(UK, London, dated) A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
(slang, obsolete) pickpocket
(sports) A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.
Someone who dives, especially as a sport.
Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
The New Zealand sand diver.
The long-finned sand diver.
drive
drive
noun
(American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
(baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
(computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
(computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
(cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
(dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
(golf) A stroke made with a driver.
(military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
(psychology) Desire or interest.
(retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
(soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
(typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
A driveway.
A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
A type of public roadway.
An act of driving (prompting) game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
An act of driving (prompting) livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
verb
(American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
(intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
(intransitive) To move forcefully.
(intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
(intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
(mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
(obsolete) To distrain for rent.
(transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
(transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
(transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
(transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
(transitive) To cause to become.
(transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
(transitive) To compel (to do something).
(transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
(transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
(transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
(transitive) To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
(transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
(transitive) To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
(transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
(transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
(transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
(transitive, slang, aviation) To operate (an aircraft).
To be the dominant party in a sex act.
To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.
To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
ervil
ervil
noun
bitter vetch, blister vetch (Vicia ervilia).
ervin
fiver
fiver
noun
(Islam) A Zaydi Shiite Muslim, who disagrees with the majority of Shiites on the identity of the Fifth Imam.
(colloquial) A clenched fist.
(religion) A person who gives five percent of their income or five hours a week of their time to charity (a reduction of ten percent tithing).
(slang) A banknote with a value of five units of currency.
(slang, by extension) The value in money that this represents.
A mathematical puzzle played on a 5 × 5 grid.
giver
giver
noun
One who gives; a donor or contributor.
hiver
hiver
noun
One who collects bees into a hive.
iover
ivers
jiver
jiver
noun
One who jives.
kirve
kiver
kiver
noun
(archaic, dialect) cover
verb
(archaic, dialect) to cover
levir
levir
noun
A husband's brother.
liver
liver
adj
Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
comparative form of live: more live
noun
(anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
(countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
(obsolete chemistry) Any of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color.
A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
livre
livre
noun
(historical) A unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous.
(historical) An ancient French unit of weight, equal to about 1 avoirdupois pound.
nivre
orvie
reive
reive
verb
Archaic spelling of reave.
revie
revie
verb
(obsolete) To exceed an adversary's wager in a card game.
(obsolete) To make a retort; to bandy words.
(obsolete) To vie with, or rival, in return.
rived
rived
verb
simple past tense and past participle of rive
rivel
rivel
noun
(US) A kind of small dumpling made from egg and wheat flour, often eaten in soup, especially among the Pennsylvania Dutch and other Germans.
(obsolete) A wrinkle; a rimple.
verb
(intransitive) To shrivel, wrinkle (up).
(transitive) To cause to be wrinkled, to shrivel.
riven
riven
adj
Broken into pieces; split asunder.
Torn apart.
verb
past participle of rive
river
river
noun
(poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
(typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.
Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
One who rives or splits.
verb
(poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
rives
rives
noun
plural of rive
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rive
rivet
rivet
noun
(figuratively) Any fixed point or certain basis.
(obsolete) A light kind of footman's plate armour; an almain rivet.
A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end.
verb
(transitive) To attach or fasten parts by using rivets.
(transitive) To install rivets.
(transitive, figurative) To command the attention of.
(transitive, figurative) To make firm or immovable.
siver
siver
verb
(obsolete) To simmer.
tirve
tiver
tiver
noun
A kind of ochre used for marking sheep in some parts of England.
verb
(transitive) To mark with tiver, as sheep.
vaire
vaire
noun
(heraldry) Alternative form of vair
verdi
vergi
viers
viers
noun
plural of vier
viler
viler
adj
comparative form of vile: more vile
viner
viner
noun
(obsolete) A vinedresser.
viper
viper
noun
(figurative) A dangerous, treacherous, or malignant person.
(informal) Any venomous snake.
(slang) A person who smokes marijuana.
A venomous snake in the family Viperidae.
viren
vireo
vireo
noun
Any bird of the family Vireonidae, which includes vireos, shrike-vireos, greenlets and peppershrikes.
Any of a number of small insectivorous passerine birds, of the genus Vireo, that have grey-green plumage.
vires
vires
noun
(law) the state of being either ultra vires or intra vires; the extent of a court or legislature's jurisdiction to do something.
plural of vire
plural of vis
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vire