(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.
cater
cater
adv
(UK dialect, US) Diagonally.
noun
(card games, dice games, obsolete) The four of cards or dice.
(figurative, obsolete) Synonym of purveyor: any provider of anything.
(music) A method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell.
(obsolete) Synonym of acater: an officer who purchased cates (food supplies) for the steward of a large household or estate.
(obsolete) Synonym of caterer: any provider of food.
(rare, obsolete) Four.
verb
(UK dialect) To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally.
(intransitive, figurative, with 'to') To provide anything required or desired, often (derogatory) to pander.
(transitive, intransitive) To provide with food, especially for a special occasion as a professional service.
To provide
ceert
cerat
certy
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.
citer
citer
noun
One who cites.
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.
cterm
curet
curet
noun
Alternative form of curette
cuter
cuter
adj
comparative form of cute: more cute
ecart
ector
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.
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.
terce
terce
noun
(Scotland, law) A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.
(chiefly Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) The service appointed for this hour.
(historical) The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
ticer
trace
trace
noun
(electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
(engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
(fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
(geometry) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
(grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
(mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
A residue of some substance or material.
A very small amount.
An act of tracing.
An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
verb
(computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
(intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
(transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
(transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
(transitive) To follow the trail of.
(transitive, obsolete) To copy; to imitate.
(transitive, obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
To follow the history of.
trice
trice
noun
(obsolete, rare) A pulley, a windlass (“form of winch for lifting heavy weights, comprising a cable or rope wound around a cylinder”).
Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment.
verb
(transitive) To drag or haul, especially with a rope; specifically (nautical) to haul or hoist and tie up by means of a rope.
(transitive, obsolete) To pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply.
truce
truce
noun
a period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties
an agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time