Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.
Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.
Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
Any corrosive substance.
acie
acis
acle
acle
noun
An ironwood tree (Xylia xylocarpa); the hard wood of this tree
acls
aclu
acme
acme
noun
(medicine) Synonym of crisis, the decisive moment in the course of an illness.
(rare) Full bloom or reproductive maturity.
A high point: the highest point of any range, the most developed stage of any process, or the culmination of any field or historical period.
A paragon: a person or thing representing such a high point.
Alternative letter-case form of Acme, particularly as a threading format.
acne
acne
noun
(pathology) A skin condition, usually of the face, that is common in adolescents. It is characterised by red pimples, and is caused by the inflammation of sebaceous glands through bacterial infection.
A pattern of blemishes in an area of skin resulting from the skin condition.
acof
acol
acop
acop
adv
(obsolete) atop
acor
acpt
acra
acra
noun
(anatomy, rare) The vascular areas of the body most removed from the heart.
acre
acre
noun
(Chester, historical) An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
(informal, usually in the plural) A large quantity.
(informal, usually in the plural) A wide expanse.
(obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
(obsolete) A field.
(obsolete) The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yds (≈20 m) by 220 yds (≈200 m).
An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.
Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
acrv
acse
acsu
acta
actg
acth
acts
acts
noun
plural of act
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of act
actu
acus
acwa
acwp
acyl
acyl
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of class of organic radicals, RCO-, formed by the removal of a hydroxyl group from a carboxylic acid.
adci
aesc
aesc
noun
Alternative form of æsc
afcc
afsc
agca
agct
agcy
aicc
alca
alce
alco
alco
noun
(slang, Australia) An alcoholic.
A small South American dog, domesticated by the natives. Apparently the species has since gone extinct.
alec
alec
noun
A sauce made from alecs; alec sauce.
An anchovy or herring, especially pickled or dried.
alic
amic
amic
adj
(chemistry) Of, relating to, or derived from an amine, amide or amic acid.
(obsolete, chemistry) Of, relating to, or derived from ammonia.
anac
anco
aocs
apoc
appc
arca
arce
arch
arch
adj
knowing, clever, mischievous
principal; primary
noun
(anatomy) Curved part of the bottom of a foot.
(archaic, geometry) An arc; a part of a curve.
(architecture) An architectural element having the shape of an arch
(obsolete) chief
A natural arch-shaped opening in a rock mass.
An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.
An inverted U shape.
Any place covered by an arch; an archway.
verb
To cover with an arch or arches.
To form into an arch shape.
arcm
arco
arco
adv
(music) A note in string instrument musical notation indicating that the bow is to be used in the usual way, usually following a passage that is played pizzicato.
arcs
arcs
noun
plural of arc
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arc
aric
ascc
asch
asci
asci
noun
plural of ascus
asco
ascq
asic
asoc
atco
attc
auca
auca
noun
A traditional form of art from Catalonia, consisting of a comic-like series of images with text captions, often rhyming couplets.
bacc
bach
bach
noun
(New Zealand, northern) A holiday home, usually small and near the beach, often with only one or two rooms and of simple construction.
verb
(US) To live apart from women, as during the period when a divorce is in progress. (Compare bachelor pad.)
back
back
adj
(comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
(predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
At or near the rear.
In arrears; overdue.
Moving or operating backward.
Not current.
Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
adv
(not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
(not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
(postpositive) Earlier, ago.
Away from someone or something; at a distance.
Away from the front or from an edge.
In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
In a manner that impedes.
So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
So as to reverse direction and return.
To a later point in time. See also put back.
Towards, into or in the past.
noun
(figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
(figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
(mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
(nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
(obsolete) That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.)
(printing) The inside margin of a page.
(slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
(slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
(sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
(swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
A ferryboat.
A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
A support or resource in reserve.
Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
That which is farthest away from the front.
The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
The edge of a book which is bound.
The part of something that goes last.
