(countable, cue sports, especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.
(spices) ajwain
(uncountable) A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of a board measuring one meter by one meter.
verb
(intransitive) To make a carom (shot in billiards).
To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound.
carum
cdrom
ceram
charm
charm
noun
(finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the instantaneous rate of change of delta with respect to time.
(often in the plural) The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration.
(particle physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the number of charm quarks and antiquarks.
A flock, group (especially of finches).
A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
verb
(obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
(transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence.
To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
chirm
chirm
noun
A din or confused noise, as of many voices, birdsong, etc.
verb
(obsolete) To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird does.
churm
churm
noun
Alternative form of chirm
comdr
comer
comer
noun
(figuratively) One who is catching up in some contest and has a likelihood of victory.
One in a race who is catching up to others and shows promise of winning.
One who arrives.
coram
corms
corms
noun
plural of corm
corum
cramp
cramp
adj
(archaic) cramped; narrow
noun
A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
That which confines or contracts.
verb
(by extension) To bind together; to unite.
(intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
(transitive) To affect with cramps or spasms.
(transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
(transitive, figurative) To prohibit movement or expression of.
To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
To form on a cramp.
crams
crams
noun
plural of cram
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cram
crawm
cream
cream
adj
Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.
noun
(figuratively) The best part of something.
(informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
(medicine) A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
(obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
(standards of identity, UK) The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
(standards of identity, US) The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
(tea and coffee) A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.
(vulgar, slang) Semen.
A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
verb
(intransitive) To gather or form cream.
(intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
(slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
(transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
(transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
(transitive, cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
(transitive, figurative) To take off the best or choicest part of.
(transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.
creem
creme
creme
adj
Alternative spelling of crème
crfmp
crime
crime
noun
(countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
(countable) Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.
(countable, obsolete) That which occasions crime.
(uncountable) Criminal acts collectively.
(uncountable) The habit or practice of committing crimes.
verb
(UK, military, transitive) To subject to disciplinary punishment.
(nonce word) To commit crime.
crimp
crimp
adj
(obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
(obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
noun
(climbing) A grip on such a hold.
(climbing) A small hold with little surface area.
(obsolete) A card game.
(obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
(specifically, law) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
(usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
The natural curliness of wool fibres.
verb
(climbing) to hold using a crimp
(electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
(transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
To bend or mold leather into shape.
To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
To pinch and hold; to seize.
To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
crome
crome
noun
(UK, East Anglia) A garden or agricultural implement with three or four tines bent at right angles, resembling a garden fork with bent prongs, and used for breaking up soil, clearing ditches, raking up shellfish on beaches, etc.
(music) Alternative form of croma (“a quaver”)
plural of croma
verb
(UK, East Anglia) To use a crome.
croom
crumb
crumb
noun
(figuratively) A bit, small amount.
(slang) A body louse (Pediculus humanus).
(slang) A nobody; a worthless person.
A mixture of sugar, cocoa and milk, used to make industrial chocolate.
A small piece of other material, such as rubber.
A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust.
verb
(transitive) To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; to crumble.
(transitive) To cover with crumbs.
crump
crump
adj
(UK, Scotland, dialect) Hard or crusty; dry baked
(obsolete) Crooked; bent.
noun
The sound of a muffled explosion.
verb
(intransitive) To produce such a sound.
(intransitive, US, medical slang) (of one's health) to decline rapidly (but not as rapidly as crash).
cterm
cumar
cymar
cymar
noun
A loose light dress for women.
A scarf.
cymry
cymry
Noun
The Welsh people.
macer
macer
noun
(slang) A cardsharp.
A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland.
macri
macro
macro
adj
(cooking, colloquial) Clipping of macrobiotic.
Very large in scope or scale.
noun
(colloquial, economics, uncountable) Clipping of macroeconomics.
(colloquial, nutrition, countable, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of macronutrient.
(colloquial, photography, countable) Short for macro lens.
(programming) A comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complex input to a computer program.
macur
march
march
noun
(euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
(historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
(now archaic, historical) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
(obsolete) Smallage.
A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
A political rally or parade
Any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.
Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)
Steady forward movement or progression.
verb
(figurative) To make steady progress.
(intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers
(intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
(transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.
To go to war; to make military advances.
marci
marco
marco
intj
Alternative letter-case form of Marco
noun
(historical) A traditional Spanish and Portuguese unit of mass, usually equivalent to 230 g and particularly used for trade in gold and silver.
marcs
marcs
noun
plural of marc
marcy
maroc
mcrae
merca
merce
merce
verb
(obsolete) To subject to fine or amercement; to mulct; to amerce.
merch
merch
noun
(especially in entertainment, sports, marketing) Merchandise (“goods connected with an entity such as a team, band, work of fiction, etc”).
(informal) Merchandise (“goods which are or were offered or intended for sale”).
verb
(slang, rare) To merchandise.
merci
merci
intj
(colloquial) thank you
noun
An extra card or set of cards that is allowed to play at the end of various card games.
merck
mercy
mercy
intj
Expressing surprise or alarm.
noun
(countable) A blessing; something to be thankful for.
(countable) Instances of forbearance or forgiveness.
(uncountable) A children's game in which two players stand opposite with hands grasped and twist each other's arms until one gives in.
(uncountable) A tendency toward forgiveness, pity, or compassion.
(uncountable) Forgiveness or compassion, especially toward those less fortunate.
(uncountable) Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another.
verb
To feel mercy
To show mercy; to pardon or treat leniently because of mercy
micra
micro
micro
adj
Small, relatively small; used to contrast levels of the noun modified.
noun
(colloquial) Clipping of microwave oven.
(colloquial, economics, uncountable) Clipping of microeconomics.
(computing, dated, countable) short form of microcomputer
(fetishism) a very small person
(gaming, slang, uncountable) micromanagement
verb
(gaming slang) to micromanage
mirac
moric
moric
adj
Derived or extracted from (a member of) the Morus genus (the mulberries).
moroc
mucor
mucor
noun
(obsolete) The property of being mucid.
mucro
mucro
noun
(botany, zoology) A pointed end, often sharp, abruptly terminating an organ, such as a projection at the tip of a leaf; the posterior tip of a cuttlebone; or the distal part of the furcula in Collembola.
rcmac
romic
romic
Proper noun
A phonetic alphabet based on the Roman alphabet; a precursor of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
scram
scram
noun
(Derbyshire, Wales) A scratch, especially caused by claws or fingernails.
(US, mining, archaic) A mine previously worked on where most of the ore is believed to have been removed, but which is still being mined on a small scale.
(also attributively) A shutdown of a nuclear reactor (or, by extension, some other thing), often done rapidly due to an emergency.
The device used to shut down a nuclear reactor; also, the button or switch used to initiate a shutdown.
verb
(intransitive) Of a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency.
(intransitive, originally US, often imperative) To leave in a hurry; to go away.
(transitive) To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency.
(transitive, Derbyshire, Wales) To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw.
(transitive, US, mining, archaic) To mine for ore on a small scale, especially from mines previously been worked on where most of the ore is believed to have been removed.
Of one's body or limbs: to become numb or stiff due to cold, lack of movement, etc.
To be weakened by an accident, a disease, starvation, etc.
scrim
scrim
noun
(online gaming) A practice match between one or more organized teams usually in preparation for a more competitive format, such as a tournament.
(photography) A sheet of gauze etc. used to reduce the intensity of light.
(theater) A theater drop that appears opaque when a scene in front is lighted and transparent or translucent when a scene in back is lighted.
A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, used for curtains, etc,.
A large military scarf, usually camouflage coloured and used for concealment when not used as a scarf.
A woven, nonwoven or knitted fabric composed of continuous strands of material used for reinforcing or strengthening membranes.
Thin canvas glued on the inside of panels to prevent shrinking, checking, etc.
verb
(online gaming) To participate in a scrim.
(photography) To use a scrim.
scrum
scrum
name
(software engineering) Alternative letter-case form of Scrum
noun
(Canada) A tightly packed group of reporters surrounding a person, usually a politician, asking for comments about an issue; an opportunity provided for a politician to be approached this way.
(rugby) In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way.
(software engineering) In Agile software development (specifically Scrum or related methodologies), a daily meeting in which each developer describes what they have been doing, what they plan to do next, and any impediments to progress.