An Egyptian singer or dancing-girl employed for entertainment or as a professional mourner.
alme
alme
noun
Alternative form of almah
almo
alms
alms
noun
Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food.
alum
alum
noun
(chemistry) Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations.
(shortening, Canada, US) A past attendee or graduate (of either gender) of a college, university or other educational institution.
An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K₂SO₄·Al₂(SO₄)₃·24H₂O).
verb
(transitive) To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.
amal
amel
amel
noun
(obsolete) enamel
verb
(obsolete) To enamel
amil
amil
noun
Alternative form of aumil
amla
amla
noun
Phyllanthus emblica, a deciduous tree.
the bitter yellow-green fruit of this tree.
amli
amls
amyl
amyl
adj
Of or pertaining to starch
noun
(dated, organic chemistry) Synonym of pentyl
(informal) amyl nitrite
balm
balm
noun
(figuratively) Something soothing.
A plant or tree yielding such substance.
Any of a number of other aromatic herbs with a similar citrus-like scent, such as bee balm and horse balm.
Any of various aromatic resins exuded from certain plants, especially trees of the genus Commiphora of Africa, Arabia and India and Myroxylon of South America.
Any soothing oil or lotion, especially an aromatic one.
The lemon balm, Melissa officinalis
verb
(transitive, archaic) To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal.
(transitive, figurative) To soothe; to mitigate.
blam
blam
noun
(Internet, informal) spam posted to a blog
A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot
verb
(intransitive) To fire a gun.
(transitive) To shoot; to kill by gunshot.
calm
calm
adj
(of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
(of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.
(of water) with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.
Without wind or storm.
noun
(in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
(in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.
A period of time without wind.
verb
(intransitive) To become calm.
(transitive) To make calm.
clam
clam
adj
(obsolete) clammy.
noun
(US, slang, chiefly in the plural) A dollar.
(dated, US, slang) mouth (Now found mostly in the expression shut one's clam)
(informal) One who clams up; a taciturn person, one who refuses to speak.
(rowing) Alternative form of CLAM
(slang) In musicians' parlance, a wrong or misplaced note.
(slang, derogatory) A Scientologist.
(slang, vulgar) A vagina.
A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example the soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria), the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
A kind of vise, usually of wood.
Alternative form of clem (“to starve”)
Strong pincers or forceps.
clamminess; moisture
verb
To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
To dig for clams.
To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
elam
elma
flam
flam
noun
(archaic) A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext
(drumming) Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played very close together in order to sound like one slightly longer note.
A freak or whim; an idle fancy.
verb
(drumming, transitive, intransitive) To play (notes as) a flam.
(obsolete) To deceive with a falsehood.
glam
glam
adj
Glamorous.
noun
(music, fashion) Ellipsis of glam rock.; the fashion and culture associated with this genre.
Glamour.
verb
To make glamorous or more glamorous.
halm
halm
noun
(botany) Alternative spelling of haulm
ilam
klam
lama
lama
noun
A master of Tibetan Buddhism.
Alternative form of llama
lamb
lamb
noun
(figuratively) A person who is meek, docile and easily led.
(finance, slang) One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.
(slang) A fan of American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Mariah Carey (born 1969).
A simple, unsophisticated person.
A young sheep.
The flesh of a lamb or sheep used as food.
verb
(intransitive) Of a sheep, to give birth.
(transitive or intransitive) To assist (sheep) to give birth.
(slang) Failing to be cool, funny, interesting or relevant.
(slang) Unconvincing or unbelievable.
Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function.
Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
noun
(in the plural) A set of joined overlapping metal plates.
(prison slang) A stupid or undesirable person.
A lamina; a thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.
Kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.
verb
(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to become lame.
lamm
lamp
lamp
noun
A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.
verb
(Britain, Ireland) To hunt at night using a lamp; see lamping.
(slang, Britain) To hit, clout, belt, wallop.
(slang, US) To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.
To make into a table lamp, said of a vase or urn, etc.
lams
lams
noun
plural of lam
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lam
lapm
leam
leam
noun
(UK, dialectal) A gleam or flash of light; a glow or glowing.
A cord or strap for leading a dog.
verb
(intransitive, UK, dialectal) To gleam; shine; glow.
lema
lema
noun
(physiology, rare) The secretion of the tarsal glands of the eye.
liam
lima
lima
noun
(international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Lima from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
lima bean
lman
loam
loam
adj
Made of loam; consisting of loam.
noun
(geology) A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
(metalworking) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.
verb
To cover, smear, or fill with loam.
loma
loma
noun
(zoology) A lobe, flap or fringe bordering the toe of a bird.
singular of lomas
lyam
lyam
noun
(obsolete) A leash.
mael
mail
mail
noun
(chiefly Scotland) A monetary payment or tribute.
(chiefly Scotland) Rent.
(chiefly Scotland) Tax.
(chiefly US, uncountable) The letters, parcels, etc. delivered to a particular address or person.
(dated) A stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post.
(historical) An old French coin worth half a denier.
(nautical) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
(now regional) A bag or wallet.
(obsolete, rare) A spot on a bird's feather; by extension, a spotted feather.
(uncountable) Armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together.
(uncountable) Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages.
A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
The material conveyed by the postal service.
The postal service or system in general.
verb
(ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.
