(in the plural) An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
A forward move; improvement or progression.
An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
verb
(intransitive) To make a higher bid at an auction.
(intransitive) To make progress; to do well, to succeed.
(intransitive) To move forward in time; to progress towards completion.
(intransitive) To move forwards; to approach.
(transitive, now archaic) To raise; to lift or elevate.
To help the progress of (something); to further.
To increase (a number or amount).
To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten.
To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully.
To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend.
To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose.
To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote.
To raise or increase (a price, rate).
advenae
advents
advents
noun
plural of advent
alevins
alevins
noun
plural of alevin
andover
andover
Proper noun
A town in Hampshire, southern UK.
andvare
angevin
anviled
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.
avalent
avalent
adj
(grammar, rare, of a verb or predicate) Non-valent, having valency zero: taking no arguments.
avelina
aveline
avellan
avenage
avenage
noun
(obsolete, law) A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent.
avenant
avenary
avenery
avenged
avenged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of avenge
avenger
avenger
noun
One who avenges or vindicates
One who takes vengeance.
avenges
avenges
noun
plural of avenge
avenida
avenine
avenous
avenses
aventre
aventre
verb
(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.
avenues
avenues
noun
plural of avenue
avernal
avernal
Adjective
Avernian
avernus
avernus
Proper noun
The entrance to Hell or the underworld, or the underworld itself.
A lake in Southern Italy.
avertin
avertin
noun
(organic chemistry) The brominated alcohol 2,2,2-tribromoethanol that is used as an anaesthetic for small animals
avestan
avestan
Proper noun
An ancient Eastern Old Iranian language that was used to compose the sacred hymns and canon of the Zoroastrian Avesta.
An alphabet which was developed based on Pahlavi scripts and used to write Avestan and Middle Persian languages.
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Avesta or Avestan.
aveyron
aveyron
Proper noun
One of the départements of Midi-Pyrénées, France (INSEE code 12)
avinger
beknave
beknave
verb
(transitive, rare) To call (someone) a knave.
(transitive, rare) To treat as a knave.
bevenom
bevined
blevins
bonnive
bovines
bovines
noun
plural of bovine
carvene
carvene
noun
(organic chemistry) An oily substance, C₁₀H₁₆, extracted from caraway.
carvone
carvone
noun
(organic chemistry) A terpenoid found naturally in many essential oils, most abundant in the oils from seeds of caraway and dill.
catvine
caveman
caveman
noun
(informal, figuratively, derogatory) A brutish person, one who behaves in a rough, uncivilized way.
(informal, figuratively, derogatory) A person with backward, primitive behavior, opinions, or interests.
(informal, figuratively, derogatory) Someone, especially a man, who has regressive, old-fashioned attitudes, particularly with regard to women; someone opposed to change or modernity.
An early human or closely related species, popularly held to reside in caves.
cavemen
cavemen
noun
plural of caveman
caverns
caverns
noun
plural of cavern
censive
centavo
centavo
noun
(historical) The former subdenomination of some other currencies (in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Puerto Rico, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Venezuela).
A similar subdenomination of various other currencies (in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and the Philippines).
Currency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico.
centrev
cerveny
cervine
cervine
adj
Pertaining to a deer; deer-like.
noun
A deer of the subfamily Cervinae; an Old World deer.
cevenol
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
clovene
clovene
noun
(organic chemistry) The tricyclic sesquiterpene (1S,5S,8S)-4,4,8-trimethyltricyclo[6.3.1.0^(1,5)]dodec-2-ene present in clove oil
concave
concave
adj
(functional analysis, not comparable, of a real-valued function on the reals) satisfying the property that all segments connecting two points on the function's graph lie below the function.
(geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees.
curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl
hollow; empty
noun
(gambling) A playing card made concave for use in cheating.
(manufacturing) An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
(skateboarding) An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength.
(surfing) An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
A concave surface or curve.
One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world.
The vault of the sky.
verb
To render concave, or increase the degree of concavity.
connive
connive
verb
(intransitive) To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
(intransitive, botany, rare) Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.
(intransitive, obsolete) Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.
(intransitive, obsolete) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
conover
convect
convect
verb
(intransitive) To undergo convection.
(transitive) To move (a warm fluid) upward through a cooler fluid, to transfer (heat or a fluid) by convection.
convell
convene
convene
verb
(intransitive) To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
(intransitive) To come together; to meet; to unite.
(transitive) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
(transitive) To summon judicially to meet or appear.
(transitive, with "on" or "upon") To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention.
convent
convent
noun
(India) A Christian school.
A coming together; a meeting.
A gathering of people lasting several days for the purpose of discussing or working on topics previously selected.
A religious community whose members (especially nuns) live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.
verb
(obsolete) To be convenient; to serve.
(obsolete) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
(obsolete) To meet together; to concur.
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
conveth
convexo
conveys
conveys
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of convey
convite
convive
convive
noun
(obsolete) a feast or banquet
(obsolete) a participant in a feast or banquet
verb
(obsolete) To feast with others
convoke
convoke
verb
(transitive) To convene, to cause to assemble for a meeting.
To call together.
corvine
corvine
adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of crows or ravens.
coveney
cravens
cravens
noun
plural of craven
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of craven
cvennes
danvers
danvers
Proper noun
A village in Illinois
A town in Massachusetts
A city in Minnesota
A community in Nova Scotia, Canada
davened
davened
verb
simple past tense and past participle of daven
deaving
dekoven
delavan
delevan
delving
delving
noun
Alternative form of dilving
The act of one who delves.
verb
present participle of delve
devance
devaney
devaunt
deveins
deveins
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devein
develin
develin
noun
(UK, dialect) The European swift.
deviant
deviant
adj
Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
noun
(Internet) A member of the online art community DeviantArt.
A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.
A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.
devinct
devinna
devinne
devland
devonic
devonna
devonne
dezhnev
divined
divined
adj
Made divine, made holy.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of divine
diviner
diviner
adj
comparative form of divine: more divine
noun
One who divines or conjectures.
One who foretells the future.
One who searches for underground objects or water using a divining rod.
divines
divines
noun
plural of divine
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of divine
dogvane
dogvane
noun
(nautical) A small vane of bunting, feathers, or other light material, fastened to the end of a short staff and placed on the weather gunwale of a sailing ship to assist the helmsman to judge the direction of the wind.
(obsolete, nautical) A cockade worn on a hat (worn in the British Navy in the 18th and 19th centuries)
dovened
dovened
verb
simple past tense and past participle of doven
dunlevy
duvetyn
duvetyn
noun
Alternative spelling of duvetyne
echevin
elevens
elevens
noun
plural of eleven
elevons
elevons
noun
plural of elevon
elinvar
enbrave
enclave
enclave
noun
(computing) An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.
A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.
A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
verb
(transitive) To enclose within a foreign territory.
encover
encover
verb
(rare) To cover.
endevil
endives
endives
noun
plural of endive
endover
enfavor
enfever
enfever
verb
(transitive) to excite fever in
engrave
engrave
verb
(obsolete) To put in a grave, to bury.
(transitive) To carve (something) into a material.
(transitive) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.
engvall
enliven
enliven
verb
(archaic, transitive) To give life or spirit to; to revive or animate.
(transitive) To make more lively, cheerful or interesting.
ennerve
enslave
enslave
verb
(transitive) To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.
envapor
envault
envault
verb
(transitive) To enclose in a vault; to entomb.
envelop
envelop
verb
(transitive) To surround or enclose.
envenom
envenom
verb
(transitive) To inject or put venom onto or into (someone or something).
To acerbate, make bitter.
enviers
enviers
noun
plural of envier
envigor
enville
envined
envious
envious
adj
(obsolete) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
(obsolete, poetic) Inspiring envy.
Excessively careful; cautious.
Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging
environ
environ
adv
In the neighbourhood; around.
noun
(archaic except in the plural, formal, also figuratively) A surrounding area or place (especially of an urban settlement); an environment.
verb
(chiefly passive) Of a person: to be positioned or stationed around (someone or something) to attend to or protect them.
(figuratively) Of a situation or state of affairs, especially danger or trouble: to happen to and affect (someone or something).
(heraldry, chiefly passive, obsolete) To encircle or surround (a heraldic element such as a charge or escutcheon (shield)).
(often military) To encircle or surround (someone or something) so as to attack from all sides; to beset.
Followed by from: to hide or shield (someone or something).
To amount to or encompass (a space).
To cover, enclose, or envelop (someone or something).
To encircle or surround (someone or something).
To travel completely around (a place or thing); to circumnavigate.
envying
envying
noun
A feeling of envy.
verb
present participle of envy
enweave
enweave
verb
Alternative form of inweave
enwoven
enwwove
estevan
estevan
Proper noun
A city in Saskatchewan
estevin
evading
evading
verb
present participle of evade
evadnee
evaleen
evander
evangel
evangel
noun
A salutary principle relating to morals, politics, etc.
An evangelist.
The Christian gospel.
evanish
evanish
verb
(archaic, intransitive) To vanish.
evannia
evanthe
evasion
evasion
noun
The act of eluding or evading or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
eveleen
eveleen
Proper noun
name, a variant of Evelyn.
evelina
eveline
eveline
Proper noun
name, variant of Evelyn.
evelinn
evelong
evelunn
eveners
eveners
noun
plural of evener
evenest
evenest
adj
superlative form of even: most even
verb
(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of even
evening
evening
noun
(figuratively) A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.
A party or gathering held in the evening.
The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.
The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.