(countable) A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
(countable) An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.
(geography) A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch
(horticulture, cooking) One of the small bulbs formed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb.
(uncountable, countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
verb
simple past tense of cleave
clyve
corve
corve
noun
Alternative form of corf
corvi
corvi
noun
plural of corvus
corvo
couve
coved
coved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cove
covel
coven
coven
noun
A clique that shares common interests or activities.
A family, group or assembly of vampires.
A formal group or assembly of witches.
cover
cover
adj
(music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
noun
(combinatorics, topology) A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
(construction) The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
(cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
(dated) A swindler's confederate.
(espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
(insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
(law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
(military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
(music) A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
(philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
(uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
A cover charge.
A lid.
A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
The top sheet of a bed.
verb
(chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
(intransitive) To act as a replacement.
(intransitive, dated) To put on one's hat.
(military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
(music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
(of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
(sports) To defend (mark) a particular player or area.
(transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
(transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
(transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
(transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
(transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
(transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
To be enough money for.
To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
To deal with or include someone or something.
To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
To provide insurance coverage for.
To traverse or put behind a certain distance.
coves
coves
noun
plural of cove
covet
covet
verb
(intransitive) To yearn; to have or indulge an inordinate desire, especially for another's possession.
(transitive) To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
(transitive) To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.
covey
covey
noun
(Britain, slang, dated) A man.
A brood of partridges, grouse, etc.
A group of 8–12 (or more) quail.
A party or group (of persons or things).
Coordinate terms: flock, gaggle, host
verb
(intransitive) To brood; to incubate.
covid
covid
noun
(archaic, units of measure) A chi.
(archaic, units of measure) A cubit.
(colloquial) Short for COVID-19, the disease caused by Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2.
covin
covin
noun
(obsolete, law) Fraud, deception.
crave
crave
noun
(law, Scotland) A formal application to a court to make a particular order.
verb
(transitive) To ask for earnestly; to beg; to claim.
(transitive, intransitive) To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.
(transitive, obsolete) To call for; to require as a course of action.
cravo
cueva
curve
curve
adj
(obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
noun
(algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
(analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
(geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
(informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
(topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
A gentle bend, such as in a road.
A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
verb
(intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
(transitive) (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
(transitive) To bend; to crook.
(transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
(transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
curvy
curvy
adj
(euphemistic, of women) Overweight.
Buxom or curvaceous.
Having curves.
cuvee
cuvee
noun
Alternative form of cuvée
daeva
daeva
noun
(Zoroastrianism) A supernatural entity of disagreeable nature.
daiva
davao
daven
daven
verb
(intransitive) to recite the Jewish liturgy; to pray
daver
davey
davey
Proper noun
A diminutive of the male given name David.
derived from David.
david
davie
davin
davis
davit
davit
noun
(nautical) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship.
(nautical, construction) A crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship.
davon
davos
davos
Proper noun
a mountain resort in Switzerland, known as the host to the World Economic Forum
davys
davys
noun
plural of davy
deave
delve
delve
noun
(now rare) A pit or den.
verb
(intransitive) To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.
(transitive, intransitive) To dig; to excavate.
(transitive, intransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
deriv
derve
deval
devan
devan
verb
(transitive) To unload (goods) from a container.
devas
devas
noun
plural of deva
devel
devel
noun
(Scotland) Alternative spelling of devvel
dever
devex
devex
adj
Bending down; sloping.
devil
devil
name
(theology) The chief devil; Satan.
noun
(cooking) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
(cycling, slang) An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.
(dialectal, in compounds) A barren, unproductive and unused area.
(euphemistic, with an article, as an intensifier) Hell.
(folklore) A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.
(nautical) Ellipsis of devil seam.: The seam between garboard strake and the keel (a seam on wooden boats)
(theology) An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.
A Tasmanian devil.
A dust devil.
A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.
A printer's assistant. Also (India) "a poltergeist that haunts printing works".
A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.
The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.
verb
To annoy or bother.
To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.
To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and spices, which mixture then is placed into the halved whites to be served.
To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
devin
devol
devon
devon
noun
(Australia, Eastern Australia) A type of processed meat sausage.
devot
devow
devow
verb
(obsolete) To disavow; to disclaim.
