(obsolete, pathology) dandruff (or similar condition)
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.
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.
corah
corah
adj
(of Indian silk) plain, undyed
noun
A plain, undyed Indian silk.
harco
ichor
ichor
noun
(Greek mythology) The liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods.
(chiefly poetic) The blood of human beings or animals; also (obsolete) the clear, fluid portion of blood; blood plasma, plasma.
(chiefly poetic, figuratively) A blood-like fluid.
(geology, archaic) A fluid believed to seep out from magma and cause rock to turn into granite.
(pathology, obsolete) A fetid, watery discharge from a sore; pus.
ocher
ocher
noun
Alternative spelling of ochre
ochre
ochre
adj
(archaeology) Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.
Having a yellow-orange colour.
noun
(molecular biology, colloquial) The stop codon sequence "UAA."
(obsolete) Alternative form of okra.
(slang) Money, especially gold.
A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour
An earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide
Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.
verb
To cover or tint with ochre.
ochro
ochro
noun
(obsolete) Alternative form of okra
ochry
orach
orach
noun
(dated) Lamb's quarters: frost-blite (Chenopodium album) or another plant of the genus Chenopodium.
especially Atriplex hortensis
or Atriplex patula, found in dry habitats, that have edible leaves resembling spinach.
porch
porch
noun
(architecture) A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings.
A portico; a covered walk.
The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
roach
roach
noun
(UK, obsolete, mining) A bed or stratum of some mineral.
(UK, regional) Gritty or coarse rock; especially Portland stone or similar limestone.
(UK, slang, smoking) The filter of a rolled cigarette or joint, made from card or paper.
(US) A cockroach.
(US, slang, smoking) A butt of a marijuana cigarette, blunt, or joint.
(US, slang, smoking) Marijuana; cannabis used as a drug.
(nautical) An extra curve of material added to the leech (aft edge) of a sail to increase the sail area.
A kind of headdress worn by some of the indigenous peoples of North America.
Species in the genus Rutilus, especially:
The California roach, of the monotypic genus Hesperoleucus
The common roach (Rutilus rutilus)
verb
(transitive) To cut or shave off the mane of a horse so that the remaining hair stands up on the neck.
(transitive, by extension) To cut a person's hair so that it stands straight up.
roche
roche
noun
(UK, regional) One of various types of rock or geological strata.
(obsolete) A stony hill.
rotch
torch
torch
noun
(Commonwealth) A portable light source powered by electricity; a flashlight.
(US) An arsonist.
A blowtorch or oxy-gas torch.
A stick with a flame on one end, used chiefly as a light source; a similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material.
verb
To set fire to, especially by use of a torch (flaming stick).