(obsolete) Any animal that is a member of the Acrita
anfract
anticar
anticar
adj
Opposed to automobiles or the excessive use of automobiles
noun
An automobile that defies the normal idea of a car
anticor
anticor
noun
(obsolete) A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart.
archont
arctian
brocton
caitrin
cantara
cantare
cantaro
cantaro
noun
(music) A clayen pot used as a percussion instrument in South America.
canters
canters
noun
plural of canter
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canter
cantors
cantors
noun
plural of cantor
cantrap
cantrap
noun
Alternative form of cantrip
cantred
cantred
noun
Alternative form of cantref
cantref
cantref
noun
A mediaeval land division in Wales.
cantril
cantrip
cantrip
noun
A spell or incantation; a trifling magic trick.
A wilful piece of trickery or mischief.
cantuar
carlton
carlton
Proper noun
Any of several place names in England:
a village in the borough of Bedfordshire
a village in district, Cambridgeshire
a village in borough, County Durham
a village and parish in Leicestershire
a suburb of in the borough of Nottinghamshire
a village in district, Suffolk
a village in district, North Yorkshire
a village and parish in district, North Yorkshire
a village in the borough of South Yorkshire
a village in the borough of the City of West Yorkshire
from any of these places.
A southern suburb of New South Wales, Australia.
An inner suburb of Victoria, Australia.
A neighbourhood in Alberta, Canada.
A hamlet in Rural Municipality, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Various places in the United States of America:
an unincorporated community and CDP in Alabama.
a small city in Georgia.
a tiny city in Kansas.
a small city in Minnesota
a town in New York.
a city in Oregon.
an unincorporated community in Texas.
an unincorporated community in Washington.
a town in Wisconsin.
A settlement on United States Virgin Islands.
carnate
carnate
adj
Invested with, or embodied in, flesh.
carnets
carnets
noun
plural of carnet
carotin
carotin
noun
(organic chemistry) A red crystallizable tasteless substance extracted from the carrot.
carpent
carpent
verb
(nonstandard, rare) To do carpentry, or work on (something) as a carpenter.
carting
carting
noun
The transporting of someone in a cart through the streets as part of a public punishment or humiliation.
verb
present participle of cart
cartman
cartman
noun
(New York) A private garbage collection and haulage worker or contractor.
(dated) A person who transports goods or people by horse and cart; a carman.
cartons
cartons
noun
plural of carton
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carton
cartoon
cartoon
noun
(animation) An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.
(art) A full-sized drawing that serves as the template for a fresco, a tapestry, etc.
(art) An artist's preliminary sketch.
(comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.
(comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
A diagram in a scientific concept.
verb
(art) To make a preliminary sketch.
(art, comics, animation) To draw a cartoon, a humorous drawing.
cateran
cateran
noun
(historical) A Highlander working as a professional fighter; a mercenary attached to a Scottish clan.
A freebooter, marauder.
cathern
cathrin
cathryn
cathryn
Proper noun
name, a rare spelling variant of Catherine.
catrina
catrina
noun
An elegantly dressed skeleton figure; used as a symbol of the Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos, celebration.
caunter
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.
ceratin
ceratin
noun
Alternative form of keratin
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).
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.
chantor
chantor
noun
Alternative form of chanter
chantry
chantry
noun
A chapel set up for this purpose
An endowment for the maintenance of a priest to sing a daily mass for the souls of specified people
chorten
chorten
noun
(Buddhism) A Tibetan stupa.
chunter
chunter
verb
(British, Ireland, dialect) To grumble, complain.
(British, Ireland, dialect) To speak in a soft, indistinct manner, mutter.
cistern
cistern
noun
A cisterna.
A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.
In a flush toilet, the container in which the water used for flushing is held; a toilet tank.
The vessel surrounding the condenser in a steam engine.
cistron
cistron
noun
The unit of hereditary material (e.g. DNA) that encodes one protein; sometimes used interchangeably with the word gene.
cithern
cithren
citrean
citrean
adj
Alternative form of citrine
citrene
citrene
noun
(organic chemistry) A monoterpene isomeric with limonene
citrine
citrine
adj
Of a goldish-yellow colour.
noun
A brownish-yellow quartz.
A goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon.
citrins
citroen
citrons
citrons
noun
plural of citron
cittern
cittern
noun
A stringed instrument (chordophone), played with a plectrum (a pick), and most commonly possessing four wire strings and chromatic frets.
clunter
cointer
cointer
verb
To bury together; inter.
concert
concert
noun
(countable) A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.
(uncountable) Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
(uncountable) Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
verb
To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.
To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
To plan; to devise; to arrange.
confort
conrath
consort
consort
adj
(postpositive) of a title, by virtue of one's (living) spouse; often contrasted with regnant and dowager
noun
(euphemistic, sometimes humorous) An informal, usually well-publicized sexual companion of a monarch, aristocrat, celebrity, etc.
(obsolete) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.
(uncountable) Association or partnership.
A group or company, especially of musicians playing the same type of instrument.
A husband, wife, companion or partner.
A ship accompanying another.
The spouse of a monarch.
verb
(intransitive) To associate or keep company (with).
(intransitive) To be in agreement.
conster
conster
verb
Obsolete spelling of construe
conteur
contort
contort
verb
(intransitive) To twist into or as if into a strained shape or expression.
(transitive) To twist in a violent manner.
contour
contour
noun
(figurative) A general description giving the most important points.
(linguistics) a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth.
An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
verb
(intransitive) To practise the makeup technique of contouring.
(transitive) To form a more or less curved boundary or border upon.
(transitive) To mark with contour lines.
contras
contras
noun
plural of contra
contrib
contrib
noun
Clipping of contribution.
control
control
noun
(climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
(countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
(cycling, countable) A checkpoint along an audax route.
(graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
(linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
(project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
(spiritualism, parapsychology) A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
A control group or control experiment.
A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
verb
(transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
(transitive) to hold in check, to curb, to restrain
(transitive, archaic) to verify the accuracy of (something or someone, especially a financial account) by comparison with another account
(transitive, obsolete) to call to account, to take to task, to challenge
(transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
conturb
conturb
verb
(transitive) To disturb or perturb greatly.
convert
convert
noun
(Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
A person who has converted to a religion.
A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
verb
(intransitive) To become converted.
(intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
(intransitive, marketing) To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
(intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
(transitive or intransitive, soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick).
(transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
(transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
(transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
(transitive) To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
(transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11).
(transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
(transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
(transitive, intransitive, chess) To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
(transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
(transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
(transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
(transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
(transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
coranto
coranto
noun
(historical) An early informational broadsheet, bringing together news and philosophical discussion.
A fast-paced dance which originated in France.
cordant
corinth
corinth
noun
(obsolete) A small fruit; a currant.
cornets
cornets
noun
plural of cornet
cornett
cornett
noun
(music) An early horn wind instrument used in European music of the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. Not to be confused with later brass instrument.
cornute
cornute
adj
cornuted
verb
(transitive) To give 'horns' to; to make a cuckold of.
cornuto
cornuto
noun
(obsolete) A cuckold.
coronet
coronet
noun
A small crown, such as is worn by a noble.
A species of moth, Craniophora ligustri.
Any of several hummingbirds in the genus Boissonneaua.
The ring of tissue between a horse's hoof and its leg.
The traditional lowest regular commissioned officer rank in the cavalry.
cortian
cortina
cortina
noun
(mycology) A cobweb-like annulus on certain types of mushroom.
cortine
cortins
cortins
noun
plural of cortin
cortney
cortona
cothurn
cothurn
noun
A buskin anciently worn by tragic actors on the stage.
cotrine
counter
counter
adj
Contrary or opposing
adv
Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.
noun
(Internet) A hit counter.
(curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
(grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
(historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
(martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
(music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.
(nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
(programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
(typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted
A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
One who counts.
The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
verb
(boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
(transitive, obsolete) To encounter.
To contradict, oppose.
To take action in response to; to respond.
countor
countor
noun
(obsolete, UK, law) An advocate or professional pleader; one who counted for his client, that is, orally pleaded his cause
country
country
adj
(India, historical) Originating in India rather than being imported from Europe or elsewhere.
From or in the countryside or connected with it.
Of or connected to country music.
noun
(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.
(mining) The rock through which a vein runs.
(uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, speakers of the same language etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.
Ellipsis of country music.
The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area; a sovereign state.
courant
courant
adj
(heraldry) Represented as running.
noun
A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper.
A lively dance; a coranto.
A piece of music in triple time.
courtin
crafton
crating
crating
verb
present participle of crate
cratons
cratons
noun
plural of craton
creatin
creatin
noun
Alternative form of creatine
credent
credent
adj
(obsolete) Gullible.
cremant
crenate
crenate
adj
(botany) Having round or blunt teeth on its margin; scalloped.
noun
(chemistry) Any salt or ester of crenic acid
creston
cretins
cretins
noun
plural of cretin
cretion
crinate
crinate
adj
Having hair; hairy; crinated.
crinite
crinite
adj
(botany) Bearded or tufted with hairs
Having a hair-like tail or train.
Having the appearance of a tuft of hair.
noun
(zoology) A fossil crinoid.
cristen
cristin
croatan
croatan
Noun
A member of a small Native American group once living in the coastal areas of what is now North Carolina.
crofton
crotone
crotone
Proper noun
A town and associated province of Calabria, Italy.
crotons
crotons
noun
plural of croton
crouton
crouton
noun
A small, often seasoned, piece of dry or fried bread.
crownet
crownet
noun
(obsolete) A coronet, small crown.
cthrine
currant
currant
noun
A shrub bearing such fruit.
A small dried grape, usually the Black Corinth grape, rarely more than 4 mm in diameter when dried.
The fruit of various shrubs of the genus Ribes, white, black or red.
current
current
adj
(India) Electric; of or relating to electricity.
(obsolete) Running or moving rapidly.
Existing or occurring at the moment.
Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.
noun
(electricity) the amount of electric charge flowing in each unit of time.
The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid.
The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) short for ocean current.
a tendency or a course of events
curtain
curtain
noun
(architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
(euphemistic, also "final curtain", sometimes in the plural) Death.
(fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
(obsolete, derogatory) A flag; an ensign.
(theater, by extension) The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
verb
(figuratively) To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.
To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
curtana
curtana
noun
A short sword used for ceremonial purposes
curtein
curtein
noun
Alternative form of curtana
curvant
custron
custron
noun
(obsolete) A kitchen-worker, a scullion; any worthless person.
ecteron
ecteron
noun
(anatomy) The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon.
enactor
enactor
noun
One who enacts.
encrata
encraty
encrust
encrust
verb
(transitive) To cover with a hard crust.
(transitive) To inset or affix decorative materials upon (a surface); to inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object.
encrypt
encrypt
verb
To conceal information by means of a code or cipher.
enteric
enteric
adj
Of, relating to, within, or by way of the intestines
Staying intact in the stomach, then dissolving in the intestine
enticer
enticer
noun
One who entices or allures.
frantic
frantic
adj
(archaic) Insane, mentally unstable.
Extremely energetic
In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush.
noun
(archaic) A person who is insane or mentally unstable, madman.
functor
functor
noun
(category theory) A category homomorphism; a morphism from a source category to a target category which maps objects to objects and arrows to arrows, in such a way as to preserve domains and codomains (of the arrows) as well as composition and identities.
(functional programming) A structure allowing a function to apply within a generic type, in a way that is conceptually similar to a functor in category theory.
(grammar) A function word.
(object-oriented programming) A function object.
inciter
inciter
noun
One who incites.
incrept
incrept
verb
simple past tense and past participle of increep
increst
increst
verb
(transitive) To adorn with a crest.
incrust
incrust
verb
Alternative form of encrust
infarct
infarct
noun
(pathology) An area of dead tissue caused by a loss of blood supply; a localized necrosis.
infract
infract
adj
Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole.
verb
(transitive) To break off.
(transitive) To infringe, violate or disobey (a rule).
junctor
junctor
noun
A juncture, especially a means of attaching incoming and outgoing lines in an analog telephone exchange
lectern
lectern
noun
A similar stand to support a lecturer's notes.
A stand with a slanted top used to support a bible from which passages are read during a church service.
lecturn
lecturn
noun
Obsolete form of lectern.
mantric
mantric
adj
Of, or pertaining to, mantra.
nacarat
nacarat
noun
A shade of pale red-orange.
Linens and cloths dyed such a shade.
nacrite
nacrite
noun
(mineralogy) A basic aluminium silicate clay that is a polymorph of kaolinite