HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. (intensifier) Out of all living creatures.
2. (of electrical wiring) Carrying electrical current; energized.
3. (programming) Synonym of live
4. Busy with activity of many living beings; swarming; thronged; busy.
5. Having life; living; not dead.
6. In a state of action; in force or operation; existent.
7. Sprightly; lively; brisk.
8. Susceptible, sensitive; easy to impress; having keen feelings, as opposed to apathy.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of arval

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To descend; to fall; to dismount.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To bring low; to abase.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.

adj

1. (obsolete, figurative) Morally distorted; not upright.
2. Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.

noun

1. (gambling) A die used for cheating, having some sides slightly rounded instead of flat.
2. An edge that is canted, one that is not a 90-degree angle; a chamfer.
3. An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; a bevel square.

verb

1. (transitive) To give a canted edge to a surface; to chamfer.

verb

1. (intransitive) to assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf
2. (intransitive) to give birth to a calf
3. (intransitive, figuratively, especially of an ice shelf, a glacier, an ice sheet, or even an iceberg) to shed a large piece, e.g. an iceberg or a smaller block of ice (coming off an iceberg)
4. (intransitive, figuratively, especially of an iceberg) to break off
5. (transitive) to give birth to (a calf)
6. (transitive, figuratively, especially of an ice shelf, a glacier, an ice sheet, or even an iceberg) to shed (a large piece, e.g. an iceberg); to set loose (a mass of ice), e.g. a block of ice (coming off an iceberg)

noun

1. (dialectal) A horse's bit.
2. (obsolete or dialectal) A parcel or allotment of land.
3. (obsolete or dialectal) A part, share, lot.
4. (obsolete or dialectal) The stick or runestaff used in casting lots; a lot.
5. (obsolete) A gag.
6. Alternative form of kevel (“stonemason's hammer”)

noun

1. (music) A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave.
2. singular of claves

verb

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of cleave

noun

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A cottage.
2. (now chiefly dialectal) A room; chamber.
3. (obsolete) A cliff or hillside.

noun

1. Burdock or agrimony.

verb

1. (intransitive) To climb; ascend.
2. (transitive) To split; separate; cleave; chop.

noun

1. (countable) A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
2. (countable) An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.
3. (geography) A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch
4. (horticulture, cooking) One of the small bulbs formed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb.
5. (uncountable, countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.

verb

1. simple past tense of cleave

noun

1. (now rare) A pit or den.

verb

1. (intransitive) To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To dig; to excavate.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out

noun

1. (Scotland) Alternative spelling of devvel

name

1. (theology) The chief devil; Satan.

noun

1. (cooking) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
2. (cycling, slang) An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.
3. (dialectal, in compounds) A barren, unproductive and unused area.
4. (euphemistic, with an article, as an intensifier) Hell.
5. (folklore) A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.
6. (nautical) Ellipsis of devil seam.: The seam between garboard strake and the keel (a seam on wooden boats)
7. (theology) An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.
8. A Tasmanian devil.
9. A dust devil.
10. A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
11. A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.
12. A printer's assistant. Also (India) "a poltergeist that haunts printing works".
13. A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
14. A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.
15. The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.

verb

1. To annoy or bother.
2. To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.
3. To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
4. To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
5. To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and spices, which mixture then is placed into the halved whites to be served.
6. To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.

noun

1. (dialect or archaic) Alternative spelling of devil

verb

1. (obsolete) To rend apart.

noun

1. (obsolete) A pupil or student.

adj

1. (mining) Of or relating to certain veins of feldspathic or porphyritic rock crossing metalliferous veins in the mining districts of Cornwall.
2. (uncommon) Elven, elfin, pertaining to elves.

noun

1. (mining) The rock of an elvan vein, or the vein itself.

noun

1. A young eel.

noun

1. plural of elf
2. plural of elve

noun

1. (Kent) Alternative spelling of elven (“an elm”) (a tree of the genus Ulmus, particularly the wych elm or Scots elm (Ulmus glabra))

Proper noun

1. name, possibly derived from the surname Elwes.
2. Elvis Presley (1935-1977), a popular American rock-and-roll singer.

Noun

1. An impersonator of Elvis Presley.

noun

1. bitter vetch, blister vetch (Vicia ervilia).

noun

1. (slang) the evil eye
2. plural of evil

adj

1. yellow or dun in colour

noun

1. (obsolete) flattery; cajolery; deceit
2. A horse of a favel or dun colour.

noun

1. (Scotland, archaic, architecture) A gable.
2. (historical) An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally; also called gavelkind.
3. (historical) Rent.
4. (metonymically, chiefly US) The legal system as a whole.
5. (obsolete) Usury; interest on money.
6. A mason's setting maul.
7. A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
8. A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction.

verb

1. (transitive) To divide or distribute according to the gavel system.
2. To use a gavel.

noun

1. Alternative form of glaive

noun

1. (baseball, figuratively) The ability to catch a hit ball.
2. (with definite article) A challenge from one to another.
3. A baseball mitt.
4. An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.

verb

1. (baseball, transitive) To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.
2. (cricket) To touch a delivery with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball.
3. (transitive) To put a glove or gloves on.

verb

1. (architecture, transitive) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
2. (golf, transitive) In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on.
3. (transitive) To divide into two halves.
4. (transitive) To make up half of.
5. (transitive) To reduce to half the original amount.

Proper noun

1. A river in Germany.

noun

1. A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.
2. The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.

verb

1. (transitive) To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.

noun

1. A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
2. An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
3. In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.

verb

1. (transitive) To construct a chimney so as to prevent smoking, by making two of the more exposed walls higher than the others, or making an opening on one side near the top.
2. (transitive) To put in a hovel; to shelter.

noun

1. (obsolete) A vagabond.

noun

1. (nautical) A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed.
2. A gazelle.
3. A stonemason's hammer.
4. Alternative form of cavel (“gag”)

noun

1. (nautical) A sturdy belaying-pin for the heavier cables of a ship.

adj

1. (chemistry) Alternative form of levo (“levorotatory”)

noun

1. Dated form of larva.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of lave

noun

1. A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable.
2. One who laves: a washer.
3. Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially:
4. Porphyra vulgaris
5. That which laves, particularly a washbasin.
6. Where one laves, a washroom, particularly a lavatorium, the washing area in a monastery.

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lave

noun

1. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).
2. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
3. (dated or law) Permission.
4. (dated) Farewell, departure.
5. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.

verb

1. (intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
3. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
4. (obsolete) To raise; to levy.
5. (transitive or intransitive, copulative) To cause, to result in.
6. (transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
7. (transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
8. (transitive) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
9. (transitive) To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
10. (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
11. (transitive) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
12. (transitive) To transfer possession of after death.
13. (transitive) To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
14. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
15. To let be or do without interference.

adj

1. Archaic form of leafy.

noun

1. A homopolysaccharide composed of D-fructofuranosyl.

noun

1. (US) A pier or other landing place on a river.
2. (US) The border of an irrigated field.
3. (US) The steep bank of a river.
4. (obsolete) The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
5. A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.
6. A reception of visitors held after getting up.
7. An elevated geographical feature.
8. An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.

verb

1. (US, transitive) To keep within a channel by means of levees.
2. (transitive) To attend the levee or levees of.

adj

1. (phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection; monotonic.
2. (physics) Perpendicular to a gravitational force.
3. At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
4. Calm.
5. In the same position or rank.
6. Straightforward; direct; clear.
7. The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
8. Unvaried in frequency.
9. Unvaried in volume.
10. Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.

noun

1. (Britain) An area of almost perfectly flat land.
2. (Singapore, education) A school grade or year.
3. (computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
4. (role-playing games, video games) A numeric value that quantifies a character, ability, or item's experience and power.
5. (video games) One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.
6. A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
7. A floor of a multi-storey building.
8. A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
9. Achievement or qualification.
10. Degree or amount.

verb

1. (figurative) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.
2. (role-playing games, video games) To progress to the next level.
3. (sports) To make the score of a game equal.
4. (usually with "with") To speak honestly and openly with.
5. To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
6. To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
7. To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
8. To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
9. To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone).

noun

1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of levin (“lightning”).

verb

1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of leaven

adv

1. (obsolete) Rather.

noun

1. (mechanics) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
2. (mechanics) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.
3. (mechanics) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
4. (obsolete, except in generalized senses below) A crowbar.
5. (rare) A levee.
6. A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button).
7. Specifically, a bar of metal, wood or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.

