(archaic, Northern England, Liverpudlian, Scotland, Ireland) old
baud
baud
noun
(computing, informal) bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol.
(computing, telecommunications) A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.
boud
boud
noun
(obsolete) A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.
buda
budd
bude
budh
buds
buds
noun
plural of bud
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bud
bund
bund
noun
(India) A perennial ("wet") or seasonal ("dry") pond constructed in a depression and in which fish are stored, typically for breeding.
(India) Alternative form of bandh
A group of foreign sympathesizers of Nazi Germany, most notoriously before and during World War II.
A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks.
An embankment.
verb
To provide berms or other secondary enclosures to guard against accidental fluid spills within.
burd
burd
noun
(poetic) maiden, young woman
chud
chud
abbrev
(West Country, obsolete) I could
noun
(US, slang) A gross, physically unappealing person.
(chiefly US, Internet slang, sometimes derogatory) A person on the political right, and/or who holds socio-political views seen as regressive or bigoted.
(uncountable) A fast-paced game, loosely based on billiards or pool, with many players participating at the same time.
(uncountable) Dirt, filth or refuse.
(uncountable, euphemistic) Feces; excrement.
(uncountable, figuratively, by extension) Something of poor quality.
(uncountable, skiing, snowboarding) A heavy wet snow on which it is difficult to travel.
(uncountable, slang, US, military and students) Venereal disease, or (by extension) any disease.
Mixed impurities, especially wear and corrosion products in nuclear reactor coolant.
verb
(transitive) To clog with dirt or debris.
cuda
cuds
cuds
noun
plural of cud
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cud
cued
cued
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cue
cund
cund
verb
Obsolete form of cond (to con (a ship)).
curd
curd
noun
The coagulated part of any liquid.
The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants.
The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc.
verb
(intransitive) To form curd; to curdle.
(transitive) To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.
dadu
danu
daru
daub
daub
noun
A crude or amateurish painting.
A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.
verb
(intransitive, transitive) To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
(transitive) To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
(transitive, obsolete) To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
(transitive, obsolete) To flatter excessively or grossly.
(transitive, obsolete) To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
daud
daud
noun
(Scotland and Northern England, archaic) A blow, a heavy thump.
A piece of something, especially something with an irregular shape.
dauk
daun
daur
daut
dauw
dauw
noun
(South Africa) Burchell's zebra (Equus quagga burchellii).
dclu
dcmu
ddcu
degu
degu
noun
Any species of the genus Octodon, especially Octodon degus, a small, caviomorph rodent native to Chile.
deul
deus
deut
deux
diau
dieu
dlcu
dltu
dmus
doub
doub
noun
Alternative form of doob (“doob grass”)
douc
douc
noun
A species of colobine Old World monkey, making up the genus Pygathrix.
doug
doum
doum
noun
The doum palm.
doup
doup
noun
(Scotland) A cigarette butt.
(Scotland) The bottom end of something; the human buttocks.
dour
dour
adj
Expressing gloom or melancholy.
Stern, harsh and forbidding.
Unyielding and obstinate.
dout
dout
noun
Obsolete spelling of doubt
verb
(transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.
douw
doux
doux
adj
(wine) Sweet.
drau
drmu
drou
drub
drub
noun
(dialectal, Northern England) Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.
verb
To beat (someone or something) with a stick.
To criticize harshly; to excoriate.
To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush.
To forcefully teach something.
drud
drue
drug
drug
noun
(Canada, US, informal) Short for drugstore.
(obsolete) A drudge.
(pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.
verb
(dialect) simple past tense and past participle of drag
(intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
(transitive) To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
(transitive) To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
drum
drum
noun
(Australia slang) A tip; a piece of information.
(US) Synonym of construction barrel
(architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
(architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
(informal) A drumstick (of chicken, turkey, etc).
(now historical) A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
(now rare) A small hill or ridge of hills.
(slang, chiefly UK) A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.
A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
verb
(intransitive) To beat a drum.
(transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
(transitive, intransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.
To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
To throb, as the heart.
drus
duad
duad
noun
(astrology) Dwadasama.
(mathematics) An unordered pair.
