(chiefly UK, often with of) Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position.
(of a seaman) Absent from his watch.
Floating at random.
adv
In a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves.
adroit
adroit
adj
Deft, dexterous, or skillful.
airted
airted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of airt
ardith
arditi
ardito
artiad
artiad
adj
(chemistry) even; not odd; said of elementary substances and radicals whose valence is divisible by two without a remainder.
noun
(chemistry) An atom of this kind.
astrid
audrit
bedirt
bedirt
verb
(transitive) To cover or defile with dirt.
credit
credit
noun
(accounting) An addition to certain accounts; the side of an account on which payments received are entered.
(countable) A course credit, a credit hour – used as measure if enough courses have been taken for graduation.
(countable) Acknowledgement of a contribution, especially in the performing arts.
(science fiction) A unit of currency used in a fictional universe or timeframe.
(tax accounting) A reduction in taxes owed, or a refund for excess taxes paid.
(television/film, usually in the plural) Written titles and other information about the TV program or movie shown at the beginning and/or end of the TV program or movie.
(uncountable) Recognition for having taken a course (class).
(uncountable) Recognition, respect and admiration.
(uncountable, US) A person's credit rating or creditworthiness, as represented by their history of borrowing and repayment (or non payment).
(uncountable, law, business, finance) A privilege of delayed payment extended to a buyer or borrower on the seller's or lender's belief that what is given will be repaid.
A nominal unit of value assigned outside of a currency system.
A source of value, distinction or honour.
Reliance on the truth of something said or done; faith; trust.
The time given for payment for something sold on trust.
verb
(transitive) To acknowledge the contribution of.
(transitive) To believe; to put credence in.
(transitive) To bring honour or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.
(transitive, accounting) To add to an account.
darmit
dieter
dieter
noun
A person who diets, usually in an effort to lose weight.
dipter
direct
direct
adj
(astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; said of the motion of a celestial body.
(aviation, travel) having a single flight number.
(political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates.
Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
In the line of descent; not collateral.
Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
Straightforward; sincere.
verb
(dated) To address (a letter) to a particular person or place.
To aim (something) at (something else).
To manage, control, steer.
To point out to or show (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
direst
direst
adj
superlative form of dire: most dire
dirity
dirten
dirten
adj
(dialectal) Dirty; filthy
(dialectal) Made of dirt
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become dirty or soiled
disert
disert
adj
(obsolete) eloquent
dister
dister
verb
(obsolete) To banish or drive from a country.
dither
dither
noun
(computer graphics) The use of dot patterns to approximate colors not available in the palette.
A form of noise which is intentionally applied to randomize errors which occur in the processing of both digital audio and digital video data.
The state of being undecided.
verb
(computer graphics) To render an approximation of (an image or graphic) by using dot patterns to simulate the appearance of colors or shades not in the system palette.
To be uncertain or unable to make a decision about doing something.
To do something nervously.
To intentionally add noise to a signal to randomize errors.
To tremble, shake, or shiver with cold.
ditter
dituri
divert
divert
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To turn aside; to digress.
(transitive) To distract.
(transitive) To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention)
(transitive) To turn aside from a course.
divort
dmitri
dorati
dorita
dotier
dotier
adj
comparative form of doty: more doty
dreint
driest
driest
adj
superlative form of dry: most dry
drifts
drifts
noun
plural of drift
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drift
drifty
drifty
adj
(dialectal) Abounding with driving snow or drift.
Tending or seeming to drift
droits
droits
noun
plural of droit
druith
durity
durity
noun
(obsolete) hardness; firmness
(obsolete) harshness; cruelty
editor
editor
noun
(computing) A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.
(television, cinematography) Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.
A copy editor.
A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.
A person who edited a specific document.
A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
erudit
erudit
noun
(rare) An erudite person, a scholar, especially in French contexts.
girted
girted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of girt
indart
indart
verb
(archaic, transitive) To pierce, as if with a dart.
introd
mitred
mitred
adj
Having a mitre joint.
Wearing an abbot's or bishop's mitre.
nitred
nitrid
nitrid
noun
Archaic form of nitride.
orthid
orthid
noun
(zoology) A brachiopod shell of the genus †Orthis (or allied genera) in the family †Orthidae.
perdit
protid
putrid
putrid
adj
Morally corrupt
Of, relating to, or characteristic of putrefaction, especially having a bad smell, like that of rotting flesh.
Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction. [from 14th c.]
Totally objectionable
Vile, disgusting.
redipt
redipt
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of redip
reduit
reduit
noun
Alternative spelling of réduit
reedit
reedit
verb
Alternative form of re-edit
retied
retied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of retie
rident
rident
adj
laughing
ridott
rifted
rifted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of rift
rioted
rioted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of riot
ritard
rudity
rudity
noun
rudeness; ignorance
sterid
stride
stride
noun
(countable) A long step in walking.
(countable) The distance covered by a long step.
(countable, computing) The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
(uncountable, music) A jazz piano style of the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats.
verb
(intransitive) To walk with long steps.
To pass over at a step; to step over.
To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
To straddle; to bestride.
strind
taurid
taurid
Noun
Any of a group of annual meteors associated with the comet Encke, and whose radiant point is in the constellation Taurus.
tedric
thirds
thirds
noun
(law, historical) The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow was entitled to enjoy during her life.
A third helping of food for one person, or refill of coffee or other drink.
plural of third
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of third
tidder
tidder
verb
(dialectal) To treat with tenderness; fondle
tidier
tidier
adj
comparative form of tidy: more tidy
noun
One who tidies.
tiered
tiered
adj
Having or made of tiers
verb
simple past tense and past participle of tier
tinder
tinder
noun
Small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.
verb
(transitive) To set fire to; torch.
tirade
tirade
noun
A long, angry or violent speech.
A section of verse concerning a single theme.
verb
To make a long, angry or violent speech, a tirade.
tirled
tirled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of tirl
toroid
toroid
noun
(mathematics) A surface generated by a closed curve (especially a circle) rotating about, but not intersecting or containing, an axis in its own plane.
A ring-shaped object whose surface is a torus.
torpid
torpid
adj
dormant or hibernating
lazy, lethargic or apathetic
unmoving
noun
(UK, Oxford University slang) An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.
torrid
torrid
adj
(chiefly Britain) Full of difficulty.
(chiefly US, sports) [of a streak, form, etc.] Good, impressive, hot
Full of intense emotions arising from sexual love; ardent and passionate.
Very hot and dry.
torvid
trepid
trepid
adj
Timid, timorous, fearful.
triads
triads
noun
plural of triad
triced
triced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of trice
tridii
tridra
triduo
trifid
trifid
adj
(botany) Divided into three lobes.
trined
trined
verb
simple past tense and past participle of trine
triode
triode
noun
A thermionic valve containing an anode, a cathode, and a control grid; small changes to the charge on the grid control the flow from cathode to anode, which makes amplification possible.
tripod
tripod
noun
(science fiction) A fictional three-legged Martian war machine from H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1897).
(slang) A man with macrophallism.
A three-legged stand or mount.
verb
(entomology, intransitive) Of a lizard, to raise its body upright bracing itself on hind legs and tail.
(intransitive) To enter the tripod position showing signs of exhaustion or distress.
trudie
trudie
Proper noun
A female given name, variant spelling of Trudy, a pet form of Gertrude.
turbid
turbid
adj
(of a liquid) Having the lees or sediment disturbed; not clear.
Smoky or misty.
Unclear; confused; obscure.
turgid
turgid
adj
(of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.
Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.