A beer produced by so-called warm fermentation and not pressurized.
A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.
bel
bel
noun
A measure of relative power, defined as log₁₀(P ₁/P ₂), where P₁ and P₂ are the measured and reference power respectively.
Alternative form of bael (“Indian tree”)
ble
del
del
noun
(mathematical analysis) The symbol ∇ used to denote the gradient operator.
(mathematics) the symbol ∂, in the context of a partial differential
(obsolete) a part, portion
Abbreviation of delegate.
Abbreviation of delegation.
verb
Abbreviation of delete.
abbreviation of delineavit as seen on published artwork, identifying the original artist. Commonly seen in books and articles on topics in natural history
dle
eal
ecl
eel
eel
noun
Any freshwater or marine fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
The European eel, Anguilla anguilla.
verb
To fish for eels.
To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel.
efl
ela
elb
elc
eld
eld
adj
(obsolete) Old.
noun
(archaic or poetic) Former ages, antiquity, olden times.
(archaic or poetic) Old age, senility; an old person.
(archaic or poetic) Time; an age, an indefinitely long period of time.
(rare or dialectal) One's age, age in years, period of life.
verb
(intransitive, archaic or poetic) To delay; linger.
(intransitive, archaic, poetic or dialectal) To age, become or grow old.
(transitive, archaic or poetic) To make old, age.
ele
elf
elf
noun
(Norse mythology) A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy.
(South Africa) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
(fantasy) Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar).
A very diminutive person; a dwarf.
Any from a race of mythical, supernatural beings resembling but seen as distinct from human beings. They are usually delicate-featured and skilled in magic or spellcrafting; sometimes depicted as clashing with dwarves, especially in modern fantasy literature.
verb
(now rare) To twist into elflocks (of hair); to mat.
eli
elk
elk
noun
(British India) Sambar (Cervus unicolor).
(Canada, US) common wapiti (Cervus canadensis), the second largest member of the deer family, once thought to be a subspecies of red deer.
(chiefly Europe, Commonwealth) Any moose (Alces alces), the largest member of the deer family.
(obsolete) Alternative form of elke (the common swan (Cygnus cygnus, syn. Cygnus ferus))
Any of the subspecies of the moose (Alces alces alces, alternatively named Eurasian elk to avoid confusion with the wapiti), that occurs only in Europe and Asia.
ell
ell
noun
(historical) A measure of length. An English ell was 1¼ yards (45 inches or 114 cm), a Scottish ell was about 37 inches (94 cm), a Flemish ell was ¾ yard (27 inches or 69 cm), while certain European ells were less than 50 cm.
An extension usually at right angles to one end of a building.
Something that is L-shaped.
The name of the Latin-script letter L. (more commonly el)
elm
elm
noun
(countable) A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.
(uncountable, usually attributive) Wood from an elm tree.
elo
elo
noun
(chess, other games) Synonym of Elo rating
elp
els
els
adj
Obsolete form of else.
noun
plural of el
elt
elt
noun
(mathematics, computing) Abbreviation of element.
verb
(intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To become soft; become moist, as damp earth.
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To begrime; soil with mud; daub; smear.
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To injure (anything) by rough handling; handle roughly.
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To knead dough; stir dough previously kneaded to a proper consistency before baking.
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To meddle; interfere.
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To work persistently or laboriously; be occupied in working (e.g. in the earth, rake among dirt, etc.).
elv
ely
eml
enl
epl
erl
esl
eyl
gel
gel
noun
(Britain, slang) A girl.
A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal.
Any gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair.
verb
(intransitive) To become a gel.
(intransitive) To develop a rapport.
(intransitive, figurative) To come together to form something; to cohere.
(transitive) To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc).
gle
hel
ile
ile
noun
Obsolete form of aisle.
Obsolete form of isle.
Obsolete spelling of ail
jle
kel
lae
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).
lec
led
led
adj
Of a farm, etc.: managed by a deputy instead of the owner or tenant in person.
Under somebody's control or leadership.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of lead
lee
lee
adj
(nautical, geology) Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air.
noun
(nautical) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
(nautical) The side of the ship away from the wind.
(obsolete) Lees; dregs.
A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind (see also leeside); shelter; protection.
Obsolete form of li (“traditional Chinese unit of distance”).
leg
leg
noun
(UK, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
(US, slang, military) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
(anatomy) The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
(archaic) A gesture of submission; a bow or curtsey. Chiefly in phrase make a leg.
(cricket, attributive) Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
(electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
(figurative) Something that supports.
(finance) An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
(geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
(geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
(journalism) A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
(nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
(nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
(sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
(telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
(usually in the plural) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.
A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath.
A stage of a journey, race etc.
Alternative spelling of leg.
An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.
In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
verb
To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').
To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
lei
lei
noun
A garland of flowers in Hawaii.
plural of leu
lek
lek
noun
(biology) An aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship and display.
The currency unit of Albania, divided into 100 qindarka.
verb
(UK, dialect, Yorkshire, colloquial) To play.
(biology) To take part in the courtship and display behaviour of a lek.
lem
len
leo
leo
noun
(informal) Abbreviation of leotard.
lep
lep
noun
(rare, sciences) A butterfly or moth.
ler
les
les
noun
(slang, colloquial, derogatory) Clipping of lesbian.
let
let
noun
(tennis) The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.
An obstacle or hindrance.
The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.
verb
(archaic) To hinder, prevent, impede, hamper, cumber; to obstruct (someone or something).
(auxiliary, transitive) Used to introduce a first or third person imperative verb construction.
(obsolete) To prevent someone from doing something; also to prevent something from happening.
(obsolete) To tarry or delay.
(transitive) To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
(transitive) To allow the release of (a fluid).
(transitive) To allow to be or do without interference; to not disturb or meddle with; to leave (someone or something) alone.
(transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
(transitive) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.
(transitive, obsolete except with know) To cause (+ bare infinitive).
leu
leu
noun
The unit of currency of Moldova, equal to one hundred bani.
The unit of currency of Romania, equal to one hundred bani.
lev
lev
noun
The currency of Bulgaria, divided into 100 stotinki.
lew
lew
adj
(dialect) Alee: protected from the wind.
(dialect) Lukewarm, tepid.
(obsolete) Sunny; warm.
Sickly-looking, pale, wan.
Weak.
intj
(obsolete) Alternative form of lo or look: a cry to look at something.
noun
(Scotland, obsolete) A French gold coin circulated in 15th-century Scotland.
(dialect) A shelter from the wind, particularly temporary structures raised by shepherds to protect their flocks.
(now Scotland) Warmth, heat.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To become warm.
(mining, dialect, transitive) Alternative form of lue: to sift, particularly while mining tin or silver.
(transitive) To make warm or lukewarm.
(transitive) To shelter from the wind.
lex
lex
noun
(linguistics) A specific inflected form of a word; compare lexeme.
verb
(computing) To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.
ley
ley
adj
(agriculture) Fallow; unseeded.
(agriculture) Rotated to pasture instead of cropping.
noun
(obsolete) Law.
A ley line.
Alternative spelling of lea
Archaic form of lye.
lez
lez
noun
(slang, sometimes vulgar) Lesbian.
lie
lie
noun
(by extension) Anything that misleads or disappoints.
(disc golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.
(golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
(medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
A manner of lying; relative position.
A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true.
An animal's lair.
An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
verb
(archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
(intransitive) To be placed or situated.
(intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
(intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
(intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
(intransitive, colloquial) To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.
(intransitive, copulative) To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
(law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.
Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
lme
loe
lse
lue
lue
verb
(mining, dialect, transitive) To sift using a sieve, particularly in mining tin or silver.
lwe
lxe
lye
lye
noun
(UK, rail transport) A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.
An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes).
Obsolete spelling of lie
Potassium or sodium hydroxide (caustic soda).
verb
Obsolete spelling of lie.
To treat with lye.
mel
mel
noun
(psychoacoustics) A unit of pitch on a scale of pitches perceived by listeners to be equally spaced from one another.
Honey, when used as an ingredient in cosmetic products.
nel
ole
ole
adj
Pronunciation spelling of old.
intj
An interjection used to stir up excitement.
pel
pel
noun
(dated) pixel
rel
rel
prep
(mathematics) Abbreviation of relative to.
rle
sel
sle
tel
tel
noun
Abbreviation of telegram.
Abbreviation of telegraph.
Alternative form of tell (“hill or mound”)
uel
ule
ule
noun
A Mexican and Central American tree (Castilla elastica), related to the breadfruit tree, whose milky juice contains caoutchouc.
vel
vel
noun
(logic) The ∨ symbol used to represent the inclusive or, which is a logical connective.