(informal, sometimes proscribed) A manner of pronunciation suggesting that the speaker is from a different region; a foreign accent.
(linguistics) A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.
(linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.
(mathematics) A prime symbol.
(music) A mark used to represent this special emphasis.
(music) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
(music) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
(music) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
(orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.
(prosody, poetry) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
(sign languages) A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does not normally use a certain sign language might have when using it.
(usually plural only) Expressions in general; speech.
A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
A word; a significant tone or sound.
Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail in sharp contrast to its surroundings.
Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice, expressing emotion; tone.
verb
(transitive) To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.
(transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.
(transitive) To mark with written accents.
acerin
acetin
acetin
noun
(organic chemistry) the triglyceride of acetic acid
achene
achene
noun
(botany) A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup.
ackmen
acknew
acknew
verb
simple past tense and past participle of acknow
acnode
acnode
noun
(geometry) An isolated point not upon a curve, but whose coordinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to the curve.
acoine
acsnet
actine
acumen
acumen
noun
(anatomy) A bony, often sharp, protuberance, especially that of the ischium.
(botany) A sharp, tapering point extending from a plant.
Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.
adance
adance
adv
Dancing.
aenach
aenach
noun
(historical) A fair or fair-like assembly in ancient Ireland.
(historical) The green on which such fairs were held.
aeonic
aeonic
adj
(rare) Alternative spelling of eonic
agency
agency
noun
(sociology, philosophy, psychology) The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.
A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the district administered by such unit of government.
A medium through which power is exerted or an end is achieved.
An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency.
The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.
The office or function of an agent; also, the relationship between a principal and that person's agent.
alcine
alcine
adj
Of or pertaining to elk.
anaces
ancell
anchie
ancien
ancier
ancile
ancile
noun
(historical, Roman antiquity) The sacred shield of the Ancient Romans, said to have fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.
ancome
ancome
noun
(obsolete) A small inflammatory swelling, arising suddenly.
ancone
anemic
anemic
adj
(by extension) Weak; listless; lacking power, vigor, vitality, or colorfulness.
Of, pertaining to, or suffering from anemia.
noun
An individual who has anemia.
anetic
anetic
adj
(medicine, obsolete, rare) Soothing; helping to relieve a malady.
aneuch
anlace
anlace
noun
Alternative spelling of anelace
annect
annecy
annice
apneic
apneic
adj
(pathology) Exhibiting or relating to apnea: no longer breathing
arcane
arcane
adj
(by extension) Obscure, mysterious.
Extremely old (e.g. interpretation or knowledge), and possibly irrelevant.
Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand.
Understood by only a few.
arcnet
ascend
ascend
verb
(incel slang) To lose one's virginity, especially of a man through unpaid and consensual sexual intercourse with a woman.
(intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.
(intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.
(intransitive, figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
(transitive) To go up.
(transitive) To succeed.
(transitive, music) To become higher in pitch.
To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
ascent
ascent
noun
(typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
An eminence, hill, or high place.
An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy
The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; gradient; steepness
The way or means by which one ascends.
auncel
auncel
noun
A crude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England.
avance
axenic
axenic
adj
(biology) Containing only a single species of microorganism. For example, an "axenic culture" is a pure grown sample of the organism in question.
(biology) Isolated from organisms of any other species.
backen
beacon
beacon
noun
(Internet) Short for web beacon.
(figurative) That which gives notice of danger, or keeps people on the correct path.
(nautical) A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.
A high hill or other easily distinguishable object near the shore which can serve as guidance for seafarers.
A post or buoy placed over a shoal or bank to warn vessels of danger; also a signal mark on land. (FM 55-501)
A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.
An electronic device that broadcasts a signal to nearby portable devices, enabling smartphones etc. to perform actions when in physical proximity to the beacon.
verb
(intransitive) To act as a beacon.
(transitive) To furnish with a beacon or beacons.
(transitive) To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.
beckon
beckon
noun
A children's game similar to hide and seek in which children who have been "caught" may escape if they see another hider beckon to them.
A sign made without words; a beck.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To seem attractive and inviting
(transitive, intransitive) To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.
becuna
becuna
noun
Sphyraena sphyraena, a Mediterranean fish.
benchy
bicone
bicone
noun
(geometry) The three-dimensional shape swept by revolving an isosceles triangle around its edge of unequal length, or by joining two identical right circular cones, base to base.
blench
blench
noun
A deceit; a trick.
A sidelong glance.
verb
(intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
(intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
(intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
(obsolete) To blanch.
(transitive) To deceive; cheat.
(transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
(transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
bonace
bounce
bounce
noun
(Internet) An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
(archaic) A drink based on brandyᵂ.
(archaic) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
(archaic) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
(slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) A good beat in music.
(slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) A talent for leaping.
(uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
A bang, boom.
A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
The sack, dismissal.
verb
(US, slang, dated) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
(archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
(intransitive) To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
(intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
(intransitive) To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
(intransitive, aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
(intransitive, electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset.
(intransitive, informal, of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
(intransitive, skydiving) To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
(intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse.
(slang, archaic) To boast; to bluster.
(slang, archaic) To bully; to scold.
(transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
(transitive, air combat) To attack unexpectedly.
(transitive, colloquial) To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to gain feedback.
(transitive, informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
(transitive, intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message) To return undelivered.
(transitive, sound recording) To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio tape recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
To move rapidly (between).
brecon
brecon
Proper noun
A town in Powys, Wales.
brince
bunche
cabane
cabane
noun
(aviation) The tripod, pylon, or struts usually at the centre-section of a biplane or high-winged monoplane.
cabmen
cabmen
noun
plural of cabman
cadena
cadent
cadent
adj
Falling.
caenis
cagney
cahone
caines
calden
calean
caline
camden
camden
Proper noun
A district in inner north-west London, and a London Borough within Greater London, comprising and
A place name in various other locales, including:
A city in Alabama, USA
A city in Arkansas, USA
A town in Jackson Township, Indiana, USA.
A city in New Jersey, USA
An unincorporated community and CDP in North Carolina, USA
A city in Tennessee, USA
name, modern transferred use of the surname.
camena
canace
canale
canape
canape
noun
Alternative spelling of canapé
cancel
cancel
noun
(obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
(printing) The page that replaces it.
(printing) The page thus suppressed.
(printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
verb
(obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
(printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
(transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
(transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
(transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
(transitive) To offset or equalize something.
(transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
(transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.
(transitive, neologism) To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture.
cancer
cancer
adj
(slang) Extremely unpleasant and annoying.
noun
(figuratively) Something damaging that spreads throughout something else.
(medicine, oncology, pathology) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.
candee
candie
candie
noun
Alternative form of candy (“Indian unit of mass”)
candle
candle
noun
(forestry) A fast-growing, light-colored, upward-growing shoot on a pine tree in the spring. As growth slows in summer, the shoot darkens and is no longer conspicuous.
(obsolete) A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela.
A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.
The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.
verb
(embryology, transitive) To observe the growth of an embryo inside (an egg), using a bright light source.
(pottery, transitive) To dry (greenware) prior to the firing cycle, setting the kiln at 200° Celsius until all water is removed from the greenware.
(transitive) To check (an item, such as an envelope) by holding it between a light source and the eye.
canela
canell
canelo
canens
caners
caners
noun
plural of caner
caneva
cangle
cangue
cangue
noun
A heavy wooden collar or yoke borne on the shoulders and enclosing the neck and arms, formerly used in China to punish petty criminals.
canice
canine
canine
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to mammalian teeth which are cuspids or fangs.
(medicine, obsolete) Of an appetite: depraved or inordinate; used to describe eating disorders.
Dog-like.
Of, or pertaining to, a dog or dogs.
noun
(formal) Any of certain extant canids regarded as similar to the dog or wolf (including coyotes, jackals, etc.) but distinguished from the vulpines, which are regarded as fox-like.
(poker slang) A king and a nine as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity.
Any member of Caninae, the only living subfamily of Canidae.
In heterodont mammals, the pointy tooth between the incisors and the premolars; a cuspid.
canker
canker
noun
(phytopathology) A plant disease marked by gradual decay.
A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.
A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.
A region of dead plant tissue caused by such a disease.
A worm or grub that destroys plant buds or leaves; cankerworm.
An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae.
An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths. Usually resulting from neglected thrush.
Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.
verb
(intransitive) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
(intransitive) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
(transitive) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
(transitive) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
canmer
cannae
canned
canned
adj
(by extension) Previously prepared; not fresh or new; standardized, mass produced, or lacking originality or customization.
(slang) Drunk.
Preserved in cans.
Terminated, fired from a job.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of can
cannel
cannel
noun
A bituminous coal that burns brightly with much smoke.
canner
canner
noun
(US, slang) Someone who lives off container deposit refunds from recycling.
A large pot used for processing jars when preserving food, either in a boiling water bath or by capturing steam to elevate the pressure and temperature.
An animal yielding inferior meat best suited to canning.
Someone or something which cans.
cannes
cannet
cannet
abbrev
(Tyneside) cannot, can't
cannie
canoed
canoed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of canoe
canoes
canoes
noun
plural of canoe
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canoe
canted
canted
adj
Having angles.
Inclined at an angle to something else; sloping.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cant
cantel
cantel
noun
Alternative form of cantle
canter
canter
noun
A gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four legged animals.
A ride on a horse at such speed.
One who cants or whines; a beggar.
One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.
verb
(intransitive) To move at such pace.
(transitive) To cause to move at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.
cantle
cantle
noun
(Scotland) On many styles of sporran, a metal arc along the top of the pouch, usually fronting the clasp.
(Scotland) The top of the head.
(obsolete) A splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.
The raised back of a saddle.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To cut into pieces.
(obsolete, transitive) To cut out from.
canute
caoine
capone
carane
carane
noun
(organic chemistry) The bicyclic hydrocarbon 3,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[4.1.0]heptane
careen
careen
noun
(nautical) The position of a ship laid on one side.
verb
(chiefly US) To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly.
(chiefly US) To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.
(nautical, intransitive) To tilt on one side.
(nautical, transitive) To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.
To lurch or sway violently from side to side.
To tilt or lean while in motion.
carena
carene
carene
noun
(Catholicism, historical, rare) A 40-day fast or period of similar abstinence.
(Catholicism, historical, rare) An indulgence from 40 days of fasting or similar abstinence, especially during Lent; (later) various equivalent indulgences against punishment in Purgatory.
(historical cooking, rare, obsolete) Synonym of carenum: a reduction of must or sweet wine in ancient European cuisine.
(zoology, obsolete) The lower portion of a marine animal's shell, covering its mantle.
carien
carine
carine
noun
(obsolete) A keel.
carlen
carmen
carmen
noun
plural of carman
carnel
carnes
carnet
carnet
noun
(law) A customs document that allows the temporary duty-free importation of a particular article
A ticket book, a collection of tickets in the form of a booklet often sold at a discount to single tickets.
An admission pass.
carney
carney
noun
Alternative form of carny
carnie
carnie
noun
(derogatory, slang) Synonym of carnist
Alternative spelling of carny
carone
carven
carven
adj
Made by carving, especially when intricately or artistically done.
verb
(archaic) past participle of carve.
casein
casein
noun
(biochemistry) A protein present in both milk and in the seeds of leguminous plants
casern
casern
noun
A lodging for soldiers in a garrison town (formerly usually near the rampart); a barracks.
casten
casten
verb
(archaic, poetic) past participle of cast
catena
catena
noun
(soil science) A series of distinct soils arrayed along a slope.
A series of related items.
catnep
cavern
cavern
noun
A large cave.
A large, dark place or space.
An underground chamber.
verb
(transitive) To form a cavern or deep depression in.
(transitive) To put into a cavern.
cawney
cawnie
cawnie
noun
(historical) A measure of land equal to 57,600 square feet or 1.3225 acres, formerly used in India.
cdenas
cearin
cebian
cebine
cebine
adj
Of or pertaining to capuchins
noun
capuchin monkey, primate of the genus Cebus
cedarn
cedarn
adj
(archaic) Constituted of or covered with cedar trees; made of cedar wood.
cedens
cedent
cedent
noun
The person who cedes a personal obligation to another.
ceding
ceding
verb
present participle of cede
cedrin
cedron
ceinte
celene
celina
celine
cement
cement
noun
(anatomy) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.
(countable, uncountable) A powdered substance produced by firing (calcining) calcium carbonate (limestone) and clay that develops strong cohesive properties when mixed with water. The main ingredient of concrete.
(figurative) A bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society.
(uncountable) Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout.
(uncountable) The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water, or the rock-like substance that forms when it dries.
verb
(figuratively) To make permanent.
(transitive) To affix with cement.
(transitive) To overlay or coat with cement.
(transitive, figurative) To unite firmly or closely.
cendre
cenizo
cenobe
cenoby
cenote
cenote
noun
A deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.
censed
censed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cense
censer
censer
noun
A person who censes, a person who perfumes with incense.
An ornamental container for burning incense, especially during religious ceremonies.
censes
censes
noun
plural of cense
censor
censor
noun
(Ancient China, historical) A high-ranking official who was responsible for the supervision of subordinate government officials.
(Ancient Rome, historical) One of the two magistrates who originally administered the census of citizens, and by Classical times (between the 8th century B.C.E. and the 6th century C.E.) was a high judge of public behaviour and morality.
(education) A college or university official whose duties vary depending on the institution.
(obsolete) One who censures or condemns.
(psychology) A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious mind.
An official responsible for the removal or suppression of objectionable material (for example, if obscene or likely to incite violence) or sensitive content in books, films, correspondence, and other media.
verb
(transitive) To review for, and if necessary to remove or suppress, content from books, films, correspondence, and other media which is regarded as objectionable (for example, obscene, likely to incite violence, or sensitive).
census
census
noun
An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
Count, tally.
verb
(intransitive) To collect a census.
(transitive) To conduct a census on.
centai
cental
cental
adj
Relating to a hundred.
noun
(historical) A weight of one hundred avoirdupois pounds.
centas
center
center
adj
Of, at, or related to a center.
noun
(American football, Canadian football) The person who holds the ball at the beginning of each play.
(Australia, New Zealand) The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates.
(Taixuanjing tetragram) 𝌆
(architecture) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
(basketball) The player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket.
(engineering) A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
(engineering) One of the two conical steel pins in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
(geometry) The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).
(geometry) The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
(group theory, ring theory) The subgroup (respectively, subring), denoted Z(G), of those elements of a given group (respectively, ring) G that commute with every element of G.
(ice hockey) The forward that generally plays between the left wing and right wing and usually takes the faceoffs.
(netball) A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.
(obsolete) The innermost point of the Earth, or the Earth itself, as the center or foundation of the Universe; the center or foundation of the Universe abstractly.
(rugby) One of the backs operating in a central area of the pitch, either the inside centre or outside centre.
(soccer) A pass played into the centre of the pitch.
A place where the greater part of some function or activity occurs.
A topic that is particularly important in a given context, the element in a subject of cognition, volition or discussion that is perceived as decisive.
The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
The venue in which the head of government in a centralized state is situated.
verb
(engineering) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
(intransitive) To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something).
(transitive) To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area.
(transitive) To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway between the extremes.