(pharmacology) Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.
noun
(pharmacology) A detergent.
aburton
aburton
adv
(nautical) With the length athwartship.
account
account
noun
(accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
(archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
(banking) A bank account.
(uncountable) Profit; advantage.
A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
A record of events; a relation or narrative.
A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
verb
(intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
(intransitive) To consider that.
(intransitive) To establish the location for someone.
(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
(intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
(intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.
(obsolete) To count (up), enumerate.
(obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).
(obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.
(transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
(transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).
acquent
adjunct
adjunct
adj
Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
Connected in a subordinate function.
noun
(brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
(category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
(dated, metaphysics) A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
(grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that modifies its meaning.
(music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
(rhetoric) Symploce.
(syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
adurent
aflaunt
aflaunt
adj
In a flaunting state or position.
agustin
almuten
alunite
alunite
noun
(mineralogy) A gray, water-soluble mineral, potassium aluminium sulphate; the natural source of alum, KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆.
amentum
amentum
noun
catkin
amounts
amounts
noun
plural of amount
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of amount
anethum
angakut
angekut
anlaute
annicut
annicut
noun
Alternative form of anicut
annuent
annuent
adj
nodding; used in nodding
annuity
annuity
noun
(insurance, pensions) A right to receive amounts of money regularly over a certain fixed period, in perpetuity, or, especially, over the remaining life or lives of one or more beneficiaries.
annulet
annulet
noun
(architecture) A ring-shaped molding at the top of a column.
(heraldry) A small circle borne as a charge in coats of arms.
A small ring.
Charissa obscurata (also Scotch annulet), a moth of the family Geometridae.
antabus
antaeus
anterus
antheus
antibug
antibug
adj
Serving to counteract bugs (surveillance devices).
Serving to kill or repel bugs (insects).
anticum
anticus
antigua
antigun
antigun
adj
(politics) Supportive of greater gun control, often including opposition to the idea of gun rights.
Opposed to guns, especially widespread individual use of guns.
antihum
antihum
noun
(historical) A device that reduces the mechanical vibration of telegraph wires to prevent their making a humming sound.
antipus
antiqua
antiqua
noun
Alternative form of Antiqua (“typeface”)
antique
antique
adj
(bookbinding) Embossed without gilt.
(obsolete) Synonym of antic, specifically:
(typography) Designating a style of type.
Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.
Fantastic, odd, wild, antic.
Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.
noun
(figuratively, mildly derogatory) An old person.
(in the singular) The style or manner of ancient times, used especially of Greek and Roman art.
(obsolete) A man of ancient times.
(typography) A style of type of thick and bold face in which all lines are of equal or nearly equal thickness.
A performer in an antic; or in general, a burlesque performer, a buffoon.
An object of ancient times.
An old object perceived as having value because of its aesthetic or historical significance.
Grotesque entertainment; an antic.
verb
(intransitive) To search or shop for antiques.
(transitive) To make (an object) appear to be an antique in some way.
(transitive, bookbinding) To emboss without gilding.
antirun
antisun
antisun
noun
(astrophysics, countable) A hypothetical sun composed of antimatter.
sunblock, sunscreen
antrums
arbutin
arbutin
noun
(organic chemistry) A glycoside of hydroquinone, found in bearberry, that is used to treat some diseases of the urinary tract
aruntas
asquint
asquint
adj
Looking sideways, as though warily.
adv
With narrowed eyes.
astound
astound
adj
(obsolete) Stunned; astounded; astonished.
verb
To astonish, bewilder or dazzle.
ataunto
attuned
attuned
adj
(of a musical instrument) Tuned to the correct pitch.
Brought into harmony; harmonized.
Having been changed to fit in with a particular context or to be in sync with a phenomenon.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of attune
attunes
attunes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attune
auantic
auction
auction
noun
(bridge) The first stage of a deal, in which players bid to determine the final contract.
A public event where goods or property are sold to the highest bidder.
verb
To sell at an auction.
audient
audient
adj
Listening, paying attention.
noun
(obsolete) A hearer; a member of an audience
(obsolete, specifically) A catechumen (“convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism”) in the early Christian Church.
augment
augment
noun
(grammar) In some Bantu languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
(grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.
An increase.
verb
(grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.
(intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
(music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
(music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
(transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
aultman
aunters
aunters
noun
plural of aunter
aunties
aunties
noun
plural of auntie
plural of aunty
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of auntie
auntish
auntish
adj
Characteristic of an aunt; auntlike
austina
austine
autodin
autoing
autoing
verb
present participle of auto
automan
automan
noun
(dated) A man involved in automobile manufacture.
automen
automen
noun
plural of automan
autonoe
autonoe
Proper noun
One of the moons of Jupiter.
autonym
autonym
noun
(linguistics, anthropology) A name used by a group or category of people to refer to themselves or their language, as opposed to a name given to them by other groups.
(taxonomy) An infraspecific name in which the specific epithet is repeated.
A work published under the author's true name.
The true name of a person or other entity, especially an author.
autosyn
autovon
autovon
Proper noun
of: a worldwide US military telephone system from the 1960s to the 1990s.
autrain
autrans
autumni
autumns
autumns
noun
plural of autumn
banquet
banquet
noun
(archaic) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats.
A ceremonial dinner party for many people.
A large celebratory meal; a feast.
verb
(intransitive) To participate in a banquet; to feast.
(obsolete) To have dessert after a feast.
(transitive) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
bautain
bautzen
bautzen
Proper noun
A city in Germany.
bawsunt
bawsunt
adj
(archaic, rare, literary, or dialectal) Having white streaks or spots on a black or bay background (especially of an animal's or a mountain's face).
beennut
bethune
betrunk
betrunk
verb
(transitive) To deprive (a river) of its lower course or trunk by submergence or erosion of the land by the sea.
betulin
betulin
noun
(biochemistry) A naturally-abundant triterpene, commonly isolated from the bark of birch trees, that can be converted to betulinic acid
beuthen
beutner
bhutani
bhutani
Proper noun
A Baloch tribe residing in Balochistan, Pakistan.
The language of the aforementioned people.
bisitun
bisutun
bitumen
bitumen
noun
(Australia, colloquial) Roads sealed with bitumen, as opposed to dirt roads.
(Canada) Canadian deposits of extremely heavy crude oil.
(by extension) Any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petrolea, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
A sticky, black, highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum, burning with a bright flame. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc.; Mineral pitch.
verb
To cover or fill with bitumen.
biunity
biunity
noun
The quality of being biune.
bleaunt
bleaunt
noun
(historical) A short tunic or blouse worn in the Middle Ages
blunket
blunket
adj
(obsolete) Gray; grayish or light blue.
noun
(obsolete) A cloth, or kind of cloth (blanket cloth), generally but not always of this color.
(obsolete) A color, generally a light bluish gray or blue or gray, but sometimes seemingly a dark red or violet.
blunted
blunted
adj
(slang) high on cannabis
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blunt
blunter
blunter
adj
comparative form of blunt: more blunt
bluntie
bluntly
bluntly
adv
In a blunt manner; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
botulin
botulin
noun
An extremely potent nerve toxin produced by the anaerobic bacteria Clostridium botulinum. Ingesting botulin results in the serious medical condition of botulism.
boutons
boutons
noun
plural of bouton
brunets
brunets
noun
plural of brunet
bruting
bruting
verb
present participle of brute
buffont
buffont
noun
(chiefly historical) An item of neckwear (a neckerchief), usually of linen, gauze, or lace, worn around the neck and puffed out over the bosom, popular from the 1750s to 1790s.
