(entomology) A median lobe into which the pretarsus expands, in an insect's leg.
arousal
arousal
noun
A physiological and psychological state of being awake or reactive to stimuli, including elevated heart rate and blood pressure and a condition of sensory alertness, mobility and readiness to respond.
Arousal from sleep or hibernation.
Sexual arousal.
The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.
arugola
aurelio
aureola
aureola
noun
Radiance of luminous cloud that surrounds the figure in a painting of a sacred personage.
aureole
aureole
noun
(astronomy) A corona.
(by extension) Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something.
(geology) A ring around an igneous intrusion.
A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint.
auronal
auroral
auroral
adj
Pertaining to the aurora borealis or aurora australis.
Pertaining to the dawn; dawning, eastern, like a new beginning.
Rosy in colour.
balfour
balfour
Proper noun
A town/village in New Zealand.
A in North Carolina.
A city/village in North Dakota.
One of two villages in Scotland.
One of two towns in South Africa.
beflour
bluford
borglum
boulder
boulder
noun
(climbing) A session of bouldering; involvement in bouldering.
(geology) A particle greater than 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
A large marble, in children's games.
A large mass of stone detached from the surrounding land.
verb
(climbing, transitive, intransitive) To engage in bouldering.
boulter
boulter
noun
A long, stout fishing line with many hooks attached.
One who boults or sifts.
bourlaw
brotula
brotula
noun
A family of ophidiiform fishes, of the taxonomic family Bythitidae, who bear live young.
brulots
burbolt
burbolt
noun
Obsolete form of birdbolt.
carolus
carolus
Noun
An old English gold coin, worth 20 (or later 23) shillings.
cilurzo
clamour
clamour
noun
British spelling and Canadian spelling spelling of clamor
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To repeat the strokes quickly on (bells) so as to produce a loud clang.
(transitive, obsolete) To salute loudly.
(transitive, obsolete) To stun with noise.
Britain and Canada spelling of clamor
closure
closure
noun
(mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
(obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
(politics) A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
(programming) An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.
(sociology) The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. ᵂᵖ
(topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
The act of shutting; a closing.
The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
clotbur
clotbur
noun
(UK, dialect) The burdock.
The cocklebur.
cloture
cloture
noun
(law, politics, chiefly US) In legislative assemblies that permit unlimited debate (that is, a filibuster): a motion, procedure or rule by which debate is ended so that a vote may be taken on the matter. For example, in the United States Senate, a three-fifths majority vote of the body is required to invoke cloture and terminate debate.
verb
To end legislative debate by this means.
cloured
cloured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clour
clouter
clouter
noun
(obsolete) One who patches clothes.
One who clouts or strikes.
colburn
colorum
colorum
noun
(Philippines) A public transport vehicle operating without a franchise.
(Philippines) A rebel organization characterized by religious fanaticism or a member thereof.
colours
colours
noun
(nautical) Flag denoting the nationality of a vessel, flown from the stern.
plural of colour
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of colour
coloury
coloury
adj
Having plenty of colour; colorful.
coluber
colunar
colures
colures
noun
plural of colure
copular
copular
adj
(grammar) Being or relating to a copula.
corbleu
corbula
cordula
cornual
cornual
adj
(anatomy) Located near, or relating to, an animal's horns.
cornule
coruler
coruler
noun
One who jointly rules with somebody else.
corylus
couleur
couleur
noun
(card games) A suit of cards, in certain French card games.
coulier
couloir
couloir
noun
(climbing, skiing) A steep gorge along a mountainside.
(rare) A corridor or passage.
coulter
coulter
noun
(Britain) Alternative spelling of colter
coulure
coulure
noun
A disease affecting grapes, manifested by the premature dropping of the fruit.
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.
courlan
courlan
noun
Limpkin.
courtal
courtly
courtly
adj
(obsolete) Overly eager to please or obey.
Befitting of a royal court; reflecting the manners or behaviour of people at court.
