A kind of infinite primal chaos in the cosmological theory of Anaximander.
aperies
aperies
noun
plural of apery
aphrite
aphrite
noun
(mineralogy) A foliated or chalk-like variety of calcite.
aporiae
apperil
apperil
noun
(obsolete) peril
applier
applier
noun
A person or device that applies something.
apprise
apprise
verb
(rare) To formally impart (information) to someone; to advise, to notify.
(specifically, Scotland, law) To put a price on (something) for the purpose of sale; to appraise.
Synonym of appraise (“to determine the value or worth of (something)”)
To make (someone or oneself) aware of some information; to inform, to notify.
apprize
apprize
verb
Archaic form of appraise.
Archaic form of apprise.
apteria
apteria
noun
plural of apterium
argiope
aripeka
aripple
aripple
adj
rippling
arsippe
aspired
aspired
verb
simple past tense and past participle of aspire
aspiree
aspirer
aspirer
Noun
One who aspires to something.
aspires
aspires
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aspire
bechirp
begripe
begripe
verb
(transitive) To lay hold of; apprehend; grip; grasp.
bepride
bispore
bispore
noun
(biology) Either of a pair of asexual spores produced by some red algae
brephic
bumpier
bumpier
adj
comparative form of bumpy: more bumpy
caliper
caliper
noun
(automotive) The part of a disc brake that holds the brake pads.
(usually plural only) Uncommon form of calipers.
verb
(transitive) To use calipers to measure the size of.
campier
campier
adj
comparative form of campy: more campy
cappier
caprice
caprice
noun
(music) A capriccio.
A brief romance.
A disposition to be impulsive.
An impulsive, seemingly unmotivated action, change of mind, or notion.
An unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes.
caprine
caprine
adj
Goatlike.
Of or relating to goats.
noun
Alternative form of caprin
Any of certain caprids (including sheep) that are regarded as being similar to the goat; any member of the tribe Caprini.
caraipe
caraipe
noun
A Brazilian tree of the genus Caraipa; the timber of this tree
ceriops
ceriphs
ceriphs
noun
plural of ceriph
charpie
charpie
noun
(medicine, now historical) Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth, used for surgical dressings.
chipper
chipper
adj
Exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful.
noun
(Ireland, slang) A fish and chip shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods.
(US, smoking) An occasional tobacco user, or more generally drug user.
(golf) A golf club for making chip shots.
(in particular, US) A machine that reduces organic matter to compost; depending on size, whole tree trunks are reduced to sawdust; a woodchipper.
(slang) A deep frier.
(sports) A player who chips the ball.
A company that manufactures potato chips/potato crisps.
A machine that chips potatoes into pieces that are ready to be fried and made into chips.
Someone who or something which chips (e.g. wood).
verb
(UK, dialect) To chirp or chirrup.
chirped
chirped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chirp
chirper
chirper
noun
(Canada, slang, mildly derogatory) A person who speaks with a distinct English or Welsh accent.
(obsolete, slang) A chirping cup; an alcoholic drink.
A thing or animal that makes a chirping sound.
ciphers
ciphers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cipher
clipper
clipper
noun
(chiefly in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
(electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
(entomology) The Asian butterfly Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.
(historical) A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.
(informal) An Alberta clipper.
(nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
(slang) A confidence trickster; a conman.
Anything that clips.
verb
(transitive) To cut or style (the hair) using clippers.
copiers
copiers
noun
plural of copier
crappie
crappie
noun
A member of either of two species of North American sunfish of the genus Pomoxis. Both are silvery-white with black speckles, and prized as gamefish.
creepie
creepie
noun
(Scotland) A low stool.
crepier
crepier
adj
comparative form of crepy: more crepy
noun
A hotplate used to make crêpes.
A person who makes crepes, a proprietor of a creperie.
crepine
creping
creping
verb
present participle of crepe
crimped
crimped
adj
With a crimp in it; crushed shut.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of crimp
crimper
crimper
noun
(chiefly Britain) A hairdresser.
A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.
A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
A person who crimps when climbing.
A small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers.
A tool used to crimp, to join two pieces of metal.
An instrument for crimping or ruffling pastry when making a pie.
Someone who adds pleats to fabric for clothes, drapery, etc.
crimple
crimple
verb
(archaic) to crumple, crimp
crippen
cripple
cripple
adj
(now rare, dated) crippled
noun
(among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.
(dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) scrapple.
(sometimes offensive) a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
verb
(figuratively) To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.
(figuratively) To damage seriously; to destroy.
(slang, video games) To nerf something which is overpowered.
To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
crisped
crisped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of crisp
crispen
crispen
Verb
To make crisp.
To become crisp.
crisper
crisper
adj
comparative form of crisp: more crisp
noun
(archaic) A device for crisping or curling the hair.
A cooled food storage container, used to cool items that do not require complete refrigeration.
An instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth.
The section of a refrigerator used to store fruit and vegetables at a slightly higher temperature than the rest of the refrigerator.
croppie
croppie
noun
(informal) A crop circle enthusiast who believes in the paranormal origin of crop circles.
Alternative form of croppy (“Irish republican rebel”)
The crappie, a food fish.
cuppier
cuprein
cupride
cuprite
cuprite
noun
(mineralogy) A mineral composed of cuprous oxide and a minor ore of copper.
cyprine
cyprine
adj
(botany) Of or pertaining to the cypress.
dampier
dampier
Proper noun
A port in the north-west of Western Australia
dapifer
dapifer
noun
The most senior of the five great officers of state in the medieval French royal court.
The official title of the steward in a medieval English nobleman's household.
The servant that brings the meat to the table at a meal.
deipara
demirep
demirep
noun
(colloquial, dated) A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress.
deprint
deprive
deprive
verb
(transitive) To bereave.
(transitive) To degrade (a clergyman) from office.
(transitive) To take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
deripia
despair
despair
noun
Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
That which causes despair.
That which is despaired of.
verb
(intransitive, often with “of”) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.
(transitive) To cause to despair.
(transitive, obsolete) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
diapers
diapers
noun
plural of diaper
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of diaper
diapery
diasper
diopter
diopter
noun
(obsolete) A surgical speculum.
(obsolete) A theodolite or similar surveyor’s angle measuring device.
(obsolete) An alidade.
(obsolete) An instrument for drawing the skull by projections.
(obsolete) Any lens system, such as a telescope.
(photography, dated) A lens element attached to the front of a photographic lens to shorten the lens's minimum focus distance; also called a "close-up filter".
A unit of measure of the power of a lens or mirror, equal to the reciprocal of its focal length in meters. Myopia is diagnosed and measured in diopters.
The dioptre adjustment mechanism of a pair of binoculars or of a camera viewfinder.
dioptre
dioptre
noun
Alternative spelling of diopter
dippers
dippers
noun
plural of dipper
dippier
dippier
adj
comparative form of dippy: more dippy
diptera
dipware
dirempt
dirempt
adj
(obsolete, past participial) Distinct; separate; secrete; divided.
verb
(transitive, principally in philosophy) To separate; to divide; to break off.
discerp
discerp
verb
To separate; to disunite.
To tear into pieces; to rend.
dnieper
dnieper
Proper noun
A large river flowing southerly through Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine into the Black Sea.
dripped
dripped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of drip
dripper
dripper
noun
A dripping cake.
Agent noun of drip; one who drips.
An outlet in the microtubing used in drip irrigation.
Synonym of drip tip.
dripple
dripple
adj
(obsolete) rare
(obsolete) weak
verb
(intransitive) to dribble briskly; to drip with wet
dropvie
dumpier
dumpier
adj
comparative form of dumpy: more dumpy
earclip
earclip
noun
An earring for people who do not have pierced ears
An identifying tag for cattle
earpick
earpick
noun
An instrument for removing earwax from the ear.
emperil
emperil
verb
Dated form of imperil.
empires
empires
noun
plural of empire
empiric
empiric
adj
Empirical.
noun
(historical) A member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience.
Any unqualified or dishonest practitioner; a charlatan; a quack.
Someone who is guided by empiricism; an empiricist.
empirin
emporia
emporia
noun
plural of emporium
emprime
emprint
emprint
verb
Obsolete form of imprint.
emprise
emprise
noun
(archaic) An enterprise or endeavor, especially a quest or adventure.
(archaic) The qualities which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits; chivalric prowess.
verb
(obsolete) To undertake.
emprize
emprize
noun
Obsolete form of emprise.
emptier
emptier
adj
comparative form of empty: more empty
noun
A person who, or device which empties
encarpi
encarpi
noun
plural of encarpus
encrisp
enripen
enripen
verb
(transitive, archaic) To ripen; develop from incipiency to maturity; bring to perfection.
epacrid
epacrid
noun
Any of the family Ericaceae (syn. Epacridaceae) of heathers.
epacris
epacris
noun
(botany) Any of the genus Epacris of shrubs.
epeiric
epeiric
adj
Describing the part of a sea that lies over a continental shelf
epeirid
epeirid
noun
(zoology) Any of the former genus Epeira (now Araneus) of spiders.
epeirot
ephoric
ephraim
epicarp
epicarp
noun
(botany) Exocarp.
epicier
epicure
epicure
noun
A person who takes particular pleasure in fine food and drink.
epiderm
epiderm
noun
(anatomy) The epidermis.
epigram
epigram
noun
(obsolete) An inscription in stone.
A brief but witty saying.
A short, witty or pithy poem.
epimere
epimere
noun
(biology) One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so-called homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one of the similar segments in plants, as in a segmented leaf.
epimers
epimers
noun
plural of epimer
epinard
epirote
epitria
epiural
erepsin
erepsin
noun
A protein fraction found in the intestinal juices, containing a group of enzymes that digest peptones into amino acids.
ereptic
eryopid
eryopid
noun
(zoology) Any extinct amphibian of the family †Eryopidae
escript
escript
noun
(obsolete) A writing.
espeire
esprise
esprise
verb
(obsolete) to inflame with passion or romantic love.
esprits
euripos
eurippa
euripus
euripus
noun
(by extension) A flux and reflux.
A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide or a current flows and reflows with violence, like the ancient firth of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia.
expired
expired
adj
dead
that has been breathed out
that is no longer valid
verb
simple past tense and past participle of expire
expiree
expiree
noun
(Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict whose sentence had been served.
expirer
expirer
noun
One who or that which expires.
expires
expires
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expire
firepan
firepan
noun
A pan for holding or conveying fire, especially the receptacle for the priming of a gun.
firepot
firepot
noun
A pot used to hold or carry fire.
An early incendiary device, an earthenware pot filled with combustible materials and ignited through a hole in the bottom.
firetop
flipper
flipper
noun
(cricket) A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce.
(dated, slang) The hand.
(dentistry) A kind of false tooth, usually temporary.
(informal, US) Television remote control, clicker.
(theater) A small flat used to support a larger one.
A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play.
A flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming.
A kitchen spatula.
In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming.
Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin.
Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit.
verb
To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water.
forpine
forpine
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To pine away.
(transitive, archaic) To waste away through suffering or through torment.
1924, G. M. Cookson, Prometheus Bound
fripper
fripper
noun
(obsolete) One who deals in frippery or old clothes.
frippet
frippet
noun
(obsolete) A frivolous young woman.
gapperi
gappier
gappier
adj
comparative form of gappy: more gappy
gariepy
garpike
garpike
noun
(especially UK) A saltwater fish in the family Belonidae.
(especially US) A freshwater fish in the family Lepisosteidae.
gasperi
gimpier
gimpier
adj
comparative form of gimpy: more gimpy
gippers
gippers
noun
plural of gipper
gipsire
goopier
goopier
adj
comparative form of goopy: more goopy
grapier
grapier
adj
comparative form of grapey: more grapey
griecep
gripers
gripers
noun
plural of griper
gripier
gripmen
gripmen
noun
plural of gripman
gripped
gripped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of grip
gripper
gripper
noun
(curling) A rubber or other material attached to a curling shoe to improve traction on the ice.
(graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
(rail transport, slang) A ticket collector.
A cover on the handle of a bicycle, tool, etc, that makes it easier to grip.