Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adverb
adversa
adverse
adverse
adj
(not comparable) Opposite; confronting.
Opposed; contrary; opposing one's interests or desire.
Unfavorable; antagonistic in purpose or effect; hostile; actively opposing one's interests or wishes; contrary to one's welfare; acting against; working in an opposing direction.
adverts
adverts
noun
plural of advert
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advert
adviser
adviser
noun
one who advises
advoyer
advoyer
noun
Obsolete form of avoyer.
airview
airview
noun
A view from the air; a photograph taken from an aircraft.
airwave
airwave
noun
singular of airwaves; thus often "radio" or "frequency".
algarve
algarve
Proper noun
The southernmost region of Portugal.
allover
allover
adj
Alternative spelling of all-over
alvarez
alveary
alveary
noun
(anatomy) The hollow of the external ear.
A beehive, or anything resembling a beehive.
A repository, especially of knowledge or information.
alverda
alverta
amarvel
andover
andover
Proper noun
A town in Hampshire, southern UK.
andvare
appreve
approve
approve
verb
(archaic, transitive, usually with a reflexive pronoun) To show to be worthy; to demonstrate the merits of.
(intransitive, followed by "of") To consider worthy (to); to be pleased (with); to accept.
(transitive) To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory.
(transitive) To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
(transitive, archaic) To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
(transitive, law, English law) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit — said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.
aquiver
aquiver
adj
In a state of excitement, trepidation or agitation; quivering.
archive
archive
noun
(ecology) Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.
The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
verb
(transitive) To put (something) into an archive.
argovie
arrived
arrived
verb
simple past tense and past participle of arrive
arriver
arriver
noun
One who arrives; usually, one who arrives in a specified way.
arrives
arrives
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arrive
arvales
arvejon
arverni
arverni
Noun
A member of an ancient, powerful Gallic tribe living in what is now the Auvergne region of France, who opposed the Romans on several occasions.
ascrive
ashiver
ashiver
adj
Shivering.
aslaver
asserve
assever
assever
verb
Archaic form of asseverate.
athrive
availer
avarice
avarice
noun
Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth
Inordinate desire for some supposed good.
avebury
avenary
avenery
avenger
avenger
noun
One who avenges or vindicates
One who takes vengeance.
aventre
aventre
verb
(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.
average
average
adj
(informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
(not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
Typical.
noun
(UK, in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
(UK, law, obsolete) The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.
(law, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
(mathematics) The arithmetic mean.
(sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
(statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
verb
(intransitive) To be, generally or on average.
(transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
(transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
(transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
averell
averill
averish
avernal
avernal
Adjective
Avernian
avernus
avernus
Proper noun
The entrance to Hell or the underworld, or the underworld itself.
A lake in Southern Italy.
averral
averral
noun
(nonstandard) The act of averring; an assertion of truth.
averred
averred
verb
simple past tense and past participle of aver
averrer
averrer
noun
One who avers.
averted
averted
adj
Turned away, especially as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of avert
averter
averter
noun
One who, or that which, averts.
avertin
avertin
noun
(organic chemistry) The brominated alcohol 2,2,2-tribromoethanol that is used as an anaesthetic for small animals
aveyron
aveyron
Proper noun
One of the départements of Midi-Pyrénées, France (INSEE code 12)
avinger
avodire
avodire
noun
The wood of the tree Turraeanthus africana.
avoider
avoider
noun
One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.
One who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away.
avouter
avowers
avowers
noun
plural of avower
avowter
barvell
baviere
beavers
beavers
noun
plural of beaver
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beaver
beavery
beavery
adj
of or pertaining to beavers
noun
(rare) a place, especially artificial, where beavers live.
bebrave
becarve
becarve
verb
(transitive) To cut; carve or cut up; cut in pieces; carve.
(transitive, obsolete) To cut off.
(transitive, obsolete, land) To cut up; cut open; open up.
befavor
begrave
begrave
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To bury.
(transitive, obsolete) To engrave.
behaver
behaver
noun
(psychology) An individual whose behaviour is being monitored or studied.
Someone or something that behaves.
bereave
bereave
verb
(intransitive, rare) To destroy life; cut off.
(transitive) To deprive by or as if by violence; to rob; to strip; to benim.
(transitive) To deprive of power; prevent.
(transitive) To take away someone or something that is important or close; deprive.
(transitive, obsolete) To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence.
beveler
beveler
noun
Alternative form of beveller
beverie
beverle
beverly
beverly
Proper noun
and place name.
name derived from the surname. Popular in the 1930s to the 1950s in the U.S., partly because of its association with Beverly Hills ( where the stars live).
name transferred from the surname.
beverse
blijver
bouvier
bravade
bravade
noun
Obsolete form of bravado.
bravely
bravely
adv
In a brave manner.
bravers
bravers
noun
plural of braver
bravery
bravery
noun
(countable) A brave act.
