(now rare) Giving entertainment or interest; recreative, diverting, engaging.
(obsolete) Illusive, deceitful.
aquiver
aquiver
adj
In a state of excitement, trepidation or agitation; quivering.
avebury
avenous
avenues
avenues
noun
plural of avenue
avernus
avernus
Proper noun
The entrance to Hell or the underworld, or the underworld itself.
A lake in Southern Italy.
aveugle
avouter
avulsed
avulsed
adj
(of a piece of flesh or body part) Having been torn off, as in an avulsion.
(of a wound) Having been caused by a piece of flesh or body part being torn off, as in an avulsion.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of avulse
avulses
avulses
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of avulse
bellvue
bhudevi
bouvier
bravure
bravure
noun
plural of bravura
bugayev
buvette
cauvery
chevaux
chevaux
noun
plural of cheval
couvade
couvade
noun
A practice among some peoples, such as the Basques, of the husband of a woman in the last stages of pregnancy taking to bed, avoiding certain foods, or imitating other behaviours of a pregnant woman.
Sympathetic pregnancy: the involuntary sympathetic experience of the husband of symptoms of his wife's pregnancy, such as weight gain or morning sickness.
couvert
couvert
noun
cover charge
coverup
coverup
noun
Alternative spelling of cover-up
cultive
culvers
culvers
noun
plural of culver
culvert
culvert
noun
A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.
verb
To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert.
cursive
cursive
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that occurs in a straight line (in space or time).
(of writing) Having successive letters joined together.
Running; flowing.
noun
(countable) A cursive character, letter or font.
(countable) A manuscript written in cursive characters.
(uncountable) Joined-up handwriting.
curvate
curvate
adj
bent in a regular form; curved
curvets
curvets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of curvet
curvier
curvier
adj
comparative form of curvy: more curvy
cutover
cutover
adj
Having been cleared of valuable timber.
noun
(by extension) Any process of quickly replacing a machine so as to minimize downtime.
An area of cutover land.
The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
The process of quickly replacing a telephone switchboard, in which the connections are duplicated to the new machine and the original connections are then suddenly disconnected.
cuvette
cuvette
noun
(analytical chemistry) a small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer
(military) a cunette
a pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table
an inner lid of a timepiece
decurve
desuvre
devalue
devalue
verb
(intransitive) To lose value; to depreciate.
(transitive) To lower or remove the value of something.
devault
devaunt
devious
devious
adj
Cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank.
Roundabout, circuitous, deviating from the direct or ordinary route.
devours
devours
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devour
divulge
divulge
verb
(transitive) To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a secret) so that it may become generally known.
To indicate publicly; to proclaim.
divulse
divulse
verb
(transitive, medicine) To pull apart forcibly.
doeuvre
dunlevy
duvetyn
duvetyn
noun
Alternative spelling of duvetyne
educive
educive
adj
That educes.
effluve
effluve
noun
A spray-like electric discharge.
elusive
elusive
adj
Difficult to make precise.
Evading capture, comprehension or remembrance.
Rarely seen.
eluvial
eluvial
adj
Of or pertaining to eluvium
noun
A rock composed of eluvium
eluvies
eluvium
eluvium
noun
(geology) Residual deposits of soil, dust and rock particles produced by the action of the wind
emusive
envault
envault
verb
(transitive) To enclose in a vault; to entomb.
envious
envious
adj
(obsolete) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
(obsolete, poetic) Inspiring envy.
Excessively careful; cautious.
Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging
evacuee
evacuee
noun
A person who has been evacuated, especially a civilian evacuated from a dangerous place in time of war
evelunn
eventus
everdur
evolute
evolute
adj
(malacology) Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a surface.
noun
(geometry) A curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve.
exuviae
exuviae
noun
(history, military) Among the Ancient Romans, weaponry and equipment stripped from the person of a foe; booty.
The coverings of an animal that have been shed or cast off, particularly the molted exoskeletons of arthropods.
plural of exuvia
exuvial
exuvial
adj
Related to something sloughed off or stripped away.
exuvium
exuvium
noun
(biology) Synonym of exuvia
favuses
fervour
fervour
noun
A passionate enthusiasm for some cause.
An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardour.
Heat.
fluxive
fluxive
adj
flowing; lacking solidity
fulvene
fulvene
noun
(organic chemistry) any heterocyclic analogue of these compounds
(organic chemistry) the hydrocarbon methylenecyclopentadiene or any of its derivatives
furivae
furtive
furtive
adj
Of a person or an animal: sly, stealthy.
Of a person, etc.: inclined to steal; pilfering, thieving.
Of a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy.
Of a thing: that has been acquired by theft; stolen; also (generally) taken stealthily.
gemauve
gemauve
noun
The plant Malachra capitata.
gravure
gravure
noun
(Japan) A style of Japanese softcore; glamour photography.
(art, printing) A type of intaglio printing process, in which an image is engraved onto a rotating copper cylinder.
guevara
gustave
gustave
Proper noun
name, a variant of
helluva
helluva
adj
(colloquial) (A) hell of a; extreme.
adv
(colloquial); (expletive) (A) hell of a; extremely or very.
huavean
huvelyk
iguvine
imprevu
incurve
incurve
verb
(intransitive) To curve inwards.
(transitive, rare) To cause something to curve inwards.
juamave
jussive
jussive
adj
(grammar) Of or in the jussive mood.
noun
(Arabic grammar) A verbal mood of vague or miscellaneous senses, occurring after some particles and in conditional clauses.
(grammar, uncountable and countable) The jussive mood, a verb inflection used to indicate a command, permission or agreement with a request; an instance of a verb so inflected.
juvenal
juvenal
adj
Of a young bird, that has its first flying plumage
noun
(obsolete) A youth.
A juvenal bird.
juverna
ketuvim
ketuvim
Proper noun
A subdivision of the Hebrew Testament (Tanakh), known in English as "The Writings." It is composed of Songs (Psalms, and Song of Solomon), Proverbs, and eight other books of the Bible that were written near the close of the canon. These scriptures are viewed as less authoritative than the Torah.
khevzur
larvule
leveful
leveful
adj
(obsolete) Allowable; permissible; lawful.
levitus
levroux
levulic
levulin
levulin
noun
(organic chemistry) A substance resembling dextrin, obtained from the bulbs of the dahlia, the artichoke, and other sources, that yields levulose on decomposition.
lietuva
louvale
louvers
louvers
noun
plural of louver
louvred
louvred
adj
(chiefly British spelling) Alternative form of louvered
louvres
louvres
noun
plural of louvre
lovebug
lovebug
noun
(informal) A person who is in love; a sweetheart.
An insect, the honeymoon fly (Plecia nearctica, family Biblionidae).
loveful
loveful
adj
(nonstandard) Evoking a feeling of love; lovable.
Full of love; loving.
Seeking or desiring love.
lucivee
lucivee
noun
Alternative form of lucifee
luverne
luverne
Proper noun
a city in Alabama, USA, and the county seat of Crenshaw County.
a city in Minnesota, USA, and the county seat of Rock County.
a tiny "city" in Steele County, North Dakota, USA.
lvalues
lvalues
noun
plural of lvalue
mauvein
mauvine
mauvine
noun
(organic chemistry) A mauve pigment obtained from aniline.
mulvane
nervous
nervous
adj
(botany, obsolete) Nervose.
(obsolete) Full of sinews.
(obsolete) Having strong or prominent sinews; sinewy, muscular.
(obsolete) Of a piece of writing, literary style etc.: forceful, powerful.
Affecting the nerves or nervous system.
Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.
Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge.
Supplied with nerves; innervated.
nervule
nervule
noun
(botany) A minor, nonsupporting vein in a leaf of a plant; a branch vein of a nervure (supporting vein) or of another nervule.
(entomology) A minor vein in a wing of an insect.
nervure
nervure
noun
(architecture) One of the ribs in a groined vault; a projecting moulding.
(botany, now rare) Any of the veins that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ.
A vein in the wing of an insect.
niveous
niveous
adj
Snowy; resembling snow.
nouveau
nouveau
adj
New, fashionable.
nureyev
oeuvres
oeuvres
noun
plural of oeuvre
outgave
outgave
verb
simple past tense of outgive
outgive
outgive
verb
(transitive) To surpass in giving; to give more than.
outlive
outlive
verb
(intransitive) To live longer; continue to live.
(transitive) To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.
(transitive) To live through or past (a given time).
(transitive) To surpass in duration; outlast.
outlove
outlove
verb
(transitive) To love more than somebody else.
outmove
outmove
verb
(transitive) To move faster or more skilfully than; to outmaneuver.
outoven
outrave
outrave
verb
(transitive) To surpass in raving.
outrive
outrive
verb
(obsolete) To rive; to sever.
outrove
outrove
verb
simple past tense of outrive
outvied
outvied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outvie
outvier
outvies
outvies
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outvie
outvote
outvote
verb
To cast more votes than another
To defeat another by obtaining more votes
outwave
outwove
outwove
verb
simple past tense of outweave
ouverte
ouvrage
ouvrier
ouvrier
noun
A French labourer or manual worker.
ovenful
ovenful
noun
As much as an oven will hold.
overbuy
overbuy
verb
To buy at an inflated price.
To buy excessively, especially to buy more than one needs or can afford.
overcup
overcup
noun
The oak Quercus lyrata whose acorns are enclosed by their cups
overcut
overcut
adj
(participial adjective) Excessively cut.
noun
(motor racing) A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone else by pitting after them and running in clean air to make up time.
An opening resulting from such cutting; an extreme incision or wound.
The act or result of excessive cutting.
verb
(transitive) To cut excessively.
overdub
overdub
noun
(sound engineering) An overdubbed part.
verb
(sound engineering) To record a part along with an already recorded part or parts.
overdue
overdue
adj
Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.
overgun
overput
overput
verb
(transitive) To overthrow; subdue.
overrun
overrun
noun
(aviation) An area of terrain beyond the end of a runway that is kept flat and unobstructed to allow an aircraft that runs off the end of the runway to stop safely.
(food) Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.
An instance of overrunning.
The amount by which something overruns.
verb
(printing) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
To continue for too long.
To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
To infest, swarm over, flow over.
To run past the end of.
To run past; to run beyond.
oversum
oversum
noun
A whole that is more than the sum of its parts; superaddition.
verb
To add up incorrectly, arriving at a total that is too large.
oversup
oversup
verb
(obsolete) To eat (supper) excessively
overuse
overuse
noun
excessive use
verb
(transitive) To use too much of.
ovulate
ovulate
adj
(botany) Containing, or bearing, an ovule.
verb
(intransitive) To produce eggs or ova.
ovulite
ovulite
noun
A fossil egg.
parvenu
parvenu
adj
Being a parvenu; also, like, having the characteristics of, or associated with a parvenu.
noun
A person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class, especially through acquisition of wealth, privileges, or political authority but has not gained social acceptance by those within that new class.
parvule
parvule
noun
(medicine, obsolete) A small pill or pellet; a granule.
peulvan
pluvine
prevued
prevued
verb
simple past tense and past participle of prevue
prevues
prevues
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of prevue
pulsive
pulsive
adj
Tending to compel; compulsory.
pursive
pursive
adj
Obsolete form of pursy.
purveys
purveys
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of purvey
purview
purview
noun
(law) The enacting part of a statute.
(law) The scope of a statute.
Range of understanding.
Scope or range of interest or control.
quavers
quavers
noun
plural of quaver
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quaver
quavery
quavery
adj
Apt to quaver; shaky, trembling.
quiteve
quivers
quivers
noun
plural of quiver
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quiver