Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
verb
(archaic, intransitive) To become putrid, tainted, or otherwise impure; to putrefy; to rot.
(transitive) To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state.
(transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
costful
costful
adj
(archaic) Expensive; sumptuous
Indicative of expenditure or loss; costly
costula
costula
noun
(zoology) A little rib or ridge.
costume
costume
noun
A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.
A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.
verb
To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.
coteaux
coteaux
noun
plural of coteau
coteful
cothurn
cothurn
noun
A buskin anciently worn by tragic actors on the stage.
cotinus
cotonou
cotonou
Proper noun
The de facto capital of Benin.
cottbus
cottbus
Proper noun
An independent city in Brandenburg, Germany
cotulla
cotutor
cotutor
noun
A joint tutor.
couldnt
couldnt
abbrev
Misspelling of couldn't.
couldst
couldst
verb
(archaic) second-person singular simple past form of can
coulter
coulter
noun
(Britain) Alternative spelling of colter
counite
counite
verb
(transitive) To bring together; to unite.
counted
counted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of count
countee
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.
countor
countor
noun
(obsolete, UK, law) An advocate or professional pleader; one who counted for his client, that is, orally pleaded his cause
country
country
adj
(India, historical) Originating in India rather than being imported from Europe or elsewhere.
From or in the countryside or connected with it.
Of or connected to country music.
noun
(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.
(mining) The rock through which a vein runs.
(uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, speakers of the same language etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.
Ellipsis of country music.
The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area; a sovereign state.
countys
couplet
couplet
noun
(literature) A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.
(taxonomy) A pair of two mutually exclusive choices in a dichotomous key.
A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.
courant
courant
adj
(heraldry) Represented as running.
noun
A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper.
A lively dance; a coranto.
A piece of music in triple time.
courbet
courtal
courtby
courted
courted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of court
courter
courter
noun
One who courts; one who plays the lover, or solicits in marriage.
courtin
courtly
courtly
adj
(obsolete) Overly eager to please or obey.
Befitting of a royal court; reflecting the manners or behaviour of people at court.
Of or relating to a royal court.
adv
In the manner of a royal court; in a manner befitting of a royal court.
couteau
couteau
noun
(obsolete) A knife; a dagger.
couters
couters
noun
plural of couter
couther
couthie
couthie
adj
(Scotland) Friendly, agreeable, pleasant.
couthly
couture
couture
noun
(fashion) The production of high-end, custom-made clothing
couvert
couvert
noun
cover charge
cowshut
creusot
crocuta
crocuta
noun
Alternative spelling of crocotta
croquet
croquet
noun
(countable) A croquette.
(countable, games) A shot in this game in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.
(uncountable, games) A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets).
verb
(transitive, games) To play a shot in the game of croquet in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.
croteau
crouton
crouton
noun
A small, often seasoned, piece of dry or fried bread.
cudwort
culotte
culotte
noun
singular of culottes
curator
curator
noun
A member of a curatorium, a board for electing university professors, etc.
A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.
custode
custode
noun
(obsolete) A custodian.
custody
custody
noun
(Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a custos within the Order of Friars Minor.
Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property.
The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.
customs
customs
noun
(in the plural) The duties or taxes imposed on imported or exported goods.
(in the singular or uncountable) The government department or agency that is authorised to collect the taxes imposed on imported goods.
The location at a border checkpoint where customs checks are carried out.
The process of going through customs checks at a border checkpoint.
plural of custom
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of custom
custron
custron
noun
(obsolete) A kitchen-worker, a scullion; any worthless person.
cutdown
cutdown
noun
(surgery) An emergency medical procedure in which the vein is exposed and a cannula is inserted into it.
A customized scooter with parts of the bodywork removed or cut away.
cutoffs
cutoffs
noun
plural of cutoff
trousers (most often jeans) that have been shortened by cutting off part or most of the legs
cutouts
cutouts
noun
plural of cutout
cutover
cutover
adj
Having been cleared of valuable timber.
noun
(by extension) Any process of quickly replacing a machine so as to minimize downtime.
An area of cutover land.
The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
The process of quickly replacing a telephone switchboard, in which the connections are duplicated to the new machine and the original connections are then suddenly disconnected.
cuttoos
cutwork
cutwork
noun
A form of embroidery in which intervening fabric is cut away
cutworm
cutworm
noun
The larva of any of the many moths of the family Noctuidae, considered an agricultural pest.
cystous
cystous
adj
Synonym of cystic
daunton
decourt
demount
demount
verb
(obsolete) To dismount.
(transitive) To remove from its mounting; to take down from a mounted position.
destour
detours
detours
noun
plural of detour
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detour
dilutor
dilutor
noun
Alternative form of diluter
dimouts
dimouts
noun
plural of dimout
disgout
disrout
docquet
docquet
noun
Archaic form of docket.
donatus
dortour
doublet
doublet
noun
(botany) A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii.
(computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.
(historical) A man’s waistcoat.
(lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
(linguistics) One of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but having different phonological forms (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or shade and shadow in English).
(literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
(printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
(quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −½ and +½.
(radio) Dipole antenna.
(uncountable, obsolete) A game somewhat like backgammon.
A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.
A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
A word ladder puzzle.
An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.
doubted
doubted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of doubt
doubter
doubter
noun
One who doubts.
doughty
doughty
adj
(dated or archaic) Bold; brave, courageous.
noun
(archaic, rare) A person who is bold or brave.
dourest
dourest
adj
superlative form of dour: most dour
doutous
downcut
downcut
verb
(geology) Deepen by erosion.
drawout
droguet
droguet
noun
A ribbed woollen dress fabric, a variety of rep.
dropout
dropout
noun
(cycling) The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels.
A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data.
A technique for regularizing a neural network by discarding a random subset of its units.
Momentary loss of an electronic signal.
One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so.
Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course
Someone who has opted out of conventional society.
drought
drought
noun
(archaic) dryness, aridness, dry heat
(by extension, informal) A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport.
A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.
drouket
droukit
drouths
drouths
noun
plural of drouth
drouthy
drouthy
adj
(Scotland, US) Droughty, dry.
(Scotland, US) Thirsty.
ducaton
ducaton
noun
(historical) A crown-sized silver coin of the 16th-18th centuries.
duction
duction
noun
(obsolete) guidance
An eye movement involving only one eye.
dugento
dugouts
dugouts
noun
plural of dugout
dulotic
dulotic
adj
Of or relating to dulosis.
dunston
duntson
duotone
duotone
adj
Having two tones.
noun
Any picture printed in two shades of the same colour, such as a duotype or duograph.
duotype
duotype
noun
(historical) A print made from two halftone photographic plates made from the same negative, but etched differently.
duretto
durston
dustbox
dustoff
dustoff
noun
Alternative form of dust-off
dustoor
dustoor
noun
Alternative form of dastur (“Zoroastrian high priest”)
dustour
duteous
duteous
adj
(archaic) Obsequious; submissively obedient.
(archaic) dutiful
eductor
eductor
noun
One who, or that which, brings forth, elicits, or extracts.
eelpout
eelpout
noun
(obsolete) A yellow flower of uncertain type, possibly the eel-ware, Ranunculus fluitans.
Any fish of the family Zoarcidae.
elocute
elocute
verb
(US, law) To state, assert or admit.
elution
elution
noun
(analytical chemistry) The process of removing materials that are absorbed with a solvent.
endoubt
endoute
equator
equator
noun
(astronomy) A similar great circle on any sphere, especially on a celestial body, or on other reasonably symmetrical three-dimensional body.
(geography, often “the Equator”) An imaginary great circle around Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemisphere.
The celestial equator.
The midline of any generally spherical object, such as a fruit or vegetable, that has identifiable poles.
estoque
estrous
estrous
adj
Of, pertaining to, or in a state of estrus.
estuous
etouffe
euratom
eurotas
eutocia
eutocia
noun
A normal birth process.
eutopia
eutopia
noun
(medicine) The condition of being properly placed, as opposed to ectopia.
evolute
evolute
adj
(malacology) Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a surface.
noun
(geometry) A curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve.
fadeout
fadeout
noun
A gradual disappearance or fading away.
faitour
faitour
noun
(archaic) A charlatan or imposter, especially one pretending to be ill, or to tell fortunes.
fallout
fallout
noun
(radio, television, broadcasting) An impromptu guest used to fill in for another guest spot who is a no-show or who has cancelled last minute.
(rare) A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed.
(rare) The person who declines such an offer.
A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.
The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.
The particles themselves.
farmout
farmout
noun
The act of subcontracting or outsourcing.
fatuoid
fatuous
fatuous
adj
Obnoxiously stupid; vacantly silly; content in one's foolishness.
featous
featous
adj
(archaic) clever
(archaic) neat
(archaic) nimble
floruit
floruit
noun
The time period during which a person, group, culture, etc. is at its peak.
flouted
flouted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flout
flouter
flouter
noun
A person who flouts.
foeture
foldout
foldout
adj
That folds out from a closed position
noun
A foldout bed.
An overlarge page that is folded into a book or magazine.
fontful
footful
footful
noun
(humorous) A small number, about five.
(humorous) As much as one can handle, especially of something handled with one's feet.
A complete set of toes for one foot.
A quantity (of something) that covers the foot.
An amount that can be picked up by one foot.
The amount of pressure that can be exerted by pressing with one foot.
foregut
foregut
noun
(biology, anatomy, embryology) The anterior part of the alimentary canal of an embryo, from the mouth to the duodenum, in humans and some other animals.
(biology, anatomy, medicine) The developed counterpart in the adult: the proximal part of the alimentary canal, which in humans runs from the mouth to the first half of the duodenum, up to the ampulla of Vater.
fortuna
fortune
fortune
noun
A large amount of money.
A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
Destiny, especially favorable.
Good luck.
One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast.
The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To happen, to take place.
To provide (someone) with a fortune.
To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.
fouette
foughty
foujita
foulest
foulest
adj
superlative form of foul: most foul
foumart
foumart
noun
(chiefly Scotland) A European polecat; a member of the Mustelidae family.
fouquet
fourths
fourths
noun
plural of fourth
frousty
fugatos
fugatos
noun
plural of fugato
functor
functor
noun
(category theory) A category homomorphism; a morphism from a source category to a target category which maps objects to objects and arrows to arrows, in such a way as to preserve domains and codomains (of the arrows) as well as composition and identities.
(functional programming) A structure allowing a function to apply within a generic type, in a way that is conceptually similar to a functor in category theory.
(grammar) A function word.
(object-oriented programming) A function object.
funston
furoate
furoate
noun
(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of furoic acid.
fusspot
fusspot
noun
(informal) A person who makes a fuss, particularly about trivial things.
verb
(informal, intransitive) To make a fuss, particularly about trivial things.
futhorc
futhorc
noun
The Runic alphabet as used to write Old English and Old Frisian.
futhork
futhork
noun
Alternative spelling of futhorc
futtock
futtock
noun
(nautical) Any of the curved rib-like timbers that form the frame of a wooden ship.
galluot
glouted
glouted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of glout
gluepot
gluepot
noun
(Australia, sports, informal) A muddy playing field.