A pair or couple.
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.
duan
duan
noun
A division of a poem corresponding to a canto.
A poem or song.
duax
dubb
dubb
noun
The Syrian brown bear (Ursus arctos syriacus)
dubs
dubs
noun
(Internet slang) An image board post venerated for its post number, which ends in two repeated digits.
(colloquial) The name of the Latin-script letter W.
plural of dub
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dub
duce
duci
duck
duck
noun
(Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
(UK, slang, obsolete) A faggot; a meatball made from offal.
(US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
(caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
(cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
(finance, slang, dated) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”)
(in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
(medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men.
(slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
(uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
A term of endearment; pet; darling.
A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
verb
(intransitive) To bow.
(intransitive) To enter a place for a short moment.
(intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
(intransitive) To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
(transitive) To evade doing something.
(transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
(transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
(transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
(Australia, automotive, colloquial, transitive) To paint with automotive paint.
ducs
duct
duct
noun
(anatomy) a vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile
(botany) a tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air
(obsolete) guidance, direction
(physics) a layer (as in the atmosphere or the ocean) which occurs under usually abnormal conditions and in which radio or sound waves are confined to a restricted path
a pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another
an enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors
verb
to channel something (such as a gas) or propagate something (such as radio waves) through a duct or series of ducts
to enclose in a duct
dude
dude
intj
(slang) A term of address, usually for a man, conveying awe, excitement, surprise, annoyance, etc.
noun
(archaic) A man who is very concerned about his dress and appearance; a dandy, a fop.
(chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) A man, generally a younger man.
(colloquial, used in the vocative) A term of address for someone, typically a man, particularly when cautioning them or offering advice.
(slang) A tourist.
An inexperienced cowboy.
verb
(US) Usually followed by up: to dress up, to wear smart or special clothes.
To address someone as dude.
To take a vacation in a dude ranch.
duds
duds
noun
(New England, Britain, informal, dated) Clothing, especially for work or of rough appearance.
plural of dud
duel
duel
noun
(by extension) Any battle or struggle between two contending persons, forces, groups, or ideas.
Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.
Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat).
verb
To engage in a battle.
duer
dues
dues
noun
Membership fees.
plural of due
duet
duet
noun
(music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
(music) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.
verb
(intransitive) To perform a duet.
(intransitive, zoology, of pairs of animals) To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song.
(transitive) (of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus.
(transitive) To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet.
duff
duff
adj
(UK) Worthless; not working properly, defective.
noun
(Britain) A mixture of coal and rock.
(Scotland, US) Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
(US, slang) The buttocks.
(baseball, slang) An error.
(dialectal) Dough.
(slang) The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.
A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums.
A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.
Alternative form of daf (type of drum)
Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.
Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite.
Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit, a worthless thing.
verb
(Australia) To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.
(US, golf) To hit the ground behind the ball.
(slang, obsolete) To disguise something to make it look new.
dufy
dugs
dugs
noun
plural of dug
duhl
duhr
duim
duit
duka
duka
noun
(Kenya) A shop, store.
duke
duke
noun
(slang, usually in the plural) A fist.
A grand duke.
A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genera Bassarona and Dophla.
The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess).
The sovereign of a small state.
verb
(slang, transitive) To give cash to; to give a tip to.
(transitive, informal) To hit or beat with the fists.
dukw
duky
dulc
dull
dull
adj
(of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.
(of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
Boring; not exciting or interesting.
Cloudy, overcast.
Heavy; lifeless; inert.
Insensible; unfeeling.
Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
Sluggish, listless.
verb
(intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
(transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
(transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
dult
duly
duly
adv
In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it ought to be; properly.
Regularly; at the proper time.
duma
duma
noun
A Russian legislative assembly such as the historical duma of the Russian Empire or the modern lower house of the Federal Assembly (the Russian national parliament).
A drink mixing wine and vodka.
dumb
dumb
adj
(dated) Silent; unaccompanied by words.
(dated) Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind").
(figuratively) Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.
(informal, derogatory, especially of a person) Extremely stupid.
Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour.
verb
(dated) To silence.
(transitive) To make stupid.
(transitive) To reduce the intellectual demands of.
(transitive) To represent as stupid.
dumm
dump
dump
noun
(Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
(UK, archaic) A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
(UK, archaic) A thick, ill-shapen piece.
(computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
(computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
(historical, Australia, Canada) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
(marketing) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
(mining) A pile of ore or rock.
(obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
(obsolete) An old kind of dance.
(slang, often with the verb "take", euphemistic) An act of defecation; a defecating.
(usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
A storage place for supplies, especially military.
Absence of mind; reverie.
An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
verb
(transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
(transitive) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
(transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
(transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
(transitive, Australia) Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
(transitive, US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
(transitive, computing) To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
(transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
(transitive, informal) To end a romantic relationship with.
(transitive, obsolete, Scotland) To knock heavily; to stump.
duna
dunc
dune
dune
noun
(geomorphology) A ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind.
dung
dung
intj
Alternative spelling of dong (“sound of a bell”)
noun
(countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
(uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.
verb
(colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
(intransitive) To release dung: to defecate.
(obsolete) past participle of ding
(transitive) To fertilize with dung.
(transitive, calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
dunk
dunk
noun
The act or instance of dunking, particularly in basketball.
verb
(intransitive, Internet slang) To put down on social media [+ on (object)].
(transitive, intransitive, basketball) To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power.
To set down carelessly.
To submerge briefly in a liquid.
dunn
duns
duns
noun
plural of dun
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dun
dunt
dunt
abbrev
(Yorkshire) Pronunciation spelling of don't.
noun
(Scotland) A stroke; a dull-sounding blow.
(UK, dialect) The disease gid or sturdy in sheep.
verb
(Scotland) To strike; give a blow to; knock.
duny
duny
adj
Alternative form of duney
duos
duos
noun
plural of duo
dupe
dupe
noun
(informal) A duplicate.
(informal, TikTok) A counterfeit; a fake.
(photography) A duplicate of a photographic image.
(restaurant industry) A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
A person who has been deceived.
verb
(transitive) To duplicate.
To swindle, deceive, or trick.
dupo
dupr
dups
dups
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dup
dura
dura
noun
(anatomy) Ellipsis of dura mater..
Alternative form of durra.
dure
dure
adj
(archaic) hard; harsh; severe; rough
verb
(archaic, intransitive) To last, continue, endure.
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To fall violently; dash down; move with violence.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To strike or push violently; (of an animal) to strike with the horns; butt.
dusk
dusk
adj
Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
noun
A darkish colour.
A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night, especially the darker part of twilight.
The condition of being dusky; duskiness
verb
(intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
(transitive) To make dusk.
dust
dust
noun
(astronomy, uncountable) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
(colloquial) A disturbance or uproar.
(countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
(figurative) A low or mean condition.
(figurative) Something worthless.
(mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
(obsolete) A single particle of earth or other material.
(slang, dated) cash; money (in reference to gold dust).
(uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
verb
(chiefly US slang) To leave; to rush off.
(intransitive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
(intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
(transitive) To remove dust from.
(transitive) To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.
To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.
duty
duty
noun
(obsolete) One's due, something one is owed; a debt or fee.
(obsolete) Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff.
That which one is morally or legally obligated to do.
The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).
The state of being at work and responsible for or doing a particular task.
duwe
dyun
dyun
verb
past participle of de
past participle of dee
educ
ehud
euda
eudo
fdub
feud
feud
noun
(obsolete) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
(professional wrestling) A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
A state of long-standing mutual hostility.
An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service.
verb
(intransitive) To carry on a feud.
foud
foud
noun
(Britain, Shetland and Orkney) A bailiff or magistrate.
fpdu
fuad
fuds
fuds
noun
plural of fud
fuld
fund
fund
noun
A large supply of something to be drawn upon.
A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.
A sum or source of money.
An organization managing such money.
verb
(transitive) To form a debt into a stock charged with interest.
(transitive) To pay or provide money for.
(transitive) To place (money) in a fund.
gaud
gaud
noun
(obsolete) deceit; fraud; artifice
(obsolete) trick; jest; sport
A cheap showy trinket
verb
(obsolete) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.