(biochemistry, countable) One of the six isoforms of actin.
(biochemistry, uncountable) A globular structural protein that polymerizes in a helical fashion to form an actin filament (or microfilament).
actis
acton
acton
noun
Alternative form of aketon
Obsolete form of actinon.
actor
actor
noun
(grammar) The subject performing the action of a verb.
(obsolete) Someone acting on behalf of someone else; a guardian.
(obsolete, Ancient Rome) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
(obsolete, law) Someone who institutes a legal suit; a plaintiff or complainant.
(software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).
A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer.
Someone or something that takes part in some action; a doer, an agent.
actos
actpu
actup
actus
actus
noun
(historical units of measure) A former Roman unit of area, equivalent to a square with sides of 1 actus (about 0.125 ha)
(historical units of measure) A former Roman unit of length, equal to 120 Roman feet (about 35.5 m)
acute
acute
adj
(botany) With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
(geometry) Of a triangle: having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
(geometry) Of an angle: less than 90 degrees.
(linguistics, chiefly historical) Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
(medicine) Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
(medicine) Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage.
(orthography) After a letter of the alphabet: having an acute accent.
(phonology, dated, of a sound) Sharp, produced in the front of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
Brief, quick, short.
High or shrill.
Intense, sensitive, sharp.
Urgent.
noun
(linguistics, chiefly historical) An accent or tone higher than others.
(medicine) A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia.
(orthography) An acute accent (´).
verb
(transitive, archaic) To make acute; to sharpen, to whet.
(transitive, phonetics) To give an acute sound to.
aitch
aitch
noun
The name of the Latin-script letter H.
The word hour is written with a silent aitch.
alcot
antic
antic
adj
(archaic) Grotesque, bizarre
(architecture, art) Grotesque, incongruous.
Obsolete form of antique.
Playful, funny, absurd.
noun
(animation) A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping
(architecture, art, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
(often in the plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper.
A caricature.
A grotesque performer or clown, buffoon.
verb
(intransitive) To perform antics, to caper.
(obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
(transitive, rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.
archt
artcc
artic
artic
noun
(informal) Abbreviation of articulated bus
(informal) Abbreviation of articulated lorry; A semi-trailer truck.
ascot
ascot
noun
ascot tie
atacc
atpco
attic
attic
noun
(slang) A person's head or brain.
The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.
aucht
aztec
aztec
Noun
A Mexica.
A Nahua.
Proper noun
The Nahuatl language.
A city in New Mexico, USA
Adjective
Of or pertaining to the Mexica people.
Of or pertaining to the Nahuas.
Of or pertaining to the Nahuatl language.
bapct
batch
batch
adj
Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.
noun
(Philippines) A graduating class; school class.
(UK, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
(by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
(computing) A set of data to be processed at one time.
(obsolete) The process of baking.
A bank; a sandbank.
A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
verb
(informal) To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.
(transitive) To aggregate things together into a batch.
(transitive, computing) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
(archaic, offensive) A promiscuous woman, slut, whore.
(chess, slang, vulgar, offensive) A queen.
(colloquial, vulgar) A difficult or confounding problem.
(colloquial, vulgar, card games) A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
(dated or specialised, dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
(humorous, vulgar, colloquial, used with a possessive pronoun) Friend.
(obsolete, informal, of a man) A playful variation on dog (sense "man").
(vulgar, colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
(vulgar, figurative) Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
(vulgar, informal, slang) Place; situation
(vulgar, offensive) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
(vulgar, offensive) A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way
(vulgar, offensive) A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
(vulgar, offensive) A woman.
verb
(vulgar, intransitive) To behave or act as a bitch.
(vulgar, intransitive) To criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.
(vulgar, transitive) To spoil, to ruin.
botch
botch
noun
(archaic) One who makes a mess of something.
(obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
verb
(transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something
To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
To repair or mend clumsily.
bract
bract
noun
(botany) A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises.
butch
butch
adj
(slang, originally Polari) Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.
noun
(slang, LGBT, countable) A lesbian who appears masculine or acts in a masculine manner.
butic
cabet
cabot
cacti
cacti
noun
plural of cactus
cadet
cadet
noun
(Australia) A participant in a cadetship.
(New Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
(archaic, US, slang) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
(in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
(largely historical) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
cagit
cagot
cagot
noun
Alternative form of Cagot
cahot
caite
canst
canst
verb
(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of can
canto
canto
noun
(music) The designated division of a song.
(music) The treble or leading melody.
One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
cants
cants
noun
plural of cant
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cant
cantu
canty
canty
adj
lively; cheerful; merry; brisk
capet
capot
capot
noun
(card games) A winning of all the tricks in the game of piquet, counting for forty points.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To win all the tricks (from), when playing at piquet.
caput
caput
noun
(UK) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
(anatomy) A knob-like protuberance or capitulum.
