Representing a scream or shriek (especially in comic strips and books).
Representing the shrill vocal sound of a mouse, rat, or monkey.
noun
(Polari) A face.
verb
To produce a high-pitched squeal, as in fear or trepidation.
egk
eke
eke
adv
(archaic) Also; in addition to.
noun
(beekeeping) A spacer put between or over or under hive parts to make more space.
(beekeeping, archaic) A small stand on which a beehive is placed.
(obsolete except Britain, dialectal) An addition.
verb
(transitive) Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen.
ekg
ekg
Noun
electrocardiogram
elk
elk
noun
(British India) Sambar (Cervus unicolor).
(Canada, US) common wapiti (Cervus canadensis), the second largest member of the deer family, once thought to be a subspecies of red deer.
(chiefly Europe, Commonwealth) Any moose (Alces alces), the largest member of the deer family.
(obsolete) Alternative form of elke (the common swan (Cygnus cygnus, syn. Cygnus ferus))
Any of the subspecies of the moose (Alces alces alces, alternatively named Eurasian elk to avoid confusion with the wapiti), that occurs only in Europe and Asia.
erk
erk
intj
(Australia, colloquial) An expression of revulsion or disgust; yuck.
(colloquial) An expression of trepidation; eek.
noun
(Britain, slang) A member of the groundcrew in the RAF.
esk
ike
kae
kbe
kbe
Proper noun
Knight Commander of the
Noun
Knowledge-Based Engineering
Knowledge Based Economy
kea
kea
noun
Nestor notabilis, a parrot of New Zealand.
keb
keb
noun
(Northern England, dialect) A still-born lamb.
verb
(Northern England, dialect) Of a ewe, to abort a lamb.
ked
ked
noun
Any of the family Hippoboscidae of obligate parasites, especially the sheep ked, Melophagus ovinus.
kee
kee
noun
Alternative form of kye (“cow”)
kef
kef
noun
Alternative spelling of kif
keg
keg
noun
A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.
verb
(transitive) To store in a keg.
kei
kel
ken
ken
noun
(Jewish) Youth or children's group.
(nautical) Range of sight.
(slang, UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) A house, especially a den of thieves.
A Japanese unit of length equal to six shakus
Knowledge, perception, or sight.
The tsurugi
verb
(obsolete) To give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life).
(obsolete, chiefly Scotland) To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
(transitive, chiefly Scotland) To know, perceive or understand.
keo
kep
ker
ket
ket
noun
(Northern England) Carrion; any filth.
(Northumbria) Sweetmeats.
(Scotland) matted wool
(Wearside) A sweet, treat or candy.
(colloquial) ketamine
(physics) A column vector, in Hilbert space, especially as representing the state of a quantum mechanical system; the complex conjugate of a bra (a row vector); a ket vector. Symbolised by |...〉.
kev
kew
kew
noun
The name of the Latin-script letter Q. Alternative form of cue.
kex
kex
noun
(obsolete or dialectal) The dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.
(obsolete, botany) A plant having such a stem; a weed, a kecksy.
(rare) A dry husk or covering.
key
key
adj
Important, salient.
Indispensable, supremely important.
noun
(Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
(advertising) A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
(architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
(architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
(basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
(biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
(botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
(cartomancy) The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
(computer graphics, television) A color to be masked or made transparent.
(computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
(computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
(cryptography) A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
(databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
(figurative) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
(historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
(masonry) A keystone.
(music) A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
(print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
(rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
(slang) Clipping of kilogram (especially of a recreational drug)
A crucial step or requirement.
A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
Alternative form of quay.
An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
An object designed to open and close a lock.
In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
One of a string of small islands.
That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
verb
(advertising, transitive) To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
(colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
(computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
(intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
(radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
(telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
To fit (a lock) with a key.
To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
To prepare for plastering by adding the key (that part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place).
kie
kie
noun
(UK, dialect, obsolete) Alternative spelling of kye plural of cow
koe
kue
kye
kye
noun
(UK, naval slang) Cocoa (the drink).
A Korean fundraising meeting.
lek
lek
noun
(biology) An aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship and display.
The currency unit of Albania, divided into 100 qindarka.
verb
(UK, dialect, Yorkshire, colloquial) To play.
(biology) To take part in the courtship and display behaviour of a lek.
nek
nek
noun
(geography, South Africa) A col (a dip on a mountain ridge between two peaks).
oke
oke
noun
(South Africa, slang) Man; guy; bloke.
(historical units of measurement) Alternative form of oka.
Obsolete spelling of oak
verb
(obsolete) simple past tense of ache
(obsolete) simple past tense of ake
uke
uke
noun
(Japanese fiction, fandom slang) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.
(informal) Clipping of ukulele.
(judo, martial arts) The training partner against whom tori performs a move.
zek
zek
noun
A prisoner at a Russian prison, especially (historical) at a Soviet labour camp.