(dated) A member of the former Acalephae group, now a part of the Cnidaria phylum.
acephal
acephal
noun
(zoology) One of the Acephala.
alcippe
aliptic
alpacas
alpacas
noun
plural of alpaca
amplect
amplect
verb
(formal) To embrace
apicals
apicals
noun
plural of apical
apicial
apicula
apiculi
apiculi
noun
plural of apiculus
aplitic
aplitic
adj
(geology) Composed of, or relating to, aplite.
asclepi
beclasp
beclasp
verb
(dated) To clasp.
biplace
bluecap
bluecap
noun
(colloquial) A Scotsman.
A bird, the blue titmouse.
A fish of the salmon kind with blue spots on its head.
bluecup
byplace
calapan
calappa
calcomp
calepin
calipee
calipee
noun
A food of the yellowish material found inside the lower half of a turtle's carapace (shell).
caliper
caliper
noun
(automotive) The part of a disc brake that holds the brake pads.
(usually plural only) Uncommon form of calipers.
verb
(transitive) To use calipers to measure the size of.
caliphs
caliphs
noun
plural of caliph
calpack
calpack
noun
A kind of cap from Turkic countries, with a high crown.
calpacs
calpacs
noun
plural of calpac
caltrap
caltrap
noun
Archaic form of caltrop.
caltrop
caltrop
noun
(colloquial) The starthistle, Centaurea calcitrapa, a plant with sharp thorns.
(heraldry) The same object represented as a heraldic charge.
(weaponry) A small, metal object with spikes arranged so that, when thrown onto the ground, one always faces up as a threat to pedestrians, horses, and vehicles.
Any of a number of flowering plants in the family Zygophyllaceae, including several members of the genus Kallstroemia and the species Tribulus terrestris, native to warm temperate and tropical regions.
calypso
calypso
noun
A bulbous bog orchid of the genus Calypso, Calypso bulbosa
A light blue color.
A style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to the mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century. Its rhythms can be traced back to West African Kaiso and the arrival of French planters and their slaves from the French Antilles in the 18th century.
verb
(intransitive) To perform calypso.
camphol
camphol
noun
borneol
campily
campily
adv
In a campy manner.
capable
capable
adj
(obsolete) Of sufficient capacity or size for holding, containing, receiving or taking in; accessible to. Construed with of, for or an infinitive.
Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.
capably
capably
adv
In a capable manner.
capelan
capelet
capelet
noun
A small cape worn over the shoulders by women.
capelin
capelin
noun
Mallotus villosus, a type of smelt found in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans.
capella
capello
capfuls
capfuls
noun
plural of capful
capilli
capital
capital
adj
(comparable, Britain, dated) Excellent.
(crime) Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.
Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
Of or relating to the head.
Of prime importance.
Uppercase.
used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness
noun
(countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
(countable) An uppercase letter.
(countable) The most important city in the field specified.
(countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
(countable, by extension) The chief or most important thing.
(uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
(uncountable, business, finance, insurance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
(uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
capitle
capitol
capitol
noun
(US) Any building or complex of buildings in which a legislature meets.
(historical) Alternative form of Capitol, the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill in Ancient Rome.
(historical) Alternative form of capitoul, the former chief magistrates of Toulouse, France.
capless
capless
adj
Without a cap.
caplets
caplets
noun
plural of caplet
capling
caplins
caplins
noun
plural of caplin
caplock
caplock
noun
A firearm that is discharged by means of a percussion cap.
caporal
caporal
noun
(Latin America) A foreman or overseer.
A type of shag tobacco.
capreol
capreol
noun
(obsolete) A billy goat or small roebuck.
(obsolete) A high leap.
(obsolete) A side brace.
(obsolete) A tendril.
caproyl
caproyl
noun
(organic chemistry, especially in combination) The univalent radical derived from caproic acid by loss of the hydroxy group; hexanoyl
capsula
capsule
capsule
noun
(anatomy) A membrane that surrounds the eyeball
(anatomy) A tough, fibrous layer surrounding an organ such as the kidney or liver
(astronautics) A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
(attributively, figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form
(botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
(botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
(chemistry, dated) A small clay saucer for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.
(pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.
(physiology) A membranous envelope.
(winemaking) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
verb
(transitive) To encapsulate or summarize.
(transitive) To form (medicine, etc.) into capsules.
capulet
capulet
noun
Alternative form of capellet
capulin
capulin
noun
A Mexican timber tree (Condalia obovata) whose hard wood furnishes a blue dye.
A calabur tree (Muntingia calabura, sole species of Muntingia).
A groundcherry (any of most species of Physalis).
