A unit of electrical current, the standard base unit in the International System of Units; colloquially amp. Abbreviation: amp, Symbol: A
ampery
ampery
adj
(UK dialectal) Covered with pimples.
(UK dialectal) Weak; unhealthy; beginning to decay.
ampler
ampler
adj
comparative form of ample: more ample
amplex
amplex
verb
(biology) To engage in amplexus.
ampule
ampule
noun
Alternative spelling of ampoule
apedom
apedom
noun
The quality or state of being an ape.
apeman
apeman
noun
A prehistoric man resembling an ape, especially one held to be a precursor to modern humans; a non-human australopithecine.
aplome
aplome
noun
(mineralogy) A brown or green variety of andradite containing manganese.
apozem
apozem
noun
(medicine, obsolete) A decoction or infusion.
bebump
bebump
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To bump thoroughly; belabour.
bedamp
bedamp
verb
(transitive) To cover with dampness; make damp; dampen.
bumped
bumped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bump
bumpee
bumpee
noun
An airline passenger who is bumped to a later flight.
bumper
bumper
adj
(colloquial) Large; (as if) filled to the bumpers at the top of a silo.
noun
(Australia, slang) A cigarette butt.
(automotive) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision; fender.
(billiards) A side wall of a pool table.
(broadcasting) A short ditty or jingle used to separate a show from the advertisements.
(colloquial, now chiefly attributive) Anything large or successful.
(cricket) A bouncer.
(music) An extra musician (not notated in the score) who assists the principal French horn by playing less-exposed passages, so that the principal can save their 'lip' for difficult solos. Also applied to other sections of the orchestra.
(obsolete) A drinking vessel filled to the brim.
(pinball) An object on a playfield that applies force to the pinball when hit, often giving a minor increase in score.
(slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) A woman's posterior, particularly one that is considered full and desirable.
(slang, dated) A covered house at a theatre, etc., in honour of some favourite performer.
A cylindrical object used (as a substitute for birds) to train dogs to retrieve.
Any mechanical device used to absorb an impact, soften a collision, or protect against impact.
Someone or something that bumps.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To drink from the vessels called bumpers.
camped
camped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of camp
camper
camper
adj
comparative form of camp: more camp
noun
(video games) A person who stays in one spot during a first-person shooting game, to guard an item etc.
A motor vehicle with a rear compartment for living and sleeping in.
A person who camps, especially in a tent etc.
cample
cample
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To contend; argue; talk noisily.
champe
champe
noun
(architecture) Alternative form of champ
coempt
comped
comped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of comp
compel
compel
verb
(obsolete) To call forth; to summon.
(obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
(obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
(transitive) To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
(transitive) To force, constrain or coerce.
(transitive) To overpower; to subdue.
(transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up
compte
damped
damped
adj
(of an extinguished fire) stopped from smouldering and reigniting by the application of water
(physics, of a linear dynamic system) Possessing a nonzero damping ratio.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of damp
dampen
dampen
verb
(intransitive) To become damp or moist.
(intransitive) To become damped or deadened.
(transitive) To lessen; to dull; to make less intense (said of emotions and non-physical things).
(transitive) To make damp or moist; to make moderately wet.
damper
damper
adj
comparative form of damp: more damp
noun
(chiefly New Zealand, Australia) Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.
(mechanical engineering) A shock absorber.
A contrivance (sordine), as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air.
Something that kills the mood.
dampne
dampne
verb
Obsolete form of damn.
decamp
decamp
verb
(intransitive) To break up camp and move on.
(intransitive) To disappear suddenly and secretly.
dempne
dempne
verb
(obsolete) To damn; to condemn.
deperm
deperm
noun
(chiefly nautical) The act or process of deperming.
verb
(transitive, chiefly nautical) To degauss or demagnetize; especially, to degauss a ship by dragging a large powered electrical cable along its side.
dimple
dimple
noun
A small depression or indentation in a surface.
Specifically, a small natural depression on the skin, especially on the face near the corners of the mouth.
verb
(intransitive) To create a dimple in one's face by smiling.
(transitive) To create a dimple in.
To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities.
dumped
dumped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of dump
dumper
dumper
noun
(computing) A program that outputs the contents of storage or a data structure.
(surfing) A wave that knocks a surfer into the water.
A dropper of refuse, particularly not in landfill sites/recycling sites.
A small vehicle often used to carry loads and material around, often on building sites.
One who dumps a boyfriend or girlfriend; the one of a romantic couple who terminates the relationship.
dumple
dumple
verb
(transitive) To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another.
(obsolete, medicine) A perfumed powder to be sprinkled on the body to mask the odor of sweat.
empery
empery
noun
(archaic) Absolute power or authority.
(obsolete) An empire; the status or dominion of an emperor.
empest
empest
verb
To infect
empexa
empire
empire
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Empire.
noun
(Absolute) control, dominion, sway.
A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress.
A political unit, typically having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations (especially one comprising one or more kingdoms) and ruled by a single supreme authority.
