(of a beverage) Containing alcohol, intended for consumption only by adults.
(of a cookie, gummy, etc.) Containing marijuana, intended for consumption only by adults.
Containing excessive vulgar or profane speech, text or images, intended only for adults.
Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; of, or pertaining to, pornography.
Containing situations or discussions intended primarily for adults, such as serious crime, illicit drug use, extramarital affairs, etc.
Fully grown.
Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.
noun
A fully grown human or animal.
A person who has reached the legal age of majority.
verb
(intransitive, informal) To behave like an adult.
(nonstandard, rare) To (cause to) be or become an adult.
afoul
afoul
adv
(archaic, principally nautical) In a state of collision or entanglement.
(with of) In a state of entanglement or conflict (with).
ahull
ahull
adv
(nautical) Having the sails furled and the helm lashed alee, as during a storm.
(nautical) at the hull of a ship
akule
akule
noun
(Hawaii) The bigeye scad, Selar crumenophthalmus.
album
album
noun
(historical) In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.
A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.
A collection, especially of literary items
A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.
A jacket or cover for such a phonograph record.
A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks
albur
albus
alcus
aldus
alenu
aleus
aleut
aleut
Adjective
Of the Aleutian Islands, their inhabitants or their language.
Noun
A member of the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska in the United States and of Kamchatka Krai in the Russia.
A native or inhabitant of the Aleutian Islands.
Proper noun
The language of the Aleutian Islands, related to Eskimo (Inupiaq and Yupik).
alfur
algum
algum
noun
(biblical) A tree or wood mentioned in the Bible (2 Chron. ii. 8; 1 K. x. 11), possibly juniper or red sandalwood.
alius
almud
almud
noun
(historical) A low wide box once used for measuring almuds.
(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, highly variable depending on the location and the substance measured but generally between 3–20 L.
(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of land area, highly variable depending on the location and the substance measured.
(historical) Alternative form of almude, Portuguese forms of the same measure.
(historical) Synonym of celemin, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 4.6 L
almug
almug
noun
algum
alnus
aloud
aloud
adj
Spoken out loud.
adv
Audibly, as opposed to silently/quietly.
With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.
alout
altun
altus
aluco
aluin
alula
alula
noun
(ornithology) A small projection of three or four feathers on the first digit of the wing on some birds.
A flower, a species of Hawaiian lobelioid
alums
alums
noun
plural of alum
alurd
alure
alure
noun
(obsolete) A walk or passage.
aluta
alvus
amelu
ampul
ampul
noun
Alternative spelling of ampulla
amula
annul
annul
verb
(transitive) To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid.
(transitive) To formally revoke the validity of.
aralu
arulo
atule
audly
aulae
aulae
noun
plural of aula
aulas
aulea
aulic
aulic
adj
(architecture) Of, pertaining to, or resembling a palace.
(biology) Pertaining to the reproductive ducts of certain organisms.
Of or pertaining to a royal court; courtly.
Solemn.
noun
A ceremony at some European universities to confer a Doctor of Divinity degree.
aulis
auloi
auloi
noun
plural of aulos
aulos
aulos
noun
(music) Any of a class of ancient Greek musical instruments resembling pipes or flutes.
aumil
aumil
noun
Synonym of amildar
aural
aural
adj
Of or pertaining to an aura.
Of or pertaining to sound.
Of or pertaining to the ear.
aurel
auryl
auvil
auxil
awful
awful
adj
(dated) Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
(now rare) Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence or respect; profoundly impressive.
(now rare) Struck or filled with awe or reverence.
(obsolete) Terror-stricken.
Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.
Very bad.
adv
(colloquial) Awfully; dreadfully; terribly.
(colloquial, US, Canada) Very, extremely.
ayllu
ayllu
noun
A traditional family-based community in the Andes, especially among Quechua and Aymara peoples.
babul
babul
noun
A tree native to South Asia, Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica, formerly Acacia nilotica subsp. indica.
balau
balun
balun
noun
An electronic device for connecting a balanced transmission line to an unbalanced one.
balut
balut
noun
A dice game similar to Yahtzee
Asian street food consisting of a developing duck embryo boiled alive and eaten in the shell
bauld
baulk
baulk
noun
(British spelling) Alternative spelling of balk
beltu
belue
belus
bhalu
blaeu
blout
blued
blued
adj
Having the property of having been chemically passivated.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blue
bluer
bluer
adj
comparative form of blue: more blue
noun
(UK, school slang) A blue blazer, part of the school uniform at Harrow School.
