(obsolete) The act of approaching or arriving; approach.
(rare) A road, or means of approach.
verb
Alternative form of aboard
adora
adore
adore
verb
(obsolete) To adorn.
To be very fond of.
To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
To worship.
adorl
adorn
adorn
adj
(obsolete) adorned; ornate
noun
(obsolete) adornment
verb
To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
adron
adrop
adrop
adj
dripping
andor
arado
ardor
ardor
noun
Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.
Spirit; enthusiasm; passion.
aroda
aroid
aroid
noun
(informal) Any plant of the family Araceae, found chiefly in the tropics.
bardo
bardo
noun
(Tibetan Buddhism) The state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation.
board
board
noun
(archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
(basketball, informal) A rebound.
(bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
(computing, Internet) Short for bulletin board.
(computing, Internet) Short for message board.
(ice hockey, often in the plural) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
(nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
(nautical) The side of a ship.
(uncountable) Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
(video games) A level or stage having a particular layout.
A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, circuit board, message board (on the Internet), etc.
verb
(intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
(transitive) To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
(transitive) To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
(transitive) To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
(transitive) To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
(transitive, nautical) To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
(transitive, now rare) To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
Antonyms: alight, disembark
To cover with boards or boarding.
To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
boder
borda
bordy
bored
bored
adj
Perforated by a hole or holes.
Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bore
borid
borid
noun
(chemistry) Alternative form of boride
(zoology) Any beetle of the family Boridae.
bourd
bourd
noun
(obsolete) A joke; jesting, banter.
verb
(obsolete) To jest.
broad
broad
adj
(Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
(dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.
(of an accent) Strongly regional.
(writing) Unsubtle; obvious.
Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
General rather than specific.
Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
Plain; evident.
Wide in extent or scope.
noun
(UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
(UK, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
(US, colloquial, slang, sometimes dated) A woman or girl.
(dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
(film, television) A kind of floodlight.
(slang, archaic) A playing card.
A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
brody
brody
noun
(slang) Intentionally spinning in circles and sliding in an automobile.
broid
broid
verb
Obsolete form of braid.
brood
brood
adj
(of animals) Kept or reared for breeding.
noun
(countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.
(countable, uncountable) The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
(mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
(uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
Parentage.
That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
verb
(intransitive) (typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
(intransitive) To be bred.
(transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
(transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
browd
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.
cdrom
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.
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.
comdr
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.
cored
cored
verb
simple past tense and past participle of core
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.
crood
crowd
crowd
noun
(now dialectal) A fiddle.
(obsolete) Alternative form of crwth
(with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
verb
(intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
(intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers
(nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
(nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
(obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
(transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
(transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
(transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
(transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
dargo
dario
daron
daroo
debor
decor
decor
noun
A stage setting; scenery; set; backdrop.
The style of decoration of a room or building.
derog
deron
deroo
digor
digor
noun
A traditional sport of Bhutan, resembling shot put.
dobra
dobra
noun
The official or principal currency of São Tomé and Príncipe, divided into 100 cêntimos.
dobro
dobro
noun
(music) An acoustic guitar with a metal resonator
doers
doers
noun
plural of doer
dogra
dolor
dolor
noun
(American spelling) Alternative spelling of dolour
domer
donar
doner
doner
adj
(humorous, dialect) comparative form of done: more done
noun
(Dublin slang) Goner; someone who is done for.
Misspelling of donor.
doner kebab
donor
donor
noun
(chemistry) A group or molecule that donates either a radical, electrons or a moiety in a chemical reaction. Compare acceptor.
One who makes a donation.
doorn
doors
doors
noun
Opening time
plural of door
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of door
doper
doper
adj
comparative form of dope: more dope
noun
(dated) A person employed to apply dope solution during aircraft manufacture.
(derogatory) One who frequently uses recreational drugs; a druggie; a stoner.
(derogatory) One who uses performance enhancing substances for competitive gain, especially illegally.
dorab
dorab
noun
The dorab wolf-herring (Chirocentrus dorab).
dorad
dorad
noun
(obsolete) The sea bream.
doran
doray
dorca
dorcy
doree
doree
noun
Alternative form of dory (“the fish”)
dorey
dorey
noun
(nautical) Alternative form of dory (“boat”)
doria
doric
doric
Proper noun
An ancient Greek dialect spoken in ancient times.
A dialect of Lowland Scots spoken in the northeast of Scotland.
dorie
dorin
doris
dorje
dorje
noun
Synonym of vajra (“Buddhist ceremonial mace”)
dorks
dorks
noun
plural of dork
dorky
dorky
adj
Like a dork.
dorms
dorms
noun
plural of dorm
dormy
dormy
adj
(golf) Alternative form of dormie
dorps
dorps
noun
plural of dorp
dorri
dorrs
dorrs
noun
plural of dorr
dorry
dorsa
dorsa
noun
plural of dorsum
dorse
dorse
noun
(obsolete) A dossal.
(obsolete) The back of a book.
