(Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
(chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
(computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
(computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
(geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
(nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
(rail transport) A branch line.
A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
A location of an organization with several locations.
An area in business or of knowledge, research.
Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
verb
(intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
(intransitive) To produce branches.
(intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
(transitive) To strip of branches.
(transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
brecon
brecon
Proper noun
A town in Powys, Wales.
brince
bronco
bronco
noun
A horse of western North America that is wild or not fully broken.
broncs
broncs
noun
plural of bronc
brucin
brucin
noun
Archaic form of brucine.
brunch
brunch
noun
A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.
verb
To eat brunch.
buccan
buccan
noun
(uncountable) Meat prepared in this way.
A framework or grill upon which meat is laid to dry, or to be roasted.
verb
To dry meat on such a frame.
buccin
buchan
buchan
Proper noun
an administrative district in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
and (Clan Buchan). Of note is John Buchan, the author.
buncal
bunche
bunchy
bunchy
adj
Having, or growing in bunches.
buncos
buncos
noun
plural of bunco
bundoc
cabaan
cabana
cabana
noun
(Canada, US) A shelter on a beach or at a swimming pool.
A cabin or hut for relaxing.
cabane
cabane
noun
(aviation) The tripod, pylon, or struts usually at the centre-section of a biplane or high-winged monoplane.
cabins
cabins
noun
plural of cabin
cabman
cabman
noun
The driver of a hackney cab.
The driver of a taxi.
cabmen
cabmen
noun
plural of cabman
caburn
caburn
noun
(nautical) A small line made of spun yarn, to bind or worm cables, seize tackles, etc.
cacana
cacoon
cacoon
noun
The bean-like seed of a tropical vine (Entada rheedei), used as a hallucinogen and in traditional medicine, and made into jewelry.
cadena
cadent
cadent
adj
Falling.
cadjan
cadjan
noun
A form of parchment made from leaves of the coconut palm, formerly used in Asia.
A woven mat of leaves of the coconut palm, traditionally used for roofing and walls in Asia.
cadman
caenis
caftan
caftan
noun
Alternative spelling of kaftan
caging
caging
noun
The act of placing or trapping something in a cage.
verb
present participle of cage
cagney
cahone
caiman
caiman
noun
(loosely) A crocodilian of the subfamily Caimaninae, which includes the very large black caiman.
(strictly) Any of the relatively small crocodilians of the genus Caiman, within the family Alligatoridae.
A semi-aquatic lizard, of the genus Dracaena, found in South America. To differentiate from caimans, they are referred to as caiman lizards.
caines
cairns
cairns
noun
plural of cairn
cairny
cairny
adj
Of a landscape, having many cairns or rocky outcrops.
cajang
cajuns
caking
caking
noun
A layer or deposit of caked material.
verb
present participle of cake
calden
calean
calgon
calhan
calina
caline
calion
calkin
calkin
noun
A calk (on a horseshoe).
callan
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
calyon
calyon
noun
flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc.
cambon
camden
camden
Proper noun
A district in inner north-west London, and a London Borough within Greater London, comprising and
A place name in various other locales, including:
A city in Alabama, USA
A city in Arkansas, USA
A town in Jackson Township, Indiana, USA.
A city in New Jersey, USA
An unincorporated community and CDP in North Carolina, USA
A city in Tennessee, USA
name, modern transferred use of the surname.
camena
camino
camion
camion
noun
A truck or wagon, especially one used to transport ordnance.
canaan
canaan
Proper noun
A historic region of the Middle East, roughly equivalent to Palestine.
A grandson of Noah.
name of biblical origin.
a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA.
canaba
canace
canada
canada
noun
(historical, measure) A traditional Portuguese unit of liquid volume equal to 1.7–2.1 liters depending on the area of Portugal, used particularly for wine.
Alternative form of cañada, a ravine, a gulley.
canale
canali
canals
canals
noun
plural of canal
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canal
canamo
canape
canape
noun
Alternative spelling of canapé
canara
canard
canard
noun
(aviation) A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.
(aviation, by extension) A horizontal control and stabilization surface located in front of the main wing of an aircraft.
(transport, engineering, by extension) Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.
A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
canari
canary
canary
noun
(Australia, informal) A yellow sticker of unroadworthiness.
(computing) A change that is tested by being rolled out first to a subset of machines or users before rolling out to all.
(computing) A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a buffer overflow, allowing the program to identify and recover from it.
(countable, uncountable) A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.
(informal) A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.
(slang) A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (Nembutal).
(slang) An informer or snitch; a squealer.
A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.
A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).
A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.
Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)
verb
(computing) to test a software change by rolling out to a small set of machines or users before making it available to all.
(intransitive) to dance nimbly (as in the canary dance)
(slang) to inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.
canaut
cancan
cancan
noun
(motocross) A trick where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side.
A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.
verb
To dance the cancan.
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.
cancer
cancer
adj
(slang) Extremely unpleasant and annoying.
noun
(figuratively) Something damaging that spreads throughout something else.
(medicine, oncology, pathology) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.
cancha
cancha
noun
A toasted grain or grains of corn, a traditional snack in Peru.
canchi
cancri
cancun
candee
candia
candia
Proper noun
The Mediterranean island of Crete.
The Cretan city of
A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.
Proper noun
The on the island now known as Sri Lanka.
The city of the capital of that kingdom.
candid
candid
adj
Impartial and free from prejudice.
Not posed or rehearsed.
Straightforward, open and sincere.
noun
A spontaneous or unposed photograph.
candie
candie
noun
Alternative form of candy (“Indian unit of mass”)
candil
candis
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.
candor
candor
noun
(obsolete) Whiteness; brilliance; purity.
Impartiality.
The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression.
candra
canduc
candyh
candys
canela
canell
canelo
canens
caners
caners
noun
plural of caner
caneva
canful
canful
noun
As much as a can will hold.
cangan
cangia
cangle
cangue
cangue
noun
A heavy wooden collar or yoke borne on the shoulders and enclosing the neck and arms, formerly used in China to punish petty criminals.
canham
canica
canice
canids
canids
noun
plural of canid
caniff
canine
canine
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to mammalian teeth which are cuspids or fangs.
(medicine, obsolete) Of an appetite: depraved or inordinate; used to describe eating disorders.
Dog-like.
Of, or pertaining to, a dog or dogs.
noun
(formal) Any of certain extant canids regarded as similar to the dog or wolf (including coyotes, jackals, etc.) but distinguished from the vulpines, which are regarded as fox-like.
(poker slang) A king and a nine as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity.
Any member of Caninae, the only living subfamily of Canidae.
In heterodont mammals, the pointy tooth between the incisors and the premolars; a cuspid.
caning
caning
noun
A beating with a cane.
verb
present participle of cane
canion
canion
noun
(historical, often in the plural) One of a pair of fitted tubes of cloth worn in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries below short trunk hose and above stockings to cover the leg in between them, sometimes joined to the hose (sometimes reduced to ornamental rolls terminating the legs of the hose), and sometimes joined to each other as breeches worn under the hose.
Obsolete form of canyon.
canjac
canker
canker
noun
(phytopathology) A plant disease marked by gradual decay.
A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.
A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.
A region of dead plant tissue caused by such a disease.
A worm or grub that destroys plant buds or leaves; cankerworm.
An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae.
An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths. Usually resulting from neglected thrush.
Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.
verb
(intransitive) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
(intransitive) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
(transitive) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
(transitive) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
canman
canmer
cannae
cannas
cannas
noun
plural of canna
cannat
canned
canned
adj
(by extension) Previously prepared; not fresh or new; standardized, mass produced, or lacking originality or customization.
(slang) Drunk.
Preserved in cans.
Terminated, fired from a job.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of can
cannel
cannel
noun
A bituminous coal that burns brightly with much smoke.
canner
canner
noun
(US, slang) Someone who lives off container deposit refunds from recycling.
A large pot used for processing jars when preserving food, either in a boiling water bath or by capturing steam to elevate the pressure and temperature.
An animal yielding inferior meat best suited to canning.
Someone or something which cans.
cannes
cannet
cannet
abbrev
(Tyneside) cannot, can't
cannie
cannon
cannon
noun
(US, slang) A pickpocket.
(baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player who can throw well.
(engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
(fandom slang) Misspelling of canon.
(historical) A cylindrical item of plate armor protecting the arm, particularly one of a pair of such cylinders worn with a couter, the upper cannon protecting the upper arm and the lower cannon protecting the forearm.
(historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
(military, chiefly aviation) An autocannon.
(printing, uncountable) Alternative form of canon (“a large size of type”)
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.
(xiangqi) A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.
A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
A cannon bit.
A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.
Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
verb
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.
To bombard with cannons.
To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
cannot
cannot
noun
A person who cannot do (something).
Something that cannot be done.
verb
Be forbidden or not permitted to
Can not (be unable to).
canoed
canoed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of canoe
canoes
canoes
noun
plural of canoe
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canoe
canoga
canons
canons
noun
plural of canon
canopy
canopy
noun
A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.
Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.
In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.
In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.
The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
verb
(intransitive) To go through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.
(transitive) To cover with or as if with a canopy.
canova
canroy
cansos
cansos
noun
plural of canso
cantab
cantab
Noun
A graduate of Cambridge University.
cantal
cantal
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Cantal
cantar
cantar
noun
Alternative spelling of kantar
canted
canted
adj
Having angles.
Inclined at an angle to something else; sloping.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cant
cantel
cantel
noun
Alternative form of cantle
canter
canter
noun
A gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four legged animals.
A ride on a horse at such speed.
One who cants or whines; a beggar.
One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.
verb
(intransitive) To move at such pace.
(transitive) To cause to move at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.
canthi
canthi
noun
plural of canthus
cantic
cantic
adj
angled
canting
oblique, slanting
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.
canton
canton
noun
(heraldry) A division of a shield occupying one third of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
(obsolete) A song or canto.
(obsolete) A subdivision of a county, of Quebec, Canada; equivalent to a township.
A division of Luxembourg, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.
A division of a political unit.
A small community or clan.
A subdivision of a flag, the rectangular inset on the upper hoist (i.e., flagpole) side (e.g., the stars of the US national flag are in a canton).
A subdivision of an arrondissement of France.
One of the states comprising the Swiss Confederation.
verb
(transitive) To allot quarters to troops.
(transitive) To delineate as a separate district.
(transitive) To divide into cantons.
cantor
cantor
noun
A prayer leader in a Jewish service; a hazzan
singer, especially someone who takes a special role of singing or song leading at a ceremony
cantos
cantos
noun
plural of canto
cantus
cantus
Noun
A melody or song, particularly ecclesiastical.
The principal voice.
cantut
canuck
canuck
Noun
A Canadian.
A Canadian, especially a French Canadian.
The French-Canadian dialect.
A thing from Canada.
A Canadian pony or horse.
A member of the professional NHL ice hockey team.
The fighter-interceptor.
Adjective
Canadian.
canula
canula
noun
Alternative form of cannula
canute
canvas
canvas
noun
(Nigeria) Athletic shoes.
(computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.
(figuratively) A basis for creative work.
(nautical) Sails in general.
A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.
A painting, or a picture on canvas.
A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
A tent.
A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
verb
(transitive) To cover (an area or object) with canvas.
Obsolete spelling of canvass
canyon
canyon
noun
A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.