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abel

able

able

adj

  1. (law) Legally qualified or competent.
  2. (nautical) Capable of performing all the requisite duties; as an able seaman.
  3. (obsolete) Easy to use.
  4. (obsolete) Rich; well-to-do.
  5. (obsolete) Suitable; competent.
  6. (obsolete, dialectal) Having the physical strength; robust; healthy.
  7. (obsolete, dialectal) Liable to.
  8. Free from constraints preventing completion of task; permitted to; not prevented from.
  9. Gifted with skill, intelligence, knowledge, or competence.
  10. Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task.

noun

  1. (military) The letter "A" in Navy Phonetic Alphabet.

verb

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To dress.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To give power to; to reinforce; to confirm.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To make capable; to enable.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To make ready.
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To vouch for; to guarantee.

acle

acle

noun

  1. An ironwood tree (Xylia xylocarpa); the hard wood of this tree

adel

agle

aiel

aile

akel

alae

alae

noun

  1. plural of ala.

albe

albe

conj

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of albeit

noun

  1. Obsolete spelling of alb

alce

alea

alec

alec

noun

  1. A sauce made from alecs; alec sauce.
  2. An anchovy or herring, especially pickled or dried.

alee

alee

adv

  1. On the lee side of a ship, to the leeward side (vs aweather)

alef

alef

noun

  1. Alternative form of aleph

alek

alem

alen

alep

ales

ales

noun

  1. plural of ale

alew

alew

noun

  1. (obsolete, rare) A cry of despair.

alex

aley

aley

adj

  1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of ale.

alfe

alie

alie

intj

  1. Alternative spelling of ahlie

alle

alme

alme

noun

  1. Alternative form of almah

aloe

aloe

noun

  1. (in the plural) The resins of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha), known for their fragrant aroma, produced after infection by the fungus Phialophora parasitica.
  2. A plant of the genus Aloe.
  3. A strong, bitter drink made from the juice of such plants, used as a purgative.

amel

amel

noun

  1. (obsolete) enamel

verb

  1. (obsolete) To enamel

arel

arle

asel

atle

axel

axel

noun

  1. (figure skating) A jump that includes one (or more than one) complete turn and a half turn while in the air.
  2. Misspelling of axle.

axle

axle

noun

  1. (geometry, astronomy, archaic) An axis.
  2. (obsolete) Shoulder.
  3. A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.
  4. The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.

azle

bael

bael

noun

  1. A tropical fruit tree from India, Aegle marmelos.
  2. The fruit of the tree, also called the wood apple.

bale

bale

noun

  1. (archaic) A beacon-fire.
  2. (archaic) A funeral pyre.
  3. (obsolete) A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
  4. A block of compressed cannabis.
  5. A bundle of compressed wool or hay, compacted for shipping and handling.
  6. A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
  7. A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.
  8. A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
  9. Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
  10. Suffering, woe, torment.

verb

  1. (Britain, nautical) To remove water from a boat with buckets etc.
  2. (transitive) To wrap into a bale.

bdle

beal

beal

noun

  1. (dialectal or obsolete) A small inflammatory tumor; pustule.

verb

  1. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Western Pennsylvania) To gather matter; swell; come to a head, as a pimple; fester; suppurate.

behl

bela

beld

belg

belk

bell

bell

noun

  1. (Scotland, archaic) A bubble.
  2. (architecture) The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
  3. (chiefly Britain, informal) A telephone call.
  4. (computing) The bell character.
  5. (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
  6. (nautical) Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
  7. A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
  8. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
  9. An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.
  10. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
  11. The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
  12. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
  13. The sounding of a bell as a signal.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
  2. (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
  3. (slang, transitive) To telephone.
  4. (transitive) To attach a bell to.
  5. (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
  6. (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.

bels

bels

noun

  1. plural of bel

belt

belt

noun

  1. (astronomy) A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
  2. (astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
  3. (baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
  4. (military, nautical) A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.
  5. (music) A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
  6. (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
  7. (weaponry) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
  8. A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
  9. A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
  10. A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
  11. A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
  12. A quick drink of liquor.
  13. A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
  14. Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.

verb

  1. (transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.
  2. (transitive) To encircle.
  3. (transitive) To fasten a belt on.
  4. (transitive) To hit with a belt.
  5. (transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
  6. (transitive, baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
  7. (transitive, colloquial) To hit someone or something.
  8. (transitive, informal, normally belt out) To scream or sing in a loud manner.

bely

bely

noun

  1. Obsolete spelling of belly

verb

  1. Obsolete spelling of belie

berl

biel

bile

bile

noun

  1. (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).
  2. A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
  3. Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
  4. Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.

verb

  1. Pronunciation spelling of boil.

blae

blea

blea

noun

  1. The part of a tree that lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.

bleb

bleb

noun

  1. (cytology) An irregular bulge in the plasma membrane of a cell undergoing apoptosis.
  2. (geology) A bubble-like inclusion of one mineral within another.
  3. (pathology) A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid.
  4. A bubble, such as in paint or glass.

verb

  1. To form, or cause the formation of, blebs.

bled

bled

noun

  1. (in parts of French North Africa) Hinterland, field.

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of bleed

blee

blee

intj

  1. (informal) Expressing disgust or trepidation.

noun

  1. (East Anglia) General resemblance, likeness; appearance, aspect, look.
  2. (archaic) Color of the face, complexion, coloring.
  3. (archaic) Consistency, form, texture.
  4. (rare, chiefly poetic) Color, hue.

blen

bleo

bler

blet

blet

verb

  1. To undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening.

bleu

blew

blew

noun

  1. Obsolete form of blue.

verb

  1. (now colloquial) past participle of blow
  2. simple past tense of blow

blfe

blue

blue

adj

  1. (Australian politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
  2. (UK politics) Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
  3. (US politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
  4. (archaic) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
  5. (archaic, of women) literary; bluestockinged.
  6. (astronomy) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
  7. (health care) Having a bluish or purplish shade of the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep red blood cells.
  8. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
  9. (informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
  10. (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
  11. (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
  12. (particle physics) Having a color charge of blue.
  13. (slang, dated) Drunk.
  14. Having blue as its color.
  15. Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.

noun

  1. (Australia, colloquial) An argument or brawl.
  2. (Britain) A type of firecracker.
  3. (UK) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
  4. (baseball, slang) An umpire, in reference to the typical dark blue color of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
  5. (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and purple in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.
  6. (entomology) Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
  7. (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
  8. (now historical) A bluestocking.
  9. (slang) A member of law enforcement.
  10. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
  11. (uncountable) Blue clothing.
  12. A blue dye or pigment.
  13. A bluefish.
  14. A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
  15. A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
  16. A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
  17. A person who has received such sporting colours.
  18. Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
  19. Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
  20. Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
  21. The far distance; a remote or distant place.
  22. The ocean; deep waters.
  23. The sky, literally or figuratively.

verb

  1. (ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
  2. (intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.
  3. (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
  4. (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
  5. (transitive, slang, dated) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.

bole

bole

noun

  1. (Scotland) A small closet.
  2. (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
  3. (colour) The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
  4. (obsolete) A bolus; a dose.
  5. Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
  6. Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
  7. The trunk or stem of a tree.

cale

cale

noun

  1. (AUS) Any of a number of marine fish in the family Odacidae

cbel

ceil

ceil

noun

  1. (mathematics) Abbreviation of ceiling.
  2. (poetic) A ceiling.

verb

  1. (mathematics) To set a higher bound.
  2. (transitive) To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar.

cela

cele

cele

noun

  1. (Myanmar) celebrity

cell

cell

noun

  1. (US, informal) A cellular phone.
  2. (architecture) A cella.
  3. (architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
  4. (biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
  5. (biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
  6. (card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
  7. (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
  8. (communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
  9. (computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
  10. (entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
  11. (entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
  12. (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
  13. (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
  14. (now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
  15. (obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
  16. (obsolete, chiefly literary) Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.
  17. (statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
  18. A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
  19. A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
  20. A section or compartment of a larger structure.
  21. A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
  22. A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
  23. A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
  24. Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.

verb

  1. (transitive) To place or enclose in a cell.

cels

cels

noun

  1. plural of cel

celt

celt

noun

  1. A prehistoric chisel-bladed tool.

ciel

ciel

verb

  1. Alternative form of ceil

clea

cled

clee

clef

clef

noun

  1. A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff [from 16th c.]

cleg

cleg

noun

  1. (Scotland, England dialect) A blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae; a gadfly, a horsefly.
  2. (now dialectal) A light breeze.

clei

clem

clem

noun

  1. (Tyneside, vulgar, slang) A testicle.

