(botany) A sharp spike or other projection growing on a plant, as in some brambles and roses.
A sting.
acumble
acutely
acutely
adv
In an acute manner
addulce
addulce
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To sweeten; to soothe.
alcaeus
alcaeus
Proper noun
An Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by an Ancient Greek lyric poet of Mytilene (c. 620–6th century
aleutic
almuces
almuces
noun
plural of almuce
arcuale
asculae
auchlet
auletic
auletic
adj
Of or relating to a musical pipe or piper.
auricle
auricle
noun
(anatomy) An anterior ear-shaped appendage of the left or right atrium of the human heart.
(anatomy) Synonym of atrium.
(anatomy) The outer ear or pinna.
(biology) Any appendage in the shape of an ear or earlobe.
bascule
bascule
noun
(firearms) The portion of a breech-loading firearm that pivots open in order to allow access to the chamber.
A counterbalanced structure having one end that rises as the other lowers.
bauchle
bauchle
noun
(Scotland) A bungled or muddled situation; a mess.
(Scotland) A fool.
(Scotland, chiefly in the plural) An old shoe.
verb
(Scotland) To insult, to upbraid, to make a fool of someone.
(Scotland) To misuse, to bungle.
becloud
becloud
verb
(transitive) To cause to become obscure or muddled.
(transitive, figurative) To cast in a negative light, cast a pall over, darken.
(transitive, usually passive) To cover or surround with clouds.
beclout
beclout
verb
(transitive) To cover with a clout or cloth.
(transitive, figuratively) To dress up.
beluchi
belucki
blucher
blucher
noun
(historical) A form of horse-drawn carriage; a Blucher coach.
A sturdy laced leather half-boot.
bluecap
bluecap
noun
(colloquial) A Scotsman.
A bird, the blue titmouse.
A fish of the salmon kind with blue spots on its head.
bluecup
boucles
boucles
noun
plural of boucle
bruckle
bruckle
adj
(dialectal) Frail, weak, fragile.
bucelas
bucella
buchloe
buchtel
buckels
buckled
buckled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buckle
buckler
buckler
noun
(nautical) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
(obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
(zoology) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
(zoology) The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobite.
A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held in the hand or worn on the arm (usually the left), for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used not to cover the body but to stop or parry blows.
One who buckles something.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To shield; to defend.
buckles
buckles
noun
plural of buckle
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of buckle
buckley
bullace
bullace
noun
A small European plum (Prunus interstitia, syn. Prunus domestica subsp. insititia).
The bully tree.
burlace
cageful
cageful
noun
That which can fit into a cage.
cagoule
cagoule
noun
(Britain) A lightweight waterproof parka.
cajuela
cajuela
noun
A large container for gathering coffee cherries in Central America.
The amount that this container can hold, typically 17 liters (4.5 gallons).
calceus
calqued
calqued
verb
simple past tense and past participle of calque
calques
calques
noun
plural of calque
calumet
calumet
noun
A clay tobacco-pipe used by American Indians, especially as a symbol of truce or peace.
camelus
canulae
canulae
noun
plural of canula
capsule
capsule
noun
(anatomy) A membrane that surrounds the eyeball
(anatomy) A tough, fibrous layer surrounding an organ such as the kidney or liver
(astronautics) A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
(attributively, figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form
(botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
(botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
(chemistry, dated) A small clay saucer for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.
(pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.
(physiology) A membranous envelope.
(winemaking) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
verb
(transitive) To encapsulate or summarize.
(transitive) To form (medicine, etc.) into capsules.
capulet
capulet
noun
Alternative form of capellet
careful
careful
adj
(obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
(obsolete) Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.
Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.
Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
caseful
caseful
noun
As much as a case will hold.
caudles
caudles
noun
plural of caudle
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caudle
cauline
cauline
adj
(botany) Growing immediately on a caulis, the main stem of a plant; of or pertaining to a caulis.
caulite
caulked
caulked
adj
Having cracks or crevices stopped-up with a filler.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of caulk
caulker
caulker
noun
(informal) Archaic form of corker (“something large or remarkable, a whopper”).
(slang, archaic) An alcoholic drink; a dram.
A person who caulks various structures (as ships) and certain types of piping.
A tool used for caulking ships; a caulking iron.
caulome
caulome
noun
(botany) A stem structure or stem axis of a plant, viewed as a whole.
caulote
caurale
cautela
cedulas
cedulas
noun
plural of cedula
cellule
cellule
noun
A small cell.
celsius
celsius
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Celsius
celtium
celtium
noun
(historical) The name originally proposed for chemical element number 72, now called hafnium; the discoverer, Georges Urbain, conjectured it to be a rare earth element, and proposed the symbol Ct), but subsequent work demonstrated it to be a transition element, and hafnium was given the symbol Hf.
celtuce
celtuce
noun
A cultivar of lettuce harvested primarily for its 15- to 20-centimeter stem.
censual
censual
adj
Relating to, or containing, a census.
cesural
cesural
adj
Alternative form of caesural
chalque
chamuel
chebule
cheeful
cheetul
cheetul
noun
Alternative form of chital
chelura
chemult
chuckle
chuckle
adj
(obsolete) Clumsy.
noun
A quiet laugh.
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To make the sound of a chicken; to cluck.
(transitive) To communicate through chuckling.
(transitive, archaic) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck.
(transitive, archaic) To fondle; to indulge or pamper.
To laugh quietly or inwardly.
chumble
chumble
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To peck at or nibble.
chumley
chunnel
chunnel
Proper noun
The Channel Tunnel.
churled
ciboule
ciboule
noun
Alternative form of cibol
circule
ciruela
ciruela
noun
The plant Spondias purpurea.
claquer
claquer
noun
Alternative form of claqueur
claques
claques
noun
plural of claque
clauber
clauber
noun
Alternative form of clabber
claudel
claudie
clausen
clauses
clauses
noun
plural of clause
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clause
cleanup
cleanup
noun
(baseball) Fourth in the batting order; a cleanup hitter.
The act of cleaning or tidying something.
verb
Misspelling of clean up.
cleelum
cleruch
cleruch
noun
(historical) A settler under the system of cleruchy
clipeus
clipeus
noun
A shield worn by soldiers of ancient Greece and Rome.
An ornamental disk of marble in this shape.
Part of the exoskeleton of an insect between the carapace and mandibles.
cliqued
cliqued
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clique
cliques
cliques
noun
plural of clique
cliquey
cliquey
adj
Having the characteristics of a clique.
cloques
cloques
noun
plural of cloque
cloquet
closeup
closeup
noun
(film) A video or film recording made with the camera positioned close to an actor, often so that only the head or face is visible.
closure
closure
noun
(mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
(obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
(politics) A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
(programming) An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.
(sociology) The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. ᵂᵖ
(topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
The act of shutting; a closing.
The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
cloture
cloture
noun
(law, politics, chiefly US) In legislative assemblies that permit unlimited debate (that is, a filibuster): a motion, procedure or rule by which debate is ended so that a vote may be taken on the matter. For example, in the United States Senate, a three-fifths majority vote of the body is required to invoke cloture and terminate debate.
verb
To end legislative debate by this means.
clouded
clouded
adj
(figurative) Unclear; surrounded in mystery.
Filled with clouds.
Made dim or blurry.
Variegated with spots.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cloud
cloured
cloured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clour
clouted
clouted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clout
clouter
clouter
noun
(obsolete) One who patches clothes.
One who clouts or strikes.
clubbed
clubbed
adj
Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of club
clubber
clubber
noun
One who clubs, who hits objects with a club.
One who partakes in clubbing, who frequents nightclubs.
clubmen
clubmen
noun
plural of clubman
clucked
clucked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cluck
cludder
clueing
clumber
clumped
clumped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clump
clumper
clumper
noun
A grass or other plant that tends to form clumps.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To form into clumps or masses.
clunked
clunked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clunk
clunker
clunker
noun
(informal) A decrepit motor car.
(informal) Anything which is in poor condition or of poor quality.
clunter
clupeid
clupeid
noun
Any of many soft-finned fish of the family Clupeidae.
clupein
clupein
noun
(organic chemistry) A protamine found in herring.
clupien
cluster
cluster
noun
(army) A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.
(astronomy) A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other.
(chemistry) An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.
(computing) A group of computers that work together.
(computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block).
(linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, bundle, or lexical bundle.
(military) A set of bombs or mines released as part of the same blast.
(music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.
(phonetics) A group of consonants.
(slang, euphemistic) A clusterfuck.
(statistics, cluster analysis) A subset of a population whose members are sufficiently similar to each other and distinct from others as to be considered a distinct group; such a grouping in a set of observed data that is statistically significant.
A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.
A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
verb
(intransitive) To form a cluster or group.
(transitive) To collect into clusters.
(transitive) To cover with clusters.
cluther
clutier
clutter
clutter
noun
(countable) Alternative form of clowder (“collective noun for cats”).
(obsolete) Clatter; confused noise.
(uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things.
(uncountable) Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To clot or coagulate, like blood.
To fill something with clutter.
To make a confused noise; to bustle.
To utter words hurriedly, especially (but not exclusively) as a speech disorder (compare cluttering).
clypeus
clypeus
noun
(entomology) The shield-shaped front part of an insect's head or a spider's cephalothorax.
coagule
coccule
coequal
coequal
adj
Equal to each other in size, rank or position.
noun
An equal person or thing.
colauxe
collude
collude
verb
(intransitive) to act in concert with; to conspire
coluber
columel
columel
noun
(architecture) A small column.
colures
colures
noun
plural of colure
colutea
copulae
corbleu
cornule
coruler
coruler
noun
One who jointly rules with somebody else.
coteful
coulage
coulees
coulees
noun
plural of coulee
couleur
couleur
noun
(card games) A suit of cards, in certain French card games.
coulier
coulter
coulter
noun
(Britain) Alternative spelling of colter
coulure
coulure
noun
A disease affecting grapes, manifested by the premature dropping of the fruit.
counsel
counsel
noun
A lawyer, as in King's Counsel (KC) or Queen's Counsel (QC).
Advice; guidance.
Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.
Exercise of judgment; prudence.
The exchange of opinions and advice especially in legal issues; consultation.
verb
(transitive) To give advice, especially professional advice, to (somebody).
(transitive) To recommend (a course of action).
coupled
coupled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of couple
coupler
coupler
noun
(music) A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together.
(now rare) Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages.
A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines.
An electrical device used to transfer energy from one electric device to another, especially without a physical connection.
Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages.
couples
couples
noun
plural of couple
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of couple
couplet
couplet
noun
(literature) A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.
(taxonomy) A pair of two mutually exclusive choices in a dichotomous key.
A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.
cozumel
cozumel
Proper noun
A resort island in the Caribbean Sea, off of the northeastern coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
cremule
crenula
crenula
noun
(zoology) A small notch.
cruddle
cruddle
verb
(obsolete) To curdle.
crudely
crudely
adv
In a crude manner.
crueler
crueler
adj
comparative form of cruel: more cruel
cruelly
cruelly
adv
In a cruel manner.
cruelty
cruelty
noun
(countable) A cruel act.
(uncountable) An indifference to suffering or pleasure in inflicting suffering.