(nautical, of an anchor) In a vertical line, the cable having been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it.
apeek
apeek
adv
(nautical) Alternative form of apeak
capek
epiky
kappe
keeps
keeps
noun
keeping
plural of keep
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of keep
kelep
kelep
noun
The Guatemalan stinging ant Ectatomma tuberculatum.
kelps
kelps
noun
plural of kelp
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kelp
kelpy
kelpy
noun
Alternative form of kelpie (shapeshifting spirit).
kempe
kemps
kemps
noun
plural of kemp
kempt
kempt
adj
(now humorous) neat and tidy; especially used of hair
kempy
kempy
adj
Alternative form of kemp
kepis
kepis
noun
plural of kepi
knape
knape
noun
(obsolete, dialectal) A lad.
knipe
kopec
kopek
kopek
noun
A Russian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a ruble.
A kopiyka: a Ukrainian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a hryvnia.
kopje
kopje
noun
(South Africa) A small hill or mound (especially on the African veld).
kreep
kreep
Noun
potassium-phosphorus-rare earth elements crustal material of the Moon
krepi
nikep
pakse
papke
parke
paske
peake
peaks
peaks
noun
plural of peak
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of peak
peaky
peaky
adj
Characterised by peaks.
Sickly; peaked.
pecks
pecks
noun
plural of peck
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of peck
pecky
pecky
adj
Discoloured by fungus growth or insects.
Inclined to peck.
peeke
peeks
peeks
noun
plural of peek
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of peek
pekan
pekan
noun
The fisher cat, the fisher (Martes pennanti), or the marten (Martes americana).
pekes
pekes
noun
plural of peke
pekin
pekoe
pekoe
noun
A high-quality black tea made using young leaves, grown in Sri Lanka, India, Java and the Azores.
penki
perak
perks
perks
noun
plural of perk
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of perk
perky
perky
adj
Lively.
Standing upright; firm.
pesek
pesky
pesky
adj
(informal) Annoying, troublesome, irritating (usually of an animal or child).
piked
piked
adj
Describing a dive in which the knees are kept straight, but the body is bent at a right-angle at the hips
Furnished with a pike; ending in a point
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pike
pikel
piker
piker
noun
(Australia) A bullock living in the wild. (Also used attributively.)
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) One who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise).
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) One who refuses to go out with friends, or leaves a party early; a spoilsport or "chicken".
(US, dated) A male freshman at Cornell University.
(military, historical) A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.
A stingy person; a cheapskate.
A tramp; a vagrant.
An amateur.
One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money.
pikes
pikes
noun
plural of pike
pikey
pikey
adj
(UK, slang, derogatory) Associated with members of the above-mentioned underclass.
Associated with or filled with pike (fish).
noun
(UK, Ireland, derogatory, offensive) A working-class (often underclass) person; can vary from specifically Irish Travellers to Romani or travellers from any ethnic background, but now increasingly used for any socially undesirable person, with negative connotations of benefit fraud, theft and living on rundown estates.
(informal) A pike (fish).
verb
(UK, slang, derogatory) To steal.
pikle
pisek
pleck
pleck
noun
(UK dialectal) A plot of ground.
poked
poked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of poke
poker
poker
noun
(US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
(historical) A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
(poker) All the four cards of the same rank.
A kind of duck, the pochard.
A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game.
One who pokes.
verb
To play poker.
To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.
pokes
pokes
noun
plural of poke
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of poke
pokey
pokey
adj
(of a room, house) of small volume, cramped
(slang) slow
(slang, of a car) fast
noun
(MLE, slang) knife.
(slang, with "the") prison.
pokie
pokie
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, slang, chiefly in the plural) A poker machine.
(informal) Any of several species of arboreal tarantula in the genus Poecilotheria.
proke
proke
verb
(obsolete) To poke; to thrust.
puked
puked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of puke
puker
puker
noun
(broadcasting, slang) A person who caricatures the manner of speech of a disc jockey or announcer, using affected, back-of-the-throat speech that is likened to puking.
(slang, derogatory) A detestable person.
Someone who pukes, a vomiter.
That which causes vomiting.
pukes
pukes
noun
plural of puke
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of puke
punke
sapek
sapek
noun
(historical) A cast round coin with a square hole, an official currency of Vietnam from the Đinh dynasty in 970 until the Nguyễn dynasty in 1945.
skelp
skelp
noun
(Scotland) A large portion.
(Scotland) A squall; a heavy fall of rain.
A blow; a smart stroke.
A narrow strip of rolled or forged metal, ready to be bent and welded to form a pipe.
verb
(intransitive, Scotland) To move briskly along.
(transitive) To bend round (a skelp) in tube-making.
(transitive) To form (a plate or bar of metal, etc.) into a skelp.
(transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To beat or slap.
skemp
skeps
skeps
noun
plural of skep
spake
spake
adj
(obsolete) Quiet; tame.
(obsolete) Ready; prompt.
verb
(archaic) simple past tense of speak
speak
speak
noun
(dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.
Speech, conversation.
language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
verb
(by extension) To be able to communicate in the manner of specialists in a field.
(by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
(informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
(intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
(intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
(intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
(intransitive, reciprocal) To have a conversation.
(transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
(transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
(transitive) To utter.
(transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.
speck
speck
noun
(uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.
A very small thing; a particle; a whit.
Fat; lard; fat meat.
The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
The fat of the hippopotamus.
verb
(transitive) To mark with specks; to speckle.
spekt
spelk
spelk
noun
(Northern English) A rod or switch.
(Northern English) A splinter, usually of wood.
(Northern English) A wooden splinter caught under the skin.
(aerospace) Unusably short lengths of fibre-reinforced material, such as prepreg.
verb
(transitive, Northern English) To use a spelk in or on.
spike
spike
noun
(botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
(by extension) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
(informal, chiefly in the plural) A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
(music, lutherie) Synonym of endpin.
(slang, historical) The casual ward of a workhouse.
(software engineering, XP) A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.
(theater) A mark indicating where a prop or other item should be placed on stage.
(volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
(zoology) An adolescent male deer.
A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
A sharp peak in a graph.
A sort of very large nail.
A surge in power or in the price of a commodity, etc.; any sudden and brief change that would be represented by a sharp peak on a graph.
An ear of corn or grain.
Spike lavender.
The rod-like protrusion from a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
verb
(American football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
(figurative, journalism) To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
(military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
(slang) To inject a drug with a syringe.
(volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
To add a small amount of one substance to another.
To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into a drink.
To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
To fix on a spike.
To increase sharply.
To set or furnish with spikes.
spoke
spoke
noun
(nautical) A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
A device for fastening the wheel of a vehicle to prevent it from turning when going downhill.
A rung of a ladder.
A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.