(linguistics) An abbreviation formed by the beginning letters or syllables of other words (as "Benelux").
(linguistics) An abbreviation formed by the initial letters of other words, sometimes exclusively such abbreviations when pronounced as a word (as "laser") rather than as individual letters (initialisms such as "TNT").
verb
To form into an acronym.
almeric
ambreic
ambrica
amchoor
amerced
amerced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of amerce
amercer
amercer
noun
One who amerces.
amerces
amerces
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of amerce
america
amharic
amicron
amlacra
amoraic
amtrack
amtracs
amtracs
noun
plural of amtrac
aramaic
aramaic
Proper noun
A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group including (but not limited to):
The language of the Aramaeans from the tenth century BC: often called Old Aramaic.
The language of the administration in the Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian empires from the seventh to fourth centuries BC: often called Imperial Aramaic or Official Aramaic.
The language of portions of the Hebrew Bible, mainly the books of Ezra and Daniel: often called Biblical Aramaic.
The language of Jesus of Nazareth: a form of Galilean Aramaic.
The language of Jewish targums, Midrash and the Talmuds.
The liturgical language of various Christian churches: often called Syriac.
The liturgical language of the Mandaeans: usually called Mandaic.
Adjective
Referring to the Aramaic language, alphabet, culture or poetry.
arcanum
arcanum
noun
A mystery or deep secret.
An elixir or secret remedy.
arcform
arctium
armenic
armlock
armlock
noun
(figuratively, by extension) Power to control or heavily influence something or someone.
A wrestling move in which the opponent's arm is held immobile.
Any of several distinct attacks against an opponent’s arm in martial arts.
verb
(transitive) To hold in an armlock.
armoric
armoric
Adjective
Relating to Armorica; Armorican.
Proper noun
The language spoken by the Gauls of Armorica, the ancestor of Breton.
armrack
armrack
noun
A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.
armscye
armscye
noun
An opening in a garment for the attachment of a sleeve; an armhole.
ascyrum
becharm
becharm
verb
(transitive, archaic) To charm; fascinate; hold by a charm or spell.
becramp
brahmic
brahmic
Adjective
Related or belonging to a certain family of abugidas used to write many languages of South and Southeast Asia, descended from the
brecham
buckram
buckram
noun
A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
A plant, Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.
verb
(transitive) To stiffen with or as if with buckram.
cadmarr
calamar
calamar
noun
(dated) A squid.
calmier
camargo
camarin
camaron
camaron
noun
Alternative form of cammaron
camauro
camauro
noun
A cap, of crimson velvet, trimmed with ermine, worn by the pope.
cambers
cambers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of camber
cambrai
cambrel
cambrel
noun
Obsolete form of gambrel.
cambria
cambria
Proper noun
Wales.
cambric
cambric
noun
A finely-woven fabric made originally from linen but often now from cotton.
camelry
camelry
noun
(military) A military arm of service that fights while riding camels.
camerae
cameral
cameral
adj
Relating to a chamber, especially to a judicial or legislative one
cameras
cameras
noun
plural of camera
cameron
cameron
Proper noun
and a highland Scottish clan name
name derived from the surname.
name derived from the surname, used since the 1970s also in the spellings Camryn and Kamryn.
A in Arizona
An unincorporated community in Illinois
An unincorporated community in Iowa
A in Louisiana
A rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada
A city in Missouri
An unincorporated community in Montana
A town in New York
A town in North Carolina
An unincorporated community in Ohio
A town in Oklahoma
A town in South Carolina
A city in Texas
A city in West Virginia
A village and a town in Wisconsin
camfort
camirus
camorra
campari
campari
Noun
an Italian mildly bitter apéritif, coloured with cochineal, often drunk with soda water or orange juice
campers
campers
noun
plural of camper
camphor
camphor
noun
(organic chemistry) A white transparent waxy crystalline isoprenoid ketone, 1,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-one, with a strong pungent odour, used in pharmacy.
campier
campier
adj
comparative form of campy: more campy
cancrum
caramba
caramba
intj
(non-vulgar) Exclamation of surprise or dismay.; golly!
caramel
caramel
adj
Of a yellow-brown color.
noun
(color) A yellow-brown color, like that of caramel.
(countable) A (sometimes hardened) piece of this confection.
