(Scholastic philosophy) The temporal mode of existence between time and eternity, said to be experienced by angels, saints, and celestial bodies (which medieval astronomy believed to be unchanging.
aksum
album
album
noun
(historical) In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.
A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.
A collection, especially of literary items
A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.
A jacket or cover for such a phonograph record.
A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks
algum
algum
noun
(biblical) A tree or wood mentioned in the Bible (2 Chron. ii. 8; 1 K. x. 11), possibly juniper or red sandalwood.
almud
almud
noun
(historical) A low wide box once used for measuring almuds.
(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, highly variable depending on the location and the substance measured but generally between 3–20 L.
(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of land area, highly variable depending on the location and the substance measured.
(historical) Alternative form of almude, Portuguese forms of the same measure.
(historical) Synonym of celemin, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 4.6 L
almug
almug
noun
algum
alums
alums
noun
plural of alum
amaut
ambur
amelu
amour
amour
noun
(obsolete) Love, affection.
A love affair.
Courtship; flirtation.
ampul
ampul
noun
Alternative spelling of ampulla
amuck
amuck
adv
Alternative form of amok
amula
amund
amuse
amuse
verb
(transitive) To entertain or occupy (someone or something) in a pleasant manner; to stir (an individual) with pleasing emotions.
(transitive, archaic) To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.
(transitive, archaic) To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.
To cause laughter or amusement; to be funny.
amuze
amuze
verb
Obsolete form of amuse.
annum
annum
noun
(uncommon) A one-year period, particularly (finance) a fiscal year or (sciences) a Julian year of exactly 365.25 days.
(uncommon, science fiction) A "year" determined by the revolution of an extraterrestrial planet.
antum
apium
aramu
arums
arums
noun
plural of arum
aumil
aumil
noun
Synonym of amildar
aurum
aurum
noun
(chemistry) gold, used in the names of various substances (see Derived terms)
An Italian liqueur
autem
autem
adj
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Married.
noun
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A church.
autum
autum
noun
Alternative spelling of autem
batum
baume
begum
begum
noun
a high-ranking Muslim woman, especially in South Asia
the form of address for such a woman
verb
(transitive) To daub or cover with gum.
bemud
bemud
verb
(transitive) To cover, bespatter, or befoul with mud.
(transitive, figuratively) To confuse; muddle.
bluhm
bluma
blume
bogum
bonum
brume
brume
noun
(literary) Mist, fog, vapour.
bryum
bukum
bumbo
bumbo
noun
A drink made from rum, water, sugar, and nutmeg.
bumfs
bumph
bumph
noun
Alternative form of bumf
bumps
bumps
noun
(Britain, with "the") The ritual tossing of someone into the air to celebrate their birthday.
plural of bump
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bump
bumpy
bumpy
adj
covered with or full of bumps
rough; jumpy; causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
burma
buxom
buxom
adj
(dated) Full of health, vigour, and good temper.
(obsolete) Physically flexible or unresisting.
(obsolete, by extension) Morally pliant; obedient and easily yielding to pressure.
(of a woman) Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.
bynum
camus
camus
noun
Obsolete form of camis.
camuy
carum
cauma
cauma
noun
Great heat, as of the body in fever.
cavum
cavum
noun
(meteorology) A fallstreak hole.
The lower part of the concha of the ear adjoining the origin of the helix.
The nasal cavity.
cecum
cecum
noun
(American spelling) Alternative form of caecum
chaum
chimu
chump
chump
noun
(colloquial, derogatory) A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
(colloquial, derogatory) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
verb
Dated form of chomp.
chums
chums
noun
plural of chum
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chum
churm
churm
noun
Alternative form of chirm
clump
clump
noun
(historical) A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.
A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
A dull thud.
A small group of trees or plants.
A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
The compressed clay of coal strata.
verb
(intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.
(transitive, UK, regional) To strike; to beat.
(transitive, intransitive) To form clusters or lumps.
(transitive, intransitive) To gather in dense groups.
colum
comus
corum
couma
crumb
crumb
noun
(figuratively) A bit, small amount.
(slang) A body louse (Pediculus humanus).
(slang) A nobody; a worthless person.
A mixture of sugar, cocoa and milk, used to make industrial chocolate.
A small piece of other material, such as rubber.
A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust.
verb
(transitive) To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; to crumble.
