(astronomy) The most protruding part of planetary rings as seen from a distance, perceived to project like handles on either side of the disc of the planet.
anse
ansi
ansu
ants
ants
noun
plural of ant
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ant
anus
anus
noun
(anatomy) The lower orifice of the alimentary canal, through which feces and flatus are ejected.
(informal, derogatory) An impolite, unpopular, or unintelligent person.
asni
assn
awns
awns
noun
plural of awn
bans
bans
noun
Misspelling of banns.
plural of ban
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ban
bsna
cans
cans
noun
(informal) headphones
(slang, vulgar) breasts
plural of can
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of can
fans
fans
noun
plural of fan
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fan
gans
gans
verb
(Tyneside) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gan
hans
hasn
kans
kans
noun
plural of kan
mans
mans
noun
(MLE, MTE, nonstandard, proscribed) plural of man
(slang) Synonym of man
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of man
mnas
mnas
noun
plural of mna
naas
nabs
nabs
noun
A single-serving package of crackers, usually filled with peanut butter. Snack crackers.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nab
nacs
nags
nags
noun
plural of nag
nais
nais
noun
plural of nai
naos
naos
noun
(historical, architecture) The inner part of an ancient Greek temple, containing a statue of the temple's deity and surrounded by a colonnaded portico; (by extension) the Roman cella, which it later gave rise to.
naps
naps
noun
(slang) kinky or curly hair
plural of nap
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nap
nasa
nasd
nash
nash
adj
(UK, dialect) Alternative spelling of nesh
verb
(Edinburgh, dialect) to hurry; run; get away
nasi
nasi
noun
(Islam) The intercalation of a month in the calendar of pre-Islamic Arabia, often considered heretical.
(cooking) Cooked rice.
plural of nasus
nasm
naso
nasp
nast
nats
nats
noun
plural of nat
nays
nays
noun
plural of nay
ncsa
nias
nias
noun
(obsolete) A young hawk; an eyas.
(obsolete, by extension) An unsophisticated person.
nisa
nsap
nyas
nyas
noun
(obsolete) an eyas (a fledgling falcon)
nysa
nysa
Proper noun
definition
definition
A mythical land in Greek Mythology.
a main belt asteroid.
onas
pans
pans
noun
plural of pan
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pan
rnas
saan
sain
sain
verb
(intransitive, obsolete except in Scots) To make the sign of the cross.
(transitive, archaic) To bless, to keep from evil influence.
(transitive, archaic) To make the sign of the cross on or over something or someone.
sana
sand
sand
adj
Of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
noun
(colloquial) A sandpiper.
(countable, figurative) A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).
(countable, obsolete) A single grain of sand.
(countable, often in the plural) A beach or other expanse of sand.
(uncountable) Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
(uncountable, dated) Personal courage.
(uncountable, geology) A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
verb
(transitive) To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
(transitive) To cover with sand.
(transitive, historical) To blot ink using sand.
sane
sane
adj
Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; thinking rationally.
Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge the effect of one's actions in an ordinary manner.
Rational; reasonable; sensible.
sang
sang
noun
Alternative form of sheng (“Chinese wind instrument”)
verb
simple past tense of sing
sank
sank
verb
simple past tense of sink
sans
sans
adj
(typography) Short for sans serif.
noun
plural of san
prep
without; lacking
sant
saon
sawn
sawn
verb
(nonstandard, dialectal) past participle of see; seen
past participle of saw
scan
scan
noun
(computing) An instance of scanning.
(computing) The result or output of a scanning process.
Close investigation.
verb
(computing, medicine, transitive) To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.
(computing, transitive) To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.
(computing, transitive) To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.
(computing, transitive) To read with an electronic device.
(intransitive) To conform to a metrical structure.
(obsolete, transitive, originally) To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
(poetry, transitive) To read or mark so as to show a specific metre.
(transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
(transitive) To look about for; to look over quickly.
sean
sean
noun
Alternative form of seine
sena
shan
shan
adj
(Scotland, Hartlepool) poor, low-quality
(Tyneside) unfair, harsh
sian
sina
slan
slan
noun
(dated, fandom slang) A fan of science fiction.
snab
snag
snag
noun
(Australia, informal, colloquial) A sausage.
(Australian rules football, slang) A goal.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A light meal.
(by extension) Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
(figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
(informal, uncommon) Acronym of sensitive new age guy.
A dead tree that remains standing.
A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
One of the secondary branches of an antler.
verb
(UK, dialect) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
(fishing) To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.
(slang, transitive) To obtain or pick up.
To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface.
snap
snap
adj
(informal, attributive) Done, made, performed, etc., quickly and unexpectedly, or without deliberation.
intj
(Britain) Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
(Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
(Britain, Australia, by extension) "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
(Canada, US) Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
noun
(American football) A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
(Linux) A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
(UK, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
(colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
(colloquial) Something of no value.
(fishing) A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
(informal) A photograph; a snapshot.
(obsolete) A greedy fellow.
(physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
(slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
(slang, archaic) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. used primarily in the phrase soft snap.
(slang, dated) A brief theatrical engagement.
(slang, dated) A cheat or sharper.
(social media) A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
(uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
(uncountable) A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
A newsflash.
A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
A snapper, or snap beetle.
A sudden break.
A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
A tool used by glass-moulders.
A tool used by riveters.
A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
briskness; vigour; energy; decision
verb
(cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
(intransitive) To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
(intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
(intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
(intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
(intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
(intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
(intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
(intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
(intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
(intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
(social media, transitive) To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.
(transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
(transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
(transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
(transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
(transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
(transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
(transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
(transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
(transitive, American football) To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
(transitive, dated) To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.
To misfire.
snaw
snpa
span
span
noun
(US, Canada) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
(architecture, construction) The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
(architecture, construction) The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
(by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time.
(computing) The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
(mathematics) The space of all linear combinations of something.
(nautical) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
wingspan of a plane or bird
verb
(archaic, now nonstandard) simple past tense of spin
(intransitive, US, dated) To be matched, as horses.
(mathematics) To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
(transitive) To extend through (a time period).
(transitive) To extend through the distance between or across.
(transitive) To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
(transitive) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
stan
stan
noun
(Internet slang, sometimes derogatory) An extremely obsessive fan of a person, group, character, or creative work, particularly one whose fixation is unhealthy or intrusive.
One of the stans; any of the ex-Soviet countries and their neighbours whose name ends with "-stan" such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.
verb
(slang, transitive, intransitive) To act as a stan (for); to be an obsessive fan (of).
svan
swan
swan
noun
(figuratively) One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
(heraldry) This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire).
Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage.
verb
(US, dialectal or colloquial) To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).
(intransitive) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
tans
tans
noun
plural of tan
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tan
tsan
usan
usna
vans
vans
noun
plural of van
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of van