An expansive and powerful enterprise under the control of one person or group.
The group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to an imperial power (foreign to them), when distinguished from the native territory of that power; imperial possessions.
empiry
employ
employ
noun
(obsolete) Occupation.
(obsolete) The act of employing someone or making use of something; employment.
The state of being an employee; employment.
verb
To hire (somebody for work or a job).
To make busy.
To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).
empory
empson
emptio
emptor
emptor
noun
(law) Buyer.
empusa
empusa
noun
(mythology) In Ancient Greek mythology, a kind of spectre sent by Hecate to guard roads and devour travellers.
encamp
encamp
verb
(intransitive) To establish a camp or temporary shelter.
(transitive) To form into a camp.
epacme
ephram
ephrem
epimer
epimer
noun
(chemistry) Any diastereoisomer that has the opposite configuration at only one of the stereogenic centres.
eponym
eponym
noun
(loosely, nonstandard, by extension) A word formed from a real or fictive place or thing.
A real or fictitious person's name that has given rise to the name of a particular item.
A word formed from a real or fictive person’s name.
estamp
exempt
exempt
adj
(obsolete) Cut off; set apart.
(obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.
(of an employee or his position) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
Free from a duty or obligation.
noun
(UK) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.
(historical) A type of French police officer.
One who has been released from something.
verb
(transitive) To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from.
fempty
gimped
gimped
adj
(informal) Crippled, injured; damaged as to awkwardly impede function.
(informal, computing) Modified by means of the GIMP image editor.
(of fabric, curtains, clothing, or similar) Adorned with gimp (decorative trim); edged or embroidered.
(of yarn, cord, thread, wire, etc.) Wrapped or wound tightly with a second length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, leaving the core yarn straight and protected (gimped yarn). Also, generally, wrapped or twisted with string or wire (gimped buttons).
Jagged, as a jagged or uneven edge or outline; notched, edged with serrations or grooves; nicked, dented.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gimp
gimpel
gimper
guimpe
guimpe
noun
A kind of short chemisette or yoke insert made of lace, embroidery, or the like, worn with a low-necked dress.
A kind of short, high-necked blouse with sleeves of the late Victorian era, designed to be worn under a low-cut dress, jumper, or pinafore dress.
A wimple; a wide, stiffly starched cloth that covers the neck and shoulders, as part of the habit of nuns of certain orders.
Gimp; a narrow flat braid or reinforced cord of fabric used for ornamental trimming.
gympie
gympie
noun
Alternative form of gympie-gympie
hamper
hamper
noun
(UK) A gift basket.
(nautical) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
(uncommon outside New England) A wicker or plastic basket specifically for holding laundry (from clothes hamper), as opposed to a covered wicker basket which is a true hamper
A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals
A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
verb
(transitive) To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle
(transitive) To put into a hamper.
To impede in motion or progress.
hempen
hempen
adj
(dated) Made of hemp
Related to hempen ropes, i.e., to hanging as capital punishment.
hempie
hempie
adj
(obsolete, Scotland and Northern England) Deserving of being hanged.
(obsolete, Scotland and Northern England) Wild; riotous; mischievous.
noun
(obsolete, Scotland and Northern England) A criminal; someone who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged.
(obsolete, Scotland and Northern England) A rogue.
(obsolete, Scotland and Northern England) A wild, romping girl.
himple
humped
humped
adj
Having a hump or humps, or, in combination, a hump or humps of the specified number or type.
verb
past participle of hump
impale
impale
verb
(transitive) To pierce (something) with any long, pointed object.
(transitive, heraldry) To place two coats of arms side by side on the same shield (often those of two spouses upon marriage).
(transitive, intransitive) To enclose or fence with stakes.
(transitive, intransitive) To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake.
impane
impane
verb
Obsolete form of impanate.
impave
impave
verb
(archaic, poetic, transitive) To pave.
impede
impede
verb
(transitive) To get in the way of; to hinder.
impels
impels
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impel
impend
impend
verb
(intransitive) Figuratively to hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
(intransitive) To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.
(obsolete) To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang.
(obsolete) To pay.
impent
imperf
imperf
adj
(grammar) Abbreviation of imperfect.
(philately) Clipping of imperforate or imperforated.
noun
(philately) An imperforated stamp.
impers
impery
impery
noun
Archaic form of empery.
impest
impest
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To afflict with pestilence.
A genealogical coefficient of a given genealogical tree; defined as the difference between the number of theoretical ancestors of a person and the number of his/her real ones in a given generation (the degree of pedigree collapse).
impone
impone
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To stake; to wager; to pledge.
impose
impose
verb
(intransitive) to be an inconvenience (on or upon)
(transitive) To establish or apply by authority.
To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.
To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way
impreg
impune
impune
adj
unpunished
impure
impure
adj
Containing undesired intermixtures
Unchaste; obscene (not according to or not abiding by some system of sexual morality)
Unhallowed; defiled by something unholy, either physically by an objectionable substance, or morally by guilt or sin
verb
(transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute
impute
impute
verb
(transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
(transitive) To attribute or credit to.
(transitive) To take into account.
(transitive, statistics) To replace missing data with substituted values.
(transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
ipomea
jempty
jephum
jimper
jimper
adj
comparative form of jimp: more jimp
jumped
jumped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of jump
jumper
jumper
noun
(US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
(US) A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children; pinafore.
(arachnology, informal) A jumping spider.
(basketball) A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.
(chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A woollen sweater or pullover.
(electricity) A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
(historical, 18th century) One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
(horology) A spring to impel the star wheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
(usually plural, jumpers) Rompers.
(video games) A platform game based around jumping.
A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers, consisting of an iron bar with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.
A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also jump wire.
Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
The larva of the cheese fly.
verb
(transitive) To connect with an electrical jumper.
kempas
kempas
noun
A Malaysian tree Koompassia malaccensis; the hardwood of this tree
kempis
kemple
kemple
noun
(Scotland) The size of a standard load of straw, approximately 450 pounds.
kemppe
kempts
kenmpy
kimper
kohemp
kohemp
noun
A fibre made from kudzu stems.
lamped
lamped
adj
(Ireland) extremely drunk
verb
simple past tense and past participle of lamp
lamper
lamper
noun
One who takes part in lamping, or hunting with bright lights.
lemper
limped
limped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of limp
limper
limper
adj
comparative form of limp: more limp
noun
(poker slang) One who limps (one who calls the big blind in the preflop betting round).
One who limps.
limpet
limpet
noun
(Britain) Someone clingy or dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space.
A small mollusc, of the family Patellidae with a conical shell found clinging to rocks in the intertidal zones of rocky shores.
lumped
lumped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of lump
lumpen
lumpen
adj
Lump-like.
Of or relating to social outcasts.
Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat.
Plebeian.
noun
A member of the lumpenproletariat.
verb
(rare, transitive, intransitive) To make or become like lumps; make or become lumpy
lumper
lumper
noun
(biology, linguistics) A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to keep categories such as species or dialects together in larger groups.
(dialect) A lamprey.
(dialect) A militiaman.
An extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship.
verb
to lumber; to plod
lumpet
madnep
madnep
noun
(obsolete) The masterwort (Peucedanum ostruthium).
magpie
magpie
noun
(UK, slang, obsolete) A halfpenny.
(figurative) Someone who displays a magpie-like quality such as hoarding or stealing objects.
(military, firearms) The third circle on a target, between the inner and outer.
(slang) A fan or member of Newcastle United F.C.
A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen or Cracticus tibicen.
One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica.
verb
(intransitive) To talk idly; to talk about other people's private business.
(transitive) To mark with patches of black and white or light and dark.
(transitive, intransitive) To steal or hoard (items) as magpies are believed to do.
makeup
makeup
noun
(countable, uncountable) An item's composition.
(countable, uncountable) Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance.
(education) A test given to students allowing them to repeat failed material.
(manufacturing) Replacement; material used to make up for the amount that has been used up.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To put makeup on (someone or something).
malope
maples
maples
noun
plural of maple
mapped
mapped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of map
mappen
mappen
adv
(UK, dialect, obsolete) It may happen that; maybe, perhaps.
mapper
mapper
noun
(computing, electronics) A software or hardware component that performs a mapping.
(video games) A designer of levels for video games.
One who produces a map.
marpet
megilp
megilp
noun
(art) A mixture of linseed oil with turpentine or mastic varnish, used as a thickener for oil paints but later discredited as a source of cracking and yellowing.
meppen
merope
merops
mespil
mespot
metaph
metepa
metepa
noun
A chemosterilant also used in creaseproofing and flameproofing textiles, a methyl derivative of tepa.
metope
metope
noun
(architecture) The architectural element between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze.
metump
metump
noun
Synonym of tumpline
mimpei
mispen
mispen
verb
To pen badly or wrongly.
mopane
mopane
noun
A tree, Colophospermum mopane, native to southern Africa.
The mopane worm or mopane moth Gonimbrasia belina
mopeds
mopeds
noun
plural of moped
mopers
mopers
noun
plural of moper
mopery
mopery
noun
(law, US) An imaginary or trivial legal offense.
mopier
mopier
adj
comparative form of mopey: more mopey
mopoke
mopoke
noun
(chiefly Australia) A morepork.
mopped
mopped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of mop
mopper
mopper
noun
One who mops
moppet
moppet
noun
(colloquial) A child. Often used lovingly or in an affectionate way.
(dated) A long-haired pet dog.
(dated) A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth.
mopsey
mopsey
noun
Alternative form of mopsy
msphed
mumped
mumped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of mump
mumper
mumper
noun
(Britain, obsolete, slang) A beggar.
myopes
myopes
noun
plural of myope
nempne
nepman
nepman
Noun
Someone engaged in private enterprise under Lenin's New Economic Policy in the Soviet Union; by extension, any successful entrepreneur.