verb

1. (chiefly UK, finance) To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To use (something) like a lever (in an abstract sense).
3. (figuratively, transitive) To use, operate or move (something) like a lever (physically).
4. (transitive) To move with a lever.

noun

1. (obsolete) A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.

noun

1. (archaic, poetic) Lightning; a bolt of lightning; also, a bright flame or light.

noun

1. A husband's brother.

adj

1. (in combination) Having a specified duration of life.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of live

verb

1. (obsolete) plural simple present of live
2. (transitive, intransitive) To cause to be more lively, or to become more lively.

adj

1. Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
2. comparative form of live: more live

noun

1. (anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
2. (countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
3. (obsolete chemistry) Any of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color.
4. A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
5. Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).

noun

1. plural of life

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of live

noun

1. (historical) A unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous.
2. (historical) An ancient French unit of weight, equal to about 1 avoirdupois pound.

adj

1. Being the object of love.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of love

noun

1. One who is loved; a recipient of love.

noun

1. (West Country, with "my") An informal term of address for any friend.
2. A person who loves something.
3. A sexual partner, especially one with whom someone is having an affair.
4. Obsolete form of louver.
5. One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse.

noun

1. plural of love

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of love

noun

1. (UK) An informal mode of address (associated most often with actors and the like).
2. A baby's toy, blanket, or other object of affection

noun

1. (UK) Alternative form of lovey (“term of address”)

noun

1. (anatomy) The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth.
2. (historical) An eye on the underside of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.
3. A navel orange.
4. The central part or point of anything; the middle.

Proper noun

1. a variant of Neville.
2. name transferred from the surname.

adj

1. Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new.
2. Original, especially in an interesting way; new and striking; not of the typical or ordinary type.

noun

1. (classical studies, historical) A new legal constitution in ancient Rome.
2. (historical) A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work.
3. (obsolete) A novelty; something new.
4. A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.

adj

1. Of a grayish green color, that of an unripe olive.

noun

1. (UK, dialect) An oystercatcher, a shore bird.
2. (cooking) A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked.
3. (neuroanatomy) An olivary body, part of the medulla oblongata.
4. A component of a plumbing compression joint; a ring which is placed between the nut and the pipe and compressed during fastening to provide a seal.
5. A dark yellowish-green color, that of an unripe olive.
6. A tree, Olea europaea, cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.
7. Any shell of the genus Oliva and allied genera; so called from the shape.
8. The small oval fruit of this tree, eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green).
9. The wood of the olive tree.

noun

1. (botany) The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments.
2. (zoology) An immature ovum in mammals.

noun

1. (also figuratively) A thread which has unravelled from fabric, etc.; also, a situation of fabric, etc., coming apart; an unravelling.
2. (figuratively) A confusing, intricate, or perplexing situation; a complication.
3. A tangled mess; an entanglement, a snarl, a tangle.

verb

1. (also figuratively) Often followed by out: of clothing, fabric, etc.: to become unwoven; to fray, to unravel.
2. (also figuratively) Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.
3. (archaic or obsolete) To become entangled or snarled.
4. (archaic) Often followed by out: to undo the intricacies of (a problem, etc.); to clarify, to disentangle.
5. (obsolete) To destroy or ruin (something), like unravelling fabric.
6. (programming) In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.
7. Often followed by out: of a reel of thread or skein of yarn; or a thread on a reel or a string of yarn in a skein, etc.: to become untwisted or unwound.
8. To confuse or perplex (someone or something).
9. To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.
10. To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.

noun

1. (travel, aviation, informal) A revalidated ticket.

noun

1. (architecture) Alternative form of reveal
2. A kind of dance.
3. A wake for the dead.
4. An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.

verb

1. (obsolete) To draw back; to retract.
2. To make merry; to have a happy, lively time.
3. To take delight (in something).

noun

1. (US) A kind of small dumpling made from egg and wheat flour, often eaten in soup, especially among the Pennsylvania Dutch and other Germans.
2. (obsolete) A wrinkle; a rimple.

verb

1. (intransitive) To shrivel, wrinkle (up).
2. (transitive) To cause to be wrinkled, to shrivel.

intj

1. Hail; a greeting.

noun

1. An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
2. Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.

verb

1. (dated) To salvage.
2. (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.
3. (obsolete) To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
4. (obsolete, astronomy) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
5. (transitive) To calm or assuage.
6. (transitive) To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.
7. To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
8. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.

noun

1. Heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin.

noun

1. (BDSM) A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who (consensually) submits to (sexually and/or personally) serving one or more masters or mistresses.
2. (engineering, computing, photography) A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).
3. (figuratively) A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.
4. (figuratively) An abject person.
5. (figuratively) One who has no power of resistance (to something), one who surrenders to or is under the domination (of something).
6. A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
7. A sex slave, a person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts on a regular or continuing basis.

verb

1. (intransitive) To work hard.
2. (transitive) To place a device under the control of another.
3. To work as a slaver, to enslave people.

noun

1. (dialectal) A slice or sliver; slip, chip.

verb

1. (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To sneak; skulk; proceed in a sly way; creep.
2. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To cut; split; separate.
3. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To cut or slice something off; separate by slicing.

noun

1. (now rare, chiefly law enforcement) A solution; an explanation.

verb

1. (mathematics) To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions.
2. (mathematics) To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities.
3. (transitive) To loosen or separate the parts of.
4. To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
5. to find out the perpetrator, the motive etc (of crime)

adj

1. Alternative form of svelte

adj

1. Of or pertaining to the uvea

noun

1. plural of vale

noun

1. (US) A person employed to clean or park cars.
2. (professional wrestling) A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.
3. A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
4. A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
5. A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.
6. A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
7. A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
8. A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.

verb

1. (transitive) To serve (someone) as a valet.
2. (transitive, US) To leave (a car) with a valet to park it.
3. (transitive, chiefly UK, Ireland) To clean and service (a car), as a valet does.

noun

1. Archaic form of waltz.

noun

1. (art) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
2. (in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
3. (mathematics, physics) Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
4. (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
5. (obsolete) Esteem; regard.
6. (obsolete) Valour; also spelled valew.
7. (uncountable) The degree of importance given to something.
8. Precise meaning; import.
9. That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
10. The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
11. The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.

verb

1. To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.
2. To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
3. To hold dear.
4. To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.

noun

1. (Britain) A vacuum tube.
2. (anatomy) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or control the flow in the opposite direction
3. (biology) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
4. (biology) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
5. (botany) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, such as in the barberry.
6. (botany) One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
7. A device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.
8. A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe.
9. One of the leaves of a folding-door, or a window-sash.

verb

1. (transitive) To control (flow) by means of a valve.

noun

1. plural of veal

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of veal

adj

1. Immature.
2. Resembling veal.

noun

1. plural of veil

adj

1. translucent, diaphanous

adj

1. (phonetics) velar

adj

1. (mycology) Referring to a veil or velum.
2. (phonetics) Articulated at the velum or soft palate.

noun

1. (phonetics) a sound articulated at the soft palate

noun

1. plural of veld

noun

1. Dated spelling of veld.

adj

1. Of the velum.

noun

1. (historical) An old French unit of liquid measure, approximately 7.617 litres.

noun

1. (anatomy) the soft palate
2. (botany) a thin membrane partially covering the cluster of sporangia near the leaf base in quillworts and their extinct relatives
3. (malacology) a locomotory and feeding organ provided with cilia found in the larval stage of bivalves
4. (meteorology) an accessory cloud resembling a veil extending over a large distance; normally associated with cumulus and cumulonimbus
5. (mycology) a veil-like membrane of immature mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is torn by growth, to reveal the gills
6. (zoology) a annular membrane, typically bordering a cavity, especially in certain molluscs, medusae, and other invertebrates
7. a delicate membrane found on certain protists

Proper noun

1. A city in North Dakota.

adj

1. (archaic) For sale; available for purchase.
2. (of behaviour etc.) Corrupt, mercenary.
3. Capable of being bought (of a person); willing to take bribes.
4. Of a position, privilege etc.: available for purchase rather than assigned on merit.
5. Venous; pertaining to veins.

noun

1. (botany) vexillum

adj

1. comparative form of vile: more vile

verb

1. To violate, especially to rape.

noun

1. A light, translucent cotton fabric used for making curtains and dresses.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of vole

noun

1. plural of vole

noun

1. A shutter on a window.
2. The wing of a triptych.

noun

1. Alternative form of volta

noun

1. (orthography) A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and y.
2. (phonetics) A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.

verb

1. (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic).

verb

1. Of an organ, to make a hollow whining sound like that of a wolf.
2. To behave like a wolf.