(usually uncountable) Being brave, courageousness.
Splendor, magnificence.
bravest
bravest
adj
superlative form of brave: most brave
noun
(informal) Firefighters.
bravoed
bravoed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bravo
bravoes
bravure
bravure
noun
plural of bravura
brevard
brevete
brevets
brevets
noun
plural of brevet
brevier
brevier
noun
(typography, printing, dated) The size of type between minion and bourgeois, standardized as 8-point.
brevity
brevity
noun
(rare, countable) A short piece of writing.
(uncountable) Succinctness; conciseness.
(uncountable) The quality of being brief in duration.
cadaver
cadaver
noun
A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.
caliver
caliver
noun
(historical) A type of light musket.
calvert
caravel
caravel
noun
(nautical, historical) A light, usually lateen-rigged sailing ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish for about 300 years from the 15th century, first for trade and later for voyages of exploration.
carvage
carvels
carvels
noun
plural of carvel
carvene
carvene
noun
(organic chemistry) An oily substance, C₁₀H₁₆, extracted from caraway.
carvers
carvers
noun
plural of carver
carvone
carvone
noun
(organic chemistry) A terpenoid found naturally in many essential oils, most abundant in the oils from seeds of caraway and dill.
caterva
cauvery
caverns
caverns
noun
plural of cavern
caviare
caviare
noun
Alternative spelling of caviar
caviler
caviler
noun
A person who cavils; a faultfinder, quibbler or nitpicker
centrev
cerevis
cerevis
noun
A small cap, with no peak, worn by members of German student corps
cerveny
cervine
cervine
adj
Pertaining to a deer; deer-like.
noun
A deer of the subfamily Cervinae; an Old World deer.
cervoid
cervoid
adj
Characteristic of deer or other cervids
charvet
chervil
chervil
noun
(countable) A leafy herb, Anthriscus cerefolium, resembling parsley.
(uncountable) leaves from the plant, used as an herb in cooking, which have a mild flavor of anise.
chevres
chevres
noun
plural of chevre
chevret
chevron
chevron
noun
(chiefly Britain) One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.
(heraldry) A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
(informal) A háček, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve.
A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “«” or “»”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as ““” and “””.
An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
verb
To form or be formed into chevrons
chilver
chilver
noun
A female lamb.
chivers
civiler
claiver
clavers
clavers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of claver
clavier
clavier
noun
(music) The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.
cleaver
cleaver
noun
(metaphoric) The act of eliminating someone or something, especially when done by someone with a history of other eliminations; a dismissal, rejection, or removal.
(music, Bahamas) A type of clave, or rhythm stick, a concussive musical instrument used in traditional Bahamian music.
A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones, etc.
clivers
clivers
noun
Galium aparine, the plant called cleavers.
clovers
clovers
noun
(informal) the suit of clubs; primarily childish.
plural of clover
clovery
clovery
adj
Resembling or containing clover.
codrive
codrive
verb
To drive (a vehicle, a project, etc.) jointly with somebody else.
codrove
codrove
verb
simple past tense of codrive
colvert
conover
convert
convert
noun
(Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
A person who has converted to a religion.
A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
verb
(intransitive) To become converted.
(intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
(intransitive, marketing) To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
(intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
(transitive or intransitive, soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick).
(transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
(transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
(transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
(transitive) To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
(transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11).
(transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
(transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
(transitive, intransitive, chess) To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
(transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
(transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
(transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
(transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
(transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
convery
corrive
corvees
corvees
noun
plural of corvee
corvese
corvets
corvets
noun
plural of corvet
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corvet
corvine
corvine
adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of crows or ravens.
couvert
couvert
noun
cover charge
covered
covered
adj
(dated) Wearing one's hat.
(figuratively) Prepared for, or having dealt with, some matter
(poker) Than whom another player has more money available for betting.
Overlaid (with) or enclosed (within something).
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cover
coverer
coverer
noun
Agent noun of cover: one who covers.
coverts
coverts
noun
plural of covert
coverup
coverup
noun
Alternative spelling of cover-up
coveter
coveter
noun
One who covets.
cravens
cravens
noun
plural of craven
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of craven
cravers
cravers
noun
plural of craver
cresive
crevass
crevice
crevice
noun
A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
verb
To crack; to flaw.
crivetz
culvers
culvers
noun
plural of culver
culvert
culvert
noun
A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.
verb
To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert.
cursive
cursive
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that occurs in a straight line (in space or time).
(of writing) Having successive letters joined together.
Running; flowing.
noun
(countable) A cursive character, letter or font.
(countable) A manuscript written in cursive characters.
(uncountable) Joined-up handwriting.
curvate
curvate
adj
bent in a regular form; curved
curvets
curvets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of curvet
curvier
curvier
adj
comparative form of curvy: more curvy
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.