(historical, early 19ᵗʰ century) One of a class of rogues who carry snuff or dust in their pockets, which they throw into the eyes of people so as to enable their accomplices to rob them while pretending to help them.
(obsolete) One who diverts attention, usually to distract or bewilder, often for fraudulent purposes; hence a cheat, deceiver or thief.
Someone who amuses.
armure
armure
noun
A fabric woven with a raised pattern similar to chain mail.
aumery
aumery
noun
(obsolete) An ambry or closet.
aumrie
boreum
brumes
brumes
noun
plural of brume
bulmer
bummer
bummer
adj
comparative form of bum: more bum
intj
(colloquial) Exclamation of annoyance or frustration at a bummer (disappointment).
noun
(UK, slang, derogatory, offensive) A gay man.
(US, slang, dated) An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.
(colloquial) A disappointment, a pity, a shame.
(obsolete, historical) A forager, especially in Sherman's March to the Sea of November to December 1864.
A lamb (typically the smallest of a multiple birth) which has been abandoned by its mother or orphaned, and as a consequence is raised in part or in whole by humans.
bumper
bumper
adj
(colloquial) Large; (as if) filled to the bumpers at the top of a silo.
noun
(Australia, slang) A cigarette butt.
(automotive) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision; fender.
(billiards) A side wall of a pool table.
(broadcasting) A short ditty or jingle used to separate a show from the advertisements.
(colloquial, now chiefly attributive) Anything large or successful.
(cricket) A bouncer.
(music) An extra musician (not notated in the score) who assists the principal French horn by playing less-exposed passages, so that the principal can save their 'lip' for difficult solos. Also applied to other sections of the orchestra.
(obsolete) A drinking vessel filled to the brim.
(pinball) An object on a playfield that applies force to the pinball when hit, often giving a minor increase in score.
(slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) A woman's posterior, particularly one that is considered full and desirable.
(slang, dated) A covered house at a theatre, etc., in honour of some favourite performer.
A cylindrical object used (as a substitute for birds) to train dogs to retrieve.
Any mechanical device used to absorb an impact, soften a collision, or protect against impact.
Someone or something that bumps.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To drink from the vessels called bumpers.
cerium
cerium
noun
A chemical element (symbol Ce) with an atomic number of 58, a very soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that tarnishes when exposed to air.
clerum
crumen
cumber
cumber
verb
(transitive, dated) To slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber.
cumbre
cumbre
verb
Archaic form of cumber.
cummer
cummer
noun
(Scotland) A female companion or intimate (of another woman).
(Scotland) Lass, the feminine equivalent of fellow.
(Scotland) The relationship of a godmother to the other godparents (godsibs or gossips), and the legal parents, of a child.
(slang, vulgar) One who cums or climaxes.
demure
demure
adj
(usually of women) Quiet, modest, reserved, sober, or serious.
Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.
verb
(obsolete) To look demurely.
demurs
demurs
noun
plural of demur
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demur
dumber
dumber
adj
comparative form of dumb: more dumb
dumper
dumper
noun
(computing) A program that outputs the contents of storage or a data structure.
(surfing) A wave that knocks a surfer into the water.
A dropper of refuse, particularly not in landfill sites/recycling sites.
A small vehicle often used to carry loads and material around, often on building sites.
One who dumps a boyfriend or girlfriend; the one of a romantic couple who terminates the relationship.
embrue
embrue
verb
Alternative form of imbrue
emraud
erbium
erbium
noun
A chemical element (symbol Er) with atomic number 68: a silvery-white metal, in nature always found in combination with other elements.
estrum
estrum
noun
Synonym of oestrus (female animal's readiness to mate)
femurs
ferrum
ferrum
noun
(homeopathy) Any of various remedies made from iron-containing compounds.
frenum
frenum
noun
(anatomy) Synonym of frenulum.
fretum
fretum
noun
strait; channel.
fulmer
fumers
fumers
noun
(obsolete) alternative form of fewmets
plural of fumer
fumier
fumier
adj
comparative form of fumy: more fumy
gersum
gersum
noun
(law, historical) A lump sum paid by individuals who take a lease of landed property in England.
grumes
grumes
noun
plural of grume
gummer
gummer
noun
A cow or sheep etc. that has lost all of its teeth.
A person or machine that applies gum.
A punch-cutting tool, or machine for deepening and enlarging the spaces between the teeth of a worn saw.
humber
humber
Proper noun
A large tidal estuary forming part of the boundary between northern and southern England.
A river in Newfoundland and Labrador.
humeri
humeri
noun
plural of humerus
hummer
hummer
noun
(informal) A Humvee.
(informal) A humdinger; something or someone exceptional or outstanding of their type.
(informal) A hummingbird.
(slang) A very energetic or lively person; a powerful lively thing.
(slang) An arrest on false pretexts.
(slang) Fellatio, especially when the person performing the act vibrates their mouth by humming.
(slang, dated) A place, event etc. that is bustling or full of activity.
(slang, obsolete) A liar.
(slang, obsolete) A lie or tall tale.
(slang, obsolete) An admirer.
(slang, obsolete, usually as "on the hummer") The condition of having no money.
A machine that runs particularly well and smoothly.
A tantrum or fuss.
A type of vehicle resembling a jeep but bulkier.
One who hums.
Someone who upsets or irritates others; a trouble-maker or controversial figure.
Something that generates a lot of attention, talk, and excitement.
The newlyweds took a hummer limo back to their casino resort.
imbrue
imbrue
verb
To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.).
immure
immure
noun
(obsolete) A wall; an enclosure.
verb
(transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
(transitive) To put or bury within a wall.
(transitive, crystallography and geology, of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
To wall in.
impure
impure
adj
Containing undesired intermixtures
Unchaste; obscene (not according to or not abiding by some system of sexual morality)
Unhallowed; defiled by something unholy, either physically by an objectionable substance, or morally by guilt or sin
verb
(transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute
iterum
jumper
jumper
noun
(US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
(US) A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children; pinafore.
(arachnology, informal) A jumping spider.
(basketball) A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.
(chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A woollen sweater or pullover.
(electricity) A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
(historical, 18th century) One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
(horology) A spring to impel the star wheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
(usually plural, jumpers) Rompers.
(video games) A platform game based around jumping.
A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers, consisting of an iron bar with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.
A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also jump wire.
Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
The larva of the cheese fly.
verb
(transitive) To connect with an electrical jumper.
kumler
kummer
lemurs
lemurs
noun
plural of lemur
lumber
lumber
noun
(Canada, US) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.
(baseball, slang) A baseball bat.
(figurative) Useless or cumbrous material.
(now rare) Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away.
(obsolete) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
(vulgar, slang) An erect penis.
verb
(intransitive) To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.
(transitive, with with) To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on.
To fill or encumber with lumber.
To heap together in disorder.
lumper
lumper
noun
(biology, linguistics) A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to keep categories such as species or dialects together in larger groups.
(dialect) A lamprey.
(dialect) A militiaman.
An extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship.
verb
to lumber; to plod
manure
manure
noun
(euphemistic) Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit.
Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.
Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not; fertiliser.
verb
To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).
To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
marque
marque
noun
A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a model).
A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque.
A ship commissioned for making captures.
maseru
maseru
Proper noun
The capital of Lesotho.
mature
mature
adj
(medicine, obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
(television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.
Brought to a state of complete readiness.
Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
Profound; careful.
verb
(intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
(intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.
(intransitive, of a person) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.
(intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.
(transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.
(transitive) To make (someone) mature.
(transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
mauger
maugre
maugre
adv
(obsolete) Notwithstanding, despite everything.
noun
(obsolete) Ill will; spite.
prep
(obsolete) Notwithstanding; in spite of.
mauler
mauler
noun
One who mauls.
maurer
maurey
maurie
mauser
mbeuer
meerut
meerut
Proper noun
A large city in India, in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
menura
meraux
mergui
mergui
Proper noun
A city in southern Burma.
mergus
meruit
merula
meurer
meuser
miauer
moeurs
moeurs
noun
Alternative form of mores, a set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices.
moreau
morgue
morgue
noun
(archaic) A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
(archaic) The archive and background information division of a newspaper.
A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
morule
mourne
mourne
noun
The armed or feruled end of a staff.
The end of a sheephook to which the hook is attached.
mouser
mouser
noun
(chiefly Scotland, US) A moustache.
A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose. [from 15th c.]
(slang, British Army) A comrade; a friendly, low-ranking soldier in the same situation.
A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To scrape together (money, etc.) by mean labour or shifts.
mudder
mudder
noun
(Internet) A participant in a multi-user dungeon.
Pronunciation spelling of mother.
muermo
muffer
mugger
mugger
noun
A large crocodile, Crocodylus palustris, of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout.
A person who assaults and robs others, especially in a public place.
A person who makes exaggerated faces, as a performance; a gurner.
mulder
mulier
mulier
noun
(law, historical) Lawful issue born in wedlock, in distinction from an elder brother born of the same parents before their marriage.
muller
muller
noun
(art) A grinding stone, held in the hand, used especially for preparing paints and powders.
(metallurgy) A machine that mixes sand and clay for use in metal castings.
A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.
One who, or that which, mulls.
verb
(transitive, UK, slang) To beat; to thrash (a person).
(transitive, UK, slang) To defeat or destroy utterly (as in a sport or competition).
To grind up into, or as if into, powder.
mummer
mummer
noun
A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival.
An actor in a pantomime; one who communicates entirely through gesture and facial expression.
verb
Synonym of mum (“to act in pantomime or dumb show”)
mumper
mumper
noun
(Britain, obsolete, slang) A beggar.
munger
munger
noun
One who munges.
munroe
murage
murage
noun
A tax paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.
murder
murder
noun
(countable) The act of deliberate killing of a person or other being without moral justification, especially with malice aforethought.
(countable, collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
(uncountable) The crime of deliberately killing a person without moral justification.
(uncountable, law, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.
(uncountable, used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.
verb
(figuratively, colloquial, Britain) To devour, ravish.
(figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
(transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To defeat decisively.
To botch or mangle.
To deliberately kill (a person or persons) without justification, especially with malice aforethought.
mureil
murein
murein
noun
peptidoglycan, mucopeptide
muriel
muriel
Proper noun
name definition
murine
murine
adj
More generally, of, pertaining to, or characteristic of any rodent up to the taxonomic rank of Muroidea, most often with reference to mice and rats of the subfamily Murinae.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse.
noun
(zoology) Any murine mammal.
murker
murker
adj
comparative form of murk: more murk
murres
murres
noun
plural of murre
murrey
murrey
adj
Of a mulberry colour.
noun
(heraldry) A tincture, the colour of mulberries, between gules (red) and purpure (purple).
The mulberry fruit.
musers
musers
noun
plural of muser
musery
musher
musher
noun
One who operates a dogsled, traditionally using the verbal command “mush”.
One who races in a dogsled in a race.
One who travels by dogsled.
musser
muster
muster
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc.
(military) An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.
(obsolete) A sample of goods.
(obsolete) An act of showing something; a display.
(obsolete) Something shown for imitation; a pattern.
A collection of peafowl. (not a term used in zoology)
An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
Synonym of mustee
The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
verb
(intransitive) To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body.
(transitive) To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.
(transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To gather or round up livestock.
(transitive, US) To enroll (into service).
(transitive, obsolete) To show, exhibit.
mutter
mutter
noun
(Indian cuisine) Peas.
A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering.
verb
To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise.
To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.
To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath.
nerium
number
number
adj
comparative form of numb: more numb
noun
(Followed by a numeral; used attributively) Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.
(countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.
(countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
(countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
(countable, informal) A person.
(countable, informal) A telephone number.
(countable, informal) An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one.
(countable, mathematics) An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.
(dated) An issue of a periodical publication.
(grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
(informal, always indefinite) A large amount of damage
(now rare, in the plural) Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
(slang, chiefly US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought from a dealer.
A large amount, in contrast to a smaller amount; numerical preponderance.
A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
Quantity.
verb
(intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.
(transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
numero
numero
noun
The sign ⟨ № ⟩.
oremus
oremus
noun
(Roman Catholicism) A liturgical prayer.
plumer
plumer
noun
(historical) A person who sells feathers.
Misspelling of plumber.
pumper
pumper
noun
(bodybuilding, slang) A steroid or other drug taken to improve blood flow and increase muscular size.
One who pumps something.
rameau
ramule
ramule
noun
ramulus
rectum
rectum
noun
(anatomy) The terminal part of the large intestine through which feces pass after exiting the colon, but before leaving the body through the anus.
recumb
recumb
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To lean; to recline; to repose.
regnum
regnum
noun
(biology, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below dominium and above divisio.
A badge of royalty, especially the early form of the pope's tiara.
relume
relume
verb
(transitive, now rare) To make clear or bright again.
(transitive, now rare) To rekindle; to relight (literally or figuratively).
remuda
remuda
noun
(Canada, US) A herd of horses from which the horses to be used for a particular purpose are selected.
replum
replum
noun
(botany) The framework of some pods, such as the cress, which remains after the valves drop off
repump
repump
verb
(transitive) To pump again.
(transitive, physics) To use a laser to raise an electron (in an atom or ion etc) back to a previous high state.
resume
resume
noun
(chiefly Canada, US, Australia) A summary or account of education and employment experiences and qualifications; a curriculum vitae (often for presentation to a potential future employer when applying for a job).
A summary or synopsis.
verb
(intransitive) To start again after an interruption or pause.
(transitive) To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on.
(transitive, now rare) To summarise.
(transitive, now rare) To take back possession of (something).
rheums
rheums
noun
plural of rheum
rheumy
rheumy
adj
of, relating to, or producing rheum from the mucous membranes; watery
rumage
rumble
rumble
intj
An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise
noun
(dated) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
(slang) A street fight or brawl.
A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
verb
(intransitive) To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
(intransitive) To move while making a rumbling noise.
(obsolete) To murmur; to ripple.
(slang, intransitive) To fight; to brawl.
(transitive) To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
(transitive) To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
(video games, intransitive, of a game controller) to provide haptic feedback by vibrating.
rumely
rumens
rumery
rummer
rummer
adj
comparative form of rum: more rum
noun
A large drinking-glass for alcoholic drinks, typically with a short or heavy stem.
rummes
rummle
rumney
rumney
noun
A form of Greek wine popular in England and Europe during the 14th to 16th centuries.
rumper
rumple
rumple
verb
(transitive) To make wrinkled, particularly fabric.
(transitive) To muss; to tousle.
rumsey
semeru
sertum
serums
serums
noun
plural of serum
stumer
stumer
noun
(Britain) Something worthless or counterfeit.
(UK, slang) A racehorse that is sure to lose.
summer
summer
adj
the hottest season of the year
noun
(architecture) A horizontal beam supporting a building.
(countable, fashion) Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
(obsolete) A pack-horse.
(poetic or humorous) year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one.
A machine or algorithm that sums.
A person who sums.
One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as being from June 21 to September 22 or 23 in parts of the USA, the months of June, July and August in the United Kingdom and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.
verb
(intransitive) To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday.
sumner
sumner
noun
Obsolete form of summoner.
sumper
sumter
sumter
Proper noun
hero of the American Revolution
a city in South Carolina, USA
an unincorporated community in Nebraska, USA.
tamure
tamure
noun
A traditional dance of Tahiti and the Cook Islands (now only danced for tourists)
tergum
tergum
noun
(entomology) The upper or dorsal surface of an articulated animal such as an arthropod.
tummer
turmel
turmet
umbers
umbers
noun
plural of umber
umbrae
umbrae
noun
plural of umbra
umbrel
umbrel
noun
(historical) An umbrere; the visor of a helmet
umbret
umpire
umpire
noun
(American football) The official who stands behind the line on the defensive side or next to the referee on the offensive side.
(Australian rules football) A match official on the ground deciding and enforcing the rules during play. As of 2007 the Australian Football League uses three; in the past there were two or just one. The other officials, the goal umpires and boundary umpires, are usually referred to by those phrases.
(baseball) One of the officials who preside over a baseball game.
(cricket) One of the two white-coated officials who preside over a cricket match.
(curling) The official who presides over a curling game.
(law) A person who arbitrates between contending parties.
(tennis, badminton) The official who presides over a tennis match sat on a high chair.
verb
(sports, intransitive) To act as an umpire in a game.
(transitive) To decide as an umpire.
uremia
uremia
noun
(pathology) Blood poisoning resulting from the retention of waste products usually excreted as urine.