A tropical American tree (Trema micrantha), the bark of which yields a strong fiber
The Mexican cherry (Prunus serotina subsp. capuli, once Prunus capollin) and Prunus capuli, that yields a sap used in native remedies and has edible cherries of which the kernels of the pits furnish a flour.
capwell
carpale
carpale
noun
(anatomy) One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus, especially one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.
carpals
carpals
noun
plural of carpal
carpels
carpels
noun
plural of carpel
carpool
carpool
noun
An arrangement whereby several people travel together in the same car in order to save costs, reduce pollution etc.
The group of people who participate in such a pool.
verb
To travel together in such a pool.
catalpa
catalpa
noun
Any tree of the genus Catalpa, in the family Bignoniaceae. The two North American species, the southern catalpa, Catalpa bignonioides, and the northern catalpa, Catalpa speciosa — along with the yellow catalpa, Catalpa ovata, from China — are often planted as ornamentals because of their showy flowers and decorative bean pods, though others regard the bean pods as a nuisance.
cephala
chapell
chapels
chapels
noun
plural of chapel
chaplet
chaplet
noun
(Catholicism) A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.
(archaic) A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
(specifically) The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.
A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
A garland or circlet for the head.
A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.
A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
A small chapel or shrine.
Alternative form of chapelet
chaplin
chaplin
noun
(biochemistry) Any of a class of bacterial proteins that form fibrils instead of a coiled structure.
chappal
chappal
noun
A type of footwear used in India, Mauritius, and Pakistan, similar to a sandal.
cheaply
cheaply
adv
(cricket, by extension) For a low score.
In a cheap manner; without expending much money.
cheslep
chiplet
chiplet
noun
(electronics) Any of the integrated circuits making up a multi-chip module (MCM).
chipley
chullpa
chullpa
noun
An ancient Aymara funerary tower.
cipolin
cipolin
noun
(mineralogy) A whitish marble from Rome, containing pale greenish zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc.
clamped
clamped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clamp
clamper
clamper
noun
(electronics) A circuit that restricts the amplitude of a waveform.
An attachment with sharp metal prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice.
One who, or that which, clamps.
verb
(obsolete) To join in an unsystematic or haphazard fashion.
To complain in an irritating manner.
To crimp.
To move in a noisy and clumsy manner.
clapnet
clapnet
noun
Alternative form of clap net
clapped
clapped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clap
clapper
clapper
noun
(cinematography) The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.
(ice hockey) A slapshot
(obsolete) A rabbit burrow.
(sewing) A pounding block.
(slang, obsolete) A person's tongue, as a source of chatter or nagging.
A clapstick (musical instrument).
A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.
The chattering damsel of a mill.
verb
(transitive) To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper.
Of birds, to repeatedly strike the mandibles together.
To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter.
clapton
clapton
Proper noun
An area of London, in the borough of Hackney (officially Upper Clapton and Lower Clapton)
clasped
clasped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clasp
clasper
clasper
noun
(botany) The tendril of a plant.
(zoology) Any of several appendages, in insects, crustacea and fish, that are used to clasp the female during copulation.
Anything that clasps.
clatsop
clatsop
Noun
A member of a small tribe of Chinookan-speaking Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
claypan
claypan
noun
(geology) A compact stratum of partially permeable material rich in clay.
cleanup
cleanup
noun
(baseball) Fourth in the batting order; a cleanup hitter.
The act of cleaning or tidying something.
verb
Misspelling of clean up.
cleping
cleping
verb
present participle of clepe
clipeus
clipeus
noun
A shield worn by soldiers of ancient Greece and Rome.
An ornamental disk of marble in this shape.
Part of the exoskeleton of an insect between the carapace and mandibles.
clipped
clipped
adj
(informal) Circumcised.
(of speech) With each word pronounced separately and distinctly.
Having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clip
clipper
clipper
noun
(chiefly in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
(electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
(entomology) The Asian butterfly Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.
(historical) A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.
(informal) An Alberta clipper.
(nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
(slang) A confidence trickster; a conman.
Anything that clips.
verb
(transitive) To cut or style (the hair) using clippers.
clippie
clippie
noun
(Britain, slang) A female bus conductor.
clomped
clomped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clomp
clopped
clopped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clop
clopton
closeup
closeup
noun
(film) A video or film recording made with the camera positioned close to an actor, often so that only the head or face is visible.
clumped
clumped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clump
clumper
clumper
noun
A grass or other plant that tends to form clumps.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To form into clumps or masses.
clumpst
clupeid
clupeid
noun
Any of many soft-finned fish of the family Clupeidae.
clupein
clupein
noun
(organic chemistry) A protamine found in herring.
clupien
clypeal
clypeal
adj
Of or pertaining to a clypeus
clypeus
clypeus
noun
(entomology) The shield-shaped front part of an insect's head or a spider's cephalothorax.
coalpit
coalpit
noun
(US) A place where charcoal is made.
