(obsolete, pathology) dandruff (or similar condition)
acorn
acorn
noun
(nautical) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
(zoology) See acorn-shell.
The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
acroa
acron
acron
noun
Synonym of prostomium
actor
actor
noun
(grammar) The subject performing the action of a verb.
(obsolete) Someone acting on behalf of someone else; a guardian.
(obsolete, Ancient Rome) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
(obsolete, law) Someone who institutes a legal suit; a plaintiff or complainant.
(software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).
A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer.
Someone or something that takes part in some action; a doer, an agent.
alcor
amorc
amroc
ancor
apocr
arcos
armco
arock
asroc
barco
boric
boric
adj
(chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or containing the element boron.
broca
broch
broch
noun
(archaeology) A type of Iron Age stone tower with hollow double-layered walls found on Orkney, Shetland, in the Hebrides and parts of the Scottish mainland.
brock
brock
noun
(UK) a male badger.
(archaic, possibly obsolete) A brocket, a stag between two and three years old.
(obsolete) A dirty, stinking fellow.
bronc
bronc
noun
A bronco.
cairo
calor
carbo
carbo
noun
(informal) carbohydrate
cardo
cardo
noun
(History) A street that ran north-south, in an Ancient Roman town or city
(zoology) The basal joint of the maxilla in insects
(zoology) The hinge of a bivalve shell.
cargo
cargo
noun
(Papua New Guinea) Western material goods.
Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
carlo
carlo
Proper noun
name of Italian origin. English equivalents: Charles, Carl
caroa
caroa
noun
A Brazilian plant (Neoglaziovia variegata)
The fibre of this plant, used to make paper &c
carob
carob
noun
A sweet chocolate-like confection made with the pulp of the fruit.
An evergreen shrub or tree, Ceratonia siliqua, native to the Mediterranean region.
The fruit of that tree.
carol
carol
noun
(architecture) Alternative form of carrel (“small closet or enclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study”).
(historical) A round dance accompanied by singing.
(specifically) A (usually traditional) religious or secular song sung at Christmastime.
A ballad or song of joy.
verb
(intransitive) To sing carols; especially to sing Christmas carols in a group.
(intransitive) To sing in a joyful manner.
(intransitive, historical) To participate in a carol (a round dance accompanied by singing).
(transitive) To praise or celebrate in song.
(transitive) To sing (a song) cheerfully.
carom
carom
noun
(countable, cue sports, especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.
(spices) ajwain
(uncountable) A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of a board measuring one meter by one meter.
verb
(intransitive) To make a carom (shot in billiards).
To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound.
caron
caron
noun
háček
carot
carpo
cdrom
ceorl
ceorl
noun
(historical) An Anglo-Saxon churl.
ceros
ceros
noun
plural of cero
cerro
charo
chiro
chiro
noun
(informal, countable) A chiropractor.
(informal, uncountable) Chiropractic.
chlor
choir
choir
noun
(Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.
(architecture) The part of a church where the choir assembles for song.
A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are trained to sing together.
Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.
verb
(intransitive) To sing in concert.
chora
chord
chord
noun
(aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
(anatomy) A cord.
(computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
(engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
(geometry) A straight line between two points of a curve.
(graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
(music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
(nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
(rail transport) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
The string of a musical instrument.
verb
(music) To accord; to harmonize together.
(transitive) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
(transitive) To write chords for.
chore
chore
noun
(obsolete) A choir or chorus.
A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.
verb
(Scotland, dialect) To steal.
(US, dated) To do chores.
chort
chorz
chron
chron
noun
(geology) A period of time between two geomagnetic reversals.
claro
claro
noun
A cigar whose wrapper is very light tan or yellowish.
clour
clour
noun
(Scotland) A blow or impingement.
verb
(Scotland, transitive) To inflict a blow on; punch.
(Scotland, transitive) To make a dent or bump on; ding.
coarb
coarb
noun
(historical) The head of one of the families composing an old Irish sept.
(historical) The successor to the founder of a religious institution.
coart
cobra
cobra
noun
A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.
Any of various venomous snakes of the family Elapidae.
coder
coder
noun
(computing) A programmer.
A device that generates a code, often as a series of pulses.
A person who assigns codes or classifications.
coire
coirs
coirs
noun
plural of coir
coker
coker
noun
(category theory, informal) cokernel
(derogatory, slang) A cocaine addict, a cokehead
The industrial plant in which coke is manufactured
color
color
adj
Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
noun
(countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
(figuratively) Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
(finance, uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
(heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
(in the plural) A standard or banner.
(in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
(in the plural) Gang insignia.
(in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
(medicine) Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
(military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
(physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
(snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
(typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
(uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
(uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
(uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
A paint.
An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).
verb
(informal) To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
(intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
(mathematics, graph theory) To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
(of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.
(transitive) To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
(transitive) To give something color.
To affect without completely changing.
comdr
comer
comer
noun
(figuratively) One who is catching up in some contest and has a likelihood of victory.
One in a race who is catching up to others and shows promise of winning.
One who arrives.
coner
coner
noun
(slang, Canada, Ireland) A zoot tapered to a conical shape.
confr
conor
contr
contr
noun
Abbreviation of contraction.
cooer
cooer
noun
One who coos.
coorg
coorg
Proper noun
A mountainous region in southwestern India, also known locally as Kodagu.
A Dravidian family language of the aforementioned ethnic community.
Noun
A member of the ethnic community originating from the region of Coorg in India.
coors
coper
coper
noun
(Britain) A floating grogshop supplying the North Sea fishing industry.
One who copes.
verb
(Britain) To supply the North Sea fishing industry from a floating grogshop.
copra
copra
noun
The dried kernel of the coconut, from which coconut oil is extruded.
corah
corah
adj
(of Indian silk) plain, undyed
noun
A plain, undyed Indian silk.
coral
coral
adj
Having the orange-pink colour of coral.
Made of coral.
noun
(countable) A somewhat yellowish orange-pink colour; the colour of red coral (Corallium rubrum) of the Mediterranean Sea, commonly used as an ornament or gem.
(countable) Any of many species of marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa, most of which build hard calcium carbonate skeletons and form colonies, or a colony belonging to one of those species.
(historical) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
(uncountable) A hard substance made of the skeletons of these organisms.
The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their colour.
coram
coran
coray
corbe
corbe
adj
(obsolete) crooked
corby
corby
noun
Alternative form of corbie (“type of bird”)
cordi
cords
cords
noun
(informal) Corduroys.
plural of cord
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cord
cordy
cordy
adj
Of, or like, cord; having cords or cord-like parts.
corea
cored
cored
verb
simple past tense and past participle of core
coree
corel
corer
corer
noun
(geology) A device used to take core samples for analysis
A utensil for removing the core from apples and similar fruit or vegetables
cores
cores
noun
plural of core
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of core
corey
corfu
corge
corgi
corgi
noun
Short for Welsh corgi (“a type of herding dog originating from Wales, having a small body, short legs, and fox-like features such as large ears; two separate breeds are recognized: the Cardigan Welsh Corgi and the Pembroke Welsh Corgi”).
coria
coria
noun
plural of corium
corie
corin
corin
Proper noun
a lover in pastoral poetry with Phillida
corke
corks
corks
noun
plural of cork
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cork
corky
corky
adj
Consisting of, or like, cork; dry; shrivelled.
Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
noun
(Australia, slang) A deep bruise, usually on the leg or buttock, caused by a blow; a haematoma.
corly
corms
corms
noun
plural of corm
corno
corno
noun
(music) French horn
corns
corns
noun
plural of corn
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corn
cornu
cornu
noun
A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.
(obsolete) Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
(obsolete) Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.
(obsolete, UK, slang) Tipsy; drunk.
(rare) Containing corn.
Boring and unoriginal.
Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
coroa
corol
corol
noun
(botany, obsolete) A corolla.
corot
corpl
corpn
corps
corps
noun
(military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
plural of corp
corri
corry
corse
corse
noun
(archaic) A dead body, a corpse.
(obsolete) A (living) body.
corso
corsy
corta
corti
corty
corum
corve
corve
noun
Alternative form of corf
corvi
corvi
noun
plural of corvus
corvo
coryl
courb
courb
verb
(obsolete) To bend; to bow.
cours
cours
noun
Obsolete form of course.
court
court
noun
(Australia, US) A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
(Hong Kong, only used in names) A housing estate under the House Ownership Scheme.
(Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building, or a small development of several apartment buildings.
(often capitalized) The judge or judges or other judicial officer presiding in a particular matter, particularly as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
(sports) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, handball, badminton, volleyball, squash and some other games
An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.
Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone
The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases.
The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace.
The session of a judicial assembly.
one of the two divisions of a tennis, badminton or volleyball court, in which the player or players of each team play
verb
(intransitive) To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.
(intransitive) To engage in courtship behavior.
(transitive) To attempt to attract.
(transitive) To attempt to gain alliance with.
(transitive) To engage in behavior leading to mating.
(transitive) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
(transitive) To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
(transitive) To seek to achieve or win.
(transitive) To try to win a commitment to marry from.
cover
cover
adj
(music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
noun
(combinatorics, topology) A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
(construction) The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
(cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
(dated) A swindler's confederate.
(espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
(insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
(law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
(military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
(music) A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
(philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
(uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
A cover charge.
A lid.
A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
The top sheet of a bed.
verb
(chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
(intransitive) To act as a replacement.
(intransitive, dated) To put on one's hat.
(military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
(music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
(of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
(sports) To defend (mark) a particular player or area.
(transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
(transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
(transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
(transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
(transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
(transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
To be enough money for.
To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
To deal with or include someone or something.
To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
To provide insurance coverage for.
To traverse or put behind a certain distance.
cower
cower
verb
(intransitive) To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
(intransitive, archaic) To crouch in general.
(obsolete, transitive) To cherish with care.
(transitive) To cause to cower; to frighten into submission.
cowry
cowry
noun
Alternative spelling of cowrie.
coyer
coyer
adj
comparative form of coy: more coy
crapo
crapo
noun
Alternative form of crappo (“toad”)
cravo
crcao
credo
credo
noun
(Christianity) The liturgical creed (usually the Nicene Creed), or a musical arrangement of it for use in church services.
A statement of a belief or a summary statement of a whole belief system; also (metonymically) the belief or belief system itself.
creon
creon
Proper noun
King of Thebes, noted primarily in the stories of Antigone and Oedipus.
cribo
cribo
noun
Any of various snakes in the genus Drymarchon.
croak
croak
noun
A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
The call of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit)
The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
verb
(intransitive) To make a croak.
(intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its sound.
(slang) To die.
(transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
(transitive, slang) To kill someone or something.
To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
croat
croce
croci
crock
crock
noun
(UK) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
(UK) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
(medical slang, derogatory) A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
(slang, Canada, US, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
A low stool.
A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
verb
(horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
(intransitive) To give off crock or smut.
(textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
(transitive, now dialectal) To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
To break something or injure someone.
crocs
crocs
noun
plural of croc
croft
croft
noun
(archaic) A carafe.
A cave or cavern.
An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.
An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.
verb
(intransitive) To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.
(transitive, archaic) To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.
crois
croix
crome
crome
noun
(UK, East Anglia) A garden or agricultural implement with three or four tines bent at right angles, resembling a garden fork with bent prongs, and used for breaking up soil, clearing ditches, raking up shellfish on beaches, etc.
(music) Alternative form of croma (“a quaver”)
plural of croma
verb
(UK, East Anglia) To use a crome.
crone
crone
noun
(archaic) An old woman.
(obsolete) An old ewe.
(obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.
An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
(Australia, colloquial, obsolete) Of a horse, broken down, not useful as a work horse due to illness or infirmity.
(Australia, colloquial, obsolete) Unwell, sick.
noun
(Isle of Man) A hill or barrow.
The honking sound of a goose.
verb
To honk like a goose.
crony
crony
noun
(informal) A trusted companion or partner in a criminal organization.
(informal, originally Cambridge University) A close friend.
(obsolete) An old woman; a crone.
crood
crook
crook
adj
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Annoyed, angry; upset.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ill, sick.
noun
(music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
(obsolete) A lock or curl of hair.
(obsolete) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
A bishop's standard staff of office.
A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
A pothook.
A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
verb
(intransitive) To become bent or hooked.
(transitive) To bend, or form into a hook.
To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
crool
crool
adj
Alternative spelling of cruel
verb
(archaic, intransitive) To murmur or mutter.
croom
croon
croon
noun
A soft or sentimental hum or song.
verb
(Scotland) To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.
(transitive) To soothe by singing softly.
(transitive, intransitive) To hum or sing softly or in a sentimental manner.
(transitive, intransitive) To say softly or gently
crops
crops
noun
plural of crop
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crop
crore
crore
noun
(India) ten million; 10,000,000; or with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,00,000. Often used with units of money.
crosa
crose
cross
cross
adj
(archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
(chiefly Britain) Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
(nautical) Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
(now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
Transverse; lying across the main direction.
noun
(Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
(Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
(Christianity) Usually with the: the cross on which Christ was crucified.
(Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
(biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
(boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
(by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
(cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
(figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
(heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
(obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.
(obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
(slang) crossfire.
(soccer) A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.
(surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
A line drawn across or through another line.
A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
prep
(archaic) across
cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
verb
(biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
(cricket, reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
(intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
(law) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
(reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
(rugby) To score a try.
(soccer) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
(transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
(transitive) To go from one side of (something) to the other.
(transitive) To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
(transitive) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
(transitive) To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
(transitive, obsolete) To interfere and cut off ; to debar.
To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
To mark with an X.
To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