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.
adci
bfdc
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
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.
cand
cand
noun
Alternative form of kand
card
card
noun
(computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
(cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
(dated) A printed programme.
(dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
(dated, figurative, by extension) An attraction or inducement.
(dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
(dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
(in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
(informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
(obsolete) A map or chart.
(television) A title card or intertitle: a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
(textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
(uncountable, dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
(weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
A business card.
A greeting card.
A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
A playing card.
A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose.
A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
A test card.
Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).
An indicator card.
Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
Obsolete form of chard.
verb
(US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
(dated) To play cards.
(golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
(obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
(obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
(textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
(transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
cbds
ccds
ccid
cdar
cdcf
cdev
cdiz
cdpr
cdre
cdre
Noun
commodore
cdsf
cede
cede
verb
(intransitive) To give way.
(transitive) To give up; yield to another.
cedi
cedi
noun
The currency of Ghana, divided into 100 pesewas and represented by ₵.
chad
chad
abbrev
(West Country, obsolete) I had
noun
(Internet slang, seduction community, incel slang) Alternative spelling of Chad (“alpha-male; a virile man”)
(countable) One of these pieces of paper.
(uncountable) Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, or from ballot papers, paper tape, punched cards, etc.
chid
chid
verb
simple past tense of chide
chud
chud
abbrev
(West Country, obsolete) I could
noun
(US, slang) A gross, physically unappealing person.
(chiefly US, Internet slang, sometimes derogatory) A person on the political right, and/or who holds socio-political views seen as regressive or bigoted.
verb
(obsolete) To champ; to bite.
cida
clad
clad
adj
(figurative) Adorned, ornamented.
(of a person, preceded by a garment type) Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.
(of an object, often in compounds) Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of clothe
(archaic, literary or obsolete, past tense clad) To clothe, to dress.
(figurative, past tense clad) To imbue (with a specified quality); to envelop or surround.
(past tense clad or cladded) To cover with a cladding or another material (for example, insulation).
cldn
cled
clid
clod
clod
noun
A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
A stupid person; a dolt.
Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.
The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
verb
(transitive) To pelt with clods.
(transitive, Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.
To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.
cmdf
cmdg
cmdr
cmds
cmds
noun
plural of cmd
coad
coda
coda
noun
(figuratively) A conclusion (of a statement or event, for example), final portion, tail end.
(geology) In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.
(music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
(phonology) The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants.
Alternative spelling of CODA
codd
code
code
noun
(cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
(informal) A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.
(linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
(medicine) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
(programming, uncountable) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
(scientific programming) A program.
A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
verb
(computing) To write software programs.
(cryptography) To encode.
(genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
(intransitive, medicine) To go into a state where a hospital emergency code is required to save one's life.
(medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
(medicine) To call a hospital emergency code.
To add codes to a dataset.
To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
codi
codo
codo
noun
(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 41.6 cm.
cods
cods
noun
plural of cod
cody
cody
Proper noun
name transferred from the surname.
A ghost town in British Columbia
An unincorporated community in Florida
A village in Nebraska
A city in Wyoming
coed
coed
adj
Alternative form of co-ed
cold
cold
adj
(databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
(firearms) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
(informal) Not radioactive.
(informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
(obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.
(obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute.
(obsolete) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
(of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
(of a thing) Having a low temperature.
(of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
(painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
(usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
(usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.
Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
Completely unprepared; without introduction.
Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
Without electrical power being supplied.
adv
(slang, informal, dated) In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.
At a low temperature.
Without preparation.
noun
(medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
(slang) rheum, sleepy dust
(with 'the', figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
A condition of low temperature.
comd
cond
cond
adj
Clipping of conditional.
verb
Obsolete spelling of con (“direct or steer a ship”)
cord
cord
noun
(anatomy) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.
(figuratively) Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.
A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fiber (rope, for example); (uncountable) such a length of twisted strands considered as a commodity.
A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled together usually with an outer cover; the electrical cord of a lamp, sweeper ((US) vacuum cleaner), or other appliance.
A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 × 4 × 8 feet), composed of logs and/or split logs four feet long and none over eight inches diameter. It is usually seen as a stack four feet high by eight feet long.
Dated form of chord: musical sense.
Misspelling of chord: a cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.
verb
To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
(uncountable) A fast-paced game, loosely based on billiards or pool, with many players participating at the same time.
(uncountable) Dirt, filth or refuse.
(uncountable, euphemistic) Feces; excrement.
(uncountable, figuratively, by extension) Something of poor quality.
(uncountable, skiing, snowboarding) A heavy wet snow on which it is difficult to travel.
(uncountable, slang, US, military and students) Venereal disease, or (by extension) any disease.
Mixed impurities, especially wear and corrosion products in nuclear reactor coolant.
verb
(transitive) To clog with dirt or debris.
crwd
csdc
cuda
cuds
cuds
noun
plural of cud
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cud
cued
cued
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cue
cund
cund
verb
Obsolete form of cond (to con (a ship)).
curd
curd
noun
The coagulated part of any liquid.
The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants.
The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc.
verb
(intransitive) To form curd; to curdle.
(transitive) To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.
dace
dace
noun
(US) Any of various related small fish of the family Cyprinidae that live in freshwater and are native to North America.
The shoal-forming fish Leuciscus leuciscus common to swift rivers in England and Wales and in Europe.
dacs
dacy
darc
darc
Proper noun
Duffy antigen/chemokine receptor; see
dbac
dcco
dccs
dche
dclu
dcmg
dcms
dcmu
dcna
dcnl
dcor
dcpr
dctn
dcts
dcvo
ddcu
ddsc
decd
deck
deck
noun
(aviation) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
(card games) A pack or set of playing cards.
(card games, by extension) A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
(colloquial) The floor.
(journalism) A headline consisting of one or more actual lines of text.
(nautical) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
(obsolete) A heap or store.
(slang) A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
(theater) The stage.
A set of slides for a presentation.
Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
Short for tape deck.
verb
(card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.
(informal) To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
(transitive) To cover; to overspread.
(transitive, sometimes with out) To decorate (something).
(transitive, sometimes with out) To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance.
(uncommon) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
decl
deco
deco
noun
(underwater diving, informal) Decompression.
A friendship book in which people add decorative elements such as drawings, stickers and sequins.
desc
dgsc
dice
dice
noun
(countable, proscribed by some; standard in British English) A die.
(uncountable) Gaming with one or more dice.
(uncountable, formerly countable, cooking) That which has been diced.
plural of die
verb
(intransitive) To play dice.
(transitive) To cut into small cubes.
(transitive) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
dich
dich
noun
Obsolete form of ditch (“a trench”).
verb
Obsolete form of ditch (“to dig a trench”).
dick
dick
noun
(countable and uncountable, vulgar, slang) The penis.
(countable, Britain, US, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang, derogatory) A highly contemptible person; a jerk.
(countable, obsolete) A male person.
(countable, slang) A detective, esp. the one who works in police, a police officer.
(uncountable, vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse with a man.
num
(Cumbria) Ten, in Cumbrian sheep counting.
verb
(transitive, slang, vulgar) To mistreat or take advantage of somebody (often with around or up).
(transitive, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
dict
dioc
disc
disc
noun
(anatomy) An intervertebral disc.
(botany) The flat surface of an organ, as a leaf, any flat, round growth.
(disc sports) Ellipsis of flying disc.; Synonym of frisbee; generic name for the trademark Frisbee;
A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record.
Something resembling a disc.
Venus's disc cut off light from the Sun.
verb
(agriculture) To harrow with a disc harrow.
(aviation, of a propeller) To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airflow and maximising the drag generated by the propeller.
dlcu
dnic
dock
dock
noun
(computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications, and switching between running applications.
(electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop computer (in this case, referred to as a docking station), or a mobile telephone, for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
(nautical) A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
(obsolete) The buttocks or anus.
(theater) Short for scene-dock.
A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
A leather case to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
A section of a hotel or restaurant.
A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
An act of docking; joining two things together.
Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
The body of water between two piers.
The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
The place of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.
verb
(astronautics) To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
(cooking) To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
(intransitive) To land at a harbour.
(intransitive, sex) To engage in the sexual practice of docking (where the tip of one participant's penis is inserted into the foreskin of the other participant).
(transitive) To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
(transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.
(transitive) To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
(transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
(transitive, computing) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
To join two moving items.
docs
docs
noun
(software) documentation
plural of doc
dohc
douc
douc
noun
A species of colobine Old World monkey, making up the genus Pygathrix.
dpac
drch
dric
dscs
dsdc
duce
duci
duck
duck
noun
(Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
(UK, slang, obsolete) A faggot; a meatball made from offal.
(US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
(caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
(cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
(finance, slang, dated) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”)
(in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
(medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men.
(slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
(uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
A term of endearment; pet; darling.
A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
verb
(intransitive) To bow.
(intransitive) To enter a place for a short moment.
(intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
(intransitive) To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
(transitive) To evade doing something.
(transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
(transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
(transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
(Australia, automotive, colloquial, transitive) To paint with automotive paint.
ducs
duct
duct
noun
(anatomy) a vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile
(botany) a tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air
(obsolete) guidance, direction
(physics) a layer (as in the atmosphere or the ocean) which occurs under usually abnormal conditions and in which radio or sound waves are confined to a restricted path
a pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another
an enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors
verb
to channel something (such as a gas) or propagate something (such as radio waves) through a duct or series of ducts
to enclose in a duct
dulc
dunc
dyce
ebcd
ecad
ecad
noun
(ecology) An organism whose form has been affected by its environment.
A non-inherited somatic modification caused by an organism's environment.
ecdo
ecod
ecod
intj
Alternative form of egad
edac
educ
facd
fdic
gpcd
hacd
hdlc
iced
iced
adj
Covered with icing.
Very cold, but not necessarily containing ice.
With ice added.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ice
icod
idic
idic
adj
(psychoanalysis) Relating to the id.
idvc
kdci
lcdn
lcdr
mcad
mcfd
mdec
mdoc
mlcd
mscd
ncdc
ndac
ndcc
nedc
nrdc
ocdm
odac
odic
odic
adj
Of or pertaining to od (alleged natural force).
Of or pertaining to odes.
oecd
pcda
psdc
qdcs
rdac
recd
scad
scad
noun
(in the plural, informal, Canada, US) A large number or quantity.
Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic.