(intransitive) To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
(obsolete, intransitive) To conclude, to turn out.
(obsolete, transitive) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
(transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
(transitive) To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
(transitive, now literary) To obtain (a material thing).
Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved.
achille
achiote
achiote
noun
A tropical American evergreen shrub, Bixa orellana; the lipstick tree.
An orange-red dye obtained from this seed.
The seed of this tree used as a colouring or in Latin American cooking.
affiche
affiche
noun
A written or printed notice to be posted, as on a wall; a poster; a placard.
verb
To fix, fasten; to fix a poster or placard to a wall.
To parade, to advertise, publicise; to display, show.
aitches
aitches
noun
plural of aitch
alethic
alethic
adj
(logic) Of or pertaining to the various modalities of truth, such as the possibility or impossibility of something being true.
alichel
aphemic
aphemic
adj
(speech pathology) Of, relating to, or afflicted with aphemia.
aphetic
aphetic
adj
(astrology) Of or relating to the apheta; life-giving.
(phonology) Of, relating to, or formed by aphesis.
archine
archive
archive
noun
(ecology) Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.
The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
verb
(transitive) To put (something) into an archive.
ateuchi
azimech
babiche
babiche
noun
(Canada, US) Thong(s) of rawhide or sinew used as cord, lacing, or webbing, in the manufacture of snowshoes, braided straps and tumplines, fishing and harpoon lines, knit bags, etc.
beachie
beachie
noun
A beach break.
cahiers
cahiers
noun
plural of cahier
cahnite
cahnite
noun
(mineralogy) A tetragonal-disphenoidal mineral containing arsenic, boron, calcium, hydrogen, and oxygen.
caliche
caliche
noun
(mineralogy) A crude form of sodium nitrate from South America; used as a fertilizer.
A layer of hard clay subsoil or sedimentary rock; hardpan.
caphite
cashier
cashier
noun
One who works at a till or receives payments.
Person in charge of the cash of a business or bank.
verb
(transitive) To annul.
(transitive) To discard, put away.
(transitive, now rare) To dismiss (someone, especially military personnel) from service.
To work as a cashier (at a till or receiving payment)
catchie
catheti
catheti
noun
plural of cathetus
cathine
cathine
noun
A psychoactive drug of the phenethylamine and amphetamine classes which acts as a stimulant.
certhia
chaddie
chaiken
chaille
chained
chained
adj
(computing, of data items) Linked in a chain.
Bound with chains.
Wearing or adorned with a chain.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chain
chainer
chainer
noun
One who chains.
chaines
chaines
noun
plural of chaine
chainey
chaired
chaired
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chair
chairer
chaises
chaises
noun
plural of chaise
chalice
chalice
noun
A kind of water-cooled pipe for smoking cannabis.
A large drinking cup, often having a stem and base and used especially for formal occasions and religious ceremonies.
challie
chamise
chamise
noun
An evergreen shrub native to California, Adenostoma fasciculatum in the botanical family Rosaceae
chamite
chappie
chappie
noun
Alternative spelling of chappy
charier
charier
adj
comparative form of chary: more chary
charlie
charlie
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Charlie
charpie
charpie
noun
(medicine, now historical) Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth, used for surgical dressings.
chavies
cheapie
cheapie
adj
(informal) Cheap; inferior.
noun
(informal) A person who is stingy, a miser.
(informal) An item of poor quality.
(informal) An item which is inexpensive.
checani
chechia
chechia
noun
Alternative form of shashiya.
chenica
cherian
cherida
chicane
chicane
noun
(card games, chiefly bridge) The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself.
(motor racing) A sharp double bend on a racecourse, designed to prevent unsafe speeds; an obstacle creating a curve.
(road transport) A raised area or other obstacle around which vehicles must drive, especially designed to reduce speed.
A quibble, a pedantic or dishonest objection; an act of deception.
The use of dishonest means or subterfuge to achieve one's (especially political) goals; chicanery, trickery.
verb
(intransitive) To use chicanery, tricks or subterfuge.
chilean
chilean
Adjective
Of, from, or pertaining to the nation or culture of Chile or its people.
Noun
A person from Chile or of Chilean descent.
chimane
chimera
chimera
noun
(Greek mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Chimera, a supposed monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or serpent, killed by the hero Bellerophon.
(architecture) A grotesque like a gargoyle, but without a spout for rainwater.
(figurative) A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.
(figurative) Anything composed of very disparate parts.
(figurative) Synonym of bogeyman: any terrifying thing, especially as an unreal, imagined threat.
(genetics) An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two or more zygotes.
(mythology, art) Any fantastic creature combining parts from different animals.
(zoology) Alternative form of chimaera, a cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin.
chinela
chinela
noun
A flat slipper worn in the Philippines
chivage
didache
didache
Proper noun
An early Christian treatise, written in the first or second century C.E. and published in the nineteenth century.
echidna
echidna
noun
Any of the species of small spined monotremes in family Tachyglossidae, the four extant species of which are found in Australia and southern New Guinea.
echinal
echnida
edaphic
edaphic
adj
(geography) Relating to, or determined by, conditions of the soil, especially as it relates to biological systems.
eichman
enchain
enchain
verb
(transitive) To link together.
(transitive) To restrain with, or as if with, chains.
enchair
ethical
ethical
adj
(comparable) Morally approvable; good.
(not comparable) Of or relating to the accepted principles of right and wrong, especially those of some organization or profession.
(of a drug, not comparable) Only dispensed on the prescription of a physician.
(philosophy, not comparable) Of or relating to the study of ethics.
noun
An ethical drug, one only dispensed on the prescription of a physician.
fanchie
hackies
hackies
noun
plural of hackie
hebamic
hebraic
hebraic
Adjective
of, or relating to the Hebrew people, language or culture
hecatic
hechtia
helical
helical
adj
In the shape of a helix.
hematic
hematic
adj
Of, pertaining to, affecting or containing blood
noun
hematinic
hepatic
hepatic
adj
Acting on or occurring in the liver.
Of a deep brownish-red color like that of liver.
Of or relating to the liver.
noun
A liverwort (kind of plant)
Any compound that acts on the liver.
hermaic
hexacid
hexacid
adj
(chemistry) Having six atoms or radicals capable of being replaced by acids; hexatomic; hexavalent.
hexadic
hexadic
adj
(rare) Pertaining to a hexad; hexagonal.
hicatee
hicatee
noun
A river turtle, Dermatemys mawii.
hyacine
hyacine
noun
(obsolete) A hyacinth.
hyaenic
hyaenic
adj
Alternative form of hyenic
impeach
impeach
verb
(law) To demonstrate in court that a testimony under oath contradicts another testimony from the same person, usually one taken during deposition.
To bring a legal proceeding against a public official.
To charge with impropriety; to discredit; to call into question.
To hinder, impede, or prevent.
inchase
inchase
verb
Archaic form of enchase.
inhance
inhance
verb
Obsolete spelling of enhance
kachine
labiche
lachine
macchie
macchie
noun
Alternative form of macchia (“shrubland biota in Mediterranean countries”)
machine
machine
noun
(computing) A computer.
(dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
(euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.
(figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
(historical) A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.
(obsolete) A bathing machine.
(poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
(politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
(telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.
verb
To make by machinery.
To shape or finish by machinery; (usually, more specifically) to shape subtractively by metal-cutting with machine-controlled toolpaths.
meilhac
michael
michaeu
michale
micheal
micheas
phenica
rechain
rechain
verb
To chain again
rhaetic
richela
semicha
thebaic
thebaic
Adjective
Theban; Of or pertaining to Thebes, especially in the context of the Coptic scriptures.
Of or pertaining to opium.
Proper noun
The Sahidic dialect of the Coptic language.
Noun
An opium-based medication or tincture such as laudanum.
thecial
theriac
theriac
adj
(medicine) Synonym of theriacal: of or related to theriac.
(medicine, obsolete) Synonym of medicinal.
noun
(figurative) Synonym of panacea.
(historical medicine) A universal antidote against all poisons, particularly medicines considered to derive from a recipe of the Roman physician Andromachus and representing an improvement on mithridate.
(medicine, archaic) Synonym of antidote, particularly (pseudoscience) those incorporating snakemeat to cure snakebite.