Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
adv
In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.
alkes
alkin
alkin
adj
(obsolete except Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) Of all or every kind; all kinds or sorts of; intermingled and various.
alkol
alkyd
alkyd
noun
A synthetic resin derived from a reaction between alcohol and certain acids, used as a base for many laminates, paints and coatings.
alkyl
alkyl
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of a series of univalent radicals of the general formula CₙH₂ₙ₊₁ derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons.
aloke
ankle
ankle
noun
The skeletal joint which connects the foot with the leg; the uppermost portion of the foot and lowermost portion of the leg, which contain this skeletal joint.
verb
(US, slang) To walk.
(cycling) To cyclically angle the foot at the ankle while pedaling, to maximize the amount of work applied to the pedal during each revolution.
awkly
awkly
adv
(obsolete) Awkwardly.
(obsolete) In an unlucky or perverse manner.
bakal
bakli
balak
balkh
balkh
Proper noun
An ancient city and centre of Buddhism, Islam, and Zoroastrianism and capital of Bactria.
One of the 34 provinces in Afghanistan, Balkh Province.
balko
balks
balks
noun
plural of balk
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of balk
balky
balky
adj
Refusing to proceed or cooperate.
baulk
baulk
noun
(British spelling) Alternative spelling of balk
belak
black
black
adj
(Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
(Ireland, now derogatory) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
(US) Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
(board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
(card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”)
(chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
(of a place, etc) Without light.
(of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
(of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
(of objects, markets, etc) Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
(politics) Anarchist; of or pertaining to anarchism.
(politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
(sometimes capitalized) Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
(typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a character or symbol outline, not filled with color”).
Bad; evil; ill-omened.
Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
Foul; dirty, soiled.
Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
noun
(Britain, countable) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
(US, slang) Marijuana.
(baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
(billiards, snooker, pool, countable) The black ball.
(countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
(countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
(countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
(countable) Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
(in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
(in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
(informal) Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
(informal, countable) Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
(obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
(sometimes capitalised, countable, often offensive) A member of descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes.)
A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
verb
(Britain, transitive) To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
(transitive) To apply blacking to (something).
(transitive) To make black; to blacken.
blake
blake
adj
Bleak, cold; bare, naked.
Pale, pallid; wan; sallow; of a sickly hue.
Yellow, as butter or cheese.
blank
blank
adj
(archaic) White or pale; without colour.
(figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
(military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
Absolute; downright; sheer.
Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in
Utterly confounded or discomfited.
Without expression, usually due to incomprehension.
noun
(archaic, historical, obsolete) A small French coin, originally of silver, afterwards of copper, worth 5 deniers; also a silver coin of Henry V current in the parts of France then held by the English, worth about 8 pence .
(chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
(dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
(electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
(figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
(firearms) Short for blank cartridge. [since the 19th century].
(literature) Blank verse .
(now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled up at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
(obsolete) A nonplus [16th century].
(slang) Infertile semen.
A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
A space to be filled in on a form or template.
An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form will be settled in Committee .
The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
verb
(intransitive) To be temporarily unable to remember.
(intransitive) To become blank.
(transitive) To make void; to erase.
(transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
(transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
(transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.
bulak
bulak
noun
An Indian nose ring usually worn by married women.
calks
calks
noun
plural of calk
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calk
caulk
caulk
noun
A composition of vehicle and pigment used at ambient temperatures for filling/sealing joints or junctures, that remains elastic for an extended period of time after application.
Alternative form of calk (“pointed projection on a horseshoe”)
Caulking.
verb
(nautical) To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight.
(slang) To copulate.
To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials.
celka
chalk
chalk
noun
(US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
(US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
(US, sports, chiefly basketball, horseracing) The favorite in a sporting event.
(countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO4), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
(uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3).
(uncountable, climbing, gymnastics) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO3).
Tailor's chalk.
verb
(figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
To manure (land) with chalk.
To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
cilka
clack
clack
noun
(colloquial) The tongue.
An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.
Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
Chatter; prattle.
verb
(UK) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
(intransitive) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
(transitive) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
Dated form of cluck.
To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
claik
claik
noun
(Scotland) Gossip; a gossip.
(Scotland) The cry of a goose, or other bird.
verb
(Scotland) To honk or cry like a goose.
clake
clake
noun
Alternative form of claik (the barnacle goose)
clank
clank
noun
A loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal.
verb
(intransitive) To make a clanking sound
(transitive) To cause to sound with a clank.
clark
clark
Proper noun
definition (see
definition
a city in South Dakota, USA, and county seat of Clark County.
clawk
cloak
cloak
noun
(Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.
(figurative) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
verb
(science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
(transitive) To cover as with a cloak.
(transitive, figurative) To cover up, hide or conceal.
eakly
eakly
Proper noun
A town in Oklahoma.
flack
flack
noun
(Canada, US) A publicist, a publicity agent.
Alternative spelling of flak.
verb
(Canada, US) To publicise, to promote.
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To hang loosely; flag.
(intransitive, obsolete) To flutter; palpitate.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To beat by flapping.
flake
flake
noun
(Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
(UK) Dogfish.
(UK, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
(US, law enforcement, slang) A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
(archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
(informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
(nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
(nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”)
A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
A flat turn or tier of rope.
A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
A scale of a fish or similar animal
A wire rack for drying fish.
verb
(Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
(US, law enforcement, slang) To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
(colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
(technical) To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
To break or chip off in a flake.
To lay out on a flake for drying.
flaky
flaky
adj
(informal, of a person) Unreliable; likely to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.
(informal, of a thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely due to malfunction.
Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
flank
flank
adj
(US, nautical, of speed) Maximum. Historically faster than full speed (the most a vessel can sustain without excessive engine wear or risk of damage), now frequently used interchangeably. Typically used in an emergency or during an attack.
noun
(anatomy) The flesh between the last rib and the hip; the side.
(cooking) A cut of meat from the flank of an animal.
(military) The extreme left or right edge of a military formation, army etc.
(military) The sides of a bastion perpendicular to the wall from which the bastion projects.
(soccer) The wing, one side of the pitch.
That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
The outermost strip of a road.
The side of something, in general senses.
verb
(intransitive) To be placed to the side(s) of something (usually in terms of two objects, one on each side).
(transitive) To attack the flank(s) of.
(transitive) To defend the flank(s) of.
(transitive) To place to the side(s) of.
flask
flask
noun
(engineering) A container for holding a casting mold, especially for sand casting molds.
(sciences) Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base.
A bed in a gun carriage.
A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.
A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
verb
(dentistry) To invest a denture in a flask so as to produce a sectional mold.
fleak
fleak
noun
A small, light piece that is only loosely joined to something else, and which has a tendency to detach.
A thin piece that is chipped or peeled off from the surface of something else.
A thin piece that the flesh of some animals (such as fish) tends to break into.
verb
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) Synonym of fleck
(transitive, obsolete, rare) Synonym of flake (“to remove (something) in fleaks or flakes (small chips or pieces)”)
galik
glack
glaik
glaik
noun
(Tyneside, derogatory) A fool or eccentric person.
glaky
glaky
adj
(Tyneside) Alternative spelling of glaiky
halke
hekla
kabel
kabul
kaela
kahle
kaila
kaile
kails
kails
noun
plural of kail
kalam
kalam
noun
(Islam) speculative theology
kalan
kalan
noun
(archaic) The sea otter.
kalat
kaleb
kaleb
Proper noun
name, a rare modern spelling variant of Caleb.
kales
kales
noun
plural of kale
kalie
kalie
Proper noun
name, one of the modern spelling variants of Kaylee.
kalif
kalif
noun
A rank in the Ku Klux Klan
kalil
kalin
kalis
kalis
noun
A Filipino sword akin to the kris.
kalki
kalle
kalli
kally
kalon
kalon
noun
Ideal perfect beauty in the physical and moral sense, especially as perceived by Greek philosophers.
kalpa
kalpa
noun
(Hinduism, Buddhism) A period of 4.32 billion years (1000 chatur-yugas or cycles of the four yugas).
kalvn
kamal
kamal
noun
(historical) A navigation device, known to the Arabs and Chinese of the ancient world, consisting of a wooden card and knotted string.
kanal
kanal
noun
A unit of area used in parts of northern India and in Pakistan, equivalent to one eighth of an acre.
karel
karil
karla
karli
karly
karol
karyl
kaule
kavla
kayla
kayla
Proper noun
name, a modern invention possibly based on Kay or Michaela
kayle
kayle
noun
A pin used in kayles or skittles.
kelda
kelia
kella
ketal
ketal
noun
(organic chemistry) Any acetal derived from a ketone
khalk
khalq
khila
khula
khula
noun
(Islam) A form of divorce initiated by the wife.
kibla
kilah
kilan
kilar
klans
klapp
klara
klatt
klaus
klina
knarl
knarl
noun
A knot in wood.
koala
koala
noun
A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia.
koali
koila
kolar
kolas
kolas
noun
plural of kola
kolea
kolea
noun
(Hawaii) A migrating plover.
Any of various flowering plants of the genus Myrsine.
koloa
koloa
noun
The Hawaiian duck, Anas wyvilliana.
kolva
koral
kotal
koval
kowal
kraal
kraal
noun
An enclosure for livestock.
In Central and Southern Africa, a rural village of huts surrounded by a stockade.
In Central and Southern Africa, a small rural community.
verb
(transitive) To enclose (livestock) within a kraal or stockade.
krall
kraul
kulah
kulak
kulak
noun
(historical) A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.
kulan
kulan
noun
Alternative form of koulan
kulda
kulla
kwela
kwela
noun
(South Africa, music) A style of music, first played in the townships, whose principal instrument is the penny whistle.
kylah
lacks
lacks
noun
plural of lack
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lack
ladik
laked
laked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of lake
laker
laker
noun
(UK dialectal) One engaged in sport; a player; an actor.
(nautical, Canada, US) A ship used on the Great Lakes.
A wharfman who resides near a lake.
lakes
lakes
noun
plural of lake
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lake
lakey
lakhs
lakhs
noun
plural of lakh
lakie
lakin
lakin
noun
(rare) A toy.
Obsolete form of ladykin.
lakke
lakme
laksa
laksa
noun
A spicy noodle stew from Indonesia or Malaysia.
lanka
lanky
lanky
adj
(informal) Tall, slim, and rather ungraceful or awkward.
larks
larks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lark