(ecology) Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.
The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
verb
(transitive) To put (something) into an archive.
ascrive
avarice
avarice
noun
Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth
Inordinate desire for some supposed good.
becarve
becarve
verb
(transitive) To cut; carve or cut up; cut in pieces; carve.
(transitive, obsolete) To cut off.
(transitive, obsolete, land) To cut up; cut open; open up.
cadaver
cadaver
noun
A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.
caliver
caliver
noun
(historical) A type of light musket.
calvert
caravel
caravel
noun
(nautical, historical) A light, usually lateen-rigged sailing ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish for about 300 years from the 15th century, first for trade and later for voyages of exploration.
carvage
carvels
carvels
noun
plural of carvel
carvene
carvene
noun
(organic chemistry) An oily substance, C₁₀H₁₆, extracted from caraway.
carvers
carvers
noun
plural of carver
carvone
carvone
noun
(organic chemistry) A terpenoid found naturally in many essential oils, most abundant in the oils from seeds of caraway and dill.
caterva
cauvery
caverns
caverns
noun
plural of cavern
caviare
caviare
noun
Alternative spelling of caviar
caviler
caviler
noun
A person who cavils; a faultfinder, quibbler or nitpicker
centrev
cerevis
cerevis
noun
A small cap, with no peak, worn by members of German student corps
cerveny
cervine
cervine
adj
Pertaining to a deer; deer-like.
noun
A deer of the subfamily Cervinae; an Old World deer.
cervoid
cervoid
adj
Characteristic of deer or other cervids
charvet
chervil
chervil
noun
(countable) A leafy herb, Anthriscus cerefolium, resembling parsley.
(uncountable) leaves from the plant, used as an herb in cooking, which have a mild flavor of anise.
chevres
chevres
noun
plural of chevre
chevret
chevron
chevron
noun
(chiefly Britain) One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.
(heraldry) A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
(informal) A háček, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve.
A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “«” or “»”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as ““” and “””.
An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
verb
To form or be formed into chevrons
chilver
chilver
noun
A female lamb.
chivers
civiler
claiver
clavers
clavers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of claver
clavier
clavier
noun
(music) The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.
cleaver
cleaver
noun
(metaphoric) The act of eliminating someone or something, especially when done by someone with a history of other eliminations; a dismissal, rejection, or removal.
(music, Bahamas) A type of clave, or rhythm stick, a concussive musical instrument used in traditional Bahamian music.
A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones, etc.
clivers
clivers
noun
Galium aparine, the plant called cleavers.
clovers
clovers
noun
(informal) the suit of clubs; primarily childish.
plural of clover
clovery
clovery
adj
Resembling or containing clover.
codrive
codrive
verb
To drive (a vehicle, a project, etc.) jointly with somebody else.
codrove
codrove
verb
simple past tense of codrive
colvert
conover
convert
convert
noun
(Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
A person who has converted to a religion.
A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
verb
(intransitive) To become converted.
(intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
(intransitive, marketing) To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
(intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
(transitive or intransitive, soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick).
(transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
(transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
(transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
(transitive) To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
(transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11).
(transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
(transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
(transitive, intransitive, chess) To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
(transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
(transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
(transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
(transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
(transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
convery
corrive
corvees
corvees
noun
plural of corvee
corvese
corvets
corvets
noun
plural of corvet
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corvet
corvine
corvine
adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of crows or ravens.
couvert
couvert
noun
cover charge
covered
covered
adj
(dated) Wearing one's hat.
(figuratively) Prepared for, or having dealt with, some matter
(poker) Than whom another player has more money available for betting.
Overlaid (with) or enclosed (within something).
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cover
coverer
coverer
noun
Agent noun of cover: one who covers.
coverts
coverts
noun
plural of covert
coverup
coverup
noun
Alternative spelling of cover-up
coveter
coveter
noun
One who covets.
cravens
cravens
noun
plural of craven
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of craven
cravers
cravers
noun
plural of craver
cresive
crevass
crevice
crevice
noun
A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
verb
To crack; to flaw.
crivetz
culvers
culvers
noun
plural of culver
culvert
culvert
noun
A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.
verb
To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert.
cursive
cursive
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that occurs in a straight line (in space or time).
(of writing) Having successive letters joined together.
Running; flowing.
noun
(countable) A cursive character, letter or font.
(countable) A manuscript written in cursive characters.
(uncountable) Joined-up handwriting.
curvate
curvate
adj
bent in a regular form; curved
curvets
curvets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of curvet
curvier
curvier
adj
comparative form of curvy: more curvy
cutover
cutover
adj
Having been cleared of valuable timber.
noun
(by extension) Any process of quickly replacing a machine so as to minimize downtime.
An area of cutover land.
The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
The process of quickly replacing a telephone switchboard, in which the connections are duplicated to the new machine and the original connections are then suddenly disconnected.
decurve
devchar
divorce
divorce
noun
(obsolete) That which separates.
(zoology) The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
A separation of connected things.
The legal dissolution of a marriage.
verb
(intransitive) To obtain a legal divorce.
(transitive) To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.
(transitive) To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
(transitive) To separate something that was connected.
encover
encover
verb
(rare) To cover.
evector
evector
noun
(geometry) A differential operator that allows a contravariant to be constructed from an invariant.
everich
everick
evictor
evictor
noun
One who evicts
forcive
incarve
incurve
incurve
verb
(intransitive) To curve inwards.
(transitive, rare) To cause something to curve inwards.
lavacre
laveroc
overact
overact
verb
(acting) To act in an exaggerated manner.
(obsolete, transitive) To act upon, or influence, unduly.
overcap
overcow
overcoy
overcoy
adj
Excessively coy.
overcry
overcup
overcup
noun
The oak Quercus lyrata whose acorns are enclosed by their cups
overcut
overcut
adj
(participial adjective) Excessively cut.
noun
(motor racing) A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone else by pitting after them and running in clean air to make up time.
An opening resulting from such cutting; an extreme incision or wound.
The act or result of excessive cutting.
verb
(transitive) To cut excessively.
precava
precava
noun
Alternative form of praecava
provect
provect
adj
(obsolete) Carried forward; advanced.
recarve
recarve
verb
(transitive) To carve again or into a new form.
receive
receive
noun
(telecommunications) An operation in which data is received.
verb
(American football) To be in a position to catch a forward pass.
(law) To take goods knowing them to be stolen.
(telecommunications) To detect a signal from a transmitter.
(tennis, badminton, squash) To be in a position to hit back a service.
(transitive, intransitive) To accept into the mind; to understand.
To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.
To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
To incur (an injury).
To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.
recover
recover
noun
(dated) The forward movement in rowing, after one stroke to take another (recovery)
(military) A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and the sling facing out.
(obsolete) Recovery.
verb
(intransitive) To regain one's composure, balance etc.
(intransitive, followed by "from" to show what caused the bad feeling) To get better, to regain health or prosperity.
(intransitive, law) To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit.
(roofing) To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.
(transitive) To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal).
(transitive) To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body).
(transitive) to salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person)
(transitive, archaic) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of.
(transitive, archaic) To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc.
(transitive, archaic, without "from") to recover from
(transitive, law) To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process
(transitive, obsolete) To reach (a place), arrive at.
To cover again.
recurve
recurve
noun
A landform consisting of a hook at the tip of a coastal spit.
A recurve bow.
A type of knife blade shape that involves several curves including a concave curve on a portion of the edge, resulting in a belly that is lower than the handle bottom.
verb
(of a storm) To change direction.
To curve again, to rebend.
To curve back on itself.
revince
revince
verb
(obsolete) To overcome.
(obsolete) To refute, as an error; to disprove.
revoice
revoice
verb
(Internet, transitive) To restore the voice flag to a user on IRC, allowing them to send messages to the channel again.
(transitive) to voice again
To replace the voice of an actor with that of another speaking a translation; to dub.
scarved
scarved
adj
Wearing a scarf.
scarves
scarves
noun
plural of scarf
scevour
screeve
screeve
noun
(grammar) In Georgian grammar, a combination of tense, aspect and mood.
(obsolete, UK, slang) A begging letter.
verb
(obsolete, UK, slang) To draw with chalks on a pavement or sidewalk.
(obsolete, UK, slang) To write begging letters.
(obsolete, UK, slang) To write.
screven
screver
scrieve
scrieve
noun
The design plan for building a ship.
verb
(dated, Scotland) To glide or move smoothly.
scrived
scrived
verb
simple past tense and past participle of scrive
scriven
scriver
scrives
scrives
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scrive
service
service
noun
(Israel, West Bank, also in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
(computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
(economics) The practice of providing such a service as economic activity.
(law) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
(nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
(obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
(sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc.
A musical composition for use in churches.
A religious rite or ritual.
A set of dishes or utensils.
Access to resources such as hotel rooms and web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.
An act of being of assistance to someone.
Service tree.
The military.
The sorb; the fruit of this tree.
The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group
verb
(public relations, transitive) To supply (media outlets) with press releases etc.
(transitive) To perform maintenance.
(transitive) To serve.
(transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
(transitive, military, euphemistic) To attack.
(transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act upon.
uncover
uncover
verb
(military, transitive) To expose (lines of formation of troops) successively by the wheeling to right or left of the lines in front.
(reflexive, intransitive) To expose the genitalia.
(reflexive, intransitive) To remove one's hat or cap as a mark of respect.
To remove a cover from.
To reveal the identity of.
To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.
upcover
upcurve
upcurve
noun
An upward curve.
verb
To curve upwards.
valeric
valeric
adj
(organic chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from valeric acid
varices
varices
noun
plural of varix
vectors
vectors
noun
plural of vector
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vector
vecture
vecture
noun
(obsolete) The act of carrying; conveyance; carriage.
velaric
velaric
adj
(linguistics) Produced by combining a closure at the velum and a lowering of the tongue to decrease the pressure in the mouth.
ventric
ventric
adj
ventral
verchok
verchok
noun
Alternative form of vershok
verdict
verdict
noun
(law) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.
An opinion or judgement.
veridic
veridic
adj
veridical
vernice
verruca
verruca
noun
(botany) A sexine element similar to a wart.
(mycology) A rounded projection or wart.
(pathology) A wart, especially one that grows on the foot, caused by a human papilloma virus.
vicaire
viceroy
viceroy
noun
A zongdu.
An orange and black North American butterfly (Limenitis archippus), so named because it is similar to, but smaller than, the monarch butterfly.
One who governs a country, province, or colony as the representative of a monarch.
vickers
vickery
viereck
viremic
viremic
adj
Alternative form of viraemic
viscera
viscera
noun
Collectively, the internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities, such as the liver, heart, or stomach.
plural of viscus
vocoder
vocoder
noun
Any of several electronic or digital devices or systems for the analysis and/or synthesis of speech.
verb
(transitive) To analyse or synthesize (speech) by means of a vocoder.
voicers
voicers
noun
plural of voicer
voucher
voucher
noun
(advertising) A copy of a published advertisement sent by the agency to the client as proof of publication.
(historical) A mechanical device used in shops for automatically registering the amount of money drawn.
A piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount, or that can be exchanged for goods and services.
A receipt.
One who or that which vouches.
verb
(transitive) To establish the authenticity of; to vouch for.
(transitive) To provide (a beneficiary) with a voucher.
(transitive) To provide a vouch for (an expenditure).