The playing of a particular song, band or genre on the radio, or the frequency with which it is played.
airplot
allport
alphard
alphard
Proper noun
An orange giant star in the constellation of Hydra; Alpha (α) Hydrae,
alphorn
alphorn
noun
(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.
apertly
apertly
adv
(archaic) Clearly, plainly.
(obsolete) Openly, publicly, without secrecy.
apilary
apparel
apparel
noun
(figurative) Aspect, guise, form.
(nautical) The furniture of a ship, such as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.
A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.
Clothing.
verb
(transitive) To dress or clothe; to attire.
(transitive) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental
(transitive) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
apperil
apperil
noun
(obsolete) peril
applier
applier
noun
A person or device that applies something.
aprilis
apteral
apteral
adj
(architecture) Without lateral columns; applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle.
(zoology) apterous, wingless
aripple
aripple
adj
rippling
asaprol
asperly
asprawl
asprawl
adj
Sprawling; covered or filled (with something sprawling).
prep
Sprawling over or across.
atropal
beleper
bepearl
bepearl
verb
To deck with pearls or shiny objects resembling pearls.
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.
burlaps
burlaps
noun
plural of burlap
caliper
caliper
noun
(automotive) The part of a disc brake that holds the brake pads.
(usually plural only) Uncommon form of calipers.
verb
(transitive) To use calipers to measure the size of.
caltrap
caltrap
noun
Archaic form of caltrop.
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
carpale
carpale
noun
(anatomy) One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus, especially one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.
carpals
carpals
noun
plural of carpal
carpels
carpels
noun
plural of carpel
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.
clamper
clamper
noun
(electronics) A circuit that restricts the amplitude of a waveform.
An attachment with sharp metal prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice.
One who, or that which, clamps.
verb
(obsolete) To join in an unsystematic or haphazard fashion.
To complain in an irritating manner.
To crimp.
To move in a noisy and clumsy manner.
clapper
clapper
noun
(cinematography) The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.
(ice hockey) A slapshot
(obsolete) A rabbit burrow.
(sewing) A pounding block.
(slang, obsolete) A person's tongue, as a source of chatter or nagging.
A clapstick (musical instrument).
A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.
The chattering damsel of a mill.
verb
(transitive) To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper.
Of birds, to repeatedly strike the mandibles together.
To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter.
clasper
clasper
noun
(botany) The tendril of a plant.
(zoology) Any of several appendages, in insects, crustacea and fish, that are used to clasp the female during copulation.
Anything that clasps.
clipper
clipper
noun
(chiefly in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
(electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
(entomology) The Asian butterfly Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.
(historical) A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.
(informal) An Alberta clipper.
(nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
(slang) A confidence trickster; a conman.
Anything that clips.
verb
(transitive) To cut or style (the hair) using clippers.
clumper
clumper
noun
A grass or other plant that tends to form clumps.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To form into clumps or masses.
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.
crapple
crapple
Noun
A claw.
crapula
crapula
noun
(obsolete or literary) Sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking.
crimple
crimple
verb
(archaic) to crumple, crimp
cripple
cripple
adj
(now rare, dated) crippled
noun
(among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.
(dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) scrapple.
(sometimes offensive) a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
verb
(figuratively) To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.
(figuratively) To damage seriously; to destroy.
(slang, video games) To nerf something which is overpowered.
To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
cripply
cripply
adj
lame; disabled; crippled
crisply
crisply
adv
In a crisp manner.
croupal
croupal
Adjective
Of, pertaining to, suggestive of, or caused by croup.
crumple
crumple
noun
A crease, wrinkle, or irregular fold.
verb
(intransitive) To become wrinkled.
(intransitive, figurative) To collapse.
(transitive) To cause to collapse.
(transitive) To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
crumply
crumply
adj
crumpled.
cryptal
cryptal
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to crypts (small pits or cavities in the body).
culprit
culprit
noun
(UK, law) A prisoner accused but not yet tried.
The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime.
cupeler
cupolar
cupolar
adj
(anatomy) Of or relating to a cupola.
cupular
cupular
adj
Shaped like a cupule.
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
dripple
dripple
adj
(obsolete) rare
(obsolete) weak
verb
(intransitive) to dribble briskly; to drip with wet
droplet
droplet
noun
A very small drop.
dumpler
earclip
earclip
noun
An earring for people who do not have pierced ears
An identifying tag for cattle
earflap
earflap
noun
either of two flaps attached to a cap that cover the ears
earlaps
earlaps
noun
plural of earlap
earplug
earplug
noun
A piece of protective gear meant to be inserted in the ear canal to protect the wearer's hearing from loud noises or the intrusion of water.
verb
(transitive) To fit with earplugs.
elkport
elopers
elopers
noun
plural of eloper
elpenor
empaler
empaler
noun
Obsolete form of impaler.
empearl
empearl
verb
Alternative form of impearl
emperil
emperil
verb
Dated form of imperil.
emplore
emplore
verb
Obsolete form of implore.
eperlan
eperlan
noun
The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus)
ephoral
ephoral
adj
Pertaining to an ephor.
epiural
epulary
epulary
adj
(rare) of or pertaining to feasts
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.
felspar
felspar
noun
Alternative spelling of feldspar
flapper
flapper
noun
(colloquial, chiefly historical) A young woman, especially when unconventional or without decorum or displaying daring freedom or boldness; now particularly associated with the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
(colloquial, historical) A young girl usually between the ages of 15 and 18, especially one not "out" socially.
(hunting) A young game bird just able to fly, particularly a wild duck.
(plumbing) A flapper valve.
(rock climbing) Any injury that results in a loose flap of skin on the fingers, making gripping difficult.
(slang) The hand.
A flipper; a limb of a turtle, which functions as a flipper or paddle when swimming.
One who or that which flaps.
flipper
flipper
noun
(cricket) A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce.
(dated, slang) The hand.
(dentistry) A kind of false tooth, usually temporary.
(informal, US) Television remote control, clicker.
(theater) A small flat used to support a larger one.
A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play.
A flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming.
A kitchen spatula.
In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming.
Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin.
Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit.
verb
To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water.
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.
flytrap
flytrap
noun
A trap for catching flies.
The Venus flytrap, an insectivorous plant.
The spreading dogbane.
frapler
frapler
noun
(obsolete) A blusterer; a rowdy.
frumple
frumple
verb
(transitive) To wrinkle; crumple; ruffle; disorder.
galtrap
garlopa
graplin
graplin
Noun
A grapnel (small anchor).
grapnel
grapnel
noun
(nautical) A grappling iron.
(nautical) A small anchor, having more than two flukes, used for anchoring a small vessel.
A device with a multiple hook at one end and attached to a rope, which is thrown or hooked over a firm mooring to secure an object attached to the other end of the rope.
verb
(transitive, nautical) To connect (ships) with a grapnel.
grapple
grapple
noun
(marketing) A combination of grape and apple flavors.
(nautical) A device consisting of iron claws, attached to the end of a rope, used for grasping and holding an enemy ship prior to boarding; a grappling iron.
(nautical) A grapnel (“type of anchor”).
A close hand-to-hand struggle.
The act of grappling. (uncountable)
verb
(figuratively, with with) To ponder and intensely evaluate a problem; to struggle to deal with.
(intransitive) To use a grapple (for example to attempt to find, hook, and raise a net or cable).
(intransitive) To wrestle or tussle.
(transitive) To fasten, as with a grapple; (by extension) to fix; to join indissolubly.
(transitive) To seize something and hold it firmly.
(transitive, intransitive) To climb (whether by means of a grapple and rope, or by hand, etc).
(transitive, intransitive) To hook and raise with a grapple.
graupel
graupel
noun
(meteorology, countable) The result of this process, a small ball of rime.
(meteorology, uncountable) A precipitation that forms when supercooled droplets of water condense on a snowflake.
A potent gypsy moth attractant synthesized from ricinoleic acid.
halpern
harelip
harelip
noun
(teratology) A congenital malformation of the upper lip, reminiscent of the mouth of a hare.
verb
(transitive) To curse (as if by causing a harelip),
harpole
harpula
helpers
helpers
noun
plural of helper
helprin
hirpled
hirpled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of hirple
hirples
hirples
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hirple
hurlpit
hypural
hypural
adj
Under the tail; applied to the bones that support the caudal fin rays in most fishes
noun
Such a bone
ilpirra
impaler
impaler
noun
One who impales.
impearl
impearl
verb
(transitive, poetic) To decorate as if with pearls.
(transitive, poetic) To form into pearls, or make pearly.
imperil
imperil
verb
(transitive) To put into peril; to place in danger.
(transitive) To risk or hazard.
implore
implore
verb
To beg urgently or earnestly.
To call upon or pray to earnestly; to entreat.
kerflap
kerflop
kerflop
intj
The sound of something flopping heavily, or moving along in a flopping manner.
kopperl
kryptol
laharpe
lampara
lampern
lampern
noun
1382, Wyclif's Bible, prologue to Job, page 671:
1589, Thomas Coghan, Haven of Health (1636), page 165:
1799, John Price, The Worcester Guide, page 55:
1936, Charles Tate Regan, Natural History, Ward Lock, page 194:
1956, R. Morris, "The Osmoregulatory Ability of the Lampern (Lampetra fluviatilis L.) in Sea Water during the Course of Its Spawning Migration", Journal of Experimental Biology, volume 33, page 235:
The European river lamprey, Lampetra fluviatilis.
lampers
lampers
noun
Alternative form of lampas
lampert
lamprel
lamprel
noun
(obsolete) The lamprey.
lampret
lamprey
lamprey
noun
Any long slender primitive eel-like freshwater and saltwater fish of the order Petromyzontiformes, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth but no jaw.
lampron
lampron
noun
(obsolete) A lamprey.
lapeler
laphria
lappers
lappers
noun
plural of lapper
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lapper
lapryor
lapsers
lapsers
noun
plural of lapser
lapwork
lapwork
noun
Work in which one part overlaps another.
larrups
larrups
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of larrup
lastrup
lathrop
lathrop
Proper noun
Any of a number of towns in English-speaking countries
leapers
leapers
noun
plural of leaper
legrope
legrope
noun
(surfing) Alternative spelling of leg rope
lempira
lempira
noun
The currency of Honduras, divided into 100 centavos.
lempres
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.
lepered
lepered
adj
(archaic) Synonym of leprous.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of leper
leporid
leporid
noun
(mammalogy) Any mammal of the family Leporidae: the hares and rabbits.
leporis
leprine
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.
leptera
limpers
limpers
noun
plural of limper
liparid
liparid
noun
(zoology) Any fish in the family Liparidae.
liparis
lipfert
lippers
lippier
lippier
adj
comparative form of lippy: more lippy
lipread
lipread
verb
To determine what a person is saying by watching how their lips move.
lipuria
lipuria
noun
The presence of abnormal amounts of lipids in urine.