A hood, or cape with a hood, made of or lined with grey fur, formerly worn by the clergy.
camel
camel
adj
Of a light brown color like that of a camel.
noun
(South Africa, obsolete) Synonym of giraffe
A beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus.
A light brownish color, like that of a camel (also called camel brown).
Loaded vessels lashed tightly, one on each side of another vessel, and then emptied to reduce the draught of the ship in the middle.
cameo
cameo
noun
A piece of jewelry, etc., carved in relief.
A single very brief appearance, especially by a prominent celebrity in a movie or song.
verb
To appear in a cameo role.
cames
cames
noun
plural of came
camey
campe
carme
cbema
cecum
cecum
noun
(American spelling) Alternative form of caecum
celom
celom
noun
Alternative spelling of coelom
cemal
ceram
cheam
cheam
Proper noun
A suburban village in Sutton on the border of London and Surrey
chema
cheme
chime
chime
noun
(music) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”)
An individual ringing component of such a set.
The sound of such an instrument or device.
verb
(intransitive) To agree; to correspond.
(intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.
(transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
(transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
chyme
chyme
noun
The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.
cimex
cimex
noun
Any member of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug.
clame
cleam
clime
clime
noun
A particular region defined by its weather or climate.
Climate.
cmise
comae
comae
noun
plural of coma (“cometary dust cloud, etc”)
plural of coma (“cometary nuclear dust cloud”)
combe
combe
noun
A cirque.
A valley, often wooded and often with no river
comer
comer
noun
(figuratively) One who is catching up in some contest and has a likelihood of victory.
One in a race who is catching up to others and shows promise of winning.
One who arrives.
comes
comes
noun
(music) The answer to the theme, or dux, in a fugue.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of come
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.
comme
comte
comte
noun
A French count.
cosme
cream
cream
adj
Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.
noun
(figuratively) The best part of something.
(informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
(medicine) A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
(obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
(standards of identity, UK) The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
(standards of identity, US) The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
(tea and coffee) A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.
(vulgar, slang) Semen.
A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
verb
(intransitive) To gather or form cream.
(intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
(slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
(transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
(transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
(transitive, cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
(transitive, figurative) To take off the best or choicest part of.
(transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.
creem
creme
creme
adj
Alternative spelling of crème
crime
crime
noun
(countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
(countable) Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.
(countable, obsolete) That which occasions crime.
(uncountable) Criminal acts collectively.
(uncountable) The habit or practice of committing crimes.
verb
(UK, military, transitive) To subject to disciplinary punishment.
(nonce word) To commit crime.
crome
crome
noun
(UK, East Anglia) A garden or agricultural implement with three or four tines bent at right angles, resembling a garden fork with bent prongs, and used for breaking up soil, clearing ditches, raking up shellfish on beaches, etc.
(music) Alternative form of croma (“a quaver”)
plural of croma
verb
(UK, East Anglia) To use a crome.
cterm
cumae
cumae
Proper noun
An Ancient Greek, and then Roman, settlement near Naples famed for its sibyl.
cymae
cymes
cymes
noun
plural of cyme
decem
emacs
emacs
noun
(computing) Any implementation or reimplementation of Emacs.
emcee
emcee
noun
(music) A rapper.
Master of ceremonies.
verb
(intransitive, music) To rap as part of a hip-hop performance.
(transitive, intransitive) To act as the master of ceremonies (for).
femic
hemic
hemic
adj
(of a peat) Somewhat decomposed.
Of or relating to blood
Relating to heme
maced
maced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of mace
maceo
macer
macer
noun
(slang) A cardsharp.
A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland.
maces
maces
noun
plural of mace
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mace
macey
mache
mache
noun
(Philippines) Glutinous rice balls flavoured with coconut and pandan.
(dated) A former unit of volumic radioactivity: the quantity of radon (ignoring its daughters) per litre of air which ionizes a sustained current of 0.001 esu.
Alternative spelling of mâche
macle
macle
noun
(mineralogy) A crystal having a similar tessellated appearance.
(mineralogy) A twin crystal.
(mineralogy) Chiastolite; so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross-section.
magec
maice
mayce
mcbee
mcfee
mcgee
mchen
mckee
mcrae
meach
meach
verb
To skulk; to cower.
mecca
mecca
noun
Alternative form of Mecca; a place to which a group of people (for example shoppers) are drawn.
mecke
mecon
mecon
noun
(archaic) Opium.
(archaic) The opium poppy.
mecum
medic
medic
adj
Of or pertaining to medicines; medical.
noun
A medical student.
A paramedic, someone with special training in first aid, especially in the military.
A physician.
Alternative spelling of medick (“herb of the genus Medicago”)
medoc
meece
meech
meech
verb
(rare, US, dialectal, obsolete) Alternative form of mitch.
melch
melic
melic
adj
Of or pertaining to Greek lyric verse.
noun
Any of various grasses, of the genus Melica, from northern temperate regions.
menic
merca
merce
merce
verb
(obsolete) To subject to fine or amercement; to mulct; to amerce.
merch
merch
noun
(especially in entertainment, sports, marketing) Merchandise (“goods connected with an entity such as a team, band, work of fiction, etc”).
(informal) Merchandise (“goods which are or were offered or intended for sale”).
verb
(slang, rare) To merchandise.
merci
merci
intj
(colloquial) thank you
noun
An extra card or set of cards that is allowed to play at the end of various card games.
merck
mercy
mercy
intj
Expressing surprise or alarm.
noun
(countable) A blessing; something to be thankful for.
(countable) Instances of forbearance or forgiveness.
(uncountable) A children's game in which two players stand opposite with hands grasped and twist each other's arms until one gives in.
(uncountable) A tendency toward forgiveness, pity, or compassion.
(uncountable) Forgiveness or compassion, especially toward those less fortunate.
(uncountable) Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another.
verb
To feel mercy
To show mercy; to pardon or treat leniently because of mercy
mesic
mesic
adj
(biology, of a habitat) Moist.
(biology, of an organism) Adapted to a moist habitat.
(physics) Of or pertaining to mesons; mesonic.
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.
miche
miche
verb
Obsolete form of mitch.
mince
mince
noun
(countable) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.
(countable) An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.
(countable, Cockney rhyming slang, chiefly in the plural) An eye (from mince pie).
(uncountable) Finely chopped meat; minced meat.
(uncountable) Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.
verb
(archaic, transitive, figuratively) To suppress or weaken the force of.
(intransitive) To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
(intransitive) To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
(transitive) To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
(transitive) To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.
(transitive) To make less; to make small.
(transitive, cooking) To cut into very small pieces; to chop finely.
(transitive, rare) To effect mincingly.
To say or utter vaguely (not directly or frankly).