(nautical) Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of.
abate
abate
noun
(uncountable) Abatement; reduction; (countable) an instance of this.
(uncountable) Deduction; subtraction; (countable) an instance of this.
An Italian abbot or other member of the clergy.
verb
(archaic, chiefly figuratively) Of an edge, point, etc.: to become blunt or dull.
(chiefly US) Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
(chiefly US) To dismiss or otherwise bring to an end (legal proceedings) before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
(chiefly figuratively) To dull (an edge, point, etc.); to blunt.
(chiefly historical) Of a writ or other legal document: to become null and void; to cease to have effect.
(transitive, intransitive, law, chiefly historical) To enter upon and unlawfully seize (land) after the owner has died, thus preventing an heir from taking possession of it.
Chiefly followed by from, of, etc.: to omit or remove (a part from a whole); to deduct, to subtract.
Chiefly followed by of: to deduct or subtract from.
Chiefly followed by of: to deprive (someone or something of another thing).
To bow down; hence, to be abased or humbled.
To bring down (someone) mentally or physically; to lower (someone) in status.
To curtail or end (something); to cause to cease.
To cut away or hammer down (material from metalwork, a sculpture, etc.) in such a way as to leave a figure in relief.
To decrease in amount or size.
To decrease in force or intensity; to subside.
To demolish or level to the ground (a building or other structure).
To give (someone) a discount or rebate; also, to relieve (someone) of a debt.
To give a discount or rebate; to discount, to rebate.
To give no consideration to (something); to treat as an exception.
To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
To lower (something) in price or value.
To lower in price or value; (law) specifically, of a bequest in a will: to lower in value because the testator's estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full.
To make (a writ or other legal document) void; to nullify.
To put an end to (a nuisance).
To reduce (something) in amount or size.
abats
abbot
abbot
noun
(archaic, British slang) A brothel-owner's husband or lover.
(archaic, British slang) A ponce; a man employed by a prostitute to find clients, and who may also act as a bodyguard or equivalent to a bouncer.
A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries.
The pastor or administrator of an order, including minor and major orders starting with the minor order of porter.
The superior or head of an abbey or monastery.
abdat
abert
abets
abets
noun
plural of abet
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abet
ablet
ablet
noun
A small fresh-water fish (Alburnus alburnus); the bleak.
abnet
abnet
noun
The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.
abort
abort
noun
(computing) An event in which a process is aborted.
(computing) The function used to abort a process.
(military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
(now rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.
(obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.
verb
(intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
(intransitive, biology) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
(intransitive, military) To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
(intransitive, now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
(transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
(transitive, aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
(transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
(transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.
(transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
abote
abott
about
about
adj
In existence; being in evidence; apparent.
Moving around; astir.
Near; in the vicinity or neighbourhood.
adv
(archaic) In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; in circumference.
(nautical) To the opposite tack: see go about.
(obsolete or rare) In succession; one after another; in the course of events.
From one place or position to another in succession; indicating repeated movement or activity.
Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.
Indicating unproductive or unstructured activity.
Near; in the vicinity.
Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.
On all sides; around.
To a reversed order; half round; facing in the opposite direction; from a contrary point of view.
prep
(Chester) Have you much hay about? = Have you much in the process of making?
(figurative) In or near, as in mental faculties or (literally) in the possession of; under the control of; at one's command; in one's makeup.
(with 'to' and verb infinitive) See about to.
(with present participle, obsolete or dialect) On the point or verge of.
Concerned with; engaged in; intent on.
Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of; to affect.
In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of.
On one's person; nearby the person.
Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
Within or in the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.
abret
absit
absit
noun
(UK) Formal permission to be away from a college for the greater part of the day or more.
A portion of fermenting dough diluted to a paste with water and then cooked.
abstr
abuta
abuts
abuts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abut
acast
acate
accts
accts
noun
plural of acct
aceta
aceta
noun
plural of acetum
acost
acted
acted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of act
actin
actin
noun
(biochemistry, countable) One of the six isoforms of actin.
(biochemistry, uncountable) A globular structural protein that polymerizes in a helical fashion to form an actin filament (or microfilament).
actis
acton
acton
noun
Alternative form of aketon
Obsolete form of actinon.
actor
actor
noun
(grammar) The subject performing the action of a verb.
(obsolete) Someone acting on behalf of someone else; a guardian.
(obsolete, Ancient Rome) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
(obsolete, law) Someone who institutes a legal suit; a plaintiff or complainant.
(software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).
A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer.
Someone or something that takes part in some action; a doer, an agent.
actos
actpu
actup
actus
actus
noun
(historical units of measure) A former Roman unit of area, equivalent to a square with sides of 1 actus (about 0.125 ha)
(historical units of measure) A former Roman unit of length, equal to 120 Roman feet (about 35.5 m)
acute
acute
adj
(botany) With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
(geometry) Of a triangle: having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
(geometry) Of an angle: less than 90 degrees.
(linguistics, chiefly historical) Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
(medicine) Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
(medicine) Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage.
(orthography) After a letter of the alphabet: having an acute accent.
(phonology, dated, of a sound) Sharp, produced in the front of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
Brief, quick, short.
High or shrill.
Intense, sensitive, sharp.
Urgent.
noun
(linguistics, chiefly historical) An accent or tone higher than others.
(medicine) A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia.
(orthography) An acute accent (´).
verb
(transitive, archaic) To make acute; to sharpen, to whet.
(transitive, phonetics) To give an acute sound to.
adapt
adapt
adj
Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
verb
(intransitive) To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
(transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust
(transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character
(transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit
adati
adati
noun
(India, historical) A fine Bengal muslin or cotton cloth.
adaty
adept
adept
adj
Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient
noun
One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient
adest
adits
adits
noun
plural of adit
adlet
adlet
noun
(computing) A small app or active document that can be embedded in a Web page.
A cryptid in Inuit mythology and folklore in Canada and Greenland, a tall, dog-legged humanoid (sometimes identified with inland Native Americans).
A small advertisement.
admit
admit
verb
(intransitive) To give warrant or allowance, to grant opportunity or permission (+ of).
(transitive or intransitive) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny (+ to).
(transitive) To allow (someone) to enter a profession or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise.
(transitive) To allow to enter a hospital or similar facility for treatment.
(transitive) To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration
(transitive) To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
adopt
adopt
verb
(chess, slang) To beat an opponent ten times in a row.
To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
To select and take or approve.
To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
adret
adret
noun
(geography) The sun-facing side of a mountain.
adult
adult
adj
(of a beverage) Containing alcohol, intended for consumption only by adults.
(of a cookie, gummy, etc.) Containing marijuana, intended for consumption only by adults.
Containing excessive vulgar or profane speech, text or images, intended only for adults.
Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; of, or pertaining to, pornography.
Containing situations or discussions intended primarily for adults, such as serious crime, illicit drug use, extramarital affairs, etc.
Fully grown.
Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.
noun
A fully grown human or animal.
A person who has reached the legal age of majority.
verb
(intransitive, informal) To behave like an adult.
(nonstandard, rare) To (cause to) be or become an adult.
adust
adust
adj
(archaic) Burnt or having a scorched colour.
(by extension) Hot and dry; thirsty or parched.
(medicine, historical, usually postpositive) Of a bodily humour: abnormally dark or over-concentrated (associated with various states of discomfort or illness, specifically being too hot or dry).
adyta
adyta
noun
plural of adyton
plural of adytum
aetat
aetat
adj
(formal) Aged; at the age of.
aetna
aflat
aflat
adv
(obsolete) Level with the ground; flat.
afoot
afoot
adj
(predicative) That is on foot, in motion, in action, in progress.
adv
(figurative) In motion; in action; astir; stirring; in progress.
On foot. (means of locomotion, walking)
On foot. (support of the body, standing)
afret
afrit
after
after
adj
(dated) Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent
(nautical, where the frame of reference is within the ship) At or towards the stern of a ship.
adv
Behind; later in time; following.
conj
Signifies that the action of the clause it starts takes place before the action of the other clause.
prep
(Ireland, usually preceded by a form of be, followed by an -ing form of a verb) Used to indicate recent completion of an activity
(dated) According to an author or text.
(obsolete) According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting.
As a result of.
Behind.
Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to.
In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing.
In pursuit of, seeking.
In spite of.
Next in importance or rank.
Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
afton
aftra
agast
agast
adj
(archaic) Alternative spelling of aghast
agata
agate
agate
adv
(obsolete) On the way; agoing.
noun
(countable) A marble made from agate.
(countable) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
(countable, obsolete) A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
(countable, typography) One fourteenth of an inch.
(countable, uncountable, mineralogy) A semitransparent, uncrystallized silicate mineral and semiprecious stone, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged and often curved in parallel alternating dark and light stripes or bands, or blended in clouds; various authorities call it a variety of chalcedony, a variety of quartz, or a combination of the two.
(uncountable, US printing, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5+¹⁄₂-point.
agaty
agaty
adj
Of the nature of agate, or containing agate.
agent
agent
noun
(computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
(gambling) A cheat who is assisted by dishonest casino staff.
(grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".
A person who looks for work for another person
An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect
One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to do the business of another
One who exerts power, or has the power to act
Someone who works for an intelligence agency
agete
agist
agist
verb
(transitive) To charge lands etc. with any public burden.
(transitive) To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.
aglet
aglet
noun
A catkin.
Alternative spelling of aiglet.
The cover at the tip of a shoelace, to prevent it from fraying.
agnat
agust
agust
noun
The tree Sesbania grandiflora.
ahint
ahint
adv
(UK dialectal) behind
aholt
ahunt
aidit
aillt
aillt
noun
A member of a semi-servile class among the Cymry.
airth
airth
noun
(chiefly Scotland) Alternative spelling of earth
airts
airts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of airt
aitch
aitch
noun
The name of the Latin-script letter H.
The word hour is written with a silent aitch.
aitis
akita
alant
alate
alate
adj
(entomology, botany) Having winglike extensions or parts; winged.
adv
(archaic) recently; lately; of late.
noun
A winged, reproductive form of several social insects.
alcot
aleft
aleft
adv
(archaic) To or on the left-hand side.
alert
alert
adj
(obsolete) brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
Attentive; awake; on guard.
noun
(military) A state of readiness for potential combat.
A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
An alarm.
verb
To give warning to.
aleta
aleut
aleut
Adjective
Of the Aleutian Islands, their inhabitants or their language.
Noun
A member of the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska in the United States and of Kamchatka Krai in the Russia.
A native or inhabitant of the Aleutian Islands.
Proper noun
The language of the Aleutian Islands, related to Eskimo (Inupiaq and Yupik).
alfet
alfet
noun
(obsolete) A cauldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.
alhet
aliet
alist
alist
noun
(programming) An association list.
alita
alite
ality
allot
allot
adv
Misspelling of a lot.
verb
(transitive) To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose.
(transitive) To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot.
aloft
aloft
adv
(nautical) In the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging.
Above, overhead, in a high place; up.
At, to, or in the air or sky.
alost
alout
altaf
altai
altar
altar
noun
(figurative) Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.
(informal) A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.
A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.
altay
altay
Proper noun
The mountain range in central Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan come together.
Altay, Xinjiang, China.
Altay Prefecture.
alten
alter
alter
noun
(especially in the plural) An identity or headmate of a person with dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder). A member of a system.
Misspelling of altar.
verb
(intransitive) To become different.
(transitive) To affect mentally, as by psychotropic drugs or illness.
(transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
(transitive) To change the form or structure of.
(transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
altes
altha
altho
altho
conj
(informal, chiefly US) Alternative spelling of although
altin
altin
noun
Alternative form of altyn (“obsolete Russian coin”)
altis
alton
altos
altro
altun
altus
aluta
amant
amata
amate
amate
noun
An art form based on Mexican bark painting from the Otomi culture.
Paper produced from the bark of adult Ficus trees.
verb
(obsolete) To be a mate to; to match.
(obsolete) To dishearten, dismay.
amati
amato
amaty
amaut
ambit
ambit
noun
(archaic) The boundary around a building, town, region, etc.
(archaic, rare) The circumference of something circular; also, an arc; a circuit, an orbit.
(obsolete) Chiefly in the plural form ambits: the open space surrounding a building, town, etc.; the grounds or precincts of a place.
The area or sphere of control and influence of something.
The extent of actions, thoughts, or the meaning of words, etc.
ament
ament
noun
(botany) A catkin or similar inflorescence.
A congenital idiot.
amita
amite
amity
amity
noun
(formal, literary) Friendship. The cooperative and supportive relationship between people, or animals. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, affection, and respect along with a degree of rendering service to friends in times of need or crisis.
Mutual understanding and a peaceful relationship, especially between nations; peace; accord.
amlet
amort
amort
adj
(archaic, literary) As if dead; depressed
amowt
amrit
amrit
noun
Alternative form of amrita
amsat
amvet
anent
anent
prep
(now rare) Concerning, with regard to, about, in respect to, as to, insofar as, inasmuch as, apropos.
(obsolete) Against, in front of, fronting; before; opposite; over against, on the other side.
(obsolete) In a line with; side by side with; on a level with.
(obsolete) In the opinion or judgment of.
aneta
aneta
Proper noun
A city/town in North Dakota.
aneth
aneto
anett
angst
angst
noun
A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety.
Emotional turmoil; painful sadness.
verb
(informal, intransitive) To suffer angst; to fret.
anita
anlet
annat
annat
noun
Alternative form of annate
annet
annet
noun
(UK, dialect, West Country, Cornwall, obsolete) A black-legged kittiwake.
Alternative form of ennet (a duck).
annot
antae
antal
antar
antas
antas
noun
plural of anta
anted
anted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ant
simple past tense and past participle of ante; alternative spelling of anteed
antep
antes
antes
noun
plural of ante
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ante
anthe
antia
antic
antic
adj
(archaic) Grotesque, bizarre
(architecture, art) Grotesque, incongruous.
Obsolete form of antique.
Playful, funny, absurd.
noun
(animation) A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping
(architecture, art, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
(often in the plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper.
A caricature.
A grotesque performer or clown, buffoon.
verb
(intransitive) To perform antics, to caper.
(obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
(transitive, rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.