A short forward curved sword in Ancient Greece used primarily as a cutting tool, but also for combat.
krepi
krips
nikep
okapi
okapi
noun
A large ruminant mammal, Okapia johnstoni, found in the rainforests of the Congo, related to the giraffe but with a much shorter neck, a reddish-brown coat, and zebra-like stripes on its hindquarters.
paiks
palki
palki
noun
(South Asia, now chiefly historical) A litter or palanquin.
parik
paski
pekin
penki
picks
picks
noun
plural of pick
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pick
picky
picky
adj
Fussy; particular; demanding to have things just right.
noun
(informal) A picture.
pikas
pikas
noun
plural of pika
piked
piked
adj
Describing a dive in which the knees are kept straight, but the body is bent at a right-angle at the hips
Furnished with a pike; ending in a point
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pike
pikel
piker
piker
noun
(Australia) A bullock living in the wild. (Also used attributively.)
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) One who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise).
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) One who refuses to go out with friends, or leaves a party early; a spoilsport or "chicken".
(US, dated) A male freshman at Cornell University.
(military, historical) A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.
A stingy person; a cheapskate.
A tramp; a vagrant.
An amateur.
One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money.
pikes
pikes
noun
plural of pike
pikey
pikey
adj
(UK, slang, derogatory) Associated with members of the above-mentioned underclass.
Associated with or filled with pike (fish).
noun
(UK, Ireland, derogatory, offensive) A working-class (often underclass) person; can vary from specifically Irish Travellers to Romani or travellers from any ethnic background, but now increasingly used for any socially undesirable person, with negative connotations of benefit fraud, theft and living on rundown estates.
(informal) A pike (fish).
verb
(UK, slang, derogatory) To steal.
pikle
pinko
pinko
noun
(informal, often derogatory, chiefly US) A socialist, particularly one who is not wholly communist.
pinks
pinks
noun
The traditional scarlet jacket(s) worn by fox-hunters in the United Kingdom.
flowers in the family Caryophyllaceae, sometimes called carnations.
plural of pink
pinky
pinky
adj
Pinkish.
winking
noun
(Australia, informal) The Australasian snapper or pink snapper (Chrysophrys auratus).
(US, Canada, Scotland, Australia, informal) The smallest finger or toe of a hand or foot.
(historical) A kind of fishing schooner of New England.
(offensive, slang, ethnic slur) A white person.
(uncountable, historical, slang, Australia) Methylated spirits mixed with red wine or Condy's crystals.
A baby mouse, especially when used as food for a snake, etc.
pinsk
pinsk
Proper noun
A city in Belarus.
pisek
pisky
pisky
noun
(West Country) Alternative form of pixie (supernatural being)
plink
plink
noun
A short, high-pitched metallic or percussive sound.
verb
(firearms) To take part in the sport of plinking.
(with "out") (colloquial) To play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano.
To make a plink sound.
pokie
pokie
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, slang, chiefly in the plural) A poker machine.
(informal) Any of several species of arboreal tarantula in the genus Poecilotheria.
polik
polki
polki
adj
(India) Of diamonds: unfaceted.
prick
prick
noun
(UK, Australia, US, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, slang, derogatory) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
(now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
(obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
(obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
(obsolete) A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
(obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
(slang, vulgar) The penis.
A feeling of remorse.
A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
A small pointed object.
An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
The footprint of a hare.
verb
(farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
(horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
(intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
(intransitive, archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
(intransitive, dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
(nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
(obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
(obsolete, usually as prick up) to dress or adorn; to prink.
(transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
(transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.
(transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
(transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
(transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
(transitive, hunting) To shoot without killing.
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
To aim at a point or mark.
To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
prink
prink
noun
The act of adjusting one's dress or appearance; the act of sprucing oneself up.
verb
(UK, university slang, humorous) To pre-drink.
(obsolete or dialectal) to give a wink; to wink.
To dress finely, primp, preen, spruce up.
To look, gaze.
To strut, put on pompous airs, be pretentious.
pulik
pulik
noun
plural of puli
skimp
skimp
adj
(dated, UK, dialect or US, colloquial) Scanty.
noun
(in the plural, colloquial) Underwear.
A skimpy or insubstantial thing, especially a piece of clothing.
verb
(Scotland, Northern England) To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of.
(intransitive) To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.
(transitive) To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
skipp
skips
skips
noun
plural of skip
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of skip
skirp
spaik
spick
spick
adj
tidy; fresh
noun
(obsolete) nail, a spike (slender piece of wood or metal, used as a fastener).
spike
spike
noun
(botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
(by extension) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
(informal, chiefly in the plural) A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
(music, lutherie) Synonym of endpin.
(slang, historical) The casual ward of a workhouse.
(software engineering, XP) A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.
(theater) A mark indicating where a prop or other item should be placed on stage.
(volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
(zoology) An adolescent male deer.
A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
A sharp peak in a graph.
A sort of very large nail.
A surge in power or in the price of a commodity, etc.; any sudden and brief change that would be represented by a sharp peak on a graph.
An ear of corn or grain.
Spike lavender.
The rod-like protrusion from a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
verb
(American football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
(figurative, journalism) To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
(military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
(slang) To inject a drug with a syringe.
(volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
To add a small amount of one substance to another.
To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into a drink.
To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
To fix on a spike.
To increase sharply.
To set or furnish with spikes.
spiks
spiks
noun
plural of spik
spiky
spiky
adj
Having spikes, spiny.
Of hair, erect, resembling spikes.
hostile; standoffish
spink
spink
noun
(obsolete, dialectal) The chaffinch.
The lady's smock or cuckooflower.
The primrose.
tupik
tupik
noun
A tent or other building made from animal skins, used by the Inuit during the summer.