A cross shaped like a T with a loop at the top, the Egyptian hieroglyph representing the Egyptian triliteral ꜥnḫ (“life”) and often used as an amulet or charm for this concept.
A tau cross.
behn
binh
cahn
chan
chan
noun
(Internet, informal) An IRC channel.
(Internet, informal) An imageboard.
chen
chin
chin
noun
(aviation) The lower part of the front of an aircraft, below the nose.
(boxing, uncountable) The ability to withstand being punched in the chin without being knocked out.
(informal) A chinchilla.
(slang, Britain) A lie, a falsehood.
(slang, Britain) A person of the upper class.
(slang, US) Talk.
The bottom of a face, (specifically) the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.
The bottom part of a mobile phone, below the screen.
verb
(chiefly UK, transitive) To punch or hit (someone)'s chin (part of the body).
(reflexive, intransitive) To perform a chin-up (exercise in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar).
(slang, dated, intransitive) To talk.
(slang, dated, transitive) To talk to or with (someone).
(transitive) To indicate or point toward (someone or something) with one's chin.
(transitive) To put one's chin on (something).
(transitive) To put or hold (a musical instrument) up to one's chin.
(transitive) To turn on or operate (a device) using one's chin; to select (a particular setting) using one's chin.
chmn
chon
chon
noun
Alternative spelling of jun
chun
cohn
dhan
dnhr
dpnh
fohn
ghan
haen
hahn
hain
hain
noun
(obsolete or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) An enclosure; a park
verb
(intransitive, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To be thrifty; be economical
(transitive, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To hedge or fence in; inclose; protect by hedging
(transitive, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To save; spare; refrain from using or spending
hana
hand
hand
noun
(archaic) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
(archaic) Agency in transmission from one person to another.
(card games) The set of cards held by a player.
(chiefly in measuring the height of horses) Four inches, a hand's breadth.
(collective) A bunch of bananas.
(especially in compounds) An agent; a servant, or manual laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty.
(firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
(historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
(obsolete) Rate; price.
(obsolete) Three inches.
(tobacco manufacturing) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
(usually in the plural, hands) Management, domain, control.
A bunch of bananas, a typical retail amount, where individual fruits are fingers.
A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
A performer more or less skilful.
A person's autograph or signature.
A round of a card game.
A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
A whole rhizome of ginger.
An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day.
An instance of helping.
Applause.
Handwriting; style of penmanship.
Personal possession; ownership.
Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
Promise, word.
That which has the appearance of, a human hand.
The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To cooperate.
(transitive) To give, pass or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
(transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
(transitive, nautical, said of a sail) To furl.
(transitive, obsolete) To manage.
(transitive, obsolete) To seize; to lay hands on.
(transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
hang
hang
noun
(Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
(computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input.
(informal, figuratively) A grip, understanding.
A hangout.
A mass of hanging material.
A person that someone hangs out with.
A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
A slackening of motion.
Alternative spelling of Hang (“musical instrument”)
He got the hang of it after only two demonstrations.
The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
The way in which something hangs.
verb
(intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
(intransitive) To float, as if suspended.
(intransitive) To veer in one direction.
(intransitive, chess) To be vulnerable to capture.
(intransitive, computing) To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
(intransitive, figuratively) To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
(intransitive, informal) To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
(intransitive, law) To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
(intransitive, of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
(transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
(transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
(transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
(transitive) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
(transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
(transitive) To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
(transitive, baseball, slang, of a pitcher) To throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
(transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
(transitive, computing) To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
(transitive, figurative) To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).
(transitive, informal) (used in maledictions) To damn.
(transitive, law) To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
hank
hank
noun
(Ulster) Doubt, difficulty.
(Ulster) Mess, tangle.
(nautical) A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
(obsolete) Hold; influence.
(wrestling) A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.
A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
verb
(transitive) To form into hanks.
(transitive, UK, dialect) To fasten with a rope, as a gate.
hano
hans
hant
hant
abbrev
Pronunciation spelling of hadn’t.
noun
(Scotland, US, colloquial, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of haunt, haint (“ghost”)
harn
hasn
hein
hend
hend
verb
(obsolete) To take hold of; to grasp, hold.
heng
heng
noun
The character ꜧ, combining an h and an eng, which stands for the hypothetical phoneme in English that includes both [h] and [ŋ] as its allophones.
henn
hens
hens
noun
plural of hen
hent
hent
verb
(obsolete) To take away, carry off, apprehend.
(obsolete) To take hold of, to grasp.
(obsolete, transitive) To clear; to go beyond.
hern
hern
noun
(dialectal or poetic) Heron.
(now chiefly dialectal) A corner of angular piece of land; a nook of land projecting into another district, parish, or field.
(now chiefly dialectal) A recess beside a wide chimney-fireside.
(now chiefly dialectal) Corner, nook.
pron
(obsolete outside Britain and US dialects, especially Appalachia) Hers; her own.
hewn
hewn
adj
Having been cut or mown down.
Made or crafted by cutting, whittling down.
verb
past participle of hew
hind
hind
adj
Backward; to the rear.
Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts).
noun
(archaic) A servant, especially an agricultural labourer.
A female deer, especially a red deer at least two years old.
A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus.
hine
hing
hing
noun
(India) Asafoetida, especially when used as a seasoning.
verb
(dialectal or poetic) alternative form of hang
hins
hins
noun
plural of hin
hint
hint
noun
(computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.
(databases) An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not.
(obsolete) An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
A clue.
A small, barely detectable amount.
An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
verb
(intransitive) To imply without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
(transitive) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
(transitive) To develop and add hints to a font.
hisn
hisn
pron
(now regional, Britain and US, especially Appalachia) His.
hlqn
hnpa
hoin
hond
hone
hone
intj
Synonym of alas Used to express sorrow, or grief
noun
A kind of swelling in the cheek.
A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
verb
(UK, US, Southern US, dialect) To grumble.
(UK, US, Southern US, dialect) To pine, lament, or long.
To make more acute, intense, or effective.
To refine or master (a skill).
To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
hong
hong
noun
A foreign trading company in China.
verb
(obsolete) past tense of hang
honk
honk
intj
Imitation of car horn, used, for example, to clear a path for oneself.
noun
(informal) A bad smell.
Clipping of honky.
The cry of a goose.
The sound produced by a typical car horn.
verb
(informal) To squeeze playfully, usually a breast or nose.
(intransitive) To make a loud, harsh sound like a car horn.
(intransitive) To make the vocal sound of a goose.
(slang) To have a bad smell.
(slang) To vomit: regurgitate the contents of one's stomach.
(transitive, intransitive) To use a car horn.
hons
hons
noun
plural of hon
hont
hoon
hoon
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) A person who drives excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly; a street drag racer often driving heavily customized cars.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) An attempt or go at something.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A worthless person; a hooligan or lout.
(Australia, slang, dated) A pimp.
(India, historical) A pagoda, a type of gold coin.
(historical) A unit of weight (about 0.378125 of a gram, or 0.0133 of an ounce) used to measure opium in British-controlled parts of Asia; a candareen.
verb
(Australia, New Zealand) To act loutishly; specifically, to drive excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly.
To make a hooting or howling sound.
horn
horn
noun
(architecture) The Ionic volute.
(botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
(carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
(chiefly sports) A sound signaling the expiration of time.
(countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
(countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
(countable) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
(countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
(countable, automotive) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
(countable, geography) A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.
(countable, music) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
(informal, music, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
(military) In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.
(nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
(slang, countable, from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A telephone.
(uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
(uncountable, vulgar, slang, definite article) An erection of the penis.
An antler.
An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.
Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
verb
(transitive) To furnish with horns.
(transitive, of an animal) To assault with the horns.
(transitive, slang, obsolete) To cuckold.
hrzn
hsln
huan
hund
hung
hung
adj
(colloquial, of a person, slightly vulgar) Having a large penis (often preceded by an adverb, e.g. well hung).
(computing, colloquial) Of a computer or similar device, receiving power but not functioning as desired; working very slowly or not at all. The condition is often corrected by rebooting the computer.
(law) Of a jury, unable to reach a unanimous verdict in a trial.
Having hanging additions or appendages.
Of a legislature, lacking a majority political party.
Suspended by hanging.
verb
(now proscribed) simple past tense and past participle of hang (in any sense)
simple past tense and past participle of hang (except when referring to the method of execution; there, hanged is used instead)
hunh
hunh
intj
Alternative spelling of huh
hunk
hunk
noun
(US) A goal or base in children's games.
(US, slang) A honyock.
(computing) A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks.
(informal) A sexually attractive man, especially one who is muscular.
A large or dense piece of something.
huns
huns
noun
plural of hun
hunt
hunt
noun
A hunting expedition.
A pack of hunting dogs.
An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
The act of hunting.
verb
(bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
(bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
(engineering, intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
(transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
(transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
(transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
(transitive, intransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
(transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
hwan
hwan
noun
The monetary unit of South Korea from February 15, 1953 to June 9, 1962.
hymn
hymn
noun
A song of praise or worship, especially a religious one.
verb
(transitive) To praise or extol in hymns.
(transitive, intransitive) To sing a hymn.
hynd
hyne
inch
inch
adj
(Hong Kong, colloquial) cocky and cheeky
noun
(Scotland, Ireland) A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.
(Scotland, Ireland) A small island; an islet.
(figuratively) Any very short distance.
(meteorology) A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.
A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, roughly the width of a thumb.
Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
verb
(Hong Kong, colloquial) to humiliate; to provoke; to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner
(intransitive, followed by a preposition) To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
To drive by inches, or small degrees.
jahn
john
john
noun
(slang) A Western man traveling in East Asia.
(slang) A prostitute's client.
(slang, US) A device or place to urinate and defecate: now usually a toilet or lavatory, but also (dated) a chamber pot or outhouse.
A male mule.
kahn
khan
khan
noun
(historical) A ruler over various Turkish, Tatar and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages.
A caravanserai; a resting-place for a travelling caravan.
A noble or man of rank in various Muslim countries of Central Asia, including Afghanistan.
An Ottoman sultan.
kohn
kuhn
lohn
mohn
nach
nadh
nadh
Noun
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) carrying two electrons and bonded with a hydrogen (H) ion; the reduced form of NAD.
naha
nash
nash
adj
(UK, dialect) Alternative spelling of nesh
verb
(Edinburgh, dialect) to hurry; run; get away
nath
neph
neph
noun
(rare, slang) nephrologist
Abbreviation of nephew.
nesh
nesh
adj
(now UK dialectal) Delicate; weak; poor-spirited; susceptible to cold weather, harsh conditions etc.
(now UK dialectal) Soft; friable; crumbly.
(now UK dialectal) Soft; tender; sensitive; yielding.
verb
(intransitive, dialectal, Northern England) To act timidly.
(transitive) To make soft, tender, or weak.
neth
nich
nigh
nigh
adj
(archaic, poetic) near, close by
Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate.
adv
Almost, nearly.
prep
near; close to
verb
(transitive, intransitive) to draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near
nihi
nimh
nish
nish
pron
(UK, slang) nothing.
noah
noah
Proper noun
A figure in Abrahamic religions, believed to have built an ark to save his family and members of each species of animal from the Great Flood.
The 71st sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
Noun
of; shark.
nosh
nosh
noun
(Polari) Fellatio.
(slang) Food; a light meal or snack.
verb
(Polari) To perform fellatio (on); to blow.
(slang, intransitive, usually with on) To eat a snack or light meal.
owhn
penh
phon
phon
noun
(acoustics) A unit of apparent loudness, equal in number to the intensity in decibels of a 1,000-hertz tone judged to be as loud as the sound being measured.
rhne
rohn
shan
shan
adj
(Scotland, Hartlepool) poor, low-quality
(Tyneside) unfair, harsh
shen
shin
shin
noun
A fishplate for a railway
The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
verb
(Britain, as "shin up") To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.
(US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
To strike with the shin.
shun
shun
verb
(transitive) To avoid, especially persistently; ostracize.
(transitive) To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
(transitive) To screen, hide.
(transitive) To shove, push.
sinh
sinh
noun
A traditional tube skirt worn by Lao and Thai women, particularly northern Thai and northeastern Thai women.
tanh
than
than
adv
(now chiefly dialectal or a misspelling) At that time; then.
conj
(obsolete outside dialects, usually used with for) Because; for.
Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison.
prep
introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates.
then
then
adj
Being so at that time.
adv
(UK, dialect, affirmation) Used to contradict an assertion.
(conjunctive) In that case.
(sequence) At the same time; on the other hand.
(sequence) Next in order of place.
(temporal location) At that time.
(temporal location) Soon afterward.
In addition; also; besides.
conj
Misspelling of than.
Obsolete spelling of than
noun
That time
thin
thin
adj
(aviation) Of a route: relatively little used.
(golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
Poor; scanty; without money or success.
Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
adv
Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
noun
(philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
Any food produced or served in thin slices.
verb
(intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
(transitive) To make thin or thinner.
To dilute.
To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
thon
thon
adj
Yon.
pron
(nonstandard, rare, see usage notes) them (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns him and her.
(nonstandard, rare, see usage notes) they (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
thun
whan
when
when
adv
(fused relative) The time at, on or during which.
(informal, in definitions or explanations) A circumstance or situation in which.
(interrogative) At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.
(relative) At which, on which, during which: often omitted or replaced with that.
At an earlier time and under different, usually less favorable, circumstances.
conj
At (or as soon as) that time that; at the (or any and every) time that; if.
At what time; at which time.
During the time that; at the time of the action of the following clause or participle phrase.
Since; given the fact that; considering that.
Whereas; although; at the same time as; in spite of the fact that.
intj
(obsolete) Expressing impatience. (Compare what.)
(often humorous) That's enough: a command asking someone to stop adding something, especially an ingredient or portion of food or drink; used in, or as if in, literal response to 'Say when'.