A horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine, as contrasted with a shaft or vertical entry passage. An adit may be used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes.
adiz
adjt
admd
admi
adna
adne
adod
adon
ador
ados
ados
noun
plural of ado
adry
adry
adj
(archaic) Dry.
adsp
adsr
adur
advt
adze
adze
noun
A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
verb
To shape a material using an adze.
agad
agad
intj
Obsolete form of egad.
aged
aged
adj
(chiefly non-US) Having the age of.
Having undergone the improving effects of time; matured.
noun
Old people, collectively.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of age
aida
aide
aide
noun
(military) An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.
aids
aids
noun
plural of aid
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aid
aind
aiod
aked
aked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ake
alda
aldm
aldo
alod
alod
noun
Alternative form of allod
amdg
amdt
amid
amid
noun
Archaic form of amide.
prep
In the middle of; in the center of; surrounded by.
anda
ande
ande
noun
Alternative form of onde
andf
andi
ando
andr
ands
ands
noun
plural of and
andy
andy
noun
(science fiction, slang) android
apda
apdu
aped
aped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ape
apod
apod
adj
Lacking a ventral fin.
Lacking feet; apodal.
noun
An animal without feet.
appd
arad
arad
noun
A nomadic herder.
arda
arde
ardu
ardy
ared
ared
verb
simple past tense and past participle of aread
arid
arid
adj
(figurative) Devoid of value.
Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.
Very dry.
asgd
atda
ated
ated
verb
(childish) simple past tense and past participle of eat
aude
audi
audy
auld
auld
adj
(archaic, Northern England, Liverpudlian, Scotland, Ireland) old
avdp
avid
avid
adj
enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something
awad
awed
awed
adj
Having or showing awe.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of awe
axed
axed
adj
Having a specified number of type of axis.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of axe (all etymologies and senses)
badb
bade
bade
verb
simple past tense of bid
badr
bads
bads
noun
plural of bad
baed
baed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bae
bald
bald
adj
(by extension) Denuded of any covering.
(of a statement or account) Unembellished.
(of a statement) Without evidence or support being provided.
(of animals) Having areas (of fur or plumage) that are coloured white, especially on the head.
(specifically) Having no hair on the head, or having a large area of bare scalp on top of the head although hair may still grow on the sides and back of the head.
Having no hair, fur or feathers.
Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.
noun
(Appalachia) A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
verb
(intransitive) To become bald.
band
band
noun
(Canada) A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government of Canada.
(anthropology) A small group of people living in a simple society, contrasted with tribes, chiefdoms, and states.
(especially US) A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.
(in the plural) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
(medicine) Short for band cell.
(obsolete) A bond.
(obsolete) Pledge; security.
(physics) A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
(physics) A part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
(sciences) Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc
(slang, hiphop, often in the plural) A wad of money totaling $1K, held together by a band; (by extension) money
A belt or strap that is part of a machine.
A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of colour, or of brickwork.
A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist.
A group of people loosely united for a common purpose (a band of thieves).
A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area.
A marching band.
A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it.
A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.
A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music.
In Gothic architecture, the moulding, or suite of mouldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
verb
(intransitive) To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.
(obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of bind
(transitive) To fasten with a band.
(transitive, education) To group (students) together by perceived ability; to stream.
(transitive, ornithology) To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).
Obsolete form of bandy.
bard
bard
noun
(by extension) A poet.
(cooking) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)
A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
Specifically, Peruvian bark.
The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
verb
(cooking) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
To cover a horse in defensive armor.
baud
baud
noun
(computing, informal) bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol.
(computing, telecommunications) A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.
bawd
bawd
adj
(obsolete) Joyous; riotously gay.
noun
(now archaic or historical) A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer, a madame.
A lewd person.
verb
(archaic) To procure women for lewd purposes.
bdsa
bead
bead
noun
(archaic) Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
(architecture) A narrow molding with semicircular section.
(by extension) Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
(chemistry, dated) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe.
A bubble, in spirits.
A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
A small drop of water or other liquid.
A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes.
Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
Various small, round solid objects.
verb
(intransitive) To form into a bead.
(transitive) To apply beads to.
(transitive) To cause beads to form on (something).
(transitive) To form into a bead.
bida
blad
blad
noun
(Australia, wholesale, food trade) A single sheet for use in a display book, illustrating a particular product available from a wholesaler.
