(intransitive) To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
(obsolete, intransitive) To conclude, to turn out.
(obsolete, transitive) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
(transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
(transitive) To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
(transitive, now literary) To obtain (a material thing).
Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved.
actives
actives
noun
plural of active
adtevac
adtevac
noun
A technique for drying blood plasma.
advance
advance
adj
Completed before necessary or a milestone event.
Forward.
Preceding.
noun
(in the plural) An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
A forward move; improvement or progression.
An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
verb
(intransitive) To make a higher bid at an auction.
(intransitive) To make progress; to do well, to succeed.
(intransitive) To move forward in time; to progress towards completion.
(intransitive) To move forwards; to approach.
(transitive, now archaic) To raise; to lift or elevate.
To help the progress of (something); to further.
To increase (a number or amount).
To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten.
To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully.
To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend.
To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose.
To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote.
To raise or increase (a price, rate).
advects
advects
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advect
advices
advices
noun
(obsolete or programming) plural of advice
alcoved
alcoved
adj
(sometimes in combination) Having (a specified type or number of) alcoves
alcoves
alcoves
noun
plural of alcove
archive
archive
noun
(ecology) Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.
The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
verb
(transitive) To put (something) into an archive.
ascrive
avarice
avarice
noun
Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth
Inordinate desire for some supposed good.
avicide
avicide
noun
Any substance used to kill birds.
avocate
avocate
verb
(obsolete) To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal.
avocets
avocets
noun
plural of avocet
becarve
becarve
verb
(transitive) To cut; carve or cut up; cut in pieces; carve.
(transitive, obsolete) To cut off.
(transitive, obsolete, land) To cut up; cut open; open up.
becivet
becovet
cadaver
cadaver
noun
A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.
caliver
caliver
noun
(historical) A type of light musket.
calvert
cambeva
captive
captive
adj
Held prisoner; not free; confined.
Of or relating to bondage or confinement; serving to confine.
Subdued by love; charmed; captivated.
noun
(figurative) One charmed or subdued by beauty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated.
One held prisoner.
One who has been captured or is otherwise confined.
verb
(transitive, archaic) To capture; to take captive.
caravel
caravel
noun
(nautical, historical) A light, usually lateen-rigged sailing ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish for about 300 years from the 15th century, first for trade and later for voyages of exploration.
carvage
carvels
carvels
noun
plural of carvel
carvene
carvene
noun
(organic chemistry) An oily substance, C₁₀H₁₆, extracted from caraway.
carvers
carvers
noun
plural of carver
carvone
carvone
noun
(organic chemistry) A terpenoid found naturally in many essential oils, most abundant in the oils from seeds of caraway and dill.
caterva
catvine
cauvery
cavated
caveats
caveats
noun
plural of caveat
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caveat
cavelet
cavelet
noun
A little cave.
caveman
caveman
noun
(informal, figuratively, derogatory) A brutish person, one who behaves in a rough, uncivilized way.
(informal, figuratively, derogatory) A person with backward, primitive behavior, opinions, or interests.
(informal, figuratively, derogatory) Someone, especially a man, who has regressive, old-fashioned attitudes, particularly with regard to women; someone opposed to change or modernity.
An early human or closely related species, popularly held to reside in caves.
cavemen
cavemen
noun
plural of caveman
caverns
caverns
noun
plural of cavern
cavetti
cavetti
noun
plural of cavetto
cavetto
cavetto
noun
(architecture) A concave moulding with a regular curved profile that is part of a circle.
caviare
caviare
noun
Alternative spelling of caviar
cavidae
caviled
caviler
caviler
noun
A person who cavils; a faultfinder, quibbler or nitpicker
censive
centavo
centavo
noun
(historical) The former subdenomination of some other currencies (in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Puerto Rico, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Venezuela).
A similar subdenomination of various other currencies (in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and the Philippines).
Currency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico.
centrev
cerevis
cerevis
noun
A small cap, with no peak, worn by members of German student corps
cerveny
cervine
cervine
adj
Pertaining to a deer; deer-like.
noun
A deer of the subfamily Cervinae; an Old World deer.
cervoid
cervoid
adj
Characteristic of deer or other cervids
cevenol
ceviche
ceviche
noun
(cooking) Raw seafood cured by marination in an acidic medium such as citrus, vinegar, or other souring agent, found primarily in Latin America.
charvet
chavies
chekhov
chervil
chervil
noun
(countable) A leafy herb, Anthriscus cerefolium, resembling parsley.
(uncountable) leaves from the plant, used as an herb in cooking, which have a mild flavor of anise.
chetive
chevage
chevage
noun
A capitation tax; an equal tax or tribute per person.
chevaux
chevaux
noun
plural of cheval
cheveys
chevied
chevied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chevy
chevies
chevies
noun
plural of chevy
cheviot
cheviot
noun
A coarse woolen fabric made from the wool of Cheviot sheep.
chevise
chevres
chevres
noun
plural of chevre
chevret
chevron
chevron
noun
(chiefly Britain) One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.
(heraldry) A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
(informal) A háček, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve.
A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “«” or “»”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as ““” and “””.
An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
verb
To form or be formed into chevrons
chilver
chilver
noun
A female lamb.
chivage
chivers
chivied
chivied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chivy
chivies
chivies
noun
plural of chivy
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chivy
civiler
civvies
civvies
noun
(military slang, plural only) Civilian clothes.
plural of civvie
plural of civvy
claiver
clavate
clavate
adj
(biology) Resembling a club, becoming increasingly wide from the base to the distal end.
clavers
clavers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of claver
clavier
clavier
noun
(music) The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.
cleaved
cleaved
adj
Cleft or cloven.
cleaver
cleaver
noun
(metaphoric) The act of eliminating someone or something, especially when done by someone with a history of other eliminations; a dismissal, rejection, or removal.
(music, Bahamas) A type of clave, or rhythm stick, a concussive musical instrument used in traditional Bahamian music.
A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones, etc.
cleaves
cleaves
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cleave
clivers
clivers
noun
Galium aparine, the plant called cleavers.
clovene
clovene
noun
(organic chemistry) The tricyclic sesquiterpene (1S,5S,8S)-4,4,8-trimethyltricyclo[6.3.1.0^(1,5)]dodec-2-ene present in clove oil
clovers
clovers
noun
(informal) the suit of clubs; primarily childish.
plural of clover
clovery
clovery
adj
Resembling or containing clover.
coaeval
coaeval
adj
Alternative form of coeval
codrive
codrive
verb
To drive (a vehicle, a project, etc.) jointly with somebody else.
codrove
codrove
verb
simple past tense of codrive
coevals
coevals
noun
plural of coeval
colvert
commove
commove
verb
(dated, transitive) To move violently; to agitate, excite or rouse
concave
concave
adj
(functional analysis, not comparable, of a real-valued function on the reals) satisfying the property that all segments connecting two points on the function's graph lie below the function.
(geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees.
curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl
hollow; empty
noun
(gambling) A playing card made concave for use in cheating.
(manufacturing) An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
(skateboarding) An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength.
(surfing) An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
A concave surface or curve.
One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world.
The vault of the sky.
verb
To render concave, or increase the degree of concavity.
connive
connive
verb
(intransitive) To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
(intransitive, botany, rare) Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.
(intransitive, obsolete) Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.
(intransitive, obsolete) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
conover
convect
convect
verb
(intransitive) To undergo convection.
(transitive) To move (a warm fluid) upward through a cooler fluid, to transfer (heat or a fluid) by convection.
convell
convene
convene
verb
(intransitive) To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
(intransitive) To come together; to meet; to unite.
(transitive) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
(transitive) To summon judicially to meet or appear.
(transitive, with "on" or "upon") To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention.
convent
convent
noun
(India) A Christian school.
A coming together; a meeting.
A gathering of people lasting several days for the purpose of discussing or working on topics previously selected.
A religious community whose members (especially nuns) live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.
verb
(obsolete) To be convenient; to serve.
(obsolete) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
(obsolete) To meet together; to concur.
convert
convert
noun
(Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
A person who has converted to a religion.
A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
verb
(intransitive) To become converted.
(intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
(intransitive, marketing) To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
(intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
(transitive or intransitive, soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick).
(transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
(transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
(transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
(transitive) To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
(transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11).
(transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
(transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
(transitive, intransitive, chess) To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
(transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
(transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
(transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
(transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
(transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
convery
conveth
convexo
conveys
conveys
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of convey
convite
convive
convive
noun
(obsolete) a feast or banquet
(obsolete) a participant in a feast or banquet
verb
(obsolete) To feast with others
convoke
convoke
verb
(transitive) To convene, to cause to assemble for a meeting.
To call together.
corrive
corvees
corvees
noun
plural of corvee
corvese
corvets
corvets
noun
plural of corvet
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corvet
corvine
corvine
adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of crows or ravens.
costive
costive
adj
constipated
miserly, parsimonious
couvade
couvade
noun
A practice among some peoples, such as the Basques, of the husband of a woman in the last stages of pregnancy taking to bed, avoiding certain foods, or imitating other behaviours of a pregnant woman.
Sympathetic pregnancy: the involuntary sympathetic experience of the husband of symptoms of his wife's pregnancy, such as weight gain or morning sickness.
couvert
couvert
noun
cover charge
coveney
covered
covered
adj
(dated) Wearing one's hat.
(figuratively) Prepared for, or having dealt with, some matter
(poker) Than whom another player has more money available for betting.
Overlaid (with) or enclosed (within something).
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cover
coverer
coverer
noun
Agent noun of cover: one who covers.
coverts
coverts
noun
plural of covert
coverup
coverup
noun
Alternative spelling of cover-up
coveted
coveted
adj
Highly sought-after.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of covet
coveter
coveter
noun
One who covets.
cravens
cravens
noun
plural of craven
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of craven
cravers
cravers
noun
plural of craver
cresive
crevass
crevice
crevice
noun
A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
verb
To crack; to flaw.
crivetz
cultive
culvers
culvers
noun
plural of culver
culvert
culvert
noun
A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.
verb
To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert.
cursive
cursive
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that occurs in a straight line (in space or time).
(of writing) Having successive letters joined together.
Running; flowing.
noun
(countable) A cursive character, letter or font.
(countable) A manuscript written in cursive characters.
(uncountable) Joined-up handwriting.
curvate
curvate
adj
bent in a regular form; curved
curvets
curvets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of curvet
curvier
curvier
adj
comparative form of curvy: more curvy
cutover
cutover
adj
Having been cleared of valuable timber.
noun
(by extension) Any process of quickly replacing a machine so as to minimize downtime.
An area of cutover land.
The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
The process of quickly replacing a telephone switchboard, in which the connections are duplicated to the new machine and the original connections are then suddenly disconnected.
cuvette
cuvette
noun
(analytical chemistry) a small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer
(military) a cunette
a pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table
an inner lid of a timepiece
cvennes
deceive
deceive
verb
(transitive) To trick or mislead.
declive
decurve
devance
devchar
devices
devices
noun
plural of device
devinct
devoice
devoice
verb
(transitive, Internet) To remove the voice flag from a user on IRC, preventing them from sending messages to the channel.
(transitive, phonetics) To pronounce a word with little movement of the vocal cords
devonic
divorce
divorce
noun
(obsolete) That which separates.
(zoology) The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
A separation of connected things.
The legal dissolution of a marriage.
verb
(intransitive) To obtain a legal divorce.
(transitive) To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.
(transitive) To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
(transitive) To separate something that was connected.
dovecot
dovecot
noun
Alternative form of dovecote
echevin
ecphova
educive
educive
adj
That educes.
elecive
enclave
enclave
noun
(computing) An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.
A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.
A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
verb
(transitive) To enclose within a foreign territory.