14 Letter 12 Letter Countdown Words Containing M

AIM (5) [noun] The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, such as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it. | [noun] The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected. | [noun] Intention or goal | [noun] Initialism of America Online. AIM; AOL Instant Messenger. AMA (5) AMI (5) AMP (7) [noun] Short for ampere. | [noun] Short for amplifier. | [noun] Short for ampoule. AMU (5) [noun] A unit of mass equal to 1/12 the mass of an atom of the 12C isotope of carbon. ARM (5) [noun] The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand. | [noun] The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow. | [noun] A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal. | [adjective] Poor; lacking in riches or wealth. | [noun] (usually used in the plural) A weapon. BAM (7) [interjection] Representing a loud noise or heavy impact. | [interjection] Representing a sudden or abrupt occurrence. | [noun] A ned; a bampot. | [noun] An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. | [noun] Abbreviation of bare-arse minimum. BUM (7) [noun] The buttocks. | [noun] The anus. | [verb] To sodomize; to engage in anal sex. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A homeless person, usually a man. | [verb] To depress; to make unhappy. | [noun] A humming noise. | [noun] A bumbailiff. CAM (7) [noun] A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it. | [noun] A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together. | [noun] A ridge or mound of earth. | [noun] Camera. | [adverb] Alternative form of kam CUM (7) [preposition] Used in indicating a thing with two roles, functions, or natures, or a thing that has changed from one to another. | [conjunction] Used in indicating a thing with two or more roles, functions, or natures, or a thing that has changed from one to another. | [noun] Semen. | [adjective] Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating CWM (10) [noun] A valley head created through glacial erosion and with a shape similar to an amphitheatre. DAM (6) [noun] A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding. | [noun] The water reservoir resulting from placing such structure. | [noun] A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band. | [noun] Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals (correlative to sire). | [noun] An obsolete Indian copper coin, equal to a fortieth of a rupee. | [interjection] Damn. DIM (6) [noun] Dimness. | [verb] To make something less bright. | [verb] To become darker. DOM (6) [noun] A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders. | [noun] A title formerly borne by member of the high nobility of Portugal and Brazil ELM (5) [noun] A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers. | [noun] (usually attributive) Wood from an elm tree. EME (5) [noun] (obsolete outside Scotland) An uncle. | [noun] Friend. EMF (8) EMS (5) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter M. | [noun] A unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use. EMU (5) [noun] A cassowary (genus Casuarius). | [noun] A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae. | [noun] Any of the various units to measure electricity and magnetism in the CGS (now replaced by SI) system of units; abbreviated emu or EMU. | [noun] A person or thing that emulates. FEM (8) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A feminine or effeminate person. | [adjective] Feminine, effeminate. | [noun] A woman, a wife; a young woman or girl. GAM (6) [noun] A person's leg, especially an attractive woman's leg. | [noun] Collective noun used to refer to a group of whales, or rarely also of porpoises; a pod. | [noun] (by extension) A social gathering of whalers (whaling ships). GEM (6) [noun] A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine. | [noun] Any precious or highly valued thing or person. | [noun] Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram. GUM (6) [noun] (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth. | [verb] To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal. | [verb] To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer. | [noun] Any of various viscous or sticky substances that are exuded by certain plants. GYM (9) [noun] A sports facility specialized for lifting weights and exercise. | [noun] Physical education class | [verb] To go to the gym. HAM (8) [noun] The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock. | [noun] A thigh and buttock of an animal slaughtered for meat. | [noun] Meat from the thigh of a hog cured for food. | [noun] A dwelling. | [noun] An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style. HEM (8) [noun] An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention. | [verb] To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking. | [interjection] Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound. | [noun] The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying. | [pronoun] Them (now only in unstressed position following a consonant). HIM (8) [pronoun] Honorific alternative letter-case form of him, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context. | [noun] A male person. | [pronoun] A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object. HMM (10) [verb] To make a thoughtful humming noise. | [interjection] Indicating thinking or pondering. | [interjection] A demand for an answer to a question. HUM (8) [interjection] Indicating thinking or pondering. | [interjection] A demand for an answer to a question. | [noun] A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed. IMP (7) [noun] A small, mischievous sprite, or a malevolent supernatural creature, somewhat comparable to a demon but smaller and less powerful. | [noun] A mischievous child. | [noun] A baby Tasmanian devil. ISM (5) [noun] An ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism. | [noun] Specifically, a form of discrimination, such as racism or sexism. JAM (12) [noun] A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts. | [noun] A difficult situation. | [noun] Blockage, congestion. | [noun] A kind of frock for children. | [noun] (interior decorating) Either of the vertical components that form the side of an opening in a wall, such as that of a door frame, window frame, or fireplace. LAM (5) [verb] To beat or thrash. | [verb] To flee or run away. | [noun] The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل. It is preceded by ك and followed by م. LUM (5) [noun] A chimney. | [noun] A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine. | [noun] A woody valley. MAC (7) [noun] A waterproof long coat made of rubberized cloth. | [noun] By extension, any waterproof coat or raincoat. | [noun] Waterproof rubberized cloth. | [noun] A type of pasta in the form of short tubes; sometimes loosely, pasta in general. MAD (6) [verb] To be or become mad. | [verb] To madden, to anger, to frustrate. | [adjective] Insane; crazy, mentally deranged. MAE (5) MAG (6) [noun] (abbreviation) magazine (publication or ammunition) | [noun] (abbreviation) magnet | [noun] (abbreviation) mag wheel | [verb] To steal. MAN (5) [noun] An adult male human. | [noun] (collective) All human males collectively: mankind. | [noun] A human, a person of either gender, usually an adult. (See usage notes.) | [verb] To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex). MAP (7) [noun] A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary. | [noun] A graphical representation of the relationships between objects, components or themes. | [noun] A function. MAR (5) [noun] A blemish. | [verb] To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage. | [noun] A small lake. MAS (5) [noun] A country cottage or farmstead in southern France. | [noun] A type of traveling dramatic performance conducted as part of a parade celebrating Carnival, originating in Trinidad and Tobago and performed throughout the Caribbean. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Abbreviation of milli-arcsecond. | [noun] A country cottage or farmstead in southern France. MAT (5) [noun] A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering. | [noun] A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster. | [noun] A floor pad to protect athletes. | [noun] (coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal. | [noun] A showing of a movie, sporting event, or theatrical performance in the morning or afternoon. | [noun] A material or component needed for a crafting recipe. | [noun] A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame. MAW (8) [noun] The stomach, especially of an animal. | [noun] The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature. | [noun] Any large, insatiable or perilous opening. | [noun] Mother. | [noun] A gull. MAX (12) [noun] An extreme, a great extent. | [noun] A kind of gin. | [verb] (usually with out) to reach the limit, to reach the maximum. MAY (8) [verb] To be strong; to have power (over). | [verb] (auxiliary) To be able; can. | [verb] To be able to go. | [noun] The hawthorn bush or its blossoms. | [noun] A maiden. MED (6) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine. | [adjective] Intended to have a therapeutic effect; medicinal. | [verb] May; might MEL (5) MEM (7) MEN (5) [noun] An adult male human. | [noun] (collective) All human males collectively: mankind. | [noun] A human, a person of either gender, usually an adult. (See usage notes.) MET (5) [verb] To make contact (with) while in proximity. | [verb] (Of groups) To come together. | [verb] To make physical or perceptual contact. | [verb] To measure. | [verb] To dream. MEW (8) [noun] A gull, seagull. | [noun] A prison, or other place of confinement. | [noun] A hiding place; a secret store or den. | [noun] The crying sound of a cat; a meow, especially of a kitten. | [verb] To flatten the tongue against the roof of the mouth for supposed health benefits. MHO (8) [noun] A former unit of electric conductance, equivalent to and superseded by the siemens. MIB (7) MID (6) [adjective] Denoting the middle part. | [adjective] Occupying a middle position; middle. | [adjective] Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; said of certain vowel sounds, such as, /e o ɛ ɔ/. | [noun] Middle | [noun] A mid-range. | [preposition] (in representations of German-accented English) With. MIG (6) MIL (5) [noun] An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 1⁄6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 1⁄6000 and 1⁄6300 are used in other countries. | [noun] A unit of measurement equal to 1⁄1000 of an inch, usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic. | [noun] A former subdivision (1/1000) of the Maltese lira MIM (7) [adjective] Demure, shy. | [noun] The letter م in the Arabic script. MIR (5) MIS (5) MIX (12) [verb] To stir together. | [verb] To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate). | [verb] To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts. | [noun] The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture. MOA (5) [noun] Any of several species of large, extinct, flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae that were native to New Zealand; until its extinction, one species was the largest bird in the world. MOB (7) [noun] A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action. | [noun] A group of animals such as horses or cattle. | [noun] A flock of emus. | [noun] A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute. | [noun] Mobile phone MOC (7) [noun] Moccasin (type of shoe) MOD (6) [noun] An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses. | [noun] A 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker. | [noun] A modification. | [noun] A festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture, akin to the Welsh eisteddfod. MOG (6) [noun] A young cow or bull. | [noun] Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding. | [noun] A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals). | [verb] To move away; to go off. | [verb] (pickup community) To assert one's dominance over. MOL (5) [noun] In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.) as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12. Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number. MOM (7) [noun] (familiar) mother. | [noun] An adult female owner of a pet. | [verb] To care in a motherly way. MON (5) [noun] The former currency of Japan until 1870, before the yen. | [noun] The badge or emblem a Japanese family, especially a family of the ancient feudal nobility; typically circular and consists of conventionalized forms from nature. | [noun] (used in the vocative) A colloquial means of address of man in places such as Jamaica and Shropshire in England. | [noun] A creature in a video game, usually one which is captured, trained up and used in battles. MOO (5) [noun] The characteristic lowing sound made by cattle. | [noun] A foolish woman. | [verb] Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound. MOP (7) [noun] An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle. | [noun] A wash with a mop; the act of mopping | [noun] A dense head of hair. MOR (5) MOS (5) [noun] Singular of mores | [noun] (abbreviation) month | [noun] A homosexual MOT (5) [noun] A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot. | [noun] A word or a motto; a device. | [noun] A note or brief strain on a bugle. | [noun] A woman; a wife. MOW (8) [noun] The act of mowing (a garden, grass etc.) | [noun] A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion. | [verb] To cut down grass or crops. | [noun] A scornful grimace; a wry face. | [noun] A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans. | [noun] A gull, seagull. MUD (6) [noun] A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment. | [noun] A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall. | [noun] (construction industry slang) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured. | [verb] To participate in a MUD or multi-user dungeon. MUG (6) [noun] A large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer. | [noun] The face, often used deprecatingly. | [noun] A gullible or easily-cheated person. | [noun] Motherfucker (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" or "as a mug") MUM (7) [noun] Mother. | [noun] Ma'am; a term of respect for an older woman. | [noun] A chrysanthemum. | [noun] Silence | [noun] A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany. MUN (5) [verb] (Northern English, modal auxiliary, defective) Must. | [noun] The mouth, jaw. | [noun] Man | [noun] The person who roleplays a character in a role-playing game, especially an online play-by-post one. MUS (5) [noun] The 12th letter of the Modern Greek alphabet. MUT (5) NAM (5) NIM (5) [noun] A game in which players take turns removing objects from heaps. | [verb] To take or seize. | [verb] To filch, steal. NOM (5) [verb] To name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office. | [verb] To entitle, confer a name upon. | [noun] An act or instance of nominating. | [verb] To eat with noisy enjoyment. OHM (8) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical resistance; the electrical resistance of a device across which a potential difference of one volt causes a current of one ampere. Symbol: Ω OMS (5) [noun] A sacred, mystical syllable used in prayer and meditation. | [verb] To chant the sacred syllable om. PAM (7) POM (7) [noun] An Englishman, a Briton; a person of British descent. | [noun] (cocktail) An American alcoholic drink containing vodka and pomegranate juice. RAM (5) [noun] A male sheep, typically uncastrated | [noun] A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors. | [noun] A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them. | [verb] To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function. | [adjective] Rancid, offensive in smell or taste. REM (5) [noun] Rapid movement of the eyes, characterising REM sleep | [noun] A dose of absorbed radiation equivalent to one roentgen of X-rays or gamma rays | [noun] A remark; a programming language statement used for documentation (in BASIC for example); also used in DOS batch files. | [adjective] Remaining | [noun] A unit relative to the declared font size of the root element in a HTML document. RIM (5) [noun] An edge around something, especially when circular. | [noun] A wheelrim. | [noun] A semicircular copydesk. | [noun] A membrane. | [verb] To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act. ROM (5) [adjective] (of type) upright, as opposed to italic | [adjective] (of text) of or related to the Latin alphabet RUM (5) [noun] A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses. | [noun] A serving of rum. | [noun] A kind or brand of rum. | [noun] Any odd person or thing. | [noun] The card game rummy. SIM (5) [noun] A simulation or simulator. SUM (5) [noun] A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation. | [noun] (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition). | [noun] A quantity of money. | [noun] The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan. | [pronoun] A certain number, at least two. | [noun] A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a somon is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia where it is equivalent to a township. TAM (5) [noun] A type of woolen hat developed in Scotland, a toorie bunnet. Originally they were worn by both genders, but now they are mostly worn by men and boys. | [noun] A traditional South and East Asian unit of weight, based upon the load of a shoulder pole and varying by place and over time but usually standardized at about 60 kg. TOM (5) [noun] A flat gong (without knob) that is struck with a felt-covered hammer. | [noun] The male of the domesticated cat. | [noun] The male of the turkey. | [noun] A tomato (the fruit). | [noun] Jewellery | [verb] (of a black person) To act in an obsequiously servile manner toward white authority. | [verb] To dig out a hole below the hatch cover of a bulker and fill it with cargo or weights to aid stability. UMM (7) UMP (7) [noun] An umpire. | [verb] To act as an umpire. VIM (8) [noun] Ready vitality and vigour. YAM (8) [noun] Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated. | [noun] The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food. | [noun] A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas. | [noun] (Cumberland) home YOM (8) YUM (8) [adjective] Delicious. | [proper noun] Yellowdog Updater, Modified, a popular package manager in Linux | [interjection] Indicating delight at the flavor of food.

ACME (8) [noun] The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination. | [noun] The crisis or height of a disease. | [noun] Mature age; full bloom of life. AGMA (7) [noun] The nasalized velar consonant found in such words as song or wink. | [noun] The symbol ŋ, used to represent that nasal velar consonant in IPA; eng. AHEM (9) [noun] A use of the interjection, ahem. | [interjection] The sound of a quiet cough or of clearing one's throat | [interjection] An exclamation or cough to get attention AIMS (6) [noun] The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, such as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it. | [noun] The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected. | [noun] Intention or goal ALMA (6) ALME (6) ALMS (6) [noun] Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food. ALUM (6) [noun] An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K2SO4·Al2(SO4)3·24H2O). | [noun] Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations. | [verb] To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum. | [noun] (shortening) A past attendee or graduate (of either gender) of a college, university or other educational institution. AMAH (9) [noun] In South Asia, a woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse. | [noun] In China and Southeast Asia, a female domestic helper. AMAS (6) AMBO (8) [noun] A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches. | [noun] A stationary podium used for readings and homilies. | [noun] An ambulance driver. AMEN (6) [noun] An instance of saying ‘amen’. | [noun] A title of Christ; the Faithful One (especially with reference to Revelation 3:14) | [verb] To say amen. AMIA (6) AMID (7) [preposition] In the middle of; in the center of; surrounded by. AMIE (6) [noun] A female friend (French origin, used in English). AMIN (6) [noun] An organic compound derived from ammonia by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms with hydrocarbon groups. AMIR (6) [noun] A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation. | [noun] A descendant of the prophet Muhammad. AMIS (6) [noun] Plural of ami, a friend (used in English, borrowed from French). | [noun] A type of West African musical instrument or drum. AMMO (8) [noun] Ammunition. | [verb] To load up on ammunition. AMOK (10) [adverb] In a violently raging or uncontrollable manner, typically used in the phrase "run amok." | [noun] A murderous frenzy, especially one attributed to a Malay warrior. AMPS (8) [noun] Short for ampere. | [noun] Short for amplifier. | [noun] Short for ampoule. AMUS (6) AMYL (9) [noun] Pentyl | [adjective] Of or pertaining to starch ARMS (6) [noun] The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand. | [noun] The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow. | [noun] A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal. | [verb] To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms. ARMY (9) [noun] A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations. | [noun] The governmental agency in charge of a state's army. | [noun] A large group of people working toward the same purpose. ARUM (6) [noun] A flower or plant in the genus Arum ATMA (6) [noun] The eternal self or soul in Hindu and yogic philosophy, believed to be the innermost essence of a person. ATOM (6) [noun] The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons. | [noun] (history of science) A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter. | [noun] The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something. BALM (8) [noun] Any of various aromatic resins exuded from certain plants, especially trees of the genus Commiphora of Africa, Arabia and India and Myroxylon of South America. | [noun] A plant or tree yielding such substance. | [noun] Any soothing oil or lotion, especially an aromatic one. BAMS (8) [noun] Plural of bam, an exclamation or the sound of a loud impact. | [verb] Third person singular of bam, meaning to strike or shut forcefully. BARM (8) [noun] (obsolete outside dialectal) Bosom, lap. | [noun] Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast. | [noun] A small, flat, round individual loaf or roll of bread. | [verb] To spurge; foam BEAM (8) [noun] Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use. | [noun] One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones. | [noun] The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam) BEMA (8) [noun] A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. | [noun] Raised area of worship in a synagogue upon which rests the Holy Ark containing Scrolls of Torah. BERM (8) [noun] A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope | [noun] A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath | [noun] A terrace formed by wave action along a beach BIMA (8) [noun] The raised platform in the front of a synagogue where the Torah is read on a podium. BLAM (8) [noun] A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot | [verb] To shoot, to let gunfire pass. | [verb] To shoot, to kill by gunshot. | [noun] Spam posted to a blog BOMB (10) [noun] An explosive device used or intended as a weapon. | [noun] A failure; an unpopular commercial product. | [noun] A large amount of money. BOOM (8) [noun] A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion. | [noun] A rapid expansion or increase. | [noun] One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds. | [noun] A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour. | [noun] A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity. BRIM (8) [noun] The sea; ocean; water; flood. | [noun] An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water). | [noun] The topmost rim or lip of a container. | [verb] Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut. | [adjective] Fierce; sharp; cold. BUMF (11) [noun] Toilet paper. | [noun] Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material, etc. BUMP (10) [noun] A light blow or jolting collision. | [noun] The sound of such a collision. | [noun] A protuberance on a level surface. BUMS (8) [noun] The buttocks. | [noun] The anus. | [verb] To sodomize; to engage in anal sex. CALM (8) [noun] (in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion. | [noun] (in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance. | [noun] A period of time without wind. CAME (8) [preposition] Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation | [verb] To move from further away to nearer to. | [verb] To arrive. | [noun] A grooved strip of lead used to hold panes of glass together. CAMP (10) [noun] An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures. | [noun] An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation. | [noun] A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary. | [noun] An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style. CAMS (8) [noun] A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it. | [noun] A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together. | [noun] A ridge or mound of earth. CHAM (11) [noun] An autocrat or dominant critic, especially Samuel Johnson. | [noun] A ruler over various Turkish, Tatar and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages. | [noun] An Ottoman sultan. | [verb] To chew. CHUM (11) [noun] A friend; a pal. | [noun] A roommate, especially in a college or university. | [verb] To share rooms with someone; to live together. | [noun] A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water to attract predator fish, such as sharks | [noun] A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually. CLAM (8) [noun] A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example the soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria), the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve. | [noun] Strong pincers or forceps. | [noun] A kind of vise, usually of wood. | [noun] A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once. | [noun] Clamminess; moisture | [noun] Acronym of Clip-on Load Adjusting Mechanism. A device that can be fitted onto an oar to adjust set. COMA (8) [noun] A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma. | [noun] A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet. | [noun] A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points. COMB (10) [noun] A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place. | [noun] A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. | [noun] A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest. | [noun] (abbreviation) Combination. | [noun] A valley, often wooded and often with no river COME (8) [noun] Coming, arrival; approach. | [noun] Semen | [noun] Female ejaculatory discharge. | [noun] The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list. COMP (10) [noun] Clipping of comprehensive layout, a graphic design showing final proposed layout of text and images. | [noun] Clipping of comprehensive examination. | [noun] Clipping of complimentary ticket or item. CORM (8) [noun] A short, vertical, swollen underground stem of a plant (usually one of the monocots) that serves as a storage organ to enable the plant to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as drought. CRAM (8) [noun] The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something). | [noun] Information hastily memorized. | [noun] A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed. CULM (8) [noun] Waste coal, used as a poor quality fuel; slack. | [noun] Anthracite, especially when found in small masses | [noun] The stem of a plant, especially of grass or sedge CWMS (11) [noun] A valley head created through glacial erosion and with a shape similar to an amphitheatre. CYMA (11) [noun] A moulding of the cornice, wavelike in form, whose outline consists of a concave and a convex line; an ogee. | [noun] A cyme. CYME (11) [noun] (spelt cime) A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud. | [noun] A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, on which each axis terminates with a flower which blooms before the flowers below it. Contrast raceme. | [noun] = cyma DAME (7) [noun] Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight. | [noun] A matron at a school, especially Eton College. | [noun] In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag. DAMN (7) [noun] The use of "damn" as a curse. | [noun] A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot. | [noun] The smallest amount of concern or consideration. DAMP (9) [noun] Moisture; humidity; dampness. | [noun] Fog; fogginess; vapor. | [noun] Dejection or depression; something that spoils a positive emotion (such as enjoyment, satisfaction, expectation or courage) or a desired activity. DAMS (7) [noun] A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding. | [noun] The water reservoir resulting from placing such structure. | [noun] A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band. DEEM (7) [noun] An opinion, a judgment, a surmise. | [verb] To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence. | [verb] To adjudge, to decree. DEME (7) [noun] A township or other subdivision of ancient Attica. | [noun] A distinct local population of plants or animals. DEMO (7) [noun] A demonstration or visual explanation. | [noun] A recording of a song meant to demonstrate its overall sound for the purpose of getting it published or recorded more fully. | [noun] An example of a product used for demonstration and then sold at a discount. | [verb] To record a demo version of a song, usually not intended for commercial release. | [verb] To demolish (especially a house or fixture). DEMY (10) [noun] A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches. | [noun] One holding a demyship, a kind of scholarship for Magdalen College, Oxford. | [noun] Junior scholar, specifically at Magdalen College, Oxford. DERM (7) [noun] The integument of animal; the skin. | [noun] The tissue of the skin underlying the epidermis. | [noun] A person who is skilled in, professes or practices dermatology. | [noun] (usually in the plural) guts DIME (7) [noun] A coin worth one-tenth of a U.S. dollar. | [noun] A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar. | [noun] A small amount of money | [verb] (with "on") To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously. DIMS (7) [verb] To make something less bright. | [verb] To become darker. | [verb] To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct DOME (7) [noun] A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola | [noun] Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover | [noun] Head (uppermost part of one's body) DOMS (7) DOOM (7) [noun] Destiny, especially terrible. | [noun] An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable. | [noun] A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair. DORM (7) [verb] To reside in a dorm. | [noun] A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind. | [noun] A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities. DOUM (7) DRAM (7) [noun] The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro. | [noun] A coin worth one drachma. | [noun] An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams. | [noun] The currency of Armenia, divided into 100 luma. DRUM (7) [noun] A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it; a membranophone. | [noun] Any similar hollow, cylindrical object. | [noun] A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage. | [noun] A small hill or ridge of hills. | [noun] A social gathering or assembly held in the evening. DUMA (7) [noun] A Russian legislative assembly such as the historical duma of the Russian Empire or the modern lower house of the Federal Assembly (the Russian national parliament). | [noun] A drink mixing wine and vodka. DUMB (9) [adjective] Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind"). | [adjective] Silent; unaccompanied by words. | [adjective] (especially of a person) Extremely stupid. | [verb] To silence. DUMP (9) [noun] A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site. | [noun] A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. | [noun] That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess. | [noun] A thick, ill-shapen piece. | [noun] A deep hole in a river bed; a pool. ELMS (6) [noun] A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers. | [noun] (usually attributive) Wood from an elm tree. ELMY (9) EMES (6) EMEU (6) EMFS (9) EMIC (8) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the analysis of a cultural system or its features from the perspective of a participant in that culture. EMIR (6) [noun] A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation. | [noun] A descendant of the prophet Muhammad. EMIT (6) [verb] To send out or give off EMUS (6) [noun] A cassowary (genus Casuarius). | [noun] A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae. | [noun] A person or thing that emulates. EMYD (10) EXAM (13) [noun] The act of examining. | [noun] Particularly, an inspection by a medical professional to establish the extent and nature of any sickness or injury. | [noun] A formal test involving answering written or oral questions under a time constraint and usually without access to textbooks. FAME (9) [noun] What is said or reported; gossip, rumour. | [noun] One's reputation. | [noun] The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of. FARM (9) [noun] A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock. | [noun] A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation. | [noun] (usually in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures | [verb] To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out FEME (9) FEMS (9) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A feminine or effeminate person. | [noun] A woman, a wife; a young woman or girl. | [noun] A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch. FILM (9) [noun] A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity. | [noun] A medium used to capture images in a camera. | [noun] A movie. FIRM (9) [noun] A business partnership; the name under which it trades. | [noun] A business enterprise, however organized. | [noun] A criminal gang, especially based around football hooliganism. | [verb] To make firm or strong; fix securely. FLAM (9) [noun] A freak or whim; an idle fancy. | [noun] A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext | [verb] To deceive with a falsehood. | [noun] (drumming) Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played very close together in order to sound like one slightly longer note. FOAM (9) [noun] A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains. | [noun] A substance formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid. | [noun] (by extension) Sea foam; the sea. FORM (9) [noun] (heading, physical) To do with shape. | [noun] (social) To do with structure or procedure. | [noun] A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. FROM (9) [preposition] Used to indicate source or provenance. | [preposition] Originating at (a year, time, etc.) | [preposition] Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference. FUME (9) [noun] A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale. | [noun] A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state. | [noun] Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control. FUMY (12) GAMA (7) GAMB (9) GAME (7) [noun] A playful or competitive activity. | [noun] A video game. | [noun] (nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession. GAMP (9) [noun] An umbrella. GAMS (7) [noun] A person's leg, especially an attractive woman's leg. | [noun] Collective noun used to refer to a group of whales, or rarely also of porpoises; a pod. | [noun] (by extension) A social gathering of whalers (whaling ships). GAMY (10) [adjective] Having the smell, taste and texture of consumed game (meat). | [adjective] Plucky, spirited or gritty | [adjective] Risque, sordid or sexually suggestive GAUM (7) GEMS (7) [noun] A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine. | [noun] Any precious or highly valued thing or person. | [noun] Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram. GERM (7) [noun] The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore. | [noun] A pathogenic microorganism. | [noun] The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ. GEUM (7) [noun] Any of the genus Geum of perennial herbaceous plants. GIMP (9) [noun] A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe. | [noun] Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire. | [noun] The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself. | [noun] A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet. | [adjective] (Scotland and N England) Neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant. GLIM (7) [noun] Brightness; splendour | [noun] A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire. | [noun] An eye. GLOM (7) [verb] To steal, to grab. | [verb] To stare. | [verb] To attach. | [noun] Short for glomerulus. GLUM (7) [adjective] Despondent; moody; sullen | [noun] Sullenness | [verb] To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. GRAM (7) [noun] A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g | [noun] A leguminous plant grown for its seeds, especially the chickpea. | [noun] The seeds of these plants. | [noun] Grandmother | [adjective] Angry | [noun] A photograph or video shared on this service. GRIM (7) [noun] Specter, ghost, haunting spirit | [verb] To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to. | [adjective] Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding | [noun] Anger, wrath. GRUM (7) GUMS (7) [noun] (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth. | [verb] To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal. | [verb] To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer. GYMS (10) [noun] A sports facility specialized for lifting weights and exercise. | [noun] Physical education class | [verb] To go to the gym. HAEM (9) [noun] The component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen. It consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecules; one molecule binds one molecule of oxygen. HALM (9) HAME (9) [noun] A covering, skin, membrane. | [noun] Part of the harness that fits round the neck of a draught horse that the reins pass through. | [noun] A dwelling. | [noun] The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching. HAMS (9) [noun] The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock. | [noun] A thigh and buttock of an animal slaughtered for meat. | [noun] Meat from the thigh of a hog cured for food. HARM (9) [noun] Physical injury; hurt; damage | [noun] Emotional or figurative hurt | [noun] Detriment; misfortune. HELM (9) [noun] The steering apparatus of a ship, especially the tiller or wheel. | [noun] (maritime) The member of the crew in charge of steering the boat. | [noun] A position of leadership or control. | [noun] A helmet. | [noun] The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching. HEME (9) [noun] The component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen. It consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecules; one molecule binds one molecule of oxygen. HEMP (11) [noun] A tall annual herb, Cannabis sativa, native to Asia. | [noun] Various products of this plant, including fibres and the drug cannabis. HEMS (9) [noun] An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention. | [verb] To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking. | [noun] The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying. HERM (9) [noun] A rectangular pillar bearing a bust of Hermes, once used as a boundary marker and later as decoration. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A hermaphrodite. | [adjective] (of an individual organism) Having gender-ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads. HOLM (9) [noun] (obsolete outside dialectal) The holly. | [noun] A common evergreen oak of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak. | [noun] An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot. HOME (9) [noun] A dwelling. | [noun] One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt. | [noun] The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat. HOMO (9) [noun] A human. HOMY (12) [adjective] Homely HUMP (11) [noun] A mound of earth. | [noun] A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine. | [noun] (animals) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu. HUMS (9) [noun] A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed. | [noun] An often indistinct sound resembling human humming. | [noun] Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive. HYMN (12) [noun] A song of praise or worship. | [verb] To sing a hymn. | [verb] To praise or extol in hymns. IAMB (8) [noun] A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. IDEM (7) [pronoun] The same. IMAM (8) [noun] (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader. | [noun] One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque. IMID (7) IMMY (11) IMPI (8) [noun] A group of Zulu (or other Bantu) warriors; a detachment of armed men. IMPS (8) [noun] A small, mischievous sprite, or a malevolent supernatural creature, somewhat comparable to a demon but smaller and less powerful. | [noun] A mischievous child. | [noun] A baby Tasmanian devil. ISMS (6) [noun] An ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism. | [noun] Specifically, a form of discrimination, such as racism or sexism. ITEM (6) [noun] A distinct physical object. | [noun] (by extension) An object that can be picked up for later use. | [noun] A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account. JAMB (15) [noun] (interior decorating) Either of the vertical components that form the side of an opening in a wall, such as that of a door frame, window frame, or fireplace. | [noun] Any thick mass of rock that prevents miners from following the lode or vein. | [verb] To fix or attach a jamb to. JAMS (13) [noun] A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts. | [noun] A difficult situation. | [noun] Blockage, congestion. JIMP (15) JISM (13) [noun] Spirit or energy. | [noun] Semen. JUMP (15) [noun] The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound. | [noun] An effort; an attempt; a venture. | [noun] A dislocation in a stratum; a fault. | [noun] A kind of loose jacket for men. KAME (10) [noun] A round hill or short ridge of sand or gravel deposited by a melting glacier. KAMI (10) [noun] An animistic God or spirit in the Shinto religion of Japan. | [noun] The metaphysical causal generator of motion, life, or divinish aura. | [noun] (papercraft) A basic origami paper, usually printed with a colour or pattern on one side. | [noun] An animistic God or spirit in the Shinto religion of Japan. KEMP (12) [noun] Coarse, rough hair, wool, or fur; (in the plural) knotty hairs that will not felt. | [adjective] Shaggy; rough. | [noun] A contest in work, etc. | [noun] A champion; a knight. LAMA (6) [noun] A master of Tibetan Buddhism. | [noun] A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat. LAMB (8) [noun] A young sheep. | [noun] The flesh of a lamb or sheep used as food. | [noun] A person who is meek, docile and easily led. LAME (6) [noun] A stupid or undesirable person. | [verb] To cause (a person or animal) to become lame. | [adjective] Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs. | [noun] A lamina; a thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor. | [verb] To shine. LAMP (8) [noun] A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb. | [noun] A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp. | [noun] A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets. LAMS (6) [verb] To beat or thrash. | [verb] To flee or run away. | [noun] The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل. It is preceded by ك and followed by م. LIMA (6) LIMB (8) [noun] A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing). | [noun] A branch of a tree. | [noun] The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip. | [noun] The apparent visual edge of a celestial body. LIME (6) [noun] Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime). | [noun] Any gluey or adhesive substance; something which traps or captures someone; sometimes a synonym for birdlime. | [verb] To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime). | [noun] A deciduous tree of the genus Tilia, especially Tilia × europaea; the linden tree, or its wood. | [noun] Any of several green citrus fruit, somewhat smaller and sharper-tasting than a lemon. | [verb] To hang out/socialize in an informal, relaxed environment, especially with friends, for example at a party or on the beach. | [noun] A leash. LIMN (6) [verb] To draw or paint; to delineate. | [verb] To illuminate, as a manuscript; to decorate with gold or some other bright colour. LIMO (6) [noun] An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front. | [noun] An automobile with such a body. | [noun] A luxury sedan or saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur. LIMP (8) [noun] An irregular, jerky or awkward gait. | [noun] A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve. | [verb] To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg. | [noun] A scraper of board or sheet-iron shaped like half the head of a small cask, used for scraping the ore off the sieve in the operation of hand-jigging. | [verb] To happen; befall; chance. LIMY (9) LOAM (6) [noun] A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due. | [noun] A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern. | [verb] To cover, smear, or fill with loam. LOOM (6) [noun] A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general. | [noun] A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making. | [noun] The part of an oar which is between the grip or handle and the blade, the shaft. | [noun] Loon (bird of order Gaviiformes) | [noun] A distorted appearance of something as seen indistinctly or from afar. LUMP (8) [noun] Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape. | [noun] A group, set, or unit. | [noun] A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful. LUMS (6) [noun] A chimney. | [noun] A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine. | [noun] A woody valley. MAAR (6) [noun] A broad volcanic crater, usually filled with water to form a lake. MABE (8) MACE (8) [noun] A heavy fighting club. | [noun] A ceremonial form of this weapon. | [noun] A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked. | [noun] An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael. | [noun] A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg. | [noun] Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use. MACH (11) MACK (12) [noun] An individual skilled in the art of seduction using verbal skills. | [verb] To act as pimp; to pander. | [verb] To seduce or flirt with. | [noun] A raincoat or mackintosh. | [noun] An element of a ship's superstructure which places the function of a ship's mast on its exhaust stack, adding the skeletal supporting structure to the smokestack to support the mast's complement of functions. MACS (8) [noun] A waterproof long coat made of rubberized cloth. | [noun] By extension, any waterproof coat or raincoat. | [noun] Waterproof rubberized cloth. MADE (7) [noun] A grub or maggot. | [verb] To create. | [verb] To behave, to act. MADS (7) [verb] To be or become mad. | [verb] To madden, to anger, to frustrate. MAES (6) MAGE (7) [noun] A magician, wizard or sorcerer. MAGI (7) [noun] A magician, wizard or sorcerer. | [noun] (common usage) magician, and derogatorily sorcerer, trickster, conjurer, charlatan | [noun] (special usage) a Zoroastrian priest MAGS (7) [noun] (abbreviation) magazine (publication or ammunition) | [noun] (abbreviation) magnet | [noun] (abbreviation) mag wheel MAID (7) [noun] A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden. | [noun] A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant). | [noun] A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender. MAIL (6) [noun] A bag or wallet. | [noun] A bag containing letters to be delivered by post. | [noun] The material conveyed by the postal service. | [noun] Armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together. | [noun] An old French coin worth half a denier. MAIM (8) [noun] A serious wound | [verb] To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body. MAIN (6) [verb] Short for mainline. | [verb] To mainly play a specific character, or side, during a game. | [verb] Of a road: to convert into a main or primary road. | [noun] That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross. | [noun] A hand or match in a game of dice. | [noun] A basket for gathering grapes. MAIR (6) MAKE (10) [noun] Brand or kind; model. | [noun] Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form. | [noun] Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production. | [noun] Mate; a spouse or companion; a match. | [noun] A halfpenny. | [noun] An agricultural tool resembling a scythe, used to cut (harvest) certain plants such as peas, reeds, or tares. MAKO (10) [noun] Mako shark MALE (6) [noun] One of the male (masculine) sex or gender. | [adjective] Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it. | [adjective] Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.) MALL (6) [noun] A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. | [noun] An enclosed shopping centre. | [noun] An alley where the game of pall mall was played. MALM (8) [noun] A soft, crumbly, chalky, grayish limestone. | [noun] An artificial mixture or chalk, clay, and sand, from which bricks are made. The resulting bricks have a light brown or yellowish color. MALT (6) [noun] Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise. | [noun] Malt liquor, especially malt whisky. | [noun] A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor. MAMA (8) [noun] (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent. MANA (6) [noun] Power, prestige; specifically, a form of supernatural energy in Polynesian religion that inheres in things or people. | [noun] Magical power. | [noun] A monetary unit of ancient Greece and the Middle East, originally equivalent to the weight of a mina of silver. | [noun] Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus. MANE (6) [noun] Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion | [noun] Long or thick hair of a person's head. MANO (6) MANS (6) [noun] An adult male human. | [noun] (collective) All human males collectively: mankind. | [noun] A human, a person of either gender, usually an adult. (See usage notes.) MANY (9) [noun] A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd. | [noun] A considerable number. | [adjective] A large number of; numerous. MAPS (8) [noun] A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary. | [noun] A graphical representation of the relationships between objects, components or themes. | [noun] A function. MARC (8) [noun] The refuse matter that remains after fruit, particularly grapes, has been pressed. | [noun] An alcoholic spirit distilled from the marc of grapes. | [noun] A weight of various commodities, especially of gold and silver, used in different European countries. In France and Holland it was equal to eight ounces. MARE (6) [noun] An adult female horse. | [noun] A foolish woman. | [noun] A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit. | [noun] A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea. MARK (10) [noun] (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary. | [noun] (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression. | [noun] (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc. | [noun] A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz. | [verb] To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does. MARL (6) [noun] A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and possibly sand, in very variable proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy. | [verb] To cover with the earthy substance called marl. | [verb] To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a peculiar hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding. MARS (6) [noun] A blemish. | [verb] To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage. | [noun] A small lake. MART (6) [noun] A market. | [noun] A bargain. | [verb] To buy or sell in, or as in a mart. | [noun] A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque. MASH (9) [noun] A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. | [noun] Ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort. | [noun] Mashed potatoes. | [verb] To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure | [noun] A mesh. | [noun] An infatuation, a crush, a fancy MASK (10) [noun] A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection. | [noun] That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge. | [noun] A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade | [noun] A mesh. | [noun] Mash. | [verb] To bewilder; confuse. MASS (6) [noun] (physical) Matter, material. | [noun] A large quantity; a sum. | [verb] To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble. | [noun] The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism. MAST (6) [noun] A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments ,or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires. | [noun] A non-judicial punishment ("NJP") disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those under his command. | [verb] To supply and fit a mast to (a ship). | [noun] The fruit of forest-trees (beech, oak, chestnut, pecan, etc.), especially if having fallen from the tree, used as fodder for pigs and other animals. | [noun] A type of heavy cue, with the broad end of which one strikes the ball. MATE (6) [noun] A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate. | [noun] (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner. | [noun] A friend, usually of the same sex. | [noun] The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture. | [noun] The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea MATH (9) [noun] A mowing; what is gathered from mowing. | [noun] Arithmetic calculations; (see do the math). | [noun] A math course. | [noun] A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram. MATS (6) [noun] A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering. | [noun] A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster. | [noun] A floor pad to protect athletes. MATT (6) [noun] (coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal. | [adjective] Dull; not reflective of light. MAUD (7) [noun] A grey plaid once worn by shepherds in Scotland and Northumbria. MAUL (6) [noun] A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat. | [noun] A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier. | [verb] To handle someone or something in a rough way. MAUN (6) [verb] To have to; must. MAUT (6) MAWN (9) MAWS (9) [noun] The stomach, especially of an animal. | [noun] The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature. | [noun] Any large, insatiable or perilous opening. MAXI (13) [noun] A coat or skirt having such a hemline | [adjective] Having a hemline at ankle length | [noun] A class of racing sailing yacht that pushes at the upper limits of the International Offshore Rule of regulated sail yacht racing, having a waterline length in excess of 70-feet. MAYA (9) [noun] Magic; supernatural power as held by the gods. | [noun] The power by which the universe is made to appear; the illusion of the phenomenal world, as opposed to its true or spiritual reality. MAYO (9) [noun] A white person. | [noun] A dressing made from vegetable oil, raw egg yolks and seasoning, used on salads, with french fries, in sandwiches etc. | [noun] Any cold dish with that dressing as an ingredient. MAYS (9) [verb] To gather may, or flowers in general. | [verb] To celebrate May Day. | [noun] A maiden. MAZE (15) [noun] A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way. | [noun] Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle. | [noun] Confusion of thought; state of bewilderment. MAZY (18) [adjective] Mazelike; like a maze. | [adjective] Not straight; zigzagging. MEAD (7) [noun] An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water. | [noun] A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide. | [noun] A meadow. MEAL (6) [noun] Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack). | [noun] Food served or eaten as a repast. | [noun] A time or an occasion. | [noun] The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour. | [noun] A speck or spot. MEAN (6) [verb] To lament. | [verb] To intend. | [verb] To convey (a meaning). | [adjective] Common; general. | [noun] (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result. MEAT (6) [noun] The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food. | [noun] A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance. | [noun] Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink. MEED (7) [noun] A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award. | [noun] A gift; bribe. | [noun] Merit or desert; worth. | [verb] To reward; bribe. MEEK (10) [verb] (of horses) To tame; to break. | [adjective] Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing. | [adjective] Submissive, dispirited. MEET (6) [noun] A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet). | [noun] A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting. | [noun] A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. | [adjective] Suitable; right; proper. MELD (7) [verb] To combine multiple similar objects into one | [noun] A combination of cards which is melded. | [verb] In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards. MELL (6) MELS (6) MELT (6) [noun] Molten material, the product of melting. | [noun] The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state. | [noun] The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions. MEMO (8) [noun] A short note; a memorandum. | [noun] A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation. | [verb] To record something; to make a note of something. MEMS (8) [noun] The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). | [noun] A memory access as part of processing. MEND (7) [noun] A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending. | [noun] The act of repairing. | [verb] To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement. MENO (6) MENU (6) [noun] The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare. | [noun] A list of dishes offered in a restaurant. | [noun] A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface MEOU (6) MEOW (9) [noun] The cry of a cat. | [noun] The drug mephedrone. | [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. MERE (6) [noun] A body of standing water, such as a lake or a pond. More specifically, it can refer to a lake that is broad in relation to its depth. Also included in place names such as Windermere. | [noun] Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line. | [verb] To limit; bound; divide or cause division in. | [adjective] Famous. | [adjective] Pure, unalloyed . | [noun] A Maori war-club. MERK (10) MERL (6) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] Any blackbird. | [noun] A type of mottled colouration on dogs. MESA (6) [noun] Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges. MESH (9) [noun] A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them. | [noun] The opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space. | [noun] The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack. MESS (6) [noun] A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; disorder. | [noun] A large quantity or number. | [noun] Excrement. | [noun] Mass; a church service. META (6) [adjective] Self-referential; structured analogously, but at a higher level. | [noun] Boundary marker. | [noun] Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus. | [noun] Metagame; the most effective tactics and strategies used in a competitive video game. | [noun] Metoidioplasty. METE (6) [verb] To measure. | [verb] (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.). | [noun] A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere. | [adjective] Suitable; right; proper. METH (9) [noun] Methamphetamine, especially in the form of the crystalline hydrochloride. | [noun] Methadone. | [noun] (Mancunian) A tramp. | [noun] A spiced mead, originally from Wales. MEWL (9) [noun] A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling. | [verb] To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine. MEWS (9) [noun] An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place. | [noun] A place where birds of prey are housed. | [noun] A gull, seagull. | [verb] To shut away, confine, lock up. MEZE (15) [noun] Small portions of starters typical of Turkish and Greek cuisine (equivalent to Spanish tapas or Hawaiian pu pu) often served as a light meal with pita. MHOS (9) [noun] A former unit of electric conductance, equivalent to and superseded by the siemens. MIBS (8) MICA (8) [noun] Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. MICE (8) [noun] Any small rodent of the genus Mus. | [noun] A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent. | [noun] A quiet or shy person. MICK (12) [noun] An Irishman | [noun] A Catholic, particularly of Irish descent. | [adjective] Easy. MIDI (7) [noun] A native or inhabitant of Berlin. | [noun] A doughnut with a sweet filling. | [noun] A newspaper format with pages normally measuring about 315 by 470 millimetres (12.4 in × 18.5 inches), slightly taller and wider than a tabloid but narrower and shorter than a broadsheet. MIDS (7) MIEN (6) [noun] Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer. | [noun] A specific facial expression. MIFF (12) [noun] A small argument; a quarrel. | [noun] A state of being offended. | [verb] (usually used in the passive) To offend slightly. MIGG (8) MIGS (7) MIKE (10) [noun] A microphone. | [verb] To microphone; to place one or more microphones (mikes) on. | [verb] To measure using a micrometer. | [noun] A minute. MILD (7) [noun] A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale | [adjective] Gentle and not easily angered. | [adjective] (of a rule or punishment) Of only moderate severity; not strict. MILE (6) [noun] 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. | [noun] 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. | [noun] Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet. MILK (10) [noun] A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt. | [noun] A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, and/or soy beans. Also called non-dairy milk. | [noun] An individual serving of milk. | [verb] To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow). MILL (6) [noun] A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. | [noun] The building housing such a grinding apparatus. | [noun] A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process. | [noun] An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent. | [noun] An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 1⁄6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 1⁄6000 and 1⁄6300 are used in other countries. | [noun] A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games. | [noun] (trading card games) Discarding a card from one's deck. MILO (6) [noun] Sorghum MILS (6) [noun] An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 1⁄6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 1⁄6000 and 1⁄6300 are used in other countries. | [noun] A unit of measurement equal to 1⁄1000 of an inch, usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic. | [noun] A former subdivision (1/1000) of the Maltese lira MILT (6) [noun] The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food. | [noun] The semen of a male fish. | [verb] To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt. MIME (8) [noun] A form of acting without words; pantomime. | [noun] A pantomime actor. | [noun] A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce. MINA (6) MIND (7) [noun] The ability for rational thought. | [noun] The ability to be aware of things. | [noun] The ability to remember things. MINE (6) [pronoun] My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me. | [noun] An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels. | [noun] Any source of wealth or resources. | [noun] Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer. MINI (6) [adjective] Miniature, tiny, small. | [noun] A miniskirt. | [noun] A minicomputer. MINK (10) [noun] (plural mink or minks) Any of various semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals in the Mustelinae subfamily, similar to weasels, with dark fur, native to Europe and America, of which two species in different genera are extant: the American mink (Neovison vison) and the European mink (Mustela lutreola). | [noun] (plural mink) The fur or pelt of a mink, used to make apparel. | [noun] (plural minks) An article of clothing made of mink. MINT (6) [noun] A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence. | [noun] A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc. | [noun] Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself. | [noun] Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems. | [noun] (provincial) Intent, purpose; an attempt, try; effort, endeavor. MINX (13) [noun] A mink. MIRE (6) [noun] Deep mud; moist, spongy earth. | [noun] An undesirable situation, a predicament. | [verb] To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. | [noun] An ant. MIRI (6) MIRK (10) [noun] Archaic spelling of murk. | [verb] Archaic spelling of murk. | [adjective] Dark, murky MIRS (6) MIRY (9) [adjective] Relating to a mire; swampy, boggy. MISE (6) MISO (6) [noun] A thick paste made by fermentation of soybeans with the mold Aspergillus oryzae, used in making soups and sauces. MISS (6) [noun] A failure to hit. | [noun] A failure to obtain or accomplish. | [noun] An act of avoidance (used with the verb give). | [noun] A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used. MIST (6) [noun] Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. | [noun] A layer of fine droplets or particles. | [noun] Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision. MITE (6) [noun] Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari). | [noun] A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. | [noun] A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ. MITT (6) [noun] A mitten | [noun] An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt. | [noun] (especially in plural) A hand. MITY (9) MIXT (13) MOAN (6) [noun] A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure | [verb] To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn. | [verb] To grieve. MOAS (6) [noun] Any of several species of large, extinct, flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae that were native to New Zealand; until its extinction, one species was the largest bird in the world. MOAT (6) [noun] A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation. | [noun] An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason. | [noun] A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it. MOBS (8) [noun] A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action. | [noun] A group of animals such as horses or cattle. | [noun] A flock of emus. MOCK (12) [noun] An imitation, usually of lesser quality. | [noun] Mockery, the act of mocking. | [noun] A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam. MOCS (8) [noun] Moccasin (type of shoe) MODE (7) [noun] One of several ancient Greek scales. | [noun] One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale. | [noun] A particular means of accomplishing something. | [noun] Style or fashion; popular trend. MODI (7) MODS (7) [noun] An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses. | [noun] A 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker. | [noun] A modification. MOGS (7) [noun] A young cow or bull. | [noun] Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding. | [noun] A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals). MOIL (6) [noun] Hard work. | [noun] Confusion, turmoil. | [noun] A spot; a defilement. | [noun] The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather. MOJO (13) [noun] A magic charm or spell. | [noun] Supernatural skill or luck. | [noun] Personal magnetism; charm. MOKE (10) [noun] A donkey. | [noun] A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net. | [noun] A black person. MOLA (6) [noun] A traditional textile art form of the Kuna people of Panama and Colombia, consisting of cloth panels to be worn on clothing, featuring complex designs made with multiple layers of cloth in a reverse appliqué technique. | [noun] A sunfish, Mola mola. MOLD (7) [noun] A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance. | [noun] A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped. | [noun] Something that is made in or shaped on a mold. | [noun] A natural substance in the form of a woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air. | [noun] Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting. MOLE (6) [noun] A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy. | [noun] Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae. | [noun] Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole rats. | [noun] A moll, a bitch, a slut. | [noun] A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water. | [noun] In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.) as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12. Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number. | [noun] A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum. | [noun] One of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America, especially the sauce which contains chocolate and which is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts. MOLL (6) [noun] A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute. | [noun] A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals. | [noun] Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female. | [adjective] Minor; in the minor mode MOLS (6) [noun] In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.) as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12. Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number. MOLT (6) [noun] The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc. | [noun] The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting. | [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. | [verb] To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. MOLY (9) [noun] A magic herb or plant used by Odysseus to overcome Circe. | [noun] Any plant associated with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, Allium moly. | [noun] Molybdenum MOME (8) MOMI (8) MOMS (8) [noun] (familiar) mother. | [noun] An adult female owner of a pet. | [noun] Affectionate term of address for one's mother. MONK (10) [noun] A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service. | [noun] In earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally. | [noun] A male who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit. | [noun] A monkey. MONO (6) [noun] A viral infection marked by extreme fatigue, high fever, and swollen lymph nodes. | [noun] A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding | [adjective] Monaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel. | [adjective] Monochrome. | [noun] An injective homomorphism | [noun] A monogamous person. | [adjective] Monosexual. MONS (6) [noun] One of the fleshy areas at the base of the fingers; a mount. | [noun] The pubic mound or mons pubis. In human anatomy or in mammals in general, the mons pubis (Latin for "pubic mound"), also known as the mons veneris (Latin, mound of Venus) or simply the mons, is the adipose tissue lying above the pubic bone of adult females, anterior to the pubic symphysis. The mons pubis forms the anterior portion of the vulva. | [noun] A mountain or extinct volcano on a planet or a moon. MONY (9) [noun] A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply. | [noun] A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value. | [noun] A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union). MOOD (7) [noun] A mental or emotional state, composure. | [noun] Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art). | [noun] A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood. | [noun] (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality. MOOL (6) MOON (6) [proper noun] The Earth's moon Luna; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾. | [proper noun] The god of the Moon in Heathenry. | [proper noun] A surname. MOOR (6) [noun] An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath | [noun] A game preserve consisting of moorland. | [verb] To cast anchor or become fastened. MOOS (6) [noun] The characteristic lowing sound made by cattle. | [noun] A foolish woman. | [verb] Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound. MOOT (6) [noun] A moot court. | [noun] A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties. | [noun] A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks. | [noun] A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors. | [noun] Vagina. | [noun] The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree. MOPE (8) [noun] A dull, spiritless person. | [noun] (pornography industry) A bottom feeder who "mopes" around a pornography studio hoping for his big break and often does bit parts in exchange for room and board and meager pay. | [verb] To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk. MOPS (8) [noun] An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle. | [noun] A wash with a mop; the act of mopping | [noun] A dense head of hair. | [noun] A pug dog. MOPY (11) MORA (6) MORE (6) [adverb] To a greater degree or extent. | [adverb] Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. | [adverb] In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more. | [noun] A carrot; a parsnip. | [verb] To root up. MORN (6) [noun] Morning. MORS (6) MORT (6) [noun] Death; especially, the death of game in hunting. | [noun] A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer. | [noun] The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. | [noun] A great quantity or number. | [noun] A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed. | [noun] A three-year-old salmon. | [noun] A woman; a female. MOSK (10) MOSS (6) [noun] Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci). | [noun] A kind or species of such plants. | [noun] Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure. MOST (6) [noun] The greatest amount. | [noun] The greater part. | [noun] A record-setting amount. | [adverb] Almost. MOTE (6) [noun] A small particle; a speck. | [verb] May or might. | [verb] Must. | [noun] A meeting for discussion. | [noun] A tiny computer for remote sensing; a component element of smartdust. MOTH (9) [noun] A usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae. | [noun] Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing. | [verb] To hunt for moths. | [noun] The plant Vigna aconitifolia, moth bean. | [noun] A small particle; a speck. MOTS (6) [noun] A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot. | [noun] A word or a motto; a device. | [noun] A note or brief strain on a bugle. MOTT (6) [noun] (chiefly Texas) A copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm. | [noun] A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot. | [noun] A word or a motto; a device. MOUE (6) [noun] A pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness. MOVE (9) [noun] The act of moving; a movement. | [noun] An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose. | [noun] A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc. MOWN (9) [verb] To cut down grass or crops. | [verb] To cut down or slaughter in great numbers. MOWS (9) [noun] A gull, seagull. | [noun] A prison, or other place of confinement. | [noun] A hiding place; a secret store or den. MOXA (13) [noun] Dried leaves of an Asian species of mugwort, Artemisia argyi as used in moxibustion. | [noun] Any other plant used in moxibustion. MOZO (15) [noun] A male servant, especially an attendant to a bullfighter. | [noun] A title of respect for a young man (usually unmarried) with or without a name used. | [noun] An unmarried man, a boy. MUCH (11) [adjective] Large, great. | [adjective] Long in duration. | [adverb] To a great extent. MUCK (12) [noun] (slimy) mud, sludge. | [noun] Soft (or slimy) manure. | [noun] Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty. MUDS (7) [noun] A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment. | [noun] A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall. | [noun] (construction industry slang) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured. MUFF (12) [noun] A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm. | [noun] Female pubic hair; female genitals. | [noun] A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet. | [noun] A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person. | [noun] A muffin. MUGG (8) MUGS (7) [noun] A large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer. | [noun] The face, often used deprecatingly. | [noun] A gullible or easily-cheated person. MULE (6) [noun] The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. | [noun] The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals. | [noun] A hybrid plant. | [noun] A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot. MULL (6) [noun] A thin, soft muslin. | [noun] Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking. | [noun] A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers. | [noun] A promontory. | [noun] Dirt; rubbish MUMM (10) MUMP (10) MUMS (8) [noun] Mother. | [noun] Ma'am; a term of respect for an older woman. | [noun] A chrysanthemum. MUMU (8) MUNI (6) [noun] A municipal bond. | [noun] A facility operated by a municipal government, such as a golf course or train line. | [noun] The municipal government / municipality | [noun] (often italicized) A Jain or Buddhist ascetic who has taken a vow of silence MUNS (6) MUON (6) [noun] An unstable elementary particle in the lepton family, having similar properties to the electron but with a mass 207 times greater. MURA (6) MURE (6) [noun] Wall | [noun] Husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh | [verb] To wall in or fortify MURK (10) [adjective] Dark, murky | [noun] Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment. | [verb] To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured. | [verb] To murder or seriously injure. MURR (6) MUSE (6) [noun] A source of inspiration. | [noun] A poet; a bard. | [noun] An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness. | [noun] A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset. MUSH (9) [noun] A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance. | [noun] A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations. | [noun] The foam of a breaker. | [noun] A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge. | [noun] A walk, especially across the snow with dogs. | [noun] A magic mushroom. | [noun] (chiefly Southern England) A form of address to a man. | [verb] To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp. MUSK (10) [noun] A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes. | [noun] A similar secretion produced by the otter and the civet. | [noun] A synthetic organic compound used as a substitute for the above. MUSS (6) [noun] A mess (disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; disorder) | [noun] A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle. | [verb] To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy. | [noun] A term of endearment. MUST (6) [noun] Something that is mandatory or required. | [verb] (modal auxiliary, defective) To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate. | [verb] (modal auxiliary, defective) To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a negative consequence. | [noun] The property of being stale or musty. | [noun] A time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness (also spelled musth). MUTE (6) [noun] A stopped consonant; a stop. | [noun] An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. | [noun] A person who does not have the power of speech. | [noun] The faeces of a hawk or falcon. | [verb] To cast off; to moult. MUTS (6) MUTT (6) [noun] A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of diverse ancestry. | [noun] An idiot, a stupid person. | [noun] A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram. MYNA (9) [noun] One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae. MYTH (12) [noun] A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc. | [noun] Such stories as a genre. | [noun] A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality. NAME (6) [noun] Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing. | [noun] Reputation. | [noun] An abusive or insulting epithet. | [verb] (ditransitive) To give a name to. | [noun] Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking. NEEM (6) [noun] Azadirachta indica, a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, whose seeds yield the insecticide azadirachtin. NEMA (6) NEUM (6) [noun] Any of a set of signs used in early musical notation. | [noun] A sequence of notes to be sung to one syllable. NIMS (6) NOMA (6) [noun] A gangrenous disease leading to tissue destruction of the face, especially the mouth and cheek. NOME (6) [noun] A prefecture or unit of regional government in Greece. | [noun] A territorial division of ancient Egypt. | [noun] A type of musical composition in Ancient Greece. | [interjection] Contraction of no ma'am | [noun] A special function with which elliptic functions and modular forms can be described. NOMS (6) [verb] To eat with noisy enjoyment. | [verb] To name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office. | [verb] To entitle, confer a name upon. | [verb] To eat with noisy enjoyment. NORM (6) [noun] That which is normal or typical. | [noun] A rule that is enforced by members of a community. | [noun] A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission or prohibition. | [verb] To endow (a vector space, etc) with a norm. NUMB (8) [verb] To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally). | [verb] To cause (a feeling) to be less intense. | [verb] To cause (the mind, faculties, etc.) to be less acute. OGAM (7) [noun] A single character in this alphabet. OHMS (9) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical resistance; the electrical resistance of a device across which a potential difference of one volt causes a current of one ampere. Symbol: Ω OMEN (6) [noun] Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury. | [noun] A thing of prophetic significance. | [verb] To be an omen of. OMER (6) [noun] A former small Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts. | [noun] A vessel of one omer. | [noun] The sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover. | [noun] The counting of the omer, that is, the period of 49 days between Passover and Shavuot. OMIT (6) [verb] To leave out or exclude. | [verb] To fail to perform. | [verb] To neglect or take no notice of. OVUM (9) [noun] The female gamete in animals; the egg cell. OXIM (13) PALM (8) [noun] Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics. | [noun] A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing. | [noun] (by extension) Triumph; victory. | [noun] The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers. PAMS (8) PERM (8) [noun] A permanent. | [noun] A permanent wave. | [verb] To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc. | [noun] A permutation. PIMA (8) [noun] A soft form of cotton having long fibres (Gossypium barbadense) PIMP (10) [noun] Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander. | [noun] A man who can easily attract women. | [verb] To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander. | [numeral] Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting PLUM (8) [noun] The fruit and its tree. | [noun] Extended senses. | [adjective] Of a dark bluish-red colour. | [verb] To plumb. POEM (8) [noun] A literary piece written in verse. | [noun] A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry. | [noun] A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose. POME (8) [noun] A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels. | [noun] A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service. | [verb] To grow to a head, or form a head in growing. POMP (10) [noun] Show of magnificence; parade; display; power. | [noun] A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant. | [verb] To make a pompous display; to conduct. POMS (8) [noun] An Englishman, a Briton; a person of British descent. | [noun] (cocktail) An American alcoholic drink containing vodka and pomegranate juice. PRAM (8) [noun] A small vehicle, usually covered, in which a newborn baby is pushed around in a lying position; a perambulator. | [noun] A flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to convey cargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour. | [noun] A similar barge used as platform for cannons in shallow waters which seagoing warships cannot enter. PRIM (8) [verb] To make affectedly precise or proper. | [verb] To dress or act smartly. | [adjective] Prudish, straight-laced | [noun] (plants) privet PROM (8) [noun] A promenade concert | [noun] (abbreviation) promenade | [noun] A formal ball held at a high school or college on special occasions, e.g. near the end of the academic year PUMA (8) [noun] The mountain lion or cougar, Puma concolor. | [noun] A woman in her 20s or 30s who seeks relationships with younger men; a younger cougar. PUMP (10) [noun] A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas. | [noun] An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping | [noun] A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel. | [noun] A type of shoe, a trainer or sneaker. RAMI (6) [noun] A small spray or twig. | [noun] A branching, as of nerves or blood vessels. | [noun] The stem of a barb of a feather, from which the barbules extend. RAMP (8) [noun] An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline. | [noun] A road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway. | [noun] A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport | [noun] An American plant, Allium tricoccum, related to the onion; a wild leek. RAMS (6) [noun] A male sheep, typically uncastrated | [noun] A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors. | [noun] A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them. | [noun] A French trick-taking card game related to nap and loo. REAM (6) [noun] Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general. | [verb] To cream; mantle; foam; froth. | [verb] To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider. | [noun] A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets. REMS (6) RIME (6) [noun] Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface. | [noun] A coating or sheet of ice so formed. | [noun] A film or slimy coating. | [verb] To compose or treat in verse; versify. | [noun] A step of a ladder; a rung. | [noun] A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. RIMS (6) [noun] An edge around something, especially when circular. | [noun] A wheelrim. | [noun] A semicircular copydesk. RIMY (9) [adjective] Coated in rime. ROAM (6) [verb] To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination. | [verb] To use a network or service from different locations or devices. | [verb] To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them. ROMP (8) [noun] Someone who romps; especially, a girl or young woman who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy. | [noun] A period of boisterous play, a frolic; now especially, a bout of sexual activity, especially when illicit. | [noun] An enjoyable, fast-paced but essentially inconsequential film, play, or other piece of entertainment. ROMS (6) ROOM (6) [noun] Opportunity or scope (to do something). | [noun] Space for something, or to carry out an activity. | [noun] A particular portion of space. | [adjective] Wide; spacious; roomy. | [adverb] Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent. | [noun] A deep blue dye. RUMP (8) [noun] The hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs | [noun] A cut of meat from the rump of an animal. | [noun] The buttocks. RUMS (6) [noun] A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses. | [noun] A serving of rum. | [noun] A kind or brand of rum. SAME (6) [adjective] Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical. | [adjective] Lacking variety from; indistinguishable. | [adjective] Similar, alike. | [adverb] Together. SAMP (8) [noun] An article of food consisting of coarse ground maize, or a porridge made from it. SCAM (8) [noun] A fraudulent deal. | [noun] Something that is promoted using scams. | [verb] To defraud or embezzle. SCUM (8) [noun] A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water). | [noun] A greenish water vegetation (such as algae), usually found floating on the surface of ponds | [noun] The topmost liquid layer of a cesspool or septic tank. SEAM (6) [noun] A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric. | [noun] A suture. | [noun] A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral. | [verb] To put together with a seam. | [noun] An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels. | [noun] Grease; tallow; lard SEEM (6) [verb] To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as. | [verb] To befit; to beseem. SEME (6) [noun] Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation or sign. | [verb] To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as. | [verb] To befit; to beseem. | [noun] A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric. | [adjective] Sprinkled, sown, strewn: said of a field or charge when strewn with small (identical) charges. | [noun] (Japanese fiction) An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top. SEMI (6) [noun] A semi-detached house. | [noun] A semitrailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler; an artic. | [noun] A semifinal. SHAM (9) [noun] A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine. | [noun] Trickery, hoaxing. | [noun] A false front, or removable ornamental covering. SHIM (9) [noun] A wedge. | [noun] A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support. | [noun] A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes. | [noun] A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits, also called a he-she; transsexual. SHMO (9) SIMA (6) [noun] The upturned edge of a roof which acts as a gutter; a cyma. | [noun] The lower layer of the earth's outer crust that underlies the sial and is rich in silica, iron, and magnesium. SIMP (8) [noun] A simple person lacking common sense; a fool or simpleton. | [verb] To melancholically reminisce; to recall once fond memories now tinged with sadness, especially regarding a former lover. | [noun] A man who foolishly overvalues and defers to a woman, putting her on a pedestal. | [adjective] Made more simple; having its complexity reduced. SIMS (6) [noun] A simulation or simulator. SKIM (10) [noun] A cursory reading, skipping the details. | [noun] Skim milk. | [noun] The act of skimming. SLAM (6) [noun] A sudden impact or blow. | [noun] The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object. | [noun] A slam dunk. | [noun] A type of card game, also called ruff and honours. | [noun] A shambling fellow. SLIM (6) [noun] A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes. | [noun] A potato farl. | [noun] AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages. SLUM (6) [noun] A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty. | [noun] Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game. | [verb] To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own. | [noun] Slumgullion; a meat-based stew SMEW (9) [noun] A small compact diving duck, Mergus albellus, that breeds in the northern taiga of Europe and Asia and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes. SMIT (6) [noun] Fine clay or ochre made up into balls, used for marking sheep. | [noun] An infection. | [noun] A stain. | [verb] To hit, to strike. SMOG (7) [noun] A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution. | [verb] To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions. SMUG (7) [verb] To make smug, or spruce. | [verb] To seize; to confiscate. | [verb] To hush up. SMUT (6) [noun] Soot. | [noun] A flake of ash or soot. | [noun] Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material. SOMA (6) [noun] The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail. | [noun] The corporeal body, as distinguished from the psyche or soul and the pneuma or spirit. | [noun] The bulbous part of a neuron, containing the cell nucleus. | [noun] (hinduism) A ritual drink in ancient Vedic and continuing Hindu culture, obtained by pressing the Soma plant. SOME (6) [adverb] Of a measurement: approximately, roughly. | [pronoun] A certain number, at least two. | [pronoun] An indefinite quantity. STEM (6) [noun] The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors. | [noun] A branch of a family. | [noun] An advanced or leading position; the lookout. | [verb] To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood). | [noun] A gleam of light; a flame. | [noun] Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics. STUM (6) [noun] Unfermented grape juice; must. | [noun] Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must. | [verb] To ferment. SUMO (6) [noun] A stylised Japanese form of wrestling in which a wrestler loses if he is forced from the ring, or if any part of his body except the soles of his feet touches the ground. | [noun] A rikishi (sumo wrestler) SUMP (8) [noun] A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink. | [noun] The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains. | [noun] A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving. SUMS (6) [noun] A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a somon is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia where it is equivalent to a township. | [noun] A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation. | [noun] (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition). SWAM (9) [verb] To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. | [verb] To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid | [verb] To move around freely because of excess space. SWIM (9) [noun] An act or instance of swimming. | [noun] The sound, or air bladder, of a fish. | [noun] A part of a stream much frequented by fish. | [noun] A dizziness; swoon. | [noun] Abbreviation of someone who isn't me. used as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination, especially in online drug forums SWUM (9) [verb] To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. | [verb] To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid | [verb] To move around freely because of excess space. TAME (6) [verb] To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. | [verb] To become tame or domesticated. | [verb] To make gentle or meek. | [verb] To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out. TAMP (8) [verb] (blasting) To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock. | [verb] To drive in or pack down by frequent gentle strokes | [verb] To reduce the intensity of. TAMS (6) [noun] A traditional South and East Asian unit of weight, based upon the load of a shoulder pole and varying by place and over time but usually standardized at about 60 kg. | [noun] A type of woolen hat developed in Scotland, a toorie bunnet. Originally they were worn by both genders, but now they are mostly worn by men and boys. TEAM (6) [noun] A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage. | [noun] Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work. | [noun] A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks. TEEM (6) [verb] To be stocked to overflowing. | [verb] To be prolific; to abound; to be rife. | [verb] To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply. | [verb] To empty. | [verb] To think fit. TEMP (8) [noun] Abbreviation of tempore. | [noun] A temporary employee, usually in an office. | [noun] A temporary storage location. TERM (6) [noun] That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary. | [noun] A chronological limitation or restriction. | [noun] Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract. | [noun] A computer program that emulates a physical terminal. | [noun] One whose employment has been terminated THEM (9) [pronoun] (plural) Those ones. | [pronoun] (singular) Him, her, or it; that one. TIME (6) [noun] The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. | [noun] A duration of time. | [noun] An instant of time. TOMB (8) [noun] A small building (or "vault") for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed. | [noun] A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave. | [noun] One who keeps secrets. TOME (6) [noun] One in a series of volumes. | [noun] A large or scholarly book. TOMS (6) [noun] A flat gong (without knob) that is struck with a felt-covered hammer. | [noun] The male of the domesticated cat. | [noun] The male of the turkey. TOOM (6) TRAM (6) [noun] A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road (called a streetcar or trolley in North America). | [noun] A similar vehicle for carrying materials. | [noun] A people mover. | [noun] A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods. TRIM (6) [noun] Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders. | [noun] A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style. | [noun] Dress; gear; ornaments. TUMP (8) [noun] A mound or hillock. | [verb] To form a mass of earth or a hillock around. | [verb] To bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump") | [noun] A tumpline. UMBO (8) [noun] A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane. For example the umbo in the integument of the larvæ of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear. | [noun] One of the lateral prominences just above the hinge of a bivalve shell. | [noun] A bump or protrusion on the top of the cap. UMPS (8) [noun] An umpire. | [verb] To act as an umpire. VAMP (11) [noun] The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking. | [noun] Something added to give an old thing a new appearance. | [noun] Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished. | [noun] A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her. | [noun] A volunteer firefighter. VIMS (9) WAME (9) WARM (9) [adjective] Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot. | [adjective] Caring and friendly, of relations to another person. | [adjective] Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum. | [noun] The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating. WHAM (12) [noun] A forceful blow | [noun] The sound of such a blow; a thud | [verb] To strike or smash (into) something with great force or impact WHIM (12) [noun] A fanciful impulse, or whimsical idea | [noun] A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes | [verb] To be seized with a whim; to be capricious. | [noun] A bird, the Eurasian wigeon. WHOM (12) [pronoun] (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people. | [pronoun] (relative) Used to refer to a previously mentioned person or people. | [pronoun] (fused relative, archaic outside set patterns) The person(s) whom; whomever. WIMP (11) [noun] Acronym of window, icon, menu, pointer. (a graphical interface paradigm) | [noun] Acronym of window-icon-mouse program. | [noun] A hypothetical class of particle, proposed to explain the dark matter problem. WOMB (11) [noun] In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus. | [noun] The abdomen or stomach. | [noun] The stomach of a person or creature. WORM (9) [noun] A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm. | [noun] More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms. | [noun] A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent. YAMS (9) [noun] Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated. | [noun] The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food. | [noun] A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas. YLEM (9) [noun] 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. ZOOM (15) [verb] To communicate with someone using the Zoom videoconferencing software. | [noun] A humming noise from something moving very fast | [noun] A quick ascent ZYME (18)

ABAMP (11) ABEAM (9) [adjective] Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft. | [adverb] On the beam; at a right angle to the centerline or keel of a vessel or aircraft; being at a bearing approximately 090 Degrees or 270 Degrees relative. | [adverb] Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft. ABMHO (12) ABOHM (12) ABOMA (9) ABYSM (12) [noun] Hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos. | [noun] An abyss; a gulf, a chasm, a very deep hole. ACMES (9) [noun] The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination. | [noun] The crisis or height of a disease. | [noun] Mature age; full bloom of life. ACMIC (11) ADEEM (8) [verb] To revoke or take away a bequest or gift in a will, typically because the item no longer exists or has been disposed of by the testator. ADMAN (8) [noun] A person in the business of devising, writing, illustrating or selling advertisements. ADMEN (8) [noun] A person in the business of devising, writing, illustrating or selling advertisements. ADMIT (8) [verb] To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration | [verb] To allow (someone) to enter a profession or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise. | [verb] To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny ADMIX (15) [noun] The act of admixing. | [noun] The mixture that results from admixing, especially an alloy. | [verb] To mingle with something else; to mix. AGAMA (8) [noun] Any of the various small, long-tailed lizards of the subfamily Agaminae of family Agamidae, especially in genera Acanthocercus, Agama, Dendragama, Laudakia, Phrynocephalus, Trapelus and Xenagama. AGISM (8) [noun] The treating of a person or people, especially youth or seniors, differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age. AGMAS (8) [noun] The nasalized velar consonant found in such words as song or wink. | [noun] The symbol ŋ, used to represent that nasal velar consonant in IPA; eng. AIMED (8) [verb] To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it | [verb] To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor;—followed by at, or by an infinitive | [verb] To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object AIMER (7) [noun] One who aims; a person who takes aim. | [verb] Third person singular present of "aim" (archaic/dialectal form). ALAMO (7) ALARM (7) [noun] A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. | [noun] Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. | [noun] A sudden attack; disturbance. ALBUM (9) [noun] A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs. | [noun] A collection, especially of literary items | [noun] A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks ALGUM (8) ALMAH (10) ALMAS (7) ALMEH (10) ALMES (7) ALMUD (8) ALMUG (8) ALUMS (7) [noun] An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K2SO4·Al2(SO4)3·24H2O). | [noun] Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations. | [noun] (shortening) A past attendee or graduate (of either gender) of a college, university or other educational institution. AMAHS (10) [noun] In South Asia, a woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse. | [noun] In China and Southeast Asia, a female domestic helper. AMAIN (7) AMASS (7) [noun] A large number of things collected or piled together. | [noun] The act of amassing. | [verb] To collect into a mass or heap. AMAZE (16) [noun] Amazement, astonishment. | [verb] To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex. | [verb] To undergo amazement; to be astounded. AMBER (9) [noun] Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale. | [noun] A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight. | [noun] A yellow-orange colour. AMBIT (9) [noun] The sphere or area of control and influence of something. | [noun] A circuit, or a boundary around a property. | [noun] The extent of actions, thoughts, or the meaning of words, etc. AMBLE (9) [noun] An unhurried leisurely walk or stroll. | [noun] An easy gait, especially that of a horse. | [verb] To stroll or walk slowly and leisurely. AMBOS (9) [noun] A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches. | [noun] A stationary podium used for readings and homilies. | [noun] An ambulance driver. AMBRY (12) [noun] A bookcase; a library or archive. | [noun] A storehouse, especially a niche or recess in a wall used for storage. | [noun] A pantry, or place to store food. AMEBA (9) [noun] A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia. | [noun] The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers. | [noun] An asexual. AMEER (7) AMEND (8) [noun] (usually in the plural) An act of righting a wrong; compensation. | [verb] To make better; improve. | [verb] To become better. AMENS (7) [noun] An instance of saying ‘amen’. | [noun] A title of Christ; the Faithful One (especially with reference to Revelation 3:14) | [verb] To say amen. AMENT (7) [noun] A catkin or amentum. | [noun] A congenital idiot. AMIAS (7) AMICE (9) [noun] A hood, or cape with a hood, made of or lined with grey fur, formerly worn by the clergy. AMICI (9) [noun] Someone not a party to a case who submits a brief and/or presents oral argument in that case. AMIDE (8) [noun] Any derivative of an oxoacid in which the hydroxyl group has been replaced with an amino or substituted amino group; especially such derivatives of a carboxylic acid, the carboxamides or acid amides | [noun] Any ionic derivative of ammonia in which a hydrogen atom has been replaced with a metal cation (R-NH- or R2N-) AMIDO (8) AMIDS (8) [preposition] In the middle of; surrounded by. | [preposition] During the course of. AMIES (7) [noun] Plural of amie, a female friend (from French). AMIGA (8) [noun] A female friend or female companion, particularly used in Spanish-speaking contexts but adopted into English informal usage. AMIGO (8) [noun] Friend | [noun] (chiefly California) Mexican | [noun] A native of the Philippines who was friendly toward the Spanish. AMINE (7) [noun] A functional group formally derived from ammonia by replacing one, two or three hydrogen atoms with hydrocarbon or other radicals. | [noun] Any organic compound containing an amine functional group. AMINO (7) [noun] The amine functional group. | [adjective] Relating to an amine. AMINS (7) [noun] Plural of amin, a type of organic compound containing nitrogen. | [noun] Plural of amin, an informal term for amphetamine. AMIRS (7) [noun] A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation. | [noun] A descendant of the prophet Muhammad. AMISS (7) [noun] Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed. | [adjective] Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect. | [adverb] Wrongly. AMITY (10) [noun] Friendship. The cooperative and supportive relationship between people, or animals. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, affection, and respect along with a degree of rendering service to friends in times of need or crisis. | [noun] Mutual understanding and a peaceful relationship, especially between nations; peace; accord. AMMOS (9) [noun] Plural of ammo, informal short form for ammunition. | [noun] Plural of ammos, a type of sandal worn in ancient Greece. AMNIA (7) [noun] The innermost membrane of the fetal membranes of reptiles, birds, and mammals; the sac in which the embryo is suspended. AMNIC (9) AMOKS (11) [noun] Plural of amok, a state of murderous frenzy. | [verb] Third person singular of amok, to run amok or behave wildly. AMOLE (7) [noun] Any of various parts of the Agave (or similar) plants, when used as soap | [noun] Other Mexican and North American plants used as soap AMONG (8) [preposition] Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. (See Usage Note at amidst.) | [preposition] Denotes a belonging of a person or a thing to a group. | [preposition] Denotes a sharing of a common feature in a group. AMORT (7) [adjective] Lifeless, spiritless, or dull in appearance or manner. AMOUR (7) [noun] Love, affection. | [noun] Courtship; flirtation. | [noun] A love affair. AMPLE (9) [adjective] Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; for example spacious, roomy or widely extended. | [adjective] Fully sufficient; abundant; plenty | [adjective] Not contracted or brief; not concise; extended; diffusive AMPLY (12) [adverb] In an ample manner. AMPUL (9) [noun] A small hermetically sealed vial, often used to contain a sterile solution suitable for injection. | [noun] An Ancient Roman two-handled vessel. | [noun] A vessel for containing consecrated wine or oil. AMUCK (13) [adverb] In a violently raging manner; in a state of frenzied attack or behavior. | [noun] A state of violent frenzy. AMUSE (7) [verb] To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions. | [verb] To cause laughter or amusement; to be funny. | [verb] To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude. AMYLS (10) [noun] Plural of amyl, a univalent radical derived from pentane, commonly used in chemistry and organic compounds. ANIMA (7) [noun] The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus. | [noun] (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the unconscious as opposed to the persona. | [noun] (Jungian psychology) The unconscious feminine aspect of a person. ANIME (7) [noun] An artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries. | [noun] An animated work that originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style. | [noun] An animated work, regardless of the country of origin. | [noun] The resin of the courbaril (Hymenaea courbaril), used in varnishes. ANIMI (7) [noun] Plural of animus; the rational mind or soul in philosophy, or a strong feeling of hostility or ill will. ANOMY (10) [noun] Alienation or social instability caused by erosion of standards and values. ARMED (8) [verb] To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms. | [verb] To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons. | [verb] To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate. | [adjective] (chiefly in combination) Having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type. ARMER (7) [noun] One who arms or equips with weapons. | [noun] A person who makes or sells arms/weapons. ARMET (7) [noun] A close-fitting helmet with a visor and beaver, used in the 15th and 16th centuries. ARMOR (7) [noun] A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces. | [noun] A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body. | [noun] Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft. AROMA (7) [noun] A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one. ARUMS (7) [noun] A flower or plant in the genus Arum ATMAN (7) [noun] (Vedanta) The true self of an individual beyond identification with worldly phenomena, the essence of an individual, an infinitesimal part of Brahman. ATMAS (7) [noun] Plural of atma, the individual soul or self in Hindu and yogic philosophy. ATOMS (7) [noun] The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons. | [noun] (history of science) A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter. | [noun] The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something. ATOMY (10) [noun] A floating mote or speck of dust. | [noun] An indivisible particle. | [noun] A tiny being; a very small person. | [noun] A skeleton. | [adjective] Resembling a tiny particle; made up of tiny particles. AURUM (7) [noun] The Latin name for the element gold, atomic number 79. AXIOM (14) [noun] A seemingly self-evident or necessary truth which is based on assumption; a principle or proposition which cannot actually be proved or disproved. | [noun] (proof theory) A fundamental assumption that serves as a basis for deduction of theorems; a postulate (sometimes distinguished from postulates as being universally applicable, whereas postulates are particular to a certain science or context). | [noun] An established principle in some artistic practice or science that is universally received. AXMAN (14) [noun] A man who wields an axe. | [noun] A musician who plays a guitar or saxophone. AXMEN (14) [noun] A man who wields an axe. | [noun] A musician who plays a guitar or saxophone. BALMS (9) [noun] Any of various aromatic resins exuded from certain plants, especially trees of the genus Commiphora of Africa, Arabia and India and Myroxylon of South America. | [noun] A plant or tree yielding such substance. | [noun] Any soothing oil or lotion, especially an aromatic one. BALMY (12) [adjective] Producing balm. | [adjective] Soothing or fragrant. | [adjective] Mild and pleasant. BARMS (9) [noun] The froth or foam that rises on fermenting beer or other liquids. | [noun] Plural of barm, a fungus used in baking and brewing. BARMY (12) [adjective] Odd, strange, or crazy. | [adjective] Containing barm, i.e. froth from fermented yeast. BEAMS (9) [noun] Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use. | [noun] One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones. | [noun] The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam) BEAMY (12) [adjective] Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy. | [adjective] Having horns or antlers. | [adjective] Having much beam or breadth; wide. BEDIM (10) [verb] To make dim; to obscure or darken. BEGUM (10) [verb] To daub or cover with gum. | [noun] A high-ranking Muslim woman, especially in India and Pakistan | [noun] The form of address for such a woman BEMAS (9) [noun] A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. | [noun] Raised area of worship in a synagogue upon which rests the Holy Ark containing Scrolls of Torah. BEMIX (16) BERME (9) BERMS (9) [noun] A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope | [noun] A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath | [noun] A terrace formed by wave action along a beach BESOM (9) [noun] A broom made from a bundle of twigs tied onto a shaft. | [noun] A troublesome woman. | [noun] Any cleansing or purifying agent. BIMAH (12) [noun] The raised platform in the front of a synagogue where the Torah is read on a podium. BIMAS (9) [noun] The raised platform in the front of a synagogue where the Torah is read on a podium. BIMBO (11) [noun] A physically attractive woman who lacks intelligence. | [noun] A stupid or foolish person. BIOME (9) [noun] Any major regional biological community such as that of forest or desert | [noun] All the genomes of such a community BLAME (9) [noun] Censure. | [noun] Culpability for something negative or undesirable. | [noun] Responsibility for something meriting censure. | [verb] To censure (someone or something); to criticize. BLAMS (9) [noun] Plural of blam, an onomatopoeia representing a loud explosive sound. | [verb] Third person singular of blam, meaning to make a loud explosive sound or to strike forcefully. BLIMP (11) [noun] An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container. | [noun] (by extension) Any large airborne inflatable. | [noun] An obese person. BLIMY (12) BLOOM (9) [noun] A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud. | [noun] Flowers, collectively. | [noun] The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open. | [verb] To cause to blossom; to make flourish. | [noun] The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process. BLUME (9) BOMBE (11) [noun] A dessert made from ice cream frozen in a (generally spherical or hemispherical) mold. | [noun] (chiefly in German cooking) A small, cylindrical or spherical chocolate-covered confection. (Compare truffle.) | [noun] An electromechanical device used in early cryptanalysis. BOMBS (11) [noun] An explosive device used or intended as a weapon. | [noun] A failure; an unpopular commercial product. | [noun] A large amount of money. BOOMS (9) [noun] A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion. | [noun] A rapid expansion or increase. | [noun] One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds. BOOMY (12) [adjective] Characterized by heavy bass sounds. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to a financial boom, resources boom, baby boom, etc. BOSOM (9) [noun] (somewhat obsolete) The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal). | [noun] The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings etc.; one's secret feelings; desire. | [noun] The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace. BREAM (9) [noun] A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known. | [noun] A species in that genus, Abramis brama. | [noun] An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. | [verb] To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping. BRIMS (9) [noun] The sea; ocean; water; flood. | [noun] An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water). | [noun] The topmost rim or lip of a container. BROME (9) [noun] Any grass of the genus Bromus. | [noun] Bromine BROMO (9) [noun] A dose of a proprietary sedative containing bromide (a bromo-seltzer) BROOM (9) [noun] A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping. | [noun] An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper. | [noun] Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, in the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium, with long, thin branches and small or few leaves. | [verb] To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping. BRUME (9) [noun] Mist, fog, vapour. BUMFS (12) [noun] Plural of bumf; useless printed material or documents. | [noun] Toilet paper or similar material. BUMPH (14) [noun] Toilet paper. | [noun] Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material, etc. BUMPS (11) [noun] A light blow or jolting collision. | [noun] The sound of such a collision. | [noun] A protuberance on a level surface. BUMPY (14) [adjective] Rough; jumpy; causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | [adjective] Covered with or full of bumps BUXOM (16) [adjective] Pliant, obedient, tractable (to) (i.e. easily moved or bent, morally). | [adjective] Submissive, humble, meek (as subsense of 4). | [adjective] Gracious, indulgent, favourable; obliging, amiable, courteous, affable, kindly (as subsense of 1). CALMS (9) [noun] (in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion. | [noun] (in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance. | [noun] A period of time without wind. CAMAS (9) [noun] Any of the North American flowering plants of the genus Camassia. | [noun] A hybrid animal produced by breeding a camel and a llama. CAMEL (9) [noun] A beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus. | [noun] A light brownish color, like that of a camel (also called camel brown). | [noun] Loaded vessels lashed tightly, one on each side of another vessel, and then emptied to reduce the draught of the ship in the middle. | [noun] A ruminant, of the genus Giraffa, of the African savannah with long legs and highly elongated neck, which make it the tallest living animal; yellow fur patterned with dark spots, often in the form of a network; and two or more short, skin-covered horns, so-called; strictly speaking the horn-like projections are ossicones. CAMEO (9) [noun] A piece of jewelry, etc., carved in relief. | [noun] A single very brief appearance, especially by a prominent celebrity in a movie or song. | [verb] To appear in a cameo role. CAMES (9) [noun] A grooved strip of lead used to hold panes of glass together. CAMPI (11) [noun] Plural of campus, referring to multiple college or university grounds. CAMPO (11) [noun] A police officer assigned to a university campus. | [noun] A field or plain in a Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking area. CAMPS (11) [noun] An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures. | [noun] An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation. | [noun] A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary. CAMPY (14) [adjective] Characterized by camp or kitsch, especially when deliberate or intentional. CAROM (9) [noun] (cue sports, especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. | [noun] A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of a (one meter by one meter square) board. | [verb] To make a carom (shot in billiards). | [noun] (spices) ajwain CECUM (11) [noun] A blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon. CELOM (9) [noun] A fluid-filled cavity within the body of an animal. The digestive system is suspended within the cavity, which is lined by a tissue called the peritoneum. CHAMP (14) [noun] Buddy, sport, mate (as a term of address) | [noun] An ongoing winner in a game or contest. | [noun] Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest. | [noun] A meal of mashed potatoes and scallions | [noun] Champagne | [noun] (obsolete or rare) the field or ground on which carving appears in relief CHAMS (12) [noun] An autocrat or dominant critic, especially Samuel Johnson. | [noun] A ruler over various Turkish, Tatar and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages. | [noun] An Ottoman sultan. CHARM (12) [noun] An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation). | [noun] The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural. | [noun] A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer. | [noun] The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children. CHASM (12) [noun] A deep, steep-sided rift, gap or fissure; a gorge or abyss. | [noun] (by extension) A large difference of opinion. CHEMO (12) [noun] Any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state. | [noun] (most common usage) chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient. CHIMB (14) [noun] The top of a ridge. | [noun] The spine of an animal. | [noun] A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. CHIME (12) [noun] A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes. | [noun] An individual ringing component of such a set. | [noun] A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device. | [noun] The top of a ridge. CHIMP (14) [verb] To review each image on a digital camera after it is taken. | [verb] To get very excited when showing images on a digital camera. | [noun] A species of great ape in the genus Pan, native to Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans. CHIRM (12) [noun] A din or confused noise, as of many voices, birdsong, etc. | [verb] To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird does. CHOMP (14) [noun] The act of chomping (see below) | [verb] To bite or chew loudly or heavily. | [verb] (Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character). CHUMP (14) [verb] To bite or chew loudly or heavily. | [verb] (Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character). | [noun] An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser. CHUMS (12) [noun] A friend; a pal. | [noun] A roommate, especially in a college or university. | [verb] To share rooms with someone; to live together. CHYME (15) [noun] The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum. CIMEX (16) [noun] A genus of parasitic insects that includes bedbugs, characterized by flat bodies and piercing mouthparts used to feed on blood. CLAIM (9) [noun] A demand of ownership made for something. | [noun] The thing claimed. | [noun] The right or ground of demanding. CLAMP (11) [noun] A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together. | [noun] An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc. | [noun] A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp. | [noun] A heavy footstep; a tramp. CLAMS (9) [noun] Acronym of Clip-on Load Adjusting Mechanism. A device that can be fitted onto an oar to adjust set. | [noun] A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example the soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria), the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve. | [noun] Strong pincers or forceps. CLIMB (11) [noun] An act of climbing. | [noun] The act of getting to somewhere more elevated. | [noun] An upwards struggle CLIME (9) [noun] A particular region defined by its weather or climate. | [noun] Climate. CLOMB (11) [verb] To ascend; rise; to go up. | [verb] To mount; to move upwards on. | [verb] To scale; to get to the top of something. CLOMP (11) [noun] The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly. | [verb] To walk heavily or clumsily, as with clogs. | [verb] To make some object hit something, thereby producing a clomping sound. CLUMP (11) [noun] A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass. | [noun] A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair. | [noun] A dull thud. COMAE (9) [noun] A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet. | [noun] A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points. | [noun] A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds. COMAL (9) [noun] A thin, griddle-like pan used in Mexican cooking for making tortillas and roasting foods. COMAS (9) [noun] A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma. COMBE (11) [noun] A valley, often wooded and often with no river | [noun] A cirque. COMBO (11) [noun] A small musical group. | [noun] A combination. | [noun] An action composed of a sequence of simpler actions, especially a composite attacking move in a fighting game. COMBS (11) [noun] A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place. | [noun] A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. | [noun] A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest. COMER (9) [noun] One in a race who is catching up to others and shows promise of winning. | [noun] One who is catching up in some contest and has a likelihood of victory. | [noun] One who arrives. COMES (9) [verb] To move from further away to nearer to. | [verb] To arrive. | [verb] To appear, to manifest itself. | [noun] The answer to the theme, or dux, in a fugue. COMET (9) [noun] A celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in a (usually very eccentric) orbit around the Sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the Sun. | [noun] A celestial phenomenon with the appearance given by the orbiting celestial body. | [noun] Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes. COMFY (15) [adjective] Comfortable. COMIC (11) [noun] A comedian. | [noun] A story composed of cartoon images arranged in sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel. | [noun] A children's newspaper. COMIX (16) [noun] A plural form of "comic," referring to comic books or comic strips, often used as an alternative spelling emphasizing the artistic medium. COMMA (11) [noun] The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list. | [noun] A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia. COMMY (14) COMPO (11) [noun] The act or principle of compensating. | [noun] Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss. | [noun] The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount. COMPS (11) [noun] Clipping of comprehensive layout, a graphic design showing final proposed layout of text and images. | [noun] Clipping of comprehensive examination. | [noun] Clipping of complimentary ticket or item. COMPT (11) COMTE (9) [noun] A French nobleman or count. COOMB (11) [noun] An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels. | [noun] A valley, often wooded and often with no river | [noun] A cirque. CORMS (9) [noun] A short, vertical, swollen underground stem of a plant (usually one of the monocots) that serves as a storage organ to enable the plant to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as drought. CRAMP (11) [noun] A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled. | [noun] That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance. | [noun] A clamp for carpentry or masonry. CRAMS (9) [noun] The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something). | [noun] Information hastily memorized. | [noun] A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed. CREAM (9) [noun] The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder. | [noun] A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream. | [noun] Frosting, custard, creamer or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream. CREME (9) [noun] A very sugary, fluffy white cream derivative. | [noun] Cream CRIME (9) [noun] A specific act committed in violation of the law. | [noun] Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity. | [noun] That which occasions crime. CRIMP (11) [noun] A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts. | [noun] The natural curliness of wool fibres. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks. | [noun] An agent who procures seamen, soldier, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them. CRUMB (11) [noun] A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread). | [noun] A small piece of other material, such as rubber. | [noun] A bit, small amount. CRUMP (11) [noun] The sound of a muffled explosion. | [verb] To produce such a sound. | [verb] For one's health to decline rapidly (but not as rapidly as crash). | [adjective] Hard or crusty; dry baked | [adjective] Crooked; bent. CULMS (9) [noun] Waste coal, used as a poor quality fuel; slack. | [noun] Anthracite, especially when found in small masses | [noun] The stem of a plant, especially of grass or sedge CUMIN (9) [noun] The flowering plant Cuminum cyminum, in the family Apiaceae. | [noun] Its aromatic long seed, used as a spice, notably in Indian, Middle Eastern, and Mexican cookery. CYMAE (12) [noun] A moulding of the cornice, wavelike in form, whose outline consists of a concave and a convex line; an ogee. | [noun] A cyme. CYMAR (12) [noun] A woman's close-fitting undergarment or jacket worn in the 16th and 17th centuries. | [noun] A type of loose garment or chemise. CYMAS (12) [noun] A moulding of the cornice, wavelike in form, whose outline consists of a concave and a convex line; an ogee. | [noun] A cyme. CYMES (12) [noun] (spelt cime) A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud. | [noun] A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, on which each axis terminates with a flower which blooms before the flowers below it. Contrast raceme. | [noun] = cyma CYMOL (12) [noun] A colorless liquid hydrocarbon derived from cumin oil or produced synthetically, used in perfumes and disinfectants. DAMAN (8) DAMAR (8) [noun] A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia, now genus Agathis. | [noun] A clear to yellow resin, obtained in Malaya from trees of the genera Shorea (Dipterocarpaceae family) and Symplocos (Symplocaceae family), used in varnishes and inks | [noun] Any of various hard resins, obtained especially from evergreen trees, notably of the genera Agathis (Araucariaceae family) and Hopea (Dipterocarpaceae family), native to southeast Asia, also used in varnishes and lacquers. DAMES (8) [noun] Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight. | [noun] A matron at a school, especially Eton College. | [noun] In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag. DAMNS (8) [noun] The use of "damn" as a curse. | [noun] A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot. | [noun] The smallest amount of concern or consideration. DAMPS (10) [noun] Moisture; humidity; dampness. | [noun] Fog; fogginess; vapor. | [noun] Dejection or depression; something that spoils a positive emotion (such as enjoyment, satisfaction, expectation or courage) or a desired activity. DATUM (8) [noun] (plural: data) A measurement of something on a scale understood by both the recorder (a person or device) and the reader (another person or device). The scale is arbitrarily defined, such as from 1 to 10 by ones, 1 to 100 by 0.1, or simply true or false, on or off, yes, no, or maybe, etc. | [noun] (plural: data) A fact known from direct observation. | [noun] (plural: data) A premise from which conclusions are drawn. DEEMS (8) [noun] An opinion, a judgment, a surmise. | [verb] To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence. | [verb] To adjudge, to decree. DEGUM (9) DEISM (8) [noun] A philosophical belief in the existence of a god (or goddess) knowable through human reason; especially, a belief in a creator god unaccompanied by any belief in supernatural phenomena or specific religious doctrines. | [noun] Belief in a god who ceased to intervene with existence after acting as the cause of the cosmos. DEMES (8) [noun] A township or other subdivision of ancient Attica. | [noun] A distinct local population of plants or animals. DEMIT (8) [noun] The act of demitting. | [noun] A document certifying that a person has (honourably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge. | [verb] To let fall; to depress; to yield. DEMOB (10) [noun] Demobilization; release from military service. | [verb] To demobilize; to release someone from military service. DEMON (8) [noun] An evil supernatural spirit. | [noun] A neutral supernatural spirit. | [noun] Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast. DEMOS (8) [noun] A demonstration or visual explanation. | [noun] A recording of a song meant to demonstrate its overall sound for the purpose of getting it published or recorded more fully. | [noun] An example of a product used for demonstration and then sold at a discount. DEMUR (8) [noun] Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple. | [verb] To linger; to stay; to tarry | [verb] To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair. DENIM (8) [noun] A textile often made of cotton with a distinct diagonal pattern. DERMA (8) [noun] The inner layer of the skin; the dermis | [noun] A Jewish dish of roast or boiled seasoned meat and flour etc. in a casing, especially kishke DERMS (8) DIMER (8) [noun] A molecule consisting of two identical halves, formed by joining two identical molecules, sometimes with a single atom acting as a bridge. DIMES (8) [noun] A coin worth one-tenth of a U.S. dollar. | [noun] A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar. | [noun] A small amount of money DIMLY (11) [adverb] In a dim manner. DISME (8) DOGMA (9) [noun] An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it. | [noun] A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader. DOLMA (8) [noun] Any of a family of stuffed vegetable dishes. The filling generally consists of rice, minced meat or grains, together with onion, herbs and spices. DOMAL (8) [adjective] Of or relating to a dome. | [adjective] In the shape of a dome. | [adjective] Of or relating to an astrological house. DOMED (9) [adjective] In the form of a dome. DOMES (8) [noun] A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola | [noun] Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover | [noun] Head (uppermost part of one's body) DOMIC (10) DOOMS (8) [noun] Destiny, especially terrible. | [noun] An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable. | [noun] A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair. DOOMY (11) [adjective] Filled with doom and gloom: depressing or pessimistic DORMS (8) [noun] A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind. | [noun] A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities. | [noun] A dormitory town. DORMY (11) [adjective] In match play, leading the match by the same number of holes as remain to be played. DOUMA (8) DOUMS (8) DRAMA (8) [noun] A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue | [noun] Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy) | [noun] Theatrical plays in general DRAMS (8) [noun] The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro. | [noun] A coin worth one drachma. | [noun] An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams. DREAM (8) [noun] Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping. | [noun] A hope or wish. | [noun] A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy. DRUMS (8) [noun] A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it; a membranophone. | [noun] Any similar hollow, cylindrical object. | [noun] A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage. DUMAS (8) [noun] A Russian legislative assembly such as the historical duma of the Russian Empire or the modern lower house of the Federal Assembly (the Russian national parliament). | [noun] A drink mixing wine and vodka. DUMBS (10) [verb] To silence. | [verb] To make stupid. | [verb] To represent as stupid. DUMKA (12) [noun] A genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine. | [noun] An individual composition in this genre. DUMKY (15) [noun] A genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine. | [noun] An individual composition in this genre. DUMMY (13) [noun] A silent person; a person who does not talk. | [noun] An unintelligent person. | [noun] A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet. DUMPS (10) [noun] A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site. | [noun] A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. | [noun] That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess. DUMPY (13) [noun] A short, stout person or animal, especially one of a breed of very short-legged chickens. | [noun] A small bottle of beer. | [adjective] Short and thick; stout or stocky DUNAM (8) [noun] An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre. | [noun] A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m2), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma. | [noun] Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m2). DUOMI (8) DUOMO (8) [noun] A cathedral, especially one in Italy. DURUM (8) [noun] Triticum turgidum subsp. durum, syn. Triticum durum (hard wheat), the flour of which is used to make pasta and bread. EDEMA (8) [noun] An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity. | [noun] A similar swelling in plants caused by excessive accumulation of water. ELEMI (7) [noun] A tree, Canarium luzonicum, native to the Philippines. | [noun] A resin harvested from the elemi tree. EMBAR (9) EMBAY (12) [verb] To bathe; to steep. | [verb] To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay. EMBED (10) [noun] An embedded reporter or journalist, such as a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit, or a political reporter assigned to follow and report on the campaign of a candidate. | [noun] An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message. | [noun] An item embedded in another document. EMBER (9) [noun] A glowing piece of coal or wood. | [noun] Smoldering ash. | [adjective] Making a circuit of the year or the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year, as certain religious days set apart for fasting and prayer. EMBOW (12) EMCEE (9) [noun] A rapper. | [noun] Initialism of main colour. | [noun] Initialism of matching colour. EMEER (7) EMEND (8) [verb] To correct and revise (text or a document). EMERY (10) [noun] An impure type of corundum, often used for sanding or polishing. | [verb] To sand or polish with emery. | [verb] To coat with emery. EMEUS (7) EMIRS (7) [noun] A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation. | [noun] A descendant of the prophet Muhammad. EMITS (7) [verb] To send out or give off EMMER (9) [noun] A species of wheat, Triticum dicoccon, one of a group of hulled wheats that are important food grains. EMMET (9) [noun] An ant. | [noun] (Cornish dialect) A tourist. EMOTE (7) [noun] A virtual action, presented to other users as reported speech, rather than a direct message. | [noun] (Twitch-speak) Short for emoticon. | [verb] To display emotions openly, especially while acting. EMPTY (12) [noun] (usually plural) A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty. | [verb] To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of. | [verb] Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination. EMYDE (11) EMYDS (11) ENEMA (7) [noun] An injection of fluid into the large intestine by way of the rectum, usually for medical purposes. | [noun] The fluid so injected. | [noun] A device for administering such an injection. ENEMY (10) [noun] Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else. | [noun] A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation. | [noun] Something harmful or threatening to another ENORM (7) ENZYM (19) ETYMA (10) [noun] The source word, or words, of a given word or expression. EXAMS (14) [noun] The act of examining. | [noun] Particularly, an inspection by a medical professional to establish the extent and nature of any sickness or injury. | [noun] A formal test involving answering written or oral questions under a time constraint and usually without access to textbooks. FAMED (11) [adjective] Having fame; famous or noted. FAMES (10) FANUM (10) FARMS (10) [noun] A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock. | [noun] A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation. | [noun] (usually in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures FEMES (10) FEMME (12) [noun] A woman, a wife; a young woman or girl. | [noun] A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch. | [noun] A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person. FEMUR (10) [noun] A thighbone. | [noun] The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia. | [noun] A segment of the leg of an arachnid. FERMI (10) [noun] An obsolete unit of length equal to one femtometer or femtometre (10−15 m). FILMS (10) [noun] A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity. | [noun] A medium used to capture images in a camera. | [noun] A movie. FILMY (13) [adjective] Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy | [adjective] Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy FILUM (10) FIRMS (10) [noun] A business partnership; the name under which it trades. | [noun] A business enterprise, however organized. | [noun] A criminal gang, especially based around football hooliganism. FLAME (10) [noun] The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat. | [noun] A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair. | [noun] Intentionally insulting criticism or remark meant to incite anger. FLAMS (10) [verb] To deceive with a falsehood. | [verb] (drumming) To play (notes as) a flam. FLAMY (13) FLEAM (10) FLUME (10) [noun] A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through. | [noun] An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids. | [verb] To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough. FLUMP (12) [noun] The dull sound so produced. | [noun] A type of large marshmallow. | [noun] (by extension) A fat out-of-shape person. FOAMS (10) [noun] A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains. | [noun] A substance formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid. | [noun] (by extension) Sea foam; the sea. FOAMY (13) [noun] An inexpensive surfboard made of extruded polystyrene foam | [adjective] Full of foam. FORAM (10) FORME (10) [noun] (heading, physical) To do with shape. | [noun] (social) To do with structure or procedure. | [noun] A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. FORMS (10) [noun] (heading, physical) To do with shape. | [noun] (social) To do with structure or procedure. | [noun] A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. FORUM (10) [noun] A place for discussion. | [noun] A gathering for the purpose of discussion. | [noun] A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience. FRAME (10) [noun] The structural elements of a building or other constructed object. | [noun] Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure. | [noun] The structure of a person's body; the human body. FREMD (11) FRUMP (12) [noun] A frumpy person, somebody who is unattractive, drab or dowdy. | [noun] The clothes that such a person would wear. | [noun] A bad-tempered person. FUMED (11) [verb] To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints. | [verb] To apply or offer incense to. | [verb] To emit fumes. FUMER (10) FUMES (10) [noun] A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale. | [noun] A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state. | [noun] Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control. FUMET (10) [noun] A type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet. | [noun] A ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine. | [noun] The stench or high flavour of game or other meat when kept long. | [noun] The dung of deer, hares, etc. GAMAS (8) GAMAY (11) [noun] Any of several varieties of red grape used for making Beaujolais and other red wines. GAMBA (10) [noun] A rank of organ pipes, so called for a supposed resemblance of the sound to that of a viola da gamba. | [noun] A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold. | [noun] The metacarpus or metatarsus of ruminants, etc. GAMBE (10) GAMBS (10) GAMED (9) [verb] To gamble. | [verb] To play card games, board games, or video games. | [verb] To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable. GAMER (8) [noun] A person who plays any kind of game. | [noun] A person whose hobby is video games. | [noun] A person who games the system. | [adjective] Willing to participate. GAMES (8) [noun] A playful or competitive activity. | [noun] A video game. | [noun] (nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession. GAMEY (11) [adjective] Having the smell, taste and texture of consumed game (meat). | [adjective] Plucky, spirited or gritty | [adjective] Risque, sordid or sexually suggestive GAMIC (10) GAMIN (8) [noun] A homeless boy; a male street urchin; also (more generally), a cheeky, street-smart boy. GAMMA (10) [noun] The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ). | [noun] The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ. | [noun] A constant approximately equal to 0.55721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant). GAMMY (13) [adjective] Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs). | [noun] Grandmother. | [noun] A blowjob; fellatio. GAMPS (10) [noun] An umbrella. GAMUT (8) [noun] A (normally) complete range. | [noun] All the notes in the musical scale. | [noun] All the colours available to a device such as a monitor or printer. GAUMS (8) GEMMA (10) [noun] A bud; an asexual reproductive structure, as found in liverworts and hydra, able to produce new individuals from a cluster of cells. GEMMY (13) GEMOT (8) GENOM (8) GERMS (8) [noun] The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore. | [noun] A pathogenic microorganism. | [noun] The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ. GERMY (11) [adjective] That carries germs. GEUMS (8) [noun] Any of the genus Geum of perennial herbaceous plants. GIMEL (8) GIMME (10) [noun] That which is easily obtained, or certain to occur. GIMPS (10) [noun] A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe. | [noun] Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire. | [noun] The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself. GIMPY (13) GISMO (8) [noun] Something, generally a device, for which one does not know the proper term. GIZMO (17) [noun] Something, generally a device, for which one does not know the proper term. GLEAM (8) [noun] A small or indistinct shaft or stream of light. | [noun] A glimpse or hint; an indistinct sign of something. | [noun] Brightness or shininess; splendor. GLIME (8) GLIMS (8) [noun] Brightness; splendour | [noun] A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire. | [noun] An eye. GLOAM (8) GLOMS (8) [verb] To steal, to grab. | [verb] To stare. | [verb] To attach. GLOOM (8) [noun] Darkness, dimness or obscurity. | [noun] A melancholic, depressing or despondent atmosphere. | [noun] Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. GLUME (8) [noun] A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae). GNOME (8) [noun] A brief reflection or maxim; a pithy saying. | [noun] (magic, Rosicrucianism) An elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth. | [noun] (fantasy literature) One of a race of imaginary human-like beings, usually depicted as short and typically bearded males, who inhabit the inner parts of the earth and act as guardians of mines, mineral treasure, etc.; in modern fantasy literature, when distinguished from dwarves, gnomes are usually even smaller than dwarves and more focussed on engineering than mining. GOLEM (8) [noun] A humanoid creature made from clay, animated by magic. | [noun] (by extension) A humanoid creature made from any previously inanimate matter, such as wood or stone, animated by magic. GOMBO (10) GOYIM (11) [noun] A non-Jew, a gentile. (See usage notes) GRAMA (8) GRAMP (10) [noun] Grandpa, grandfather. GRAMS (8) [noun] A photograph or video shared on this service. | [noun] A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g | [noun] Grandmother | [noun] Grandmother GRIME (8) [noun] Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove. | [noun] A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop. | [verb] To begrime; to cake with dirt. GRIMY (11) [adjective] Stained or covered with grime. | [adjective] From the urban musical genre called grime. GROOM (8) [noun] A man who is about to marry. | [noun] A person who cares for horses. | [noun] One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department. GRUME (8) [noun] A thick semisolid | [noun] A clot (of blood) GRUMP (10) [noun] A habitually grumpy or complaining person. | [noun] A grumpy mood. | [verb] To complain. GUMBO (10) [noun] A soup or stew made with okra. | [noun] A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy. | [noun] The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus. GUMMA (10) [noun] A soft, non-cancerous growth, a form of granuloma, resulting from the tertiary stage of syphilis. GUMMY (13) [noun] A sheep that is losing or has lost its teeth. | [adjective] Showing the gums. | [noun] A species of shark, Mustelus antarcticus, endemic to southern and south-eastern Australia, the meat of which is sold as flake. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A gummi candy. HAEMS (10) HAKIM (14) [noun] A doctor, usually practicing traditional medicine. | [noun] A judge or governor in Islamic India. HALMA (10) [noun] A board game invented by George Howard Monks in which the players' men jump over those in adjacent squares. | [noun] In the Greek pentathlon, the long jump with weights in the hands. HALMS (10) HAMAL (10) HAMES (10) [noun] A covering, skin, membrane. | [noun] Part of the harness that fits round the neck of a draught horse that the reins pass through. | [noun] A mess. HAMMY (15) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of ham. | [adjective] Amateurish; characterized by overacting. | [noun] One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh. | [noun] A hamster. HAMZA (19) [noun] A sign (ء‎ - a stand-alone hamza) used in the written Arabic language representing a glottal stop. Hamza may appear as a stand-alone letter or most commonly diacritically over or under other letters, e.g. أ‎ (over an alif - ا‎), إ‎ (under an alif), ؤ‎ (over a wāw - و‎) or ئ‎ (over a dotless yāʾ - ى‎). The exact seat of hamza is governed by an orthographic rule - "seat of hamza rule". HAREM (10) [noun] The private part of an Arab household, traditionally forbidden to male strangers. | [noun] A group of someone's girlfriends, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household. | [noun] A group of female animals (cows) herded and controlled by a male animal (bull) of that species for breeding purposes. Such behaviour is exhibited by bovids including cattle and buffalo as well as moose, elephants, seals, sea lions, baboons, and elephant seals. HARMS (10) [noun] Physical injury; hurt; damage | [noun] Emotional or figurative hurt | [noun] Detriment; misfortune. HAULM (10) [noun] The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching. | [noun] An individual plant stem. | [noun] Part of a harness; a hame. HELMS (10) [noun] The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching. | [noun] An individual plant stem. | [noun] Part of a harness; a hame. HEMAL (10) [adjective] Pertaining to the blood or blood vessels. | [adjective] Ventral rather than neural. HEMES (10) HEMIC (12) HEMIN (10) HEMPS (12) HEMPY (15) HERMA (10) HERMS (10) [noun] A rectangular pillar bearing a bust of Hermes, once used as a boundary marker and later as decoration. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A hermaphrodite. HILUM (10) [noun] The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support. | [noun] The nucleus of a starch grain. | [noun] A depression or fissure through which ducts, nerves, or blood vessels enter and leave a gland or organ; a porta. HOKUM (14) [noun] (An instance of) meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate. | [noun] (An instance of) excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material in a film, television programme, theater production, etc. | [noun] A film, television programme, theater production, etc., containing excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material. HOLMS (10) [noun] (obsolete outside dialectal) The holly. | [noun] A common evergreen oak of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak. | [noun] An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot. HOMED (11) [verb] (of animals) To return to its owner. | [verb] (always with "in on") To seek or aim for something. HOMER (10) [noun] Various former units of volume, particularly: | [noun] A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about equal to 230 L or 6 1/2 US bushels. | [noun] A four-base hit; a home run HOMES (10) [noun] An informal term of address, like man or dude. | [noun] A dwelling. | [noun] One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt. HOMEY (13) [noun] Someone, particularly a friend or male acquaintance, from one's hometown. | [noun] A close friend or fellow member of a youth gang. | [noun] An inner-city youth. | [adjective] Befitting a home; cozy, intimate. HOMOS (10) [noun] A human. HUMAN (10) [noun] A human being, whether man, woman or child. | [verb] To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human. | [adjective] (notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives. HUMIC (12) [adjective] Of, or relating to humus. HUMID (11) [adjective] Containing perceptible moisture (usually describing air or atmosphere); damp; moist; somewhat wet or watery. HUMOR (10) [noun] The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. | [noun] A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim. | [noun] Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body. HUMPH (15) [verb] To utter "humph!" in doubt or disapproval. | [interjection] Used to express doubt or disapproval HUMPS (12) [noun] A mound of earth. | [noun] A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine. | [noun] (animals) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu. HUMPY (15) [noun] A hut or temporary shelter made from bark and tree branches, especially for Aborigines. HUMUS (10) [noun] A large group of natural organic compounds, found in the soil, formed from the chemical and biological decomposition of plant and animal residues and from the synthetic activity of microorganisms | [noun] A Levantine Arab dip made of chickpea paste with various additions, such as olive oil, fresh garlic, lemon juice, and tahini, often eaten with pitta bread, or as a meze. It is mostly eaten in the Levant. HYMEN (13) [noun] A membrane which completely or partially occludes the vaginal opening in human females. | [noun] Marriage. HYMNS (13) [noun] A song of praise or worship. | [verb] To sing a hymn. | [verb] To praise or extol in hymns. IAMBI (9) [noun] An iamb IAMBS (9) [noun] A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. IDIOM (8) [noun] A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, person, or group of people. | [noun] A language or language variety; specifically, a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context etc. | [noun] An established expression whose meaning is not deducible from the literal meanings of its component words, often peculiar to a given language. IHRAM (10) ILEUM (7) [noun] The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine. ILIUM (7) [noun] The upper and widest of the three bones that make up each side of the hipbone and pelvis. | [noun] The ileum, part of the small intestine. IMAGE (8) [noun] An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture. | [noun] A mental picture of something not real or not present. | [noun] A statue or idol. IMAGO (8) [noun] The final developmental stage of an insect after undergoing metamorphosis. | [noun] An idealised concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unconsciously into adult life, the basis for the psychological formation of personality archetypes. IMAMS (9) [noun] (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader. | [noun] One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque. IMAUM (9) IMBED (10) [verb] To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed. | [verb] (by extension) To include in surrounding matter. | [verb] To encapsulate within another document or data file. IMBUE (9) [verb] To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality. | [verb] In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality. IMIDE (8) [noun] A form of amide in which the nitrogen atom is attached to two carbonyl groups - R1CONHCOR2 IMIDO (8) IMIDS (8) IMINE (7) [noun] Any of a class of organic nitrogen compounds having the general formula R2C=NR; they are tautomeric with enamines. IMINO (7) IMMIX (16) IMPED (10) [noun] A creature without feet | [adjective] Engrafted, eked, implanted; supplemented by imping. | [verb] To plant or engraft. IMPEL (9) [verb] To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation. | [verb] To drive forward; to propel an object, to provide an impetus for motion or action. IMPIS (9) [noun] A group of Zulu (or other Bantu) warriors; a detachment of armed men. IMPLY (12) [verb] (of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence | [verb] (of a person) to suggest by logical inference | [verb] (of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement INARM (7) ITEMS (7) [noun] A distinct physical object. | [noun] (by extension) An object that can be picked up for later use. | [noun] A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account. JAMBE (16) JAMBS (16) [noun] (interior decorating) Either of the vertical components that form the side of an opening in a wall, such as that of a door frame, window frame, or fireplace. | [noun] Any thick mass of rock that prevents miners from following the lode or vein. JAMMY (19) [noun] A gun. | [adjective] Resembling jam in taste, texture, etc. | [adjective] Covered in jam. JEMMY (19) [noun] A baked sheep's head. | [noun] An immigrant. | [noun] A greatcoat. JIMMY (19) [noun] (especially New England and Philadelphia) Chocolate sprinkles used as a topping for ice cream, cookies, or cupcakes. | [noun] A marijuana cigarette. | [noun] A device used to circumvent a locking mechanism; a slim jim. JIMPY (19) JISMS (14) [noun] Spirit or energy. | [noun] Semen. JORAM (14) JORUM (14) [noun] A large vessel for drinking (usually alcoholic beverages). | [noun] A large quantity. | [noun] The contents, or quantity of the contents, of such a vessel. JUGUM (15) [noun] One of the ridges commonly found on the fruit of umbelliferous plants. | [noun] A pair of opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant. JUMBO (16) [noun] An especially large or powerful person, animal, or thing. | [noun] A platform-mounted machine for drilling rock. | [adjective] Especially large or powerful. | [noun] Short for mumbo jumbo. JUMPS (16) [noun] The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound. | [noun] An effort; an attempt; a venture. | [noun] A dislocation in a stratum; a fault. JUMPY (19) [adjective] Nervous and excited. KALAM (11) KAMES (11) [noun] A round hill or short ridge of sand or gravel deposited by a melting glacier. KAMIK (15) KARMA (11) [noun] The sum total of a person's actions, which determine the person's next incarnation in samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth. | [noun] A force or law of nature which causes one to reap what one sows; destiny; fate. | [noun] A distinctive feeling, aura, or atmosphere. KELIM (11) [noun] A flat tapestry-woven carpet or rug. KEMPS (13) [noun] Coarse, rough hair, wool, or fur; (in the plural) knotty hairs that will not felt. | [noun] A contest in work, etc. | [noun] A champion; a knight. KEMPT (13) [adjective] Neat and tidy; especially used of hair KHOUM (14) [noun] A subdivision of the Mauritanian ouguiya. 5 khoums equal one ouguiya. KILIM (11) [noun] A flat tapestry-woven carpet or rug. KUMYS (14) LAMAS (7) [noun] A master of Tibetan Buddhism. | [noun] A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat. LAMBS (9) [noun] A young sheep. | [noun] The flesh of a lamb or sheep used as food. | [noun] A person who is meek, docile and easily led. LAMBY (12) LAMED (8) [verb] To cause (a person or animal) to become lame. | [verb] To shine. | [noun] The twelfth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). LAMER (7) [adjective] Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs. | [adjective] Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function. | [adjective] (by extension) Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect. LAMES (7) [verb] To cause (a person or animal) to become lame. | [verb] To shine. | [noun] Small steel plates combined so as to slide one upon other and form a piece of armour. LAMIA (7) [noun] A monster preying upon human beings and who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent. LAMPS (9) [noun] A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb. | [noun] A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp. | [noun] A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets. LARUM (7) LEMAN (7) [noun] One beloved; a lover, a sweetheart of either sex (especially a secret lover, gallant, or mistress). | [noun] (often negative) A paramour. LEMMA (9) [noun] A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition. | [noun] The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc. | [noun] (psycholinguistics) The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word. | [noun] The outer shell of a fruit or similar body. LEMON (7) [noun] A yellowish citrus fruit. | [noun] A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits. | [noun] A taste or flavour/flavor of lemons. LEMUR (7) [noun] Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands. | [noun] Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta). | [noun] A loris (Lemur tardigradus, now Loris tardigradus), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ. LIMAN (7) LIMAS (7) LIMBA (9) [noun] A large African tree, Terminalia superba, whose hard wood is used for furniture, table tennis paddles and musical instruments. LIMBI (9) [noun] A border of an anatomical part, such as the edge of the cornea. LIMBO (9) [noun] (Roman Catholic theology, since circa 400 A.D.) The place where innocent souls exist temporarily until they can enter heaven, notably those of the saints who died before the advent of Christ (limbus patruum) and those of unbaptized but innocent children (limbus infantum). | [noun] (by extension, since the 16th century) Any in-between place, state or condition of neglect or oblivion which results in an unresolved status, delay or deadlock. | [noun] A dance played by taking turns crossing under a horizontal bar or stick. The stick is lowered with each round, and the game is won by the player who passes under the bar in the lowest position. LIMBS (9) [noun] A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing). | [noun] A branch of a tree. | [noun] The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip. LIMBY (12) LIMED (8) [verb] To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime). | [verb] To smear with birdlime. | [verb] To apply limewash. LIMEN (7) [noun] A liminal point; the threshold of a physiological or psychological response. LIMES (7) [noun] A boundary or border, especially of the Roman Empire. | [noun] Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime). | [noun] Any gluey or adhesive substance; something which traps or captures someone; sometimes a synonym for birdlime. LIMEY (10) [noun] An Englishman or other Briton, or a person of British descent. | [adjective] Resembling limes (the fruit); lime-like. | [adjective] Of, or pertaining to, limes (the fruit). LIMIT (7) [noun] A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go. | [noun] A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge). | [noun] Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit. | [verb] To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries. LIMNS (7) [verb] To draw or paint; to delineate. | [verb] To illuminate, as a manuscript; to decorate with gold or some other bright colour. LIMOS (7) [noun] An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front. | [noun] An automobile with such a body. | [noun] A luxury sedan or saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur. LIMPA (9) LIMPS (9) [noun] An irregular, jerky or awkward gait. | [noun] A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve. | [verb] To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg. LINUM (7) LLAMA (7) [noun] A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat. LOAMS (7) LOAMY (10) [adjective] Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam. LOCUM (9) [noun] Short for locum tenens. | [noun] A share in a Genoese trading vessel. LOOMS (7) [noun] A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general. | [noun] A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making. | [noun] The part of an oar which is between the grip or handle and the blade, the shaft. LUMEN (7) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the light that is emitted in a solid angle of one steradian from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm. | [noun] The cavity or channel within a tube or tubular organ. | [noun] The cavity bounded by a plant cell wall. LUMPS (9) [noun] Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape. | [noun] A group, set, or unit. | [noun] A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful. LUMPY (12) [adjective] Full of lumps, not smooth. | [adjective] Of a water surface: covered in many small waves as a result of wind; choppy. LYMPH (15) [noun] (poetical) Pure water. | [noun] A colourless, watery bodily fluid, carried by the lymphatic system, that consists mainly of white blood cells. | [noun] Discharge from a sore, inflammation etc. MAARS (7) [noun] A broad volcanic crater, usually filled with water to form a lake. MABES (9) MACAW (12) [noun] Any of various parrots of the genera Ara, Anodorhynchus, Cyanopsitta, Orthopsittaca, Primolius and Diopsittaca of Central and South America, including the largest parrots and characterized by long sabre-shaped tails, curved powerful bills, and usually brilliant plumage. MACED (10) [verb] To hit someone or something with a mace. | [verb] To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device. | [verb] To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can. MACER (9) [noun] A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland. MACES (9) [noun] A heavy fighting club. | [noun] A ceremonial form of this weapon. | [noun] A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked. MACHE (12) [noun] Valerianella locusta, a small dicot annual plant of the family Caprifoliaceae often cultivated as a salad green or herb. | [noun] A former unit of volumic radioactivity: the quantity of radon (ignoring its daughters) per litre of air which ionizes a sustained current of 0.001 esu. | [noun] Glutinous rice balls flavoured with coconut and pandan. MACHO (12) [noun] A macho person; a person who tends to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, and bravado. | [noun] The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, syn. Mugil mexicanus). | [noun] A male llama. MACHS (12) MACKS (13) [noun] An individual skilled in the art of seduction using verbal skills. | [noun] A raincoat or mackintosh. | [noun] An element of a ship's superstructure which places the function of a ship's mast on its exhaust stack, adding the skeletal supporting structure to the smokestack to support the mast's complement of functions. MACLE (9) [noun] Chiastolite; so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross-section. | [noun] A crystal having a similar tessellated appearance. | [noun] A twin crystal. MACON (9) MACRO (9) [adjective] Very large in scope or scale. | [adjective] Of a lifestyle incorporating a dietary regimen including locally grown, seasonal, natural foods, or of the diet itself. | [adjective] Long-lived. | [noun] A comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complex input to a computer program. | [noun] Macro lens MADAM (10) [noun] A polite form of address for a woman or lady. | [noun] The mistress of a household. | [noun] A conceited or quarrelsome girl. MADLY (11) [adverb] In a mad manner; without reason or understanding; wildly. MADRE (8) MAFIA (10) [noun] A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion. | [noun] A crime syndicate. | [noun] A trusted group of associates, as of a political leader. MAFIC (12) [noun] A rock with such properties. | [adjective] Describing rocks, such as silicate minerals, magmas, and volcanic and intrusive igneous rocks, which contain relatively high concentrations of magnesium and iron. MAGES (8) [noun] A magician, wizard or sorcerer. MAGIC (10) [noun] The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them | [noun] A specific ritual or procedure associated with such magic; a spell. | [noun] The supernatural forces which are drawn on in such a ritual MAGMA (10) [noun] The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc. | [noun] A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation. | [noun] Any soft doughy mass. MAGOT (8) MAGUS (8) [noun] (common usage) magician, and derogatorily sorcerer, trickster, conjurer, charlatan | [noun] (special usage) a Zoroastrian priest MAHOE (10) [noun] Any of certain trees in the mallow family, native to the Caribbean. | [noun] Either of two different trees, usually found around the tropics. MAIDS (8) [noun] A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden. | [noun] A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant). | [noun] A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender. MAILE (7) MAILL (7) MAILS (7) [noun] A bag or wallet. | [noun] A bag containing letters to be delivered by post. | [noun] The material conveyed by the postal service. MAIMS (9) [verb] To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body. MAINS (7) [verb] Short for mainline. | [verb] To mainly play a specific character, or side, during a game. | [verb] Of a road: to convert into a main or primary road. | [noun] The farm attached to a mansion house. MAIRS (7) MAIST (7) MAIZE (16) [noun] Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays. MAJOR (14) [noun] A military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel. | [noun] The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university. | [noun] A student at a college or university concentrating on a given area of study. MAKAR (11) [noun] A poet writing in Scots. MAKER (11) [noun] Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something. | [noun] (usually capitalized and preceded by the) God. | [noun] A poet. MAKES (11) [noun] Brand or kind; model. | [noun] Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form. | [noun] Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production. MAKOS (11) [noun] Mako shark MALAR (7) [noun] The cheekbone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit. | [adjective] Pertaining to the cheek. MALES (7) [noun] One of the male (masculine) sex or gender. MALIC (9) MALLS (7) [noun] A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. | [noun] An enclosed shopping centre. | [noun] An alley where the game of pall mall was played. MALMS (9) [noun] A soft, crumbly, chalky, grayish limestone. | [noun] An artificial mixture or chalk, clay, and sand, from which bricks are made. The resulting bricks have a light brown or yellowish color. MALMY (12) MALTS (7) [noun] Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise. | [noun] Malt liquor, especially malt whisky. | [noun] A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor. MALTY (10) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, containing, or characteristic of malt MAMAS (9) [noun] (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent. MAMBA (11) [noun] Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees. MAMBO (11) [noun] A voodoo priestess (in Haiti) | [noun] A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre. | [verb] To perform this dance. MAMEY (12) [noun] The evergreen tree Mammea americana, or its edible fruit | [noun] The flowering plant Magnolia guatemalensis | [noun] The tree Pouteria sapota, or its fruit. MAMIE (9) MAMMA (11) [noun] The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae) | [noun] An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera | [noun] (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent. MAMMY (14) [noun] Mamma; mother | [noun] (historical, often pejorative) In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children; or in the antebellum South, a female slave who was close to the household and looked after the children. MANAS (7) MANED (8) MANES (7) [noun] The souls or spirits of dead ancestors, conceived as deities or the subjects of reverence, or of other deceased relatives. | [noun] Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion | [noun] Long or thick hair of a person's head. MANGE (8) [noun] A skin disease of mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.). MANGO (8) [noun] A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica. | [noun] The fruit of the mango tree. | [noun] A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed. MANGY (11) [adjective] Afflicted with mange. | [adjective] (by extension) Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit. MANIA (7) [noun] Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. | [noun] Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism. | [noun] The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels. MANIC (9) [adjective] Of or pertaining to someone who exhibits mania or craziness; wicked. | [adjective] Suffering from mania, the state of an abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels. MANLY (10) [adjective] Having the characteristics of a man. | [adjective] Having qualities befitting a man; courageous, resolute, noble. MANNA (7) [noun] Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus. | [noun] (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck. | [noun] The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.http//www.museum.vic.gov.au/forest/plants/gum.html MANOR (7) [noun] A landed estate. | [noun] The main house of such an estate or a similar residence; a mansion. | [noun] A district over which a feudal lord could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe. MANOS (7) MANSE (7) [verb] To excommunicate; curse. | [noun] A house inhabited by the minister of a parish. | [noun] A family dwelling, an owner-occupied house. MANTA (7) [noun] A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States. | [noun] Any of several very large pelagic rays of the genus Manta, with winglike pectoral fins, a long tail, and two fins resembling horns that project from the head. MANUS (7) [noun] A hand, as the part of the fore limb below the forearm in a human, or the corresponding part in other vertebrates. | [noun] (Roman law) The power over other people, especially that of a man over his wife. MAPLE (9) [noun] A tree of the Acer genus, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds. | [noun] The wood of such a tree, prized for its hardness and attractive appearance MAQUI (16) MARCH (12) [noun] A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies. | [noun] A political rally or parade | [noun] Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music) | [noun] A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary. | [noun] Smallage. MARCS (9) [noun] The refuse matter that remains after fruit, particularly grapes, has been pressed. | [noun] An alcoholic spirit distilled from the marc of grapes. | [noun] A weight of various commodities, especially of gold and silver, used in different European countries. In France and Holland it was equal to eight ounces. MARES (7) [noun] An adult female horse. | [noun] A foolish woman. | [noun] A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit. MARGE (8) [noun] Margin; edge; verge. | [noun] Margarine. MARIA (7) [noun] A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea. | [noun] On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons. MARKS (11) [noun] (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary. | [noun] (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression. | [noun] (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc. MARLS (7) [verb] To cover with the earthy substance called marl. | [verb] To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a peculiar hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding. MARLY (10) MARRY (10) [verb] To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. | [verb] (in passive) To be joined to (someone) as spouse according to law or custom. | [verb] To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband. | [interjection] Indeed!, in truth!; a term of asseveration. MARSE (7) MARSH (10) [noun] An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass. MARTS (7) [noun] A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque. | [noun] A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a model). | [noun] A ship commissioned for making captures. MARVY (13) [adjective] Great, awesome, brilliant MASER (7) [noun] A device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation (especially of microwave frequency) by the use of excitation energy in resonant atomic or molecular systems | [noun] Any celestial object that generates microwaves using the same method | [noun] The maple tree, or maple wood. MASHY (13) MASKS (11) [noun] A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection. | [noun] That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge. | [noun] A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade MASON (7) [noun] A bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick | [noun] One who prepares stone for building purposes. | [noun] A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason. MASSA (7) [noun] Someone who has control over something or someone. | [noun] The owner of an animal or slave. | [noun] The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner. MASSE (7) MASSY (10) [adjective] Heavy; massive. | [noun] Someone who has control over something or someone. | [noun] The owner of an animal or slave. MASTS (7) [noun] A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments ,or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires. | [noun] A non-judicial punishment ("NJP") disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those under his command. | [verb] To supply and fit a mast to (a ship). MATCH (12) [noun] A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match. | [noun] Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority. | [noun] Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison. | [noun] A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface. MATED (8) [verb] To put the king of an opponent into checkmate. | [verb] (by extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape. | [verb] To match, fit together without space between. MATER (7) [noun] Mother. | [noun] A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain. | [noun] Someone or something that mates. | [noun] Tomato. MATES (7) [noun] The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture. | [noun] (by extension) Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat. | [verb] To put the king of an opponent into checkmate. MATEY (10) [noun] The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture. | [noun] (by extension) Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat. | [noun] A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate. MATHS (10) [noun] An abstract representational system used in the study of numbers, shapes, structure, change and the relationships between these concepts. | [noun] A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels. MATIN (7) [noun] Morning | [adjective] Of or relating to matins MATTE (7) [noun] A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame. | [noun] A background, often painted or created with computers | [noun] (pyrometallurgy) The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals. MATTS (7) MATZA (16) MATZO (16) [noun] Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine. | [noun] A piece of the above bread. MAUDS (8) [noun] A grey plaid once worn by shepherds in Scotland and Northumbria. MAULS (7) [noun] A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat. | [noun] A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier. | [verb] To handle someone or something in a rough way. MAUND (8) [noun] A wicker basket. | [noun] A unit of capacity with various specific local values. | [noun] A handbasket with two lids. | [noun] A unit of weight in southern and western Asia, whose value varied widely by location. Two maunds made one chest of opium in East India. One maund equalled 136 pounds of opium in Turkey. | [noun] Begging MAUTS (7) MAUVE (10) [noun] A bright purple synthetic dye. | [noun] The colour of this dye; a pale purple or violet colour. | [adjective] Having a pale purple colour. MAVEN (10) [noun] An expert in a given field. MAVIE (10) MAVIN (10) MAVIS (10) [noun] Song thrush. MAWED (11) MAXES (14) [verb] (usually with out) to reach the limit, to reach the maximum. MAXIM (16) [noun] A self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule. | [noun] A precept; a succinct statement or observation of a rule of conduct or moral teaching. MAXIS (14) [noun] A coat or skirt having such a hemline | [noun] A class of racing sailing yacht that pushes at the upper limits of the International Offshore Rule of regulated sail yacht racing, having a waterline length in excess of 70-feet. | [noun] A music single with more than two tracks, i.e. not just an A-side and a B-side. MAYAN (10) MAYAS (10) MAYBE (12) [noun] Something that is possibly true. | [noun] An answer that shows neither agreement nor disagreement. | [noun] A future event that may or may not happen. MAYED (11) MAYOR (10) [noun] The chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough, &c., formerly usually appointed as a caretaker by European royal courts but now usually appointed or elected locally. | [noun] Short for mayor of the palace, the royal stewards of the Frankish Empire. | [noun] Synonym of mair, various former officials in the Kingdom of Scotland. MAYOS (10) [noun] A white person. | [noun] A dressing made from vegetable oil, raw egg yolks and seasoning, used on salads, with french fries, in sandwiches etc. | [noun] Any cold dish with that dressing as an ingredient. MAYST (10) [verb] To be strong; to have power (over). | [verb] (auxiliary) To be able; can. | [verb] To be able to go. MAZED (17) [verb] To amaze, astonish, bewilder | [verb] To daze, stupefy, or confuse MAZER (16) [noun] The maple tree, or maple wood. | [noun] A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl. MAZES (16) [noun] A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way. | [noun] Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle. | [noun] Confusion of thought; state of bewilderment. MBIRA (9) [noun] A thumb piano, a musical instrument having a small sound box fitted with a row of tuned tabs that are plucked with the thumbs, originating among the Shona of southern Africa; any type of plucked lamellophone of the same type as the Shona instrument. MEADS (8) [noun] An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water. | [noun] A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide. | [noun] A meadow. MEALS (7) [noun] Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack). | [noun] Food served or eaten as a repast. | [noun] A time or an occasion. MEALY (10) [adjective] Resembling meal (the foodstuff). MEANS (7) [verb] To lament. | [verb] To intend. | [verb] To convey (a meaning). MEANT (7) [verb] To intend. | [verb] To convey (a meaning). | [verb] To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says). MEANY (10) [noun] A mean (unkind or miserly) person; a killjoy. | [noun] A villain. MEATS (7) [noun] The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food. | [noun] A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance. | [noun] Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink. MEATY (10) [adjective] Of, relating to, or containing meat. | [adjective] Resembling meat in flavour, etc. | [adjective] Of a person or a body part, large and solid. MECCA (11) MEDAL (8) [noun] A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object. | [noun] A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward. | [verb] To win a medal. MEDIA (8) [noun] The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue. | [noun] A voiced stop consonant. | [noun] One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus | [noun] Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information. MEDIC (10) [noun] A doctor. | [noun] A paramedic, someone with special training in first aid, especially in the military. | [noun] A medical student. | [noun] Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc. MEDII (8) MEEDS (8) [noun] A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award. | [noun] A gift; bribe. | [noun] Merit or desert; worth. MEETS (7) [noun] A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet). | [noun] A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting. | [noun] A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. MEINY (10) MELDS (8) [verb] To combine multiple similar objects into one | [verb] In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards. MELEE (7) [noun] A battle fought at close range; hand-to-hand combat; brawling. | [noun] A noisy, confused or tumultuous fight, argument or scrap. | [noun] Any any confused, disorganised, disordered or chaotic situation. MELIC (9) [noun] Any of various grasses, of the genus Melica, from north temperate regions | [adjective] Of or pertaining to Greek lyric verse. MELLS (7) MELON (7) [noun] Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber. | [noun] The fruit of such plants. | [noun] A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh. | [noun] The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link. MELTS (7) [noun] Molten material, the product of melting. | [noun] The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state. | [noun] The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions. MEMOS (9) [noun] A short note; a memorandum. | [noun] A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation. | [verb] To record something; to make a note of something. MENAD (8) MENDS (8) [noun] A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending. | [noun] The act of repairing. | [verb] To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement. MENSA (7) MENSE (7) MENTA (7) MENUS (7) [noun] The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare. | [noun] A list of dishes offered in a restaurant. | [noun] A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface MEOUS (7) MEOWS (10) [noun] The cry of a cat. | [noun] The drug mephedrone. | [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. MERCY (12) [noun] Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another. | [noun] Forgiveness or compassion, especially toward those less fortunate. | [noun] A tendency toward forgiveness, pity, or compassion. MERDE (8) [noun] (quaint) shit MERER (7) MERES (7) [noun] A body of standing water, such as a lake or a pond. More specifically, it can refer to a lake that is broad in relation to its depth. Also included in place names such as Windermere. | [noun] Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line. | [noun] A Maori war-club. MERGE (8) [noun] The joining together of multiple sources. | [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To combine into a whole. MERIT (7) [noun] A claim to commendation or a reward. | [noun] A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence. | [noun] Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward. MERKS (11) MERLE (7) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] Any blackbird. | [noun] A type of mottled colouration on dogs. MERLS (7) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] Any blackbird. | [noun] A type of mottled colouration on dogs. MERRY (10) [adjective] Jolly and full of high spirits. | [adjective] Festive and full of fun and laughter. | [adjective] Brisk | [noun] An English wild cherry. MESAS (7) [noun] Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges. MESHY (13) MESIC (9) [adjective] (of a habitat) Moist. | [adjective] (of an organism) Adapted to a moist habitat. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to mesons; mesonic. MESNE (7) [noun] A mesne lord. | [adjective] Intermediate. MESON (7) [noun] (rare outside entomology) The mesial plane dividing the body into similar right and left halves. | [noun] A member of a group of subatomic particles having a mass intermediate between electrons and protons. (The most easily detected mesons fit this definition.) | [noun] (now specifically) An elementary particle that is composed of a quark and an antiquark, such as a kaon or pion. (Mesons composed of rarer quarks are much heavier.) MESSY (10) [adjective] (of a place, situation, person, etc) In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly. | [adjective] (of a person) Prone to causing mess. | [adjective] (of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with. METAL (7) [noun] (heading) Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from. | [noun] A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent and or. | [noun] Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects. METED (8) [verb] To measure. | [verb] (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.). METER (7) [noun] (always meter) A device that measures things. | [noun] (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment. | [noun] (always meter) One who metes or measures. METES (7) [verb] To measure. | [verb] (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.). | [noun] A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere. METHS (10) [noun] Methylated spirits. | [noun] Methamphetamine, especially in the form of the crystalline hydrochloride. | [noun] Methadone. METIS (7) [noun] A person of mixed-race ancestry. | [noun] A person of mixed European and Indigenous descent. | [noun] A person who self-identifies as Métis. | [noun] (knowledge management) Practical intelligence; street smarts. METRE (7) [verb] To measure with a metering device. | [verb] To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter. | [verb] To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath). | [noun] The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition. METRO (7) [noun] An underground railway. | [noun] A train that runs on such an underground railway. | [noun] An urban rapid transit light railway | [noun] A metropolitan area MEWED (11) [verb] To shut away, confine, lock up. | [verb] (of a bird) To moult. | [verb] (of a bird) To cause to moult. MEWLS (10) [noun] A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling. | [verb] To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine. MEZES (16) [noun] Small portions of starters typical of Turkish and Greek cuisine (equivalent to Spanish tapas or Hawaiian pu pu) often served as a light meal with pita. MEZZO (25) [noun] Mezzo-soprano MIAOU (7) MIAOW (10) [noun] The cry of a cat. | [noun] The drug mephedrone. | [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. MIASM (9) [noun] An unhealthy vapor or atmosphere; a miasma. | [noun] A predisposition to a particular disease, which interferes with subsequent treatment of it. MIAUL (7) [noun] The cry of a cat. | [verb] To give the cry of a cat. MICAS (9) MICHE (12) MICKS (13) [noun] An Irishman | [noun] A Catholic, particularly of Irish descent. MICRA (9) MICRO (9) [noun] (gaming slang) micromanagement | [verb] (gaming slang) to micromanage | [adjective] Small, relatively small; used to contrast levels of the noun modified. MIDDY (12) [noun] A midshipman | [noun] A measure of 285 ml (10 fl oz) of beer; a pot. MIDGE (9) [noun] Any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera | [noun] Any bait or lure designed to resemble a midge MIDIS (8) [noun] A native or inhabitant of Berlin. | [noun] A doughnut with a sweet filling. | [noun] A newspaper format with pages normally measuring about 315 by 470 millimetres (12.4 in × 18.5 inches), slightly taller and wider than a tabloid but narrower and shorter than a broadsheet. MIDST (8) [noun] A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location. | [preposition] Among, in the middle of; amid. MIENS (7) [noun] Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer. | [noun] A specific facial expression. MIFFS (13) [noun] A small argument; a quarrel. | [noun] A state of being offended. | [verb] (usually used in the passive) To offend slightly. MIFFY (16) [adjective] Easily irritated or offended. | [adjective] Particular; fussy. MIGGS (9) MIGHT (11) [noun] Power, strength, force or influence held by a person or group. | [noun] Physical strength or force. | [noun] The ability to do something. | [verb] To be strong; to have power (over). MIKED (12) [verb] To microphone; to place one or more microphones (mikes) on. | [verb] To measure using a micrometer. MIKES (11) [noun] A microphone. | [verb] To microphone; to place one or more microphones (mikes) on. | [verb] To measure using a micrometer. MIKRA (11) MILCH (12) [adjective] (of a cow, animal, etc.) Giving milk; in note | [adjective] Tender; pitiful; weeping. MILER (7) [noun] (often in combination) An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile, or a specified number of miles. | [noun] (in combination) A race whose length is the specified number of miles. MILES (7) [noun] 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. | [noun] 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. | [noun] Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet. MILIA (7) [noun] A keratin-filled cyst that can appear just under the epidermis or on the roof of the mouth. MILKS (11) [noun] A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt. | [noun] A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, and/or soy beans. Also called non-dairy milk. | [noun] An individual serving of milk. MILKY (14) [adjective] Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk. | [adjective] (color science) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black. | [adjective] (of a drink) Containing (an especially large amount of) milk. MILLE (7) MILLS (7) [noun] A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. | [noun] The building housing such a grinding apparatus. | [noun] A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process. MILOS (7) MILPA (9) MILTS (7) [noun] The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food. | [noun] The semen of a male fish. MILTY (10) MIMED (10) [verb] To mimic. | [verb] To act without words. | [verb] To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound. MIMEO (9) [noun] A mimeograph. | [noun] An unpublished academic paper. | [verb] To mimeograph. MIMER (9) MIMES (9) [noun] A form of acting without words; pantomime. | [noun] A pantomime actor. | [noun] A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce. MIMIC (11) [noun] A person who practices mimicry, or mime. | [noun] An imitation. | [verb] To imitate, especially in order to ridicule. MINAE (7) MINAS (7) MINCE (9) [noun] Finely chopped meat. | [noun] Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat. | [noun] An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait. MINCY (12) MINDS (8) [noun] The ability for rational thought. | [noun] The ability to be aware of things. | [noun] The ability to remember things. MINED (8) [verb] To remove (ore) from the ground. | [verb] To dig into, for ore or metal. | [verb] To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area). MINER (7) [noun] A person who works in a mine. | [noun] An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives. | [noun] Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina. MINES (7) [noun] Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer. | [noun] A specific facial expression. | [noun] An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels. MINGY (11) [adjective] Mean, miserly, stingy. MINIM (9) [noun] A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem. | [noun] A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water. | [noun] A short vertical stroke used in handwriting. MINIS (7) [noun] A miniskirt. | [noun] A minicomputer. MINKE (11) [noun] A minke whale, one of two species of baleen whales within Balaenoptera, the northern-dwelling species of which is often seen in coastal waters. MINKS (11) [noun] (plural mink or minks) Any of various semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals in the Mustelinae subfamily, similar to weasels, with dark fur, native to Europe and America, of which two species in different genera are extant: the American mink (Neovison vison) and the European mink (Mustela lutreola). | [noun] (plural mink) The fur or pelt of a mink, used to make apparel. | [noun] (plural minks) An article of clothing made of mink. MINNY (10) MINOR (7) [noun] A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities. | [noun] A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration. | [noun] Determinant of a square submatrix MINTS (7) [noun] A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence. | [noun] A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc. | [noun] Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself. MINTY (10) MINUS (7) [noun] The minus sign (−). | [noun] A negative quantity. | [noun] A downside or disadvantage. MIRED (8) [verb] To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. | [verb] To sink into mud. | [verb] To weigh down. | [noun] A unit of measurement for color temperature. MIRES (7) [noun] Deep mud; moist, spongy earth. | [noun] An undesirable situation, a predicament. | [verb] To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. MIREX (14) [noun] The pesticide and fire retardant perchloropentacyclodecane, which is a persistent organic pollutant. MIRKS (11) MIRKY (14) [adjective] Hard to see through, as a fog or mist. | [adjective] Dark, dim, gloomy. | [adjective] Cloudy, indistinct, obscure. MIRTH (10) [noun] The emotion usually following humour and accompanied by laughter; merriment; jollity; gaiety. | [noun] That which causes merriment. MIRZA (16) MISDO (8) MISER (7) [noun] A person who hoards money rather than spending it; one who is cheap or extremely parsimonious. | [noun] A kind of earth auger, typically large-bored and often hand-operated. MISES (7) MISOS (7) MISSY (10) [noun] A young female, or miss; as a term of mild disparagement, typically used jokingly or rebukingly. | [adjective] Girlish; effeminate; sentimental. | [adjective] Of, or pertaining to, female clothing or clothing sizes. | [noun] An impure yellow sulphate of iron; yellow copperas or copiapite. MISTS (7) [noun] Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. | [noun] A layer of fine droplets or particles. | [noun] Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision. MISTY (10) [adjective] Covered in mist; foggy. | [adjective] Dim; vague; obscure. | [adjective] With tears in the eyes; dewy-eyed. MITER (7) [noun] A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks. | [noun] The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint. | [noun] A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I. MITES (7) [noun] Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari). | [noun] A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. | [noun] A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ. MITIS (7) MITRE (7) [noun] A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks. | [noun] The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint. | [noun] A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I. MITTS (7) [noun] A mitten | [noun] An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt. | [noun] (especially in plural) A hand. MIXED (15) [verb] To stir together. | [verb] To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate). | [verb] To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts. MIXER (14) [noun] One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together. | [noun] One who mixes or socializes. | [noun] A machine outfitted with (typically blunt) blades with which it mixes or beats ingredients in a bowl below. MIXES (14) [verb] To stir together. | [verb] To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate). | [verb] To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts. MIXUP (16) [noun] A case of confusion. MIZEN (16) [noun] Mizzenmast. | [noun] A fore-and-aft sail set on a mizzenmast. MOANS (7) [noun] A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure | [verb] To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn. | [verb] To grieve. MOATS (7) [noun] A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation. | [noun] An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason. | [noun] A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it. MOCHA (12) [noun] A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof; a caffè mocha. | [noun] A coffee and chocolate mixed flavour. | [noun] A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee. MOCKS (13) [noun] An imitation, usually of lesser quality. | [noun] Mockery, the act of mocking. | [noun] A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam. MODAL (8) [noun] A modal proposition. | [noun] A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary. | [noun] (grammar) A modal verb. MODEL (8) [noun] A person who serves as a subject for artwork or fashion, usually in the medium of photography but also for painting or drawing. | [noun] A person, usually an attractive female, hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items given away as prizes on a TV game show. | [noun] A representation of a physical object, usually in miniature. MODEM (10) [noun] A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog/analogue telephone signals and vice versa and allows computers to communicate over a phone line. | [verb] To transmit by modem. MODES (8) [noun] One of several ancient Greek scales. | [noun] One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale. | [noun] A particular means of accomplishing something. MODUS (8) MOGGY (12) [noun] A young cow or bull. | [noun] Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding. | [noun] A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals). MOGUL (8) [noun] A rich or powerful person; a magnate. | [noun] A hump or bump on a skiing piste. | [noun] A larger-sized (39 mm diameter) screw base used for large, high-power light bulbs, known as mogul (screw) base light bulbs. MOHEL (10) [noun] The person who performs the circumcision in a Jewish bris. MOHUR (10) MOILS (7) [noun] Hard work. | [noun] Confusion, turmoil. | [noun] A spot; a defilement. MOIRA (7) MOIRE (7) [noun] Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat. | [noun] Any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given. MOIST (7) [verb] To moisten. | [adjective] Slightly wet; characterised by the presence of moisture, not dry; damp. | [adjective] Of eyes: tearful, wet with tears. MOJOS (14) [noun] A magic charm or spell. | [noun] Supernatural skill or luck. | [noun] Personal magnetism; charm. MOKES (11) [noun] A donkey. | [noun] A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net. | [noun] A black person. MOLAL (7) [adjective] Of or designating a solution that contains one mole of solute per 1000g of solvent MOLAR (7) [noun] A back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food. | [adjective] Of or relating to the molar teeth, or to grinding. | [noun] A unit of concentration equal to one mole per litre. MOLAS (7) [noun] A traditional textile art form of the Kuna people of Panama and Colombia, consisting of cloth panels to be worn on clothing, featuring complex designs made with multiple layers of cloth in a reverse appliqué technique. | [noun] A sunfish, Mola mola. MOLDS (8) [noun] A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance. | [noun] A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped. | [noun] Something that is made in or shaped on a mold. MOLDY (11) [adjective] Covered with mold. | [adjective] Stale or musty. MOLES (7) [noun] A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy. | [noun] Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae. | [noun] Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole rats. MOLLS (7) [noun] A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute. | [noun] A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals. | [noun] Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female. MOLLY (10) [noun] A woman or girl, especially of low status. | [noun] An effeminate male, a male homosexual. | [noun] Pure MDMA powder. | [noun] A fish of the genus Poecilia, except for those known as guppies. MOLTO (7) MOLTS (7) [noun] The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc. | [noun] The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting. | [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. MOMES (9) MOMMA (11) [noun] Mother | [noun] A voluptuous woman. | [noun] One's wife or girlfriend. MOMMY (14) [noun] (usually childish) Mother. | [verb] To treat someone like a mother would; to mother someone. | [adjective] (chiefly in the superlative) Characteristic of a mother; motherly. MOMUS (9) MONAD (8) [noun] An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible. | [noun] A single individual (such as a pollen grain) that is free from others, not united in a group. | [noun] A monoid object in the category of endofunctors of a fixed category. MONAS (7) MONDE (8) MONDO (8) [noun] A dialogue between master and student designed to obtain an intuitive truth. | [adjective] Big, large; major, significant. | [adverb] Very, extremely, really. MONEY (10) [noun] A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply. | [noun] A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value. | [noun] A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union). MONGO (8) [noun] Still-usable things salvaged (by sanmen) from garbage. MONIE (7) MONKS (11) [noun] A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service. | [noun] In earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally. | [noun] A male who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit. MONOS (7) [noun] A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding | [noun] A monogamous person. | [noun] An injective homomorphism MONTE (7) [noun] A game in which three or four cards are dealt face-up and players bet on which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt. | [noun] (Latin America) A wood or forest; timberland. MONTH (10) [noun] A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon. | [noun] A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof. | [noun] (in the plural) A woman's period; menstrual discharge. MOOCH (12) [noun] An aimless stroll. | [noun] One who mooches; a moocher. | [noun] A unit of time comprising ten days, used to measure how long someone holds a job. MOODS (8) [noun] A mental or emotional state, composure. | [noun] Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art). | [noun] A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood. MOODY (11) [adjective] Given to sudden or frequent changes of mind; temperamental. | [adjective] Sulky or depressed. | [adjective] Dour, gloomy or brooding. MOOED (8) [verb] Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound. MOOLA (7) [noun] Money, cash. MOOLS (7) MOONS (7) [noun] (by extension of Moon) Any natural satellite of a planet. | [noun] A month, particularly a lunar month. | [noun] A crescent-like outwork in a fortification. MOONY (10) [noun] The act of mooning, flashing the buttocks. | [noun] A silly person. | [adjective] Resembling the moon. MOORS (7) [noun] An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath | [noun] A game preserve consisting of moorland. | [verb] To cast anchor or become fastened. MOORY (10) MOOSE (7) [noun] The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers. | [noun] An ugly person. | [noun] An Asian girl taken as a lover. MOOTS (7) [noun] A moot court. | [noun] A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties. | [noun] A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks. MOPED (10) [verb] To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk. | [verb] To make spiritless and stupid. | [adjective] Melancholic, dejected. | [noun] A lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a small motor and pedals, designed to go no faster than some specified speed limit. MOPER (9) MOPES (9) [verb] To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk. | [verb] To make spiritless and stupid. MOPEY (12) MORAE (7) MORAL (7) [noun] (of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct. | [noun] A morality play. MORAS (7) MORAY (10) [noun] Any of the large cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae. MOREL (7) [noun] Any of several edible mushrooms, especially the common morel or yellow morel. | [noun] Any of several fungi in the genus Morchella, the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. | [noun] A variety of cultivated cherry, Prunus cerasus 'austera', having a dark skin MORES (7) [noun] A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws. | [noun] A carrot; a parsnip. | [noun] A root; stock. | [verb] To root up. MORNS (7) [noun] Morning. MORON (7) [noun] A stupid person; an idiot; a fool. | [noun] A person of mild mental subnormality in the former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50–70. MORPH (12) [noun] (grammar) A physical form representing some morpheme in language. It is a recurrent distinctive sound or sequence of sounds. | [noun] An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts. | [noun] Local variety of a species, distinguishable from other populations of the species by morphology or behaviour. | [noun] A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another. MORRO (7) MORSE (7) [noun] A clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually decorative. | [noun] A walrus. MORTS (7) [noun] Death; especially, the death of game in hunting. | [noun] A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer. | [noun] The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. MOSEY (10) [verb] To set off, get going; to start a journey. | [verb] To go off quickly: to hurry up. | [verb] To amble; to walk or proceed in a leisurely manner. MOSKS (11) MOSSO (7) MOSSY (10) [noun] Mosquito | [adjective] Covered in or overgrown with moss. MOSTE (7) MOSTS (7) MOTEL (7) [noun] A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms the entrances of which are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to automobiles parked there. | [noun] A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel. | [verb] To stay in a motel or motels. MOTES (7) [noun] A small particle; a speck. | [noun] A meeting for discussion. | [noun] A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs. MOTET (7) [noun] A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem. MOTEY (10) MOTHS (10) [noun] A small particle; a speck. | [noun] A meeting for discussion. | [noun] A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs. MOTHY (13) [adjective] Infested with moths | [adjective] Moth-eaten MOTIF (10) [noun] A recurring or dominant element; a theme. | [noun] A short melodic passage that is repeated in several parts of a work. | [noun] A decorative figure that is repeated in a design or pattern. MOTOR (7) [noun] A machine or device that converts other energy forms into mechanical energy, or imparts motion. | [noun] A motor car, or automobile. | [noun] A source of power for something; an inspiration; a driving force. MOTTE (7) [noun] A raised earth mound, often topped with a wooden or stone structure and surrounded with a ditch. | [noun] A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot. | [noun] A word or a motto; a device. MOTTO (7) [noun] A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement. | [noun] A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim. | [noun] A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto. MOTTS (7) MOUCH (12) MOUES (7) [noun] A pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness. MOULD (8) [noun] A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance. | [noun] A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped. | [noun] Something that is made in or shaped on a mold. | [noun] A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance. MOULT (7) [noun] The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc. | [noun] The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting. | [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. MOUND (8) [noun] An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense | [noun] A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. | [noun] Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch. MOUNT (7) [noun] A hill or mountain. | [noun] Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies. | [noun] A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound. | [noun] An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse MOURN (7) [noun] Sorrow, grief. | [noun] A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting. | [verb] To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death). MOUSE (7) [noun] Any small rodent of the genus Mus. | [noun] A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent. | [noun] A quiet or shy person. MOUSY (10) [noun] A mouse. | [adjective] Resembling a mouse. | [adjective] Abounding or infested with mice. MOUTH (10) [noun] The opening of a creature through which food is ingested. | [noun] The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water. | [noun] An outlet, aperture or orifice. MOVED (11) [verb] To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another. | [verb] To act; to take action; to begin to act | [verb] To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in. MOVER (10) [noun] Someone who or something that moves. | [noun] A dancer. | [noun] A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another. MOVES (10) [noun] The act of moving; a movement. | [noun] An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose. | [noun] A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc. MOVIE (10) [noun] A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion. | [noun] (usually plural) A cinema. MOWED (11) [verb] To cut down grass or crops. | [verb] To cut down or slaughter in great numbers. | [verb] To make grimaces, mock. MOWER (10) [noun] A lawnmower, a machine used to cut grass. | [noun] A person who cuts grass. MOXAS (14) MOXIE (14) [noun] Nerve, spunk, strength of character. | [noun] Verve. | [noun] Wit, smarts, skill. MOZOS (16) [noun] A male servant, especially an attendant to a bullfighter. | [noun] A title of respect for a young man (usually unmarried) with or without a name used. | [noun] An unmarried man, a boy. MUCID (10) [adjective] Musty; mouldy; slimy; mucous MUCIN (9) [noun] Any of several glycoproteins found in mucus MUCKS (13) [noun] (slimy) mud, sludge. | [noun] Soft (or slimy) manure. | [noun] Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty. MUCKY (16) [adjective] Covered in muck. | [adjective] Obscene, pornographic. MUCOR (9) MUCRO (9) [noun] A pointed end, often sharp, abruptly terminating an organ, such as a projection at the tip of a leaf; the posterior tip of a cuttlebone; or the distal part of the furcula in Collembola. MUCUS (9) [noun] A slippery secretion from the lining of the mucous membranes. MUDDY (12) [verb] To get mud on (something). | [verb] To make a mess of, or create confusion with regard to; to muddle. | [adjective] Covered with or full of mud or wet soil. MUDRA (8) [noun] Any of several formal symbolic hand postures used in classical dance of India and in Hindu and Buddhist iconography. | [noun] Any of the formal body positions and postures used in yoga and meditation. MUFFS (13) [noun] A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm. | [noun] Female pubic hair; female genitals. | [noun] A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet. MUFTI (10) [noun] A Muslim scholar and interpreter of shari’a law, who can deliver a fatwa. | [noun] A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform. MUGGS (9) MUGGY (12) [adjective] (Of the weather, air, etc) humid, or hot and humid. | [adjective] Wet or mouldy MUHLY (13) MUJIK (18) MULCH (12) [noun] Any material used to cover the top layer of soil to protect, insulate, or decorate it, or to discourage weeds or retain moisture. | [noun] A material used as mulch, as a decorative redwood bark mulch. | [verb] To apply mulch. MULCT (9) [noun] A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one. | [verb] To impose such a fine or penalty. | [verb] To swindle (someone) out of money. MULED (8) MULES (7) [noun] The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. | [noun] The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals. | [noun] A hybrid plant. | [verb] To remove skin from (an animal) to prevent myiasis. MULEY (10) [adjective] (of cattle or deer) Without horns. | [noun] Mule deer MULLA (7) [noun] A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law. MULLS (7) [noun] A thin, soft muslin. | [noun] Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking. | [noun] A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers. MUMMS (11) MUMMY (14) [noun] An embalmed human or animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and some Native American tribes. | [noun] (by extension) A reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a typical character in horror films. | [noun] (by extension) Any naturally preserved human or animal body. | [noun] (usually childish) mother. MUMPS (11) [noun] A grimace. | [verb] To mumble, speak unclearly. | [verb] To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness. MUMUS (9) MUNCH (12) [noun] A location or restaurant where good eating can be expected. | [noun] An act of eating. | [noun] Food. MUNGO (8) [noun] A material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woollen rags or the remnants of woollen goods, specifically those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woollen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy, or the deviled product of loose-textured woollen goods or worsted. MUNIS (7) [noun] A municipal bond. | [noun] A facility operated by a municipal government, such as a golf course or train line. | [noun] The municipal government / municipality MUONS (7) [noun] An unstable elementary particle in the lepton family, having similar properties to the electron but with a mass 207 times greater. MURAL (7) [noun] A large painting, usually drawn on a wall. | [verb] To create a mural. | [adjective] Of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall. MURAS (7) MURED (8) [verb] To wall in or fortify | [verb] To enclose or imprison within walls. MURES (7) [noun] Wall | [noun] Husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh MUREX (14) [noun] Any of the genus Murex of marine gastropods. MURID (8) [noun] Any rodent in the family Muridae. MURKS (11) MURKY (14) [adjective] Hard to see through, as a fog or mist. | [adjective] Dark, dim, gloomy. | [adjective] Cloudy, indistinct, obscure. MURRA (7) MURRE (7) [noun] Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks). MURRS (7) MURRY (10) MUSCA (9) MUSED (8) [verb] To become lost in thought, to ponder. | [verb] To say (something) with due consideration or thought. | [verb] To think on; to meditate on. MUSER (7) MUSES (7) [noun] A source of inspiration. | [noun] A poet; a bard. | [noun] An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness. MUSHY (13) [adjective] Resembling or having the consistency of mush; semiliquid, pasty, or granular. | [adjective] Soft; squishy. | [adjective] Overly sappy, corny, or cheesy; maudlin. MUSIC (9) [noun] A series of sounds organized in time, employing melody, harmony, tempo etc. usually to convey a mood. | [noun] Any pleasing or interesting sounds. | [noun] An art form, created by organizing of pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and sometimes singing. MUSKS (11) [noun] A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes. | [noun] A similar secretion produced by the otter and the civet. | [noun] A synthetic organic compound used as a substitute for the above. MUSKY (14) [adjective] Having the scent of musk | [noun] Muskellunge MUSSY (10) MUSTH (10) [noun] A time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness and often secrete leaking temporin from the sides of their heads. MUSTS (7) [noun] Something that is mandatory or required. | [noun] The property of being stale or musty. | [noun] Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty. MUSTY (10) [adjective] Having a stale odor. MUTCH (12) [noun] A nightcap (hat worn to bed). | [noun] A linen or muslin hat, especially one of a type once commonly worn by elderly women and young children. MUTED (8) [verb] To silence, to make quiet. | [verb] To turn off the sound of. | [verb] Of a bird: to defecate. MUTER (7) MUTES (7) [noun] A stopped consonant; a stop. | [noun] An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. | [noun] A person who does not have the power of speech. MUTON (7) [noun] A unit of mutation forming part of a recon. MUTTS (7) [noun] A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram. | [noun] A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of diverse ancestry. MUZZY (28) [adjective] Hazy, indistinct, blurred, unfocussed. | [adjective] Dazed; bewildered; tipsy. | [noun] A Muslim. MYNAH (13) [noun] One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae. MYNAS (10) [noun] One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae. MYOID (11) MYOMA (12) MYOPE (12) [noun] One who has myopia. MYOPY (15) MYRRH (13) [noun] A red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of a tree of the species Commiphora myrrha. | [noun] The herb chervil. MYSID (11) [noun] Any crustacean of the family Mysidae. MYTHS (13) [noun] A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc. | [noun] Such stories as a genre. | [noun] A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality. MYTHY (16) NAMED (8) [verb] (ditransitive) To give a name to. | [verb] To mention, specify. | [verb] To identify as relevant or important NAMER (7) NAMES (7) [noun] Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing. | [noun] Reputation. | [noun] An abusive or insulting epithet. NEEMS (7) [noun] Azadirachta indica, a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, whose seeds yield the insecticide azadirachtin. NEMAS (7) NEUME (7) [noun] Any of a set of signs used in early musical notation. | [noun] A sequence of notes to be sung to one syllable. NEUMS (7) [noun] Any of a set of signs used in early musical notation. | [noun] A sequence of notes to be sung to one syllable. NIMBI (9) [noun] A circle of light; a halo. | [noun] A gray rain cloud. NIZAM (16) [noun] The hereditary sovereign of Hyderabad, a former state of India. | [noun] The Turkish regular army; a soldier in the Turkish army. NOMAD (8) [noun] A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home. | [noun] A person who changes residence frequently. | [noun] A player who changes teams frequently. NOMAS (7) NOMEN (7) [noun] The name of a citizen of Ancient Rome, designating them as a member of a gens. | [noun] The birth name of a pharaoh, the fifth of the five names of the royal titulary, traditionally encircled by a cartouche and preceded by the title zꜣ-rꜥ. NOMES (7) [noun] A prefecture or unit of regional government in Greece. | [noun] A territorial division of ancient Egypt. | [noun] A type of musical composition in Ancient Greece. NOMOI (7) NOMOS (7) NORMS (7) [noun] That which is normal or typical. | [noun] A rule that is enforced by members of a community. | [noun] A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission or prohibition. NOTUM (7) [noun] The back; the dorsal aspect of the thorax in insects. NUMBS (9) [verb] To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally). | [verb] To cause (a feeling) to be less intense. | [verb] To cause (the mind, faculties, etc.) to be less acute. NUMEN (7) [noun] A divinity, especially a local or presiding god. | [noun] An influence or phenomenon at once mystical and transcendant. NYMPH (15) [noun] (Greek, Roman) Any female nature spirit associated with water, forests, grotto, wind, etc. | [noun] A young girl, especially one who is attractive, beautiful or graceful. | [noun] The larva of certain insects. OAKUM (11) [noun] A material, consisting of tarred fibres, used to caulk or pack joints in plumbing, masonry, and wooden shipbuilding. | [noun] The coarse portion separated from flax or hemp in hackling. ODEUM (8) [noun] An ancient Greek or Roman building used for performances of music and poetry. | [noun] A theatre or concert hall. ODIUM (8) [noun] Hatred; dislike. | [noun] The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness. OGAMS (8) [noun] A single character in this alphabet. OGHAM (11) [noun] A single character in this alphabet. | [proper noun] An ancient Celtic alphabet historically used to write Primitive Irish. OHMIC (12) OLEUM (7) [noun] A solution of sulfur trioxide in sulfuric acid. OMASA (7) [noun] The third part of the stomach of a ruminant. OMBER (9) OMBRE (9) [noun] A large Mediterranean food fish Umbrina cirrosa | [noun] (colors) A gradual blending of one color hue to another, usually moving tints and shades from light to dark. OMEGA (8) [noun] The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: ω. | [noun] (often capitalized) The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence. | [noun] Angular velocity; symbol: ω. OMENS (7) [noun] Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury. | [noun] A thing of prophetic significance. | [verb] To be an omen of. OMERS (7) [noun] A former small Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts. | [noun] A vessel of one omer. | [noun] The sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover. OMITS (7) [verb] To leave out or exclude. | [verb] To fail to perform. | [verb] To neglect or take no notice of. ONIUM (7) OOMPH (12) [noun] Strength, power, passion or effectiveness; clout. | [noun] Sex appeal. | [noun] A bassy grunting or thudding sound. OPIUM (9) [noun] A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine. | [noun] Anything that numbs or stupefies. ORMER (7) [noun] An abalone or sea-ear, particularly Haliotis tuberculata, common in the Channel Islands. OSMIC (9) [adjective] Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, osmium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a higher valence. OSMOL (7) OXIME (14) OXIMS (14) PALMS (9) [noun] Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics. | [noun] A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing. | [noun] (by extension) Triumph; victory. PALMY (12) [adjective] Made out of palm leaves or palm sap. | [adjective] Of, related to, or abounding in palm trees. | [adjective] Prosperous, flourishing, booming or thriving. PAMPA (11) PERMS (9) [noun] A permanent. | [noun] A permanent wave. | [verb] To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc. PIGMY (13) [noun] (often capitalized) A member of one of various Ancient Equatorial African tribal peoples, notable for their very short stature. | [noun] A member of a race of dwarfs. | [noun] Any dwarfish person or thing. PIMAS (9) PIMPS (11) [noun] Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander. | [noun] A man who can easily attract women. | [verb] To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander. PLASM (9) [noun] A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape. | [noun] Protoplasm PLUMB (11) [noun] A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction. | [noun] A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water. | [noun] The perpendicular direction or position. | [noun] The fruit and its tree. PLUME (9) [noun] A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one used as a decoration. | [noun] A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet; a hackle. | [noun] A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward. | [verb] To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes. PLUMP (11) [verb] To grow plump; to swell out. | [verb] To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up. | [verb] To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily. | [noun] The sound of a sudden heavy fall. | [noun] A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd. PLUMS (9) [noun] The fruit and its tree. | [noun] Extended senses. | [verb] To plumb. PLUMY (12) [adjective] Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery. POEMS (9) [noun] A literary piece written in verse. | [noun] A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry. | [noun] A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose. POMES (9) [noun] A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels. | [noun] A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service. POMMY (14) [noun] A pom; a person of British descent, a Briton; an Englishman. | [adjective] English; British. POMPS (11) [noun] Show of magnificence; parade; display; power. | [noun] A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant. PRAAM (9) [noun] A flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to convey cargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour. | [noun] A similar barge used as platform for cannons in shallow waters which seagoing warships cannot enter. | [noun] A type of dinghy with a flat bow. PRAMS (9) [noun] A small vehicle, usually covered, in which a newborn baby is pushed around in a lying position; a perambulator. | [noun] A flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to convey cargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour. | [noun] A similar barge used as platform for cannons in shallow waters which seagoing warships cannot enter. PRIMA (9) PRIME (9) [noun] The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour. | [noun] The religious service appointed to this hour. | [noun] The early morning generally. | [verb] To prepare a mechanism for its main work. | [noun] An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points. PRIMI (9) PRIMO (9) [noun] The principal part of a duet. | [adjective] Best; first-class. PRIMP (11) [verb] To spend time improving one's appearance, often in front of a mirror. | [verb] To dress in an affected manner. PRIMS (9) [verb] To make affectedly precise or proper. | [verb] To dress or act smartly. PRISM (9) [noun] A polyhedron with parallel ends of the same size and shape, the other faces being parallelogram-shaped sides. | [noun] A transparent block in the shape of a prism (typically with triangular ends), used to split or reflect light. | [noun] A crystal in which the faces are parallel to the vertical axis. PROEM (9) [noun] An introduction, preface or preamble. PROMO (9) [noun] An interview or monologue intended to promote a character or an upcoming match. | [verb] To promote; to publicize. | [noun] An advancement in rank or position. PROMS (9) [noun] A promenade concert | [noun] (abbreviation) promenade | [noun] A formal ball held at a high school or college on special occasions, e.g. near the end of the academic year PSALM (9) [noun] A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God. | [noun] One of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship. | [verb] To extol in psalms; to make music; to sing PUMAS (9) [noun] The mountain lion or cougar, Puma concolor. | [noun] A woman in her 20s or 30s who seeks relationships with younger men; a younger cougar. PUMPS (11) [noun] A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas. | [noun] An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping | [noun] A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel. PYGMY (16) [noun] (often capitalized) A member of one of various Ancient Equatorial African tribal peoples, notable for their very short stature. | [noun] A member of a race of dwarfs. | [noun] Any dwarfish person or thing. QUALM (16) [noun] A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc. | [noun] A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness. | [noun] A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. (Now often in negative constructions.) RAMEE (7) RAMET (7) RAMIE (7) [noun] (usually countable) A tall, tropical Asian perennial herb, Boehmeria nivea, cultivated for its fibrous stems. | [noun] (usually uncountable) fibre extracted from this plant, resembling flax. RAMMY (12) [adjective] Of a food, taste, odour etc.: like a ram; pungent, rank. | [adjective] Frisky, lecherous. | [noun] A disorderly argument or disturbance; a fracas. RAMPS (9) [noun] An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline. | [noun] A road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway. | [noun] A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport RAMUS (7) [noun] A small spray or twig. | [noun] A branching, as of nerves or blood vessels. | [noun] The stem of a barb of a feather, from which the barbules extend. REALM (7) [noun] An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined. | [noun] The domain of a certain abstraction. | [noun] A scope of operation in networking or security. REAMS (7) [verb] To cream; mantle; foam; froth. | [verb] To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider. | [verb] To shape or form, especially using a reamer. REARM (7) [verb] To replace or restore the weapons or arms of a previously defeated, or disarmed army, country, person or other body. REGMA (8) REHEM (10) REMAN (7) [verb] To supply with new personnel. | [adjective] Having the property of having undergone remanufacture REMAP (9) [verb] To assign differently; to relabel or repurpose. | [verb] To map again. REMET (7) REMEX (14) [noun] Quill | [noun] The flight feather of a bird. REMIT (7) [noun] Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope. | [noun] A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court. | [verb] To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply. REMIX (14) [noun] A rearrangement of an older piece of music, possibly including various cosmetic changes. | [noun] A piece of music formed by combining existing pieces of music together, possibly including various other cosmetic changes | [verb] To mix again. RETEM (7) RHEUM (10) [noun] Watery or thin discharge of serum or mucus, especially from the eyes or nose, formerly thought to cause disease. | [noun] Illness or disease thought to be caused by such secretions; a catarrh, a cold; rheumatism. | [noun] Tears. RHOMB (12) [noun] A rhombus. | [noun] A rhombohedron. RHUMB (12) [noun] A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle | [noun] One of the 32 points of the compass (compass points) | [noun] A unit of angular measure equal to 1/32 of a circle or 11.25° RHYME (13) [noun] Rhyming verse (poetic form) | [noun] A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse. | [noun] A word that rhymes with another. RIMED (8) [verb] To compose or treat in verse; versify. | [verb] (followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end. | [verb] Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each. RIMER (7) RIMES (7) [verb] To compose or treat in verse; versify. | [verb] (followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end. | [verb] Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each. ROAMS (7) [verb] To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination. | [verb] To use a network or service from different locations or devices. | [verb] To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them. ROMAN (7) [noun] One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight. | [noun] A novel. | [adjective] (of type) upright, as opposed to italic ROMEO (7) ROMPS (9) [noun] Someone who romps; especially, a girl or young woman who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy. | [noun] A period of boisterous play, a frolic; now especially, a bout of sexual activity, especially when illicit. | [noun] An enjoyable, fast-paced but essentially inconsequential film, play, or other piece of entertainment. ROOMS (7) [noun] Opportunity or scope (to do something). | [noun] Space for something, or to carry out an activity. | [noun] A particular portion of space. ROOMY (10) [noun] A roommate. | [adjective] Spacious, expansive, comfortable. RUMBA (9) [noun] A slow-paced Cuban partner dance in 4:4 time. | [verb] To dance the rumba RUMEN (7) [noun] The first compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminants. RUMMY (12) [noun] A card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong. | [noun] A rum-drinking alcoholic. | [adjective] Resembling or tasting of rum. RUMOR (7) [noun] A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth. | [noun] Information or misinformation of the kind contained in such claims. | [verb] (usually used in the passive voice) To tell a rumor about; to gossip. RUMPS (9) [noun] The hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs | [noun] A cut of meat from the rump of an animal. | [noun] The buttocks. SAGUM (8) SALMI (7) [noun] A rich stew or ragout, especially of game. SAMBA (9) [noun] A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style. | [noun] A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade. | [verb] To dance the samba. SAMBO (9) [noun] A sandwich. SAMEK (11) SAMPS (9) SATEM (7) SCAMP (11) [noun] A rascal, swindler, or rogue; a ne'er-do-well. | [noun] A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster. | [verb] To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion. | [noun] A preliminary design sketch. SCAMS (9) [noun] A fraudulent deal. | [noun] Something that is promoted using scams. SCHMO (12) [noun] A stupid or obnoxious person. SCRAM (9) [verb] Leave in a hurry, go away. | [noun] The emergency shutdown device of a nuclear reactor, originally specifically by insertion of one or more safety control rods. | [noun] An activation of the emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor. | [noun] A scratch, especially caused by claws or fingernails. SCRIM (9) [noun] A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, -- used for curtains, etc,. | [noun] A large military scarf, usually camouflage coloured and used for concealment when not used as a scarf. | [noun] A woven, nonwoven or knitted fabric composed of continuous strands of material used for reinforcing or strengthening membranes. | [noun] A practice match between one or more organized teams usually in preparation for a more competitive format, such as a tournament. SCRUM (9) [noun] A tightly-packed and disorderly crowd of people. | [noun] Specifically used in the Canadian media to describe a tightly-packed group of reporters surrounding a member of the Canadian House of Commons while in the Parliament Buildings. | [noun] In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way. Also known as a scrummage. SCUMS (9) [noun] A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water). | [noun] A greenish water vegetation (such as algae), usually found floating on the surface of ponds | [noun] The topmost liquid layer of a cesspool or septic tank. SEAMS (7) [noun] A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric. | [noun] A suture. | [noun] A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral. SEAMY (10) [adjective] Sordid, squalid or corrupt. | [adjective] Having or showing a seam. SEBUM (9) [noun] A thick oily substance, secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin, that consists of fat, keratin and cellular debris. SEDUM (8) [noun] Any of various succulent plants, of the genus Sedum, native to temperate zones; the stonecrop SEEMS (7) [verb] To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as. | [verb] To befit; to beseem. SEISM (7) SEMEN (7) [noun] A sticky, milky fluid produced in male reproductive organs that contains the reproductive cells. SEMES (7) [noun] A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric. | [noun] A suture. | [noun] A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral. | [verb] To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as. SEMIS (7) [noun] A semi-detached house. | [noun] A semitrailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler; an artic. | [noun] A semifinal. | [noun] A small bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at half an as. SERUM (7) [noun] The clear yellowish liquid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot. | [noun] Blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals, containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual, called antiserum. | [noun] A watery liquid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister. SHAME (10) [noun] Uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor or something being exposed that should have been kept private. | [noun] Something to regret. | [noun] Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision. | [verb] To cause to feel shame. SHAMS (10) [noun] A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine. | [noun] Trickery, hoaxing. | [noun] A false front, or removable ornamental covering. SHAWM (13) [noun] A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body. SHIMS (10) [noun] A wedge. | [noun] A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support. | [noun] A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes. SIGMA (8) [noun] The eighteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets, the twentieth letter of Old and Ancient. | [noun] The symbol Σ, used to indicate summation of a set or series. | [noun] The symbol σ, used to indicate one standard deviation from the mean, particularly in a normal distribution. SIMAR (7) SIMAS (7) SIMPS (9) [noun] A simple person lacking common sense; a fool or simpleton. | [noun] A man who foolishly overvalues and defers to a woman, putting her on a pedestal. | [noun] (by extension) Someone who foolishly overvalues someone else and defers to them, putting them on a pedestal. SIXMO (14) SKELM (11) SKIMO (11) SKIMP (13) [verb] To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of. | [noun] A skimpy or insubstantial thing, especially a piece of clothing. | [noun] (in the plural) Underwear. SKIMS (11) [verb] To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface. | [verb] To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of. | [verb] To hasten along with superficial attention. SLAMS (7) [verb] To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise. | [verb] To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.) | [verb] To strike forcefully with some implement. SLIME (7) [noun] Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. | [noun] Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs. | [noun] A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball. SLIMS (7) [noun] A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes. | [noun] A potato farl. | [noun] AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages. SLIMY (10) [noun] A ponyfish. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to slime | [adjective] Resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, or abounding in slime SLUMP (9) [noun] A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period. | [noun] A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed. | [noun] A boggy place. SLUMS (7) [noun] A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty. | [noun] Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game. | [verb] To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own. SMACK (13) [noun] A distinct flavor, especially if slight. | [noun] A slight trace of something; a smattering. | [noun] Heroin. | [noun] A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack | [noun] A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank. SMALL (7) [noun] Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back. | [verb] To make little or less. | [verb] To become small; to dwindle. SMALT (7) [noun] A deep blue pigment made from powdered glass mixed with cobalt oxide SMARM (9) [noun] Smarmy language or behavior. | [noun] A style of fan fiction in which characters are warm and caring toward each other but without sexual overtones. | [verb] To fawn, to be unctuous. SMART (7) [verb] To hurt or sting. | [verb] To cause a smart or sting in. | [verb] To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil. | [adjective] Exhibiting social ability or cleverness. | [noun] A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting. SMASH (10) [noun] The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together. | [noun] A traffic collision. | [noun] Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc); a hit. SMAZE (16) [noun] Smoky haze in the air. SMEAR (7) [noun] A mark made by smearing. | [noun] Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear. | [noun] A Pap smear. SMEEK (11) SMELL (7) [noun] A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance. | [noun] The sense that detects odours. | [noun] A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate. SMELT (7) [noun] Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe. | [noun] A fool; a simpleton. | [verb] To sense a smell or smells. | [noun] Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves melting and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal. SMERK (11) SMEWS (10) [noun] A small compact diving duck, Mergus albellus, that breeds in the northern taiga of Europe and Asia and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes. SMILE (7) [noun] A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement or anxiety. | [noun] Favour; propitious regard. | [noun] A drink bought by one person for another. SMIRK (11) [noun] An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied or scornful | [noun] A forced or affected smile; a simper | [verb] To smile in a way that is affected, smug, insolent or contemptuous. SMITE (7) [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To strike down or kill with godly force. | [verb] To injure with divine power. SMITH (10) [noun] A craftsperson who works metal into desired forms using a hammer and other tools, sometimes heating the metal to make it more workable, especially a blacksmith. | [noun] (by extension) One who makes anything; wright. | [noun] An artist. | [verb] To forge, to form, usually on an anvil; by heating and pounding. SMOCK (13) [noun] A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip. | [noun] A blouse; a smock frock. | [noun] A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc. SMOGS (8) [noun] A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution. | [verb] To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions. SMOKE (11) [noun] The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material. | [noun] A cigarette. | [noun] Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.) | [verb] To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc. SMOKY (14) [adjective] Filled with smoke. | [adjective] Giving off smoke. | [adjective] Of a colour or colour pattern similar to that of smoke. SMOLT (7) [adjective] Bright; serene. | [adjective] (of weather) Calm; fine; fair. | [adjective] Smooth and shining. | [noun] A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color. SMOTE (7) [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To strike down or kill with godly force. | [verb] To injure with divine power. SMUTS (7) [noun] Soot. | [noun] A flake of ash or soot. | [noun] Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material. SODOM (8) SOLUM (7) SOMAS (7) [noun] The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail. | [noun] The corporeal body, as distinguished from the psyche or soul and the pneuma or spirit. | [noun] The bulbous part of a neuron, containing the cell nucleus. SPASM (9) [noun] A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ. | [noun] A violent, excruciating seizure of pain. | [noun] A sudden and temporary burst of energy, activity, or emotion. SPERM (9) [noun] The reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon. | [noun] Semen; the generative substance of male animals. | [noun] Sperm oil; whale oil from a sperm whale; spermaceti. SPUME (9) [noun] Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater. | [verb] To froth. SPUMY (12) STAMP (9) [noun] An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof. | [noun] An indentation, imprint, or mark made by stamping. | [noun] A device for stamping designs. STEAM (7) [noun] The vapor formed when water changes from liquid phase to gas phase. | [noun] Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy. | [noun] Internal energy for motive power. STEMS (7) [noun] Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics. | [noun] An electron microscope that transmits a very narrow beam of electrons through a sample; it can detect individual large or heavy atoms. | [noun] A gleam of light; a flame. STIME (7) STIMY (10) STOMA (7) [noun] One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass. | [noun] A small opening in a membrane; a surgically constructed opening, especially one in the abdominal wall that permits the passage of waste after a colostomy or ileostomy. | [noun] A mouthlike opening, such as the oral cavity of a nematode. STOMP (9) [noun] A deliberate heavy footfall; a stamp. | [noun] A dance having a heavy, rhythmic step. | [noun] The jazz music for this dance. STORM (7) [noun] Any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially as affecting the earth's surface, and strongly implying destructive or unpleasant weather. | [noun] A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; violent outbreak. | [noun] A wind scale for very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane (10 or higher on the Beaufort scale). | [verb] (with adverbial of direction) To move quickly and noisily like a storm, usually in a state of uproar or anger. STRUM (7) [noun] The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously. | [noun] The act of strumming. | [verb] To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) using various strings simultaneously. STUMP (9) [noun] The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb. | [noun] The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting. | [noun] A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration. STUMS (7) [noun] Unfermented grape juice; must. | [noun] Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must. | [verb] To ferment. STYMY (13) SUMAC (9) [noun] Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and other genera in Anacardiaceae, particularly the elm-leaved sumac, Sicilian sumac, or tanner's sumac (Rhus coriaria). | [noun] Dried and chopped-up leaves and stems of a plant of the genus Rhus, particularly the tanner's sumac (see sense 1), used for dyeing and tanning leather or for medicinal purposes. | [noun] A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean, made from the berries of tanner's sumac. SUMMA (9) [noun] A comprehensive summary of, or treatise on a subject, especially theology or philosophy. SUMOS (7) [noun] A stylised Japanese form of wrestling in which a wrestler loses if he is forced from the ring, or if any part of his body except the soles of his feet touches the ground. | [noun] A rikishi (sumo wrestler) SUMPS (9) [noun] A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink. | [noun] The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains. | [noun] A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving. SWAMI (10) [noun] (used as a title) A Hindu ascetic or religious teacher. SWAMP (12) [noun] A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes. | [noun] A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment. | [noun] A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult. SWAMY (13) SWARM (10) [noun] A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony. | [noun] A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil. | [noun] A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network. SWIMS (10) [noun] An act or instance of swimming. | [noun] The sound, or air bladder, of a fish. | [noun] A part of a stream much frequented by fish. TAMAL (7) TAMED (8) [verb] To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. | [verb] To become tame or domesticated. | [verb] To make gentle or meek. TAMER (7) [adjective] Not or no longer wild; domesticated | [adjective] (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact | [adjective] Not exciting. TAMES (7) [verb] To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. | [verb] To become tame or domesticated. | [verb] To make gentle or meek. TAMIS (7) TAMMY (12) [noun] A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc. | [noun] A culinary strainer, originally made from worsted cloth | [noun] The cloth itself; tammy. | [noun] A tam o’shanter hat. TAMPS (9) [verb] (blasting) To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock. | [verb] To drive in or pack down by frequent gentle strokes | [verb] To reduce the intensity of. TEAMS (7) [noun] A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage. | [noun] Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work. | [noun] A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks. TEEMS (7) [verb] To be stocked to overflowing. | [verb] To be prolific; to abound; to be rife. | [verb] To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply. TEMPI (9) [noun] A frequency or rate. | [noun] A move which is part of one's own plan or strategy and forces, e.g. by means of a check or attacking a piece, the opponent to make a move which is not bad but of no use for him (the player gains a tempo, the opponent loses a tempo), or equivalently a player achieves the same result in fewer moves by one approach rather than another. | [noun] The timing advantage of being on lead, thus being first to initiate a strategy to develop tricks for one's side. TEMPO (9) [noun] A frequency or rate. | [noun] A move which is part of one's own plan or strategy and forces, e.g. by means of a check or attacking a piece, the opponent to make a move which is not bad but of no use for him (the player gains a tempo, the opponent loses a tempo), or equivalently a player achieves the same result in fewer moves by one approach rather than another. | [noun] The timing advantage of being on lead, thus being first to initiate a strategy to develop tricks for one's side. TEMPS (9) [noun] A temporary employee, usually in an office. | [noun] A temporary storage location. | [verb] To work as a temporary employee. TEMPT (9) [verb] To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice. | [verb] To attract; to allure. | [verb] To provoke something; to court. TERMS (7) [noun] That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary. | [noun] A chronological limitation or restriction. | [noun] Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract. THARM (10) THEME (10) [noun] A subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic. | [noun] A recurring idea; a motif. | [noun] An essay written for school. THERM (10) [noun] A former unit of heat equal to 100,000 British thermal units. Symbol: thm. THRUM (10) [noun] A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration. | [noun] A spicy taste; a tang. | [verb] To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking. | [noun] The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut. THUMB (12) [noun] The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers. | [noun] The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider. | [noun] A thumbnail picture. THUMP (12) [noun] A blow that produces a muffled sound. | [noun] The sound of such a blow; a thud. | [noun] Used to replace the vulgar or blasphemous element in "what the hell" and similar phrases. THYME (13) [noun] Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus, such as the garden thyme, Thymus vulgaris, a warm, pungent aromatic, that is much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups. THYMI (13) [noun] A ductless gland, consisting mainly of lymphatic tissue, located behind the top of the breastbone. It is most active during puberty, after which it shrinks in size. It plays an important role in the development of the immune system and produces lymphocytes. THYMY (16) TIMED (8) [verb] To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of. | [verb] To choose when something begins or how long it lasts. | [verb] To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time. TIMER (7) [noun] Someone or something which times. | [noun] A device used to measure amounts of time. | [noun] Any electronic function that causes a device to be able to do something automatically after a preset amount of time. TIMES (7) [noun] The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. | [noun] A duration of time. | [noun] An instant of time. TIMID (8) [adjective] Lacking in courage or confidence. TOMAN (7) TOMBS (9) [noun] A small building (or "vault") for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed. | [noun] A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave. | [noun] One who keeps secrets. TOMES (7) [noun] One in a series of volumes. | [noun] A large or scholarly book. TOMMY (12) [noun] Bread, generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance | [noun] A truck, or barter; the exchange of labour for goods instead of money. | [verb] To pay (employees) according to the truck system, with goods instead of money. TOTEM (7) [noun] Any natural object or living creature that serves as an emblem of a tribe, clan or family. | [noun] The representation of such object or creature. | [noun] The clan whose kinship is defined in reference to such an object or creature. TRAMP (9) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A homeless person; a vagabond. | [noun] A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut. | [noun] Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call. TRAMS (7) [noun] A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road (called a streetcar or trolley in North America). | [noun] A similar vehicle for carrying materials. | [noun] A people mover. TRIMS (7) [noun] Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders. | [noun] A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style. | [noun] Dress; gear; ornaments. TROMP (9) [verb] To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot. | [verb] To utterly defeat an opponent. | [noun] A blowing apparatus in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. TRUMP (9) [noun] The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others. | [noun] A playing card of that suit. | [noun] Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve. | [noun] A trumpet. | [noun] A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones. TRYMA (10) TUMID (8) [adjective] Swollen, enlarged, bulging | [adjective] Cancerous, unhealthy | [adjective] Pompous, bombastic TUMMY (12) [noun] (often childish) Stomach or belly. | [noun] Protruding belly, paunch. TUMOR (7) [noun] An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia. TUMPS (9) [noun] A mound or hillock. | [noun] A tumpline. ULAMA (7) [noun] A (modern) ball game, descended from tlachtli. | [noun] The devil bird (an avian cryptid of Sri Lanka) ULEMA (7) [noun] An educated scholar of Islamic law; a member of the ulema class UMBEL (9) [noun] A flat-topped or rounded flower-cluster (= inflorescence) in which the individual flower stalks arise from the same point, the youngest flowers being at the centre. UMBER (9) [noun] A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides. | [noun] A grayling. | [noun] A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop. UMBOS (9) [noun] A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane. For example the umbo in the integument of the larvæ of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear. | [noun] One of the lateral prominences just above the hinge of a bivalve shell. | [noun] A bump or protrusion on the top of the cap. UMBRA (9) [noun] The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object. | [noun] The central region of a sunspot. | [noun] A shadow. UMIAC (9) UMIAK (11) [noun] A large, open boat made of skins stretched over a wooden frame that is propelled by paddles; used by the Eskimos for transportation. UMIAQ (16) UMPED (10) [verb] To act as an umpire. UNARM (7) [verb] To disarm, to remove the armour and weapons from. | [verb] To remove one's armour. UNMAN (7) [verb] To castrate; to remove the manhood of. | [verb] To sap (a person) of the strength, whether physical or emotional, required to deal with a situation. | [verb] To deprive of men. UNMET (7) [adjective] Not met; unfulfilled; not achieved UNMEW (10) UNMIX (14) VAMPS (12) [noun] The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking. | [noun] Something added to give an old thing a new appearance. | [noun] Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished. VELUM (10) [noun] A thin membrane, resembling a veil, such as: | [noun] An accessory cloud resembling a veil extending over a large distance. Normally associated with cumulus and cumulonimbus. VENOM (10) [noun] A poison carried by an animal, usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging. | [noun] Feeling or speech marked by spite or malice; vitriol. | [verb] To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison. VIMEN (10) VOMER (10) [noun] The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils. VOMIT (10) [noun] The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus. | [noun] The act of regurgitating. | [noun] That which causes vomiting; an emetic. VROOM (10) [noun] The sound of an engine revving up. | [verb] To move with great speed; to zoom. | [interjection] The sound of an engine revving up. WAMES (10) WAMUS (10) WARMS (10) [noun] The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating. | [verb] To make or keep warm. | [verb] To become warm, to heat up. WHAMO (13) WHAMS (13) [noun] A forceful blow | [noun] The sound of such a blow; a thud | [verb] To strike or smash (into) something with great force or impact WHELM (13) [noun] A surge of water. | [verb] To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge. | [verb] To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it. WHIMS (13) [noun] A fanciful impulse, or whimsical idea | [noun] A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes | [noun] A bird, the Eurasian wigeon. WHOMP (15) [verb] Hit extremely hard. WHUMP (15) [noun] A thumping sound. | [noun] A genre of fan fiction in which a character endures injury, torture, or other forms of physical and mental suffering. | [verb] To strike something with a whump. WIMPS (12) [noun] Acronym of window, icon, menu, pointer. (a graphical interface paradigm) | [noun] Acronym of window-icon-mouse program. | [noun] A hypothetical class of particle, proposed to explain the dark matter problem. WIMPY (15) [adjective] Having the characteristics of a wimp; feeble, indecisive, cowardly. WOMAN (10) [noun] An adult female human. | [noun] (collective) All females collectively; womankind. | [noun] A female person, usually an adult; a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc. WOMBS (12) [noun] In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus. | [noun] The abdomen or stomach. | [noun] The stomach of a person or creature. WOMBY (15) WOMEN (10) [noun] An adult female human. | [noun] (collective) All females collectively; womankind. | [noun] A female person, usually an adult; a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc. WORMS (10) [noun] A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm. | [noun] More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms. | [noun] A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent. WORMY (13) [adjective] Of or like a worm or worms; shaped like a worm or worms. | [adjective] Infested with worms. XYLEM (17) [noun] A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of water and minerals taken up by the roots; also the primary component of wood. YAMEN (10) YAMUN (10) YLEMS (10) YOMIM (12) YUMMY (15) [adjective] (lighthearted) Delicious. | [noun] A mother who is sexually attractive. ZAMIA (16) [noun] Any of various cycads of the genera Zamia and Macrozamia ZIRAM (16) ZOMBI (18) ZOOMS (16) [verb] To communicate with someone using the Zoom videoconferencing software. | [noun] A humming noise from something moving very fast | [noun] A quick ascent ZYMES (19)

ABAMPS (12) ABLOOM (10) [adjective] Blooming; covered in flowers. | [adjective] Having something growing or grown. | [adjective] Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; exhibiting youth-like beauty. ABMHOS (13) ABOHMS (13) ABOMAS (10) ABYSMS (13) [noun] Hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos. | [noun] An abyss; a gulf, a chasm, a very deep hole. ACETUM (10) [noun] Vinegar or a sour liquid, especially vinegar used in medicine or cooking. ACUMEN (10) [noun] Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination. | [noun] A sharp, tapering point extending from a plant. | [noun] A bony, often sharp, protuberance, especially that of the ischium. ADEEMS (9) [verb] To revoke or take away a bequest or gift made in a will. | [verb] To fail to give what was promised or expected. ADMASS (9) [noun] That part of society that is influenced by mass media advertising. ADMIRE (9) [verb] To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at. | [verb] To regard with wonder and delight. | [verb] To look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence. ADMITS (9) [verb] To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration | [verb] To allow (someone) to enter a profession or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise. | [verb] To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny ADMIXT (16) [verb] Past tense and past participle of admix; to mix with something else. ADYTUM (12) [noun] The innermost sanctuary or shrine in a temple, from where oracles were given. | [noun] (by extension) A private chamber; a sanctum. AECIUM (10) [noun] A cup-shaped structure in rust fungi that produces spores, found on the upper surface of infected plant leaves. AFFIRM (14) [verb] To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively. | [verb] To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true. | [verb] To support or encourage. AFLAME (11) [adjective] In flames, on fire, flaming, with flames coming from it | [adjective] Showing anger or contempt AGAMAS (9) [noun] Any of the various small, long-tailed lizards of the subfamily Agaminae of family Agamidae, especially in genera Acanthocercus, Agama, Dendragama, Laudakia, Phrynocephalus, Trapelus and Xenagama. AGAMIC (11) [adjective] Occurring without the union of male and female gametes; asexual AGEISM (9) [noun] The treating of a person or people, especially youth or seniors, differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age. AGISMS (9) [noun] Plural of agism; discrimination or prejudice based on age. | [noun] Plural of agism; prejudiced attitudes or beliefs about people based on their age. AGLEAM (9) [adjective] Glowing with subdued light. AHIMSA (11) [noun] A doctrine of non-violence, concerned with the sacredness of all living things and an effort to avoid causing harm to them. AIDMAN (9) [noun] A medical corpsman or soldier trained to provide first aid and emergency medical treatment on the battlefield. AIDMEN (9) [noun] Plural of aidman; military medical personnel who provide first aid on the battlefield. AIMERS (8) [noun] Plural of aimer, one who aims. | [verb] Third person singular present tense of aim (archaic/dialectal usage). AIMFUL (11) AIMING (9) [verb] To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it | [verb] To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor;—followed by at, or by an infinitive | [verb] To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object AIRMAN (8) [noun] A pilot of an aircraft. | [noun] A member of an air force. | [noun] A person of a rank in the U.S. Air Force above airman basic and below airman first class. AIRMEN (8) [noun] A pilot of an aircraft. | [noun] A member of an air force. | [noun] A person of a rank in the U.S. Air Force above airman basic and below airman first class. AKIMBO (14) [adjective] With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward. | [adverb] Into, in, or of the position where the arms are akimbo. ALAMOS (8) ALARMS (8) [noun] A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. | [noun] Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. | [noun] A sudden attack; disturbance. ALARUM (8) [noun] A danger signal or warning. | [noun] A call to arms. | [verb] To sound alarums, to sound an alarm. ALBUMS (10) [noun] A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs. | [noun] A collection, especially of literary items | [noun] A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks ALGUMS (9) ALLIUM (8) [noun] Any of many bulbous plants of the genus Allium, related to onions and garlic. ALMAHS (11) ALMEHS (11) ALMNER (8) ALMOND (9) [noun] A type of tree nut. | [noun] A small deciduous tree in family Rosaceae, Prunus dulcis, that produces predominantly sweet almonds. | [noun] Other plants that produce almond-like nuts: ALMOST (8) [noun] Something or someone that doesn't quite make it. | [adverb] Very close to, not quite. ALMUCE (10) ALMUDE (9) ALMUDS (9) ALMUGS (9) ALUMIN (8) ALUMNA (8) [noun] A female pupil or student (especially of a university or college). | [noun] A female graduate. ALUMNI (8) [noun] An individual alumnus or alumna. | [noun] A male pupil or student. | [noun] A male graduate. AMADOU (9) [noun] A spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi, formerly used as a styptic and as tinder. AMARNA (8) AMATOL (8) [noun] A high explosive consisting of a mixture of ammonium nitrate and trinitrotoluene. Compare sodatol AMAZED (18) [verb] To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex. | [verb] To undergo amazement; to be astounded. | [verb] To stupefy; to knock unconscious. AMAZES (17) [verb] To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex. | [verb] To undergo amazement; to be astounded. | [verb] To stupefy; to knock unconscious. AMAZON (17) [noun] A tall, strong, athletic woman. AMBAGE (11) AMBARI (10) AMBARY (13) AMBEER (10) AMBERS (10) [noun] Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale. | [noun] A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight. | [noun] A yellow-orange colour. AMBERY (13) AMBITS (10) [noun] The sphere or area of control and influence of something. | [noun] A circuit, or a boundary around a property. | [noun] The extent of actions, thoughts, or the meaning of words, etc. AMBLED (11) [verb] To stroll or walk slowly and leisurely. | [verb] Of a quadruped: to move along by using both legs on one side, and then the other. AMBLER (10) AMBLES (10) [noun] An unhurried leisurely walk or stroll. | [noun] An easy gait, especially that of a horse. | [verb] To stroll or walk slowly and leisurely. AMBUSH (13) [noun] The act of concealing oneself and lying in wait to attack by surprise. | [noun] An attack launched from a concealed position. | [noun] The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; those who lie in wait. AMEBAE (10) [noun] A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia. | [noun] The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers. | [noun] An asexual. AMEBAN (10) AMEBAS (10) [noun] A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia. | [noun] The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers. | [noun] An asexual. AMEBIC (12) AMEERS (8) AMENDS (9) [noun] (usually in the plural) An act of righting a wrong; compensation. | [verb] To make better; improve. | [verb] To become better. AMENTS (8) [noun] A catkin or amentum. | [noun] A congenital idiot. AMERCE (10) [verb] To impose a fine on; to fine. | [verb] To punish; to make an exaction. AMICES (10) [noun] A hood, or cape with a hood, made of or lined with grey fur, formerly worn by the clergy. AMICUS (10) [noun] Someone not a party to a case who submits a brief and/or presents oral argument in that case. AMIDES (9) [noun] Any derivative of an oxoacid in which the hydroxyl group has been replaced with an amino or substituted amino group; especially such derivatives of a carboxylic acid, the carboxamides or acid amides | [noun] Any ionic derivative of ammonia in which a hydrogen atom has been replaced with a metal cation (R-NH- or R2N-) AMIDIC (11) AMIDIN (9) AMIDOL (9) AMIDST (9) [preposition] In the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among. AMIGAS (9) [noun] Plural of amiga; female friends (Spanish word used in English contexts). AMIGOS (9) [noun] Friend | [noun] (chiefly California) Mexican | [noun] A native of the Philippines who was friendly toward the Spanish. AMINES (8) [noun] A functional group formally derived from ammonia by replacing one, two or three hydrogen atoms with hydrocarbon or other radicals. | [noun] Any organic compound containing an amine functional group. AMINIC (10) [adjective] Relating to or containing an amine group; of or pertaining to amines in chemistry. AMMINE (10) [noun] A coordination compound formed by the combination of ammonia with a metal salt or other compound. AMMINO (10) AMMONO (10) AMNION (8) [noun] The innermost membrane of the fetal membranes of reptiles, birds, and mammals; the sac in which the embryo is suspended. AMOEBA (10) [noun] A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia. | [noun] The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers. | [noun] An asexual. AMOLES (8) [noun] Any of various parts of the Agave (or similar) plants, when used as soap | [noun] Other Mexican and North American plants used as soap AMORAL (8) [adjective] (of acts) Neither moral nor immoral. | [adjective] (of people) Not believing in or caring for morality and immorality. AMOUNT (8) [noun] The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English). | [noun] A quantity or volume. | [noun] (sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set. AMOURS (8) [noun] Love, affection. | [noun] Courtship; flirtation. | [noun] A love affair. AMPERE (10) [noun] A unit of electrical current, the standard base unit in the International System of Units; colloquially amp. Abbreviation: amp, Symbol: A AMPLER (10) [adjective] Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; for example spacious, roomy or widely extended. | [adjective] Fully sufficient; abundant; plenty | [adjective] Not contracted or brief; not concise; extended; diffusive AMPULE (10) [noun] A small hermetically sealed vial, often used to contain a sterile solution suitable for injection. AMPULS (10) [noun] A small hermetically sealed vial, often used to contain a sterile solution suitable for injection. | [noun] An Ancient Roman two-handled vessel. | [noun] A vessel for containing consecrated wine or oil. AMRITA (8) [noun] In Hindu and Buddhist mythology, the drink of the gods that confers immortality. | [noun] Nectar or elixir in general. AMTRAC (10) [noun] An amphibious vehicle of a class introduced in World War II. AMUCKS (14) [noun] Plural of amuck, meaning a state of violent frenzy or uncontrolled behavior. | [verb] Third person singular of amuck, meaning to rush about in a violent or murderous frenzy. AMULET (8) [noun] A kind of protective charm or ornament, often bearing magical symbols, worn for protection against ill will, negative influences or evil spirits. AMUSED (9) [verb] To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions. | [verb] To cause laughter or amusement; to be funny. | [verb] To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude. AMUSER (8) [noun] One who amuses; a person or thing that provides entertainment or causes laughter. AMUSES (8) [verb] To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions. | [verb] To cause laughter or amusement; to be funny. | [verb] To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude. AMUSIA (8) [noun] A neurological condition characterized by the inability to perceive, appreciate, or produce music. AMYLIC (13) [adjective] Relating to or derived from starch; of or containing amyl compounds. AMYLUM (13) [noun] Starch, especially when used in medicine or as a thickening agent. ANADEM (9) [noun] A wreath or garland, especially one worn on the head as a crown or decoration. ANEMIA (8) [noun] A medical condition in which the capacity of the blood to transport oxygen to the tissues is reduced, either because of too few red blood cells, or because of too little hemoglobin, resulting in pallor and fatigue. | [noun] A disease or condition that has anemia as a symptom. | [noun] (obsolete) Ischemia. ANEMIC (10) [noun] An individual who has anemia. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or suffering from anemia. | [adjective] (by extension) Weak; listless; lacking power, vigor, vitality, or colorfulness. ANIMAL (8) [noun] In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants). | [noun] In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human. | [noun] In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not fishes, insects, etc.). | [adjective] Of or relating to animals. ANIMAS (8) [noun] The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus. | [noun] (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the unconscious as opposed to the persona. | [noun] (Jungian psychology) The unconscious feminine aspect of a person. ANIMES (8) [noun] Plural of anime; Japanese animated films or television series, typically characterized by colorful graphics and often featuring science fiction or fantasy themes. ANIMIS (8) [noun] Plural of animus; the rational soul or life principle in ancient philosophy. | [noun] Hostile feelings or animosity toward someone. ANIMUS (8) [noun] The basic impulses and instincts which govern one's actions. | [noun] A feeling of enmity, animosity or ill will. | [noun] The masculine aspect of the feminine psyche or personality. ANOMIC (10) [adjective] Relating to or characterized by anomie, a state of normlessness or social instability. | [adjective] Relating to anomia, a condition of being unable to name objects. ANOMIE (8) [noun] Alienation or social instability caused by erosion of standards and values. ANONYM (11) [noun] An anonymous person. | [noun] An assumed or false name; a pseudonym. | [noun] A mere name; a name resting upon no diagnosis or other recognized basis. ANTHEM (11) [noun] Antiphon. | [noun] A choral or vocal composition, often with a religious or political lyric. | [noun] A hymn of praise or loyalty. ANTRUM (8) [noun] A bodily cavity, especially one having bony walls, especially one in the sinuses. APLOMB (12) [noun] Self-confidence; poise; composure. | [noun] The apparent elegance and precision exhibited by a confident, accomplished dancer. | [noun] The perpendicular; perpendicularity. ARAMID (9) [noun] Any of a class of strong, heat-resistant synthetic fibres, used in aerospace and military applications. ARMADA (9) [noun] A fleet of warships, especially with reference to the Spanish Armada. | [noun] Any large army or fleet of military vessels. | [noun] A large flock of anything. ARMERS (8) [noun] Plural of armer; those who arm or equip with weapons. | [noun] Plural of arm; limbs of the body, or devices that extend from a central point. ARMETS (8) [noun] Plural of armet, a type of close helmet worn by soldiers in the 15th and 16th centuries. ARMFUL (11) [noun] The amount an arm or arms can hold. ARMIES (8) [noun] A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations. | [noun] The governmental agency in charge of a state's army. | [noun] A large group of people working toward the same purpose. ARMING (9) [verb] To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms. | [verb] To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons. | [verb] To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate. ARMLET (8) [noun] A band that is worn on the arm that for ornamental or identification purposes. | [noun] A small arm. ARMORS (8) [noun] A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces. | [noun] A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body. | [noun] Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft. ARMORY (11) [noun] Heraldry | [noun] A place where arms are kept, an arsenal. | [noun] A collection of weapons and materiel. ARMOUR (8) [noun] A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces. | [noun] A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body. | [noun] Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft. ARMPIT (10) [noun] The cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder. | [noun] Somewhere or something considered unpleasant or undesirable. ARMURE (8) AROMAS (8) [noun] A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one. ASARUM (8) [noun] A genus of climbing or low-growing plants of the birthwort family, native to Asia and North America, having heart-shaped leaves and small flowers. ASHMAN (11) [noun] A person whose job is to collect and remove ashes, especially from fireplaces or furnaces. ASHMEN (11) [noun] Plural of ashman, a person whose job is to collect and remove ashes. ASHRAM (11) [noun] A secluded religious hermitage inhabited by gurus, or the population of such a hermitage. ASRAMA (8) [noun] One of the four stages of life in Hinduism, comprising studenthood, householdership, forest retirement, and renunciation. ASSUME (8) [verb] To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof | [verb] To take on a position, duty or form | [verb] To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate ASTHMA (11) [noun] A long-term respiratory condition, in which the airways may unexpectedly and suddenly narrow, often in response to an allergen, cold air, exercise, or emotional stress. Symptoms include wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing. ASWARM (11) [adjective] Filled or overrun (with moving objects or beings). ASYLUM (11) [noun] A place of safety. | [noun] The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place. | [noun] A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill. ATAMAN (8) [noun] A title of Cossack and haidamak leaders of various kinds. The term was also used for the leader of a fisherman artel and of a band of robbers or thieves. ATMANS (8) [noun] (Vedanta) The true self of an individual beyond identification with worldly phenomena, the essence of an individual, an infinitesimal part of Brahman. ATOMIC (10) [noun] An atomic operation. | [adjective] Of or relating to atoms; composed of atoms; monatomic. | [adjective] Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes. ATRIUM (8) [noun] A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings. | [noun] A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels. | [noun] A cavity, entrance, or passage. AURUMS (8) [noun] Plural of aurum, the Latin name for the chemical element gold. AUTISM (8) [noun] A pervasive neurological disorder that is observable in early childhood and persists throughout the lifespan, characterised by atypical communication, language development, eye contact, and sensory experiences. | [noun] (now medically obsolete) A diagnosis involving a pathological tendency to engage in self-centered fantasy thinking, historically considered a symptom of insanity and/or schizophrenia. | [noun] (4chan) Abnormal and unhealthy focus or persistence, and unhealthy hatred of opposition or criticism. AUTUMN (8) [noun] Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves; typically regarded as being from September 24 to December 22 in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere. | [noun] (by extension) The time period when someone or something is past its prime. | [noun] A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing. AWMOUS (11) AXEMAN (15) [noun] A man who wields an axe. | [noun] A musician who plays a guitar or saxophone. AXEMEN (15) [noun] A man who wields an axe. | [noun] A musician who plays a guitar or saxophone. AXIOMS (15) [noun] A seemingly self-evident or necessary truth which is based on assumption; a principle or proposition which cannot actually be proved or disproved. | [noun] (proof theory) A fundamental assumption that serves as a basis for deduction of theorems; a postulate (sometimes distinguished from postulates as being universally applicable, whereas postulates are particular to a certain science or context). | [noun] An established principle in some artistic practice or science that is universally received. BAALIM (10) [noun] Plural of baal, referring to false gods or idols in biblical and historical contexts. BADMAN (11) [noun] A criminal or violent person, especially in Jamaican English or dancehall culture. | [noun] In gaming contexts, a skilled or formidable player or character. BADMEN (11) [noun] Plural of badman; criminals, gangsters, or tough individuals, particularly in Caribbean English and reggae culture. BAGMAN (11) [noun] A person who collects, transports, or distributes illicit money, especially for the purpose of bribery, extortion, or the making of other improper payments. | [noun] An assistant to a police detective, most commonly in the British police force. | [noun] A bookmaker. BAGMEN (11) [noun] A person who collects, transports, or distributes illicit money, especially for the purpose of bribery, extortion, or the making of other improper payments. | [noun] An assistant to a police detective, most commonly in the British police force. | [noun] A bookmaker. BALSAM (10) [noun] A sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from various plants. | [noun] A plant or tree yielding such substance. | [noun] A soothing ointment. BAMBOO (12) [noun] A grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the Bambuseae tribe. | [noun] The wood of the bamboo plant as a material or cane. | [noun] A didgeridoo. BAMMED (13) BANTAM (10) [noun] Any of several small chickens, especially of a breed that is a miniature version of another breed. | [noun] A competitor in an age division between peewee and midget. | [adjective] Small or miniature. BARIUM (10) [noun] The chemical element (symbol Ba) with an atomic number of 56. It is a soft, reactive, silvery alkaline earth metal. | [noun] A single atom of this element. | [noun] Barium sulfate suspension. BARMAN (10) [noun] A man who works in a bar. BARMEN (10) [noun] A man who works in a bar. BARMIE (10) [adjective] Infested with barm or yeast; fermenting. | [adjective] British slang for foolish or crazy. BATMAN (10) [noun] A servant or valet to an army officer. | [noun] (by extension) A personal assistant or supporter. | [verb] To act as a batman. | [noun] A unit of weight established in 1931 equal to 10 kg. | [verb] (mountaineering) To climb up or down a rope free hand (i.e. as Batman does). BATMEN (10) [noun] A servant or valet to an army officer. | [noun] (by extension) A personal assistant or supporter. BAYAMO (13) BAYMAN (13) BAYMEN (13) [noun] Plural of bayman; men who work in or around bays, particularly those engaged in fishing or oystering in coastal bay areas. BEAMED (11) [verb] To emit beams of light; shine; radiate. | [verb] To smile broadly or especially cheerfully. | [verb] To furnish or supply with beams BECALM (12) [verb] To make calm or still; make quiet; calm. | [verb] To deprive (a ship) of wind, so that it cannot move (usually in passive). BECAME (12) [verb] To arrive, come (to a place). | [verb] To come about; happen; come into being; arise. | [verb] Begin to be; turn into. BECOME (12) [verb] To arrive, come (to a place). | [verb] To come about; happen; come into being; arise. | [verb] Begin to be; turn into. BEDAMN (11) [verb] To curse or damn; to condemn or express anger at. BEDIMS (11) [verb] To make dim; to obscure or darken. BEDLAM (11) [noun] A place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails. | [noun] An insane person; a lunatic; a madman. | [noun] A lunatic asylum; a madhouse. BEDUMB (13) BEGRIM (11) [verb] To make dirty or grimy; to soil or smudge. BEGUMS (11) [noun] A high-ranking Muslim woman, especially in India and Pakistan | [noun] The form of address for such a woman BELDAM (11) [noun] A grandmother. | [noun] An old woman, particularly an ugly one. BEMATA (10) [noun] A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. | [noun] Raised area of worship in a synagogue upon which rests the Holy Ark containing Scrolls of Torah. BEMEAN (10) [verb] To degrade, demean, or lower in rank or dignity. BEMIRE (10) [verb] To soil with mud or a similar substance. | [verb] To immerse or trap in mire. BEMIST (10) [verb] To cover or obscure with mist. BEMIXT (17) [verb] Past tense of "bemix," meaning to mix together or mingle. BEMOAN (10) [verb] To moan or complain about (something). | [verb] To be dismayed or worried about (someone), particularly because of their situation or what has happened to them. BEMOCK (16) [verb] To mock or ridicule; to treat with contempt or derision. BEMUSE (10) [verb] To confuse or bewilder. | [verb] To devote to the Muses. BENAME (10) [verb] To name or call by a particular name. | [verb] To suit or befit. BENUMB (12) [verb] To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic. | [verb] To deaden, dull (the mind, faculties, etc.). BERIME (10) BERMES (10) [noun] Plural of berme, a narrow ledge or path at the top or bottom of a slope, embankment, or ditch. | [noun] Strips of land between a canal or fortification and a moat or ditch. BESEEM (10) [verb] To be suitable or appropriate for; to befit. BESMUT (10) BESOMS (10) [noun] A broom made from a bundle of twigs tied onto a shaft. | [noun] A troublesome woman. | [noun] Any cleansing or purifying agent. BETIME (10) BEWORM (13) BIFORM (13) [adjective] Having two forms or shapes. BIGAMY (14) [noun] The state of having two (legal or illegal) spouses simultaneously. | [noun] A second marriage after the death of a spouse. BIMAHS (13) [noun] The raised platform in the front of a synagogue where the Torah is read on a podium. BIMBOS (12) [noun] A physically attractive woman who lacks intelligence. | [noun] A stupid or foolish person. BIOMES (10) [noun] Any major regional biological community such as that of forest or desert | [noun] All the genomes of such a community BIREME (10) [noun] (history) an ancient galley having two banks of oars, one above the other. BLAMED (11) [verb] To censure (someone or something); to criticize. | [verb] To bring into disrepute. | [verb] (usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative). BLAMER (10) [noun] One who blames; a person who assigns fault or responsibility to another. BLAMES (10) [verb] To censure (someone or something); to criticize. | [verb] To bring into disrepute. | [verb] (usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative). BLIMEY (13) [interjection] Used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc. BLIMPS (12) [noun] An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container. | [noun] (by extension) Any large airborne inflatable. | [noun] An obese person. BLOOMS (10) [noun] A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud. | [noun] Flowers, collectively. | [noun] The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open. BLOOMY (13) [adjective] Covered with or having the appearance of bloom; flowering or blossoming. | [adjective] Having a whitish or grayish powdery coating on the surface. BLUMED (11) BLUMES (10) BOMBAX (19) [noun] A tropical tree of the mallow family, particularly the silk cotton tree, known for its large flowers and seed pods filled with silky fiber. BOMBED (13) [verb] To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard. | [verb] To fail dismally. | [verb] To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs. BOMBER (12) [noun] A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs. | [noun] A person who sets bombs, especially as an act of terrorism. | [noun] A bomber jacket. | [adjective] Completely solid and secure, usually referring to some form of protective gear (n.b. the forms "more bomber" or "most bomber" are unusual). BOMBES (12) [noun] A dessert made from ice cream frozen in a (generally spherical or hemispherical) mold. | [noun] (chiefly in German cooking) A small, cylindrical or spherical chocolate-covered confection. (Compare truffle.) | [noun] An electromechanical device used in early cryptanalysis. BOMBYX (22) [noun] A genus of moths that includes the silkworm, producing silk fiber. BOOMED (11) [verb] To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound. | [verb] (of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder. | [verb] To make something boom. BOOMER (10) [noun] A person born in the postwar years (generally considered in the United States and other Allied countries as between 1946 and the early 1960s), when there was a marked increase in birthrates throughout the Western world following the return of servicemen at the end of World War II. | [noun] An adult male kangaroo. | [noun] (by extension) A person who does not know how to utilize new technologies well. BOSOMS (10) [noun] (somewhat obsolete) The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal). | [noun] The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings etc.; one's secret feelings; desire. | [noun] The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace. BOSOMY (13) [adjective] Full of sheltered hollows or recesses. | [adjective] Having a large bosom. BOTTOM (10) [noun] The lowest part of anything. | [noun] Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment. | [noun] Low-lying land; a valley or hollow. BOWMAN (13) [noun] A man who uses a bow; an archer. | [noun] The person, in a team or among oarsmen, positioned nearest the bow. BOWMEN (13) [noun] A man who uses a bow; an archer. | [noun] The person, in a team or among oarsmen, positioned nearest the bow. BRAHMA (13) [noun] A Hindu deity associated with creation, the first god in the Trimurti. | [noun] A large domesticated chicken breed originating from Asia. BREAMS (10) [noun] A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known. | [noun] A species in that genus, Abramis brama. | [noun] An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. BREGMA (11) [noun] The point on the skull where the coronal and sagittal sutures meet. BROMAL (10) [noun] A colorless liquid compound (CHBr₃) that is used as a sedative and hypnotic agent. BROMES (10) [noun] Plural of brome, a type of grass in the genus Bromus, commonly found in grasslands and used for forage. | [noun] Bromine compounds or brominated substances. BROMIC (12) [adjective] Of, relating to, or containing bromine. BROMID (11) [noun] A hackneyed or trite saying; a platitude. | [noun] A chemical compound of bromine with another element or radical. BROMIN (10) BROMOS (10) [noun] Plural of bromo, a type of chemical compound containing bromine, or informal short form for bromide photographs used in printing and photography. BROOMS (10) [verb] To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping. | [noun] A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping. | [noun] An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper. BROOMY (13) [adjective] Resembling or containing broom (a shrubby plant); covered with broom plants. | [adjective] Sweeping or brushing in manner. BRUMAL (10) [adjective] Of or relating to winter; wintry. BRUMBY (15) [noun] A wild or feral horse. BRUMES (10) [noun] Plural of brume; mists or fogs. | [verb] Third person singular of brume; to obscure with mist or fog. BUMBLE (12) [noun] A confusion; a jumble. | [verb] To act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes. | [noun] A bumble-bee. BUMKIN (14) [noun] A projecting beam or spar extending from the side of a ship, used to secure rigging or extend the sail. | [noun] A country person; a rustic or unsophisticated person. BUMMED (13) [verb] To sodomize; to engage in anal sex. | [verb] To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something. | [verb] To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter. BUMMER (12) [noun] A forager, especially in Sherman's March to the Sea of November to December 1864. | [noun] An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. | [noun] A lamb (typically the smallest of a multiple birth) which has been abandoned by its mother or orphaned, and as a consequence is raised in part or in whole by humans. | [adjective] Of poor quality or highly undesirable. | [noun] A disappointment, a pity, a shame. | [noun] Homosexual male BUMPED (13) [verb] To knock against or run into with a jolt. | [verb] To move up or down by a step; displace. | [verb] To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads. BUMPER (12) [noun] Someone or something that bumps. | [noun] A drinking vessel filled to the brim. | [noun] Anything large or successful. BUMPHS (15) [noun] Plural of bumph; printed materials or documents, especially those considered tedious or superfluous. | [noun] Toilet paper. BUNKUM (14) [noun] Senseless talk; nonsense; a piece of nonsense. | [noun] (Washington, DC) Bombastic political posturing or oratorical display designed only for show or public applause. BUSMAN (10) [noun] A person employed to drive buses. BUSMEN (10) [noun] A person employed to drive buses. BYNAME (13) [noun] A secondary name for a person or thing; a person's surname. | [noun] A nickname. | [noun] A pseudonym; nom-de-plume. CABMAN (12) [noun] The driver of a hackney cab. | [noun] The driver of a taxi. CABMEN (12) [noun] The driver of a hackney cab. | [noun] The driver of a taxi. CADMIC (13) CAECUM (12) [noun] A blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon. CAEOMA (10) [noun] A fruiting structure of rust fungi that produces aecial spores, representing an early stage in the fungal life cycle. CAIMAN (10) [noun] Any of the relatively small crocodilians of genus Caiman, within family Alligatoridae. | [noun] A semi-aquatic lizard, of the genus Dracaena, found in South America. To differentiate from caimans, they are referred to as caiman lizards. CALAMI (10) [noun] The sweet flag, Acorus calamus. | [noun] A quill; the hard, horny, hollow, and more or less transparent part of the stem or scape of a feather. | [noun] An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect. CALMED (11) [verb] To make calm. | [verb] To become calm. CALMER (10) [adjective] (of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety. | [adjective] (of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance. | [adjective] (of water) with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled. CALMLY (13) [adverb] In a calm manner. CAMAIL (10) [noun] A piece of chainmail worn to protect the neck and shoulders. | [noun] An ecclesiastical ornament worn by bishops. CAMASS (10) [noun] Any of the North American flowering plants of the genus Camassia. | [noun] (Western US) A small prairie in a forest; a small grassy plain among hills. CAMBER (12) [noun] A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides. | [noun] The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force. | [noun] An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. CAMBIA (12) [noun] A layer of cells between the xylem and the phloem that is responsible for the secondary growth of roots and stems. | [noun] Periosteum, a membrane that covers the outer surface of bones | [noun] One of the humours formerly believed to nourish the bodily organs. CAMELS (10) [noun] A beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus. | [noun] A light brownish color, like that of a camel (also called camel brown). | [noun] Loaded vessels lashed tightly, one on each side of another vessel, and then emptied to reduce the draught of the ship in the middle. CAMEOS (10) [noun] A piece of jewelry, etc., carved in relief. | [noun] A single very brief appearance, especially by a prominent celebrity in a movie or song. CAMERA (10) [noun] A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs. | [noun] The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation. | [noun] A vaulted room. CAMION (10) [noun] A large truck or lorry, used for carrying heavy loads. CAMISA (10) [noun] A shirt or chemise, used in English from Spanish contexts or historical texts. CAMISE (10) [noun] A fine linen shirt or tunic, especially one worn in the Middle Ages. CAMLET (10) [noun] A fabric made from camel hair or a mixture of camel hair and wool, or a similar fabric made from other materials. CAMPED (13) [verb] To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation. | [verb] To set up a camp. | [verb] To afford rest or lodging for. CAMPER (12) [adjective] Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures. | [adjective] (of a man) Ostentatiously effeminate. | [adjective] Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying. CAMPOS (12) [noun] A police officer assigned to a university campus. | [noun] A field or plain in a Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking area. CAMPUS (12) [noun] The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures. | [noun] An institution of higher education and its ambiance. | [verb] To confine to campus as a punishment. CARMAN (10) [noun] A person who transported goods, usually with a horse and cart. CARMEN (10) [noun] A person who transported goods, usually with a horse and cart. CAROMS (10) [noun] (cue sports, especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. | [noun] A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of a (one meter by one meter square) board. | [verb] To make a carom (shot in billiards). CARROM (10) [noun] A board game of Indian origin played on a square board where players use a striker to hit coins into pockets. | [noun] The act of striking a coin against another in this game. CAYMAN (13) [noun] Any of the relatively small crocodilians of genus Caiman, within family Alligatoridae. | [noun] A semi-aquatic lizard, of the genus Dracaena, found in South America. To differentiate from caimans, they are referred to as caiman lizards. CELOMS (10) [noun] A fluid-filled cavity within the body of an animal. The digestive system is suspended within the cavity, which is lined by a tissue called the peritoneum. CEMENT (10) [noun] A powdered substance produced by firing (calcining) calcium carbonate (limestone) and clay that develops strong cohesive properties when mixed with water. The main ingredient of concrete. | [noun] The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water, or the rock-like substance that forms when it dries. | [noun] Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout. CENTUM (10) [noun] A group or division of one hundred, especially a Roman military unit of about one hundred soldiers. | [noun] In ancient Rome, a political subdivision of citizens organized for voting purposes. CERIUM (10) [noun] A chemical element (symbol Ce) with an atomic number of 58, a very soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that tarnishes when exposed to air. CERMET (10) [noun] A composite material composed of ceramic and metal materials, used in such applications as industrial saws and turbine blades. CESIUM (10) [noun] The chemical element (symbol Cs) with an atomic number of 55. It is a soft, gold-colored, highly reactive alkali metal. CHACMA (15) [noun] A large baboon native to southern Africa, characterized by a dark coat and dog-like snout. CHAMMY (18) [noun] A soft leather made from the skin of sheep, goats, or deer, used for cleaning and polishing. | [noun] A variant spelling of "chamois," referring to a small goat-like mammal found in mountain regions of Europe. CHAMPS (15) [verb] To bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently. CHAMPY (18) CHARMS (13) [noun] An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation). | [noun] The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural. | [noun] A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer. CHASMS (13) [noun] A deep, steep-sided rift, gap or fissure; a gorge or abyss. | [noun] (by extension) A large difference of opinion. CHASMY (16) [adjective] Resembling or having the characteristics of a chasm; marked by a wide gap or opening. CHEMIC (15) [adjective] Of or relating to chemistry or chemical processes. | [noun] A substance used in or produced by a chemical process. CHEMOS (13) [noun] Plural of chemo, informal term for chemotherapy, a medical treatment using chemical substances to treat disease, particularly cancer. CHIASM (13) [noun] The crossing or intersection of two structures, particularly the optic nerves in the brain. | [noun] A cross-shaped anatomical structure or junction. CHIMAR (13) [noun] A type of garment worn by some Muslim women, consisting of a veil or cloak that covers the body and face. CHIMBS (15) [noun] The top of a ridge. | [noun] The spine of an animal. | [noun] A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. CHIMED (14) [verb] To make the sound of a chime. | [verb] To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony. | [verb] To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically. CHIMER (13) CHIMES (13) [noun] A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes. | [noun] An individual ringing component of such a set. | [noun] A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device. CHIMLA (13) CHIMPS (15) [noun] A species of great ape in the genus Pan, native to Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans. CHIRMS (13) [verb] To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird does. CHOMPS (15) [noun] The act of chomping (see below) | [verb] To bite or chew loudly or heavily. | [verb] (Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character). CHRISM (13) [noun] A mixture of oil and balm, consecrated for use as an anointing fluid in certain Christian ceremonies, especially confirmation. CHROMA (13) [noun] The colorfulness relative to the brightness of a similarly illuminated area | [noun] The aspect of a colour's hue that depends on the amount of white or black in it; saturation | [noun] A note in a chromatic scale CHROME (13) [noun] Chromium, when used to plate other metals. | [noun] The basic structural elements used in a graphical user interface, such as window frames and scroll bars, as opposed to the content. | [noun] Handguns (collectively) CHROMO (13) [noun] A color print produced by chromolithography. | [noun] A prostitute. | [adjective] Of or relating to the chromodomain, a protein structural domain associated with chromatin production CHUMMY (18) [noun] A friend; a pal. | [noun] A roommate, especially in a college or university. | [noun] A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water to attract predator fish, such as sharks CHUMPS (15) [noun] An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser. | [noun] A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense. | [noun] The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat. CHYMES (16) [noun] Plural of chyme, the semifluid mass of partly digested food and digestive juices formed in the stomach. | [noun] The pulpy mixture of food and gastric juices that passes from the stomach into the small intestine. CHYMIC (18) [adjective] Of or relating to alchemy or chemistry; alchemical. | [noun] An alchemist or chemist. CILIUM (10) [noun] Hairs or similar protrusions along the margin of a plant organ. | [noun] A hairlike organelle projecting from a eukaryotic cell (such as a unicellular organism or one cell of a multicelled organism). These structures serve either for locomotion by moving or as sensors. | [noun] One of the fine hairs along an insect's wing. CINEMA (10) [noun] A movie theatre, a movie house | [noun] Films collectively. | [noun] The film and movie industry. CIVISM (13) CLAIMS (10) [noun] A demand of ownership made for something. | [noun] The thing claimed. | [noun] The right or ground of demanding. CLAMMY (15) [adjective] Cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms. | [adjective] The quality of normal skin signs, epidermis that is neither diaphoretic nor dry. CLAMOR (10) [noun] A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation. | [noun] Any loud and continued noise. | [noun] A continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry. CLAMPS (12) [noun] A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together. | [noun] An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc. | [noun] A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp. CLEOME (10) [noun] Any flowering plant in the genus Cleome. CLIMAX (17) [noun] (originally rhetorical) A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order. | [noun] An instance of such an ascending series. | [noun] The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point. CLIMBS (12) [noun] An act of climbing. | [noun] The act of getting to somewhere more elevated. | [noun] An upwards struggle CLIMES (10) [noun] A particular region defined by its weather or climate. | [noun] Climate. CLOMPS (12) [noun] The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly. | [verb] To walk heavily or clumsily, as with clogs. | [verb] To make some object hit something, thereby producing a clomping sound. CLUMPS (12) [noun] A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass. | [noun] A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair. | [noun] A dull thud. CLUMPY (15) [adjective] Forming or tending to form clumps. | [adjective] Resembling a clump. | [adjective] Clompy; with heavy footfalls. CLUMSY (13) [noun] A clumsy person. | [adjective] Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous. | [adjective] Not elegant or well-planned, lacking tact or subtlety. COELOM (10) [noun] A fluid-filled cavity within the body of an animal. The digestive system is suspended within the cavity, which is lined by a tissue called the peritoneum. COEMPT (12) [verb] To buy or purchase; to acquire by paying a price. COLUMN (10) [noun] A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration. | [noun] A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom. | [noun] A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road. COMADE (11) COMAKE (14) COMATE (10) COMBAT (12) [noun] A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used). | [noun] A struggle for victory | [verb] To fight; to struggle against. COMBED (13) [verb] (especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb. | [verb] To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. | [verb] To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb. | [adjective] Having a comb or crest COMBER (12) [noun] A person who combs wool, etc. | [noun] A machine that combs wool, etc. | [noun] A long, curving wave breaking on the shore. | [noun] Serranus cabrilla, the gaper, a fish found in European waters. COMBES (12) [noun] A valley, often wooded and often with no river | [noun] A cirque. COMBOS (12) [noun] A small musical group. | [noun] A combination. | [noun] An action composed of a sequence of simpler actions, especially a composite attacking move in a fighting game. COMEDO (11) [noun] A blackhead or whitehead. COMEDY (14) [noun] A choric song of celebration or revel, especially in Ancient Greece. | [noun] A light, amusing play with a happy ending. | [noun] (Medieval Europe) A narrative poem with an agreeable ending (e.g., The Divine Comedy). COMELY (13) [adjective] (of a person) Pleasing or attractive to the eye. | [adjective] Suitable or becoming; proper; agreeable. COMERS (10) [noun] One in a race who is catching up to others and shows promise of winning. | [noun] One who is catching up in some contest and has a likelihood of victory. | [noun] One who arrives. COMETH (13) [verb] Third person singular present tense of "come" in archaic or biblical English usage. COMETS (10) [noun] A celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in a (usually very eccentric) orbit around the Sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the Sun. | [noun] A celestial phenomenon with the appearance given by the orbiting celestial body. | [noun] Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes. COMFIT (13) [noun] A computerised image of a suspect produced for the police force. COMICS (12) [noun] A comedian. | [noun] A story composed of cartoon images arranged in sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel. | [noun] A children's newspaper. COMING (11) [verb] To move from further away to nearer to. | [verb] To arrive. | [verb] To appear, to manifest itself. | [noun] The act of arriving; an arrival COMITY (13) [noun] Courtesy and considerate behaviour towards others; social harmony. | [noun] Friendly understanding and mutual recognition between two entities, especially nations. COMMAS (12) [noun] The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list. | [noun] A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia. COMMIE (12) [noun] One who subscribes to anticapitalism. | [noun] A communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator. | [adjective] Communist. | [noun] A Holden Commodore. | [noun] A commercial vehicle. COMMIT (12) [noun] The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change. | [verb] To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto. | [verb] To put in charge of a jailer; to imprison. COMMIX (19) [verb] To mix separate things together. | [verb] To become mixed; to amalgamate. COMMON (12) [noun] Mutual good, shared by more than one. | [noun] A tract of land in common ownership; common land. | [noun] The people; the community. COMOSE (10) [adjective] Having or bearing a coma or tuft of hairs; hairy or tufted. COMOUS (10) [adjective] Having hair or a tuft of hair; hairy or tufted. COMPED (13) [verb] To accompany, in music. | [verb] To compose (a visual design); to make a composite. | [verb] To provide someone with (a complimentary item, such as a ticket). COMPEL (12) [verb] To drive together, round up | [verb] To overpower; to subdue. | [verb] To force, constrain or coerce. COMPLY (15) [verb] To yield assent; to accord; to acquiesce, agree, consent; to adapt oneself, to conform. | [verb] To accomplish, to fulfil. | [verb] To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments. COMPOS (12) [noun] The act or principle of compensating. | [noun] Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss. | [noun] The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount. | [adjective] Compos mentis; of sound mind; sane COMPTS (12) [verb] Third person singular present tense of "compt," an archaic or dialectal form meaning to count or reckon. COMTES (10) [noun] Plural of comte, a French title of nobility equivalent to a count. CONDOM (11) [noun] A flexible sleeve made of latex or other impermeable material such as sheepskin, worn over an erect penis during intercourse as a contraceptive or as a way to prevent the spread of STDs. CONIUM (10) [noun] A poisonous plant, also known as hemlock, of the genus Conium with spotted stems and small white flowers. COOMBE (12) [noun] A valley, often wooded and often with no river | [noun] A cirque. COOMBS (12) [noun] A valley, often wooded and often with no river | [noun] A cirque. | [noun] An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels. COPALM (12) CORIUM (10) [noun] The inner layer of skin, the dermis. | [noun] The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium. | [noun] Armour made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans. | [noun] A lavalike mixture of fissile material created in a nuclear reactor's core during a nuclear meltdown. CORMEL (10) [noun] A small corm that develops at the base of an existing corm. CORYMB (15) [noun] A cluster of flowers with a flat or convex top. COSMIC (12) [adjective] Of or from or pertaining to the cosmos or universe. | [adjective] Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast. | [adjective] Rising or setting with the sun; not acronycal. COSMOS (10) [noun] The universe. | [noun] An ordered, harmonious whole. | [noun] Any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously coloured flowers and pinnate leaves. | [noun] A cosmopolitan, a cocktail containing vodka, triple sec, lime juice and cranberry juice. COWMAN (13) [noun] Cattle rancher | [noun] Cattleman COWMEN (13) [noun] Cattle rancher | [noun] Cattleman CRAMBE (12) [noun] A cruciferous plant of the genus Crambe, particularly Crambe maritima (sea kale), grown for its edible shoots. CRAMBO (12) [noun] A guessing game in which players guess words that rhyme with a clue word, seeking a word that is kept secret or concealed. | [noun] A word rhyming with another word. CRAMPS (12) [noun] A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled. | [noun] That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance. | [noun] A clamp for carpentry or masonry. CREAMS (10) [noun] The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder. | [noun] A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream. | [noun] Frosting, custard, creamer or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream. CREAMY (13) [noun] A horse with a cream-coloured coat. | [adjective] Containing cream. | [adjective] Of food or drink, having the rich taste or thick, smooth texture of cream, whether or not it actually contains cream. CREMES (10) [noun] A very sugary, fluffy white cream derivative. | [noun] Cream CRIMES (10) [noun] A specific act committed in violation of the law. | [noun] Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity. | [noun] That which occasions crime. CRIMPS (12) [noun] A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts. | [noun] The natural curliness of wool fibres. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks. CRIMPY (15) [adjective] Having tight waves or curls; crimped in texture. | [adjective] Brit. slang - Disappointing or unpleasant. CRINUM (10) [noun] A genus of bulbous plants of the amaryllis family with long strap-like leaves and clusters of fragrant flowers. CRUMBS (12) [noun] A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread). | [noun] A small piece of other material, such as rubber. | [noun] A bit, small amount. CRUMBY (15) [adjective] Crumbly; inclined to break into crumbs. | [adjective] Bad; poor. | [adjective] Full of crumb or crumbs. CRUMMY (15) [noun] A small van, bus, or railway car used to transport loggers or other resource workers to and from the worksite. | [noun] A cow with a crumpled horn. | [adjective] Bad; poor. CRUMPS (12) [noun] The sound of a muffled explosion. CUBISM (12) [noun] (often capitalized) An artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes. CULMED (11) CUMBER (12) [verb] To slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber. CUMINS (10) [noun] Plural of cumin, a spice made from the seeds of a plant in the parsley family, commonly used in cooking. CUMMER (12) [noun] One who cums. | [noun] A contemptible person (British slang). CUMMIN (12) [noun] The flowering plant Cuminum cyminum, in the family Apiaceae. | [noun] Its aromatic long seed, used as a spice, notably in Indian, Middle Eastern, and Mexican cookery. CUMULI (10) [noun] A large white puffy cloud that develops through convection. On a hot, humid day, they can form towers and even become cumulonimbus clouds. | [noun] A mound or heap. CUNDUM (11) CUPRUM (12) [noun] The Latin name for copper, used in chemistry and sometimes in English scientific contexts. CURIUM (10) [noun] A transuranic chemical element (symbol Cm) with an atomic number of 96. CUSTOM (10) [noun] Frequent repetition of the same behavior; way of behavior common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; method of doing, living or behaving. | [noun] Traditional beliefs or rituals | [noun] Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, factory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support. CYMARS (13) [noun] A woman's short cloak or jacket worn in the 17th and 18th centuries. CYMBAL (15) [noun] A concave plate of brass or bronze that produces a sharp, ringing sound when struck: played either in pairs, by striking them together, or singly by striking with a drumstick or the like. CYMENE (13) [noun] A colorless liquid hydrocarbon found in cumin and thyme oils, used in perfumes and flavorings. CYMLIN (13) CYMOID (14) CYMOLS (13) [noun] Plural of cymol, a hydrocarbon compound found in cumin and thyme oils. CYMOSE (13) [adjective] Of or relating to a cyme, a type of flower cluster in which the main axis terminates in a flower and lateral branches also terminate in flowers. CYMOUS (13) [adjective] Of or relating to a cyme, a type of flower cluster in which the main axis terminates in a flower. DAEMON (9) [noun] An evil supernatural spirit. | [noun] A neutral supernatural spirit. | [noun] Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast. | [noun] A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal. DAIMEN (9) DAIMIO (9) [noun] A lord during the Japanese feudal period. DAIMON (9) [noun] An evil supernatural spirit. | [noun] A neutral supernatural spirit. | [noun] Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast. DAIMYO (12) [noun] A lord during the Japanese feudal period. DAMAGE (10) [noun] Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact. | [noun] Cost or expense. | [verb] To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction. DAMANS (9) DAMARS (9) DAMASK (13) [noun] An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus. | [noun] Linen so woven that a pattern is produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of colour. | [noun] A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; made for furniture covering and hangings. DAMMAR (11) [noun] A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia, now genus Agathis. | [noun] A clear to yellow resin, obtained in Malaya from trees of the genera Shorea (Dipterocarpaceae family) and Symplocos (Symplocaceae family), used in varnishes and inks | [noun] Any of various hard resins, obtained especially from evergreen trees, notably of the genera Agathis (Araucariaceae family) and Hopea (Dipterocarpaceae family), native to southeast Asia, also used in varnishes and lacquers. DAMMED (12) [verb] To block the flow of water. DAMMER (11) DAMNED (10) [verb] To condemn to hell. | [verb] To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment. | [verb] To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively. DAMNER (9) DAMPED (12) [verb] To dampen; to make moderately wet | [verb] To put out, as fire; to weaken, restrain, or make dull. | [verb] To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy). DAMPEN (11) [verb] To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet. | [verb] To become damp or moist. | [verb] To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen. DAMPER (11) [adjective] In a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist. | [adjective] Despondent; dispirited, downcast. | [adjective] Permitting the possession of alcoholic beverages, but not their sale. DAMPLY (14) DAMSEL (9) [noun] A young woman (of noble birth). | [noun] A girl; a maiden (without sexual experience). | [noun] A young woman who is not married. DAMSON (9) [noun] A subspecies of plum tree, Prunus domestica subsp. insititia, native to Eurasia. | [noun] The edible fruit of this tree. | [adjective] The color of the fruit of this tree, a very deep purple. DATUMS (9) DECAMP (13) [verb] To break up camp and move on. | [verb] To disappear suddenly and secretly. DEEMED (10) [verb] To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence. | [verb] To adjudge, to decree. | [verb] To dispense (justice); to administer (law). DEFAME (12) [noun] Disgrace, dishonour. | [noun] Defamation; slander, libel. | [verb] To disgrace; to bring into disrepute. DEFOAM (12) DEFORM (12) [verb] To change the form of, usually negatively; to give (something) an unusual or abnormal shape. | [verb] To change the looks of, usually negatively; to give something an unusual or abnormal appearance. | [verb] To mar the character of. DEGAME (10) DEGAMI (10) DEGERM (10) DEGUMS (10) DEISMS (9) DELIME (9) DEMAND (10) [noun] The desire to purchase goods and services. | [noun] The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price. | [noun] A forceful claim for something. DEMARK (13) [verb] To demarcate. DEMAST (9) DEMEAN (9) [verb] To debase; to lower; to degrade. | [verb] To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate. | [verb] To mortify. | [noun] Management; treatment. | [noun] Demesne. | [verb] To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset). DEMENT (9) [noun] An insane person, or one afflicted with dementia | [verb] To drive mad; to craze | [adjective] Insane, demented DEMIES (9) DEMISE (9) [noun] The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter. | [noun] Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor. | [noun] Death. DEMITS (9) [verb] To let fall; to depress; to yield. | [verb] To relinquish an office, membership, authority, etc.; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge. DEMOBS (11) [verb] To demobilize; to release someone from military service. DEMODE (10) DEMONS (9) [noun] An evil supernatural spirit. | [noun] A neutral supernatural spirit. | [noun] Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast. DEMOTE (9) [verb] To lower the rank or status of. | [verb] To relegate. DEMURE (9) [verb] To look demurely. | [adjective] (usually of women) Quiet, modest, reserved, sober, or serious. | [adjective] Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity. DEMURS (9) [noun] Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple. | [verb] To linger; to stay; to tarry | [verb] To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair. DENIMS (9) [noun] Jeans made of denim. DEPERM (11) DERMAL (9) [adjective] Of or pertaining to skin or integument (or other forms of tissue) DERMAS (9) DERMIC (11) [adjective] Of or relating to the dermis or skin. DERMIS (9) [noun] The tissue of the skin underlying the epidermis. DESMAN (9) [noun] Either of two species, Desmana moschata or Galemys pyrenaicus, of aquatic or semi-aquatic insectivore of the mole family, Talpidae, found in Europe. DESMID (10) [noun] Any of about 5000 species of mostly unicellular freshwater green algae belonging to the order Desmidiales. DEWORM (12) [verb] To cause an animal to excrete any worms in the digestive tract by the administration of drugs. DHARMA (12) [noun] The natural order of the universe; natural law, cosmic order. | [noun] One's obligation in respect to one's position in society, one's duty. | [noun] The teachings of the Buddha as one's personal path to enlightenment. DIADEM (10) [noun] An ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty. | [noun] A crown. | [noun] Regal power; sovereignty; empire—considered as symbolized by the crown. DIAMIN (9) DIATOM (9) [noun] Any of a group of minute unicellular algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, now categorized as class Diatomophyceae or division Bacillariophyta. DICTUM (11) [noun] An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm. | [noun] A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it. | [noun] The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it. DIGAMY (13) DIMERS (9) [noun] A molecule consisting of two identical halves, formed by joining two identical molecules, sometimes with a single atom acting as a bridge. DIMITY (12) [noun] A light strong fabric with woven stripes or squares. DIMMED (12) [verb] To make something less bright. | [verb] To become darker. | [verb] To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct DIMMER (11) [adjective] Not bright or colorful. | [adjective] Not smart or intelligent. | [adjective] Indistinct, hazy or unclear. DIMOUT (9) DIMPLE (11) [noun] A small depression or indentation in a surface. | [noun] Specifically, a small natural depression on the skin, especially on the face near the corners of the mouth. | [verb] To create a dimple in. DIMPLY (14) DIMWIT (12) [noun] A person who is deficient in intelligence. DINKUM (13) [noun] Hard work. | [noun] Truth. | [adjective] Genuine, true, honest, on the level. DIRDUM (10) DIRHAM (12) [noun] A unit of currency used in the Arab world, currently the name of the currency of Morocco and the United Arab Emirates. | [noun] A former small Turkish unit of weight, variously reckoned as 1.5–3.5 g (0.05–0.12 oz.). DISARM (9) [noun] The act of depriving a person of a weapon they carry. | [verb] To deprive of weapons; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless. | [verb] To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous DISMAL (9) [adjective] Disappointingly inadequate. | [adjective] Gloomy and bleak. | [adjective] Depressing. DISMAY (12) [noun] A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits | [noun] Condition fitted to dismay; ruin. | [verb] To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy DISMES (9) DODGEM (11) [noun] A bumper car in an amusement park. DOGDOM (11) [noun] The state or essence of being a dog. DOGMAS (10) [noun] An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it. | [noun] A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader. DOLMAN (9) [noun] A long, loose garment with narrow sleeves and an opening in the front, generally worn by Turks. | [noun] A short, close-fitting, heavily braided military jacket, usually worn under a pelisse, originally by hussars. | [noun] A woman's garment with wide capelike sleeves. DOLMAS (9) [noun] Any of a family of stuffed vegetable dishes. The filling generally consists of rice, minced meat or grains, together with onion, herbs and spices. DOLMEN (9) [noun] A prehistoric megalithic tomb consisting of a capstone supported by two or more upright stones, most having originally been covered with earth or smaller stones to form a barrow. | [noun] More generally, any megalithic tomb, including passage graves and wedge tombs. DOMAIN (9) [noun] A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization. | [noun] A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise. | [noun] A group of related items, topics, or subjects. DOMINE (9) DOMING (10) DOMINO (9) [noun] A tile divided into two squares, each having 0 to 6 (or sometimes more) dots or pips (as in dice), used in the game of dominoes. | [noun] A country that is expected to react to events in a neighboring country, according to the domino effect. | [noun] A masquerade costume consisting of a hooded robe and a mask covering the upper part of the face. DOOMED (10) [verb] To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn. | [verb] To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of. | [verb] To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. DORMER (9) [noun] A room-like, roofed projection from a sloping roof | [noun] Dormer-window | [noun] A resident of a dormitory DORMIE (9) DORMIN (9) DORSUM (9) [noun] The back of the tongue, used for articulating dorsal consonants. | [noun] The top of the foot or the back of the hand. | [noun] The back or dorsal region on the surface of an animal. DOUMAS (9) DRACHM (14) [noun] A small unit of weight, variously: | [noun] The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro. | [noun] A coin worth one drachma. DRAMAS (9) [noun] A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue | [noun] Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy) | [noun] Theatrical plays in general DREAMS (9) [noun] Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping. | [noun] A hope or wish. | [noun] A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy. DREAMT (9) [verb] To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping. | [verb] To hope, to wish. | [verb] To daydream. DREAMY (12) [adjective] As in a dream; resembling a dream. | [adjective] Sexy; handsome; attractive | [adjective] Having a pleasant or romantic atmosphere. DROMON (9) DRUMLY (12) DUMBED (12) [verb] To silence. | [verb] To make stupid. | [verb] To represent as stupid. DUMBER (11) [adjective] Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind"). | [adjective] Silent; unaccompanied by words. | [adjective] (especially of a person) Extremely stupid. DUMBLY (14) DUMDUM (12) [noun] A soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact to cause a gaping wound. | [noun] An ignorant person; an idiot. DUMPED (12) [verb] To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner. | [verb] To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore. | [verb] To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping. DUMPER (11) [noun] A small vehicle often used to carry loads and material around, often on building sites. | [noun] A dropper of refuse, particularly not in landfill sites/recycling sites. | [noun] One who dumps a boyfriend or girlfriend; the one of a romantic couple who terminates the relationship. DUNAMS (9) [noun] An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre. | [noun] A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m2), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma. | [noun] Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m2). DUOMOS (9) [noun] A cathedral, especially one in Italy. DURUMS (9) DYNAMO (12) [noun] An electricity generator, a dynamo-electric machine. | [noun] An energetic person. ECZEMA (19) [noun] A non-contagious acute or chronic inflammation of the skin, characterized by redness, itching, and the outbreak of oozing vesicular lesions which become encrusted and scaly. EDEMAS (9) EGOISM (9) [noun] The tendency to think selfishly with exclusive self-interest in mind. | [noun] The belief that moral behavior should be directed toward one's self-interest only. | [noun] (by confusion of the similar words) Egotism. ELEMIS (8) ELMIER (8) EMBALM (12) [verb] To treat a corpse with preservatives in order to prevent decomposition. | [verb] To perfume or add fragrance to something. EMBANK (14) [verb] To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone EMBARK (14) [verb] To get on a boat or ship or (outside the USA) an aeroplane. | [verb] To start, begin. | [verb] To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard. EMBARS (10) EMBAYS (13) [verb] To bathe; to steep. | [verb] To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay. EMBEDS (11) [noun] An embedded reporter or journalist, such as a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit, or a political reporter assigned to follow and report on the campaign of a candidate. | [noun] An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message. | [noun] An item embedded in another document. EMBERS (10) [noun] A glowing piece of coal or wood. | [noun] Smoldering ash. | [noun] The smoldering or glowing remains of a fire, smoldering ash. EMBLEM (12) [noun] A representative symbol, such as a trademark or logo. | [noun] Something which represents a larger whole. | [noun] Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface. EMBODY (14) [verb] To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify. | [verb] To represent in some other form, such as a code of laws. | [verb] To comprise or include as part of a cohesive whole; to be made up of. EMBOLI (10) [noun] An obstruction causing an embolism: a blood clot, air bubble or other matter carried by the bloodstream and causing a blockage or occlusion of a blood vessel. | [noun] The structure on the end of the palp of male arachnids which contains the opening to the ejaculatory duct. EMBOLY (13) EMBOSK (14) EMBOSS (10) [verb] To mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol. | [verb] To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, etc. | [verb] Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest. EMBOWS (13) EMBRUE (10) [verb] To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.). EMBRYO (13) [noun] In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus. | [noun] An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis. | [noun] In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body EMCEED (11) [verb] To act as the master of ceremonies (for). | [verb] To rap as part of a hip-hop performance. EMCEES (10) [noun] A rapper. | [noun] Initialism of main colour. | [noun] Initialism of matching colour. EMEERS (8) EMENDS (9) [verb] To correct and revise (text or a document). EMERGE (9) [verb] To come into view. | [verb] To come out of a situation, object or a liquid. | [verb] To become known. EMEROD (9) EMESES (8) EMESIS (8) [noun] The act or process of vomiting. EMETIC (10) [noun] An agent that induces vomiting | [adjective] (pharmaceutical effect) causing nausea and vomiting EMETIN (8) EMEUTE (8) EMIGRE (9) [noun] One who has departed their native land, often as a refugee. | [noun] An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another. EMMERS (10) EMMETS (10) [noun] An ant. | [noun] (Cornish dialect) A tourist. EMODIN (9) EMOTED (9) [verb] To display emotions openly, especially while acting. | [verb] To induce an emotion in. | [verb] To perform a virtual action, presented to other users as reported speech, rather than sending a direct message. EMOTER (8) EMOTES (8) [noun] A virtual action, presented to other users as reported speech, rather than a direct message. | [noun] (Twitch-speak) Short for emoticon. | [verb] To display emotions openly, especially while acting. EMPALE (10) EMPERY (13) EMPIRE (10) [adjective] (furniture) Following or imitating a style popular during the First French Empire (1804–1814). | [adjective] (of wine) Produced in a dependency of the British Empire or Commonwealth of Nations. | [noun] A political unit, typically having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations (especially one comprising one or more kingdoms) and ruled by a single supreme authority. EMPLOY (13) [noun] The state of being an employee; employment. | [noun] The act of employing someone or making use of something; employment. | [verb] To hire (somebody for work or a job). EMYDES (12) ENAMEL (8) [noun] An opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects. | [noun] A coating that dries to a hard, glossy finish. | [noun] The hard covering on the exposed part of a tooth. | [verb] To coat or decorate with enamel. ENAMOR (8) [verb] (mostly in the passive, followed by "of" or "with") To cause to be in love. | [verb] (mostly in the passive) To captivate. ENCAMP (12) [verb] To establish a camp or temporary shelter. | [verb] To form into a camp. ENEMAS (8) [noun] An injection of fluid into the large intestine by way of the rectum, usually for medical purposes. | [noun] The fluid so injected. | [noun] A device for administering such an injection. ENGRAM (9) [noun] A postulated physical or biochemical change in neural tissue that represents a memory. | [noun] A painful, negative mental image representing a past event. ENIGMA (9) [noun] Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable. | [noun] A riddle, or a difficult problem. ENMESH (11) [verb] To mesh; to tangle or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated, particularly in a mesh or net like manner. | [verb] To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult | [verb] To involve in difficulties. ENMITY (11) [noun] The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition. | [noun] A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity. ENTOMB (10) [verb] To deposit in a tomb. | [verb] To confine in restrictive surroundings. ENWOMB (13) ENZYME (20) [noun] A globular protein that catalyses a biological chemical reaction. | [noun] Leavened bread, as opposed to azyme ENZYMS (20) EONISM (8) EPIMER (10) [noun] Any diastereoisomer that has the opposite configuration at only one of the stereogenic centres. EPONYM (13) [noun] A real or fictitious person's name that has given rise to the name of a particular item. | [noun] A word formed from a real or fictive person’s name. | [noun] (by extension) A word formed from a real or fictive place or thing. ERBIUM (10) [noun] A chemical element (symbol Er) with atomic number 68: a silvery-white metal, in nature always found in combination with other elements. | [noun] A single atom of this element. ERMINE (8) [noun] A weasel, Mustela erminea, found in northern latitudes; its dark brown fur turns white in winter (apart from the black tip of the tail). | [noun] The white fur of this animal, traditionally seen as a symbol of purity and used for judges' robes. | [noun] (by extension) The office of a judge. ESTEEM (8) [noun] Favourable regard. | [verb] To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence. | [verb] To regard something as valuable; to prize. ESTRUM (8) [noun] A biting fly of the genus Oestrus; a botfly. | [noun] A bite or sting. | [noun] A passion or frenzy. ETAMIN (8) ETYMON (11) [noun] The source word, or words, of a given word or expression. EXAMEN (15) [noun] Examination; inquiry EXEMPT (17) [noun] One who has been released from something. | [noun] A type of French police officer. | [noun] One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon. EXHUME (18) [verb] To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter. | [verb] To uncover; to bring to light. FAMILY (14) [noun] A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family. | [noun] An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage. | [noun] A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together. FAMINE (11) [noun] Extreme shortage of food in a region. | [noun] A period of extreme shortage of food in a region. | [noun] Starvation or malnutrition. FAMING (12) FAMISH (14) [verb] To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger. | [verb] To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hunger. | [verb] To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary. FAMOUS (11) [verb] To make famous; to bring renown to. | [adjective] Well known. | [adjective] In the public eye. FAMULI (11) [noun] A close attendant or assistant, especially of a magician or occult scholar. FANDOM (12) [noun] The fans of a sport, activity, work, person etc., taken as a group. | [noun] The subculture of fans. | [noun] The state, quality, or condition of being a fan. FANTOM (11) FANUMS (11) FARMED (12) [verb] To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops. | [verb] To devote (land) to farming. | [verb] To grow (a particular crop). FARMER (11) [noun] A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm. | [noun] Agent noun of farm; someone or something that farms. | [noun] One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent. FATHOM (14) [noun] Grasp, envelopment, control. | [noun] (now usually nautical) An English unit of length for water depth notionally based upon the width of grown man's outstretched arms but standardized as 6 feet (about 1.8 m). | [noun] Various similar units in other systems. FAVISM (14) FEMALE (11) [noun] One of the female (feminine) sex or gender. | [adjective] Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it. | [adjective] Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare feminine, womanly.) FEMMES (13) [noun] A woman, a wife; a young woman or girl. | [noun] A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch. | [noun] A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person. FEMORA (11) [noun] A thighbone. | [noun] The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia. | [noun] A segment of the leg of an arachnid. FEMURS (11) [noun] A thighbone. | [noun] The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia. | [noun] A segment of the leg of an arachnid. FERBAM (13) FERMIS (11) FERRUM (11) FILMED (12) [verb] To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film. | [verb] To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle. | [adjective] Covered with a film. FILMER (11) FILMIC (13) [adjective] Of or relating to movies; cinematic. FIMBLE (13) FIRMAN (11) [noun] A royal decree issued by a sovereign in certain historical Islamic states, especially by the Sultan of Turkey. FIRMED (12) [verb] To make firm or strong; fix securely. | [verb] To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify. | [verb] To become firm; stabilise. FIRMER (11) [adjective] Steadfast, secure, solid (in position) | [adjective] Fixed (in opinion) | [adjective] Durable, rigid (material state) FIRMLY (14) [adverb] (manner) In a firm or definite or strong manner. | [adverb] (manner) Securely. FLAMBE (13) [noun] A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited. | [noun] A flambéed dish. | [verb] To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited. FLAMED (12) [verb] To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze. | [verb] To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour. | [verb] To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody). FLAMEN (11) [noun] A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis. FLAMER (11) [noun] A very flamboyant ("flaming"), effeminate gay male. | [noun] One who flames, or posts vitriolic criticism. FLAMES (11) [noun] The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat. | [noun] A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair. | [noun] Intentionally insulting criticism or remark meant to incite anger. FLEAMS (11) FLIMSY (14) [noun] Thin typing paper used to make multiple copies. | [noun] A service certificate | [noun] (in the plural) Skimpy underwear. FLUMED (12) FLUMES (11) [noun] A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through. | [noun] An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids. | [verb] To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough. FLUMPS (13) [noun] The dull sound so produced. | [noun] A type of large marshmallow. | [noun] (by extension) A fat out-of-shape person. FLYMAN (14) [noun] Someone who drives the type of coach called a fly. | [noun] Someone who operates a fly system in a theatre. FLYMEN (14) [noun] Someone who drives the type of coach called a fly. | [noun] Someone who operates a fly system in a theatre. FOAMED (12) [verb] To form or emit foam. | [verb] To spew saliva as foam, to foam at the mouth. FOAMER (11) FOEMAN (11) FOEMEN (11) FOLIUM (11) [noun] A leaf, especially a thin leaf or plate. | [noun] A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches having a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop. FOMENT (11) [noun] Fomentation. | [verb] To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate. | [verb] To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge. FOMITE (11) [noun] An inanimate object capable of carrying infectious agents (such as bacteria, viruses and parasites), and thus passively enabling their transmission between hosts. FORAMS (11) FORMAL (11) [noun] Formalin. | [noun] An evening gown. | [noun] An event with a formal dress code. FORMAT (11) [noun] The layout of a publication or document. | [noun] (hence) The form of presentation of something. | [noun] The type of programming that a radio station broadcasts; such as a certain genre of music, news, sports, talk, etc. FORMED (12) [verb] To assume (a certain shape or visible structure). | [verb] To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person. | [verb] To take shape. FORMEE (11) FORMER (11) [adjective] Previous. | [adjective] First of aforementioned two items. Used with the, often without a noun. | [noun] Someone who forms something; a maker; a creator or founder. FORMES (11) [noun] (heading, physical) To do with shape. | [noun] (social) To do with structure or procedure. | [noun] A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. FORMIC (13) FORMOL (11) [noun] A 10% solution of formaldehyde in water. FORMYL (14) [noun] The univalent radical -CHO, derived from formaldehyde, that is characteristic of aldehydes FORUMS (11) [noun] A place for discussion. | [noun] A gathering for the purpose of discussion. | [noun] A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience. FRAMED (12) [verb] To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust. | [verb] To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts. | [verb] To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise. FRAMER (11) [noun] A person who makes frames for paintings. | [noun] A person who assembles the frame of a ship. | [noun] A person who assembles the timbers of a wood-framed building. FRAMES (11) [noun] The structural elements of a building or other constructed object. | [noun] Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure. | [noun] The structure of a person's body; the human body. FRENUM (11) [noun] A frenulum. FRUMPS (13) [noun] A frumpy person, somebody who is unattractive, drab or dowdy. | [noun] The clothes that such a person would wear. | [noun] A bad-tempered person. FRUMPY (16) [adjective] Dowdy, unkempt, or unfashionable. | [adjective] Bad-tempered. FULHAM (14) FULLAM (11) FULMAR (11) [noun] Either of two species of pelagic seabird in the genus Fulmarus, Fulmarus glacialis and F. glacialoides, which breed on cliffs. FUMBLE (13) [noun] A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident. | [verb] To handle nervously or awkwardly. | [verb] To grope awkwardly in trying to find something | [noun] A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble. FUMERS (11) FUMETS (11) [noun] A type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet. | [noun] A ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine. | [noun] The stench or high flavour of game or other meat when kept long. FUMIER (11) FUMING (12) [verb] To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints. | [verb] To apply or offer incense to. | [verb] To emit fumes. FUMULI (11) GAGMAN (10) GAGMEN (10) GAMAYS (12) [noun] Any of several varieties of red grape used for making Beaujolais and other red wines. GAMBAS (11) [noun] A rank of organ pipes, so called for a supposed resemblance of the sound to that of a viola da gamba. | [noun] A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold. GAMBES (11) GAMBIA (11) GAMBIR (11) [noun] Uncaria gambir, a plant from Indonesia. | [noun] An astringent substance prepared from the leaves of the plant, used in tanning and dyeing. GAMBIT (11) [noun] An opening in chess, in which a minor piece or a pawn is sacrificed to gain an advantage. | [noun] Any ploy or stratagem. | [noun] A remark intended to open a conversation. GAMBLE (11) [noun] A bet or wager. | [noun] A significant risk, undertaken with a potential gain. | [noun] A risky venture. GAMBOL (11) [noun] An instance of running or skipping about playfully. | [noun] An instance of more general frisking or frolicking. | [verb] To move about playfully; to frolic. GAMELY (12) [adjective] Sportive; lively; joyful. | [adjective] (hunting, fishing, etc.) Of or pertaining to game. | [adverb] In a game or plucky manner; in a willing and spirited fashion. GAMERS (9) [noun] A person who plays any kind of game. | [noun] A person whose hobby is video games. | [noun] A person who games the system. GAMEST (9) [adjective] Willing to participate. | [adjective] (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely. | [adjective] Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above. GAMETE (9) [noun] A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes. GAMIER (9) GAMILY (12) GAMINE (9) [noun] A (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl. | [noun] A mischievous, playful, elfish, pert girl or young woman. | [adjective] (of a girl) Having a boyish, mischievous charm; tomboyish. GAMING (10) [verb] To gamble. | [verb] To play card games, board games, or video games. | [verb] To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable. GAMINS (9) [noun] A homeless boy; a male street urchin; also (more generally), a cheeky, street-smart boy. GAMMAS (11) [noun] The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ). | [noun] The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ. | [noun] A constant approximately equal to 0.55721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant). GAMMED (12) GAMMER (11) [noun] An old woman. GAMMON (11) [noun] A cut of quick-cured pork leg. | [verb] To cure bacon by salting. | [noun] A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone. | [noun] A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning). | [noun] Chatter, ridiculous nonsense. | [noun] A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively. GAMUTS (9) [noun] A (normally) complete range. | [noun] All the notes in the musical scale. | [noun] All the colours available to a device such as a monitor or printer. GASMAN (9) [noun] A worker for a company that supplies gas (in the sense of the gaseous fuel), especially one who visits premises to read the meter, test appliances etc. | [noun] A man employed in the manufacture of gas. | [noun] The man who controls the lights of the stage. GASMEN (9) [noun] A worker for a company that supplies gas (in the sense of the gaseous fuel), especially one who visits premises to read the meter, test appliances etc. | [noun] A man employed in the manufacture of gas. | [noun] The man who controls the lights of the stage. GAUMED (10) GAZUMP (20) [noun] The act of gazumping. | [verb] To swindle; to extort. | [verb] To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one. | [noun] An automobile. GEMMAE (11) [noun] A bud; an asexual reproductive structure, as found in liverworts and hydra, able to produce new individuals from a cluster of cells. GEMMED (12) [verb] To adorn with, or as if with, gems. GEMOTE (9) GEMOTS (9) GENOME (9) [noun] The complete genetic information (either DNA or, in some viruses, RNA) of an organism. GENOMS (9) GERMAN (9) [noun] A near relative. | [adjective] Having the same mother and father; a full (brother or sister). | [adjective] Being born to one’s blood aunt or uncle, a first (cousin). | [noun] An elaborate round dance, often with a waltz movement. GERMEN (9) GIMBAL (11) [noun] A device for suspending something, such as a ship's compass, so that it will remain level when its support is tipped. | [verb] To suspend using a gimbal or gimbals. | [verb] To move a reaction engine about on a gimbal so as to obtain pitching and yawing correction moments. GIMELS (9) GIMLET (9) [noun] A small screw-tipped tool for boring holes. | [noun] A cocktail, usually made with gin and lime juice. | [verb] To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet). GIMMAL (11) GIMMES (11) [noun] That which is easily obtained, or certain to occur. GIMMIE (11) GIMPED (12) [verb] (of yarn, cord, thread, etc.) To wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped. | [verb] To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves. | [verb] To limp; to hobble. GISMOS (9) [noun] Something, generally a device, for which one does not know the proper term. GIZMOS (18) [noun] Something, generally a device, for which one does not know the proper term. GLAMOR (9) [noun] Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seems beauteous. | [noun] Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal). | [noun] Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing. GLEAMS (9) [noun] A small or indistinct shaft or stream of light. | [noun] A glimpse or hint; an indistinct sign of something. | [noun] Brightness or shininess; splendor. GLEAMY (12) [adjective] Shiny, bright, glowing GLIMED (10) GLIMES (9) GLIOMA (9) [noun] A tumour that arises from glial cells in the brain or spinal cord GLOAMS (9) GLOMUS (9) GLOOMS (9) [noun] Darkness, dimness or obscurity. | [noun] A melancholic, depressing or despondent atmosphere. | [noun] Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. GLOOMY (12) [adjective] Not very illuminated; dim because of darkness, especially when appearing depressing or frightening. | [adjective] Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected. GLUMES (9) [noun] A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae). GLUMLY (12) GLUMPY (14) GNOMES (9) [noun] A brief reflection or maxim; a pithy saying. | [noun] (magic, Rosicrucianism) An elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth. | [noun] (fantasy