(anatomy) The head.
(medicine, colloquial) Ellipsis of caput succedaneum..
The top or superior part of a thing.
carat
carat
noun
(historical) Any of several small units of weight used for measuring precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 189–212 mg.
A 24-point scale used to measure the purity of gold.
A metric unit of weight equal to exactly 200 mg, chiefly used for measuring precious stones and pearls .
caret
caret
noun
(archaic) A kind of turtle, the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata).
(graphical user interface) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place. Also called a cursor.
(nonstandard) A circumflex, ⟨ ^ ⟩.
(nonstandard) A háček, ⟨ ˇ ⟩.
A mark ⟨ ‸ ⟩ used by writers and proofreaders to indicate that something is to be inserted at that point.
carot
carte
carte
noun
(Scotland, dated) A playing card.
(fencing) Alternative form of quarte
(historical) A carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person).
A bill of fare; a menu.
carts
carts
noun
plural of cart
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cart
carty
carty
adj
Characteristic of a carthorse
casta
casta
noun
(historical) A hierarchical system of race classification created by Spanish elites in Hispanic America during the eighteenth century.
caste
caste
noun
(zoology) A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.
A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cast
catan
catch
catch
noun
(countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
(countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
(countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
(countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
(countable) Something which is captured or caught.
(countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
(countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
(countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
(countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
(countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
(countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
(countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
(countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
(countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
(countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
(countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
(countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
(obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
(obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
(uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
A slight remembrance; a trace.
Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
verb
(intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
(intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
(intransitive) To get pregnant.
(intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
(intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
(intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
(intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
(transitive) Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
(transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
(transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
(transitive) To be hit by something.
(transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
(transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
(transitive) To become infected by (an illness).
(transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
(transitive) To charm or entrance.
(transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
(transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
(transitive) To grip or entangle.
(transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
(transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
(transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
(transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
(transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
(transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
(transitive) To travel by means of.
(transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
(transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
(transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
(transitive, dated) To grab, seize, take hold of.
(transitive, figuratively, dated) To marry or enter into a similar relationship with.
(transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
(transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
(transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
(transitive, now rare) To seize (an opportunity) when it occurs.
(transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
(transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
(transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
catel
cater
cater
adv
(UK dialect, US) Diagonally.
noun
(card games, dice games, obsolete) The four of cards or dice.
(figurative, obsolete) Synonym of purveyor: any provider of anything.
(music) A method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell.
(obsolete) Synonym of acater: an officer who purchased cates (food supplies) for the steward of a large household or estate.
(obsolete) Synonym of caterer: any provider of food.
(rare, obsolete) Four.
verb
(UK dialect) To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally.
(intransitive, figurative, with 'to') To provide anything required or desired, often (derogatory) to pander.
(transitive, intransitive) To provide with food, especially for a special occasion as a professional service.
A 20th century spelling variant of Cathy, diminutive of the female given name Catherine.
cathy
cathy
Proper noun
name and of its variant forms, also used as a formal given name in the 20th century.
catie
catie
Proper noun
A diminutive of the female given name Catherine.
A diminutive of the female given name Caitlin.
catis
caton
catso
catso
noun
(archaic) A dishonest person; a rogue; a cheat.
catti
catto
catto
noun
(DoggoLingo) A cat.
catty
catty
adj
(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a cat.
(informal, of a person or remark) With subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy, or upset, particularly among women.
noun
(slang) A catapult.
A (unit of) weight used in China, generally standardized as half a kilogram.
catur
cavit
ccitt
cctac
ccuta
ceert
ceint
ceint
Noun
A girdle.
celts
celts
noun
plural of celt
centi
cento
cento
noun
A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems.
cents
cents
noun
plural of cent
cerat
certy
cesta
ceste
cesti
cesti
noun
plural of cestus
cetes
cetes
noun
plural of cete
cetic
cetid
cetin
cetin
noun
The white, waxy constituent of spermaceti.
cetus
cetyl
cetyl
noun
(organic chemistry) The univalent hexadecyl radical C₁₆H₃₃- present in many waxes.
ceuta
ceuta
Proper noun
A Spanish enclave at the edge of Morocco.
chaft
chaft
noun
(dialect, Scotland, Northern England) The jaw.
chait
chant
chant
noun
(music) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.
A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.
Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
verb
(transitive, archaic) To sell horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.
To sing or intone sacred text.
To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group.
chapt
chapt
adj
Obsolete form of chapped.
chart
chart
noun
(differential geometry, topology) Synonym of coordinate chart.
A diagram.
A graph.
A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.
A navigator's map.
A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.
A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.
A tabular presentation of data; a table.
