Sapsucking pest insect of the superfamily Aphidoidea; an aphidian.
aphis
aphis
noun
An aphid.
apish
apish
adj
resembling or characteristic of an ape
arish
arith
asahi
ashia
ashil
ashir
ashli
ashti
athie
avahi
avahi
noun
woolly lemur
awhir
bahai
bahia
baith
barih
bhili
bhili
Proper noun
A Central Indo-Aryan language spoken in west-central India.
bhima
bichy
bigha
bigha
noun
(India) A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre.
bight
bight
noun
(geography) A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow
A curve in a rope
An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf
verb
(transitive) To arrange or fasten (a rope) in bights.
bihai
biham
bihar
bilch
bilsh
bimah
bimah
noun
Alternative spelling of bima
binah
birch
birch
noun
A birch-bark canoe.
A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.
A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.
Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
verb
To punish as though one were using a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
To punish with a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
birth
birth
adj
A familial relationship established by childbirth.
noun
(countable) A beginning or start; a point of origin.
(countable) An instance of childbirth.
(uncountable) The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.
(uncountable) The process of childbearing; the beginning of life.
Misspelling of berth.
That which is born.
verb
(figuratively) To produce, give rise to.
To bear or give birth to (a child).
bitch
bitch
noun
(LGBT, slang, derogatory) An obviously gay man.
(UK, obsolete, university slang) Tea (the drink).
(archaic, offensive) A promiscuous woman, slut, whore.
(chess, slang, vulgar, offensive) A queen.
(colloquial, vulgar) A difficult or confounding problem.
(colloquial, vulgar, card games) A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
(dated or specialised, dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
(humorous, vulgar, colloquial, used with a possessive pronoun) Friend.
(obsolete, informal, of a man) A playful variation on dog (sense "man").
(vulgar, colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
(vulgar, figurative) Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
(vulgar, informal, slang) Place; situation
(vulgar, offensive) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
(vulgar, offensive) A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way
(vulgar, offensive) A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
(vulgar, offensive) A woman.
verb
(vulgar, intransitive) To behave or act as a bitch.
(vulgar, intransitive) To criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.
(vulgar, transitive) To spoil, to ruin.
bligh
bodhi
bodhi
noun
(Buddhism) The state of enlightenment that finally ends the cycle of death and rebirth and leads to nirvana.
bphil
brith
bushi
cahiz
cahiz
noun
(historical) A traditional measure of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a cahiz of seed.
(historical) A traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 665.8 L.
cathi
cathi
Proper noun
A 20th century spelling variant of Cathy, diminutive of the female given name Catherine.
chaim
chain
chain
noun
(Britain) A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
(chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
(mathematics, set theory, order theory) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
(nautical, in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
(surveying) A long measuring tape.
(surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
(weaving) The warp threads of a web.
A livery collar, a chain of office.
A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
A series of interconnected things.
A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres, 4 rods, or 100 links.
That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
verb
(computing) To be chained to another data item.
(computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
(figurative) To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
(figurative) To obligate.
(intransitive) To link multiple items together.
(transitive) To fasten something with a chain.
(transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
(transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
(transitive) To secure someone with fetters.
(transitive, computing, rare, associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).
chair
chair
noun
(chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
(education) A distinguished professorship at a university.
(music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
(often with definite article, also written Chair) Clipping of chairperson.
(rail transport) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.
(slang, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair. (the execution device).
A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.
The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
verb
(transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
(transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
(transitive, Wales, UK) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
chais
chais
noun
plural of chai
chait
chari
chati
chati
noun
A small South American subspecies of tiger cat (Leopardus pardalis mitis), native to Argentina and Paraguay.
chaui
cheir
cheki
cheki
noun
(Turkish units of measurement) A unit of weight equal to 200 kg (441 lbs.).
(historical units of measurement) A former Turkish unit of weight equal to 100 dirhems (variously .15–.35 kg).
(historical units of measurement) A former Turkish unit of weight equal to 180 okas.
cheri
chiam
chian
chiao
chias
chias
noun
plural of chia
chiba
chiba
Proper noun
a capital city of Chiba prefecture, Japan.
chica
chica
noun
(Canada, US, informal) A Latin-American girl; a Latina.
An orange-red dyestuff obtained by boiling the leaves of the bignonia.
chich
chich
noun
The chickpea.
chick
chick
noun
(India, Pakistan) A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A young, typically attractive, woman or teenage girl.
(dated, endearing) A young child.
(military, slang) A friendly fighter aircraft.
A young bird.
A young chicken.
verb
(obsolete) To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.
To compress the lips and then separate them quickly, resulting in a percussive noise.
chico
chico
noun
(American Southwest, chiefly in the plural) Sweet corn that has been cooked and dried on the cob.
(Canada, US, informal) A Latin-American boy; a Latino.
The fruit of the sapodilla, Manilkara zapota.
chics
chics
noun
plural of chic
chide
chide
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
(transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
(transitive, intransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
chief
chief
adj
(Scotland) Intimate, friendly.
Primary; principal.
noun
(US, Canada, offensive) An informal term of address for a Native American or First Nations man.
(heraldry) The top part of a shield or escutcheon; more specifically, an ordinary consisting of the upper part of the field cut off by a horizontal line, generally occupying the top third.
(sometimes ironic) An informal term of address.
A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc.
The principal part or top of anything.
verb
(US, slang) To smoke cannabis.
chiel
chiel
noun
Alternative form of chield
chien
child
child
noun
(broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
(cartomancy) The thirteenth Lenormand card.
(computing) A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
(mathematics) A subordinate node of a tree.
(obsolete, specifically) A female child, a girl.
(pediatrics, sometimes, in a stricter sense) A kid aged 1 to 11 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 month to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 12 years to 18 years.
(with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”)
Anything derived from or caused by something.
verb
(archaic, transitive, intransitive) To give birth; to beget or procreate.
chile
chile
noun
(Southern US, African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of child.
(US, regional) Alternative form of chili (a chili pepper).
chili
chili
noun
(Cincinnati) Cincinnati chili.
(Indian Chinese cuisine) A spicy stew of chicken or paneer, capsicum and onion, eaten as an appetizer.
(chiefly US) A dish made with chili peppers and other ingredients, such as beans and beef.
(countable) The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.
(uncountable) Powdered chili pepper, used as a spice or flavouring in cooking.
chill
chill
abbrev
(West Country, obsolete) I will
adj
(slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
(slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
(slang) Okay, not a problem.
Moderately cold or chilly.
Unwelcoming; not cordial.
noun
A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it..
An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
Calmness; equanimity.
The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
verb
(intransitive) To become cold.
(intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
(intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
(intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back.
(transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
(transitive, figurative) To discourage, depress.
(transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
chilo
chilt
chimb
chimb
Noun
The edge of a cask, etc; a chine.
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.
chimp
chimp
noun
(informal) Clipping of chimpanzee.
verb
(informal, often derogatory) To get very excited when showing images on a digital camera.
(informal, often derogatory) To review each image on a digital camera after it is taken.
chimu
china
china
noun
(countable) Synonym of China rose, in its various senses.
(countable, Cockney rhyming slang, Australia, South Africa) Synonym of friend.
(countable, games, chiefly US, obsolete) A glazed china marble.
(countable, music) A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences.
(uncountable) Chinaware: porcelain tableware.
(uncountable) Synonym of China root, the root of Smilax china (particularly) as a medicine.
(uncountable) Synonym of porcelain, a hard white translucent ceramic made from kaolin, now (chiefly US) sometimes distinguished in reference to tableware as fine or good china.
(uncountable, chiefly US, dated) Cheaper and lower-quality ceramic and ceramic tableware, distinguished from porcelain.
(uncountable, dated) Tea from China, (particularly) varieties cured by smoking or opposed to Indian cultivars.
(uncountable, obsolete) Synonym of cheyney: worsted or woolen stuff.
chine
chine
noun
(Southern England, Vancouver) A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
(aeronautics) A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
(nautical) A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
(nautical) A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
The back of the blade on a scythe.
The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
The spine of an animal.
The top of a ridge.
verb
(obsolete) To crack, split, fissure, break.
(transitive) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
ching
ching
intj
The sound of metal or glass clinking.
noun
(Scotland, slang) Cocaine.
(countable) A ringing sound, as of metal or glass being struck.
(uncountable, slang) Money (from the sound of a cash register ringing up an amount).
(zoology) A high-pitched mating call made by the male kakapo.
A pair of small bowl-shaped finger cymbals made of thick and heavy bronze, used in the music of Thailand and Cambodia.
verb
(MLE, slang) To stab.
(zoology, intransitive) Of the male kakapo: to make its high-pitched mating call.
To chink or clink; to make a ringing sound, as of metal or glass being struck.
chink
chink
noun
(countable) A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.
(figuratively) A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.
(uncountable, colloquial, now rare) Ready money, especially in the form of coins.
A chip or dent in something metallic.
A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”)
Alternative letter-case form of Chink
verb
(intransitive) To crack; to open.
(intransitive) To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
(transitive) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
(transitive) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
(transitive) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
chino
chino
noun
A coarse cotton fabric commonly used to make trousers and uniforms.
chins
chins
noun
plural of chin
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chin
chint
chint
noun
Obsolete form of chintz.
chios
chiot
chiou
chips
chips
noun
(slang) A carpenter.
plural of chip
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chip
chirk
chirk
adj
(colloquial, US, chiefly New England) lively; cheerful; in good spirits
noun
the sound of a spoon rapidly whisking around a pot or basin.
verb
(intransitive, especially as "chirk up") To become happier.
(transitive, especially as "chirk up") To make happier.
To make the sound of a bird; to chirp.
chirl
chirl
noun
(Scotland) A kind of musical warble.
verb
(Scotland, intransitive) To emit a low sound; to warble.
chirm
chirm
noun
A din or confused noise, as of many voices, birdsong, etc.
verb
(obsolete) To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird does.
chiro
chiro
noun
(informal, countable) A chiropractor.
(informal, uncountable) Chiropractic.
chirp
chirp
noun
(radar, sonar, radio telescopy etc.) A pulse of signal whose frequency sweeps through a band of frequencies for the duration of the pulse.
A short, sharp or high note or noise, as of a bird or insect.
verb
(Canada) To speak rapid insulting comical banter back and forth.
(intransitive) To make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets.
(intransitive) To speak in a high-pitched staccato.
(transitive, obsolete) To cheer up; to make (someone) happier.
(transitive, radar, sonar, radio telescopy etc.) To modify (a pulse of signal) so that it sweeps through a band of frequencies throughout its duration.
chirr
chirr
noun
The trilled sound made by an insect.
verb
(intransitive) To make the prolonged trilling sound of an insect (e.g. a grasshopper, a cicada).
chirt
chiru
chiru
noun
The Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hodgsonii.
chita
chits
chits
noun
plural of chit
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chit
chive
chive
noun
(Trinidad and Tobago, dialect) The spring onion; The green onion; the scallion.
(in the plural) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.
(obsolete) The style and stigma of a flower, especially saffron.
(thieves' cant) A file.
(thieves' cant) A knife.
(thieves' cant) A saw.
A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.
verb
(thieves' cant) To cut.
(thieves' cant) To stab.
chivw
chivy
chivy
noun
Alternative form of chevy
chizz
choil
choil
noun
(on fixed-blade knives) The portion where the heel meets the bolster.
(on folding knives) The indentation of a pocket-knife blade where it joins the tang.
An unsharpened portion of a knife blade at the base of the blade, near the handle of the knife.
The region of a knife where such a portion is, or would be if it existed; the region may be arranged as a grip, guard, or combination thereof (a finger choil), or it may be a notch demarking the end of the sharpened edge (a sharpening choil).
choir
choir
noun
(Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.
(architecture) The part of a church where the choir assembles for song.
A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are trained to sing together.
Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.
verb
(intransitive) To sing in concert.
choli
choli
noun
(fashion) A short-sleeved blouse worn under a sari; an Indian underbodice.
chria
chris
chris
Proper noun
A diminutive of the male given names Christopher and, less commonly, of Christian.
A diminutive of the female name Christina and of its variant forms.
cimah
cinch
cinch
noun
(card games) A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called "right Pedro") and the five of the same colour (called "left Pedro", and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) are each worth five. Fifty-one points make a game.
(informal) A firm hold.
(informal) Something that is obvious or certain to occur; a sure thing.
(informal) Something that is very easy to do.
A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
verb
(card games) In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.
To bring to certain conclusion.
To tighten down.
clich
cohin
crith
crith
noun
(physics) the weight of 1 litre of hydrogen at standard temperature and pressure. Equal to approximately 0.09 grams.
cuish
cuish
noun
Alternative form of cuisse (“thigh armour”)
dabih
dachi
dashi
dashi
noun
A type of soup or cooking stock, often made from kelp.
delhi
delhi
Proper noun
National capital territory and old city in northern India in which the country’s capital New Delhi is located.
A village in New York, USA
dhabi
dheri
dhikr
dhikr
noun
(Islam) An Islamic prayer whereby a phrase or expression of praise is repeated continually.
dhobi
dhobi
noun
A laundryman or washerman, or laundrywoman or washerwoman, in India and Pakistan.
dhoni
dhoni
noun
A handcrafted sailboat with a motor or lateen sails, resembling a dhow, that is used in the Maldives.
dhoti
dhoti
noun
(countable) A long loincloth worn by men in India.
(countable, uncountable) The cotton fabric used for such loincloths.
dhuti
dicht
dichy
diehl
dight
dight
adj
(obsolete) Disposed; adorned.
adv
(obsolete) Finely.
verb
(archaic, transitive) To dress, array; to adorn.
(archaic, transitive) To make ready, prepare.
(archaic, transitive, of facial features) To be formed or composed (of).
(obsolete, transitive) To deal with, handle.
(obsolete, transitive) To dispose, put (in a given state or condition).
dinah
dinah
Proper noun
A daughter of Jacob and Leah.
name of biblical origin. Alternative form of Dina.
dishy
dishy
adj
(Britain, slang) Attractive; good-looking; sexy.
(slang) Tending to relay information and gossip.
ditch
ditch
noun
(Ireland) A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top.
A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
verb
(intransitive) To dig ditches.
(transitive) To dig ditches around.
(transitive) To discard or abandon.
(transitive) To throw into a ditch.
(transitive, intransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
(transitive, intransitive, aviation) To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
Alternative form of deech
dphil
echis
edith
eight
eight
adj
Obsolete spelling of eighth
noun
(nautical) A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars.
(playing cards) Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.
(rowing) The eight people who crew a rowing-boat.
(rowing, especially in plural) A race in which such craft participate.
Alternative spelling of ait (island in a river)
The digit/figure 8.
num
A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.
Describing a group or set with eight elements.
elihu
elish
eoith
ephoi
epiph
erich
eriha
eshin
ethic
ethic
adj
Moral, relating to morals.
noun
A set of principles of right and wrong behaviour guiding, or representative of, a specific culture, society, group, or individual.
The morality of an action.
ethid
faith
faith
adv
(archaic) Alternative form of in faith (“really, truly”)
noun
(obsolete) Credibility or truth.
A conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.
A religious or spiritual belief system.
A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.