(ornithology) A feather that covers the bases of flight feathers.
A covering.
A disguise.
Area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.
cuervo
devoir
devoir
noun
(archaic, often in plural) Duty, business; something that one must do.
devora
devour
devour
verb
To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.
To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze.
doover
doover
noun
(Australia) Alternative form of doofer
droved
droved
verb
informal past tense of drove.
simple past tense and past participle of drove
drover
drover
noun
A person who drives animals, especially cattle or sheep, over long distances.
droves
droves
noun
plural of drove
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drove
euvrou
evermo
evoker
evoker
noun
A person who practices evocation.
Agent noun of evoke; someone or something that evokes.
fervor
fervor
noun
(American spelling) A passionate enthusiasm for some cause.
(American spelling) An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor.
(American spelling) Heat.
gervao
gervao
noun
A small medicinal verbenaceous shrub of the West Indies, etc.
glover
glover
noun
A person who makes or sells gloves.
govern
govern
noun
The act of governing
verb
(intransitive) To exercise political authority; to run a government.
(intransitive) To have or exercise a determining influence.
(transitive) To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
(transitive) To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
(transitive) To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
(transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
(transitive, grammar) To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.
(transitive, obsolete) To direct the course of, to guide in some direction, to steer.
(transitive, obsolete) To handle, to manage, to oversee (a matter, an affair, a household, etc.).
(transitive, obsolete) To look after, to take care of, to tend to (someone or some plant).
(transitive, obsolete) To manage, to control, to work (a tool or mechanical device).
groove
groove
noun
(mining) A shaft or excavation.
(motor racing) A racing line, a path across the racing circuit's surface that a racecar will usually track on. (Note: There may be multiple grooves on any particular circuit or segment of circuit)
(music) A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
A fixed routine.
A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression.
The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
verb
(intransitive) To perform, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.
(transitive) To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
groved
groved
adj
Covered in groves.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of grove
grovel
grovel
verb
(intransitive) To abase oneself before another person.
(intransitive) To be prone on the ground.
(intransitive) To be slavishly nice to someone or apologize in the hope of securing something.
(intransitive) To crawl.
(intransitive) To take pleasure in mundane activities.
grover
groves
groves
noun
plural of grove
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grove
grovet
grovet
noun
(obsolete) A little grove.
hoover
hoover
noun
(chiefly Britain, Ireland) A vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
verb
(intransitive, Britain) To use a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
(transitive) To suck in or inhale, as if by a vacuum cleaner.
(transitive, Britain) To clean (a room, etc.) with a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
hovers
hovers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hover
loover
loover
noun
Archaic form of louver.
louver
louver
noun
(chiefly in the plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc.
A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light.
Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation.
louvre
louvre
noun
(chiefly Britain) Alternative form of louver
lovers
lovers
noun
plural of lover
lovery
lovier
morven
movers
movers
noun
plural of mover
norven
obvert
obvert
noun
(logic) The result of obversion.
verb
(Wikimedia jargon) To undo a revert of a bold edit
(transitive) To turn so as to show another side.
(transitive) To turn towards the front.
(transitive, logic) To infer by obversion.
oeuvre
oeuvre
noun
(uncountable, collective) The complete body of an artist's work.
A work of art.
oliver
oliver
noun
(archaic, rare) A small tilt hammer, worked by the foot.
ortive
ortive
adj
Of or relating to the time or act of rising; eastern.
ouvert
ouvert
noun
(ballet) A position in which the feet are apart, or a movement which brings them apart.
(fashion) An open-crotch undergarment.
overby
overby
adv
(archaic) A little way over.
overdo
overdo
verb
(obsolete) To do more than (someone); to do (something) to a greater extent.
To cook for too long.
To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to carry too far.
To give (someone or something) too much work; to require too much effort or strength of (someone); to use up too much of (something).
overed
overed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of over
overgo
overgo
noun
(genetics) A sequence of overlapping oligonucleotides, used to design hybridization.
verb
(archaic) To cross, go over (a barrier etc.); to surmount.
(intransitive, UK, dialectal) To pass by, pass away; often, to go unnoticed.
(obsolete) To cover.
(obsolete) To overtake, go faster than.
(obsolete) To pass (a figurative barrier); to transgress.
To get the better of; to overcome, overpower.
To go beyond; to exceed, surpass.
To go over, move over the top of, travel across the surface of; to traverse, travel through.
To spread across (something); to overrun.
overly
overly
adj
(obsolete) Excessive; too great.
(obsolete) Having a sense of superiority, haughty.
(obsolete) Superficial; not thorough; careless, negligent, inattentive.
adv
(obsolete) Carelessly, without due attention.
(obsolete) Superficially.
(obsolete) With a sense of superiority, haughtily.
(sometimes proscribed) To an excessive degree.
oviger
oviger
noun
A leg, of some pycnogonids, that is modified to carry eggs
perovo
plover
plover
noun
(Australia) The masked lapwing, Vanellus miles.
Any of various wading birds of the family Charadriidae.
verb
To dote over, or, crowd or nestle with
To hunt for plover.
To wade along the shore, examining the sand like a plover does.
prevot
proved
proved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of prove
proven
proven
adj
Having been proved; having proved its value or truth.
verb
(proscribed) past participle of prove
prover
prover
noun
A person, device, or program that performs logical or mathematical proofs.
One who or that which proves.
proves
proves
noun
plural of prove
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of prove
purvoe
purvoe
noun
(India, obsolete) A Hindu clerk.
reavow
reavow
verb
To avow again.
relove
relove
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To love in return.
remove
remove
noun
(Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
(cooking, now chiefly historical) A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
(dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
(figurative, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
Distance in time or space; interval.
The act of removing something.
The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
verb
(cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
(intransitive, archaic) To change one's residence or place of business; to move.
(intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
(obsolete, formal) To replace a dish within a course.
(transitive) To delete.
(transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
(transitive) To move something or someone from one place to another, especially to take away.
(transitive) To murder.
To dismiss or discharge from office.
renove
renovo
renvoi
renvoi
noun
(law) A situation in which a court, tasked with deciding which state's law should apply to a case, decides to apply the law of the forum, based on the determination that a court from another involved state would also apply the law of the forum.
Cross-reference in text; a sign that refers to something introduced earlier in a text.
renvoy
renvoy
noun
(obsolete) A sending back.
revelo
reveto
revloc
revoir
revoke
revoke
noun
A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental.
The act of revoking in a game of cards.
verb
(obsolete) To call back to mind.
(obsolete) To call or bring back.
(obsolete) To hold back.
(obsolete) To move (something) back or away.
(transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
revolt
revolt
noun
An act of revolt.
verb
(intransitive) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.
To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
To rebel, particularly against authority.
To repel greatly.
To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
revote
revote
noun
An act of voting again
verb
To vote again.
rewove
rewove
verb
simple past tense of reweave
rivose
rivose
adj
Marked with sinuate and irregular furrows.
rooved
rovers
rovers
noun
plural of rover
rovner
scevor
servos
servos
noun
plural of servo
severo
shover
shover
noun
(now chiefly historical) One who utters counterfeit money.
Person who shoves; a pusher.
shrove
shrove
verb
(obsolete) To join in the festivities of Shrovetide.
(obsolete, by extension) To make merry.
simple past tense of shrive
snover
soever
soever
adv
(archaic) In any fashion, of any kind; used for emphasis after words such as how, what, which etc.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:soever.
solver
solver
noun
One who or that which solves.
stover
stover
noun
Coordinate terms: straw, shaw, trash
Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.
Stalks and leaves, not including grain, of certain forages
strove
strove
verb
(now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of strive
simple past tense of strive
throve
throve
verb
(now nonstandard) past participle of thrive
simple past tense of thrive
trevor
trevor
Proper noun
name, from Welsh Trefor. Popular in the UK in the 1950s and the 1960s.
trover
trover
noun
(law) A legal action brought to recover such property by its original owner.
(law) Taking possession of personal property which has been found.
troves
troves
noun
plural of trove
unrove
unrove
verb
(transitive) To separate textiles that have been roved or twisted together.
veator
vector
vector
noun
(aviation) A chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft.
(computer graphics, attributive) A graphical representation using outlines; vector graphics.
(computing, operating systems) A memory address containing the address of a code entry point, usually one which is part of a table and often one that is dereferenced and jumped to during the execution of an interrupt.
(epidemiology) A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
(mathematics) A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
(mathematics) An ordered tuple representing such.
(mathematics) Any member of a (generalized) vector space.
(molecular biology) A DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another.
(programming) A one-dimensional array.
(psychology) A recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth and development in the personality.
(sociology) A person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme.
The way in which the eyes are drawn across the visual text. The trail that a book cover can encourage the eyes to follow from certain objects to others.
verb
(computing) To redirect to a vector, or code entry point.
To set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.
velcro
velcro
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Velcro
velour
velour
noun
A knit fabric similar to velvet, but usually somewhat coarser.
vendor
vendor
noun
A person or a company that vends or sells.
A vending machine.
verb
(transitive, software engineering) As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.
(transitive, software engineering) To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.
venero
verdon
verdoy
verdoy
adj
(heraldry) Charged with leaves, fruits, flowers, etc.; said of a border.
vergos
vernon
vernon
Proper noun
name, transferred from the surname since the nineteenth century.
A city in British Columbia, Canada.
A city in Alabama, USA
A city in California.
A in Colorado.
A town in Connecticut.
A city in Florida.
A village in Illinois.
A town in Indiana.
A village in Michigan.
A town and village in New York.
An unincorporated community in Oklahoma.
A city in Texas.
A town in Utah.
A town in Vermont.
A town in Wisconsin.
vernor
verona
versor
versor
noun
(geometric algebra) A multivector representing a proper or improper rotation.
(quaternion algebra) A quaternion of norm one.
versos
versos
noun
plural of verso
vetoer
vetoer
noun
One who exercises the power to refuse approval.
vierno
violer
violer
noun
(archaic) A musician who plays the viol.
vireos
vireos
noun
plural of vireo
virole
virole
noun
(heraldry) A ring surrounding a bugle or hunting horn.
virose
virose
adj
Having a nauseous odour; fetid; poisonous.
voicer
voicer
noun
(radio) A spoken report to be broadcast.
One who fits or regulates the pipes of an organ so as to produce the desired quality of sound.
One who voices something.
voider
voider
noun
(historical) A contrivance in armour for covering an unprotected part of the body; a gousset.
(historical, rare) A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal.
A tray or basket formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc.
One who, or that which, voids, empties, vacates, or annuls.
volery
volery
noun
A flock of birds.
volyer
volyer
noun
(UK, dialect, Cornwall) A smaller boat that follows the main fishing boat.
vomers
vomers
noun
plural of vomer
vonore
vorage
vories
vortex
vortex
noun
(figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
(figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
(historical) A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.
(zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.
A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
verb
(chemistry) To mix using a vortex mixer
voters
voters
noun
plural of voter
vowers
vowers
noun
plural of vower
voyeur
voyeur
noun
A person who derives sexual pleasure from secretly observing other people, especially when such people are engaged in some sexual activity.
An obsessive observer of sensational or sordid subjects.
wolver
wolver
noun
Alternative form of wolfer (“one who hunts and kills wolves”)