(Ireland, now derogatory) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
(US) Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
(board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
(card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”)
(chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
(of a place, etc) Without light.
(of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
(of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
(of objects, markets, etc) Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
(politics) Anarchist; of or pertaining to anarchism.
(politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
(sometimes capitalized) Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
(typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a character or symbol outline, not filled with color”).
Bad; evil; ill-omened.
Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
Foul; dirty, soiled.
Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
noun
(Britain, countable) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
(US, slang) Marijuana.
(baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
(billiards, snooker, pool, countable) The black ball.
(countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
(countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
(countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
(countable) Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
(in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
(in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
(informal) Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
(informal, countable) Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
(obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
(sometimes capitalised, countable, often offensive) A member of descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes.)
A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
verb
(Britain, transitive) To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
(transitive) To apply blacking to (something).
(transitive) To make black; to blacken.
bleck
bleck
intj
(rare) Alternative form of blech
noun
(dialectal) Coalfish (Pollachius virens).
(obsolete) A black man.
Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
Soot, smut.
verb
(obsolete, dialect) To blacken.
(obsolete, dialect) To defile.
blick
blick
noun
A sawed-off length of something.
The brightening or iridescence appearing on silver or gold at the end of the cupelling or refinishing process.
verb
(intransitive) Of gold or silver: To exhibit blick.
(nonce word, transitive, intransitive) To make, or cause to make, a soft, crisp sound.
(transitive) To shine, gleam.
block
block
noun
(UK) Solitary confinement.
(chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
(computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
(computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
(cricket) A blockhole.
(cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
(cricket) The popping crease.
(cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
(cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
(falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
(obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
(philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
(printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
(programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
(rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
(slang) The human head.
(sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
(viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
(volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
A cellblock.
A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
A roughly cuboid building.
A section of split logs used as fuel.
A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
Misspelling of bloc.
Something that prevents something from passing.
The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
verb
(intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
(programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
(transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
(transitive) To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
(transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
(transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
(transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
(transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
(transitive) To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
(transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
(transitive, slang, obsolete) To knock (a person's hat) down over their eyes.
(transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
(transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
calks
calks
noun
plural of calk
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calk
caulk
caulk
noun
A composition of vehicle and pigment used at ambient temperatures for filling/sealing joints or junctures, that remains elastic for an extended period of time after application.
Alternative form of calk (“pointed projection on a horseshoe”)
Caulking.
verb
(nautical) To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight.
(slang) To copulate.
To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials.
celik
celka
chalk
chalk
noun
(US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
(US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
(US, sports, chiefly basketball, horseracing) The favorite in a sporting event.
(countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO4), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
(uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3).
(uncountable, climbing, gymnastics) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO3).
Tailor's chalk.
verb
(figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
To manure (land) with chalk.
To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
cilka
clack
clack
noun
(colloquial) The tongue.
An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.
Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
Chatter; prattle.
verb
(UK) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
(intransitive) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
(transitive) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
Dated form of cluck.
To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
claik
claik
noun
(Scotland) Gossip; a gossip.
(Scotland) The cry of a goose, or other bird.
verb
(Scotland) To honk or cry like a goose.
clake
clake
noun
Alternative form of claik (the barnacle goose)
clank
clank
noun
A loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal.
verb
(intransitive) To make a clanking sound
(transitive) To cause to sound with a clank.
clark
clark
Proper noun
definition (see
definition
a city in South Dakota, USA, and county seat of Clark County.
clawk
cleck
cleck
verb
(chiefly Scotland, transitive) To hatch (a bird); (colloquial) to give birth to (a person).
cleek
cleek
noun
(chiefly Scotland) A large hook.
(golf, dated) A metal-headed golf club with little loft, equivalent in a modern set of clubs to a one or two iron or a four wood.
verb
(golf, dated, transitive) To strike with the club called a cleek.
clerk
clerk
noun
(Quakerism) A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.
(archaic) In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk).
(dated) A cleric or clergyman (the legal title for clergy of the Church of England is "Clerk in Holy Orders", still used in legal documents and cherished by some of their number).
(obsolete) A scholar.
A law clerk.
A salesclerk; a person who serves customers in a store or market.
An employee at a hotel who deals with guests.
One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
verb
The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer.
To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk
cleuk
click
click
intj
The sound of a click.
noun
(Britain) The act of making a clicking sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and then releasing to strike the palm; a snap.
(UK, dialect) The latch of a door.
(UK, slang, obsolete) A knock or blow.
(US) Misspelling of clique.
(by extension) A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
(graphical user interface) The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
(phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock, or a latch.
A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
A pawl or similar catch.
Alternative spelling of klick
Sound made by a dolphin.
The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
verb
(Britain) To snap the fingers.
(computing) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
(dated, intransitive) To tick.
(intransitive) To emit a click.
(intransitive) To get along well.
(intransitive) To make sense suddenly.
(intransitive, India) Of a film, to be successful at the box office.
(intransitive, India) To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
(intransitive, graphical user interface) To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
(obsolete) To snatch.
(transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
(transitive, India) To take (a photograph) with a camera.
(transitive, computing, advertising) To visit (a web site).
(transitive, graphical user interface) To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
clink
clink
noun
(onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
(slang) A prison.
Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
verb
(humorous, dated) To rhyme.
(transitive, Scotland) To clinch; to rivet.
(transitive, intransitive) To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.
cloak
cloak
noun
(Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.
(figurative) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
verb
(science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
(transitive) To cover as with a cloak.