(rare) Synonym of blue (“blue liquid added to laundry to prevent yellowing”)
blues
blues
noun
(Australian rules football) Carlton Football Club.
(drug slang) Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets but often laced with fentanyl that leads to overdose deaths (see opioid epidemic).
(music) A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.
(music, always singular) A musical composition following blues forms.
(rugby league) New South Wales.
(singular or plural, informal) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
(singular or plural, informal) The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience or idea.
(soccer, Birmingham) Birmingham City FC.
(soccer, Liverpudlian) Everton FC.
(soccer, London) Chelsea FC.
(soccer, Manchester) Manchester City FC.
(usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored.
plural of blue
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blue
bluet
bluet
noun
Any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish flowers.
Any of several small damselfly species, including the genera Coenagrion and Enallagma.
Centaurea, a plant genus in the family Asteraceae
Several plant genera in the family Rubiaceae, notably Houstonia and Oldenlandiopsis.
bluey
bluey
adj
Having a colour similar to blue.
noun
(Australia) A bluebottle.
(Australia, medicine) A disposable underpad.
(Australian slang) A blue cattle dog, especially a blue heeler.
(Australian slang) A blue singlet, especially one from the Bonds clothing label.
(Australian slang) A bushman's blanket.
(Australian slang) A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag.
(Australian slang) A person with red hair.
(informal) A blue film.
(slang) The metal lead.
bluff
bluff
adj
Having a broad, flattened front.
Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front.
Roughly frank and hearty in one's manners.
Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.
noun
(Canadian Prairies) A small wood or stand of trees, typically poplar or willow.
(US, dated) The card game poker.
(poker) An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does.
(slang, dated) An excuse.
A high, steep bank, for example by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.
An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one's position in order to intimidate; braggadocio.
One who bluffs; a bluffer.
verb
(Manglish, Singlish) To give false information intentionally; to lie; to deceive
(by analogy) To frighten or deter with a false show of strength or confidence; to give a false impression of strength or temerity in order to intimidate and gain some advantage.
(poker) To make a bluff; to give the impression that one's hand is stronger than it is.
To fluff, puff or swell up.
To take advantage by bluffing.
bluhm
bluma
blume
blunk
blunk
verb
(dialect, colloquial, informal) simple past tense of blink
(intransitive) To blench, blink; turn aside.
(transitive, Scotland) To spoil, mismanage.
blunt
blunt
adj
Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
Hard to impress or penetrate.
Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
noun
(UK, slang, archaic, uncountable) money
(smoking, slang, US) A marijuana cigar.
A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
A short needle with a strong point.
verb
(figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
blurb
blurb
noun
A short description of a book, film, or other work, written and used for promotional purposes.
verb
(transitive) To supply with a blurb.
(transitive) To write or quote in a blurb.
blurs
blurs
noun
plural of blur
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blur
blurt
blurt
noun
An abrupt outburst.
verb
To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to speak quickly or without thought; to divulge inconsiderately — commonly with out.
blush
blush
noun
(chiefly US) A pale pink wine made by removing the dark grape skins at the required point during fermentation.
(figuratively) Feeling or appearance of optimism.
(uncountable, countable) A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks.
A color between pink and cream.
A glow; a flush of colour, especially pink or red.
An act of blushing; a red glow on the face caused by shame, modesty, etc.
The collective noun for a group of boys.
verb
(aviation, intransitive) Of dope or varnish: to develop an undesirable white precipitate on the surface, due to being applied in humid conditions.
(copulative) To change skin color in the face (to a particular shade).
(intransitive) To become red in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.
(intransitive) To become red.
(intransitive) To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
(intransitive, figuratively) To be ashamed or embarrassed (to do something).
(intransitive, obsolete) To glance with the eye, cast a glance.
(transitive) To express or make known by blushing.
(transitive) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make rosy.
boldu
boldu
noun
Alternative form of boldo
bolus
bolus
noun
A round mass of something, especially of chewed food in the mouth or alimentary canal.
