(biology) A thick-walled, dormant cell found in cyanobacteria and green algae
akontae
aleksin
alkanes
alkanes
noun
plural of alkane
alkanet
alkanet
noun
Alkanna tinctoria, a plant whose root is used as a red dye.
Anchusa barrelieri (false alkanet).
Anchusa ochroleuca (yellow alkanet).
Anchusa officinalis (common bugloss), a similar plant.
Lithospermum arvense (bastard alkanet or field gromwell).
Other plants of the genus Alkanna.
Pentaglottis sempervirens (green alkanet), a blue-flowered plant with evergreen leaves.
Puccoon (Sanguinaria canadensis).
The dyeing matter extracted from the plant, giving a deep red colour.
alkenes
alkenes
noun
plural of alkene
alkenna
alkenyl
alkenyl
adj
(organic chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from an alkene
noun
(organic chemistry) Any univalent radical derived from an alkene
alkines
alkines
noun
plural of alkine
alkynes
alkynes
noun
plural of alkyne
anankes
angekok
angekok
noun
An Eskimo/Inuit sorcerer or shaman.
angekut
angeyok
anklets
anklets
noun
plural of anklet
ankuses
ankuses
noun
plural of ankus
anniken
antlike
antlike
adj
Resembling an ant. Often used specifically in reference to apparent size or significance.
arensky
askance
askance
adj
Turned to the side, especially of the eyes.
adv
(of a look or glance) With disapproval, skepticism, or suspicion.
Sideways; obliquely.
verb
(rare, transitive) To look at (someone or something) with a sideways glance.
(rare, transitive) To turn (one's eye or gaze) to the side.
askelon
asklent
ateknia
ateknia
noun
childlessness
atinkle
atinkle
adj
Making a tinkling sound.
awakens
awakens
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of awaken
awnlike
awnlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of an awn.
bakeman
bakepan
banjuke
banjuke
noun
Alternative form of banjouke
bankera
bankers
bankers
noun
plural of banker
bankmen
beatnik
beatnik
noun
A person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s or its style.
A person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and is supposed to reject conventional norms of thought and behavior; nonconformist in dress and behavior.
becking
becking
verb
present participle of beck
beckman
beckons
beckons
noun
plural of beckon
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beckon
beekman
behnken
beinked
beinked
adj
Covered in ink.
beknave
beknave
verb
(transitive, rare) To call (someone) a knave.
(transitive, rare) To treat as a knave.
beknots
beknown
beknown
adj
(obsolete) known
verb
past participle of beknow
belknap
bendick
benkley
bennink
beprank
berkman
berskin
bestink
beswink
beswink
verb
(obsolete) to labour, toil; belabour
betaken
betaken
verb
past participle of betake
bethank
bethank
verb
(transitive, rare) To bestow thanks upon; to thank.
bethink
bethink
verb
(intransitive) To meditate, ponder; to consider.
(obsolete, transitive) To think about, to recollect.
(reflexive) To think of (something or somebody) or that (followed by clause); to remind oneself, to consider, to reflect upon.
To determine, resolve.
betoken
betoken
verb
(transitive) To foreshow by present signs; indicate something future by that which is seen or known.
(transitive) To signify by some visible object; show by signs or tokens.
betrunk
betrunk
verb
(transitive) To deprive (a river) of its lower course or trunk by submergence or erosion of the land by the sea.
bickern
bickern
noun
An anvil with two projecting taper ends.
bikaner
birkner
blacken
blacken
verb
(intransitive, ergative) To become black.
(transitive) To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
(transitive, causative) To cause to be or become black.
(transitive, causative) To make dirty.
To defame or sully.
blanked
blanked
adj
(euphemistic, dated) damned; accursed (from the euphemistic printed form d—d)
In a state of blankness.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blank
blanker
blanker
adj
comparative form of blank: more blank
noun
(computing) An early form of screensaver that blanked out the screen display when it was not in use.
blanket
blanket
adj
General; covering or encompassing everything.
noun
A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
A layer of anything.
A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
verb
(transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
(transitive) To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
(transitive) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
(transitive) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
(transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.
Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.
blenker
blinked
blinked
adj
(Appalachia) Sour.
Affected with blinking.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blink
blinker
blinker
noun
(cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each generation.
(informal, US, automotive) Anything that blinks, such as the turn signal of an automobile.
(rare) The eyelid.
(slang) A black eye.
Eye shields attached to a hood for horses, to prevent them from seeing backwards and partially sideways.
Whatever obstructs sight or discernment.
verb
(transitive) To put blinkers on.
blunker
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.
bonkers
bonkers
adj
(informal) Mad; crazy.
noun
plural of bonker
bookend
bookend
noun
(figurative) Something that comes before, after, or at both sides of something else.
A heavy object or moveable support placed at one or both ends of a row of books for the purpose of keeping them upright.
verb
(transitive) To come before and after, or at both sides of.
bookmen
bookmen
noun
plural of bookman
bracken
bracken
noun
(uncountable) An area of countryside heavily populated by this fern.
(uncountable, countable) Any of several coarse ferns, of the genus Pteridium, that form dense thickets; often poisonous to livestock.
brankie
brecken
breskin
bricken
bricken
adj
(archaic) Made of brick.
brisken
brisken
verb
(transitive) To become, or make, brisk; to hasten.
brocken
buckden
buckeen
buckeen
noun
(Ireland, historical) a poor young man of the lower Anglo-Irish gentry who aspires to the habits and dress of the wealthy.
buckner
buckone
bunkers
bunkers
noun
plural of bunker
bunkery
bunkoed
bunkoed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bunko
cankers
cankers
noun
plural of canker
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canker
cankery
cankery
adj
Full of canker.
Like a canker.
Surly; malignant; cantankerous.
celinka
chaiken
chetnik
chetnik
noun
(now historical) A member of a Serbian royalist army band.
An adherent of an nationalist revival of the historical Chetnik movement.
chewink
chewink
noun
A bird, Pipilo erythrophthalmus, the Eastern towhee.
chicken
chicken
adj
(informal) Cowardly.
noun
(UK dialectal or obsolete) plural of chick
(archaic) The young of any bird; a chick.
(countable) A domesticated species of junglefowl (usually, Gallus gallus; sometimes, Gallus gallus domesticus or Gallus domesticus), especially so-called when young.
(countable, Polari) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
(countable, slang) A coward.
(countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.
A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the chicken (that is, the loser).
A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
The game of dare.
verb
(intransitive) To avoid a situation one is afraid of.
chinked
chinked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chink
chinker
chinker
noun
Any material that is used to fill chinks
chinkle
chinkle
noun
(nautical) A turn or kink in a rope.
(rare) A ringing sound of low volume.
verb
(rare, intransitive) To chink or jingle.
(transitive) To tinkle or cause to tinkle; to produce a continued chinking sound with.
chunked
chunked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chunk
clanked
clanked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clank
clinked
clinked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clink
clinker
clinker
noun
(in the plural) fetters.
(nautical, chiefly attributive) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.
Hardened volcanic lava.
Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
Someone or something that clinks.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To convert or be converted into clinker.
clonked
clonked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clonk
clunked
clunked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clunk
clunker
clunker
noun
(informal) A decrepit motor car.
(informal) Anything which is in poor condition or of poor quality.
cockney
cockney
adj
Alternative form of Cockney
noun
(obsolete) An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
A native or inhabitant of parts of the East End of London.
cokeman
cokeman
noun
A worker at a cokeworks.
cokeney
conkers
conkers
noun
(Britain, games) A game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a "conker") suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed.
plural of conker
conteck
conteck
noun
(obsolete) contention, heated debate
conteke
convoke
convoke
verb
(transitive) To convene, to cause to assemble for a meeting.
To call together.
cowkine
cranked
cranked
adj
Formed with, or having, a bend or crank.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of crank
cranker
cranker
adj
comparative form of crank: more crank
noun
One who operates a crank.
crankle
crankle
noun
A bend, twist or crinkle.
verb
To bend, turn, or wind.
To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
crinkle
crinkle
noun
A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.
The act of crinkling
verb
(intransitive) To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
(transitive, intransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
crooken
crooken
verb
(archaic, transitive) To make crooked.
crunkle
crunkle
verb
(UK, obsolete, dialectal) To crumple.
dankest
dankest
adj
superlative form of dank: most dank
dansker
darkens
darkens
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of darken
debunks
debunks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of debunk
decking
decking
noun
The material from which a deck is made.
verb
present participle of deck
deckman
deckman
noun
A man who works on the deck of a ship.
dekoven
deniker
denmark
denmark
Proper noun
country in Western Europe consisting mainly of most of the Jutland Peninsula and a number of islands off its coast.
deskman
deskman
noun
(US, dated) A subeditor.
Anyone who works at a desk, as in a police station.
deskmen
deskmen
noun
plural of deskman
dickens
dickens
noun
(euphemistic) The devil.
A disturbance or row.
In the phrase the dickens (Used as an intensifier).
dinkeys
dinkeys
noun
plural of dinkey
dinkier
dinkier
adj
comparative form of dinky: more dinky
dinkies
doeskin
doeskin
noun
(countable) The hide of a doe, as opposed to a buck.
(countable, chiefly in the plural) A glove made of doeskin leather.
(uncountable) A very soft, close-napped fabric, especially of high quality.
(uncountable) Leather from the skin of a female deer or sheep.
donetsk
donetsk
Proper noun
A city on the Kalmius river in the Donbas region of Ukraine, administrative centre of Donetsk province.
Donetsk province (oblast), in eastern Ukraine.
A town on the Donets river in Russia.
donkeys
donkeys
noun
plural of donkey
dorneck
drinker
drinker
noun
(slang) A pub.
A device from which animals can drink.
Agent noun of drink; someone or something that drinks.
Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.
drucken
drunken
drunken
adj
(obsolete) Saturated with liquid
Applied to various spicy stir-fried dishes in Asian cuisine.
Characterized by or resulting from drunkenness.
Drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage.
Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol.
verb
(archaic, still occasionally in juxtaposition with eaten) past participle of drink
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become drunk or drunken; intoxicate
drunker
drunker
adj
comparative form of drunk: more drunk
dubenko
dunkers
dunkers
noun
plural of dunker
dunkled
ecklein
ecklein
noun
(historical) An old measure of capacity.
eckmann
eelskin
eelskin
noun
the skin of a hagfish
eijkman
eikones
einkorn
einkorn
noun
Einkorn wheat.
ekename
ektenes
elkanah
elkanah
Proper noun
Any of several minor characters in the Old Testament, including the father of Samuel.
name of Biblical origin.
elkhorn
elkhorn
noun
A highly-branched coral (Acropora palmata) supposed to resemble the horns of an elk
The horn of an elk
elkland
elkmont
embanks
embanks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embank