Any small saltwater fish of the Engraulidae family, consisting of 160 species in 16 genera, of which the genus Engraulis is widely sold as food.
avionic
avionic
adj
(aviation) of, or relating to avionics (aviation electronics)
calvano
carvone
carvone
noun
(organic chemistry) A terpenoid found naturally in many essential oils, most abundant in the oils from seeds of caraway and dill.
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.
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.
concavo
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
convair
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
convict
convict
noun
(law) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.
A person deported to a penal colony.
The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.
verb
(chiefly religion) To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).
(transitive) To find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or (informal) in a moral sense.
convite
convito
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.
convoys
convoys
noun
plural of convoy
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of convoy
corvina
corvina
noun
A red Italian grape variety, used in wines from Valpolicella and the wider region around the city of Verona.
Any of various fish, including Cilus gilberti, Larimichthys polyactis, and members of the genera Cynoscion and Isopisthus.
corvine
corvine
adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of crows or ravens.
coveney
covings
covings
noun
plural of coving
devonic
encover
encover
verb
(rare) To cover.
gonvick
invoice
invoice
noun
(generally of a vehicle) The price which a seller or dealer pays the manufacturer for goods to be sold.
A bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with. An invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms.
The lot or set of goods as shipped or received.
verb
(transitive) To bill; to issue an invoice to.
(transitive) To make an invoice for (goods or services).
nichevo
novices
novices
noun
plural of novice
ovonics
ovonics
noun
A form of electronics that uses materials able to change from an electrically non-conducting state to a semiconducting state shown by glass of special composition upon application of a certain minimum voltage.
uncover
uncover
verb
(military, transitive) To expose (lines of formation of troops) successively by the wheeling to right or left of the lines in front.
(reflexive, intransitive) To expose the genitalia.
(reflexive, intransitive) To remove one's hat or cap as a mark of respect.
To remove a cover from.
To reveal the identity of.
To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.
unvocal
unvocal
adj
Not vocal.
unvoice
unvoice
verb
(transitive, linguistics) devoice
vascons
vection
vection
noun
(medicine, dated) The transference of the germs of disease from those who are sick to those who are well; infection.
(obsolete) Vectitation.
vencola
vidicon
vidicon
noun
A device in a television camera that forms an image composed of varying charges on a photoconductive surface
vinculo
voicing
voicing
noun
(music) A particular arrangement of notes to form a chord.
(music) The final regulation of the pitch and tone of any sound-producing entity, especially of an organ or similar musical instrument.
(phonetics) The articulatory process in which the vocal cords vibrate.
(phonetics, phonology) A classification of speech sounds that tend to be associated with vocal cord vibration.
(phonology) A phonological process that turns a voiceless sound into a voiced one.
verb
present participle of voice
volcano
volcano
noun
A kind of firework producing an upward plume of sparks.
A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.