(obsolete) Orchil, a violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verde Islands, etc.
(obsolete) The lichen from which the dye is obtained.
archle
archly
archly
adv
In an arch manner; slyly.
bachel
balche
balche
noun
Alternative form of balché
baloch
baloch
Noun
A member of an Iranian people who primarily speak the Balochi language and inhabit Balochistan and other nearby areas.
baluch
blanch
blanch
verb
(intransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
(intransitive) To grow or become white.
(transitive) To bleach by excluding the light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
(transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
(transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding
(transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
(transitive) To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices
(transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
(transitive, figuratively) To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
To cause to turn aside or back.
To use evasion.
blatch
blatch
noun
(obsolete) Blacking, blackening.
verb
(transitive, archaic) To blacken; to smear with blacking; to stain or mark with soot or coal.
bleach
bleach
adj
(archaic) Pale; bleak.
noun
(countable) A variety of bleach.
(uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
A disease of the skin.
An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
verb
(intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
(intransitive, biology, of corals) To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
(transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
(transitive, figurative) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
cahill
calash
calash
noun
(historical) Alternative form of calèche (“type of carriage with low wheels”)
(now historical) A silk and whalebone hood worn by ladies to shade the face.
calche
calhan
caliph
caliph
noun
The political leader of the Muslim world; the successor of the prophet Muhammad's political authority.
caltha
caltha
noun
(botany) A plant of the genus Caltha; a marsh marigold.
cashel
cashel
noun
(historical) In early Ireland, a ringfort or a circular stone structure used for defense.
chagal
chagul
chalah
chalah
noun
Alternative spelling of challah
chaleh
chalet
chalet
noun
An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves.
chalks
chalks
noun
plural of chalk
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chalk
chalky
chalky
adj
(US, sports, chiefly basketball) Of a tournament: in which the favorites win, or expected to win, most of the games.
Consisting of or containing chalk.
Resembling chalk in some way.
challa
challa
noun
Alternative form of challah
chally
chalon
chalon
noun
(obsolete) A bed blanket.
chalot
chalta
chalta
noun
(India) The elephant apple (Dillenia indica) (tree or fruit).
chamal
chamal
noun
The Angora goat.
chanel
chapel
chapel
adj
(Wales) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
noun
(UK) A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
(especially Christianity) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer.
A printing office.
verb
(nautical, transitive) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
(obsolete, transitive) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
charil
charla
charlo
charyl
chaule
chavel
chavel
noun
(obsolete) The jaw, especially of an animal.
verb
(transitive, UK, dialectal) To chew.
chawle
chelae
chelae
noun
plural of chela
chelan
chelan
Proper noun
a city in Washington, USA.
chelas
cheval
cheval
noun
(obsolete) Only in compounds : a horse; hence, a support or frame.
chilla
chilla
noun
The South American gray fox.
chimla
chimla
noun
(Scotland, possibly obsolete) Chimney.
chiral
chiral
adj
that exhibits chirality (as in the left-handed and right-handed versions of a helix)
chital
chital
noun
a large spotted deer, of genus Axis, native to India and Sri Lanka
cholam
cholla
cholla
noun
Any of several species of cactus in the genus Cylindropuntia, having very spiny, cylindrical stem segments.
choral
choral
adj
Of, relating to, written for, or performed by a choir or a chorus.
noun
Alternative form of chorale
chulan
chulan
noun
The fragrant flowers of Chloranthus spicatus (formerly Chloranthus inconspicuus), used in China for perfuming tea.
chulha
chulha
noun
A traditional Indian earthen stove.
chulpa
clachs
claith
clarhe
clashy
clashy
adj
(informal) that clash, that do not match or fit stylistically
(obsolete, regional) wet; rainy
noun
(archaic) A khalasi.
clatch
clatch
noun
(UK, Scotland, dialect) A soft or sloppy lump or mass.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) Anything put together or made in a careless or slipshod way.
(UK, Scotland, dialect, by extension) A sluttish or slipshod woman.
(UK, Scotland, dialect, historical) A kind of gig.
verb
(UK, Scotland, dialect, transitive, intransitive) To daub or smear, as with lime; to make or finish in a slipshod way.
cleach
clinah
clovah
cochal
cochal
noun
The cactus Myrtillocactus cochal
cumhal
echola
flanch
flanch
noun
(heraldry) A bearing consisting of a circle segment encroaching on the field from the side, and always occurring in pairs.
A flange.
galcha
galoch
golach
hackle
hackle
noun
(fishing) A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather.
(usually now in the plural) By extension (because the hackles of a rooster are lifted when it is angry), the hair on the nape of the neck in dogs and other animals; also used figuratively for humans.
(usually now in the plural) One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the rooster.
A feather plume on some soldier's uniforms, especially the hat or helmet.
A plate with rows of pointed needles used to blend or straighten hair.
A type of jagged crack extending inwards from the broken surface of a fractured material.
An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp.
Any flimsy substance unspun, such as raw silk.
verb
(archaic, transitive) To tear asunder; to break into pieces.
(transitive) To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.
To dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning.
hackly
hackly
adj
(geology) Jagged or rough.
heliac
heliac
adj
Alternative form of heliacal
noun
A stellarator in which the magnetic axis (and plasma) follows a helical path to form a toroidal helix rather than a simple ring shape.
holcad
holcad
noun
(historical) A large merchantman ship in Ancient Greece.
kalach
kalach
noun
Traditional East Slavic bread shaped like a padlock or various kinds of wheels. Other Slavic nations have similar but not identical types of pastry, e.g. Czech or Slovak koláč/koláč, Polish kołacz, Bulgarian колач (kolač), Serbo-Croatian колач/kolač, etc.
klatch
klatch
noun
An informal social gathering, especially one held over coffee for the purpose of conversation.
kolach
kolach
noun
Alternative form of kalach
Type of pastry that holds a portion of fruit or cheese, surrounded by a puffy cushion of supple dough.
laches
laches
noun
(law) An unreasonable delay in bringing a claim alleging a wrong, which means the person who waited shall not be permitted to seek an equitable remedy because the delay prejudiced the moving party.
Negligence in one's duty.
lachsa
lachus
laichs
lamech
lamech
Proper noun
The father of Noah.
lancha
lancha
noun
Alternative form of lancang
launch
launch
noun
(nautical) A boat used to convey guests to and from a yacht.
(nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, petrol, electricity, etc.
(nautical) The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".
An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a launch party.
The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.)
verb
(intransitive) Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
(intransitive, computing, of a program) To start to operate.
(intransitive, often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
(transitive) To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
(transitive) To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
(transitive) To release; to put onto the market for sale
(transitive) To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
(transitive) To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
(transitive, computing) To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
(transitive, obsolete) To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
leachy
leachy
adj
Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous.
lechea
lekach
lekach
noun
A Jewish honey-sweetened cake, mainly associated with Rosh Hashanah.
lepcha
lepcha
Proper noun
An ethnic group, the aboriginal people of Sikkim, who live in India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet.
Their language, a Himalayish language in the Sino-Tibetan family, spoken by about 30000-50000 people.
The abugida script, also known as Róng, used only to write that language.
licham
lichas
lochan
lochan
noun
(Scotland) A small loch.
lochia
lochia
noun
Normal post-partum vaginal discharge; blood, mucus, and placental tissue that are discharged from a female's vagina (similar to menstruation) for several weeks after she has given birth.
lorcha
lorcha
noun
(nautical) A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk.
machel
malcah
malchy
mchail
mchale
michal
mulhac
mychal
nuchal
nuchal
adj
Of or pertaining to the back or nape of the neck.
noun
(medicine, colloquial) Short for nuchal translucency scan.
(zoology) A neck scale, especially of a lizard.
The back of the neck.
palach
phocal
phocal
adj
(zoology) Pertaining to seals
planch
planch
noun
(obsolete) A plank.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To make or cover with planks or boards.
platch
pleach
pleach
noun
(horticulture) A branch of a shrub, tree, etc., used for pleaching; a pleacher.
(horticulture) A notch cut into a branch so that it can be bent when pleaching is carried out.
An act or result of interweaving; specifically, (horticulture) a hedge or lattice created by interweaving the branches of shrubs, trees, etc.
verb
(transitive) To unite by interweaving, as (horticulture) branches of shrubs, trees, etc., to create a hedge; to interlock, to plash.
rachel
rechal
schola
schola
noun
Originally, a musical school attached to a monastery or church. Also known as a schola cantorum.
Today, a group of musicians, particularly one which specializes in liturgical music.