(nautical) Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.
(obsolete) An encounter.
Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To fill up, as a cavity.
(nautical) To insert a line in a chock.
(obsolete) To encounter.
(transitive) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
To make a dull sound.
choco
choco
noun
(Australia, obsolete) A militiaman or conscript; chocolate soldier.
(Australia, slang) A person with dark skin tone.
(Australia, slang) An army reservist.
Clipping of chocolate.
choel
choes
choes
noun
plural of chous
choga
choga
noun
A long-sleeved Afghan garment generally made of soft woollen material and embroidered on the sleeves and shoulders.
choil
choil
noun
(on fixed-blade knives) The portion where the heel meets the bolster.
(on folding knives) The indentation of a pocket-knife blade where it joins the tang.
An unsharpened portion of a knife blade at the base of the blade, near the handle of the knife.
The region of a knife where such a portion is, or would be if it existed; the region may be arranged as a grip, guard, or combination thereof (a finger choil), or it may be a notch demarking the end of the sharpened edge (a sharpening choil).
choir
choir
noun
(Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.
(architecture) The part of a church where the choir assembles for song.
A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are trained to sing together.
Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.
verb
(intransitive) To sing in concert.
choke
choke
noun
(electronics) A choking coil.
(sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
verb
(golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
(intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
(intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
(intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
(intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
(intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
(transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
(transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
(transitive) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
(transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
(transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
(transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
(transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
(transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
choko
choko
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) A chayote.
A small handleless cup in which saké is served.
choky
choky
adj
Alternative form of chokey
chola
chola
noun
A female cholo (Mexican or Hispanic gang member, or somebody with similar characteristics).
chold
choli
choli
noun
(fashion) A short-sleeved blouse worn under a sari; an Indian underbodice.
cholo
cholo
noun
(derogatory) A Mexican or Hispanic gang member, or somebody perceived to embody similar characteristics.
chomp
chomp
noun
(computing, rare) A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits, which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.
The act of chomping (see below)
verb
(computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).
(intransitive) To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
chong
chonk
chonk
adj
(slang, of an animal) Adorably fat or large.
noun
(slang) An adorably fat or large creature, particularly a cat.
Alternative form of chank (“type of shell”)
chook
chook
intj
(Australia) A call made to chickens.
An imitation of the call of a chicken.
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A chicken, especially a hen.
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking.
(Australia, dated) A fool.
choom
choom
noun
(New Zealand, Australia, dated, informal) An Englishman.
choop
chopa
chops
chops
noun
(Nigeria, slang) Food.
(plural only, informal) One's skill at any endeavor; ability, talent; competency.
(plural only, juggling) A pattern that involves carrying the object with the hand over the next object before throwing it.
(plural only, nautical) The area where two tides meet and cause an irregular (choppy) sea.
(plural only, slang) One's skill at musical interpretation and delivery (originally of jazz); musical performance ability.
(slang) Jaws, mouth.
plural of chop
verb
Alternative form of chopse
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chop
chora
chord
chord
noun
(aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
(anatomy) A cord.
(computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
(engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
(geometry) A straight line between two points of a curve.
(graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
(music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
(nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
(rail transport) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
The string of a musical instrument.
verb
(music) To accord; to harmonize together.
(transitive) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
(transitive) To write chords for.
chore
chore
noun
(obsolete) A choir or chorus.
A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.
verb
(Scotland, dialect) To steal.
(US, dated) To do chores.
chort
chorz
chose
chose
noun
(law) A thing; personal property.
verb
(colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of choose
simple past tense of choose
simple past tense of chuse
chosn
chots
chott
chott
noun
(geology) A dry salt lake, in the Saharan area of Africa, that stays dry in the summer but receives some water in the winter.
choup
chous
chous
noun
A squat, rounded form of oenochoe with a trefoil mouth.
chout
chout
noun
(British India, history) An assessment equal to a quarter of the revenue, levied by the Marathas from other Indian kingdoms as compensation for being exempted from plunder.
choux
choux
noun
plural of chou
chowk
chowk
noun
(India, Pakistan) A courtyard.
(India, Pakistan) A marketplace or open area in a city or village.
(India, Pakistan) An intersection or roundabout, where tracks or roads cross (often used in place names).
chows
chows
noun
plural of chow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chow
choya
chron
chron
noun
(geology) A period of time between two geomagnetic reversals.
chyou
ciano
cibol
cibol
noun
(obsolete) A perennial onion plant, Allium fistulosum, commonly called Welsh onion.
ciclo
cimon
cions
cions
noun
plural of cion
cisco
cisco
noun
Any North American freshwater fish of certain species of the genus Coregonus that live in cold-water lakes.
clabo
claro
claro
noun
A cigar whose wrapper is very light tan or yellowish.
cleon
cloak
cloak
noun
(Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.
(figurative) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
verb
(science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
(transitive) To cover as with a cloak.
(transitive, figurative) To cover up, hide or conceal.
cloam
cloam
adj
(Now chiefly dialectal) Of earthenware.
noun
(Now chiefly dialectal) Earthenware.
