(music) A Mexican musical instrument made from a gourd.
acolyte
acolyte
noun
(Christianity) An altar server.
(Christianity) One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic Church, being ordained to carry the wine, water and lights at Mass.
An attendant, assistant or follower.
acolyth
acolyth
noun
Obsolete form of acolyte.
acritol
actable
actable
adj
Able to be acted, as by an actor.
actinal
actinal
adj
(zoology) Pertaining to the axis of rotational symmetry in radiate animals.
(zoology) Pertaining to the side or surface around the mouth in an animal that has radial symmetry such as a starfish.
actless
actless
adj
Without action or spirit.
actuals
actuals
noun
(accounting, project management) Documented historical results; things that have happened rather than things that are planned.
(business) Physical commodities or financial instruments which are traded in futures contracts.
plural of actual
acutely
acutely
adv
In an acute manner
acylate
acylate
verb
(transitive, organic chemistry) To add one or more acyl groups to a compound.
adactyl
adactyl
adj
(obsolete, rare) Alternative spelling of adactylous
afflict
afflict
verb
(obsolete) To make low or humble.
(obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
(transitive) To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
alantic
albitic
albitic
adj
Of or relating to the mineral albite.
alceste
alcoate
alcoate
noun
alcoholate
alecost
alecost
noun
The plant costmary (Tanacetum balsamita), formerly much used for flavouring ale.
alethic
alethic
adj
(logic) Of or pertaining to the various modalities of truth, such as the possibility or impossibility of something being true.
aleutic
algetic
algetic
adj
Producing or having relation to pain.
alicant
alicant
noun
A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed, said to have been made near Alicante in Spain.
aliptic
allicit
aloetic
aloetic
adj
Consisting chiefly of aloes; of the nature of aloes.
noun
A medicine containing mainly aloes.
amplect
amplect
verb
(formal) To embrace
antical
antical
adj
(botany) Of or pertaining to the surface of a prostrate thallus that is oriented away from the substrate.
(botany) Oriented towards the apex.
anticly
anticly
adv
In an odd or grotesque manner.
aplitic
aplitic
adj
(geology) Composed of, or relating to, aplite.
archlet
archlet
noun
A small arch.
article
article
noun
(archaic) A wench.
(dated) A distinct part.
(dated) Subject matter; concern.
(derogatory, dated) A person; an individual.
(grammar) A part of speech that indicates, specifies and limits a noun (a, an, or the in English). In some languages the article may appear as an ending (e.g. definite article in Swedish) or there may be none (e.g. Russian, Pashto).
(obsolete) A precise point in time; a moment.
A genuine article.
A part or segment of something joined to other parts, or, in combination, forming a structured set.
A piece of nonfictional writing such as a story, report, opinion piece, or entry in a newspaper, magazine, journal, dictionary, encyclopedia, etc.
A section of a legal document, bylaws, etc. or, in the plural, the entire document seen as a collection of these.
An object, a member of a group or class.
verb
(obsolete) To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles or accusations.
(transitive) To bind by articles of apprenticeship.
To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.
asclent
astelic
astelic
adj
(botany) Lacking steles.
attical
attical
Adjective
Attic
auchlet
auletic
auletic
adj
Of or relating to a musical pipe or piper.
auscult
auscult
verb
To auscultate.
backlet
backlit
backlit
adj
Lit or illuminated from behind.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backlight
beclart
beclart
verb
(transitive, UK dialectal) To besmear; bedaub; bemire; smear all over with dirt.
blackit
cablets
cablets
noun
plural of cablet
cacolet
cacolet
noun
A single litter mounted on a pack animal.
One of a pair of chairs or litters mounted on a pack animal (horse, mule, camel)
cafetal
caitlin
calaite
calaite
noun
(mineralogy) A turquoise mineral.
calathi
calathi
noun
plural of calathus
calbert
calcate
calcite
calcite
noun
(mineralogy) a very widely distributed crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO₃, found as limestone, chalk and marble
calesta
caletor
calfret
calicut
calinut
calista
calixto
callant
callant
noun
(Scotland) lad, boy
callate
callets
callets
noun
plural of callet
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of callet
callout
callout
noun
(US) A meeting or rally held in order to find interested participants, e.g. for an activity or sports team.
(communication) An outgoing telephone call.
(idiomatic) A form of verbal abuse with the intention to make the victim feel guilty.
(slang) An invitation to fight.
