A subdivision of the Early (Lower) Cretaceous epoch.
arpent
arpent
noun
A pre-metric French unit of area, having various official measures.
A pre-metric French unit of length, having various official measures.
atopen
atopen
noun
(obsolete, immunology) Anything that induces an atopic allergy
bipont
bipont
Adjective
Relating to books printed at Zweibrücken in Bavaria.
captan
captan
noun
(chemistry) Ethyl mercaptan.
A particular phthalimide fungicide.
catnap
catnap
noun
A brief, light sleep, usually during the daytime.
verb
(intransitive) To take a catnap (short sleep or nap).
(transitive) To kidnap a cat.
catnep
catnip
catnip
noun
(figurative) Something that causes excitement or interest.
Any of the about 250 species of flowering plant of the genus Nepeta, family Lamiaceae, certain of which are said to have medicinal qualities.
Nepeta cataria and Nepeta grandiflora (and perhaps other species), which are well-known for causing an apparently harmless pheromone-based intoxication among certain cats.
dopant
dopant
noun
(materials science) A substance added in small amounts to a pure material, such as semiconductor, to alter its original electrical or optical properties; a doping agent
dupont
enrapt
enrapt
adj
(poetic or archaic) fascinated, enraptured
entrap
entrap
verb
(transitive) To catch in a trap or snare.
(transitive) To lure (someone), either into a dangerous situation, or into performing an illegal act.
entrep
hapten
hapten
noun
(immunology) Any small molecule that can elicit an immune response only when attached to a large carrier such as a protein.
hatpin
hatpin
noun
A long straight pin, often with a decorative head, used to secure a woman's hat to her hair.
impent
incept
incept
verb
(UK) To be accepted to the Master of Arts degree at Oxford or Cambridge University.
(transitive) To begin.
(transitive) To put an idea into a person's mind so deeply that they believe it was their own. Inspired by the movie Inception (2010) and used by Mark Zuckerberg & Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation at 01:23:00.
(transitive) To take in or ingest.
inkpot
inkpot
noun
A pot for holding ink; inkwell.
inport
inputs
inputs
noun
plural of input
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of input
instep
instep
noun
(anatomy) The arched part of the top of the foot between the toes and the ankle.
A section of any footwear covering that part of the foot.
In horses, the hind leg from the ham to the pastern joint.
instop
instop
verb
(transitive) To stop; close; shut; make fast.
intrap
intrap
verb
Archaic spelling of entrap.
kipton
lepton
lepton
noun
(particle physics) An elementary particle that has a spin of 1/2 (i.e., is a fermion) and does not interact via the strong nuclear force; examples include the electron, the muon, the neutrino and the tauon.
A coin used since ancient times in Greece, serving in modern times as one hundredth of a phoenix, a drachma, and a euro (as the Greek form of the Eurocent).
A small, bronze Judean coin from the 1st century BCE, considered by some to be the widow's mite.
lipton
lupton
natorp
neetup
neopit
nepeta
nepeta
noun
(botany) Any plant of the genus Nepeta of flowering plants, including catnip.
nepote
netops
netops
noun
plural of netop
nipter
nipter
noun
(Christianity) The ecclesiastical ceremony of washing the feet; maundy.
optant
optant
noun
A person who lives in a region undergoing a change of sovereignty and thus may choose between retaining their old citizenship or opting for the citizenship of the new sovereignty.
A person who opts into, out of, or for something.
opting
opting
verb
present participle of opt
option
option
noun
(finance, law) A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can apply to financial market transactions, or to ordinary transactions for tangible assets such as a residence or automobile.
(law, uncountable) The acquiring or retention of a nationality through personal choice as a right, bypassing selective legal mechanisms for naturalization, especially in cases where a territory is transferred or passed on from one state to another.
One of a set of choices that can be made.
The freedom or right to choose.
verb
(computing, dated) To configure, by setting an option.
To purchase an option on something.
paints
paints
noun
plural of paint
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of paint
painty
painty
adj
(of a painting) Having too much paint.
Covered or smeared with paint.
pament
pandit
pandit
noun
(India, Nepal) An honorary title for a learned man or scholar.
pansit
pantas
panted
panted
adj
Synonym of trousered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pant
panter
panter
noun
(obsolete) A net; a noose.
A keeper of the pantry; a pantler.
Obsolete form of panther.
One who pants.
pantia
pantie
pantie
noun
(usually in the plural or in combination) Alternative form of panty
pantin
pantle
pantod
panton
panton
noun
(obsolete) An idle fellow.
A horseshoe to correct a narrow, hoofbound heel.
pantos
pantos
noun
plural of panto
pantry
pantry
noun
A small room, closet, or cabinet usually located in or near the kitchen, dedicated to shelf-stable food storage and/or storing kitchenware, like a larder, but smaller.
(biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
(computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
(obsolete) A relative.
(physics) The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
A parent company.
A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.
A surrogate parent
A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material
One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.
