Having increased through accrual; having risen over time or due to financial transactions.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of accrue
accruer
accruer
noun
(law) The act of accruing; accretion.
accrues
accrues
noun
plural of accrue
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accrue
accurre
accurse
accurse
verb
To damn; to wish misery or evil upon
accuser
accuser
noun
One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
acerous
acerous
adj
(zoology) Destitute of tentacles.
(zoology) Without antennae.
Alternative spelling of acerose
acquire
acquire
verb
(computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.
(medicine) To contract.
(transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own
(transitive) To get.
acuerdo
adducer
adducer
noun
One who adduces.
aneuric
apercus
apercus
noun
plural of apercu
archeus
archeus
noun
(alchemy) The vital principle or force believed by the Paracelsians to be responsible for alchemical reactions within living bodies, and hence for the growth and continuation of life.
arcuale
arcuate
arcuate
adj
curved into the shape of a bow
arcuses
arecuna
aucaner
auresca
auricle
auricle
noun
(anatomy) An anterior ear-shaped appendage of the left or right atrium of the human heart.
(anatomy) Synonym of atrium.
(anatomy) The outer ear or pinna.
(biology) Any appendage in the shape of an ear or earlobe.
becquer
becrush
becrust
becurry
becurse
becurse
verb
(transitive) To cover with curses; curse all over.
becurst
berceau
bescour
bescurf
blucher
blucher
noun
(historical) A form of horse-drawn carriage; a Blucher coach.
A sturdy laced leather half-boot.
boucher
bouncer
bouncer
noun
(Internet) An account or server (as with IRC and FTP) that invisibly redirects requests to another, used for anonymity or vanity.
(cricket) A short-pitched ball that bounces up towards, or above the height of the batsman’s head.
(dated) One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.
(informal) A member of security personnel employed by bars, nightclubs, etc to maintain order and deal with patrons who cause trouble.
(slang, archaic) A boaster; a bully.
(slang, archaic) A bold lie.
(slang, archaic) A liar.
A bouncy castle.
A kind of seat mounted in a framework in which a baby can bounce up and down.
Something big; a good stout example of the kind.
broucek
brubeck
brucine
brucine
noun
(organic chemistry) An alkaloid related to strychnine, found in several plant species, notably Strychnos nux-vomica (nux vomica).
brucite
brucite
noun
(mineralogy) A mineral form of magnesium hydroxide, Mg(OH)₂, often found in thin foliated plates, but may be fibrous (see nemalite), of a white or greenish color and vitreous to pearly luster.
bruckle
bruckle
adj
(dialectal) Frail, weak, fragile.
buceros
buchner
buckers
buckers
noun
plural of bucker
buckler
buckler
noun
(nautical) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
(obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
(zoology) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
(zoology) The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobite.
A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held in the hand or worn on the arm (usually the left), for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used not to cover the body but to stop or parry blows.
One who buckles something.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To shield; to defend.
buckner
bucrane
buncher
buncher
noun
(electronics, physics) A circuit that causes electrons or other charged particles in a particle beam to group together.
(manufacturing) A machine that twists strands together during the manufacture of metal wire; a strander.
(military, RAF, World War II) A ground-based radio transmitter, configured within a system to guide aircraft to their allocated airfields.
A person who bunches.
An illegitimate supplier of laboratory animals who obtains the animals by kidnapping pets or illegally trapping strays.
burlace
butcher
butcher
adj
comparative form of butch: more butch
noun
(Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
(colloquial, archaic, card games) A king playing card.
(figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
(informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
verb
(transitive) To kill brutally.
(transitive) To mess up hopelessly; to botch.
(transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
(transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
(transitive) To work as a butcher.
caesura
caesura
noun
(Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
(rare) A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point.
(typography) The caesura mark ‖ or ||.
A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
capture
capture
noun
(computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
Something that has been captured; a captive.
The recording or storage of something for later playback.
The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
verb
(transitive) To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).
(transitive) To reproduce convincingly.