literature) One of a race of imaginary human-like beings, usually depicted as short and typically bearded males, who inhabit the inner parts of the earth and act as guardians of mines, mineral treasure, etc.; in modern fantasy literature, when distinguished from dwarves, gnomes are usually even smaller than dwarves and more focussed on engineering than mining. GNOMIC (11) [adjective] Of, or relating to gnomes (sententious sayings). | [adjective] (of a saying or aphorism) Mysterious and often incomprehensible yet seemingly wise. | [adjective] (grammar) Expressing general truths or aphorisms. GNOMON (9) [noun] An object such as a pillar or a rod that is used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it, especially the pointer on a sundial. | [noun] An object such as a pillar used by an observer to calculate the meridian altitude of the sun (that is, the altitude of the sun when it reaches the observer's meridian), for the purpose of determining the observer's latitude. | [noun] The index of the hour circle of a globe. GODDAM (11) [noun] (Gallicism, chiefly in the plural) An English person, from the perspective of a French person or in the context of French history. | [interjection] An expression of anger, surprise, intense excitment or frustration. GOLEMS (9) [noun] A humanoid creature made from clay, animated by magic. | [noun] (by extension) A humanoid creature made from any previously inanimate matter, such as wood or stone, animated by magic. GOMBOS (11) GOMUTI (9) GONIUM (9) GRAHAM (12) [noun] Flour made by grinding wheat berries including the bran. | [noun] A graham cracker. GRAMAS (9) GRAMME (11) [noun] Gram (unit of mass) GRAMPS (11) [noun] Grandpa, grandfather. | [noun] (by extension) Old man. GRANUM (9) [noun] A stack-like structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis. GREMMY (14) GRIMED (10) [verb] To begrime; to cake with dirt. GRIMES (9) [verb] To begrime; to cake with dirt. GRIMLY (12) [adjective] Grim-looking, grim-natured. | [adverb] In a grim manner. GROOMS (9) [noun] A man who is about to marry. | [noun] A person who cares for horses. | [noun] One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department. GRUMES (9) [noun] A thick semisolid | [noun] A clot (of blood) GRUMPS (11) [noun] A habitually grumpy or complaining person. | [noun] A grumpy mood. | [verb] To complain. GRUMPY (14) [adjective] Dissatisfied and irritable. GUIMPE (11) [noun] Gimp; a narrow flat braid or reinforced cord of fabric used for ornamental trimming. | [noun] A kind of short, high-necked blouse with sleeves of the late Victorian era, designed to be worn under a low-cut dress, jumper, or pinafore dress. | [noun] A kind of short chemisette or yoke insert made of lace, embroidery, or the like, worn with a low-necked dress. GUMBOS (11) [noun] A soup or stew made with okra. | [noun] A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy. | [noun] The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus. GUMMAS (11) [noun] A soft, non-cancerous growth, a form of granuloma, resulting from the tertiary stage of syphilis. GUMMED (12) [verb] To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal. | [verb] To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer. | [verb] (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to. GUMMER (11) GUNMAN (9) [noun] A criminal armed with a gun, especially a professional killer. GUNMEN (9) [noun] A criminal armed with a gun, especially a professional killer. GYPSUM (14) [noun] A mineral consisting of hydrated calcium sulphate. When calcined, it forms plaster of Paris. HAEMAL (11) [adjective] Pertaining to the blood or blood vessels. | [adjective] Ventral rather than neural. HAEMIC (13) HAEMIN (11) HAKEEM (15) HAKIMS (15) [noun] A doctor, usually practicing traditional medicine. | [noun] A judge or governor in Islamic India. HALMAS (11) HAMADA (12) HAMALS (11) HAMATE (11) [noun] The hamate bone. | [adjective] Hooked at the end. HAMAUL (11) HAMLET (11) [noun] A small village or a group of houses. | [noun] A village that does not have its own church. | [noun] Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae. HAMMAL (13) HAMMED (14) [verb] To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions. HAMMER (13) [noun] A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding. | [noun] The act of using a hammer to hit something}} | [noun] A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun. HAMPER (13) [noun] A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals | [noun] (uncommon except in) A wicker or plastic basket specifically for holding laundry (from clothes hamper), as opposed to a covered wicker basket which is a true hamper | [verb] To put into a hamper. | [noun] A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes. HAMULI (11) [noun] A hook, or hooklike process. | [noun] A hooked barbicel of a feather. HAMZAH (23) HAMZAS (20) [noun] A sign (ء‎ - a stand-alone hamza) used in the written Arabic language representing a glottal stop. Hamza may appear as a stand-alone letter or most commonly diacritically over or under other letters, e.g. أ‎ (over an alif - ا‎), إ‎ (under an alif), ؤ‎ (over a wāw - و‎) or ئ‎ (over a dotless yāʾ - ى‎). The exact seat of hamza is governed by an orthographic rule - "seat of hamza rule". HANSOM (11) [noun] A Hansom cab; a carriage HAREEM (11) HAREMS (11) [noun] The private part of an Arab household, traditionally forbidden to male strangers. | [noun] A group of someone's girlfriends, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household. | [noun] A group of female animals (cows) herded and controlled by a male animal (bull) of that species for breeding purposes. Such behaviour is exhibited by bovids including cattle and buffalo as well as moose, elephants, seals, sea lions, baboons, and elephant seals. HARMED (12) [verb] To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something. HARMER (11) HARMIN (11) HAULMS (11) [noun] The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching. | [noun] An individual plant stem. | [noun] Part of a harness; a hame. HAULMY (14) HAYMOW (17) [noun] A pile of hay stored in a barn. | [noun] The place in a barn where hay is deposited. HEAUME (11) HELIUM (11) [noun] The second lightest chemical element (symbol He) with an atomic number of 2 and atomic weight of 4.002602, a colorless, odorless and inert noble gas. | [noun] A form or sample of the element. HELMED (12) [verb] To be a helmsman or a member of the helm; to be in charge of steering the boat. | [verb] (by extension) To lead (a project, etc.). | [adjective] Wearing a helm. HELMET (11) [noun] A protective head covering, usually part of armour. | [noun] That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc. | [verb] To cover with, or as if with, a helmet. HEMINS (11) HEMMED (14) [verb] To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking. | [verb] (in sewing) To make a hem. | [verb] : To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something. HEMMER (13) HEMOID (12) HEMPEN (13) [adjective] Made of hemp | [adjective] Related to hempen ropes, i.e., to hanging as capital punishment. HEMPIE (13) HERMAE (11) HERMAI (11) HERMIT (11) [noun] A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite. | [noun] A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship. | [noun] A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts. HETMAN (11) [noun] (history) A Cossack headman or general. | [noun] Title used by the second-highest military commander in Poland and Lithuania (15th to 18th century). HIEMAL (11) [adjective] Of or pertaining to winter, wintry. HOKUMS (15) HOLISM (11) [noun] A theory or belief that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. | [noun] A practice based on such a theory or belief. HOLMIC (13) HOMAGE (12) [noun] A demonstration of respect, such as towards an individual after their retirement or death | [noun] An artistic work imitating another in a flattering style. Recently, the pronunciation /oʊˈmɒːʒ/ has been introduced from French for this usage; see hommage, which preserves the French spelling. | [noun] In feudalism, the formal oath of a vassal to honor his or her lord's rights. HOMBRE (13) [noun] (in Spanish-speaking contexts) A man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man. HOMELY (14) [adjective] Lacking in beauty or elegance, plain in appearance, physically unattractive. | [adjective] Cozy, befitting a home. | [adjective] Characteristic of or belonging to home; domestic. HOMERS (11) [noun] Various former units of volume, particularly: | [noun] A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about equal to 230 L or 6 1/2 US bushels. | [noun] A four-base hit; a home run HOMIER (11) [adjective] Befitting a home; cozy, intimate. HOMILY (14) [noun] A sermon, especially concerning a practical matter. | [noun] A moralizing lecture. | [noun] A platitude. HOMING (12) [verb] (of animals) To return to its owner. | [verb] (always with "in on") To seek or aim for something. HOMINY (14) [noun] A food made from hulled corn (maize) kernels soaked in lye water, rinsed, then cooked and eaten; or, the rinsed kernels are dried and coarsely ground into hominy grits. HOMMOS (13) HUMANE (11) [adjective] (notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives. | [adjective] Having the nature or attributes of a human being. | [adjective] Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate. HUMANS (11) [noun] A human being, whether man, woman or child. HUMATE (11) HUMBLE (13) [noun] (Baltimore) An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject. | [verb] To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of | [verb] To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive. | [noun] A stag that has failed to grow antlers; a cow that has not developed horns. HUMBLY (16) [adverb] In a humble manner. HUMBUG (14) [noun] A hoax, jest, or prank. | [noun] A fraud or sham (countable); hypocrisy (uncountable). | [noun] A fraudster, cheat, or hypocrite. HUMERI (11) [noun] The bone of the upper arm. HUMMED (14) [verb] To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed. | [verb] To express by humming. | [verb] To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly HUMMER (13) [noun] One who hums. | [noun] A Humvee. | [noun] A type of vehicle resembling a jeep but bulkier. | [noun] An arrest on false pretexts. HUMMUS (13) [noun] A Levantine Arab dip made of chickpea paste with various additions, such as olive oil, fresh garlic, lemon juice, and tahini, often eaten with pitta bread, or as a meze. It is mostly eaten in the Levant. HUMORS (11) [noun] The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. | [noun] A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim. | [noun] Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body. HUMOUR (11) [noun] The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. | [noun] A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim. | [noun] Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body. HUMPED (14) [verb] To bend something into a hump. | [verb] To carry (something), especially with some exertion. | [verb] To rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse HUMPHS (16) HUMVEE (14) [noun] A diesel-powered, four-wheel drive tactical military vehicle that can carry a wide variety of military hardware HYMENS (14) [noun] A membrane which completely or partially occludes the vaginal opening in human females. | [noun] Marriage. HYMNAL (14) [noun] A collection of hymns; a hymn book. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to hymns. HYMNED (15) [verb] To sing a hymn. | [verb] To praise or extol in hymns. IAMBIC (12) [noun] An iamb; a line or group of lines of iambs. | [adjective] Consisting of iambs (metrical feet with an unstressed-stressed pattern) or characterized by their predominance. IAMBUS (10) [noun] An iamb IBIDEM (11) ICEMAN (10) [noun] A person who trades in ice. | [noun] A man who is skilled in travelling upon ice, as among glaciers. | [noun] An assassin. ICEMEN (10) [noun] A person who trades in ice. | [noun] A man who is skilled in travelling upon ice, as among glaciers. | [noun] An assassin. IDIOMS (9) [noun] A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, person, or group of people. | [noun] A language or language variety; specifically, a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context etc. | [noun] An established expression whose meaning is not deducible from the literal meanings of its component words, often peculiar to a given language. IHRAMS (11) ILLUME (8) [verb] To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright IMAGED (10) [verb] To represent by an image or symbol; to portray. | [verb] To reflect, mirror. | [verb] To create an image of. IMAGER (9) [noun] One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor. | [noun] A system that creates a digital copy such as a disk image. IMAGES (9) [noun] An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture. | [noun] A mental picture of something not real or not present. | [noun] A statue or idol. IMAGOS (9) [noun] The final developmental stage of an insect after undergoing metamorphosis. | [noun] An idealised concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unconsciously into adult life, the basis for the psychological formation of personality archetypes. IMARET (8) IMAUMS (10) IMBALM (12) IMBARK (14) IMBEDS (11) [verb] To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed. | [verb] (by extension) To include in surrounding matter. | [verb] To encapsulate within another document or data file. IMBIBE (12) [verb] To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages). | [verb] To take in; absorb. IMBODY (14) IMBRUE (10) [verb] To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.). IMBUED (11) [verb] To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality. | [verb] In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality. IMBUES (10) [verb] To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality. | [verb] In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality. IMIDES (9) IMIDIC (11) IMINES (8) IMMANE (10) IMMESH (13) IMMIES (10) IMMUNE (10) [noun] A person who is not susceptible to infection by a particular disease | [verb] To make immune. | [adjective] (usually with "from") Exempt; not subject to. IMMURE (10) [noun] A wall; an enclosure. | [verb] To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls. | [verb] To put or bury within a wall. IMPACT (12) [noun] The striking of one body against another; collision. | [noun] The force or energy of a collision of two objects. | [noun] A forced impinging. IMPAIR (10) [verb] To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on. | [verb] To grow worse; to deteriorate. | [adjective] Not fit or appropriate; unsuitable. IMPALA (10) [noun] An African antelope, Aepyceros melampus, noted for its leaping ability; the male has ridged, curved horns. IMPALE (10) [verb] To pierce (something) with any long, pointed object. | [verb] To place two coats of arms side by side on the same shield (often those of two spouses upon marriage). | [verb] To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. IMPARK (14) [verb] To enclose or confine in, or as if in, a park. | [verb] To enclose or fence in (land) to make a park. IMPART (10) [verb] To give or bestow (e.g. a quality or property). | [verb] To give a part or to share. | [verb] To make known; to show (by speech, writing etc.). IMPAWN (13) IMPEDE (11) [verb] To get in the way of; to hinder. IMPELS (10) [verb] To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation. | [verb] To drive forward; to propel an object, to provide an impetus for motion or action. IMPEND (11) [verb] To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang. | [verb] Figuratively to hang over (someone) as a threat or danger. | [verb] To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent. IMPHEE (13) IMPING (11) [verb] To plant or engraft. | [verb] To graft, implant; to set or fix. | [verb] To engraft (feathers) into a bird's wing. IMPISH (13) [adjective] Mischievous; of or befitting an imp. IMPONE (10) IMPORT (10) [noun] Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade. | [noun] The practice of importing. | [noun] Significance, importance. | [verb] To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence. IMPOSE (10) [verb] To establish or apply by authority. | [verb] To be an inconvenience (on or upon) | [verb] To enforce: compel to behave in a certain way IMPOST (10) [noun] A tax, tariff or duty that is imposed, especially on merchandise. | [noun] The weight that must be carried by a horse in a race, the handicap. | [noun] The top part of a column, pillar, pier, wall, etc. that supports an arch. IMPROV (13) [noun] Improvisation. | [noun] A form of live entertainment characterized by improvisation and interaction with the audience. | [verb] To perform improv. IMPUGN (11) [verb] To assault, attack. | [verb] To verbally assault, especially to argue against an opinion, motive, or action; to question the truth or validity of. IMPURE (10) [verb] To defile; to pollute | [adjective] Not pure IMPUTE (10) [verb] To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source. | [verb] To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution. | [verb] To take into account. INARMS (8) INCOME (10) [noun] Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others. | [noun] Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy. | [noun] A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction. INDIUM (9) [noun] A chemical element (symbol In) with an atomic number of 49: a soft silvery-white metal. | [noun] A single atom of this element. INFAMY (14) [noun] The state of being infamous. | [noun] A reputation as being evil. | [noun] A reprehensible occurrence or situation. INFIRM (11) [verb] To contradict, to provide proof that something is not. | [adjective] Weak or ill, not in good health. | [adjective] Irresolute; weak of mind or will. INFORM (11) [verb] To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge). | [verb] To communicate knowledge to. | [verb] To impart information or knowledge. | [adjective] Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed. INHUME (11) [verb] To bury in a grave. INMATE (8) [noun] A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient). | [noun] A person who shares a residence, such as a lodger, a hotel guest, or a student living on campus. INMESH (11) INMOST (8) [noun] That which is innermost; the core. | [adjective] The very deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part; innermost INSEAM (8) [noun] The seam of a trouser up the inside of the leg. | [verb] To impress or mark with a seam or cicatrix. INTIMA (8) [noun] The innermost part of an anatomical structure, particularly a tubular one INTIME (8) INTOMB (10) IODISM (9) [noun] Iodine poisoning IONIUM (8) ISOMER (8) [noun] Any of two or more compounds with the same molecular formula but with different structure. | [noun] Any of two or more atomic nuclei with the same mass number and atomic number but with different radioactive properties. ISTHMI (11) [noun] A narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, and connecting two larger landmasses. | [noun] Any such narrow part connecting two larger structures. | [noun] An edge in a graph whose deletion increases the number of connected components of the graph. ITEMED (9) ITERUM (8) JAMBED (18) JAMBES (17) JAMMED (18) [verb] To get something stuck in a confined space. | [verb] To brusquely force something into a space; cram, squeeze. | [verb] To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up" JAMMER (17) [noun] Any device used to jam radio reception. | [noun] A form of swimwear used by athletes. | [noun] A musician who jams. JASMIN (15) JETSAM (15) [noun] Articles thrown overboard from a ship or boat in order to lighten the load of a ship in distress | [noun] (by extension) discarded odds and ends JETSOM (15) JICAMA (17) [noun] The edible root of the yam bean, Pachyrhizus erosus, used in salads in Central America. JIMINY (18) JIMPER (17) JIMPLY (20) JORAMS (15) JORUMS (15) [noun] A large vessel for drinking (usually alcoholic beverages). | [noun] A large quantity. | [noun] The contents, or quantity of the contents, of such a vessel. JUGUMS (16) JUMBAL (17) JUMBLE (17) [noun] A mixture of unrelated things. | [noun] Items for a rummage sale. | [noun] A rummage sale. | [noun] A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped. JUMBOS (17) [noun] An especially large or powerful person, animal, or thing. | [noun] A platform-mounted machine for drilling rock. | [noun] Short for mumbo jumbo. JUMPED (18) [verb] To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne. | [verb] To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward. | [verb] To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap. JUMPER (17) [noun] Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing. | [noun] A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height. | [noun] A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also jump wire. | [noun] A woolen sweater or pullover. KALAMS (12) KALIUM (12) KALMIA (12) [noun] Any plant in the taxonomic genus Kalmia. KAMALA (12) KAMIKS (16) KAMSIN (12) KARMAS (12) KARMIC (14) [adjective] Of or pertaining to karma. KELIMS (12) [noun] A flat tapestry-woven carpet or rug. KERMES (12) [noun] Any of several insects of the genus Kermes. | [noun] A crimson dye made from the crushed bodies of these insects. KERMIS (12) [noun] An outdoor festival and fair, usually in a German or Dutch-speaking country | [noun] An indoor entertainment and fair combined. KHOUMS (15) [noun] A subdivision of the Mauritanian ouguiya. 5 khoums equal one ouguiya. KILIMS (12) [noun] A flat tapestry-woven carpet or rug. KIMCHI (17) [noun] A Korean dish made of vegetables, such as cabbage or radishes, that are salted, seasoned, and stored in sealed containers to undergo lactic acid fermentation. | [noun] A Korean person. KIMONO (12) [noun] A traditional Japanese robe-like garment which wraps around the body and is now generally worn only on formal occasions. | [noun] A yukata. | [noun] A long robe-like garment in Western fashion, which may be open at the front, loosely inspired by the Japanese garment. KINEMA (12) KISMAT (12) KISMET (12) [noun] Fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny. KOUMIS (12) KOUMYS (15) KUMISS (12) [noun] A fermented drink made from mare's milk, common among peoples of the Central Asian steppes. KUMMEL (14) [noun] A German caraway liqueur. LABIUM (10) [noun] A liplike structure; especially one of the two pairs of folds of skin either side of the vulva. | [noun] The lip of a labiate corolla. | [noun] The lip against which pressured air is driven to produce sound in a recorder and in a pipe organ with flue pipes. LABRUM (10) [noun] The uppermost of the mouthparts (trophi) of a typical insect, such as a cockroach. Typically resembles an upper lip and forms part of the roof of the mouth in such insects. | [noun] Any of several lip-like projections. | [noun] A large basin of warm water, with an overhanging lip, in a Roman bath. LACTAM (10) [noun] Any of a class of cyclic amides that are the nitrogen analogs of lactones, formed by heating amino acids; the tautomeric enol forms are known as lactims. LAMBDA (11) [noun] The eleventh letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabet, the twelfth of the Old Greek alphabet. | [noun] Unit representation of wavelength. | [noun] The cosmological constant. LAMBED (11) [verb] Of a sheep, to give birth. | [verb] To assist (sheep) to give birth. LAMBER (10) LAMBIE (10) LAMEDH (12) LAMEDS (9) LAMELY (11) LAMENT (8) [noun] An expression of grief, suffering, sadness or regret. | [noun] A song expressing grief. | [verb] To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn. LAMEST (8) [adjective] Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs. | [adjective] Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function. | [adjective] (by extension) Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect. LAMIAE (8) [noun] A monster preying upon human beings and who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent. LAMIAS (8) [noun] A monster preying upon human beings and who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent. LAMINA (8) [noun] A very thin layer of material. | [noun] A thin plate or scale, such as the arch of a vertebra. | [noun] The flat part of a leaf or leaflet; the blade. LAMING (9) [noun] The act or process of rendering lame | [verb] To cause (a person or animal) to become lame. | [verb] To shine. LAMMED (11) [verb] To beat or thrash. | [verb] To flee or run away. LAMPAD (11) LAMPAS (10) [noun] A type of luxury fabric with a background weft. | [noun] An inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the palate immediately behind the foreteeth in a horse. LAMPED (11) [verb] To hit, clout, belt, wallop. | [verb] To hunt at night using a lamp; see lamping. | [verb] To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular. LARUMS (8) LAWMAN (11) [noun] A lawspeaker: a declarer of the law. | [noun] One of 12 magistrates in certain Danish boroughs of England empowered with soc and sac over their own households. | [noun] The presiding justice of the supreme court. LAWMEN (11) [noun] A lawspeaker: a declarer of the law. | [noun] One of 12 magistrates in certain Danish boroughs of England empowered with soc and sac over their own households. | [noun] The presiding justice of the supreme court. LAYMAN (11) [noun] Layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy. | [noun] (by extension) Someone who is not a professional in a given field. | [noun] A common person. LAYMEN (11) [noun] Layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy. | [noun] (by extension) Someone who is not a professional in a given field. | [noun] A common person. LEGMAN (9) [noun] (originally United States) A person hired to carry out errands or (often) menial tasks, frequently requiring travel from place to place; an errand boy or errand girl, a runner. | [noun] (originally United States) A reporter who frequently travels to conduct research, interview witnesses, etc., and then conveys the information to a rewriteman who writes up the story. LEGMEN (9) [noun] (originally United States) A person hired to carry out errands or (often) menial tasks, frequently requiring travel from place to place; an errand boy or errand girl, a runner. | [noun] (originally United States) A reporter who frequently travels to conduct research, interview witnesses, etc., and then conveys the information to a rewriteman who writes up the story. LEGUME (9) [noun] The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food. | [noun] Any of a large family (Fabaceae, syn. Leguminosae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers). | [noun] A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea. LEMANS (8) [noun] One beloved; a lover, a sweetheart of either sex (especially a secret lover, gallant, or mistress). | [noun] (often negative) A paramour. LEMMAS (10) [noun] A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition. | [noun] The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc. | [noun] (psycholinguistics) The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word. LEMONS (8) [noun] A yellowish citrus fruit. | [noun] A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits. | [noun] A taste or flavour/flavor of lemons. LEMONY (11) LEMURS (8) [noun] Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands. | [noun] Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta). | [noun] A loris (Lemur tardigradus, now Loris tardigradus), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ. LEXEME (15) [noun] A unit of lexical meaning, roughly corresponding to the set of inflected forms taken by a single word. | [noun] An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token). LIMANS (8) LIMBAS (10) [noun] A large African tree, Terminalia superba, whose hard wood is used for furniture, table tennis paddles and musical instruments. LIMBED (11) LIMBER (10) [verb] To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant. | [adjective] Flexible, pliant, bendable. | [noun] A two-wheeled vehicle to which a wheeled artillery piece or caisson may be attached for transport. LIMBIC (12) LIMBOS (10) [noun] (Roman Catholic theology, since circa 400 A.D.) The place where innocent souls exist temporarily until they can enter heaven, notably those of the saints who died before the advent of Christ (limbus patruum) and those of unbaptized but innocent children (limbus infantum). | [noun] (by extension, since the 16th century) Any in-between place, state or condition of neglect or oblivion which results in an unresolved status, delay or deadlock. LIMBUS (10) [noun] A border of an anatomical part, such as the edge of the cornea. LIMENS (8) [noun] A liminal point; the threshold of a physiological or psychological response. LIMEYS (11) [noun] An Englishman or other Briton, or a person of British descent. LIMIER (8) LIMINA (8) [noun] A liminal point; the threshold of a physiological or psychological response. LIMING (9) [verb] To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime). | [verb] To smear with birdlime. | [verb] To apply limewash. LIMITS (8) [noun] A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go. | [noun] A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge). | [noun] Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit. LIMMER (10) LIMNED (9) [verb] To draw or paint; to delineate. | [verb] To illuminate, as a manuscript; to decorate with gold or some other bright colour. | [adjective] Described or represented in a lifelike manner LIMNER (8) [noun] Someone who limns. LIMNIC (10) LIMPAS (10) LIMPED (11) [verb] To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg. | [verb] (of a vehicle) To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion. | [verb] To move or proceed irregularly. LIMPER (10) [adjective] Flaccid; flabby, like flesh. | [adjective] Lacking stiffness; flimsy | [adjective] (of a penis) not erect LIMPET (10) [noun] A small mollusc, of the family Patellidae with a conical shell found clinging to rocks in the intertidal zones of rocky shores. | [noun] Someone clingy or dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space. LIMPID (11) [adjective] Clear, transparent or bright. LIMPLY (13) LIMPSY (13) LIMULI (8) LINGAM (9) [noun] (Shaivism) The aniconic representation traditionally worshipped as a symbol of or in connection with Shiva. LINUMS (8) LIPOMA (10) [noun] A nonmalignant tumor comprising fat cells. LISSOM (8) [adjective] Flexible and graceful in movement; lithe. LITMUS (8) [noun] A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens, that changes color when exposed to pH levels greater than or less than certain critical levels. | [noun] A simple test of acidity in a liquid using litmus, usually in the form of litmus paper. | [noun] A simple test of any attribute; a litmus test. LLAMAS (8) [noun] A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat. LOAMED (9) LOCUMS (10) [noun] Short for locum tenens. LOGJAM (16) [noun] An excess of logs being conveyed on a river, so that their motion halts. | [noun] A clog or such jam or mess that halts or greatly delays progress. LOMEIN (8) LOMENT (8) [noun] A type of modified legume that breaks apart at constrictions occurring between the segments of the seeds. LOOMED (9) [verb] To appear indistinctly, eg. when seen on the horizon or through the murk. | [verb] To appear in an exaggerated or threatening form; to be imminent. | [verb] To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense. LUMBAR (10) [noun] The lumbar region. | [noun] A lumbar vertebra. | [adjective] Related to the lower back or loin, specifically the five vertebrae between the rib cage and the pelvis. LUMBER (10) [noun] Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away. | [noun] Useless or cumbrous material. | [noun] A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. LUMENS (8) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the light that is emitted in a solid angle of one steradian from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm. | [noun] The cavity or channel within a tube or tubular organ. | [noun] The cavity bounded by a plant cell wall. LUMINA (8) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the light that is emitted in a solid angle of one steradian from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm. | [noun] The cavity or channel within a tube or tubular organ. | [noun] The cavity bounded by a plant cell wall. LUMMOX (17) [noun] A clumsy, stupid person; an awkward bungler. LUMPED (11) [verb] To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items). | [verb] To bear a heavy or awkward burden; to carry something unwieldy from one place to another. | [verb] To hit or strike (a person). LUMPEN (10) [adjective] Of or relating to social outcasts. | [adjective] Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat. | [adjective] Plebeian. | [adjective] Lump-like. | [verb] To make or become like lumps; make or become lumpy LUMPER (10) [noun] The viviparous eelpout. | [noun] An extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship. | [noun] A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to keep categories such as species or dialects together in larger groups. LUTEUM (8) LYCEUM (13) LYMPHS (16) LYRISM (11) MACACO (12) MACAWS (13) [noun] Any of various parrots of the genera Ara, Anodorhynchus, Cyanopsitta, Orthopsittaca, Primolius and Diopsittaca of Central and South America, including the largest parrots and characterized by long sabre-shaped tails, curved powerful bills, and usually brilliant plumage. MACERS (10) [noun] A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland. MACHES (13) MACHOS (13) [noun] Exaggerated masculinity MACING (11) [verb] To hit someone or something with a mace. | [verb] To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device. | [verb] To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can. MACKLE (14) [noun] A spot. | [noun] A blur or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little during printing. | [verb] To blur or be blurred; especially to blur or double an impression from type. MACLED (11) MACLES (10) [noun] Chiastolite; so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross-section. | [noun] A crystal having a similar tessellated appearance. | [noun] A twin crystal. MACONS (10) MACRON (10) [noun] A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark (¯) placed over any of various letters, usually to indicate that the pronunciation of a vowel is long. MACROS (10) [noun] A comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complex input to a computer program. | [noun] Macro lens | [noun] The study of the entire economy in terms of the total amount of goods and services produced, total income earned, the level of employment of productive resources, and the general behavior of prices. MACULA (10) [noun] An oval yellow spot near the center of the retina of the human eye, histologically defined as having two or more layers of ganglion cells, responsible for detailed central vision. | [noun] A small chamber of the inner ear of certain vertebrates filled with endolymph and containing an otolith. | [noun] A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb. MACULE (10) [noun] A spot. | [noun] A blur or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little during printing. | [verb] To blur or be blurred; especially to blur or double an impression from type. MADAME (11) [noun] A polite form of address for a woman or lady. | [noun] The mistress of a household. | [noun] A conceited or quarrelsome girl. MADAMS (11) [noun] A polite form of address for a woman or lady. | [noun] The mistress of a household. | [noun] A conceited or quarrelsome girl. MADCAP (13) [noun] An impulsive, hasty, capricious person. | [noun] An insane person, a lunatic. | [adjective] Impulsive, hasty or reckless; capricious. MADDED (11) [verb] To be or become mad. | [verb] To madden, to anger, to frustrate. MADDEN (10) [verb] To make angry. | [verb] To make insane; to inflame with passion. | [verb] To become furious. MADDER (10) [noun] A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root. | [noun] The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye. | [noun] A dye made from the plant. | [adjective] Insane; crazy, mentally deranged. | [noun] A communal drinking vessel used in Gaelic times for drinking mead. It had squared sides and one drank from a corner. Also, a trophy in this shape. MADMAN (11) [noun] A male who is insane or mentally disturbed. MADMEN (11) [noun] A male who is insane or mentally disturbed. MADRAS (9) [noun] A brightly colored cotton fabric with a checked or striped pattern. | [noun] A large handkerchief of this fabric, worn on the head in the West Indies. MADRES (9) MADURO (9) MAENAD (9) [noun] A female follower of Dionysus, associated with intense reveling. | [noun] An excessively wild or emotional woman. MAFFIA (14) MAFIAS (11) [noun] A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion. | [noun] A crime syndicate. | [noun] A trusted group of associates, as of a political leader. MAFTIR (11) MAGGOT (10) [noun] A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter. | [noun] A worthless person. | [noun] A whimsy or fancy. MAGIAN (9) MAGICS (11) [noun] The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them | [noun] A specific ritual or procedure associated with such magic; a spell. | [noun] The supernatural forces which are drawn on in such a ritual MAGILP (11) [noun] A mixture of linseed oil with turpentine or mastic varnish, used as a thickener for oil paints but later discredited as a source of cracking and yellowing. MAGLEV (12) [noun] A train propelled by magnetic levitation. | [adjective] Describing a train, system, etc, that operates by magnetic levitation. MAGMAS (11) [noun] The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc. | [noun] A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation. | [noun] Any soft doughy mass. MAGNET (9) [noun] A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism. | [noun] (preceded by a noun) A person or thing that attracts what is denoted by the preceding noun. MAGNUM (11) [noun] A bottle of wine containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard bottle. | [noun] A powerful firearm cartridge, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge calibre that uses the same bullet. | [noun] A handgun that fires a cartridge of this calibre; chiefly a revolver, but rarely an autoloader firing an unusually powerful calibre. MAGOTS (9) MAGPIE (11) [noun] One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae | [noun] A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen or Cracticus tibicen. | [noun] Someone who displays a magpie-like quality such as hoarding or stealing objects. MAGUEY (12) [noun] Any of various large agaves of Mexico and the southern US, especially the American aloe, Agave americana. MAHOES (11) [noun] Any of certain trees in the mallow family, native to the Caribbean. | [noun] Either of two different trees, usually found around the tropics. MAHOUT (11) [noun] An elephant driver and keeper. | [verb] To drive elephants. MAHZOR (20) MAIDEN (9) [noun] One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman | [noun] A girl or an unmarried young woman. | [noun] A female virgin. MAIGRE (9) [noun] A kind of fish; the meagre. | [adjective] Made without meat (and thus permitted to be eaten on a fast day). | [adjective] Belonging to a fast day or fast. MAIHEM (13) MAILED (9) [verb] (ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail. | [verb] (ditransitive) To send by electronic mail. | [verb] To contact (a person) by electronic mail. | [verb] (ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail. MAILER (8) [noun] One who sends mail. | [noun] A computer program that sends electronic mail. | [noun] A packet or container designed for postal use. MAILES (8) MAILLS (8) MAIMED (11) [verb] To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body. MAIMER (10) MAINLY (11) [adverb] Forcefully, vigorously. | [adverb] Of the production of a sound: loudly, powerfully. | [adverb] To a great degree; very much. MAISTS (8) MAIZES (17) MAJORS (15) [noun] A military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel. | [noun] The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university. | [noun] A student at a college or university concentrating on a given area of study. MAKARS (12) [noun] A poet writing in Scots. MAKERS (12) [noun] Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something. | [noun] (usually capitalized and preceded by the) God. | [noun] A poet. MAKEUP (14) [noun] An item's composition. | [noun] Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance. | [noun] Replacement; material used to make up for the amount that has been used up. MAKING (13) [noun] The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction. | [noun] Process of growth or development. | [verb] To create. MAKUTA (12) [noun] A former unit of currency, one hundredth of a zaïre. MALADY (12) [noun] Any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder. | [noun] A moral or mental defect or disorder. MALARS (8) [noun] The cheekbone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit. MALATE (8) [noun] A salt or ester of malic acid. MALFED (12) MALGRE (9) MALICE (10) [noun] Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune. | [noun] An intention to do injury to another party, which in many jurisdictions is a distinguishing factor between the crimes of murder and manslaughter. | [verb] To intend to cause harm; to bear malice. MALIGN (9) [verb] To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce. | [verb] To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong. | [adjective] Evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence. MALINE (8) MALKIN (12) MALLED (9) MALLEE (8) [noun] A type of scrubland with low-growing thick eucalypts, characteristic of certain parts of Australia. | [noun] Any semi-desert region of Australia where such scrub is the predominant vegetation. | [noun] Any of several low-growing eucalypts characteristic of such scrubland, especially Eucalyptus dumosa, Eucalyptus oleosa, and Eucalyptus socialis. | [noun] A member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any native gardener. MALLEI (8) [noun] The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear. | [noun] The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes). | [noun] One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers. MALLET (8) [noun] A type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul. | [noun] A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger. | [noun] A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments. MALLOW (11) [noun] Any of a group of flowering plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae, especially of the genus Malva. Several species are edible by humans. MALOTI (8) [noun] The basic monetary unit of the currency of the Kingdom of Lesotho, introduced in 1980 to replace the South African rand as legal tender. | [noun] A coin or banknote betokening a value in (ma)loti. MALTED (9) [verb] To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain. | [verb] To become malt. | [verb] To drink malt liquor. MALTHA (11) MALTOL (8) MAMBAS (12) [noun] Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees. MAMBOS (12) [noun] A voodoo priestess (in Haiti) | [noun] A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre. | [verb] To perform this dance. MAMEYS (13) [noun] The evergreen tree Mammea americana, or its edible fruit | [noun] The flowering plant Magnolia guatemalensis | [noun] The tree Pouteria sapota, or its fruit. MAMIES (10) MAMLUK (14) MAMMAE (12) [noun] The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae) | [noun] An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera MAMMAL (12) [noun] An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young. | [noun] A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw. MAMMAS (12) [noun] (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent. | [noun] The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae) | [noun] An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera MAMMEE (12) [noun] An American fruit tree, Mammea americana. | [noun] Its large fragrant fruit, with a thick tough ring surrounding bright yellow pulp. MAMMER (12) MAMMET (12) MAMMEY (15) MAMMIE (12) MAMMON (12) [noun] The desire for wealth personified as an evil spirit or a malign influence. | [noun] Often mammon: wealth, material avarice, profit. MANAGE (9) [noun] The act of managing or controlling something. | [noun] (horseriding) Manège. | [verb] To direct or be in charge of. MANANA (8) [adverb] Tomorrow. | [adverb] Sometime in the future. Usually to say in a satirical sense 'sometime in the unspecified future, despite the fact that we were told tomorrow without fail'. MANCHE (13) MANEGE (9) [noun] The art of training and riding horses; dressage. | [noun] A riding school. | [noun] A riding arena (enclosed, but usually unroofed area, in contradistinction to a riding hall). MANFUL (11) [adjective] Showing the characteristics considered typical of a man; macho or manly | [adjective] (by extension) Courageous; noble; high-minded. MANGEL (9) [noun] The sugar beet, which can be refined to equal cane sugar in all manners save for botanical origin. | [noun] A mangelwurzel, a plant of the beet family raised as cattle feed. MANGER (9) [noun] A trough for animals to eat from. MANGES (9) MANGEY (12) [adjective] Afflicted with mange. | [adjective] (by extension) Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit. MANGLE (9) [verb] To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc. | [verb] To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc. | [noun] A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry. | [noun] Mangrove (tree) MANGOS (9) [noun] A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica. | [noun] The fruit of the mango tree. | [noun] A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed. MANIAC (10) [noun] An insane person, especially one who suffers from a mania. | [noun] A fanatic, a person with an obsession. MANIAS (8) [noun] Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. | [noun] Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism. | [noun] The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels. MANICS (10) MANILA (8) [noun] Fiber made from abaca (Manila hemp), used to make ropes and manila paper. | [noun] The yellow-brown colour of manila. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to Manila, the capital of the Philippines; made in, or exported from, that city. MANIOC (10) [noun] The tropical plant Manihot esculenta, from which cassava and tapioca are prepared. | [noun] Cassava root, eaten as a food. | [noun] A food starch prepared from the root. MANITO (8) MANITU (8) MANNAN (8) MANNAS (8) MANNED (9) [verb] To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex). | [verb] To take up position in order to operate (something). | [verb] (possibly obsolete) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.) MANNER (8) [noun] Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything | [noun] Characteristic mode of acting or behaving; bearing | [noun] One's customary method of acting; habit. MANORS (8) [noun] A landed estate. | [noun] The main house of such an estate or a similar residence; a mansion. | [noun] A district over which a feudal lord could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe. MANQUE (17) [adjective] Unable to fully realise one's ambitions; would-be MANSES (8) [noun] A house inhabited by the minister of a parish. | [noun] A family dwelling, an owner-occupied house. | [noun] A large house, a mansion. MANTAS (8) [noun] A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States. | [noun] Any of several very large pelagic rays of the genus Manta, with winglike pectoral fins, a long tail, and two fins resembling horns that project from the head. MANTEL (8) [noun] The shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney. | [noun] A maneuver to surmount a ledge, involving pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body. Also called a mantelshelf. | [verb] To surmount a ledge by pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body. MANTES (8) MANTIC (10) [noun] A soothsayer, a seer. | [adjective] Relating to divination; prophetic. MANTID (9) [noun] Mantis (insect) MANTIS (8) [noun] Any of various large insects of the order Mantodea that catch insects or other small animals with their powerful forelegs. | [noun] A green colour, like that of many mantises. MANTLE (8) [noun] The shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney. | [noun] A maneuver to surmount a ledge, involving pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body. Also called a mantelshelf. | [noun] A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (Compare mantum.) MANTRA (8) [noun] The hymn portions of the Vedas; any passage of these used as a prayer. | [noun] (originally Hinduism) A phrase repeated to assist concentration during meditation. | [noun] (by extension) A slogan or phrase often repeated. MANTUA (8) [noun] An article of loose clothing popular in 17th- and 18th century France. | [noun] A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy. | [noun] A woman's cloak or mantle. MANUAL (8) [noun] A handbook. | [noun] A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product. | [noun] A drill in the use of weapons, etc. | [adjective] Performed with the hands (of an activity). | [noun] Mechanical transmission which shifts gears by the action of the driver's hand on the gearstick or gear lever, rather than automatically; a manual gearbox. MANURE (8) [noun] Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens. | [noun] Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not; fertiliser. | [noun] Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit. MAPLES (10) [noun] A tree of the Acer genus, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds. | [noun] The wood of such a tree, prized for its hardness and attractive appearance MAPPED (13) [verb] To create a visual representation of a territory, etc. via cartography. | [verb] (followed by a "to" phrase) To act as a function on something, taking it to something else. | [verb] (followed by a "to" phrase) To have a direct relationship; to correspond. MAPPER (12) MAQUIS (17) [noun] Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub. | [noun] The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere. MARACA (10) [noun] A Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a hollow-gourd rattle containing pebbles or beans and often played in pairs, as a rhythm instrument. | [noun] (in the plural) breasts MARAUD (9) [verb] To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder. | [verb] To go about aggressively or in a predatory manner. | [verb] To raid and pillage. MARBLE (10) [noun] A rock of crystalline limestone. | [noun] (games) A small ball, usually of glass or ceramic. | [noun] An artwork made from marble. MARBLY (13) MARCEL (10) [noun] A hairstyle characterized by deep waves made by a curling iron. | [noun] A marcel wave. | [verb] To wave (hair) by the marcel method. MARGAY (12) [noun] Leopardus wiedii, a spotted cat native to Central and South America. MARGES (9) [noun] Margin; edge; verge. | [noun] Margarine. MARGIN (9) [noun] The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc. | [noun] The edge or border of any flat surface. | [noun] The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group. MARINA (8) [noun] A harbour for small boats. MARINE (8) [noun] A soldier, normally a member of a marine corps, trained to serve on board or from a ship | [noun] Capitalised in the plural A marine corps. | [noun] A painting representing some marine subject. MARISH (11) MARKED (13) [adjective] Having a visible or identifying mark. | [adjective] Clearly evident; noticeable; conspicuous. | [adjective] (of a word, form, or phoneme) Distinguished by a positive feature. | [verb] To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something). MARKER (12) [noun] An object used to mark a location. | [noun] Someone or something that marks. | [noun] A real or virtual objective, something to be aimed for. MARKET (12) [noun] A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic. | [noun] City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise. | [noun] A grocery store MARKKA (16) [noun] A (Finnish) mark, the currency used in Finland before the introduction of the euro, consisting of 100 penni. Abbreviation FIM. MARKUP (14) [noun] The notation that is used to indicate the meaning of the elements in an electronic document, or to dictate how text should be displayed. | [noun] The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up his buy-in price when determining his selling price. | [noun] An increase in price. MARLED (9) [adjective] Mottled, streaked, multicoloured. | [verb] To cover with the earthy substance called marl. | [verb] To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a peculiar hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding. MARLIN (8) [noun] Any species of game fish belonging to either of the genera Tetrapturus or Makaira. Every such species has a pointed, spear-like projection of the upper jaw. MARMOT (10) [noun] Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family. MAROON (8) [noun] An escaped negro slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of escaped slaves. | [noun] A castaway; a person who has been marooned. | [verb] To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a desert island. | [noun] A rich dark red, somewhat brownish, color. | [noun] A rocket-propelled firework or skyrocket, often one used as a signal (e.g. to summon the crew of a lifeboat or warn of an air raid). | [noun] An idiot; a fool. MARQUE (17) [noun] A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque. | [noun] A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a model). | [noun] A ship commissioned for making captures. MARRAM (10) [noun] Ammophila arenaria, a coarse grass found on sandy beaches. MARRED (9) [verb] To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage. | [adjective] Of a person, perplexed or troubled | [adjective] Of a child, spoilt, cosseted, overly indulged MARRER (8) [noun] One who mars or injures. MARRON (8) [noun] A sweet chestnut. | [noun] Cherax tenuimanus, a type of freshwater crayfish from Western Australia. MARROW (11) [noun] The substance inside bones which produces blood cells. | [noun] A kind of vegetable like a large courgette/zucchini or squash. | [noun] The pith of certain plants. | [noun] A friend, pal, buddy, mate. MARSES (8) MARSHY (14) [adjective] Of, or resembling a marsh; boggy. | [adjective] Growing in marshy ground. MARTED (9) MARTEN (8) [noun] Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Martes in the family Mustelidae. | [noun] Any of various passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, which also includes swallows, that catch insects whilst flying. | [noun] A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding. MARTIN (8) [noun] Any of various passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, which also includes swallows, that catch insects whilst flying. | [noun] A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding. MARTYR (11) [noun] One who willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after martyrdom. | [noun] (by extension) One who sacrifices his or her life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause. | [noun] (with a prepositional phrase of cause) One who suffers greatly and/or constantly, even involuntarily. MARVEL (11) [noun] That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. | [noun] Wonder, astonishment. | [verb] To become filled with wonderment or admiration; to be amazed at something. MASCON (10) [noun] A region within a solid astronomical body that is of higher density than the surrounding material. | [noun] A lunar mare that has a greater density of rock than the surrounding area. | [noun] Mass concentration MASCOT (10) [noun] Something thought to bring good luck | [noun] Something, especially a person or animal, used to symbolize a sports team, company, organization or other group MASERS (8) [noun] A device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation (especially of microwave frequency) by the use of excitation energy in resonant atomic or molecular systems | [noun] Any celestial object that generates microwaves using the same method | [noun] The maple tree, or maple wood. MASHED (12) [verb] To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure | [verb] In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort. | [verb] To press down hard (on). MASHER (11) [noun] One who, or that which, mashes. | [noun] A machine for making mash. | [noun] A fashionable man in the late Victorian era. MASHES (11) [verb] To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure | [verb] In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort. | [verb] To press down hard (on). MASHIE (11) [noun] A metal-headed golf club with a moderate loft, the equivalent of a five iron in a modern set of clubs. MASJID (16) [noun] A mosque. MASKED (13) [verb] To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor. | [verb] To disguise; to cover; to hide. | [verb] To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of. MASKEG (13) MASKER (12) [verb] To render giddy or senseless | [verb] To be bewildered. | [verb] To choke; stifle. | [noun] One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade or wears a mask in a ritual. MASONS (8) [noun] A bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick | [noun] One who prepares stone for building purposes. | [noun] A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason. MASQUE (17) MASSAS (8) MASSED (9) [verb] To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble. | [verb] To have a certain mass. | [verb] To celebrate mass. MASSES (8) [noun] (physical) Matter, material. | [noun] A large quantity; a sum. | [verb] To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble. MASSIF (11) [noun] A principal mountain mass. | [noun] A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults or flexures and displaced as a unit without internal change; normally consists of gneisses and schists MASTED (9) [verb] To supply and fit a mast to (a ship). | [verb] (of swine and other animals) To feed on forest seed or fruit. | [verb] (of a population of plants) To vary fruit and seed production in multi-year cycles. MASTER (8) [noun] Someone who has control over something or someone. | [noun] The owner of an animal or slave. | [noun] The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner. | [noun] (in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts. MASTIC (10) [noun] An evergreen shrub or small tree, Pistacia lentiscus (mastic tree), native to the Mediterranean. | [noun] A hard, brittle, aromatic and transparent resin produced by this tree and used to make varnishes and chewing gum, and as a flavouring. | [noun] An alcoholic liquor flavoured with this resin. MASTIX (15) MATERS (8) [noun] Tomato. | [noun] Mother. | [noun] A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain. MATEYS (11) MATING (9) [verb] To put the king of an opponent into checkmate. | [verb] (by extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape. | [verb] To match, fit together without space between. MATINS (8) [noun] Together with lauds, the earliest of the canonical hours; normally at sunrise, but often earlier | [noun] Morning prayers MATRES (8) MATRIX (15) [noun] The womb. | [noun] The material or tissue in which more specialized structures are embedded. | [noun] An extracellular matrix, the material or tissue between the cells of animals or plants. MATRON (8) [noun] A mature or elderly woman. | [noun] A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children. | [noun] A woman of staid or motherly manners. MATSAH (11) MATTED (9) [verb] To cover, protect or decorate with mats. | [verb] To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle. | [adjective] Forming a thick tangled mess MATTER (8) [noun] Substance, material. | [noun] A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern. | [noun] An approximate amount or extent. MATTES (8) [noun] A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame. | [noun] A background, often painted or created with computers | [noun] (pyrometallurgy) The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals. MATTIN (8) MATURE (8) [adjective] Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe. | [adjective] Brought to a state of complete readiness. | [adjective] Profound; careful. | [verb] To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities). MATZAH (20) [noun] Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine. | [noun] A piece of the above bread. MATZAS (17) MATZOH (20) [noun] Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine. | [noun] A piece of the above bread. MATZOS (17) [noun] Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine. | [noun] A piece of the above bread. MATZOT (17) MAUGER (9) MAUGRE (9) MAULED (9) [verb] To handle someone or something in a rough way. | [verb] To savage; to cause serious physical wounds (usually used of an animal). | [verb] To criticise harshly. MAULER (8) [noun] One who mauls. MAUMET (10) MAUNDS (9) [noun] A wicker basket. | [noun] A unit of capacity with various specific local values. | [noun] A handbasket with two lids. MAUNDY (12) [noun] A commandment. | [noun] The sacrament of the Lord's supper. | [noun] The ceremony of washing the feet of poor persons or inferiors, performed as a religious rite on Maundy Thursday in commemoration of Christ's washing the disciples' feet at the Last Supper. MAUVES (11) [noun] A bright purple synthetic dye. | [noun] The colour of this dye; a pale purple or violet colour. MAVENS (11) [noun] An expert in a given field. MAVIES (11) MAVINS (11) MAWING (12) MAXIMA (17) [noun] A music note equal to two (or sometimes three) longæ; in modern notation, this is typically equivalent to eight semibreves. | [noun] The highest limit | [noun] The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function MAXIMS (17) [noun] A self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule. | [noun] A precept; a succinct statement or observation of a rule of conduct or moral teaching. MAXIXE (22) [noun] A Brazilian dance in a rapid 2/4 time, influenced by the tango and polka. | [noun] A deep blue variety of beryl. MAYBES (13) [noun] Something that is possibly true. | [noun] An answer that shows neither agreement nor disagreement. | [noun] A future event that may or may not happen. MAYDAY (15) [noun] An international distress signal used by shipping and aircraft MAYEST (11) [verb] To be strong; to have power (over). | [verb] (auxiliary) To be able; can. | [verb] To be able to go. MAYFLY (17) [noun] Any of the many fragile insects of the order Ephemeroptera that develop in fresh water and live very briefly as winged adults. MAYHAP (16) [adverb] Maybe, perhaps, possibly, perchance: MAYHEM (16) [noun] A state or situation of great confusion, disorder, trouble or destruction; chaos. | [noun] Infliction of violent injury on a person or thing. | [noun] The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his limbs which are necessary for defense or protection. MAYING (12) [verb] To gather may, or flowers in general. | [verb] To celebrate May Day. | [noun] The celebrations traditionally held to celebrate May Day. MAYORS (11) [noun] The chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough, &c., formerly usually appointed as a caretaker by European royal courts but now usually appointed or elected locally. | [noun] Short for mayor of the palace, the royal stewards of the Frankish Empire. | [noun] Synonym of mair, various former officials in the Kingdom of Scotland. MAYPOP (15) [noun] A type of passionflower, purple in color (Passiflora incarnata). MAYVIN (14) MAZARD (18) MAZERS (17) [noun] The maple tree, or maple wood. | [noun] A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl. MAZIER (17) [adjective] Mazelike; like a maze. | [adjective] Not straight; zigzagging. MAZILY (20) MAZING (18) [verb] To amaze, astonish, bewilder | [verb] To daze, stupefy, or confuse MAZUMA (19) [noun] Cash, money. MBIRAS (10) [noun] A thumb piano, a musical instrument having a small sound box fitted with a row of tuned tabs that are plucked with the thumbs, originating among the Shona of southern Africa; any type of plucked lamellophone of the same type as the Shona instrument. MEADOW (12) [noun] A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay. | [noun] Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea. MEAGER (9) [verb] To make lean. | [adjective] Having little flesh; lean; thin. | [adjective] Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent MEAGRE (9) [noun] Argyrosomus regius, an edible fish of the family Sciaenidae. | [verb] To make lean. | [adjective] Having little flesh; lean; thin. MEALIE (8) [noun] An ear or kernel of maize; in plural as mass noun: maize, corn. MEANER (8) [adjective] Common; general. | [adjective] Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble. | [adjective] Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby. MEANIE (8) [noun] A mean (unkind or miserly) person; a killjoy. | [noun] A villain. MEANLY (11) MEASLE (8) [noun] A leper. | [noun] A tapeworm larva. MEASLY (11) [adjective] Particularly of pigs or pork: infected with larval tapeworms or trichinae (parasitic roundworms). | [adjective] Of a person: infected with measles. | [adjective] Small (especially contemptibly small) in amount. MEATAL (8) MEATED (9) MEATUS (8) [noun] A tubular opening or passage in the body. MECCAS (12) MEDAKA (13) [noun] Oryzias latipes, a small Japanese ricefish, popular for use in aquariums. MEDALS (9) [noun] A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object. | [noun] A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward. | [verb] To win a medal. MEDDLE (10) [verb] To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly. | [verb] To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense. | [verb] To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend. MEDFLY (15) [noun] A small fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, native to the Mediterranean. MEDIAD (10) MEDIAE (9) [noun] The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue. | [noun] A voiced stop consonant. | [noun] One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus MEDIAL (9) [noun] Any of various things that occur in the middle. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to a mean or average. | [adjective] In or near the middle; not at either end. MEDIAN (9) [noun] A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm. | [noun] A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side. | [noun] The number separating the higher half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, from the lower half. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of {3, 3, 5, 9, 11} is 5). If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values. MEDIAS (9) MEDICK (15) [noun] Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to medicines; medical. MEDICO (11) [noun] A physician or medical doctor; sometimes also a medical student. MEDICS (11) [noun] A doctor. | [noun] A paramedic, someone with special training in first aid, especially in the military. | [noun] A medical student. MEDINA (9) [noun] The traditional, older or non-European area of a North African town. MEDIUM (11) [noun] (plural media or mediums) The chemistry of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent. | [noun] (plural media or mediums) The materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass. | [noun] (plural media or mediums) A format for communicating or presenting information. MEDIUS (9) MEDLAR (9) [noun] Mespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica) | [noun] Any tree of the genus Mespilus, now often Crataegus sect. Mespilus, including many species now in other genera. | [noun] Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit MEDLEY (12) [noun] Combat, fighting; a battle. | [noun] A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things. | [noun] A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece. MEDUSA (9) [noun] A jellyfish; specifically , a non-polyp form of individual cnidarians, consisting of a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles. MEEKER (12) [adjective] Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing. | [adjective] Submissive, dispirited. | [verb] To break up and smooth soil with a harrow. MEEKLY (15) [adverb] In a meek manner; quietly and humbly. MEETER (8) MEETLY (11) MEGASS (9) MEGILP (11) [noun] A mixture of linseed oil with turpentine or mastic varnish, used as a thickener for oil paints but later discredited as a source of cracking and yellowing. MEGOHM (14) [noun] One million (106) ohms, abbreviated as MΩ. MEGRIM (11) [noun] A headache; a migraine. | [noun] A fancy, a whim, a caprice. | [noun] (in the plural) See megrims. | [noun] A type of European deep water flatfish, Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis; the whiff or sail-fluke. MEIKLE (12) MEINIE (8) MELDED (10) [verb] To combine multiple similar objects into one | [verb] In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards. MELDER (9) MELEES (8) [noun] A battle fought at close range; hand-to-hand combat; brawling. | [noun] A noisy, confused or tumultuous fight, argument or scrap. | [noun] Any any confused, disorganised, disordered or chaotic situation. MELLED (9) MELLOW (11) [noun] A relaxed mood. | [verb] To make mellow; to relax or soften. | [verb] To become mellow. MELODY (12) [noun] Tune; sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase MELOID (9) MELONS (8) [noun] Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber. | [noun] The fruit of such plants. | [noun] A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh. MELTED (9) [verb] To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. | [verb] To dissolve, disperse, vanish. | [verb] 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. MELTER (8) MELTON (8) [noun] A tough, short-napped material used for making overcoats. MEMBER (12) [noun] One who officially belongs to a group. | [noun] A part of a whole. | [noun] Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb. | [verb] (obsolete outside dialectal) To remember. MEMOIR (10) [noun] An autobiography; a book describing the personal experiences of an author. | [noun] A biography; a book describing the experiences of a subject from personal knowledge of the subject or from sources with personal knowledge of the subject. | [noun] Any form of narrative describing the personal experiences of a writer. MEMORY (13) [noun] The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later at will. | [noun] A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism. | [noun] The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM). MENACE (10) [noun] A perceived threat or danger. | [noun] The act of threatening. | [noun] An annoying and bothersome person or thing. | [verb] To make threats against (someone); to intimidate. MENADS (9) MENAGE (9) [noun] A household; a domestic situation. | [noun] A type of cooperative society whereby all members pay a regular sum of savings, or through which goods can be paid for in installments. | [noun] A group of people living together in a sexual relationship. MENDED (10) [verb] To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement. | [verb] To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace. | [verb] To help, to advance, to further; to add to. MENDER (9) MENHIR (11) [noun] A single tall standing stone as a monument, especially of prehistoric times. MENIAL (8) [noun] A servant, especially a domestic servant. | [noun] A person who has a subservient nature. | [adjective] Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant. MENINX (15) [noun] A membrane, especially one of the three membranes enclosing the brain and spinal cord in vertebrates MENSAE (8) MENSAL (8) MENSAS (8) MENSCH (13) [noun] A person (chiefly male) of strength, integrity and honor or compassion. | [noun] A gentleman. MENSED (9) MENSES (8) [noun] The discharge of blood mixed with pieces of cellular tissue from the uterus out through the vagina, which occurs roughly every month in uninseminated women; menstrual flow. MENTAL (8) [adjective] Of or relating to the mind or an intellectual process. | [adjective] Insane, mad, crazy. | [adjective] Enjoyable or fun, especially in a frenetic way. | [noun] A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile. MENTOR (8) [noun] A wise and trusted counselor or teacher | [verb] To act as someone's mentor MENTUM (10) [noun] The chin. | [noun] A chin-like projection below the mouth of certain mollusks. | [noun] The central part of the labium in insects. MEOUED (9) MEOWED (12) [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. MERCER (10) [noun] A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths. MERDES (9) MERELY (11) [adverb] Wholly, entirely. | [adverb] (focus) Without any other reason etc.; only, just, and nothing more. MEREST (8) [adjective] Pure, unalloyed . | [adjective] Nothing less than; complete, downright . | [adjective] Just, only; no more than , pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected. MERGED (10) [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To blend gradually into something else. MERGER (9) [noun] One that merges. | [noun] The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit. | [noun] The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party. MERGES (9) [noun] The joining together of multiple sources. | [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To combine into a whole. MERINO (8) [noun] A sheep of a Spanish breed with long, fine hair. | [noun] The wool of this sheep. | [noun] The fabric made from this wool (or from any similar yarn). MERITS (8) [noun] A claim to commendation or a reward. | [noun] A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence. | [noun] Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward. MERLES (8) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] Any blackbird. MERLIN (8) [noun] A small falcon, Falco columbarius, that breeds in northern North America, Europe, and Asia. | [noun] A cytoskeletal protein active in the suppression of tumors. MERLON (8) [noun] Any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement, originally for archers to shield behind while shooting arrows over the embrasures, or through loopholes in the merlons. | [noun] A small falcon, Falco columbarius, that breeds in northern North America, Europe, and Asia. MERLOT (8) [noun] A dark-blue variety of wine grape. | [noun] A dry red wine of a certain French type, made from Merlot grapes. MERMAN (10) [noun] A legendary creature, human male from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down. MERMEN (10) [noun] A legendary creature, human male from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down. MESCAL (10) [noun] A Mexican alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented juice of the agave. | [noun] The peyote cactus. MESHED (12) [verb] To connect together by interlocking, as gears do. | [verb] (by extension) To fit in; to come together harmoniously. | [verb] To catch in a mesh. MESHES (11) [noun] A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them. | [noun] The opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space. | [noun] The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack. MESIAL (8) [adjective] Pertaining to the midline of the body. | [adjective] Facing the side of a tooth which faces the middle of the jaw. MESIAN (8) MESNES (8) MESONS (8) [noun] (rare outside entomology) The mesial plane dividing the body into similar right and left halves. | [noun] A member of a group of subatomic particles having a mass intermediate between electrons and protons. (The most easily detected mesons fit this definition.) | [noun] (now specifically) An elementary particle that is composed of a quark and an antiquark, such as a kaon or pion. (Mesons composed of rarer quarks are much heavier.) MESSAN (8) MESSED (9) [verb] (transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty. | [verb] (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin. | [verb] To interfere. MESSES (8) [noun] A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; disorder. | [noun] A large quantity or number. | [noun] Excrement. MESTEE (8) METAGE (9) [noun] Measurement, especially of coal. | [noun] A fee paid for a measurement. METALS (8) [noun] (heading) Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from. | [noun] A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent and or. | [noun] Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects. METATE (8) [noun] A flat stone with a slightly concave surface, used with another stone (a mano) for grinding maize or other grains. METEOR (8) [noun] A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere: A shooting star or falling star. | [noun] Any atmospheric phenomenon. (Thus the derivation of meteorology.) These were sometimes classified as aerial or airy meteors (winds), aqueous or watery meteors (hydrometeors: clouds, rain, snow, hail, dew, frost), luminous meteors (rainbows and aurora), and igneous or fiery meteors (lightning and shooting stars). | [noun] A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable. METEPA (10) METERS (8) [noun] (always meter) A device that measures things. | [noun] (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment. | [noun] (always meter) One who metes or measures. METHOD (12) [noun] A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process): | [noun] (often "the method") A technique for acting based on the ideas articulated by Constantin Stanislavski and focusing on authentically experiencing the inner life of the character being portrayed. | [noun] A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object, synonym of member function | [noun] A trick where the boarder grabs the heel edge of the board with their back hand, between their feet, and then pulls the board towards their back, while arching their back and bending knees. METHYL (14) [noun] The univalent hydrocarbon radical, CH3-, formally derived from methane by the loss of a hydrogen atom; a compound or part of a compound formed by the attachment of such a radical. METIER (8) [noun] Any activity that is pursued as a trade or profession; a calling. | [noun] An activity to which a person is particularly suited; a forte. | [noun] An outstanding or beneficial feature. METING (9) [verb] To measure. | [verb] (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.). | [noun] The act of one who metes; a distribution or handing out. METOPE (10) [noun] The architectural element between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze. METRED (9) METRES (8) [verb] To measure with a metering device. | [verb] To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter. | [verb] To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath). METRIC (10) [noun] A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering). | [noun] A function for the measurement of the "distance" between two points in some metric space: it is a real-valued function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) "non-negativity": d(x,y) \ge 0 , (2) "identity of indiscernibles": d(x,y) = 0 \mbox{ iff } x=y , (2) "symmetry": d(x,y) = d(y,x) , and (3) "triangle inequality": d(x,y) \le d(x,z) + d(z,y) . | [noun] A metric tensor. METROS (8) [noun] An underground railway. | [noun] A train that runs on such an underground railway. | [noun] An urban rapid transit light railway METTLE (8) [noun] A quality of endurance and courage. | [noun] Good temperament and character. | [noun] Metal; a metallic substance. METUMP (12) MEWING (12) [verb] To shut away, confine, lock up. | [verb] (of a bird) To moult. | [verb] (of a bird) To cause to moult. MEWLED (12) [verb] To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine. MEWLER (11) MEZCAL (19) [noun] A Mexican alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented juice of the agave. | [noun] The peyote cactus. MEZUZA (26) [noun] A piece of parchment inscribed with specific Hebrew verses from the Torah (Deuteronomy 6:4–9 and 11:13–21) and attached in a case to the doorpost of a house, in accordance with the mitzvah (Biblical commandment as interpreted in Jewish law) to "write the words of God on the gates and doorposts of your house" (Deuteronomy 6:9). MEZZOS (26) [noun] Mezzo-soprano MIAOUS (8) MIAOWS (11) [noun] The cry of a cat. | [noun] The drug mephedrone. | [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. MIASMA (10) [noun] A noxious atmosphere or influence. | [noun] A noxious atmosphere or emanation once thought to originate from swamps and waste, and to cause disease. MIASMS (10) [noun] An unhealthy vapor or atmosphere; a miasma. | [noun] A predisposition to a particular disease, which interferes with subsequent treatment of it. MIAULS (8) [noun] The cry of a cat. MICELL (10) MICHED (14) MICHES (13) MICKEY (17) [noun] A small bottle of liquor, holding 375 ml or 13 oz., typically shaped to fit in one's pocket. | [noun] A Mickey Finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged. | [noun] American depression era term for a potato as in a "roasted mickey". MICKLE (14) [noun] A great amount. | [noun] (originally erroneous) A small amount. | [noun] Great or important people as a class. MICRON (10) [noun] The thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter. | [noun] A very tiny amount. | [noun] A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short. MICROS (10) [noun] (gaming slang) micromanagement | [noun] A computer designed around a microprocessor, smaller than a minicomputer or a mainframe. | [noun] The field of economics that deals with small-scale economic activities such as those of an individual or company. MIDAIR (9) [noun] A collision between two or more aerospace vehicles in flight. | [adjective] In the act of flight; airborne. MIDDAY (13) [noun] Noon; twelve o'clock during the day MIDDEN (10) [noun] A dungheap. | [noun] A refuse heap usually near a dwelling. | [noun] A prehistoric pile of bones and shells. MIDDLE (10) [noun] A centre, midpoint. | [noun] The part between the beginning and the end. | [noun] The middle stump. MIDGES (10) [noun] Any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera | [noun] Any bait or lure designed to resemble a midge MIDGET (10) [noun] A little sandfly. | [noun] Any small swarming insect similar to the mosquito; a midge. | [noun] (sometimes offensive) A normally proportioned person with small stature, usually defined as reaching an adult height less than 4'10". MIDGUT (10) [noun] The central loop of the alimentary canal of an embryo between the foregut and the hindgut. MIDLEG (10) MIDRIB (11) [noun] The strengthened vein down the middle of a flower petal or simple leaf or leaflet. | [noun] The continuation of the petiole of a pinnately compound leaf around which the leaflets attach. MIDSTS (9) [noun] A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location. MIDWAY (15) [noun] The middle; the midst. | [noun] A middle way or manner; a mean or middle course between extremes. | [noun] The part of a fair or circus where rides, entertainments, and booths are concentrated. MIFFED (15) [verb] (usually used in the passive) To offend slightly. | [verb] To become slightly offended. | [adjective] Somewhat indignant, irritated, angry, put out or annoyed. MIGGLE (10) MIGHTS (12) MIGHTY (15) [noun] A warrior of great strength and courage. | [adjective] Very strong; possessing might. | [adjective] Very heavy and powerful. MIGNON (9) MIHRAB (13) [noun] A niche in a mosque that indicates the qibla (direction of Mecca), and into which the imam prays | [noun] A design in a Muslim prayer mat with the same function MIKADO (13) [noun] (history) A former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period. | [noun] Any emperor of Japan | [noun] A game of skill, in which identically shaped (but differently colored and valued) wooden sticks must be removed from a pile without disturbing the remaining stack MIKING (13) [verb] To microphone; to place one or more microphones (mikes) on. | [verb] To measure using a micrometer. MIKRON (12) MIKVAH (18) [noun] A ritual bath in which various Jewish purifications are performed. MIKVEH (18) [noun] A ritual bath in which various Jewish purifications are performed. MILADI (9) MILADY (12) [noun] An English noblewoman or gentlewoman; the form of address to such a person; a lady. MILAGE (9) [noun] The total distance travelled in miles or in air miles. | [noun] The number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel. | [noun] An allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile. MILDEN (9) MILDER (9) [adjective] Gentle and not easily angered. | [adjective] (of a rule or punishment) Of only moderate severity; not strict. | [adjective] Not overly felt or seriously intended. MILDEW (12) [noun] A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances. | [verb] To taint with mildew. | [verb] To become tainted with mildew. MILDLY (12) [adverb] In a mild manner. | [adverb] To a mild degree; slightly. MILERS (8) [noun] (often in combination) An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile, or a specified number of miles. | [noun] (in combination) A race whose length is the specified number of miles. MILIEU (8) [noun] Medium. | [noun] Social setting or environment. MILIUM (10) [noun] A keratin-filled cyst that can appear just under the epidermis or on the roof of the mouth. MILKED (13) [verb] To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow). | [verb] To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder. | [verb] To express any liquid (from any creature). MILKER (12) [noun] An animal, such as a dairy cow, kept for the milk it produces. | [noun] A person who milks. | [noun] A milking machine. MILLED (9) [verb] To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine. | [verb] To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine. | [verb] To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin). MILLER (8) [noun] A person who owns or operates a mill, especially a flour mill. | [noun] A milling machine. | [noun] Any of several moths that have powdery wings, especially Acronicta leporina and moths of the genus Agrotis. MILLES (8) MILLET (8) [noun] Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world. | [noun] A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one. MILNEB (10) MILORD (9) [noun] An English nobleman, especially one traveling Europe in grand style; a wealthy British gentleman. | [noun] My Lord (used to address peers temporal, judges, etc). MILPAS (10) MILTED (9) MILTER (8) [noun] A male fish during breeding season. MIMBAR (12) [noun] A pulpit in a mosque from which the leader of prayers delivers the khutbah. MIMEOS (10) [noun] A mimeograph. | [noun] An unpublished academic paper. MIMERS (10) MIMICS (12) [noun] A person who practices mimicry, or mime. | [noun] An imitation. | [verb] To imitate, especially in order to ridicule. MIMING (11) [verb] To mimic. | [verb] To act without words. | [verb] To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound. MIMOSA (10) [noun] A plant belonging to the genus Mimosa usually found in tropical climates, their leaves are usually prickly and sensitive to touch or light, and have small white or pink flowers. | [noun] Albizia species (silk tree, pink siris). | [noun] Acacia species. MINCED (11) [adjective] Finely chopped. | [adjective] Minutely subdivided. | [adjective] Weakened, extenuated. | [verb] To make less; make small. MINCER (10) MINCES (10) [noun] Finely chopped meat. | [noun] Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat. | [noun] An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait. MINDED (10) [verb] (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by. | [verb] To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time. | [verb] (chiefly in the imperative) To make sure, to take care (that). MINDER (9) [noun] One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper | [noun] A personal bodyguard. | [noun] A guide assigned by the authorities to foreign visitors so as to exercise control over their contacts with the populace. MINERS (8) [noun] A person who works in a mine. | [noun] An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives. | [noun] Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina. MINGLE (9) [noun] A mixture. | [noun] The act of informally meeting numerous people in a group | [verb] To intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product MINIFY (14) MINIMA (10) [noun] The lowest limit. | [noun] The smallest amount. | [noun] A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star). MINIMS (10) [noun] A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem. | [noun] A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water. | [noun] A short vertical stroke used in handwriting. MINING (9) [verb] To remove (ore) from the ground. | [verb] To dig into, for ore or metal. | [verb] To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area). MINION (8) [noun] The lowest limit. | [noun] The smallest amount. | [noun] A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star). MINISH (11) MINIUM (10) MINKES (12) [noun] A minke whale, one of two species of baleen whales within Balaenoptera, the northern-dwelling species of which is often seen in coastal waters. MINNOW (11) [noun] A small freshwater fish of the carp family, Phoxinus phoxinus. | [noun] Any small fish. | [noun] A relatively small and insignificant person or organization. MINORS (8) [noun] A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities. | [noun] A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration. | [noun] Determinant of a square submatrix MINTED (9) [verb] To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence. | [verb] To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion. | [verb] (provincial) To try, attempt; take aim. MINTER (8) [noun] One who mints | [noun] An item in mint condition (especially a motor car) MINUET (8) [noun] A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance. | [noun] A tune or air to regulate the movements of the minuet dance: it has the dance form, and is commonly in 3/4, sometimes 3/8, measure. | [noun] A complete short musical composition inspired by and conforming to many formal characteristics of the traditional musical accompaniment to the dance of same name. MINUTE (8) [noun] A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour). | [noun] A short but unspecified time period. | [noun] A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree. | [adjective] Very small. MINXES (15) [noun] A mink. MINYAN (11) [noun] The minimum number of ten (male) adult Jews required for a communal religious service. | [noun] (by extension) A Jewish prayer service. | [noun] A member of the Minyan race of Greek mythology MIOSES (8) MIOSIS (8) [noun] Contraction of the pupil of the eye. MIOTIC (10) MIRAGE (9) [noun] An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, giving the appearance of there being refuge in the distance. | [noun] An illusion. | [verb] To cause to appear as or like a mirage. MIRIER (8) MIRING (9) [verb] To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. | [verb] To sink into mud. | [verb] To weigh down. MIRKER (12) MIRROR (8) [noun] A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it. | [noun] An object, person, or event that reflects or gives a picture of another. | [noun] A disk, website or other resource that contains replicated data. MIRTHS (11) MIRZAS (17) MISACT (10) MISADD (10) MISAIM (10) MISATE (8) MISCUE (10) [noun] In a cue sport, an error in hitting the ball with the cue. | [noun] The act of missing one's cue or of responding to a cue intended for another actor. | [noun] A miss of the object one intended to hit. MISCUT (10) MISDID (10) MISEAT (8) MISERS (8) [noun] A person who hoards money rather than spending it; one who is cheap or extremely parsimonious. | [noun] A kind of earth auger, typically large-bored and often hand-operated. MISERY (11) [noun] Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. | [noun] A bodily ache or pain. | [noun] Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune. MISFIT (11) [noun] An ill-fitting garment. | [noun] A failure to fit well; unsuitability, disparity. | [noun] A badly adjusted person; someone unsuitable or set apart because of their habits, behaviour etc. MISHAP (13) [noun] An accident, mistake, or problem. | [noun] Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance. | [verb] To happen through misfortune; to mishappen. MISHIT (11) [noun] An incorrect or bad hit. | [verb] To incorrectly or badly hit. MISKAL (12) MISLAY (11) [verb] To leave or lay something in the wrong place and then forget where one put it. MISLED (9) [verb] To lead astray, in a false direction. | [verb] To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression. | [verb] To deceptively trick into something wrong. | [verb] To rain in fine drops; to mizzle. MISLIE (8) MISLIT (8) MISMET (10) MISPEN (10) MISSAL (8) [noun] A prayer book | [noun] A book containing the prayers and responses needed when celebrating the Roman Catholic Mass throughout the year MISSAY (11) MISSED (9) [verb] To fail to hit. | [verb] To fail to achieve or attain. | [verb] To avoid; to escape. MISSEL (8) MISSES (8) [noun] A failure to hit. | [noun] A failure to obtain or accomplish. | [noun] An act of avoidance (used with the verb give). MISSET (8) MISSIS (8) [noun] Wife or girlfriend. | [noun] Term of address for a woman. MISSUS (8) [noun] Wife or girlfriend. | [noun] Term of address for a woman. MISTED (9) [verb] To form mist. | [verb] To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water. | [verb] To cover with a mist. MISTER (8) [noun] A title conferred on an adult male, usually when the name is unknown. Also used as a term of address, often by a parent to a young child. | [verb] To address by the title of "mister". | [noun] Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade. | [noun] A device that makes or sprays mist. MISUSE (8) [noun] An incorrect, improper or unlawful use of something. | [verb] To use (something) incorrectly. | [verb] To abuse or mistreat (something or someone). MITERS (8) [verb] To adorn with a mitre. | [verb] To unite at an angle of 45°. MITHER (11) [verb] To make an unnecessary fuss, moan, bother. | [verb] To pester or irritate someone. Usually directed at children. | [noun] Mother MITIER (8) MITRAL (8) [adjective] Pertaining to a mitre; resembling a mitre. | [adjective] Pertaining to the mitral valve. MITRED (9) [adjective] Relating to an abbot's or bishop's mitre; wearing a mitre. | [adjective] Having a mitre joint. MITRES (8) [noun] A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks. | [noun] The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint. | [noun] A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I. MITTEN (8) [noun] A type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers, which are either enclosed in a single section or left uncovered. | [noun] A cat's or dog's paw that is a different colour from the main body. | [noun] (as "the mitten") A romantic rejection; dismissal of a lover. MIXERS (15) [noun] One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together. | [noun] One who mixes or socializes. | [noun] A machine outfitted with (typically blunt) blades with which it mixes or beats ingredients in a bowl below. MIXING (16) [verb] To stir together. | [verb] To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate). | [verb] To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts. MIXUPS (17) [noun] A case of confusion. MIZENS (17) [noun] Mizzenmast. | [noun] A fore-and-aft sail set on a mizzenmast. MIZZEN (26) [noun] Mizzenmast. | [noun] A fore-and-aft sail set on a mizzenmast. | [adjective] Hindmost; nearest the stern. MIZZLE (26) [noun] Misty rain or drizzle. | [verb] To rain in very fine drops. | [verb] To abscond, scram, flee. MIZZLY (29) MOANED (9) [verb] To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn. | [verb] To grieve. | [verb] To distress (someone); to sadden. MOANER (8) MOATED (9) [adjective] Surrounded with a moat MOBBED (13) [verb] To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility. | [verb] To crowd into or around a place. | [verb] To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. MOBBER (12) MOBCAP (14) [noun] A plain cap or headdress for women or girls, especially one tied under the chin by a very broad band. | [noun] (modern-day use) A disposable head covering with an elasticated band, worn for cleanliness in industrial settings. MOBILE (10) [noun] A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other. | [noun] The internet accessed via mobile devices. | [noun] Something that can move. MOBLED (11) MOCHAS (13) [noun] A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof; a caffè mocha. | [noun] A coffee and chocolate mixed flavour. | [noun] A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee. MOCKED (15) [verb] To mimic, to simulate. | [verb] To create an artistic representation of. | [verb] To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt. MOCKER (14) [noun] A person who mocks. | [noun] A mockingbird. | [noun] A deceiver; an impostor. MOCKUP (16) [noun] A prototype, usually low-fidelity, such as paper illustrations, screenshots, or simple configurations of screens with limited interaction. MODELS (9) [noun] A person who serves as a subject for artwork or fashion, usually in the medium of photography but also for painting or drawing. | [noun] A person, usually an attractive female, hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items given away as prizes on a TV game show. | [noun] A representation of a physical object, usually in miniature. MODEMS (11) [noun] A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog/analogue telephone signals and vice versa and allows computers to communicate over a phone line. | [verb] To transmit by modem. MODERN (9) [noun] Someone who lives in modern times. | [adjective] Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient. | [adjective] (history) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography. MODEST (9) [adjective] Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements; unpretentious, humble. | [adjective] Small, moderate in size. | [adjective] Pure and delicate from a sense of propriety. MODICA (11) MODIFY (15) [verb] To change part of. | [verb] To be or become modified. | [verb] To set bounds to; to moderate. MODISH (12) [adjective] Conforming with fashion or style. | [adjective] In the current mode. MODULE (9) [noun] A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components. | [noun] A standard unit of measure used for determining the proportions of a building. | [noun] A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines. MODULI (9) [noun] The base with respect to which a congruence is computed. | [noun] The absolute value of a complex number. | [noun] A coefficient that expresses how much of a certain property is possessed by a certain substance. MODULO (9) [noun] The operation or function that returns the remainder of one number divided by another. | [preposition] Given a specified modulus of. | [preposition] Except for differences accounted for by. MOGGED (11) MOGGIE (10) [noun] A young cow or bull. | [noun] Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding. | [noun] A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals). MOGULS (9) [noun] A rich or powerful person; a magnate. | [noun] A hump or bump on a skiing piste. | [noun] A larger-sized (39 mm diameter) screw base used for large, high-power light bulbs, known as mogul (screw) base light bulbs. MOHAIR (11) [noun] Yarn or fabric made from the hair of the angora goat, often as mixed with cotton or other materials. | [noun] The long, fine hair of the Angora goat. | [noun] An Angora goat. MOHELS (11) [noun] The person who performs the circumcision in a Jewish bris. MOHURS (11) MOIETY (11) [noun] A half. | [noun] A share or portion, especially a smaller share. | [noun] Each descent group in a culture which is divided exactly into two descent groups. MOILED (9) [verb] To toil, to work hard. | [verb] To churn continually; to swirl. | [verb] To defile or dirty. MOILER (8) MOIRAI (8) MOIRES (8) [noun] Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat. | [noun] Any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given. MOJOES (15) MOLARS (8) [noun] A back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food. | [noun] A unit of concentration equal to one mole per litre. MOLDED (10) [verb] To shape in or on a mold; to form into a particular shape; to give shape to. | [verb] To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence | [verb] To fit closely by following the contours of. MOLDER (9) [noun] One who molds something into shape. | [noun] A person who makes molds. | [noun] A tool for making molds. MOLEST (8) [verb] To annoy intentionally. | [verb] To disturb or tamper with. | [verb] To sexually assault or sexually harass, especially a minor. MOLIES (8) [noun] A magic herb or plant used by Odysseus to overcome Circe. | [noun] Any plant associated with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, Allium moly. MOLINE (8) [noun] The crossed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle; a millrind. MOLLAH (11) MOLLIE (8) [noun] Any of many New World fish of the genus Poecilia, formerly called Mollienesia. | [noun] A Molotov cocktail. MOLOCH (13) [noun] Moloch horridus, an Australian lizard thought to be the sole member of the genus Moloch. MOLTED (9) [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. | [verb] To shed in such a manner. MOLTEN (8) [verb] To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. | [verb] To dissolve, disperse, vanish. | [verb] 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. MOLTER (8) MOMENT (10) [noun] A brief, unspecified amount of time. | [noun] The smallest portion of time; an instant. | [noun] Weight or importance. MOMISM (12) [noun] Finding fault; carping. | [noun] Excessive attachment to one’s mother. | [noun] An utterance, piece of advice, etc. from one's mother. MOMMAS (12) [noun] Mother | [noun] A voluptuous woman. | [noun] One's wife or girlfriend. MOMSER (10) MOMZER (19) MONADS (9) [noun] An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible. | [noun] A single individual (such as a pollen grain) that is free from others, not united in a group. | [noun] A monoid object in the category of endofunctors of a fixed category. MONDES (9) MONDOS (9) MONEYS (11) [noun] A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply. | [noun] A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value. | [noun] A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union). MONGER (9) [noun] (chiefly in combination) A dealer in a specific commodity. | [noun] (in combination) A person promoting something undesirable. | [noun] A small sea vessel. MONGOE (9) MONGOL (9) [noun] A person from Mongolia; a Mongolian. | [noun] A member of any of the various Mongol ethnic groups living in The Mongolian People's Republic, the (former) USSR, Tibet and Nepal. | [noun] (usually mongol) A person with Down's syndrome. MONGOS (9) MONGST (9) MONIED (9) [adjective] Affluent; rich | [adjective] Paid for; funded MONIES (8) [noun] A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply. | [noun] A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value. | [noun] A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union). MONISH (11) MONISM (10) [noun] The doctrine of the oneness and unity of reality, despite the appearance of diversity in the world. MONIST (8) MONKEY (15) [noun] Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches. | [noun] Any nonhuman simian primate, including apes. | [noun] A mischievous child. MONODY (12) [noun] An ode, as in Greek drama, for a single voice, often specifically a mournful song or dirge. | [noun] Any poem mourning the death of someone; an elegy. | [noun] A monotonous or mournful noise. MONTES (8) [noun] One of the fleshy areas at the base of the fingers; a mount. | [noun] The pubic mound or mons pubis. In human anatomy or in mammals in general, the mons pubis (Latin for "pubic mound"), also known as the mons veneris (Latin, mound of Venus) or simply the mons, is the adipose tissue lying above the pubic bone of adult females, anterior to the pubic symphysis. The mons pubis forms the anterior portion of the vulva. | [noun] A mountain or extinct volcano on a planet or a moon. MONTHS (11) [noun] A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon. | [noun] A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof. | [noun] (in the plural) A woman's period; menstrual discharge. MOOING (9) [verb] Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound. | [noun] The action of the verb moo; a mooing sound. | [adjective] (of a steak) very rare MOOLAH (11) [noun] A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law. | [noun] Money, cash. MOOLAS (8) MOOLEY (11) MOONED (9) [verb] To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest. | [verb] (usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone. | [verb] To spend time idly, absent-mindedly. MOORED (9) [verb] To cast anchor or become fastened. | [verb] To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like | [verb] To secure or fix firmly. MOOTED (9) [verb] To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose. | [verb] To discuss or debate. | [verb] To make or declare irrelevant. MOOTER (8) MOPEDS (11) [noun] A lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a small motor and pedals, designed to go no faster than some specified speed limit. MOPERS (10) MOPERY (13) [noun] Violation of an imaginary or trivial law MOPIER (10) MOPING (11) [verb] To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk. | [verb] To make spiritless and stupid. | [noun] The act of one who mopes. MOPISH (13) MOPOKE (14) [noun] A morepork. MOPPED (13) [verb] To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop. | [verb] To make a wry expression with the mouth. MOPPER (12) MOPPET (12) [noun] A child. Often used lovingly or in an affectionate way. | [noun] A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth. | [noun] A long-haired pet dog. MORALE (8) [noun] The capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others. MORALS (8) [noun] (of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct. | [noun] A morality play. MORASS (8) [noun] A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen. | [noun] Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult. MORAYS (11) [noun] Any of the large cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae. MORBID (11) [adjective] Of, or relating to disease. | [adjective] (by extension) Taking an interest in unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease. | [adjective] Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish MOREEN (8) [noun] A thick woollen fabric, watered or with embossed figures, used in upholstery, for curtains, etc. MORELS (8) [noun] Any of several edible mushrooms, especially the common morel or yellow morel. | [noun] Any of several fungi in the genus Morchella, the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. | [noun] A variety of cultivated cherry, Prunus cerasus 'austera', having a dark skin MORGAN (9) [noun] A unit for expressing the relative distance between genes on a chromosome. MORGEN (9) [noun] A unit of measurement of land in the Netherlands and the Dutch colonies and parts of the United States, where it was equivalent to about two acres; and in Denmark, Norway, and Germany, where it was equivalent to about two-thirds of an acre. Now used informally in Germany to mean one quarter of a hectare. MORGUE (9) [noun] A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance. | [noun] A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts. | [noun] The archive and background information division of a newspaper. MORION (8) [noun] A kind of open brimmed helmet used by footsoldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries, having no visor or bever. | [noun] A brown or black variety of quartz. MORONS (8) [noun] A stupid person; an idiot; a fool. | [noun] A person of mild mental subnormality in the former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50–70. MOROSE (8) [adjective] Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour. MORPHO (13) [noun] Any of the genus Morpho of large tropical American butterflies. MORPHS (13) [noun] (grammar) A physical form representing some morpheme in language. It is a recurrent distinctive sound or sequence of sounds. | [noun] An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts. | [noun] Local variety of a species, distinguishable from other populations of the species by morphology or behaviour. MORRIS (8) MORROS (8) MORROW (11) [noun] The next or following day. | [noun] Morning. | [verb] To dawn MORSEL (8) [noun] A small fragment or share of something, commonly applied to food. | [noun] A mouthful of food. | [noun] A very small amount. MORTAL (8) [noun] A human; someone susceptible to death. | [adjective] Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal. | [adjective] Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.). MORTAR (8) [noun] A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks. | [noun] A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories. | [noun] A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle. MORULA (8) [noun] A spherical mass of blastomeres that forms following the splitting of a zygote; it becomes the blastula MOSAIC (10) [noun] A piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture. | [noun] An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote. | [noun] Any of several viral diseases that cause mosaic-like patterns to appear on leaves. MOSEYS (11) [verb] To set off, get going; to start a journey. | [verb] To go off quickly: to hurry up. | [verb] To amble; to walk or proceed in a leisurely manner. MOSHAV (14) [noun] An Israeli town or settlement: in particular, a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah. MOSQUE (17) [noun] A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid. MOSSED (9) [verb] To become covered with moss. | [verb] To cover (something) with moss. MOSSER (8) MOSSES (8) [noun] Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci). | [noun] A kind or species of such plants. | [noun] Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure. MOSTLY (11) [adverb] Mainly or chiefly; for the most part; usually, generally, on the whole. | [adverb] To the greatest extent; most. MOTELS (8) [noun] A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms the entrances of which are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to automobiles parked there. | [noun] A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel. MOTETS (8) [noun] A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem. MOTHER (11) [noun] A (human) female who has given birth to a baby | [noun] A human female who parents an adopted or fostered child | [noun] A human female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone. | [verb] To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.) | [noun] A stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air. | [noun] Motherfucker. | [noun] A person (especially an entomologist) or animal that catches moths. MOTIFS (11) [noun] A recurring or dominant element; a theme. | [noun] A short melodic passage that is repeated in several parts of a work. | [noun] A decorative figure that is repeated in a design or pattern. MOTILE (8) [noun] A person whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action, such as incipient pronunciation of words, muscular innervations, etc. | [adjective] Having the power to move spontaneously. | [adjective] Producing motion. MOTION (8) [noun] A state of progression from one place to another. | [noun] A change of position with respect to time. | [noun] A change from one place to another. MOTIVE (11) [noun] An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting. | [noun] An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action. | [noun] A limb or other bodily organ that can move. MOTLEY (11) [noun] An incongruous mixture. | [noun] A jester's multicoloured clothes. | [noun] (by extension) A jester; a fool. MOTMOT (10) [noun] Any bird in the taxonomic family Momotidae, endemic to the neotropics. MOTORS (8) [noun] A machine or device that converts other energy forms into mechanical energy, or imparts motion. | [noun] A motor car, or automobile. | [noun] A source of power for something; an inspiration; a driving force. MOTTES (8) [noun] A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot. | [noun] A word or a motto; a device. | [noun] A note or brief strain on a bugle. MOTTLE (8) [noun] A distinguishing blotch of color. | [noun] A mottled coloration or pattern. | [verb] To mark with blotches of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate. MOTTOS (8) [noun] A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement. | [noun] A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim. | [noun] A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto. MOUJIK (19) [noun] A (male) peasant, especially in pre-revolutionary (imperial) Russia. MOULDS (9) [noun] A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance. | [noun] A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped. | [noun] Something that is made in or shaped on a mold. MOULDY (12) [adjective] Covered with mould. | [adjective] Neglected. | [adjective] Worthless; lousy; rotten MOULIN (8) [noun] A cylindrical, vertical shaft that extends through a glacier and is carved by meltwater from the glacier’s surface. MOULTS (8) [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. | [verb] To shed in such a manner. MOUNDS (9) [noun] An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense | [noun] A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. | [noun] Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch. MOUNTS (8) [noun] A hill or mountain. | [noun] Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies. | [noun] A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound. MOURNS (8) [verb] To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death). | [verb] To utter in a sorrowful manner. | [verb] To wear mourning. MOUSED (9) [verb] To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around). | [verb] To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats. | [verb] To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire. MOUSER (8) [noun] A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose. | [noun] A moustache. MOUSES (8) [verb] To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around). | [verb] To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats. | [verb] To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire. MOUSEY (11) [adjective] Resembling a mouse. | [adjective] Abounding or infested with mice. MOUSSE (8) [noun] An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse. | [noun] A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin. | [noun] A styling cream used for hair. MOUTHS (11) [noun] The opening of a creature through which food is ingested. | [noun] The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water. | [noun] An outlet, aperture or orifice. MOUTHY (14) [adjective] Overly talkative, insolent, and loud. MOUTON (8) [noun] A 14th-century French gold coin, weighing about 70 grains. MOVERS (11) [noun] Someone who or something that moves. | [noun] A dancer. | [noun] A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another. MOVIES (11) [noun] A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion. | [noun] (usually plural) A cinema. | [noun] (by extension) The cinema MOVING (12) [verb] To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another. | [verb] To act; to take action; to begin to act | [verb] To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in. MOWERS (11) [noun] A lawnmower, a machine used to cut grass. | [noun] A person who cuts grass. MOWING (12) [verb] To cut down grass or crops. | [verb] To cut down or slaughter in great numbers. | [verb] To make grimaces, mock. MOXIES (15) MUCHES (13) MUCHLY (16) [adverb] Very much, very MUCINS (10) [noun] Any of several glycoproteins found in mucus MUCKED (15) [verb] To shovel muck. | [verb] To manure with muck. | [verb] To do a dirty job. MUCKER (14) [noun] (Southern England) friend, acquaintance | [noun] (British army) A comrade; a friendly, low-ranking soldier in the same situation. | [noun] A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable. MUCKLE (14) [noun] A great amount. | [verb] To latch onto something with the mouth. | [verb] To talk big; to exaggerate. MUCLUC (12) MUCOID (11) [adjective] Pertaining to or resembling mucus; mucous. | [noun] Any of a class of mucin-like substances yielding on decomposition a reducing carbohydrate together with some form of proteinaceous matter. MUCORS (10) MUCOSA (10) [noun] Mucous membrane MUCOSE (10) MUCOUS (10) [adjective] Pertaining to mucus | [adjective] Having the qualities of mucus MUDCAP (13) MUDCAT (11) MUDDED (11) MUDDER (10) [noun] A racehorse that performs well on muddy or wet tracks. | [noun] A participant in a multi-user dungeon. | [noun] A person (especially an entomologist) or animal that catches moths. MUDDLE (10) [noun] A mixture; a confusion; a garble. | [noun] A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler. | [verb] To mix together, to mix up; to confuse. MUDDLY (13) MUDRAS (9) [noun] Any of several formal symbolic hand postures used in classical dance of India and in Hindu and Buddhist iconography. | [noun] Any of the formal body positions and postures used in yoga and meditation. MUESLI (8) [noun] A breakfast dish based on uncooked rolled oats and fruit. MUFFED (15) [verb] To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly. | [verb] To mishandle; to bungle. | [adjective] Wearing a muff. MUFFIN (14) [noun] A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc, before being eaten. | [noun] A type of individual bread such as corn, bran, banana or zucchini bread often sliced and spread with butter, etc before being eaten. | [noun] (especially US) (informally) A cupcake without frosting, but sometimes glazed. MUFFLE (14) [noun] Anything that mutes or deadens sound. | [noun] A warm piece of clothing for the hands. | [noun] A boxing glove. MUFTIS (11) [noun] A Muslim scholar and interpreter of shari’a law, who can deliver a fatwa. | [noun] A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform. MUGFUL (12) MUGGAR (10) MUGGED (11) [verb] To strike in the face. | [verb] To assault for the purpose of robbery. | [verb] To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner. MUGGEE (10) MUGGER (10) [noun] A street robber. | [noun] A person who makes exaggerated faces, as a performance; a gurner. | [noun] A large crocodile, Crocodilus palustris, of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout. MUGGUR (10) MUJIKS (19) MUKLUK (16) [noun] A soft knee-high boot of sealskin or reindeer skin, originally worn by Inuit and Yupik. | [noun] A laced winter boot resembling a traditional mukluk, with thick rubber sole and cloth upper. MUKTUK (16) [noun] The skin and blubber of a whale, traditionally used as food by the Inuit. MULCTS (10) [noun] A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one. | [verb] To impose such a fine or penalty. | [verb] To swindle (someone) out of money. MULETA (8) [noun] A red flag used by bullfighters. MULEYS (11) [noun] Mule deer MULING (9) MULISH (11) [adjective] Characteristic of a mule; stubborn, obstinate, or intractable MULLAH (11) [noun] A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law. | [verb] To grind up into, or as if into, powder. | [verb] To beat; to thrash (a person). MULLAS (8) [noun] A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law. MULLED (9) [verb] (usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate. | [verb] To powder; to pulverize. | [verb] To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form. MULLEN (8) MULLER (8) [noun] One who, or that which, mulls. | [noun] A grinding stone, held in the hand, used especially for preparing paints and powders. | [noun] A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire. | [noun] A machine that mixes sand and clay for use in metal castings. | [verb] To beat; to thrash (a person). MULLET (8) [noun] A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes), especially the genus Mullus (the red mullets or goatfish). | [noun] A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes) (the grey mullets). | [noun] Any of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family (especially in the genus Moxostoma, the redhorses) | [noun] A fool | [noun] A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back. | [noun] A star with straight edges and usually with five or six points. MULLEY (11) MUMBLE (12) [noun] A quiet or unintelligible vocalization; a low tone of voice. | [verb] To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate. | [verb] To chew something gently with closed lips. MUMBLY (15) MUMMED (13) [verb] To act in a pantomime or dumb show. MUMMER (12) [noun] A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival. | [noun] An actor in a pantomime; one who communicates entirely through gesture and facial expression. MUMPED (13) MUMPER (12) MUNGOS (9) MUNTIN (8) [noun] One of the separators between panes of glass in a composite window. MUONIC (10) MURALS (8) [noun] A large painting, usually drawn on a wall. MURDER (9) [noun] The crime of deliberately killing another person without justification. | [noun] The act of deliberate killing of another person or other being without justification, especially with malice aforethought. | [noun] (in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human. MUREIN (8) MURIDS (9) [noun] Any rodent in the family Muridae. MURINE (8) [noun] Any murine mammal. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the mouse, rat or (more generally) any mammal of the family Muridae. MURING (9) [verb] To wall in or fortify | [verb] To enclose or imprison within walls. MURKER (12) MURKLY (15) MURMUR (10) [noun] Any low, indistinct sound, like that of running water. | [noun] Soft indistinct speech. | [noun] The sound made by any condition which produces noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart. MURPHY (16) [noun] An Irish or white potato. MURRAS (8) MURRES (8) [noun] Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks). MURREY (11) [noun] The mulberry fruit. | [noun] A tincture, the colour of mulberries, between gules and purpure. | [adjective] Of a mulberry colour. MURRHA (11) MUSCAE (10) MUSCAT (10) [noun] A white grape variety; used as table grapes and for making raisins and sweet wine. | [noun] The muscatel wine made from these grapes. | [noun] The vine bearing this fruit. MUSCID (11) [noun] Any fly of the family Muscidae of insects. | [adjective] Pertaining to or related to the Muscidae family of insects. MUSCLE (10) [noun] A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement. | [noun] An organ composed of muscle tissue. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A well-developed physique, in which the muscles are enlarged from exercise. MUSCLY (13) [adjective] Thewy, muscled | [adjective] Strong, powerful MUSERS (8) MUSEUM (10) [noun] A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value. MUSHED (12) [verb] To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else. | [verb] To walk, especially across the snow with dogs. | [verb] To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow. MUSHER (11) [noun] One who operates a dogsled, traditionally using the verbal command “mush”. | [noun] One who travels by dogsled. | [noun] One who races in a dogsled in a race. MUSHES (11) [noun] A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance. | [noun] A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations. | [noun] The foam of a breaker. MUSICS (10) MUSING (9) [verb] To become lost in thought, to ponder. | [verb] To say (something) with due consideration or thought. | [verb] To think on; to meditate on. MUSJID (16) MUSKEG (13) [noun] A terrain composed of peat bog with tussocky meadow and woody vegetation including spruce. MUSKET (12) [noun] A kind of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army, originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted; ultimately superseded by the rifle. | [noun] A male Eurasian sparrowhawk. MUSKIE (12) MUSKIT (12) MUSLIN (8) [noun] Any of several varieties of thin cotton cloth. | [noun] Fabric made of cotton, flax (linen), hemp, or silk, finely or coarsely woven. | [noun] Any of a wide variety of tightly-woven thin fabrics, especially those used for bedlinen. MUSSED (9) [verb] To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy. MUSSEL (8) [noun] Any of several groups of bivalve shellfish with elongated, asymmetrical shells MUSSES (8) [verb] To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy. MUSTED (9) MUSTEE (8) MUSTER (8) [noun] Gathering. | [noun] Showing. | [verb] To show, exhibit. | [noun] A person of one-eighth African ancestry. MUSTHS (11) MUTANT (8) [noun] Something which has mutated, which has one or more new characteristics from a mutation. | [noun] Someone or something that seems strange, abnormal, or bizarre. | [adjective] Of, relating to, undergoing (i.e. mutating), or resulting from change or mutation; that has undergone mutation. MUTASE (8) MUTATE (8) [verb] To undergo mutation. | [verb] To cause mutation. MUTELY (11) MUTEST (8) MUTINE (8) MUTING (9) [verb] To silence, to make quiet. | [verb] To turn off the sound of. | [verb] Of a bird: to defecate. MUTINY (11) [noun] An organized rebellion against a legally constituted authority, especially by seamen against their officers. | [noun] Violent commotion; tumult; strife. | [verb] To commit mutiny. MUTISM (10) [noun] A psychological disorder in which the sufferer cannot speak in certain situations. MUTONS (8) [noun] A unit of mutation forming part of a recon. MUTTER (8) [noun] A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering. | [verb] To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath. | [verb] To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations. | [noun] (Indian cuisine) Peas. MUTTON (8) [noun] The flesh of sheep used as food. | [noun] The flesh of goat used as food. | [noun] A sheep. MUTUAL (8) [noun] A mutual fund. | [noun] A mutual organization. | [noun] Either of a pair of people who follow each other's social media accounts. MUTUEL (8) MUTULE (8) [noun] Any of the rectangular blocks under the soffit of the cornice of the Greek Doric temple, which are studded with guttae. MUUMUU (10) [noun] A long loose-fitting dress made of lightweight fabric printed with bright, stylized Hawaiian themes (such as flowers and palm branches). MUZHIK (24) [noun] A (male) peasant, especially in pre-revolutionary (imperial) Russia. MUZJIK (28) MUZZLE (26) [noun] The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws; the snout | [noun] The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from as opposed to the breech. | [noun] A device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout. MYASES (11) MYASIS (11) MYCELE (13) MYELIN (11) [noun] A white, fatty material, composed of lipids and lipoproteins, that surrounds the axons of nerves. MYNAHS (14) [noun] One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae. MYOMAS (13) MYOPES (13) [noun] One who has myopia. MYOPIA (13) [noun] A disorder of the vision where distant objects appear blurred because the eye focuses their images in front of the retina instead of on it. | [noun] A lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning. MYOPIC (15) [noun] A short-sighted individual. | [adjective] Near-sighted; unable to see distant objects unaided | [adjective] Shortsighted; improvident MYOSES (11) MYOSIN (11) [noun] Any of a large family of motor proteins found in eukaryotic tissues, allowing mobility in muscles. | [noun] An albuminous body present in dead muscle formed in the process of coagulation which takes place in rigor mortis. MYOSIS (11) [noun] Contraction of the pupil of the eye. MYOTIC (13) MYRIAD (12) [noun] Ten thousand; 10,000 | [noun] A countless number or multitude (of specified things) | [adjective] (modifying a singular noun) Multifaceted, having innumerable elements MYRICA (13) MYRRHS (14) [noun] A red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of a tree of the species Commiphora myrrha. | [noun] The herb chervil. MYRTLE (11) [noun] An evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Myrtus, native to southern Europe and north Africa. MYSELF (14) [pronoun] (reflexive pronoun) Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject. | [pronoun] Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described. | [pronoun] In my normal state of body or mind. MYSIDS (12) [noun] Any crustacean of the family Mysidae. MYSOST (11) MYSTIC (13) [noun] Someone who practices mysticism. | [adjective] Of, or relating to mystics, mysticism or occult mysteries; mystical. | [adjective] Mysterious and strange; arcane, obscure or enigmatic. MYTHIC (16) [adjective] Mythical; existing in myth. | [adjective] Larger-than-life. MYTHOI (14) [noun] Anything transmitted by word of mouth, such as a fable, legend, narrative, story, or tale (especially a poetic tale). | [noun] A story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group; a myth, a mythology. | [noun] (by extension) A set of assumptions or beliefs about something. MYTHOS (14) [noun] Anything transmitted by word of mouth, such as a fable, legend, narrative, story, or tale (especially a poetic tale). | [noun] A story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group; a myth, a mythology. | [noun] (by extension) A set of assumptions or beliefs about something. MYXOID (19) MYXOMA (20) [noun] A tumor of primitive connective tissue. NAMELY (11) [adverb] Specifically; that is to say. | [adverb] Especially, above all. NAMERS (8) NAMING (9) [verb] (ditransitive) To give a name to. | [verb] To mention, specify. | [verb] To identify as relevant or important NANISM (8) NAPALM (10) [noun] A highly flammable, viscous substance, designed to stick to the body while burning, used in warfare as an incendiary especially in wooded areas. | [verb] To spray or attack with this substance. NEUMES (8) [noun] Any of a set of signs used in early musical notation. | [noun] A sequence of notes to be sung to one syllable. NEUMIC (10) NIMBLE (10) [adjective] Adept at taking or grasping | [adjective] Quick and light in movement or action. | [adjective] Quick-witted and alert. NIMBLY (13) [adverb] In a nimble manner NIMBUS (10) [noun] A circle of light; a halo. | [noun] A gray rain cloud. NIMMED (11) NIMROD (9) [noun] A foolish person; an idiot. NIZAMS (17) [noun] The hereditary sovereign of Hyderabad, a former state of India. | [noun] The Turkish regular army; a soldier in the Turkish army. NOMADS (9) [noun] A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home. | [noun] A person who changes residence frequently. | [noun] A player who changes teams frequently. NOMINA (8) NOMISM (10) NONCOM (10) [noun] A non-commissioned officer, such as a sergeant (army) or petty officer (navy). NONMAN (8) NONMEN (8) NORMAL (8) [noun] A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane. | [noun] A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles. | [noun] The usual state. NORMED (9) [adjective] Of a mathematical structure, endowed with a norm. | [adjective] Of a data set that has been adjusted to a norm. NUDISM (9) NUMBAT (10) [noun] A small marsupial carnivore, Myrmecobius fasciatus, endemic to western Australia, that eats almost exclusively termites. NUMBED (11) [verb] To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally). | [verb] To cause (a feeling) to be less intense. | [verb] To cause (the mind, faculties, etc.) to be less acute. NUMBER (10) [noun] An abstract entity used to describe quantity. | [noun] A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer. | [noun] An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc. | [adjective] Physically unable to feel, not having the power of sensation. NUMBLY (13) NUMINA (8) [noun] A divinity, especially a local or presiding god. | [noun] An influence or phenomenon at once mystical and transcendant. NUTMEG (9) [noun] An evergreen tree (Myristica fragrans) cultivated in the East Indies for its spicy seeds. | [noun] The aromatic seed of this tree, used as a spice. | [noun] A grey-brown colour. NYMPHA (16) NYMPHO (16) [verb] To become obsessed about sex. | [noun] A woman with an excessive libido. NYMPHS (16) [noun] (Greek, Roman) Any female nature spirit associated with water, forests, grotto, wind, etc. | [noun] A young girl, especially one who is attractive, beautiful or graceful. | [noun] The larva of certain insects. OAKUMS (12) OBIISM (10) ODEUMS (9) [noun] An ancient Greek or Roman building used for performances of music and poetry. | [noun] A theatre or concert hall. ODIUMS (9) OEDEMA (9) [noun] An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity | [noun] A similar swelling in plants caused by excessive accumulation of water OGHAMS (12) [noun] A single character in this alphabet. OGRISM (9) OHMAGE (12) OIDIUM (9) [noun] A fragile spore produced by some fungi. | [noun] The fungus Erysiphe necator (= Uncinula necator), which produces powdery mildew in grapes. OILMAN (8) [noun] Somebody involved in the production, refinement or delivery of oil; such as an oil field worker or executive, or the owner of an oil well. | [noun] A retailer who sells vegetable oils, and food preserved in oil OILMEN (8) [noun] Somebody involved in the production, refinement or delivery of oil; such as an oil field worker or executive, or the owner of an oil well. | [noun] A retailer who sells vegetable oils, and food preserved in oil OLEUMS (8) OMASUM (10) [noun] The third part of the stomach of a ruminant. OMBERS (10) OMBRES (10) OMEGAS (9) [noun] The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: ω. | [noun] (often capitalized) The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence. | [noun] Angular velocity; symbol: ω. OMELET (8) [noun] A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with cheese, chives or other foodstuffs. | [noun] A form of shellcode that searches the address space for multiple small blocks of data ("eggs") and recombines them into a larger block to be executed. OMENED (9) OMENTA (8) [noun] Either of two folds of the peritoneum that support the viscera. OOGAMY (12) OOMIAC (10) OOMIAK (12) [noun] A large, open boat made of skins stretched over a wooden frame that is propelled by paddles; used by the Eskimos for transportation. OOMPAH (13) [noun] A genre of Germanic music (especially Bavarian music) typically involving brass instruments. | [noun] A bassline characteristic of such music, alternating lower and higher notes or chords on the beat, or in a mid-high-low-high sequence. | [verb] To produce an oom-pah sound. OOMPHS (13) OPIUMS (10) OPTIMA (10) [noun] The best or most favorable condition, or the greatest amount or degree possible under specific sets of comparable circumstances. OPTIME (10) ORGASM (9) [noun] A spasm or sudden contraction. | [noun] A rush of sexual excitement; now specifically, the climax or peak of sexual pleasure, which occurs during sexual activity and which in males may include ejaculation and in females vaginal contractions. | [noun] A creamy white alcoholic cocktail containing amaretto, Irish cream, and coffee liqueur. ORMERS (8) [noun] An abalone or sea-ear, particularly Haliotis tuberculata, common in the Channel Islands. ORMOLU (8) [noun] Golden or gilded brass or bronze used for decorative purposes. | [verb] To decorate with gilded ormolu articles. | [adjective] Made from golden or gilded brass or bronze. OSMICS (10) OSMIUM (10) [noun] A chemical element (symbol Os) with atomic number 76: a hard, brittle, heavy, bluish-white transition metal found as a trace element in alloys, mostly in platinum ores. | [noun] A single atom of this element. OSMOLE (8) OSMOLS (8) OSMOSE (8) [verb] To diffuse by osmosis. | [verb] To cause to diffuse by osmosis. | [noun] The net movement of solvent molecules, usually water, from a region of lower solute concentration to a region of higher solute concentration through a partially permeable membrane. OSMOUS (8) OSMUND (9) OSTIUM (8) [noun] A small opening or orifice, as in a body organ or passage. | [noun] Any of the small openings or pores in a sponge. | [noun] The mouth of a river. OSTOMY (11) [noun] A surgical procedure to provide an exit point for the waste of an organism. | [noun] An exit point created by such surgical procedure. OUTMAN (8) [verb] To have more people than (one's competitor); to outnumber in men. | [verb] To outdo in manliness. OXIMES (15) PABLUM (12) [noun] Anything overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing. | [noun] Nourishment. PAJAMA (17) [noun] A pair of pajamas. | [noun] Clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in, usually consisting of a loose-fitting shirt and pants/trousers. | [noun] Loose-fitting trousers worn by both sexes in various southern Asian countries including India. PALMAR (10) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or comparable appendage | [adjective] In the direction of the palm | [adjective] Of or relating to the underside of the wings of birds. PALMED (11) [verb] To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g, for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something. | [verb] To hold something without bending the fingers significantly. | [verb] To move something with the palm of the hand. PALMER (10) [noun] A pilgrim who had been to the Holy Land and who brought back a palm branch in signification; a wandering religious votary. | [noun] Any small, terrestrial invertebrate, usually an agricultural pest and having many legs and a hairy body. | [noun] A gelechiid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, destructive to fruit trees. | [noun] A ferule used to punish schoolboys by striking their palms. | [noun] One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice. PAMPAS (12) [noun] The extensive plains of South America south of the Amazon. PAMPER (12) [verb] To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence. | [verb] To feed luxuriously. PANAMA (10) PARAMO (10) [noun] A treeless grassland ecosystem covering extensive high areas of equatorial mountains, especially in South America. PASSIM (10) [adverb] Throughout or frequently | [adverb] Here and there PAYNIM (13) [noun] A pagan or heathen, especially a Muslim, or a Jew. PELMET (10) [noun] An interior decorative item that is placed above a window to hide the curtain mechanisms, visually similar to a cornice or valance. PENMAN (10) [noun] A scribe, or person who copies texts | [noun] A journalist or other author PENMEN (10) [noun] A scribe, or person who copies texts | [noun] A journalist or other author PEPLUM (12) [noun] A genre of Italian films based on historical or biblical epics. | [noun] An individual film in this genre. | [noun] A peplos, an Ancient Greek garment formed of a tubular piece of cloth folded back upon itself halfway down so that the top of the tube is worn around the waist, and the bottom covers the legs down to the ankles; the open top is then worn over the shoulders, and draped, in folds, down to the waist. Compare the Roman palla. PERMED (11) [verb] To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc. | [adjective] That has been given a permanent wave PERMIT (10) [noun] An artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal. | [noun] Formal permission. | [verb] To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for. | [noun] A pompano of the species Trachinotus falcatus. PHENOM (13) [noun] Someone or something that is phenomenal, especially a young player in sports like baseball, American football, basketball, tennis, and golf. | [noun] One who is hip and fashionable. PHLEGM (14) [noun] One of the four humors making up the body in ancient and mediaeval medicine; said to be cold and moist, and often identified with mucus. | [noun] Viscid mucus produced by the body, later especially mucus expelled from the bronchial passages by coughing. | [noun] A watery distillation, especially one obtained from plant matter; an aqueous solution. PHLOEM (13) [noun] A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of sugars and nutrients manufactured in the shoot PHYLUM (16) [noun] A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank | [noun] A large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not subordinate to another. PILEUM (10) PIMPED (13) [verb] To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander. | [verb] To prostitute someone. | [verb] To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also pimp out). PIMPLE (12) [noun] An inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus. | [noun] An annoying person. | [noun] Scotch (whisky) PIMPLY (15) PITMAN (10) [noun] (plural "pitmen") One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc. | [noun] (plural "pitmen" or "pitmans") A connecting rod in machinery, especially in a sawmill. PITMEN (10) [noun] (plural "pitmen") One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc. | [noun] (plural "pitmen" or "pitmans") A connecting rod in machinery, especially in a sawmill. PLASMA (10) [noun] A state of matter consisting of partially ionized gas and electrons | [noun] A clear component of blood or lymph containing fibrin | [noun] Blood plasma, free of suspended cells, used in transfusions PLASMS (10) PLENUM (10) [noun] A space that is completely filled with matter. | [noun] A state of fullness, a great quantity (of something). | [noun] A legislative meeting (especially of the Communist Party) in which all members are present. PLUMBS (12) [noun] The fruit and its tree. | [noun] Extended senses. | [noun] A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction. PLUMED (11) [verb] To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes. | [verb] Chiefly of a bird: to arrange and preen the feathers of, specifically in preparation for flight; hence , to prepare for (something). | [verb] (by extension) To congratulate (oneself) proudly, especially concerning something unimportant or when taking credit for another person's effort; to self-congratulate. PLUMES (10) [noun] A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one used as a decoration. | [noun] A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet; a hackle. | [noun] A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward. PLUMMY (15) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, containing, or characteristic of plums | [adjective] Desirable; profitable; advantageous | [adjective] (of a voice) rich, mellow and carefully articulated, especially with an upper-class accent PLUMPS (12) [verb] To grow plump; to swell out. | [verb] To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up. | [verb] To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily. PNEUMA (10) [noun] A neume. | [noun] The spirit or soul. | [noun] One of three levels of a human being, the spirit, along with the body and soul. PODIUM (11) [noun] A platform on which to stand, as when conducting an orchestra or preaching at a pulpit. | [noun] (sometimes proscribed) A stand used to hold notes when speaking publicly. | [noun] A steepled platform upon which the three competitors with the best results may stand when being handed their medals or prize. POGROM (11) [noun] A riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group, usually Jews. | [noun] An antisemitic hate crime with a large death toll, irrespective of the number of perpetrators. | [verb] To persecute or massacre a particular group of people. POMACE (12) [noun] The pulp that remains after a fruit has been pressed to extract the juice (or a nut, etc., has been pressed to extract the oil). | [noun] Fish scrap. POMADE (11) [noun] A greasy or waxy substance that is used to style hair, making it look slick and shiny. | [noun] Any medicinal ointment. | [verb] To anoint with pomade; to use pomade to style (hair). POMELO (10) [noun] The large fruit of the Citrus maxima (syn. C. grandis), native to South Asia and Southeast Asia, with a thick green or yellow rind, a thick white pith, and semi-sweet translucent pale flesh. | [noun] The tree which produces this fruit. | [noun] The grapefruit. POMMEE (12) POMMEL (12) [noun] The upper front brow of a saddle. | [noun] A rounded knob or handle. | [noun] The bat used in the game of knurr and spell or trap ball. POMMIE (12) [noun] (sometimes pejorative) An English immigrant; a pom. | [adjective] (sometimes derogatory) English; British. POMPOM (14) [noun] A decorative ball made of pieces of soft fabric bound at the centre, most notably used in cheerleading. POMPON (12) [noun] A bundle of yarn, string, ribbon, etc. tied in the middle and left loose at the ends, so as to form a puff or ball, as for decoration or a showy prop for cheerleading. | [noun] A hardy garden chrysanthemum with button-like flower heads. | [noun] Any of several dwarf varieties of the Provence rose. PORISM (10) POSSUM (10) [noun] An opossum, a marsupial of the family Didelphidae of the Americas. | [noun] Any of the marsupials in several families of the order Diprotodontia of Australia and neighboring islands. POTMAN (10) [noun] A man employed in a public house to collect empty pots or glasses; a waiter in a similar establishment POTMEN (10) [noun] A man employed in a public house to collect empty pots or glasses; a waiter in a similar establishment PRAAMS (10) [noun] A flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to convey cargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour. | [noun] A similar barge used as platform for cannons in shallow waters which seagoing warships cannot enter. | [noun] A type of dinghy with a flat bow. PREAMP (12) [noun] Preamplifier | [verb] Preamplify PREARM (10) PRELIM (10) [noun] Something preliminary, such as a trial, report, race, etc. | [adjective] Preliminary PREMAN (10) PREMED (11) [noun] An undergraduate college academic program, typically in biochemistry or related sciences, that prepares a student to pursue graduate or post-graduate studies in medicine. | [noun] A premedication. PREMEN (10) PREMIE (10) PREMIX (17) [noun] A blend of components that has been mixed in advance of use or of further processing. | [noun] A manufactured beverage consisting of alcohol and soft drink, milk or other non-alcoholic drinks; an alcopop. | [verb] To blend in advance. PRIMAL (10) [noun] A primal cut (of meat). | [verb] To take part in primal therapy. | [adjective] Being the first in time or in history. PRIMAS (10) PRIMED (11) [verb] To prepare a mechanism for its main work. | [verb] To apply a coat of primer paint to. | [verb] To be renewed. PRIMER (10) [noun] A prayer or devotional book intended for laity, initially an abridgment of the breviary and manual including the hours of the Virgin Mary, 15 gradual and 7 penitential psalms, the litany, the placebo and dirige forming the office of the dead, and the commendations. | [noun] Similar works issued in England for private prayer in accordance with the Book of Common Prayer. | [noun] A children's book intended to teach literacy: how to read, write, and spell. | [noun] Any substance or device, such as priming wire or blasting cap, used to ignite gunpowder or other explosive. | [adjective] First in time, initial, early. PRIMES (10) [noun] The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour. | [noun] The religious service appointed to this hour. | [noun] The early morning generally. PRIMLY (13) PRIMOS (10) [noun] The principal part of a duet. PRIMPS (12) [verb] To spend time improving one's appearance, often in front of a mirror. | [verb] To dress in an affected manner. PRIMUS (10) [noun] One of the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority. PRISMS (10) [noun] A polyhedron with parallel ends of the same size and shape, the other faces being parallelogram-shaped sides. | [noun] A transparent block in the shape of a prism (typically with triangular ends), used to split or reflect light. | [noun] A crystal in which the faces are parallel to the vertical axis. PROEMS (10) [noun] An introduction, preface or preamble. PROMOS (10) [noun] An interview or monologue intended to promote a character or an upcoming match. | [noun] An advancement in rank or position. | [noun] Dissemination of information in order to increase its popularity. PROMPT (12) [noun] A reminder or cue. | [noun] A time limit given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. | [noun] A sequence of characters that appears on a monitor to indicate that the computer is ready to receive input. PSALMS (10) [noun] A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God. | [noun] One of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship. PUMELO (10) PUMICE (12) [noun] A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles. As the lava solidifies, the bubbles are frozen into the rock. | [verb] To abrade or roughen with pumice. PUMMEL (12) [noun] The upper front brow of a saddle. | [noun] A rounded knob or handle. | [noun] The bat used in the game of knurr and spell or trap ball. PUMPED (13) [verb] To use a pump to move (liquid or gas). | [verb] (often followed by up) To fill with air. | [verb] To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump. PUMPER (12) [noun] One who pumps something. | [noun] A steroid or other drug taken to improve blood flow and increase muscular size. PURISM (10) [noun] An insistence on pure or unmixed forms. | [noun] An insistence on the traditionally correct way of doing things. | [noun] An example of purist language etc. PYEMIA (13) [noun] A type of septicemia caused usually by the presence of Staphylococcus bacteria in the bloodstream; characterised by metastatic abscesses and other symptoms associated with septicemia. PYEMIC (15) QUALMS (17) [noun] A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc. | [noun] A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness. | [noun] A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. (Now often in negative constructions.) QUALMY (20) QUORUM (17) [noun] The minimum number of members required for a group to officially conduct business and to cast votes, often but not necessarily a majority or supermajority. | [noun] A selected body of persons. RACEME (10) [noun] An indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged along a single central axis. RACISM (10) [noun] Belief that there are distinct human races with inherent differences which determine their abilities, and generally that some are superior and others inferior. | [noun] The policies, practices, or systems (e.g. government or political) promoting this belief or promoting the dominance of one or more races over others. | [noun] Prejudice or discrimination based upon race or ethnicity; an action of such discrimination. RADIUM (9) [noun] The chemical element (symbol Ra) with an atomic number of 88. It is a soft, shiny and silvery radioactive alkaline earth metal. | [noun] A type of cloth woven from silk or synthetic yarn, often with a shiny appearance. | [verb] To treat (a tumour, etc.) with radium. RADOME (9) [noun] A radar dome. RAGMAN (9) [noun] A person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and other refuse for a living, a rag and bone man. | [noun] A statute issued by Edward I in 1276. | [noun] A document having many names or seals, such as a papal bull. RAGMEN (9) [noun] A person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and other refuse for a living, a rag and bone man. RAMATE (8) RAMBLE (10) [noun] A leisurely stroll; a recreational walk in the countryside. | [noun] A rambling; an instance of someone talking at length without direction. | [noun] A bed of shale over the seam of coal. RAMEES (8) RAMETS (8) RAMIES (8) [noun] (usually countable) A tall, tropical Asian perennial herb, Boehmeria nivea, cultivated for its fibrous stems. | [noun] (usually uncountable) fibre extracted from this plant, resembling flax. RAMIFY (14) [verb] To divide into branches or subdivisions. | [verb] To spread or diversify into multiple fields or categories. RAMJET (15) [noun] A jet engine in which forward motion forces air into an inlet, compressing it (as opposed to having a pump type device compressing the air for combustion with fuel), and where combustion is subsonic. RAMMED (11) [verb] To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function. | [verb] To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement. | [verb] To fill or compact by pounding or driving. RAMMER (10) RAMOSE (8) [adjective] Having branches; branching RAMOUS (8) RAMPED (11) [verb] To behave violently; to rage. | [verb] To spring; to leap; to bound, rear, or prance; to move swiftly or violently. | [verb] To climb, like a plant; to creep up. RAMROD (9) [noun] Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant. | [noun] Ranch or trail foreman, usually the first or second person in charge. The person responsible for getting the work done. | [noun] An erect penis. RAMSON (8) RAMTIL (8) RANDOM (9) [noun] A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance. | [noun] Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force. | [noun] The full range of a bullet or other projectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range. RANSOM (8) [noun] Money paid for the freeing of a hostage. | [noun] The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration. | [noun] A sum paid for the pardon of some great offence and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment. REALMS (8) [noun] An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined. | [noun] The domain of a certain abstraction. | [noun] A scope of operation in networking or security. REAMED (9) [verb] To cream; mantle; foam; froth. | [verb] To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider. | [verb] To shape or form, especially using a reamer. REAMER (8) [noun] A tool for boring a hole wider. | [noun] A device for rendering citrus juice. | [noun] A tool used to scrape carbon deposit from the bowl of a pipe. REARMS (8) [verb] To replace or restore the weapons or arms of a previously defeated, or disarmed army, country, person or other body. RECOMB (12) RECTUM (10) [noun] The terminal part of the large intestine through which feces pass after exiting the colon. REDEEM (9) [verb] To recover ownership of something by buying it back. | [verb] To liberate by payment of a ransom. | [verb] To set free by force. REEMIT (8) REFILM (11) REFORM (11) [noun] The change of something that is defective, broken, inefficient or otherwise negative, in order to correct or improve it | [verb] To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better | [verb] To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits REGIME (9) [noun] Mode of rule or management. | [noun] A form of government, or the government in power. | [noun] A period of rule. REGNUM (9) REHEMS (11) RELUME (8) [verb] To rekindle; to relight (literally or figuratively). | [verb] To make clear or bright again. REMADE (9) [verb] To make again. | [verb] To make a new, especially updated, version of (a film, video game, etc.). REMAIL (8) REMAIN (8) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) That which is left; relic; remainder. | [noun] (in the plural) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body. | [noun] Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works. REMAKE (12) [noun] A new version of something. | [noun] A new, especially updated, version of a film, video game, etc. | [verb] To make again. REMAND (9) [noun] The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial. | [noun] The act of an appellate court sending a matter back to a lower court for review or disposal. | [verb] To send a prisoner back to custody. REMANS (8) [verb] To supply with new personnel. REMAPS (10) [verb] To assign differently; to relabel or repurpose. | [verb] To map again. REMARK (12) [noun] An act of pointing out or noticing; notice or observation. | [noun] An expression, in speech or writing, of something remarked or noticed; a mention of something | [noun] A casual observation, comment, or statement | [noun] A mark that replaces another mark. REMATE (8) REMEDY (12) [noun] Something that corrects or counteracts. | [noun] The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong. | [noun] A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease. REMEET (8) REMELT (8) REMEND (9) REMIND (9) [verb] To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person). REMINT (8) REMISE (8) [noun] A return or surrender of a claim, property etc. | [verb] To send or give back. | [verb] To surrender all interest in a property by executing a deed, to quitclaim. | [noun] A house for covered carriages; a chaise house. REMISS (8) [adjective] At fault; failing to fulfill responsibility, duty, or obligations. | [adjective] Not energetic or exact in duty or business; careless; tardy; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. REMITS (8) [noun] Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope. | [noun] A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court. REMIXT (15) REMOLD (9) [verb] Mold again, apply a new mold to REMORA (8) [noun] Any of various elongate fish from the family Echeneidae, the dorsal fin of which is in the form of a suction disc that can take a firm hold against the skin of larger marine animals. | [noun] A serpent. | [noun] A delay; a hindrance, an obstacle. REMOTE (8) [noun] An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room. | [verb] To connect to a computer from a remote location. | [adjective] At a distance; disconnected. REMOVE (11) [noun] The act of removing something. | [noun] (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement. | [noun] (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last REMUDA (9) [noun] A herd of horses from which the horses to be used for a particular purpose are selected. RENAME (8) [noun] An instance of renaming. | [verb] To give a new name to. REPUMP (12) RESUME (8) [verb] To take back possession of (something). | [verb] To summarise. | [verb] To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on. | [noun] A summary or synopsis. RETEAM (8) RETEMS (8) RETIME (8) [verb] To reschedule for another time. | [verb] To change the timing or duration of. RETRIM (8) REVAMP (13) [noun] A renovation, revision or improvement. | [verb] To renovate, revise, improve or renew. REWARM (11) RHEUMS (11) RHEUMY (14) [adjective] Of, relating to, or producing rheum from the mucous membranes; watery RHOMBI (13) [noun] A parallelogram having all sides of equal length. | [noun] In early Greek religion, an instrument whirled on the end of a string similar to a bullroarer. | [noun] Any of several flatfishes, including the brill and turbot, once considered part of the genus Rhombus, now in Scophthalmus. RHOMBS (13) [noun] A rhombus. | [noun] A rhombohedron. RHUMBA (13) [noun] A slow-paced Cuban partner dance in 4:4 time. | [verb] To dance the rumba RHUMBS (13) [noun] A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle | [noun] One of the 32 points of the compass (compass points) | [noun] A unit of angular measure equal to 1/32 of a circle or 11.25° RHYMED (15) [verb] To compose or treat in verse; versify. | [verb] (followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end. | [verb] Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each. RHYMER (14) RHYMES (14) [noun] Rhyming verse (poetic form) | [noun] A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse. | [noun] A word that rhymes with another. RHYTHM (17) [noun] The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter. | [noun] A specifically defined pattern of such variation. | [noun] A flow, repetition or regularity. RIMERS (8) RIMIER (8) [adjective] Coated in rime. RIMING (9) [verb] To compose or treat in verse; versify. | [verb] (followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end. | [verb] Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each. | [adjective] That rimes (i.e., covers with rime or hoar frost) something. | [noun] (done to wool or yarn) The action or process of dying red-brown by steeping in water with alder twigs. | [noun] The process of riming (i.e., covering with rime or hoar frost). RIMMED (11) [verb] To form a rim on. | [verb] To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit. | [verb] (of a ball) To roll around a rim. RIMMER (10) RIMOSE (8) RIMOUS (8) RIMPLE (10) ROAMED (9) [verb] To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination. | [verb] To use a network or service from different locations or devices. | [verb] To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them. ROAMER (8) RODMAN (9) RODMEN (9) ROMANO (8) [noun] A hard, sharp cheese served grated as a garnish ROMANS (8) ROMEOS (8) ROMPED (11) [verb] To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously. | [verb] (Often used with down) To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress. | [verb] To win easily. ROMPER (10) [noun] Someone who romps or frolics. | [noun] A ship that has moved far ahead of a convoy; see also straggler. | [noun] A onesie. | [verb] To abduct (a victim) to a room where they are tortured and murdered. ROOMED (9) [verb] To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant. | [verb] To assign to a room; to allocate a room to. ROOMER (8) [noun] A person who rents a room. | [noun] (in combination) A residence having the specified number of rooms. | [adverb] At a greater distance; farther off. ROOMIE (8) [noun] A roommate. RUMAKI (12) RUMBAS (10) [noun] A slow-paced Cuban partner dance in 4:4 time. | [verb] To dance the rumba RUMBLE (10) [noun] A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach. | [noun] A street fight or brawl. | [noun] A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other. RUMBLY (13) RUMENS (8) [noun] The first compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminants. RUMINA (8) [noun] The first compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminants. RUMMER (10) [noun] A large drinking-glass studded with prunts to ensure a safe grip, popular in the Rhineland and the Netherlands from the 15th century to the 17th century. | [adjective] Fine, excellent, valuable. | [adjective] Strange, peculiar. RUMORS (8) [noun] A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth. | [noun] Information or misinformation of the kind contained in such claims. | [verb] (usually used in the passive voice) To tell a rumor about; to gossip. RUMOUR (8) [noun] A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth. | [noun] Information or misinformation of the kind contained in such claims. | [verb] (usually used in the passive voice) To tell a rumor about; to gossip. RUMPLE (10) [noun] A wrinkle. | [verb] To make wrinkled, particularly fabric. | [verb] To muss; to tousle. RUMPLY (13) RUMPUS (10) [noun] A noisy, sometimes violent disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel. | [noun] A rumpus room. SACHEM (13) [noun] The chief of a Native American tribe; a sagamore. | [noun] A leader in the Tammany Hall society. SACRUM (10) [noun] A large triangular bone at the base of the spine, located between the two ilia (wings of the pelvis) and formed from vertebrae that fuse in adulthood. SADISM (9) [noun] The enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation without pity. | [noun] Achievement of sexual gratification by inflicting pain or humiliation on others, or watching pain or humiliation inflicted on others. | [noun] (in general) Deliberate cruelty, either mental or physical, to other people, or to animals, regardless of whether for (sexual) gratification. SAIMIN (8) SALAAM (8) [noun] A low bow as a ceremonial act of deference. | [verb] To perform a salaam (to someone). | [interjection] A respectful ceremonial greeting performed mostly in Islamic countries. SALAMI (8) [noun] A large cured meat sausage of Italian origin, served in slices. | [noun] A grand slam. | [noun] A penis. SALMIS (8) [noun] A rich stew or ragout, especially of game. SALMON (8) [noun] One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn. | [noun] (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon. | [noun] The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat. SAMARA (8) [noun] The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple SAMBAR (10) [noun] A Southeast Asian deer, Cervus unicolor. | [noun] A food preparation common in southern India and Sri Lanka, made of vegetables and lentils (usually pigeon peas, also called toor dal) in a spicy tamarind and lentil flour soup base. SAMBAS (10) [noun] A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style. | [noun] A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade. | [verb] To dance the samba. SAMBOS (10) [noun] A sandwich. SAMBUR (10) SAMECH (13) SAMEKH (15) SAMEKS (12) SAMIEL (8) SAMITE (8) [noun] A material of rich silk, sometimes with gold threads, especially prized during the Middle Ages. SAMLET (8) SAMOSA (8) [noun] A snack, of Indian origin, consisting of a deep-fried triangular turnover filled with vegetables (especially potatoes) or meat. SAMPAN (10) [noun] A flat-bottomed Chinese wooden boat propelled by two oars. SAMPLE (10) [noun] A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen. | [noun] A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population. | [noun] A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free. SAMSHU (11) SCAMPI (12) [noun] A Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus). | [noun] Any similar species of genus Nephrops or similar prawns. SCAMPS (12) [noun] A rascal, swindler, or rogue; a ne'er-do-well. | [noun] A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster. | [verb] To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion. SCHEMA (13) [noun] An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a body schema). | [noun] A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the data type and other attributes of each column. | [noun] (markup languages) A formal description of data, data types, and data file structures, such as XML schemas for XML files. SCHEME (13) [noun] A systematic plan of future action. | [noun] A plot or secret, devious plan. | [noun] An orderly combination of related parts. SCHISM (13) [noun] A split or separation within a group or organization, typically caused by discord. | [noun] A formal division or split within a religious body. | [noun] A split within Christianity whereby a group no longer recognizes the Bishop of Rome as the head of the Church, but shares essentially the same beliefs with the Church of Rome. In other words, a political split without the introduction of heresy. SCHMOE (13) SCHMOS (13) SCRAMS (10) [verb] To use the shutdown or safety device of a nuclear reactor. | [verb] (by extension) To use any emergency shutdown. | [verb] Leave in a hurry, go away. SCREAM (10) [noun] A loud, emphatic, exclamation of extreme emotion, especially horror, fear, excitement, or anger; it may comprise a word or a sustained, high-pitched vowel sound. | [noun] A form of singing associated with the metal and screamo styles of music. It is a loud, rough, distorted version of the voice; rather than the normal voice of the singer. | [noun] Used as an intensifier SCRIMP (12) [noun] A pinching miser; a niggard. | [verb] To make too small or short. | [verb] To limit or straiten; to put on short allowance. SCRIMS (10) [noun] A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, -- used for curtains, etc,. | [noun] A large military scarf, usually camouflage coloured and used for concealment when not used as a scarf. | [noun] A woven, nonwoven or knitted fabric composed of continuous strands of material used for reinforcing or strengthening membranes. SCRUMS (10) [noun] A tightly-packed and disorderly crowd of people. | [noun] Specifically used in the Canadian media to describe a tightly-packed group of reporters surrounding a member of the Canadian House of Commons while in the Parliament Buildings. | [noun] In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way. Also known as a scrummage. SCUMMY (15) SCUTUM (10) [noun] An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry of the Roman army. | [noun] A scute. | [noun] A shield-like protection, such as the scutum protecting the back of a hard tick (cf. alloscutum, conscutum) SEAMAN (8) [noun] A mariner or sailor, one who mans a ship. Opposed to landman or landsman. | [noun] A person of the lowest rank in the Navy, below able seaman. | [noun] An enlisted rate in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking below petty officer third class and above seaman apprentice. SEAMED (9) [adjective] Having or furnished with seams. | [verb] To put together with a seam. | [verb] To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting. | [adjective] (of a hawk) Out of condition; not in good condition. SEAMEN (8) [noun] A mariner or sailor, one who mans a ship. Opposed to landman or landsman. | [noun] A person of the lowest rank in the Navy, below able seaman. | [noun] An enlisted rate in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking below petty officer third class and above seaman apprentice. SEAMER (8) [noun] A person who sews seams. | [noun] Part of a sewing machine that creates seams. | [noun] A bowler skilled at making the ball seam. SEBUMS (10) SEDUMS (9) [noun] Any of various succulent plants, of the genus Sedum, native to temperate zones; the stonecrop SEEMED (9) [verb] To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as. | [verb] To befit; to beseem. SEEMER (8) SEEMLY (11) [adjective] (of behavior) Appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming. | [adverb] Appropriately, fittingly. SEISMS (8) SELDOM (9) [adjective] Rare; infrequent. | [adverb] Infrequently, rarely. SEMEME (10) [noun] The smallest unit of meaning; especially the meaning expressed by a morpheme. SEMENS (8) SEMINA (8) SEMPLE (10) SEMPRE (10) [adverb] (as a qualifier) always, still; maintaining the same style SENSUM (8) SEPTUM (10) [noun] A wall separating two cavities; a partition | [noun] A partition that separates the cells of a fruit. | [noun] A partition that separates the cells of a (septated) fungus. SERMON (8) [noun] Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter. | [noun] A lengthy speech of reproval. | [verb] To discourse to or of, as in a sermon. SERUMS (8) [noun] The clear yellowish liquid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot. | [noun] Blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals, containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual, called antiserum. | [noun] A watery liquid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister. SESAME (8) [noun] A tropical Asian plant (Sesamum indicum) bearing small flat seeds used as food and as a source of oil. | [noun] The seed of this plant. SEXISM (15) [noun] The belief that people of one sex or gender are inherently superior to others. | [noun] Discrimination or different treatment (e.g. in job opportunities) based on sex or gender. | [noun] Attitudes or actions that are based on or promote the expectation that people adhere to stereotypical social roles (gender roles) based on sex. SHALOM (11) [noun] Peace | [interjection] A traditional Jewish greeting or farewell. SHAMAN (11) [noun] A traditional (prescientific) faith healer. | [noun] A member of certain tribal societies who acts as a religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds. SHAMAS (11) [noun] Copsychus malabaricus (white-rumped shama), a saxicoline songbird of India, glossy black with a white rump and brown underparts, and six other species in genus Copsychus. SHAMED (12) [verb] To cause to feel shame. | [verb] To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace. | [verb] To drive or compel by shame. SHAMES (11) [noun] Uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor or something being exposed that should have been kept private. | [noun] Something to regret. | [noun] Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision. | [noun] A sexton in a synagogue. SHAMMY (16) [noun] Chamois leather. | [noun] A cloth made of this leather. | [verb] To clean with a chamois leather cloth. SHAMOS (11) SHAMOY (14) SHAMUS (11) [noun] A private detective; originally, a policeman or police detective. SHAWMS (14) [noun] A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body. SHIMMY (16) [noun] A dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately. | [noun] A dance that was popular in the 1920s. | [noun] An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle. SHLUMP (13) [noun] Someone who is lazy, slovenly or dull-looking. SHMEAR (11) [noun] A spread that goes on a bagel. | [noun] A batch of things that go together. | [noun] An aggregate. SHMOES (11) [noun] A stupid or obnoxious person. SHMUCK (17) [noun] A jerk; a person who is unlikable, detestable, or contemptible because he or she is stupid, foolish, clumsy, oafish, inept, malicious, or unpleasant. | [noun] A deplorable, pitiful person; often in the form poor schmuck. SHOLOM (11) SHRIMP (13) [noun] Any of many swimming, often edible crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen. | [noun] The flesh of such crustaceans. | [noun] A small, puny or unimportant person. SIGMAS (9) [noun] The eighteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets, the twentieth letter of Old and Ancient. | [noun] The symbol Σ, used to indicate summation of a set or series. | [noun] The symbol σ, used to indicate one standard deviation from the mean, particularly in a normal distribution. SIMARS (8) SIMIAN (8) [noun] An ape or monkey, especially an anthropoid. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to apes; apelike. | [adjective] Bearing resemblance to an ape. SIMILE (8) [noun] A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, in the case of English generally using like or as. SIMLIN (8) SIMMER (10) [noun] The state or process of simmering. | [verb] To cook or undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point. | [verb] To cause to cook or to cause to undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point. | [noun] Someone who plays a sim (a simulation game), particularly The Sims. SIMNEL (8) SIMONY (11) [noun] The buying or selling of spiritual or sacred things, such as ecclesiastical offices, pardons, or consecrated objects. SIMOOM (10) [noun] A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind of the desert, particularly of Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains. SIMOON (8) [noun] A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind of the desert, particularly of Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains. SIMPER (10) [noun] A foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, or affected smile; a smirk. | [verb] To smile in a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, coy, or smug manner. | [verb] To glimmer; to twinkle. SIMPLE (10) [noun] A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant. | [noun] (by extension) A physician. | [noun] A simple or atomic proposition. SIMPLY (13) [adverb] (manner) In a simple way or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; alone. | [adverb] (manner) Plainly; without art or subtlety | [adverb] (manner) Weakly; foolishly; stupidly. SITCOM (10) [noun] An episodic comedy television program with a plot or storyline based around a particular humorous situation. | [noun] Acronym of single income, two children, oppressive/outrageous mortgage. SIXMOS (15) SKELMS (12) SKIMOS (12) SKIMPS (14) [verb] To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of. | [verb] To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp. | [verb] To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp. SKIMPY (17) [noun] (Western Australia) A barmaid who wears little clothing. | [adjective] Small or inadequate; not generous, or of a garment, very small, light, or revealing. SKYMAN (15) SKYMEN (15) SLALOM (8) [noun] The sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates. (Often used attributively) | [noun] Any similar activity on other vehicles, including canoes and water skis. | [noun] A course used for the sport of slalom. SLIMED (9) [verb] To coat with slime. | [verb] To besmirch or disparage. | [verb] To carve (fish), removing the offal. SLIMES (8) [noun] Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. | [noun] Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs. | [noun] A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball. SLIMLY (11) SLIMSY (11) SLUMMY (13) [adjective] Like a slum; run-down, dirty, decrepit. SLUMPS (10) [noun] A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period. | [noun] A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed. | [noun] A boggy place. SMACKS (14) [noun] A distinct flavor, especially if slight. | [noun] A slight trace of something; a smattering. | [noun] Heroin. SMALLS (8) [noun] Underwear. | [noun] Small goods. | [noun] (Oxford University slang) The preliminary examination for a degree. | [noun] Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back. SMALTI (8) SMALTO (8) SMALTS (8) SMARMS (10) [noun] Smarmy language or behavior. | [noun] A style of fan fiction in which characters are warm and caring toward each other but without sexual overtones. | [verb] To fawn, to be unctuous. SMARMY (13) [adjective] Falsely earnest, smug, or ingratiating. | [adjective] Unctuous, greasy, as hair from pomade SMARTS (8) [verb] To hurt or sting. | [verb] To cause a smart or sting in. | [verb] To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil. SMARTY (11) [noun] An obnoxiously clever or quick-witted person. SMAZES (17) SMEARS (8) [verb] To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing. | [verb] To have a substance smeared on (a surface). | [verb] To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about an individual, their statements, or their actions. SMEARY (11) SMEEKS (12) SMEGMA (11) [noun] A whitish sebaceous secretion that collects between the glans penis and foreskin or in the vulva. SMELLS (8) [noun] A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance. | [noun] The sense that detects odours. | [noun] A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate. SMELLY (11) [adjective] Having a bad smell. | [adjective] Having a quality that arouses suspicion. | [adjective] (in extreme programming) Having signs that suggest a design problem; having a code smell. | [noun] A Short Magazine Lee Enfield rifle or one of its derivatives. SMELTS (8) [noun] Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe. | [noun] A fool; a simpleton. | [noun] Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves melting and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal. SMERKS (12) SMIDGE (10) [noun] A very small quantity or amount. SMILAX (15) [noun] Any member of the Smilax genus of greenbriers. SMILED (9) [verb] To have (a smile) on one's face. | [verb] To express by smiling. | [verb] To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness. SMILER (8) SMILES (8) [noun] A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement or anxiety. | [noun] Favour; propitious regard. | [noun] A drink bought by one person for another. SMILEY (11) [noun] A simplified representation of a smiling face. | [noun] A sequence of keyboard characters used to represent a happy mood, especially :) or :-) or other depiction of smiling. | [noun] An improvised street weapon consisting of a length of chain with padlocks and other heavy objects affixed to one end. SMIRCH (13) [noun] Dirt, or a stain. | [noun] A stain on somebody's reputation. | [verb] To dirty; to make dirty. | [noun] A chirp of radiation power from an astronomical body that has a smeared appearance on its plot in the time-frequency plane (usually associated with massive bodies orbiting supermassive black holes) SMIRKS (12) [noun] An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied or scornful | [noun] A forced or affected smile; a simper | [verb] To smile in a way that is affected, smug, insolent or contemptuous. SMIRKY (15) [adjective] Smirking, or as if smirking | [adjective] Smart; spruce. SMITER (8) SMITES (8) [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To strike down or kill with godly force. | [verb] To injure with divine power. SMITHS (11) [noun] A craftsperson who works metal into desired forms using a hammer and other tools, sometimes heating the metal to make it more workable, especially a blacksmith. | [noun] (by extension) One who makes anything; wright. | [noun] An artist. SMITHY (14) [noun] The location where a smith (particularly a blacksmith) works, a forge. | [verb] To forge, especially by hand SMOCKS (14) [noun] A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip. | [noun] A blouse; a smock frock. | [noun] A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc. SMOGGY (13) SMOKED (13) [adjective] Of food, preserved by treatment with smoke. | [adjective] Of glass, tinted. | [verb] To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc. SMOKER (12) [noun] A person who smokes tobacco habitually. | [noun] A smoking car on a train. | [noun] An informal social gathering for men only, at which smoking tobacco is allowed. SMOKES (12) [noun] The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material. | [noun] A cigarette. | [noun] Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.) SMOKEY (15) [noun] A state trooper. | [adjective] Filled with smoke. | [adjective] Giving off smoke. SMOLTS (8) [noun] A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color. SMOOCH (13) [noun] A kiss. | [verb] To kiss. | [verb] To soil, stain or smudge. SMOOTH (11) [noun] Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily. | [noun] A smoothing action. | [noun] A domestic animal having a smooth coat. SMUDGE (10) [noun] A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one. | [noun] Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation. | [noun] A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects. | [verb] To obscure by blurring; to smear. SMUDGY (13) [adjective] Marked with smudges. | [adjective] Like a thick smoke (such as is emitted by a smudge pot). SMUGLY (12) [adverb] In a self-satisfied manner. SMUTCH (13) SMUTTY (11) [verb] To make dirty; to soil. | [adjective] Soiled with smut; blackened, dirty. | [adjective] Obscene, indecent. SOCMAN (10) SOCMEN (10) SODIUM (9) [noun] The chemical element (symbol Na) with an atomic number of 11 and atomic weight of 22.98977. It is a soft, waxy, silvery, reactive alkali metal that is never found unbound in nature. SODOMS (9) SODOMY (12) [noun] Any of several forms of sexual intercourse held to be unnatural, particularly bestiality or historically homosexuality, but also (sometimes) anal or oral sex. | [noun] (in particular) Anal sex. SOLEMN (8) [adjective] Deeply serious and somber. | [adjective] Somberly impressive. | [adjective] Performed with great ceremony. SOLUMS (8) SOMATA (8) SOMBER (10) [verb] To make sombre or dark; to make shady. | [adjective] Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit. | [adjective] Dull or dark in colour or brightness. SOMBRE (10) [noun] Gloom; obscurity; duskiness. | [verb] To make sombre or dark; to make shady. | [adjective] Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit. SOMITE (8) [noun] One of the paired masses of mesoderm distributed along the sides of the neural tube that will eventually become dermis, skeletal muscle, or vertebrae. | [noun] A metamere, one of a series of segments, arranged longitudinally, of which some animals are composed. SPASMS (10) [noun] A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ. | [noun] A violent, excruciating seizure of pain. | [noun] A sudden and temporary burst of energy, activity, or emotion. SPERMS (10) [noun] The reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon. | [noun] Semen; the generative substance of male animals. | [noun] Sperm oil; whale oil from a sperm whale; spermaceti. SPIREM (10) SPUMED (11) [verb] To froth. SPUMES (10) [noun] Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater. | [verb] To froth. SPUTUM (10) [noun] Matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth, composed of saliva and discharges from the respiratory passages such as mucus, phlegm or pus. SQUAMA (17) SQUIRM (17) [noun] A twisting, snakelike movement of the body. | [verb] To twist one's body with snakelike motions. | [verb] To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment. STAMEN (8) [noun] In flowering plants, the structure in a flower that produces pollen, typically consisting of an anther and a filament. STAMPS (10) [noun] An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof. | [noun] An indentation, imprint, or mark made by stamping. | [noun] A device for stamping designs. STEAMS (8) [noun] The vapor formed when water changes from liquid phase to gas phase. | [noun] Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy. | [noun] Internal energy for motive power. STEAMY (11) [adjective] Warm and humid; full of steam | [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of steam | [adjective] Erotic STEMMA (10) [noun] A family tree or recorded genealogy | [noun] In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts | [noun] One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods STEMMY (13) STIGMA (9) [noun] A mark of infamy or disgrace. | [noun] A scar or birthmark. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural stigmata) A mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion on Jesus' body, and sometimes reported to bleed periodically. | [noun] A ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau, (Ϛ/ϛ). STIMES (8) STOMAL (8) [adjective] Of, or relating to a stoma. STOMAS (8) [noun] One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass. | [noun] A small opening in a membrane; a surgically constructed opening, especially one in the abdominal wall that permits the passage of waste after a colostomy or ileostomy. | [noun] A mouthlike opening, such as the oral cavity of a nematode. STOMPS (10) [noun] A deliberate heavy footfall; a stamp. | [noun] A dance having a heavy, rhythmic step. | [noun] The jazz music for this dance. STORMS (8) [noun] Any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially as affecting the earth's surface, and strongly implying destructive or unpleasant weather. | [noun] A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; violent outbreak. | [noun] A wind scale for very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane (10 or higher on the Beaufort scale). STORMY (11) [adjective] Of or pertaining to storms. | [adjective] Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with strong winds and heavy rain. | [adjective] Proceeding from violent agitation or fury. STREAM (8) [noun] A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks. | [noun] A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air). | [noun] Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words. STROMA (8) [noun] The tissue structure of an organ, etc., that serves to support it. STRUMA (8) [noun] Scrofula. | [noun] A scrofulous swelling; a tumour or goitre. STRUMS (8) [verb] To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) using various strings simultaneously. STUMPS (10) [noun] The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb. | [noun] The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting. | [noun] A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration. STUMPY (13) [noun] An amputee who has lost a leg. | [adjective] Like or resembling a stump; short and cut off. | [adjective] Full of stumps. STYMIE (11) [noun] A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952). | [noun] (by extension) An obstacle or obstruction. | [verb] To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck. SUBGUM (11) SUBMIT (10) [verb] To yield or give way to another. | [verb] To yield (something) to another, as when defeated. | [verb] To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc. SUMACH (13) [noun] Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and other genera in Anacardiaceae, particularly the elm-leaved sumac, Sicilian sumac, or tanner's sumac (Rhus coriaria). | [noun] Dried and chopped-up leaves and stems of a plant of the genus Rhus, particularly the tanner's sumac (see sense 1), used for dyeing and tanning leather or for medicinal purposes. | [noun] A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean, made from the berries of tanner's sumac. SUMACS (10) [noun] Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and other genera in Anacardiaceae, particularly the elm-leaved sumac, Sicilian sumac, or tanner's sumac (Rhus coriaria). | [noun] Dried and chopped-up leaves and stems of a plant of the genus Rhus, particularly the tanner's sumac (see sense 1), used for dyeing and tanning leather or for medicinal purposes. | [noun] A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean, made from the berries of tanner's sumac. SUMMAE (10) [noun] A comprehensive summary of, or treatise on a subject, especially theology or philosophy. SUMMAS (10) SUMMED (11) [verb] To add together. | [verb] To give a summary of. SUMMER (10) [noun] One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as being from June 21 to September 22 or 23 in parts of the USA, the months of June, July and August in the United Kingdom and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere. | [noun] Year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one. | [noun] Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing. | [noun] A pack-horse. | [noun] A person who sums. SUMMIT (10) [noun] A peak; the topmost point or surface, as of a mountain. | [noun] A gathering or assembly of leaders. | [verb] (hiking) To reach the summit of a mountain. | [pronoun] Something SUMMON (10) [noun] Call, command, order | [verb] To call people together; to convene. | [verb] To ask someone to come; to send for. SURIMI (8) [noun] A white paste, made from ground fish, that is used to make formed and textured food products. SWAMIS (11) [noun] (used as a title) A Hindu ascetic or religious teacher. SWAMPS (13) [noun] A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes. | [noun] A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment. | [noun] A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult. SWAMPY (16) [adjective] Soggy and marshy; wet like a swamp. | [adjective] Flowing smoothly with no harsh tones but possibly including muddy tones. SWARMS (11) [noun] A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony. | [noun] A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil. | [noun] A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network. SWIMMY (16) SYMBOL (13) [noun] A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object. | [noun] A thing considered the embodiment of a concept or object. | [noun] A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index. SYNCOM (13) SYSTEM (11) [noun] A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members. | [noun] A method or way of organizing or planning. TALCUM (10) [noun] Powdered and perfumed talc for toilet use. | [verb] To perfume with talcum powder. TAMALE (8) [noun] Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks. TAMALS (8) TAMARI (8) [noun] A type of soy sauce made without wheat, having a rich flavor. TAMBAC (12) TAMBAK (14) TAMBUR (10) TAMEIN (8) TAMELY (11) TAMERS (8) TAMEST (8) [adjective] Not or no longer wild; domesticated | [adjective] (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact | [adjective] Not exciting. TAMING (9) [verb] To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. | [verb] To become tame or domesticated. | [verb] To make gentle or meek. TAMMIE (10) TAMPAN (10) TAMPED (11) [verb] (blasting) To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock. | [verb] To drive in or pack down by frequent gentle strokes | [verb] To reduce the intensity of. TAMPER (10) [noun] A person or thing that tamps. | [noun] A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe. | [noun] A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast. | [verb] To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something). TAMPON (10) [noun] A plug of cotton or other absorbent material inserted into a body cavity or wound to absorb fluid, especially one inserted in the vagina during menstruation. | [noun] A double-headed drumstick primarily for the bass drum. | [noun] An inking pad used in lithographic printing. TANDEM (9) [noun] A carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other, both providing the pulling power but only the animal in front able to steer. | [noun] (transferred sense) A bicycle or tricycle in which two people sit one behind the other, both able to pedal but only the person in front able to steer. | [noun] A group of two or more people, machines etc. working together; close collaboration. TARAMA (8) [noun] Salted cured cod roe, used in making taramosalata TARMAC (10) [noun] Tarmacadam. | [noun] Any bituminous road surfacing material. | [noun] The driveable surface of a road. TATAMI (8) [noun] Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses TAXEME (15) TAXMAN (15) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A tax collector. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A tax-collecting organ, personified. TAXMEN (15) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A tax collector. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A tax-collecting organ, personified. TEAMED (9) [verb] To form a group, as for sports or work. | [verb] (by extension) To go together well; to harmonize. | [verb] To convey or haul with a team. TECTUM (10) [noun] The dorsal portion of the midbrain of vertebrates; in mammals, containing the superior colliculus and inferior colliculus | [noun] The interconnected outer surface of a spore. TEDIUM (9) [noun] Boredom or tediousness; ennui. TEEMED (9) [verb] To be stocked to overflowing. | [verb] To be prolific; to abound; to be rife. | [verb] To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply. TEEMER (8) TEGMEN (9) [noun] A covering or integument, usually referring to a thin layer or membrane in an organism. | [noun] An integument such as the inner membrane of the coat of a seed. | [noun] A covering such as the thin layer of bone in the roof of the middle ear of mammals. TELIUM (8) TELOME (8) TEMPED (11) [verb] To work as a temporary employee. TEMPEH (13) [noun] An Indonesian food made from partially-cooked fermented soybeans, mixed with a fungus (Rhizopus oligosporus). TEMPER (10) [noun] A tendency to be in a certain type of mood; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting. | [noun] State of mind; mood. | [noun] A tendency to become angry. TEMPLE (10) [noun] A house of worship, especially: | [noun] A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members. | [noun] Any place regarded as holding a religious presence. | [noun] The slightly flatter region, on either side of the human head, behind of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear. | [noun] A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely. TEMPOS (10) [noun] A frequency or rate. | [noun] A move which is part of one's own plan or strategy and forces, e.g. by means of a check or attacking a piece, the opponent to make a move which is not bad but of no use for him (the player gains a tempo, the opponent loses a tempo), or equivalently a player achieves the same result in fewer moves by one approach rather than another. | [noun] The timing advantage of being on lead, thus being first to initiate a strategy to develop tricks for one's side. TEMPTS (10) [verb] To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice. | [verb] To attract; to allure. | [verb] To provoke something; to court. TERGUM (9) [noun] The upper or dorsal surface of an articulated animal such as an arthropod. TERMED (9) [verb] To phrase a certain way; to name or call. | [verb] To terminate one's employment TERMER (8) TERMLY (11) [adjective] Occurring every term. | [adverb] Term by term; every term TERMOR (8) THAIRM (11) THARMS (11) THEISM (11) [noun] Belief in the existence of at least one deity. | [noun] (narrowly) Belief in the existence of a personal creator god, goddess, gods and/or goddesses present and active in the governance and organization of the world and the universe. The God may be known by or through revelation. | [noun] A morbid condition resulting from excessive consumption of tea. THEMED (12) [verb] To give a theme to. | [verb] To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software). | [adjective] (often in combination) Having a particular theme or topic THEMES (11) [noun] A subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic. | [noun] A recurring idea; a motif. | [noun] An essay written for school. THERME (11) THERMS (11) [noun] A former unit of heat equal to 100,000 British thermal units. Symbol: thm. THIRAM (11) [noun] The fungicide and bird repellent tetramethylthiuram disulfide. THRUMS (11) [noun] A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration. | [noun] A spicy taste; a tang. | [verb] To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking. THUMBS (13) [noun] The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers. | [noun] The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider. | [noun] A thumbnail picture. THUMPS (13) [noun] A blow that produces a muffled sound. | [noun] The sound of such a blow; a thud. | [noun] Used to replace the vulgar or blasphemous element in "what the hell" and similar phrases. THYMES (14) [noun] Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus, such as the garden thyme, Thymus vulgaris, a warm, pungent aromatic, that is much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups. THYMEY (17) THYMIC (16) [adjective] Of or relating to the thymus gland | [adjective] Derived from thymol THYMOL (14) [noun] A monoterpene phenol, C10H13OH, found in the oil extracted from thyme; used as in perfume, as an antiseptic and fungicide, and in embalming THYMUS (14) [noun] A ductless gland, consisting mainly of lymphatic tissue, located behind the top of the breastbone. It is most active during puberty, after which it shrinks in size. It plays an important role in the development of the immune system and produces lymphocytes. TIMBAL (10) [noun] A kettledrum. TIMBER (10) [noun] Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood. | [noun] (outside North America) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction. | [noun] A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof. TIMBRE (10) [noun] The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume. | [noun] The pitch of a sound as heard by the ear, described relative to its absolute pitch. | [noun] The crest on a coat of arms. TIMELY (11) [adjective] Done at the proper time or within the proper time limits; prompt. | [adjective] Happening or appearing at the proper time. | [adjective] Keeping time or measure. TIMERS (8) [noun] Someone or something which times. | [noun] A device used to measure amounts of time. | [noun] Any electronic function that causes a device to be able to do something automatically after a preset amount of time. TIMING (9) [verb] To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of. | [verb] To choose when something begins or how long it lasts. | [verb] To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time. TINMAN (8) TINMEN (8) TITMAN (8) TITMEN (8) TMESES (8) [noun] The insertion of one or more words between the components of a compound word. TMESIS (8) [noun] The insertion of one or more words between the components of a compound word. TOMANS (8) TOMATO (8) [noun] A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit. | [noun] The savory fruit of this plant, red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking. | [noun] A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato. TOMBAC (12) TOMBAK (14) TOMBAL (10) TOMBED (11) TOMBOY (13) [noun] A girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner. | [noun] A lesbian. TOMCAT (10) [noun] A tom, a male cat. | [verb] To prowl for sexual gratification. TOMCOD (11) [noun] A species of edible cod found in the Atlantic, Microgadus tomcod. | [noun] Microgadus proximus, found in the Pacific. | [noun] A kingfish. TOMMED (11) [verb] (of a black person) To act in an obsequiously servile manner toward white authority. | [verb] To dig out a hole below the hatch cover of a bulker and fill it with cargo or weights to aid stability. TOMTIT (8) [noun] Petroica macrocephala, the miromiro or New Zealand tit, a bird of the Petroicidae (Australasian robin) family. TONEME (8) [noun] A phoneme in a language that uses different tones for different meanings. TOTEMS (8) [noun] Any natural object or living creature that serves as an emblem of a tribe, clan or family. | [noun] The representation of such object or creature. | [noun] The clan whose kinship is defined in reference to such an object or creature. TRAMEL (8) TRAMPS (10) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A homeless person; a vagabond. | [noun] A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut. | [noun] Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call. TRAUMA (8) [noun] Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident. | [noun] An emotional wound leading to psychological injury. | [noun] An event that causes great distress. TREMOR (8) [noun] A shake, quiver, or vibration. | [noun] An earthquake. | [verb] To shake or quiver excessively and rapidly or involuntarily; to tremble. TRIMER (8) [noun] A polymer composed of three monomers TRIMLY (11) TROMPE (10) TROMPS (10) [verb] To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot. | [verb] To utterly defeat an opponent. TRUISM (8) [noun] A self-evident or obvious truth. | [noun] A banality or cliché. TRUMPS (10) [noun] A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones. | [noun] The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others. | [noun] A playing card of that suit. TUMBLE (10) [noun] A fall, especially end over end. | [noun] A disorderly heap. | [noun] An act of sexual intercourse. TUMEFY (14) [verb] To cause to swell. | [verb] To swell; to rise into a tumour. TUMORS (8) [noun] An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia. TUMOUR (8) [noun] An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia. TUMPED (11) TUMULI (8) [noun] A mound of earth, especially one placed over a prehistoric tomb; a barrow. TUMULT (8) [noun] Confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd. | [noun] Violent commotion or agitation, often with confusion of sounds. | [noun] A riot or uprising. TYMBAL (13) [noun] A kettledrum. TYMPAN (13) [noun] A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed. | [noun] The stretched membrane of a drum. | [noun] A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end. UGSOME (9) ULAMAS (8) ULEMAS (8) ULTIMA (8) ULTIMO (8) [adjective] On the last day (of a specified month). | [adverb] Of last month. UMBELS (10) [noun] A flat-topped or rounded flower-cluster (= inflorescence) in which the individual flower stalks arise from the same point, the youngest flowers being at the centre. UMBERS (10) [noun] A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides. | [noun] A grayling. | [noun] A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop. UMBLES (10) [noun] Animal entrails, especially of a deer. UMBRAE (10) [noun] The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object. | [noun] The central region of a sunspot. | [noun] A shadow. UMBRAL (10) UMBRAS (10) [noun] The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object. | [noun] The central region of a sunspot. | [noun] A shadow. UMIACK (14) UMIACS (10) UMIAKS (12) [noun] A large, open boat made of skins stretched over a wooden frame that is propelled by paddles; used by the Eskimos for transportation. UMIAQS (17) UMLAUT (8) [noun] An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants. | [noun] The umlaut process (as above) that occurred historically in Germanic languages whereby back vowels became front vowels when followed by syllable containing a front vocoid (e.g. Germanic lūsiz > Old English lȳs(i) > Modern English lice). | [noun] A vowel so assimilated. UMPING (11) [verb] To act as an umpire. UMPIRE (10) [noun] The official who presides over a tennis game sat on a high chair. | [noun] One of the two white-coated officials who preside over a cricket match. | [noun] One of usually 4 officials who preside over a baseball game. UNARMS (8) [verb] To disarm, to remove the armour and weapons from. | [verb] To remove one's armour. UNHELM (11) UNMADE (9) [adjective] Not (yet) made | [adjective] Existing without having been made | [verb] To destroy or take apart; to cause (a made article) to lose its nature. UNMAKE (12) [verb] To destroy or take apart; to cause (a made article) to lose its nature. UNMANS (8) [verb] To castrate; to remove the manhood of. | [verb] To sap (a person) of the strength, whether physical or emotional, required to deal with a situation. | [verb] To deprive of men. UNMASK (12) [verb] To remove a mask from someone. | [verb] To expose, or reveal the true character of someone. | [verb] To remove one's mask. UNMEET (8) UNMESH (11) UNMEWS (11) UNMIXT (15) UNMOLD (9) UNMOOR (8) [verb] To unfix or unsecure (a moored boat). | [verb] To weigh anchor. UNMOWN (11) [adjective] Not mown; unmowed. UNSEAM (8) UNTAME (8) UNTRIM (8) UPMOST (10) [adjective] Uppermost. UPTIME (10) [noun] The period of time a computer has functioned since last requiring a reboot. UREMIA (8) [noun] Blood poisoning resulting from the retention of waste products usually excreted as urine. UREMIC (10) UTMOST (8) [noun] Maximum; greatest possible amount or quantity. | [adjective] Situated at the most distant limit; farthest. | [adjective] The most extreme; ultimate; greatest. VACUUM (13) [noun] A region of space that contains no matter. | [noun] (plural only "vacuums") A vacuum cleaner. | [noun] The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, such as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc. VAGROM (12) VAMOSE (11) VAMPED (14) [verb] To patch, repair, or refurbish. | [verb] Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing. | [verb] To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise. VAMPER (13) VANMAN (11) VANMEN (11) VAROOM (11) VELLUM (11) [noun] A type of parchment paper made from the skin of a lamb, baby goat, or calf. | [noun] A writing paper of very high quality. VENOMS (11) [noun] A poison carried by an animal, usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging. | [noun] Feeling or speech marked by spite or malice; vitriol. | [verb] To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison. VERISM (11) [noun] Presenting common, everyday subjects, specifically eschewing the heroic or legendary. | [noun] An artistic movement, from 19th-century Italian literature and opera, in which rural and everyday people and themes were treated in an often melodramatic manner VERMES (11) [noun] A narrow, worm-like structure found in animal brains between the hemispheres of the cerebellum; it is the site of termination of the spinocerebellar pathways that carry subconscious proprioception. VERMIN (11) [noun] Any one of various common types of small insects or animals which cause harm and annoyance. | [noun] Animals that prey on game, such as foxes or weasels. | [noun] Obnoxious, or mean and offensive person or people. VERMIS (11) [noun] A narrow, worm-like structure found in animal brains between the hemispheres of the cerebellum; it is the site of termination of the spinocerebellar pathways that carry subconscious proprioception. VICTIM (13) [noun] One that is harmed—killed, injured, subjected to oppression, deceived, or otherwise adversely affected—by someone or something, especially another person or event, force, or condition; in particular: | [noun] A living being which is slain and offered as a sacrifice, usually in a religious rite. VIMINA (11) VOLUME (11) [noun] A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement. | [noun] Strength of sound; loudness. | [noun] The issues of a periodical over a period of one year. VOMERS (11) [noun] The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils. VOMICA (13) VOMITO (11) VOMITS (11) [verb] To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke. | [verb] To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew. | [verb] To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit. VROOMS (11) [noun] The sound of an engine revving up. | [verb] To move with great speed; to zoom. WADMAL (12) WADMEL (12) WADMOL (12) WAMBLE (13) WAMBLY (16) WAMMUS (13) WAMPUM (15) [noun] Small beads made from polished shells, especially white ones, formerly used as money and jewelry by certain Native American peoples. | [noun] A string of such beads. | [noun] Money. WAMPUS (13) WARMED (12) [verb] To make or keep warm. | [verb] To become warm, to heat up. | [verb] To favour increasingly. WARMER (11) [adjective] Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot. | [adjective] Caring and friendly, of relations to another person. | [adjective] Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum. WARMLY (14) [adverb] In a manner that maintains warm temperature. | [adverb] In a warm, friendly manner. WARMTH (14) [noun] A moderate degree of heat; the sensation of being warm. | [noun] Friendliness, kindness or affection. | [noun] Fervor, intensity of emotion or expression. WARMUP (13) [noun] The act of exercising or stretching in preparation for strenuous activity | [noun] Any act of preparation for a performance | [noun] A period of time allocated for performing warm-ups. WHAMMO (16) [noun] An action-packed scene in a film, etc. | [interjection] Used to emphasis the suddenness of an event. WHAMMY (19) [noun] A serious or devastating setback | [noun] An evil spell; a curse or hex | [noun] The vibrato system of an electric guitar, or just its lever (whammy bar) WHELMS (14) [verb] To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge. | [verb] To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it. | [verb] To ruin or destroy. WHILOM (14) [adjective] Former, sometime. | [adverb] While. | [adverb] Once upon a time, formerly. WHIMSY (17) [noun] A quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour. | [noun] An impulsive, illogical or capricious character. | [noun] A whim (capstan or vertical drum). WHOMPS (16) [verb] Hit extremely hard. WHOMSO (14) [pronoun] Whichever person, whomever WHUMPS (16) [noun] A thumping sound. | [noun] A genre of fan fiction in which a character endures injury, torture, or other forms of physical and mental suffering. | [verb] To strike something with a whump. WIGWAM (15) [noun] A dwelling having an arched framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats, used by Native Americans in the northeastern United States. | [noun] (possibly obsolete) Any more or less similar dwelling used by indigenous people in other parts of the world. | [verb] To dry (flax or straw) by standing it outside in the shape of a wigwam. WIMBLE (13) WIMPLE (13) [noun] A cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. It was worn by women in medieval Europe and is still worn by nuns in certain orders. | [noun] A fold or pleat in cloth. | [noun] A ripple, as on the surface of water. | [verb] To cover with a wimple. WISDOM (12) [noun] An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise. | [noun] A piece of wise advice. | [noun] The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good. WOMANS (11) WOMBAT (13) [noun] Any of several herbivorous, burrowing marsupials, of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern and eastern Australia. WOMBED (14) WOMERA (11) WORMED (12) [verb] To make (one's way) with a crawling motion. | [verb] To move with one's body dragging the ground. | [verb] To work one's way by artful or devious means. WORMER (11) [noun] Dewormer, medicine used in deworming an animal. | [noun] Vermicide, any substance used to kill worms. WORMIL (11) XYLEMS (18) YAMENS (11) YAMMER (13) [noun] The act or noise of yammering. | [noun] A loud noise. | [noun] One who yammers. YAMUNS (11) YASMAK (15) YEOMAN (11) [noun] An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page. Especially, a Yeoman of the Guard, a member of a ceremonial bodyguard to the UK monarch (not to be confused with a Yeoman Warder). | [noun] A dependable, diligent, or loyal worker or someone who does a great service. | [noun] A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing. YEOMEN (11) [noun] An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page. Especially, a Yeoman of the Guard, a member of a ceremonial bodyguard to the UK monarch (not to be confused with a Yeoman Warder). | [noun] A dependable, diligent, or loyal worker or someone who does a great service. | [noun] A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing. ZAMIAS (17) [noun] Any of various cycads of the genera Zamia and Macrozamia ZEUGMA (18) [noun] The act of using a word, particularly an adjective or verb, to apply to more than one noun when its sense is appropriate to only one. | [noun] Syllepsis. ZIRAMS (17) ZOMBIE (19) [noun] A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere. | [noun] (voodoo, superstition) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own. | [noun] A deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living. ZOMBIS (19) ZOOMED (18) [verb] To communicate with someone using the Zoom videoconferencing software. | [verb] To move fast with a humming noise | [verb] To fly an airplane straight up ZYGOMA (21) [noun] The cheekbone. ZYMASE (20) [noun] Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the fermentation of simple carbohydrates to ethanol and carbon dioxide.