(obsolete) A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart.
archont
brocton
cantaro
cantaro
noun
(music) A clayen pot used as a percussion instrument in South America.
cantors
cantors
noun
plural of cantor
carlton
carlton
Proper noun
Any of several place names in England:
a village in the borough of Bedfordshire
a village in district, Cambridgeshire
a village in borough, County Durham
a village and parish in Leicestershire
a suburb of in the borough of Nottinghamshire
a village in district, Suffolk
a village in district, North Yorkshire
a village and parish in district, North Yorkshire
a village in the borough of South Yorkshire
a village in the borough of the City of West Yorkshire
from any of these places.
A southern suburb of New South Wales, Australia.
An inner suburb of Victoria, Australia.
A neighbourhood in Alberta, Canada.
A hamlet in Rural Municipality, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Various places in the United States of America:
an unincorporated community and CDP in Alabama.
a small city in Georgia.
a tiny city in Kansas.
a small city in Minnesota
a town in New York.
a city in Oregon.
an unincorporated community in Texas.
an unincorporated community in Washington.
a town in Wisconsin.
A settlement on United States Virgin Islands.
carotin
carotin
noun
(organic chemistry) A red crystallizable tasteless substance extracted from the carrot.
cartons
cartons
noun
plural of carton
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carton
cartoon
cartoon
noun
(animation) An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.
(art) A full-sized drawing that serves as the template for a fresco, a tapestry, etc.
(art) An artist's preliminary sketch.
(comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.
(comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
A diagram in a scientific concept.
verb
(art) To make a preliminary sketch.
(art, comics, animation) To draw a cartoon, a humorous drawing.
cerotin
cerotin
noun
(organic chemistry) A white crystalline substance, C₂₇H₅₅.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; cerotic alcohol; ceryl alcohol.
chantor
chantor
noun
Alternative form of chanter
chorten
chorten
noun
(Buddhism) A Tibetan stupa.
cistron
cistron
noun
The unit of hereditary material (e.g. DNA) that encodes one protein; sometimes used interchangeably with the word gene.
citroen
citrons
citrons
noun
plural of citron
cointer
cointer
verb
To bury together; inter.
concert
concert
noun
(countable) A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.
(uncountable) Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
(uncountable) Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
verb
To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.
To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
To plan; to devise; to arrange.
confort
conrath
consort
consort
adj
(postpositive) of a title, by virtue of one's (living) spouse; often contrasted with regnant and dowager
noun
(euphemistic, sometimes humorous) An informal, usually well-publicized sexual companion of a monarch, aristocrat, celebrity, etc.
(obsolete) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.
(uncountable) Association or partnership.
A group or company, especially of musicians playing the same type of instrument.
A husband, wife, companion or partner.
A ship accompanying another.
The spouse of a monarch.
verb
(intransitive) To associate or keep company (with).
(intransitive) To be in agreement.
conster
conster
verb
Obsolete spelling of construe
conteur
contort
contort
verb
(intransitive) To twist into or as if into a strained shape or expression.
(transitive) To twist in a violent manner.
contour
contour
noun
(figurative) A general description giving the most important points.
(linguistics) a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth.
An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
verb
(intransitive) To practise the makeup technique of contouring.
(transitive) To form a more or less curved boundary or border upon.
(transitive) To mark with contour lines.
contras
contras
noun
plural of contra
contrib
contrib
noun
Clipping of contribution.
control
control
noun
(climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
(countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
(cycling, countable) A checkpoint along an audax route.
(graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
(linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
(project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
(spiritualism, parapsychology) A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
A control group or control experiment.
A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
verb
(transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
(transitive) to hold in check, to curb, to restrain
(transitive, archaic) to verify the accuracy of (something or someone, especially a financial account) by comparison with another account
(transitive, obsolete) to call to account, to take to task, to challenge
(transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
conturb
conturb
verb
(transitive) To disturb or perturb greatly.
convert
convert
noun
(Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
A person who has converted to a religion.
A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
verb
(intransitive) To become converted.
(intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
(intransitive, marketing) To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
(intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
(transitive or intransitive, soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick).
(transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
(transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
(transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
(transitive) To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
(transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11).
(transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
(transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
(transitive, intransitive, chess) To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
(transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
(transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
(transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
(transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
(transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
coranto
coranto
noun
(historical) An early informational broadsheet, bringing together news and philosophical discussion.
A fast-paced dance which originated in France.
cordant
corinth
corinth
noun
(obsolete) A small fruit; a currant.
cornets
cornets
noun
plural of cornet
cornett
cornett
noun
(music) An early horn wind instrument used in European music of the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. Not to be confused with later brass instrument.
cornute
cornute
adj
cornuted
verb
(transitive) To give 'horns' to; to make a cuckold of.
cornuto
cornuto
noun
(obsolete) A cuckold.
coronet
coronet
noun
A small crown, such as is worn by a noble.
A species of moth, Craniophora ligustri.
Any of several hummingbirds in the genus Boissonneaua.
The ring of tissue between a horse's hoof and its leg.
The traditional lowest regular commissioned officer rank in the cavalry.
cortian
cortina
cortina
noun
(mycology) A cobweb-like annulus on certain types of mushroom.
cortine
cortins
cortins
noun
plural of cortin
cortney
cortona
cothurn
cothurn
noun
A buskin anciently worn by tragic actors on the stage.
cotrine
counter
counter
adj
Contrary or opposing
adv
Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.
noun
(Internet) A hit counter.
(curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
(grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
(historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
(martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
(music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.
(nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
(programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
(typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted
A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
One who counts.
The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
verb
(boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
(transitive, obsolete) To encounter.
To contradict, oppose.
To take action in response to; to respond.
countor
countor
noun
(obsolete, UK, law) An advocate or professional pleader; one who counted for his client, that is, orally pleaded his cause
country
country
adj
(India, historical) Originating in India rather than being imported from Europe or elsewhere.
From or in the countryside or connected with it.
Of or connected to country music.
noun
(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.
(mining) The rock through which a vein runs.
(uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, speakers of the same language etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.
Ellipsis of country music.
The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area; a sovereign state.
courant
courant
adj
(heraldry) Represented as running.
noun
A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper.
A lively dance; a coranto.
A piece of music in triple time.
courtin
crafton
cratons
cratons
noun
plural of craton
creston
cretion
croatan
croatan
Noun
A member of a small Native American group once living in the coastal areas of what is now North Carolina.
crofton
crotone
crotone
Proper noun
A town and associated province of Calabria, Italy.
crotons
crotons
noun
plural of croton
crouton
crouton
noun
A small, often seasoned, piece of dry or fried bread.
crownet
crownet
noun
(obsolete) A coronet, small crown.
custron
custron
noun
(obsolete) A kitchen-worker, a scullion; any worthless person.
ecteron
ecteron
noun
(anatomy) The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon.
enactor
enactor
noun
One who enacts.
functor
functor
noun
(category theory) A category homomorphism; a morphism from a source category to a target category which maps objects to objects and arrows to arrows, in such a way as to preserve domains and codomains (of the arrows) as well as composition and identities.
(functional programming) A structure allowing a function to apply within a generic type, in a way that is conceptually similar to a functor in category theory.
(grammar) A function word.
(object-oriented programming) A function object.
junctor
junctor
noun
A juncture, especially a means of attaching incoming and outgoing lines in an analog telephone exchange
necator
nectron
nocturn
nocturn
noun
(Christianity) A portion of the psalter used during nocturns.
(Christianity) The night office of the Christian liturgy of the Hours, such as is performed in monasteries.
noritic
noritic
adj
(geology) Relating to, or composed of norite
notcher
notcher
noun
(cricket) A scorer.
One who makes notches.
noticer
noticer
noun
Someone who notices
ontaric
orcanet
pectron
rantock
recount
recount
noun
A counting again, as of votes.
Narration, account, description, rendering
verb
(dated) To rehearse; to enumerate.
To count again.
To tell; narrate; to relate in detail
rection
rection
noun
(grammar, archaic) regimen; government; the rules governing the syntax, rules of agreement of a language.
richton
rockton
ruction
ruction
noun
A noisy quarrel or fight.
tarchon
tichnor
ticknor
torchon
torchon
noun
A coarse, loose-textured bobbin lace
tricorn
tricorn
adj
Having three horns or similar projections
noun
(mathematics) A three-horned fractal
A three-sided hat with the brim turned up
trounce
trounce
noun
A journey involving quick travel; also, one that is dangerous or laborious.
A walk involving some difficulty or effort; a trek, a tramp, a trudge.
An act of trouncing: a severe beating, a thrashing; a thorough defeat.
verb
(intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.
(intransitive) To travel quickly over a long distance.
(intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
(transitive) To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin.
(transitive) To beat severely; to thrash.
(transitive) To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language.
(transitive, Britain, regional) To punish by bringing a lawsuit against; to sue.