(obsolete) To give up; to devote.
dhava
dhruv
divan
divan
noun
(dated) An establishment that serves cigars and coffee, and may offer other amenities such as books, newspapers, and chess.
(now historical) A Muslim council of state, specifically that of viziers of the Ottoman Empire that discussed and recommended new laws and law changes to a higher authority (the sultan).
(now rare) Any council or assembly.
A collection of poems, especially one written by an author in Arabic or Persian.
A couch- or sofa-like piece of furniture made of a mattress lying against the wall and either on the floor or an elevated structure.
The council chamber where this court is held; (by extension), any court of justice.
divas
dived
dived
verb
past participle of dive (jump head-first)
simple past tense and past participle of dive (scuba diving)
divel
divel
noun
(dialect or archaic) Alternative spelling of devil
verb
(obsolete) To rend apart.
diver
diver
noun
(UK, Ireland) loon (bird)
(UK, London, dated) A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
(slang, obsolete) pickpocket
(sports) A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.
Someone who dives, especially as a sport.
Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
The New Zealand sand diver.
The long-finned sand diver.
dives
dives
noun
plural of dive
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dive
divet
divet
noun
Alternative form of divot
divia
divid
divot
divot
noun
(especially golf) A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof.
(mathematics, astronomy) a drop in a graph between two linear portions (example)
A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour.
The space between two pillows.
verb
(transitive, especially golf) To tear up pieces of turf from, especially with a golf club in making a stroke.
divus
divvy
divvy
adj
(informal, dated) Divine; very pleasant, wonderful.
noun
(informal) A dividend; a share or portion.
(slang, derogatory) A foolish person.
verb
(informal, transitive) To divide into portions.
djave
dovap
doven
doven
verb
(dialectal) past participle of dive
Alternative form of daven
dover
doves
doves
noun
plural of dove
dovev
dovey
dowve
drava
drave
drave
verb
(archaic) simple past tense of drive
drive
drive
noun
(American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
(baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
(computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
(computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
(cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
(dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
(golf) A stroke made with a driver.
(military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
(psychology) Desire or interest.
(retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
(soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
(typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
A driveway.
A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
A type of public roadway.
An act of driving (prompting) game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
An act of driving (prompting) livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
verb
(American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
(intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
(intransitive) To move forcefully.
(intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
(intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
(mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
(obsolete) To distrain for rent.
(transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
(transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
(transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
(transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
(transitive) To cause to become.
(transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
(transitive) To compel (to do something).
(transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
(transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
(transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
(transitive) To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
(transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
(transitive) To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
(transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
(transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
(transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
(transitive, slang, aviation) To operate (an aircraft).
To be the dominant party in a sex act.
To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.
To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
drove
drove
noun
(collective) A group of hares.
(figuratively, by extension, usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven; a drove road.
The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
verb
(transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.
To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
simple past tense of drive
drovy
drovy
Adjective
turbid; muddy; filthy
duval
duval
Proper noun
of origin, for someone who lived in a valley.
duvet
duvet
noun
(Britain, New Zealand, US) A quilt or usually flat cloth bag with a filling (traditionally down) and usually an additional washable cover, used instead of blankets; often called a comforter or quilt, especially in US English.
(US) Short for duvet cover.
dvigu
dvigu
noun
(Sanskrit grammar, lexicography) A form of tatpuruṣa in which the modifying member is a number.
dvina
dvmrp
eaved
eaved
adj
Having eaves (of a specified number or kind).
eaver
eaves
eaves
noun
(architecture) The underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building.
(by extension) Something that extends over or projects beyond.
plural of eave
ediva
edveh
eleva
eleve
eleve
noun
(obsolete) A pupil or student.
elevs
elvah
elvan
elvan
adj
(mining) Of or relating to certain veins of feldspathic or porphyritic rock crossing metalliferous veins in the mining districts of Cornwall.
(uncommon) Elven, elfin, pertaining to elves.
noun
(mining) The rock of an elvan vein, or the vein itself.
elver
elver
noun
A young eel.
elves
elves
noun
plural of elf
plural of elve
elvet
elvia
elvie
elvin
elvin
noun
(Kent) Alternative spelling of elven (“an elm”) (a tree of the genus Ulmus, particularly the wych elm or Scots elm (Ulmus glabra))
elvis
elvis
Proper noun
name, possibly derived from the surname Elwes.