Of or relating to a royal court.
adv
In the manner of a royal court; in a manner befitting of a royal court.
croupal
croupal
Adjective
Of, pertaining to, suggestive of, or caused by croup.
cupolar
cupolar
adj
(anatomy) Of or relating to a cupola.
dilutor
dilutor
noun
Alternative form of diluter
doldrum
doldrum
adj
Boring, uninteresting.
noun
(slang, obsolete) A slothful or stupid person.
dolours
dolours
noun
plural of dolour
dorsula
doubler
doubler
noun
(US, dialect) A tenement house having two families on each floor.
(calico printing) A blanket or felt placed between the fabric and the printing table or cylinder.
(colloquial) A biplane aeroplane or kite.
(structural engineering) A metal plate riveted or welded over a preexisting metal structural component to reinforce it and relieve the stress on the preexisting component, or to serve as a patch where part of the original structure has failed or been removed.
A person employed in a roller mill to fold the hot metal plates in half.
An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.
One who doubles.
Part of a distilling apparatus for intercepting the heavier fractions and returning them to be redistilled.
durenol
elusory
elusory
adj
That tends to elude
emulsor
ferullo
flavour
flavour
noun
Britain standard spelling of flavor.
fleuron
fleuron
noun
(architecture) The small flower at the centre of each side of a Corinthian abacus; a flos.
(typography) The typographic element (❧), used as a punctuation mark or for decoration.
An ornament or knob in the shape of a flower
floroun
floruit
floruit
noun
The time period during which a person, group, culture, etc. is at its peak.
florula
florula
noun
flora of a small area, a small flora
floured
floured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flour
flouter
flouter
noun
A person who flouts.
fluoran
fluoran
noun
A triarylmethane dye, the structural core of a variety of other dyes.
fluoric
fluoric
adj
(chemistry) Pertaining to, obtained from or containing fluorine
(obsolete, inorganic chemistry) hydrofluoric
fluorid
fluorid
noun
Archaic form of fluoride.
fluorin
fluorin
noun
Archaic form of fluorine.
fluoryl
fluoryl
noun
Synonym of fluoroformol
foldure
fordull
fordull
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To make dull; stupefy.
forkful
forkful
noun
The amount that a fork will hold.
formful
formful
adj
(obsolete) creative; imaginative;
Exhibiting proper and skillful performance; well-executed.
Not formless; having a form; substantive.
Well formed; aesthetically pleasing and skillfully constructed.
noun
The amount that makes up a form (any sense).
formula
formula
noun
(chemistry) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
(countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of infant formula; drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
(especially religion) A formal statement of doctrine.
(logic) A syntactic expression of a proposition, built up from quantifiers, logical connectives, variables, relation and operation symbols, and, depending on the type of logic, possibly other operators such as modal, temporal, deontic or epistemic ones.
(mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
formule
formule
noun
(obsolete) A set or prescribed model; a formula.
foulard
foulard
noun
A lightweight silk or silk-and-cotton fabric, often with a printed pattern.
A piece of clothing, or a handkerchief, made with this fabric.
foulder
foulder
verb
(obsolete) To flash like lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder.
fouldre
fourble
fourble
noun
A set of oil drilling pipes having four joints.
fulgora
fulgora
Proper noun
The Roman goddess/personification of lightning. She is the Roman counterpart of Astrape.
fulgour
fulgour
noun
Obsolete form of fulgor.
furlong
furlong
noun
(Britain, dialectal) An undefined portion of an unenclosed field.
(historical) Synonym of stadion (“a Greek unit of distance based on standardized footraces, equivalent to about 185.4 metres”)
A unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile (220 yards, or 201.168 metres), now mainly used in measuring distances in farmland and horse racing.
A unit of land area one furlong (sense 1) square (ten acres, or about four hectares).
Synonym of headland (“unploughed boundary of a field”)
Synonym of land (“the ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing”)
gilmour
glamour
glamour
noun
(countable) An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.
(uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
(uncountable) Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing.
(uncountable) Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seem beauteous.
