of A star in the constellation Crux the Southern Cross
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)
acuan
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.
adunc
adunc
adj
(usually of a nose) Curved inward, hooked.
alcus
aluco
amuck
amuck
adv
Alternative form of amok
arcus
arcus
noun
(entomology) An elastic band around the base of the arolium, a pad at the end of the leg of certain insects
(medicine) A white band of cholesterol that forms at the edge of the cornea
(meteorology) A low, horizontal cloud typically forming at the leading edge of thunderstorm outflow
(palynology) An arc-shaped band of thickened sexine extending between two apertures on a pollen grain or spore
aruac
ascus
ascus
noun
(mycology) A sac-shaped cell present in ascomycete fungi; it is a reproductive cell in which meiosis and an additional cell division produce eight spores.
aucan
aucht
aulic
aulic
adj
(architecture) Of, pertaining to, or resembling a palace.
(biology) Pertaining to the reproductive ducts of certain organisms.
Of or pertaining to a royal court; courtly.
Solemn.
noun
A ceremony at some European universities to confer a Doctor of Divinity degree.
auric
auric
adj
(inorganic chemistry) Of or pertaining to trivalent gold.
(UK) A storm spirit in Cornish folklore, traditionally believed to inhabit mines and coastal communities.
(anatomy) Synonym of cheek.
bucco
buchu
buchu
noun
(South Africa) Medicinal leaves from the shrub that are often used in brandy; this is an old Dutch medicine.
A South African shrub in the genus Agathosma.
bucko
bucko
noun
Buckaroo.
Young lad, friend, pal (used in addressing someone).
bucks
bucks
noun
Casual oxford shoes made of buckskin, often white or a neutral colour.
plural of buck
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of buck
bucku
bucky
bucky
noun
(Britain, slang) A gun.
(medicine, informal) Alternative form of Bucky (“a Potter-Bucky diaphragm”)
buick
bunce
bunce
noun
(UK, Ireland, regional) A bonus; additional pay; money.
verb
(transitive, slang, archaic) To obtain money from, by trickery.
bunch
bunch
noun
(US, informal) A considerable amount.
(cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
(forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
(geology, mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
(informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
(smoking) An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
(textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
An informal body of friends.
verb
(intransitive) To be gathered together in folds
(intransitive) To form a bunch.
(intransitive) To protrude or swell
(transitive) To gather fabric into folds.
(transitive) To gather into a bunch.
bunco
bunco
noun
(US, slang) A swindle or confidence trick.
(uncountable) A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century.
A brigand.
verb
(transitive, intransitive, US, slang) To swindle (someone).
burch
burck
busch
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
cacur
cacus
cadua
cadus
cagui
cahuy
caius
cajou
cajun
cajun
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Cajun
camus
camus
noun
Obsolete form of camis.
camuy
cantu
canun
canun
noun
Alternative form of qanun
capua
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.
caque
carua
carum
carus
carus
noun
(medicine) coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy
casus
casus
noun
(logic, philosophy, obsolete) A possible world, as a starting point for reasoning.
catur
cauca
cauch
cauda
cauld
cauli
cauli
noun
(informal) Clipping of cauliflower.
caulk
caulk
noun
A composition of vehicle and pigment used at ambient temperatures for filling/sealing joints or junctures, that remains elastic for an extended period of time after application.
Alternative form of calk (“pointed projection on a horseshoe”)
Caulking.
verb
(nautical) To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight.
(slang) To copulate.
To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials.
cauls
cauls
noun
plural of caul
cauma
cauma
noun
Great heat, as of the body in fever.
caupo
causa
cause
cause
conj
Alternative form of 'cause; because
noun
(countable) A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.
(countable, law) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.
(countable, obsolete) Any subject of discussion or debate; a matter; an affair.
(countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.
(obsolete) Sake; interest; advantage.
(uncountable, especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion.
verb
(ditransitive) To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority.
(obsolete) To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.
(transitive) To set off an event or action.
cavum
cavum
noun
(meteorology) A fallstreak hole.
The lower part of the concha of the ear adjoining the origin of the helix.
The nasal cavity.
cavus
cavus
noun
(geology) In planetary geology, it is used to refer to irregular steep-sided depressions that do not seem to be impact craters.
ccuta
cebur
cebus
cecum
cecum
noun
(American spelling) Alternative form of caecum
cequi
cetus
ceuta
ceuta
Proper noun
A Spanish enclave at the edge of Morocco.
chaui
chauk
chaum
chaus
chaus
noun
(dated) Synonym of jungle cat (Felis chaus)
Obsolete spelling of chiaus
cheju
cheux
chimu
chiou
chiru
chiru
noun
The Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hodgsonii.
choup
chous
chous
noun
A squat, rounded form of oenochoe with a trefoil mouth.
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.
choux
choux
noun
plural of chou
chuah
chubb
chubs
chubs
noun
(slang, derogatory) Term of address for a fat person.
plural of chub
chuch
chuck
chuck
noun
(Scotland) A small pebble.
(Scotland, obsolete, slang, in the plural) Money.
(US, slang, dated) Food.
(cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
(cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
(dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
(informal) A casual throw.
(mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
(music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
(slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
(slang) An act or instance of vomiting.
A clucking sound.
A gentle touch or tap.
Abbreviation of woodchuck.
verb
(South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
(intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
(music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
(obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
(transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away.
(transitive, informal) To jilt; to dump.
(transitive, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
(transitive, informal, dated) To give up; to stop doing; to quit.
To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
To call, as a hen her chickens.
To make a clucking sound.
To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.
To touch or tap gently.
chude
chuet
chuet
noun
(obsolete) minced meat
chufa
chufa
noun
Cyperus esculentus, a species of sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere having small edible tubers (tiger nuts).
(scriptwriting, uncountable) Superfluous small talk that is free of conflict, offers no character development, description or insight, and does not advance the story or plot.
(vulgar slang) The anus
(vulgar slang) The vagina
A breathy noise produced by a tiger, similar in function to a cat's purr.
A coarse or stupid fellow.
A noisy puffing sound.
verb
(Britain, slang) To break wind.
(intransitive) To make noisy puffing sounds, as of a steam locomotive.
Of a powder, propellant, or explosive charge: to become extinguished and reignited intermittently.
chugs
chugs
noun
plural of chug
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chug
chuje
chula
chula
noun
(Bangladesh, India) hearth, fireplace
chump
chump
noun
(colloquial, derogatory) A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
(colloquial, derogatory) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
verb
Dated form of chomp.
chums
chums
noun
plural of chum
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chum
chung
chunk
chunk
noun
(comedy) A segment of a comedian's performance.
(computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
(linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.
A part of something that has been separated.
A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.
verb
(transitive) To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
(transitive) To break into large pieces or chunks.
(transitive, slang, chiefly Southern US) To throw.
(transitive, video games) Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.
chura
churl
churl
noun
(Theodism) A freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall.
(archaic) A countryman, a peasant, a rustic.
(archaic) A person who is stingy, especially with money; a selfish miser, a niggard.
(derogatory) A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.
A bondman or serf.
A free peasant (as opposed to a serf) of the lowest rank, below an earl and a thane; a freeman; also (more generally), a person without royal or noble status; a commoner.
churm
churm
noun
Alternative form of chirm
churn
churn
noun
(telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
(telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
A milk churn.
A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.
verb
(US, informal, finance, travel) To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.
(finance) To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.
(informal, travel, aviation) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
(intransitive) To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
(of a customer) To stop using a company's product or service.
(transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
(transitive, figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
churr
churr
noun
A low vocal sound made by some birds.
Alternative spelling of chirr (“insect sound”)
verb
Alternative spelling of chirr (“to make an insect sound”)
To make the low vocal sound of some birds.
chuse
chuse
verb
Obsolete spelling of choose
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.
chyou
cigua
cipus
citua
claud
claus
claut
claut
noun
A kind of rake.
The material raked up; a rakeful.
verb
To scratch or claw.
cleuk
cloud
cloud
noun
(computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
(figurative) Anything unsubstantial.
(figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
(obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
(slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings)
A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
verb
(intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
(intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
(transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
(transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
(transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.
(transitive) To make obscure.
(transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
(transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
clour
clour
noun
(Scotland) A blow or impingement.
verb
(Scotland, transitive) To inflict a blow on; punch.
(Scotland, transitive) To make a dent or bump on; ding.
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.
To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
To hit, especially with the fist.
To join or patch clumsily.
To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
clubb
clubs
clubs
noun
Alternative form of clumps (“game of asking questions”)
One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♣.
plural of club
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of club
cluck
cluck
noun
A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
Any sound similar to this.
The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
verb
(Britain, drug slang) to suffer withdrawal from heroin.
(transitive) To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
clued
clued
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clue
clues
clues
noun
plural of clue
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clue
cluff
clump
clump
noun
(historical) A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.
A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
A dull thud.
A small group of trees or plants.
A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
The compressed clay of coal strata.
verb
(intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.
(transitive, UK, regional) To strike; to beat.
(transitive, intransitive) To form clusters or lumps.
(transitive, intransitive) To gather in dense groups.
clune
clung
clung
adj
(obsolete) wasted away; shrunken
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cling
clunk
clunk
noun
(dated) The sound of liquid coming out of a bottle, etc.; a glucking sound.
A dull, metallic sound, especially one made by two bodies coming into contact.
verb
to make such a sound
cluny
clute
clute
Proper noun
A city in Texas.
cobus
cocus
cocus
noun
Brya ebenus, a Caribbean flowering tree.
coeus
coeus
Proper noun
The Titan of intelligence; the father of Leto and Asteria.
cogue
cogue
noun
(chiefly Scotland) A small round wooden vessel for holding milk.
cohue
colum
comus
connu
conus
conus
noun
(obsolete, geometry) A cone.
copus
copus
noun
A drink of ale mixed with spices, and varied by spirits, wines, etc.
coque
coque
noun
A small loop or bow of ribbon used in making hats, boas, etc.