Dumplings made with a deep-fried batter of rice, yeast, sugar, eggs, and flour, part of Creole cuisine.
calfs
calfs
noun
(nonstandard) plural of calf
calks
calks
noun
plural of calk
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calk
calls
calls
noun
plural of call
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of call
calms
calms
noun
plural of calm
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calm
calrs
carls
carls
noun
plural of carl
casal
casal
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to case.
casel
cauls
cauls
noun
plural of caul
ceils
ceils
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ceil
cells
cells
noun
plural of cell
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cell
celss
celts
celts
noun
plural of celt
clads
clads
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clad
claes
claes
noun
(Scotland) clothes
clags
clags
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clag
clams
clams
noun
plural of clam
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clam
clans
clans
noun
plural of clan
claps
claps
noun
plural of clap
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clap
clash
clash
noun
(Scotland) Chatter; gossip; idle talk.
(hurling) An instance of restarting the game after a "dead ball", where it is dropped between two opposing players, who can fight for possession.
(onomatopoeia) A loud sound, like the crashing together of metal objects.
(sports) match; a game between two sides.
A combination of garments that do not look good together, especially because of conflicting colours.
A skirmish, a hostile encounter.
An angry argument
Opposition; contradiction; such as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes etc.
verb
(intransitive) To argue angrily.
(intransitive) To make a clashing sound.
(intransitive, Scotland) To chatter or gossip.
(intransitive, in games or sports) To face each other in an important game.
(intransitive, of clothes, decor, colours) To fail to look good together; to contrast unattractively; to fail to harmonize.
(intransitive, of events) To coincide, to happen at the same time, thereby rendering it impossible to attend all.
(transitive) To cause to make a clashing sound.
To come into violent conflict.
clasp
clasp
noun
(in the singular) An embrace, a grasp, or handshake.
A fastener or holder, particularly one that clasps.
verb
(transitive) To take hold of; to grasp.
To shut or fasten together with, or as if with, a clasp.
class
class
adj
(Ireland, Tyneside, slang) great; fabulous
noun
(countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
(countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
(education, countable and uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
(military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
(object-oriented programming, countable) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set in terms of its common properties, functions, etc.
(set theory) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
(sociology, countable) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes: upper class, middle class and working class.
(statistics) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
(taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
(uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
(uncountable) The division of society into classes.
A series of lessons covering a single subject.
Best of its kind.
One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
verb
(intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
(transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.
(transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
clast
clast
noun
(geology) a fragment of rock that was broken from a larger rock or rock unit.
claus
claws
claws
noun
plural of claw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of claw
clays
clays
noun
plural of clay
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clay
clefs
clefs
noun
plural of clef
clews
clews
noun
plural of clew
clips
clips
noun
plural of clip
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clip
clods
clods
noun
plural of clod
cloes
clogs
clogs
noun
plural of clog
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clog
clois
clons
clops
clops
noun
plural of clop
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clop
close
close
adj
(Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
(archaic) Concise; to the point.
(archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
(dated) Difficult to obtain.
(dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
(law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
(linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
(now rare) Closed, shut.
(obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
At a little distance; near.
Intimate; well-loved.
Marked, evident.
Narrow; confined.
Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
Short.
Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
noun
(Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
(Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
(aviation, travel) The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
(chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
(law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
(music) A double bar marking the end.
(music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
(now rare, chiefly Yorkshire) An enclosed field.
(sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
A cathedral close.
A grapple in wrestling.
An end or conclusion.
The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
verb
(Philippines) To turn off; to switch off.
(baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
(figurative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
(intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
(marketing) To make a sale.
(surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
(transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
(transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
(transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
To come to an end.
To grapple; to engage in close combat.
To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
To move so that an opening is closed.
To obstruct (an opening).
To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
closh
closh
noun
(obsolete) The game of ninepins.
