A tropical evergreen tree, Blighia sapida, related to the lychee and longan.
The fruit of the tree, of which only the arils are edible, the remainder being poisonous.
acker
acker
noun
(regional, now rare) A visible current in a lake or river; a ripple on the surface of water.
Obsolete form of acre.
ackey
ackey
noun
A silver coin once used in the Gold Coast (in Africa)
aleck
aleck
Proper noun
A diminutive of the male given name Alexander.
becka
becki
becks
becks
noun
plural of beck
becky
becky
Noun
A placeholder name used to refer to a (usually white) woman held in contempt by the speaker.
beeck
berck
bleck
bleck
intj
(rare) Alternative form of blech
noun
(dialectal) Coalfish (Pollachius virens).
(obsolete) A black man.
Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
Soot, smut.
verb
(obsolete, dialect) To blacken.
(obsolete, dialect) To defile.
breck
caked
caked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cake
caker
caker
noun
One who forms something into a cake.
cakes
cakes
noun
plural of cake
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cake
cakey
cakey
adj
Alternative spelling of caky
capek
celik
celka
check
check
adj
(heraldry) Divided into small squares (chequers) by transverse vertical and horizontal lines.
noun
(US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
(US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator.
(US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
(chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
(contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
(falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds. [from 15th c.]
(textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
A control; a limit or stop.
A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
A mark, certificate, or token by which errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
A small chink or crack.
A token used instead of cash in gaming machines, or in gambling generally.
An inspection or examination.
Any fabric woven with such a pattern.
verb
(US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).
(chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.
(falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
(nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
(obsolete) To clash or interfere.
(poker) To announce that one is remaining in a hand without betting.
(sports) To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.
(street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
(transitive) To mark with a check pattern.
To act as a curb or restraint.
To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
To control, limit, or halt.
To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
To inspect; to examine.
To leave in safekeeping.
To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
To make a stop; to pause; with at.
To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
To verify or compare with a source of information.
To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
cheek
cheek
noun
(anatomy) The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.
(anatomy, informal, usually in the plural) The lower part of the buttocks that is often exposed beneath very brief underwear, swimwear, or extremely short shorts.
(biology, informal) One of the genae, flat areas on the sides of a trilobite's cephalon.
(figurative, informal, uncountable) Impudence.
(in the plural) The branches of a bridle bit. .
(metalworking) The middle section of a flask, made so that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mould.
(nautical) pump-cheek, pump-cheeks, a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened by means of a bolt and can thus move around and move the upper box of the pump up and down
Either side of an axehead.
One of the pieces of a machine, or of timber or stonework, that form corresponding sides or a similar pair.
verb
Don't cheek me, you little rascal!
To be impudent towards.
To pull a horse's head back toward the saddle using the cheek strap of the bridle.
cheka
cheke
cheki
cheki
noun
(Turkish units of measurement) A unit of weight equal to 200 kg (441 lbs.).
(historical units of measurement) A former Turkish unit of weight equal to 100 dirhems (variously .15–.35 kg).
(historical units of measurement) A former Turkish unit of weight equal to 180 okas.
choke
choke
noun
(electronics) A choking coil.
(sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
verb
(golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
(intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
(intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
(intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
(intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
(intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
(transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
(transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
(transitive) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
(transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
(transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
(transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
(transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
(transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
clake
clake
noun
Alternative form of claik (the barnacle goose)
cleck
cleck
verb
(chiefly Scotland, transitive) To hatch (a bird); (colloquial) to give birth to (a person).
cleek
cleek
noun
(chiefly Scotland) A large hook.
(golf, dated) A metal-headed golf club with little loft, equivalent in a modern set of clubs to a one or two iron or a four wood.
verb
(golf, dated, transitive) To strike with the club called a cleek.
clerk
clerk
noun
(Quakerism) A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.
(archaic) In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk).
(dated) A cleric or clergyman (the legal title for clergy of the Church of England is "Clerk in Holy Orders", still used in legal documents and cherished by some of their number).
(obsolete) A scholar.
A law clerk.
A salesclerk; a person who serves customers in a store or market.
An employee at a hotel who deals with guests.
One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
verb
The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer.
To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk
cleuk
cloke
cloke
noun
Archaic spelling of cloak.
cocke
cocke
verb
Obsolete spelling of cock
coked
coked
adj
Intoxicated with cocaine.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of coke
coker
coker
noun
(category theory, informal) cokernel
(derogatory, slang) A cocaine addict, a cokehead
The industrial plant in which coke is manufactured
cokes
cokes
noun
plural of coke
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coke
cokey
cokie
cooke
cooke
Proper noun
for a cook, or a seller of cooked food.
corke
crake
crake
noun
(obsolete) A crack; a boast.
Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.
verb
(obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.
creak
creak
noun
The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
verb
(intransitive) To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.
(intransitive, figurative) To suffer from strain or old age.
(transitive) To produce a creaking sound with.
creek
creek
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US) A stream of water (often freshwater) smaller than a river and larger than a brook; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.
(Britain) A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
Any turn or winding.
cukes
cukes
noun
plural of cuke
decke
decks
decks
noun
plural of deck
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deck
dreck
dreck
noun
(informal) Trash; worthless merchandise.
dweck
eckel
encke
erick
erick
noun
Alternative form of eric (“fine paid as compensation for violent crimes”)
eveck
fecks
fecks
noun
(in minced oaths) Faith.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of feck
fleck
fleck
noun
A flake.
A lock, as of wool.
A small spot or streak; a speckle.
verb
(transitive) To mark (something) with small spots.
freck
freck
adj
(Scotland) prompt; eager
verb
(transitive, rare, poetic) To checker; to diversify.
gecko
gecko
noun
Any lizard of the family Gekkonidae. They are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to climb on vertical and upside-down surfaces.
Misspelling of get-go.
verb
(rare) To move in the manner of a gecko; to attach to a vertical or upside-down surface.
gecks
gecks
noun
plural of geck
hacek
hecks
hecks
noun
plural of heck
icken
icker
icker
noun
A head of grain.
ickes
ickle
ickle
adj
(childish, chiefly UK) Little.
noun
(dialectal) An icicle.
kacey
kacie
kacie
Proper noun
name, a fanciful variant of
keach
kechi
kecks
kecks
noun
(Northern English dialect, Scotland) Trousers.
(Northern English dialect, Scotland) Underpants.
kecky
keech
keech
noun
(obsolete) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
kelci
kelcy
kench
kench
noun
A bin or enclosure in which fish or skins are salted.
kerch
kerch
Proper noun
A city on the Kerch Peninsula of eastern Crimea, on the shore of Kerch Strait; an important industrial, transport and tourist centre of Ukraine.
ketch
ketch
noun
A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
A hangman.
verb
(rare) To hang.
Pronunciation spelling of catch.
kopec
korec
lbeck
lecky
lecky
noun
(Britain, slang) Electricity.
locke
locke
noun
Archaic spelling of lock.
mckee
mecke
merck
moeck
necks
necks
noun
plural of neck
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of neck
ocker
ocker
adj
(slang, Australia) Uncultivated; boorish.
noun
(Now chiefly dialectal) Interest on money; usury; increase.
(slang, Australia) A boorish or uncultivated Australian.
verb
(transitive, Now chiefly dialectal) To increase (in price); add to.
pecks
pecks
noun
plural of peck
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of peck
pecky
pecky
adj
Discoloured by fungus growth or insects.
Inclined to peck.
pleck
pleck
noun
(UK dialectal) A plot of ground.
recks
recks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reck
scoke
scoke
noun
Pokeweed, Phytolacca americana (formerly Phytolacca decandra).
skice
sleck
sleck
verb
(Scotland) To groan when overloaded with food; sigh with repletion.
(dialectal) To slake; allay; cool; quench; extinguish.
Alternative form of slake
sneck
sneck
noun
(Northern England, Scotland) A latch or catch.
(Northern England, Scotland) The nose.
A cut.
verb
(transitive) To cut.
(transitive) To latch, to lock.
speck
speck
noun
(uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.
A very small thing; a particle; a whit.
Fat; lard; fat meat.
The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
The fat of the hippopotamus.
verb
(transitive) To mark with specks; to speckle.
steck
steck
noun
(Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) A piece or an item.
tieck
wacke
wacke
noun
(geology) A soft, earthy, dark-coloured rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.
wreck
wreck
noun
(law, not countable) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
(ornithology) A large number of birds that have been brought to the ground, injured or dead, by extremely adverse weather.
(specifically, nautical) A shipwreck: an event in which a ship is heavily damaged or destroyed.
An event in which something is damaged through collision.
Something or someone that has been ruined.
The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
verb
(intransitive) To be involved in a wreck; to be damaged or destroyed.
(transitive) To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
(transitive) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
(transitive) To ruin or dilapidate.
(transitive, Australia) To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.