(Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
(Internet) An IRC channel operator.
(chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
(colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
(colloquial, by extension, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
(dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.
(informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
(martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
(poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
A complete shipment.
A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
A license or passport that has been sealed.
A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
verb
(computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).
(intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
(intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
(intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
(nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
(obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.
(obsolete) To twist words.
(poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
(transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
(transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
(transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
(transitive, Hong Kong) To stab.
(transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
(transitive, colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
To chap or crack.
To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
To seal a license or passport.
holp
holp
verb
(Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete) Synonym of help
(archaic) simple past tense of help
hoop
hoop
noun
(Australia, metonymically, slang, by extension) A jockey.
(UK, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
(US, in the plural, metonymically) The game of basketball.
(basketball) The rim part of a basketball net.
(figurative, usually in the plural) An obstacle that must be overcome in order to proceed.
(now chiefly historical) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
(sports, usually in the plural) A horizontal stripe on the jersey.
A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
A hoop earring.
A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
The hoopoe.
verb
(dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
(dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.
(transitive) To bind or fasten using a hoop.
(transitive) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
hope
hope
noun
(Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.
(Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe.
(Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
(countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
(countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
(countable) The actual thing wished for.
A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
verb
(intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
(intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
(transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.
To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
hopi
hops
hops
noun
plural of hop
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hop
hosp
hosp
noun
Abbreviation of hospital.
hypo
hypo
noun
(informal, in the study of law) A hypothetical case.
(informal, zoology) A hypomelanistic snake.
(obsolete) Melancholy; a fit of hypochondria; a morbid depression.
(photography, informal) Sodium thiosulfate (also called hyposulfite of soda), a photographic fixing agent.
(slang) A hypochondriac.
(slang) A hypodermic syringe or injection.
(slang) A hypoglycaemia attack in a person with diabetes.
(slang, finance, Britain) Hypothecation.
verb
(intransitive, slang) To have a hypoglycaemia attack.
(transitive) To administer a hypodermic injection to.
(transitive, economics) To stimulate or boost (the economy) by the injection of cash, such as with quantitative easing
(transitive, figuratively) To stimulate or boost, as if by administering a hypodermic injection. (Compare hype.)
ipoh
koph
koph
noun
Alternative form of qoph
moph
opah
opah
noun
Any of various large, colourful, deep-bodied pelagic fish of the family Lamprididae.
ouph
ouph
noun
Alternative form of auf
paho
peho
phio
phoh
phoh
intj
(archaic) Alternative form of pho
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.
phoo
phoo
intj
An expression of rejection or disgust.
phos
phos
noun
plural of pho
phot
phot
noun
A photometric unit of illuminance, or luminous flux through an area (symbol ph).
verb
(informal) to photograph
phox
poha
poha
noun
An Indian dish of rice flattened into flakes.
The cape gooseberry.
pooh
pooh
intj
(euphemistic) Alternative form of poo: a minced oath for 'shit'.
Expressing disgust at an unpleasant smell.
Expressing dismissal, contempt, impatience, etc.
noun
(countable) An instance of saying "pooh".
(countable, chiefly UK, childish) Alternative form of poo: A piece of feces; an act of defecation.
(uncountable, childish) Alternative form of poo: feces.
verb
(intransitive) To say "pooh".
(intransitive, childish) Alternative form of poo: To defecate or dirty something with feces.
(transitive) To say "pooh" to.
posh
posh
adj
(usually offensive, especially in Scotland and Northern England) Snobbish, materialistic, prejudiced, under the illusion that one is better than everyone else.
Associated with the upper classes.
Stylish, elegant, exclusive (expensive).
intj
An exclamation expressing derision.
noun
fragments produced by an impact
slush
verb
(normally in the phrasal verb posh up) To make posh, or posher.
poth
qoph
qoph
noun
The nineteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
shop
shop
intj
(dated) Used to attract the services of a shop assistant
noun
(figurative, uncountable) Discussion of business or professional affairs.
A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
verb
(intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.
(transitive) To purchase products from (a range or catalogue, etc.).
(transitive, Internet slang) To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
(transitive, slang, chiefly UK) To imprison.
(transitive, slang, chiefly UK) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
soph
soph
noun
(dated) Clipping of sophister (“student advanced beyond first year of residence”).
Clipping of sophomore.
toph
toph
noun
(mineralogy) A kind of sandstone.
whop
whop
noun
A blow or strike.
verb
(transitive, informal) To throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact.
(transitive, slang) To administer corporal punishment