Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ace
acey
ache
ache
noun
(obsolete) parsley
Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
Rare spelling of aitch.
verb
(intransitive) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
(transitive, literary, rare) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.
acie
acle
acle
noun
An ironwood tree (Xylia xylocarpa); the hard wood of this tree
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.
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.
acse
aesc
aesc
noun
Alternative form of æsc
alce
alec
alec
noun
A sauce made from alecs; alec sauce.
An anchovy or herring, especially pickled or dried.
arce
bche
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.
bice
bice
noun
A cobalt blue pigment.
A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt.
boce
bsce
bsec
cabe
cace
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.
caen
cafe
cafe
noun
(South Africa) A convenience store, originally one that sold coffee and similar basic items.
Alternative form of café
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.
cake
cake
noun
(pyrotechnics) A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
(slang) A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.
(slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
(slang) Money.
A block of any of various dense materials.
A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
verb
(UK, dialect, obsolete, intransitive) To cackle like a goose.
(intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
(transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
(transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.
cale
cale
noun
(AUS) Any of a number of marine fish in the family Odacidae
came
came
noun
A grooved strip of lead used to hold panes of glass together.
prep
Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation
verb
(colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of come
simple past tense of come
simple past tense of cum
cane
cane
noun
(US, Southern) Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar
(countable) A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path
(countable) A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
(countable) A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick
(countable, glassblowing) A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking
(uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like
(uncountable) Sugar cane
(uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed
(uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae
(with "the") Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
A lance or dart made of cane
A local European measure of length; the canna.
verb
(Britain, New Zealand, slang) to destroy; to comprehensively defeat
(Britain, New Zealand, slang) to do something well, in a competent fashion
(UK, slang, intransitive) to produce extreme pain
(transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
to strike or beat with a cane or similar implement
cape
cape
noun
(geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
(slang) A superhero.
A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders.
verb
(US, slang, chiefly with "for") To defend or praise, especially that which is unworthy.
(nautical) To head or point; to keep a course.
(obsolete) To look for, search after.
(rare, dialectal or obsolete) To gaze or stare.
To incite or attract (a bull) to charge a certain direction, by waving a cape.
To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
care
care
noun
(obsolete) Grief, sorrow. [13th–19th c.]
Close attention; concern; responsibility.
Maintenance, upkeep.
The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
The state of being cared for by others.
The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
Worry.
verb
(intransitive) (with for) To look after or look out for.
(intransitive, Appalachia) To mind; to object.
(intransitive, informal, by extension) For it to matter to, or make any difference to.
(intransitive, polite, formal) To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards.
(transitive, intransitive) To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).
case
case
adj
(poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
noun
(UK, slang, obsolete) A counterfeit crown (five-shilling coin).
(US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
(academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
(grammar) A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
(grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
(law) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
(medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
(mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
(now rare) A given condition or state.
(printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).
(programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
(typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
A box, sheath, or covering generally.
A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
A suitcase.
A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
An actual event, situation, or fact.
An enclosing frame or casing.
The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
verb
(obsolete) to propose hypothetical cases
(transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
(transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
(transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
cate
cate
noun
(in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.
cave
cave
intj
(Britain, school slang) look out!; beware!
noun
(caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
(drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
(figuratively, also slang) The vagina.
(mining) A collapse or cave-in.
(nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
(obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
(programming) A code cave.
(slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
verb
(mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
(mining, obsolete) To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
(obsolete) To dwell in a cave.
To collapse.
To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
To hollow out or undermine.
To surrender.
caye
cbel
cdev
cdre
cdre
Noun
commodore
cear
cebu
ceca
ceca
noun
plural of cecum
cece
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 ₵.
cees
cees
noun
plural of cee, the name of the letter C.
cegb
ceil
ceil
noun
(mathematics) Abbreviation of ceiling.
(poetic) A ceiling.
verb
(mathematics) To set a higher bound.
(transitive) To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar.
ceja
cela
cele
cele
noun
(Myanmar) celebrity
cell
cell
noun
(US, informal) A cellular phone.
(architecture) A cella.
(architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
(biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
(biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
(card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
(communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
(communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
(computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
(entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
(entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
(geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
(meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
(now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
(obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
(obsolete, chiefly literary) Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.
(statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
A section or compartment of a larger structure.
A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
verb
(transitive) To place or enclose in a cell.
cels
cels
noun
plural of cel
celt
celt
noun
A prehistoric chisel-bladed tool.
cene
cene
noun
(genetics) A control gene.
cens
cent
cent
noun
(informal) A small sum of money.
(money) A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
(music) A hundredth of a semitone or half step.
(nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to one hundredth of a dollar.
(obsolete, except in per cent) Abbreviation of centum. One hundred.
Abbreviation of center.
Abbreviation of centigrade.
Abbreviation of century.
cepa
cepe
cepe
noun
Alternative form of cep
ceps
ceps
noun
plural of cep
cera
cere
cere
noun
(ornithology) A fleshy, waxy area at the base of the upper beak in certain birds.
verb
(transitive) To wax; to cover or close with wax.
cerf
cern
cero
cero
noun
A large scombroid food fish (Scomberomorus regalis) found chiefly in the West Indies.
cert
cert
adj
Alternative form of cert.
noun
(informal) A certainty; something guaranteed to happen.
(informal) Certificate.
cery
cess
cess
noun
(Britain, Ireland) An assessed tax, duty, or levy.
(Britain, Ireland, informal) Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success.
(obsolete) Bound; measure.
(obsolete, dialect) A bog, in particular a peat bog.
(obsolete, dialect) A piece of peat, or a turf, particularly when dried for use as fuel.
(rail transport) The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
verb
(Britain, Ireland) To levy a cess.
(obsolete, law) To cease; to neglect.
cest
cest
noun
(obsolete) A woman's girdle; a cestus.
ceta
cete
cete
noun
(obsolete) A company of badgers.
(rare) A cetacean.
ceti
ceto
cevi
ceyx
chae
cheb
chee
chef
chef
noun
(historical) A reliquary in the shape of a head.
(slang) One who manufactures illegal drugs; a cook.
Any cook.
The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.
The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.
verb
(MLE, transitive) To stab with a knife, to shank.
(stative, informal) To work as a chef; to prepare and cook food professionally.
chem
chem
adj
(informal) Clipping of chemical.
noun
(countable, informal, often in the plural) Clipping of chemical.
(uncountable, university slang, often capitalized) Clipping of chemistry (“branch of natural science”); usually referring to the subject or the department.
A chemical weapon.
A recreational drug.
chen
cher
cher
noun
Alternative spelling of 'cher
ches
chet
chet
noun
(MLE, slang) Clipping of chete (“knife”).
chev
chev
Noun
A Chevrolet automobile.
chew
chew
noun
(countable or uncountable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
(informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
(uncountable, informal) The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
Level of chewiness.
The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
verb
(informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
chez
chez
prep
At the home of.
ciel
ciel
verb
Alternative form of ceil
cine
cine
noun
(chiefly attributive) cinefilm
(medicine) Images of the heart taken by fluoroscopy.
cire
cire
noun
A fabric with a glazed finish.
cise
cite
cite
noun
(informal) a citation
verb
to list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
to quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
to summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
cive
cive
noun
Obsolete form of chive (“the herb”).
cize
cize
noun
(obsolete) bulk; largeness; size
clea
cled
clee
clef
clef
noun
A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff [from 16th c.]
cleg
cleg
noun
(Scotland, England dialect) A blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae; a gadfly, a horsefly.
(now dialectal) A light breeze.
clei
clem
clem
noun
(Tyneside, vulgar, slang) A testicle.
verb
(UK, dialect, transitive or intransitive) To be hungry; starve.
Alternative form of clam (“to adhere”)
cleo
clep
clew
clew
noun
(archaic) A ball of thread or yarn.
(in the plural) The sheets so attached to a sail.
(nautical) The lower corner(s) of a sail to which a sheet is attached for trimming the sail (adjusting its position relative to the wind); the metal loop or cringle in the corner of the sail, to which the sheet is attached. (on a triangular sail) The trailing corner relative to the wind direction.
(nautical, in the plural) The cords suspending a hammock.
(obsolete) A roughly spherical mass or body.
Obsolete spelling of clue
Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.
verb
(nautical) (transitive and intransitive) to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail)
(transitive) to roll into a ball
clie
cloe
cloe
Proper noun
name, an spelling of
clue
clue
noun
(now rare) A strand of yarn etc. as used to guide one through a labyrinth; something which points the way, a guide.
An object or a kind of indication which may be used as evidence.
Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion.
Insight or understanding ("to have a clue [about]" or "to have clue". See have a clue, clue stick)
verb
To provide someone with information which he or she lacks (often used with "in" or "up").
To provide with a clue.
cnes
cobe
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.
coed
coed
adj
Alternative form of co-ed
coef
coer
coes
cohe
coke
coke
noun
(US, chiefly Southern US, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type).
(countable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
(informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
(uncountable) Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
(uncountable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
verb
(especially automotive, astronautics) To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.
(intransitive) To turn into coke.
(transitive) To produce coke from coal.
cole
cole
noun
(Scotland) A stack or stook of hay.
Brassica; a plant of the Brassica genus, especially those of Brassica oleracea (rape and coleseed).
Cabbage.
come
come
intj
(dated or formal) An exclamation to express annoyance.
(dated or formal) An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
noun
(obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.
(typography, obsolete) Alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form of colon.
(vulgar, slang) Female ejaculatory discharge.
(vulgar, slang) Semen
prep
Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.
verb
(copulative, figuratively, with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
(copulative, fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.
(figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
(in subordinate clauses and gerunds) To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause.
(intransitive) Happen.
(intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself.
(intransitive) To arrive.
(intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
(intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to.
(intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
(intransitive, of grain) To germinate.
(intransitive, of milk) To become butter by being churned.
(intransitive, vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
(slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
(transitive, informal) To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
(with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
(with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
To be or have been a resident or native.
To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).
To have a certain social background.
To have been brought up by or employed by.
To move towards an unstated agent.
To move towards the listener.
To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence.
To move towards the speaker.
cone
cone
noun
(anatomy) Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
(category theory) An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)
(geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
(geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
(slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
(slang) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)
(slang) The bowl piece on a bong.
(slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
(topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.
A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
A traffic cone
A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
An ice cream cone.
Anything shaped like a cone.
The fruit of a conifer.
verb
(frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones.
(intransitive) To form a cone shape.
(transitive) To fashion into the shape of a cone.
cooe
cope
cope
noun
(construction) A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone, and sloped to carry off water.
(foundry) The top part of a sand casting mold.
(literary) The vault or canopy of the skies, heavens etc.
(slang) A coping mechanism or self-delusion one clings to in order to endure the hopelessness or despair of existence.
A long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass.
An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
verb
(falconry) To clip the beak or talons of a bird.
(intransitive) To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.
(intransitive) To form a cope or arch; to arch or bend; to bow.
(obsolete) To bargain for; to buy.
(obsolete) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
(obsolete) To exchange or barter.
(obsolete) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
(obsolete) To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
(obsolete, dialect) To tie or sew up the mouth of a ferret used for hunting rabbits.
(obsolete, figuratively) To silence or prevent from speaking.
(transitive) To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
core
core
adj
Forming the most important or essential part.
noun
(automotive, machinery, aviation, marine) A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself.
(biochemistry) The central part of a protein's structure, consisting mostly of hydrophobic amino acids.
(botany) Used to designate the main and most diverse monophyletic group within a clade or taxonomic group.
(computer hardware) An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called a multi-core processor).
(computing, informal, historical) Ellipsis of core memory.; magnetic data storage.
(engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
(engineering) The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.
(engineering, nuclear physics) The inner part of a nuclear reactor, in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
(game theory) The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
(historical units of measure) Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.
(medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
(military) The central fissile portion of a fission weapon.
(obsolete) A body of individuals; an assemblage.
(physics) An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e., an atom, except for its valence electrons).
(printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.
A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
A miner's underground working time or shift.
A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.
The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
The center or inner part of a space or area.
The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
The heart or inner part of a physical thing.
The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
verb
To cut or drill through the core of (something).
To extract a sample with a drill.
To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
cose
cose
verb
(intransitive) To make oneself cosy; to be snug.
cote
cote
noun
A cottage or hut.
A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
verb
Obsolete form of quote.
To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
coue
cove
cove
noun
(Australia and Polari) A friend; a mate.
(Britain, dated, informal, thieves' cant) A fellow; a man.
(US) A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
(architecture) A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
(nautical) A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
(nautical) The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
(now uncommon) A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds.
verb
(architecture) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
To brood, cover, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
coze
coze
noun
(nonce word) A cosy, friendly talk.
verb
Alternative form of cose
crea
cree
creg
cren
cres
crew
crew
noun
(Britain, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
(Scouting) A group of Rovers.
(art) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
(art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
(informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends.
(nautical, plural: crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.
(obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
(often derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
(plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
(rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
(slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop or b-boying group.
(sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
A group of people working together on a task.
The Manx shearwater.
verb
(Britain, archaic) simple past tense of crow (“make the characteristic sound of a rooster”).
(nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor
(nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew
(transitive and intransitive) To be a member of a vessel's crew
To be a member of a work or production crew
To supply workers or sailors for a crew
crex
crpe
csel
ctge
ctne
cube
cube
noun
(computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube
(geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
(mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube
A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
verb
(intransitive) To use a Rubik's cube.
(transitive) To cut into cubes.
(transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.
(transitive, arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.
cued
cued
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cue
cues
cues
noun
plural of cue
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cue
cuke
cuke
noun
(informal) A cucumber.
cure
cure
noun
(engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
(figurative) A solution to a problem.
(obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
A method, device or medication that restores good health.
A process of preservation, as by smoking.
A process of solidification or gelling.
Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.
verb
(intransitive) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
(intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
(intransitive) To solidify or gel.
(obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
(obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
(transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
(transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
(transitive) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
(transitive) To restore to health.
To preserve (food), typically by salting.
cute
cute
adj
(especially mathematics) Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)
Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.
cuve
cyke
cyme
cyme
noun
(architecture) = cyma
(botany) A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, on which each axis terminates with a flower which blooms before the flowers below it. Contrast raceme.
(obsolete, rare) A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.
Misspelling of senna.
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.
dche
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.