(British) A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
The church of a monastery.
The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
abbye
absey
absey
noun
(obsolete) ABC; alphabet.
(obsolete) Absey book; abecedary.
(obsolete) An alphabetical acrostic list.
abyed
abyed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abye
abyes
abyes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abye
acedy
acedy
noun
Alternative form of acedia
ackey
ackey
noun
A silver coin once used in the Gold Coast (in Africa)
adley
adley
Proper noun
name transferred from the surname.
adyge
afley
agley
agley
adj
(Scotland) Wrong; askew.
adv
(chiefly Scotland) Wrong, awry, askew, amiss, or distortedly.
aguey
aguey
adj
Conditions associated with catching ague.
In the state of having a high fever accompanied by shaking or shivering.
aiery
aiery
adj
Obsolete form of aery.
ailey
alley
alley
noun
(baseball) The area between the outfielders.
(bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
(bowling) An establishment where bowling is played.
(perspective drawing) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
(tennis) The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.
A glass marble or taw.
A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots or buildings.
A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.
The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
alsey
alyce
alyse
amery
apery
apery
noun
A place where apes are kept.
The practice of aping; an apish action.
arefy
arefy
verb
(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To dry, or make dry; wither.
arley
arney
arrey
arrey
intj
(India) Expressing surprise or alarm; hey.
asyle
ately
athey
aveny
avery
avery
Proper noun
name, today often transferred back from the surname.
name of modern usage.
ayden
ayden
Proper noun
name, a new American spelling variant of Aidan.
A town in North Carolina.
ayelp
ayelp
adv
yelping.
ayens
ayers
aylet
aylet
noun
(heraldry) A black bird with red feet and beak.
aymer
ayres
ayres
noun
plural of ayre
azyme
azyme
noun
(archaic) unleavened bread used in Jewish or Christian religious context
barye
barye
noun
(physics) A unit of pressure under the CGS system; symbol Ba; equal to 1 dyne per square centimeter. 1 Ba = 0.1 Pa = 0.1 N/m2 = 1x10⁻⁶ bar.
basye
bayed
bayed
adj
Having a bay or bays.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bay
bayer
bayer
adj
comparative form of bay: more bay
bayle
beady
beady
adj
(of eyes or a look) Bright and penetrating.
Characterized by beads.
Covered or ornamented with, or as if with, beads.
Resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.
beaky
beaky
adj
(of a gesture) Made using a beak; (of a sound) produced through a beak.
Showing or emitting rays of light; beaming; radiant; shining.
beany
beany
adj
Resembling or characteristic of beans.
bebay
bebay
verb
(rare, transitive) To bay around or about; embay; hem in; surround.
beday
begay
begay
verb
(transitive) To make cheerful or merry.
belay
belay
noun
(climbing) A location at which a climber stops and builds an anchor with which to secure their partner.
(climbing) The object to which a rope is secured.
(climbing) The securing of a rope to a rock or other projection.
verb
(intransitive, nautical) The general command to stop or cease.
(transitive) To lay aside; stop; cancel.
(transitive, climbing) To handle a climbing rope to prevent (a climber) from falling to the ground.
(transitive, intransitive, nautical) To make (a rope) fast by turning it around a fastening point such as a cleat.
(transitive, obsolete) To besiege; invest; surround.
(transitive, obsolete) To lie in wait for in order to attack; block up or obstruct.
(transitive, obsolete) To overlay; adorn.
(transitive, obsolete) To surround; environ; enclose.
simple past tense of belie (“encompass”)
beray
beray
verb
To make foul; befoul; soil.
braye
cagey
cagey
adj
Uncommunicative; unwilling or hesitant to give information.
Wary, careful, shrewd.
cakey
cakey
adj
Alternative spelling of caky
camey
caney
carey
casey
cavey
cayce
cayce
Proper noun
A city in South Carolina
cayes
cayey
cesya
claye
claye
noun
Obsolete spelling of clay
craye
craye
noun
A type of vessel, which was notably used in Denmark and Sweden
cyane
cymae
dacey
daley
daney
davey
davey
Proper noun
A diminutive of the male given name David.
derived from David.
dayle
dazey
deady
deary
deary
noun
(informal) A dear; a darling.
(informal) A term of address for a female.
decay
decay
noun
(obsolete) Overthrow, downfall, ruin.
(programming) The situation, in programming languages such as C, where an array loses its type and dimensions and is reduced to a pointer, for example by passing it to a function.
A deterioration of condition; loss of status or fortune.
The process or result of being gradually decomposed.
verb
(intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
(intransitive, aviation) Loss of airspeed due to drag.
(intransitive, computing, of software) To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
(intransitive, electronics, of storage media or the data on them) To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.
(intransitive, of organic material) To rot, to go bad.
(intransitive, physics, of a satellite's orbit) To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
(intransitive, transitive, physics, chemistry, of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons; to undergo radioactive decay.
(intransitive, transitive, physics, of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
(programming, intransitive) Of an array: to lose its type and dimensions and be reduced to a pointer, for example when passed to a function.
(transitive) To cause to rot or deteriorate.
delay
delay
noun
(chess) An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
(music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
(programming, Clojure) Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”)
A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
verb
(obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.
(obsolete) To dilute, temper.
(transitive, intransitive) To put off until a later time; to defer.
(transitive, obsolete) To allay; to temper.
To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
denay
denay
noun
(obsolete) denial; refusal
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To deny, refuse.
deray
deray
noun
(archaic) Disarray, confusion.
(obsolete) Disorder, disturbance.
(obsolete) Disorderly merriment; partying.
verb
(archaic, intransitive) To become deranged; to go wild.
(archaic, transitive) To derange.
dyane
eably
eakly
eakly
Proper noun
A town in Oklahoma.
early
early
adj
(astronomy) Of a star or class of stars, hotter than the sun.
Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time.
At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.
Having begun to occur; in its early stages.
Near the start of the day.
Near the start or beginning.
adv
At a time before expected; sooner than usual.
Soon; in good time; seasonably.
noun
(informal) A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place early in the day.
ediya
elayl
elayl
noun
(chemistry, obsolete) ethylene
embay
embay
verb
(transitive) To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay.
(transitive, obsolete) To bathe; to steep.
enlay
enlay
verb
Archaic form of inlay.
enray
esbay
essay
essay
noun
(authorship) A written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject.
(now rare) An attempt.
(obsolete) A test, experiment; an assay.
(philately, finance) A proposed design for a postage stamp or a banknote.
verb
(dated, transitive) To try.
(intransitive) To move forth, as into battle.
etyma
eyass
eyass
noun
(falconry) Alternative form of eyas
eyota
eyrar
eyras
eyras
noun
plural of eyra
faery
faery
noun
Obsolete spelling of fairy
fahey
fakey
fakey
adj
(colloquial) Fake.
fayed
fayed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fay
fayme
fayre
fayre
adj
(archaic) Fair, beautiful.
noun
(dated) A fair, a market.
(dated) Fare.
featy
fleay
freya
freya
Proper noun
name of mostly British usage.
gabey
gabey
noun
Alternative form of gaby
galey
gamey
gamey
adj
(gaming) Involving in-game actions or behaviour that break immersion or contradict common sense in favour of exploiting game mechanics.
Having the smell, taste and texture of game meat.
Plucky, spirited or gritty.
Risque, sordid or sexually suggestive.
garey
gayel
gayer
gayer
adj
comparative form of gay: more gay
noun
(chiefly UK, colloquial, derogatory) Somebody who is gay (in the sense of either homosexual or uncool).
gayle
gayle
noun
A skin lesion, accompanied by swelling, occurring in those who have handled the bodies of sheep that have died from gayle.
Puerperal septicemia in sheep.
geary
gelya
geyan
haley
haley
Proper noun
a common spelling variant of Hayley.
name, popular in the US in the 1990s and the 2000s.
Any of several places in the US and Canada named after persons with the surname.
haney
hayed
hayed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of hay
hayer
hayer
noun
One who cuts hay for animal fodder.
hayes
hayes
noun
plural of haye
hayey
hayey
adj
Resembling or smelling or tasting like hay.
hayne
hayse
heady
heady
adj
Exhilarating.
Intoxicating or stupefying.
Rash or impetuous.
Tending to upset the mind or senses.
healy
heapy
heapy
adj
Having lots of heaps or piles.
heavy
heavy
adj
(Britain, slang, dated) Good.
(aviation, of an aircraft) Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload,
(dated, late 1960s, 1970s, US) Profound.
(finance) Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
(nautical, military) Heavily-armed.
(obsolete) With child; pregnant.
(of a person) Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
(of a physical object) Having great weight.
(of a rate of flow) High, great.
(of a topic) Serious, somber.
(of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
(of music) Loud, distorted, or intense.
(of the eyes) With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
(of weather) Hot and humid.
(of wines or spirits) Having much body or strength.
(petroleum) Having high viscosity.
(physics) Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
(slang) Armed.
Having the heaves.
Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
Laden to a great extent.
Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
Not raised or leavened.
Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
especially, having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
adv
(India, colloquial) very
(colloquial, nonstandard) To a great degree; greatly.
In a heavy manner; weightily; heavily; gravely.
noun
(aviation) A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
(journalism, slang, chiefly in the plural) A newspaper of the quality press.
(slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
verb
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.
(often with "up") To make heavier.
To sadden.
heazy
hyena
hyena
noun
(Sub-Saharan Africa) A man that performs ritualized sex acts with recently widowed women and menarchal girls.
Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the subfamily Hyaenidae, native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited.
jacey
jakey
jakey
noun
(chiefly Scotland) A homeless drunk.
jamey
janey
janye
jasey
jasey
noun
A wig, originally made of worsted wool.
jayem
jayme
jayne
jayne
Proper noun
derived from a medieval variant of
name, a twentieth century elaborate spelling of Jane.
jazey
kacey
kasey
katey
kayes
kayle
kayle
noun
A pin used in kayles or skittles.
kayne
keary
keavy
keavy
Proper noun
name used in Ireland and Scotland.
kenay
kenya
lacey
lacey
adj
Alternative spelling of lacy
lahey
lakey
laney
layed
layed
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of lay
layer
layer
noun
(computer graphics, by analogy to a stack of transparencies) one in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.
A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
A hen kept to lay eggs.
A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.
A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
An item of clothing worn under or over another.
One of the items in a hierarchy.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To arrange in layers.
(transitive, intransitive) To cut or divide into layers.