A distasteful substance produced by some butterflies as a defence mechanism
acreman
acreman
noun
A leader of a plowing team in medieval England.
acremen
acremen
noun
plural of acreman
acrnema
acrogen
acrogen
noun
(biology) any flowerless plant whose growth takes place at the tip of the main stem, especially the cryptogam ferns
adrench
ancress
anergic
anergic
adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of anergy.
aneuric
arachne
archean
archine
arcsine
arcsine
noun
(trigonometry) Any of several single-valued or multivalued functions that are inverses of the sine function. Symbol: arcsin, sin⁻¹
ardency
ardency
noun
Intensity of devotion.
Intensity of feelings.
Intensity of heat or burning.
Intensity of light.
arecain
arecuna
aricine
aricine
noun
(organic chemistry) An alkaloid found in white cinchona bark.
armenic
arsenic
arsenic
adj
(chemistry) Of or containing arsenic with a valence of 5.
noun
A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol As) with an atomic number of 33.
Arsenic trioxide.
aucaner
baconer
baconer
noun
A pig raised to produce bacon.
barcone
bechern
becrown
becrown
verb
(transitive) To place a crown upon; crown.
bencher
bencher
noun
(Britain, obsolete, law) One of the senior governing members of an Inn of Court.
(Canada, law) A senior member of a law society in a Canadian province (except New Brunswick).
(UK, obsolete) An alderman of a corporation.
(obsolete) A member of a court or council.
(obsolete) One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.
bernice
bescorn
bescorn
verb
(obsolete) To treat with scorn.
bickern
bickern
noun
An anvil with two projecting taper ends.
bicorne
bicorne
noun
Alternative form of bicorn (“two-cornered hat”)
birchen
birchen
adj
Made from birch wood.
bouncer
bouncer
noun
(Internet) An account or server (as with IRC and FTP) that invisibly redirects requests to another, used for anonymity or vanity.
(cricket) A short-pitched ball that bounces up towards, or above the height of the batsman’s head.
(dated) One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.
(informal) A member of security personnel employed by bars, nightclubs, etc to maintain order and deal with patrons who cause trouble.
(slang, archaic) A boaster; a bully.
(slang, archaic) A bold lie.
(slang, archaic) A liar.
A bouncy castle.
A kind of seat mounted in a framework in which a baby can bounce up and down.
Something big; a good stout example of the kind.
bracken
bracken
noun
(uncountable) An area of countryside heavily populated by this fern.
(uncountable, countable) Any of several coarse ferns, of the genus Pteridium, that form dense thickets; often poisonous to livestock.
brechan
brecken
brichen
bricken
bricken
adj
(archaic) Made of brick.
brocken
brucine
brucine
noun
(organic chemistry) An alkaloid related to strychnine, found in several plant species, notably Strychnos nux-vomica (nux vomica).
buchner
buckner
bucrane
buncher
buncher
noun
(electronics, physics) A circuit that causes electrons or other charged particles in a particle beam to group together.
(manufacturing) A machine that twists strands together during the manufacture of metal wire; a strander.
(military, RAF, World War II) A ground-based radio transmitter, configured within a system to guide aircraft to their allocated airfields.
A person who bunches.
An illegitimate supplier of laboratory animals who obtains the animals by kidnapping pets or illegally trapping strays.
cairene
cairene
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Cairo, the capital of Egypt.
Noun
A native or inhabitant of Cairo.
cairned
cairned
adj
Possessed of a cairn.
cameron
cameron
Proper noun
and a highland Scottish clan name
name derived from the surname.
name derived from the surname, used since the 1970s also in the spellings Camryn and Kamryn.
A in Arizona
An unincorporated community in Illinois
An unincorporated community in Iowa
A in Louisiana
A rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada
A city in Missouri
An unincorporated community in Montana
A town in New York
A town in North Carolina
An unincorporated community in Ohio
A town in Oklahoma
A town in South Carolina
A city in Texas
A city in West Virginia
A village and a town in Wisconsin
canaler
cancers
cancers
noun
plural of cancer
candier
candler
candler
noun
A device for candling.
A person who makes candles; a chandler.
cangler
cankers
cankers
noun
plural of canker
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canker
cankery
cankery
adj
Full of canker.
Like a canker.
