Any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra, of the family Recurvirostridae, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet.
becost
cageot
camote
camote
noun
sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
capote
capote
noun
(historical) A close-fitting woman's bonnet.
(historical) A coat made from a blanket, worn by 19th-century Canadian woodsmen.
A long coat or cloak with a hood.
cenote
cenote
noun
A deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.
centon
centos
centro
ceptor
ceptor
noun
A receptor.
cerote
cerote
noun
Obsolete form of cerate.
cestoi
ceston
cestos
cestos
noun
plural of cesto
choate
choate
adj
Complete, fully formed.
citole
citole
noun
An archaic musical instrument whose exact form is uncertain, generally shown with four strings
cleota
cloete
closet
closet
adj
(obsolete) private
Denoting anything kept a secret or private.
closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet)
noun
(Scotland, obsolete) A sewer.
(US, Philippines) One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.
(archaic) A private room used for prayer or other devotions.
(archaic) One used to store curiosities.
(archaic) The private residence or private council chamber of a monarch.
(figuratively) A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet.
(figuratively, archaic) A place of (usually, fanciful) contemplation and theorizing.
(heraldry) An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
(now rare) Any private or inner room, (particularly):
(obsolete) A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.
(obsolete) A private room used by women to groom and dress themselves.
(obsolete) Any private space, (particularly) bowers in the open air.
(obsolete) Clipping of closet of ease, (later, UK) clipping of water closet: a room containing a toilet.
(obsolete) One used to store valuables.
(slang, uncommon) Clipping of closet case.
A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager.
verb
(transitive) To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
(transitive) To shut away for private discussion.
(transitive) To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.
clothe
clothe
verb
(figurative) To cover or invest, as if with a garment.
(transitive) To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.
clouet
coated
coated
adj
Covered with a thin layer.
Wearing a coat.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of coat
coatee
coatee
noun
A coat with short flaps.
coater
coater
noun
A machine that coats material with a fluid.
coates
coates
noun
plural of coate
coatie
cocket
cocket
adj
(obsolete) pert; saucy
noun
(UK, obsolete) A document issued by the bond office stating that duty has been paid and goods may be sold.
(UK, obsolete) An office in a customhouse where goods intended for export are entered.
coedit
coedit
verb
(transitive) To edit together.
coempt
coetus
coetus
noun
Rare spelling of coitus.
cogent
cogent
adj
Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning.
Forcefully persuasive; relevant, pertinent.
Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence.
cohert
colate
colent
coleta
coleta
noun
(bullfighting) A pigtail, a symbol of the matador.
collet
collet
noun
(horticulture) In an embryonic plant, the transition zone between the root and the hypocotyl (not clearly distinguishable in most plants.)
(jewelry) The rim (of a ring) within which a jewel is set.
A band, flange, ferrule, or collar, designed to grip and hold a tool or a workpiece under proper control, and usually to release it under control thereafter; such a collet usually is made of a hard, springy material, especially a metal.
Alternative form of colet (“lower servant in a church”).
coltee
colter
colter
noun
A knife or cutter attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.
The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.
comate
comate
adj
Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.
cometh
cometh
verb
(archaic) third-person singular simple present form of come
comets
comets
noun
plural of comet
comite
compte
comtes
comtes
noun
plural of comte
conite
conite
noun
(mineralogy) A magnesian variety of dolomite.
contek
conter
contes
contex
contex
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To weave together; to form by interweaving.
cooter
cooter
noun
(colloquial) Vagina or vulva.
(slang) A redneck.
A freshwater turtle of the eastern United States of the genus Pseudemys.
Alternative form of couter (“a sovereign (coin)”)
The box turtle.
cootie
cootie
noun
(Canada, US, Australia, colloquial, childish, usually in the plural) Any germ or contaminant, real or imagined, especially from the opposite gender (for pre-pubescent children).
(Canada, US, colloquial) A louse (Pediculus humanus).
(dated, British Army military slang) A louse (Pediculus humanus).
(rare) A nest-building female American coot (counterpart to cooter).
(rare, slang) A sideswiper, a type of telegraph key.
coppet
copter
copter
verb
(informal, intransitive) To helicopter: to travel by helicopter.
(informal, intransitive) To move like a helicopter.
(informal, transitive) To helicopter: to transport by helicopter.
coquet
coquet
noun
(obsolete) A flirtatious male.
A flirtatious female; a coquette.
verb
To act as a flirt or coquet.
To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint; to lead on.
To waste time; to dally.
corbet
cornet
cornet
noun
(historical) The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).
(obsolete) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
(obsolete) The standard flown by a cavalry troop.