(uncountable) A smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky.
verb
(transitive, cooking, dated) To caramelize.
cardium
cariama
cariama
noun
Alternative form of seriema
carlism
carlism
Noun
A political movement in Spain that seeks the establishment of a separate line of the Bourbon family on the Spanish throne
carmela
carmele
carmelo
carmena
carmina
carmine
carmine
adj
Of the purplish red colour shade carmine.
noun
A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment.
A purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives.
carmine:
carmita
caromed
caromed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of carom
caromel
caromel
noun
Archaic form of caramel.
caroome
caroome
noun
(obsolete) A licence once issued to grant the right to keep a cart (in the City of London)
carpium
carroms
carroms
noun
plural of carrom
cartman
cartman
noun
(New York) A private garbage collection and haulage worker or contractor.
(dated) A person who transports goods or people by horse and cart; a carman.
cascrom
cascrom
noun
(Scotland, Highlands) A type of foot plough with a crooked spade component, used in the Scottish Highlands.
casimir
castrum
castrum
noun
(historical) Among the Ancient Romans, a building or plot of land used as a military defensive position.
ceramal
ceramal
noun
cermet
ceramic
ceramic
adj
Made of material produced by the high-temperature firing of inorganic, nonmetallic rocks and minerals.
noun
(countable) An object made of this material
(uncountable) A hard, brittle, inorganic, nonmetallic material, usually made from a material, such as clay, then firing it at a high tempature.
ceriman
ceriman
noun
A large, woody vine native to Mexico, but grown throughout the tropics for its edible fruit, Monstera deliciosa, and also grown indoors as an ornamental under the name of Swiss cheese plant.
The fruit of this vine.
chakram
chakram
noun
(historical) An old Indian coin from Travancore.
A disc-like throwing weapon originally from India.
chalmer
chamber
chamber
noun
(UK) A single law office in a building housing several.
(biology) An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
(dated, usually in the plural) Rooms in a lodging house.
(figuratively) The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
(firearms) One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
(firearms) The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
(historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
(obsolete) Ellipsis of chamber pot: a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers.
A bedroom.
Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.
The private office of a judge.
The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
verb
(martial arts) To prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.
(obsolete) To be lascivious.
To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
To enclose in a room.
To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
chambre
chambre
noun
Obsolete spelling of chamber
chambry
chamfer
chamfer
noun
An obtuse-angled relief or cut at an edge added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
verb
(transitive) To cut a groove in something.
(transitive) To cut off the edge or corner of something.
champer
champer
noun
One who champs (bites or chews).
One who engages in champing, in the sense of camping in churches.
charism
charism
noun
(Christianity, theology) A power or authority, generally of a spiritual nature, believed to be a freely given gift by the Grace of God.
charmco
charmed
charmed
adj
(physics) Of a particle: having nonzero charm.
Having great good fortune, as though magically wrought.
Impressed by the pleasantness of something.
Under a magic spell (cast by a charm); bewitched.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of charm
charmel
charmel
noun
(biblical) A fruitful field.
charmer
charmer
noun
A charming person; one who charms or seduces; a smoothie.
An enchanter or magician.
chaumer
chimars
chimera
chimera
noun
(Greek mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Chimera, a supposed monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or serpent, killed by the hero Bellerophon.
(architecture) A grotesque like a gargoyle, but without a spout for rainwater.
(figurative) A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.
(figurative) Anything composed of very disparate parts.
(figurative) Synonym of bogeyman: any terrifying thing, especially as an unreal, imagined threat.
(genetics) An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two or more zygotes.
(mythology, art) Any fantastic creature combining parts from different animals.
(zoology) Alternative form of chimaera, a cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin.
chrisma
chromas
chromas
noun
plural of chroma
cimbura
claimer
claimer
noun
A claiming race.
A person who makes a claim; a claimant.
A pretender to a royal title.
A racehorse offered for sale before a race and delivered to the buyer afterwards.
clamber
clamber
noun
The act of clambering; a difficult or haphazard climb.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To climb (something) with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.
clammer
clammer
noun
One who digs for clams.
clamors
clamors
noun
plural of clamor
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clamor
clamour
clamour
noun
British spelling and Canadian spelling spelling of clamor
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To repeat the strokes quickly on (bells) so as to produce a loud clang.
(transitive, obsolete) To salute loudly.
(transitive, obsolete) To stun with noise.
Britain and Canada spelling of clamor
clamper
clamper
noun
(electronics) A circuit that restricts the amplitude of a waveform.