A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis; founder.
clots
clots
noun
plural of clot
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clot
cloys
cloys
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cloy
clubs
clubs
noun
Alternative form of clumps (“game of asking questions”)
One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♣.
plural of club
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of club
clues
clues
noun
plural of clue
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clue
coals
coals
noun
plural of coal
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coal
coils
coils
noun
plural of coil
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coil
colas
colas
noun
plural of cola
colds
colds
noun
plural of cold
coles
coles
noun
plural of cole
colis
colts
colts
noun
plural of colt
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of colt
cools
cools
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cool
cowls
cowls
noun
plural of cowl
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cowl
culls
culls
noun
Any refuse material.
plural of cull
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cull
culms
culms
noun
plural of culm
cults
cults
noun
plural of cult
curls
curls
noun
Specifically, a body of curly hair on someone's head.
plural of curl
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of curl
eclss
flics
flics
noun
plural of flic
flocs
flocs
noun
plural of floc
fslic
laces
laces
noun
plural of lace
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lace
lacis
lacis
noun
A type of lace consisting of patterns darned on to net.
lacks
lacks
noun
plural of lack
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lack
laics
laics
noun
plural of laic
lancs
lccis
lcsen
leics
lfacs
licks
licks
noun
plural of lick
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lick
lincs
lisco
lochs
lochs
noun
plural of loch
locks
locks
noun
(colloquial) Dreadlocks.
A head of hair; tresses.
plural of lock
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lock
locos
locos
noun
plural of loco
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of loco
locus
locus
noun
(chiefly in the plural) A passage in writing, especially in a collection of ancient sacred writings arranged according to a theme.
(genetics) A fixed position on a chromosome that may be occupied by one or more genes.
(mathematics) The set of all points whose coordinates satisfy a given equation or condition.
A place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime.
lucas
luces
luces
noun
plural of luce
lucks
lucks
noun
plural of luck
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of luck
lycus
oscrl
sacul
salic
salic
Adjective
Salian.
scala
scala
noun
(anatomy) Ladder-like structure in the cochlea of a mammal's ear.
A machine formerly used for reducing dislocations of the humerus.
Ladder; sequence.
scald
scald
adj
(obsolete) Affected with the scab; scabby.
(obsolete) Paltry; worthless.
noun
(obsolete) Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
Alternative form of skald
verb
(cooking) To heat almost to boiling.
To burn with hot liquid.
scale
scale
noun
(music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
(obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
A device to measure mass or weight.
A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
A scale insect.
A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.
An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.
Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
Limescale.
Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
Size; scope.
The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
verb
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
(intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
(intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
(intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
(transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
(transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
(transitive) To climb to the top of.
(transitive) To remove the scales of.
(transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
(transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
(transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
scalf
scall
scall
adj
Mean; wretched.
noun
(mining) Loose ground.
A scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp.
scalp
scalp
noun
(Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish.
(figurative) The top; the summit.
(figuratively) A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
(heraldry) The skin of the head of a stag with the horns attached.
(historical) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.
(now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull.
The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
verb
(Canada, US, slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
(finance) On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
(gambling) To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.
(milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
(surgery) To remove the skin of.
(transitive) To destroy the political influence of.
(transitive) To remove the grass from.
To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
scalt
scalx
scaly
scaly
adj
(dated, vulgar or South Africa) low, mean.
Composed of scales lying over each other.
Covered or abounding with scales.
Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
noun
(South Africa) The scaly yellowfish (Labeobarbus natalensis).
scalz
scaul
scawl
scelp
scelp
noun
Alternative form of skelp (“narrow strip of rolled or forged metal”)
schul
sclar
sclat
sclav
sclaw
scler
sclim
scolb
scold
scold
noun
A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.
verb
(ornithology) Of birds, to make harsh vocalisations in aggression.
(transitive, intransitive) To rebuke angrily.
Misconstruction of scald
Of birds, to make vocalisations that resemble human scolding.
scowl
scowl
noun
(UK, dialect, obsolete) Old workings of iron ore.
(by extension) Gloom; dark or threatening aspect.
The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.
verb
(intransitive) To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
(intransitive, by extension) To look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
(transitive) To express by a scowl.
(transitive) To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
sculk
sculk
verb
Alternative spelling of skulk
scull
scull
noun
(obsolete) A shoal of fish.
A light rowing boat used for racing by one, two, or four rowers, each operating two oars (sculls), one in each hand.
A single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward.
A skull cap. A small bowl-shaped helmet, without visor or bever.
A small rowing boat, for one person.
Obsolete form of skull.
One of a pair of oars handled by a single rower.
The skua gull.
verb
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To drink the entire contents of (a drinking vessel) without pausing.
To row a boat using a scull or sculls.
To skate while keeping both feet in contact with the ground or ice.
sculp
sculp
verb
(obsolete, sometimes humorous) To sculpture; to carve or engrave.
(transitive) To flay.
scult
scyld
sicel
sicle
sicle
noun
(obsolete) A shekel.
slack
slack
adj
(linguistics) Lax.
(normally said of a rope) Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
(slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
Excess; surplus to requirements.
Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
Moderate in speed.
Moderately warm.
Not active or busy, successful, or violent.
Weak; not holding fast.
adv
Slackly.
noun
(countable) A tidal marsh or shallow that periodically fills and drains.
(countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell.
(mining) Small coal; coal dust.
(rail transport) A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
(uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
(uncountable, psychotherapy) Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.
verb
(obsolete) To mitigate; to reduce the strength of.
To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
To slacken.
sleck
sleck
verb
(Scotland) To groan when overloaded with food; sigh with repletion.
(dialectal) To slake; allay; cool; quench; extinguish.
Alternative form of slake
slice
slice
adj
(mathematics) Having the properties of a slice knot.
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, UK) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
(Britain) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
(colloquial) An amount of anything.
(falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
(golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
(medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
(printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
(programming) A contiguous portion of an array.
A broad, thin piece of plaster.
A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
A salver, platter, or tray.
A thin, broad piece cut off.
One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
That which is thin and broad.
verb
(transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
(transitive) To cut into slices.
(transitive) To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
(transitive, badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
(transitive, golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
(transitive, rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
(transitive, soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
(transitive, tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
slich
slick
slick
adj
(US, West Coast slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
(often used sarcastically) Clever, making an apparently hard task easy.
Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
Sleek; smooth.
Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
noun
(US, military slang) A helicopter.
(by extension, hydrodynamics, US, dated) A rapidly-expanding ring of dark water, resembling an oil slick, around the site of a large underwater explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress through the water of the shock wave generated by the explosion.
(fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, the copious, lubricating bodily fluid produced by an omega in heat.
(printing) A camera-ready image to be used by a printer. The "slick" is photographed to produce a negative image which is then used to burn a positive offset plate or other printing device.
(sports, automotive) A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
A tool used to make something smooth or even.
A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
Alternative form of schlich
Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.
verb
To make slick.
slock
slock
noun
(Scotland, Northern England) A draught; a gulp.
An improvised weapon consisting of a padlock placed in a sock, common in prison environments.
verb
(Scotland, Northern England) To swallow, gulp.
(intransitive, transitive) To hunt (wild game) with preindustrial tools such as spears, blowguns, slingshots, arrows, crossbows, or others.
socle
socle
noun
(algebra, ring theory) The sum of the minimal normal submodules of a given R-module of a given ring R.
(architecture) A low plinth or pedestal used to display a statue or other artwork.
(architecture) A plain face or plinth at the foot of a wall.
(group theory) The subgroup generated by the minimal normal subgroups of a given group.
sulci
sulci
noun
plural of sulcus
talcs
talcs
noun
plural of talc
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of talc
ulcus
ulcus
noun
(palynology) A rounded, pore-like aperture at either pole of a pollen grain.