A small South American dog, domesticated by the natives. Apparently the species has since gone extinct.
bloc
bloc
noun
A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance: e.g., the eastern bloc, the western bloc, a trading bloc, the Eurozone, the European Union.
A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
chlo
chol
chol
noun
(biochemistry, medicine) Abbreviation of cholesterol.
cilo
cleo
clio
clod
clod
noun
A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
A stupid person; a dolt.
Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.
The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
verb
(transitive) To pelt with clods.
(transitive, Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.
To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.
cloe
cloe
Proper noun
name, an spelling of
clof
clog
clog
noun
(UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
A blockage.
A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
verb
(intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
(law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
clon
clop
clop
noun
(onomatopoeia) The sound of a horse's shod hoof striking the ground.
(slang) My Little Pony-themed pornography.
verb
(slang) To masturbate to My Little Pony-themed pornography.
To make this sound; to walk so as to make this sound.
clos
clot
clot
noun
A silly person.
A solidified mass of any liquid.
A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
verb
(intransitive) To form a clot or mass.
(transitive) To cause to clot or form into a mass.
clou
clou
noun
Something which holds the greatest attention; the chief point of interest.
clow
cloy
cloy
verb
(transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
(transitive) To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
(transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
clyo
coal
coal
noun
(countable) A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.
(countable) A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)
(countable) A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof, as a fuel commodity ready to buy and burn.
(uncountable) A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
charcoal.
verb
(intransitive) To be converted to charcoal.
(intransitive) To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).
(transitive) To burn to charcoal; to char.
(transitive) To mark or delineate with charcoal.
(transitive) To supply with coal.
cohl
coil
coil
noun
(electronics) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
(figurative) Entanglement; perplexity.
(now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
A cylinder of clay.
Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
verb
(obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
To build a pot (etc) with clay coils.
To wind cylindrically or spirally.
To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
cola
cola
noun
(dated) plural of colon
A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.
A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant.
The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
colb
cold
cold
adj
(databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
(firearms) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
(informal) Not radioactive.
(informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
(obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.
(obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute.
(obsolete) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
(of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
(of a thing) Having a low temperature.
(of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
(painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
(usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
(usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.
Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
Completely unprepared; without introduction.
Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
Without electrical power being supplied.
adv
(slang, informal, dated) In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.
At a low temperature.
Without preparation.
noun
(medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
(slang) rheum, sleepy dust
(with 'the', figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
A condition of low temperature.
cole
cole
noun
(Scotland) A stack or stook of hay.
Brassica; a plant of the Brassica genus, especially those of Brassica oleracea (rape and coleseed).
Cabbage.
coli
coli
noun
(often attributive, bacteriology) Escherichia coli, a Gram-negative bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms.
colk
coll
coll
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To hug or embrace.
coln
colo
colo
noun
(computing) co-location
colp
colp
noun
(medicine, colloquial) Short for colposcopy.
Alternative form of collop
cols
cols
noun
plural of col
colt
colt
noun
(biblical) A young camel or donkey.
(cricket, slang) A professional cricketer during his first season.
(figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
(nautical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
A young crane (bird).
A young male horse.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To befool.
(obsolete, transitive) To horse; to get with young.
To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
coly
coly
noun
Any bird of either of the genera Colius or Urocolius, endemic to sub-Saharan Africa.
coml
cool
cool
adj
(informal) (followed by with) Able to tolerate; to be fine with.
(informal) (of a pair of people) holding no grudge against one another; having no beef.
(informal) In fashion and fancy, part of or befitting the most leading trends and habits of the in crowd; originally hipster slang.
(informal) Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.
(informal) Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.
(informal) Very interesting or exciting.
(sarcastic) (of an act or situation) annoying, irritating.
Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
Calmly audacious.
Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
Of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
noun
A calm temperament.
A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.
verb
(intransitive, figuratively) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
(intransitive, literally) To lose heat, to get colder.
(transitive) To kill.
(transitive, figuratively) To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
(transitive, literally) To make cooler, less warm.
coul
cowl
cowl
noun
(metonymically) A monk.
(nautical) A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below.
(nautical) A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge.
(obsolete, Britain) A vessel carried on a pole, a soe.
A caul (the amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth).
A mask that covers the majority of the head.
A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.
A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling.
A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow.
verb
(Yorkshire) To scrape together
(transitive) To make a monk of (a person).
To cover with, or as if with, a cowl (hood).
To wrap or form (something made of fabric) like a cowl.
ecol
elco
floc
floc
noun
A floccule; a soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid, or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed.
holc
kloc
kloc
Noun
thousand lines of code
Here n is an estimate of how many thousands of lines of code will be inspected. – Glen W. Russell, Experience with Inspection in Ultralarge-Scale Developments (Bell-Northern Research, 1991)
loca
loca
noun
plural of locum
loch
loch
noun
(Ireland, Scotland) A bay or arm of the sea.
(Ireland, Scotland) A lake.
Alternative form of lohoch (“medicine taken by licking”)
loci
loci
noun
plural of locus
lock
lock
noun
(Scotland, law, historical) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
(computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
(firearms) The firing mechanism.
(rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
A small quantity of straw etc.
A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
Complete control over a situation.
Something sure to be a success.
Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
verb
(Internet, transitive) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
(Internet, transitive, Wikimedia jargon) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
(intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
(intransitive) To become fastened in place.
(intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
(intransitive, rugby) To play in the position of lock.
(transitive) To fasten with a lock.
(transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.
To furnish (a canal) with locks.
To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
locn
loco
loco
adj
(Southwestern US) Intoxicated by eating locoweed.
(colloquial) Crazy.
adv
(music) A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.
noun
(rail transport, informal) A locomotive.
A certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism.
verb
(transitive) To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism.
(transitive, colloquial, by extension) To render insane.