(ditransitive) To send by electronic mail.
(transitive) To arm with mail.
(transitive) To contact (a person) by electronic mail.
(transitive) To pinion.
mala
mala
noun
(Hinduism, Sikhism) A bead or a set of beads commonly used by Hindus and Buddhists for keeping count while reciting, chanting, or mentally repeating a mantra or the name or names of a deity.
A single lobe of an insect's maxilla.
The grinding surface of an insect's mandible.
The third segment of a mandible of some myriapods.
plural of malum
mald
mald
adj
(slang, video games, uncommon, neologism) Extremely angry, especially as a result of losing a video game.
verb
(slang, video games) To become extremely angry, especially as a result of losing a video game.
male
male
adj
(figuratively) Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware.
(grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
(of bacteria) Having the F factor; able to impart DNA into another bacterium which does not have the F factor (a female).
Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)
noun
A bacterium which has the F factor.
A human member of the masculine sex or gender.
A male connector, pipe fitting, etc.
A plant of the masculine sex.
An animal of the sex that has testes.
mali
mali
noun
(India, South Asia) A member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener.
(South Africa) Money, cash.
plural of malus
mall
mall
noun
(chiefly Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
(obsolete) An alley where the game of pall mall was played.
(obsolete) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall.
(obsolete) The game of polo.
A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.
A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.
An enclosed shopping centre.
verb
(informal) to shop at the mall
to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
to build up with the development of shopping malls
malm
malm
noun
A soft, crumbly, chalky, grayish limestone.
An artificial mixture of chalk, clay, and sand, from which light-brown or yellowish bricks are made.
malo
malo
noun
(informal) malolactic fermentation
A Hawaiian loincloth.
mals
mals
noun
plural of mal
malt
malt
noun
(US, informal) A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.
Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.
Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.
verb
(intransitive) To become malt.
(intransitive, dated, humorous) To drink malt liquor.
(transitive) To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.
marl
marl
noun
A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and possibly sand, in very variable proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy.
verb
(nautical) To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a peculiar hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding.
(transitive) To cover with the earthy substance called marl.
maul
maul
noun
(rugby) A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier.
A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.
verb
(figuratively) To criticise harshly.
(transitive) To beat with a maul.
To handle someone or something in a rough way.
To savage; to cause serious physical wounds (usually used of an animal).
meal
meal
noun
(UK dialectal) A speck or spot.
(countable) Food served or eaten as a repast.
(countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).
(obsolete) A time or an occasion.
(uncountable, informal) A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
A part; a fragment; a portion.
The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To yield or be plentiful in meal.
(transitive) To defile or taint.
mela
mela
noun
A Hindu religious festival.
A South Asian fair.
mgal
mial
mila
mlar
mola
mola
noun
A sunfish, Mola mola.
A traditional textile art form of the Kuna people of Panama and Colombia, consisting of cloth panels to be worn on clothing, featuring complex designs made with multiple layers of cloth in a reverse appliqué technique.
myal
myal
adj
(anatomy) Relating to muscle.
noun
(Jamaica, historical) A practitioner of myalism.
olam
palm
palm
noun
(Scouting) Any of 23 awards that can be earned after obtaining the Eagle Scout rank, but generally only before turning 18 years old.
(figurative, by extension) Triumph; victory.
(historical) Any of various units of length notionally derived from the length of the palm from the wrist to the base of the fingers.
(historical) Synonym of hand, any of various units of length notionally derived from the breadth of the palm, formalized in England as 4 inches and now chiefly used for the height of horses
(nautical) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
(sailmaking) A metallic disk attached to a strap and worn in the palm of the hand; used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc.
A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics.
The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.
The corresponding part of the forefoot of a lower mammal.
The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.
verb
To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g, for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something.
To hold something without bending the fingers significantly.
To move something with the palm of the hand.
salm
salm
noun
Obsolete form of psalm.
saml
slam
slam
noun
(countable) A sudden impact or blow.
(countable) The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
(countable, basketball) A slam dunk.
(countable, bridge) A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.
(countable, card games) Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
(countable, colloquial, US) An insult.
(countable, sports) Winning all (or all but one) of the available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season.
(countable, tennis) One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events.
(music, uncountable) A subgenre of death metal with elements of hardcore punk focusing on midtempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffs
(obsolete) A shambling fellow.
(uncountable, UK, dialect) The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
(uncountable, obsolete) A type of card game, also called ruff and honours.
A card game, played all at once without separate turns, in which players attempt to get rid of their cards as quickly as possible according to certain rules.
A poetry slam.
A slambook.
verb
(basketball) To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
(informal, US) To occupy and busy with a high workload.
(intransitive) To strike against suddenly and heavily.
(intransitive, bridge) To make a slam bid.
(transitive) To drink off, to drink quickly.
(transitive, card games) To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
(transitive, colloquial) To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
(transitive, drugs, slang) To inject intravenously; shoot up.
(transitive, ergative) To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.)
(transitive, ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
(transitive, intransitive) To strike forcefully with some implement.
(transitive, sex, slang, vulgar) To perform coitus upon forcefully; to rail.
(transitive, slang) To strike and take the life of or at least incapacitate for some time.
(transitive, sports slang) To defeat or overcome in a match.
(transitive, telecommunications) To move a customer from one service provider to another without their consent.