(nautical) Having the sails furled and the helm lashed alee, as during a storm.
(nautical) at the hull of a ship
bhalu
bluhm
blush
blush
noun
(chiefly US) A pale pink wine made by removing the dark grape skins at the required point during fermentation.
(figuratively) Feeling or appearance of optimism.
(uncountable, countable) A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks.
A color between pink and cream.
A glow; a flush of colour, especially pink or red.
An act of blushing; a red glow on the face caused by shame, modesty, etc.
The collective noun for a group of boys.
verb
(aviation, intransitive) Of dope or varnish: to develop an undesirable white precipitate on the surface, due to being applied in humid conditions.
(copulative) To change skin color in the face (to a particular shade).
(intransitive) To become red in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.
(intransitive) To become red.
(intransitive) To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
(intransitive, figuratively) To be ashamed or embarrassed (to do something).
(intransitive, obsolete) To glance with the eye, cast a glance.
(transitive) To express or make known by blushing.
(transitive) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make rosy.
buhls
buhls
noun
plural of buhl
chula
chula
noun
(Bangladesh, India) hearth, fireplace
churl
churl
noun
(Theodism) A freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall.
(archaic) A countryman, a peasant, a rustic.
(archaic) A person who is stingy, especially with money; a selfish miser, a niggard.
(derogatory) A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.
A bondman or serf.
A free peasant (as opposed to a serf) of the lowest rank, below an earl and a thane; a freeman; also (more generally), a person without royal or noble status; a commoner.
culch
culch
adj
(US, New England, Maine) Location where potentially useful junk items are collected: culch corner, culch drawer, culch pile.
noun
(US, New England, Maine) An accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use.
(US, New England, Maine) Junk or debris.
The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds.
verb
To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments; to sort shellfish or fish catch by size -- most often oysters -- so as to throw back the smallest to grow bigger and breed.
dhoul
elihu
flush
flush
adj
(typography) Short for flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
Full of vigour; fresh; glowing; bright.
Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
Wealthy or well off.
noun
(computing) The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
(poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
Any tinge of red colour like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
verb
(intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
(intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
(intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
(intransitive, transitive) To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet
(masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
(mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
(mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
(transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
(transitive) To cause to blush.
(transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
(transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
(transitive) To excite, inflame.
(transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents.
(transitive, computing, of data held in a buffer or cache) To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.
To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
(derogatory, slang) A person with a callous or uncaring attitude to human life and suffering, particularly when prioritising economic concerns.
(mythology, Arabic demonology) A demon said to feed on corpses.
A graverobber.
A person with an undue interest in death and corpses, or more generally in things that are revolting and repulsive.
gulch
gulch
noun
(obsolete) A glutton.
(obsolete) An act of gulching or gulping.
A ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully.
verb
(obsolete) To fall heavily.
(obsolete) To swallow greedily; to gulp down.
gulph
gulph
noun
(hypercorrect) Obsolete spelling of gulf
haldu
hauld
haulm
haulm
noun
(countable) An individual plant stem.
(countable) Part of a harness; a hame.
(uncountable) The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.
hauls
hauls
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of haul
hault
hault
adj
(obsolete) Lofty; haughty.
hilum
hilum
noun
(anatomy) A depression or fissure through which ducts, nerves, or blood vessels enter and leave a gland or organ; a porta.
(botany) The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support.
(botany) The nucleus of a starch grain.
hilus
hilus
noun
(anatomy) A hilum.
holgu
holub
hoult
hoult
noun
(obsolete) A wood; copse.
hubli
hugel
hugli
huila
huile
hulas
hulas
noun
plural of hula
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hula
hulch
hulch
noun
(dialectal) A hook or nook.
(obsolete) A hunch, hump (on the back).
hulda
hulen
hulks
hulks
noun
plural of hulk
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hulk
hulky
hulky
adj
Large; hulking.
hullo
hullo
intj
(UK, New Zealand) Alternative form of hello (Greeting.)
(UK, dated, New Zealand) Alternative form of hello (expressing puzzlement or discovery)
noun
(UK) Alternative form of hello
hulls
hulls
noun
plural of hull
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hull
hulme
hurls
hurls
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hurl
hurly
hurly
noun
(Scotland) A wheelbarrow.
(obsolete) noise; confusion; uproar
khula
khula
noun
(Islam) A form of divorce initiated by the wife.
kulah
lahmu
laugh
laugh
noun
(Britain, New Zealand) A fun person.
An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.
Something that provokes mirth or scorn.
verb
(intransitive) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
(intransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
(intransitive, followed by "at") To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
(transitive) To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
(transitive) To express by, or utter with, laughter.
lehua
lehua
noun
The flower or wood of a Polynesian tree (Metrosideros collina); the tree itself.
leuch
lihue
louch
lough
lough
noun
(Ireland) A lake or long, narrow inlet, especially in Ireland.
(Northumbria) lake, pool
louhi
louth
louth
Proper noun
A village and county (County Louth) in the Republic of Ireland.
A town in Lincolnshire, England.
lucho
luhey
lunch
lunch
noun
(Minnesota, US) Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.
(cricket) A break in play between the first and second sessions.
A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
verb
(intransitive) To eat lunch.
(transitive) To treat to lunch.
lurch
lurch
noun
A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has not yet pegged his/her 31st hole.
A sudden or unsteady movement.
An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
verb
(obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
(obsolete, intransitive) To evade by stooping; to lurk.
(obsolete, intransitive) To rob.
(obsolete, transitive) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
(transitive) To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry).
To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
lushy
lushy
adj
Drunk; tipsy.
Given to drinking alcohol.
Lush; growing abundantly.
mehul
muhly
muhly
noun
Any of the many species of grasses of genus Muhlenbergia.
mulch
mulch
noun
(agriculture, horticulture) Any material used to cover the top layer of soil to protect, insulate, or decorate it, or to discourage weeds or retain moisture.
verb
(agriculture) To apply mulch.
(agriculture) To turn into mulch.
peuhl
plush
plush
adj
(UK) Very expensive, or appearing expensive; opulent, luxurious.
(UK) Very extravagant.
(of a man-made object) Having a soft, fluffy exterior.
noun
A plush toy.
A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.
schul
shaul
shluh
shull
shuln
shuls
shuls
noun
plural of shul
shult
slush
slush
noun
(engineering) A mixture of white lead and lime, used as a paint to prevent oxidation.
(publishing) Unsolicited manuscripts, as in slush pile.
A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
Flavored shaved ice served as a drink.
Half-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground.
Liquid mud or mire.
The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
verb
To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.
To slosh or splash; to move as, or through, a slushy or liquid substance.
To smear with slushy liquid or grease.
thule
thulr
thurl
thurl
noun
(agriculture, chiefly in the plural) Either of the rear hip joints where the hip connects to the upper leg in certain animals, particularly cattle; often used as a reference point for measurement.
verb
Alternative form of thirl
uhlan
uhlan
noun
(historical) A lancer, a soldier armed with a lance in a former light cavalry unit of the Polish, Prussian/German, Austrian, and Russian armies.
uhllo
uhllo
noun
(historical) abalone shells, used in trade by the Native Americans