verb

  1. (UK, dialect, transitive or intransitive) To be hungry; starve.
  2. Alternative form of clam (“to adhere”)

cleo

clep

clew

clew

noun

  1. (archaic) A ball of thread or yarn.
  2. (in the plural) The sheets so attached to a sail.
  3. (nautical) The lower corner(s) of a sail to which a sheet is attached for trimming the sail (adjusting its position relative to the wind); the metal loop or cringle in the corner of the sail, to which the sheet is attached. (on a triangular sail) The trailing corner relative to the wind direction.
  4. (nautical, in the plural) The cords suspending a hammock.
  5. (obsolete) A roughly spherical mass or body.
  6. Obsolete spelling of clue
  7. Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.

verb

  1. (nautical) (transitive and intransitive) to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail)
  2. (transitive) to roll into a ball

clie

cloe

cloe

Proper noun

  1. name, an spelling of

clue

clue

noun

  1. (now rare) A strand of yarn etc. as used to guide one through a labyrinth; something which points the way, a guide.
  2. An object or a kind of indication which may be used as evidence.
  3. Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion.
  4. Insight or understanding ("to have a clue [about]" or "to have clue". See have a clue, clue stick)

verb

  1. To provide someone with information which he or she lacks (often used with "in" or "up").
  2. To provide with a clue.

cole

cole

noun

  1. (Scotland) A stack or stook of hay.
  2. Brassica; a plant of the Brassica genus, especially those of Brassica oleracea (rape and coleseed).
  3. Cabbage.

csel

dael

dale

dale

noun

  1. (archaic) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
  2. (chiefly Britain) A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.
  3. The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of a vinyl record.

deal

deal

adj

  1. Made of deal.

noun

  1. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing out.
  2. (card games) The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
  3. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
  4. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.
  5. (in particular) A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
  6. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
  7. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
  8. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share, a part, a piece.
  9. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
  10. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
  11. A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
  12. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.

verb

  1. (baseball) To pitch.
  2. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
  3. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
  4. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
  5. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
  6. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
  7. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
  8. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
  9. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
  10. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
  11. (transitive) deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.
  12. (transitive, intransitive) To distribute cards to the players in a game.

decl

deil

dela

dele

dele

noun

  1. (printing) a sign signifying deletion

verb

  1. (printing, usually imperative) to delete

delf

delf

noun

  1. (heraldry) A charge representing a square sod.
  2. A mine, quarry, pit dug; ditch.
  3. Alternative form of delft (“style of earthenware”)

deli

deli

noun

  1. (informal) A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving.
  2. (informal) Food sold at a delicatessen.

dell

dell

noun

  1. (obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
  2. A valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep.

delp

dels

dels

noun

  1. plural of del

dely

deul

diel

diel

adj

  1. (biology) Having a 24-hour period regardless of day or night.

dole

dole

noun

  1. (Britain, dialectal) A void space left in tillage.
  2. (archaic) A Sorrow or grief; dolour.
  3. (informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits.
  4. (law, Scotland) Dolus.
  5. A boundary; a landmark.
  6. Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
  7. Money or other goods given as charity.

verb

  1. To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.

duel

duel

noun

  1. (by extension) Any battle or struggle between two contending persons, forces, groups, or ideas.
  2. Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.
  3. Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat).

verb

  1. To engage in a battle.

earl

earl

noun

  1. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called counts and viscounts.
  2. (nobility) A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess.

eccl

ecla

ecol

edla

eels

eels

noun

  1. plural of eel

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eel

eely

eely

adj

  1. Resembling an eel: long, thin and slippery.

egal

egal

adj

  1. (obsolete) Equal; impartial.

egol

eila

eild

eild

noun

  1. (obsolete or dialectal, Scotland) Age.

elah

elam

elan

elan

noun

  1. Uncommon spelling of élan.

elas

elat

elba

elbe

elbl

elco

elda

eldo

elds

elds

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eld

elea

elec

elem

elev

elga

elhi

elhi

noun

  1. (education) In some countries, the period from elementary school to high school.

elia

elie

elik

elis

elix

elix

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To draw out or extract.

eliz

elka

elke

elke

noun

  1. (obsolete) The European wild, whistling, or common swan (Cygnus cygnus, syn. Cygnus ferus).
  2. Obsolete form of elk.

elko

elko

Proper noun

  1. A city in Nevada, USA

elks

elks

noun

  1. plural of elk

ella

elle

elli

ells

ells

noun

  1. plural of ell

elly

elma

elmo

elmo

phrase

  1. (Corporate slang) Initialism of enough, let's move on.

elms

elms

noun

  1. plural of elm

elmy

elmy

adj

  1. (rare, poetic) Pertaining to elm trees; in which elms grow.

elna