(obsolete) Clay.
verb
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To gutter (as a candle).
(transitive, obsolete) To make cloam.
clock
clock
noun
(Britain) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
(attributive) A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
(computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
(electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
(uncountable) A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
A time clock.
An instrument that measures or keeps track of time; a non-wearable timepiece.
The seed head of a dandelion.
verb
(Britain, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
(Scotland, intransitive, dated) To hatch.
(Scotland, intransitive, dated) To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
(slang) To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something.
(transgender slang) To identify someone as being transgender.
(transitive) To measure the duration of.
(transitive) To measure the speed of.
(transitive) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
(transitive, Britain, New Zealand, slang) To beat a video game.
(transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily.
clods
clods
noun
plural of clod
cloes
cloff
cloff
noun
(historical) An allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.
clogs
clogs
noun
plural of clog
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clog
clois
cloit
cloit
verb
(Scotland, intransitive) To fall heavily
cloke
cloke
noun
Archaic spelling of cloak.
cloky
clomb
clomb
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of climb
clomp
clomp
noun
The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly.
verb
(intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, as with clogs.
(transitive) To make some object hit something, thereby producing a clomping sound.
clone
clone
noun
(cytology) A group of identical cells derived from a single cell.
(informal) A person who is exactly like another person, in terms of looks or behavior.
A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.
A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.
verb
(transitive) To create a clone of.
clong
clong
noun
(conlanging, humorous) Synonym of conlang
verb
(obsolete) past participle of cling
clonk
clonk
noun
(fishing) A stick-like tool used to strike the surface of the water and produce a sound that causes nearby fish to attack the bait.
The abrupt sound of two hard objects coming into contact.
clons
cloof
cloof
noun
Alternative form of kloof
cloop
cloop
intj
The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.
cloot
clops
clops
noun
plural of clop
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clop
close
close
adj
(Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
(archaic) Concise; to the point.
(archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
(dated) Difficult to obtain.
(dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
(law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
(linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
(now rare) Closed, shut.
(obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
At a little distance; near.
Intimate; well-loved.
Marked, evident.
Narrow; confined.
Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
Short.
Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
noun
(Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
(Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
(aviation, travel) The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
(chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
(law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
(music) A double bar marking the end.
(music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
(now rare, chiefly Yorkshire) An enclosed field.
(sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
A cathedral close.
A grapple in wrestling.
An end or conclusion.
The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
verb
(Philippines) To turn off; to switch off.
(baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
(figurative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
(intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
(marketing) To make a sale.
(surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
(transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
(transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
(transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
To come to an end.
To grapple; to engage in close combat.
To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
To move so that an opening is closed.
To obstruct (an opening).
To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
closh
closh
noun
(obsolete) The game of ninepins.
A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis; founder.
clote
clote
noun
(obsolete) The common burdock; the clotbur.
cloth
cloth
noun
(countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
(countable, uncountable) A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
(in idioms) Priesthood, clergy.
(metaphoric) Appearance; seeming.
(metaphoric) Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.
A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status.
Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.
clots
clots
noun
plural of clot
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clot
cloud
cloud
noun
(computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
(figurative) Anything unsubstantial.
(figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
(obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
(slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings)
A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
verb
(intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
(intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
(transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
(transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
(transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.
(transitive) To make obscure.
(transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
(transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
clour
clour
noun
(Scotland) A blow or impingement.
verb
(Scotland, transitive) To inflict a blow on; punch.
(Scotland, transitive) To make a dent or bump on; ding.
clout
clout
noun
(archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
(archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
(archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
(baseball, informal) A home run.
(obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
(regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.
(regional, informal) A blow with the hand.
A clout nail.
Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
verb
Dated form of clot.
To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
To hit, especially with the fist.
To join or patch clumsily.
To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
clova
clove
clove
noun
(countable) A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
(countable) An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.
(geography) A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch
(horticulture, cooking) One of the small bulbs formed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb.
(uncountable, countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
verb
simple past tense of cleave
clown
clown
noun
(obsolete) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.
(obsolete) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl; a yokel.
A clownfish.
A person who acts in a silly fashion.
A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.
A stupid or badly-behaved person.
verb
(intransitive) To act in a silly or playful fashion.
(transitive, African-American Vernacular) To ridicule.
cloys
cloys
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cloy
cloze
cloze
noun
(education) A form of written examination in which candidates are required to provide words that have been omitted from sentences, thereby demonstrating their knowledge and comprehension of the text.
coach
coach
adv
(chiefly US) Via the part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; via the economy section.
noun
(Britain, Australia) A long-distance, or privately hired, bus.
(chiefly US) The lower-fare service whose passengers sit in this part of the airplane or train; economy class.
(chiefly US) The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; the economy section.
(nautical) The forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under the quarter deck.
(originally Oxford University slang) A trainer or instructor.
(rail transport, UK, Australia) A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.
A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
verb
(intransitive) To study under a tutor.
(intransitive) To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it).
(intransitive, sports) To train.
(transitive) To convey in a coach.
(transitive) To instruct; to train.
coact
coact
adj
(obsolete) Forced, constrained, done under compulsion.
verb
(obsolete) To compel, constrain, force.
(rare) To work together.
coady
coaid
coala
coals
coals
noun
plural of coal
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coal
coaly
coaly
adj
Covered in, or containing, coal.
Resembling coal.
coamo
coapt
coapt
verb
To fit together; often, to fit together and fasten, sometimes with mutual adaptation.
coarb
coarb
noun
(historical) The head of one of the families composing an old Irish sept.
(historical) The successor to the founder of a religious institution.
coart
coast
coast
noun
(obsolete) A region of land; a district or country.
(obsolete) A region of the air or heavens.
(obsolete) The side or edge of something.
The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake.
verb
(US, dialect) To slide downhill; to slide on a sled upon snow or ice.
(intransitive) To glide along without adding energy; to allow a vehicle to continue moving forward after disengaging the engine or ceasing to apply motive power.
(intransitive) To make a minimal effort; to continue to do something in a routine way, without initiative or effort.
(intransitive, nautical) To sail along a coast.
(intransitive, obsolete) To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.
(transitive, obsolete) To conduct along a coast or river bank.
(transitive, obsolete) To sail by or near; to follow the coastline of.
coati
coati
noun
Any of several omnivorous mammals, of the genus Nasua or Nasuella, in order Carnivora, that live in the range from southern United States to northern Argentina.
coats
coats
noun
plural of coat
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coat
coaxy
coaxy
adj
Tending to coax.
coban
cobbs
cobbs
noun
plural of cobb
cobby
cobby
adj
(of a plant) Compact with short bushy leaves.
(of an animal) Stocky.
Arrogant.
Forming hard clumps.
Obstinate; headstrong.
Poorly made; rough and unfinished.
Starchy and tough like a corncob rather than sweet and juicy like the kernels of corn.
Stout; hearty; lively.
Uneven or lumpy.
coben
cobia
cobia
noun
Rachycentron canadum, a perciform marine fish.
coble
coble
noun
(nautical) small flat-bottomed fishing boat suitable for launching from a beach, found on the north-east coast of England and in Scotland.
cobol
cobra
cobra
noun
A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.
Any of various venomous snakes of the family Elapidae.
cobus
cocao
cocas
cocas
noun
plural of coca
cocci
cocci
noun
coccidioidomycosis
plural of coccus
cocco
cocin
cocke
cocke
verb
Obsolete spelling of cock
cocks
cocks
noun
plural of cock
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cock
cocky
cocky
adj
Overly confident; arrogant and boastful.
noun
(also attributively) Short for cockatoo farmer (“small-scale farmer”); (by extension) any farmer or owner of rural land.
(chiefly Britain, Ireland, Newfoundland, colloquial, dated) Used as a term of endearment, originally for a person of either sex, but later primarily for a man.
A (familiar name for a) cockatoo.
verb
(intransitive, chiefly Australia, informal, historical) To operate a small-scale farm.
cocle
cocoa
cocoa
adj
Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.
noun
(countable) A serving of this drink.
(countable, color) A light to medium brown colour.
(now nonstandard) Alternative spelling of coco.
(uncountable) A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar.
An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.
The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
cocom
cocos
cocos
noun
plural of coco
cocot
cocus
cocus
noun
Brya ebenus, a Caribbean flowering tree.
codal
codas
codas
noun
plural of coda
codcf
coddy
codec
codec
noun
(computing) A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal.
coded
coded
adj
Encoded; written in code or cipher.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of code
codee
codel
codel
noun
Abbreviation of congressional delegation. Government-paid trips abroad, designed to give lawmakers first-hand knowledge of matters relevant to their legislation.
coden
coder
coder
noun
(computing) A programmer.
A device that generates a code, often as a series of pulses.
A person who assigns codes or classifications.
codes
codes
noun
plural of code
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of code
codex
codex
noun
A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.
An early manuscript book.
An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.
codie
codol
codon
codon
noun
(biochemistry) A sequence of three adjacent nucleotides, which encode for a specific amino acid during protein synthesis or translation.
A handbell used for summoning monks.
The "bell" or flaring mouth of a trumpet.
coeds
coeds
noun
plural of coed
coees
coeff
coeno
coeus
coeus
Proper noun
The Titan of intelligence; the father of Leto and Asteria.
coffs
cogan
cogen
cogen
noun
cogeneration; a combination heating plant and power generator.
cogie
cogit
cogon
cogon
noun
Any of several perennial rhizomatous grasses of genus Imperata, especially Imperata cylindrica.
cogue
cogue
noun
(chiefly Scotland) A small round wooden vessel for holding milk.
cohan
cohby
cohen
cohen
noun
A Jewish priest: direct male descendant of the Biblical high priest Aaron, brother of Moses.