(Scotland) A fragment or lump.
(Scotland) A portfolio; a blotting-book or blotting-pad.
brad
brad
noun
(US, elementary school usage) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.
A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
verb
(transitive) To attach using a brad.
(transitive) To upset the end of a rod inserted in a hole so as to prevent it from being pulled out, as when riveting.
buda
cadd
cade
cade
adj
(of an animal) abandoned by its mother and reared by hand
noun
(archaic) A cask or barrel.
An animal brought up or nourished by hand.
Juniperus oxycedrus (western prickly juniper), whose wood yields a tar.
verb
To make a pet of; to coddle, pamper, or spoil.
cadi
cadi
noun
Alternative form of qadi
cads
cads
noun
plural of cad
cadv
cady
cady
noun
Alternative spelling of kady
caid
caid
noun
(Ireland) Modern Gaelic football.
(historical) A local governor or leader, especially in North Africa or Moorish Spain; an alcaide.
Any of various ancient and traditional Irish football games.
cand
cand
noun
Alternative form of kand
card
card
noun
(computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
(cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
(dated) A printed programme.
(dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
(dated, figurative, by extension) An attraction or inducement.
(dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
(dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
(in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
(informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
(obsolete) A map or chart.
(television) A title card or intertitle: a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
(textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
(uncountable, dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
(weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
A business card.
A greeting card.
A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
A playing card.
A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose.
A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
A test card.
Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).
An indicator card.
Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
Obsolete form of chard.
verb
(US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
(dated) To play cards.
(golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
(obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
(obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
(textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
(transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
cdar
chad
chad
abbrev
(West Country, obsolete) I had
noun
(Internet slang, seduction community, incel slang) Alternative spelling of Chad (“alpha-male; a virile man”)
(countable) One of these pieces of paper.
(uncountable) Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, or from ballot papers, paper tape, punched cards, etc.
cida
clad
clad
adj
(figurative) Adorned, ornamented.
(of a person, preceded by a garment type) Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.
(of an object, often in compounds) Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of clothe
(archaic, literary or obsolete, past tense clad) To clothe, to dress.
(figurative, past tense clad) To imbue (with a specified quality); to envelop or surround.
(past tense clad or cladded) To cover with a cladding or another material (for example, insulation).
coad
coda
coda
noun
(figuratively) A conclusion (of a statement or event, for example), final portion, tail end.
(geology) In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.
(music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
(phonology) The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants.
Alternative spelling of CODA
cuda
dabb
dabs
dabs
noun
plural of dab
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dab
dace
dace
noun
(US) Any of various related small fish of the family Cyprinidae that live in freshwater and are native to North America.
The shoal-forming fish Leuciscus leuciscus common to swift rivers in England and Wales and in Europe.
dacs
dacy
dada
dada
noun
(childish) Father, dad.
(informal, Malaysia, Brunei) heroin
Alternative letter-case form of Dada (“cultural movement”).
dade
dade
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To walk unsteadily, like a child; to move slowly.
(obsolete, transitive) To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a toddler.
dado
dado
noun
(architecture) The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion.
(architecture) The section of a pedestal above the base.
(carpentry) The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.
verb
(transitive, architecture) To furnish with a dado.
(transitive, carpentry) To cut a dado.
dads
dads
noun
plural of dad
dadu
dael
daer
daff
daff
noun
(Britain, informal) Clipping of daffodil.
A fool; an idiot; a blockhead.
Alternative form of daf (“type of drum”)
verb
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To daunt.
(intransitive, Scotland) To be foolish; make sport; play; toy.
(transitive) To toss (aside); to dismiss.
(transitive) To turn (someone) aside; divert.
daft
daft
adj
(chiefly Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Crazy, insane, mad.
(chiefly Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Foolish, silly, stupid.
(obsolete) Gentle, meek, mild.
dago
dago
noun
(UK, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, or other Mediterranean descent.
(US, Australia, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.
dags
dags
noun
plural of dag
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dag
dahl
dahl
noun
Alternative spelling of dal
dahs
dahs
noun
plural of dah
dail
dain
dais
dais
noun
(historical, northern Britain) A bench, a settle, a pew.
(obsolete) An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table.
A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from.
The canopy over an altar, etc.
daks
daks
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) Trousers or underwear.