(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.
(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.
caite
capet
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
clite
clote
clote
noun
(obsolete) The common burdock; the clotbur.
clute
clute
Proper noun
A city in Texas.
clyte
clyte
verb
Synonym of cloit
colet
colet
noun
(obsolete) A lower servant in a church.
comet
comet
noun
(astronomy) A small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock whose very eccentric solar orbit periodically brings it close enough to the Sun that the ice vaporises to form an atmosphere, or coma, which may be blown by the solar wind to produce a visible tail.
A celestial phenomenon with the appearance of such a body.
Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.
comte
comte
noun
A French count.
conte
coset
coset
noun
(algebra, group theory) The set that results from applying a group's binary operation with a given fixed element of the group on each element of a given subgroup.
coted
coted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cote
cotes
cotes
noun
plural of cote
cothe
cothe
noun
Alternative form of coath
cotte
covet
covet
verb
(intransitive) To yearn; to have or indulge an inordinate desire, especially for another's possession.
(transitive) To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
(transitive) To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.
crate
crate
noun
(programming) In the Rust programming language, a binary or library.
(slang, mildly derogatory) A vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable.
A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.
verb
(transitive) To keep in a crate.
(transitive) To put into a crate.
creat
creat
noun
An usher to a riding master (riding instructor).
Andrographis paniculata, a plant native to the Indian subcontinent and used in the traditional medicine of parts of Asia.
crept
crept
verb
simple past tense and past participle of creep
crest
crest
noun
(anatomy) A ridge along the surface of a bone.
(heraldry) A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics) separately above the shield or separately as a mark for plate, in letterheads, and the like.
(informal) A design or logo, especially one of an institution, sports club, association or high-class family.
A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.
Any of several birds in the family Regulidae, including the goldcrests and firecrests.
The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet.
The ridge or top of a wave.
The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
The top line of a slope or embankment.
The upper curve of a horse's neck.
verb
(intransitive) Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.
(transitive) To reach the crest of (a hill or mountain)
To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.
creta
crete
cruet
cruet
noun
(Britain) A stand for these containers.
(Christianity) A small vessel used to hold wine or water for the Eucharist.
A small bottle or container used to hold a condiment, such as salt, pepper, oil, or vinegar, for use at a dining table.
csect
csnet
ctene
ctene
noun
(zoology) A band of fused cilia on the bodies of ctenophores, used for locomotion.
cterm
culet
culet
noun
(historical) A component of armor, consisting of overlapping plates designed to protect the buttocks.
A small, flat face often cut at the base of a brilliant-cut gemstone.
curet
curet
noun
Alternative form of curette
cuter
cuter
adj
comparative form of cute: more cute
cutes
cutes
noun
(informal) cuteness
plural of cutis
cutey
cutey
noun
Alternative form of cutie
cutie
cutie
noun
(by extension) Any small mandarin orange variety such as a tangerine or a satsuma.
A clementine: a small, waxy-peeled orange hybrid cultivar that is easy to peel by hand.
A cute person or animal.
dsect
ecart
eclat
eclat
noun
Alternative spelling of éclat
ectad
ectad
adv
(anatomy, obsolete) outward
ectal
ectal
adj
(anatomy) Pertaining to, or situated near, the surface; outer.
ector
edict
edict
noun
A proclamation of law or other authoritative command.
edtcc
educt
educt
noun
(obsolete, chemistry) A reactant.
That which is educed.
verb
(engineering) To educe, to extract.
eject
eject
noun
(psychology, countable) an inferred object of someone else's consciousness
verb
(US, transitive) To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.
(intransitive) To come out of a machine.
(transitive) To cause (something) to come out of a machine.
(transitive) To compel (a person or persons) to leave.
(transitive) To throw out or remove forcefully.
(usually intransitive) To forcefully project oneself or another occupant from an aircraft (or, rarely, another type of vehicle), typically using an ejection seat or escape capsule.
elect
elect
adj
(postpositive) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.
Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
noun
(theology) In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.
One chosen or set apart.
verb
(transitive) To choose (a candidate) in an election
(transitive) To choose or make a decision (to do something)
enact
enact
noun
(obsolete) purpose; determination
verb
(transitive) to act the part of; to play
(transitive) to do; to effect
(transitive, law) to make (a bill) into law
epact
epact
noun
the time (number of days) by which a solar year exceeds twelve lunar months; it is used in the calculation of the date of Easter
erect
erect
adj
(heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
(obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
(obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
(of a person) Having an erect penis.
(of body parts) Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.
Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
Watchful; alert.
verb
(intransitive) To enter a state of physiological erection.
(intransitive, aviation, of a gyroscopic attitude indicator) To spin up and align to vertical.
(transitive) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
(transitive) To cause to stand up or out.
(transitive) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
(transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
(transitive) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
(transitive) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
(transitive, astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
eruct
eruct
verb
(formal) To burp or belch.
escot
estoc
etacc
ethic
ethic
adj
Moral, relating to morals.
noun
A set of principles of right and wrong behaviour guiding, or representative of, a specific culture, society, group, or individual.
The morality of an action.
eucti
evict
evict
verb
(transitive) To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
exact
exact
adj
(algebra, of a sequence of groups connected by homomorphisms) Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.
Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.
Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
adv
exactly
verb
(transitive) To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.
(transitive) To make desirable or necessary.
(transitive, intransitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.
exect
exect
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To cut off or out.
facet
facet
noun
(anatomy) A smooth circumscribed surface.
(anatomy) Any of the small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion
(anatomy) One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans.
(architecture) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column; a fillet.
(computing) A criterion that can be used to sort and filter, such as the colour or size of products in an online store.
(mathematics) A face of codimension 1 of a polytope.
Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.
One of a series of things, such as steps in a project.
verb
To cut a facet into a gemstone.
fecit
fetch
fetch
intj
(Utah) Minced oath for fuck.
noun
(also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
(computing, specifically) An act of fetching data.
(originally Ireland, dialectal) The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).
A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
verb
(archaic) To accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.
(intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
(nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
(nautical, transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
(obsolete) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
(rare, literary) To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh)
To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
To reduce; to throw.
To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
flect
getic
hecht
hecte
itcze
itsec
ketch
ketch
noun
A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
A hangman.
verb
(rare) To hang.
Pronunciation spelling of catch.
lacet
letch
letch
noun
(archaic) Strong desire; passion.
(informal) A lecher.
A stream or pool in boggy land.
Alternative form of leach
licet
lucet
lucet
noun
A device for making braided cord.
metic
metic
noun
(historical) In Ancient Greek city-states, a resident alien who did not have the rights of a citizen and who paid a tax for the right to live there.
mtech
ocate
ocote
octet
octet
noun
(computing) A byte of eight bits. Abbreviation: o
(computing, rare) A group of three bits, representing any of eight possible values.
(music) A composition for such a group of musicians.
(music) A group of eight musicians performing together.
A group or set of eight of something.
ocyte
oncet
oncet
adv
(Southern US, Midland US, uncommon) Once.
pecht
react
react
noun
(Internet) An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media.
verb
(Internet, intransitive) To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).
(chemistry, intransitive) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
(chemistry, transitive) To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.
(intransitive) To act in response.
(physics, intransitive) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force
(transitive, now rare) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.
recit
recit
noun
A narration.
recpt
recta
recta
noun
plural of rectum
recti
recti
noun
plural of rectus
recto
recto
noun
(law) A writ of right.
(printing) The right-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an odd page number.
The front side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal.
recut
recut
verb
to cut again.
retch
retch
noun
An unsuccessful effort to vomit.
verb
(dialectal) Alternative form of reach
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To reck
To make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.
sceat
sceat
noun
(numismatics, historical) A small Anglo-Saxon coin, especially one made of silver.
scent
scent
noun
(chiefly uncountable) A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell.
(figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
(obsolete) Sense, perception.
A distinctive smell.
A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing.
The sense of smell.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To have a smell; (figuratively) to give an impression (of something).
(transitive) To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.
(transitive) To impart an odour to, to cause to have a particular smell.
(transitive, figurative) To have a suspicion of; to detect the possibility of (something).
(transitive, intransitive) To inhale in order to detect the scent of (something).
To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
scote
scote
verb
Alternative form of scoat
scute
scute
noun
(genetics) A proneural gene, often associated with achaete, that is required for the formation of many larval and adult sense organs
(historical) An old French gold coin.
(obsolete) A small shield.
(zoology) A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles.
sects
sects
noun
plural of sect
spect
spect
verb
(colloquial) expect
stace
stech
steck
steck
noun
(Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) A piece or an item.
taces
taces
noun
plural of tace
tacet
tacet
verb
(music) An instruction indicating silence on the part of the performers of a piece.
tache
tache
noun
(informal) Moustache, mustache.
(now rare) A spot, stain, or blemish.
Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button.
tacye
tcsec
teach
teach
noun
(informal, usually as a term of address) teacher
verb
(ditransitive) To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).
(ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.
(ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
(intransitive, stative) To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
(obsolete, transitive) To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.
techy
techy
adj
(informal) Technical, of or related to technology.