The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
The spine and associated tissues.
postp
Before now; ago.
verb
(MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
(Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one's back.
(UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
(intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
(law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
(nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
(nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
(nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
(transitive) To push or force backwards.
(transitive) To support.
(transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
(transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
To row backward with (oars).
To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
baco
bact
banc
banc
noun
(US, business) Used to associate a non-banking affiliate of a bank with the bank's brand name without using the word bank
A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment.
A tribunal or court.
basc
bcbs
bche
bchs
bcom
bcpl
bcwp
bcws
beck
beck
noun
(Norfolk, Northern English dialect) A stream or small river.
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
A vat.
Obsolete form of beak.
verb
(archaic) To nod or motion with the head.
bfdc
bice
bice
noun
A cobalt blue pigment.
A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt.
bick
bics
bioc
bkcy
bloc
bloc
noun
A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance: e.g., the eastern bloc, the western bloc, a trading bloc, the Eurozone, the European Union.
A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
bmoc
bmoc
Noun
Big Man On Campus; a popular or high-profile high school or college student.
bnsc
boac
boca
boce
bock
bock
noun
A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.
bosc
bpoc
brca
brcs
bsce
bsch
bscm
bscp
bsec
bsoc
bssc
btch
buch
buck
buck
noun
(African-American Vernacular, dated, dance) Synonym of buck dance.
(Britain, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
(Scotland) The beech tree.
(South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
(UK, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
(US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
(US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
(US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
(US, slang) One hundred.
(by extension in the US, in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
(by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.
(dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
(dated, slang) A kind of large marble in children's games.
(finance) One million dollars.
(informal, rare) A euro.
A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
Clipping of buckshot.
Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”)
The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
verb
(chiefly Ireland, humorous or euphemistic) To fuck.
(electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
(forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
(intransitive) To bend; buckle.
(intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.
(intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
(intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
(intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
(mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
(riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion.
(transitive, by extension) To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
(transitive, military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
(transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
caam
caba
caba
noun
(dated) A cabas, or lady's bag.
cabe
cabs
cabs
noun
plural of cab
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cab
caca
caca
noun
(childish) Excrement; faeces.
cace
caci
cack
cack
noun
A discordant note.
A squawk.
An act of defecation.
Excrement.
Rubbish.
verb
(Australian slang) To laugh.
(US, slang) To kill.
(brass instrument technique) To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.
(intransitive) To defecate.
(of a bird) To squawk.
(transitive) To defecate (on); to shit.
cacm
cadd
cade
cade
adj
(of an animal) abandoned by its mother and reared by hand
noun
(archaic) A cask or barrel.
An animal brought up or nourished by hand.
Juniperus oxycedrus (western prickly juniper), whose wood yields a tar.
verb
To make a pet of; to coddle, pamper, or spoil.
cadi
cadi
noun
Alternative form of qadi
cads
cads
noun
plural of cad
cadv
cady
cady
noun
Alternative spelling of kady
caen
cafe
cafe
noun
(South Africa) A convenience store, originally one that sold coffee and similar basic items.
Alternative form of café
caff
caff
noun
(Britain, Ireland, slang) café, cafeteria.
cafh
cage
cage
noun
(US, derogatory, slang) An automobile.
(athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
(baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
(engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
(field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.
(figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
(graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
(mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
In killer sudoku puzzles, an irregularly-shaped group of cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku.
The passenger compartment of a lift.
verb
(aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.
(figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
cagn
cagr
cagy
cagy
adj
Alternative form of cagey
cahn
caia
caic
caid
caid
noun
(Ireland) Modern Gaelic football.
(historical) A local governor or leader, especially in North Africa or Moorish Spain; an alcaide.
Any of various ancient and traditional Irish football games.
cain
cain
noun
Alternative form of kain
cair
cair
noun
Alternative form of caer (“Welsh fortress”)
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To go.
(transitive, dialectal) To toss backwards and forwards; mix up; overhandle; stir about.