(botany) A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup.
aenach
aenach
noun
(historical) A fair or fair-like assembly in ancient Ireland.
(historical) The green on which such fairs were held.
anchie
aneuch
benchy
blench
blench
noun
A deceit; a trick.
A sidelong glance.
verb
(intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
(intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
(intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
(obsolete) To blanch.
(transitive) To deceive; cheat.
(transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
(transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
bunche
cahone
cephen
chaine
chaine
noun
Obsolete spelling of chain
chance
chance
adj
Happening by chance, casual.
adv
(obsolete) Perchance; perhaps.
noun
(countable) An opportunity or possibility.
(countable) The probability of something happening.
(countable, archaic) What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.
(in plural as chances) probability; possibility.
(uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
verb
(Belize) To rob, cheat or swindle someone.
(archaic, intransitive) To happen by chance, to occur.
(archaic, transitive) To befall; to happen to.
To discover something by chance.
To try or risk.
chanel
chaney
chaney
Proper noun
name transferred from the surname.
change
change
noun
(Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.
(baseball) A change-up pitch.
(campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
(countable) A replacement.
(countable) A transfer between vehicles.
(countable, uncountable) The process of becoming different.
(uncountable) An amount of cash, usually in the form of coins, but sometimes inclusive of paper money.
(uncountable) Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.
(uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
verb
(archaic) To exchange.
(intransitive) To become something different.
(intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
(intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
(transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
(transitive) To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it).
(transitive) To replace.
(transitive, ergative) To make something into something else.
chapen
chekan
cheken
chelan
chelan
Proper noun
a city in Washington, USA.
chemin
chenab
chenar
chenar
noun
Alternative form of chinar
chenay
chende
chenee
chenet
cheney
chenoa
cherin
cherna
chesna
cheson
cheung
cheven
cheven
noun
(archaic, dialectal) A river fish, the chub.
verb
To do the work of a chevener, embroidering hosiery.
chevin
chevin
Noun
A chub
chevon
chevon
noun
The meat of a goat.
cheyne
cheyne
noun
Obsolete form of chain.
chined
chined
adj
(obsolete) Broken in the back.
Pertaining to, or having, a (particular type of) chine or backbone.
chinee
chines
chines
noun
plural of chine
chinle
chinse
chinse
verb
(nautical) To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel, the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.
chione
chione
Proper noun
The goddess of snow and winter winds. She is the daughter of Boreas, (the North Wind), and Oreithyia, (an Athenian princess whom he had abducted). Her siblings are Zetes, Calaides and Cleopatra, (the wife of Phineus).
A nymph.
chnier
chosen
chosen
adj
elected
picked; selected
verb
past participle of choose
past participle of chuse
clench
clench
noun
(archaic) A pun
(engineering) A seal that is applied to formed thin-wall bushings.
A local chapter of the Church of the SubGenius parody religion.
A tight grip.
verb
To close tightly.
To grip or hold fast.
cohens
cohune
cohune
noun
A species of palm, Attalea cohune, native to South America, that produces large nuts.
conche
dechen
drench
drench
noun
(obsolete) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
A draught administered to an animal.
Alternative form of dreng
verb
To cause to drink; especially, to dose (e.g. a horse) with medicine by force.
To soak, to make very wet.
eching
echini
echini
noun
plural of echinus
echion
econah
elench
elench
noun
(logic) That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces or refutes an antagonist; a refutation.
(obsolete) A specious argument; a sophism.
enarch
enarch
noun
Alternative form of énarque
verb
(obsolete) To arch.
Alternative form of inarch (“to graft without separating from the roots”)
encash
encash
verb
To convert a financial instrument or funding source into cash.
eneuch
enochs
enochs
noun
plural of enoch
enrich
enrich
verb
(chemistry) To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.
(physics, transitive) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel. [from 20th c.]
(transitive) To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize. [from 17th c.]
(transitive) To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.
(transitive) To adorn, ornate more richly. [from 17th c.]
(transitive) To enhance.
(transitive) To make (someone or something) rich or richer. [from 14th c.]
entach
ethnic
ethnic
adj
(historical) Heathen, not Jewish, Christian, or Muslim.
Characteristic of a foreign or a minority group's culture.
Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins.
Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.
noun
(archaic) A heathen, a pagan.
(in classical scholarship) The demonym of an Ancient Greek city.
An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
eunuch
eunuch
noun
(in translations of ancient texts) A man who is not inclined to marry and procreate.
A castrated human male.
Such a man employed as harem guard or in certain (mainly Eastern) monarchies (e.g. late Roman and Chinese Empires) as court or state officials.
flench
french
french
verb
(cooking) To French trim; to stylishly expose bone by removing the fat and meat covering it (as done to a rack of lamb or bone-in rib-eye steak).
(intransitive) To kiss in this manner.
(transitive) To kiss (another person) while inserting one’s tongue into the other person's mouth.
(transitive) To prepare food by cutting it into strips.
hanced
hanced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of hance
hances
hances
noun
plural of hance
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hance
haunce
haunce
noun
(obsolete, historical) Alternative form of hanse.
verb
(obsolete) To enhance.
henoch
hounce
huchen
huchen
noun
Hucho hucho, a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family (Salmonidae) of order Salmoniformes.
hyenic
hyenic
adj
Characteristic of a hyena.
inched
inched
adj
(nonstandard, in combination) Being a certain number of inches in length.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of inch
incher
incher
noun
(in combination with a number) An object having a dimension of so many inches.
inches
inches
noun
plural of inch
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inch
knetch
kuchen
kuchen
noun
Any of several types of cake, typically eaten with coffee.
lichen
lichen
noun
(figurative) Something which gradually spreads across something else, causing damage.
Any of many symbiotic organisms, being associations of algae and fungi, often found as white or yellow-to-blue–green patches on rocks, old walls, etc.
machen
manche
manche
noun
(music, rare) The neck of a violin.
Obsolete form of maunch (a sleeve)
mensch
mensch
noun
A gentleman.
A person (chiefly male) of strength, integrity, and honor or compassion.
mrchen
naches
naches
noun
(usually Jewish) Feeling of contentment at another's successes.
nearch
neches
netcha
niched
niched
adj
In a niche.
nicher
nicher
verb
(Scotland) Alternative form of nicker (“to neigh”)
niches
niches
noun
plural of niche
noecho
nouche
nuchae
ochone
orchen
pechan
penche
penchi
phenic
phenic
adj
(chemistry) Of, relating to, derived from, or resembling, phenyl or phenol.
pinche
plench
plench
noun
A tool combining features of pliers and wrench, for use in microgravity.
quench
quench
noun
(physics) A rapid change of the parameters of a physical system.
(physics) The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state.
The act of quenching something; the fact of being quenched.
verb
(transitive) To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light).
(transitive) To satisfy, especially a literal or figurative thirst.
(transitive, chemistry) To terminate or greatly diminish (a chemical reaction) by destroying or deforming the remaining reagents.
(transitive, metallurgy) To cool rapidly by direct contact with liquid coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron.
(transitive, physics) To rapidly change the parameters of a physical system.
(transitive, physics) To rapidly terminate the operation of a superconducting electromagnet by causing part or all of the magnet's windings to enter the normal, resistive state.
ranche
ranche
noun
Obsolete spelling of ranch
rhenic
rhenic
adj
Of or containing rhenium.
richen
richen
verb
(intransitive) To become rich or richer; become superior in quality, condition or effectiveness.
(intransitive, of a colour) To gain richness; become heightened or intensified in brilliancy.
(transitive) To make or render rich or richer.
schein
schene
schene
noun
(historical) An Egyptian or Persian measure of length, varying from thirty-two to sixty stadia.
schone
stench
stench
noun
(figurative) A foul quality.
(obsolete) A smell or odour, not necessarily bad.
a strong foul smell; a stink.
verb
(obsolete) To cause to emit a disagreeable odour; to cause to stink.
To stanch.
techne
techne
noun
(philosophy) craft; practice; making or doing, as contrasted with episteme or knowing
techny
tenach
thence
thence
adv
(archaic) From that time; thenceforth; thereafter
(formal) From there, from that place or from that time.
(literary) Deriving from this fact or circumstance; therefore, therefrom.
trench
trench
noun
(archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
(informal) A trench coat.
(military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
verb
(archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
(military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
(usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
To cut furrows or ditches in.
To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
To have direction; to aim or tend.
uchean
whence
whence
adv
(archaic, formal or literary) From where; from which place or source.
conj
(literary, poetic) Used for introducing the result of a fact that has just been stated; thence
wlench
wrench
wrench
noun
(UK) An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
(US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.
(archaic) A winch or windlass.
(obsolete) A screw.
(obsolete) A trick or artifice.
(obsolete) A turn at an acute angle.
(obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery.
(obsolete) means; contrivance
(physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
A distorting change from the original meaning.
A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
A violent emotional change caused by separation.
An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.
verb
(intransitive, fencing, obsolete) To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away.
(intransitive, obsolete) To violently move in a turn or writhe.
(transitive) To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
(transitive) To distort the original meaning of; to misrepresent.
(transitive) To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
(transitive) To pull or twist violently.
(transitive) To rack with pain; to be hurt or distressed.
(transitive) To use a wrench; to twist with a wrench.
(transitive, obsolete) To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion.
(transitive, obsolete) To tighten with or as if with a winch.