(now rare) Giving entertainment or interest; recreative, diverting, engaging.
(obsolete) Illusive, deceitful.
aquavit
aquavit
noun
A Scandinavian liquor that is about 40% alcohol by volume; distilled from potato or grain mash and flavored with caraway seeds, anise, fennel, dill and other spices and herbs, depending on variety.
aquiver
aquiver
adj
In a state of excitement, trepidation or agitation; quivering.
autovon
autovon
Proper noun
of: a worldwide US military telephone system from the 1960s to the 1990s.
avebury
avenous
avenues
avenues
noun
plural of avenue
avernus
avernus
Proper noun
The entrance to Hell or the underworld, or the underworld itself.
A lake in Southern Italy.
aveugle
avicula
avidous
avidous
adj
(obsolete) avid; keen; desirous
avitzur
avouter
avoutry
avoutry
noun
(obsolete) Alternative form of advoutry (“adultery”)
avulsed
avulsed
adj
(of a piece of flesh or body part) Having been torn off, as in an avulsion.
(of a wound) Having been caused by a piece of flesh or body part being torn off, as in an avulsion.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of avulse
avulses
avulses
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of avulse
bellvue
bhudevi
bivious
bivious
adj
(rare) Having, or leading, two ways.
bivouac
bivouac
noun
(dated) The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.
(zoology) A structure formed by migratory ants out of their own bodies to protect the queen and larvae.
A temporary shelter constructed generally for a few nights.
An encampment for the night, usually without tents or covering.
Any temporary encampment.
verb
To encamp for the night without tents or covering.
To set up camp.
To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army.
bouvard
bouvier
bravura
bravura
adj
Overly showy; ostentatious.
noun
(music) A highly technical or difficult piece, usually written for effect.
A display of daring.
bravure
bravure
noun
plural of bravura
bugayev
buvette
calvous
calvous
adj
(botany, rare) Lacking bristles or pappuses.
(formal, medicine, rare) Lacking most or all of one's hair; bald, hairless.
cautivo
cauvery
cavuoto
chauvin
chevaux
chevaux
noun
plural of cheval
chuvash
chuvash
Adjective
From, or pertaining to, Chuvashia
Noun
Someone from, or pertaining to Chuvashia
Proper noun
An agglutinative language of the Bolgar branch of the Turkic language family and is spoken west of the Ural mountains in central Russia. Chuvash is the native language of the Chuvash people and an official language of Chuvashia. It is spoken by about two million people.
clavius
clavuvi
couvade
couvade
noun
A practice among some peoples, such as the Basques, of the husband of a woman in the last stages of pregnancy taking to bed, avoiding certain foods, or imitating other behaviours of a pregnant woman.
Sympathetic pregnancy: the involuntary sympathetic experience of the husband of symptoms of his wife's pregnancy, such as weight gain or morning sickness.
couvert
couvert
noun
cover charge
coverup
coverup
noun
Alternative spelling of cover-up
cultive
culvers
culvers
noun
plural of culver
culvert
culvert
noun
A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.
verb
To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert.
cursive
cursive
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that occurs in a straight line (in space or time).
(of writing) Having successive letters joined together.
Running; flowing.
noun
(countable) A cursive character, letter or font.
(countable) A manuscript written in cursive characters.
(uncountable) Joined-up handwriting.
curvant
curvate
curvate
adj
bent in a regular form; curved
curvets
curvets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of curvet
curvier
curvier
adj
comparative form of curvy: more curvy
curving
curving
adj
That curves or curve.
noun
A shape or motion that curves.
verb
present participle of curve
curvity
curvity
noun
The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
curvous
cutover
cutover
adj
Having been cleared of valuable timber.
noun
(by extension) Any process of quickly replacing a machine so as to minimize downtime.
An area of cutover land.
The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
The process of quickly replacing a telephone switchboard, in which the connections are duplicated to the new machine and the original connections are then suddenly disconnected.
cuvette
cuvette
noun
(analytical chemistry) a small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer
(military) a cunette
a pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table
an inner lid of a timepiece
daugava
daugava
Proper noun
A river in Eastern Europe, flowing through Russia, Belarus and Latvia to the Gulf of Riga.
decurve
desuvre
devalue
devalue
verb
(intransitive) To lose value; to depreciate.
(transitive) To lower or remove the value of something.
devault
devaunt
devious
devious
adj
Cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank.
Roundabout, circuitous, deviating from the direct or ordinary route.
devours
devours
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devour
diluvia
diluvia
noun
plural of diluvion
plural of diluvium
divulge
divulge
verb
(transitive) To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a secret) so that it may become generally known.
To indicate publicly; to proclaim.
divulse
divulse
verb
(transitive, medicine) To pull apart forcibly.
doeuvre
dunlavy
dunlevy
duoviri
durovic
duumvir
duumvir
noun
One of two persons jointly exercising the same office in Republican Rome.
duvetyn
duvetyn
noun
Alternative spelling of duvetyne
dyvours
educive
educive
adj
That educes.
effluve
effluve
noun
A spray-like electric discharge.
elusive
elusive
adj
Difficult to make precise.
Evading capture, comprehension or remembrance.
Rarely seen.
eluvial
eluvial
adj
Of or pertaining to eluvium
noun
A rock composed of eluvium
eluvies
eluvium
eluvium
noun
(geology) Residual deposits of soil, dust and rock particles produced by the action of the wind
emusive
envault
envault
verb
(transitive) To enclose in a vault; to entomb.
envious
envious
adj
(obsolete) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
(obsolete, poetic) Inspiring envy.
Excessively careful; cautious.
Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging
evacuee
evacuee
noun
A person who has been evacuated, especially a civilian evacuated from a dangerous place in time of war
evelunn
eventus
everdur
evolute
evolute
adj
(malacology) Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a surface.
noun
(geometry) A curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve.
exuviae
exuviae
noun
(history, military) Among the Ancient Romans, weaponry and equipment stripped from the person of a foe; booty.
The coverings of an animal that have been shed or cast off, particularly the molted exoskeletons of arthropods.
plural of exuvia
exuvial
exuvial
adj
Related to something sloughed off or stripped away.
exuvium
exuvium
noun
(biology) Synonym of exuvia
fauvism
fauvism
noun
An artistic movement of the last part of the 19th century which emphasized spontaneity and the use of extremely bright colors.
fauvist
fauvist
adj
Of or pertaining to fauvism.
noun
An artist who used this style.
favours
favours
noun
plural of favour
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of favour
favuses
fervour
fervour
noun
A passionate enthusiasm for some cause.
An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardour.
Heat.
flavius
flavour
flavour
noun
Britain standard spelling of flavor.
flavous
flavous
adj
(obsolete) yellow
fluavil
fluavil
noun
(organic chemistry) A hydrocarbon extracted from gutta-percha as a yellow resinous substance.
fluvial
fluvial
adj
Of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream.
fluxive
fluxive
adj
flowing; lacking solidity
fulvene
fulvene
noun
(organic chemistry) any heterocyclic analogue of these compounds
(organic chemistry) the hydrocarbon methylenecyclopentadiene or any of its derivatives
fulviah
fulvous
fulvous
adj
Tawny-coloured.
furivae
furtive
furtive
adj
Of a person or an animal: sly, stealthy.
Of a person, etc.: inclined to steal; pilfering, thieving.
Of a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy.
Of a thing: that has been acquired by theft; stolen; also (generally) taken stealthily.
gavyuti
gavyuti
noun
An ancient Indian unit of distance, equivalent to 12,000 feet; supposed to be the distance at which a cow's call or lowing can be heard.
gemauve
gemauve
noun
The plant Malachra capitata.
godunov
gravure
gravure
noun
(Japan) A style of Japanese softcore; glamour photography.
(art, printing) A type of intaglio printing process, in which an image is engraved onto a rotating copper cylinder.
guahivo
guavina
guevara
gustave
gustave
Proper noun
name, a variant of
gustavo
haviour
haviour
noun
(obsolete) Demeanour, behaviour, comportment.
helluva
helluva
adj
(colloquial) (A) hell of a; extreme.
adv
(colloquial); (expletive) (A) hell of a; extremely or very.
houvari
huavean
huvelyk
iguvine
illuvia
imprevu
incurve
incurve
verb
(intransitive) To curve inwards.
(transitive, rare) To cause something to curve inwards.
invious
invious
adj
(obsolete, poetic) impassable
(obsolete, poetic) untrodden
juamave
jussive
jussive
adj
(grammar) Of or in the jussive mood.
noun
(Arabic grammar) A verbal mood of vague or miscellaneous senses, occurring after some particles and in conditional clauses.
(grammar, uncountable and countable) The jussive mood, a verb inflection used to indicate a command, permission or agreement with a request; an instance of a verb so inflected.
juvarra
juvenal
juvenal
adj
Of a young bird, that has its first flying plumage
noun
(obsolete) A youth.
A juvenal bird.
juverna
ketuvim
ketuvim
Proper noun
A subdivision of the Hebrew Testament (Tanakh), known in English as "The Writings." It is composed of Songs (Psalms, and Song of Solomon), Proverbs, and eight other books of the Bible that were written near the close of the canon. These scriptures are viewed as less authoritative than the Torah.
khevzur
kutuzov
kutuzov
Proper noun
A Field Marshal of the Russian Empire under the reign of Catherine II, Paul I and Alexander I.
kvutzah
larvule
leveful
leveful
adj
(obsolete) Allowable; permissible; lawful.
levitus
levroux
levulic
levulin
levulin
noun
(organic chemistry) A substance resembling dextrin, obtained from the bulbs of the dahlia, the artichoke, and other sources, that yields levulose on decomposition.
lietuva
louvain
louvain
Proper noun
Capital city of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium
louvale
louvers
louvers
noun
plural of louver
louvred
louvred
adj
(chiefly British spelling) Alternative form of louvered
louvres
louvres
noun
plural of louvre
lovebug
lovebug
noun
(informal) A person who is in love; a sweetheart.
An insect, the honeymoon fly (Plecia nearctica, family Biblionidae).
loveful
loveful
adj
(nonstandard) Evoking a feeling of love; lovable.
Full of love; loving.
Seeking or desiring love.
lucivee
lucivee
noun
Alternative form of lucifee
lulavim
luverne
luverne
Proper noun
a city in Alabama, USA, and the county seat of Crenshaw County.
a city in Minnesota, USA, and the county seat of Rock County.
a tiny "city" in Steele County, North Dakota, USA.
lvalues
lvalues
noun
plural of lvalue
mauvein
mauvine
mauvine
noun
(organic chemistry) A mauve pigment obtained from aniline.