(music) A long, curved, wooden horn used by mountain-dwelling herders in the Alps, originally to call cattle but now only as musical instrument in classical and folk tunes.
asaprol
atropal
bipolar
bipolar
adj
(physics) Relating to a bipole.
(politics) Of or relating to an international system in which two states wield most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.
Involving or having both extremes or poles at the same time.
Relating to both polar regions.
Relating to or having bipolar disorder.
noun
(countable) A bipolar cell.
(uncountable) Ellipsis of bipolar disorder.
blooper
blooper
noun
(US, dated) A radio which interferes with other radios, causing them to bloop (squeal loudly).
(US, military, slang) The Vietnam-era M79 grenade launcher (due to its distinctive report).
(baseball, slang) A fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders.
(film, informal) A filmed or videotaped outtake that has recorded an amusing accident and/or mistake.
(informal) A blunder, an error.
(nautical) A gaff-rigged fore-and-aft sail set from and aft of the aftmost mast of a square-rigged ship; a spanker.
caltrop
caltrop
noun
(colloquial) The starthistle, Centaurea calcitrapa, a plant with sharp thorns.
(heraldry) The same object represented as a heraldic charge.
(weaponry) A small, metal object with spikes arranged so that, when thrown onto the ground, one always faces up as a threat to pedestrians, horses, and vehicles.
Any of a number of flowering plants in the family Zygophyllaceae, including several members of the genus Kallstroemia and the species Tribulus terrestris, native to warm temperate and tropical regions.
caporal
caporal
noun
(Latin America) A foreman or overseer.
A type of shag tobacco.
capreol
capreol
noun
(obsolete) A billy goat or small roebuck.
(obsolete) A high leap.
(obsolete) A side brace.
(obsolete) A tendril.
caproyl
caproyl
noun
(organic chemistry, especially in combination) The univalent radical derived from caproic acid by loss of the hydroxy group; hexanoyl
carpool
carpool
noun
An arrangement whereby several people travel together in the same car in order to save costs, reduce pollution etc.
The group of people who participate in such a pool.
verb
To travel together in such a pool.
colport
colport
verb
To work as a colporteur
copolar
copolar
adj
At the same pole.
copular
copular
adj
(grammar) Being or relating to a copula.
coupler
coupler
noun
(music) A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together.
(now rare) Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages.
A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines.
An electrical device used to transfer energy from one electric device to another, especially without a physical connection.
Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages.
croupal
croupal
Adjective
Of, pertaining to, suggestive of, or caused by croup.
cupolar
cupolar
adj
(anatomy) Of or relating to a cupola.
deplore
deplore
verb
(obsolete) To regard as hopeless; to give up.
(transitive) To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
(transitive) To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.
dipolar
dipolar
adj
(physics) Having north and south magnetic poles.
(physics, chemistry) Possessing a dipole.
doppler
doppler
noun
A Doppler fetal monitor
droplet
droplet
noun
A very small drop.
elkport
elopers
elopers
noun
plural of eloper
elpenor
emplore
emplore
verb
Obsolete form of implore.
ephoral
ephoral
adj
Pertaining to an ephor.
explore
explore
noun
(colloquial) An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like.
verb
(intransitive) To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
(intransitive) To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
(intransitive, medicine) To examine diagnostically.
(intransitive, obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
(transitive) To (seek) experience first hand.
(transitive) To examine or investigate something systematically.
(transitive) To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.
(transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
flopper
flopper
noun
(US, slang) A person who deliberately falls down on a slippery floor or in front of an automobile etc. so as to claim compensation.
(skittles) The knocking down of all nine pins in one go.
One who flops.
garlopa
gropple
gropple
verb
(intransitive, archaic, rare) To grope about.
harpole
implore
implore
verb
To beg urgently or earnestly.
To call upon or pray to earnestly; to entreat.
kerflop
kerflop
intj
The sound of something flopping heavily, or moving along in a flopping manner.
kopperl
kryptol
lampron
lampron
noun
(obsolete) A lamprey.
lapryor
lapwork
lapwork
noun
Work in which one part overlaps another.
lathrop
lathrop
Proper noun
Any of a number of towns in English-speaking countries
legrope
legrope
noun
(surfing) Alternative spelling of leg rope
leopard
leopard
noun
(heraldry) A lion passant guardant.
(inexact) A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Phalanta, having black markings on an orange base.
Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia, especially the male of the species (in contrast to leopardess).
The clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), a large wild cat native to Asia.
The snow leopard (Panthera uncia), a large wild cat native to Asia.
leporid
leporid
noun
(mammalogy) Any mammal of the family Leporidae: the hares and rabbits.
leporis
leproid
leproid
adj
(Medicine) Synonym of leprous: resembling leprosy or its symptoms.
leproma
leproma
noun
(pathology) An area of inflammation in the skin symptomatic of leprosy
leprose
leprose
adj
(botany) Synonym of scaly or lepidote, particularly describing lichens with a granular or powdery thallus.
(medicine) Synonym of leprous, afflicted with leprosy.
leprosy
leprosy
noun
(figurative) Anything considered similarly permanent, harmful, and communicable, particularly when such a thing should be handled by avoidance or isolation of its victims.
(medicine) An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, gradually producing nerve damage and patches of skin necrosis and historically handled by permanently quarantining its sufferers.
(medicine, now usually proscribed) Similar contagious skin diseases causing light patches of scaly skin, particularly psoriasis, syphilis, vitiligo, scabies, and (biblical) the various diseases considered "tzaraath" in the Old Testament of the Bible.
(obsolete) Synonym of mange and glanders in horses.
(obsolete, rare) Synonym of leprosarium: a place for the housing of lepers in isolation from the rest of society.
Ellipsis of murine leprosy. and feline leprosy, diseases caused in rodents and cats by Mycobacterium lepraemurium.
leprous
leprous
adj
(alchemy, historical) Of gold or other metals: contaminated with other substances; impure.
(botany, archaic) Synonym of leprose (“covered with thin scurfy scales, scaly-looking”)
(figuratively, archaic) Immoral, or corrupted or tainted in some manner; also, ostracized, shunned.
(obsolete) Causing leprosy or a disease resembling it.
Having the appearance of the skin of one infected with leprosy; flaking, peeling, scabby, scurfy.
Relating to or infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy.
Similar to leprosy or its symptoms.
lipwork
lipwork
noun
Articles made from straw.
Synonym of lip service (“promising but empty talk; words absent of real action or intention”)
loopers
loopers
noun
plural of looper
loopier
loopier
adj
comparative form of loopy: more loopy
lophura
loppard
loppard
adj
(dialect, Scotland) soured or spoiled (of milk)
loppers
loppers
noun
(plural only) Pruning shears with long handles, used for lopping
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lopper
loppier
marplot
marplot
adj
(now rare) That foils a plot; interfering.
noun
A meddlesome person whose activity interferes with the plans of others.
meldrop
morphol
nopalry
nopalry
noun
Alternative spelling of nopalery
opercle
opercle
noun
(anatomy) Any of the bony plates supporting the gill covers of fishes; an opercular bone.
(zoology) An operculum.
outpurl
overlap
overlap
noun
(insurance, pensions) The payment of a spouse's or other dependant's annuity benefits concurrently with the member's benefits, on death of the member during the guarantee period.
(rugby) a situation in the game where an attacking line has more players in it than the defensive line coming to meet it. The attacking side may exploit the overlap by using their superior numbers to break the opposition's defensive line. If attackers outnumber defenders by more than one player this is often termed a two man overlap or three man overlap, etc. If the attacking side fails to break through usually due to poor execution, they are said to waste an overlap.
Something that overlaps or is overlapped
verb
(genetics) To have some similar nucleotide sequences.
(mathematics) Of sets: to have some elements in common.
To extend over and partly cover something.
To have an area, range, character or function in common.
overlip
overlip
noun
(now uncommon) The upper lip.
(rare, chiefly of a dog) An upper lip that extends too far out and down. (Compare overbite.)
overply
overply
verb
(transitive) To ply to excess; to exert with too much vigour; to overwork.
palermo
palermo
Proper noun
A province of Sicily, Italy.
The capital city of the province of Palermo and of Sicily.
A district of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
paleron
pallors
pallors
noun
plural of pallor
palmiro
palmore
palomar
parasol
parasol
noun
(architecture) A roof or covering of a structure designed to provide cover from wind, rain, or sun.
A miniature paper umbrella used as a decoration in tropical-themed cocktails.
A small light umbrella used as protection from the sun.
Any of various Asian species of libellulid dragonfly of the genus Neurothemis.
verb
(transitive) To protect with, or as if with, a parasol; to shade.
parboil
parboil
verb
To boil food briefly so that it is partly cooked.
parcoal
parlors
parlors
noun
plural of parlor
parlour
parlour
noun
Britain standard spelling of parlor.
parlous
parlous
adj
(rare or obsolete, also England, dialectal) Dangerously clever or cunning; also, remarkably good or unusual.
Appalling, dire, terrible.
Attended with peril; dangerous, risky.
adv
(archaic) Extremely, very.
paroled
paroled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of parole
parolee
parolee
noun
A person who is released on parole.
paroler
paroles
paroles
noun
plural of parole
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of parole
partlow
patrole
patrole
noun
Obsolete form of patrol.
patrols
patrols
noun
plural of patrol
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of patrol
payroll
payroll
noun
(accounting) The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.
(euphemistic) Bribes paid to people.
A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
The total sum of money paid to employees.
verb
(transitive) To place on a payroll.
peloria
peloria
noun
(botany) abnormal regularity; the state of certain flowers, which, being naturally irregular, have become regular through a symmetrical repetition of the special irregularity
A variety of toadflax having five spurs instead of one.
peloric
peloric
adj
(botany, of a flower) Having a mutation such that a normally asymmetric flower becomes radially symmetric
pelorus
pelorus
noun
A device used to take a bearing on a distant object.
peopler
peopler
noun
A settler; an inhabitant.
pergola
pergola
noun
A framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants.
Such a framework employed to provide shade, especially over a patio.
perloff
perloir
peroral
peroral
adj
(medicine) By way of the mouth.
peroxyl
peroxyl
noun
(organic chemistry) Any univalent radical, R-O-O-, derived from a peroxide
petrols
petrols
noun
plural of petrol
phlorol
phlorol
noun
(chemistry) A phenol that is metameric with xylenol, obtained by distillation of certain salts of phloretic acid.
phrenol
pilcorn
pilcorn
noun
(UK, dialect) The naked oat.
pilcrow
pilcrow
noun
Synonym of paragraph mark: ¶.
pillory
pillory
noun
A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.
verb
(transitive) To criticize harshly.
(transitive) To put in a pillory.
(transitive) To subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse.
pilotry
pilotry
noun
pilotage; skill in the duties of a pilot
plangor
plbroch
pledgor
pledgor
noun
(law) One who engages in or makes a pledge to a pledgee.
Alternative spelling of pledger
pleroma
pleroma
name
(Gnosticism) The spiritual universe seen in terms of the full totality of the powers and essence of God.
noun
(botany) A plant of the genus Pleroma.
(botany) The central portion of the primary meristem.
(chiefly theology) A state of perfect fullness, especially of God's being.
plerome
plerome
noun
(botany) The central column of parenchyma in a growing stem or root. According to the histogen theory, plerome gives rise to the stele and endodermis of a plant.
plessor
pleuron
pleuron
noun
(zoology) A lateral sclerite of a thoracic segment of an arthropod between the tergum and the sternum.
plexors
plexors
noun
plural of plexor
plodder
plodder
noun
A person who works slowly, making a great effort with little result; a person who studies laboriously.
One who plods.
plotter
plotter
noun
(computing) An output device that draws graphs and other pictorial images on paper, sometimes using attached pens.
(navigation) An instrument used to mark or find the position of a vessel on a chart.
(slang) An author who usually relies on a plan or outline to organize their story.
A person who plots.
verb
Alternative form of plouter
plouter
plouter
noun
(Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, dialect) The act of ploutering, or splashing about.
verb
(Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, dialect) To potter.
(Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, dialect) To splash around in something wet; to dabble.
plovers
plovers
noun
plural of plover
plovery
plovery
adj
Full of plovers.
plowers
plowers
noun
plural of plower
plowter
plowter
verb
Alternative spelling of plouter
poitrel
poitrel
noun
(historical) A piece of armor for a horse's chest; the breastplate of a horse's armour or harness.
polacre
polacre
noun
(nautical, obsolete or historical) A 17th-century three-masted merchant ship.
polaran
polaric
polaric
adj
(archaic) polar
polarid
polaris
polarly
polarly
adv
In a polar manner
With respect to, or in the direction of a pole
polaron
polaron
noun
(physics) The object (a quasiparticle) that results when an electron (or hole) in the conduction band of a crystalline insulator or semiconductor polarizes the lattice in its vicinity.
polders
polders
noun
plural of polder
poldron
polearm
polearm
noun
A close-quarter combat weapon with the main fighting part of the weapon placed on the end of a long shaft, typically of wood.
poliard
poligar
poligar
noun
(historical) A territorial administrative and military governor appointed by the Nayaka rulers of South India during the 16th–18th centuries.
politer
politer
adj
comparative form of polite: more polite
pollard
pollard
noun
(now Australia) A fine grade of bran including some flour. The fine cell layer between bran layers and endosperm, used for animal feed.
(numismatics, historical) A 13th-century European coin minted as a debased counterfeit of the sterling silver penny of Edward I of England, at first legally accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.
(obsolete, rare) A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.
(often attributive) A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.
A buck deer that has shed its antlers.
A hornless variety of domestic animal, as cattle or goats.
verb
(horticulture) To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.
pollera
pollera
noun
A Central American fiesta costume usually heavily embroidered and very full in the skirt.
pollerd
pollers
pollers
noun
plural of poller
polster
polster
noun
(botany) A clump of moss; a glacier mouse.
polygar
polymer
polymer
noun
(organic chemistry) A long or larger molecule consisting of a chain or network of many repeating units, formed by chemically bonding together many identical or similar small molecules called monomers. A polymer is formed by polymerization, the joining of many monomer molecules.
A material consisting of such polymer molecules.
pomerol
poodler
popeler
poplars
poplars
noun
plural of poplar
popular
popular
adj
(law) Concerning the people; public.
(obsolete) Cultivating the favour of the common people.
(obsolete) Of low birth, not noble; vulgar, plebian.
Adapted to the means of the common people; cheap.
Aimed at ordinary people, as opposed to specialists etc.; intended for general consumption.
Common among the general public; generally accepted.
Liked by many people; generally pleasing, widely admired.
Pertaining to or deriving from the people or general public.
noun
(chiefly in the plural) An inexpensive newspaper with wide circulation.
A member of the Populares
A person who is popular, especially at a school.
porcula
porella
porkolt
portail
portals
portals
noun
plural of portal
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of portal
portlet
portlet
noun
(Internet) A pluggable user interface component making up part of a portal, such as a fragment displaying weather or news headlines.
potgirl
potgirl
noun
Alternative form of pot-girl
poulard
poulard
noun
(countable) A young spayed hen.
(countable, uncountable) Poulard wheat.
poulter
poulter
noun
(obsolete) A dealer in poultry; a poulterer.
poultry
poultry
noun
Domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs).