(organic chemistry) An oleoresin extracted from parsley
april
blimp
blimp
noun
(aviation) An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.
(by extension) Any large airborne inflatable.
(film, television) A soundproof cover for a video camera.
(slang) An obese person.
A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man.
verb
(slang, intransitive) To expand like a blimp or balloon; to become fat.
(transitive) To fit (a video camera) with a soundproof cover.
blips
blips
noun
plural of blip
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blip
bphil
clips
clips
noun
plural of clip
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clip
clipt
clipt
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of clip
diple
diple
noun
(music) A traditional woodwind instrument used in Serbian, Croatian and Montenegrin music.
A mark once used in margins to draw attention to something in text.
dphil
filip
flimp
flimp
verb
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To steal; to commit petty theft.
flipe
flipe
noun
Alternative form of flype (“a fold or flap”)
verb
Alternative form of flype
flips
flips
noun
plural of flip
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flip
gilpy
gilpy
noun
(obsolete, Scotland) A boisterous child of either sex.
(obsolete, Scotland) A boy.
glimp
impel
impel
verb
(transitive) To drive forward; to propel an object, to provide an impetus for motion or action.
(transitive) To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation.
imply
imply
verb
(archaic) to enfold, entangle.
(transitive, of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement
(transitive, of a person) to suggest by logical inference
(transitive, of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence
iplan
islip
klips
lapin
lapin
noun
A castrated male rabbit.
Rabbit fur.
lapis
lapis
noun
Ellipsis of lapis lazuli.
lapsi
lapsi
noun
(Christianity, historical) Apostates who renounced their faith under persecution by the Ancient Roman authorities.
lepid
lepid
adj
(obsolete) pleasant; jocose
limpa
limpa
noun
Swedish-style rye bread made with molasses.
limps
limps
noun
plural of limp
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of limp
limpy
limpy
adj
Having or resembling a limp.
lipan
lipic
lipic
adj
(chemistry) Pertaining to, or derived from, fat.
lipid
lipid
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of a group of organic compounds including the fats, oils, waxes, sterols, and triglycerides. Lipids are characterized by being insoluble in water, and account for most of the fat present in the human body.
lipin
lipin
noun
(biochemistry) Any fat, fatty acid, lipoid, soap, or similar substance.
lippe
lippi
lipps
lippy
lippy
adj
(informal) Having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner.
(informal) Having prominent lips.
noun
(Scotland, historical) An old dry measure amounting to one quarter of a peck (for goods sold by weight, 1¾ pounds or about four-fifths of a kilogram); also, a container of that capacity.
(uncountable) Lip gloss or lipstick; (countable) a stick of this product.
lipse
lisps
lisps
noun
plural of lisp
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lisp
lupid
lupin
lupin
noun
A lupin bean, a yellow legume seed of a Lupinus plant (usually Lupinus luteus), used as feed for sheep and cattle and commonly eaten in the Mediterranean area and in Latin America although toxic if prepared improperly.
Any member of the genus Lupinus in the family Fabaceae.
lupis
milpa
milpa
noun
(agriculture, countable) A small field, especially in Mexico or Central America, that is cleared from the jungle, cropped for a few seasons, and then abandoned for a fresh clearing.
(agriculture, uncountable) A cyclical crop-growing system used throughout Mesoamerica.
mphil
nepil
niple
oxlip
oxlip
noun
The plant Primula elatior, similar to cowslip but with larger, pale yellow flowers.
pails
pails
noun
plural of pail
palis
palki
palki
noun
(South Asia, now chiefly historical) A litter or palanquin.
palli
palpi
palpi
noun
plural of palpus
paoli
paoli
noun
plural of paolo
parli
pauli
peril
peril
noun
(insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
A situation of serious and immediate danger.
Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
verb
(transitive) To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk.
phail
phial
phial
noun
A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines.
verb
(transitive) To put or keep in, or as in, a phial.
phila
philo
philo
noun
(colloquial) Clipping of philosopher.
(colloquial) Clipping of philosophy.
piala
pibal
pibal
noun
(meteorology) a pilot balloon
pical
picul
picul
noun
(units of measure) A traditional South and East Asian unit of weight, based upon the load of a shoulder pole and varying by place and over time but usually standardized at about 60 kg.
pigly
pikel
pikle
pilaf
pilaf
noun
A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added.
pilar
pilar
adj
(chiefly medicine) Relating to hair.
Covered in hair; hairy.
pilau
pilau
adj
(Hawaii, slang) filthy
noun
Alternative spelling of pilaf
pilaw
pilch
pilch
noun
(archaic) a covering put over an infant's diaper to prevent outer clothes from getting wet
(obsolete) A gown or case of skin, or one trimmed or lined with fur.
pilea
pilea
noun
plural of pileum
piled
piled
adj
(iron manufacturing) Formed from a pile or fagot.
Having a pile or nap.
Having a pile or point; pointed.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pile
pilei
pilei
noun
plural of pileus
piler
piler
noun
One who piles something
piles
piles
noun
(informal, piles of) A large amount of.
(pathology) Haemorrhoids.
Many women get piles when pregnant.
plural of pile
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pile
pilin
pilin
noun
Any of a class of fibrous proteins found in pilus structures in bacteria
pilis
pilis
noun
plural of pili
pills
pills
noun
plural of pill
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pill
pilmy
pilon
pilon
noun
(Latin America) A conical loaf of sugar.
(US, Southern US) A gratuity given by tradesmen to customers settling their accounts.
A heap of tobacco arranged for fermentation.
pilos
pilot
pilot
adj
Being a vehicle to warn other road users of the presence of an oversize vehicle/combination.
Made or used as a test or demonstration of capability.
Used to control or activate another device.
noun
(Australia, road transport) A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
(Australia, road transport, informal) A pilot vehicle.
(aviation) A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
(mining) The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
(motor racing) A driver.
(rail transport) A cowcatcher.
(television) A sample episode of a proposed TV series produced to decide if it should be made or not. If approved, typically the first episode of an actual TV series.
A guide book for maritime navigation.
A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
A person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
A pilot light.
A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
An instrument for detecting the compass error.
One who flies a kite.
Something serving as a test or trial.
verb
(rail transport, of a locomotive) To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.
(transitive) To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
(transitive) To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
(transitive) To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, etc.)
pilum
pilum
noun
(botany) The columella on the surface of a pollen grain.
(historical) A Roman military javelin.
pilus
pilus
noun
(biochemistry) A bacterial protein that has several biochemical functions
(microbiology) A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria.
A hair.
pinal
pinel
pinyl
pipal
pipal
Noun
The sacred fig, Ficus religiosa.
pipil
pirol
pixel
pixel
noun
One of the squares that make up a pixel art work or a zoomed in image in a computer.
One of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory.
verb
To create computer graphics by editing individual pixels.
plaid
plaid
adj
Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scottish tartan; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another.
noun
(textiles) A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.
A length of such material used as a piece of clothing, formerly worn in the Scottish Highlands and other parts of northern Britain and remaining as an item of ceremonial dress worn by members of Scottish pipe bands.
The typical chequered pattern of a plaid; tartan.
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of play
plain
plain
adj
(card games) Not a trump.
(computing) Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in plain text).
(now rare, regional) Flat, level.
(obsolete) Full, complete in number or extent.
(of food) Having only few ingredients, or no additional ingredients or seasonings; not elaborate, without toppings or extras.
Clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
Downright; total, unmistakable (as intensifier).
Evident to one's senses or reason; manifest, clear, unmistakable.
Honest and without deception; candid, open; blunt.
Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
Of just one colour; lacking a pattern.
Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.
Simple in habits or qualities; unsophisticated, not exceptional, ordinary.
adv
(archaic) Plainly; distinctly.
(colloquial) Simply.
noun
(archaic) Synonym of field in reference to a battlefield.
(obsolete) Alternative spelling of plane: a flat geometric field.
(rare, poetic) A lamentation.
An expanse of land with relatively low relief, usually exclusive of forests, deserts, and wastelands.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
(obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.
(reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
(transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
plait
plait
noun
A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.
verb
(transitive) To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat
(transitive) To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid
pleis
pliam
plica
plica
noun
(botany) A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches.
(music) A neume, in the form of a tail at the end of a ligature, indicating an additional note.
(zoology) The bend of the wing of a bird.
A fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue.
Polish plait, plica polonica, or plica neuropatica: a disease of the hair in which it becomes twisted and matted together.
plied
plied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ply
plier
plier
noun
One who plies.
attributive form of pliers
plies
plies
noun
plural of plie
plural of ply
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ply
plink
plink
noun
A short, high-pitched metallic or percussive sound.
verb
(firearms) To take part in the sport of plinking.
(with "out") (colloquial) To play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano.
To make a plink sound.
pliny
pliny
Proper noun
An ancient Roman praenomen.
Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (23–79 AD): an ancient Roman nobleman, scientist and historian, author of Naturalis Historia, "Pliny's Natural History".
Pliny the Younger, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (63–ca. 113): an ancient Roman statesman, orator, and writer, a great-nephew of Pliny the Elder.
plion
pliss
pliss
adv
Pronunciation spelling of please, representing primarily German or Slavic accented English.
pluvi
poilu
poilu
noun
(historical) A French infantryman during the First World War
polik
polio
polio
noun
(countable, informal) A person who has poliomyelitis.
(uncountable) Abbreviation of poliomyelitis.
polis
polis
noun
(countable, Scotland, Ireland, Tyneside) A police officer.
(historical) A Greek city-state.
(uncountable, Scotland, Ireland, Tyneside) The police.
polit
polki
polki
adj
(India) Of diamonds: unfaceted.
poloi
pooli
prill
prill
noun
(mining) A nugget of virgin metal.
(obsolete) a spinning top
The brill, a kind of flatfish.
The button of metal from an assay.
a pellet, a granule, a small bead
a rill, a small stream
rich copper ore remaining after removal of low-grade material; a droplet of copper suspended in molten slag
verb
(intransitive, UK, dialect) To become tipsy.
(intransitive, UK, dialect) To grow sour.
to flow, spurt
to produce pellets by forming a molten substance into droplets which solidify while falling
pugil
pugil
noun
(obsolete) As much as is taken up between the thumb and two first fingers; a pinch.
pulik
pulik
noun
plural of puli
pulis
pulli
pulli
noun
plural of pullus
pupil
pupil
noun
(anatomy) The hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina.
(dated outside UK) A learner at a school under the supervision of a teacher.
(law, obsolete) An orphan who is a minor and under the protection of the state.
(zoology) The central dark part of an ocellated spot.
One who studies under supervision of a renowned expert in their field.
pylic
ripal
siple
slipe
slipe
noun
A sledge runner on which a skip is dragged in a mine.
slips
slips
noun
(cricket) the area of the field covered by fielders in the slip positions; the slip fielders collectively
plural of slip
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of slip
slipt
slipt
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of slip
spail
speil
spial
spial
noun
(obsolete) A spy.
(obsolete) Espionage.
spiel
spiel
noun
(music) An early form of rap music.
A game of curling.
A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade.
verb
(intransitive) To give a sales pitch; to promote by speaking.
(intransitive) To talk at length.
spile
spile
noun
(US) A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap.
(obsolete or dialectal) A splinter.
A pile; a post or girder.
A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask.
verb
(US, dialect, transitive, intransitive) spoil.
(transitive) To drive piles into.
(transitive) To support by means of spiles.
To draw off (a liquid) using a spile.
To plug (a hole) with a spile.
To provide (a barrel, tree etc.) with a spile.
spill
spill
noun
(Australian politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.
(countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.
(mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
(obsolete) A small sum of money.
A fall or stumble.
A metallic rod or pin.
A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
verb
(intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.
(nautical) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
(obsolete, intransitive) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
(of a knot) To come undone.
(transitive) To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
(transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
(transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.
(transitive) To reveal information to an uninformed party.
(transitive, Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
(transitive, slang, obsolete) To cause to be thrown from a mount, a carriage, etc.
To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
spilt
spilt
adj
That has been spilled.
verb
(chiefly Britain) simple past tense and past participle of spill
split
split
adj
(London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
(algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
(of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
(stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
(stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
Divided.
noun
(athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race.
(baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
(bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
(bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
(construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
(gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
(gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase "to do the splits") A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
(leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
(music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists.
(video games) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a speedrun.
A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
A crack or longitudinal fissure.
A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
A split shot or split stroke.
A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
verb
(algebra, transitive and intransitive, acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.
(intransitive) To burst out laughing.
(intransitive, of a couple) To separate.
(intransitive, of something solid, particularly wood) To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
(intransitive, politics) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
(intransitive, slang, dated) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
(sports, especially baseball) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
(transitive) To share; to divide.
(transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
(transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.
To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
spoil
spoil
noun
(Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
(archaic) The act of taking plunder from an enemy or victim; spoliation, pillage, rapine.
(uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.
verb
(aviation) To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.
(intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
(transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
(transitive) To reveal the ending or major events of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
(transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
(transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
(transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
(transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
(transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
tiple
tiple
noun
(music) Any of several kinds of small, plucked stringed-instrument of the guitar family, used in the traditional musics of Spain and various Latin American nations.