(When spoken repeatedly, often three times in succession: blah blah blah!) Imitative of idle, meaningless talk; used sometimes in a slightly derogatory manner to mock or downplay another's words, or to show disinterest in a diatribe, rant, instructions, unsolicited advice, parenting, etc. Also used when recalling and retelling another's words, as a substitute for the portions of the speech deemed irrelevant.
An expression of mild frustration.
Representing the sound of vomiting.
noun
(informal) (in plural, the blahs) A general or ambiguous feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, uneasiness, boredom, mild depression, etc.
(colloquial, rare) Expressing disgust or discontent; blah.
When repeated or combined with blah, used to denote tedious talking; blah.
buhl
buhl
noun
(woodworking) A particularly decorative piece of brass or other material, used as inlay in furniture or other works.
Furniture having ornamentation of this kind.
chal
chal
noun
A male gypsy.
chil
chlo
chol
chol
noun
(biochemistry, medicine) Abbreviation of cholesterol.
cohl
dahl
dahl
noun
Alternative spelling of dal
dhal
duhl
elah
elhi
elhi
noun
(education) In some countries, the period from elementary school to high school.
gahl
hail
hail
adj
(obsolete) Healthy, whole, safe.
intj
(archaic or poetic) An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.
noun
(countable, by extension) A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects.
(meteorology, countable) An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm.
(meteorology, uncountable) Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
verb
(impersonal) Of hail, to fall from the sky.
(intransitive) To send or release hail.
(transitive) To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.
(transitive) To greet; give salutation to; salute.
(transitive) To name; to designate; to call.
(transitive) To signal in order to initiate communication with.
(transitive, by extension, UK, Australia) To indicate, from a designated stop or otherwise, to the driver of a public transport vehicle that one wishes to board and travel on the vehicle, usually using hand signals such as waving.
To pour down in rapid succession.
hala
hala
adj
(obsolete, dialect) Embarassed or ashamed.
noun
Pandanus tectorius, a screw pine native to Malesia, eastern Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
hale
hale
adj
(dated) Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
noun
(archaic) Health, welfare.
verb
To drag or pull, especially forcibly.
half
half
adj
(of a relative other than a sibling) Related through one common grandparent or ancestor rather than two.
(of a sibling) Having one parent (rather than two) in common.
Consisting of a half (½, 50%).
Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect.
adv
In some part approximating a half.
In two equal parts or to an equal degree.
Partially; imperfectly.
Practically, nearly.
intj
(theater) A call reminding performers that the performance will begin in thirty minutes.
noun
(UK, archaic) A child ticket.
(numismatic slang) Clipping of half-dollar.
(preceded by “a” or a number) The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2.
(slang) A half sibling.
(sports) One of the two opposite parts of the playing field of various sports, in which each starts the game.
(sports) abbreviated form for half marathon.
Any of the three terms at Eton College, for Michaelmas, Lent, and summer.
Half of a standard measure, chiefly: (Britain) half a pint of beer or cider.
One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided.
prep
(UK, Ireland) Half past; a half-hour (30 minutes) after the last hour.
(rare, see usage notes) A half-hour to (preceding) the next hour.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To halve.
hali
hall
hall
noun
(India) A living room.
(Oxbridge slang) A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.
(Oxbridge) A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
(obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
A building providing student accommodation at a university.
A corridor; a hallway.
A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
A meeting room.
A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
The principal room of a secular medieval building.
halm
halm
noun
(botany) Alternative spelling of haulm
halo
halo
noun
(advertising) The bias caused by the halo effect.
(art, religion, iconography) a circular annulus ring, frequently luminous, often golden, floating above the head
(astronomy) A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies.
(automotive) Short for halo headlight.
(medicine) A circular brace used to keep the head and neck in position.
(motor racing) A rollbar placed in front of the driver, used to protect the cockpit of an open cockpit racecar.
(religion) nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.
A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.
The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity.
verb
(transitive) To encircle with a halo.
halp
halp
verb
(nonstandard, humorous) Alternative spelling of help
(obsolete) Alternative form of holp (“helped”)
hals
halt
halt
adj
(archaic) Lame, limping.
noun
(dated) Lameness; a limp.
(rail transport) A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
verb
(intransitive) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
(intransitive) To limp; move with a limping gait.
(intransitive) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
(intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
(intransitive) To stop marching.
(transitive) To bring to a stop.
(transitive) To cause to discontinue.
To falter.
To waver.
harl
harl
noun
(Scotland) The act of dragging.
A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, used in dressing artificial flies.
A fibre, especially a fibre of hemp or flax, or an individual fibre of a feather.
A small quantity; a scraping of anything.
verb
(intransitive, Scotland) To drag oneself along.
(transitive) To surface a building using a slurry of pebbles or stone chips which is then cured using a lime render.
(transitive, Scotland) To drag along the ground.
To troll for fish.
haul
haul
noun
(Britain, soccer) Four goals scored by one player in a game.
(Internet) Short for haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”).
(ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
verb
(intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
(intransitive, US, colloquial) To haul ass (“go fast”).
(intransitive, nautical) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
(transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
(transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
(transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
(transitive, figuratively) Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
(transitive, figuratively) To drag, to pull, to tug.
(transitive, intransitive, nautical) To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
hdlc
heal
heal
noun
(obsolete, uncountable) health
(role-playing games, countable) A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
verb
(intransitive) To become better or healthy again.
(rare) Alternative form of hele (“conceal”).
(transitive) To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
(transitive, figurative) To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
heel
heel
noun
(US) The base of a bun sliced in half lengthwise.
(US, Ireland, Scotland, Australia) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
(anatomy) The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
(architecture) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter.
(architecture, obsolete) A cyma reversa.
(card games) The cards set aside for later use in a patience or solitaire game.
(carpentry) The short side of an angled cut.
(firearms) The back, upper part of the stock.
(golf) The part of a club head's face nearest the shaft.
(informal) A contemptible, unscrupulous, inconsiderate or thoughtless person.
(nautical) The act of inclining or canting from a vertical position; a cant.
(nautical) The junction between the keel and the stempost of a vessel; an angular wooden join connecting the two.
(slang, professional wrestling) A headlining wrestler regarded as a "bad guy," whose ring persona embodies villainous or reprehensible traits and demonstrates characteristics of a braggart and a bully.
(specifically, US) The obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
(usually in the plural) A woman's high-heeled shoe.
Anything resembling a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
In a carding machine, the part of a flat nearest the cylinder.
The last or lowest part of anything.
The lower end of the bit (cutting edge) of an axehead; as opposed to the toe (upper end).
The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel.
The part of the palm of a hand closest to the wrist.
The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot.
verb
(American football, transitive) To make (a fair catch) standing with one foot forward, the heel on the ground and the toe up.
(chiefly nautical) To incline to one side; to tilt.
(golf, transitive) To hit (the ball) with the heel of the club.
(rare, now especially in the phrase "heel in") Alternative form of hele (“cover; conceal”).
(transitive) To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
(transitive) To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, etc.
To add a heel to, or increase the size of the heel of (a shoe or boot).
To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.
To kick with the heel.
heil
heil
verb
To greet with a Sieg Heil.
hela
held
held
verb
simple past tense and past participle of hold
hele
hele
verb
(rare, now chiefly dialectal or archaic) To hide, conceal, and keep secret, especially for a secret society (such as the masons).
(rare, now especially in the phrase "hele in") To cover or conceal (a seedling, plant, roots, etc).
Obsolete form of heal.
heli
heli
noun
Clipping of helicopter.
hell
hell
adv
(Australia, impolite, sometimes considered vulgar) Very; used to emphasize strongly.
(postpositional) Alternative form of the hell or like hell.
intj
(impolite, sometimes considered vulgar) Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.
(impolite, sometimes considered vulgar) Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.
(impolite, sometimes considered vulgar, non-productive) Used to emphasize.
name
(in many religions, uncountable) A place of torment where some or all sinners and evil spirits are believed to go after death.
noun
(colloquial, with on) Something extremely painful or harmful (to)
(countable) A place for gambling.
(countable, hyperbolic, figuratively) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
(figuratively) An extremely hot place.
(obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.
(sometimes considered vulgar) Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.
In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
verb
(rare) To pour.
(rare, metal-working) To add luster to; to burnish (silver or gold).
helm
helm
noun
(Northern England (Cumberland, Westmorland)) A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain, especially one associated with a storm.
(Northern England) A shelter for cattle or other farm animals; a hemmel, a shed.
(alchemy, chemistry) The upper part or cap of an alembic or retort.
(archaic or poetic) A helmet.
(countable) A stalk of corn, or (uncountable) stalks of corn collectively (that is, straw), especially when bundled together or laid out straight to be used for thatching roofs.
(except Britain, dialectal) The crown or top of something.
(heraldry) Synonym of helmet (“the feature above a shield on a coat of arms”)
(nautical) The member of a vessel's crew in charge of steering the vessel; a helmsman or helmswoman.
(nautical) The tiller (or, in a large ship, the wheel) which is used to control the rudder of a marine vessel; also, the entire steering apparatus of a vessel.
(nautical) The use of a helm (sense 1); also, the amount of space through which a helm is turned.
(uncountable) Alternative form of haulm (“the stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching”)
(uncountable, obsolete) Synonym of bentgrass (“any of numerous reedy grass species of the genus Agrostis”)
A position of control or leadership.
One in the position of controlling or directing; a controller, a director, a guide.