A kind of organ stop.
A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK, dated) an ice cream cone.
A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity.
corset
corset
noun
(UK, finance, historical) A regulation that limited the growth of British banks' interest-bearing deposits.
(historical) A tight-fitting gown or basque worn by both men and women during the Middle Ages.
A woman's foundation garment, reinforced with stays, that supports the waistline, hips and bust.
verb
(figuratively) To restrict or confine.
(transitive) To enclose in a corset; to wear a corset.
cortes
cortex
cortex
noun
(archaeology) The outer surface of a piece of flint.
(countable, anatomy) The outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.
(uncountable, botany) The tissue of a stem or root that lies inward from the epidermis, but exterior to the vascular tissue.
cortez
cortez
Proper noun
a city in Colorado, USA
cortie
corvet
corvet
noun
(nautical) Archaic form of corvette.
Archaic form of curvet.
coscet
coseat
cosets
cosets
noun
plural of coset
cosset
cosset
noun
A pet, usually a pet lamb.
Someone indulged or cosseted.
verb
(transitive) To fondle; to touch or stroke lovingly.
(transitive) To treat like a pet; to overly indulge.
costae
costed
costed
adj
Having a specified (type of) cost
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cost
costen
costen
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To try; tempt.
coster
coster
noun
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Acraea.
Clipping of costermonger.
coteau
coteau
noun
(US, Canada) A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys.
(US, Canada) The side of a valley.
coteen
cotele
cotery
cotice
cotise
cotise
noun
Alternative form of cottise
cotsen
cotset
cottae
cotted
cotted
adj
(figurative) difficult to please
matted; tangled
cotter
cotter
noun
(historical) A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage.
(informal) A cotter pin.
(mechanical engineering) A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
verb
(transitive) To fasten with a cotter.
cottle
cotyle
cotyle
noun
(chiefly historical) Alternative form of kotyle, cantharus, a kind of ancient Greek and Roman cup.
(historical) A unit of Greek liquid measure.
(historical) Synonym of hemina, a unit of Roman liquid measure equivalent to about 0.27 L
(zootomy) Synonym of acetabulum, any of various cup-shaped joints, organs, or skin features in various animals.
cotype
cotype
noun
(taxonomy, dated) A syntype or paratype.
coutel
couter
couter
noun
(historical) A piece of armor which covers the elbow.
(ornithology) A feather that covers the bases of flight feathers.
A covering.
A disguise.
Area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.
covets
covets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of covet
covite
coweta
coweta
Proper noun
a city in Oklahoma, USA.
coxite
coxite
noun
Either of a pair of lamellate structures on the underside of each abdominal segment in certain insects.
coyest
coyest
adj
superlative form of coy: most coy
coyote
coyote
noun
(US, informal) A smuggler of undocumented immigrants across the land border from Latin America into the United States of America.
Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.
verb
To prospect for gold by manually digging holes into overlying earth, as into a hillside.
cronet
cronet
noun
The coronet of a horse.
croset
croute
crozet
cutose
cutose
noun
(chemistry) A variety of cellulose, occurring as a fine transparent membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential ingredient of cork.
cuttoe
cuttoe
noun
(obsolete) A large knife or small sword.
cytode
cytode
noun
(biology) A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life, differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present
cytome
cytome
noun
(biology) All the cells of a particular organism together with their associated cellular processes
cytone
decato
decoat
decoat
verb
To remove a coating from
decoct
decoct
verb
(cooking) To make an infusion.
(cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
(figurative) To heat as if by boiling.
(figurative) To reduce or diminish.
To digest in the stomach.
docent
docent
adj
Instructive; that teaches.
noun
(chiefly US) A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc.
A teacher or lecturer at some universities (in central Europe, etc.)
docket
docket
noun
(Australia) A receipt.
(law) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
(law) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
(obsolete) A summary; a brief digest.
A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
An agenda of things to be done.
verb
(transitive) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
(transitive) To label a parcel, etc.
(transitive) To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize.
(transitive) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.
doucet
doucet
noun
(in the plural) Deer testicles.
(obsolete except in dialects) A sweetened dish.
dowcet
eciton
ecoute
ectopy
ectopy
noun
(pathology) Abnormal position of an organ or other body part.
electo
erotic
erotic
adj
Relating to or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement.
noun
An amorous composition or poem.
escort
escort
noun
(somewhat euphemistic) A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent.
A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.
A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.
A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.
An accompanying person in such a group.
Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
verb
To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to
To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.
escots
escout
escout
noun
Obsolete form of scout.
estocs
excoct
excoct
verb
(transitive) To extract a material by boiling.
exotic
exotic
adj
(finance) Being or relating to an option with features that make it more complex than commonly traded options.
(gambling) Being or relating to various wagers, such as the trifecta, that involve betting on the finishing positions of multiple competitors across one or more races.
Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
Non-native to the ecosystem.
noun
(biology) An organism that is exotic to an environment.
(physics) Any exotic particle.
An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
forcet
geotic
geotic
adj
(rare, chiefly mysticism or religion) Part of or related to the earth; geological or terrestrial.
goetic
goetic
adj
Pertaining to black magic or necromancy.
hector
hector
noun
Sometimes in the form Hector: a blustering, noisy, turbulent fellow; a blusterer, bully.
verb
(intransitive) To behave like a hector or bully; to bluster, to swagger; to bully.
(transitive) To dominate or intimidate in a blustering way; to bully, to domineer.
hocket
hocket
noun
(music) In medieval music, a rhythmic linear technique using the alternation of notes, pitches, or chords. A single melody is shared between two (or occasionally more) voices such that alternately one voice sounds while the other rests.
jocote
jocote
noun
mombin
lector
lector
noun
(education) A public lecturer or reader at some universities.
(historical, US, cigar industry) A person who reads aloud to workers to entertain them, appointed by a trade union.
(religion) A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service.
(television, film) A person doing voice-over translation of foreign films, especially in Eastern European countries.
verb
To do a voice-over translation of a film.
locate
locate
verb
(intransitive, colloquial) To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.
(transitive) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)
(transitive) To find out where something is located.
(transitive) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
locket
locket
noun
(archaic) The upper metallic cap of a sword’s scabbard.
A pendant that opens to reveal a space used for storing a photograph or other small item.
A small white marking on a cat's coat.
metoac
necton
nocent
nocent
adj
(obsolete) guilty; not innocent
(rare) Causing injury; harmful.
noun
(obsolete) Guilty person.
nocket
nocten
noetic
noetic
adj
Of or pertaining to the mind or intellect.
Originating in or apprehended by reason.
noun
A purely intellectual entity.
The science of the intellect.
notice
notice
noun
(chiefly uncountable) Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa.
(chiefly uncountable) The act of observing; perception.
(countable) A formal notification or warning.
(countable) A published critical review of a play or the like.
(obsolete, transitive) To lavish attention upon; to treat (someone) favourably.
(transitive) To become aware of; to observe.
(transitive, now rare) To remark upon; to mention.
object
object
noun
(category theory) An instance of one of the two kinds of entities that form a category, the other kind being the arrows (also called morphisms).
(grammar) The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase. In a verb phrase with a transitive action verb, it is typically the receiver of the action.
(object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure.
(obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
A thing that has physical existence but is not alive.
Objective; goal, end or purpose of something.
verb
(intransitive) To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection.
(transitive, obsolete) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.
(transitive, obsolete) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.
obtect
obtect
adj
(entomology, of a pupa) Having the legs and other appendages more or less strongly cemented to the body.
ocelot
ocelot
noun
An American feline carnivore (Leopardus pardalis, syn. Felis pardalis) covered with blackish ocellated spots and blotches which are variously arranged.
ocotea
octane
octane
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of the eighteen isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons (C₈H₁₈) found in petroleum, especially an iso-octane 2,2,4 trimethyl-pentane; they are used as fuels and solvents.
octane number
octave
octave
adj
(obsolete) Consisting of eight; eight in number.
noun
(Christianity) An eight-day period beginning on a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
(Christianity) The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
(astrology) The subjective vibration of a planet.
(fencing) The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level.
(mathematics, obsolete) An octonion.
(music) A coupler on an organ which allows the organist to sound the note an octave above the note of the key pressed (cf sub-octave)
(music) An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency.
(music) The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch.
(poetry) A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.
(signal processing) Any of a number of coherent-noise functions of differing frequency that are added together to form Perlin noise.
verb
Alternative form of octavate
octect
octene
octene
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of many isomeric alkenes having eight carbon atoms and one double bond; some of them are used in the manufacture of polymers
octets
octets
noun
plural of octet
octile
octile
noun
(astronomy) An octant.
(statistics) Any of the quantiles that divide an ordered sample population into eight equally numerous subsets.
(statistics, by extension) A subset thus obtained.
octine
octode
octode
noun
(dated, electronics) A thermionic valve that has eight electrodes or similar elements
octose
octose
noun
(biochemistry) A sugar or saccharide containing eight carbon atoms.
octyne
octyne
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of many isomeric alkynes having eight carbon atoms and one triple bond