(intransitive) To make a tumult or bustle; to splash; to make a pother or fuss.
(transitive) To perplex; to embarrass; to confuse; to bother.
purdah
purdah
noun
(countable) A long veil or other attire covering most of the body, worn by women in some Muslim societies.
(countable, UK politics, potentially offensive) The period between the announcement of an election or referendum and its conclusion, during which civil servants refrain from making policy announcements or taking actions that could be seen as advantageous to certain candidates in the election.
(countable, chiefly South Asia, also figuratively) A curtain, especially one used in some Hindu or Muslim traditions to conceal women from the gaze of people, particularly men and strangers.
(uncountable) The situation or system of secluding women from the gaze of people, particularly men and strangers, in some Muslim and Hindu traditions, by using a curtain or screen, and/or wearing a face veil or attire covering most of the body.
(uncountable, obsolete, rare) A striped cotton cloth which is used to make curtains.
purdas
purdas
noun
plural of purda
purdin
purdon
purdue
purdum
purdys
pureed
pureed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of puree
purged
purged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of purge
purled
purled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of purl
purred
purred
verb
simple past tense and past participle of purr
pursed
pursed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of purse
putrid
putrid
adj
Morally corrupt
Of, relating to, or characteristic of putrefaction, especially having a bad smell, like that of rotting flesh.
Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction. [from 14th c.]
Totally objectionable
Vile, disgusting.
pyroid
pyroid
adj
(chemistry) Pertaining to noble metals, such as gold and silver.
Having a tapered shape.
noun
Pyrolytic graphite.
ramped
ramped
adj
Fitted with a ramp.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ramp
rapide
rapido
rapids
rapids
noun
plural of rapid
rapped
rapped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of rap
rasped
rasped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of rasp
reaped
reaped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of reap
redcap
redcap
noun
(Britain) A member of the Royal Military Police a unit in the British army.
(Britain, archaic) The European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis).
(Britain, folklore) A type of evil goblin or imp.
(US) A porter in a US railway station.
redips
redips
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of redip
redipt
redipt
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of redip
redtop
redtop
noun
(countable) Species of the genus Agrostis, the bentgrasses.
(uncountable) A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle.
Alternative form of red top (“tabloid newspaper”)
redupl
repaid
repaid
verb
simple past tense and past participle of repay
repand
repand
adj
(botany, zoology) Having a slightly undulating margin.
Bent or curved backward or upward.
repled
repled
verb
(Canada, US, Scotland) simple past tense and past participle of replead
replod
repped
repped
adj
corded transversely, like the fabric called rep
verb
simple past tense and past participle of rep
ripped
ripped
adj
(bodybuilding) Having extremely low bodyfat content so that the shape of the underlying muscles become pronounced. Said especially of well-defined abdominal muscles.
(slang) Drunk, inebriated.
Copied or stolen usually from an identified source.
In data storage, transferred to a hard disk from another portable media form.
Pulled away from forcefully.
Torn, either partly or into separate pieces.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of rip
romped
romped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of romp
ropand
rouped
rouped
adj
Affected with roup; roupy.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of roup
rumpad
spader
spader
noun
One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine.
spared
spared
verb
simple past tense and past participle of spare
sparid
sparid
noun
Any of several perciform fishes of the family Sparidae
spider
spider
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, obsolete) An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.
(Internet, dated) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
(chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
(cooking) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer
(cooking, US, UK, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
(cycling) A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
(fly fishing, England) A soft-hackle fly.
(mathematics) A spider graph or spider tree.
(music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
(obsolete) A type of light phaeton.
(photography) A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
(slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
(slang) A spindly person.
(slang, uncountable) Heroin.
(snooker, billiards) A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension; a bridge.
(sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
verb
(Internet, of a computer program) To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
To cover a surface like a cobweb.
To move like a spider.
spired
spired
adj
having a spire
spored
spored
adj
Having spores.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of spore
sporid
sporid
noun
(chiefly botany) A sporidium.
spread
spread
noun
(bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
(business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
(cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
(finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
(geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
(military) A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
(prison slang, uncountable) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
(trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
(trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
(trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
(trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
(trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
A numerical difference.
A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
An expanse of land.
An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
Something that has been spread.
The act of spreading.
The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
verb
(intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
(intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
(intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
(transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
(transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
(transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
(transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
(transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
(transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
spreed
spreed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of spree
spried
torpid
torpid
adj
dormant or hibernating
lazy, lethargic or apathetic
unmoving
noun
(UK, Oxford University slang) An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.
trepid
trepid
adj
Timid, timorous, fearful.
tripod
tripod
noun
(science fiction) A fictional three-legged Martian war machine from H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1897).
(slang) A man with macrophallism.
A three-legged stand or mount.
verb
(entomology, intransitive) Of a lizard, to raise its body upright bracing itself on hind legs and tail.
(intransitive) To enter the tripod position showing signs of exhaustion or distress.
turpid
turpid
adj
Foul; base; wicked; morally depraved.
upbred
upbred
verb
simple past tense and past participle of upbreed
upcard
upcard
noun
(card games) In rummy, the top card of the discard pile.
(card games) In stud poker or blackjack, a playing card dealt face up and left on the table for others to see.
updart
updart
verb
(intransitive, poetic) To dart upward.
updrag
updrag
verb
(archaic) To drag up.
updraw
updraw
noun
An act of drawing up; an upward draw, pull, or attraction
verb
(transitive, rare) To draw up
upgird
upgird
verb
(archaic, poetic) To support or hold up.
uppard
uprend
uproad
upward
upward
adj
Directed toward a higher place.
adv
In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin
In the upper parts; above.
Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
noun
(obsolete) The upper part; the top.
upyard
uropod
uropod
noun
(anatomy) either of the two posterior abdominal appendages of the lobster, shrimp and some other crustaceans
(immunology) the hind part of polarized leukocytes, mostly involved in cell-to-cell interaction, cell activation and apoptosis
warped
warped
adj
(figuratively) Of a person's mind, attitudes, etc, perverse, strange, aberrant or deviant.