Something used to control or steer; also (obsolete), a handle of a tool or weapon; a haft, a helve.
verb
(figuratively) To direct or lead (a project, etc.); to manage (an organization).
(nautical) To control the helm (noun sense 1) of (a marine vessel); to be in charge of steering (a vessel).
(transitive) To lay out (stalks of corn, or straw) straight to be used for thatching roofs; to yelm.
(transitive, archaic or poetic) To cover (a head) with a helmet; to provide (someone) with a helmet; to helmet.
help
help
intj
A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance
noun
(countable) A study aid.
(uncountable) Action given to provide assistance; aid.
(uncountable) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.
(usually uncountable) One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.
Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.
verb
(Hong Kong) To do something on the behalf of someone.
(intransitive) To provide assistance.
(transitive) To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to.
(transitive) To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
(transitive) To contribute in some way to.
(transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).
heml
herl
herl
noun
(fishing) an artificial fly made with this barb
(obsolete) a strand of hair
the fibrous shaft or barb of a feather (especially that of the ostrich or peacock) used to make artificial flies for angling
hila
hila
noun
plural of hilum
hild
hile
hile
noun
(old South-West England dialect) A bundle of sheaves of wheat (or similar crop) stacked vertically to dry; a stook.
verb
(old South-West England dialect) To form sheaves into a hile.
hili
hili
noun
plural of hilus
hill
hill
noun
(US) A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
(US) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.
(baseball) The pitcher’s mound.
A sloping road.
An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
verb
To form into a heap or mound.
To heap or draw earth around plants.
hilo
hilt
hilt
noun
The base of the penis.
The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand.
verb
(transitive) To insert (a bodily extremity) as far as it can go into a sexual orifice so that it is impeded by the wider base to which it is attached (finger until palm, penis until pelvis).
(transitive) To provide with a hilt.
hlbb
hler
hlqn
hola
hola
intj
(informal) Hello, hi, hey.
holc
hold
hold
adj
(obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
noun
(aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
(baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
(exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
(gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
(gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
(nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
(tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
(video games, dated) A pause facility.
(wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
A grasp or grip.
A place where animals are held for safety
An act or instance of holding.
An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
Power over someone or something.
Something reserved or kept.
The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
The ability to persist.
The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
verb
(archaic) To derive right or title.
(archaic) To restrain oneself; to refrain; to hold back.
(imperative) In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
(intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
(intransitive, chiefly imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.
(intransitive, copulative) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
(intransitive, copulative) To keep oneself in a particular state.
(slang, intransitive) To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
(tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
(transitive) To bear, carry, or manage.
(transitive) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
(transitive) To cause to wait or delay.
(transitive) To contain or store.
(transitive) To detain.
(transitive) To have and keep possession of something.
(transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
(transitive) To maintain, to consider, to opine.
(transitive) To reserve.
To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
To take place, to occur.
hole
hole
adj
Obsolete spelling of whole.
noun
(Ireland, Scotland, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
(archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
(baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
(chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
(computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
(figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
(figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
(golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
(golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
(graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
(informal) A container or receptacle.
(informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
(physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
(slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
(slang, anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
(slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
(stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
verb
(intransitive) To go into a hole.
(transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
(transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
(transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
(transitive, by extension) To destroy.
holi
holk
holk
noun
(UK dialectal) A hollow cavity.
verb
(transitive, UK dialectal) To dig out; make hollow; hollow out.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To dig up; excavate.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To dig; dig into; pierce; penetrate; investigate; poke.
holl
holm
holm
noun
(dialect, chiefly West Yorkshire(?), Scotland, Orkney) Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet. Often the word is used in Norse-influenced place-names. See also holme.
(obsolete outside dialects) The holly.
A common evergreen oak of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak.
An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
Rich flat land near a river, prone to being completely flooded; a river-meadow; bottomland.
Small island, islet.
holp
holp
verb
(Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete) Synonym of help
(archaic) simple past tense of help
hols
hols
noun
(Britain, informal) Holidays (time off work or time spent travelling).
holt
holt
noun
A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.
holw
holy
holy
adj
(slang) Used as an intensifier in various interjections.
Dedicated to a religious purpose or a god.
Morally perfect or flawless, or nearly so.
Revered in a religion.
Separated or set apart from (something unto something or someone else).
Set apart or dedicated for a specific purpose, or for use by a single entity or person.
intj
(slang) An expression of astonishment and awe.
noun
(archaic) A thing that is extremely holy; used almost exclusively in Holy of Holies.
hool
hool
noun
(slang) A hooligan.
howl
howl
noun
A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
Any similar sound.
The protracted, mournful cry of a dog, wolf or other canid; also of other animals.
verb
To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
To utter with outcry.
hplt
hsln
htel
hula
hula
noun
A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there.
verb
(intransitive) To dance the hula.
hulk
hulk
noun
(archaic) A large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre.
(bodybuilding) An excessively muscled person.
(by extension) A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage.
(figuratively) A big (and possibly clumsy) person.
(figuratively) A large structure with a dominating presence.
verb
(intransitive) Of a (large) person: to act or move slowly and clumsily.
(intransitive) To be a hulk, that is, a large, hulking, and often imposing presence.
(transitive) To move (a large, hulking body).
(transitive, obsolete except Britain, dialectal) To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.
To reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk.
To temporarily house (goods, people, etc.) in such a hulk.
hull
hull
noun
(mathematics, geometry, of a set A) The smallest set that possesses a particular property (such as convexity) and contains every point of A; slightly more formally, the intersection of all sets which possess the specified property and of which A is a subset.
Any covering.
The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive, nautical) To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.
(transitive) To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.
To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
hulu
huly
hurl
hurl
noun
(Ulster, Scotland, slang, countable) A conveyance in a wheeled vehicle; a ride in a car, etc.
(countable) A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling.
(hurling, countable) The act of hitting the sliotar with the hurley.
(obsolete) Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.
(obsolete, countable) A table on which fibre is stirred and mixed by beating with a bow spring.
(slang) The act of vomiting.
(slang, uncountable) Vomit.
verb
(Scotland, transitive, obsolete) To convey in a wheeled vehicle.
(intransitive) To participate in the sport of hurling.
(intransitive, slang) To vomit.
(obsolete) To move rapidly with a noise; to whirl.
(obsolete, transitive) To twist or turn.
(transitive) To throw (something) with force.
(transitive) To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target.
hwyl
hwyl
noun
A melodic chanting style of Welsh preaching.
hyla
hyla
noun
A tree frog of the genus Hyla.
Obsolete spelling of hyle
hyle
hyle
noun
(obsolete, philosophy) matter
The first matter of the cosmos, from which the four elements arose, according to the doctrines of Empedocles and Aristotle.
hyli
ilha
ilth
kahl
kohl
kohl
noun
A dark powder (usually powdered antimony) used as eye makeup, especially in Eastern countries; stibnite.
verb
To decorate one's eyes with kohl.
lach
lakh
lakh
num
(Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) One hundred thousand; 100,000; or with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,000. Often used with units of money.
lash
lash
adj
(Britain) Drunk.
(Ulster) Excellent, wonderful.
(obsolete) Relaxed.
(obsolete) Remiss, lax.
Soft, watery, wet.
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, informal) An attempt; a go at something.
(machining, mechanical) Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
(obsolete) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
verb
(intransitive) To ply the whip; to strike.
(intransitive) To utter censure or sarcastic language.
(intransitive, of rain) To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
(transitive) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
(transitive) To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
(transitive) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
(transitive) To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
(transitive) To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
lath
lath
noun
(geology, petrology) Microscopic, needle-like crystals, usually of plagioclase feldspar, in a glassy groundmass
A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc.
verb
to cover or line with laths
lbhs
leah
lech
lech
noun
(slang) A lecher.
(slang) A strong, lecherous desire or craving.
The capstone of a cromlech.
verb
(slang) To behave lecherously.
lehi
lehr
lehr
noun
A long oven or kiln, often having a moving belt, used for annealing glass.
lesh
lgth
lgth
noun
Abbreviation of length.
lich
lich
adj
(obsolete) Like; resembling; equal.
noun
(archaic, UK) A corpse or dead body.
(fantasy, roleplay, games) A reanimated corpse or undead being, particularly a still-intelligent undead spellcaster.
Ellipsis of lichfield.
Ellipsis of lichgate.
Ellipsis of lichway.
lish
lish
adj
(British dialect) active; nimble; lithe.
noun
(linguistics) A hybrid variety of English having a name that is derived from a portmanteau of the name of one language and the word English, such as Chinglish (Chinese + English), Spanglish (Spanish + English), Taglish (Tagalog + English), etc.
lith
lith
noun
(Scotland) A segment of an orange, or similar fruit.
(UK dialectal) A gate; a gap in a fence.
(UK dialectal) A joint; a segment or symmetrical part or division.
(UK dialectal) A limb; any member of the body.
(sciences, informal) coccolith
Property.
loch
loch
noun
(Ireland, Scotland) A bay or arm of the sea.
(Ireland, Scotland) A lake.
Alternative form of lohoch (“medicine taken by licking”)
lohn
losh
losh
intj
(Scotland) Expressing surprise, wonder etc.
loth
loth
adj
(Britain) Alternative form of loath
noun
(now historical) A measure of weight formerly used in Germany, the Netherlands and some other parts of Europe, equivalent to half of the local ounce.