A single, large dose of a drug, especially one in that form.
verb
(intransitive) To take a bolus (dose) of insulin at a mealtime in order to control one's blood glucose level in diabetes.
(transitive) To administer (a drug) in bolus dosing, that is, dosing in (one or more) boluses.
boucl
boule
boule
noun
(historical) A council of citizens in Ancient Greece
(woodworking) A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.
(woodworking) Alternative form of buhl
A round loaf of bread.
A round piece of dough.
A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.
verb
(transitive, cooking, rare, nonstandard) To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball.
boult
boult
noun
Obsolete form of bolt.
verb
Alternative form of bolt (“to sift”)
brule
bubal
bubal
noun
An extinct subspecies of the hartebeest, Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus, which was formerly native to northern Africa.
buell
bugle
bugle
adj
(obsolete) jet-black
noun
A horn used by hunters.
A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
The sound of something that bugles.
verb
To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.
buhls
buhls
noun
plural of buhl
build
build
noun
(computing, countable) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.
(countable, uncountable) The physique of a human or animal body, or other object; constitution or structure.
(gaming, slang, countable) A structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, or a configuration of a character's items or skills, created by the player.
verb
(intransitive) To develop in magnitude or extent.
(intransitive) To form by combining materials or parts.
(intransitive, computing, of source code) To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.
(transitive) To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
(transitive) To establish a basis for (something).
(transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
(transitive) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
(transitive, computing) To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
built
built
adj
(informal) well-built, muscular or toned.
noun
(obsolete) Shape; build; form of structure.
verb
past participle of build
simple past tense of build
bulak
bulak
noun
An Indian nose ring usually worn by married women.
bulan
bulbs
bulbs
noun
plural of bulb
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bulb
bulby
bulge
bulge
noun
(colloquial) The outline of male genitals visible through clothing.
(figurative) A sudden rise in value or quantity.
(nautical) The bilge of a vessel.
Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
verb
(intransitive) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
(intransitive) To stick out from (a surface).
bulgy
bulgy
adj
Having one or more bulges; bulging
bulks
bulks
noun
plural of bulk
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bulk
bulky
bulky
adj
(bodybuilding) Having excess body mass, especially muscle.
Being large in size, mass, or volume.
Unwieldy.
bulla
bulla
noun
(archaeology) A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents.
(biology, medicine) (usually and especially) Such a blister that is more than 5 mm in diameter.
(biology, medicine) A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion, as:
(historical) In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss.
A rich Jamaican cake made with molasses and spiced with ginger and nutmeg.
Later, a handwritten document from the papal chancellery.
The tympanic part of a temporal bone (having a bubble-like appearance)
bulls
bulls
noun
plural of bull
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bull
bully
bully
adj
(US, slang) Very good.
(slang, obsolete) Jovial and blustering.
intj
(often followed by for) Well done!
noun
(dialectal) A companion; mate (male or female).
(field hockey) A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other's hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances. Also called bully-off.
(mining) A miner's hammer.
(obsolete or dialectal, Ireland and Northern England) An (eldest) brother; a fellow workman; comrade
(obsolete) A brisk, dashing fellow.
(obsolete) A darling, sweetheart (male or female).
(uncountable) Bully beef.
A hired thug.
A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.
A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege.
A sex worker’s minder.
The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
Various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper goby. , Gobiomorphus cotidianus]]
verb
(transitive) To act aggressively towards.
(transitive) To intimidate (someone) as a bully.
bulow
bulse
bulse
noun
(now rare) A bag or package of diamonds, gold dust or other precious materials.
burel
burel
noun
A coarse woolen cloth.
burls
burls
noun
plural of burl
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of burl
burly
burly
adj
(Britain, East End of London, slang) Great, amazing, unbelievable.
(US, slang, surf culture and/or Southern California) Of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both.
(usually of a man) Large, well-built, and muscular.
Full of burls or knots; knotty.
butle
butle
verb
(rare) Alternative form of buttle.
butyl
butyl
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of four isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C₄H₉, formally derived from butane by the loss of a hydrogen atom.
A synthetic rubber made by the polymerization of isobutylene.
cauld
cauli
cauli
noun
(informal) Clipping of cauliflower.
caulk
caulk
noun
A composition of vehicle and pigment used at ambient temperatures for filling/sealing joints or junctures, that remains elastic for an extended period of time after application.
Alternative form of calk (“pointed projection on a horseshoe”)
Caulking.
verb
(nautical) To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight.
(slang) To copulate.
To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials.
cauls
cauls
noun
plural of caul
chula
chula
noun
(Bangladesh, India) hearth, fireplace
churl
churl
noun
(Theodism) A freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall.
(archaic) A countryman, a peasant, a rustic.
(archaic) A person who is stingy, especially with money; a selfish miser, a niggard.
(derogatory) A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.
A bondman or serf.
A free peasant (as opposed to a serf) of the lowest rank, below an earl and a thane; a freeman; also (more generally), a person without royal or noble status; a commoner.
claud
claus
claut
claut
noun
A kind of rake.
The material raked up; a rakeful.
verb
To scratch or claw.
cleuk
cloud
cloud
noun
(computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
(figurative) Anything unsubstantial.
(figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
(obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
(slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings)
A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
verb
(intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
(intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
(transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
(transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
(transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.
(transitive) To make obscure.
(transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
(transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
clour
clour
noun
(Scotland) A blow or impingement.
verb
(Scotland, transitive) To inflict a blow on; punch.
(Scotland, transitive) To make a dent or bump on; ding.
clout
clout
noun
(archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
(archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
(archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
(baseball, informal) A home run.
(obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
(regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.
(regional, informal) A blow with the hand.
A clout nail.
Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
verb
Dated form of clot.
To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
To hit, especially with the fist.
To join or patch clumsily.
To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
clubb
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
cluck
cluck
noun
A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
Any sound similar to this.
The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
verb
(Britain, drug slang) to suffer withdrawal from heroin.
(transitive) To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
clued
clued
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clue
clues
clues
noun
plural of clue
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clue
cluff
clump
clump
noun
(historical) A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.
A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
A dull thud.
A small group of trees or plants.
A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
The compressed clay of coal strata.
verb
(intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.
(transitive, UK, regional) To strike; to beat.
(transitive, intransitive) To form clusters or lumps.
(transitive, intransitive) To gather in dense groups.
clune
clung
clung
adj
(obsolete) wasted away; shrunken
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cling
clunk
clunk
noun
(dated) The sound of liquid coming out of a bottle, etc.; a glucking sound.
A dull, metallic sound, especially one made by two bodies coming into contact.
verb
to make such a sound
cluny
clute
clute
Proper noun
A city in Texas.
colum
could
could
noun
Something that could happen, or could be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
verb
(obsolete except Tyneside) past participle of can
Used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact).
Used to politely ask for permission to do something.
Used to politely ask for someone else to do something.
Used to show the possibility that something might happen.
Used to suggest something.
simple past tense of can
cruel
cruel
adj
(slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
Harsh; severe.
Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.
adv
(nonstandard) To a great degree; terribly.
noun
Alternative form of crewel
verb
(Australia, transitive, intransitive) To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive.
(chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
crull
crull
adj
(obsolete) curly; curled
cubla
culch
culch
adj
(US, New England, Maine) Location where potentially useful junk items are collected: culch corner, culch drawer, culch pile.
noun
(US, New England, Maine) An accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use.
(US, New England, Maine) Junk or debris.
The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds.
verb
To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments; to sort shellfish or fish catch by size -- most often oysters -- so as to throw back the smallest to grow bigger and breed.
culet
culet
noun
(historical) A component of armor, consisting of overlapping plates designed to protect the buttocks.
A small, flat face often cut at the base of a brilliant-cut gemstone.
culex
culex
noun
Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Culex, some of which carry disease.
culla
culls
culls
noun
Any refuse material.
plural of cull
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cull
cully
cully
noun
(archaic) A person who is easily tricked or imposed on; a dupe, a gullible person.
(historical, archaic) A male client of a prostitute; a john, a gonk.
(slang) A companion.
verb
To trick, to impose on, to dupe.
culms
culms
noun
plural of culm
culmy
culot
culpa
culpa
noun
(law) Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart.