A reddish dyestuff obtained from the roots of the East Indian shrubs Morinda citrifolia and Morinda tinctoria.
The Indian mulberry or noni (Morinda citrifolia, Morinda tinctoria), a shrub found in Southeast Asia, the East Indies and the Pacific islands as far as French Polynesia.
abl
acl
acl
Noun
action-centred leadership
afl
agl
ahl
ail
ail
adj
(obsolete) Painful; troublesome.
noun
(obsolete) An ailment; trouble; illness.
The awn of barley or other types of corn.
verb
(intransitive) To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.
(transitive) To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
ala
ala
noun
(anatomy) A wing or winglike anatomic process or part, especially of bone.
(architecture) In ancient Rome, a small room opening into a larger room or courtyard.
(botany) The flattened border of some stems, fruits, and seeds, or one of the two side petals of certain flowers in the pea family.
prep
(colloquial) Alternative form of a la.
alb
alb
noun
(Christianity, chiefly Anglicanism, Roman Catholicism) A long, white robe worn by priests and other ministers, underneath most of the other vestments.
alc
alc
noun
Abbreviation of alcohol.
ald
ale
ale
noun
(dated) A beer made without hops.
A beer produced by so-called warm fermentation and not pressurized.
A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.
alf
alg
alg
phrase
(text messaging) Abbreviation of all good.
ali
alk
alk
noun
Abbreviation of alkali.
Abbreviation of alkaline.
Archaic spelling of auk.
all
all
adj
(Pennsylvania, dialect) All gone; dead.
adv
(degree) So much.
(obsolete, poetic) Even; just.
A quotative particle, compare like.
Apiece; each.
Wholly; entirely; completely; totally.
conj
(obsolete) Although.
det
(obsolete) Any.
Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).
Only; alone; nothing but.
Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
noun
(countable) The totality of one's possessions.
(with a possessive pronoun) Everything that one is capable of.
pron
(chiefly Southern US, Midland US, Scotland, Northern Ireland, India) Used after who, what, where, how and similar words, either without changing their meaning, or indicating that one expects that they cover more than one element, e.g. that "who all attended" is more than one person. (Some dialects only allow this to follow some words and not others.)
Everyone.
Everything.
The only thing(s).
alm
alm
noun
(nonstandard) Something given to the poor as charity: a singular gift of alms.
aln
alo
alp
alp
noun
A very high mountain. Specifically, one of the Alps, the highest chain of mountains in Europe.
als
als
adv
Obsolete form of also.
noun
plural of al
alt
alt
adj
Abbreviation of alternate.
Abbreviation of alternative, especially as a cultural phenomenon seen as being outside the mainstream of its genre.
noun
(Internet) An alternate account.
(Internet, gaming) An alternate or secondary character.
(finance) An alternative investment or alternative fund.
(music) High pitch, of a voice or instrument; especially, the octave above the top line of the treble stave.
(now archaic) A state of excitement, a heightened emotional condition.
Abbreviation of altitude.
Synonym of altbier
alu
alu
noun
Alternative form of aloo
alw
aly
anl
aol
apl
aql
aul
aul
noun
A village encampment in the Caucasus, Central Asia or the Southern Urals.
Obsolete spelling of awl.
awl
awl
noun
(entomology) Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.
bal
bla
cal
cal
noun
(informal) Clipping of calendar.
(informal) Clipping of calorie.
(military, informal) Clipping of caliber.
(mining, archaic, UK, dialect, Cornwall) wolfram, an ore of tungsten.
calcium hydroxide, slaked lime
dal
dal
noun
A dish made from lentils, cooked with spices, tomatoes and onions etc.
A tropical herb with yellow flowers; the pigeon pea.
Any of many dried husked pulses (legume), including peas, beans and lentils.
dla
eal
ela
fla
gal
gal
noun
(colloquial) A young woman.
A galileo (unit of acceleration).
Abbreviation of gallon.
hal
ila
jal
kal
lab
lab
noun
(colloquial) A Labrador retriever.
(colloquial) A laboratory.
(colloquial) Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result.
(obsolete) A telltale; a blabber.
lac
lac
noun
(medicine, colloquial) Laceration.
(slang) Clipping of Cadillac.
A resinous substance or lacquer produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Kerria lacca, a scale insect.
Alternative spelling of lakh
lad
lad
noun
(Britain) A Jack the lad; a boyo.
(Ireland, colloquial) The penis.
A boy or young man.
A familiar term of address for a young man.
A groom who works with horses.
lae
laf
lag
lag
adj
(obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
Late.
noun
(Britain, slang) A prisoner, a criminal.
(Britain, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
(countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
(snooker) A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.
(uncountable) Delay; latency.
A bird, the greylag.
A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.
One who lags; that which comes in last.
The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
verb
(UK, slang, archaic) To arrest or apprehend.
(UK, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.
(computing, informal, video games) To respond slowly.
(transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.
To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer).
To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
lah
lah
noun
(music) Alternative spelling of la
particle
Emphasizes that something is obvious or self-evident.
Placed at the end of a phrase or sentence either for emphasis or reassurance.
Used sarcastically to state the obvious.
lai
lai
noun
(historical) A mostly North European medieval form of lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance, with stanzas that do not repeat.
lak
lak
adv
Pronunciation spelling of like, representing African-American Vernacular English.
lal
lam
lam
noun
(slang) flight, escape
The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).
verb
(intransitive, dated, slang) To flee or run away.
(transitive, informal) To beat or thrash.
lan
lao
lap
lap
adj
(medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparoscopic.
noun
(archaic, euphemistic) The female pudenda.
(construction) A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
(swimming) The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
The act or process of lapping.
The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
The upper legs of a seated person.
verb
(intransitive) To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
(intransitive) to wind around
(intransitive, of water) To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
(transitive) To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
(transitive) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
(transitive) To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
(transitive) To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
(transitive) To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
(transitive) to envelop, enfold
(transitive) to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
(transitive, intransitive) To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
(transitive, sports, motor racing) To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
lar
lar
noun
(Roman mythology, chiefly in the plural) singular of lares: a household god, particularly overseeing the family itself.
The lar gibbon.
las
las
noun
plural of la
lat
lat
noun
(UK slang, usually in the plural) A latrine: a rudimentary or military facility for urination and defecation.
(architecture) A monumental pillar, particularly the Buddhist columns erected in East India.
(historical numismatics) The floating fiat monetary unit of Latvia from 1992 until January 2014, when it was replaced by the euro.
(historical numismatics) The gold-backed monetary unit of Latvia from August 1922 until April 1941, when it was replaced by the Soviet ruble; it was typically pegged at about 25 to the British pound.
(slang) latitude
(slang, usually in the plural) A latissimus dorsi muscle.
(weaponry, rare) A staff, particularly one of an Indian kind.
A coin or bill of either currency.
lau
lau
verb
(Polari) To place upon; to put down onto.
lav
lav
noun
(Britain, slang) Clipping of lavatory.
(film, informal) Clipping of lavalier.
law
law
intj
(dated) An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks.
noun
(Northern England, Scotland, archaic) A hill.
(aviation) A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
(cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
(dialectal or obsolete) A score; share of expense; legal charge.
(fantasy) One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
(informal) A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
(law, chiefly historical) An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
(linguistics) A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.
(mathematics, logic) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
(now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
(obsolete) A tumulus of stones.
(usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
Common law, as contrasted with equity.
Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
verb
(informal) To enforce the law.
(nonstandard) To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; to govern.
(obsolete) To work as a lawyer; to practice law.
(transitive, intransitive, chiefly dialectal) To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.
To subject to legal restrictions.
lax
lax
adj
(archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
(mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.
Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
Loose; not tight or taut.
noun
(now chiefly UK dialectal, Scotland) A salmon.
(slang) Lacrosse.
lay
lay
adj
(card games) Not trumps.
(obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
noun
(colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
(colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
(obsolete) A basis or ground.
(obsolete) A law.
(obsolete) A layer.
(obsolete) A meadow; a lea.
(obsolete) An obligation; a vow.
(slang, archaic) A place or activity where someone spends a significant portion of their time.
A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
A lake.
A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
A share of the profits in a business.
Arrangement or relationship; layout.
The direction a rope is twisted.
The laying of eggs.
What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?
verb
(Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
(intransitive, proscribed, see usage notes) To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
(law) To state; to allege.
(military) To point; to aim.
(nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
(printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
(printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
(proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
(ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
(transitive) To bet (that something is or is not the case).
(transitive) To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
(transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
(transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
(transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
(transitive) To produce and deposit an egg.
(transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.
(transitive, slang) To have sex with.
To apply; to put.
To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
To impute; to charge; to allege.
To present or offer.
simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
laz
lca
lea
lea
noun
A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
An open field, meadow.
Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards (275 m); for cotton, 120 yards (110 m).
lga
lia
loa
loa
noun
In the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.
lta
mal
mal
noun
(medicine, informal) A malleolus.
(only in set phrases) illness, affliction.
(surfing) A longboard (type of surfboard).
mla
ola
ola
noun
Alternative form of olay
pal
pal
noun
(colloquial) A friend, buddy, mate, cobber; someone to hang around with.
(colloquial) An informal term of address, often used ironically in a hostile way.