An attachment with sharp metal prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice.
One who, or that which, clamps.
verb
(obsolete) To join in an unsystematic or haphazard fashion.
To complain in an irritating manner.
To crimp.
To move in a noisy and clumsy manner.
cleamer
cloamer
clurman
coimbra
colmars
comaker
comaker
noun
(finance) A person who endorses a promissory note.
comarca
comarca
noun
A traditional region or local administrative division found in parts of Spain, Portugal, Panama, Nicaragua, and Brazil.
comarum
commark
compare
compare
noun
(countable, programming) An instruction or command that compares two values or states.
(uncountable) Comparison.
(uncountable, obsolete) Illustration by comparison; simile.
verb
(intransitive) To be similar (often used in the negative).
(obsolete) To get; to obtain.
(transitive) To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things ["to compare X with Y"]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it similar to Y or different from Y.
(transitive) To declare two things to be similar in some respect ["to compare X to Y"].
(transitive, grammar) To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective).
compart
compart
verb
(transitive) To arrange or lay out according to a plan, with due distribution and disposition of parts.
(transitive) To divide into smaller parts; to divide into compartments.
(transitive, obsolete) To divide and share with others.
compear
compear
verb
(law, Scotland) To appear before a judge in court personally or by attorney.
(obsolete) To appear before.
comrade
comrade
noun
(communism) A fellow socialist, communist or other similarly politically aligned person.
(communism) A non-hierarchical title, functionally similar to "Mr.", "Mrs.", "Miss", "Ms." etc, in a communist or socialist state.
A companion in battle; fellow soldier.
A mate, companion, or associate.
verb
(transitive) To associate with in a friendly way.
comrado
comrado
noun
Obsolete form of comrade.
coremia
coremia
noun
plural of coremium
cormack
corumba
coumara
cowgram
crabman
crambes
crambid
crambid
noun
Any member of the Crambidae, a family of grass moths.
cramble
cramble
noun
(usually in the plural) A branch that has been broken and blown onto the ground by the wind.
verb
To break apart.
To move unsteadily or with difficulty; to hobble.
To twist and wind irregularly.
crambly
crambos
crambus
crammed
crammed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cram
crammel
crammer
crammer
noun
(dated, British slang) A liar.
(dated, British slang) A lie.
A book used for accelerated study in preparation for an examination.
A school whose speciality is helping students to pass certain examinations.
A student who studies hard for an examination.
A teacher who aids such a student.
One who crams or stuffs.
cramped
cramped
adj
Illegible.
Overcrowded or congested.
Tight because of or like suffering a cramp.
Uncomfortably restricted in size or space, or financially.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cramp
cramper
crampet
crampet
noun
(curling) A metal plate for a player to stand on when delivering the stones.
(military) A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard.
One of the metal plates, with spikes attached, forming a pair of crampons.
crampit
crampit
noun
Alternative form of crampet
crampon
crampon
noun
(botany) An aerial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.
(heraldry) A heraldic figure in the form of a bar bent at the ends into the form of a hook.
An attachment to a shoe or boot that provides traction by means of spikes. Used for climbing or walking on slippery surfaces, especially ice.
verb
To walk or climb using crampons.
craniom
cranium
cranium
noun
(anatomy) That part of the skull consisting of the bones enclosing the brain, but not including the bones of the face or jaw.
(anthropology, informal) The upper portion of the skull, including the neurocranium and facial bones, but not including the jawbone (mandible).
(informal) Synonym of skull.
crankum
cranmer
creamed
creamed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cream
creamer
creamer
noun
A jug for holding cream.
A nondairy product that adds a creamy texture to coffee.
A separator for removing cream from milk to leave skimmed milk.
A small thimble sized container of milk or cream, used as a standard individual "cream" or "milk" portion, typically provided by restaurants for cups of tea or coffee.
cremant
cremate
cremate
verb
(transitive) To burn something to ashes.
(transitive) To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial).
cremona
cremona
Proper noun
Province of Lombardy, Italy.
Town and capital of Cremona.
A village in Alberta, Canada
Noun
A superior kind of violin, formerly made at Cremona in Italy.
crewman
crewman
noun
(Canada, military) Synonym of armoured crewman
A member of a crew, especially the crew of a ship.
crimean
crimean
Adjective
Denoting, of, or related to Crimea, a peninsula on the north of the Black Sea, separating it from the Sea of Azov.