching or gulping.
A ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully.
verb
(obsolete) To fall heavily.
(obsolete) To swallow greedily; to gulp down.
hulch
hulch
noun
(dialectal) A hook or nook.
(obsolete) A hunch, hump (on the back).
kljuc
kluck
leuce
leuch
leuco
locum
locum
noun
(Britain, Australia, informal) A period working as a locum tenens.
(Britain, Australia, informal) Short for locum tenens.
(historical) A share in a Genoese trading vessel.
locus
locus
noun
(chiefly in the plural) A passage in writing, especially in a collection of ancient sacred writings arranged according to a theme.
(genetics) A fixed position on a chromosome that may be occupied by one or more genes.
(mathematics) The set of all points whose coordinates satisfy a given equation or condition.
A place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime.
louch
lubec
lucan
lucas
lucca
lucca
Proper noun
A province of Tuscany, Italy.
City and capital of Lucca.
luces
luces
noun
plural of luce
lucet
lucet
noun
A device for making braided cord.
lucey
lucho
lucia
lucic
lucid
lucid
adj
bright, luminous, translucent or transparent
clear; easily understood
mentally rational; sane
noun
A lucid dream.
lucie
lucio
lucks
lucks
noun
plural of luck
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of luck
lucky
lucky
adj
(of people) Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune.
Producing, or resulting in, good fortune
noun
(bingo) seven
lucre
lucre
noun
Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner.
ludic
ludic
adj
Of or pertaining to play or games.
Playful.
lunch
lunch
noun
(Minnesota, US) Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.
(cricket) A break in play between the first and second sessions.
A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
verb
(intransitive) To eat lunch.
(transitive) To treat to lunch.
lurch
lurch
noun
A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has not yet pegged his/her 31st hole.
A sudden or unsteady movement.
An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
verb
(obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
(obsolete, intransitive) To evade by stooping; to lurk.
(obsolete, intransitive) To rob.
(obsolete, transitive) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
(transitive) To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry).
To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
lycus
mulch
mulch
noun
(agriculture, horticulture) Any material used to cover the top layer of soil to protect, insulate, or decorate it, or to discourage weeds or retain moisture.
verb
(agriculture) To apply mulch.
(agriculture) To turn into mulch.
mulct
mulct
noun
(law) A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one.
verb
To impose such a fine or penalty.
To swindle (someone) out of money.
nucal
nucla
oculi
oculi
noun
plural of oculus
picul
picul
noun
(units of measure) A traditional South and East Asian unit of weight, based upon the load of a shoulder pole and varying by place and over time but usually standardized at about 60 kg.
(informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
verb
(UK, university slang, transitive, obsolete) To reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree.
(intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
(transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
(transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
(transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
(transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
(transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
(transitive, now rare) To rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone).
Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
pocul
sacul
scaul
schul
sculk
sculk
verb
Alternative spelling of skulk
scull
scull
noun
(obsolete) A shoal of fish.
A light rowing boat used for racing by one, two, or four rowers, each operating two oars (sculls), one in each hand.
A single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward.
A skull cap. A small bowl-shaped helmet, without visor or bever.
A small rowing boat, for one person.
Obsolete form of skull.
One of a pair of oars handled by a single rower.
The skua gull.
verb
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To drink the entire contents of (a drinking vessel) without pausing.
To row a boat using a scull or sculls.
To skate while keeping both feet in contact with the ground or ice.
sculp
sculp
verb
(obsolete, sometimes humorous) To sculpture; to carve or engrave.
(transitive) To flay.
scult
sulci
sulci
noun
plural of sulcus
ticul
ulcer
ulcer
noun
(figurative) Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character.
(pathology) An open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infection.
(pathology) Peptic ulcer.
ulcus
ulcus
noun
(palynology) A rounded, pore-like aperture at either pole of a pollen grain.
ulick
ulmic
ulmic
adj
(organic chemistry) Pertaining to ulmin; designating an acid obtained from ulmin.
ulric
uncle
uncle
intj
A cry used to indicate surrender.
noun
(Britain, informal, dated) A pawnbroker.
(Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, informal) Any middle-aged or elderly man older than the speaker and/or listener.
(Southern US, slang, archaic) An older African-American male.
(endearing) Used as a fictive kinship title for a close male friend of one's parent or parents.
(especially in the Southern US, parts of UK and South Asia) An affectionate term for a man of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
(euphemistic) Used as a title for the male companion to one's (usually unmarried) parent.
(figuratively) A source of advice, encouragement, or help.
The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent.
The male cousin of one’s parent.
verb
(intransitive, colloquial) To act like, or as, an uncle.
(transitive, colloquial) To address somebody by the term uncle.