(transitive, figurative) To cover up, hide or conceal.
clock
clock
noun
(Britain) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
(attributive) A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
(computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
(electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
(uncountable) A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
A time clock.
An instrument that measures or keeps track of time; a non-wearable timepiece.
The seed head of a dandelion.
verb
(Britain, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
(Scotland, intransitive, dated) To hatch.
(Scotland, intransitive, dated) To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
(slang) To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something.
(transgender slang) To identify someone as being transgender.
(transitive) To measure the duration of.
(transitive) To measure the speed of.
(transitive) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
(transitive, Britain, New Zealand, slang) To beat a video game.
(transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily.
cloke
cloke
noun
Archaic spelling of cloak.
cloky
clonk
clonk
noun
(fishing) A stick-like tool used to strike the surface of the water and produce a sound that causes nearby fish to attack the bait.
The abrupt sound of two hard objects coming into contact.
cluck
cluck
noun
A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
Any sound similar to this.
The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
verb
(Britain, drug slang) to suffer withdrawal from heroin.
(transitive) To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
clunk
clunk
noun
(dated) The sound of liquid coming out of a bottle, etc.; a glucking sound.
A dull, metallic sound, especially one made by two bodies coming into contact.
verb
to make such a sound
eckel
flack
flack
noun
(Canada, US) A publicist, a publicity agent.
Alternative spelling of flak.
verb
(Canada, US) To publicise, to promote.
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To hang loosely; flag.
(intransitive, obsolete) To flutter; palpitate.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To beat by flapping.
fleck
fleck
noun
A flake.
A lock, as of wool.
A small spot or streak; a speckle.
verb
(transitive) To mark (something) with small spots.
flick
flick
noun
(dated, slang) A chap or fellow; sometimes as a friendly term of address.
(fencing) A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.
(informal) A motion picture, movie, film; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.
(tennis) A powerful underarm volley shot.
A flitch.
A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
A unit of time, equal to 1/705,600,000 of a second
The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.
verb
To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.
To pass by rapidly, so as not to be perceived clearly.
flock
flock
noun
(Christianity) A religious congregation.
A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.
A large number of people.
A lock of wool or hair.
A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.herd/flock
Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating for wallpaper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fibre used for a similar purpose.
verb
(intransitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
(transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles; especially, to create a dense arrangement of fibers with a desired nap.
(transitive, obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.
To cover a Christmas tree with artificial snow.
To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.
glack
glick
gluck
gluck
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To flow or cause to flow in a noisy series of spurts, as when liquid is emptied through the narrow neck of a bottle.
ickle
ickle
adj
(childish, chiefly UK) Little.
noun
(dialectal) An icicle.
kelci
kelcy
klick
klick
noun
(slang, military) A kilometer.
(slang, usually in the plural) Kilometres per hour.
Alternative spelling of click
kljuc
kluck
lacks
lacks
noun
plural of lack
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lack
lbeck
lecky
lecky
noun
(Britain, slang) Electricity.
licko
licks
licks
noun
plural of lick
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lick
locke
locke
noun
Archaic spelling of lock.
locks
locks
noun
(colloquial) Dreadlocks.
A head of hair; tresses.
plural of lock
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lock
locky
locky
adj
Having locks or tufts.
lucks
lucks
noun
plural of luck
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of luck
lucky
lucky
adj
(of people) Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune.
Producing, or resulting in, good fortune
noun
(bingo) seven
plack
plack
noun
(Scotland, Northern England, historical) A coin issued by James III of Scotland; also a 15th-16th century Scottish coin worth four Scots pennies.
(obsolete) A coin used in the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries.
(informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
verb
(UK, university slang, transitive, obsolete) To reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree.
(intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
(transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
(transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
(transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
(transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
(transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
(transitive, now rare) To rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone).
Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
sculk
sculk
verb
Alternative spelling of skulk
slack
slack
adj
(linguistics) Lax.
(normally said of a rope) Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
(slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
Excess; surplus to requirements.
Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
Moderate in speed.
Moderately warm.
Not active or busy, successful, or violent.
Weak; not holding fast.
adv
Slackly.
noun
(countable) A tidal marsh or shallow that periodically fills and drains.
(countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell.
(mining) Small coal; coal dust.
(rail transport) A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
(uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
(uncountable, psychotherapy) Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.
verb
(obsolete) To mitigate; to reduce the strength of.
To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
To slacken.
sleck
sleck
verb
(Scotland) To groan when overloaded with food; sigh with repletion.
(dialectal) To slake; allay; cool; quench; extinguish.
Alternative form of slake
slick
slick
adj
(US, West Coast slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
(often used sarcastically) Clever, making an apparently hard task easy.
Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
Sleek; smooth.
Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
noun
(US, military slang) A helicopter.
(by extension, hydrodynamics, US, dated) A rapidly-expanding ring of dark water, resembling an oil slick, around the site of a large underwater explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress through the water of the shock wave generated by the explosion.
(fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, the copious, lubricating bodily fluid produced by an omega in heat.
(printing) A camera-ready image to be used by a printer. The "slick" is photographed to produce a negative image which is then used to burn a positive offset plate or other printing device.
(sports, automotive) A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
A tool used to make something smooth or even.
A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
Alternative form of schlich
Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.
verb
To make slick.
slock
slock
noun
(Scotland, Northern England) A draught; a gulp.
An improvised weapon consisting of a padlock placed in a sock, common in prison environments.
verb
(Scotland, Northern England) To swallow, gulp.
(intransitive, transitive) To hunt (wild game) with preindustrial tools such as spears, blowguns, slingshots, arrows, crossbows, or others.