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pees

pees

noun

  1. plural of pee

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pee

pega

pegg

pegh

pegs

pegs

noun

  1. (informal) peg-top trousers
  2. plural of peg

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of peg

pegu

pegu

Proper noun

  1. A city in Burma near Rangoon.

peho

pehs

pehs

noun

  1. plural of peh

pein

peke

peke

noun

  1. (informal) Alternative letter-case form of Peke (“Pekinese dog”)

pele

pelf

pelf

noun

  1. (countable, Yorkshire, derogatory) A contemptible or useless person.
  2. (uncountable, Southwest England) Dust; fluff.
  3. (uncountable, chiefly derogatory, dated) Money, riches; gain, especially when dishonestly acquired; lucre, mammon.
  4. (uncountable, dated) Rubbish, trash; specifically (Britain, dialectal) refuse from plants.

pell

pell

noun

  1. (Sussex) A body of water somewhere between a pond and a lake in size.
  2. A fur or hide.
  3. A lined cloak or its lining.
  4. A roll of parchment; a record kept on parchment.
  5. An upright post, often padded and covered in hide, used to practice strikes with bladed weapons such as swords or glaives.

verb

  1. To pelt; to knock about.

pelt

pelt

noun

  1. (also figuratively) The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning.
  2. (archaic except Ireland) A blow or stroke from something thrown.
  3. (by extension) Anything in a ragged and worthless state; rubbish, trash.
  4. (chiefly Ireland, humorous, informal) Human skin, especially when bare; also, a person's hair.
  5. (chiefly Northern England except in at (full) pelt) An act of moving quickly; a rush.
  6. (except Ireland) A verbal insult; a jeer, a jibe, a taunt.
  7. (except Midlands, Southern England (South West)) A fit of anger; an outburst, a rage.
  8. (falconry) The body of any quarry killed by a hawk; also, a dead bird given to a hawk for food.
  9. A beating or falling down of hailstones, rain, or snow in a shower.
  10. A garment made from animal skins.
  11. A tattered or worthless piece of clothing; a rag.
  12. The fur or hair of a living animal.
  13. The skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserved with the hair or wool on it (sometimes worn as a garment with minimal modification).

verb

  1. (archaic except Britain, dialectal) To repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something).
  2. (archaic, also figuratively) Chiefly followed by at: to bombard someone or something with missiles continuously.
  3. (figuratively) To assail (someone) with harsh words in speech or writing; to abuse, to insult.
  4. (figuratively) To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
  5. (intransitive, obsolete) To bargain for a better deal; to haggle.
  6. (obsolete) To throw out harsh words; to show anger.
  7. (obsolete, rare) To remove feathers from (a bird).
  8. Chiefly followed by at: to (continuously) throw (missiles) at.
  9. Chiefly followed by from: to remove (the skin) from an animal.
  10. Especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily; to rain down.
  11. Of a number of small objects (such as raindrops), or the sun's rays: to beat down or fall on (someone or something) in a shower.
  12. To bombard (someone or something) with missiles.
  13. To force (someone or something) to move using blows or the throwing of missiles.
  14. To remove the skin from (an animal); to skin.

pelu

pena

pend

pend

noun

  1. (India) oil cake
  2. (Scotland) An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard.

verb

  1. (obsolete) To hang down; to cause something to hang down
  2. (obsolete) To hang in reliance on; to depend (on or upon); to be contingent on.
  3. (obsolete, Scotland) To arch over (something); to vault.
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To pen; to confine.
  5. (transitive) To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).

peng

peng

adj

  1. (MTE, MLE) Of the highest quality; excellent; splendid.
  2. (MTE, MLE) Physically or sexually attractive.
  3. (of a drink) iced; with ice added

noun

  1. (Chinese mythology) A legendary enormous bird.

penh

penk

penk

noun

  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A minnow.

penn

pens

pens

noun

  1. (obsolete) plural of penny
  2. plural of pen

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pen

pent

pent

adj

  1. Confined in, or as if in, a pen; imprisoned.

noun

  1. (informal, music) A pentatonic scale.
  2. (informal, paganism) A pentacle or pentagram.
  3. Confinement; concealment.

verb

  1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of pen; alternative form of penned

peon

peon

noun

  1. (India, historical) A messenger, foot soldier, or native policeman.
  2. (figurative) A person of low rank or importance.
  3. A lowly person; a peasant or serf; a labourer who is obliged to do menial work.

pepe

pepi

pepo

pepo

noun

  1. A fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber.
  2. A plant producing such a fruit.

peps

peps

noun

  1. plural of pep

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pep

pera

pere

pere

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of père

perf

perf

adj

  1. (colloquial) Clipping of perfect.
  2. (grammar) Abbreviation of perfective.
  3. (philately) Abbreviation of perforated. When followed by a number, eg, perf 14, this indicates the number of perforations per two centimetres.

noun

  1. (informal) Clipping of perforation. (of postage stamps or photographic film)
  2. (informal) Clipping of performance.

verb

  1. (informal) Clipping of perforate.

perh

perh

adv

  1. (usually in scholarly contexts) Abbreviation of perhaps.

peri

peri

noun

  1. (Persian mythology) A sprite or supernatural being.

perk

perk

adj

  1. (obsolete) Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.

noun

  1. (informal) Perquisite.
  2. (video games) A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up.
  3. A percolator, particularly of coffee.

verb

  1. (dated) To peer; to look inquisitively.
  2. (intransitive) To appear from below or behind something, emerge, pop up, poke out.
  3. (intransitive, informal) Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds.
  4. (intransitive, obsolete) To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.
  5. (obsolete) To perch.
  6. (transitive) To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
  7. (transitive, informal) To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.

perl

perm

perm

noun

  1. (informal) A permutation.
  2. A combination of outcomes (not a permutation) that a gambler bets on in the football pools.
  3. Short for permanent wave (“hairstyle”).

verb

  1. To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc.

pern

pern

noun

  1. A honey buzzard; Pernis apivorus.
  2. part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle

verb

  1. To take profit of; to make profitable.

pero

perp

perp

adj

  1. (architecture) Clipping of perpendicular.

noun

  1. (slang, law enforcement) Perpetrator.

perr

pers

pers

pron

  1. (rare, nonstandard) That which belongs to per, theirs (singular): possessive case of per, used in place of a noun.

pert

pert

adj

  1. (archaic) Especially of children or social inferiors: cheeky, impertinent.
  2. (obsolete) Clever.
  3. (obsolete) Open; evident; unhidden.
  4. (of a part of the body) Well-formed; shapely.
  5. (of a person) Attractive.
  6. Lively; alert and cheerful; bright.

noun

  1. (obsolete) An impudent person.

verb

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To behave with pertness; to misbehave.

peru

perv

perv

noun

  1. (slang) A pervert.

verb

  1. (slang) To stare at others in a perverted manner, especially whilst thinking sexual thoughts about them.

pesa

peso

peso

noun

  1. (historical) A former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth 8 reales; the Spanish dollar.
  2. The circulating currency of various Spanish-speaking American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Uruguay) and the Philippines.

pess

pest

pest

noun

  1. (now rare) A pestilence, i.e. a deadly epidemic, a deadly plague.
  2. An animal regarded as a nuisance, destructive, or a parasite, vermin.
  3. An annoying person, a nuisance.
  4. An invasive weed.
  5. Any destructive insect that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.

peta

pete

pete

noun

  1. (slang) Alternative form of peter (“a safe”)

peti

petn

peto

petr

pets

pets

noun

  1. plural of pet

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pet

peul

pews

pews

noun

  1. plural of pew

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pew

pewy

pheb

phew

phew

intj

  1. Used to express relief of tension, fatigue, or surprise.
  2. Used to show disgust.

pice

pice

noun

  1. (British India) alternative spelling of paisa.
  2. A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent.

pied

pied

adj

  1. Decorated or colored in blotches.
  2. Having two or more colors, especially black and white.

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of pi
  2. simple past tense and past participle of pie

pien

pier

pier

noun

  1. (architecture) A rectangular pillar, or similar structure, that supports an arch, wall or roof, or the hinges of a gate.
  2. A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty.
  3. A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment.
  4. A structure supporting the junction between two spans of a bridge.

pies

pies

noun

  1. plural of pie

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pi
  2. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pie

piet

piet

noun

  1. (now Ireland, UK regional) The magpie.

pike

pike

noun

  1. (chiefly Northern England) Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.
  2. (chiefly US) Clipping of turnpike.
  3. (derogatory, slang) A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.
  4. (diving, gymnastics) A position with the knees straight and a tight bend at the hips with the torso folded over the legs, usually part of a jack-knife.
  5. (fashion, dated) A pointy extrusion at the toe of a shoe.
  6. (historical) A style of shoes with pikes, popular in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries.
  7. (military, historical) A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults.
  8. (obsolete) A pick, a pickaxe.
  9. (obsolete, Britain, dialectal) A hayfork.
  10. (obsolete, often euphemistic) A penis.
  11. A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).
  12. A sharp, pointed staff or implement.
  13. Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To equip with a turnpike.
  2. (intransitive, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.
  3. (intransitive, gambling) To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
  4. (intransitive, obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To depart or travel (as if by a turnpike), especially to flee, to run away.
  5. (transitive) To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike.
  6. (transitive, intransitive, diving, gymnastics) To assume a pike position.

pile

pile

noun

  1. (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground.
  2. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
  3. (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
  4. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
  5. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
  6. (slang) A large amount of money.
  7. (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
  8. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
  9. A funeral pile; a pyre.
  10. A large building, or mass of buildings.
  11. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
  12. A list or league
  13. A mass formed in layers.
  14. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
  15. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
  16. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
  17. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
  18. The head of an arrow or spear.
  19. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.

verb

  1. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
  2. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
  3. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
  4. (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
  5. (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
  6. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
  7. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate

pine

pine

noun

  1. (archaic except Caribbean, Guyana, South Africa) A pineapple.
  2. (archaic) A painful longing.
  3. (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
  4. (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
  2. (intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
  3. (transitive) To grieve or mourn for.
  4. (transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment.

pipe

pipe

noun

  1. (Australia, colloquial, historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
  2. (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
  3. (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
  4. (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
  5. (computing, typography) The character |.
  6. (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
  7. (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
  8. (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
  9. (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
  10. (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
  11. (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
  12. (slang) A man's penis.
  13. (slang) A telephone.
  14. (smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
  15. A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
  16. A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine.
  17. A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
  18. A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
  19. A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
  20. Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
  21. The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
  22. The key or sound of the voice.

verb

  1. (US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
  2. (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
  3. (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
  4. (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
  5. (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
  6. (transitive) To dab moisture away from.
  7. (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
  8. (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
  9. (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
  10. (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
  11. (transitive, intransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
  12. (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
  13. (transitive, slang, dated) To see.
  14. (transitive, slang, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with a female.

pire

pise

pize

pize

noun

  1. (Britain, regional, archaic) Used in various imprecatory expressions: a pest, a pox.

verb

  1. (transitive, dialect, Yorkshire) To strike or hit (a person).

plea

plea

noun

  1. (law) A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas.
  2. (law) An allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.
  3. (law) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.
  4. (law) The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.
  5. An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
  6. An excuse; an apology.
  7. That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.

verb

  1. (chiefly England regional, Scotland) To plead; to argue.

pleb

pleb

adj

  1. (derogatory) Undistinguished, commonplace, unsophisticated, vulgar, coarse.
  2. Of or concerning the lower class of a society.

noun

  1. (US, slang, usually derogatory) A freshman cadet at a military academy.
  2. (derogatory) A common person, an unsophisticated or cultureless person.
  3. A commoner, a member of the lower class of a society.

pled

pled

verb

  1. (Canada, US, Scotland) simple past tense and past participle of plead

plew

plew

noun

  1. (Canada, US) beaver pelt

plex

plex

noun

  1. (Canada) A building, such as a duplex or triplex, with a number of apartments (typically two to four) that all open directly to the outside.
  2. (computing) A designated portion of a disk, usually set up to mirror some of the contents.
  3. Clipping of multiplex.

plie

plie

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of plié

plze

pmeg

pnce

poem

poem

noun

  1. A literary piece written in verse.
  2. A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose.
  3. A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.

poet

poet

noun

  1. A person who writes poems.
  2. A person with a creative or romantic imagination.

poke

poke

noun

  1. (Hawaii) Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs, spices, or other flavorful ingredients.
  2. (Scotland, Northern Ireland) An ice cream cone.
  3. (US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.
  4. (US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.
  5. (US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.
  6. (baseball, slang) A hit, especially an extra base hit.
  7. (computing, dated) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game.
  8. (dialectal) Pokeweed.
  9. (informal, social media) A notification sent to get another user's attention on social media or an instant messenger.
  10. (now regional) A sack or bag.
  11. 1605, William Camden, Remaines Concerning Brittaine, 1629 edition, Proverbes, page 276:
  12. 1627, Michael Drayton, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, 1907 edition, poem Nimphidia:
  13. 1814, September 4, The Examiner, volume 13, number 349, article French Fashions, page 573:
  14. 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 138:
  15. A long, wide sleeve.
  16. A poke bonnet.
  17. A prod, jab, or thrust.
  18. An old, worn-out horse.

verb

  1. (figuratively) To rummage; to feel or grope around.
  2. (transitive) To put a poke (device to prevent leaping or breaking fences) on (an animal).
  3. (transitive) To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
  4. (transitive) To thrust at with the horns; to gore.
  5. (transitive, computing, dated) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
  6. (transitive, informal, social media) To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger.
  7. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To penetrate in sexual intercourse.
  8. To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.
  9. To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.

pole

pole

noun

  1. (US, African-American Vernacular, slang) A gun.
  2. (complex analysis) For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.
  3. (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
  4. (fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.
  5. (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
  6. (historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
  7. (motor racing) Pole position.
  8. (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
  9. (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
  10. (vulgar, slang) A penis.
  11. A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
  12. A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
  13. A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
  14. Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
  15. Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
  16. Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.

verb

  1. (transitive) To convey on poles.
  2. (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.
  3. (transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
  4. (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
  5. (transitive, baseball) To strike (the ball) very hard.
  6. To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
  7. To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.

pome

pome

noun

  1. (Roman Catholicism) A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.
  2. (botany) A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels.

verb

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.

pone

pone

noun

  1. (Southern US) A baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs.
  2. (card games, chiefly US) The last player to bet or play in turn.
  3. (law, historical) A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.
  4. (law, historical) A writ to enforce appearance in court by attaching goods or requiring securities.

pope

pope

noun

  1. (Britain) The ruffe, a small Eurasian freshwater fish (Gymnocephalus cernua); others of its genus.
  2. (Christianity, historical, obsolete) Any bishop of the early Christian church.
  3. (Coptic Church) An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church.
  4. (Eastern Orthodoxy) An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church.
  5. (Roman Catholicism and generally) An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
  6. (Russian Orthodoxy) Alternative form of pop, a Russian Orthodox priest.
  7. (UK regional, Cumberland, Cornwall, Devon, Scotland) The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica).
  8. (UK) An effigy of the pope traditionally burnt in Britain on Guy Fawkes' Day and (occasionally) at other times.
  9. (US regional) The painted bunting (Passerina ciris).
  10. (US, dialectal, obsolete) whippoorwill (Antrostomus vociferus, syn. Caprimulgus vociferus).
  11. (US, dialectal, rare) nighthawk (Chordeiles minor).
  12. (US, obsolete) Pope Day, the present Guy Fawkes Day.
  13. (alcoholic beverages) Any mulled wine (traditionally including tokay) considered similar and superior to bishop.
  14. (by extension) Any similar head of a religion.
  15. (by extension, now often ironic) Any similarly absolute and 'infallible' authority.
  16. (rare) The red-cowled cardinal (Paroaria dominicana).
  17. (uncommon) A theocrat, a priest-king, including (at first especially) over the imaginary land of Prester John or (now) in figurative and alliterative uses.