(transitive) To cover with crumbs.
crump
crump
adj
(UK, Scotland, dialect) Hard or crusty; dry baked
(obsolete) Crooked; bent.
noun
The sound of a muffled explosion.
verb
(intransitive) To produce such a sound.
(intransitive, US, medical slang) (of one's health) to decline rapidly (but not as rapidly as crash).
cujam
culms
culms
noun
plural of culm
culmy
cumae
cumae
Proper noun
An Ancient Greek, and then Roman, settlement near Naples famed for its sibyl.
cumal
cuman
cumar
cumay
cumbu
cumby
cumic
cumin
cumin
noun
Its aromatic long seed, used as a spice, notably in Indian, Middle Eastern, and Mexican cookery.
The flowering plant Cuminum cyminum, in the family Apiaceae.
cumly
cumol
cumyl
cumyl
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of several univalent radicals derived from cumene
datum
datum
noun
(cartography, surveying, engineering) A fixed reference point or set of reference points which precisely define a system of measurement or a coordinate system.
(dated) Singular of data; a single recorded observation.
(nautical) A floating reference point, or SLDMB, used to evaluate surface currents in a body of water. Often employed by coastal search and rescue.
(philosophy) A fact known from direct observation.
(philosophy) A premise from which conclusions are drawn.
verb
To provide missing data points by using a mathematical model to extrapolate values that are outside the range of a measuring device.
degum
degum
verb
(transitive) To remove gum from.
demur
demur
noun
An act of hesitation as to proceeding; a scruple; also, a suspension of action or decision; a pause, a stop.
verb
(intransitive) To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair.
(intransitive) To scruple or object; to take exception; to oppose; to balk
(intransitive, law) To interpose a demurrer.
(intransitive, obsolete) To linger; to stay; to tarry
(transitive, obsolete) To cause delay to; to put off
(transitive, obsolete) To suspend judgment concerning; to doubt of or hesitate about
demus
domus
domus
noun
(anthropology, archaeology) A farmstead with its people, plants and animals, considered as a unit.
(dated) In the UK a college (or collectively its fellows) in Cambridge or Oxford.
donum
donum
noun
Alternative form of dunam
douma
douma
noun
Archaic form of duma (“Russian legislative assembly”).
doums
doums
noun
plural of doum
drums
drums
noun
plural of drum
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drum
dumah
dumas
dumas
noun
plural of duma
dumba
dumba
noun
(India) The fat-tailed sheep.
dumbs
dumbs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dumb
dumby
dumby
noun
(card games) Archaic form of dummy (“hand shown to be played from by another player”).
(rare) Alternative form of dummy (“stupid person”)
dumka
dumka
noun
(countable) An individual composition in this genre.
(uncountable) A genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine.
dumky
dumky
noun
plural of dumka
dummy
dummy
adv
(slang) Extremely.
noun
(Australia, UK, New Zealand) A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.
(attributive) A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
(card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
(dated) A silent person; a person who does not talk.
(linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
(programming) An unused parameter or value.
(sports, UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
(sports, chiefly rugby, soccer) A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
A stupid person.
Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
verb
(sports) To feint.
To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
dumps
dumps
noun
plural of dump
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dump
dumpy
dumpy
adj
Of or relating to a garbage dump; rubbishy.
Short and thick; stout or stocky.
noun
(South Africa) A small bottle of beer.
(slang, vulgar) Synonym of dump truck (“prominent buttocks”).
(surveying) Ellipsis of dumpy level.
A short, stout person or animal, especially one of a breed of very short-legged chickens.
dunam
dunam
noun
(historical) An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre.
A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m²), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma.
Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m²).
duomi
duomi
noun
plural of duomo
duomo
duomo
noun
A cathedral, especially one in Italy.
durum
durum
noun
(often used attributively) Ellipsis of durum wheat.
embue
embue
verb
Obsolete form of imbue.
embus
embus
verb
to board a bus
to put (troops) onto a bus
emeus
emeus
noun
plural of emeu
emule
emuls
erump
ervum
exuma
exuma
Proper noun
A district of the Bahamas consisting of over 365 islands and cays, including Great and Little Exuma.
fanum
fanum
noun
(historical) The site of an Ancient Roman temple or shrine.
fayum
fayum
Proper noun
A city in Egypt, and the associated region.
femur
femur
noun
(anatomy) A thighbone.
(arachnology) A segment of the leg of an arachnid.
(entomology) The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia.
filum
filum
noun
(anatomy) a filamentous anatomical structure
fiume
flume
flume
noun
A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.
An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids.
verb
(transitive) To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough.
flump
flump
noun
(by extension) A fat out-of-shape person.
A type of large marshmallow.
The dull sound so produced.
verb
(intransitive) To move or fall heavily, or with a dull sound.
(transitive) To drop something heavily or with a dull sound.
forum
forum
noun
(Internet) An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.
(historical) A square or marketplace in a Roman town, used for public business and commerce.
A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.
A gathering for the purpose of discussion.
A place for discussion.
fruma
frump
frump
noun
(countable, colloquial) A frumpy person, somebody who is unattractive, drab or dowdy.
(obsolete, transitive) To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.
fumed
fumed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fume
fumer
fumer
noun
One who makes or uses perfumes.
That which fumes, something that produces or emits smoke or other vapor.
fumes
fumes
noun
plural of fume
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fume
fumet
fumet
noun
A ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine.
A type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet.
Alternative form of fumette (“stench or high flavour of meat”)
The excretions of deer, or any Cervidae.
fumid
fumid
adj
Smoky, vaporous.
gamut
gamut
noun
(music) All the notes in a musical scale.
A (normally) complete range.
All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.
garum
garum
noun
A fermented fish sauce popular as a condiment in Ancient Rome.
gaums
gaums
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gaum
gaumy
gaumy
adj
(US and UK, dialects) Sticky; smeared with something sticky.
gemul
geums
geums
noun
plural of geum
glaum
glaum
verb
(Northern England, Scotland) To look sullen or sad; scowl, frown; look, stare (at)
(Scotland) To grasp or snatch (at), usually feebly or ineffectually.
(Scotland) To grope with the hands, as in the dark.
gluma
glume
glume
noun
(botany) A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae).
glump
glump
verb
(transitive, colloquial) To be sullen; to sulk.
gorum
goumi
grume
grume
noun
A clot (of blood)
A thick semisolid
grump
grump
noun
(informal) A grumpy mood.
(informal) A habitually grumpy or complaining person.
verb
(informal, intransitive) To be grumpy.
(informal, intransitive) To complain.
guama
guama
noun
(Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial) maternal grandmother; maternal grandma
(Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial) term of address for one's maternal grandmother
gumbo
gumbo
noun
(countable) A soup or stew popular in Louisiana, consisting of a strong stock, meat or shellfish, a thickener (often okra), and the "Holy Trinity" of celery, bell peppers, and onions.
(countable) Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.
(uncountable) A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.
gumby
gumby
noun
(climbing, slang, sometimes derogatory) An inexperienced climber.
gumly
gumma
gumma
noun
(pathology) a soft, non-cancerous growth, a form of granuloma, resulting from the tertiary stage of syphilis.
gummy
gummy
adj
(archaic, slang) Thick; fat.
Covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.
Resembling gum (the substance).
Showing the gums.
noun
(Australia) Clipping of gummy shark.
(Australia, New Zealand) A sheep that is losing or has lost its teeth.
(usually in the plural) A gummi candy.
hamus
haulm
haulm
noun
(countable) An individual plant stem.
(countable) Part of a harness; a hame.
(uncountable) The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.
hilum
hilum
noun
(anatomy) A depression or fissure through which ducts, nerves, or blood vessels enter and leave a gland or organ; a porta.
(botany) The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support.
(botany) The nucleus of a starch grain.
hokum
hokum
noun
(countable, informal) A film, television programme, theater production, etc., containing excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material.
(countable, uncountable, informal) (An instance of) excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material in a film, television programme, theater production, etc.
(countable, uncountable, informal) (An instance of) meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate.
(uncountable, music) A genre of blues song or music, often characterized by sexual innuendos or satire.
houma
hulme
human
human
adj
(comparable) Having the nature or attributes of a human being.
(not comparable) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.
noun
(broadly) Any hominid of the genus Homo.
(strictly) The tallest, most abundant and most intelligent of primates; Homo sapiens.
verb
(rare) To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.
humbo
humet
humet
noun
(heraldry) A fesse or bar cut off short at each end.