A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
Any artificial interest in, or association with, objects, or persons, through which they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
verb
(transitive) To enchant; to bewitch.
goldrun
goldurn
goldurn
adj
(US, euphemistic) Goddamn.
goularo
goulder
gurgoyl
hornful
hornful
noun
(said of a drinking-cup or powder flask) The amount that a horn holds.
hourful
hourful
adj
Full of hours; time-consuming.
noun
Enough to last an hour.
hulwort
humoral
humoral
adj
(pathology, physiology) Relating to the body fluids or humours
hurlock
hurlock
Proper noun
A town in Maryland.
illusor
jocular
jocular
adj
Humorous, amusing or joking.
journal
journal
adj
(obsolete) Daily.
noun
(accounting) A chronological record of payments or receipts.
(accounting) A general journal.
(computing) A chronological record of changes made to a database or other system; along with a backup or image copy that allows recovery after a failure or reinstatement to a previous time; a log.
(engineering) The part of a shaft or axle that rests on bearings.
A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.
A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject.
The amount of land that can be worked in a day.
verb
To archive or record something.
To insert (a shaft, etc.) in a journal bearing.
To scrapbook.
kordula
labours
labours
noun
plural of labour
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of labour
lamoure
lamoure
Proper noun
a small city in North Dakota, USA
languor
languor
noun
(uncountable) A state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid or weary feeling; lassitude; (countable) an instance of this.
(uncountable) Dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigour; stagnation.
(uncountable) Heavy humidity and stillness of the air.
(uncountable) Listless indolence or inactivity, especially if enjoyable or relaxing; dreaminess; (countable) an instance of this.
(uncountable) Melancholy caused by lovesickness, sadness, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
(uncountable, obsolete) Sorrow; suffering; also, enfeebling disease or illness; (countable, obsolete) an instance of this.
verb
(intransitive) To languish.
laurone
laurone
noun
(chemistry) The ketone of lauric acid.
lauroyl
lauroyl
noun
(organic chemistry, especially in combination) The univalent radical derived from lauric acid by loss of the hydroxy group
laweour
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.
levroux
liguori
likoura
linuron
linuron
noun
The herbicide N'-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-N-methoxy-N-methyl-urea
liquors
liquors
noun
plural of liquor
liquory
liquory
adj
Resembling alcohol.
intoxicated by alcohol; drunk
lobular
lobular
adj
Of or relating to a lobule.
lockrum
locular
locular
adj
Having a loculus or compartment.
locutor
locutor
noun
A speaker (one who talks).
longrun
lophura
lorsung
lorusso
lounder
lounder
noun
(UK, dialectal, chiefly Northern England, archaic) A heavy blow
verb
(UK, dialectal, chiefly Northern England, archaic) To beat; to deal a heavy blow; to whack
lounger
lounger
noun
A chair made for lounging.
One who lounges; an idler.
lourdes
louring
louring
noun
The act of one who, or that which, lours.
verb
present participle of lour
lousier
lousier
adj
comparative form of lousy: more lousy
louster
louther
louvers
louvers
noun
plural of louver
louvred
louvred
adj
(chiefly British spelling) Alternative form of louvered
louvres
louvres
noun
plural of louvre
lucrous
lugworm
lugworm
noun
black lugworm (Arenicola defodiens)
especially the northern lugworm (Arenicola marina), whose coiled castings can often be seen on beaches at low tide.
lungoor
lungoor
noun
Archaic form of langur.
marilou
marylou
modular
modular
adj
(chiefly mathematics) Of or relating to a module or modules.
Consisting of separate modules; especially where each module performs or fulfills some specified function and could be replaced by a similar module for the same function, independently of the other modules.
Relating to mode or modulation.
morbleu
morulae
morulae
noun
plural of morula
morular
morular
adj
Relating to a morula.
morulas
moulder
moulder
noun
A machine used for moulding.
A person who moulds dough into loaves.
Anyone who moulds or shapes things, including in a mould.
verb
(British spelling, transitive, intransitive) To decay or rot.
moulter
moulter
noun
Alternative form of molter
moutler
muldrow
mulford
murillo
murlock
nodular
nodular
adj
Of or relating to a nodule or nodules.
Possessing, composed of, or similar in form to nodules.