(pathology) A skin condition, usually of the face, that is common in adolescents. It is characterised by red pimples, and is caused by the inflammation of sebaceous glands through bacterial infection.
A pattern of blemishes in an area of skin resulting from the skin condition.
anac
anco
banc
banc
noun
(US, business) Used to associate a non-banking affiliate of a bank with the bank's brand name without using the word bank
A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment.
A tribunal or court.
bnsc
caen
cagn
cahn
cain
cain
noun
Alternative form of kain
cana
canc
cand
cand
noun
Alternative form of kand
cane
cane
noun
(US, Southern) Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar
(countable) A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path
(countable) A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
(countable) A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick
(countable, glassblowing) A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking
(uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like
(uncountable) Sugar cane
(uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed
(uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae
(with "the") Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
A lance or dart made of cane
A local European measure of length; the canna.
verb
(Britain, New Zealand, slang) to destroy; to comprehensively defeat
(Britain, New Zealand, slang) to do something well, in a competent fashion
(UK, slang, intransitive) to produce extreme pain
(transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
to strike or beat with a cane or similar implement
canf
cank
cann
cans
cans
noun
(informal) headphones
(slang, vulgar) breasts
plural of can
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of can
cant
cant
adj
(Britain, dialect) Lively, lusty.
noun
(coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
(countable) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
(countable, heraldry) A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
(countable, uncountable) A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
(lumbering) An unfinished log after preliminary cutting.
(nautical) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
(obsolete) A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
(obsolete) Side, edge, corner, niche.
(regional, forestry) A parcel, a division.
(uncountable) Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
A movement or throw that overturns something.
A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
An outer or external angle.
Slope, the angle at which something is set.
verb
(intransitive) To speak in set phrases.
(intransitive) To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
(intransitive) To talk, beg, or preach in a singsong or whining fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
(intransitive, heraldry) Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
(obsolete) To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.
(transitive) To bevel an edge or corner.
(transitive) To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
(transitive) To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
(transitive) To set (something) at an angle.
(transitive, obsolete) To divide or parcel out.
cany
cany
adj
Abounding with canes.
Of or relating to cane (the plant) or canes.
caon
carn
carn
intj
(Australia, informal) An exclamation of support or approval, usually for a sporting (football) team.
(Australia, informal) Come on.
noun
Archaic form of cairn.
ccnc
ccny
cene
cene
noun
(genetics) A control gene.
cens
cent
cent
noun
(informal) A small sum of money.
(money) A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
(music) A hundredth of a semitone or half step.
(nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to one hundredth of a dollar.
(obsolete, except in per cent) Abbreviation of centum. One hundred.
Abbreviation of center.
Abbreviation of centigrade.
Abbreviation of century.
cern
chan
chan
noun
(Internet, informal) An IRC channel.
(Internet, informal) An imageboard.
chen
chin
chin
noun
(aviation) The lower part of the front of an aircraft, below the nose.
(boxing, uncountable) The ability to withstand being punched in the chin without being knocked out.
(informal) A chinchilla.
(slang, Britain) A lie, a falsehood.
(slang, Britain) A person of the upper class.
(slang, US) Talk.
The bottom of a face, (specifically) the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.
The bottom part of a mobile phone, below the screen.
verb
(chiefly UK, transitive) To punch or hit (someone)'s chin (part of the body).
(reflexive, intransitive) To perform a chin-up (exercise in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar).
(slang, dated, intransitive) To talk.
(slang, dated, transitive) To talk to or with (someone).
(transitive) To indicate or point toward (someone or something) with one's chin.
(transitive) To put one's chin on (something).
(transitive) To put or hold (a musical instrument) up to one's chin.
(transitive) To turn on or operate (a device) using one's chin; to select (a particular setting) using one's chin.
chmn
chon
chon
noun
Alternative spelling of jun
chun
cine
cine
noun
(chiefly attributive) cinefilm
(medicine) Images of the heart taken by fluoroscopy.
cini
cion
cion
noun
(chiefly botany) Alternative spelling of scion
clan
clan
noun
(anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
(video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
A badger colony.
A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.
cldn
clin
clnp
clon
cmon
cmon
abbrev
Alternative spelling of c'mon
cnaa
cnab
cncc
cnes
cnms
cnsr
cnut
cnut
Proper noun
name, an alternative spelling of Canute (Scandinavian Knut) in historical context.
coan
cohn
coin
coin
noun
(card games) One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
(figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.
(informal, cryptocurrencies) A cryptocurrency; a cryptocoin.
(money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
(uncountable, slang, UK, US, African-American Vernacular) Money in general, not limited to coins.
A corner or external angle.
A small circular slice of food.
A token used in a special establishment like a casino.
verb
(by extension) To make or fabricate (especially about words).
To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.
coln
conc
cond
cond
adj
Clipping of conditional.
verb
Obsolete spelling of con (“direct or steer a ship”)
cone
cone
noun
(anatomy) Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
(category theory) An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)
(geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
(geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
(slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
(slang) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)
(slang) The bowl piece on a bong.
(slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
(topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.
A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
A traffic cone
A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
An ice cream cone.
Anything shaped like a cone.
The fruit of a conifer.
verb
(frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones.
(intransitive) To form a cone shape.
(transitive) To fashion into the shape of a cone.
conf
conf
noun
Abbreviation of conference.
cong
cong
noun
A type of carved jade tube made in China starting in the Neolithic .
coni
coni
noun
plural of conus
conj
conj
noun
Abbreviation of conjunction.
conk
conk
noun
(US, dated) A hairstyle involving the chemical straightening and styling of kinky hair.
(slang) A nose, especially a large one.
Alternative spelling of conch
The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom growing off a tree trunk.
verb
(US, dated) To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.
(colloquial, often with out) To become unconscious.
(colloquial, often with out) To fail or show signs of failing, cease operating, break down.
(slang) To hit, especially on the head.
conn
conn
noun
The duty of directing a ship, usually used with the verb to have or to take and accompanied by the article "the."
verb
(transitive) To direct a ship; to superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer (especially through a channel, etc, rather than steer a compass direction).
cons
cons
noun
(programming) A data structure in Lisp that is a pair of pointers, car and cdr, used mainly for lists.
plural of con
verb
(programming) To obtain a list from a cons or a nesting of conses; to prepend an element to a list by forming a cons of that element and the list; to obtain a list from a smaller one by repeated application of such kind of prepending.
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of con
cont
cont
adj
Abbreviation of continuous.
verb
Abbreviation of continue
Abbreviation of continued
conv
cony
cony
noun
(UK, dialect) Rabbit fur.
(UK, dialect) The burbot.
(obsolete) A simpleton; one who may be taken in by a cony-catcher.
(obsolete) A woman; a sweetheart.
A rabbit, especially the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (formerly known as Lepus cuniculus).
An edible West Indian fish, a grouper given in different sources as: Epinephelus apua, the hind of Bermuda; nigger-fish, Epinephelus punctatus; Cephalopholis fulva.
Locally for other rabbit-like or hyrax-like animals, such as the Cape hyrax (das, dassie) or the pika (Ochotona princeps, formerly Lagomys princeps).
Several species of tropical west Atlantic groupers of family Epinephelidae, such as the mutton hamlet, graysby, Cuban coney, and rooster hind.
Used in the Old Testament as a translation of Hebrew שָׁפָן (shafán), thought to be the rock hyrax (Procavia capensis, syn. Hyrax syriacus).
coon
coon
noun
(African-American Vernacular) A black person who "plays the coon"; that is, who plays the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
(Southern US, ethnic slur) A coonass; a white Acadian French person who lives in the swamps.
(US, dated) A sly fellow.
(ethnic slur) A black person.
(informal, South Africa) A member of a colorfully dressed dance troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations.
(informal, chiefly Southern US) A raccoon.
verb
(African-American Vernacular, of an African-American English) To play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
(Georgia, colloquial) To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes.
(Southern US, colloquial) To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek.
(Southern US, colloquial) To hunt raccoons.
(Southern US, colloquial, dated) To steal.
(climbing) To traverse by crawling, as a ledge.
corn
corn
noun
(Commonwealth English, but not Australia or New Zealand, uncountable) Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
(Jamaica, MLE, slang, firearms, uncountable) bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms
(Jamaica, slang, uncountable) money.
(US, Canada) Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
(US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
(uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
(veterinary medicine, pathology, cattle) (countable) skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.
(veterinary medicine, pathology, equestrianism) (countable) inflammatory disease of horse hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.
A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
A small, hard particle.
A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
verb
(Jamaica, MLE, slang) to shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).
(US, Canada) to granulate; to form a substance into grains
(US, Canada) to preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef
(US, Canada) to provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed
to render intoxicated
cown
coyn
cran
cran
noun
(music) An embellishment played on the lowest note of a chanter of a bagpipe, consisting of a series of grace notes produced by rapid sequential lifting of the fingers of the lower hand.
(obsolete) A measure of herrings, either imprecise or sometimes legally specified. It has sometimes been about 37½ imperial gallons, or 750 herrings on average.
(obsolete, rare, by extension) A barrel made to hold such a measure.
Alternative form of qiran
cren
crin
crin
noun
horsehair fabric
ctne
cttn
cuna
cund
cund
verb
Obsolete form of cond (to con (a ship)).
cung
cunt
cunt
noun
(Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, countable, vulgar) An unpleasant or difficult experience or incident.
(Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, UK, vulgar, positive, countable) (with words funny, good) A person (mostly between male friends); compare bastard.
(Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, countable) An objectionable object or item.
(vulgar, countable and uncountable) A woman, women, or bottom (i.e. submissive partner, not the top) as a source of sex.
(vulgar, countable) The female genitalia, especially the vulva.
(vulgar, offensive, countable) An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person (in US, especially a woman; in UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand more usually a man).
cuny
cuny
noun
(nautical) An ordinary seaman.
cuon
curn
cyan
cyan
adj
Of the colour cyan.
noun
A vibrant pale greenish-blue colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum; the complementary colour of red; the colour obtained by subtracting red from white light.
cyna
dcna
dcnl
dctn
dnic
dunc
econ
econ
adj
Abbreviation of economic.
noun
Abbreviation of economics.
Abbreviation of economy.
encl
ency
ican
icon
icon
noun
(by extension) A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
(graphical user interface) A small picture that represents something.
(linguistics, semiotics) A word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons.
(religion, especially Eastern Christianity) A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.
An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
inca
inca
noun
Any of several species of hummingbirds in the genus Coeligena
inch
inch
adj
(Hong Kong, colloquial) cocky and cheeky
noun
(Scotland, Ireland) A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.
(Scotland, Ireland) A small island; an islet.
(figuratively) Any very short distance.
(meteorology) A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.
A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, roughly the width of a thumb.
Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
verb
(Hong Kong, colloquial) to humiliate; to provoke; to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner
(intransitive, followed by a preposition) To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
To drive by inches, or small degrees.
incl
incr
inoc
jctn
junc
jvnc
lcdn
linc
locn
mcnc
mcon
naca
nace
nach
naco
nacs
narc
narc
noun
(colloquial, informal) A narcissist.
(informal, colloquial, drugs) A police officer assigned to or engaging in illegal narcotics control.
(informal, colloquial, drugs) Alternative spelling of nark (“spy”)
verb
(informal, colloquial, drugs) Alternative spelling of nark
(underwater diving, slang) To suffer from impaired judgment due to nitrogen narcosis (for example, while scuba diving).
ncaa
ncar
nccf
nccl
ncdc
ncga
ncic
ncsa
ncsc
ncsl
ncte
nctl
ndac
ndcc
neck
neck
noun
(anatomy) The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
(architecture) The gorgerin of a capital.
(botany) The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
(engineering) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.
(figurative) A person's life.
(firearms) The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
(folklore) A shapeshifting water spirit in Germanic mythology and folklore; a nix.
(geology) A volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.
(informal, MLE, slang) A falsehood; a lie.
(music) The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted
A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.
The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
verb
(chiefly US) To make love; to intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.
To decrease in diameter.
To drink rapidly.
To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.
nedc
nerc
nesc
nica
nice
nice
adj
(dated) Having particular tastes; fussy, fastidious.
(now rare) Particular in one's conduct; scrupulous, painstaking; choosy.
(obsolete) Doubtful, as to the outcome; risky.
(obsolete) Easily injured; delicate; dainty.
(obsolete) Particular as regards rules or qualities; strict.
(obsolete) Silly, ignorant; foolish.
(with and) Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite.
Of a person: friendly, attractive.
Pleasant, satisfactory.
Respectable; virtuous.
Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.
Showing refinement or delicacy, proper, seemly
adv
(colloquial) Nicely.
intj
Used to signify a job well done.
Used to signify approval.
noun
niceness.
verb
(transitive, computing, Unix) To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.
nich
nick
nick
noun
(Britain, New Zealand, colloquial) Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
(Britain, law enforcement, slang) A police station or prison.
(Internet) Clipping of nickname.
(archaic) A nix or nixie (“water spirit”).
(cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
(genetics) One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
(now rare) A particular place or point considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
(printing, dated) A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
(real tennis, squash, racquetball) The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
verb
(transitive) To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
(transitive) To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
(transitive, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To steal.
(transitive, Britain, law enforcement, slang) To arrest.
(transitive, cricket) To hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection.
(transitive, gaming) To throw or turn up (a number when playing dice); to hit upon.
(transitive, mining) To make a cut at the side of the face.
(transitive, obsolete) To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
(transitive, obsolete) To give or call (someone) by a nickname; to style.
(transitive, rare) To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
(transitive, sometimes figurative) To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
nico
nirc
nisc
nock
nock
noun
(archery) The notch at the rear of an arrow that fits on the bowstring.
(nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom sail or trysail.
Either of the two grooves in a bow that hold the bowstring.
Misspelling of knock.
verb
(transitive) To cut a nock in (usually in an arrow's base or the tips of a bow).
(transitive) To fit an arrow against the bowstring of a bow or crossbow. (See also notch (verb).)
nocs
nosc
nrdc
nscs
nsec
nswc
ntec
ntsc
nunc
nusc
nyac
nzbc
onac
onca
once
once
adv
(chiefly obsolete) At any time; ever.
(frequency) One and only one time.
(mathematics) Multiplied by one: indicating that a number is multiplied by one.
(obsolete) One day, someday.
(temporal location) Formerly; during some period in the past.
If the facts once became known, we'd be in trouble.