The Baltic cod or variable cod (Gadus morhua callarias).
dorsi
dorsy
dorts
dorts
noun
plural of dort
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dort
dorty
dorty
adj
(Tyneside) Dirty; unclean.
dorus
dorus
noun
plural of doru
doser
doser
noun
One who administers a dose.
doter
doter
noun
Synonym of dotard (“old person with impaired intellect”)
Synonym of dotard (“one who dotes on another, showing excessive fondness”)
douar
douar
noun
A camp or village of tents in an Arabic country.
doura
doura
noun
A kind of sorghum.
douro
dover
dower
dower
noun
(law) Property given by a groom directly to his bride at or before their wedding in order to legitimize the marriage; dowry.
(law) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.
(obsolete) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
verb
(transitive) To endow.
(transitive) To give a dower or dowry to.
dowry
dowry
noun
(less common) Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family: bride price.
(obsolete) Dower.
A natural gift or talent.
Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
verb
To bestow a dowry upon.
dozer
dozer
noun
(informal) A bulldozer.
One who dozes.
draco
drago
drogh
droil
droil
noun
(obsolete) Mean labour; toil.
verb
To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod.
droit
droit
noun
(law) A legal right or entitlement.
droll
droll
adj
Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.
noun
(archaic) A funny person; a buffoon, a wag.
verb
(archaic) To jest, to joke.
drome
drome
noun
(obsolete) The crab plover, Dromas ardeola, of North Africa.
drona
drona
Proper noun
The royal guru to Kauravas and Pandavas in Mahabharata.
drone
drone
noun
(Uganda) A Toyota HiAce or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.
(aviation) A remotely controlled aircraft, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
(chiefly Internet slang) A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
(music) One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
(music, uncountable) A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
(now rare) Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
A humming or deep murmuring sound.
A low-pitched hum or buzz.
A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen bee.
One who performs menial or tedious work.
verb
(transitive, colloquial) To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.
To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
To speak in a monotone way.
drony
drony
adj
(of a sound) Dronelike.
droob
droob
noun
(Australia, slang) An ineffectual or unattractive person; a dag.
drool
drool
noun
(colloquial) Stupid talk.
Saliva trickling from the mouth.
verb
(intransitive, informal, figurative) To react to something with uncontrollable desire.
(transitive, intransitive) To secrete any substance in a similar way.
(transitive, intransitive) To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food.
To talk nonsense; drivel.
droop
droop
noun
(aviation) A hinged portion of the leading edge of an aeroplane's wing, which swivels downward to increase lift during takeoff and landing.
A condition or posture of drooping.
Something which is limp or sagging.
verb
(intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.
(intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
(intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
(transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
drops
drops
noun
plural of drop
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drop
dropt
dropt
verb
obsolete spelling of dropped; simple past tense and past participle of drop
dross
dross
noun
(figurative) Worthless or trivial matter.
A waste product from working with metal.
Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal from oxidation.
The impurities in metal.
Waste or impure matter.
verb
(transitive) To remove dross from.
droud
drouk
drove
drove
noun
(collective) A group of hares.
(figuratively, by extension, usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven; a drove road.
The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
verb
(transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.
To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
simple past tense of drive
drovy
drovy
Adjective
turbid; muddy; filthy
drown
drown
verb
(intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
(intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
(transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
(transitive, figurative) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
(transitive, figurative, usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
droyl
ducor
duero
durio
durno
duroc
duroc
noun
A pig of a reddish breed developed in North America.
duros
duroy
duroy
noun
(historical) A kind of coarse woolen cloth used in 17th century England.
edora
edroi
edroy
elrod
endor
erode
erode
verb
(figurative) To destroy gradually by an ongoing process.
To wear away by abrasion, corrosion or chemical reaction.
fardo
fedor
fiord
fiord
noun
(now chiefly New Zealand) Alternative spelling of fjord
fjord
fjord
noun
A long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs.
foder
fordo
fordo
verb
(archaic) To do away with, undo; to ruin.
(archaic) To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.
(obsolete) To annul, abolish, cancel.
(obsolete) To kill, destroy.
fords
fords
noun
plural of ford
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ford
fordy
fordy
num
Pronunciation spelling of forty.
frodi
froid
frond
frond
noun
(botany) The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.
Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.
gordo
gordy
gored
gored
adj
(textiles) Having a gore or gores.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gore
gourd
gourd
noun
(informal) loaded dice.
(obsolete) Any of the climbing or trailing plants from the family Cucurbitaceae, which includes watermelon, pumpkins, and cucumbers.
(slang) Head.
A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita.
Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).
The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration.
grond
harod
herod
herod
Proper noun
The name of any of a number of members of the Herodian dynasty who ruled in the Roman province of Judea.
The biblical king who is said to have ordered the execution of all baby boys under the age of two in the town of Bethlehem and the surrounding region, as he saw Jesus as a threat to his rule; identified with
hoard
hoard
noun
(archaeology) A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.
A hidden supply or fund.
A hoarding (billboard).
A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction).
A projecting structure (especially of wood) in a fortification, somewhat similar to and later superseded by the brattice.
Misspelling of horde.
verb
To amass, usually for one's own private collection.
hoder
hodur
horde
horde
noun
A large number of people or things.
A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.
verb
to travel en masse, to flock
hydro
hydro
adj
hydroelectric
hydroponic
noun
(Britain, countable, dated) A spa.
(Canada, uncountable) electrical power supply; specifically, electrical power provided by a utility (as a publicly-owned one); payment or bills for this.
(countable, aviation, obsolete) Abbreviation of hydroaeroplane.