(rare, poetic) Pertaining to elm trees; in which elms grow.
eloy
eloy
Proper noun
A city in Arizona
elsy
elyn
elys
eyla
fley
fley
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To be frightened.
(obsolete, transitive) To frighten.
gley
gley
noun
(soil science) A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen.
verb
(Scotland) To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.
(soil science) To be converted into this kind of soil.
gyle
gyle
noun
Fermented wort used for making vinegar.
The amount of beer brewed at a time.
hyle
hyle
noun
(obsolete, philosophy) matter
The first matter of the cosmos, from which the four elements arose, according to the doctrines of Empedocles and Aristotle.
kyle
kyle
noun
(Scotland) A narrow arm or channel of the sea between an island and the mainland, or between two islands.
lely
levy
levy
noun
(US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.
The act of levying.
The tax, property or people so levied.
verb
(law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
To draft someone into military service.
To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
To raise, as a siege.
To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
To wage war.
lexy
leys
leys
noun
plural of ley
lyes
lyes
noun
plural of lye
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lye
lyle
lyme
lyme
verb
(Jamaica, slang) to hang out (to spend time doing nothing in particular)
lyre
lyre
noun
(obsolete) A composer of lyric poetry.
A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical.
An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.
Any instrument of the same musicological classification; any yoke lute.
verb
(rare) to play the lyre
lyse
lyse
verb
(biochemistry) To break down molecularly into smaller molecules; to induce lysis.
(biology) To burst or cut a cell or cell structure; to induce lysis.
myel
oley
pyle
rely
rely
verb
(with on or upon, formerly also with in) to trust; to have confidence in; to depend.
ryle
sley
sley
noun
A guideway in a knitting machine.
Reed (of a loom).
verb
(transitive, weaving) To separate or part the threads of, and arrange them in a reed.
weyl
wyle
yael
yale
yale
noun
A mythical beast in European mythology and heraldry, usually portrayed as an antelope- or goat-like four-legged creature with large horns that it can swivel in any direction.
yeel
yeld
yeld
adj
barren, not pregnant, not giving milk
yelk
yelk
noun
Obsolete form of yolk.
yell
yell
adj
(Ulster) dry (of cow)
noun
A phrase to be shouted.
A shout.
verb
(informal, followed by at) To tell someone off in a loud and angry manner.
(intransitive) To shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
(transitive) To convey by shouting.
yelm
yelm
noun
(dialect) A bundle of straw for thatching.
verb
(dialect) To prepare straw for use as thatch.
yelp
yelp
noun
A type of emergency vehicle siren sounding quicker and more intense than the wail.
An abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance.
verb
To utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise.
yelt
yelt
noun
A young sow who has not yet had a litter.
ylem
ylem
noun
(astronomy, cosmology, physics, now chiefly historical) In the Big Bang theory, the hot and dense plasma which made up the cosmos at the time of recombination in an early stage of its expansion and cooling, when the first atoms formed and photons decoupled. The ylem is regarded as the source of the cosmic microwave background.