(transitive) To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
(transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
carbure
cardecu
cardecu
noun
(historical) A silver French coin worth a quarter of an écu.
careful
careful
adj
(obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
(obsolete) Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.
Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.
Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
cargued
carneau
carneus
carouse
carouse
noun
A drinking bout; a carousal.
A large draught of liquor.
verb
(intransitive) To drink to excess.
(intransitive) To engage in a noisy or drunken social gathering.
carreau
caruage
catreus
caulker
caulker
noun
(informal) Archaic form of corker (“something large or remarkable, a whopper”).
(slang, archaic) An alcoholic drink; a dram.
A person who caulks various structures (as ships) and certain types of piping.
A tool used for caulking ships; a caulking iron.
caunter
caurale
causers
causers
noun
plural of causer
causeur
cautery
cautery
noun
(surgery) A device used for cutting or sealing body tissue.
(surgery) The process of using either extreme heat or extreme cold to either cut or seal body tissue.
cauvery
cedrium
censure
censure
noun
(obsolete) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
An official reprimand.
Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.
verb
(obsolete) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.
To criticize harshly.
To formally rebuke.
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.
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.
cerasus
cereous
cereous
adj
(obsolete) waxen; like wax
ceriums
ceriums
noun
plural of cerium
cernuda
cerumen
cerumen
noun
earwax
ceruses
cestrum
cesurae
cesural
cesural
adj
Alternative form of caesural
cesuras
cesuras
noun
plural of cesura
charque
chaucer
chaucer
Proper noun
notably borne by a 14th century English author, best remembered for The Canterbury Tales.
chaufer
chaumer
chelura
chequer
chequer
noun
Alternative spelling of checker (in certain senses only)
The edible fruit of the wild service tree, Sorbus torminalis.
verb
Alternative spelling of checker
chergui
chergui
noun
Alternative form of sharqi
cherubs
cherubs
noun
plural of cherub
chetrum
chetrum
noun
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Bhutanese ngultrum
choreus
choreus
noun
(prosody) A tribrach.
(prosody) A trochee.
chouser
chouser
noun
Agent noun of chouse: one who chouses.
chucker
chucker
noun
(cricket) A bowler who throws or chucks the ball rather than bowls it.
One who chucks; a thrower.
chudder
chuffer
chugger
chugger
noun
(fishing) A type of fish lure or fly that makes a popping or chugging sound when twitched.
(informal, derogatory) A street fundraiser, especially a private contractor, working on behalf of a charity, who is aggressive or invasive.
A vehicle, train or boat with an engine that makes a chugging noise when running.
One who chugs a drink, especially an alcoholic drink.
chukker
chukker
noun
One of the six playing periods, each 7½ minutes long, of a game of polo.
chummer
chummer
noun
One who fishes by casting chum into the water to attract the fish.
chunder
chunder
noun
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) An act of vomiting.
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) Vomit.
Heavy, sticky snow that makes snowsports difficult.
verb
(Australia, New Zealand, Britain, slang) To throw up, to vomit.
Of a motor vehicle: to rumble loudly, to roar.
chunner
chunner
verb
(intransitive) To talk tiresomely or at length; to chatter on.
chunter
chunter
verb
(British, Ireland, dialect) To grumble, complain.
(British, Ireland, dialect) To speak in a soft, indistinct manner, mutter.
churled
churned
churned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of churn
churner
churner
noun
The vessel in which cream is churned to make butter.
churred
churred
verb
simple past tense and past participle of churr
circule
cirques
cirques
noun
plural of cirque
ciruela
ciruela
noun
The plant Spondias purpurea.
ciruses
claquer
claquer
noun
Alternative form of claqueur
clauber
clauber
noun
Alternative form of clabber
cleruch
cleruch
noun
(historical) A settler under the system of cleruchy
closure
closure
noun
(mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
(obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
(politics) A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
(programming) An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.
(sociology) The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. ᵂᵖ
(topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
The act of shutting; a closing.
The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
cloture
cloture
noun
(law, politics, chiefly US) In legislative assemblies that permit unlimited debate (that is, a filibuster): a motion, procedure or rule by which debate is ended so that a vote may be taken on the matter. For example, in the United States Senate, a three-fifths majority vote of the body is required to invoke cloture and terminate debate.
verb
To end legislative debate by this means.
cloured
cloured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clour
clouter
clouter
noun
(obsolete) One who patches clothes.
One who clouts or strikes.
clubber
clubber
noun
One who clubs, who hits objects with a club.
One who partakes in clubbing, who frequents nightclubs.
cludder
clumber
clumper
clumper
noun
A grass or other plant that tends to form clumps.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To form into clumps or masses.
clunker
clunker
noun
(informal) A decrepit motor car.
(informal) Anything which is in poor condition or of poor quality.
clunter
cluster
cluster
noun
(army) A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.
(astronomy) A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other.
(chemistry) An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.
(computing) A group of computers that work together.
(computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block).
(linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, bundle, or lexical bundle.
(military) A set of bombs or mines released as part of the same blast.
(music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.
(phonetics) A group of consonants.
(slang, euphemistic) A clusterfuck.
(statistics, cluster analysis) A subset of a population whose members are sufficiently similar to each other and distinct from others as to be considered a distinct group; such a grouping in a set of observed data that is statistically significant.
A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.
A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
verb
(intransitive) To form a cluster or group.
(transitive) To collect into clusters.
(transitive) To cover with clusters.
cluther
clutier
clutter
clutter
noun
(countable) Alternative form of clowder (“collective noun for cats”).
(obsolete) Clatter; confused noise.
(uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things.
(uncountable) Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To clot or coagulate, like blood.
To fill something with clutter.
To make a confused noise; to bustle.
To utter words hurriedly, especially (but not exclusively) as a speech disorder (compare cluttering).
cneorum
coeburn
coenure
coenure
noun
the larva of Taenia coenurus, the canine tapeworm - causes staggers in sheep
coenuri
coenuri
noun
plural of coenurus
coiture
coluber
colures
colures
noun
plural of colure
combure
congrue
congrue
verb
(obsolete) To agree; to be suitable.
conjure
conjure
noun
(African-American Vernacular) The practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.
verb
(intransitive) To perform magic tricks.
(intransitive, archaic) To practice black magic.
(intransitive, obsolete) To conspire or plot.
(transitive) To evoke.
(transitive) To imagine or picture in the mind.
(transitive) To summon (a devil, etc.) using supernatural power.
(transitive, archaic) To enchant or bewitch.
(transitive, archaic) To make an urgent request to; to appeal to or beseech.
conquer
conquer
verb
(dated) To gain, win, or obtain by effort.
To acquire by force of arms, win in war; to become ruler of; to subjugate.
To defeat in combat; to subjugate.
To overcome an abstract obstacle.
conteur
copreus
corbeau
corbeau
noun
(historical) A man who carts away the dead plague victims.
A very dark shade of green, almost black.
The black vulture, Coragyps atratus.
corbleu
cordeau
cordeau
noun
(archaic) A detonating cord.
coresus
corneum
corneum
noun
(anatomy) The outermost layer of the skin.
cornule
cornute
cornute
adj
cornuted
verb
(transitive) To give 'horns' to; to make a cuckold of.
coruler
coruler
noun
One who jointly rules with somebody else.
coucher
coucher
noun
(UK, law, obsolete) A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic.
(papermaking) One who couches paper.
One who couches.
The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts.
cougher
cougher
noun
A person who coughs.
couleur
couleur
noun
(card games) A suit of cards, in certain French card games.
coulier
coulter
coulter
noun
(Britain) Alternative spelling of colter
coulure
coulure
noun
A disease affecting grapes, manifested by the premature dropping of the fruit.
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.
coupler
coupler
noun
(music) A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together.
(now rare) Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages.
A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines.
An electrical device used to transfer energy from one electric device to another, especially without a physical connection.
Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages.
coupure
coupure
noun
(fortification) A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged.