Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
At a little distance; near.
Intimate; well-loved.
Marked, evident.
Narrow; confined.
Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
Short.
Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
noun
(Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
(Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
(aviation, travel) The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
(chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
(law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
(music) A double bar marking the end.
(music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
(now rare, chiefly Yorkshire) An enclosed field.
(sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
A cathedral close.
A grapple in wrestling.
An end or conclusion.
The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
verb
(Philippines) To turn off; to switch off.
(baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
(figurative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
(intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
(marketing) To make a sale.
(surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
(transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
(transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
(transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
To come to an end.
To grapple; to engage in close combat.
To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
To move so that an opening is closed.
To obstruct (an opening).
To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
codes
codes
noun
plural of code
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of code
coeds
coeds
noun
plural of coed
coees
coeus
coeus
Proper noun
The Titan of intelligence; the father of Leto and Asteria.
cokes
cokes
noun
plural of coke
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coke
coles
coles
noun
plural of cole
comes
comes
noun
(music) The answer to the theme, or dux, in a fugue.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of come
cones
cones
noun
plural of cone
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cone
copes
copes
noun
plural of cope
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cope
copse
copse
noun
A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).
Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not.
Any woodland or woodlot.
verb
(transitive, horticulture) To plant and preserve.
(transitive, horticulture) To trim or cut.
cores
cores
noun
plural of core
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of core
corse
corse
noun
(archaic) A dead body, a corpse.
(obsolete) A (living) body.
cosec
cosed
cosed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cose
cosen
cosen
verb
Alternative form of cozen.
coses
coses
noun
plural of cos
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cose
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.
cosey
cosey
adj
Archaic spelling of cosy.
cosie
cosie
adj
(Scotland) Cosy.
cosme
cosse
cotes
cotes
noun
plural of cote
coves
coves
noun
plural of cove
cowes
cowes
Proper noun
A town on the north coast of the Isle of Wight, England.
coxes
coxes
noun
plural of cox
cozes
cozes
noun
plural of coze
crose
decos
decos
noun
plural of deco
delos
demos
demos
noun
(originally Ancient Greece) An ancient subdivision of Attica; (now also) a Greek municipality, an administrative area covering a city or several villages together.
(political science, singular or plural) The ordinary citizens of an ancient Greek city-state; hence, the common populace of a state or district (especially a democratic one); the people.
plural of demo
desto
desto
noun
(informal, Australia, Singapore) a headsign; a destination sign: a moveable or electronic display mounted on a bus or other public transport vehicle to indicate its intended route and destination.
diose
diose
noun
A monosaccharide containing two carbon atoms.
doers
doers
noun
plural of doer
doesn
doest
doges
doges
noun
plural of doge
doles
doles
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dole
domes
domes
noun
plural of dome
dopes
dopes
noun
plural of dope
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dope
dorse
dorse
noun
(obsolete) A dossal.
(obsolete) The back of a book.
The Baltic cod or variable cod (Gadus morhua callarias).
dosed
dosed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of dose
doser
doser
noun
One who administers a dose.
doses
doses
noun
plural of dose
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dose
dotes
dotes
noun
plural of dote
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dote
douse
douse
noun
A blow or strike, especially to the face.
A sudden plunging into water.
verb
(intransitive) To fall suddenly into water.
(transitive) To put out; to extinguish.
(transitive) To strike, beat, or thrash.
(transitive, intransitive) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.
(transitive, nautical) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly
doves
doves
noun
plural of dove
dowse
dowse
noun
Alternative form of douse (“strike”)
verb
(intransitive) To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc.
Alternative form of douse (“to plunge into water”)
Alternative form of douse (“to strike”)
dozes
dozes
noun
plural of doze
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of doze
eacso
ebons
ebons
noun
plural of ebon
echos
edson
eidos
eidos
noun
(philosophy) Form; essence; type; species.
elops
elson
enols
enols
noun
plural of enol
enows
ensor
eosin
eosin
noun
(organic chemistry) A red, acidic dye commonly used in histological stains.
epsom
epsom
Proper noun
A town in Surrey, England.
erose
erose
adj
Irregularly notched, eaten away, as though bitten.
esbon
escot
espoo
espoo
Proper noun
A city of Finland.
esrog
estoc
estop
estop
verb
To impede or bar by estoppel.
To stop up, to plug
ethos
ethos
noun
(aesthetics) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos.
(rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct.
The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement.
euros
euros
noun
(US) plural of euro
eusol
eusol
noun
An antiseptic made from chlorinated lime and boric acid.
evros
exons
exons
noun
plural of exon
expos
expos
noun
plural of expo
feods
feods
noun
plural of feod
floes
floes
noun
plural of floe
fomes
fomes
noun
(archaic, figurative) Anything which similarly facilitates the spread of something similarly deleterious.
(archaic, medicine) Synonym of fomite: a substance able to communicate infection between people.
(obsolete, medicine) The morbid matter created by a disease.
fores
fosie
fosse
fosse
noun
(anatomy) Alternative form of fossa
A ditch or moat.
foxes
foxes
noun
plural of fox
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fox
froes
froes
noun
plural of froe
gecos
genos
genos
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of geno
gesso
gesso
noun
A mixture of plaster of Paris and glue used to prepare a surface for painting.
A work of art done in gesso.
goers
goers
noun
plural of goer
goles
goles
noun
plural of gole
goose
goose
noun
(South Africa, slang, dated) A young woman or girlfriend.
(archaic) A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
(slang, plural geese or gooses) A silly person.
(uncountable, historical) An old English board game in which players moved counters along a board, earning a double move when they reached the picture of a goose.
A female goose (sense 1).
Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are bigger than ducks.
The flesh of the goose used as food.
verb
(British slang) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.
(transitive) To stimulate; to spur.
(transitive, slang) To gently accelerate (an automobile or machine), or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
(transitive, slang) To hiss (a performer) off the stage.
(transitive, slang) To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks of (a person).
gores
gores
noun
plural of gore
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gore
gorse
gorse
noun
Evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having spiny leaves and yellow flowers.
gosse
goxes
grose
heros
heros
noun
plural of hero (in the sense of a type of sandwich)
hoers
hoers
noun
plural of hoer
hoise
hoise
verb
(intransitive, obsolete): to hoist, be raised.
(transitive, obsolete except in dialects or after Shakespeare) to hoist.
hokes
hokes
noun
plural of hoke
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoke
holes
holes
noun
plural of hole
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hole
homes
homes
noun
(slang) Alternative spelling of holmes
plural of home
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of home
hones
hones
noun
plural of hone
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hone
hoose
hoose
noun
(Northumbria and Scotland) house
hopes
hopes
noun
plural of hope
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hope
horse
horse
noun
(US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E on Wikipedia.Wikipedia).
(chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
(dated, slang, among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
(dated, slang, among students) Horseplay; tomfoolery.
(historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
(military, sometimes uncountable) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
(mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
(prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
(slang) A large and sturdy person.
(slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
(uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
(uncountable, slang) Heroin (drug).
(xiangqi) A xiangqi piece, that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
(zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
A breastband for a leadsman.
A frame with legs, used to support something.
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
A jackstay.
A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
verb
(by extension) To flog.
(informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
(intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
(intransitive, dated) To charge for work before it is finished.
(obsolete) To get on horseback.
(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
(transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.
(transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
(transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
(transitive, dated) To urge at work tyrannically.
To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
To sit astride of; to bestride.
To take or carry on the back.
hosea
hosea
Proper noun
A book of the Old Testament of the Bible.
A Biblical prophet.
hosed
hosed
adj
Ruined, messed up.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of hose
hosel
hosel
noun
(slang) A semester, in the context of a course of study which should be enjoyable as opposed to required work.
The portion of the head of a golf club to which the shaft of the club attaches.
hosen
hosen
noun
(poetic, historical, archaic) plural of hose (the old-fashioned garment; stockings)
Coverings for the legs; trousers; pants.
hoses
hoses
noun
plural of hose
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hose
house
house
noun
(Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
(US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
(astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
(cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
(chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
(curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
(figurative) A place of rest or repose.
(historical) A workhouse.
(music) House music.
(politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
(sudoku) A set of cells in a Sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box in classic Sudoku.
(uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
(uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations.
A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
A theatre.
An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
Lotto; bingo.
The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
The people who live in a house; a household.
verb
(Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat.
(nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
(obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
(obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
(transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
(transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
(transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
(transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
(transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
howes
howes
noun
plural of howe
idose
idose
noun
(biochemistry) A sugar C₆H₁₂O₆ epimeric with gulose and obtainable along with gulose by synthesis from xylose.
iosep
ioves
ireos
isode
joeys
joeys
noun
plural of joey
jokes
jokes
adj
(UK, MTE, slang) Really good.
(UK, MTE, slang) funny or entertaining.
noun
plural of joke
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of joke
joles
joles
noun
plural of jole
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jole