A written deed; a charter.
verb
(intransitive, of a record or artist) To appear on a hit-recording chart.
(transitive) To draw a chart or map of.
(transitive) To draw or figure out (a route or plan).
(transitive) To record systematically.
chati
chati
noun
A small South American subspecies of tiger cat (Leopardus pardalis mitis), native to Argentina and Paraguay.
chats
chats
noun
plural of chat
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chat
cheat
cheat
noun
(card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
(obsolete) A sort of low-quality bread.
(video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
Someone who cheats.
The weed cheatgrass.
verb
(intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
(intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
(transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
(transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable.
cheet
chert
chert
noun
(countable) A flint-like tool made from chert.
(geology, uncountable) Massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral.
chest
chest
noun
(anatomy) The portion of the front of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the thorax. Also the analogous area in other animals.
(obsolete) A coffin.
A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
A chest of drawers.
A hit or blow made with one's chest.
Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.
The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
verb
(transitive) To deposit in a chest.
(transitive, obsolete) To place in a coffin.
To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
cheth
cheth
noun
Alternative spelling of heth
chilt
chint
chint
noun
Obsolete form of chintz.
chiot
chirt
chita
chits
chits
noun
plural of chit
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chit
chort
chots
chott
chott
noun
(geology) A dry salt lake, in the Saharan area of Africa, that stays dry in the summer but receives some water in the winter.
chout
chout
noun
(British India, history) An assessment equal to a quarter of the revenue, levied by the Marathas from other Indian kingdoms as compensation for being exempted from plunder.
chuet
chuet
noun
(obsolete) minced meat
chute
chute
noun
(informal) A parachute.
(nautical, slang, by extension) A spinnaker.
A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
A waterfall or rapid.
The pen in which an animal is confined before being released in a rodeo.
verb
(informal, intransitive) To parachute.
cinct
cinct
adj
(obsolete) surrounded
cista
cists
cists
noun
plural of cist
cital
cital
noun
A summons to appear, as before a judge.
citation; quotation
cited
cited
adj
That has a citation
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cite
citee
citee
noun
One who is cited, or receives a citation.
citer
citer
noun
One who cites.
cites
cites
noun
plural of cite
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cite
citra
citua
civet
civet
noun
(countable) A carnivorous catlike animal, Civettictis civetta, that produces a musky secretion. It is two to three feet (30–90 cm) long, with black bands and spots on the body and tail.
(countable, US) Any of several species of spotted skunk, in the genus Spilogale.
(uncountable) The musky perfume produced by the animal.
Any animal in the family Viverridae or the similar family Nandiniidae
clapt
clapt
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of clap
clart
clart
noun
(Tyneside, derogatory) A fool.
(Tyneside, derogatory) A person who is unclean.
(now Scotland, Northern England) Sticky mud, mire or filth.
A daub.
Unwanted stuff; junk; clutter; rubbish; stuff that is in the way.
verb
(transitive, now Scotland, Northern England) To daub, smear, or spread, especially with mud, etc.; to dirty.
clast
clast
noun
(geology) a fragment of rock that was broken from a larger rock or rock unit.
claut
claut
noun
A kind of rake.
The material raked up; a rakeful.
verb
To scratch or claw.
cleat
cleat
noun
(nautical) A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release.
A continuous metal strip, or angled piece, used to secure metal components.
A protrusion on the bottom of a shoe or wheel meant for better traction.
A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
An athletic shoe equipped with cleats.
verb
(nautical) To tie off, affix, stopper a line or rope, especially to a cleat.
To strengthen with a cleat.
cleft
cleft
adj
split, divided, or partially divided into two.
noun
A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
A piece made by splitting.
An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
verb
(linguistics) To syntactically separate a prominent constituent from the rest of the clause that concerns it, such as threat in "The threat which I saw but which he didn't see, was his downfall."
simple past tense and past participle of cleave
clept
clept
verb
(obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of clepe
cleta
cleta
Proper noun
One of the Charites worshiped in Sparta along with Phaenna.
clete
cleti
clift
clift
noun
(obsolete) A cliff.
clint
clint
noun
(geology) The relatively flat part of a limestone pavement between the grikes
clipt
clipt
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of clip
clite
cloit
cloit
verb
(Scotland, intransitive) To fall heavily
cloot
clote
clote
noun
(obsolete) The common burdock; the clotbur.
cloth
cloth
noun
(countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
(countable, uncountable) A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
(in idioms) Priesthood, clergy.
(metaphoric) Appearance; seeming.
(metaphoric) Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.
A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status.
Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.
clots
clots
noun
plural of clot
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clot
clout
clout
noun
(archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
(archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
(archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
(baseball, informal) A home run.
(obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
(regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.
(regional, informal) A blow with the hand.
A clout nail.
Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
verb
Dated form of clot.
To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.