The source or origin of something.
verb
To act as parent, to raise or rear.
partan
partan
noun
(UK, dialect) An edible British crab.
parten
parton
parton
noun
(physics, dated or historical) Any of the constituent particles making up a compound particle, i.e. the quarks and gluons which make up hadrons.
patana
patand
patens
patens
noun
plural of paten
patent
patent
adj
(baking) Of flour: fine, and consisting mostly of the inner part of the endosperm of the grain from which it is milled.
(botany) Of a branch, leaf, etc.: outspread; also, spreading at right angles to the axis.
(by extension, figuratively) To which someone has, or seems to have, a claim or an exclusive claim; also, inventive or particularly suited for.
(law) Protected by a legal patent.
(medicine) Open, unobstructed; specifically, especially of the ductus arteriosus or foramen ovale in the heart, having not closed as would have happened in normal development.
(medicine, veterinary medicine) Of an infection: in the phase when the organism causing it can be detected by clinical tests.
Appointed or conferred by letters patent.
Conspicuous; open; unconcealed.
Especially of a document conferring some privilege or right: open to public perusal or use.
Explicit and obvious.
noun
(US, historical) A specific grant of ownership of a piece of real property; a land patent.
(by extension) A product in respect of which a patent (sense 1.2.2) has been obtained.
(gambling) The combination of seven bets on three selections, offering a return even if only one bet comes in.
(originally) A grant of a monopoly over the manufacture, sale, and use of goods.
(uncountable) Short for patent leather (“a varnished, high-gloss leather typically used for accessories and shoes”).
A characteristic or quality that one possesses; in particular (hyperbolic) as if exclusively; a monopoly.
A declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period.
A licence or (formal) permission to do something.
An official document granting an appointment, privilege, or right, or some property or title; letters patent.
verb
(US, historical) To obtain (over a piece of real property) a specific grant of ownership.
(transitive, figuratively) To be closely associated or identified with (something); to monopolize.
To (successfully) register (a new invention) with a government agency to obtain the sole privilege of its manufacture, sale, and use for a specified period.
pathan
pathan
Noun
In India and Pakistan, a Pashtun; a member of the Pashto-speaking people of north-west Pakistan and south-east Afghanistan.
patina
patina
adj
Of a green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.
noun
(color) A green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.
(figurative) A gloss or superficial layer.
(originally) A paten, flat type of dish.
The colour or incrustation which age and wear give to (mainly metallic) objects; especially, the green rust which covers works of art such as ancient bronzes, coins and medals.
patine
patine
noun
(obsolete) A plate.
verb
To coat an object with a patina, either from natural oxidation or simulated aging.
patins
patins
noun
plural of patin
patman
patrin
patrin
noun
Alternative form of patteran
patron
patron
noun
(UK, ecclesiastical) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
(historical, Roman law) A protector of a dependent, especially a master who had freed a slave but still retained some paternal rights.
(nautical) A padrone.
(obsolete or historical) A property owner, a landlord, a master. (Compare patroon.)
A customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
A guardian or intercessor; synonym of patron saint.
An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.
(transitive, obsolete) To treat as a patron.
patten
patten
noun
(historical) An iron hoop attached to a person's boot in cases of hip-joint disease.
(now Britain dialectal) An ice skate.
(now historical) One of various wooden attachments used to lift a shoe above wet or muddy ground.
(obsolete) A circular wooden plank attached to a horse's foot to prevent it from sinking into a bog while plowing.
Any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs.
Obsolete form of paten.
The base of a pillar.
verb
(intransitive) To go about wearing pattens.
pattin
patton
patwin
paxton
paxton
Proper noun
name transferred from the surname.
payton
payton
Proper noun
from "Pæga's settlement".
name transferred from the surname.
name of modern usage.
peanut
peanut
noun
(US) A very small clam.
A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea.
See peanuts (“very small amount”).
verb
(transitive) To pull on somebody's tie as a prank, causing the knot to tighten.
pecten
pecten
noun
(anatomy) A comb structure.
(anatomy) The pubic bone.
(anatomy, obsolete) The bones in the hand between the wrist and the fingers.
(zoology) One of the genus Pecten of scallops.
pectin
pectin
noun
(biochemistry) A polysaccharide extracted from the cell walls of plants, especially of fruits; under acidic conditions it forms a gel. It is often used in processed foods, especially jellies and jams where it causes thickening (setting).
pedant
pedant
adj
Pedantic.
noun
(archaic) A teacher or schoolmaster.
A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.
penest
pennet
pentad
pentad
noun
(chemistry) A pentavalent element or group: an atom or molecule with a valence of five, comparable with five atoms of hydrogen.
(climatology) A five-day period, especially a temperature average taken every five days.
Synonym of quinquennium: a five-year period, especially in reference to the first and second halves of calendrical decades.
pentha
pentit
pentol
pentol
noun
(organic chemistry) any organic compound having five hydroxy functional groups
pentyl
pentyl
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of several isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C₅H₁₁, formally derived from pentane by the loss of a hydrogen atom.
penult
penult
noun
The next to the last in a series.
The next-to-last syllable of a word.
perten
petain
petkin
petkin
noun
A little pet or darling.
petnap
petnap
verb
To steal or abduct a pet
petune
petune
verb
(dated, transitive) To spray (tobacco) with a liquid intended to produce flavour or aroma.
peyton
peyton
Proper noun
variant of Payton.
name, transferred from the surname.
name of modern usage.
phonet
photon
photon
noun
(physics) The quantum of light and other electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete particle having zero rest mass, no electric charge, and an indefinitely long lifetime. It is a gauge boson.
phytin
phyton
phyton
noun
(botany) One of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves.
pianet
pianet
noun
(obsolete) The magpie.
pictun
pieton
pignet
pignut
pignut
noun
(US) Any of various types of hickory or their fruits; a hognut.
Simmondsia chinensis, jojoba.
The edible tuber of Conopodium majus, native to western Europe.
piment
piment
noun
(obsolete) wine flavoured with spices or honey
pinata
pinata
noun
Alternative form of piñata
pineta
pineta
noun
plural of pinetum
pinite
pinite
noun
(chemistry) A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine (Pinus lambertiana, sugar pine), isomeric with quercite.
(mineralogy) A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the alteration of other minerals, such as iolite.
Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the pine family.
pinnet
pinnet
noun
A pinnacle.
pinots
pinots
noun
plural of pinot
pintas
pintas
noun
plural of pinta
pinter
pinter
noun
(in combinations, UK, slang) A container that holds a certain number of pints.
(in combinations, UK, slang) Something that takes a certain number of pints of beer to appreciate.
(in combinations, UK, slang) The drinking of a certain number of pints of beer
pintid
pintid
noun
One of the lesions in the skin disease pinta.
pintle
pintle
noun
(gunnery) An iron pin used to control recoil of a cannon or around which a gun carriage revolves.
(nautical) A pin or bolt, usually vertical, which acts as a pivot for a hinge or a rudder.
(now dialectal) The penis.
pintos
pintos
noun
plural of pinto
pinxit
pinxit
noun
An inscription indicating the identity of the one who created a painting.
pirnot
piston
piston
noun
(music) A valve device in some brass instruments for changing the pitch
A solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder, and moves under pressure (as in an engine) or displaces fluid (as in a pump)
verb
(intransitive) To move up and down or in and out like a piston.
pitana
pitkin
pitman
pitman
noun
(plural "pitmen" or "pitmans") A connecting rod in machinery, especially in a sawmill.
(plural "pitmen") One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc.
pitmen
pitmen
noun
plural of pitman
pitney
pitons
pitons
noun
plural of piton
pitpan
pitpan
noun
A type of dugout canoe used in Central America
plaint
plaint
noun
(archaic or UK law) An accusation.
(archaic) A sad song.
(poetic or archaic) A lament or woeful cry.
A complaint.
planet
planet
noun
(astronomy) A body which is massive enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (generally resulting in being an ellipsoid) but not enough to attain nuclear fusion and, in IAU usage, which directly orbits a star (or star cluster) and dominates the region of its orbit; specifically, in the case of the Solar system, the eight major bodies of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
(now historical or astrology) Each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky—the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
construed with the or this: synonym of Earth.
planta
planta
noun
(anatomy) The sole of the foot
plante
plants
plants
noun
plural of plant
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plant
platan
platan
noun
(now rare, literary) A planetree.
platen
platen
noun
(printing) The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
The flat glass surface of a scanner or photocopier on which operators place items to be scanned.
The movable table of a planer or other machine tool, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool.
The part of a typewriter or printer on which the paper rests to receive an impression.
platon
plenty
plenty
adj
(obsolete) plentiful
adv
(colloquial) Used as an intensifier, very.
More than sufficiently.
det
(nonstandard) many
(nonstandard) much, enough
noun
A more-than-adequate amount.
pron
More than enough.
pliant
pliant
adj
(figuratively) Easily influenced; tractable.
Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking
plinth
plinth
noun
A base or pedestal beneath a cabinet.
A block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or other structure is based.
The bottom course of stones or bricks supporting a wall.
pltano
pluton
pluton
noun
(mineralogy) A body of igneous rock formed beneath the surface of the earth by consolidation of magma
pointe
pointe
noun
(ballet) The tip of the toe; a ballet position executed with the tip of the toe.
points
points
noun
(rail transport, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India) Movable rails which can be used to switch a train from one railway track to another.
(theater) Exaggerated speech or gestures used for emphasis during a performance.
plural of point
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of point
pointy
pointy
adj
(informal) Pointed in shape; having a point or points.
(programming) In the Raku programming language: being a block or subroutine that acts as a closure accepting a list of parameters (denoted by the pointed arrow symbol ->).
noun
(informal) Any pointed object.
pokunt
ponent
ponent
adj
Pertaining to the west, westerly.
noun
The west; the area of the setting sun.
poneto
pontac
pontal
pontal
adj
Synonym of pontine (“relating to the pons”)
pontee
pontes
pontes
noun
plural of pons
pontic
pontic
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the pons.
noun
A false tooth that forms part of a dental bridge.
pontil
pontil
noun
(glassblowing) Alternative form of punty (“rod used in glassblowing”)
pontin
ponton
ponton
noun
Alternative form of pontoon.
pontos
pontus
posnet
posnet
noun
(obsolete) A little basin; a porringer; a skillet.