(typography, graphic layout) A pull quote: an excerpt from an article (such as in a news magazine) that is duplicated in a large font alongside the article so as to grab a reader's attention and indicate the article's topic.
A request for people to join or take part.
An annotation that pertains to a specific location in a body of text or a graphic, and that is visually linked to that location by a mark or a matching pair of marks.
An instance of being summoned to visit a certain place in order to provide assistance; an instance of summoning someone who is on call.
The act of calling out from work, i.e. announcing that one cannot attend; the act of calling in sick.
calmant
calmant
noun
A calming drug; a sedative.
calmato
calmest
calmest
adj
superlative form of calm: most calm
verb
(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of calm
calotin
calotte
calotte
noun
(anatomy) The upper (superior) or lower (inferior) half of the globe of the eye.
(archaic) The vertical central area of the crown of a bird's head.
(architecture) A round cavity or depression, in the form of a cup or cap, lathed and plastered; used to diminish the rise or elevation of a moderate chapel, alcove, etc. which would otherwise be too high for other pieces of the apartment.
A skullcap worn by Roman Catholic priests.
caltech
caltrap
caltrap
noun
Archaic form of caltrop.
caltrop
caltrop
noun
(colloquial) The starthistle, Centaurea calcitrapa, a plant with sharp thorns.
(heraldry) The same object represented as a heraldic charge.
(weaponry) A small, metal object with spikes arranged so that, when thrown onto the ground, one always faces up as a threat to pedestrians, horses, and vehicles.
Any of a number of flowering plants in the family Zygophyllaceae, including several members of the genus Kallstroemia and the species Tribulus terrestris, native to warm temperate and tropical regions.
calumet
calumet
noun
A clay tobacco-pipe used by American Indians, especially as a symbol of truce or peace.
calvert
calvity
calvity
noun
(uncountable) Baldness.
An area of skin that has become bald.
calysta
camblet
camelot
camelot
noun
Alternative form of camlet
camlets
camlets
noun
plural of camlet
cantala
cantala
noun
Cebu maguey; a fiber from the leaves of Agave cantala.
canthal
canthal
adj
(anatomy) Pertaining to a canthus (meeting point of upper and lower eyelid)
noun
(zoology) Any of the scales along the upper surface of the canthus rostralis in snakes, located behind the level of the prenasal/postnasal suture and before the supraocular.
cantily
cantily
adv
In a canty manner.
cantles
cantles
noun
plural of cantle
cantlet
cantlet
noun
A piece; a fragment; a corner.
cantlon
cantril
capelet
capelet
noun
A small cape worn over the shoulders by women.
capital
capital
adj
(comparable, Britain, dated) Excellent.
(crime) Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.
Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
Of or relating to the head.
Of prime importance.
Uppercase.
used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness
noun
(countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
(countable) An uppercase letter.
(countable) The most important city in the field specified.
(countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
(countable, by extension) The chief or most important thing.
(uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
(uncountable, business, finance, insurance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
(uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
capitle
capitol
capitol
noun
(US) Any building or complex of buildings in which a legislature meets.
(historical) Alternative form of Capitol, the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill in Ancient Rome.
(historical) Alternative form of capitoul, the former chief magistrates of Toulouse, France.
caplets
caplets
noun
plural of caplet
capulet
capulet
noun
Alternative form of capellet
carleta
carlist
carlist
Noun
A partisan of one who supports Carlism.
A partisan of
carlita
carlota
carlton
carlton
Proper noun
Any of several place names in England:
a village in the borough of Bedfordshire
a village in district, Cambridgeshire
a village in borough, County Durham
a village and parish in Leicestershire
a suburb of in the borough of Nottinghamshire
a village in district, Suffolk
a village in district, North Yorkshire
a village and parish in district, North Yorkshire
a village in the borough of South Yorkshire
a village in the borough of the City of West Yorkshire
from any of these places.
A southern suburb of New South Wales, Australia.
An inner suburb of Victoria, Australia.
A neighbourhood in Alberta, Canada.
A hamlet in Rural Municipality, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Various places in the United States of America:
an unincorporated community and CDP in Alabama.
a small city in Georgia.
a tiny city in Kansas.
a small city in Minnesota
a town in New York.
a city in Oregon.
an unincorporated community in Texas.
an unincorporated community in Washington.
a town in Wisconsin.
A settlement on United States Virgin Islands.
carotol
carotol
noun
(organic chemistry) The bicyclic sesquiterpenoid alcohol (3R,3aS,8aR)-6,8a-dimethyl-3-(1-methylethyl)-2,3,4,5,8,8a-hexahydroazulen-3a(1H)-ol present in the essential oil of carrots
cartels
cartels
noun
plural of cartel
cartful
cartful
noun
As much as a cart will hold.
carthal
casalty
caselty
casteel
castell
castell
noun
A human tower formed in festivals in Catalonia.
castile
castile
Proper noun
A medieval kingdom (or county) in the Iberian Peninsula.
A vaguely defined region of central Spain.
castled
castled
adj
Furnished with castles.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of castle
castles
castles
noun
plural of castle
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of castle
castlet
castlet
noun
A small castle.
castral
castral
adj
Relating to a castrum.
castuli
catalan
cataldo
catalin
catalog
catalog
noun
US and Canada spelling of catalogue
verb
US spelling of catalogue
catalos
catalpa
catalpa
noun
Any tree of the genus Catalpa, in the family Bignoniaceae. The two North American species, the southern catalpa, Catalpa bignonioides, and the northern catalpa, Catalpa speciosa — along with the yellow catalpa, Catalpa ovata, from China — are often planted as ornamentals because of their showy flowers and decorative bean pods, though others regard the bean pods as a nuisance.
cataula
catcall
catcall
noun
(historical) A whistle blown by a theatre-goer to express disapproval.
(programming) In the Eiffel programming language, a run-time error caused by use of the wrong data type.
A shout or whistle expressing dislike, especially from a crowd or audience; a jeer, a boo.
A shout, whistle, or comment of a sexual nature, usually made toward a passing woman.
verb
To make such an exclamation.
catclaw
catclaw
noun
An acacia, specifically Acacia greggii, now Senegalia greggii, native to most of the border region of the US and Mexico.
catella
catfall
catfall
noun
(nautical) A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead.
cathole
cathole
noun
(nautical) Either of two circular holes cut in the stern of a sailing man of war on the level of the capstan, used for the passage of stern hawsers.
A small pit, dug in the earth by hikers etc in order to bury faeces.
catlett
catlett
Proper noun
A in derived from the surname.
catlike
catlike
adj
nimble, quick, graceful
resembling a cat; feline
slow, deliberate, quiet and stealthy
catline
catling
catling
noun
(archaic) A little cat; a kitten.
(surgery) A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife.
catgut; a catgut string
catlins
catlins
noun
plural of catlin
cattail
cattail
noun
A cat-o'-nine-tails.
Any of several perennial herbs, of the genus Typha, that have long flat leaves, and grow in marshy places.
cattalo
cattalo
noun
Alternative form of cattelo
cattell
cattily
cattily
adv
In a catty manner.
catwalk
catwalk
noun
(by extension, "the catwalk") The business of making clothes for fashion shows.
(nautical) An elevated enclosed passage providing access fore and aft from the bridge of a merchant vessel.
A narrow elevated stage on which models parade; a runway
Any similar elevated walkway.
caulite
caulote
cautela
cavelet
cavelet
noun
A little cave.
celesta
celesta
noun
(music) A musical instrument consisting principally of a set of graduated steel plates struck with hammers that are activated by a keyboard.
centals
centals
noun
plural of cental
central
central
adj
(anatomy) Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.
Being in the centre.
Being very important, or key to something.
Having or containing the centre of something.
noun
(especially US) centre
chaetal
chaetal
adj
Relating to the chaetae
chalets
chalets
noun
plural of chalet
challot
chaloth
chalutz
chalutz
noun
(historical) A member of a group of Jewish immigrants to Palestine who worked in agriculture or forestry.
chamlet
chamlet
noun
Obsolete form of camlet.
chantal
chaplet
chaplet
noun
(Catholicism) A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.
(archaic) A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
(specifically) The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.
A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
A garland or circlet for the head.
A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.
A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
A small chapel or shrine.
Alternative form of chapelet
charlet
charlot
chattel
chattel
noun
A slave.
Tangible, movable property.
cheetal
chelate
chelate
adj
(chemistry) relating to chelation [from 20th c.]
(zoology) having chelae, or in the form of a chela [from 19th c.]
noun
(chemistry) A chelate compound.
verb
(transitive, chemistry) to form a chelate compound by combining a metal atom to form a ring
(transitive, medicine) to remove heavy metals from the bloodstream using a chelate (such as EDTA)
chilcat
chilkat
cholate
cholate
noun
(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of cholic acid