(regional, now rare) A visible current in a lake or river; a ripple on the surface of water.
Obsolete form of acre.
akers
akers
noun
plural of aker
akure
anker
anker
noun
(obsolete) A measure of wine or spirit equal to 10 gallons; a barrel of this capacity.
arake
areek
areek
adj
In a reeking condition; having a strong odour.
arkie
arkie
Noun
A native or resident of the state of Arkansas in the United States of America.
aruke
asker
asker
noun
(England dialect, Wales) A newt.
Someone who asks a question.
baker
baker
noun
A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
A portable oven for baking.
An apple suitable for baking.
beker
berck
berke
berks
berks
noun
plural of berk
berky
biker
biker
noun
(cycling) A cyclist.
A person whose lifestyle is centered on motorcycles, sometimes a member of a motorcycle club.
borek
borek
noun
Alternative form of burek
brake
brake
noun
(chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.
(engineering) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
(figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
(military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
(now historical) A type of torture instrument.
(obsolete) A cage.
(obsolete) The winch of a crossbow.
A baker's kneading trough.
A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.ᵂ
A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.ᵂ
A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
A fern; bracken (Pteridium).
A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him.
A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.
A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
Any fern in the genus Pteris
That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
verb
(archaic) simple past tense of break
(intransitive) To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
(intransitive) To operate (a) brake(s).
(transitive) To bruise and crush; to knead
(transitive) To pulverise with a harrow
break
break
noun
(Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
(UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
(billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
(computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
(computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
(dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.
(equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
(finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
(geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
(golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
(horse racing) The start of a horse race.
(music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
(music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
(music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
(music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
(obsolete, slang) An error.
(programming) Short for breakpoint.
(snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
(soccer) The counter-attack.
(surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
(tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
A rest or pause, usually from work.
A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
A short holiday.
A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
A temporary split with a romantic partner.
An act of escaping.
An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
The beginning (of the morning).
verb
(computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
(computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
(copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
(finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
(intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
(intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
(intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
(intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
(intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
(intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
(intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
(intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to go broke, to become bankrupt.
(intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
(intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
(intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
(intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
(intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
(intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
(intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
(intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
(intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
(intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
(music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
(programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
(specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
(specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
(specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
(transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
(transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
(transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
(transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
(transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
(transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
(transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
(transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
(transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
(transitive) To ruin financially.
(transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
(transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
(transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
(transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
(transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
(transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
(transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
(transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
(transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
(transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
(transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
(transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
(transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
breck
breek
brenk
brike
broek
broke
broke
adj
(archaic, now informal) Broken.
(informal) Financially ruined, bankrupt.
(informal) Without any money, penniless.
(nautical) Demoted, deprived of a commission.
(slang) Broke off, rich, wealthy
noun
(obsolete) A fragment, remains, a piece broken off.
(papermaking) Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.
verb
(archaic, nonstandard or poetic) past participle of break
(obsolete) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.
To act as a broker; to transact business for another; synonym of broker.
simple past tense of break
bruke
burke
burke
noun
(Britain, slang) Alternative form of berk
verb
(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To murder by suffocation.
(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, historical) To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc.
caker
caker
noun
One who forms something into a cake.
clerk
clerk
noun
(Quakerism) A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.
(archaic) In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk).
(dated) A cleric or clergyman (the legal title for clergy of the Church of England is "Clerk in Holy Orders", still used in legal documents and cherished by some of their number).
(obsolete) A scholar.
A law clerk.
A salesclerk; a person who serves customers in a store or market.
An employee at a hotel who deals with guests.
One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
verb
The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer.
To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk
coker
coker
noun
(category theory, informal) cokernel
(derogatory, slang) A cocaine addict, a cokehead
The industrial plant in which coke is manufactured
corke
crake
crake
noun
(obsolete) A crack; a boast.
Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.
verb
(obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.
creak
creak
noun
The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
verb
(intransitive) To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.
(intransitive, figurative) To suffer from strain or old age.
(transitive) To produce a creaking sound with.
creek
creek
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US) A stream of water (often freshwater) smaller than a river and larger than a brook; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.
(Britain) A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
Any turn or winding.
daker
daker
noun
(obsolete) Alternative form of dicker, 10 items of some commodity taken as a unit.
derek
diker
diker
noun
(Scotland) One who builds stone walls, usually without lime.
A ditcher.
drake
drake
noun
(historical) A small piece of artillery.
(poetic) A dragon.
A beaked galley, or Viking warship.
A fiery meteor.
A male duck.
A mayfly used as fishing bait.
dreck
dreck
noun
(informal) Trash; worthless merchandise.
dreks
dyker
ekron
erick
erick
noun
Alternative form of eric (“fine paid as compensation for violent crimes”)
erika
erkan
eskar
eskar
noun
(geology) Alternative form of esker
esker
esker
noun
A long, narrow, sinuous ridge created by deposits from a stream running beneath a glacier.
faker
faker
adj
comparative form of fake: more fake.
noun
(military, by extension) A friendly unit (usually aircraft) that acts as a hostile unit in a military exercise.
(obsolete) A peddler of petty things.
A snake oil salesman; one who makes exaggerated claims about a product he sells.
An impostor or impersonator.
One who fakes something.
freak
freak
adj
Strange, weird, unexpected.
noun
(UK dialectal, Scotland) A fellow; a petulant young man.
(bodybuilding) A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 260 pounds (117.934 kilos).
(dated) A streak of colour; variegation.
(dated) A sudden change of mind
(dated) Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.
(informal, sometimes endearing) A very sexually perverse individual.
A drug addict.
A hippie.
A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man.
A person who is extremely abnormal in appearance due to a severe medical condition (originally, a freak of nature); later extended to meaning a person who is extremely abnormal in social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or business practices; an oddball, especially in physiology (e.g., "circus freak"); a unique person, originally in a displeasing or alienating way.
An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something.
Euphemistic form of fuck.
verb
(intransitive) To react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure.
(slang, transitive, intransitive) To be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug, (especially) to experience reality withdrawal, or hallucinations (nightmarish), to behave irrational or unconventional due to drug use.
(transitive) To make greatly distressed and/or a discomposed appearance.
(transitive, dated) To streak; to variegate
freck
freck
adj
(Scotland) prompt; eager
verb
(transitive, rare, poetic) To checker; to diversify.
frike
garek
gerek
gerik
greek
greek
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Greek (“anal sex”).
Alternative letter-case form of Greek (“nonsense writing or talk; gibberish”).
verb
(transitive, computing) To display a placeholder (instead of text), especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read.
(transitive, computing) To fill a template with nonsense text (particularly the Lorem ipsum), so that form can be focused on instead of content.
grike
grike
noun
(chiefly Britain) A deep cleft formed in limestone surfaces due to water erosion; providing a unique habitat for plants.
hiker
hiker
noun
One who hikes, especially frequently.
hoker
icker
icker
noun
A head of grain.
inker
inker
noun
A person or device that applies ink.
A tattoo artist.
In comic book production, a person who outlines and otherwise embellishes the artwork of a penciler in preparation for publishing.
irked
irked
adj
Annoyed.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of irk
jarek
jerks
jerks
noun
plural of jerk
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jerk
jerky
jerky
adj
Characterized by physical jerking.
Having the behavior of a jerk (unpleasant person).
noun
Lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun.
verb
(transitive) To cure and preserve (meat) by drying it, making jerky.
joker
joker
noun
(New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
(military) A friendly unit that acts as a suspected hostile unit in a military excercise.
(slang) A funny person.
A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
A jester.
A person who makes jokes.
A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
kafre
karee
karee
noun
A South African sumac
karel
karen
karen
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Karen (“(derogatory) any person, especially female, exhibiting an exaggerated sense of entitlement”)
karez
karez
noun
A qanat, in parts of central southern Asia.
karie
kaser
kaver
keare
kearn
keary
kebar
kedar
kefir
kefir
noun
A fermented milk drink from the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, similar to yogurt but more liquidy.
Alternative form of kafir
keirs
keirs
noun
plural of keir
kerak
kerat
kerbs
kerbs
noun
plural of kerb
kerby
kerby
noun
(British) A children's ball game played in the street, the aim being to throw the ball against the opposite kerb and catch it on the rebound.
kerch
kerch
Proper noun
A city on the Kerch Peninsula of eastern Crimea, on the shore of Kerch Strait; an important industrial, transport and tourist centre of Ukraine.
kerek
kerel
keres
kerfs
kerfs
noun
plural of kerf
kerge
kerin
kerki
kermy
kerne
kerne
noun
Alternative spelling of kern
kerns
kerns
noun
plural of kern
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kern
keros
keros
noun
plural of kero
kerri
kerri
Proper noun
name, variant spelling of Kerry.
kerry
kerry
Proper noun
A county in the Republic of Ireland.
derived from the place name, or from the given name Kendrick.
name transferred from the surname or the place name.
name, originally of Australian usage, also spelled Keri, Kerri and Kerrie.
Noun
An animal belonging to a rare breed of dairy cattle, native to Ireland.
kerst
kerve
kerve
verb
Obsolete form of carve.
keryx
kesar
kesar
noun
(South Asia, cooking) Saffron.
Obsolete form of Kaiser.
kever
keyer
keyer
noun
(television) A device that replaces a fixed colour in the image with some other picture or background; chromakeyer.
A device for signalling by pressing keys or switches.
One who, or that which, keys.
kezer
khmer
kiers
kiers
noun
plural of kier
kiker
kirve
kiter
kiter
noun
(banking) One who writes a check while there are insufficient funds in the account, hoping it will be able to clear by the time it is cashed.
kiver
kiver
noun
(archaic, dialect) cover
verb
(archaic, dialect) to cover
klber
koeri
koner
korea
korec
koren
korey
korie
koser
krebs
kreda
kreep
kreep
Noun
potassium-phosphorus-rare earth elements crustal material of the Moon
kreil
krein
kreis
kreit
krell
krems
kreng
kreng
noun
Alternative form of krang
krenn
krepi
kress
krieg
kries
krome
krone
krone
noun
(historical) The currency of German-Austria and Liechtenstein after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1919) until the introduction of the Austrian schilling and, in Liechtenstein, the Swiss franc.
The currency of Iceland, Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroe Islands) and Norway, divided into 100 øre, except in Iceland where 1 króna = 100 aurar.
kruse
krute
kyrie
kyrie
noun
(Christianity) A short prayer or petition including the phrase kyrie eleison, meaning “Lord, have mercy”.
(music) A setting of the traditional kyrie text to music for a Mass.
laker
laker
noun
(UK dialectal) One engaged in sport; a player; an actor.
(nautical, Canada, US) A ship used on the Great Lakes.
A wharfman who resides near a lake.
liker
liker
adj
(archaic) comparative form of like: more like
noun
One who likes.
maker
maker
noun
(law) Someone who signs a promissory note, thereby becoming responsible for payment.
(now rare) A poet.
(usually capitalized and preceded by the) God.
Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something.
marek
merak
merck
merks
merks
noun
plural of merk
mrike
naker
naker
noun
(music) A small drum, of Arabic origin, and the forebear of the European kettledrum.
nerka
nerka
noun
A sockeye salmon.
ocker
ocker
adj
(slang, Australia) Uncultivated; boorish.
noun
(Now chiefly dialectal) Interest on money; usury; increase.
(slang, Australia) A boorish or uncultivated Australian.
verb
(transitive, Now chiefly dialectal) To increase (in price); add to.
onker
orkey
parke
perak
perks
perks
noun
plural of perk
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of perk