A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
verb
To shape a material using an adze.
aged
aged
adj
(chiefly non-US) Having the age of.
Having undergone the improving effects of time; matured.
noun
Old people, collectively.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of age
aide
aide
noun
(military) An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.
aked
aked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ake
ande
ande
noun
Alternative form of onde
aped
aped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ape
arde
ared
ared
verb
simple past tense and past participle of aread
ated
ated
verb
(childish) simple past tense and past participle of eat
aude
awed
awed
adj
Having or showing awe.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of awe
axed
axed
adj
Having a specified number of type of axis.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of axe (all etymologies and senses)
bade
bade
verb
simple past tense of bid
baed
baed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bae
bead
bead
noun
(archaic) Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
(architecture) A narrow molding with semicircular section.
(by extension) Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
(chemistry, dated) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe.
A bubble, in spirits.
A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
A small drop of water or other liquid.
A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes.
Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
Various small, round solid objects.
verb
(intransitive) To form into a bead.
(transitive) To apply beads to.
(transitive) To cause beads to form on (something).
(transitive) To form into a bead.
cade
cade
adj
(of an animal) abandoned by its mother and reared by hand
noun
(archaic) A cask or barrel.
An animal brought up or nourished by hand.
Juniperus oxycedrus (western prickly juniper), whose wood yields a tar.
verb
To make a pet of; to coddle, pamper, or spoil.
dace
dace
noun
(US) Any of various related small fish of the family Cyprinidae that live in freshwater and are native to North America.
The shoal-forming fish Leuciscus leuciscus common to swift rivers in England and Wales and in Europe.
dade
dade
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To walk unsteadily, like a child; to move slowly.
(obsolete, transitive) To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a toddler.
dael
daer
dale
dale
noun
(archaic) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
(chiefly Britain) A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.
The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
dame
dame
noun
(Britain) A matron at a school, especially Eton College.
(Britain) Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
(Britain, theater) In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
(US, dated, informal, slightly derogatory) A woman.
(archaic) A lady, a woman.
(chess, slang) A queen.
verb
To make a dame.
dane
dare
dare
noun
(games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players.
A challenge to prove courage.
A small fish, the dace
Defiance; challenge.
The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
verb
(intransitive) To have enough courage (to do something).
(obsolete) To lie or crouch down in fear.
(obsolete) To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified.
(transitive) To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them.
(transitive) To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
(transitive) To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to
(transitive) To terrify; to daunt.
dase
date
date
noun
(obsolete) Given or assigned length of life; duration.
(rare) Assigned end; conclusion.
A point in time.
A pre-arranged meeting.
A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
One's companion for social activities or occasions.
The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.
The date palm.
The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
verb
(intransitive, with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
(reciprocal, by extension) To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.
(transitive) To determine the age of something.
(transitive) To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
(transitive) To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
(transitive) To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
(transitive, by extension) To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
dave
dave
verb
(transitive, UK dialectal) To assuage; soften; mitigate; relieve; calm; alleviate (pain).
dawe
daye
daye
noun
Archaic spelling of day.
daze
daze
noun
(mining) A glittering stone.
The state of being dazed
verb
(transitive) To stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear
dead
dead
adj
(engineering) Not imparting motion or power by design.
(hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
(law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
(UK) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
(bodybuilding, colloquial) Clipping of deadlift.
(often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
verb
(UK, US, transitive, slang) To kill.
(transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
(transitive) To prevent by disabling; stop.
deaf
deaf
adj
(obsolete) Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) Decayed; tasteless; dead.
Of or relating to the community of deaf people.
Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear.
Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless.
noun
(nonstandard, rare) A deaf person.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To deafen.
deal
deal
adj
Made of deal.
noun
(archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing out.
(card games) The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
(countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
(countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.
(in particular) A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
(informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
(informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
(obsolete) A division, a portion, a share, a part, a piece.
(often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
(uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
verb
(baseball) To pitch.
(intransitive) To be concerned with.
(intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
(intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
(intransitive) To have dealings or business.
(intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
(obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
(transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
(transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
(transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
(transitive) deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.
(transitive, intransitive) To distribute cards to the players in a game.
dean
dean
noun
(Sussex, chiefly in place names) A hill.
A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons.
A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science) or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the dean of students).
The senior member of some group of people.
verb
(intransitive, rare) To serve as a dean.
(transitive, Oxbridge, otherwise rare, informal) To send (a student) to see the dean of a college or university.
dear
dear
adj
(UK) High in price; expensive.
(obsolete) Noble.
A formal way to start (often after my) addressing somebody one likes or regards kindly.
A formal way to start (possibly after my) addressing somebody at the beginning of a letter, memo etc.
An ironic way to start (often after my) addressing an inferior.
Loved; lovable.
Lovely; kind.
Loving, affectionate, heartfelt
Precious to or greatly valued by someone.
Severe, or severely affected; sore.
adv
Dearly; at a high price.
intj
(dated) Indicating surprise, pity, or disapproval.
noun
A beloved person.
A very kind, loving person.
An affectionate, familiar term of address, such as used between husband and wife.
An elderly person, especially a woman.
verb
(obsolete) To endear.
deas
deas
noun
(Scotland) Alternative form of dais
deda
deia
deja
dela
dema
dena
depa
deva
deva
noun
A god in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism.
eada
eade
eadi
eads
easd
ecad
ecad
noun
(ecology) An organism whose form has been affected by its environment.
A non-inherited somatic modification caused by an organism's environment.
edac
edam
edan
edda
edea
edla
edna
edna
Proper noun
a city in Texas, USA
edra
edta
edta
Noun
of and ethylenediaminetetraacetate
edva
egad
egad
intj
(UK, dated) a mild exclamation of surprise, contempt, outrage, etc.
...She's in love, egad, ... (From The Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekov)
elda
emad
emda
erda
euda
fade
fade
adj
(archaic) Strong; bold; doughty.
(archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless.
noun
(golf) A golf shot that curves intentionally to the player's right (if they are right-handed) or to the left (if left-handed).
(music, cinematography) A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot or the volume of sound or music (as a means of cutting to a new scene or starting a new song).
(slang) A fight.
(slang) The act of disappearing from a place so as not to be found; covert departure.
A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.
verb
(intransitive) To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
(intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
(intransitive) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
(transitive) To cause to fade.
(transitive, gambling) To bet against.
(transitive, golf) To hit the ball with the shot called a fade.
gade
gade
noun
(UK, dialect, obsolete, Moray Firth) A pike.
Any of various fish of the cod family found in British waters; especially those of the genera Gadus and Motella.
gaed
hade
hade
noun
(Britain, dialects, obsolete) A headland; a strip of land at the side of a field upon which a plough may be turned.
(geology) A slope; (in mining) the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.
(geology, mining) To slope or incline from the vertical.
haed
head
head
adj
Coming from in front.
Foremost in rank or importance.
Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
Placed at the top or the front.
noun
(Britain) A headland.
(Britain, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
(anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
(automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
(billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
(computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
(coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
(countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
(engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
(figurative, metonymically) An individual person.
(figurative, metonymically) Mind; one's own thoughts.
(geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
(in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
(jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
(journalism) Short for headline.
(lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
(linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
(machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
(medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
(metonymically) A headmaster or headmistress.
(metonymically) Leader; chief; mastermind.
(music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
(music) The headstock of a guitar.
(music, slang, figurative, metonymically) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
(nautical) The toilet of a ship.
(obsolete) Power; armed force.
(only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
(plural head, measure word for livestock and game) A single animal.
(slang) The glans penis.
(slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
(slang, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
(uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
(uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
A headdress; a covering for the head.
A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
Headway; progress.
Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
The antlers of a deer.
The bow of a vessel.
The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
The leafy top part of a tree.
The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
The population of game.
The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
The top edge of a sail.
Topic; subject.
verb
(by extension) To check or restrain.
(fishing) To remove the head from a fish.
(intransitive) To form a head.
(intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
(intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
(transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
(transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
(transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
(transitive) To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
(transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
(transitive, obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
To go in front of.
To set on the head.
heda
idea
idea
noun
(music) A musical theme or melodic subject.
(obsolete) The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal.
(obsolete) The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic.
(philosophy) An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.
A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention.
A purposeful aim or goal; intent
A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression.
An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.
More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.
ieda
jade
jade
adj
Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.
noun
(especially derogatory) A bad-tempered or disreputable woman.
A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
A horse too old to be put to work.
A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.
A succulent plant, Crassula ovata.
verb
(obsolete) To make (someone or something) contemptible and ridiculous.
(obsolete) To treat (someone or something) like a jade; to spurn.
To fatigue, tire, or weary (someone or something).
lade
lade
noun
(Scotland) A load.
(Scotland) Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.
(UK, dialect, obsolete outside of place names) The mouth of a river.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
verb
(nautical) To admit water by leakage.
To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
lead
lead
adj
(not comparable) Foremost.
Main, principal, primary, first, chief, foremost.
noun
(UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
(acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
(acting) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
(baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
(business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
(civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
(countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
(countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
(countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
(countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
(countable, mining) A lode.
(countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
(curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
(electrical) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
(electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
(engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
(engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
(horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
(marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
(music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
(music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
(music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
(nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
(newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
(plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
(slang) bullets; ammunition.
(uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
(uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
(uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
Hypothesis that has not been pursued
In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
verb
(baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
(figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct
(intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
(intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
(intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
(intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
(intransitive) To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
(intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
(shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
(transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
(transitive) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
(transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
(transitive) To live or experience (a particular way of life).
(transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
(transitive, climbing) Lead climb.
(transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
Misspelling of led.
To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
To produce (with to).
leda
made
made
noun
(UK dialectal or obsolete) A grub or maggot.
verb
(Tyneside) simple past tense and past participle of myek
(Wearside) simple past tense and past participle of mak
simple past tense and past participle of make
maed
mead
mead
noun
(US) A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide.
(poetic) A meadow.
An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
meda
ndea
neda
odea
odea
noun
plural of odeum
peda
peda
noun
(India) A sweet made from khoa, sugar, and various flavourings.
plural of pedum
read
read
noun
(at first especially in the black LGBT community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
(biochemistry) The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string
(in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
A person's interpretation or impression of something.
A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
verb
(at first especially in the black LGBT community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
(computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
(ergative) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
(go) To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
(informal, usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
(obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
(obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
(obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
(transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
(transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
(transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
(transitive) To read work(s) written by (a named author).
(transitive, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
(transitive, LGBT) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
(transitive, frequently humorous) To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
(transitive, rail transport) To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
(transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
Synonyms: interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scan
To consist of certain text.
past participle
simple past tense
sade
sade
noun
Alternative spelling of sadhe
verb
(dialect) To tire, weary.
seda
tade
tead
tead
noun
(obsolete) Alternative form of tede (“torch”)
teda
vade
vade
verb
(obsolete) To fade; to vanish.
veda
wade
wade
noun
(colloquial) A ford; a place to cross a river.
An act of wading.
Obsolete form of woad.
verb
(intransitive) To enter recklessly.
(intransitive) to progress with difficulty
(intransitive) to walk through water or something that impedes progress.
(transitive) to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading