Third-person singular simple present indicative form of help
kelps
kelps
noun
plural of kelp
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kelp
lapse
lapse
noun
(law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
(meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
(theology) A fall or apostasy.
A decline or fall in standards.
A pause in continuity.
A temporary failure; a slip.
A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
An interval of time between events.
memory lapse
verb
(intransitive) To become void.
(intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
(intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
leaps
leaps
noun
plural of leap
lepas
lepas
noun
Any of the genus Lepas of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, etc.; a goose barnacle.
lepus
lipse
lopes
lopes
noun
plural of lope
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lope
olpes
olpes
noun
plural of olpe
pales
pales
noun
plural of pale
plural of palea
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pale
peals
peals
noun
plural of peal
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of peal
peels
peels
noun
plural of peel
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of peel
peles
pelfs
pelfs
noun
plural of pelf
pelts
pelts
noun
plural of pelt
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pelt
piles
piles
noun
(informal, piles of) A large amount of.
(pathology) Haemorrhoids.
Many women get piles when pregnant.
plural of pile
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pile
pleas
pleas
noun
plural of plea
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plea
plebs
plebs
noun
(historical) The plebeian class of Ancient Rome.
The common people, especially (derogatory) the mob.
plural of pleb
pleis
plews
plews
noun
plural of plew
plies
plies
noun
plural of plie
plural of ply
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ply
poles
poles
noun
plural of pole
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pole
pules
pules
noun
plural of pule
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pule
pulse
pulse
noun
(also electronics) A brief increase in the strength of an electrical signal; an impulse.
(chiefly biology, chemistry) An (increased) amount of a substance (such as a drug or an isotopic label) given over a short time.
(cooking, chiefly attributively) A setting on a food processor which causes it to work in a series of short bursts rather than continuously, in order to break up ingredients without liquidizing them; also, a use of this setting.
(figuratively) A beat or throb; also, a repeated sequence of such beats or throbs.
(figuratively) The focus of energy or vigour of an activity, place, or thing; also, the feeling of bustle, busyness, or energy in a place; the heartbeat.
(music, prosody) The beat or tactus of a piece of music or verse; also, a repeated sequence of such beats.
(uncountable) Annual leguminous plants (such as beans, lentils, and peas) yielding grains or seeds used as food for humans or animals; (countable) such a plant; a legume.
(uncountable) Edible grains or seeds from leguminous plants, especially in a mature, dry condition; (countable) a specific kind of such a grain or seed.
A brief burst of electromagnetic energy, such as light, radio waves, etc.
A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them.
Synonym of autosoliton (“a stable solitary localized structure that arises in nonlinear spatially extended dissipative systems due to mechanisms of self-organization”)
The nature or rate of this beat as an indication of a person's health.
verb
(intransitive, chiefly figuratively and literary) To expand and contract repeatedly, like an artery when blood is flowing though it, or the heart; to beat, to throb, to vibrate, to pulsate.
(intransitive, figuratively) Of an activity, place, or thing: to bustle with energy and liveliness; to pulsate.
(transitive, also figuratively) To emit or impel (something) in pulses or waves.
(transitive, chiefly biology, chemistry) To give to (something, especially a cell culture) an (increased) amount of a substance, such as a drug or an isotopic label, over a short time.
(transitive, cooking) To operate a food processor on (some ingredient) in short bursts, to break it up without liquidizing it.
To apply an electric current or signal that varies in strength to (something).
To manipulate (an electric current, electromagnetic wave, etc.) so that it is emitted in pulses.
salep
salep
noun
A starch or jelly made out of plants in the Orchidaceae family, such as the early-purple orchid (Orchis mascula).
Alternative form of saloop (“aromatic drink originally made with salep”)
saple
scelp
scelp
noun
Alternative form of skelp (“narrow strip of rolled or forged metal”)
sepal
sepal
noun
(botany) One of the component parts of the calyx, particularly when the sepals in a plant's calyx are not fused into a single structure.
shlep
shlep
noun
Alternative form of schlep
siple
skelp
skelp
noun
(Scotland) A large portion.
(Scotland) A squall; a heavy fall of rain.
A blow; a smart stroke.
A narrow strip of rolled or forged metal, ready to be bent and welded to form a pipe.
verb
(intransitive, Scotland) To move briskly along.
(transitive) To bend round (a skelp) in tube-making.
(transitive) To form (a plate or bar of metal, etc.) into a skelp.
(transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To beat or slap.
slape
slape
adj
(UK, dialect) crafty; hypocritical
(UK, dialect) slippery; smooth
sleep
sleep
noun
(countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
(informal, metonymically) A night.
(uncountable) Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).
(uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
The hibernation of animals.
verb
(computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
(computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.
(intransitive) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
(intransitive) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
(intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
(intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
(intransitive, of a spinning top or yo-yo) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
(transitive) To accommodate in beds.
(transitive) To be slumbering in (a state).
(transitive) To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
(transitive, reflexive) To achieve or make happen by manner of sleep.
slemp
slept
slept
verb
simple past tense and past participle of sleep
slipe
slipe
noun
A sledge runner on which a skip is dragged in a mine.
slope
slope
adj
(obsolete) Sloping.
adv
(obsolete) slopingly
noun
(mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.
(mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
(vulgar, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run).
The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
verb
(colloquial, usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.
(intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
(military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.
(transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
slype
slype
noun
(architecture) A covered passageway, especially one connecting the transept of a cathedral or monastery to the chapter house.
spale
spale
noun
(Now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A chip or splinter of wood.
(shipbuilding) One of a number of cross-bands fastened temporarily to the frames to keep them in place until properly secured.
A lath; a shaving or chip, as of wood or stone.
A strengthening cross timber.
speal
speel
speel
noun
(chiefly South Africa) A story; a spiel.
(dialect) A splinter; a strip of wood or metal.
(dialectal, rural, Northern England, Scotland) A game.
verb
(dialect, Australia) To run.
(dialect, Scottish and Northern English) To climb.
(dialectal, rural, Northern England, Scotland) To lake, play, sport, take amusement.
To talk at length, to spiel.
speil
spelk
spelk
noun
(Northern English) A rod or switch.
(Northern English) A splinter, usually of wood.
(Northern English) A wooden splinter caught under the skin.
(aerospace) Unusably short lengths of fibre-reinforced material, such as prepreg.
verb
(transitive, Northern English) To use a spelk in or on.
spell
spell
noun
(colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.
(colloquial, US) A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
(cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
(dialectal) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
(informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).
(obsolete) Speech, discourse.
A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
A period of rest; time off.
A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
verb
(intransitive) To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
(intransitive, colloquial) To rest from work for a time.
(obsolete) To speak, to declaim.
(obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.
(transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word).
(transitive) To indicate that (some event) will occur.
(transitive) To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
(transitive) To work in place of (someone).
(transitive, figuratively, with “out”) To clarify; to explain in detail.
(transitive, obsolete) To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.
(transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
To constitute; to measure.
To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
spelt
spelt
noun
(dialect, Northern England, Scotland) A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter.
(metalworking) Spelter.
A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon.
verb
(chiefly Britain) simple past tense and past participle of spell
(obsolete) To split; to break; to spalt.
spiel
spiel
noun
(music) An early form of rap music.
A game of curling.
A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade.
verb
(intransitive) To give a sales pitch; to promote by speaking.
(intransitive) To talk at length.
spile
spile
noun
(US) A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap.
(obsolete or dialectal) A splinter.
A pile; a post or girder.
A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask.
verb
(US, dialect, transitive, intransitive) spoil.
(transitive) To drive piles into.
(transitive) To support by means of spiles.
To draw off (a liquid) using a spile.
To plug (a hole) with a spile.
To provide (a barrel, tree etc.) with a spile.
splet
spole
spole
noun
The small wheel near the distaff of a spinning wheel.
swelp
swelp
verb
Pronunciation spelling of so help.
yelps
yelps
noun
plural of yelp
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yelp