Alternative form of bouffant
builtin
builtin
adj
Alternative form of built in
noun
(software) Clipping of builtin function.
bullnut
bultman
bultong
bultong
noun
Alternative form of biltong
bundist
bundlet
bundlet
noun
A small bundle.
bunters
bunters
noun
plural of bunter
buntine
buntine
noun
bunting; woollen cloth for flags
bunting
bunting
noun
(nautical) A thin cloth of woven wool from which flags are made; it is light enough to spread in a gentle wind but resistant to fraying in a strong wind.
(obsolete) An old boys' game, played with sticks and a small piece of wood.
A pushing action.
A strong timber; a stout prop.
A warm, hooded infant garment, as outerwear or sleepwear, similar to a sleeper or sleepsack; especially as baby bunting or bunting bag.
Any of various songbirds, mostly of the genus Emberiza, having short bills and brown or gray plumage.
Flags considered as a group.
Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag.
verb
present participle of bunt
buoyant
buoyant
adj
(figuratively) Lighthearted and lively.
(of an economy, business etc.) Involving or engaged in much successful trade or activity.
Having buoyancy; able to float.
burnets
burnets
noun
plural of burnet
burnett
burnout
burnout
noun
(US, slang) A marijuana addict; one whose brains have been burned out.
(aerospace) The shutoff of a rocket motor following the complete exhaustion of its fuel supply, or having been irreversibly throttled after the application of a planned delta-v.
(automotive) Use of the throttle to spin the wheels of a vehicle being held stationary, causing the spinning tires to produce smoke and burn rubber.
(psychology) The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career.
The failure of an electrical device, usually through overheating due to the application of excessive power.
burntly
burrton
burthen
burthen
noun
(obsolete or historical, nautical) The tonnage of a ship based on the number of tuns of wine that it could carry in its holds.
Archaic form of burden.
burtons
burtons
noun
plural of burton
bushton
bustian
busting
busting
noun
(colloquial) The process of something being broken or exploded.
verb
present participle of bust
butanal
butanal
noun
(organic chemistry) butyraldehyde
butanes
butanes
noun
plural of butane
butanol
butanol
noun
1,1-dimethyl-ethanol or tert-butanol - (CH₃)₃C-OH
2-methyl-propan-1-ol or iso-butanol - (CH₃)₂CHCH₂-OH
butan-1-ol or n-butanol or butyl alcohol - CH₃(CH₂)₃-OH
butan-2-ol or sec-butanol - CH₃CH₂CH(CH₃)-OH
butenes
butenes
noun
plural of butene
butenyl
butenyl
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of several isomeric univalent radicals derived from butene; but especially crotyl
butling
butling
verb
present participle of butle
butment
butment
noun
(architecture) A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.
(masonry) The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported.
butting
butting
noun
An abuttal; a boundary.
verb
present participle of but
present participle of butt
buttons
buttons
noun
(colloquial) A remote control.
(colloquial) Synonym of marbles (“sanity; mental faculties”)
(colloquial, dated) A boy servant, or page.
The dung of sheep.
plural of button
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of button
buttony
buttony
adj
(of berries) Not fully grown and matured; overly small and insufficiently juicy.
(of hops) Full-berried.
Having a large number of buttons.
Resembling a button or buttons.
noun
(Scotland, games) A children’s game played with buttons.
The manufacture of buttons.
butyrin
butyrin
noun
(organic chemistry) The triglyceride of butyric acid; the principal constituent of butterfat
calinut
canthus
canthus
noun
(anatomy) Either corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet.
cantuar
cantuta
cantuta
noun
An ornamental shrub Cantua buxifolia
caunter
caution
caution
noun
(dated) One who draws attention or causes astonishment by their behaviour.
(law) A formal warning given as an alternative to prosecution in minor cases.
(soccer) A yellow card.
A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided.
Prudence when faced with, or when expecting to face, danger; care taken in order to avoid risk or harm.
Security; guaranty; bail.
verb
(soccer) To give a yellow card
(transitive) To warn; to alert, advise that caution is warranted.
centaur
centaur
noun
(Greek mythology) A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.
(astronomy, also capitalised) An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune.
(chess) A chess-playing team comprising a human player and a computer who work together.
centrum
centrum
noun
(seismology) The focus or place of origin of an earthquake.
A center.
The basis or fundamental portion of one of the cranial segments, regarded as analogous to vertebrae.
The central body of a vertebra; the solid piece to which the arches and some other parts are or may be attached.
centums
centums
noun
plural of centum
centure
century
century
noun
(US, informal) A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.
(cricket) A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.
(snooker) A score of one hundred points.
(sports) A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
A period of 100 consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.
A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of 100 army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing 60 to 70 or 80) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.
chanute
chaunts
chaunts
noun
plural of chaunt
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chaunt
chengtu
chesnut
chesnut
noun
Obsolete spelling of chestnut
chultun
chultun
noun
A bottle-shaped underground storage chamber built by the pre-Columbian Maya in southern Mesoamerica, in some cases designed to collect rainwater.
chunter
chunter
verb
(British, Ireland, dialect) To grumble, complain.
(British, Ireland, dialect) To speak in a soft, indistinct manner, mutter.
chuting
chuting
verb
present participle of chute
chutnee
chutnee
noun
Archaic form of chutney.
chutney
chutney
noun
(music) A style of Indo-Caribbean music from the West Indies, associated especially with Trinidad and Tobago.
A sweet or savory but usually spicy condiment, originally from eastern India, made from a variety of fruits and/or vegetables, often containing significant amounts of fresh green or dried red chili peppers.
clunist
clunter
cobnuts
cobnuts
noun
plural of cobnut
coconut
coconut
noun
(New Zealand, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Pacific islander.
(South Africa, Australia, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a black race traitor.
(derogatory, ethnic slur) A Hispanic or other dark-skinned person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a race traitor.
(slang) A female breast.
(uncountable) The edible white flesh of this fruit.
A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
The coconut palm.
conatus
conatus
noun
A force or impulse; a nisus.
An effort, an endeavour, a striving.
conduct
conduct
noun
(archaic) Something which carries or conveys anything; a channel; an instrument; a conduit.
(obsolete) Convoy; escort; person who accompanies another.
(of a literary work) Plot.
Behaviour; the manner of behaving.
Skillful guidance or management.
The act or method of controlling or directing.
verb
(archaic, transitive) To lead, or guide; to escort.
(intransitive) To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
(transitive) To carry out (something organized)
(transitive) To lead; to direct; to be in charge of (people or tasks)
(transitive) To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit (heat, light, electricity, etc.)
(transitive, music) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
(transitive, reflexive) To behave.
conduit
conduit
noun
(figurative) A means by which something is transmitted.
(finance) An investment vehicle that issues short-term commercial paper to finance long-term off-balance sheet bank assets.
A duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled; a type of raceway.
A pipe or channel for conveying water, etc.
confute
confute
verb
(transitive, now rare) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.
consult
consult
noun
(US) A visit, e.g. to a doctor; a consultation.
(obsolete) A council; a meeting for consultation.
(obsolete) Agreement; concert.
(obsolete) The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation
(obsolete) the result of consultation; determination; decision.
verb
(intransitive) To advise or offer expertise.
(intransitive) To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
(intransitive) To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.
(transitive) To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of (a person)
(transitive) To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
(transitive) To refer to (something) for information.
(transitive, obsolete) To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
(transitive, obsolete) To deliberate upon; to take for.
consute
consute
adj
(entomology) Marked as if with stitches, like the wing-covers of some beetles.
contenu
conteur
contour
contour
noun
(figurative) A general description giving the most important points.
(linguistics) a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth.
An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
verb
(intransitive) To practise the makeup technique of contouring.
(transitive) To form a more or less curved boundary or border upon.