Surly; malignant; cantankerous.
canners
canners
noun
plural of canner
cannery
cannery
noun
A factory that produces canned goods.
cannier
cannier
adj
comparative form of canny: more canny
cantare
canters
canters
noun
plural of canter
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canter
cantred
cantred
noun
Alternative form of cantref
cantref
cantref
noun
A mediaeval land division in Wales.
caprine
caprine
adj
Goatlike.
Of or relating to goats.
noun
Alternative form of caprin
Any of certain caprids (including sheep) that are regarded as being similar to the goat; any member of the tribe Caprini.
caprone
carbeen
carbeen
noun
An Australian eucalyptus (Eucalyptus tessellaris)
carbene
carbene
noun
(organic chemistry) Any short-lived, reactive species R₂C:, especially the parent compound CH₂: (also called methylene).
carbine
carbine
noun
A rifle with a short barrel.
carbone
carbone
noun
Obsolete form of carbon.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To broil.
careens
careens
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of careen
carinae
carleen
carlene
carline
carline
noun
(chiefly Scotland) A woman; a hag or witch.
A line of automobiles awaiting access to the same building or similar location.
Alternative form of caroline (“an old silver Italian coin”)
Carline thistle.
carlyne
carmena
carmine
carmine
adj
Of the purplish red colour shade carmine.
noun
A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment.
A purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives.
carmine:
carnage
carnage
noun
(figurative, slang) Any chaotic situation.
(figurative, sports) Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly.
Death and destruction.
The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
carnate
carnate
adj
Invested with, or embodied in, flesh.
carneau
carneol
carneol
noun
(now rare, historical) Carnelian.
carnets
carnets
noun
plural of carnet
carneus
carneys
carneys
noun
plural of carney
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carney
carnied
carnied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of carny
carnies
carnies
noun
plural of carnie
plural of carny
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carny
carnose
carnose
adj
(botany) of a fleshy consistency; applied to succulent leaves, stems, etc.
Carnous, fleshy.
carpent
carpent
verb
(nonstandard, rare) To do carpentry, or work on (something) as a carpenter.
carvene
carvene
noun
(organic chemistry) An oily substance, C₁₀H₁₆, extracted from caraway.
carvone
carvone
noun
(organic chemistry) A terpenoid found naturally in many essential oils, most abundant in the oils from seeds of caraway and dill.
caserne
caserne
noun
Alternative form of casern
caserns
caserns
noun
plural of casern
cateran
cateran
noun
(historical) A Highlander working as a professional fighter; a mercenary attached to a Scottish clan.
A freebooter, marauder.
cathern
caunter
caverns
caverns
noun
plural of cavern
cedrene
cedrene
noun
(organic chemistry) A rich aromatic oil, C₁₅H₂₄, extracted from oil of red cedar.
(organic chemistry) Any of a class of similar substances, such as the essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper, etc.
cedrine
cedrine
adj
Of or relating to the cedar tree.
celoron
censers
censers
noun
plural of censer
censors
censors
noun
plural of censor
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of censor
censure
censure
noun
(obsolete) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
An official reprimand.
Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.
verb
(obsolete) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.
To criticize harshly.
To formally rebuke.
centare
centare
noun
A measure of area: one hundredth of an are, or one square meter.
centaur
centaur
noun
(Greek mythology) A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.
(astronomy, also capitalised) An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune.
(chess) A chess-playing team comprising a human player and a computer who work together.
centers
centers
noun
plural of center
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of center
centiar
centner
centner
noun
A nonstandard metric unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms, commonly used as an agricultural measure in Eastern Bloc countries (similar to a bushel).
A unit of weight with different actual definitions in parts of Germany and Scandinavia, typically 100 local pounds.
centrad
centrad
adj
(medicine, anatomy, archaic) Toward the center.
central
central
adj
(anatomy) Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.
Being in the centre.
Being very important, or key to something.
Having or containing the centre of something.
noun
(especially US) centre
centred
centred
adj
UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa spelling of centered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of centre
centref
centrer
centres
centres
noun
plural of centre
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of centre
centrev
centrex
centrex
Noun
A service similar to a private branch exchange, but providing switching at the central office instead of at the customer's premises.
centric
centric
adj
(of diatoms) Being a member of the subclass Coscinodiscophyceae (corresponding to the Centrales.)
(physics) Pertaining to a nerve centre.
Being in the centre; central.
centrum
centrum
noun
(seismology) The focus or place of origin of an earthquake.
A center.
The basis or fundamental portion of one of the cranial segments, regarded as analogous to vertebrae.
The central body of a vertebra; the solid piece to which the arches and some other parts are or may be attached.
centure
century
century
noun
(US, informal) A banknote in the denomination of one hundred dollars.
(cricket) A hundred runs scored either by a single player in one innings, or by two players in a partnership.
(snooker) A score of one hundred points.
(sports) A race a hundred units (as meters, kilometres, miles) in length.
A hundred things of the same kind; a hundred.
A period of 100 consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.
A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
A unit in ancient Roman army, originally of 100 army soldiers as part of a cohort, later of more varied sizes (but typically containing 60 to 70 or 80) soldiers or other men (guards, police, firemen), commanded by a centurion.
cerasin
cerasin
noun
(chemistry) A gummy mucilaginous substance; bassorin or tragacanthin.
(chemistry) A white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry gum; meta-arabinic acid.
ceratin
ceratin
noun
Alternative form of keratin
cercyon
ceresin
ceresin
noun
A refined form of ozocerite that is used in polishes and to make candles
ceriman
ceriman
noun
A large, woody vine native to Mexico, but grown throughout the tropics for its edible fruit, Monstera deliciosa, and also grown indoors as an ornamental under the name of Swiss cheese plant.
The fruit of this vine.
cerning
cernuda
cerosin
cerosin
noun
(organic chemistry) A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane.
cerotin
cerotin
noun
(organic chemistry) A white crystalline substance, C₂₇H₅₅.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; cerotic alcohol; ceryl alcohol.
certain
certain
adj
(obsolete) Determined; resolved.
Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.
Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.
Known but not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; sometimes used independently as a noun, and meaning certain persons; see also "one".
Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.
Sure, positive, not doubting.
Unfailing; infallible.
det
Having been determined but not specified.
pron
(with of) Unnamed or undescribed members (of).
cerumen
cerumen
noun
earwax
cerveny
cervine
cervine
adj
Pertaining to a deer; deer-like.
noun
A deer of the subfamily Cervinae; an Old World deer.
chainer
chainer
noun
One who chains.
chancer
chancer
noun
(UK, Ireland, slang) A scheming opportunist.
chancre
chancre
noun
(pathology) Skin lesion, sometimes associated with certain contagious diseases such as syphilis.
changer
changer
noun
A person employed in changing or discounting money.
Someone or something that changes or transforms itself.
Someone or something who changes things.
channer
channer
noun
(Internet slang) A user of the imageboard site 4chan; a 4channer.
(by extension) A user of other imageboard sites similar to 4chan.
A flat fragment of sandstone, slate, etc. found in soil.
chanter
chanter
noun
(archaic) One who sells horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.
A priest who sings in a chantry.
One who chants or sings.
The hedge sparrow.
The pipe of a bagpipe on which the melody is played.
chargen
charnel
charnel
adj
Of or relating to a charnel, deathlike, sepulchral.
noun
(historical) Part of a helm, now usually identified as the hinge (near the neck) by which the helm was secured to the breastplate.
A chapel attached to a mortuary.
A repository for dead bodies.
cheiron
chenier
chenier
noun
(Louisiana) An area of scrub oak growing in an accumulation of alluvial soil in a stream, creek, bayou, marsh or river.
A beach ridge consisting of sand or crushed shells raised above mudflats forming part of a strand plain
cherian
cherlyn
chernow
chevron
chevron
noun
(chiefly Britain) One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.
(heraldry) A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
(informal) A háček, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve.
A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “«” or “»”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as ““” and “””.
An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
verb
To form or be formed into chevrons
chinker
chinker
noun
Any material that is used to fill chinks
chinner
chireno
chondre
chondre
noun
Synonym of chondrule
chorine
chorine
noun
A female chorus line dancer; a chorus girl.
chorten
chorten
noun
(Buddhism) A Tibetan stupa.
chunder
chunder
noun
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) An act of vomiting.
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) Vomit.
Heavy, sticky snow that makes snowsports difficult.
verb
(Australia, New Zealand, Britain, slang) To throw up, to vomit.
Of a motor vehicle: to rumble loudly, to roar.
chunner
chunner
verb
(intransitive) To talk tiresomely or at length; to chatter on.
chunter
chunter
verb
(British, Ireland, dialect) To grumble, complain.
(British, Ireland, dialect) To speak in a soft, indistinct manner, mutter.