(in parts of French North Africa) Hinterland, field.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bleed
cled
dael
dale
dale
noun
(archaic) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
(chiefly Britain) A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.
The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
deal
deal
adj
Made of deal.
noun
(archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing out.
(card games) The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
(countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
(countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.
(in particular) A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
(informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
(informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
(obsolete) A division, a portion, a share, a part, a piece.
(often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
(uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
verb
(baseball) To pitch.
(intransitive) To be concerned with.
(intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
(intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
(intransitive) To have dealings or business.
(intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
(obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
(transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
(transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
(transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
(transitive) deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.
(transitive, intransitive) To distribute cards to the players in a game.
decl
deil
dela
dele
dele
noun
(printing) a sign signifying deletion
verb
(printing, usually imperative) to delete
delf
delf
noun
(heraldry) A charge representing a square sod.
A mine, quarry, pit dug; ditch.
Alternative form of delft (“style of earthenware”)
deli
deli
noun
(informal) A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving.
(informal) Food sold at a delicatessen.
dell
dell
noun
(obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
A valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep.
delp
dels
dels
noun
plural of del
dely
deul
diel
diel
adj
(biology) Having a 24-hour period regardless of day or night.
dole
dole
noun
(Britain, dialectal) A void space left in tillage.
(archaic) A Sorrow or grief; dolour.
(informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits.
(law, Scotland) Dolus.
A boundary; a landmark.
Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
Money or other goods given as charity.
verb
To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.
duel
duel
noun
(by extension) Any battle or struggle between two contending persons, forces, groups, or ideas.
Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.
Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat).
verb
To engage in a battle.
edla
eild
eild
noun
(obsolete or dialectal, Scotland) Age.
elda
eldo
elds
elds
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eld
elod
feld
fled
fled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flee
gdel
geld
geld
noun
(chiefly archaic or historical) Money.
(historical) In particular, (money paid as) a medieval form of land tax.
A female animal, such as a ewe or cow, that is not pregnant.
verb
(historical) To tax geld.
(transitive) To castrate a male (usually an animal).
(transitive, figurative) To deprive of anything essential; to weaken.
gled
held
held
verb
simple past tense and past participle of hold
idel
idle
idle
adj
(obsolete) Empty, vacant.
(obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.
Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
noun
(gaming) An idle animation.
(gaming) An idle game.
(mechanical engineering) The lowest selectable thrust or power setting of an engine.
The state of idling, of being idle.
verb
(intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
(intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
(transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
keld
keld
adj
(obsolete) Having a kell or covering; webbed.
lade
lade
noun
(Scotland) A load.
(Scotland) Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.
(UK, dialect, obsolete outside of place names) The mouth of a river.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
verb
(nautical) To admit water by leakage.
To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
ldef
lead
lead
adj
(not comparable) Foremost.
Main, principal, primary, first, chief, foremost.
noun
(UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
(acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
(acting) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
(baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
(business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
(civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
(countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
(countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
(countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
(countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
(countable, mining) A lode.
(countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
(curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
(electrical) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
(electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
(engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
(engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
(horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
(marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
(music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
(music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
(music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
(nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
(newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
(plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
(slang) bullets; ammunition.
(uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
(uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
(uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
Hypothesis that has not been pursued
In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
verb
(baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
(figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct
(intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
(intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
(intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
(intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
(intransitive) To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
(intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
(shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
(transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
(transitive) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
(transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
(transitive) To live or experience (a particular way of life).
(transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
(transitive, climbing) Lead climb.
(transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
Misspelling of led.
To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
To produce (with to).
leda
lede
lede
noun
(chiefly US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article; the lead or lead-in.
(UK dialectal, Scotland) A constant or repeated line or verse; theme.
(UK dialectal, Scotland) A national tongue (in contrast to a foreign language).
(UK dialectal, Scotland) A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow.
(UK dialectal, Scotland) Patter; rigmarole.
(UK dialectal, Scotland) The speech of a person or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction.
(obsolete) Alternative spelling of lede (“a man; a person”)
verb
Obsolete spelling of lead (“to guide”).
leid
lend
lend
noun
(UK dialectal, of a person or animal) The loins; flank; buttocks.
(anatomy, UK dialectal) The lumbar region; loin.
(chiefly dialectal, with "the") Loan (permission to borrow (something)).
verb
(intransitive) To make a loan.
(proscribed) To borrow.
(reflexive) To be suitable or applicable, to fit.
(transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
leod
leod
noun
Alternative form of lede (“person, people”)
leud
leud
noun
(historical) A vassal or tenant in the early Middle Ages.
lewd
lewd
adj
(obsolete) Base, vile, reprehensible.
(obsolete) Lay; not clerical.
(obsolete) Uneducated.
(obsolete) Vulgar, common; typical of the lower orders.
Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.
noun
A sexually suggestive image, particularly one which does not involve full nudity.
verb
(slang) Alternative form of lude (“take the drug quaalude”)
To express lust; to behave in a lewd manner.
lide
lied
lied
noun
(music) An art song, usually sung solo in German and accompanied on the piano.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of lie (in the sense "to give false information intentionally")
lode
lode
noun
(by extension) A rich source of supply.
(dialectal) A watercourse.
(mining) A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
(obsolete) A way or path; a road.
loed
lude
lude
noun
(slang) A Honda Prelude sports car.
(slang) A pill containing the drug methaqualone.
verb
(slang) To get high on quaalude.
meld
meld
noun
A combination of cards which is melded.
verb
(US) to combine multiple similar objects into one.
In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards.
odel
pled
pled
verb
(Canada, US, Scotland) simple past tense and past participle of plead
reld
seld
seld
adj
(archaic) Rare, uncommon.
Unusual, unwonted.
adv
(obsolete or dialectal, Scotland) Seldom.
noun
(obsolete) A seat, throne.
(obsolete) A shop. (In Medieval Latin records selda or silda (cf. Latin sella (“seat, chair”)); also in Anglo-Norman form seude). Also, a stand for spectators.
sled
sled
noun
(US) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice. (contrast "sleigh", which is larger)
(slang) A snowmobile.
A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills. (A "sled" in this sense is not pulled by an animal as a "sleigh" is.)
verb
(intransitive) To ride a sled.
(transitive) To convey on a sled.
veld
veld
noun
(chiefly South Africa) The open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries.
weld
weld
noun
A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.
The joint made by welding.
The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.
verb
(transitive) To bind together inseparably; to unite closely or intimately.
(transitive) To join two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination.