(UK, dialect, transitive or intransitive) To be hungry; starve.
Alternative form of clam (“to adhere”)
elam
elem
elma
elmo
elmo
phrase
(Corporate slang) Initialism of enough, let's move on.
elms
elms
noun
plural of elm
elmy
elmy
adj
(rare, poetic) Pertaining to elm trees; in which elms grow.
elum
emil
flem
helm
helm
noun
(Northern England (Cumberland, Westmorland)) A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain, especially one associated with a storm.
(Northern England) A shelter for cattle or other farm animals; a hemmel, a shed.
(alchemy, chemistry) The upper part or cap of an alembic or retort.
(archaic or poetic) A helmet.
(countable) A stalk of corn, or (uncountable) stalks of corn collectively (that is, straw), especially when bundled together or laid out straight to be used for thatching roofs.
(except Britain, dialectal) The crown or top of something.
(heraldry) Synonym of helmet (“the feature above a shield on a coat of arms”)
(nautical) The member of a vessel's crew in charge of steering the vessel; a helmsman or helmswoman.
(nautical) The tiller (or, in a large ship, the wheel) which is used to control the rudder of a marine vessel; also, the entire steering apparatus of a vessel.
(nautical) The use of a helm (sense 1); also, the amount of space through which a helm is turned.
(uncountable) Alternative form of haulm (“the stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching”)
(uncountable, obsolete) Synonym of bentgrass (“any of numerous reedy grass species of the genus Agrostis”)
A position of control or leadership.
One in the position of controlling or directing; a controller, a director, a guide.
Something used to control or steer; also (obsolete), a handle of a tool or weapon; a haft, a helve.
verb
(figuratively) To direct or lead (a project, etc.); to manage (an organization).
(nautical) To control the helm (noun sense 1) of (a marine vessel); to be in charge of steering (a vessel).
(transitive) To lay out (stalks of corn, or straw) straight to be used for thatching roofs; to yelm.
(transitive, archaic or poetic) To cover (a head) with a helmet; to provide (someone) with a helmet; to helmet.
(slang) Failing to be cool, funny, interesting or relevant.
(slang) Unconvincing or unbelievable.
Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function.
Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
noun
(in the plural) A set of joined overlapping metal plates.
(prison slang) A stupid or undesirable person.
A lamina; a thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.
Kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.
verb
(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to become lame.
leam
leam
noun
(UK, dialectal) A gleam or flash of light; a glow or glowing.
A cord or strap for leading a dog.
verb
(intransitive, UK, dialectal) To gleam; shine; glow.
lema
lema
noun
(physiology, rare) The secretion of the tarsal glands of the eye.
leme
leme
noun
(obsolete) A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To shine.
lime
lime
adj
Containing lime or lime juice.
Having the aroma or flavor of lime.
Lime-green.
noun
(chemistry) Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime).
(fandom slang) A fan fiction story which contains sexual references, but stops short of full, explicit descriptions of sexual activity (coined by analogy with lemon).
(poetic) Any gluey or adhesive substance; something which traps or captures someone; sometimes a synonym for birdlime.
(theater) A spotlight.
(uncountable) A brilliant, sometimes yellowish, green colour associated with the fruits of a lime tree.
A deciduous tree of the genus Tilia, especially Tilia × europaea; the linden tree.
Alternative form of lyam (a leash)
Any of several green citrus fruit, somewhat smaller and sharper-tasting than a lemon.
Any of the trees that bear limes, especially Key lime, Citrus aurantiifolia.
verb
(Caribbean, Trinidad & Tobago) To hang out/socialize in an informal, relaxed environment, especially with friends, for example at a party or on the beach.
(rare) To ensnare, catch, entrap.
(transitive) To apply limewash.
(transitive) To smear with birdlime.
(transitive) To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime).
lome
lyme
lyme
verb
(Jamaica, slang) to hang out (to spend time doing nothing in particular)
mael
male
male
adj
(figuratively) Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware.
(grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
(of bacteria) Having the F factor; able to impart DNA into another bacterium which does not have the F factor (a female).
Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)
noun
A bacterium which has the F factor.
A human member of the masculine sex or gender.
A male connector, pipe fitting, etc.
A plant of the masculine sex.
An animal of the sex that has testes.
meal
meal
noun
(UK dialectal) A speck or spot.
(countable) Food served or eaten as a repast.
(countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).
(obsolete) A time or an occasion.
(uncountable, informal) A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
A part; a fragment; a portion.
The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To yield or be plentiful in meal.
(transitive) To defile or taint.
mela
mela
noun
A Hindu religious festival.
A South Asian fair.
meld
meld
noun
A combination of cards which is melded.
verb
(US) to combine multiple similar objects into one.
In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards.
mele
mele
noun
A chant in Polynesia, especially Hawaii, typically in praise of a leader or to commemorate some significant event.
Alternative form of mell
meli
mell
mell
noun
(UK dialectal) Discourse; conversation.
(obsolete) Honey.
verb
(Britain, dialectal, transitive) To say (something); to speak, to tell.
(intransitive, archaic) To deal, concern oneself; to interfere or meddle.
mels
mels
noun
(psychoacoustics) plural of mel
melt
melt
noun
(UK, slang, derogatory) An idiot.
(geology) Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified.
A melt sandwich.
A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
Molten material, the product of melting.
The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
verb
(ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
(intransitive) To be discouraged.
(intransitive, colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.
(intransitive, figurative) To be emotionally softened or touched.
(intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
(transitive, figurative) To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
merl
merl
noun
Alternative form of merle (blackbird)
mewl
mewl
noun
A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling.
verb
To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine.
mile
mile
noun
(informal) Any similarly large distance.
(slang) A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
(slang) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
(travel) An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (里) or Arabic mile (al-mīl).
Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.
The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
mlem
mlem
noun
(Internet slang, of an animal) The act or sound of extending the tongue to lick something, especially one's own nose, without opening the mouth fully.
mler
mlle
mole
mole
noun
(chemistry, physics) In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains exactly 6.02214076×10²³ elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.). Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number. [from 1897]
(espionage) An internal spy, a person who involves himself or herself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.
(historical) An Ancient Roman mausoleum.
(nautical) A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.
(rare) A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.
(slang, derogatory) A moll, a bitch, a slut.
A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.
A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines
A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy.
A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.
Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae; also any of southern African mammals in the family Chrysochloridae (golden moles) and any of several Australian mammals in the family Notoryctidae (marsupial moles), similar to but unrelated to Talpidae moles
Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole-rats.
One of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America, especially a sauce which contains chocolate and which is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts.
mule
mule
noun
(informal) A stubborn person.
(now rare) A hybrid plant.
(numismatics) A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
(role-playing games) A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.
(sailing) A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.
(slang) A person paid to smuggle drugs.
A kind of cotton-spinning machine.
A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.
Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.
The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
verb
(transitive, slang) To smuggle (illegal drugs).
myel
yelm
yelm
noun
(dialect) A bundle of straw for thatching.
verb
(dialect) To prepare straw for use as thatch.
ylem
ylem
noun
(astronomy, cosmology, physics, now chiefly historical) In the Big Bang theory, the hot and dense plasma which made up the cosmos at the time of recombination in an early stage of its expansion and cooling, when the first atoms formed and photons decoupled. The ylem is regarded as the source of the cosmic microwave background.