Elvis Presley (1935-1977), a popular American rock-and-roll singer.
Noun
An impersonator of Elvis Presley.
elvyn
emove
emove
verb
(archaic, poetic, transitive) To stir or arouse emotion in (someone); to cause to feel emotion.
enver
envoi
envoi
noun
(poetry) A short stanza at the end of a poem, used either to address a person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem.
envoy
envoy
noun
(law) A diplomatic agent of the second rank, next in status after an ambassador.
(poetry) Alternative spelling of envoi (“short stanza at end of poem”)
A diplomat.
A messenger.
A representative.
equiv
erava
ervil
ervil
noun
bitter vetch, blister vetch (Vicia ervilia).
ervin
ervum
etuve
evade
evade
verb
(intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
(transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
(transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from
evang
evans
evans
Proper noun
common in Wales, derived from the given name Evan (or Ifan in
evant
evars
evart
evase
evatt
eveck
evene
evene
verb
(obsolete) To occur; to happen; to come to pass.
evens
evens
noun
odds of 1:1; even money
plural of even
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of even
event
event
noun
(computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
(medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.
(obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
(physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
(probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
An occurrence; something that happens.
In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
verb
(obsolete) To occur, take place.
(obsolete, intransitive) To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
(obsolete, transitive) To expose to the air, ventilate.
evers
evert
evert
verb
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete, also figuratively) To disrupt; to overthrow.
(transitive, obsolete) To move (someone or something) out of the way.
(transitive, obsolete, also figuratively) To turn upside down; to overturn.
(transitive, often biology, physiology) To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards.
every
every
det
(with certain nouns) Denotes an abundance of something.
All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception.
Denotes equal spacing at a stated interval, or a proportion corresponding to such a spacing.
evese
evict
evict
verb
(transitive) To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
evils
evils
noun
(slang) the evil eye
plural of evil
evita
evite
evite
verb
(now rare, chiefly Scotland, transitive) To avoid.
evius
evoke
evoke
verb
To call out; to draw out or bring forth.
To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.
To elicit a response.
evora
evros
evvie
fauve
fauve
noun
Synonym of fauvist
favel
favel
adj
yellow or dun in colour
noun
(obsolete) flattery; cajolery; deceit
A horse of a favel or dun colour.
favin
favor
favor
noun
(archaic) A letter, a written communication.
(law) Partiality; bias
(obsolete) A ribbon or similar small item that is worn as an adornment, especially in celebration of an event.
(obsolete) Anything worn publicly as a pledge of a woman's favor.
(obsolete) Appearance; look; countenance; face.
A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).
A small gift; a party favor.
Goodwill; benevolent regard.
Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
The object of regard; person or thing favoured.
verb
(in dialects, including Southern US and Louisiana) To resemble; especially, to look like (another person).
To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.
To encourage, conduce to
To look upon fondly; to prefer.
To treat with care.
To use more often.
favus
favus
noun
(medicine) A severe, chronic infection of ringworm.
A tile or flagstone cut into a hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern.
fconv
fever
fever
noun
(neologism) A group of stingrays.
(usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.
A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
A state of excitement or anxiety.
verb
To become fevered.
To put into a fever; to affect with fever.
fevre
fevre
noun
Obsolete form of fever.
fiver
fiver
noun
(Islam) A Zaydi Shiite Muslim, who disagrees with the majority of Shiites on the identity of the Fifth Imam.
(colloquial) A clenched fist.
(religion) A person who gives five percent of their income or five hours a week of their time to charity (a reduction of ten percent tithing).
(slang) A banknote with a value of five units of currency.
(slang, by extension) The value in money that this represents.
A mathematical puzzle played on a 5 × 5 grid.
fives
fives
noun
(UK, prison slang) The cells located on the fourth floor.
(chiefly Britain) a ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall.
(finance, archaic) Shares at a rate of five percent.
(poker slang) A pair of fives.
plural of five
flavo
fovea
fovea
noun
(anatomy) A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ.
(anatomy) The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision.