(Internet) A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.
(US) A screw anchor.
(archery) A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot.
(architecture) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
(architecture) Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; part of the ornaments of certain mouldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.
(athletics) The final runner in a relay race.
(cartomancy) The thirty-fifth Lenormand card.
(climbing) A device for attaching a climber at the top of a climb, such as a chain or ring or a natural feature.
(economics) A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area.
(figurative) That which gives stability or security.
(heraldry) Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.
(nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
(nautical) An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached. (FM 55-501).
(nautical) The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)
(obsolete) An anchorite or anchoress.
(slang) The brake of a vehicle.
(soccer) A defensive player, especially one who counters the opposition's best offensive player.
(television) An anchorman or anchorwoman.
Alternative form of anker
Any instrument serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, such as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a device to hold the end of a bridge cable etc.; or a device used in metalworking to hold the core of a mould in place.
One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges.
One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
verb
To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position.
To cast anchor; to come to anchor.
To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.
To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman.
To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.
To stop; to fix or rest.
archin
archon
archon
noun
(Gnosticism) A supernatural being subordinate to the Demiurge.
A chief magistrate of ancient Athens.
A person who claims the right to rule, or to exercise power or sovereign authority over other human beings.
A ruler, head of state or other leader.
branch
branch
noun
(Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
(chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
(computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
(computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
(geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
(nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
(rail transport) A branch line.
A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
A location of an organization with several locations.
An area in business or of knowledge, research.
Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
verb
(intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
(intransitive) To produce branches.
(intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
(transitive) To strip of branches.
(transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
brunch
brunch
noun
A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.
verb
To eat brunch.
charin
charnu
charon
chenar
chenar
noun
Alternative form of chinar
cherin
cherna
chinar
chinar
noun
The tree Platanus orientalis, the oriental plane.
chiran
chiron
chnier
churns
churns
noun
plural of churn
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of churn
cohorn
cohorn
noun
Alternative form of coehorn
cranch
cranch
verb
Alternative form of craunch
crinch
crinch
noun
A small bit, morsel
verb
(dialectal) Alternative form of cringe
To grind the teeth, crunch
crunch
crunch
noun
(chiefly US) The symbol #.
(cooking, generally in the plural) A small piece created by crushing; a piece of material with a friable or crunchy texture.
(exercise) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.
(slang) A shortage.
(software engineering, slang) The overtime work required to catch up and finish a project, usually in the final weeks of development before release.
A critical moment or event.
A dessert consisting of a crunchy topping with fruit underneath.
A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
A problem that leads to a crisis.
verb
(automotive, transitive) To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised.
(computing, transitive) To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
(slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
(software engineering, slang, transitive) To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.
To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
To grind or press with violence and noise.
curhan
drench
drench
noun
(obsolete) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
A draught administered to an animal.
Alternative form of dreng
verb
To cause to drink; especially, to dose (e.g. a horse) with medicine by force.
To soak, to make very wet.
enarch
enarch
noun
Alternative form of énarque
verb
(obsolete) To arch.
Alternative form of inarch (“to graft without separating from the roots”)
enrich
enrich
verb
(chemistry) To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.
(physics, transitive) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel. [from 20th c.]
(transitive) To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize. [from 17th c.]
(transitive) To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.
(transitive) To adorn, ornate more richly. [from 17th c.]
(transitive) To enhance.
(transitive) To make (someone or something) rich or richer. [from 14th c.]
french
french
verb
(cooking) To French trim; to stylishly expose bone by removing the fat and meat covering it (as done to a rack of lamb or bone-in rib-eye steak).
(intransitive) To kiss in this manner.
(transitive) To kiss (another person) while inserting one’s tongue into the other person's mouth.
(transitive) To prepare food by cutting it into strips.
granch
grinch
grinch
noun
A grouch or killjoy.
A person who aggressively sets out to ruin the Christmas holidays for others.
grunch
hircin
hircin
noun
hircic acid.
hyrcan
inarch
inarch
verb
To graft by uniting, as a scion, to a stock, without separating either from its root before the union is complete.
incher
incher
noun
(in combination with a number) An object having a dimension of so many inches.
irchin
mrchen
narcho
nearch
nicher
nicher
verb
(Scotland) Alternative form of nicker (“to neigh”)
nochur
orchen
ranche
ranche
noun
Obsolete spelling of ranch
ranchi
ranchi
Proper noun
The state capital of Jharkhand (India).
rancho
rancho
noun
(US, regional) A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation.
(US, regional) A simple hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm workers may lodge at night.
rhenic
rhenic
adj
Of or containing rhenium.
richen
richen
verb
(intransitive) To become rich or richer; become superior in quality, condition or effectiveness.
(intransitive, of a colour) To gain richness; become heightened or intensified in brilliancy.
(transitive) To make or render rich or richer.
roncho
schnur
trench
trench
noun
(archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
(informal) A trench coat.
(military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
verb
(archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
(military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
(usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
To cut furrows or ditches in.
To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
To have direction; to aim or tend.
trunch
trunch
noun
(obsolete) A stake; a small post.
unarch
unarch
noun
The head of a phalanx or phalanstery.
unrich
unrich
adj
Not rich.
urchin
urchin
noun
(historical) A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.
(obsolete) A hedgehog.
(obsolete) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.
A mischievous child.
A sea urchin.
A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.
One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders arranged around a carding drum; so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
wrench
wrench
noun
(UK) An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
(US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.
(archaic) A winch or windlass.
(obsolete) A screw.
(obsolete) A trick or artifice.
(obsolete) A turn at an acute angle.
(obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery.
(obsolete) means; contrivance
(physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
A distorting change from the original meaning.
A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
A violent emotional change caused by separation.
An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.
verb
(intransitive, fencing, obsolete) To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away.
(intransitive, obsolete) To violently move in a turn or writhe.
(transitive) To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
(transitive) To distort the original meaning of; to misrepresent.
(transitive) To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
(transitive) To pull or twist violently.
(transitive) To rack with pain; to be hurt or distressed.
(transitive) To use a wrench; to twist with a wrench.
(transitive, obsolete) To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion.
(transitive, obsolete) To tighten with or as if with a winch.