(Britain, dialectal, archaic) A beast of burden; chiefly a workhorse, but also a working ox or other animal.
(Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, archaic) An old, useless horse; a nag.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner.
(transitive, intransitive, law) To justify or prove (an allegation or plea that one has made).
(transitive, obsolete) To avouch, prove, or verify the existence or happening of (something), or to offer to do so.
aves
aves
noun
plural of ave
avie
avie
adv
(obsolete) emulously
beav
beav
noun
(chiefly Canada, US, slang) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
bevy
bevy
noun
(collective) A group of animals, in particular quail.
(collective) A large group or collection.
(collective) A small group of persons, especially of girls and women.
bove
bove
prep
(now colloquial or dialectal) Above.
brev
brev
noun
Alternative form of bruv
cave
cave
intj
(Britain, school slang) look out!; beware!
noun
(caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
(drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
(figuratively, also slang) The vagina.
(mining) A collapse or cave-in.
(nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
(obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
(programming) A code cave.
(slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
verb
(mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
(mining, obsolete) To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
(obsolete) To dwell in a cave.
To collapse.
To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
To hollow out or undermine.
To surrender.
cdev
cevi
chev
chev
Noun
A Chevrolet automobile.
cive
cive
noun
Obsolete form of chive (“the herb”).
cove
cove
noun
(Australia and Polari) A friend; a mate.
(Britain, dated, informal, thieves' cant) A fellow; a man.
(US) A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
(architecture) A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
(nautical) A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
(nautical) The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
(now uncommon) A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds.
verb
(architecture) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
To brood, cover, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
cuve
dave
dave
verb
(transitive, UK dialectal) To assuage; soften; mitigate; relieve; calm; alleviate (pain).
derv
derv
noun
(UK) Diesel fuel for motor vehicles.
deva
deva
noun
A god in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism.
deve
devi
devs
devs
noun
plural of dev
devy
dive
dive
noun
(aviation) Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
(slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
(sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.
A decline.
A downward swooping motion.
A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
A jump or plunge into water.
A swim under water.
Obsolete form of daeva.
plural of diva
verb
(especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
(figuratively) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
(sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
(transitive) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
To descend sharply or steeply.
To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
To jump into water head-first.
To swim under water.
dove
dove
noun
(countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
(countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
(countable, politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
(slang, countable) Short for love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).
A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
verb
(chiefly Canada, US and England dialect) Strong simple past tense of dive
(nonstandard) past participle of dive
eave
eave
noun
(architecture) Alternative form of eaves (“the underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building”)
edva
elev
elva
elve
elve
noun
(astronomy, meteorology) an upper atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, rapidly expanding disk-shaped regions of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occur high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity
Obsolete form of elf.
Sir Olof he rode out at early day, / And so came he unto an Elve-dance gay.
envy
envy
noun
(obsolete) Emulation; rivalry.
(obsolete) Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.
(obsolete) Public odium; ill repute.
An object of envious notice or feeling.
Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
verb
(obsolete) To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
(obsolete) To emulate.
(obsolete) To hate.
(obsolete) To show malice or ill will; to rail.
(obsolete, intransitive) To have envious feelings (at).
(obsolete, transitive) To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge.
(transitive) To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions.
(transitive) To resentfully or discontentedly desire (something someone else has that one lacks).
ervy
euve
eval
eval
adj
(obsolete) Relating to time or duration.
noun
Abbreviation of evaluation.
verb
(programming, of software) To evaluate (or execute) source code held in a string during run time.
evan
evap
evea
even
even
adj
(colloquial) On equal terms of a moral sort; quits.
(not comparable, of an integer) Divisible by two.
(obsolete) Associate; fellow; of the same condition.
(obsolete) Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure.
Equal in proportion, quantity, size, etc.
Flat and level.
On equal monetary terms; neither owing nor being owed.
Without great variation.
parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.
adv
(archaic) Exactly, just, fully.
Emphasizing a comparative.
In reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality.
Signalling a correction of one's previous utterance; rather, that is.
noun
(archaic or poetic) Evening.
(mathematics, diminutive) An even number.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To be equal.
(transitive) To make flat and level.
(transitive, obsolete) To act up to; to keep pace with.
(transitive, obsolete) To equal or equate; to make the same.
(transitive, obsolete) To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits.
(transitive, obsolete) To set right; to complete.
ever
ever
adj
(epidemiology) Occurring at any time, occurring even but once during a timespan.
adv
(informal) As intensifier following an interrogative word.
Always, frequently, forever.
Continuously, constantly, all the time (for the complete duration).
In any way.
det
(dialectal and informal) Shortening of every
eves
eves
noun
plural of eve
evey
evie
evie
Proper noun
A diminutive of the female given names Eva, Eve, Evelyn and Evangeline, also used as a formal given name.
evil
evil
adj
(computing, programming, slang) Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
(obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
Intending to harm; malevolent.
Morally corrupt.
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
(obsolete) injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
(obsolete) wickedly, evilly, iniquitously
noun
(obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in combination, as in king's evil, colt evil.
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.
evin
evoe
evoy
evva
evvy
evyn
ferv
five
five
noun
(basketball) A basketball team, club or lineup.
A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver.
A person who is five years old.
A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
Anything measuring five units, as length.
Five o'clock.
The digit/figure 5.
num
A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six.
Describing a group or set with five elements.
gave
gave
verb
(colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of give
simple past tense of give
give
give
noun
Alternative form of gyve
The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilience.
verb
(dated or religion) To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow.
(ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
(intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
(intransitive) To yield or collapse under pressure or force.
(obsolete) To become soft or moist.
(obsolete) To have a misgiving.
(obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
(reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
(slang) To be going on, to be occurring; Only used in what gives?
(slang) To exceed expectations.
(transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
(transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede.
To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).
To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.
To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in.
To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate.
To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).
To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
To make a present or gift of.
To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.).
To pledge.
To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.
To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).
gove
gove
noun
(obsolete) A mow; a rick for hay.
verb
To stare stupidly.
gyve
gyve
noun
(literary) A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg.
verb
To shackle, fetter, chain.
have
have
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
(uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
(usually contrastive) A wealthy or privileged person.
verb
(Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
(Britain, slang) To inflict punishment or retribution on.
(auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.
(auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
(dated outside Ireland) To be able to speak (a language).
(informal, often passive) To trick, to deceive.
(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
(transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
(transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
(transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
(transitive) To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
(transitive) To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
(transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
(transitive) To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
(transitive) To give birth to.
(transitive) To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
(transitive) To host someone; to take in as a guest.
(transitive) To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
(transitive) To possess, own.
(transitive) To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
(transitive) Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
(transitive, birdwatching) To make an observation of (a bird species).
(transitive, in the negative, often in continuous tenses) To allow; to tolerate.
(transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
(transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
(usually passive) To obtain.
To be afflicted with, suffer from.
To experience, go through, undergo.
To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
herv
hevi
hive
hive
noun
(computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
verb
(entomology) Of insects: to enter or possess a hive.
To collect (bees) into a hive.
To form a hive-like entity.
To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.
To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body.
hove
hove
verb
(intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To remain stationary (usually on horseback).
(intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To remain; delay.
(intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To rise.
(nautical) simple past tense and past participle of heave
(obsolete or dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of heave
(obsolete, intransitive) To move on or by.
(obsolete, intransitive) To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.
(obsolete, intransitive) To wait, linger.
(transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To raise; lift; hold up.
ivel
iver
iver
adv
(dialectal) Alternative spelling of ever
ives
ivey
ivey
noun
Obsolete form of ivy.
ivie
jive
jive
noun
(US, colloquial) Synonym of bullshit: patent nonsense, transparently deceptive talk.
(US, colloquial, often derogatory) African-American Vernacular English.
A dance style popular in the 1940–50s.
A slang associated with jazz musicians; hepcat patois or hipster jargon.
Swing, a style of jazz music.
verb
(US) To jibe, in the sense of to accord, to agree
(intransitive, colloquial) To dance, originally to jive or swing music; later, to jazz, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, disco, etc.
(transitive, intransitive, US, colloquial) To deceive; to be deceptive.
jove
kiev
kiev
noun
A dish like chicken Kiev, with substitutes for the chicken, sauces or other components, to fit particular dietary restrictions, such as a veganism.
Alternative form of Kiev; Ellipsis of chicken Kiev.
lave
lave
noun
(archaic or dialectal) The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others.
(dialectal) A crowd
verb
(intransitive) To run down or gutter, as a candle.
(intransitive, dialectal) To hang or flap down.
(transitive) To draw, as water; drink in.
(transitive) To give bountifully; lavish.
(transitive, intransitive, literary or poetic) To wash.
(transitive, obsolete) To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.
To lick.
leva
leva
noun
plural of lev
leve
levi
levo
levo
adj
(chemistry) Clipping of levorotatory.
levy
levy
noun
(US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.
The act of levying.
The tax, property or people so levied.
verb
(law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
To draft someone into military service.
To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
To raise, as a siege.
To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
To wage war.
live
live
adj
(broadcasting) Being broadcast ("on the air"), as it happens.
(card games) Of a card: not yet dealt or played.
(circuitry) Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution if touched.
(dated) Energetic, attentive, active.
(engineering) Imparting power; having motion.
(entertainment, performing) Recorded from a performance in front of an audience.
(film) Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”.
(obsolete) Vivid; bright.
(of a performance or speech) In person.
(only used attributively) Having life; that is alive.
(poker) Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle.
(programming) Of an object or value: that may potentially be used in the future execution of a program.
(sports) Still in active play.
Being in a state of ignition; burning.
Being in existence; actual.
Having active properties; being energized.
Of an environment where sound is recorded: having noticeable reverberation.
Of firearms or explosives, capable of causing harm.
Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.
Outstanding, top-notch, exhilarating.
Taken from a living animal.
adv
Of an event, as it happens; in real time; direct.
Of making a performance or speech, in person.
verb
(intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
(intransitive) To endure in memory; to escape oblivion.
(intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
(intransitive) To outlast danger; to float (said of a ship, boat, etc).
(intransitive) To pass life in a specified manner.
(intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.
(intransitive, followed by on, upon, or by) To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist.
(intransitive, hyperbolic) To cope.
(intransitive, informal) (of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored.
(intransitive, informal) To make the most of life; to experience a full, rich life.
(transitive) To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
(transitive) To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
(transitive, obsolete) To live as; to live being.
love
love
noun
(colloquial, Commonwealth) A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
(countable) A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
(euphemistic) Sexual activity.
(euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
(obsolete) A thin silk material.
(racquet sports, billiards) Zero, no score.
(uncountable) A deep caring for the existence of another.
A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.
A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.
A profound and caring affection towards someone.
A thing, activity, etc. which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.
Alternative letter-case form of Love (“personification of love”).
An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
Nothing; no recompense.
Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
verb
(transitive) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
(transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.
(transitive) To need, thrive on.
(transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with (perhaps from make love).
(usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
(usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
Alternative form of lofe (“to praise, sell”)
merv
move
move
noun
(board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.
(board games, usually in the plural) A round, in which each player has a turn.
A change in strategy.
A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
The act of moving; a movement.
The event of changing one's residence.
verb
(intransitive) To act; to take action; to begin to act
(intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
(intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.
(intransitive, obsolete) To bow or salute upon meeting.
(law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
(transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
(transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
(transitive, business) To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).
(transitive, chess, board games) To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.
(transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another
(transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
(transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
(transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to.
(transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a complaint).
mved
nave
nave
noun
(architecture) The ground-level middle cavity of a barn.
(architecture) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
(obsolete) The navel.
A hub of a wheel.
neva
neva
adv
(African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of never.
neve
neve
noun
(rare or obsolete) A grandson.
(rare or obsolete) A male cousin.
(rare or obsolete) Nephew.
(rare) A spendthrift.
nevi
nevi
noun
plural of nevus
nevo
oven
oven
noun
A chamber used for baking or heating.
verb
(transitive) To cook in an oven (colloquial and informal usage only)
over
over
adj
Discontinued; ended or concluded.
adv
(US, usually with do) Again; another time; once more; over again.
(often in compounds) To an excessive degree; overly.
From an upright position to a horizontal one.
From one position or state to another.
From one side of something to another, passing above it.
Horizontally; left to right or right to left.
Overnight (throughout the night).
Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end.
intj
(obsolete, slang) Short for over the left shoulder (“expressing disbelief etc.”).
(procedure word, military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and is expecting a response.
noun
(cricket) A set of six legal balls bowled.
(rare, dialectal or obsolete) A shore, riverbank.
Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc.
prep
(in certain collocations) As compared to.
(mathematics) Divided by.
(poker) Separates the three of a kind from the pair in a full house.
Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding.
Across or spanning.
Beyond; past; exceeding; too much or too far.
Concerning or regarding.
Finished with; done with; from one state to another via a hindrance that must be solved or defeated; or via a third state that represents a significant difference from the first two.
From one physical position to another via an obstacle that must be traversed vertically, first upwards and then downwards.
In such a way as to cover.
Indicating relative status, authority, or power
More than; to a greater degree.
On top of; above; higher than; further up.
While using, especially while consuming.
verb
(UK, intransitive, dialect, obsolete) To run about.
(UK, transitive, dialect, obsolete) To go over, or jump over.
ovey
pave
pave
verb
(Britain) To cover something with paving slabs.
(Canada, US) To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel.
(transitive, figurative) To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth.
perv
perv
noun
(slang) A pervert.
verb
(slang) To stare at others in a perverted manner, especially whilst thinking sexual thoughts about them.
prev
prev
adj
Abbreviation of previous.
rave
rave
noun
(music, uncountable) The genres of electronic dance music usually associated with rave parties.
An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use.
An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
verb
(obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
(obsolete) simple past tense of rive
To attend a rave (dance party).
To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on.
To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
reva
revd
reve
revs
revs
noun
plural of rev
rive
rive
noun
A bank or shore.
A place torn; a rent; a rift.
verb
(intransitive) To break apart; to split.
(transitive, archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave.
(transitive, archaic) To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
(transitive, rare) To burst open; explode; discharge.
(woodworking) To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
To land.
rove
rove
noun
A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.
A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving.
The act of wandering; a ramble.
verb
(intransitive) To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
(obsolete, intransitive) To shoot with arrows (at).
(transitive) To card wool or other fibres.
(transitive) To roam or wander through.
To draw through an eye or aperture.
To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.
To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
simple past tense of reeve
simple past tense of rive
save
save
conj
unless; except
noun
(baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
(computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
(informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
(professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
(role-playing games) A saving throw.
An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
prep
Except; with the exception of.
verb
(Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
(baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
(intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
(reflexive, idiomatic, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
(sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
(transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
(transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
(transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
(transitive) To store for future use.
(transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
selv
serv
serv
noun
Abbreviation of server.
Abbreviation of service.
Abbreviation of serving.
seve
svce
svea
sven
tave
tove
trev
trev
noun
(Britain, slang) An urban lower-class youth.
(New Zealand, slang) A farm assistant or other rural worker; an ordinary country bloke.
tver
uvea
uvea
noun
(anatomy) The middle of the three concentric layers that make up the eye; it is pigmented and vascular, and comprises the choroid, the ciliary body, and the iris.
uvre
vade
vade
verb
(obsolete) To fade; to vanish.
vage
vahe
vale
vale
intj
(usually seen in obituaries) Farewell.
noun
(chiefly poetic) A valley.
vane
vane
noun
(navigation) A sight on a sextant or compass.
(ornithology) The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
(weaponry) One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.
A weather vane.
Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.
vare
vare
noun
(UK, dialect) A weasel.
A wand or staff of authority or justice.
vase
vase
noun
(architecture) The body of the Corinthian capital.
An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.
veal
veal
noun
(slang, vulgar) The female genitalia.
The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.
verb
To raise a calf for meat production.
veau
veda
vedi
veen
veep
veep
noun
(US politics, informal) The Vice President of the United States; the office of Vice President of the United States, especially during an election cycle where several are in the running for the nomination.
(informal) Any vice president (in a corporation, organization, etc.)
veer
veer
noun
A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.
verb
(intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
(intransitive, nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
(intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.
(intransitive, of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).
(obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
(transitive) To turn.
vees
vees
noun
plural of vee
vega
vega
noun
(Latin America, Philippines) An open tract of ground; a plain, especially one which is moist and fertile, such as those used for growing tobacco.
veii
veii
Proper noun
In ancient times, an important Etruscan city 16 km (9.9 mi) NNW of Rome, Italy.
veil
veil
noun
(biology) The calyptra of mosses.
(figurative) Anything that partially obscures a clear view.
(figurative, parapsychology) That which separates the living and the spirit world.
(mycology) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; a velum.
(mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.
(zoology) velum (A circular membrane round the cap of a medusa).
A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul (especially over the head)
An obscuration of the clearness of the tones in pronunciation.
Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.
verb
(transitive) To conceal as with a veil.
(transitive) To dress in, or decorate with, a veil.
vein
vein
noun
(anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
(botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
(figurative) A style, tendency, or quality.
(figurative) A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
(geology) A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
(in the plural) The entrails of a shrimp.
(zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing.
A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
verb
To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.
veit
vela
vela
noun
plural of velum
veld
veld
noun
(chiefly South Africa) The open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries.
vell
vell
noun
(UK, dialect) The salted stomach of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag.
verb
(UK, dialect) To cut the turf from, as for burning.
velo
vena
vena
noun
(medicine, anatomy) Vein.
vend
vend
noun
(UK, Australia, dated) The total sales of coal from a colliery.
The act of vending or selling; a sale.
The letter Ꝩ/ꝩ, used in Old Norse, related to the rune wynn (ᚹ, whence also Latin-script Ƿ/ƿ) but with the bowl open at the top, like a y.
verb
(programming, transitive, uncommon) To provide or export functionality, especially from an API.
Synonym of sell, now especially to sell through a vending machine.
venn
veno
vent
vent
noun
(medicine, colloquial) Clipping of ventilation or ventilator.
(obsolete) A baiting place; an inn.
A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
A slit in the seam of a garment.
A small aperture.
An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates.
The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.
Ventriloquism.
verb
(intransitive) To allow gases to escape.
(medicine, colloquial) To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.
(transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.
(transitive) To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.
(transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion.
To sell; to vend.
To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
venu
venu
noun
(music) One of the ancient transverse flutes of Indian classical music.
veny
veny
noun
(fencing) A strike or blow.
veps
vera
vera
noun
(Cockney rhyming slang) A skin (rolling paper for cigarettes).
(finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vega with respect to changes in the risk-free interest rate, or equivalently the rate of change of rho with respect to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset.
verb
verb
noun
(figurative) An action as opposed to a trait or thing.
(grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
(obsolete) Any word; a vocable.
(programming) A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
verb
(transitive, nonstandard, colloquial) To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
(used as a neutral, unspecific verb, often in linguistics and the social sciences) To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.
verd
verd
noun
(obsolete) greenness; freshness
(obsolete, UK, law) The privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel.
(obsolete, UK, law) The right of pasturing animals in a forest
vere
veri
vern
vers
vers
adj
(BDSM, gay slang) Short for versatile.
noun
Abbreviation of versine or versed sine.
plural of ver
vert
vert
adj
(heraldry) In blazon, of the colour green.
noun
(archaic) Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.
(archaic) The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.
(biology, informal) vertebrate
(colloquial) In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition.
(heraldry) A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
A vertical surface used by skateboarders or skiers.
verb
(archaic or literary) To turn.
very
very
adj
(literary) True, real, actual.
The same; identical.
With limiting effect: mere.
adv
(with superlatives) Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.
Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.
To a great extent or degree.
vese
vesp
vest
vest
noun
(Britain) A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
(Canada, US) A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.
(now rare) A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.
A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.
A vestment.
Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.
Clothing generally; array; garb.
verb
(chiefly passive) To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
(financial, intransitive) To become vested, to become permanent.
(law) To clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of.
(law, intransitive) (of an inheritance or a trust fund) To devolve upon the person currently entitled when a prior interest has ended.
(obsolete) To invest; to put.
To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by with and the thing conferred.
To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with in before the possessor.
veta
veta
noun
(finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vega with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of theta with respect to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset.
veto
veto
noun
A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment
An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
An invocation of that right.
verb
(transitive) To use a veto against.
vets
vets
noun
plural of vet
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vet
vext
vext
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of vex