A pit where coal is extracted.
collops
collops
noun
plural of collop
coloppe
colpheg
colpoda
colport
colport
verb
To work as a colporteur
compels
compels
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compel
compile
compile
noun
(programming) An act of compiling code.
verb
(intransitive, programming) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
(obsolete) To construct; to build.
(obsolete) To write; to compose.
(obsolete, transitive) To contain or comprise.
(transitive) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
(transitive, programming) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
(transitive, snooker) To achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots.
complex
complex
adj
(geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.
(mathematics, algebra) Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.
(mathematics, mathematical analysis, of a function) Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
(mathematics, of a number) Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.
Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
noun
(chemistry) A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules, as for example coordination complexes in inorganic chemistry and protein complexes in biochemistry.
(informal, by extension) A vehement, often excessive psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing.
(linguistics) A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.
(mathematics) A complex number.
(psychoanalysis) An abnormal mental condition caused by repressed emotions.
(taxonomy) A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.
A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.
A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
A network of interconnected systems.
A problem.
An assemblage of related things; a collection.
An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
verb
(chemistry, intransitive) To form a complex with another substance
(transitive) To complicate.
complin
complin
noun
Alternative form of compline
complot
complot
noun
(archaic) A plot (involving more than one person), conspiracy
verb
(archaic, transitive, intransitive) To plot together; conspire.
compole
comptel
comptly
comptly
adv
(obsolete) neatly
copable
copalms
copalms
noun
plural of copalm
copilot
copilot
noun
A backup or assistant pilot of an aircraft.
verb
To serve as relief or assistant pilot.
copland
copland
noun
(obsolete) A piece of ground terminating in a point or acute angle.
coplots
coplots
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coplot
copolar
copolar
adj
At the same pole.
coppell
coppled
coppled
adj
(obsolete) Rising to a point; conical; copped.
coppola
copsole
copulae
copular
copular
adj
(grammar) Being or relating to a copula.
copulas
copulas
noun
plural of copula
coupled
coupled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of couple
coupler
coupler
noun
(music) A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together.
(now rare) Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages.
A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines.
An electrical device used to transfer energy from one electric device to another, especially without a physical connection.
Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages.
couples
couples
noun
plural of couple
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of couple
couplet
couplet
noun
(literature) A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.
(taxonomy) A pair of two mutually exclusive choices in a dichotomous key.
A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.
cowflap
cowflap
noun
Alternative form of cowflop (“a cowpat”)
cowflop
cowflop
noun
A cowpat.
cowplop
cowplop
noun
(colloquial) cow excrement
cowslip
cowslip
noun
(Canada, US, regional) marsh marigold, Caltha palustris, a plant in the buttercup family, growing in wet, boggy locations.
A low-growing plant, Primula veris, with yellow flowers.
Primula deorum, a flowering plant known as God's cowslip and rila cowslip
Primula florindae, a flowering plant known as giant cowslip and Tibetan cowslip
Primula sikkimensis, a flowering plant known as Himalayan cowslip and Sikkim cowslip
Pulmonaria angustifolia, blue cowslip or narrow-leaved lungwort
Short for cowslip tea: a kind of green tea; an herbal tea made with cowslip flowers.
crapple
crapple
Noun
A claw.
crapula
crapula
noun
(obsolete or literary) Sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking.
crimple
crimple
verb
(archaic) to crumple, crimp
cripple
cripple
adj
(now rare, dated) crippled
noun
(among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.
(dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) scrapple.
(sometimes offensive) a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
verb
(figuratively) To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.
(figuratively) To damage seriously; to destroy.
(slang, video games) To nerf something which is overpowered.
To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
cripply
cripply
adj
lame; disabled; crippled
crisply
crisply
adv
In a crisp manner.
croupal
croupal
Adjective
Of, pertaining to, suggestive of, or caused by croup.
crumple
crumple
noun
A crease, wrinkle, or irregular fold.
verb
(intransitive) To become wrinkled.
(intransitive, figurative) To collapse.
(transitive) To cause to collapse.
(transitive) To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
crumply
crumply
adj
crumpled.
cryptal
cryptal
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to crypts (small pits or cavities in the body).
culpate
culpose
culprit
culprit
noun
(UK, law) A prisoner accused but not yet tried.
The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime.