(countable, uncountable) An air conditioner or the processed air it produces.
(historical, medicine) understood as a particular local substance with supposed effects on human health.
(historical, philosophy, alchemy) understood as one of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
(informal) Nothing; absence of anything.
(music) A song, especially a solo; an aria.
(obsolete, chemistry) Any specific gas.
(physics) understood as a gaseous mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and various trace gases.
(snowboarding, skateboarding, motor sports) A jump in which one becomes airborne.
(uncountable) Publicity.
(uncountable, meteorology) The substance constituting Earth's atmosphere
(usually in the plural) Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.
(usually with the) The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, (historical) formerly thought to be limited by the firmament but (meteorology) now considered to be surrounded by the near vacuum of outer space.
A breeze; a gentle wind.
A feeling or sense.
A sense of poise, graciousness, or quality.
A television or radio signal; (by extension) media broadcasts in general.
verb
(Britain, MLE, slang) To ignore (a person).
(intransitive) To be broadcast.
(transitive) To broadcast (a television show etc.).
Pronunciation spelling of are.
To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it.
To discuss varying viewpoints on a given topic.
To let fresh air into a room or a building, to ventilate.
amr
aor
apr
apr
name
Abbreviation of April.
ara
ara
noun
A traditional alcoholic beverage consumed in Bhutan, made from rice, maize, millet, or wheat, either fermented or distilled. The beverage is usually a clear, creamy, or white color.
The great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna).
The saw-edged perch, Niphon spinosus.
arb
arb
noun
(countable, finance, trading) One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur.
(countable, informal) An arboretum.
(finance, trading) The act of or potential for arbitrage.
verb
(finance, trading, transitive) To engage in arbitrage.
arc
arc
noun
(astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon.
(basketball, slang) The three-point line.
(electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between either two electrodes or as lightning.
(film) An arclight.
(geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve.
(mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape.
A curve, in general.
A story arc.
verb
(intransitive) To form an electrical arc.
(transitive) To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc.
(transitive, intransitive) To move following a curved path.
ard
ard
noun
A simple plough consisting of a spike dragged through the soil.
are
are
det
(UK, US) Misspelling of our.
noun
(rare) An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) metric unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a.
verb
(East Yorkshire, Midlands) present of be
first-person plural simple present of be
second-person plural simple present of be
second-person singular simple present of be
third-person plural simple present of be
arf
arf
intj
Representing the sound of a dog's bark.
arg
arg
intj
(informal) Expressing frustration or disappointment.
noun
(heraldry) Abbreviation of argent.
(programming, informal) An argument; a value passed as a parameter.
ari
ark
ark
noun
(Judaism) A decorated cabinet at the front of a synagogue, in which Torah scrolls are kept.
(Judaism) The Ark of the Covenant.
(Judaism, Christianity, Islam) Noah's Ark: the ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge.
(UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Poor; lacking in riches or wealth.
(UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To be pitied; pitiful; wretched.
noun
(anatomy) The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
(baseball, slang) A pitcher
(figurative) Power; might; strength; support.
(genetics) One of the two parts of a chromosome.
(geography) A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
(in the plural) Heraldic bearings or insignia.
(in the plural, obsolete) War; hostilities; deeds or exploits of war.
(usually used in the plural) A weapon.
A branch of an organization.
A group of patients in a medical trial.
A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object, such as the arm of an armchair, a crane, a pair of spectacles or a pair of compasses.
The part of a piece of clothing that covers the arm.
The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
verb
(intransitive) To take up weapons; to arm oneself.
(intransitive, of a tool, weapon, or system) To become prepared for action; to activate.
(obsolete) To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
(transitive) To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
(transitive) To fit (a magnet) with an armature.
(transitive) To prepare (a tool, weapon, or system) for action; to activate.
(transitive) To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
(transitive, figurative) To supply with the equipment, knowledge, authority, or other tools needed for a particular task; to furnish with capability; to equip.
(Britain, West Country, West Midlands, Yorkshire) Yes.
Used stereotypically in imitation of pirates.
noun
Abbreviation of arrival.
Abbreviation of arrondissement.
verb
(rare) To say “arr” like a pirate.
ars
ars
noun
plural of ar
art
art
noun
(countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
(countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
(countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
(countable) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
(uncountable) Aesthetic value.
(uncountable) Artwork.
(uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
(uncountable) The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
(uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.
(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of be
aru
arv
arx
ary
ary
det
(UK, dialect) any
asr
asr
noun
(Islam) The afternoon Islamic prayer.
atr
ayr
ayr
noun
(Isle of Man) father
Alternative spelling of air (especially when referring to the form of music).
bar
bar
noun
(UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
(UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
(US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
(architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
(backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
(by extension, in combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar, etc.) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
(countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
(farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
(farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
(figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
(geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
(heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
(law, metonymically, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
(mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
(mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
(mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
(music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
(music) One of those musical sections.
(physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
(programming, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
(slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
(soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
(sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
(telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
(typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
A city gate, in some British place names.
A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
An establishment offering cosmetic services.
An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
The counter of such premises.
prep
(horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
Except, other than, besides.
verb
(transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
(transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
(transitive) To prohibit.
To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
bcr
bcr
Noun
B cell receptor
ber
ber
noun
A fruit-bearing tree (Ziziphus mauritiana); the jujube.
bfr
bmr
bmr
Noun
Basal metabolic rate.
bor
bor
noun
(Norfolk) boy
bra
bra
noun
(physics) One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the row vector; the other (column) vector being its complex conjugate, the ket.
(slang) Alternative form of bro; friend, mate
An item of underwear worn to support the breasts.
brc
bre
brg
bri
brl
brm
brn
brn
noun
Abbreviation of brown.
bro
bro
noun
(slang) brother (a male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals)
(slang) brother (a male sibling)
(slang) brother (usually used to address a male)
(slang) fratboy (or someone that espouses the fraternity bro culture)
brr
brr
intj
An expression of disgust or aversion, as if shuddering.
Used to express being cold, to show shivering.
brs
brt
bur
bur
noun
A rotary cutting implement having a selection of variously shaped heads.
A rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants.
Alternative form of burr (“small piece of material”).
Any of several plants having such husks.
bwr
bwr
Noun
boiling water reactor
car
car
noun
(UK, Birmingham, obsolete) A four-wheeled cab, as opposed to a (two-wheeled) Hansom cab.
(US) A floating perforated box for living fish.
(US, prison slang) A clique or gang.
(dated) A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal; a chariot.
(obsolete) A turn.
(programming) The first part of a cons in Lisp. The first element of a list.
(rail transport) A passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train, whether powered or not.
(rail transport) an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit.
(rail transport, chiefly Canada, US) An unpowered unit in a railroad train.
(sailing) A sliding fitting that runs along a track.
(uncountable, US, slang) The aggregate of desirable characteristics of a car.
A rough unit of quantity approximating the amount which would fill a railroad car.
A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation.
The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.
The part of an airship, such as a balloon or dirigible, which houses the passengers and control apparatus.
The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels.
cbr
ccr
cdr
cdr
noun
(programming) The second part of a cons in Lisp. The remainder of a list when the first element is removed.
cfr
chr
cir
clr
cnr
cor
cor
intj
(Cockney UK) Expression of surprise.
noun
A Hebrew unit of liquid volume, about equal to 230 L or 60 gallons.
A roughly equivalent Phoenician unit of volume.
Synonym of homer: approximately the same volume as a dry measure.
cpr
crb
crc
crd
cre
cri
crl
cro
cro
noun
(MTE, slang) Synonym of bro (“a male comrade or friend; one who shares one's ideals”)
(UK, slang) Marijuana.
crp
crs
crt
cru
cru
noun
A vineyard or group of vineyards in France, especially one having a high reputation.
cry
cry
noun
(by extension, obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.
(collectively) A group of hounds.
(obsolete) Common report; gossip.
(of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.
A clamour or outcry.
A desperate or urgent request.
A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
A shout or scream.
Words shouted or screamed.
verb
(intransitive) To shed tears; to weep.
(intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
(transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
(transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
(transitive, intransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.
csr
ctr
ctr
noun
(US) Abbreviation of center.
Abbreviation of centre.
cur
cur
noun
(dated or humorous) A contemptible or inferior dog.
(dated or humorous) A detestable person.
cvr
dar
dar
adv
African-American Vernacular form of there
noun
(UK, dialect) A fish found in the Severn River; a dart or dace.
ddr
ddr
Noun
Double data rate computer RAM.
East Germany
der
der
adv
Nonstandard spelling of there.
intj
(Australia) Disdainful indication that something is obvious.
(Australia) Indication of stupidity.
dir
dir
adj
Abbreviation of direct.
adv
Abbreviation of directly.
noun
(computing) Abbreviation of directory.
Abbreviation of direction.
Abbreviation of director.
dlr
dnr
dor
dor
noun
(obsolete) a trick, joke, or deception
A large European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius, that makes a droning noise while flying
Any flying insect which makes a loud humming noise, such as the June bug or a bumblebee
drd
dre
drg
dri
drp
drs
dru
dry
dry
adj
(Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
(aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
(chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
(figurative) Athirst, eager.
(fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
(humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
(law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
(masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
(of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
(sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
(wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
Free from or lacking moisture.
Lacking interest, boring.
Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.
Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
noun
(Australia) An area of waterless country.
(Britain, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
(US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
(chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
The process by which something is dried.
Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
verb
(intransitive) To lose moisture.
(intransitive, informal) For an actor to forget his or her lines while performing.
(transitive) To remove moisture from.
(transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
dsr
dtr
dur
dur
adj
(music, obsolete) Major; in the major mode.
ear
ear
noun
(architecture) A crossette.
(architecture) An acroterium.
(countable) The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
(countable) The fruiting body of a grain plant.
(countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
(countable, slang) A police informant.
(journalism) A space to the left or right of a publication's front-page title, used for advertising, weather, etc.
That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; a prominence or projection on an object, usually for support or attachment; a lug; a handle.
The privilege of being kindly heard; favour; attention.
The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; skill or good taste in listening to music.
verb
(archaic) To plough.
(humorous) To take in with the ears; to hear.
(intransitive) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain does.
To hold by the ears.
ecr
eer
eer
adv
(poetic) Unpunctuated contraction of ever.
ehr
eir
eir
det
(rare, nonstandard) Belonging to em, gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, equivalent to the singular their and coordinate with his and her.
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:eir.
|en
emr
era
era
noun
(geology) A geochronologic unit of tens to hundreds of millions of years; a subdivision of an eon, and subdivided into periods.
A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
erb
erd
erd
noun
(dialect, rare) Alternative form of earth
(zoology) The common European shrew (Sorex vulgaris); the shrewmouse or erd shrew.
(US regional, Cape Colony, New York, South Africa) A small inherited house-and-garden lot in a village or settlement.
(by extension) Stock; cattle.
erg
erg
noun
(geomorphology) A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara.
(rowing, slang) An ergometer.
The unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10⁻⁷ joules.
verb
(rowing, slang, transitive, intransitive) To use an ergometer.
eri
erk
erk
intj
(Australia, colloquial) An expression of revulsion or disgust; yuck.
(colloquial) An expression of trepidation; eek.
noun
(Britain, slang) A member of the groundcrew in the RAF.
erl
ern
ern
noun
Alternative spelling of erne
verb
(UK dialectal) To run; flow.
(UK dialectal, Scotland) (of the eyes) To cause to water; smart.
(UK dialectal, Scotland) To (cause to) coagulate; curdle (milk) by adding rennet and applying heat.
(UK dialectal, Scotland) To pain; torture.
(intransitive, obsolete) To stir with strong emotion; grieve; mourn.
erp
err
err
intj
Alternative form of er (“sound of hesitation”)
verb
(archaic) to stray.
(intransitive) To sin.
(intransitive, formal) To make a mistake.
ers
ers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of er
ert
ert
verb
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To be eager, prone; hurry.
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To strive onward and upward.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To incite; urge on; encourage.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To irritate; grill; provoke.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To make as if to strike; argue (with); strive after; try to obtain.
eru
erv
esr
etr
eur
exr
eyr
ezr
far
far
adj
(programming, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
Distant; remote in space.
Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.
Long.
More remote of two.
Remote in time.
adv
To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.
Very much; by a great amount.
noun
(UK, dialect) A litter of piglets; a farrow.
Spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta), especially in the context of Roman use of it.
verb
(transitive, rare) To send far away.
fdr
fer
fer
prep
(dialectal, especially Britain) Pronunciation spelling of for.
fir
fir
noun
(chiefly countable) A conifer of the genus Abies.
(chiefly countable) Any pinaceous conifer of related genera, especially a Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga) or a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris).
(uncountable) Wood of such trees.
fmr
fmr
adj
Abbreviation of former.
for
for
conj
Because, as, since.
particle
(nonstandard, in representations of dialectal speech, especially that of black speakers) To, the particle for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
prep
(chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
(cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
(in expressions such as 'for a start') Introducing the first item(s) in a potential sequence.
(nonstandard) So (that), in order to
(obsolete) Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
(usually in the phrase 'for all') Despite, in spite of.
(with names, chiefly US) In honor of; after.
Because of.
By the standards of, usually with the implication that those standards are lower than one might otherwise expect; considering.
Directed at; intended to belong to.
Due or facing (a certain outcome or fate).
In exchange for; in correspondence or equivalence with.
In order to help, benefit, gratify, honor etc. (someone or something).
In order to obtain or acquire.
In the role or capacity of; instead of; in place of.
Indicating something desired or anticipated.
Intended to cure, remove or counteract; in order to cure, remove or counteract.
On behalf of.
Over (a period of time).
Supporting, in favour of.
Throughout or across (a distance in space).
To be used or treated in a stated way, or with a stated purpose.
To be, or as being.
Towards; in the direction of.
Used in various more-or-less idiomatic ways to construe individual verbs, indicating various semantic relationships such as target, purpose, result, etc.; see also the entries for individual phrasal verbs, e.g. ask for, look for, stand for, etc.
Used to introduce a subject within a to-infinitive clause.
fra
fra
adv
Archaic form of fro.
noun
A title of a friar or monk: brother.
frb
frc
frd
frg
fri
frl
fro
fro
adv
(archaic) From; away; back or backward.
noun
(slang) Clipping of afro (hairstyle).
prep
(obsolete) From.
frr
frs
frt
fru
fry
fry
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, cooking) The liver of a lamb.
(Ireland, Britain, cooking) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
(UK dialectal) The spawn of frogs.
(archaic) A swarm, especially of something small.
(colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.
(now chiefly UK dialectal) Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
(usually in the plural, fries, US, cooking) A lamb or calf testicle.
(usually in the plural, fries, chiefly Canada and US, cooking) A fried piece of cut potato.
A drain.
A kind of sieve.
Young fish; fishlings.
verb
(chiefly US, intransitive, slang) To be executed by the electric chair.
(intransitive) To cook in hot fat.
(intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.
(obsolete) to simmer; to boil
(transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
(transitive, informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
fsr
fsr
adv
(Internet slang) Initialism of for some reason.
fur
fur
conj
Pronunciation spelling of for.
noun
(heraldry) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures.
(hunting, uncountable) Rabbits and hares, as opposed to partridges and pheasants (called feathers).
(vulgar, slang) Pubic hair.
(vulgar, slang) Sexual attractiveness.
A furry; a member of the furry subculture.
A pelt used to make, trim or line clothing apparel.
A thick pile of fabric.
The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.
The hairy skin of an animal processed into clothing for humans.
The layer of epithelial debris on a tongue.
The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
verb
(intransitive) To become covered with fur or a fur-like coating.
(transitive) To cover with fur or a fur-like coating.
(transitive, construction) To level a surface by applying furring to it.
gar
gar
noun
(especially UK, Ireland) A garfish, Belone belone.
(especially US, Canada) Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws.
verb
(now chiefly UK dialectal) To make, compel (someone to do something); to cause (something to be done).