verb

  1. (intransitive or with 'it') To act as or like a pope.
  2. (intransitive, colloquial) To convert to Roman Catholicism.

pore

pore

noun

  1. A tiny opening in the skin.
  2. By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.

verb

  1. to meditate or reflect in a steady way.
  2. to study meticulously; to go over again and again.

pose

pose

noun

  1. (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
  2. Affectation.
  3. Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).

verb

  1. (intransitive) To assume or maintain a pose; to strike an attitude.
  2. (intransitive) To behave affectedly in order to attract interest or admiration.
  3. (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).
  4. (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
  5. (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
  7. (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
  8. (transitive) To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
  9. (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
  10. (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
  11. (transitive, in the phrase "to pose as") To falsely impersonate (another person or occupation) primarily for the purpose of accomplishing something or reaching a goal.

pote

pote

verb

  1. (obsolete) To push, thrust.
  2. To poke (with a stick etc.).

powe

prec

pred

pred

adj

  1. (informal) Abbreviation of predefined.

noun

  1. (chiefly programming) Abbreviation of predecessor.
  2. (countable, informal) Abbreviation of predicate.
  3. (countable, informal, among vorarephiles) Abbreviation of predator.
  4. (informal) Abbreviation of predefinition.
  5. (uncountable, medicine) Abbreviation of prednisolone.
  6. (uncountable, medicine) Abbreviation of prednisone.

pree

pree

verb

  1. (MLE, MTE, Caribbean and their expatriates) to heed, to take notice of or pay attention to

pref

pref

noun

  1. (informal) Clipping of preference.

prem

prem

noun

  1. (informal) A prematurely born infant.

pren

prep

prep

noun

  1. (Britain, uncountable) Homework, work set to do outside class time, used widely in public schools and preparatory schools but not state schools.
  2. (Philippines) preparatory level; the last two levels or the fourth and fifth years of preschool; the two levels before first grade.
  3. (countable) Preparation.
  4. (informal, countable) A prep school.
  5. (informal, countable) A student or graduate of a prep school, a preppy.
  6. Abbreviation of preposition.
  7. Alternative form of PrEP

verb

  1. (informal) To prepare.

pres

pres

noun

  1. Abbreviation of present.
  2. Clipping of presentation.
  3. plural of pre

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pre.

pret

prev

prev

adj

  1. Abbreviation of previous.

prew

prex

prex

noun

  1. (US, university slang) A president, especially of a university.
  2. Prefix.

prey

prey

noun

  1. (archaic) Anything, such as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; something taken by force from an enemy in war
  2. (archaic) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
  3. A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.
  4. A person or thing given up as a victim.
  5. That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured
  6. The victim of a disease.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To act as a predator.

prez

prez

noun

  1. (informal) Clipping of president.

prie

prie

noun

  1. The plant privet.

prue

psec

ptfe

puce

puce

adj

  1. Of a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.

noun

  1. A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.

puke

puke

noun

  1. (US, slang, derogatory, countable) A person from Missouri.
  2. (colloquial, countable) A drug that induces vomiting.
  3. (colloquial, countable) A worthless, despicable person.
  4. (colloquial, uncountable) vomit.
  5. A fine grade of woolen cloth.
  6. A very dark, dull, brownish-red color.

verb

  1. (colloquial, transitive, intransitive) To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.
  2. (intransitive, finance, slang) To sell securities or investments at a loss, often under duress or pressure, in order to satisfy liquidity or margin requirements, or out of a desire to exit a deteriorating market.

pule

pule

noun

  1. A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk.
  2. A plaintive melancholy whine.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To pipe or chirp.
  2. (intransitive) To whimper or whine.

pume

pune

pure

pure

adj

  1. (Bermuda, slang) A lot of.
  2. (of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
  3. (of sound) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
  4. (phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
  5. Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
  6. Free of foreign material or pollutants.
  7. Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
  8. Mere; that and that only.

adv

  1. (Liverpudlian, Scotland) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.

noun

  1. Alternative form of puer (“dung (e.g. of dogs)”)
  2. One who, or that which, is pure.

verb

  1. (golf) to hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To cleanse; to refine.

pyes

pyes

noun

  1. plural of pye

pyke

pyke

noun

  1. Obsolete form of pike.

verb

  1. Obsolete form of peek.
  2. Obsolete form of pick.

pyle

pyne

pyne

noun

  1. Obsolete form of pine.

pyre

pyre

noun

  1. A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
  2. Any heap or pile of combustibles.

rape

rape

adv

  1. (obsolete) Quickly; hastily.

noun

  1. (now archaic) The abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes.
  2. (now historical) One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.
  3. (now rare) The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder.
  4. (obsolete) Fruit plucked in a bunch.
  5. (obsolete) Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.
  6. (obsolete) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
  7. (obsolete) That which is snatched away.
  8. (slang, sometimes offensive) Overpowerment; utter defeat.
  9. A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
  10. Synonym of rapeseed, Brassica napus.
  11. The act of forcing sex upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally coitus forced by a man on a woman, but now generally any sex act forced by any person upon another person; by extension, any non-consensual sex act forced on or perpetrated by any being.
  12. The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.

verb

  1. (chiefly transitive) To force sexual intercourse or other penetrative sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
  2. (obsolete, intransitive or reflexive) To make haste; to hasten or hurry.
  3. (slang, sometimes offensive) To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.
  4. (transitive) To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
  5. (transitive) To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
  6. (transitive, intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with overtones of later senses.)

reap

reap

noun

  1. A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

verb

  1. (transitive) To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine
  2. (transitive) To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.
  3. (transitive) To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.
  4. (transitive, computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.

repl

repo

repo

noun

  1. (countable, computing, informal) Clipping of repository (“storage location for files”).
  2. (countable, finance) A repurchase agreement: a type of derivative which allows a borrower to use a financial security as collateral for a cash loan at a fixed interest rate.
  3. (uncountable, informal) Repossession.

verb

  1. (transitive, informal) repossess

repp

repp

noun

  1. (textiles) Alternative form of rep

repr

reps

reps

noun

  1. (textiles, now rare) Rep.
  2. plural of rep

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rep

rept

resp

resp

adj

  1. (medicine, colloquial) Respiratory.

noun

  1. (medicine, colloquial) Respirology or respiratory medicine.

verb

  1. (Scotland) Alternative form of risp

ripe

ripe

adj

  1. (archaic) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge (said of sores, tumors, etc.)
  2. (figuratively) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected
  3. (law) Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
  4. (obsolete) Intoxicated.
  5. (of foods) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow
  6. (of fruits, vegetables, seeds etc.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature
  7. (proscribed, used with with) Rife
  8. Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
  9. Ready for action or effect; prepared.
  10. Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.

noun

  1. (agriculture) A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
  2. The bank of a river.

verb

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To search; to rummage.
  2. To ripen or mature

rope

rope

noun

  1. (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
  2. (archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
  3. (baseball) A hard line drive.
  4. (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
  5. (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
  6. (countable) An individual length of such material.
  7. (dated) A continuous stream.
  8. (in the plural) The small intestines.
  9. (jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
  10. (military, uncountable) A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
  11. (nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
  12. (slang) Rohypnol.
  13. (slang, usually in the plural) Semen being ejaculated.
  14. (slang, vulgar) A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.
  15. (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
  16. (with "the") Death by hanging.
  17. A cohesive strand of something.

verb

  1. (incel slang, intransitive) To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
  2. (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
  3. (intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
  4. (transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
  5. (transitive) To tie (something) with rope.
  6. My life is a mess; I might as well rope.

rype

rype

adj

  1. Obsolete spelling of ripe

noun

  1. A bird, the ptarmigan.

seap

seep

seep

noun

  1. A seafloor vent.
  2. A small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping.
  3. Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage.
  4. The seeping away of a liquid, etc.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
  2. (intransitive, figurative) To diminish or wane away slowly.
  3. (intransitive, figurative) To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.
  4. (transitive) (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.

sepd

sepg

sepn

seps

sept

sept

noun

  1. A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; especially, one of the ancient clans of Ireland.
  2. An enclosure; a railing.

verb

  1. (nonstandard, rare) simple past tense and past participle of seep

shep

shep

noun

  1. (Lancashire) starling
  2. Pronunciation spelling of ship.

sipe

sipe

noun

  1. (Britain, dialect) A drain.
  2. (US) Slit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction.

verb

  1. (US) To cut grooves in tires.
  2. (intransitive, Britain) To drain, to filter through peat or reeds; to seep.

skep

skep

noun

  1. A basket.
  2. A beehive made of straw or wicker.

sope

sope

noun

  1. A traditional Mexican food consisting of a masa base with various savory toppings.
  2. Obsolete form of soap.

spae

spae

verb

  1. (Scotland) To divine; foretell

spec

spec

noun

  1. (Australia, Australian rules football, informal) A spectacular mark (catch) in Australian rules football.
  2. (colloquial) Clipping of specification.
  3. (colloquial) Clipping of speculation.
  4. (dialect) A special place (for hiding or viewing).
  5. (linguistics) Abbreviation of specifier.
  6. (linguistics) Clipping of specifier.
  7. Clipping of special.
  8. Clipping of specialist.
  9. Clipping of specialization.
  10. Clipping of spectrum.

verb

  1. (transitive) To specify, especially in a formal specification document.

sped

sped

noun

  1. (informal, derogatory, offensive) A special education student.

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of speed

spee

spet

spet

noun

  1. (obsolete) spittle

verb

  1. To spit; to throw out.

spew

spew

noun

  1. (slang) Ejaculate or ejaculation.
  2. A white powder or dark crystals that appear on the surface of improperly tanned leather.
  3. Adhesive that is squeezed from a joint under pressure and held across the joint by a fillet, thereby strengthening the joint.
  4. Material that has been ejected in a stream, or the act of spewing.
  5. Nonsense or lies.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To be forcibly ejected.
  2. (intransitive) To be written or spoken voluminously.
  3. (intransitive) To ejaculate.
  4. (intransitive, informal) To vomit.
  5. (intransitive, leather-working) To develop a white powder or dark crystals on the surface of finished leather, as a result from improper tanning.
  6. (transitive) To eject forcibly and in a stream,
  7. (transitive) To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading.

spex

spex

noun

  1. (colloquial, plural only) Dated form of specs (“spectacles”).

spey

spey

verb

  1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of spay

spue

spue

verb

  1. Obsolete form of spew.

step

step

noun

  1. (colloquial) A stepchild.
  2. (in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
  3. (in the plural) A walk; passage.
  4. (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
  5. (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
  6. (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
  7. (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
  8. (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
  9. (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
  10. (slang) A stepsibling.
  11. A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
  12. A gait; manner of walking.
  13. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
  14. A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
  15. A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
  16. A small space or distance.
  17. An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
  18. Proceeding; measure; action; act.
  19. The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
  20. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
  2. (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
  3. (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
  4. (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
  5. (transitive) To set, as the foot.
  6. (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
  7. To dance.

supe

supe

noun

  1. (Cambridge University slang) Clipping of supervision.
  2. (dated, slang, theater) Clipping of supernumerary.: An extra or walk-on.
  3. (fiction) Short for superhero.
  4. (informal) Abbreviation of superintendent.
  5. (informal) Abbreviation of supervisor.