(chemistry) Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations.
(shortening, Canada, US) A past attendee or graduate (of either gender) of a college, university or other educational institution.
An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K₂SO₄·Al₂(SO₄)₃·24H₂O).
verb
(transitive) To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.
alur
aoul
apul
atul
aula
aula
noun
(anatomy, obsolete) The anterior part of the third ventricle of the brain leading to the lateral ventricles.
(rare) A court or hall.
auld
auld
adj
(archaic, Northern England, Liverpudlian, Scotland, Ireland) old
ault
aulu
balu
baul
blau
bual
bual
noun
A variety of madeira (wine) that is less sweet than malmsey
bula
caul
caul
noun
(Britain, historical, often capitalized, used on maps) An entry to a mill lead taken from a burn or stream (a mill lead (or mill waterway) is generally smaller than a canal but moves a large volume of water).
(anatomy, obsolete except in specific senses) A membrane.
(cooking) Caul fat.
(historical) A style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen.
(woodworking) A strip or block of wood used to distribute or direct clamping force.
The amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth (traditionally considered to be good luck).
The surface of a press that makes contact with panel product, especially a removable plate or sheet.
The thin membrane which covers the lower intestines; the omentum.
dual
dual
adj
(category theory) Being the dual of some other category; containing the same objects but with source and target reversed for all morphisms.
(grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical number in certain languages that refers to two of something, such as a pair of shoes.
(linear algebra) Being the space of all linear functionals of (some other space).
(mathematics, physics) Exhibiting duality.
Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
Pertaining to two, pertaining to a pair of.
noun
(geometry) Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices and V faces.
(grammar) The dual number.
(mathematics) Of a vector in an inner product space, the linear functional corresponding to taking the inner product with that vector. The set of all duals is a vector space called the dual space.
Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair.
verb
(transitive) To convert from single to dual; specifically, to convert a single-carriageway road to a dual carriageway.
eula
fula
gaul
gaul
Proper noun
A Roman-era region roughly corresponding to modern France and Belgium
Noun
A person from Gaul.
gula
gula
noun
(architecture) A capping moulding; a cymatium.
(zoology) A plate which in most insects supports the submentum.
The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat.
haul
haul
noun
(Britain, soccer) Four goals scored by one player in a game.
(Internet) Short for haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”).
(ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
verb
(intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
(intransitive, US, colloquial) To haul ass (“go fast”).
(intransitive, nautical) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
(transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
(transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
(transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
(transitive, figuratively) Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
(transitive, figuratively) To drag, to pull, to tug.
(transitive, intransitive, nautical) To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
hula
hula
noun
A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there.
verb
(intransitive) To dance the hula.
kula
kula
noun
A ceremonial exchange system conducted in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea, involving the exchange of bracelets and necklaces, and linked to political authority.
A tower, turret or steeple on the Balkans erected during the period of Ottoman domination on the area.
lalu
laud
laud
noun
(in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins.
Hymn of praise.
Praise or glorification.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To praise; to glorify.
laue
laun
laur
laus
laux
luau
luau
noun
An elaborate Hawaiian feast featuring traditional foods and entertainment.
luba
luca
lula
luna
luna
noun
(Christianity, chiefly Catholicism and Anglicanism) A lunette: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.
(Hawaii) A foreman on a plantation.
(entomology) A luna moth: a member of species Actias luna.
lura
lusa
maul
maul
noun
(rugby) A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier.
A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.
verb
(figuratively) To criticise harshly.
(transitive) To beat with a maul.
To handle someone or something in a rough way.
To savage; to cause serious physical wounds (usually used of an animal).
paul
paul
noun
An old Italian silver coin; a paolo.
Archaic form of pawl.
pula
pula
noun
(Southern Africa) Rain, used as an expression of greeting or good luck.
The currency of Botswana, divided into 100 thebe.
qual
qual
noun
(sports) Alternative form of quali
(usually in the plural) Qualifying exam. An exam taken by someone (usually a grad student or prospective grad student) to measure their mastery in something, usually an academic field.
raul
saul
saul
noun
Alternative form of sal (“the tree”)
Obsolete form of soul.
sula
tula
ucal
ucla
udal
udal
adj
(Shetland, Orkney) Allodial, inalienable.
noun
(Shetland, Orkney) A freehold; property held by udal, or allodial, right.
uela
ulah
ulan
ulan
noun
Alternative form of uhlan
ulda
ulla
ulna
ulna
noun
(anatomy) The bone of the forearm that extends from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite to the thumb, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. Also, the corresponding bone in the forelimb of any vertebrate.